#there's still time for the final blow

[solar093-art]

ElidibusWeek2022: Day 5

“From the fears of these naysayers would rise Hydaelyn - She who was to serve as His shackles. To bind Him and hold Him in check.”

#my art #elidibusweek2022 #ffxiv #elidibus #zodiark #final fantasy xiv #finally #this one was the first i actually started drawing for this week #idea that has been in my head for a long time #because honestly the sundering scene in ew was so damn disappointing to me -___- #wtf was that -____- #so here i am with my silly drawings and headcanons :D #pain pain everywhere #poor eli is still connected to zodiark so he probably felt that damn finishing blow T^T #purple eyes *_* #i love drawing him with purple eyes :D

[hotasfahrenheit]

No matter how many hundreds, thousands, or million days...

No matter how long it will be...

May our love last forever.

[1000 Years Old, 1.01, 1.02, 1.12]

#they were always searching for each other and they always will be #i am unwell #it's been almost 12 hours since i watched the finale and i'm still not okay but it's time to go to bed i guess #the way the sky combined the blue and gold lighting from the first two shots of them each alone in the final shots of them just wrecked me #this show was so visually stunning in a very different way than some QLs that are more known for their cinematography and production qualit #like look at the details! the gold and blue skies coming together! the element of red in each shot! the blowing curtain and black umbrella! #i have to relearn my gif process because all my presets are gone so these aren't great but it's a start #where do we all even go from here #1000 years old #1000 years old the series #1000 years old finale #umbrella posting #umbrella propaganda #mia gifs things #mia gifs 1000 years old things #mia gifs drama things

[wowitslowki]

Just realized that the only thing keeping Mobius from aging was the TVA, and that if Loki and Mobius did have a life down on the timeline together, that would mean Mobius would begin aging and Loki would inevitably out live him. Meaning if they really wanted to be together forever they'd be forced to stay in the TVA. No one fucking talk to me

#lokius #loki #loki finale #mobius #loki series #mobius m mobius #Like Ik ik ''if nothing good ended nothing good would ever get started'' #and ''any time together is enough time together even if it isn't forever'' #but I cannot STAND that Mobius is already old looking and Loki still has thousands of years of life left #I dont want to think about the most important person in Loki's life blowing away like smoke #amounting to a simple blip before inevitably leaving him alone again

[goldensunset]

khdr.... *collapses and dies*

#having a moment again thinking about like #specifically the part after x + e get back to scala after having lost hermod urd and bragi #knowing the missing upperclassmen are dead #feeling completely powerless and guilty that they couldn't save anyone #finding out the truth about baldr #and then the part when they realize that vor is still alive and she's just gotten back but now baldr is going after her #the frantic rush to the top of the tower as edge of existence kicks in #it just sounds like desperation. like this is their one last bit of hope #they can at least save her if nobody else #but only if they hurry #and they make it there in time but still can't save her #and that's just the final blow to their morale #and it's truly a wonder they could even pick themselves up after that #they couldn't even save the surviving upperclassmen. they couldn't save baldr #they save themselves. and *no one else* #just #ough #kingdom hearts #khdr

[eerna]

honestly Noragami deserves some kind of an award for being the most intense downward spiral of "it can't get any worse than THIS, right???" I've ever read. I haven't known peace since Kazuma did that stupid spell on Yukine and it's only gone downwards from there

#we're on the FINAL CHAPTER. like even if it is twice the length of an usual chapter it is still the LAST ONE. #and THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN FRIGGIN WORSE. #isn't the final chapter supposed to WIND THINGS DOWN and DEAL THE FINAL BLOW TO THE VILLAIN and then be DEDICATED TO WHERE ARE THEY NOW #so WHY are we doing THIS then. #noragami liveblog #noragami spoilers #like 10000 times over the past 9 years i've made the ''adachitoka when i said i wanted X to happen i didn't mean it like THIS'' joke and it #just keeps. happening again. yatori meets again after half a decade and it's only so that she can be MURDERED IN FRONT OF HIM #WHILE HE IS SCREAMING AND BLAMING HIMSELF AND THINKING ABOUT SAKURA AND HOW HE GOT HER KILLED TOO #YUKINE WATCHED IT HAPPEN BUT COULD ONLY BARK IN PAIN #and not only that. the GODS ARE KILLING PEOPLE THE SHINKI ARE STINGING THEIR MASTERS LEFT AND RIGHT #I HATE THIS. THIS IS SO EVIL. I AM SO SAD. #anyway hiyori better be fake dead. this better not be happening. idc if her return is unrealistic i dont CARE she CANNOT DIE

[redbean-nom]

honestly echo is probably going to die heroically in the next two episodes. he's not with rex, gregor, and wolffe in rebels, he's not with the greater rebellion, and Echo Base exists.

what i'm more curious about is when cody gets his own heroic sacrifice. he's not with rex and he's not with obi wan, so unless he also fell in a sarlacc or got carbonited, he's definitely dead.

anyways, the last episode's title is The Cavalry Has Arrived. and who could be a more fitting "cavalry" than Cody?

#star wars #tbb #the bad batch #tbb s3 #tbb finale #tbb predictions #commander cody #redbean talks #imagine they're all trapped and the commandos are closing in #the batch is injured/down #rex is stunned or cuffed or something #then someone from above snipes cx2/scorch/whoevers in command #and cody drops down to save everyone #cue emotional mid battle reunion between rex and cody #and honestly the whole batch and cody given that he seems to have a tendency towards adopting younger mutant clones lol #the base starts blowing up in the background and more stormtroopers/chipped clones run in as reinforcements #cody stays to hold them off while everyone else runs #and echo runs back to stay with cody #framed parallel to his death in the citadel #but this time they're both sacrificing themselves not for the mission but for their brothers #(mostly for rex) #and then by the time of rebels rex sees it as cody & echo sacrificed themselves so that he could continue saving brothers #but now he only has wolffe and gregor. the clone rebellion failed; he failed; their deaths were for nothing #so he doesn't want to return to the rebellion #because he's afraid he'll fail again #given that rex supplied the list of bases (now apparently left over from his time as rebellion leader) no way echo base is a coincidence #wolffe probably formally retired given that he's still on speaking terms with imp leadership in rebels #(also v funny that wolffe's imp buddies skype call him somewhat regularly in rebels #while being completely unaware of rex hanging out in the back)

[stinkybrowndogs]

I was gifted a button maker and it broke as soon as I used it 🫠

#I was so excited what an absolute blow to my motivation #:( #it made 1 (one) button #and I can’t return it bc it was second hand #rip rip rip #another broken thing to take to the dump #also. I am so poor this month I got 10 days to figure out rent… new stickers dropping soon. and shirts. maybe tonight or tomorrow #I spent a lot of time on chihuahuas and cannot make money off that for a minute #still working on the final print #had to pay my medical debt and also some vending fees so that’s where the money went #kids if u want to be an artist! #don’t

[incompleteninny]

The seventy-third free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

An earthquake shakes the room: another of Barclay's feet crashing down.

Waylon's body won't move, though.

He stares out at the man, suspended within the core of his own mind. Blank, placid, empty, and weak. Not even enough strength to spur a thought.

"Where's Avery?" Barclay asks, his voice an iceberg cutting through stone.

Fear pulses once in Waylon's chest. Thoughts surge. A landslide tumbling through his mind — alongside his disembodied form. They pepper him: chunking pieces away until only an abstract sphere remains. Devoid of feeling, yet full of questions. Why aren't I moving? Am I— am I okay? Am I just going to stand here and let him catch me?

Barclay cracks his other set of knuckles. "Staying quiet, huh? If she's hurt... Well, it's not going to be good for you."

No.

It's an answer that burns in his stomach. Guttural, desperate, and not his own. It sets his chest aflame and straightens his cowering spine. Physical sensations that he recognizes, but where's the feeling? The emotions?

No, this can't be it. Not yet.

Barclay nearly shatters the earth between them with the fall of another boot. "I recommend you don't resist."

[...]

The final print version will have art inserts. Last week, I got a new one in from Stella. I love it and what to share it (go look at her other art after, too). This depicts the end of chapter 33, “A Pillar”

#I had surgery two weeks ago and this piece coming in was so welcome #Stella blows me away every time #still tired from recovery but spiced orange tofu will see me through this #book tags too #queer lit #queer author #big feelings #gay protagonists #every character is going to end up queer in the final version I can feel it #fight me about it #oh found family too #tw: depression

[skrunksthatwunk]

why the fuck did i write about birds this fucking sucks. i just found out birds only sleep for a few minutes at a time, hundreds of times a day. do you know what this is going to do to my structure? the logistics of their road trip? this is already like three days late and i've been fighting for my life to get A Plot Like Any Plot That Makes Sense out and now the birds fucking sleep for 5 minutes at a time.

#i should've just bailed and written another story when i had the chance #i'm not joking i've never fought a fiction piece this hard before. usually because i'm not writing for specific deadlines #and not a piece so big. and not one that's gonna be workshopped. i wanna blow them away but if things keep going the way they are everyone' #gonna tell me the pacing sucks and it feels pointless and the characters feel really confused. I KNOW. I KNOW THAT. FUCKK #i'm the type to do about 15 passes before i let someone see my 'first draft' and i'm just not gonna be able to do that if i want to get it #in time for a workshop. every day i delay is making things harder for my classmates y'know?? but i've been writing like 1k words a day #and it's still not done. GUHH #I DON'T LIKE WRITING THESE CHARACTERS THAT MUCH THEY'RE NOT FUNNY OR ENDEARING AND THAT'S MY LIKE. #MAIN SKILL AND VIBE WITH SHORT STORY DUOS. BUT NOOOO I HAD TO MAKE THEM DIFFERENT CUZ I WAS SICK OF DOING #THE SAME DYNAMIC OVER AND OVER. BITCH THIS IS YOUR FINAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TRIED AND TRUE GETS THE BLUE (RIBBON)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #head in my hands head in my hands head in my hands head in my hands head #going to work on it some more. fuckk #the voices aren't consistent and i'm trying to make it clear that this is toxic bird yuri and not a mother/daughter thing but the maternal #themes are kind of fucking with that but they're important and i don't wanna get rid of them but it feels forced cuz im forcing it #sigh. i'm gonna have to cut the yuri. these two don't work romantically at all. what a waste of time. #i watched the entirety of mnthly girls' nozaki-kun in the past two days while avoiding writing. did you know that? the lengths to which i'l #go? anyway it was fun i appreciate fellow creative agony and i uh never knew how they did screen tones and wasn't expecting that somehow #so i learned something new (hooray). anyway back to. fucking. bird story stuff #i'm so mad i hate these two (<- lying. just pissy) i hate this story (<- mostly exaggerating. throwing a tantrum) #eughhhhhh i just wanna lie on the floor and cryyyyyyyyyy (<- completely deadpan irl. not That upset just kind of sick of shit) #i'm so burnt out and it's only gonna get worse. ughh #why can't someone just come in and write it for meeeeeeeeeeheheuhhh (<- would hate that)

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Me, when Sebastian joins my party for the first time: Okay, this time I'm not going to forget about you, Sebastian. I'm going to make an effort to use you a lot this playthrough so I can better understand you.

Also me, immediately forgetting about Sebastian while finishing Act 2 and making it halfway through Act 3 before I finally notice his Faith quest: ......................Oh. Right. My bad.

#da2 #dragon age 2 #sebastian vael #listen in my defense..........i don't like bringing sebastian anywhere sksksks #okay look i seriously tried but every time i bring him somewhere i always think man i wish i had brought someone else #and also i do just forget about him! i finally added him to my party at one point and he had 24 points to spend... #that's how long i neglected him after i promised myself i was gonna use him more and then i didn't #it's not that i don't like sebastian as a character though i do tend to side eye him A LOT... it's just that i like everyone else more #even aveline like i'd take aveline over sebastian any day and that's saying something... or is it? i have a lot of feelings about aveline #whereas my feelings about sebastian could maybe fill a thimble...it doesn't help that in my canon run as a mage hawke #i romance anders and well... sebastian wants me to kill anders and my hawke is like 'do i approve of blowing up the chantry? complicated.' #'am i breaking up with anders for this? absolutely. do i still love him? mmhmmm. am i going to kill him sebby? i'd sooner set varric aflame #then sebastian threatens to bring an army to kirkwall and leaves so i can't say i have the greatest opinion on him #even the time where i did kill anders and he stayed in my party he was just... there #and then he glitched out and started t posing while asking if ed ever found out what anders wanted to do in the chantry so..... yeah #but even this playthrough where i'm playing as a lady warrior with a different personality and everything... i'd just rather use anyone els #also keep him away from bethany i do not approve sksksks she's too good for him #i want to understand and see the different angles of him like with the other companions but i've yet to convince myself to do it #also sebastian romancers out there can you like... explain? genuinely can you explain the appeal? i'm curious #because of all the love interests in da2 i look at sebastian and you'd think i'd maybe be more interested? but it's like... #i know about the chaste marriage and everything like that's fine i don't need sex to be a thing in the relationship but it feels less like #an asexual romance and more like... y'know... being with a priest and i guess that's just not one of my kinks? sksksks #i guess there's also the prince angle but i romanced alistair in dao and kept him a grey warden i don't really care about royalty power #and i don't have issues with him being a part of the chantry [well i do but yknow what i mean] since i romanced cullen in dai #and his whole deal with the chantry and magic and shit makes his romance interesting to me but sebastian is just.... a bit too much i think #i don't know i'd like to understand because i really don't but i also keep forgetting about him

[beesinspades]

I wish I could say i'm taking the rejection of my application to that zine well, but alas </3

#i am. normal levels of upset not at all crying #and my brain is stupid so now the huge excitement i felt for it is ruined for me and it breaks my heart #but thats the risk with me when applying to zines and i knew that when i applied #still hurts 🥲 #if you know me you know how crazy excited i was over this zine so.....it blows #crying over it like a little baby #the worst is not knowing why they didn't pick me but i understand telling everyone the reason of their rejection is too time consuming #anyway. i applied as a pinch hitter too (which i usually never do so that tells you how serious I was haha) but i doubt they'll need one #and they might not pick me if they do #anyway anyway #i woke up every hour of the night because i was so nervous over this mail #so now im sad crying AND sleep-deprived #i got three hours left time to try to finally sleep properly #god im so embarrassing #beelio rants

[forestofsprites]

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#how many times can a guy say that they're so damn happy to be alive before they get imploded #because #i'm so damn happy to be alive #i still can't believe that i'm here #and this is real #and i've moved out #and i'm doing all these things that i never ever thought i'd be able to do #when i was dying i was okay #but you can't Not think about everything you wish you could do #mainly it was the little things #that i'd fall asleep with an open window blowing a breeze on me as i slept. that i'd a) wake up but b) see the sky #or that i'd get the chance to finally move my lego flowers to the correct bookshelf shelf #but it was also the hope that This would happen #and it wasn't a wish i let myself fully indulge bc i genuinely genuinely did not want to chance a thing #for all the stress and the hecticness of all of this #i just can't believe it's real #and it's happened #and i made it #i get to do those things i thought i'd never get the chance to do again #if this all goes to shit again next year bc at some point i will relapse and it will happen again #i think i'll be much more at peace #just knowing that i got my chance to be away and to feel like a human #i didn't think this would ever ever ever happen #especially not during the april calamity of 2023 #i'm just so happy #i keep smiling at absolutely everything #i think i've accidentally been flirting with people bc i've just got the chance to be kind and talk and get to know folks #and i just ! can't believe it #i really can't #:]

[just-gingerkat]

Lmaoooo we in the trenches boys lmaooo i chose a bad time to return to the dsmp

#Hey dsmp fandom #Are you chill now can i come back now #And relive some nostaligia #Lmaooo sure we're chiil no trouble #Have a fun time #Omg thanks I can finally do some fana #Blows up in my face #Boom boom #Haha you already came back #Too late to leave again #You idiot your stuck here now #Have fun in that now bitter nostaligia #dsmp #wilbur soot #georgenotfound #This will be my only personal comment on this #This is how I cope #At least Tommys still chillin

[all-inmoderation]

rewatching the fourth episode "Happy Progress Day" and realizing that it was Ekko under that Firelight owl mask is just,,, holy shit.

Ekko was the one who screamed "No!" when Jinx shot that pink-haired girl she mistook for Vi.

Did that pink-haired girl remind Ekko of Vi, too? Maybe that's why he liked her. Vi was dead and gone, but here's this girl with the same rosy-hued hair, the same heart and grit as Vi, willing to fight alongside him against Silco and Jinx for taking away his family. For taking Vi away. For taking Powder away.

#ekko arcane #ekko x jinx #ekko x vi #if ur into that i guess #ill fully admit they had some chemistry when he got all up in her face and said “and you still block with your face!”. whew. lol. #i can ship anyone and everyone together in this show bc like why do they all have so much gotdamn chemistry w each other #arcane #ekkojinx #anyway rewatching that scene is DELICIOUS when u know its ekko and jinx fighting #especially explains ekkos animosity towards her #the way he debated leaving bc time was running out after she killed his friend but decided to throw himself at jinx in a fit of rage anyway #did she know it was him under the mask? i bet she did. and she didnt care. thats why ekko is able to confidently say powder is gone #just imagining how many times theyve viciously fought each other over the years *dreamy sigh* #ekko must hate her so much <3 #and still he couldnt deliver that final blow on the bridge~ #maybe he heard jinx call his friend “Vi?” in that broken tone even while he was distracted during the mission #he heard her w the same hope in her voice that he had when he first met that girl and thought for a moment Vi came back from the dead #he hates jinx and he misses vi and he misses powder and he misses benzo and- but he must move on #jinx arcane #vi arcane #firelights arcane #all the shared history between all the characters makes for such good tension and interesting dynamics in this show. god. #arcane meta

[yuridovewing]

I kinda wish Mapleshade was worse in this novella. I think she should have flat out lied about Birchface being the kits’ father instead of going “well if I say nothing then it isnt a lie and it isnt my fault”

I like the mental gymnastics Mapleshade does a lot, I think that’s a great aspect of her character that makes her unreliable yet interesting. So I’m not saying she should gloat or anything. But I don’t think it’d change much if she replied “yes, he is, I was just too nervous to say anything” because the reaction to the reveal later on will still be the same. She can easily rationalize it with “StarClan offered me this escape route through Frecklewish. I’d be a fool not to take it!” Idk it’s a small moment but it does come across like theyre trying to rationalize her a little bit?

#i think a fair criticism of msv is that even though shes a villain protagonist its clear they didnt want to write one #like shes still very much a villain but to compensate they have to ‘’lighten the blow’’ in some aspects like this #and then also make the characters super nasty to her to compensate #it cant just be the protag doing awful things to good or neutral people #msv liveread #i think ive mentioned this but i like the idea that in razorverse that she thinks her dark forest placement is a placeholder #because she ‘’failed to avenge her kittens’’ and ‘’when his bloodline is finally wiped out #ill be allowed to join them’’ #cause she STILL thinks shes right and being in the dark forest just breaks her over time

[feroluce]

Obsessing over the new ingirida / nobokai possibilities in pokemas after the pla update because oh my goddddddddd

Just. Irida hanging out with the twins for a few days in Pasio, getting to spend time with them and even become friends, and realizing that this really is Ingo, but it's not her Ingo, at least not yet. But she doesn't really have any way of knowing what to do about this, and she can't stick around long enough to figure it out. She has to go back.

Irida very seriously taking Ingo's hands in hers and looking up at him and telling him that if he ever finds himself at a loss somewhere and with nowhere to go, come to the pearl clan. Come find her. She'll help him, she swears it.

Ingo finds it a little odd, but she says it so sadly (plus there's a cute girl holding his hands dbkxjske) and so sincerely that he can't really bring himself to ask about it. Ingo nods and tells her yes, ok, he promises he'll come find her someday, they'll see each other again.

And Irida looking as though she might cry as she stands in front of the rift, telling Emmet to please, please, take good care of Ingo, spend lots of time with him... Treasure all of it, don't take it for granted, ok?

#ingirida #nobokai #pokemon irida #pokemon ingo #subway master ingo #I've seen more nobokai art on twitter finally thank you for the update pokemas I can finally water my crops WEH #just. so very very in love with the bittersweet angst this all makes possible #irida knows that something is going to happen but she doesn't know how and she doesn't know when #there's just not really anything she can do about it other than maybe try to soften the blow #I like imagining her being fascinated by Ingo in pasio though haha #he's so different! and yet he's still just the same as ever! #she sometimes has a hard time reconciling that this is the same man she knows back home #but she is fascinated seeing the origins of all his odd mannerisms and what he's like with his memories and with Emmet by his side #it maybe makes her a little homesick and makes her miss her Ingo back in Hisui #.....suddenly just remembered Ray's first reaction to pokemas Ingo after only knowing him in PLA: #'Also he sounds. So young and enthusiastic I wasn't ready.' #'Poor Ingo. He really doesn't look like he sounds like that anymore huh nwkzkkdkd' #so maybe more than anything Irida just gets sniped by Ingo's voice XD #gonna go to bed now dreaming of Irida being so so happy in a soft and content and slightly bittersweet way now that she finally gets to- #-meet Ingo's friends and family and hear him talk about home and learning all of these new things and seeing all these new sides of him... #submas #ingo #irida #pokemas