#it's the only game that fills my needs

[guiron]

Listen all i want in a video game is the ability to wear insect/crustacean based armor and also a cowboy hat

THAT'S ALL I NEED

#before you ask #yes #i love monster hunter #it's the only game that fills my needs #monster hunter #monster hunter rise #crabs #insects #cowboy hat

[whetstonefires]

A LA MEME. MDZS, Really nice guy who hates only you, hate at first sight?

It was totally inappropriate for a corpse to be popular.

But there it was: the Ghost General was more well-liked every day. He seemed to spend all his time wandering around rescuing maidens from monsters and lifting wagons off of old men. In a few years he'd be a hero of the people.

Even the cultivation world didn't expect harm from him anymore. Most of Jin Ling's peers addressed the corpse as qianbei; Jin Ling didn't, but he seemed to get on with him well enough.

Jiang Cheng hadn't actually said out loud, when he saw Wen Qionglin parting ways with Sect Leader Jin with an exchange of polite salutes, he killed your father, but he'd looked it. Jin Ling, fluent in Jiang Cheng's expressions, sighed.

"It was an accident," he said. "And he's apologized. And, you know, uncle, he was held prisoner by Jin Sect almost my entire life, you can't say he hasn't paid for it. And..."

And they had killed his whole family. And his older sister.

Jiang Cheng looked away. "Huh."

When Jiang Cheng had made his first, clumsy attempt at mending a little of the gruesome breach between himself and Wei Wuxian, the Ghost General had been there, glaring daggers at him from behind the Yiling Laozu.

It had been more disconcerting than it should have been, and Jiang Cheng had stumbled, interrupted himself, and fallen silent enough times that eventually Wei Wuxian had taken pity on him, reached out, patted him on the arm one time, said, "Good talk, Jiang Cheng," and extricated them both from the situation.

Freed from the burden of conversation, he'd returned Wen Qionglin's glare, and lost. Corpses didn't need to blink.

He didn't want the bastard to like him. Which was just as well since it was out of the question. Jiang Cheng had never for a second in his life liked Wen Qionglin; from the first time he'd laid eyes on him when they were youths he'd interpreted him as a pathetic, burdensome coward, and despised him for it.

Owing the man his life had made it worse--he hadn't even wanted to be saved, and it was Wei Wuxian's stupid horrible charm and habit of interfering where he wasn't wanted that had done it, and like hell had he owed anything, when that person's family had murdered his. (I owe him nothing, he'd told himself once, because Wen Qionglin had been the reason he lost Wei Wuxian.)

Another time, he found himself in both their company and drew apart, letting the Yiling Patriarch and the Ghost General play at being mentors to the youth. Neither of you lived to see twenty-five, he wanted to shout. What do you think you have to teach them?

Even Jin Ling...it made him furious. Furious to glance over and see a corpse's stiff face conveying softness.

Furious to look past the crowd and see Lan Wangji's eyes falling on Wen Qionglin with an unmistakable resentment. And to know that it wasn't the stiff propriety of the Lan Wangji of their youths, objecting to the heresy of that fierce corpse's existence; that it was the look of a petty, jealous man resenting the way Wei Wuxian knocked his shoulder together with the Ghost General's and laughed.

"Where do you get off hating Wen Ning?" he asked the next time he found himself alone with Lan Wangji. It was a stupid thing to ask, but if he let himself think about how they were threshing through the underbrush looking for Wei Wuxian, about the last time they had looked for Wei Wuxian together...

Lan Wangji ignored him.

Jiang Cheng snorted. "Okay. So maybe you don't hate him. But he likes you! He's so deferential it makes me want to puke."

Lan Wangji favored him with the merest hint of a sneer, just enough to show he was listening to Jiang Cheng talk.

"You're disgusting," said Jiang Cheng. "Do you really think he shouldn't have anyone but you in his life? That he's your property?"

Lan Wangji's stride broke. It was a triumph, in a way--Jiang Cheng had never thrown him so badly in all the years they'd known each other.

"Each man judges others by his own heart," said Lan Wangji, thick with contempt, and then he was walking ahead with pointed rapidity, determined to separate from Jiang Cheng, until staying together would have meant chasing after him, and Jiang Cheng turned and went the other way, muttering blackly.

In the end, fittingly, neither of them caught up in time to be of use. Wen Ning, with his homing sense for Wei Wuxian, had shown up out of who the fuck knew where and bailed him out.

Jiang Cheng stumbled upon the haunted spring just in time to see a sodden, bedraggled Wei Wuxian launch himself away from his pet Wen's supportive arm and fling himself against the upright form of Hanguang-jun, which bent around him with a reverent murmur.

Jiang Cheng was already turning away in disgust to head back home, hating that he'd let himself be dragged into this, when he heard Lan Wangji say with careful, solemn deliberation: "Thank you, Wen Qionglin. For taking care of him."

Jiang Cheng glanced back against his will to see the Ghost General saluting deeply, wide-eyed, infinitely humble, his murmur that it was nothing special, Hanguang-jun, nearly drowned out by Wei Wuxian's delighted shouting about how good his Lan Zhan was and how much Wen Ning deserved to be appreciated.

Jiang Cheng walked away.

Wen Qionglin wasn't rude to him. Not in any way you could point at. And he knew full well he'd be making an ass of himself if he tried to pick a verbal fight.

After all, they had killed Wen Qionglin's older sister.

The whole cultivation world had done it, but only Jiang Cheng had done it after Wen Qionglin saved his life. He'd told himself he owed no debt for that, and perhaps he hadn't, but the fact remained: of the two of them, one had been brave and virtuous and earned the loyalty of Wei Wuxian.

And one of them had been pathetic, a coward, a burden.

Jiang Cheng could never look at the man without seeing the look in his dead eyes across the length of Suibian.

Jiang Cheng had never been good at lying to himself, especially if the lie was meant to be comforting. He always tried it anyway. Comforting lies used to sound so true, in Wei Wuxian's mouth; he should never have gotten into the habit of relying on that. To letting that person think Jiang Cheng was someone who needed to be swaddled in falsehoods to give him the strength to bear up under his own duties.

Wen Qionglin was a kind, gentle, courageous dead body, shy and courteous and increasingly appreciated for his virtues, in this strange new world created in the wake of Jin Guanyao's disgrace. And whenever his eyes fell on Jiang Cheng they were cold, hard, flat, contemptuous.

Every time he looked at him Jiang Cheng could nearly hear him thinking, like a cold wind against the back of his neck: I should have left you in that heap of corpses with the rest of your family.

What are you worth, Jiang Wanyin, that so many should be spent in saving you? That Wei Wuxian would drag us all into the shadow of death to make you whole, only for you to turn your face aside when it was me lying there, and let him die for us without lifting a finger?

Selfish, whining coward. If only I had left you there to die.

If only, Jiang Cheng imagined spitting back, anger hot and bracing in his throat. If only! I never asked for any of it! How dare you expect me to repay you!

But Wen Qionglin never spoke any of the words out loud. He only looked, cold dead flat black eyes. A frozen river. Sometimes Jiang Cheng thought that if he lashed out hard enough he would break a hole in the ice, and be devoured whole.

#ask #hoc est meum #ramblebrambleamble #jiang cheng is projecting like a drive-in movie theater here to be clear #like he's not wrong that he is wen ning's least favorite living human being #but wen ning also doesn't generally think this hard about it lmao #or like about him at all if he doesn't have to #mdzs #jiang cheng #wen ning #ask game #reverse tropes #really nice guy who hates only you #this is like the opposite energy from my previous fill for the same prompt alkflkj; #writing #my fic #fanfic #realized these 'mini fics' are long enough to need a cut woop

[cleric4vampire]

Aune, my Dark Urge. She is feral cat-coded and likes speaking to mushrooms more than people. oh also she's in constant pain and mentally/emotionally/spiritually tortured by her murderous urges, but you know. same old same old

Last image shows most of her belongings. I'll be posting the items inside her memento box soon-ish! Both the book and the clockwork heart were pulled from the Horror Trinkets table, though I came up with the visuals. (To be specific, I referenced the table in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, one of two sources for the Haunted One background.)

#here we go again!!!!!!!!! I reformatted it because I finally figured out that tumblr hates landscape orientation lol #the quality is much clearer now yay!! #The portraits shows Aune's most common moods: filled with bloodlust & sad #had to include a “spore mode (aka symbiotic entity)” variant for bloodlust aune because realistically that's what's usually happening #that is who you face in battle lmao. good luck #I made a design for the ritual dagger because the one in game doesn't have a unique model. hopefully it's loviatar-y enough #and yes the anatomical heart & stand was built by exactly who you think :) :) :) :) :) #I really didn't want to include text on the character sheet for accessibility reasons but this was the only way I could think to #reformat it. I included alt text for everything though! #durge #bg3 oc #bg3 fanart #character sheet #bg3 #durgetash #...yeah I need gortash nation to see this #oc: durge!aune #my art #druid #half-drow

[puppyeared]

When you backread through a fun conversation you had with someone for hours an angel gets its wings

#I was talking to my brother about Norman doors and I had fun in my UX class and he was telling me about demon cores and the trolley problem #in his class. AND I remembered to take my meds today so I can feel every cell in my body. i can feel the neurons rubbing together #and yesterday I infodumped about the specialists bullseye chart to crow and how it ties with witch hat atelier #WHICH I MANAGED TOGET THEM TK READ IM SO HAPPY. I MAKE SQUEALING GUINEA PIG NOISES EVERY TIME THEY TELL ME WHAT THEYVE READ SO FAR. AHH #i might not even be scratching the surface with witch hat there are so many themes i could not possibly fathom or go over my heasd #and thats what makes it so exciting there are so many spaces in between that you can fill with your thoughts and i. i #waves my hands around manically #for anyone interested in my insane ramblings. the bullseye chart is from are we all scientific experts now by harry collins #in my own words its basically saying everything we know about anything is a game of broken telephone #and it discusses how information gets lost in translation between experts and laymen including things that arent in control #one of the main points was how things that happen between experts are complicated including debates and findings #that you can only really understand thru research and experience in that field and cant be smoothly shared without it being reworded #and risking some of those key points. or even concepts that are hard to understand that cant be shared at all #like if you tried to tell me about how DNA works using words scientists are familiar with but i am NOT- i risk missing concepts that i need #to understand to know how it works on the level you understand. or i risk having it reworded and understanding it but not on that level #AND IT DOES TIE TO WITCH HAT THE WITCH AND NORMAL FOLK COMMUNITIES I PROMISE. ITS SO INTERESTING #anyway i spent hours reading back thru that conversation and i might as well admit it goes for almost every fun conversation i have #and it might be the 20mg of adderall in my body but i am in such a state of peace and love i have to verbalize it. ahh #yapping

[tblsomedoodles]

Me playing Rimworld like a scifi family simulator? never.

anyways, i've been playing far too much Rimworld so have some little doodles of my main couple's four kinda creepy kids lol. I will admit, "Feral" is technically his nickname, but i can't remember what they actually named him and i don't feel like booting up my game just to check.

Sandy and Feral are very close in age. Timothy is pretty close behind them, and Alice only just hit toddler stage recently. I was sooo worried about Timothy when he was tiny. B/c he was born sick, recovered from that only to catch malaria. Recovered from that and immediately caught the plague. he's alright now.

Sandy and Feral will sit on their dad's research desk to watch him work in game, and i think that's just the cutest thing, so i doodled that too.

fun fact! According to Alice's genetics, she's supposed to have purple hair, but she, instead, matches Timothy with his grey/white hair.

there's a lot of other kids running around my colony too, but they belong to others (one being just a clone lol). no joke, i think i have 5-6 adults and about 8 kids running around the place. it's chaos. i love it lol : )

#rimworld #my doodles #i haven't drawn in like 5 days because of this game #so it deserved some doodles #the adults are pretty horrible people #but their kids are all creepily adorable : ) #i'm so sad only Sandy got the ears! #I might let their parents have more kids just so Sandy doesn't feel left out #after some of these ones get to adulthood that is #b/c i have some work spots in desparate need of filling #and they'll be perfect for it #but if i put them to work now they're learning will suffer #and their traits will too when they grow up #i had a kid that i ignored the learning rate too #and b/c of that he ended up with a slow learner trate #but also had a similar genetic trait slowing his learning speed #that dude could NOT learn anything to save his life #it literally brought his learning speeed down to i think like 16 percent #always let your kids finish school if you want them to be productive people

[blinkpen]

Have you thought about giving Grimstone her own girlfriend. I feel bad for her lol

For the most part, Grimstone generally prefers flings, and oh, Whatever you do, don't tell her that,

#mog art #ask x #grimstone #monster girl #cyclops #demon #grim is only really cringefail when demersa is in the same room #grim in an urgent tone: yes i was dumped by demersa but consider how much game you need to GET demersa to begin with #grim: the wandering oasis in my death maze is filled with ladies willing to feed me grapes and i don't even have to pay them to be there #grim: they just show up #girls will say I Know A Place and take you to the Lesbian Labyrinth

[chiropteracupola]

...instead of finishing my library books last night, I played uno for hours and my mother proceeded to beat us all eight entire times.

#news from the cupola #we only played ten games total 😬 #my family plays a mean and cruel game of uno and I am quite out of practice. and now I'm filled with stress also. #finished taking photos of all the relevant photos in patricia rieff anawalt's worldwide history of dress #so as to draw tharkay whilst on the plaaaaane.... but also the thing is that that was probably not the best use of my time #given that I now need to pack all my Actual Physical Items in approximately 45 minutes

[dark-elf-writes]

The urge to start reading fanfic vs the fact I am not yet at the end of the game and I know they are waiting to pull the biggest twist of all time

#the elf talks #I need like a fifteen hour story explained video for this game and I’m still playing it #I mean to be fair I have some clean up of side quests then pretty much a straight shot to the end but still #this is only giving me more leaf house cloud feelings for even farther down the line #and beyond like I am having thoughts #how am I going to work tomorrow with this filling my head

[pepprs]

acnl is a superior game to acnh in almost every way except the graphics. it’s actually making me mad

#purrs #working at the roost… mr shrunk… main street … multiple shop upgrades… megaphone (and microphone AND CAMERA on the ds)… villagers have #distinctive personalities and spread rumors and ask to schedule a time to come to your house… pattern grass… kappn island minigames… bananas #and mangos and durians and perfect fruit… the town tree and all the history in it… like idk. i love acnh too but it’s just so hollow and i #wasn’t even around for acnl in its glory days. like i STILL haven’t unlocked all the shops or shop upgrades on acnl or even met Gracie yet #or whatever and on acnh the only thing i need to do is get like 2 more reactions and then ive completed the game. and it just feels #pointless logging on and whatever (ik im saying things that have already been said a million times) bc the villagers are just dolls who say #the same 3 things over and over again. meanwhile eunice and benjamin are two of my og acnl villagers and they’re still there 5 years later #and i log on and talk to them and it’s so rewarding to bc they feel like actual.. people! who i love and who love me. whereas my acnh #villagers who i also love will just carry on exactly as they were no matter how long ive been gone. idk. i just don’t understand why they #decided to downgrade so much for acnh and let go of all these features and characters. i really hope they’ll make another game and that jtll #have everything new leaf had and more. and i mean the new horizons features can stay too (except for diy. i HATE diy) #ac #exterior building customization beyond just houses… sitting on rocks and tree strumps (and tree stumps having patterns)…. 😭💔 #the basket where you could put stuff from kappn islands in there so it wouldn’t fill up your inventory….

[taldigi]

You like Five Nights at Freddy's? I thought you hated horror?

Yes.

#I hope you realize that those two things can coexist. #I've been keeping up with the series since the very first one came out #Heck I've been aware of the lineage of games since chipper and sons #I don't like playing the game it's too tension -based and it would give me anxiety and I would probably die #and the story of FNAF is significantly less intense than that of the ring or the movies with jigsaw for Jason Voorhees #and just because I keep up with the series #does not mean it has my blessing as a good story based on my tolerance of it based on my inherent revulsion of horror media #But I do not seek the ambient thrill and highs of horror. I find it quite depressing most times. #why does the antagonist in the ring feel the need to hurt others- innocent people #characters who- might otherwise be assholes depending on the version of the story - are genuinely innocent people #well it might be a narratively interesting decision and part of the thrill - but it is not one that I wish to partake in see? #I find that part of horror storytelling genuinely frustrating #I don't seek out media to tell me that things are hopeless and good or innocent people will die for no reason by monsters #But I say this very much on my own behalf because I know that others enjoy it and that's okay. #just like people like different foods- I am only speaking on what I choose to fill my own time and my heart with.

[alchemiclee]

there's so many popular repetitive video games that seem so boring to play, but then I watch people stream them with a group of friends, and they make it seem so fun just because the people playing are so lively and goofy and funny. I want that. I want to be part of a group of streamers or at least group of friends that make receptive and otherwise boring games fun and hilarious. a group that's not boring, serious, competitive. one that cares more about having fun and laughing than completing the video game objective 😭

#like the currenr one lethal company #it doesnt look fun at all and looks like it would get boring fast. UNLESS you have hilarious friends to laugh with #which i lack. i dont have enough friends and most people i know and would play co op games are too serious and boring #people probably think the same of me. im generally quiet and confused when playing games and bad at them #usually people get mad at me for being bad or goofing around so its never fun. but the fun people never invite me #probably because they thjnk im the boring one. but i absorb energy like a sponge!!!!! be silly and funny and i will too! #i really need a group of people with great silly fun energy who i csn feed off of. i miss laughing. i need to laugh. i never laugh anymore😐 #lee rambles #every time i tried playing with people i know I honestly got so bored. I feel bad because they're the only ones nice enough to play with me. #but they're too serious and not funny. so I haven't played with them in like a year at least and am afraid to ask lmao #why do the silly fun people avoid me and only the serious boring people would agree...i need an energy boost #i need a person to be my battery. where do i get a battery #want to play l4d2 again. its been a while. its so hard to fill the lobby and the couple people that used to play with me arent funny 😅 #if i could get a group of silly funny weirdos together then id try lethal company. but i wont try with boring groups #there's so many games i bought to play with people and got ditched that could use a goofy group too. sighs. #why am i still rambling. i dont even have the energy to speak to multiple people at once and play a game #but maybe that's why i need a battery #anyway i kinda really miss doing silly goofy rp and regular gaming hasnt been able to replace the laughter that brought me 😭😭 #i need a good laugh. cant remember last time i laughed until i cried. laughing makes me feel good for a bit sighs. someone make me laugh pls

[sixpiecechickenmcnobody]

i largely avoid the digital age brainmelting practice of having multiple things beaming into my consciousness at once (scrolling on phone while watching tv etc.) but the one that i allow myself is having a 3 hour long video essay on one monitor while playing the sims on another. 21st century hedonistic indulgence

#i think it’s because i only ever build which takes up maybe 40% of my brain processes so i need something to fill it #i had a friend who would hang out in discord chats while playing a video game and watching a stream and idk how she did it. i would die #i have to pause whatever show i’m watching to answer a text idk how these subway surfers sidebar kids operate #an original

[cathalbravecog]

omg i think ive said this before but i have a specific song i listen to anytime i do CEO battles (golf round specifically) and like now i cursed myself that anytime i listen to it i go "omg i wanna ceo now"

#rambles #BRO THE US PPL R ASLEEP ITS TAKE HOURS FOR A CEO GROUP TO FILL UP AT THIS CURRENT TIME LOL. or ppl r at school or work and im here lIKE #IM SO MAD i havent been playing toontown like AT ALL #toontown is constantly on my brain but ive honestly burned myself out on the gameplay a bit - theres a lot of stuff that needs other ppl #and usually its my friend who not only motivate me to log on but also just #having to do stuff with others lool and finding groups when youre in a very different timezone than the most of the playerbase #shoutout to my fellow european ttcc-ers #i already have motivation issues thats why i feel cathal so badly so getting out of the gameplay specific brainrots SOMETHIN #could grind on my other toons too lol #winstoon is stuck at cfo moment rn gotta build that suit #unlike archie they havent done ANY mints early......... while archie is not as far as winstoon is and they can vp AND cfo DGRTBRHTH #im just rambling in my tags here i wanna talk about TOONTOWN a bit on my TOONTOWN BLOG #i promise my brain is all toontown im just not in the game as much but fr if anyone wants to do shit just lmk fjfjjf

[filet-o-feelings]

for everyone who voted in my poll like two full months ago, my hair is finally purple

#thanks to 3 video meetings in a row to make me realize how much I didn't want to be blonde anymore #it wouldn't have been an issue if the pink had lasted more than 3 days #anyway I only had less than half a jar so I filled it back up with conditioner #and it still came out super bright and I'm happy lol #but now I'm out of excuses not to write #and work on those 60 sentences I need to write for that ask game #work has made my brain mushy this week #anyway nobody cares I'm just rambling to avoid writing

[goldensunset]

Happy one month until tears of the kingdom 🎉

WAUGH YOU’RE RIGHT

#time is passing soso quickly… #june 2019 feels like it was only yesterday #we’ve really been waiting for this game for almost four years huh #now suddenly it’s like that’s way too soon oh man just a month #can’t believe it’s even happening feels like this was never supposed to be a real game just a myth #i’m gonna be out of school in less than a month… probably working in less than a month… #funny my brother has been saying for years now ‘once botw2 comes out i’m gonna request an entire week off of work’ LOL #imagine if i did that lol. hey i know i’ve been here for two days but it’s really important i need to play this game right now #man this summer is about to be lit… a real and interesting job… a game i’ve been waiting for for years… #i’ll be in class for the final trailer tomorrow AUGH #maybe i just shouldn’t watch it anyway. like just to avoid spoilers #i wanna go in as blind as possible actually #me from a year or so ago would’ve NEVER passed up the chance to get more info on totk but that’s bc i needed crumbs to sustain me #but now it’s like. hey it’ll be here in a month anyway and i’ve got other stuff to do in that time #same with the gameplay showcase i haven’t seen that #i’ve had all the relevant tags filtered on here for like a month ever since the art book leaked #just gonna leave ‘em on #once we get closer to the date itself i might eventually log off indefinitely #actually that’s probably gonna happen anyway #if it’s anything like last summer having a job and a game to play over the summer means i don’t need tumblr to fill my time #anyway this has been a ramble sorry #asks #rosie-kairi

[deadtower]

thank fucking god tumblr at least acknowledges the antisemitism in hogwarts legacy because it is completely missing from any and all twitter PSAs

#like yeah her transphobia sucks but like there’s one (1) transphobic thing in legacy to my knowledge #whereas the entire fucking game is Harry Potter and the Blood Libel #like quite literally is filled to the core with antisemitism #and yet the only thing i see about it on twitter at all times ever is how it should be boycotted bc transphobia #and while obviously that matters too #as a transgender jew i feel qualified to say #that this time the antisemitism is the one that needs to be focused on #to be entirely fair i have seen PSA after PSA after PSA about the transphobia #so it’s definitely been acknowledged. that isn’t an issue #the antisemitism has not been acknowledged AT ALL despite being the foundation and plot of the game #and it sucks because people are shocked shit like the holocaust happened #and then turn a blind eye to this and when we tell them they need to acknowledge the antisemitism #they just tell us we’re making shit up or being too sensitive etc etc #and then when the nazis see how little support we have. that’s when they start making their movies #*moves #and then the goyim have the fucking audacity to say they didn’t see it coming #when we begged for them to see it back at the very beginning #and literally detailed what was happening #so. business as usual lmao #anyway. #good to see tumblr bringing up the antisemitism at least