#move to save the present.

[stil-lindigo]

esprit de corps

[ there's still space left in your shadow. most of us will die in it.]

prints (all proceeds go towards purchasing e-sims and donating to Care For Gaza)

#the lucky ones will #disco elysium #harrier dubois #kim kitsuragi #judit minot #jean viquemare #cuno de ruyter #trant heidelstam #to ponder the future is a fools errand. we're doomed there. #move to save the present. #stillindigo art #all words are mine. so is the art #free palestine

[nibbelraz]

Human courting methods: Gift Giving

#svsss #shang qinghua #mobei jun #moshang #scum villains self saving system #scum villain self saving system #the scum villain's self saving system #scum villian self saving system #sqh #mbj #I HAVEN'T ANIMATED LIKE THIS IN A VERY VERY LONG TIME but of course it would be Shang Qinghua to get me back into it #truly i think even while courting Shang Qinghua is so sure Movei is gonna go back to his demon courting methods anyday now but suPRISE #hes only been pat on the head softly and given INSANE AMOUNTS OF GIFTS AND PRESENTS #so much so his room in the kingdom is overflowing that he has to move into Mobeis room 💕 #my art #nibbelraz #my animation

[kaurwreck]

I think Dazai, while young, became attached to Natsume when Natsume was lonely and so was he (which is why he calls him Sensei in the Dark Era, like the protagonist in Kokoro); that Natsume brought Dazai to Mori after Dazai attempted suicide (which is why Dazai never touches him in Bar Lupin, why Natsume follows him from the Port Mafia to his meeting with Taneda and then to the Agency, why Dazai knows Natsume well enough to allude to his history to Tanizaki and to recieve the jump drive Natsume brings him in the Cannibalism arc— Dazai knows him); and that Natsume performed a partial skill transfer similar to Kyouka's mother to ensure it could not come that close ever again (and that's why Dazai is one of the few if not only touch/contact-based skill users whose is involuntary).

I think No Longer Human isn't merely nullification, I think (similar to how Bram's skill reverses death but through the framework of vampirism and Atsushi's slices skills and regenerates in addition to his transformations), there is more to Dazai's skill such that it precludes him from dying (which is why he can stand in front of a hail of bullets and be thrown by Chuuya through several buildings in the Port Mafia, why he can't seem to commit suicide successfully, why Kunikida and Chuuya remark on his preternatural inability to die, why Dazai says to both Atsushi and Fyodor with such certainty "you can't kill me," and, cheekily, why Kunikida tells Dazai in 55 Minutes "You're no longer human! You've lost that right!" when Dazai says he finally managed to die, however briefly).

I think Natsume's skill bends reality in the shape of the narrative structure over which he had such mastery and he decided that whoever he failed to snatch from the cyclical jaws of misery and suicide before (again, borrowing from Kokoro), he would not let this boy die; and how cruel that must have felt at first (which is why Dazai hates pain— he's been denied the easiest escape from it that he knows), but how reality bent to weave a narrative such that Dazai could be saved again and again in such a way that might shatter Koroko's inescapable loneliness (this is why, in 55 Minutes, it's implied HG Wells might not have existed, might have been an apparition from an earlier era, as if reality itself rippled space and time to reconjure someone who made sense to protect Dazai when it seemed unlikely anyone else could; why Akutagawa happened to have business there; why Akutagawa and Atsushi happened to cross paths).

It's well known that the titular cat in I Am a Cat is a calico. But, the story was based on Natsume's IRL cat, who was a black, striped cat. And aren't Dazai's bandages a little like stripes?

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bsd dazai #bsd natsume #bsd meta #It's utter nonsense #But it would fracture the cycle presented in Kokoro #the plot is nonsense and the power scaling is silly and the escapes from certain doom are ridiculous because reality bends to save dazai #but while protected #dazai is frozen and unable to move forward #not unlike sleeping beauty preserved in her coffin of glass #and its atsushi's tiger #his relentless tiger that never lets him stop #that drags him forward #and akutagawa whose ability can eat space and who relentlessly strives to progress forward #who will conclusively shatter the cycle of loneliness imprisoning the narrative #anyway #is it anymore ridiculous than the rest of the story #because i dont think it is

[fuyobiii]

POV: ur talking to 15 skk

meow

#bungou stray dogs #chuuya nakahara #dazai osamu #15 soukoku #15 skk #look at them guys LOOK AT THEM #send help #guys im slowly going insane i cant do this anymore skk has my whole life present future AND past #the sheer sight of them makes my stomach turn my head light my vision blurry they are watching my every move i cant do this anymore #this might be the last time u see me and if u dont yell my story tell the people what soukoku has done to me and save the once who suffer #meow

[bizarrescribblez]

ok everypony wish me luck i have an alarm set for 5am (3 hours from now .) because mini alan plushies are dropping again and i have to get him this time or else . if i reblog this tomorrow morning with a WE ARE SO BACK or ITS SO OVER you guys will know how successful i was

#I WANTED TO GET BOTH HIM AND SCRATCH . but im still debating like oughhg #i love them both but getting alan is ofc . a must and need and top priority + i cant spend a lot or i’ll feel guilty #cuz saving for moving + saving for other things + saving for bday presents cuz SO MANY #PEOPLE IN MY LIFE HAVE MAY BIRTHDAYS?? ITS CRAZY #anyways PLEASE ALAN PLUSHIE YOU WILL BE MINE. #bizarre.ramblez

[cosmicrhetoric]

i don't know if fishman island era sanji is genuine flanderization or im somehow giving him too much and too little credit at the same time. and maybe i was just frustrated that he regressed so bad after two years on Gender Island when i erroneously assumed (after watching iva + co at impel down express that queerness is as close to the ultimate ideal of freedom that one piece is about as you can get) that he would be better for the experience. and i know im going to turn around on him by the time i get to whole cake island but literally brother can we cut this shit out lmao

#its just very frustrating having a main character's transmisogyny be a major plot thing when 100 episodes ago ANOTHER mc #like thee mc like The Main Guy's LACK of transmisogyny equally moved the plot forward #and all this during an arc where we're supposed to see how much everyone has grown and matured #fishman island #there was that bit when he first showed up again when he was like 'say hi to iva btw' and i was like oh! ok so he got slightly more normal #and then he really really really didnt #one piece #how is it possible to have such complicated emotions about character who is literally french #and like i know that iva like. i KNOW about the trans characters in one piece to come and i know theyre not drawn #like the women on okama island but people have been talking abt how the writing doesnt match the art forever and i finally get it #how are you presenting characters with complicated interiority and heroic arcs as the worst stereotype ever #sure bon clay's design was a joke to start and he's the most universally beloved character in the whole series #and they wrap it around like iva in impel down does have that whole 'you dont have to conform we are who we are by kesha' speech #everyone who is there looks exactly how they want to look bc they have the option via iva of looking different #but that doesnt excuse it!!!!!!!! it doesnt make it better!!!!!!!!!!! on the doyle lens!!!!!!!! #and again i know that two more of the most beloved characters in the series are trans and are not drawn with a joking hand. so ill wait #i'll wait for wano. save me wano arc save me. save me kiku #im literally past fishman island btw im in punk hazard now it just really still bothers me

[darklight-owl]

"How has Layton not snapped from all the trauma" because his story is that of grief and acceptance. He's known pain and has suffered from it but after many years he learned to move on because life will continue whether he wants it to or not so he may as well make the most of it. He carries the painful memories with him but is also capable of seeing the beauty in life. He cries for his loved ones who have died but appreciates the people he has in his life now. Layton is an amazing character BECAUSE he hasn't snapped.

#OH AND THIS DOESN'T MEAN HE DOESN'T MOURN BTW LOOK AT HIS FACE TALKING ABOUT RANDALL IN MM LOOK AT LITERALLY ALL OF UNWOUND FUTURE #he feels his feelings i love him #speaking of UF I think that game rlly drives home the point I'm trying to make here #he's a good parallel to Clive who spent 10 fucking years making an expensive revenge plan #and Dimitri who worked tirelessly to keep Claire in the present despite her telling him like #'bitch if you try this again you're gonna kill even more people let it go' #you can argue Dimitri's case and say all he wanted was to save her life which is fair #but ultimately it's presented as him being unable to move on #and I think if it had been Layton he would have also tried to save her at first but would have listened to Claire when she told him to stop #professor layton #hershel layton #professor layton and the unwound future #professor layton and the lost future #professor layton and the miracle mask #professor layton and the azran legacy #i haven't even touched Azran Legacy btw i'm going off UF and MM

[shoecrabs]

i honestly don't think anyone will care but I keep brainrotting over the idea of a pjo/rainworld au

I've turned the Seven into funky slimy cats dealing w concepts far beyond their comprehensions lmao

#my brainrots have mutated more than 5p's structure send help 💀 #i present you: slugcat au where the gods are iterators #(names + abilities pending) #the big 3 kids are purposed organisms and the rest “natural” slugcats #Frank (The Juggernaut) is the chief of the clan and has to deal with these random ahh weirdos (the 3) rocking up #he's honeslty like Gourmand with less cooking skills and more endurance lmao- just a muscle powerhouse fit into a slimy rodent body #Jason (The Turbine)'s retired from being a Messenger and has no clue what to do with his life now (he becomes a scholar later on) #he's a centipede/wing hybrid and can electrocute anything he grabs given enough pips + can double jump (to handle Pipeyard lol pray for him #Percy (The Navigator) wonders off to explore since his creator didn't really HAVE plans for him other than occasional missions #he's honestly just colour swapped Rivulet with less spear skills (but can aim and throw them really well under water) #Hazel (The Martyr/Apostate) pulling a power move and refusing to die lol #she escaped the void & probably does everything to keep herself bound to the cycle in fear of getting dragged back #she doesn't have anything really special that i can think of other than actually dealing damage with debris and being able to wall climb #Annabeth (The Weaver) as lookout for ancient research and really good at building ladders/utilising the landscape. the most basic scug tbh #she can also take spears off of walls p easily and probably has a grapple worm friend #Piper (The Mimic/Paradigm? names r hard) being able to copy plant toxins/abilities. does most damage up close & is mostly a herbivore #like eating sporepuffs for a smokescreen. cherrybombs to scare off/stun into unconsciousness. lilypucks/slime mold to glow and etc #Leo (The Artillerist) as a scrawny little guy with explosives. fast but physically weak. he has to rely on his int and makes the clans tool #basically Arti/Monk mix without double jump but able to reassemble Iterator parts (jesus i had to Work to not accidentally copy her design) #Festus is a lizard!! he's probably a stupidly big Yellow and is our beloved. he got saved by Artillerist and followed him ever since :) #alternatively: an au where Leo just ends up in rw and insults 5p (who is confused on how an ancient survived and why he's Like That) #pjo #rain world

[the-trans-dragon]

Y'know it was REALLY goddamn evil and nefarious that the oil fields gave my mom (a single mom working 3 jobs to raise 2 kids) a single $5,000 check in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure to never complain about them.

Of course we fucking took the money. Even with her working 1 full-time job and 2 part-time jobs, she barely made over $1,000 a month. Of course she took the money. We though about moving but we still couldn't afford it. She was so frugal with it, though. It did give us a sliver of financial security for years.

But goddamn. $5,000 is table scraps to them, and they bought her silence with it because she couldn't refuse the chance to slightly lessen the weight of poverty on her family.

#sorenhoots #i remember i was like 11 or something. she didnt know if she should sign it. and its not like we had or knew any lawyers. she had ME read it #over and even i was like “this is a nondisclosure and it means you cant ever talk about anything they do even if they do something terrible” #i recall being very proud of myself for knowing what a NDA was. lord knows where my middle-school self learned that from. she did eventually #have a lawyer of some sort look over it and they said the same thing but.... $5000 #it wasnt an option for her. that was more money than wed ever had or saved. she had two kids who would need cars bc we lived so far in the #country. she knew i wanted to go to college. i dont think i ever saw her buy herself clothes before then either. it was money for emergencys #and necessities and birthday presents and road trips and... i often wondered about the person who offered us that. i wondered where they #lived and wondered how much their clothes costed and wondered if their kids got to have art or piano lessons. i wondered if their home was #over 80 degrees in the summer and under 60 in the winter and if they lived in a house that wasnt filled with dangerous spiders (we had nice #spiders too but we did also have Very Dangerous Spiders) and id picture him in his office in a button up and slacks and it would break my #heart that my mom couldnt have all of that. we just had a $5000 check and a vow to not complain. #she still feels earthquakes from it. less nowdays but still. and sometimee it still smells like a jar of hot petroleum jelly. and the attic #smell is worse than ever and the tap water smells like sulfur and wet mold #goddamn what the fuck? jesus christ. she should move.

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Meeting someone tomorrow to potentially talk about housing and being roommates and. I'm nervous 👉👈

#nothing is set in stone and in all likelihood money + my lease going up in summer #means we probably won't find anything but. god is this what yall feel for first dates n stuff??? #i may be living with this person i need to make a good impression dear god.. #gotta look presentable. uh. idk i am overthinking this i know but like. I'm nervous about it #i think I'm overly concerned with finance too bc if i do move i will definitely be paying more for rent #and I'm still trying to find middle ground between saving money and paying down my cards #it's all gonna work out!!! I'm just. head full of thoughts #also hold on. it's 10pm. some of these thoughts are just the fact that it's 10pm 👀 #still steadying myself after a little bit of An Episode a day or two ago too.. need to take it a day at a time #shai speaks

[simmingonthelow]

Day 9- The Skeptics- Misses every bad thing that happens and ends up leaving early every time.

Danika Fillious (right) - Be for reeeaaal! How come nothing happened when we were here 🤨? And what the hell was on the floor😐?

Deanni Fillious (left) - That's it we're leaving. You smell disgusting , Nika, don't touch me 🤢. I hope you guys can 'survive' without us 🙄

for @windbrook Slashed challenge

kinda close up below 🤡

#windbrookslashed #ts4 simblr #tw blood #every time something happens these two are never present 😪 #you guessed it! That's Jaycee's blood on Danika's hands #the body's already been moved sadly and the blood doesn't exactly smell like blood after its been uk changed ig #you'd be surprised how many twins i've got in this save #Deanni is the older one #oc: deanni fillious #oc: danika fillious

[victorluvsalice]

-->And then – party time! Smiler’s guests began arriving, starting with Cameron Fletcher and Myra Basu – I put them in Smiler’s group and had them follow them upstairs to keep them out of the way while Victor continued his clean-up. A clean-up made a little more difficult by the next guests to arrive – Brian Pimental (aka the local NAP inspector) was no issue, but Cletus ForgotHisLastName decided to kick over the trash can outside the house before I could get him into the group and direct him upstairs to start dancing to the radio! Hmph! Well, Victor got rummaging as I wrangled the guests –

-->But oh, what was this? A notification that Alice had gotten to Fitness Level 8 on her jog with Shadow, thus completing an aspirational milestone (in fact, straight-up completing the ASPIRATION – Alice now has the “Professorial” trait from Renaissance Sim and can write her own skill books!) and thus her New Year’s Resolution! :D That brought the trio as a whole to two out of three completed! Granted, I didn’t manage to get a shot of Alice actually celebrating completing her resolution because her jog with Shadow was being glitchy (Shadow was doing that thing again where dogs just run ahead for miles and miles in a straight line heedless of obstacles, and Alice kept switching outfits because the game WANTED to put her in her “White Rabbit” party outfit, but she wasn’t technically AT the party, she was in the middle of a jog, so she eventually ended up in just her regular blue Alice dress once I managed to cancel the jog), but I did get a shot of her looking pretty smug in her White Rabbit dress jogging along with Shadow, so I think that’ll do. XD

-->Okay, so Victor and Alice were all set with their New Year’s resolutions – that just left Smiler’s to complete, and that meant throwing a good party! I managed to get Smiler and all their guests up in the party barn area, dancing to the radio, then had Smiler unleash their Party Time party-bot for some extra party vibes. :D They then tried chatting with Cameron (who was not interested in hearing about lycanthropy, it seems) while Victor, done rummaging through the trash, reset the trash can and headed up to the barn to get a chocolate cupcake from Party Time, while Alice and Shadow arrived home, and Alice changed into one of her other party dresses to join the fun.

Leaving her standing in a pile of discarded clothes. Whoops – looks like the family left the laundry for a little too long! XD I resolved not to think about it for the time being and sent her to go join the dancing as Smiler let off a burst of happiness to ensure all their guests were in good moods (like YOU, Cletus) –

-->And then Myra and Cameron wandered off, and local townie Roxanne (who the game has decided is the Valicer farmhouse’s “neighbor”) showed up saying she’d brought a present! Curious, I had Smiler go over to invite her in (bringing some of their guests with them) – things were made a little more complicated by the appearance of specters at the front door, which seemed to temporarily break the whole “handing over the gift” interaction, but she eventually gave Smiler her present – an apple! Which, okay, we have plenty of those, but it’s the thought that counts. XD Smiler accepted it with good grace, and the two became good friends, aww. I was ready to have Smiler chat her up in hopes of getting some plasma off her too –

#sims 4 #the lazy save #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler always #seriously Cletus what the hell #I invited you because I thought Smiler missed hanging out with you in college #now I'm starting to doubt that #damn trash can kickers #on the other hand Alice jogging along in her Late But Lucky outfit is very amusing to me #and honestly very appropriate given it's an outfit based on Rabbit #he'd appreciate her going for a nice run in it I think! #and I just realized that Brian is in fact wearing some of the pants I downloaded #the one from the 'pride flag colors' set #so that's cool :) #even if they don't match his top at ALL #townie fashion everyone XD #and yeah I was a little annoyed that the specters seemed to break the present-giving interaction at first #living in a haunted house can be interesting but also very frustrating #but as previously stated I am committed to the bit #so unless they move the haunts are staying #I pretty much know how to deal with them now so #not a HUGE deal #queued

[worstloki]

if you can gush constantly about enjoying a piece of media but diss the idea of people disliking the same thing unless/even though they provide detailed reasoning or proof with citations... idk I feel like you need to reassess something

#''how can you hate on--'' it is a movie! and even worse - a marvel movie! and yet more even it's biggest crime yet - it is a terrible one ! #it makes no pretense of consistency with the rest of the 'cinematic' universe it alleges to come from ! #the character acts like nothing of itself in the previous movie appeared in ! #there is no character arc nor development of any character save for in the villain's final breaths ! the flimsy morality of such regret ! #the humour is subpar in that it is reliant on gags - a cheap and desperate tactic to make weak comedy appear stronger ! #for all that it speaks of love and grief the writing is poor and smart decent lines do not fit the context they are spoken in ! #nor the characters speaking them thematically ! #there is either too much unexplained occurring or nothing taking up too much time. this pacing and convenient exposition is bland ! #final denouement carries little to no weight ! #fight scenes are badly choreographed despite the genre + there is dubious camerawork in play on top of it which further breaks immersion ! #it seems unable to decide on the rules of the world it has itself established ! #ending cliffhangers can be good but in this instance feels as though done constantly solely to encourage watching the next product ! #character interactions leave much to be desired and motivation to move the story forward tend to be convoluted at best ! #what was once original characterization built on relevant events to flesh the character feels generic by both writing and presentation ! #outfits make no attempt to look like they're authentic materials (plastic? :/ ?) and the CGI is problematically attained AND poor quality ! #the 'inspiration' drawn from comic religious and myth source material is either offensive meaningless easter eggs or both ! #maybe the move was generic and formulaic and difficult to follow along without other pieces of media and boring to top it off ! #someone out there seems to believe sexualizing the men is a solution ! #characters I have interest in were sidelined or mistreated by the narrative ! #racist casting/roles have been given and the product did not reflect how it was advertised ! #maybe............. someone simply did not have fun watching it .......................... has that been.........considered................? #L + based + ratio + Ctrl+Z + must I say more? #no one owes anyone an explanation to their enjoyment or lack thereof of a piece of media and shouldn't be insulted for it smh #now if someone gives reasons and THOSE are dodge... but no this isn't about that. another time then

[shorthaltsjester]

oh ashton. oh imogen. oh ashton. oh imogen. they. they.

#no man but like #imogen and ashton’s interactions always fuel me #because of what they Understand about one another but also what they Can’t understand about each other #imogen being so focused on Repair and ashton so focused on Moving Forward #and it’s Both it’s Both true change is Both #and that coming out in their like. not Quite butting heads that keeps happening in laudna’s Notdeath #ashton staying in this Past visage to tell Laudna what isn’t real and that everything hurts but the implicit that pain is Being A Person #and imogen letting go of the we can save this child who will one day become laudna #to fight against the Current and Present torment that delilah is inflicting on laudna #ashton greymoore #imogen temult #cr3 #critical role #cr spoilers #ashton & imogen

[tigergendermoved]

I'm ngl the longer it's been since I've played TOTK the less I like it I think

#do not get me wrong i think the game is fun to play and that was like 80% of where my concern lied #but godddd the story sucks so bad. i love the draconification bit with zelda but the rest. augh #why do we need Another ancient civilization literally appearing out of nowhere and infesting hyrule with its ruins #they got rid of all the sheikah stuff with literally no explanation to shove the zonai into the region #but why are we even focusing on the ancient civilizations again???? #it would have made so much more sense to focus on hyrule in the present day. work with the npcs to make hyrule greater than it was #move on from the calamity and turn hyrule into a strong bustling country #the zonai were hinted at in botw but they feel so shoehorned in because they have nothing to do with anything in botw #i dont care about the secret stones we had champion abilities #i dont care about the sages the champion descendants had the champions to look up to #i dont care about rauru and sonia because sonia got fridged hard and rauru's character is flat. pleasant but flat #and i dont care at all about ganondorf because the most interesting thing he ever does is do the gmod face #its so frustrating watching the same 'woah secret stones! sages??' cutscene 4 times with Da New Sages and its so frustrating #watching the other characters speculate what happened to zelda and chase down her ghostly paper trail #when like. i can see her in the sky. she's over there guys #the memories were one of my favorite things in botw bc they all subtly stitched together the story of what happened #in totk they are incredibly plot dense and very linear and very confusing to watch out of order. which is easy to do #the one where sonia gets murked is like. the third memory i found #id at least be more interested in all the zonai stuff if link was the one to get teleported to the past while zelda has to try and save him #giving zelda agency. craziest thing they could have done #ok sorry this is a Lot of salt but just. raaaaagh #maybe my expectations were astronomical but outside of gameplay totk brings nothing good to the table imo #i'd significantly rather they made botw2 more gameplay focused where you can do something like make meaningful changes to the map #tarrey town style #than try to shove a whole different zelda game's plot into a carefully constructed preexisting world #i think the zonai story would be cool in its own game but not botw

[thepavementsings]

#sorry in advance to baking-soda for butchering her wonderful verse #i was listening to this on a walk with my dog thinking about TURNED INTO A GIRL ALEX #it happens at the end of the 2020 season. #He calls george. trying to joke about it #'Its barely the worst thing thats happened to me this month. adding it to the tally eh george?' #but george can hear the fear and hesitation nestled behind the exasperated laugh he lets out #So george offers. He can talk to Lewis for Alex. If he wants. He's helped - well he knows about this stuff- george has heard. #alex's shaky smile on the other screen as he breathes out a thanks is enough for George to push through the trepidation as he makes the call #Of course Lewis tells him everything #but george cant hear 'emotionally meaningful' and 'sex' and 'alex' in the same sentence without feeling like his chest is being hollowed out #so he lies. says Lewis told him it has to do with life stressors. tries to ignore how his skin crawls when he suggests it to Alex #that he should see if Max is in Monaco. Swallows thickly around the sound of 'you know because of your seat' #Alex laughs unkindly. 'right. because of the seat. guess i'll try him before i leave.' #before he packs his bags and his dreams and moves back home to england. back to me. george thinks #he doesnt see alex over the winter. pretends it's because he's busy with family and training and a mercedes seat he's vying for. #it isnt until he's walking past the red bull hospitality in Spain the next spring when he sees it #Alex. standing in the doorway just tucked out of the way. arm stretched over his head to holding the frame. #he looks the same. save for the way his red bull shirt hugs his chest tighter. the puffiness of his cheeks more present #he catches george's eye from where he's been standing. nods him to the space between the buildings #his shoulders are drawn up. hands in his pockets when he shoves lightly into george's side #george's mouth feels dry with the words 'you didn't.. it didn't work?' #theres an anger that flashes behind alex's eyes before it's quickly replaced with a familiar bemusement #'no. guess you cant fuck the girl out of red bull but cant fuck the red bull out of the girl.' but theres no heat behind it #'hey. it could be worse. at least i dont have to be out there doing media with the rest of you idiots' #george barely makes it back to his motorhome before he heaves up whats left of his breakfast #there's more but only so much fits in the tags. sorry again. #george/alex