#not sure that was successful though….

[junmign0n]

she can make me worse

#disco elysium #disco elysium fanart #klaasje amandou #klaasje disco elysium #she’s my muse #I love her #also I tried something new with my colour process #not sure that was successful though…. #oh well

[petersthree]

I love when tragedies are like... (in/sp)

#successionedit #succession #successiondaily #useroli #useraudrey2 #tuserlena #tuserdi #usernicolee #tuserbeth #angelspotlight #userbrina #userahay #userlex #kendall roy #shiv roy #roman roy #janie makes stuff #*gifs #(decided to keep roman in that /didn't save anyone/ even though i'm not sure about it #bc he's out of his cage but what does he /have/ who does he have who's in his corner? he's a freed dog but #maybe in the way that colin is or maybe he's a repeat of ewan - or maybe he'll get better we don't know! but #the potential for hope or tragedy is equally likely despite his smile) #succession spoilers

[waystarresourceco]

Jesse explaining that although all three boys generally experienced the same physical abuse, Roman has internalized his experience as a victim in a different way than Kendall and Connor.   

“I would suggest Logan would have cuffed and hit all the boys at different times in their lives.  I think the difference for Roman maybe is that he feels like he was bullied in the domestic environment and so we can all react to things in different ways. I think Connor and Kendall probably have experienced that and have managed to accommodate it without it being a big part of their psychology whereas I think Roman being that beaten dog and being - there’s often a dynamic isn’t there with bullied people as sort of needing the feeling of negative attention that you get from that and I think he’s become, not addicted to it, but related to it.” 

Excerpt from Firecrotch and Normcore: They Like to Watch (recorded at Edinburgh Fringe Festival) – Aug. 29, 2023

#I haven’t seen it circulate tumblr so I’m not sure how popular this take is here #but I think it fits when you think about Austerlitz and the scripts from The Disruptor and Honeymoon States #I really do wonder so much about Connor’s childhood though #like what on Earth went on in that house while Logan was on his way up #I can see it being both worse and better because on the one hand there’s no one watching but on the other hand…there’s no one watching #Man I wish we had more Connor lore #also endlessly fascinated by Roman’s victim complex #roman roy #kendall roy #logan roy #connor roy #hbo succession #jesse armstrong #cw abuse #cw parental abuse #cw physical abuse

[tricoufamily]

1st draft of some ocs i've been thinking about writing or doing some art of. 1920s. moderately religious professor/single father and his very sickly from birth son. things start getting really bad for the son. he's going to die, and nothing can save him. dad goes crazy and becomes a serial killer for human parts to make these black magic remedies that keep him alive.

#i haven't been happy w a single sim i've made in weeks his son is cute but that doesn't count that's just genetics and skin details #but i think he's getting there kinda. this is actually attempt FOUR to make him #and i'm still just not sure. i did want him to look as corpse like as possible and at least that was successful #anyway this would slap so hard as a webcomic FUCK. someone else make it for me #their last name is graves and his son's first name is sidney #i have irving as a placeholder first name but i'm not sure. though usually when i do a placeholder name....that's their name forever #ts4 #ts4 cas #the sims 4 #irving #sidney

[xlillyle]

"We can delay the mission for another two minutes."

#crossposting from twitter #i really liked the post and i am obsessed with my own answer for it #so im posting it here too #first i wanted to use the i used corruption because i trusted you line #or of course you used corruption believing in me is a classic too #someone else did the latter already though on twt #anyways i ended up remembering this moment and went insane and posted it #wdym Dazai canonically said the end of the world can wait two minutes #just so Chuuya can have a real CHOICE #and he planned for an alternative too!! or well he was trying to #because he wanted to give him a REAL CHOICE #thinking about the lovecraft chapter and chuuya saying whenever Dazai says its his choice its not actually his #stopped typing here bc i went to discuss with Ray my thoughts about if Dazai leaves him a genuine choice every time and if Chuuya knows #came to the conclusion that Chuuya thinks its the illusion of a choice even though it isnt #the backup plan might be crazy and not as successful as a corruption plan would be but Dazai for sure always has one #nobody can convince me otherwise #uh ok this was a lot of rambling coughs #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #skk #dazai osamu #bsd #chuuya nakahara #bsd skk #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd stormbringer #xlillyle bsd threads

[winepresswrath]

hi! i always love your MDZS/CQL takes; can i ask what are the questions you think CQL is asking, as compared to MDZS?

I haven't actually revisited either canon in ages, which is making me nervous. what questions the novel is interested in can be pretty contentious all on its own! @mikkeneko has an excellent answer in the notes here which I reccomend to everyone. My own thoughts are honestly pretty scattered- I keep on deleting things and going hm, that's not quite right.

So, for the obvious-to-me example, people reasonably zero in on the creation of innocent doctors/radish farmers who Wen Ruohan is holding hostage. In CQL it's easy to infer that Wen Qing and Wen Ning are maybe the only cultivators and almost certainly the only combatants among the Wen remnants, and their status is much more ambiguous in the novel, which I personally think is asking, essentially, "and so what? were they wrong to run, when they had a chance? Do they deserve what Jin Guangshan will do to them if they go back? Aren't they just people, actually?" Whereas the question that CQL is asking is more to the effect of "What does Wen Qing owe these people, when she is their only defence? What is she entitled to do to save them, at other people's expense? If she fucks up that moral calculus, what then? Does it matter if she's personally fond of some of the outsiders who are going to get hurt? If one of them saved her brother? Later, this question will flip to what Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng, and the parallel to Jiang Cheng's situation in particular is, I think, genuinely pretty fun. You're giving up the Wen as soldiers who've laid down their arms in exchange for Wen Qing also grappling with leadership and the question of how many horrors she can stand to look the other way on to protect her own people. one reason I keep deleting so much is that a lot cql's changes were motivated at least in part by censorship, which I think we mostly share a general and justified distaste for! but I also think that within the bounds of that censorship the creative team put a lot of work into actually doing something interesting with those changes. Or, for another example- nieyao! There's a much greater emphasis on the nmj-jgy relationship, it's unambiguously very close and they are clearly extremely important to one another, and I think that's because the cql team has a lot to say about love, trust, power, and the ways those things interact, and that reflects back on all of the other relationships in play, including Wangxian. Almost every time, when CQL chooses change a relationship they make the characters in question closer- that's true for Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji, for Wen Qing and the Yunmeng contingent, for Zixuan and Mianmian, and Huaisang and Meng Yao. It's even true for Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian, who have a close and trusting relationship in first life! CQL puts a much greater emphasis on "all right, so you care, what next?" How do you choose someone and then choose to be good to them? What if there's a massive power disparity between you? What if you seriously disagree about your priorities and morals? How do you trust someone who's betrayed you? When is it a stupid choice to trust at all? How do you have faith that you know someone well enough for that trust to be meaningful?

for legal reasons i would like to specify that it's not that mdzs isn't interested in these problems. i do remember wangxian's literal trust fall. cql is asking these questions all the time about everyone. also for legal purposes i'm not suggesting that cql lwj and jc love each other. but! they establish a three month wartime partnership looking for wwx and then jc immediately drops him on wwx's say-so despite apparently having a positive enough opinion of him to tell wwx he thinks they should make up twice. lan wangji will later tell wwx he thinks he should loop jc in on the second flautist! these are people trying to navigate some kind of relationship/shared interest/community, as opposed to a hateful void. cql wants to say hey, how do you go about this? while I'm here and rambling cql also puts a lot of emphasis on wwx's connection to yunmeng and changes things up so instead of feeling alienated right before he leaves our last glimpse of him there is happily picking lotuses and playing with a kid! in both stories the narrative is asking who do you protect? who do you leave behind? can you ever get it back? but the angles are very different.

#why are there so many people who simultaneously argue that cql dumbs down mdzs and also that mdzs is the slow reveal of how wwx is a #perfect angel who has never done anything wrong in his life #being let down by everyone around him #surely you have to pick an option #but lan wangji and wei wuxian being close friends in the first life really does change everything #i have seen people (reasonably) be annoyed with this as an adaptation choice #but! i like this change a lot and i think they do interesting things with it #There's still a lot of emphasis on what makes them so particularly perfect for each other but imo moving Lan Wangji into the category of #people wwx loved in the first life #shifts the focus from #when will they get together #to #What it would take and what would they have to do for these people to have to do to have a successful partnership? #If loving someone is the first step what comes next? Who do I want to be to the people around me? #i love the focus on wwx's trust issues as trust issues! problems that he's had with lwj specifically before! #and the solution isn't just oh well lwj is perfectly trustworthy #though that's obviously part of it #wwx has to like. decide for himself to do some things differently this time around in order to reap the rewards of being really in it with #someone. and lwj does too! it's a journey they're on together #i have simply rambled in all directions i'm sorry anon

[infamouslydorky]

Highly unpopular opinion: I don't hate Larry Butz

#aa #i understand the dislike though especially with how he was written #tbh i wish he was written as ''just a guy''. literally just 'the token straight' but without being a creep #sure he could be a flirt just leave the creep aspect out #and then he'd be perfectly compelling being just a dude who's a bit of a loser but somehow ends up a successful artist

[sysig]

Skelefam

Unfortunately, as much as I love this mod - I mean, it’s beautiful! Just look at it! - it does have a game-crashing bug D: For some reason skeletons can’t get jobs, it crashes the game lol, so as much as I’d love to have Gaster in the Science career, he is a stay-at-home parent! That’s fine, nannies suck in TS2 lol. There’s also only a few clothing options but I’m gonna try some poking around to at least expand upon what’s there already :D

I ended up using the stretchSkeleton cheat - hehe, skeleton - to make Papyrus a bit taller and Sans a bit smaller. It’s only really noticeable in their ankles, and their animations are a bit misaligned, but other than that it’s very cute! :D Sans is also chubby but it’s kinda hard to tell :0

Sans, stop breaking the fourth wall!

Look how little he is compared to his brother hehe

Also, and I did not edit or plan this - they naturally started falling into their relationship dynamics! Gaster and Sans have a much lower Short Term Relationship here than Gaster and Papyrus haha

Would that I could! I was still testing at this point and yup, it crashed. Sadge

Well even if I can’t get the jobs, I can still cheat-unlock the Career Awards! Scientist behaviour lol

Look at their delicate little haaands

Did you know that Gaster sucks? He does!

Oh what are skeletons not your type? Don’t be rude

Sans even rejected him when Gaster offered to dance together! I love them

Gaster’s POV - he was listening to Sans tell a joke and next in the queue Papyrus wanted to show off to him. So accurate haha

Papyrus’ POV, of course he’s friends with both of them, sweet boy

And Sans’, look at how much more he thinks of his brother over Gaster! What more could I ask for honestly

Only concerned with Gaster seeing lol, Papyrus is way closer! He doesn’t count haha

Racecar bed babyyyy

Retextured the outfit for Papyrus, so now they’re much easier to tell apart! :D

Crossover babies ♪ One of the Todds walked by and I just now realized I also gave them a red/blue twin aesthetic haha

And that’s all he’ll want and care about from now on :)

Hehe. He gets it!

Papyrus is bad at making friends! Sans there in the background passively ++ing with Todd lol, he’s a natural

#WPVG #WPTS2 #The Sims 2 #The Sims #UT #Handplates #Just a bit of silliness! There's only so much I can do with them until I get them some Slightly better clothes haha #You can see I didn't even bother making them a proper house in this lot lol #I also keep accidentally making just ''normal'' Sims in this town - this is meant to be a test town to see clothes and mods in action! #I have made a couple more skeletons dotted around town just to double-triple-quadruple check about getting jobs and yeahhh #One went so sideways that her house caught fire and she died so I had to reload - it was a whole thing lol #But other than the limited clothes and inability to hold down gainful employment - lol - skeletons seem to work just fine :) #Chubbiness on kids is like - barely different pft #There Is a difference but it's so subtle! I guess it's fine #I know there are ways to make specific outfits their own body shape mesh - I wonder if that would be easier or harder for skeletons haha #It's not like I'd be changing the body shape just the way the clothes settle around it #Though I think there is actually a ''physical'' body it's just invisible? It's very strange! I like it #ANYway lol #I did download a couple new coats to see if I could figure out how to reverse-engineer an outfit but so far no success haha #Gonna keep trying! Slowly but surely #Until then it's so fun to see how they all interact and act hehe <3 #Papyrus runs everywhere for example - I set his Active to full I think haha - Sans of course is lazy ♪ #I could also have babybones or teen skeles - maybe at some point! The clothes... #So much customizable potential and then all the work that goes into it! Haha ♪

[tearlessrain]

seriously can catastrophes stop happening for five minutes my brain is already fried from the ones we're already experiencing

#I fucking. missed d&d tonight by accident #I straight up forgot #and just didn't show up to the session #my sleep schedule is absolutely fucked #I should be sleeping now but brain won't shut up #my creative output is the lowest it's ever been and I've been in some level of depressive funk since like early january #I am just deeply unfathomably exhausted #like mentally and spiritually #all the time #my memory and sense of time are both shit #my spelling is worse than it used to be for some reason?? #I really don't know what to do to make my brain start functioning again it's frankly worrying me #I couldn't even handle college so it should come as no surprise that I'm reacting poorly to the world being a perpetual screaming trash fir #and yet #idk it's been hitting again lately that I have never succeeded at anything in my life and just keep tripping and falling up for some reason #fucking everyone is in hell right now and with my overall success rate I should be dead in a ditch but I'm actually doing spectacularly #due to a series of improbable accidents and weird circumstances that happened to turn out in my favor instead of completely fucking me #aside from the looming spectre of my various failed attempts to have some kind of life trajectory #it just doesn't feel like this can keep up forever #like surely at some point the luck has got to run out I can't just keep living like some kind of folkloric trickster archetype #but my motivation and sense of purpose kind of died after the last failed attempt so I'm still just here #doing whatever this is #maybe I should drive out to the coast #maybe staring at the ocean would fix me I've been away from it for too long #I mean it can't make me worse #I should wait until further into summer though so I don't have to drive back in the dark #everyone around here has trucks with those goddamn LED headlights and I've got a little sedan that's directly in their blast zone

[magnus-rhymes-with-swagness]

i swear i can feel this app disintegrating through my fingers

#when i try to send an ask it fails more often than not #reblogs fail about half the time too #today i reblogged something with tags but my reblog showed up as a semicolon in the body of the post that i definitely didn’t put there?? #the scrolling is all messed up #the people in my followers list keep switching positions for some reason #the ads are SO aggressive to the point that sometimes i get forced to the app store so many times in rapid succession that i can’t scroll #and this happens even though i don’t click on the ads #i can’t make my unrebloggable posts rebloggable 90% of the time #i’m pretty sure things are randomly disappearing from my queue #etc etc #is it the same for the rest of y’all or does tumblr just hate me dkdjdkfj #my words

[puhpandas]

playing bedwars is just as miserable as I remember

#ah yes lets go to the most competitive minecraft game with no rank or queue system #to put you in a game with people your skill level #at a time where school has let out #while youre sick and havent played in a year #im sure thatll be a good time #i won 1 game out of like 15 or something #i cant even play games longer than 1 minute😭 #i genuinely cant fathom why hypixel doesnt have a rank system for bedwars though. #like i know they can do it #theyre the most successful minecraft server ever #and bedwars has plenty of demand #i hate hypixel they do the bare minumum #pandas.txt

[radjerda]

The Premiere of Tron the Game at Flynn's Arcade - The First Guests Arrive

Photo by: Jordan Canas

#Tron #Tron 1982 #Alan Bradley #Lora Baines #Lora Baines-Bradley #Flynn's Arcade #Jordan Canas #Alan and Lora would be thrilled for the success of Flynn's new game #Alan may or may not have been bullied into wearing the arcade shirt though #He wants to support Flynn but he was comfortable in what he was wearing before thank you very much #He insisted the blazer was necessary-- it was too informal otherwise #(And also because he was probably just wearing his usual work clothes before this) #Jordan can and will make sure everyone gets nice photos taken at the event #She would be a good photographer #Tron: Photos from the Arcade #Radj Draws

[isfjmel-phleg]

🍽🍽🍽🍽

#random personal stuff #whining ahead feel free to ignore #Thursday nights used to be a lot of fun #somehow I feel like they've devolved into something stressful even though I don't think I'm doing anything different #I stress myself out making a full dinner for 3-4 people #try to convince the temperamental TV to stream our show #politely listen to conversations that are often hard to contribute to #wash a mountain of dishes after everyone goes #they always seem to have a good time! that's the important thing #not sure what MY problem is though #this should be a lot more fun than it has become #maybe I just have a bad attitude #the guests are happy and that's the point #it is my job to facilitate this get-together that we wouldn't be able to have otherwise and thereby provide social enrichment #it's successful it should feel more successful than it currently does #anyway enough of that good night everyone

[waystarresourceco]

Brian Cox on young Logan as a hopeful liberal who became a disillusioned romantic.

#the way Brian talks about Logan gets me #the thing is though I can kind of see it? #like I don't know if Logan was ever a capital L liberal but we are coming into the story when he's 80 #and I can't help but think about Ewan's eulogy and about how once Logan used to try and then he stopped (at least in Ewan's view) #for Logan though I'm not so sure it's that he stopped trying so much as it is the world kept letting him down #not sure if that made sense - still thinking through it all #logan roy #hbo succession #succession #cast interviews #brian cox

[thaliajoy-blog]

Like I'm sorry if "first born male gets to be heir" is unfair & terrible, narrowing it down to "first born child gets to be the heir" is kind of barely better in my book. That's still one hell of a coin toss. Aegon the Unworthy would still get to be king.

#asoiaf meta #dance of dragons #it's still fucked #doesnt mean you can't try though #if only we knew a little more about Dorne and its ruler's politics in relation to their gender equality rule in succession #pretty sure it's still kind of fucked though #monarchy sucks guys

[kendollroyco]

the fact that kendall seemed to be the only one actually trying to make connor feel better before mattson called him.....roman was doing his thing cracking mean-spirited jokes because he can't just be sincere, which made connor feel worse and shiv was either silent or dismissive??? yeah im fine im okay im fine

#maybe im stoned and misreading but i feel like kendall was definitely like.....leading the charge #even though they are all doomed i really do believe that kendall is the most emotionally intelligent #i feel like he is the most sensitive of all of them #yes he lacks self awareness and the bar is on the floor but #im not sure why this is but perhaps it's because when connor wasnt around he was the protector/'father' figure to his siblings #so he is used to doing that? #kendall roy #connor roy #roman roy #shiv roy #sucession spoilers #succession