#A One-In-A-Million Shot

[fluttershyes]

my comic rendition of @swollenbabyfat 's post

#mine #my little pony #mlp #fluttershy #tree hugger #tw drugs #all of the car shots are directly traced from goofle images exept the first one #and the intersection #dude u could not pay me a million dollars to learn to draw cars🫡 #long post

[mummer]

barry got away with all of it buried with full honours martyred forever because that is what america has always done it has honoured its murderers it has raised them and dropped them onto foreign soil it has fed them with weaponry it has blinded them to the guts on the floor it has loved them and painted their image on its walls and its screens in brilliant dolbyvision. every square inch of this world is a shrine to violence

#slay. #barry spoilers #barry #shot. barry with 3 ak 47s strapped to his back in the plushie aisle of target. Reverse. Sally's room unicorn posters peeling for #hunting trophies and corpses #THE LAST SHOT BEING. BARRY. WHO HAS A LITERAL MIND PALACE FILLED WITH THE SOULS OF THOSE HE HAS KILLED #IS BURIED WITH FULL MILITARY HONOURS. STELLAR. ONE MILLION OUT OF TEN PERFECT SATIRE I LOVE YOU FUCK.

[boxheadpaint]

any recommendations for analog horror that isnt a slideshow with microsoft sam telling you DONT LOOK OUTSIDE. like something unique lately

#something i really liked was the “lost media: obscure security system” one #and its unfortunate that its the only one from that individual at the moment #im giving “nocturnal chronicles” a shot but it starts off with poorly edited footage from... metropolis. #like we just put a scary face over her and had questionable glitch effects #the boiled one was cute- not exactly the most... idk compelling analog horror but the custom art and animation #can elevate a story youve heard a million times before #i am also trying to check out hit metal 17 times but Instagram

[nanomooselet]

My Brother's Keeper (VII)

Knives, despite it all, I do indeed pity you. You horrible creature. More than you might imagine anyone would dare.

I said some time ago that Knives has agency and Vash doesn't, and that the Eye of Michael's dogma demands sacrifice.

One lives. One dies.

When Knives tells Vash to leave humanity, it's at that very instant Vash realises the truth: that this isn't about the Plants versus humans. It was never about that, ever, and trying to dissuade Knives from continuing his descent by arguing from that premise isn't ever actually going to work.

It's about how discovering Tesla broke them in two. It broke reality, cracked the singular unit they once believed themselves to be in half, and sent each half down forever-separate paths in both space and time.

Vash, through Rem, decided he could face the future. Even despite this discovery, how apathetically cruel the world is to the innocent, the future is always ours to shape as long as we live to choose. Rem showed him that through acknowledging and accepting responsibility for the pain of the past, even if once ignorant or complicit, one could learn and heal, and therefore work to be free of it. Not perfect. Never perfect. But still better.

Nai only saw potential pain. The fear of facing the world where it could be inflicted, and of those who'd done so, consumed him. He would erase both by returning to the past, the innocence and ignorance of having never learned the frightening truth. He'd thus build a paradise, an Eden, where no sin was committed and no sinner would set foot. He alone, in his own singular perfection, was fit both to assume this task and the power - and thus the right - to fulfil it.

Since when have we been so different?/Who are you? We've become so different I don't think I even know you anymore.

Vash begins to cry because he sees now that Nai… Nai is gone. Maybe he ran for too long, or maybe the Nai he thought he knew never existed. It doesn't matter anymore. There's nothing of his brother left to love in this monster before him, who's done everything that he's done and isn't sorry and wants to keep doing it by seizing control over Vash's own body. (Even though they look more like each other now than they have since they were kids, which still absolutely ruins me.) Vash grieves his brother, his brother's love and their togetherness in the past, but he finally knows for sure that they're gone, and he must define his own identity, and move beyond them.

His declaration that he'll always run isn't about running from humanity, anymore than Knives is truly fighting for the freedom of the Plants.

Seriously, Knives isn't fighting for the freedom of the Plants. He thinks he is, because he thinks that justifies controlling their bodies and consuming their power and benefiting from their suffering, but he's reversed cause and effect. He acts and so they suffer, but he believes their suffering is what motivates his actions and not his fear and his greed for the power to destroy whatever he fears. It's circular, and it's entirely self-centred.

It's the logic not of a liberator but of the entire system of oppression.

Knives's paradise, the home to which he's so desperate to return, no longer exists. It never will again. Not for him or for Vash or for the Plants. Knives himself broke it. Knives himself ripped it out of the heavens and plunged it into the earth, shattering it, so he could reshape the pieces into something that he alone controlled. Knives will always assume control, and he won't stop if you give what he says he wants, because he won't admit or even try to understand that it's not the truth.

He wants to stop being scared and alone. He wants his brother to need him and never leave him. He wants his mother, but she's gone. (He killed her. Over and over and over again he kills her and she's still always gone and he hates her for always being gone. Why is she gone? Why didn't she stay? He asked. He gave her a choice.)

(Yet in Vash's memories and in the people he loves, Rem's spirit lives on, and always will. She still loves him, her perfect boy, even still protects him, just as she promised she would. Did you guys know Vash's coat is bulletproof? Did you guys realise Vash literally still walks around kicking ass in the protective embrace of his mother? I actually had to take a minute, when I figured it out. It made me tear up.)

I was rejected?

Let me back in! Take me back.

Knives wants to go home. To be a child again with Vash by his side. Innocent, together, in paradise. But once you've grown up, you can never really go home again. It's a fundamentally selfish desire to want everything to go back to being the same forever - what it means is that because it was good or kind for you specifically, everyone else has to conform whether it was good and kind to them or not. There's always danger in nostalgia even when it's not misplaced. It encourages destructive nihilism, malicious and ignorant apathy. If the best can only ever be behind us, there is no reason to try to go on.

Vash is not nostalgic. Vash will run, and run, and keep running. For a lifetime if he has to - and a Plant's lifetime is a long one. It's not that he hasn't made a choice, but that he'd already made it long ago: to be free of Knives, to live and to fight for independence from his brother's abusive care, and to find a way to unite humans and Plants, the purpose he's been eager and happy to serve since the day he found it. Rem's dream is one he longs to fulfil, and he finally knows he has the power, intelligence, resilience, strength and above all, the right to take up that task.

He's just acknowledged and accepted that it's not also his purpose to help his stupid brother, not if this is all he gets in response. Dismissed, ignored, insulted, his grief and compassion mocked; abused, put down, smothered, injured, rendered permanently disabled, scarred, violated, traumatised. Forced into the shape that Knives imagines he should be in, pieces cut away until he fits the image in his brother's head.

It's very sad that after all that Knives has done to him, Vash doesn't value his own life and wellbeing enough to care for himself as much as he cares for everyone else in the world. But it still beats Knives trying to do it for him. He's so bad at it.

In the past, on occasions such as this, when Vash demonstrated like... the capacity to sort of almost disagree, Knives would yell at him suddenly and loudly enough that Vash would freeze up in terror, and then Knives would do whatever he wanted regardless. My man isn't good at hearing the word "no". If yelling or insults failed, he'd do something physically violent. I've seen a lot of takes on how funny and/or gay it is that Vash's reaction to Wolfwood grabbing his lapels and threatening to torture him to death is... this.

But understand that when Vash suggests an alternative that doesn't involve mass murder, his brother tends not to agree to it. Or stop at threats. Vash's arguments with Knives always make Vash sound a bit pathetic and dumb because Knives doesn't actually engage Vash - he shuts him down or insults him, telling him he's too weak and stupid to even speak. He has no respect at all for Vash's opinions, abilities, or as a person - honestly, I wouldn't treat an animal this way.

When someone finally respects your beliefs and abilities after they've been coldly or violently dismissed so many times, that's… how it feels.

Knives assumed that Vash had no powers so he was weak, and then when Vash did demonstrate powers, that Vash was weak because he was frightened of them. As usual, the trauma he's inflicted maybe being the problem never entered his mind; it's always Vash's fault. When Vash finally has both power and the will to assert control of it, he finally has the capacity and strength to enforce his refusal. And that leaves Knives finally exhausted of any means to break his will.

Except one. One final choice.

Vash is right: the plan has failed and this is over. Knives can never again have the power he desires, and what's more, Vash would rather be shot at for another hundred years than be together with his brother in paradise.

In spite of everything Knives has done to destroy it, the independent identity of Vash the Stampede yet survives. And so.

One lives.

One dies.

Nai is dead.

There's no turning back.

(The stars are falling down.)

And no one ever really goes home.

If you want to tell me Stampede is a poor quality adaptation, it's not funny and it's shallow and Vash is a loser now and there's no Milly and they're just exploiting the property and if it just hadn't been called Trigun maybe... maybe...

Maybe! You're entitled to an opinion. I'm open to the discussion. I do always try to assume good faith.

However, I'm still probably not going to agree.

And I'm done. Now I need to lie down on the floor and cry over my beautiful disaster twins. Thank you very much for reading! I encourage you to be as insane in the tags as you feel moved to be, because I crave validation.

(Extreme Lesbianism for Meryl Stryfe: Coming Soon.)

(Part I)

(Part II)

(Part III)

(Part IV)

(Part V)

(Part VI)

#trigun stampede #tristampparty #millions knives #vash the stampede #trigun meta #hundreds spoons #vash is in fact perfect #hundred spoons is a yellow-bellied baby who needs his mommy #throwing a tantrum trying to blow everything up #maybe if he'd tried the ramen in july he'd be less on fire #TOO LATE NOW #loser #i cherish them both #full disclosure the shot where knives is launched through the rem-plant-thing's face is only there because it makes me giggle #on a scale of millions knives to one how graceful are you in defeat #meta: my brother's keeper

[beaft]

accidentally went full victorian orphan boy mode (low iron/blood sugar crash) at the dr today and it was like the worst possible time for it to happen bc the nurse was asking me all these questions and i was just fighting for my fucking life trying not to put a hand to my fevered brow and topple elegantly to the floor

#i think she just thought i was really stupid #she'd ask me a simple question and i'd parse it for like 8 million years like a contestant on the final round of a game show #at one point she was like 'when did you have your last shot' ma'am i can't even remember leaving the house this morning #we're past brain fog territory it's fucking silent hill up in here #be shh now

[solcarow]

HELLO .

#TRIPS AND FALLS DOWN NINE BILLION MILLION FLIGHTS OF STAIRS . HI . #IM GONNA THROW UP . #before watching this trailer you must . you shall ​​read hit manga one-shot look back by tatsuki fujimoto right fucking NOWWW #its very ​han sooyoung…. #very excited to watch this in complete silence for about 5 hours #look back #solar-talks #Youtube

[samarecharm]

monke...

#sketches #seiten taisei #monkey boy i looooooove youuuuuuuuu #furry #anthro #<- forgot that this isnt my other blog and that people may in fact get blindsided by this. lol #trying to find good refs for the personas is insane. #why is his mask so difficult to draw and detail. why is there no model extracted from the game by now . help me #this is also why i gave up w Satanael; its too much work to just find his fucking FACE #not a single furry/monsterfucker tried to get clean shots of these guys???? not even one???? #but i have a million refs of loki flying around. whatever. WHATEVER. boring mfs

[casualbluebirdmentality]

Leon's immortality predates the Cup of Life, y'all. he's just Like That

I'm assuming people have probably talked abt this already but if they have, I haven't seen it (i'm relatively new here), so I'm bringing it up myself lol.

(It's important to note here that in the end credits starting from s2e2, Rupert Young has always been referred to as playing Sir Leon, so it is the same character.)

Remember s2e13 The Last Dragonlord, when Arthur asks his knights who among them are willing to ride out with him to fight this big-ass dragon, and Leon is the first to volunteer? And they then show Leon, with Arthur and the others, as they ride out to fight Kilgharrah in that weird-ass square field?

...And then Kilgharrah one-shots literally everyone except for Arthur & Merlin???? And when the two return, they're just like, "yeah all the other knights died valiantly defending the kingdom, very sad" ???????

Personally, I believe this only leaves us with two (2) options:

The writers just straight up Forgot (or maybe ignored) that Leon was one of the knights that died, and just kept writing him in bc he was a well-liked character,

Or,

2. They're therefore implying that, canonically, when Arthur&Merlin got back to Camelot and said that all the knights were dead, they were just straight-up wrong. Which means that Leon had to just... find his own way home, I guess, after having been freshly charbroiled by a fucking dragon.

Merthur: None of the other knights made it, even Leon :(

Leon, covered in burns, wheezing on the ground in that big-ass field: QUIT TELLING PEOPLE I'M DEAD

Merthur: sometimes we can still hear his voice :(

The wiki says that "many believed he'd been killed" when he "was injured by the great dragon," but that "this was ultimately disproven by his return in Series 3"...

...which I believe falls squarely into #2 listed above lmao. He wasn't dead, just injured. They just fucking left him there.

TL;DR: yes, he's immortal, but it's not even from the cup. he's just Built Different

#he needs medical attention Arthur #he's got a million third-degree burns Arthur #even if he were dead why tf would you just Leave His Body In A Field #ARTHUR #Sir Leon #sir leon the long suffering #bbcm #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #bbc arthur #...........if it sounds like a lot of this is copied from a specific reddit comment from the merlin subreddit #technically it is but #it's my own comment lol #i was talking abt this w someone there and realized i should just make a post abt it #merlin emrys #merlin bbc #potential prompts casualbluebirdmentality #as in: a one-shot of This Whole-Ass Tomfoolery from leon's pov #oh the stories he could tell

[lupinshanshin]

#green jacket #part 1 #s01e05 #lupin #goemon #car id #the straight on shot of the benz is soooooo sick #do i try to id BACKGROUND CARS....... shiiittt alright #second pic from bottom right to top left: #toyota corolla sprinter E10 #daihatsu compagno 800 #mercedes benz ssk #volkswagen beetle #that little white one could be a million different things #1969 hino ranger #1968 buick LeSabre #hino contessa 900 sprint #may make edits to this later rotfl its hard with bg cars cuz who even knows how accurately these are even drawn

[elliewiltarwyn]

Send 🧞‍♂️for a screenshot associated with wishes or hopes.

"Hope, is it...? Futile. Utterly futile. Such feeble light is powerless before darkest despair."

"What is this defiance? No! The hatred, the pain, the loss... We cannot suffer it again..."

"We will stand against fate... no matter the cost! We've been here before, many a time..."

"Thus do we know to never give up... for hope will shine again!"

i knew i would eventually run through Endwalker Part 2 on NG+ just for the gpose opportunities in these arenas that are very difficult to get back to. wasn't too crazy. :') thanks for the prompt, @mimble-sparklepudding!!

bonus, one epic final boss battle and one duel later:

I wish he could have experienced what I have.

I wish I could go back to that.

I want to go home...

"...Mia...Lily... I'm... sorry..."

#endwalker spoilers #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv gpose #femroe #there are probably eight million easier ways i could have gotten these shots but i wanted to be authentic @.@; #also zenos isn't t-posing on the ground he's in an adjusted /playdead but man it sure looks like a t-pose from the one angle i got him at

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizontober 2023 | 22: weave

#horizontober2023 #horizon zero dawn #hzd #aloy #thunderjaw #hzd cauldron zeta #hzd pc #v close to not managing this one lol #'machines woven out of light' was what i thought about when i saw this prompt #but since i love doing cauldrons i didn't have a save file i could use bc i'd completed them in all my saves :( #then i remembered the fact that you get approx 3 million save slots on pc (compared to playstation) #and dug through my files to find one where i hadn't done zeta yet - luckily i had success #i'm not sure i'm really happy with the shot? it's... ok... #just sorta boring #i think i could have made it more interesting if i had a save in hfw - for the future perhaps #oh i did discover something in photomode on pc - if you turn the camera away from the thunderjaw #the light effect/lens flare on the cauldron arm disappears #i was trying to get the arm lit up and was using the weapon wheel to time it correctly #and then i would set up the shot (making aloy look at camera) and turn back to the thunderjaw and the light was gone #kinda weird and idk if it's the same on console?

[chinchillion]

"But here you come just in time, when I can’t see any light that shines, I find your hand to lead me through the day."

— MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT, episode 10

#my school president #mspedit #myschoolpresidentedit #tinngun #guntinn #dailyasiandramas #thaidramaedit #fourth nattawat #gemini norawit #😣😣😣😣 these two #eleven gifs because every shot is important and i already had to delete half of the frames </3 #one million different colourings sorry #*m&mgifs #🐢 #🦆 #(<- following like duck) #let me tell you lyrics :( #‘thank you for never leaving’ :( #u*

[likeamosquitobutworse]

You shoot Knives?? You shoot Knives with a Gun!?????? OH! Jail for Vash!!!! Jail for Vash for 10000 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#trigun stampede #trigun #i am dying #literally one of the most pathetic people in all of anime #Through the whole ep 26 this has been in my brain rent free #He got shot in the leg and just #gave up #While Vash just Sonic-ed out of there #i didnt know if to laugh or cry #so i did both #vash trigun #vash the stampede #million knives

[saggitary]

Hey! Did you like the Holdo Manuever from Epsiode 8 of Star Wars? ⬇️

#it is stated in the movie that is a one in a million shot #I think if anyone could have made that shot it would have been a Jedi #but 🤷‍♀️ #star wars #star wars sequel trilogy #star wars the last jedi #the last jedi #holdo manuever #vice admiral holdo #star wars meta

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

"It's you and me, remember?"

#i know that there are already a million and one posts about this shot but #i live for the hand holds in this show so the fact that i will get to see this at the start of every episode from now on is just amazing #arrrgh it's so gooood #i am obsessed with this #it is my new favourite thing #miraculous #mlb #miraculous ladybug #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous les aventures de ladybug et chat noir #ladynoir #ladybug #chat noir #ml gifs #ml season 5 spoliers #ml s5 spoilers

[landmine-type]

he called me sweetheart last night and it made me lose it a little. i wasn't expecting it at all. i think if someone ever hurts him or makes him sad i will literally demolish their life until there's nothing left resembling happiness

#i do not care what it takes #i will destroy their internet presence #i will fake screen shots #i will make one million sockpuppets #i will send them death threats everyday until theyre acted on #literally anything #🩸 . look at me #actually bpd #actually obsessive #yanblr #yancore #yanderecore #actually borderline #obslove #🌨 . professor posting