#images are from google

[spielcave]

God of War Valhalla DLC (Aka, 'Kratos and Mimir go on a bro trip that ends up being Therapy')

Just wanted to start by saying thank whatever is out there for Santa Monica Studios, for their phenomenal work into giving Kratos some much needed development and exploring his complexity. I'll explore this game in subsequent posts and maybe any suggestions you're welcome to shoot my way.

Spoilers ahead!

I think it's a testament to how beloved the Norse games have been through the amount of cheering the second Kratos came on the screen during the reveal trailer for Valhalla, Mimir in tow. After rewatching the "Raising Kratos" Documentary on YT, I know the team at Santa Monica Studios really feel the love from their fans. If they intend to make a game about Kratos going to another mythology, I really hope Mimir is with him. It's clear they've gotten very close between 2018 and Ragnarök with how at ease and personal they get, especially since I'm pretty sure if Kratos left him with Freya, she's likely to 'misplace' him in the Lake of Nine. I found the different difficulty settings interesting when you first chose Valhalla at the main menu. I started on the 3rd (the very middle) and am currently working my up when I feel it's getting to hard. Right now I'm at the one right before "Show Me Mastery" (the names escape me lol). I'm not expert at Rogue-Likes, but the consensus I seem to see is that the gameplay of God of War really lends itself well to the style of game. And what a genius way to utilize what was previously, I felt, an underused character, Tyr! Even when you free him in Niflheim, I feel I was waiting for him to do more outside the post-story interactions you get to get glimpses to his character (and potentially hint and later games). Him being Kratos' therapist is really demonstrates how similar they both are, how strong Tyr is, and what we can hopefully see Kratos grow into moving forward. As someone who recently started therapy around the same time as this DLC came out, I couldn't help but feel connected to Kratos myself. Especially Mimir. I, too, have been trying to improve from someone I wasn't proud of and as a result I'm too hard on myself sometimes. It limits me from achieving personal acceptance, like I don't deserve the good things in my life. What this game puts Kratos (and myself by proxy) through, is how to accept his actions, his mistakes. To acknowledge who we were and to not let it stop us from embracing the chances to do better. Now, you don't have to have killed entire pantheons, your family, and plunge a society into destruction with mountains of innocent lives at your feet... but I think we can agree that kind of message resonates. The scene where he sees his younger self in that throne just HITS. Kratos admonishes his past self for doing such awful things and being such an awful person... but also accepting him/himself to be more complex than that, he always has been. In a way, it sticks it to the people who said (prior to the 2018 game) that God of War is just about over the top violence, blood, tits, gore, more blood is missing the forest for the trees. They're big trees, sure, but not the whole forest. There was always more to Kratos that violence and the hack and slash genre, dude is a massive greek tragedy. And in Norse, he's putting Hero's Journeys like he was born for it.

The side conversations with Mimir hit me the hardest, grappling with your own self esteem when you feel you aren't enough for our loved ones, hearing about he and Sigrun first met, how utter in love he was with her throughout the last two games and here. It strikes a familiar cord... which is why I'm so glad he was able to let go so she can find herself in the end and the support he has from Kratos. We talk about all the time how the wise and loving decision is usually to let go (as it is!), but I think it must be said how hard it can be. It's the right choice, ultimately, but damn if isn't difficult to actually get there. I think my take away has been more of an affirmation that letting go is what I need to do, and the way to help ease the transition is to make sure I have a support system and learn to love time with myself in order to value my own merits, even if I have shortcomings. "Does she not deserve the smartest man alive?" CHILLS On a less serious note, it's good to see Freya out and about! Finding her freedom and stepping up as a leader for the 9 realms. It's good to see that post story, she does care about the both of them. Maybe they parted ways for a bit as Freya takes a more public role in organizing her council, but their journeys (which we can assume all side objectives you can do with her are canon) brought more than a professional connection. Like,

(sorry for shit quality) Totally gives off "Wife found Husband doing something reckless/stupid" vibes. And I'll admit, I am like... 85% if not 90% on the Kraya/Freytos/Warflower train. Baldur's death really does weigh on my mind when I think about Freya and Kratos as a pairing. And I do also like the idea of them being good friends as time goes on. Not to mention Kratos likely still holds Faye close and Freya's last marriage was fuckin bonkers. But I still do like to see these grieving parents, comrades at arms, finding a home in each other, a connection that makes each one feel safe, real, and loved. Not without bumps in the road, but they'd make an awesome power couple. And the shameless smut, but it goes without saying. Oh and whatever reaction it would get from Atreus would be hilarious.

In the end, this DLC really leaves me wanting more, theorizing where the story goes from here. I see a lot of people throwing out ideas on what mythologies they go to next, who's our next playable character. I feel it's still gonna be Kratos, but I also feel it has to make sense to his story. He's become very developed in this DLC, when you have a character who becomes so developed, there is little room/reason to really keep telling their story, at least in a way that can translate to an action pact video game epic. The only thing I can think of for Kratos, is we get to see him follow through with his development. And that, my friends, is another post. Until then! I hope enjoyed my ramblings!

#writers on tumblr #gow #god of war #gow ragnarok #warflower #kratos #mimir #freya #not bad for a first post #review #really just me gushing lol #images are from google #I do not own them

[cozylittleartblog]

cant tell you how bad it feels to constantly tell other artists to come to tumblr, because its the last good website that isn't fucked up by spoonfeeding algorithms and AI bullshit and isn't based around meaningless likes

just to watch that all fall apart in the last year or so and especially the last two weeks

there's nowhere good to go anymore for artists.

edit - a lot of people are saying the tags are important so actually, you'll look at my tags.

#please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads#in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

#not art #but important #please dont delete your accounts because of the AI crap. your art deserves more than being lost like that #if you have a good PC please glaze or nightshade it. if you dont or it doesnt work with your style (like mine) please start watermarking #use a plain-ish font. make it your username. if people can't google what your watermark says and find ur account its not a good watermark #it needs to be central in the image - NOT on the canvas edges - and put it in multiple places if you are compelled #please dont stop posting your art because of this shit. we just have to hope regulations will come slamming down on these shitheads #in the next year or two and you want to have accounts to come back to. the world Needs real art #if we all leave that just makes more room for these scam artists to fill in with their soulless recycled garbage #improvise adapt overcome. it sucks but it is what it is for the moment. safeguard yourself as best you can without making #years of art from thousands of artists lost media. the digital world and art is too temporary to hastily click a Delete button out of spite

[aaronstveit]

if you’re cold, she’s cold. let her in your window

#song of all time i’m afraid #music #kate bush #wuthering heights #hit post #to everyone wondering if i upscaled/yassified her i did not! i didn't even take this screenshot i saved it from google images #but there was that big thing recently where artists found youtube upscaling their videos w AI without their permission so that's :|

[gracefuldisasters]

Reupload from a year ago ~

Still my favorite Sonic game. And I need to draw more in the style of the first slide, I forgot how much I liked it

Sequel

#sth #sonic the hedgehog #the murder of sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #vector the crocodile #espio the chameleon #tails the fox #team chaotix #not sure if i have these files on a hard drive somewhere... but I ended up pulling them from my insta and google images #my stuff #sonic

[cowboy-garfield]

did yall know there were more

#from google images #borzoi

[werewolfaday]

day 114 (were-oopy) (og under cut! added red bg)

#art #snoopy #sketch #werewolf a day #werewolf art #i didnt draw the snoopy hes from google images! #lycan art

[53v3nfrn5]

Hideaki Kawashima Artworks

#assorted images from google #hideaki kawashima #japanese artist #ghostcore #art #aesthetic #japan

[poppxjos]

Okay I know I already posted that cytherea image but i fr hated it so i redrew it to prove myself something

#the locked tomb #tlt #my art #also admittedly i traced the image jn the back from this medical thingy i found on google

[dreamlogic]

*goes here to take a five and a half minute bong rip*

#cc #the weed tag #saw this when googling a customer's address at work to verify it and had to get up and walk away from my laptop i was laughing to hard #pilgrimage when? #house of leaves #moss lungs #hall of fame #EDIT: added image description in alt text for accessibility. wasn't expecting this to blow up whoops

[1071png]

chilling in the keyblade graveyard with grandpa

#kh #kingdom hearts #xehanort #master xehanort #vanitas kh #bbs #fanart #i was looking up images and every picture of the old man is in the badlands hes obsessed with that place #also i googled child drinking from cup with both hands for ths and thats so cute for vanitas #stupid baby with toddler behaviors

[lazycranberrydoodles]

xie lian texts like a grandpa … i imagine pre confession their texts would be a graveyard of hua cheng’s failed attempts at flirting

xie lian's profile picture is from the manhua by starember / follow for more of hua cheng Ls

#xie lian: the water master died 💀 (used skull emoji to indicate death) #hua cheng: the water master died 💀 (lol) #xie lian uses the 😏 emoji on him one time and he has to stand up from his phone for a minute #cue the ‘no no you used the emoji correctly just dont uh. send it to anybody but me.’ from the cpr scene #i think xie lian would LOVE advice animals memes #he told me himself. btw. and he finds them in google images and his local facebook group #hua cheng would not normally use 😂 but he does so xie lian can understand him :) #they are so sillay #truthfully i think hua cheng would find current internet humor annoying but hes doing his best o7 #tgcf #hualian #tgcf spoilers #tian guan ci fu #xie lian #hua cheng #heaven official's blessing #hob #art #my art #doodle #mxtx

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

#pr manager is like: andrew… this is the last time i’m gonna tell you #andrew: whats the point of democracy if i can’t exercise freedom of speech #pr manager: andrew it’s no longer about your image #at this point we are concerned the fbi is going to show up #andrew: neil has connections. i’m fine #they thought marketing andrew on social media would be good #they were sooooo wrong #because now andrew has a place to share every insane thing he’s ever thought #for instance—a tweet that just says ‘an alien googling: human clothes’ #he’s on there advocating for lgbtq+ youth you KNOW HE IS #he’s cursing and mildly threatening members of congress for imposing these disgusting bills #one day he tweeted ‘does mitch mcconnell know he’s dead yet’ #when mitch mcconnell stepped down from senate andrew tweeted ‘hopefully next he steps down from life’ #unsurprisingly: this endears him to some people and makes others fucking hate him #and he’s such a shit. he does not care either way #he’s kind of just like: pr manager. you gave me a twitter and told me to tweet. i’m just doing what you asked me #they’ve threatened to change his password so many times #they actually did once but andrew reported the account so many times for defamation and fraud that it got suspended #and he made a new account out of pure spite #his pr manager is like: andrew nobody is going to want to sign you because of your public image #and andrew is like: ?? ok. they can lose every game then #(he knows he’s the best goalie) #ok i think that’s enough for now. however i will probably be back #andrew minyard #aftg #tfc #trk #tkm #the foxhole court #all for the game

[gayferrari]

#fun fact if you search this on google images the first result you get is a clip from the raisport italy archives titled FAMILY FEUD #lewis hamilton #sebastian vettel #nico rosberg #brocedes #sebcedes #china 2015

[ribbed-vault-heart]

never forget what they took from us

#at least its been crossposted to reddit n shit so it turns up in google images #but im so sad. its jsut.... gone from tumblr

[lelelego]

i absolutely adore the way you draw Boone you have influenced the way I draw him so much because the way you draw him is like exactly how I see him in my head like THATS THE GUY!!!! THAT IS CRAIG BOONE huge fan going to squeeze him like a squeaky toy

thank you!!! :D very glad i can help!! here's a boone i've been seeing in my head for a while

#asks #yearsupply #craig boone #oc: eli #doodly thingy #that post abt laios from dm made me remember oh ya thats what i wanted boone to look like.......... so i drew it. hope that helps (?) #also directly referenced the pose from a google image search :o)

[theyamjam]

this is very very very much inspired by @can-your-kinitopet m all the stuff hes said about kinito being envious of human traits coz ive just been wondering .how would he design himsel f as a human?what r the most important things to him about being/looking human?

#very messy & i couldnt get it to look right but .i think thats also kinda the point #wtf is this thing doing !!!!kinito get outta google images!!! #also v inspired by the duchess from fhfif #KinitoPET #Kinito fanart #my drawings x)