#playing a dangerous game this one

[idrellegames]

“I’ll speak plainly then, Wayfarer. The Council of Mages is corrupt. A schism has formed, splitting the Guild into factions. Though outwardly we pretend to be united, internally we are divided, and those divisions grow more desperate by the day. Archsages, savants, Guild masters… it doesn’t matter the rank, sworn loyalties and long-standing allegiances are abandoned and raked through the mud. “The Guild is at war with itself and Velantis is the battleground. Those who seek dominion over the Guild will stop at nothing in their pursuit of power, foraying into the depths of forbidden magic, caring nothing for the lives they destroy. If this hidden war is not stopped, Velantis will meet a desperate and bloody end.”

Zenaida Anaxas is the only child of Sophia Anaxas, the Archon of Velantis, and her consort, Sandro. Born to a life of privilege, Zenaida had the world at her fingertips. As she has no siblings, she was her mother’s sole heir and she began training to inherit her duties at a young age. However, she had no interest in politics and quickly began to resent the pressure placed on her by her mother and her House.

Her powerful capacity for Preservation magic made her a desirable recruit for the Guild of Mages. Seeking an alternative to the life she was born into, Zenaida accepted an offer to train and study at Diradan Tower, much to her mother’s horror. She excelled in her studies and rapidly climbed through the ranks, eventually obtaining the position of savant.

Zenaida maintains a close bond with the Markal twins, Nova (a fellow savant) and Malsara (her bodyguard and lover). She has never supported Sabien Quirinus’s ideologies. Her fears of where he could lead the Guild eventually led her to join the Order of Lethalis.

Artwork by @harumeau

#thank you so much for drawing zenaida!! 💗 #i love her to bits #this is such a gorgeous portrait! #i love her so much but she's probably going to get herself into trouble 🤣 #playing a dangerous game this one #wayfarer #wayfarer if #wayfarer art #zenaida anaxas #wayfarer characters #zenaida art #official art #official portrait #gallery

[norrisleclercf1]

Back off sir

#i am for lando but damn you #playing a dangerous game #f1 #formula 1 #f1 fandom #formula one #oscar piastri

[spitblaze]

in case ur having trouble figuring out why using a news article of a singular person who happens to be a minority who did something really bad isnt good proof that the entire minority is evil. allow me to explain by way of this xkcd comic

#spitblaze says things #i just. do not know where tr/-anspho/-bes get off #posting one(1) article of some transfem lady who did something horrendously shitty #and then go 'well clearly this is how all of them are #thats a lie. i know how. its confirmation bias #if you gather enough individual news articles you could convince anyone of anything probably #every time i see te/-rfs doing that i wanna go 'ooh i can play this game too!' #and then post a bunch of articles of people getting killed by vending machines and drawing the conclusion #that vending machines are dangerous killers and we cant have them anywhere near children lest they turn into one themselves

[daily-hanamura]

#p4g #persona 4 golden #p4 #persona 4 #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #ok ok this scene gets to me so bad actually #because yes on the one hand hes playing up that big brother role again #reminding kanji of HIS role as nanako's big brother as well #but its also reminiscent of yosuke's tendency to hide his own sadness and put up a front for others so they wouldnt catch on #i think in this moment its not necessarily a bad thing and yosuke was kind of right (imo anyway) #keeping their spirits high would be a more comforting sight for nanako #who wouldnt want to see them worried #i think its such a strong reflection of yosuke's consideration towards others #part of me is like yes kanji is the one that said it but hes just voicing what everyone else was also thinking in that moment #and yosukes response isnt just for kanji but also for the team and esp Yu #because of them all Yu is the one that undoubtedly looked most heartbroken considering how protectice he was of nanako #even though we cant really see it in game it's very clear how his reaction is like in p4u when he thought nanako might be in danger #anyway yu didnt have a speaking line in this scene so i could be delulu but im pretty sure it was about him as well #he's good with his queue

[nocturnalnewsiestrash]

There are two types of Bottoms (2023) rewatches (for me at least)

Or

#lets play a game of guess which one i am in tonight 🥹 #spoiler its not the first one #isokay though im managing it well *well being a relative term for my usual amount of my panic attack management system #bottoms 2023 #bottoms movie #the amount of giggly smiling tricks my brain into thinking we're actually feeling happy and in a giggly mood #and the unhingedness gives my empathetic nervous system a chance to redirect its focus onto THEIR issues instead of #mine and then suddenly my brain has realized we're not in immediate danger #and boom we've got a perfect panic disorder management strategy for me #the other type of rewatch is also very fun. trust. Especially when I'm introducing it to my other sapphic friends. so much glee #and unintelligible thoughts. giggly unintelligible thoughts #anyhoo here you all go :))

[sunbloomdew]

the void is speaking to me. i feel it in my bones...... i am once again falling down the dating sims and visual novels hole.

it's only a matter of time before i download mystic messenger again

#pls it's all bc of touchstarved and ITS NOT EVEN OUT YET #touchstarved #mystic messenger #my candy love #dangerous fellows #cinderella phenomenon #pls i used to download so many crappy datings sims on my phone #the type where you have to pay diamonds to make the correct choice lmao #i don't even care about romance that much #i just like different characters and settings 😫 #there was this one game #where the mc was named sera-abigail and her nickname was sebby #it was neat but i don't remember the name #anyway i love stories #sunbloom talks #gaming #error143 #blooming panic #i just played those two and omg #good shit #gamer hours #<3

[horridgoblin]

i may or may not have bought one of the gale magic the gathering cards. never played it in my life, i just wanted a pretty picture of the pretty wizard for the back of my phone. also i had a kpop photocard on the back before this and it's the exact same energy

#i was tempted to buy the other gale cards but i just got the waterdeep prodigy card #there were holographic ones too #but i quickly wouldve spent a ridiculous amount of money for cards of a game i don't play #or intend on playing anytime soon #i was super tempted to get the iconic astarions thirst card #but again. dangerous trap of spending way outside of my means lmao #gobchats #gale dekarios #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #secret final tag: do any of you lovely fellow galemancers enjoy shinee? best kpop band of all time

[ijustloveobeymeok]

Simeon: You killed them!?

Belphegor: Actually, I believe they died of natural causes

Solomon, checking the body: knife to the neck

Simeon: I thought you said they died of natural causes

Belphegor: There's nothing more natural than dying from knife to neck

Satan, nodding: What would be unnatural is if they had survived

#obey me shall we date #obey me #headcanon: belphegor and satan have an ongoing challenge of who can come up with the more dangerous game #and once they come up with one everyone in their surrounding usually ends up having to play #all individuals live in fear #the games almost always ends with lucifer having to break it up #they have single handedly increased the statistics of demons needing therapy #their favorite so far is a hopscotch game where each number one lands on has a game of life or death #created by satan #obey me headcanons #obey me incorrect quotes #obey me! #obey me brothers #obey me satan #obey me belphegor

[haveyouplayedthisgame]

No Man's Sky

#this is the other one i was waiting for YIPPEEEEE #this game has had a few diff versions of box art and i dont think this is the current one anymore? #or at least not the new cover art on xbox and steam(?) and such since that changed with the last update #(i assume it changed on steam idk i play on xbox) #but like. perhaps i'll get shot 47 times for this but the original box art is i think my favorite iteration of this game's art #like. the current ones are great. but the original one could make me cry #like the new ones are a way better representation of the current game which i think is important #considering how different it is from launch. it gives off more 'woaahh cool space adventure!!! look at all this neat stuff!!!!' #the original is like 'i am the beauty and fragility of the universe. the serenity and danger and loneliness of the unfamiliar. bask in it' #'bask in it. bitch' #i think its the pink grass teal sky color combo tbh

[blue-banana-the-first]

Annabeth Determined The Outcome of the Prophecy in the Last Olympian

I'll insert the prophecy real quick so I can talk about it,

"A Halfblood Of the eldest gods shall reach sixteen against all odds, and see the world in endless sleep. The hero's soul cursed blade shall reap. a single choice shall end his days, Olympus to preserve or raze"

ok, now that we're caught up on that let's talk;

the first two lines are pretty simple and straight forwards in a way, it doesn't mention who the halfblood is as it takes account that it would depend on who survives and so on (the only thing consistent with the timeline that Rick did was make sure Jason and Hazel were both younger than Percy in HOO)

The third line also goes with Percy so far, so no need to talk more about it.

the fourth to sixth line though are different stories,

it mentions that a hero will die but never mentions who right? i wanna talk about it , in the second book we know Percy claims the prophecy for himself, and that's what's usually talked about, but i wanna focus on Annabeth.

In that same book Chiron makes Annabeth swear on the river Styx to protect Percy, we know that anything related to the Styx is also directly related to the fates.

trust the process please cause I promise this is kinda going somewhere.

in the battle of the labyrinth Pan tells Annabeth that she has an important role, just not in the way she thinks.

then in the fifth book Percy dips into the Styx, gets the Achilles heel, imagining Annabeth, which is romantic but also correlates with Annabeth swearing on that same river to protect him as if a subconscious part of her was also protecting him so he can survive the river, like the river was just using her promise to protect him.

the fates were really pulling all the romantic strings to save Olympus

kinda ironic cause they gave out this prophecy in the first place

In the Last Olympian, two cursed blades attack Luke and Percy, the Scythe for Percy and the Dagger Luke gave Annabeth which is cursed with a broken promise and all that angsty poetic stuff.

Guess who makes the decision tho?

Annabeth, she decided who the hero is

she took that knife for Percy, because she felt like he was in danger, we talk about that being because she's his mortal tether, but i also think it has to do with her swearing on the river to protect him.

River Styx was their main shipper and I will die on that hill.

Annabeth saved Percy due to her promise, and let Luke die with his broken one (somewhat of a deep quote right?), Annabeth's role has been to decide who the hero is and I can't get over that.

The single choice she made to save Percy or not was the deciding factor in this war.

Either Luke or Percy was going to die by a cursed blade, you can also say that in a way Chiron also had a hand in it, making her swear on the river.

but it just blew my mind, Percy's existence brought the world to its near end while hers saved it

ofcourse that is not 100% accurate but for the sake of it sounding tumblr level poetic it is

idk if you all already made this conclusion a while ago and i'm just slow, but even if i just think that this series was just so beautifully tied together, and Annabeth is so valid for this, emotional, nerdy, literal puppy (not all puppies are overly enthusiastic creatures ) with so much live to give, saved the world with the power of love ( and a childhood crush)

She literally deserves so much, i also wanna talk about Aphrodite in a future post

#percy jackson #annabeth chase #annabeth is a hero #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #the last olympian #tlo #Pan was right #that's prolly why hermes was salty #athena is a loser for thinking percy was a danger #without percy someoe else would've been the hero #annabeth would've chosen luke and the universe would go boom boom #the fates were really playing the long game with this one #does that mean aphrodite also saved the day?? #i'll say that the ares fight was just Ares being a wingman to show Annie Percy's potential to make her swoon and save the world #like leave the blond for the black-haired hottie like the rest of us bestie #Chiron knew what's up #literary analysis #media analysis #theory #enough tags? #i hope my tags are halfway iconic cause that's a dream of mine

[extantformoflife]

moria: i crave.. .the most dangerous game… . . luffy, nodding sagely: knife monopoly moria: well i was gonna hunt and kill you for sport but now i wanna know what knife monopoly is

#one piece #extanttalks #monkey d luffy #gecko moria #thriller bark #PLEASE NO SPOILERS I HAVE JUST STARTED THRILLER BARK #might. draw this later. bc it amuses me. #i know it is not in character at all but it was the first thing that came to my mind when they started talking about the Night Hunt #theyre really out here playing the most dangerous game (knife monopoly) #incorrect quotes #i am sure this is not the first time this joke has been told but it amuses me

[wormsermonizer]

baby sitting is harder than killing 100000000000 dragons

#one of my favorite quests in dragons dogma #i think its funny u gotta babysit this very bratty rich child and have to take her to the market & get her water & play games with her #it stands out 4 obvious reasons cause no monster killing or real danger other than accidentally pissing off the Rudest Kid in gran soren #dragons dogma tag

[streamsofstardust]

this is fine I'm fine everything is fine

#i need him to look at me like this #but i also know if he did i would collapse #it's a dangerous game but one I'm willing to play #danny wagner is my boyfriend!! and i love him!!! #gvf #greta van fleet #gretavanfleet #danny gvf #danny wagner

[ladykissingfish]

Deidara: Hey, Danna … wanna play a game?

Sasori: What sort of game?

Deidara: *holds up a thing of pocky sticks* This, hm!

Sasori: How is that a game? It’s food, and in case you’ve forgotten, I don’t eat.

Deidara: That’s not really the point, though. We each put one end on our mouths and nibble. We see how close we can come to touching lips without actually touching lips, hm. Whoever breaks off their end first, loses.

Sasori: … you mean like a kiss?

Deidara: Yeah. *holds up one pocky stick* What’s wrong? Not up for the challenge?

Sasori:

Sasori: *takes the stick from Deidara, snaps it in half, pulls Deidara into his arm, dips him backwards, and kisses his lips*

Sasori, softly: Oh, no; I lost.

Deidara:

Deidara: *shakily holds up another stick* B-best two out of three?

Sasori: *cups Deidara’s chin* Looks like I’m about to have a losing streak …

Tobi, busy killing the nin they were sent to eliminate: *cries in third wheel*

#sasodei #sasori x deidara #sasori #deidara #tobi #pocky sticks #there’s never a wrong time to play the Pocky game #even on a dangerous mission surrounded by the enemy #also another reason in a long list of reasons why NO ONE wants to be assigned to 3-man teams with them 🙃 #❤️💛

[reel-fear]

Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.

For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.

I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.

When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!

And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.

"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.

"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.

"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.

Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?

At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.

I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?

I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.

I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.

Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.

#feel free to reblog but Im not gonna tag this its way too rambley at least for my taste to go in the main tags #ramblez #also man can I say I didnt want to make this post super long but theres so many other points I could make in poppys favor #the fact we got to see the hour of joy and it was terrifying we dont even know if joey actually killed anyone anymore #the gameplay itself is more diverse and fun then batim which is a walking simulator that pretends to have fighting n stealth mechanics #at least Poppy n Missys friendship gives u a reason to care for missys safety before shes put in danger #Missy can actually express unlike Boris who sits there looking cute with no proper expressions until he gets yoinked and ur supposed to car #bc he was uh adorable? And therefore you spend an entire chapter tryna get him and get an extremely bad boss fight in return- #also soundtrack wise I like poppys tracks more theyre unique and fun and you can tell which part of the game they come from #bendy has so many dramatic reveal stingers and tracks that are really hard to tell which part of the game they come from #bertrums boss fight has my favorite theme bc its so specifically crafted for him and unique and meanwhile Norman has one of the worst imo #a lot of Bendys soundtrack if I played it for you right now it would be hard to guess where its from bc it all kinda sounds the same #the reveal music for the machine for bendy land for heavenly toys for alices domain all sound the same x_x #its just so frustrating but yeah my point is can we all stop making up new reasons to shit on poppy playtime its just kinda dumb #it feels less like actual criticism and at this point just feels like elaborate justification for cringe culture which I hate #okay thats it bye sorry this is 10 pages long-

[invinciblerodent]

himh I'll make a Dark Urge that's so fucking scared

big scary bloodsoaked killer, tearing through armies with her literal bare hands? nah. a quiet, scared girl who doesn't understand why she does what she does, why she can do what she can, but is, at the same time, deeply disgusted by herself because she has just enough self-awareness to know to be repulsed.

maybe it's because I'm a tiny bit obsessed with clinging to the thought that people, at the end of the day, are fundamentally good, no matter what. that there is a fundamental human goodness in all people that makes them worthy of redemption, or at least of the opportunity for atonement.

maybe the way I want to play a story like that is with someone who, stripped from indoctrination and free for the first time to think for herself and embrace and be who she is, finds that in the deepest, most hidden pits of her soul, she is not the strong, kind, resilient person she might want to be. try as the might, she is not someone who can bear the weight of her own past, she's just a... a terrified, broken little girl, cowering in the shadows and unable to look herself in the eye. (which also gives me ideas for her relationship with Orin but that's a little bit beside the point)

cathartic self-insert who. therapy? what is that. is it on Steam or Epic.

#video games are cheaper than therapy i know from experience #squirrel plays bg3 #oc: mara #watching my partner play his durge last night i had Thoughts #so far i'm thinking that this intense fear will be what initially draws my girl to Karlach #because karlach is so.... bright. and exuberant. and even chivalrous in her way #she's so LOUDLY good that her presence is louder than even the fear and... there is something really sweet about that #it'll be a bit of a change of pace for me to REALLY lean into playing a character who... isn't a protector in any way #someone who doesn't put their feelings last #not even out of pure obligation or self-preservation #but rather they are someone who NEEDS comfort and protection #and at the same time IS the danger itself yknow #(my default boys Arvid and Ray are sort of different flavors of a “kinght” archetype) #(the former is the “courage is overcoming fear”-type) #(the latter is the “fate's puppet; thrown at ever-increasing horrors until one finally kills him [and maybe he'll even welcome that]” type) #(Iona may be the most emotionally intelligent but she is in survival mode for a long time which complicates things) #(Petyr is selfish and kinda.... phlegmatic; performatively indifferent until he's yanked from it) #(but Mara will be... feeling ALL of her feelings. and I think Karlach will make her feel the closest to what she can think of as “normal”) #(there's perpetrator guilt. and shame. and fear. disgust at her own urges. intrusive thoughts and bodily reactions that disturb her.) #(i think she'll be pretty fascinating to play) #(holy tag novel dang)