Loki by Lightonlight via Tumblr, 2014 [[deactivated]]

Original Artist Commentary:

"I always loved the myth portrayal of lightning(Fárbauti) hitting a tree (Laufey) and thus creating Loki.Like…

BOOOOOM! …Loki"

Cody surrounded by family and the people he loves, because that is what he deserves

Something something """canon""" age difference, modern AU where Rex actually is a decade younger than Anakin

And for Reasons, 34yo Anakin and 39yo Padme have decided to invite this Hot Young 24yo Who Just Exited The Military into their bed for a quick romp that turns into something of a longterm relationship that is sortakinda sugaring

………….just realized this makes Rex only [checks math] twelve or thirteen years older than the twins.

Which is very funny to me. These tweens are so unimpressed by the GI Bill college guy their parents are wooing. Is this supposed to be their new babysitter? A nanny? Wait, he's your boyfriend??? EW.

Such a weird age difference to have with your sorta stepkids

Not that I've ever thought the live-action Netflix Avatar show was going to be good, but...

I do think people are blowing a lot of this out of proportion. Again, this is an adaptation, not a 1:1 translation. There's going to be a lot of differences. There's a whole lot of "Oh, they RUINED IT!" going around, and the show's not dropping for another three weeks.

It's all just a question of how effectively they're going to streamline it, and whether the character arcs and actions are going to make sense.

My thoughts as of late: Horns & Harnesses. And Braids.

My thoughts always: Clones.

See how this happened?

((Yes that is Rex hehe))

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IT'S....MY TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY WITH REX NEXT MONTH??

i love being normal about characters who are forced to grow into their futures too fast. characters who don't get time to process their grief and mourn healthily. characters who have only known war and loss. characters who look at the people around them and see their failures. characters who smile but underneath there is only grief.

okay clover's also jewish. because i said so :)

The long song is silent The long sword invincible A long desire without life

[Fanvid] - A Wish to Look Back

Or: an animatic for Rex Lapis during the Archon Wars

Now that Rust has been out for a few days and it is also coincidentally LDOV it is time....official character art for my beloved girl my miserable wet rag of a woman Maizee!!

A friend of mine and I sat down on Discord voice call for like.....four hours or so and just hashed out how Maizee looks and once it clicked it CLICKED like....this is Maizee and she's so so tired and I love her!! Some of my favorite details include

bandanna with an as-of-yet-unsolidified Coalition logo

thigh holster for a multitool, tape, pennants, or whatever else she wants to bring with her <3

kneepad because her knees hurt all day :(((

chain for dogtags she wears under her shirt and boiler suit

lettering on the back reading 041W (the 41st scrapper to be sent to the Coalition's western reaches)

SEXY eyebags and a SEXY grey streak

and a bonus sketchy Maizee with those dehydrated malnourished guns out 👀👀👀

Maizee! Maizee <33333

(read rust here)

sigh… i miss my boyfriends, (b.ob and bo.sip) tails…. i miss them a-lot…

If I’m not exhausted after uni again tomorrow I’m gonna replay bugsnax n see how long it takes me to finish it

Never underestimate the serotonin boost that comes with painting ur nails a color u associate with your f/o 💙🥺💙🥺💙

I did say before that I didn’t really want a dlc prequel and after playing fr I still do kind of think that. Even just thematically an epilogue seemed more fitting, but I guess not.

It did have some good parts! I think I understand N some more now (tbh I didn’t care for him in the main game) and family angst/drama is always spicy. Loved seeing Shulk and Rex again and I loved the interactions with them and their kids. Esp Shulk and Nikol just nerding out together. Also did not expect Rex to have that kind of parenting style haha. They really did go all out on the fanservice which I adored and found funny at the same time. And some of them were references to side quests or just lore which I appreciated so it wasn’t just all surface level references. Also they mentioned how Melia has been captured several times and Shulk never comments on it which is an interesting choice.

But I feel like overall it didn’t answer a lot of my questions about the main game and left me with more questions instead. Also it was much shorter than I expected. Even with the forced community padding in torna… it still feels like fr was much shorter. When I was fighting Alpha I was like this feels like a final boss but it feels like I haven’t been even playing for that long. Pacing was fine don’t get me wrong, it just felt… lacking. Also with how xc3 and to an extent fr was supposed to be the ending for the klaus trilogy, it doesn’t really feel like one? It’s not that there’s loose ends, I don’t really think there are any, it’s just that it doesn’t really feel “complete” ig and just leaves a lot of things unanswered. And while I don’t rlly like info dumps, xc does a decent job at them and is sometimes crucial for understanding the lore, and we just don’t really get one in xc3. I was kind of expecting a few scenes or maybe just a glimpse of the post-merge world of the xc3 or fr cast but didn’t get that. Which I get, but I still would’ve liked to see it.

I’m not really sure how to feel about how they handled Alvis. Man really did lose his melanin when he split but you never really see him in proper lighting so it’s not as obvious as in the art ig… Honestly with all the xc1 fanservice I expected more interactions with Shulk and A but uh nothing much happened other than Shulk calling A Alvis at the end. I get that he’s a computer and the logic behind how he became that way makes sense but it just seems so contradictory towards xc1 Alvis where he understood yes humanity shapes future with their own will, etc. Ik that part of Alvis became A but idk it’s complicated.

I saw ppl saying how Shulk and Rex overshadowed the rest of the cast when they were introduced, and I think I’m the only one that didn’t feel that way. I think the narrative just shifted course to focusing on those characters to focusing on the lore and world. And a lot of those were references to xc1 and xc2 which did give those two some more screen time since they’re one of the very few that remember those worlds. That being said, I do think Matthew is the weakest protag in the series. He just didn’t have a lot of time to shine and the story’s focus isn’t really on him. Glimmer and esp Nikol also felt lacking in the character department. They weren’t bad characters but they didn’t have much presence. At least they had connections to Rex and Shulk to work with.

The exploration was great though. Have a fully connected open world was cool, and I loved the little things you could look for like the ether, containers, relics, etc. Didn’t play X, but I think fr had the best exploration so far.

OH and the xc1 parallels! Like the zoom in on A’s eye at the end! And how you warped to the final boss similar to how you went to memory space after beating Dickson. And apparently it was intentional??? Like Alvis Alpha what are you cooking???

While the credits song isn’t my favorite, seeing scenes from all 3 games just made me feel stuff esp after seeing older Shulk and Rex. Like yes look at how they used to be, look at how they and we have come. And it was just AGH

Maybe I just need some time to sit on it, but I think it’s my least favorite dlc story so far. I think my expectations for both xc3 and fr were a bit too high which might be why I feel this way. Overall, I think I could’ve been satisfied which just watching the cutscenes or a let’s play.

…had an older tumblr fic I fixed up pop up into my feed and it reminded me of a different fic I spent forever on so I’m gonna self-rec because I’m still proud of me damn it

Winterhawk (Clint Barton/Bucky Barnes)

While the rest of the world picked itself up and rebuilt after the alien invasion, Clint hid inside the confines of the Tower, haunted by his part in Loki's war on Earth, more literally than his teammates know. After Bucky disappears on a routine mission, Clint has no choice but to face what is hunting him.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/11152212/chapters/24883845

106667 words, 19 chapters, lots of feels, alt POV, and fun tags like hand-wave science