#avoiding all the wars

[theladyofbloodshed]

if sjm does do something for ToG's anniversary... may it be a novella on Vaughan. No character has ever intrigued me more!

#what the hell was this dude doing the whole series #literally just looking for lorcan #avoiding all the wars #swooping around doing nothing #WHO IS THIS DUDE #i was denied ANOTHER dark haired moody guy #vaughan #throne of glass #tog #me

[vaxxman]

height ahh difference

#team fortress 2 #tf2 #science party #red oktoberfest #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #tf2 engineer #this one's a bit fruity on purpose ahem #alternative title is “Gravel war field medic stands way too close to his patients and dies while taking all the collateral damage” #jokes aside I have been thinking about how medic is tall and if he were to stand really close to engie he'd be looking down onto him #for some reason I just like the idea of him doing that; hands in his pockets; staring at one specific part in engie's face but not his eyes #meanwhile for heavy he has to look up #Hallo mein Großer; wenn ich darf? And just zooms into his face but in a sultry way #put the back of your hand against his chest so it feels like you want to avoid actively touching him but very much do it on purpose #It's like neck and shoulder stretch exercises for medic; ↓↑↓↑ #Haha gotcha this was going to be another joke after all #👌 #This was the last thing I wanted to draw before work gets super busy again

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo being put into a situation where there is absolutely no fighting, just verbal manipulation and perception games, would be amazing to witness. We see a lot in the series how good he is at subterfuge and how he uses his perception to manipulate to great effect, so it’d be so cool to really see it put to the test even more.

Manipulation is one of the most effective tactical strategies of all time, so just imagine Leo putting this skillset of his to the full test. Imagine the boys slowly get up to busting bigger and more powerful criminals, including those with networks of crime under their belt, and a simple fight isn’t enough to take them down. For criminals like this, Leo’s skills in subterfuge would be deadly.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #me back to talking about Leo’s incredibly high affinity for subterfuge #genuinely think it’s one of if not his best and most honed skill #AND IT’S A VITAL NINJA SKILL #above fighting battle tactics and the like #it’s verbal blindspots #Sun Tzu’s The Art of War literally states that “the greatest victory is won without battle’’ #and idk I think Leo would be so good at this and we see him do it in the show quite a bit but not to the amount I yearn for #but yeah like just think Leo getting sent in and his bros standing guard #of course he wouldn’t be the ONLY one involved but 100% he’d be the main player #man idk I just really really love when their specific skill sets that ARENT the fighting ones are used it’s so interesting to me #like we already know Leo can easily take in a whole room’s worth of people and know exactly how to avoid them all #we know he can manipulate manipulators into his schemes #we know he’s good at improv which is essential to the games of speech high end criminals like to play #it would be SO INTERESTING #OKAY HEAR ME OUT- #he’s asked by Big Mama to join her at a criminal ball of sorts #she needs to regain power and he needs to take down big name criminals #thus a deal #no but really it’s so cool seeing Leo specifically do his best tactics through thinking like his enemy and predicting how they’d act

[omaano]

If Anakin gets his Vader shadow, then Maul deserves a reminder of Lotho Minor as a treat (to me) for the Hades AU

#darth maul #star wars #Wip #hades au #revenge of the 5th #Star Wars fanart #my art #this was very difficult but not for the reasons you might expect XD #I realized only when I was halfway through with this that his pose matches Moros’s pose from Hades 2 #like I actively try to avoid copying poses from the game and it was not the case here either! #I just really have a thing to how maul stands with his hands behind his back that’s all #LOL if I finished maul sooner than obiwan what then? XD #maul opress #maul fanart #he looks so soooo very weird without his tattoos omg #what am I gonna do with his dialogue though good god

[ride-a-dromedary]

[I thought you might care to have a drink with me.]

#BG3 Musing #Halsin #Halsin Posting #alcohol tw #finally snagged this companion banter in game - love comparing what halsin initially says to you vs what he starts revealing #if you listen and pay attention to him #halsin sweetheart that is a really eloquent way of saying i started drowning myself in alcohol #to cope with the trauma and pain the aftermath of that war caused me lol #now of course at the end he seems to be all on board to drink - because you know VERY special occasion - #but like...this is a former alcoholic who is currently sober speaking #i think halsin avoids taverns because a. he's a recovering alcoholic and b. he gets punched by drunks looking for a fight #so like it's all around a not good time for him

[nellasbookplanet]

Okay but a thought of mine given new rise by the animated intro after having it niggle at the back of my mind for months now are Ludinus and Otohan as villains and who’s going to be standing as the final big bad at the end of the campaign, the way Vecna and Lucien did for c1 and c2.

Because the obvious answer is Ludinus. He’s the instigator, the leader of the cult, a villain in the making for 2 whole campaigns and over a thousand years (not to mention the one who's actually interacted with the party outside of fights). But Otohan is the one standing center stage of the villain line-up in the opening. She’s the one shown actively fighting the party. And, more importantly (as narrative matters more than barely glimpsed easter eggs), she's the one tied to the history and setting of Marquet, who has actual stakes in the people there and has fought for (and against) them before in the Apex War (while the place Ludinus called home was torn down centuries ago, leaving him caring for seemingly nothing but his ultimate goal since). She’s the one who’s actually Ruidusborn, and she’s tied to the Luxon as well with her strange magic. And despite all this, she’s mostly passed under the radar so far, given very little developments or motives or history or even personality. She’s little more than a cool aesthetic and a handful of threats.

And here’s my thought: maybe that’s on purpose. Ludinus, in his great arrogance, has placed himself as the greatest threat, and he’s being treated as such by the Hells. But is he? He steals immortality, appropriates the very concept of being Ruidusborn while holding a secret resentment for lacking the very powers it grants. He barely knows what he’s doing, and certainly not what he's about to unleash. And is there anything more satisfying than seeing a deeply arrogant and hubristic villain taken down by his own folly in underestimating those around him? So what if, as the final fight edges closer, the person actually holding the powers Ludinus pretends to steps up out of the shadows she placed herself in, keeping her motives to herself, barely remarked upon by Ludinus or the Hells or the audience, and personally cuts him down and takes her place as THE exalted Ruidusborn?

#critical role #cr3 #ludinus da'leth #otohan thull #listen seeing arrogant villains who think themselves unbeatable taken down in great battles is cool and all #but there’s something deeply satisfying in seeing them made small by something utterly avoidable #ludinus thinks of the gods as his ultimate enemies #imagine the horror and confusion on his face if his right hand woman #(the one who’s place and powers and land he's brazenly laid claim to) #casually steps up and stabs him in the back #revealing that she’s been playing him since the start to grow her power while keeping her actual motives close to her chest #mr mercer i am begging you let us know more about otohan and the apex war. let her be more than a battle piece with a fancy backpack #not tagging this as spoilers bc it isn’t but I SURE HOPE IT WILL BE #nella talks cr

[blacksailsgf]

So you think that they see me as the villain in this particular story?

2.02 (X) — You orchestrated it all. The deaths, the destruction, the loss. All to achieve this very moment.

3.10 (XXVIII) — Am I to believe he sacrificed over 50 of his men, led them into a massacre deliberately, just to entice us to chase him?

#black sails #blacksailsedit #blacksailssource #tvedit #perioddramaedit #bea.pdf #a gifset finally! and about flint's war crimes no less :-) #i was planning for this to be all stacked vertically but. idk how to save the gifs to avoid visibly fucked quality so.. skdskjdk #also idk if i'll ever make a gifset again godbless

[cherryjuicegf]

the way radovid chose the mask for just a moment and the mask immediately chose him back, just like jaskier immediately chose him when he was sincere. but when he changed his mind and wanted to leave it wasn't as easy and the mask clinged so hard upon him that it doomed him forever. it's like hate and betrayal is easier than love and sincerity, and more dangerous. the regret, the love was there but didn't change anything. and all that jaskier is aware of now is radovid's betrayal for the crown. for whom will it matter now that the love was there?

#the way it's all about DESTINY and avoiding it because of love but what if the love wasn't enough. what if fate is controlled by others. #and how foolish was he to think that he a prince during a war could control his fate and have time to ponder on the side he will choose. #gahhh TRAGEDY ENJOYERS WHEN #this is so yummy i am eating *through tears* #the witcher #radovid #radskier #s3 spoilers

[spacedlexi]

when u want to like a character so so bad but theyre a cop so its impossible

#sorry even if theyre hot my first thought will always be 'cop' and it kills all desire #slams head thru wall #vi arcane i want to love u so bad......but i look at u and see COP and its over for me 😐 #and her cop gf 😐😔 #before anybody gets mad at me im just sad 😔 shes great otherwise like she fits my fave types but this wall is insurmountable #she grew up in the SLUMS and they make her an ENFORCER??? die #she was wrongfully imprisoned for like a decade and they make her an enforcer 😐😐😐😐 #after finishing arcane i went to read her lore 😐 #felt so Liberal 😐😔 weh weh both sides bad type beat #girl its not too late please dont be a cop and cait pls leave the force PLEASE i cant defend you like this #anybody else trapped in this torture prison abt her or is it just me please tell me im not alone in this #every time i see her on my dash it pains me so much like physically mentally.... #its ok at least i have my other vi who fights ex military with her gf to avoid becoming soldiers in a pointless war :) blink blink #it speaks #only posting this bc i need to know who else is suffering over this.............. it cant just be me

[herearedragons]

So I’ve been looking through the Valo-Kas war table missions and… boy, the Valo-Kas lose a lot of people.

I assume that many of them didn’t survive the explosion at the Conclave. There are missions available to Inquisitor Adaar to rescue some survivors, and at least in one of them, the advisor you choose also determines which people come back. So Adaar loses people before the game even begins, and then loses more as Inquisitor - and, no matter which options you choose in the war table missions, at least three Valo-Kas will wind up dead because of Adaar, because some fanatics who believe that the Inquisitor is an agent of the Qun decide to capture and torture the first qunari they saw.

That’s. Uh. That’s messed up.

#herearedragons meta #dragon age #inquisitor adaar #tw: death #tw: loss #the potential loss of clan lavellan is messed up #but somehow I only now realized that there is literally no way to save *all* of the valo-kas #you’re just picking up the pieces the entire time #and the entries are very funny and Shokrakar talks about the losses with the callousness of a seasoned mercenary #it’s part of the job and all. things happen #but to an inquisitor who was close with even some of the valo-kas who didn’t make it it’s probably devastating #like. Lavellan is tragic but Adaar has loss baked into their narrative and you can’t avoid it #and yes technically the same is true for Trevelyan among the mages and templars respectively #but it’s the war table missions that really hammer it home for me #you try to find them. you try to save them. you read the names of those who didn’t make it and of those you saved #anyway can you tell I’ve been thinking about Aqun and Adina

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

#current events #Iranian regime #politics #political #russo ukrainian war #war in ukraine #ukraine #israel #iran #russia #This is what happens when you try to appease Dictatorships.... #world issues #All of this could've easily been avoided if Russia was fully stopped by now. #dictatorships #us politics

[isagrimorie]

Sabine reflects and grieves when she knows she's alone. | Star Wars Ahsoka 1x06 - Far, Far Away

thanks to @sersi coloring tutorial

#sabine wren #natasha liu bordizzo #star wars ahsoka #ahsoka edit #ahsokaedit #starwarsedit #swedit #star wars edit #my edit #ahsoka 1x06 #thanks elika too for looking it over #sabine claims she avoids self reflection #but she avoids it when there are other people #self reflection is all she did alone in that tower #sabrinewrenedit #ahsoka spoilers #it just gets to me #that she's only able to finally grieve ahsoka #now that she's not under baylan's eye

[p4nishers]

i have read every post order 66 fic under the sun and i can confirm they all vaguely start like ep3. they all DEFINITELY have cody deflecting at one point or another. very suspicious. u wanna tell us sumn dave? wanna share something with the class??

#NEED to know if he reads codywan fics in his down time #honestly he totally would so to completely avoid duing anything remotely pleasing for us so thanks for that #seriously keep em coming im frantically rereading all of them for the 9348th time and its not funny anymore im going insane #someone read 'tell me no tales' and talk about it to me before i've to be admitted im so so serious i just started my 8th reread #commander cody #codywan #obi wan kenobi #star wars #the bad batch s2 #clone wars #the solitary clone #order 66 #tbb #tbb s2 #dave filoni #post order 66 #ao3

[randomnameless]

Re about Cat :

In Nopes she complains because her dad asks her to lend CoS troops, instead of asking Dimitri or Rhea herself...

But unless Count Charon is as dumb as Leopold, he knows pretty well Cat isn't the one who can lend him Church soldiers.

Of course Fodlan dgaf about non students characters, especially if they are affiliated to the Church, but I wondered, maybe Count Charon didn't want to ask Rhea herself to lend him some troops because he has a strange relationship with her -

Rhea is, after all, the one who welcomed his daughter when she was hunted by the Kingdom and the reason she's alive, Dad!Charon, whatever was his position during the "Cassandra hunt" wasn't the one who protected his daughter, Rhea was.

Maybe he feels already to indebted to her to even ask her, in person, for more soldiers?

As for Dimitri...

I always found it disappointing how both game never explored more Cat's backstory, ffs if Faerghus was "feudal uwu", the Crown (even if it was during Rufus' regency) ordered Cat's death, she was branded a traitor and someone who commited regicide ffs.

What was happening with House Charon at that time, were they happily going to give their daughter to the crown, when Catherine was the presumptive major crested heir, to have her executed? When the entire Kingdom branded her a traitor and had her name besmirched, was House Charon totes okay with, you know, the accusations that their precious heir participated in the plot to kill Lambert?

Lonato throws a fit because Christophe was executed by the Church, but Lonato is only Rowe's bannerman - Charon is one of the major Houses in the Kingdom, wouldn't they have thrown a "larger" fit if the crown wanted to execute their heir??

Or maybe that could fell in the larger "the Kingdom was in chaos" thing - House Charon might have been "this" close to rebel against the Crown ?

In a way, it might explain why Garreg Mach wasn't visited by the Kingdom's forces asking Rhea to hand Cassandra over if the crown's forces had to cross Charon territory to reach Garreg Mach...

So in with this BG, it would make perfect sense why Count Charon wouldn't ask Dimitri for more soldiers (granted we're talking about Church soldiers?) - Charon is still a loyal bannerman who fights for Faerghus, but his trust in the crown would have been severed, and it's up to Dimitri to rebuild that bond.

#3 nopes #Catherine stuff #Fodlan AU #I mean it's one basically even if I'm musing loudly bcs the game can't give fucks about characters who aren't students #and I mean interesting fucks #what if the “we had to cook some lie to prevent the kingdom for further descending in chaos” during the Ashe paralogue #was this? The Church framed Chris' at the one who participated in regicide and not Catherine to avoid a civil war #aka Charon raising their weapons and calling their bannermen to arms to rebel against the Kingdom and the Blaiddyd's? #i don't remember where but I thought I read somewhere that #Chris was the one who framed Catherine? but I think that's headcanon? #but even if he didn't #I mean Chris wanted to kill Rhea who was the one who 'welcomed' Cassandra #the CoS is basically Cassandra's benefactor would the Charons have ruined Gaspar in retaliation? #'my daughter is innocent and you fuckers are trying to kill the woman who helped her and help us all during those rough times?' #Targetting Gaspard means targetting Rowe and it means Adrestia is free to look more closely at Arianrhod #Oh well #tasty honey for y'all

[tibli]

people really act like johndirk murdered their entire family or smth

#homestuck #john egbert #dirk strider #johndirk #dirkjohn #obvs its fine if you dont like it personally #but the amount of VITRIOL i've seen for a ship that is basically harmless is soooooo fucking funny #like oh you're mad? you're mad that the windy boy and the weeaboo boy are holding hands?? that they're kissing??? #that they're having the most homoerotically-charged prank wars known to man??? skill issue tbh #also meat!john needs to come back from the dead and make out sloppy style w ult!dirk. and then kick his ass for being a shithead #tbh tho i prefer like. mostly ignoring hs2 as a whole and choosing to think abt post canon just being like #everyone on earth c finally dealing with all their various emotional issues #and i think dirk and john could actually work rlly well together once their got past their own bullshit #john has a hard time like. understanding people's feelings on anything deeper than surface-level and tends to avoid uncomfortable situation #whereas dirk feels things so strongly and deeply but has problems expressing it in healthy/acceptable ways #john is 'free' to the point that he has unintentionally cut ties w his friends #while trying to deal with the trauma of losing his dad #whereas dirk is grounded but obsessed with keeping everything under control. because control makes things safe #and he had very little safety growing up under the condesce #ok im rambling on what was meant to be a funny post so i'll cut it off there

[katadastical]

Plz one of you just kidnap me I’ll come willingly I swear

#I am so done with this can I go on a time travel adventure plz #they’re all avoiding eye contact with me #please my loves just come get me #rdr2 #doctor who #Star Wars #obiwan kenobi #tenth doctor #Arthur Morgan #red dead redemption #David tennant #Ewan McGregor #star wars prequels #red dead redemption 2 #my post #10th doctor