#pretty sure it’s the player

[dilfcherricola]

I just got a new tape player and I found one of the mix tapes I made in like 2010 recorded from the radio and oh my god. First five songs so far are:

Just the way you are Bruno mars (missing the first 20 seconds and it has a little bit of the radio bumper tacked on the end)

Listen to your heart by dht (only the last chorus, with about 15 seconds of dj chatter)

Big girls don’t cry by fergie (actually got the whole thing! With 90 seconds of John Tesh talking about how more people need roommates now (2010) because of rising unemployment levels. And the start of the commercial break advertising a local self storage center. And fry’s electronics. And Lowe’s. And Rabo bank. I just recorded the entire commercial break. John tesh talking about the history of the ritz cracker.

Two princes by the spin doctors and another radio bumper.

Always be my baby by Mariah Carey

Also it sounds like it’s underwater so I have to find a real tape to see if it’s the tapes fault or my player

#pretty sure it’s the player #the left spinny thing doesn’t seem to be keeping the tension like it should #also I need to clean the head so bad. and the fast forward button doesn’t work so maybe I can work on that #shush up jj #mine

[akanemnon]

Oh snap! Is it Chara backstory time?

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

#undertale #deltarune #crossover #crossover comic #utdr #undertale fanart #deltarune fanart #twin runes #twin runes comic #my art #ralsei #chara #frisk #jeez chara #stop joking about your own death #that's not funny in the slighest #or is that your way of coping with your guilt? #Ralsei knows things that we also dooooo #he DOES know about the player #pretty sure he noticed the Player's disappearance is related to Frisk and/or Chara

[destiny-aesthetics]

Destiny 2 [Bungie] | Dreaming City (left) , Riven's Lair (right)

#destiny 2 #bungie #screens #If it is her weird version of the Dreaming City It makes sense #but I still feel like it's cheap out #I'm pretty sure the average player doesn't notice #I'm just one of the Gremlins that scours every nook and cranny of a map lol #so I noticed immediately

[mishapen-dear]

i love it when bad is very specifically a good roleplayer by giving other people good prompts. like casually bringing up wilbur now to tallulah. or when he put missa in the petting zoo. or all those times he Tormented the Lesbians so they could protect each other from him. its just so !!!! I love watching roleplayers be considerate of other roleplayers and gleefully hand over something they Know the other person's character can react to. i've seen cellbit do it, too (that time he handed his knife to bbh. oh my god). it's not a rare thing, and it's possible to be a good roleplayer without keeping that sort of considerate back and forth in mind, but its one of my favourite things to notice. foolish does it too, sometimes- i haven't watched him much, but i did take note of when he Made Sure to bring jaiden along with him on a cucurucho quest. and basically every interaction he had with bad when the eggs were missing. its just so so good

#i think one of the worst things that can happen to a roleplay is for the players to stop interacting with each others' storylines #roleplay is an incredible medium particularly because of that Collaboration and Improv #and if youre just standing around pushing your own story then yeah sure its fun #but its MAGICAL when people engage with it #and its MAGICAL to look at a story #go 'what if i. did something funny here' #and throw in a little wrench that lights a delighted FIRE in the other player's eyes because now they get to go on a rant #or take drastic measures #or just do something a little fun that they couldn't/wouldn't have without that prompting #its like when bad went around telling people he was imposing building laws on behalf of the feds and people were like #actively a little disappointed that it was just a prank and they couldn't go HAM #anyway i miss roleplay. #qsmp why would you make all these people live so far apart from each other </3 spawn is so uninhabitable there is nothing for them #to make pretty or modify its not Theirs there's no reason for them to be there other than to shop #but i am on . a tangent. #and that is its own lighthearted post analyzing the psychology of built and modifiable vs provided and immovable spaces in the game #no its not late at night and i should not be doing other things (lying)

[pigdemonart]

Drawings of some Rosarios and a beloved Fatima @bunnyangelart

The bottom pic makes me the happiest! Bunnii and I had mused ideas of the four of them having known each other in school as kids, and the idea stuck enough it became canon. Also any time drawing baby Adrián before he lost is eye is like u_u ….. mm

OH before anyone asks, Mani was asked to be the school mascot. It’s not his fursuit!!!! Realistically if anyone would have a fursuit, it’d be Adrián…….And Fatima (shes a warrior cats kid)

Patreon | Ko-Fi

#my art #los brujos #manuel #victor #Adrián #fatima #dolores #actually i could ramble in the tags for a moment longer #baseball is the American passtime as its called #but it has a big cultural significance in PR #growing up baseball players in my class were kind of idolized #most athletes were tbh and its because a lot of our fav celebrities are athletes that make it big in American leagues #roberto clemente was a Black Puertorriqueño who played in the MLB and became the first latinamerican and caribeño to enter the hall of fame #that pride -even for someone like me who doesnt particularly like sports- is felt very strongly in our community #the number of his jersey was 21 #for Vico to pick 21 shows not only his pride but also an ego about his skillset which i think is pretty integral to his charcter #im sure he rolls his eyes about it now LOL

[picaroroboto]

thing about Guda is that they do not have an internal monologue - therefore the player can't directly read their thoughts and feelings. Thanks to that some of the best insight we get into Guda's physical or psychological condition comes from other characters observing and reacting to them. But we also know Guda is a big liar who takes great effort to hide their true feelings from others around them, making those moments few and far between, or only from characters who are particularly insightful or times when Guda is particularly vulnerable.

But the way our perspective on Guda is so limited is what makes me go more than a little insane about moments like these, from Aphrodite's Song and the Garden of Lost Will respectively:

The implications that Guda knows how to fake their way through psychological exams, and has at times cried into their hands so that no one can see. The thing is that we've never directly seen them do either of those things, but that doesn't mean they haven't been doing them, we don't always see everything that goes on in the story, there's always some time gaps or stuff that happens off-screen.

What I'm building up to here is I've got a nagging feeling that Guda has it far worse (or has been in a bad state for far longer that we previously assumed, big Da Vinci in the song screenshot there implies they've been lying on psyche tests as far back as Part 1 or 1.5) than even the most max-level-reading-comprehension-type Guda enjoyers can tell. That maybe they've been deceiving even the audience as well, if only by lies of omission.

#fgo #fate/grand order #guda #ritsuka fujimaru #cosmos in the lostbelt #LB5 spoilers #LB6 spoilers #meta posting on my art blog #then again I'm pretty sure it's not an intentional deception like I don't think Guda's aware of the fourth wall or anything #so much as it is some really clever writing to make it so even the player doesn't know absolutely everything about the player character #until another character sheds some light onto them

[la-muerta]

逆水寒 x 莲花楼 (Justice x Mysterious Lotus Casebook collaboration)

Featuring a soft teasing DiHua/DiYi reunion in an alternate universe 😍

(source: 意志懒喵喵)

#I'm pretty sure this is not official cinematic but two players in character costumes but I don't care lol #dihua #逆水寒 x 莲花楼 #mysterious lotus casebook #feihua

[wildflowercryptid]

sometimes, i think about the extra bit of depth alex's romance is given when you date him as a guy and i just gotta. stare at the ceiling for a bit...

#i think his heart events are nice either way but like... there's some extra flavor given to when your farmer's a guy #like him admitting that the farmer is the only other guy that he can be vulnerable around #or how admits that he tried denying his feelings for the farmer at first bc of his own internalized homophobia #and probably some external homophobia too #since george will tell the player that he wasn't sure about alex and them being together bc of his own biases #but seeing how happy alex was with them makes him rethink his views #idk i just really like his heart events i wish ppl appreciated them more #i also think it's interesting to see the game acknowledge homophobia and how it'd actually affect the queer relationships in town #it's definitely nice that the town is pretty damn accepting especially a majority of the romance options' families #but it feels more realistic to have those little bittersweet truths mixed in there too i like it #sorry i've got sdv brain rn so i'm thinking about it a lot #stardew valley #mj.txt #tw homophobia mention #sdv spoilers

[harvestmoth]

okay last one. au where nothing goes wrong at all ever (a lie) and melia venam gay moment

#i like this game a normal amount (also a lie) #everyone should play now do it now please #pokemon rejuvenation #oh another thing about twitter. makes me sad i cant yell about things in the tags there like i always do because there are no tags there #if i wanted to id have to make it into a thread and im pretty sure people read those. so awful #i mean not that i say anything worthwhile here usually but still. no one reads this here. i could yell my thoughts if i had any #anyways about the au :] i have no idea how it would work #i have no thoughts ever at all i was just replaying the game and the one little line melia says at the picnic made me sad #the one where she says its her last day in gearen and asks the player to go with her to gdc #and then she just goes ah nevermind that was weird of me to ask #and no… wait come back… id love to go to gdc with you… :[ #and thats where that idea came from. idk where the rest of it came from though i think ive been cursed or somethinv #and also something something her saying shes afraid to go to gdc alone only for her to end up in the past also alone sometging something. ow #my thoughts are very coherent i promise (no they arent)

[ganondoodle]

I was at first in love with totk, and I still think mechanical wise, its quite impressive

And when I collected all the tears and saw the "story" I genuinely got upset in a good way (at first), because man! Did they really got the balls to go that far? Is there nothing I can do for her? Now I MUST do all the temples, see how it plays out and --oh, I've got this cutscene already. Why are all the people so dumb about Zelda, I KNOW where she is, Link say something-- Link??

After finishing all the temples and almost falling asleep, I stopped playing the game, looked up the last boss and remaining cutscenes and went "Thats it?"

Watching other people (including you) being critically about so many things, both character and mechanical wise, I've almost startled myself with a realization what the gnawing feeling I constantly had, actually was.

Totk feels like a fanfic.

And don't get me wrong, I love fanfiction, I think its great and important, I adore fanfic writers, I love finding gems, I love reading self indulgent stories, see new spins and interpretation of characters. I love the casual, the passion, the creativity!

But totk gives me the same feeling everytime I am reminded that Fifty Shades is a Twillight fanfic.

The world is there. The faces I know and grew to love are there. But everything is ever so slightly different, uncannily so. Just how some characters talk, how they act, how they were placed in the story. The Zonai appearing out of nowhere, but no, they always had been there you see, they were these super magical advanced people but they all died, the king is so tragic. And you see, the king is super cool and powerful and-- oh I dont get to interact with him outside of the tutorial. Did they try to do another King Rhoam-- but wait, that only worked because we didn't knew he was a ghost-- totk wait stop why do you take him out of the story, why couldn't he be a companion, he IS ABLE TO TALK THROUGH THE ARM LET THE OLD GOAT COMMENT ON STUFF?? If you bring up all this ancient stuff and you still got a ghost lingering, let him talk?? (I never ended up getting Mineru but I smell wasted potential as well)

Im not even mad, I am disappointed. It feels like the devs saw what all the lore hunters got attached to and talked about and then just... took the "cool". All the Zonai stuff could've easily been Sheikah tech, but got just reskinned to look more exciting instead of being its own thing.

Like... at this point I prefer what fans are doing over what Totk gave us. The characterization of Rauru (and everything Zonai), projects like you do of what totk couldve been, the little nuggets of actual highlights and details of love fans find in the game. I found much more enjoyment in these concepts than I got from a 70bucks game. And thats depressing.

I love fanfiction. I dont love it when my corporate 70 dollar, six year development, console exclusive game feels like a story that passionate fan couldve written miles better in a week (and I've already seen much cooler and interesting rewrites and ideas).

Zelda has been a huge part of my childhood and its depressing seeing it treated like that. It always was about the story, the epic, its The Legend of Zelda for crying out loud. To be courageous to enter a dungeon, to be wise and solve all the riddles. To become powerful over the journey you embarked on. Zelda to me is the campfire story you tell to others and go into the woods or the beach and imagine what monsters you would slay. Zelda is not the sandcastle you build in the sandbox and then add dinosaurs and star wars ships because you didn't had any other toys, and just stumble into and over some story to entertain yourself until lunch is ready.

I'd have an oracle of seasons over another totk any day at this point. They should've just make the mechanics of totk its own thing, but I guess they were scared it wouldn't sell if it doesn't have a Mario or Zelda skin straped over it.

Anyways, sorry for the mini rant - love your art, love your thoughts and insights, and I am looking forward to see more of it - Zelda related or not (your original characters look amazing, I adore your style sm)

Hope you have a great rest of the day!

*nods along through this entire rant*

idk how many of my rants you have read but yeah ... yeah ... and the further you think about it the further it all falls apart, the wasted potential of it all and the goddamn audacity of them to do those interviews in which they make it EVEN WORSE is just

i know the expectation for a direct sequel to botw was huge and understandbly so but i really REALLY think it would not have been that hard to make it a good follow up even taking into account that totk was originally a DLC, pretty much all of botws aspects could have been developed further, i dont know what could have happened to make totk have turned out like this .. literally it feels like something had to have gone wrong, its like someone who doesnt know zelda nor botw at all was given a few prompts and then just made some generic fantasy story while the rest worked on ultrahand for 5 years

the technical impressive things ARE technical impressive, but i dont think it was necessary nor served the game well in any way (and i LOVE building games- however totk is neither a building game nor a story game nor a zelda game nor an exploration game nor a sequel imo) but zelda, this zelda, is not made for that and i cant help but think it was mainly to encourage people to make some ridiculous mechs so it can go viral on tiktok (not trying to discredit them, it IS cool what they are doing but i .... have my doubts if zelda is the right place for that)

ill stop there bc i have ranted so much about everything i dont wanna repeat it here again; it just doesnt feel like a real game (derogatory), it feels extra bad bc i was not really into zelda when botw came out and while i did get it as soon as i could (months after release since i just started a minijob and didnt have the money) i only over time grew to love zelda this much again, devouring any theories and anything about it bc i loved it so much- i was never into it like this when a new title was announced and dont own any special editions so i bought the totk collectors bc i was just so damn excited for it after the 2019 trailer dropped (god i want that time back ... it looked so much more like it was going to be an actual sequel) even if i was already worried it wouldnt be good at that point given how much i started to sense stuff i dont like about the newer trailers

i recently sold it at our local gameshop bc it was like a thorn in my side given how expensive it was and how dissapointed i was in the game, i genuinely think that, technical impressiveness aside, totk is the onyl zelda i truly cannot stand (for alot of reasons) and im genuinely worried for the future of the franchise

i bought an Oki (Okami) figurine for what i got back and i feel much happier with that :3

(also on a note, i did finish the game two weeks after release but stopped playing it right then and hadnt touched it since, i also streamed all of what i played and its still up if you want to see my slow descend into madness fjkdhkdhjk though its been a long while since then and i by far did not talk about everything back then, just what my most immediate frustrations were while still playing)

(also the gameplay isnt as good as people make it out to be, so much is so frustrating and punishing to use i am kinda baffled it got through like that and most people call that its best aspect ..... though i guess if the rest is so much worse even mid gameplay can seem good ooooooooh how dare i)

also thank you for liking what i do!!! <3 it means alot to know it is appreciated by someone :D

#ganondoodles answers #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #in my playthorugh i genuinely tried to be super open to what its offering me #but i think its pretty clear that i could see were it was going pretty soon and tried to fight my fear #and then i ended up being right #like i even went out of my way to get the memories and dungeons in turns so i wouldnt spoil anything #and still you can see me get sadder and dissappointed with each new memory i got #and the time it truly all started to crumble was when i discovered what they did to the shrine of life #pretty sure after i got all the lightroots and all i got was a you did it sticker i jsut gave up and went to the end #and after that i found the endfight fun so i played it a few more times #but the last few streams were mostly me ranting jkdfngvkjdfnhgjkdf #for this price its pretty bad #idk why so many people are okay with this tbh #zelda fans deserve better #i think the wasted potential and insulting treatment of both lore - botw and even the player is what frustrates me so much #sidenote i love the username bc there sure are words #alot of them even #(good) #i have done so much ranting it feels good to read someone elses rant about similar frustrations

[chiropteracupola]

what if they were an ultimate frisbee team

#em draws stuff #em is posting about sharpe #sharpe #rifleman harris #daniel hagman #richard sharpe #patrick harper #francis cooper #ben perkins #south essex quirky #<- organizational tag for frisbee au things #see it is Funny because jason salkey was an ultimate frisbee player before he was an actor. also I just think the men should frisb. #<- not a real verb #'look if the terror fandom has terrebus fc then we can have this' says local man who knows very little at all about ultimate frisbee #but also I have noticed that Multiple acquaintances have acquired concussions playing this sport In The Last Week Alone #and thus I deem it Sharpe-Appropriate in its capacity for Causing Grievous Harm and Encouraging the Wearing of Cool Shades In October #so you see. this took me TEN DAYS and ouch ouch ow this is why I don't do group portraits that often #the height differences are Wrong here I am pretty sure but I have almost no conception of how tall any of them are. and I'm tired. #also the designing of their silly little outfits y'know #I do recommend opening up this image Large because tumblr crunches all my little details something awful #sailorpants saw this while I was still drawing it and said they looked like an 'assorted pack of lesbians' and really they're not wrong #other things to note about this au that we've decided: cooper still does crimes and harris has a podcast #stay tuned whilst I figure out how to make custom frisbees so that I can a) design them a cooler one and b) make them into real items #manufacturers I have looked at thus far have either been Suspicious or have required Large minimum orders #but hey if there are 47 people out there wanting a strange frisbee...

[myfoodishappiness]

i know people were gossiping like crazy about jackie and shauna in that school. jeff hundred per cent was the third wheel and freshman probs got so shocked when they found out he was the boyfriend.

#yellowjackets #jackieshauna #shauna shipman #jackie taylor #surprised people didn’t call them out on whatever they had going on #tai snuck looks from the corner of her eye for sure #everyone rolling their eyes when shauna has another jealous hissy fit at a party #or groaning when she knocks out a rival player for tackling jackie #i wouldn't blame them #i'd get fed up with the both of them pretty quickly to be honest

[eternallovers65]

Forever and cellbit sleeping after traumatizing all of us

#for cellbit this is already a normal day #in fact pretty sure he sleeps better after seeimg chat cry during moments like this lmao #qsmp #forever player #cellbit

[silksongeveryday]

Someone’s probably asked you this question before, but what do you plan to do when silksong does come out? Will you make drawing Zoteboat gets released :P

I’ll probably still post doodles occasionally (definitely not daily), maybe more finished/rendered artworks, massive rb sprees of people’s Silksong arts, and generally just vibe. Basically I’ll still be active just not posting daily. Maybe I’ll post my experience playing Silksong.

#that is if Silksong ever comes out #day by day with all the crap going on it seems more and more impossible #silksongeveryday #not daily #not daily post #thanks for the ask!! #who knows I may or may not post zoteboat for the memes #I am very excited for silksong still though #though tbh I’m not exactly a good player #pretty sure I still haven’t beaten colo 3 yet somehow beat panthons 1-3 and Path of pain

[capt-spacebussy]

#suggestive #mdni #kinitopet #pillowstyle #kinito x y/n #kinito x player #kinito x you #sooo silly #sheets are yellow but im pretty sure they end up being wjat #you said your fave colour is? i forget.

[bloodpen-to-paper]

Nope I'm not done talking about this. Eve is calm, collected, and above everything, they always win. Eve never feels fear, just mild annoyance. Tubbo, Bagi, Pierre and Bad were wailing on Eve with everything they had and Eve thought they were playing a prank because of how unserious the situation was to them. How unafraid they were, because they knew they were the biggest threat in the room, not the islanders. Eve does not get upper-handed. Eve does not lose.

Then we get to their confrontation with Cucurucho. Eve is pummeling their sibling to kingdom come, and vice versa. Eve is laughing, this is a game to them, maybe a little more, but what matters is they're feeling good. That's what Eve wants, stimulation, power. But something happens, Eve pops too many totems, doesn't pay attention to their health, didn't prepare, whatever it was that happened, it made Eve lose. The undefeatable was defeated. And for the first time since they first appeared, since they possessed Forever and began this tirade against the peace and safety of the island, they stop smiling. Eve's face drops in shock and doesn't pick back up. Eve loses, and it was so clear in that moment that Eve never expected to lose. Maybe they thought they never could. But they did. Its the first and only time we see Eve not in control.

Tubbo said it best, Eve went from being the biggest threat in the island to a speck of sand in the wake of the Federation's power. And I think in that moment, Eve truly felt it.

#mcyt #qsmp #qsmp analysis #forever player #@v@ #cucurucho #not counting the dapper blooper cause pretty sure that was the cc genuinely reacting #and wasn't meant to be a legit in-character moment