I could post the entire transcript of destiny deoxys as a text wall just to be annoying, and nobody could stop me. Do you ever sit and think about the power at your fingertips? Because I do.

when a character says "please don't do this" and they're begging: 🥺

when a character says "please don't do this" as a warning:

this dialogue option is truly hilarious to be honest "your faith in Lolth faltered. It is not too late to reclaim it." NO. NO. No. NO. It IS too late. It is absolutely definitely way too fucking late. Laughing my ass off. Are you kidding with me? Do not go back. Dialogue option 3 and 4 are the only right ones.

mizora bg3: hiiii umm i just saw that you're doing the most stressful part of the game where you have to get 593829 people out in 6 turns or die? ok so i thought throwing a horde of spiders at you will spice things up even more okay hugs and kisses bye bye!

Imagine Egg A1 still has one life left, and it somehow manages to escape the facility... It is being followed by mobs, by Federation employees, being hurt by the poison ivy and other environmental threats, but it keeps running, because what other choice is there? That parkour course was a trick after all, the last block was a fake, it was never meant to pass that test in the first place.

So it keeps running, but the Federation workers are getting closer. It won't be able to avoid them forever...

But then it bursts through some bushes and comes face to face with someone new - and it's Bad, out building or exploring or just wandering alone. A1 is immediately afraid, of course. It is a stranger, a very visually striking stranger, the complete opposite of the pure white and featureless employees of the Federation. But there are people close behind, and it knows what will happen to it if it is caught, so... It has no choice but to try. It has no way to communicate, no signs or books, so it simply rushes to hide behind him and hopes he understands, and that he is willing to help...

And Bad, for his part, well.. he's an extremely cautious and paranoid person, and this is just an incredibly confusing and unexpected situation to be in. An unknown egg appeared out of nowhere and is hiding behind him, he can see Federation employees in the distance that are clearly looking for something... He knows that the code has been disguising itself as eggs, and that the strange egg in front of him with no marks, no distinguishing features, an egg that he has never seen before, could easily be the code monster preparing to attack at any moment...

But there is absolutely no way Bad could ever look at an egg in distress and not try to help it, even knowing it could be a trap.

So he quickly digs a shallow hole and pushes the mysterious egg into it, covering it up just in time, and when the employees throw him a book asking if he had seen anything, he lies effortlessly, he complains about nonsense, he asks them where the Ekea is and is as annoying as he can be, until they leave.

And now they're alone... just Bad an this mystery egg in the middle of the woods, A1 too afraid to leave the hole even when Bad tries to coax it out. He gives it food and tries his best to comfort it, to tell it everything is okay and that the pursuers are gone. He gives it some signs and a book, trying to see if it will write anything to him or answer any of his questions, but he gets no reply. A1 is just too afraid to even attempt to answer, and Bad doesn't even know if it understands him. He tries what few words he does know of the other languages, and still no response.

What should he do? As much as the image of a tiny, terrified egg makes him want to do all he can for it he also needs to be safe. He can't bring it home, because if it is a code there is no way he is bringing it anywhere near Dapper. Should he call someone else for help, or would that draw too much attention? Would it even be safe for him or the egg to let anyone know right now? And was this egg dangerous, or harmless and in need of protection? He wouldn't abandon it regardless but...

What now?

Just wanted people to know that I have a sheezy.art side account that's solely for my IEYTD shit. And I can do this in it. Legitimately an awesome time

The uploads are gonna be slow since the site's still in beta and I can only upload a few artworks at a time, but I don't mind it much :]

Thinking about Gale this morning, and that comment he makes in the epilogue about how he uses the threat of the bomb in his chest as a classroom management strategy. And…my guy. That’s….As a high school English teacher, I’ve got some bad news.

That’s not a deterrent. That’s a fucking challenge.

I can't believe that there's even an option to tell Raphael that you're in love with the Emperor. Like why the Fuck would you tell him that?????? He already thinks that you're stupid now you're just pissing him off!!!!!!!!!

No, but seriously, can you imagine how utterly surreal it is to be Song Taewon and have two of the most unhinged people on the planet both decide to become intensely invested in your life and health after knowing you for like five seconds? One of them uses aggressive mob tactics to try and get you to let them chauffeur you around, the other is a little guy you could crush with your pinky on accident who hunts you down in the middle of a pit of monsters with a packed lunch convinced you will starve if he doesn’t personally feed you. You have to play an intense game of de-escalation at literally all times to keep this same random guy from calling and yelling at your boss about your sleep schedule, and this is still an improvement on that time you barely convinced him it wasn’t necessary to utterly annihilate your place of work to get you more vacation time. The other one has probably historically attempted to set your closet and/or you yourself on fire so he can buy you clothes.

You just want to live your corporate slave life and resist the dark yearnings of your soul in PEACE but instead you’re having to dodge two very powerful men who both desperately want to take care of you.

As someone who is knee deep into an Emily centric fic that delves into what her time with Benny was like (with heavy emphasis on them learning to get along and learning from each other), I would love to hear your thoughts on what you personally think happened between them!

Honestly I feel like it’s pretty cut n dry.

Benny probably stopped by the fort a lot when he would run around the Mojave figuring out how to take down House and take over Vegas. Emily was likely the most technologically savvy and Benny became interested in using that. A gal who knows her way around a wire is just what he needs! She likely wasn’t a great medic, handling more of the followers equipment but Benny would insist on being treated by her. He likely anguished about House and how much better the Strip could be for the people. It was a lure and no matter how smart Emily was, she took the bait.

One of my pet peeves is Benny’s canonical CH stats. Like Benny is an asshole but he cons and manipulates a lot of people, including Emily. He gets away with a lot of it unscathed too! I like to think he can be very charismatic and charming, it’s a means to an end to him tho, he doesn’t really get anything out of being a flirt all the time. Emily admits she wasn’t drunk when she was seduced by him and so I like the idea they made Yes-Man and Benny put on the charm that some how makes him irresistible and they got down and dirty. I doubt he would try to give her a reason to be distrustful as they share a very common goal: Independence for Vegas. I think it’s more Emily got outplayed. She thought she got a good in with the Strip for the Followers and a good friend with benefits too. Then Benny acted like himself and screwed her over. Likely cause she started making plans that didn’t focus on the Chairmen and had a lot looser lips about what they’d been up to.

I find it interesting Benny only refers to her as a “friend” when he explains how he got Yes-Man reprogrammed and I don’t know if it’s not to implicate her if he got caught or you snitched or he has a twinge of guilt about throwing her out. She was trying to be genuinely helpful after all.

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Panel one has a view into Kakashi's bedroom from just outside the open window. We look over the bed where Tenzō's Anbu mask is resting and past the flapping curtain, and see the spot where Kakashi and Tenzō are sitting. Tenzō, still crouched by the side of Kakashi's bed, is mostly hidden aside from the top of his head. Kakashi is sitting with a loose, tired posture, looking wryly out the open window. "And then you came to my apartment, " Kakashi says. "Maybe it felt safe and secluded enough to have your breakdown in. Which is flattering, but to be fair, my wards are usually immaculate."

The second panel, they are sitting, knees touching knees, facing each other. Kakashi's eyes are closed, like he's trying to force a smile, but not succeeding very well. He has one arm wrapped around himself. Tenzō is leaning forward towards Kakashi, eyebrows low over his eyes. "But I didn't plan—I didn't choose to do this, to feel this," Tenzō argues. "Who would?" Kakashi asks. He continues, "The only drawback of having trust, of having a place to be vulnerable, is that sometimes you'll have to be vulnerable in it, I guess. Hurts, huh?"

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So I'm thinking one of those "DNI" banners, but with an evil or genuinely scary character and instead of DNI it says "interact at own peril."

attacks you with my psychic gem and the scotts beam. in the boogey apocalypse episode gem initially doesn't go after scott when he's on green and half a heart, not because she's opposed to killing him but because she "has more important targets." whether this was a facade to hide her true reluctance to kill him, pragmatism in not wanting to be seen killing an ally so early on, truly considering scott unimportant, or something else/more complex, it's a very interesting statement

ok had to go and rewatch the beginning of the episode and then I remembered why I liked that specific Gem episode so much and it’s that she’s genuinely pretty nervous at the start like ohh I’ve never gotten a kill before. and then by the end she’s SO into it… like it took her a second to get into the killing groove so it makes sense that she’d start somewhere else. I think she does have a reluctance to killing her scotts but it’s comparable to the reluctance one might have about spending money on something you really want from the store even though you know you shouldn’t (she folds so quickly when pearl encourages her to kill them its so funny). I love gem and the scotts man

Althougghhhh. While we’re on the topic: that conversation she has at 43:30 in etho’s episode 7 is really awesome. This is either deflection from Gem from a genuine reluctance to kill Scott or Gem taking offense at the suggestion that she’d go easy on her allies, which is fascinating

so like. yeah once loid falls in love with yor he's going to wish he could stay living as loid forger forever. but i think loid growing attached to anya and finding out about her powers is the thing that's going to actually drive him to fight to keep this normal life.

Something else that makes me sympathetic to Pharma's situation is like. Idk if there's an actual term for this or if someone smarter and more academic wrote it about some real life context that actually matters.

But, so we've already established among Pharma stans that the circumstances at Delphi were blackmail/torture with no real way out that wouldn't involve Pharma being responsible for people getting killed (either killing patients for the deal or having everyone die bc he failed his end of the deal).

And I feel like while "he's still in the wrong because he killed people" is part of it, another sort of implicit part is the idea that Pharma should've been willing to take more personal risk, maybe even risk dying? I mean, Ratchet does ask "why didn't you just detonate it near the DJD" (to which Pharma responds that he did try to get Sonic and Boom to do it, but they refused) so like

Idk I feel like we do have this social notion of martyrs as a very romantic ideal, people you can praise for being so brave and strong and righteous that they ended their own lives for their cause, while you can also coo about how sad and tragic it is that dying is what it took for them to do the right thing. But at the same time I feel like in reality, having an expectation that people become martyrs is kind of a toxic social norm bc like. It's very easy to demand that others sacrifice their lives for some Ultimate Moral Good when you yourself aren't experiencing the same hardships as they are. And ultimately it is kind of fucked up to tell someone "the moral thing you should've done was risk your life/kill yourself" because asking someone to pay their life to do the right thing is no small request. And sure, the typical response would be to call them a "coward" for caring more about saving their own skin instead of doing the right thing... but again, death is a really scary thing and self-preservation is a really strong instinct, so it kind of feels like having this binary view of "you're either a Brave Hero who sacrifices your life for everyone else or a Dirty Coward who's too scared of dying to do what's right" is kind of fucked up?

I guess the best way to describe it is that if someone willingly gives up their life as a sacrifice to others, it can be a noble thing because it's a choice they made willingly, but if it becomes a Moral Standard that in order to be a Good Person you have to be unafraid of throwing your life away and if you aren't willing to die you're a Cowardly Bad Person, that's when it becomes toxic.

Idk, I guess how this ties back to Pharma is that he was never in a position where he expected to make these kinds of moral decisions/ultimatums. He's a doctor who doesn't even get into combat, his job is to heal and not to kill, he's behind the front lines in a hospital that's supposed to be a safe, neutral place for him to heal people. So in the face of suddenly having a "murder people on behalf of me, or I murder everyone you swore to protect" ultimatum thrust upon him, I understand why Pharma wasn't """"""""""brave enough"""""""""" to "do the right thing" (whatever that would've been in the case of Delphi). You could argue that maybe a frontliner soldier accepted the burden of possibly dying for their cause and they've become used to it as someone who lives that reality every single day, but I feel like for Pharma, who's a doctor and a protected non-combatant (from what we can tell), that sort of risking of his life/living with the fact his life could be snuffed out any day isn't something he would've been prepared for at all.

And for me personally, from an outsider's perspective, it strikes me as kind of unethical to go "oh well he should've just detonated the bomb himself even if it killed him" bc again, there's a difference between witnessing a moral conundrum as a bystander versus being the person living with it and being under time pressure where it's do-or-die. Just as part of my personal standards, I feel like death is such a huge consequence/burden of someone's actions (literally you are no longer alive, any potential you had left is cut short, you cease to exist on this plane) that it feels rather callous to go "Well you should've just been willing to die for your beliefs if you really cared that much!!!"