#sprawls on the ground

[elegyofthemoon]

well. i finished ch 17 of hi3. but at what cost

#avil plays hi3 #tbf majority of me playing through hi3 just looks like This. #yes the acheron trailer made me get up and finish ch 17 #i. :( #the fight between kiana and mei was so painful :( #ok also i suck ass in the combat and i was so scared of having to restart #BUT I THINK I HURT MORE THE FACT THAT KIANA JUST REFUSED TO GIVE UP ON MEI #BUT MEIS ALSO DOING THIS BECAUSE SHES TRYING TO SAVE KIANA #AND THEY WERE BOTH FIGHTING TO STOP AND TRY TO SAVE EACH OTHER #MEI YOU SAVED KIANA BUT LIKE..... DONT YOU WANT TO LIVE ALONGSIDE HER.... MEI PLEASE #tbh. the way i was going through ch 17 for hi3. #kiana and mei remind me a lot of oz and gil's relationship back in pandora hearts but #now it makes me want to hit my head on a brick wall because #'wow. i really just gravitate tO THE SAME FUCKING MEDIA EVERY DAMN TIME AVIL STOP IT FFS' #also idk i was thinking about it too #mei tried earlier to use the herrschers powers to try and protect kiana but it wasnt enough. she failed that time #and with no other option to save her she just HAD to and it makes me HURT that this was her only option #IN HER HEAD. I BELIEVE IN YOU MEI I THINK THERE COULDVE BEEN ANOTHER OPTION HERE (IDK WHAT BUT I AM SOBBING) #sprawls on the ground #at least i can have an emotional break for a little bit.... hsr update so i can chill w that #and then when i finish catching up w that. then i go back to being hi3's punching bag #can i get off this train now? why'd i sign myself up for this (welt yang doomed me and then i got fucked over by everything else) #idk also the way that both mei AND kiana resorted to using their herrscher powers to stop the other. two stubborn people.... #but its done because they just... they just care so much and want to save the other #okay yeah we did beat each other up about it bUT STILL #MEI I BELIEVE IN YOU YOU CAN TURN THIS AROUND 😭😭😭😭😭 #anyways. glad i did. i have the worst stomach ache rn so i was Going through it #but my brain hit a reset so i feel normal now. save for the crying

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - The World That Never Was

#kingdom hearts dream drop distance #khddd #the world that never was #scenery #my gif #i really love how sora's side of this world is dark and eerie and fully leans into how dreams can distort and twist reality #the city looks mostly normal at first aside from the ghostly fog that seeps down from buildings and drifts along the floor and rises up #but as you keep going the ground beneath you is no longer a street but rather the faces of more buildings that stretch over an abyss #it's no longer the sprawling city you first arrived in but instead an uncanny one way path towards your destination #the buildings now twist and contort and are crooked and grow out of the ground in all kinds of ways that make no logical sense #it's the first time that a sleeping world looks easily distinguishable from the real world. it looks wrong. like a nightmare #meanwhile riku's half contrasts heavily by appearing to be fairly normal #the interior of the real castle never made any practical sense so nothing here feels too out of place compared to how it usually looks #it shows how much more in control riku is in comparison to how sora is losing his grip on reality as he descends further into their trap #cool stuff! love me some environmental storytelling #also i finished giffing every world in this game yippee i'm done (is covered head to toe in blood)

[stuckinapril]

i literally have the bestest friends ever. like of all time

#i don’t have a single right to feel lonely having such an amazing core unit of friends around me. i am surrounded w so much love #got this text while sitting on the ground w my textbooks sprawled around me alternating between 8227 different subjects #reaching a fucking CEILING #then i read this. and my heart is full and i got this #life is GOOD i am good i am happy and one day i will be a doctor helping people and i can’t wait #she’s in med school/was pre-med w me but there’s literally no competition bw us. no toxic pre-med culture #we push each other to grow and are proud of each other’s accomplishments and tell each other so much #insane how we met through my ex of all people. the main reason i dont regret meeting him #literally cannot wait to see her this weekend i’ve missed her sm #i’m so blessed. that’s all #p

[subsequentibis]

figuring out headcanons for my three weed smoking girlfriends (and yes they smoke weed)

#ibis art #metal gear #metal gear solid v #kazuhira miller #venom snake #revolver ocelot #yes they may have 'canon' heights. but i'll be deep in the cold hard ground before i play by the rules #i have seen some short snakes which i think is cute #but im watching my bf play and send guys sprawling every time he bumps into them. umm i think hes big as hell #and ocelot is soooo hickeycoded so he gets to be the manlet #he's around 5'10 with his lifts/heeled boots but if he took them off he'd be bitty #chewing delicately on kaz also. genuine babygirl. what's that shit they put in him that makes him soooooooo #(it's the survivor's guilt)

[callmethehunter]

Just a little wider, Robert, I need more room

#well- it’s that kinda day 😁 #robert plant #led zeppelin #sprawled on ground 💕

[kudakii]

i took martin to atohl's end without knowing that he starts out with level 5... i ran out of rp just to wake him up 19728 times becuse he passes out every time he gets hit. this must’ve been so embarrassing for him im so sorry

#the way he's just SPRAWLED on the ground??? #and alice is just 🧍‍♀️ #rf5 alice #rf5 martin #rune factory #rune factory 5 #rf5 #rf #my art #pie shitposts #i adore him. what a baby

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

i should draw whoever wins tomorrow in some vault aesthetic shit. golden frozen statue. tied down or encased on their podium forever. lotta ancient roman aesthetics. you get the idea (you probably do not you probably did not blase a ball)

#space rambles #thinking about the fact that i’m vaulting all of the life series winners #and the Ideas for this piece. all of the winners of the life series frozen in gold in the way they were when they died. #martyn with his sword held above his head staring at the sky #pearl dropping her bow and crying out #scott holding his axolotl and crouching to the ground #grian sprawled out on the sand (makes for a VERY weird statue when you put him upright)

[morgeth]

game decided to skip the rest of the animation??

#xander.txt #i'm dying #the way she's sprawled out on the ground

[sparring-spirals]

I’m not great at explaining my thoughts but last episode it hit me that in C2 Caleb was almost perfectly built to help Veth and now I look at Imogen who’s life has been going into people’s heads and Laudna who in the end game needs a person out of their head and I am shocked at how these things just keep lining up seemingly perfectly because I don’t think the cast collaborates to that level with character creation.

First of all, lets all take a Moment™ to appreciate Caleb and Veth, Partners In Crime My Beloveds. Codependent and desperate and holding each other so close. <3 <3

Second of all- oh yeah, the parallel of voices in heads and diving in and pulling out- very nice. God dammit Imogen and Laudna. 🥺

But, ah, allowing me to get on my soapbox for a moment:

I will say, that more than just a thing of character creation OR things conveniently lining up, I think its a testament to the casts ability to do collaborative, character driven storytelling. To craft a character is one thing, but to have that character grow and be shaped by the forces and other characters around it, to have that starting point and then lean into everything that grows around it rather than adhering to What You Made This Character For, is very difficult to do, and also facilitates incredible stories.

Humans love looking for patterns and common threads and taking little coincidences and turning them into stories, letting them grow off of that. Humans love stories about connections and growth and lives colliding and intertwining.

Coincidences can just be that, coincidences, and there are millions of them that happen constantly. When you take the time to flesh those out, to ascribe meaning to them, to follow through and reinforce, thats when they start becoming themes, and parallels, and character motifs, and they become THINGS, and- it gets fun! But this approach also requires you provide that space and flexibility for the organic coincidences to flourish, for all those possibilities to spin out and breathe and grow without getting too wrapped up in telling your specific story, in a specific way.

I think the nice thing about extended media with downtime and fluff and character spaces like CR is that if you give it the space, a lot of stories tell themselves. People will pick out patterns and meanings and thoroughlines, and some of them are intentional and a lot of them won't be. And as a story progresses, not all of them will get realized, not all of them can get realized. And. IMO. Thats fine, and to be expected.

In my opinion, good storytelling in this kind of medium is about that balance- about providing the flexibility and openness where you let the stories and characters grow on their own, you work with the people and characters and environment and let those organically shape your character and story and landscape. But you also, as you progress, to pick and choose what threads to follow, what threads to reinforce, and making sure there's that consistency, that whatever you choose makes you look back and go oh. Oh. Of course. Of course.

Anyway this is a lot of personal opinions about how stories and crunchy characters can be told and made and I'm not claiming its the Only or Best way. But, IMO, I think characters like Veth and Caleb and Imogen and Laudna are lovely examples of fascinating coincidence, intentional creations and actions, and collaborative, thoughtful character work by the cast, and I'm thrilled by it. :D

#critical role #character meta #meta #narrative meta #imogen temult #laudna #caleb widogast #veth brenatto #my genuine apologies for how soapboxy this got i got really enthusiastic about it. its one of my fave things about CR! #its also EXTREMELY personal preference driven and i get that. but its also why i didnt mind the end of C2 although i know some folks did #and i get why! but the ending both followed through on threads i appreciated AND left enough open endedness for me to just. #interpret anything else i didnt like as much that it hit a really nice middle ground for me. #with a sprawling story like CR i kind of think its inevitable that there will be themes and stories that feel like they get dropped #and i understand peoples disappointments when it happens- i get disappointed sometimes too! #but i think its kind of a give and take and part of What Happens when youve got 4 hours weekly of open ended storytelling #so i look at things i enjoy and thoroughlines i like and. if its good enough for me. im fine with it. #Character Consistency™ #alright ill stop talking now #spar speaks #ask away! #partners in crime #sorcery pact #my meta

[dualdeixis]

[Image description: A digital drawing of Vanitas. Two panels at the top show Vanitas laying on his back in a patch of grass with a stern frown. He’s holding a Mandrake above his head. The two stare at each other, and then Vanitas rolls onto his side, setting the Mandrake down and gingerly stroking it with a melancholic expression. Vanitas is wearing a black tee, denim shorts, and black and magenta shoes. The rest of the drawing shows that he’s by one of the Land of Departure’s cliffs. The end of a short stone wall stands to his left. The sky is partially cloudy and is colored a blue-pink sunset gradient. End image description.]

treat your feelings kindly

#kingdom hearts #vanitas kh #unversed kh #drawings #the 'neurodivergent teen sprawled on the ground trying to understand their own emotions on a hot summer evening' experience... #i like the idea of the unversed never going away and vanitas having to learn to manage them as symptoms/accept them as part of him #he’s only ever used violence to reabsorb them (which never really works bc they just spawn again in a self-perpetuating cycle) #but as he gets better i think sitting/playing w them and letting himself fully feel those feelings would let him reabsorb them peacefully #(i think mandrake represents shame also y_y)

[thebusytypewriter]

Me: *gets a gift card*

Me: ooooh time for small sub to my favorite streamer ranboolive

The stream: *lags*

The stream: *never shows my sub on screen*

Me, now sitting here with one subscription and absolutely no hurrah whatsoever: o. okay

#oh hush salem #salem's may delete later posts #the universe just likes to kick me while i'm already sprawled across the ground huh #unless i just missed it but i doubt it because i was watching closely for like 10 min after subbing #we can check the vod when it goes up ig ;-; #i should clarify that i was not looking for a “GOOD JOB OMG YOU SUPPORTED STREAMER” #i just. hoped for even a silent recognition by the stream overlay #*falls over* hhhhhh whyyyyy

[krikidilly]

Ough seeing people discover triple train in my notes and go through the tag is so. imnso sorry . The way I drew the twins at first was so. UGLY.

#sprawling on the ground like a pathetic animal #i am ASHAMED. #my style has grown sooo much since the beginning of triple train

[deathfavor]

freedom !! time to start writing !!

#᛭ — [OOC] angst is the game and tears are the currency #sprawls out on the ground #thank goodness

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

I want to move to as cold a place as possible. I will live in the arctic circle if it means I get consistent winter snow

#genuinely whenever I think about the fact that the most seasons I get where I am are 'oh hey some of the leaves turned orange #and it got *ever so slightly* cooler' #i am just. consumed with hating it here. i love a lot of things about it here but i hate the lack of seasons #and one of my genuine biggest fears is that everywhere is going to be like this #the solution my mom suggested for this? *travel to someplace with snow* #ma'am that is not a solution do you think we have money for travel???? do you? #look at us we're lower middle class we don't have money for travel #I don't want to travel somewhere that may. hypothetically. have snowfall. I want to LIVE somewhere with an ACTUAL SEASONAL CYCLE #I want to be able to know it's spring by the leaves starting to unfurl. I want to be able to know it's fall when the air has a bite to it #I want to know when it's winter because it's goddamn fucking winter and there's snow on the goddamn fucking ground #and then I want it to start again the next year #here when the leaves fall in winter there's fuckall to replace them. it's just brown for a bit. not to mention that I live in #a dead suburban sprawl. in a house with a yard that's half mudpit and half the world's toughest scraggliest grass #with a few bushes by the porch i guess #there's fucking nothing. the only reason we even have birds in our yard is because we maintain a bird bath

[rumiracle-whip]

Vyncent's the type of guy to consistently end up on the floor in the morning and not even care that much

#william's hogging all the blankets #dakota is sprawled over a truly impressive amount of the bed #there is absolutely no room for him and since hes not in the middle like ashe always is he just gets shoved off onto the ground

[ta6ris]

when i first met my bf i was passed the hell out on the ground at school because i drank one too many energy drinks and i cant handle caffeine (i did this because i had not slept the day before and was sick) he asked me if i was okay for obvious reasons. and somehow that lead to him being with me for 5 years love wins

#and we became friends and then more than that months later etc etc #i still think our first meeting is fucking ridiculous but it is also cute in a dumb way #he really saw an absolute mess sprawled out on the ground and went 'hm. yeah okay that one.' #i have probably said this before here but it is still funny to me