#but it is gold plated so

[bruhstation]

can't it even be more obvious thomas. why are you surprised that a sudrian historical site filled to the brim with armor and weaponry that dates back to the middle ages has old people afflicted with the gold dust working around the castle

#thomas the tank engine #thomas and friends #ttte glynn #ttte millie #ttte stephen #casa tidmouth #senjart #MORE OF LADY'S EXPERIMENTS GONE WRONG #WHO UP ULFSTEADING THEIR CASTLE #stuff for the kotr arc of casa tidmouth. now this is where gold dust has historical significance #going crazy right now. my friends are influencing me #I had 12 tabs opened just to draw young glynn's armor. they dont have plated armory in the 10th century!!!! only mails!!!!!! #(looking at you KOTR intro) #I remember reading some inputs on my 1k milestone poll and saw someone put ''the misery of growing old'' and honestly. Checks out #glynn's eyes are goldish brown because well. that's the perks of being the first bearer of the gold dust horrors #lady during 989 AD do not know anything about human thoughts and ethics and emotions. she was literally freestyling that!!!!! #Oh a wounded soldier on the verge of death. what if I *dumps 200 kg of gold dust on him* yeah that'll do the trick. #then she saw how glynn aged so so slowly and went Oh well I messed up. Good thing there are lots of other sudrians here #funny coincidence that young cstm glynn's helmet resembles canon glynn's funnel #I wanted to make millie's design resemble a tour guide more with her scarf and more stylish than usual tie #shes so pretty. I'm so proud of her design #(AND I REALIZED TOO LATE THAT HER TIE HAS THE COLORS OF THE FRENCH FLAG) #<--- said the guy who has beef with the french #stephen's crown is translated to a hat decor! was about to draw a top hat but whatever just imagine he has a collection of various hats #that he can put his crown on #also I want to give him that cool hip-with-the-kids I-am-still-young-at-heart energy #sir robert norramby is balling in the background. #hope you enjoy..... won't be able to draw as much from now on but I'm excited #also whos ready for old man yaoi........... 2!!!!!!

[follieaun]

i can’t help but wonder what ollie would have become had his plan worked and felix fell in love with him. would he have still killed felix’s family? would he have integrated into high-life society? would he have been content living a rich gay lifestyle or would boredom have come creeping in over the years?

maybe hed just go full count zaroff and start hunting people for sport idk

#in my head he just becomes so Known for his smooth icy oddness amongst the society people #like oh there’s sir catton and that husband of his… #dont fuck with Félix or you’ll find your tires slashed and your stocks plummeting #Ollie is never quite accepted but finally too powerful to be rejected - the gold-plated cuckoo bird #cattonquick #oliver quick #felix catton #Saltburn

[slocumjoe]

How do you think Nick's questline could have changed if all he found at the end was a skeleton inside that room?

lets go boys more reason for me to go off about

Nick and his purpose

So, Nick's purpose is to finish off the last thread of the guy he's a ghost of. It isn't, actually, but he thinks it is. He thinks he must tie up Valentine's loose ends so the guy can rest knowing that someone carried out his revenge.

Nick is not a man who cares for revenge. He isn't that cold, or eye-for-an-eye. This is not a moral he carries. Nick is not a "get them how they got you" kind of person. But Valentine is someone he feels he wronged by existing, fundamentally. This cop gets abused by the system he thought was supposed to protect him, which he thought was protecting others, and then they violate him further by scanning and copying his brain. Nick is the result of this ethical violation and betrayal. Nick could not exist without this. This is a guilt he carries.

Nick doesn't care for revenge, but he does believe in doing right by people. Valentine is someone he wronged; when Valentine died, he died never getting what he wanted, in a time of extreme hurt and trauma. He didn't get his revenge. So, Nick, a walking freeze-frame of all this pain and probably discomfort (Valentine was in a sketchy university, undergoing a sketchy procedure he didn't want to do), and he thinks this is what he has to do. This is what Valentine wanted, and he owes it to the guy.

Some people like to think Nick is an exact copy of Valentine, but I think circumstances, context, and experiences are what make a person. If I was put in different circumstances, I wouldn't be the me I am now. Valentine was not a robot in the post-apocalypse struggling with identity issues. Nick and Valentine cannot be the same. Valentine was the baseline Nick was built off of.

So, all this to say, Nick probably doesn't have the best, clearest idea of what he's meant for, or what he owes to the world. His idea is built off how he knows Valentine felt. But Valentine was going through it when his brain was scanned. His ideas of morals and justice were skewed. That's how anger and grief work.

Considering this, Nick walks into the bunker, and no, Eddie wasn't a ghoul. Just a guy who died God knows how long ago.

There is no thread for him to tie up.

There is no way for him to make it up to Valentine.

This is a wrong he has no way to right.

I think Nick is a lot more emotional than people give him credit for. He just keeps it all inside. Emotion you don't see is still emotion. Pain not expressed is still pain. I think in the moment, he'd try making it a joke. "Well...would'ja look at that. Something did the job for us and didn't even leave a note to save ourselves the trouble. I guess courtesy went out the window long before the bombs."

If Eddie Winter is already dead, Nick has nothing to do, functionally. He thinks that was his ultimate goal. His goal was done long ago. It was never something he needed to stew over. Valentine got what he wanted even if it wasn't by his hand or the ghost of it. But the thing with revenge is that it has to be you. If the person you hate most, who hurt you most, tripped on a weed and ate shit, is that revenge? Or is that just life not playing favorites?

Is it enough if life goes on?

Is it enough to say you don't have any obligations and can live despite someone else? Whether it's someone you feel you owe, or someone who owes you? Moving on without that gratification is not satisfying. You want an answer. You want "It's okay" or "I'm sorry."

Nick sees he has no end. There is no Eddie Winter. Valentine's only mark on this world, the only person who remembers him, is Nick. Nick is the only one to grieve him, or know his pain, or what he would think of all of this. Maybe, deep down, Nick wanted to find Eddie Winter not just to kill him, but to prove to himself that he isn't the only ghost. That it wasn't just him, keeping a good man from a good rest. That Eddie was what was really keeping that book open.

But if Eddie is dead, it's just Nick. Nick is all that's left.

You go in the bunker and Eddie Winter is dead.

From here, Nick has a different goal, whether he likes it or not; move on. Be Nick. Figure out who Nick is and accept himself as such. See that he is more than a copy of memories because he's made his own. That looks like a lot of things. Finding family in Ellie and the Survivor.. Finding community in Diamond City. Finding purpose in helping people. Finding himself in what he does now, how he does it, what he thinks of it.

Before he can do any of that, he has to accept that Eddie is dead, and so is Valentine, and just because they are doesn't mean he has to be..

His only path is to accept that he has no answers, and owes no answers. For someone who holds himself so responsible, who thinks he has to fix whatever he comes across, who hates that someone had to hurt for his existence...this seems impossible. To accept that he doesn't have to fix anything.

That there is nothing he can do for what he has of Valentine. That he can't take a dead man's anger away.

That he has nothing of the man he remembers being.

#nick valentine #fallout 4 #fo4 #this is so messy im sorry but nick had so much potential #great character but i think bethesda has a habit of striking gold and going #oh cool we can plate our plastic spoons with this #like no buddy theres a better use for this put down the smelter PLEASE

[frizzdotbizz]

durgetash outfit swap...or maybe dragonborn gorty with human durge

ive been wanting to do this for ages but struggled sm w how do go about gort’s design

#ask #i still feel like he needs work but here you go lol #also confession: i finally durge’s gold plating harder to draw than gort’s outfit #baldur’s gate 3 #bg3 #the dark urge #lord enver gortash #my art #their hight stays tye same bc i said so lol

[electroniccollectiondonut]

the NPCs holding off on having their plot relevant conversation until I'm done selling 500lbs of tableware to the merchant:

#donut plays bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #putting this one in the main tag bc i feel like it might resonate with y'all #i send so many plates to camp every day and then i bring them out when we meet a merchant so i can trade #i basically never spend any gold tho so heavily encumbering the whole party woth dishes is working

[mintybytes]

A demise so beautiful

#twisted wonderland #twst #vil schoenheit #this design took me SO long i have been fistfighting my canvas for over 6 months #why must this vil outfit be so detailed and beautiful i am just a tired little guy #still trying to decide on the plating since i think one of my manus can do antique gold on hard enamel but normal gold is also nice so idk #Anyways. ob vil. #rook was so real i too would happily drink your cursed poisoned juice

[stickeykeys]

i'm genuinely upset, i miraculously found a necklace that looks almost identical to one my dr s/o gifts me, and like, i knew it was super shit quality but it still made me so happy... but its going from gold to silver since i wear it so often and it just makes me a lil :(

#i tried to take care of it so hard but like i wear it too often ig #it's fine i'll find a way to gold plate it or smthn #amber posts #shiftblr #shifting #reality shifting #desired reality #shifting realities

[vyinter]

unmatched haterism from both sides

#premalu #the way the falls is so funny I want that gold plated

[bugborgs]

updated look on the pin design mockup after some tweaks and stuff :] i think i'm mostly satisfied with it! there's still a few things i want to nitpick and tweak maybe but i think i'll be reaching out for a quote on them soon to see if i can get the ball rolling on getting these made

#gonna let the art sit for another day or two and then maybe send in for a quote on monday or tuesday :) #frolisart #bugborg #definitely think im going with the gold plating bc it just looks so nice

[fictionadventurer]

Since I'm talking about 2023 reads with the Fortnight of Books wrapup, I thought I'd show you the Penguin Clothbound Classics style covers I designed for two of my favorite obscure old-enough-to-be-classics books I discovered last year: The Good Comrade and Desire by Una Lucy Silsberrad.

I chose yellow as the main color for The Good Comrade, because it seems to fit the mostly-sunny adventurous vibe of the story, and it offers good contrast for the blue daffodils--the image that had to be chosen because of how the plot centers around Julia's scheme to solve her family's financial problems by getting her hands on a rare blue daffodil.

The cover for Desire required a bit more thought. Red and gold seemed like a good color scheme for a book focused on questions of wealth and romance and finding your passion--and for the autumn season when I first read it. I settled on plates for the imagery because the plot centers around Desire helping Peter to run his family's pottery business, which finds a new process for making plates. The silver platters symbolize Desire's wealthy background--she had everything in life handed to her on a silver platter. The more rustic plates are in gold, because the simple, but good, work is where Desire really finds fulfillment.

#artwork #books #desire #the good comrade #una lucy silsberrad #i did design a cover that had gold plates that were more obviously plates #but they were a bit too bold and cartoony #so i felt like this subtler and more rustic image worked better #even if you might not get it without explanation

[bougiebutchbitch]

Foreman being like ‘I’m letting you know how far he is from human’ when talking to Chase and Cameron about House’s refusal to go to his father’s funeral

Wilson listening to House detail all the ways his father abused him and still insisting that he go to the funeral, to the extent of literally kidnapping him and holding his painkillers hostage to pressure him into going

WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THAT HE OWES NO RESPECT TO HIS DEAD ABUSIVE FATHER

OR KINDNESS TO HIS MOTHER WHO LET IT HAPPEN

#house md #jesus fucking CHRIST #this show is so disconnected from morality in many ways #but this has gotta be one of the most heinous #'house is an awful person because he doesn't want to attend the funeral of his abusive sperm donor' #you cannot sell that to me if you plated it in gold. #like yes! ideally he might leave a nice message for his mom! #but he OWES HER JACK SHIT!!!!! #I am gnawing on the screen #HOUSE DESERVES BETTER FRIENDS SOMETIMES JFC #I know he's an ass. I know. But holy fuck. #liveblog

[astranauticus]

oh lol i forgot to post this robit sketches! because i have one (1) bit and im sure as hell gonna commit to it apparently

#rolling with difficulty #art I made #'shut your up' is a verbatim quote from an ex classmate i just thought it was funny #i dont think it was intentional i think he was just so angry that Words Failed on him #anyway im absolutely not keeping that maxim design. god i fucking hate clothing design *so* much #austin: 'hes a gold plated mechanite dressed in blue and grey robes' me trying to figure out colour placement: 'what FUCK' #i had one (1) good idea and that was 'skeleton shaped robit' and every other part of that design went to hell apparently #bc all the other mechanites we've had were either like... flesh..? shaped?? like that sorta silhouette (basically most of the old crew) #or more mechanical/geometric (vr-la's designs and like.. k-lb? i guess? if that counts) #so. therefore. bone shaped mechanite. also if i was gonna try that concept on anyone it may as well be maxim if you think about it #idk i thought it would be interesting. and also undertale was my first fandom so uh #ANYWAY. MOVING ON FROM THAT THOUGHT. #this started as a 2am intrusive thought of like #'we (artists in the discord) keep joking abt how k-lb would be a nightmare to draw but like.. how hard is it really' #anyway as you can probably expect. famous last words #i mean genuinely mad respect to noir but i think i said to one of my friends when i showed them this sketch #'i mean this in the nicest way possible but you can just tell he was designed for an audio only storytelling format' LMAO #if anyone is unwise enough to attempt this (so basically @ my future self lmao) #do the lineart and colouring for the wires in front of the inner electricity skeleton (???) and the ones behind it on SEPARATE LAYERS #drew the wires all together then the electricity and had to painstakingly go over the electricity with an eraser it was a fucking nightmare

[nostalgia-tblr]

u know, in terms of Frigga Discourse:

There is clearly no throne for a queen (or any other consort) there, nor is there space for one. She'd have to sit off to one side, in a much smaller chair that's less... well, that's just less generally, and while I will ignore that (and have!) for fic purposes I think it's interesting anyway.

(It might be Historically Accurate, though possibly by accident? Cos English consort queens weren't usually crowned in the Viking era, as far as I know. Queens are just the king's wife back then, why would you give his wife a throne of her own that's just madness right guys?)

So if - as seems reasonable from what we know - Frigga's been acting as regent while Odin's napping, she gets to sit on The One Chair to do that? (Though having said that this film hasn't heard of regents so maybe she's just King Frigga on those occasions. Why not!)

#usually you can't un-king someone without a civil war happening hence regents #HEY. HEY. DID YOU KNOW THIS IS BASICALLY HOW THE WARS OF THE ROSES STARTED? #also the AMOUNT of gold on Asgard makes me want it to be basically worthless to them because there's just so much of it all over #asgardian peasants with their gold cutlery and their gold plates and so on #“oh that? nah that's just some worthless gold why do you ask?” #maybe the palace is made of solid gold because they couldn't afford bricks and that's actually a source of shame for the realm #AU where King Whoever bankrupts the kingdom in his quest for a nice concrete facade to cover all that embarrassing gold

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Slade going after the Red Raids, then specifically going after one man all so he can get back the horse Auren was sad over losing back in book 1! Screaming crying throwing up, over the lengths this man will go to for Auren

#he's just so 💕💕💕 #slade ravinger #auren #aurip #the plated prisoner #gold #commander rip #gold spoilers #lisa reads gold

[blujayonthewing]

HEEHOO

#they are claiming to be 18k gold plated so hopefully they won't irritate my ears TOO badly beyond 'I never wear earrings' #now if I could get dangle earrings with green studs on a post and attach these dangles directly to that instead of looping them onto hoops #that'd be even better #but the only ones I could find with the anatomy I'd need are like Actual Jewelry amount of money and this is not a 300$ whim lmao #oh I just realized it's hard to tell in this lighting kgfjhkgd they're GREEN :3 #me #about me

[thatuselesshuman]

Y'all I think I have a disease. Everything I write turns into angst and I don't know how to stop it

#I don't want to stop it HAHAHAHA #yeah lol the newest addition to the series is gonna be wack #Slight warning #Didn't mean for it to be #But Jem goes through it #He's going to be going through it for the rest of the series so strap in #He'll never stop going through it #I think I have like literally one nice chapter planned sooooo #dying stars burn the brightest #plated gold smiles #One shot