#I always die at world 2

[sirbird]

Got reminded of one of my favorite games so why not make a small crossover :>

#my art #atsv miguel #miguel o'hara #atsv #miguel o hara fanart #miguel o hara #I love this game so much but it’s so difficult to beat #I always die at world 2 #anyways I wanted to draw this game crossover #and a crossover for lbp2 but Miguel as a sack boy :) #I have so many work in progresseses it’s crazy #the adhd is really hitting recently I keep starting new things when I should focus #on the started ones #forgive me for that #always I’m working on something for AFM II cause I miss drawin #scenes from the fic #so trust there’s more to come #love y’all

[pierregaslays]

:(

#i literally feel VIOLENTLY ill at the fact the hospital handled my mum’s passing so badly that her funeral is exactly ONE MONTH after it #i’ll forever be furious and angry and hurt and traumatised by the way they handled it #like A MONTH #it should not be happening this long after #and it’s her birthday on sunday so maybe i’m just feeling ten times worse because of that #but it’s not fair #it’s never gonna be fair #why the FUCK did she get taken from me like this #and then having to be the only one who knew about her funeral plans bc she only told me #and then everybody including my dad tells me how strong i am #IM NOT STRONG!!?!!?!??!? #i’m a girl who needs her mama. i’m just a girl who is so lost and confused and needs her mama #i literally want 2 die #tw death #i turned my tv off and immediately started crying bc i felt like the worst person in the world #did i not love her enough #should i have been better to get #*her #idk i just want her to know i adored her #and i need to hear her voice and get a hug #one of the last things she said to me was ‘i love you more’ well i love you most so how about that #tw grief #i am never getting over losing her #please . feel free to let me rant i just feel like i can’t talk to my dad or family bc like idk . #i always talked to my mum about my emotions and well! that can’t happen anymore lmfao 😭 #i just need a place to vent the HELL out of my feelings bc i am not going back to therapy

[reliquiaen]

Okay, a few years back I made this graphic to explain the Great Cycle. Now that I've mulled over DD2 for a few days, I'm updating it. Some of the same assumptions as before remain: The Dragonforged fought the dragon, his weapon broke, he tried punching it (lmao), but he did survive without killing the dragon, possibly there was a second Bargain offered in the face of his determination. So you don't have to kill your dragon to survive it. Also still assuming that different classes become different types of drakes because I just like that detail, even though we see nothing to confirm it in DD2 (except maybe for the wyrms in the post-game, I hope that's what those are, just a bit redesigned).

But this time, I'm making some NEW assumptions: A Great Dragon can be manifested directly by the Seneschal's will (I'm guessing this is why our DD2 dragon doesn't have a name, I suspect this dragon was created after Rothais defeated his - he didn't become a dragon OR Seneschal so it had to come from somewhere). The challenge a Seneschal poses to the Arisen can be anything; Savan gave us the opening of the Everfall and unleashed a ton of powerful monsters upon the world; but Pathfinder gave us what the world would look like without a Seneschal to oversee things. My assumption is that the Colossal Dragon that appears out of that final red pillar of light IS the Pathfinder (possibly using his will to force order back upon the world) and when we kill it, our Arisen becomes Seneschal (because Pathfinder says he won't be there to see the new world that's forming). So the challenge can be anything, not just the Everfall. I'm curious what happens to our pawn after that fight, though. And it's a much better Seneschal fight than the one against Savan, sorry Savan.

I'm also assuming that (given we see the Pathfinder rewind time and rewrite the world) the Seneschal can simply will the world into a state of being that suits them. This includes wiping memories of events. Though I like to imagine that our Arisen-turned-Seneschal didn't wipe memories of themselves or of the apocalypse-world. There was an entire plotline going through this game with Rothais and Phaesus where mortals are trying to get rid of the Seneschal and so it makes sense that they need to remember what would happen without the Seneschal's presence.

Anyway, thanks. I'll probably have more thoughts later, but this is the part that gets me most. I like to know how things work so I wanted to sort the Cycle out.

#dragon's dogma #dragon's dogma 2 #dragons dogma #reliviews #the great cycle #personal #i wonder where a ng+ will put me #i really am excited to play ng+ #but i need a break to rotisserie chicken what i've got so far #i'll come back to it with a fresh pov after a few weeks i think #there are of course still things i wanna know #what's the deal with the dragonsplague #it's not just a mechanic they added to troll us #but what is its significance #what happens to our pawn after we defeat the colossal dragon #they flat out state we infused them with will of their own #so do they become human after that #or does the plague kill them #and there are always timeline questions #what happens to lamond and this new dragonforged #how long ago were they arisen #what about rothais #he's not even really alive anymore but does he finally get to die #is the brinepocalypse something that HAS to happen periodically #to like clean slate the world #to remind people of the importance of the seneschal and maintain peace for a time afterwards #what happened to religion #there was a maker and faith-church in the first game #where's that now have people just forgotten to worship the seneschal #anyway

[tamymew]

its that time of the year again wooooo

#did both day 1 and 2 together #im glad i manage to draw something more a random sketch finally #been scared to touch the graphic tablet since september for some reason #anyways #as always i wont do all days bc i'll DIE blah blah #yknow the drill #rwartmonth2024 #rwartmonth day 1 #rivulet #rwartmonth day 2 #submerged superstructure #rwartmonth #rain world #tamyart

[yonemurishiroku]

I think that if Nico were to bath in the Styx, his anchor would be Hazel.

#this boy loves his family more than the world #i’m sorry solangelo nation but 1/ i don’t need another percabeth 2/ nico would hate to leave hazel alone #it’s true. i think hazel would always be nico’s anchor. she is the first and foremost reason nico refuses to die #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #pjo #hoo #toa #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #the sun and the star #the sun and the star: a nico di angelo adventure #tsats #riordanverse #yone rambling #yone headcanon #nico headcanon #underworld siblings

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

tiny seed of a fic idea: the ghoul and lucy make it to vegas after 2+ weeks of Team Bonding Through The Power Of Life Threatening Road Trips, by now lucy has basically solemnly vowed to help him find his family, and then in homage to the new vegas game, cooper IMMEDIATELY gets shot in the head and dies the minute they enter vegas. he's fine, he'll be fine, he's gonna get patched up by some random good samaritan doctor and come back swinging for incredibly violent revenge. but lucy does not know this. bonus points if it's her shithead dad that shot him

#actually i wouldn't be surprised if season 2 went with something like this #lucy getting shot would also be interesting because like. everyone loves that trope #gruff mean morally gray dude ''doesn't care'' until someone he totally won't admit he cares about dies #and then it's a 🎶 fucking bloodbath 🎶 #but on the other hand. cooper getting shot gives us plenty of lucy bending her moral compass juuuuuust a bit #tearing through vegas always on the verge of tears DETERMINED to find out where barb and janey ended up #because she made a promise gosh damn it #plus of the two of them who's gonna go for a reunion hug when it's revealed the shot wasn't fatal after all? #lucy. obviously #could get the best of both worlds by having cooper get shot and ''die'' but then give him some reason to believe lucy's dead too #he's on his murder revenge quest and finds out.... maybe that lucy was tracking down his family and died somehow because of it #(obviously she didn't) #and THEN we get a reunion hug! #oh. oh wait #oh no #this is becoming more than a seed FUCK #me #fallout show

[sallytwo]

every 3-6 months my opinon on nick locarno does a complete 180. it’s like hey buddy ✌️😁

#and that false friend kept his back turned…. #here’s what it boils down to #1) pilots and esp young hotshot jet pilots are supposed to be reckless and fun and dangerous. read the right stuff #and if they get killed it’s just cuz ‘they didn’t have what it takes’ you constantly have to prove yourself. READ THE RIGHT STUFF #2) this in general is demonstrated in starfleet cuz the officers that take big risks are the ones who get rewarded for it. we see that in tn #except none of the ‘heros’ ever die or get reprimanded for their choices. cuz they always end up okay #2) nick is like 21-22 and it seems unfair to judge him super hardly for the accident #because it’s DEMONSTRATED that starfleet actively encourages this type of behavior in officers and that definetly bleeds over to the cadets #3) and well. we’ve gotten to the biggest one. even if rationally he should be a sympathie character that i can forgive. #the thing is. that you look up to your cadet officers like they are your whole entire world. they’re your leaders you’d do anything for them #but they’re also your friends. and even if nick is in the clear. i cannot for the life of me imagine being betrayed like that #BY specifically your squad leader. like with officers it’s impartial they don’t realllyyyy care about you. BUT A CADET OFFICER. #YOURE SUPPOSED TO TRUST THEM THWYRE SUPPOSED TO STAND BY YOU NO MATTER WHAT!!!! ugh #which is why first duty is sooo rough for me cuz like. man you can’t not empathize with wesley there i can’t imagine if that happened to me #i would kill myself for real. anyway. moral of this is i’m a nick hater again hashtag hater

[origamiyoda]

really really obsessed w the idea of rebooted media being just like.. reincarnation of the characters.

#mostly this is me back on my tmnt bs again w like. idk really liking the idea of rottmnt being the 2012 boys getting a second chance #and like getting 2 be kids. yknow #BUT ive seen some trigun/tristamp reincarnation aus and its just.... ough. #like idk if its the certainty that ww will die. like no matter what happens hes doomed #he died in trimax& th 98 anime and like. they've deviated a little from the plotline in stampede which is maybe giving me this false hope #that like. this time around it'll be different. This time around they can save him #This time around he'll get a happy ending. peace. idk #But I know they probably won't and hes doomed by the narrative which is just. So great but also. ohgod idk #idk just. Vash & ww & meryl & milly (!!!) Meeting with this sense of like. Yeah. Us four against the world. Fitting into place #a sense of deja vu. Idk. IDK !!!!! #theres something to it that im quite obsessed w #cain if youre reading this. Hi. Also this is along the same vein of like. All our aus. Same logic & train of thought #That no matter what there is a set of people you are destined to meet in every lifetime. You'll always end up back in the same place #side by side. Idk #THIS IS DERANGED. anyway #tmnt #trigun #Leo yells

[blueskittlesart]

ok yknow what i have 4/5 finals done now and i cant write this essay until the library guy gets back to me so let's do some requests. send some asks in baby i need to draw for myself and my wonderful followers again

#finals really is always just. 2 weeks of art being the worst possible thing in the world #and then you finish and you're like i need to draw something stupid for ME right now or i'll die

[twilightarcade]

i still can't believe she said that shit to me

#wordstag #she KNOWS I can't get behind that stuff ! She's met me yeah ? #tthen she has the audacity to say it's not that deep. Like yeah; saying that all of humanity is inherently evil and wouldn't #accomplish anything if it weren't for their lives hanging over their heads isn't that deep. Average Tuesday type conversation. #'if you were an apple farmer wouldn't you want to hoard your apples?' BUT FOR WHAT?? WHERE DOES THAT GREED GET YOU. WHY IS THE AVERAGE #PERSON IN YOUR MIND INHERENTLY GREEDY. Like ohhh if everything was free nothing would get done because people need motivation #like shit isn't getting done as it is now. You want to be a music teacher. You can't because of money. Why isn't this an obvious solution #like . I know you can't just go welp everything is free now; have fun. I know you can't destroy all of modern economics like that. #but why is a hypothetical magical world where we do that bad. What did the human race do before capitalism? Just roll over and die? #there was still art. There's always art. There's always going to be someone who wants to do something with their life that can't #because of MONEY. Like everything is so focused on money [coughing at the art industry] why can't it just be . #^^^^ anyway context I was talking 2 someone (that I know . Like really well ) and proposed just #getting rid of money forever . Because fhey wanted to be a teacher but couldn't bc money #and this was like . The most preposterous thing to them. Why would people do anything if not for money etcetc #even went as far as 'humans are inherently evil' which wooooaaaaah slow down there buddy . #you're letting your christian show. Or whateevr. Idk just not an idea I can personally get behind #then she goes 'it'snotbthat deep' like she didn't just imply something about the entirety of the human population. Or something. #like if humans are so evil jsut kill us now or something .

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#it is truly so wild to go from feeling miserable and hopeless all the time for... lets look at my excel sheet #the last 23 days. then to suddenly rocket up to smiling to myself all day. the world is so fucking beautiful #for no rational reason aside from what i have to assume is a chemical shift in my body #like is this what happy ppl feel like all the time? its truely so crazy. have i always been like this? #did i not notice this was a thing? like ive definitely noticed it in the last year but like ??? #my suspicion is that it doesnt actually last long enough to b considered hypomania but like idk i should see a doctor probably lol #u would think being happy would make it easier to do things but i just keep forgetting to do them and just like spacing out lol bc rn i #feel chill. even tho i need to make a list of the shit i gotta do by Friday. bleh. but idk it makes being in thr lab so much nicer bc i #mean. i still dont give a fuck abt what im doing but im like fuck it this isnt gonna b my problem in like 2-3 months. even tho im sure ill #still have to write up everything. but idk. it also makes it easier to b like. ok so i kno what my problems r lets plan yo make things not #so horrible so u dont just live a miserable life and then like die having lived a life of fear. like its so crazy how much easier thst is #to do rn??? well see how long it lasts but yea v strange. wish i could control my fucking focus tho. like that would b great #its like the fucking painting of hypnose. my focus is like a lighthouse wildly swinging its light around until it sometimes blasts me in #the face. like not helpful. i need to b able to do things. #i guess the weird thing rn is thst while i feel happy. i also have this like simmering fear of irrational things. like when i used to live #in my parents basement and i was terrified of the dark rooms down there at night. like that kind of childish baseless fear #but like im in i tiny tiny apartment lol like bro what r u scared of??? silly silly silly #idk hopefully it holds out the whole rest of the week and then i can travel and see my parents like !!! yo !!! happy vibes :-D #that would b kinda unhinged lmao. i doubt itll last thst long. its already slipped from this morning so we shall see #unrelated

[johnmalevolent]

im thinking about trigun and suikoden 2 and damn... there are parallels in there

#brb replaying suikoden 2 so i can get screencaps #suikoden 2 #trigun #krispeaks #difference is suikoden 2 has 3 sibling while trigun only has 2 (alive ones) #and um if i talk about riou and jowy to vash and knives first. both of them were always together growing up #until they separate ways to pursue what they believe is the best for the world #they climbed their ways to becoming important people either willingly (jowy & knives) or not (vash & riou) #and of course the legendary rune the chosen ones etc #now nanami is the difficult part because she fits some characters at the same time #yes she's aggresive but she also has vash's reluctance to fight and his pacifism (mostly) #she's like the younger vash and they act (somewhat) more mature than their brothers but also easily swept away #by the nature of the world that required them to fight #BUT. she's also rem. she means something to both jowy and riou although she mostly stays by riou's side #ans she's the biggest influence riou has. he talks to her before making any big decisions and every single time nanami asks him to stop #because theyre kids. they should be able to live normally as children instead of leading an army #which just reminds me of shu what the heck was going on in his mind. these kids were like 16 #so before doing anything riou (and the player) must consider how nanami feels which is why we've got the alt ending of them running away #if you choose to keep fighting tho? nanami dies. something something 'if i killed this man she'll die'? #and even after that she still haunts the narrative. everyone is at loss and even jowy #jowy who was willing to become a villain fighting against siblings to create a better world (eden) for the three of them #ALSO JOWY AND KNIVES LITERALLY HAVE BLADES/KNIVES AS THEIR POWER LOL #vash & riou has healing powers which could burst an attack but they use their physical weapons mostly (ignoring the player attached runes) #also about merilly & ww. they can come together as rina ellie and bolgan #wolfwood offers fortune reading and he still has his cross #meryl is ellie. both of them have too much weapons #millie is bolgan she's just having fun :^) #idk if theyre travelling together but these trio were prob the closest to riou and nanami as cameos in a lot of main quests #also i probably should say ftr i like riou/jowy as a ship but i mostly see their relationship as brotherly #which is to say no k/v here. begone

[salsflore]

been almost 3 yrs and i am still struggling with the whole mikachi first meeting thing. bye

#for zl its something simple. i just saw cute fanart of it with another ship [ p sure it was someones 2 ocs ] and enjoyed the idea #i lost my black umbrella irl but tbf it doesnt really matter because i always fucking forget to bring it anyways. so sometimes i get caught #in the rain. so idk zl lends me his umbrella bc. fuck! heading in the same direction and is like hey loser . . let me help you . . #cue immediate heart eyes bc handsome stranger helped her. like Wow Yuo Are So Cool... ♡ #afterwards she mentions this interaction to her friend [ yun jin or hu tao .. unsure but they are both so silly so its hard 2 decide ] and #then they are like wait i know that grandpa you're talking about! let me set you up lalala theres this whole thing i'm lazy #i'll write about it Maybe bc i do want to write for my platonic f/os. and also cover all the [ firsts ] in my self ships #its just: i don't like feeling obligated to stick to things (like a series or theme or whatever) so maybe not. would be nice though.. #nobody in this world is allowed to laugh at me i'll die #as for childe my plan was he breaks into her house and then shes like wtf who r u?!! they make eye contact and kiss + get married asap #no actually i truly dont know. zl's is slightly easier because he lives a mortal life. just chills #has connections with a lot of the liyue chars. literally just enjoying his retirement era now #ajax doesn't have many connections ( other harbingers but they dgaf about each other i think x ) and i just cant imagine that. idk #just fucking. bumping into him would lead to anything. maybe i should turn into a fish and have him fish me up and then i transform into a #girl and then we fall in love what do you guys think (losing my grip on humanity) #💭 #mika ♡ ajax #mika ♡ zhongli

[little-shiny-sharpies]

God I wish I could latch onto better media instead of sinking my teeth into Blizz-“absolute scumbag company”-ard for my 2 dragons who are absolutely going to get thrown behind the curtain the second the expansion is over until the writers need their props again. I don’t know how long they’ll be in there, but I don’t know what’s worse, them collecting dust of wasted potential in writers room storage or them being bent into roles they don’t fit into again.

#This is for Rachel you big stupid nasty smellin- #shiny speaks #it’s just so TERRIBLE a feeling like I’m not gonna see them again until the writers wanna fuck them up again #EVEN THEN how long until I get to hear them again?? #They are so so so important to me I’ve never loved any f/os this much before they mean the world to me #it was like 2 years before Wrathy came back from bfa to DD #more like 4 actually I think and god that’s worse #like they won’t die I at least have that one sliver of rope to hang onto #Kalec has his foot in the door to so many important mage stories and they’d have to replace him if they were gonna off him #I’m worried about Wrathy though because they could totally have him die a martyr in some self sacrifice to get him out of the picture #and some of the writers have it out for him personally!! leave him alone!!! #for the love of god!! #Like holy hell this game is my orbiting home where I always go back to. #and every expansion I’m going to be so scared for my boys now good grief #I don’t care if Azeroth burns anymore or if there is a heaven and hell I want them to be safe and happy

[cyrsed]

you ever think about how mainstream gaming is the way it is bc it evolved from arcade games?

#like the focus on Skill(tm) that values reflexes/reaction time/competition/speed #obvs there's other influences too tho #like rpgs #and then there's a sorta parallel thing going on with early computer games (remember when Computer Games and Video Games were different?) #w people like cyan wanting to make 'video games for adults' lol like myst #and there's always been artsy games and stuff but mainstream-wise i just think sometimes about how like #strange (neutral) it is that you have this medium that's debatably art but also like. not always considered by players or devs to be art? #in a way that books and movies aren't /exactly/ altho there's comparisons to like blockbuster movies for sure #esp bc i think about how the people making a lot of mainstream games were guys who grew up in the 80s/90s and loved 80s action movies #and got to make worlds where you play as those action dudes #like obviously snake who's not even trying to not be snake plissken ghlskdjf #resident evil also obvs #or isaac being inspired by whatshisname in die hard #ther's an implicit power fantasy #but also it opens up interesting artistic/storytelling paths that other mediums can't explore as easily? #isaac is an interesting example of it imo bc of the tension between his ultra-masculine voice/hyper-competence/cool suit #and 1. the survival horror setting but also 2. the fact that he's actually incredibly brittle & the impression #of him we get is based on assumptions when really his independence/determination is a flaw & his 'togetherness' was a facade the whole time #ofc the way it gets expressed in ds2/3 feels like it's still limited by sexist ideas about what emotions men are allowed to express #and how imo #but idk i think it's interesting to play with that #and in an interactive setting you get to do that in a way that other media can't #but back to my original point lol #those are (imo) really interesting things that do get explored sometimes #but like gaming culture at large sometimes feels like it #explicitly rejects reading anything deeper into a game than 'hero shoot bad guy'? #and i feel like in part that comes from what players value and gaming culture puts Skill really high and can sometiems treat story/characte #like set dressing #(obvs there are exceptions) #(and it makes sense i mean. it's a Game it's supposed to be Fun To Play

[landgraabbed]

unexplored still has my whole heart

#p #unexplored 2 #i got a nice world going in which i'm on the second character #the first one in that world retired since i'm playing this worldstate w/ the recent update #so ur encouraged to perform deeds until u unlock a legacy then retire the wayfarer so the next ones can reap the benefits #i'm so in love with this game #the way it meshes together the roguelite elements with the boardgame style overworld and the character builds #i'm honestly astounded that this game doesn't have a bigger following bc it's that solid and constantly getting updates #i'm always winging it and i've reached that phase in roguelite/likes where i'm not afraid of everything anymore and am like. fuck it we bal #if i die i die lmfao #anyways i strongly encourage everyone to look into it and consider playing it if you like roguelites/likes and rpgs #like. old school type rpgs none of that gerrard of rivera shit fsjsfdj