#late again never mind

[skydragon05]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40614972

No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationship: Gwaine/Merlin (Merlin)

Characters: Gwaine (Merlin)Merlin (Merlin)

Additional Tags: Fluff, Lovers, Established Relationship, post-reveal, Canon Era, Canon Divergent, magic bubbles, steamy romantic medieval hot tub, it’s literal steam, we’re a teen rating here folks, no beta we pop like bubbles

Summary: Gwaine returns cold and grumpy from a patrol to find Merlin has a bubbly surprise waiting for him.

Meant for merwaine fest day 4 or 7 but late lol

#merwainefest #merwaine #magic bubbles #fluff #romantic #silliness #late again never mind

[ilikestuffthatsparkles]

Theon leaving

#asoiaf #theon greyjoy #asoiaf art #theon #asoiaf fanart #a song of ice and fire #ramsay's bitches #ramsay's dogs #winterfell #my art #i'm sorry i can't fix it more than this :/ Multiple details look wrong but yea too late #asoiaf what-if #theon frees/becomes the owner of Ramsay's dogs after the Boltons are defeated and they love him like a human could never do #all the stark kids + jon have a special bond with their direwolf pets now I want theon to have kyra on his side #i have a Theon and Jon and Kyra and Ghost fanart in mind already #i guess we can assume in this AU Ramsay was killed by Theon #imagine Ramsay orders the dog to attack theon and they go yea nope we ain't doing that #and they kill him like in the show or maybe it's theon shooting an arrow again #if that's even possible considering his fingers #but maybe theon wouldn't idk i can't understand new theon's personality after being reek #maybe he's the least vengeful person in the world maybe he's bloodthirsty af #i don't think he'd be happy if ramsay suffered his same way I think he's disgusted by torture at this point but i guess killing is ok? dunn #there's the cool AU where jon kills Ramsay while he's in ghost and that would be cool too but yea i'm a theon stan I want more theon scenes #ignoring the fact that if I stay awake for too long my brain goes into “Bolt-On is true” mode and I come up with deranged theories too LMAO #i think i said it somewhere but i wish a Asoiaf artists groupchat/discord would be amazing like guys I need to go on for hours about fanart #btw i'm making a youtube vid of this drawing which will also include my random mini art vlogs and pointless commentary of how i drew this #i should be studying for car license or my terrible grades or get some money somehow but nope i'm here typing a shit ton of tags #bye #i don't know human anatomy so IMAGINE DOG ONES PFF what are those four legged abominations i drew #tried using my doggo for reference but he's 23cm tall so yea maybe not the best reference for medieval hunting hounds

[pcktknife]

thinkin abt the spikemuth sibs

#they r on my mind forever and always #pokemon #pkmn swsh #marnie #piers #myart #late night posting yet again...gnite <3 #also i wanna let everyone know that i just found out piers wears a white glove on his left hand ive never noticed it until today #he is so ghostly pale it blends in with his skin i cant believe i never knew this

[2hoothoots]

i was having a chuckle to myself last night about Gristol, and how his plans are basically:

Restore Ford Cruller's memory

Find Maligula

???

Profit

but then... of course they are, right? this is Gristol we're talking about. Fatherland Follies drives home again and again that he's still operating on a child's logic, a warped and reductive version of the world that he never bothered to grow out of. both of his memory vaults center on the images of his childhood, this idealized version of the past that he clings to no matter what. and that's still how he remembers Maligula, too - as this saviour figure, who rushes in to help him when he's in trouble.

[ID: Two slides from Gristol's memory vault, Glory to Grulovia! Left: Gristol clings to Maligula's back as she summons waves to sweep away his assailants. Right: Gristol and Maligula waving from a balcony as the people cheer. Gzar Theodore brandishes a dagger in the background.]

like so much else, Maligula represents a return to this idyllic childhood - to the peace and simplicity of his youth, when he was free from worries and responsibilities. in his mind, he doesn't need to make any further plans - once Maligula's back, everything will go back to normal. Maligula will make everything better.

...is what i thought, but then i remembered this line:

[Screenshot source. ID: Gristol, in Truman's body, bows on his hands and knees in front of the newly-awaked Maligula. The caption reads: "Yes, High Priestess! I am here to correct the mistakes made by my father!"]

and that's kind of interesting, right?

to be clear: this happens directly after Maligula sees Helmut-in-Gristol's-body, and recognises him. her line before this is:

"Little Gzesaravich! Have you come to pay for your father's sins?"

my first thought was that Gristol hadn't expected to still be in Truman's body by the time he managed to find Maligula, and this was him trying to placate her and buy some time until he could explain the situation. but watching the cutscene back, that's clearly not what's happening here. Gristol is answering as himself, and his response of throwing himself to his knees before her is, as far as i can tell, genuine.

so what is going on here?

in Fatherland Follies, there's this line in the ride narration that stuck out to me:

"Why didn't the Gzar help Maligula in her time of need? No one knows, but historians agree - it is Gzar Theodore's biggest failure."

other lines mention Gzar Theodore's "mistake", and it's wording Gristol himself echoes in the screencap above. evidently, he believes that his father abandoned Maligula, leaving her to her fate at the hands of the Psychonauts, and it was that mistake that lead to them being driven out of the country - that mistake which he seeks to correct. maybe he even feels like he has a debt to repay to her for his family turning their backs on her all those years ago.

the 'High Priestess' thing, though - that's kinda weird, and threw me for a loop the first time i played the game. it took me until my second playthrough to connect the dots, and remember how the room in the Lady Luctopus - Gristol's room - was full of Delugionist scribblings and symbols.

[Screenshot source. ID: left, the walls of the hidden backroom in Gristol's hotel suite, covered in scrawlings of eyeballs and Maligula's name. Right, the pinboard from the hidden backroom. On its surface are photographs and newspaper clippings connected by pieces of string.]

i mean, look at this stuff! he had a whole conspiracy board and everything!

we learn very little about the Delugionists and their beliefs as a whole during the game, but i think drawing the connection here suggests two important things. one: that Gristol was in deep with this stuff. i don't know how he linked up with them - maybe via old family connections, or just good old-fashioned digging (we know he's skilled at worming his way into peoples' good graces, after all) - but it seems likely that he's begun to internalise their ideas, maybe even warping his own memories of events. and two: the Delugionists themselves are, if you'll pardon the pun, pretty far off the deep end.

like... i understand why PN2 didn't go heavy on the "mass-murderer cult worship" aspect of things, in the end, but man this is such a tantalising glimpse into the wider mythos around Maligula. Gristol is proud and haughty and thinks himself above everyone else; the fact that his first reaction seeing Maligula is to throw himself to the ground at her feet says so much about the way he's come to see her. he's not just trying to bring back Maligula, his childhood bodyguard. he's trying to bring back Maligula, the High Priestess of the deluge, the semi-mythical figure whose supporters believe even death couldn't stop. he doesn't even flinch at the way she confronts him, and maybe it's because he's bought in so completely to this deified figurehead, this idea of Maligula; more a living force of nature than a person. and it all comes back to the same place: an abdication of responsibility, not just to the person who protected him when he was little but to this avatar of floods and destruction. Maligula will make everything better.

i'd write more about my thoughts on the Delugionists but that'd be taking a hard turn into speculation, and this is already kind of long and rambling so i'd better end it here. but what an unexpected and evocative line, right? it's some of the only stuff we have to go off of regarding the Delugionists as a whole, but i think it does such a good job of hinting at the wider story - at teasing another layer to the mythos surrounding Maligula, one whose ripples we see throughout the game but which never quite breaches the surface.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #bored waiting at the airport so you get more psychonauts meta from me #the delugionists have been on my mind recently (because i Might Just have an upcoming au lorepost about them and also cults are fun) #so tossing my thoughts up here because people seemed to like the last few times i did this #and also it's my blog and i like to talk :) #related vent i HATE drafting posts in the tumblr editor because if you hit crtl+z to try and undo a formatting change #it deletes like half the post you just typed out #(yes i did it again while i was writing this. yes i'm still salty. why do i even bother) #what else... this is just becoming a disconnected thoughts dump #but if you've seen my posts you knew what you were signing up for when you hit the button to expand the post tags #there's new art coming hopefully this weekend if i can get it finished! it's more mermaid au designs #i'm two and a half weeks late for mermay but it turns out starting a new job and moving house doesn't leave you with a ton of free time #but that's okay it's never too late for mermaids #omg and artfight's coming up next month too! geez #i gotta make refsheets for the fsau trio because i would LOVE to get art of them #and this year i don't have a thesis to crunch on so i might actually have time to participate #oh and then in august i'm having top surgery! will make a proper announcement post for it at some point #i say 'announcement'. it's just a life update but it's nice to share #i'm super excited about it :) #i might end up blogging the process and recovery but obviously it won't be going here lol. i'd put it on my main #idk if anyone would find it useful but when i first started looking into surgery i had like very little idea about the whole process #and it's only through joining a bunch of online support/discussion groups that i managed to find more info and resources #so hey it might be useful to share? we'll see #our flight doesn't land for another fifty minutes so now i'm just writing in the tags because i'm bored #alright i'll proofread this and then post it when i land and have signal again. peace out yall hope your pride month is going well

[stergeon]

> FERDINAND II.

And so your PLANT shall henceforth be known as FERDINAND II.

The thought of needing to inform FERDINAND I of his having a namesake makes you a bit ill, but you are already hard at work devising several plausible excuses for the gesture. Something about how you've named it after the one most invested in its naming, or how it is similarly prone to drooling. Yes. Yes, you will be able to deflect quite easily, should the need arise. It has nothing to do with your fondness for FERDINAND or your desire for a substitute in his imminent absence, no—again, you are not so prone to sentimentality. It's about the drool.

Well, anyway. Best to move on with your day and think about something else, lest you grow maudlin or cultivate further affection for the PLANT. May the GODDESS be merciful and never cause you to develop inclinations that could be described as paternal.

Now that your plant has received sufficient care, it is time for COFFEE. You set to making your morning brew. By CHANCE, there happens to be sufficient water remaining in the kettle for FERDINAND I to have TEA, should he wish it.

Per your TIMEPIECE, it is now a quarter to eight. You have made excellent progress on your PRE-BREAKFAST TO-DO LIST thus far: the only remaining task is to remove FERDINAND. You are starting to get rather peckish and would like to be rid of him quickly, but over the past week, you have found that extracting the man from YOUR QUARTERS is a more arduous task than it ought to be.

#007 | << | <- | -> | JOURNAL | HOW TO PLAY | ALL POSTS

#fire emblem #hubert von vestra #fe16 #ferdibert #hpnd #sterge.pptx #fe3h #sorry this was late lol #late according to the update schedule i don't have #as the poll was wrapping i thought 'wouldn't it be fucked up to make a game where you make coffee.' #never mind that 1. i've barely made any games #2. i had no idea how to make a multi-part game #3. i wanted to turn it around in ~24 hours #i actually Did finish the game in about a day but i still had to write a post and draw the bg + the panel #if the game doesn't work: sorry #it Should work on mobile (android and ios) but it is pretty finicky #it works Better on desktop but that's not saying much #if you run into any showstopping issues: please lmk so i can fix it #did Some bug testing (aka made my friends do it for me) but not a lot lol. again: short turnaround time #i know there's a bug with the message/alert windows if you click through things too fast but idk what i did and i don't really care lol #maybe i'll fix that eventually #i'd like to also make it smoother and add some more animations but i kinda doubt i'll get around to it #pretty pleased as i did the entire game with pure css and no images except the fireplace #idk if that's cool to anybody else but it makes me happy #god dog… that background is screwy. need to fix that. #i will fix it someday. [lie]

[sketchingstars03]

anyone else annoyed with portrayals that make Nm and the Bad Sanses and Error out to be “actually innocent uwu guys who aren’t actually in the wrong bc they’re traumatized” and make Ink and Dream out to be “actually the real bad guys actually cuz umm Ink soulless and Dream no care abt his brother actually”?

Like people probably think it’s subversive or something when tbh it’s really not, at least not anymore. Maybe at one point it wasn’t a very popular interpretation of those guys (to have them be The Real Victims Actually) but, it sure is popular nowadays.

Like I’m not against sympathetic portrayals of the bad guys or anything (I’m literally a For The Forgotten Ones enjoyer)

but like, idk it gets on my nerves a bit when people try to make them Not The Bad Ones Actually They Did No Wrong Ever™️. Especially when it’s at the expense of the Star Sanses (Ink, Dream, and sometimes even Blue)’s characters.

It just feels like villainizing the Stars (especially Ink and Dream) for no reason other than to gesture at a “”subversive and interesting”” story, making these interpretations out to be more complex than they actually are.

#idk just a ramble I guess #Getting some thoughts™️ and opinions™️ out there ya know? #Again I’m NOT against sympathetic portrayals of characters like Error and Nightmare #They can be done really well and be very interesting and enjoyable #It just is a major pet peeve of mine when they’re made out to be the 100% Victims Never Did Anything Wrong Actually #you know? #at the end of the day though I’m not gonna harass ppl for their interpretations #it’s all meant to be in good fun #undertale au #utmv #textpost #shaymin rambles #this was just on my mind lately

[fireyartccoon]

some sonks for your troubles

#sonic appreciation friday #traditional art #sonk #sonic the hedgehog #almost didn’t get to post today #better late than never I suppose #apologies for the lack of posting #more than half of the time I got no idea what to post #It’s been a while since I doodled my au sonics so I doodled them and used this as an excuse #sneakers the boxhog #mad hedge dead #the little goobers #don’t know why I’ve procrastinated prismatic parallel so much #I definitely got the drawings just not the motivation #To draw the Big and Rusty or to not draw the Big and Rusty #that is the question #and mad hedge dead is throwing a curveball at me #It’s trying to take over my mind space yet again #sorry about the rambles #have a nice weekend y’all

[runefactorynonsense]

Cozytober - Day 13 - Apple Pie

How... How does that even work? Don't question it.

#Cozytober #Margot's RF Art #Rune Factory 4 #RF4 #This prompt stumped me for a while because I never remembered this being a thing to be made but then I saw it was in 4 #and I just. Vishnal somehow activates underflow and accidentally does a good #RF4 isn't my favorite but I do love the castle crew. Them and Venti can hang with characters in my mind any day #Also I totally forgot I'd drawn Vishnal twice before this not once. At least I had colors to grab! #Also also late again as I was sleepy after work. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT seeing Philly take down Atlanta last night. Baseballllll #Now someone just needs to take down Houston #Rune Factory Vishnal #RF Vishnal #Rune Factory Lest #RF Lest #Rune Factory Clorica #RF Clorica #also thank you Annie for reminding me that LYNETTE'S MARRIED ITEM IS APPLE PIES and I just somehow COMPLETELY forgot #Signed someone who loves comedic timing more than anything

[dont-let-me-eat-pears]

after watching "the diamond of the day" for the first time over ten years ago, i thought if i'd known the show was going to end in tragedy, i never would've started it at all. i thought that for years, and for a long time, i was mad at the ending and wished i'd known about it and could've saved myself the pain. but recently i've come around to being glad i hadn't known, because then i never would've discovered some beloved characters and relationships. and now that i'm in the middle of yet another merlin phase and am sadder about the show than i've been in years, i find myself wondering. if i'd known that merlin was a tragedy but that it would give me one of my all-time favorite fictional friendships (merlin and arthur), if i'd known that one day, years in the future, i would decide all the frustration and pain and heartache was worth it, would i have taken the plunge anyway?

#bbc merlin #merlin #merlin x arthur #merthur #the diamond of the day #text: merlin #my text #i'm inclined to say no #bc one of the most important aspects of a story to me is that it has a happy ending #so then again i'd say i'm glad i didn't know abt the ending #i mean sometimes when i'm feeling particularly sad i do wish i'd never watched the show #just rambling again bc this show's been on my mind constantly lately #i've been getting back into it pretty often over the last like 6 or so years #but this is probably the most i've been obsessed

[deadgit]

4 AM and I can't sleep... so it's time to post my deeply unpopular, but fervently held belief that Rimmer fell first, but Lister fell harder.

#obviously it's awesome if you see otherwise but that is just how it is in my brain lol #to be fair. i think that rimmer is gonna have to fall in stages and that process isn't going to be finished until lister already loves him #but he definitely starts first in my brain #and. tbh i think if it all went catastrophically wrong he'd handle it better than lister #not HEALTHIER mind you. but he'd get on with his life and just never trust anyone ever ever again 🙂 #i think lister would struggle a lot more #they both have to really tear themselves open to fall in love. i think in hindsight lister knows this. rimmer des not. #idk i'm feeling a bit morose tonight so you guys get Late Night Ramble Tags i guess lol #rimster

[widevibratobitch]

do you too completely and utterly lose every last bit of your sanity at the way he delivers that or egli viva e di mia man poi muoia or are you normal

#ettore bastianini #la forza del destino #i havent thirsted for him publicly in too long. #his carlo di vargas just does things to me that no other role is quite capable of doing. #(looking at the 'ella morrà' moment from the 1965 recording with corelli...... christ) #anyway when i say i hate all men - it is never. NEVER. about bastianini. please always keep that in mind. #anyway miky made me listen to dfd's verdi recordings again and i had to listen to bastianini as a therapeutic emergency #or i would have offed myself frfr 💀 #rossini girlies....... time to rethink your life choices. it is not too late yet. remember this is what you're losing..... #opera tag #verdi #im also losing it at thet dramatic spin at the end skdhsjshddb god im obsessed with him

[van-skmugen]

Adventures ~ Fairytale

(Children's stories style)

#Sora #Riku #Kairi #Destiny Trio #Kingdom Hearts #ソラ #リク #カイリ #キングダム ハーツ #王国心 #artists on tumblr #fanart #my art #VanSKmugenArt #VanKHArt #van-skmugen #this is another draw I made three years ago but I never published it in public again my artistic skills were more vague than those of today #from here I will try little by little to draw new art and looking forward to going to physiotherapy soon #so that my arm gets better than it's now and I can go back to drawing more of what I haven't been able to do lately #from here i want to continue drawing artworks and comics I have in my SK8 list together with others I have in mind and do some Soriku and K #plus a couple of KH and SK8 together that I'm looking forward to start but all little by little #also and last I may publish some pen drawings I did some time ago and also some others inspired by Jin Kim's concept arts #tho I still don't know if all of them together or in separate posts since I had a lot of fun doing them at that time

[meownotgood]

cannot believe it's been a whole year since this trailer changed the trajectory of my life forever

#these screenshots defined me #and they still do #how has it... been a whole year since that trailer.... #soon it'll be a whole year since chainsaw man... #what's going on... time is an illusion... it felt like yesterday... #I really saw him a whole year ago? #this is bad... this makes me miss aki even more now #crying right now #I have such vivid memories of staying up late cause I couldn't sleep cause I was so excited #and then the screencap on the left got leaked early and I #I never lost my mind so fast in my life I had to go roll around on the floor for a while to find it again #my husband is so beautiful!!! #uuugg I can't wait to see him again cause... I'll feel that excited feeling again #just thinking about it makes me giddy lol #stammering on about aki I'm very ill today #aki <3

[elysianymph]

“Then leave,” Regulus said, turning to stare at Sirius’ profile and the oh-so familiar slope of his nose. Regulus hated how similar they looked, hated how Sirius was smarter, more popular, more talented. He hated how Sirius was going to get everything that should've been his because Sirius with his rebellious attitude and disregard for their family didn't deserve any of it. Regulus sat in the library for hours, educating himself on the history of their great family, Regulus practised his spells everyday in hopes he would measure up to the power of his ancestors, Regulus was the good, obedient son Sirius could never be. “No one’s going to miss you anyway,” he spat out, looking away as his heart began to race.

‘I would. I would miss him,’ the child hiding in Regulus’ chest whispered, his words echoing through his bones.

Regulus closed his eyes and sighed deeply, trying to regain control of his breathing. In and out, like the ocean waves crashing against the shore. ‘No, you wouldn't,’ the voice reprimanding him is his own, but the echoes sound like his mother.

#out of context snippet #regulus encouraging sirius to leave for his own selfish reasons is my favorite thing #the only thing i love more is the late realisation of 'oh shit i miss my brother' and then they never speak to each other again <3 #regulus in my angst fic is just arguing back and forth with himself #it would be funny if it wasn't devastating how lost he is in his own mind #hey at least he's fighting the demons in his mind #while they're still IN his mind #barty can't relate #i will not elaborate #the black brothers #regulus black #sirius black

[carcharadroid]

This is the last thing I'm probably gonna say on Palworld for a while but look

listen.

I'm just begging people to give this thread a look and stop being in denial.

Drawing inspiration from the same concept is one thing, but more-or-less tracing a model and barely tweaking it is a whole other kettle. I'm not going to bat for Nintendo here, because at the end of the day no matter what happens I doubt Palworld will put a dent in Pokemon's profits.

I just want people to stop harping on the fucking sheep and sending death threats to the devs. Make your case but for fuck's sake make it well and don't threaten to kill someone over it. The fuck is wrong with y'all??

#lot of ''art theft/AI is bad unless it's happening to someone I don't like'' happening lately #please don't say that like you think it could never happen to someone or something you actually DO care about #this can't be a good precedent to set #it WILL backfire #anyway #like I said #I actually want Palworld to succeed but not if the AI accusations are true #and not with stolen assets #my mind is open and willing to be changed #because #again #I actually really want to play this game #but I'm not going to unless there's solid proof against the AI accusations #and the fakemon theft accusations #and the straight up whole ass stolen/traced assets thing is sorted #*dox babbles

[mummer]

"sara snow" as if that could have ever been a real name. get real. That is a drag name

#I'm kidding #if we're getting serious i think the reason Lol cregan is twinky is funny to me is mostly just because #in like. reddit threads and shit he's always fawned over as like this awesome gruff masculine man who Gets Shit Done and is Powerful and #Correct and Just and Fixes everything. Well what will reddit guys do when he is just a 21 year old bisexual beet counter Oh god we've just #done jon again sorry never mind #but yea lets subvert the masculine ideal ladiesssss ^_^ #thats what im here for ^______^ i hope preston jacobs gets really mad about it *___* #cause like it's interesting that aegon and rhaenyra both fail their genders in certain ways #(failing your gender is good dont get me mixed up) #but aegon cant get it up and he's emasculated and disabled and Literally gets cucked ? #and we dont even have time to get into rhaenyra right now #so the idea of some kind of Northern Real Man TM storming in and being the 'corrective' to that is a bit weird #UNLESS he is gay and mean abotu it. #also not to imply that the realm is 'fixed' at the end of the dance systemic rot is systemic etc #^ idk what any of that meant it's late and if it doesnt make sense dont yell at me about it