I like animating hands...

Ulysses obsession with the Courier is a special type of sad to me cause the Courier’s part was so important but so unwitting. They had no idea what was in the package they delivered and neither did he. Neither had an idea of what it could’ve done and the Courier was only caring out their job (mind you the Courier could be killed via notes in the express contract if they don’t). To them it was just another regular delivery to the divide and one that they likely thought would help, just like all the ones before.

It’s so tragic for Ulysses to hold so much ire to the Courier when it really was the case of it could’ve been anyone. Anyone could have delivered that package but they did and so he focused the blame on them and it destroys what he is trying to instill in the courier on a fundamental level.

Love in the Air: Sky x Prapai THAT SCENE (Episode 8)

I feel like THAT SCENE™ needed its own mention, because let’s face it - I’m pretty sure all of us have been going feral in anticipation of the fireworks that were guaranteed to blow our heads clean off. And whilst I don’t want to overlook the more serious emotional/narrative weight this scene has on the story - I simply must indulge myself in a dedicated post for this scene. After which, I’ll check myself straight into horny jail.

Ffffff----, the way Sky hooks both his hands round the back of Prapai’s neck and yanks him down.

not to bring up mass effect but that’s one of the most interesting things it ever posited when it came to the idea of organic vs artificial intelligence. a machine, if sentient, knows who created it and why it was created. and a person will never know that. like, even lacking spirituality, even if you ascribe all this to random cause-and-effect, that doesn’t actually get you any closer to understanding why there is a you. but a robot can look their creator in the eye, can read out the whole of its purpose, and know that no matter what it modifies, this is what it was made to be. and what if it was made limited, or flawed, or shackled. there are elements of that a person can relate to, maybe understand, but not all of it, not enough to fathom how different the experience of the world is when you have no questions about your origins.

Read A Good War, Alex. It'll be fun, Alex

@love-killed-the-superstar Following our recent discussions, I just need to point out again that Shredder burned down April's whole ass shop in the first season of 2k3, and after she rebuilt it identically, brick by brick, he is STILL like Hm. I wonder where I may be able to find my enemies now. Such a mystery. Alas.

Meanwhile, Karai is like "I need to deliver a threat to Leonardo. I'll just leave it with April" and breezes into the shop pretty as you please.

actually, speaking of Laurel - i have a lot of thoughts about how that winter in TTC was the emptiest we’ve ever seen CHB. Minus Clarisse and her questing group, there were exactly 13 campers and we have enough information to list them:

Percy and Thalia

Charles Beckendorf & two of his siblings (unnamed)

Silena Beauregard & two of her siblings (unnamed)

Three Ares kids (unnamed & minus Clarisse)

The Stoll Brothers and Nico in Hermes cabin.

(Two of the unnamed campers in either Cabins 5, 9, or 10 are named Laurel and Jason, but we don’t know which ones)

And then also the 13 Hunters of Artemis. And later Clarisse, her quest group, Chris, and Annabeth, when they all get back after their respective quests. But for the majority of that winter - No Demeter kids, no Athena kids (cause Annabeth is busy holding up the sky), no Apollo kids, not even Castor and Pollux - which in itself implies that actually that none of those cabins had year-round campers at the time (even Annabeth had been going to school then).

This also implies that besides the campers we know have already been introduced (Katie Gardner, Lee Fletcher, Michael Yew, etc), if a known currently alive camper can not fit into the blanks of this list, then they joined after TTC (especially if they’re a year-round camper, unless they switched to being year-round). Heck, we even know all the current Hephaestus kids by name - so unless some other Hephaestus kids died in the war(s) and these were them, the most likely two current Hephaestus kids that could have been present at this time were Nyssa and/or Jake (presuming that because they’re counselors that they’re the senior kids in their cabin - if this is not the case then it could also be Shane and Christopher. And of course Laurel and Jason are options, but if either of them were in Cabin 9 they absolutely died during the war).

We know that by TLO that CHB’s numbers had dwindled to about half of what they usually were (leaving ~50-60 total campers at the start of the Battle for Manhattan). In TTC, this is us really seeing how small CHB is during the war. Most of those campers defected to the Titan Army. We also know CHB's suffered a loss of about 20% during the actual Battle for Manhattan (and a good portion of that was basically the Entire Apollo Cabin, since all but 3 of them died and they were formerly one of the largest cabins) but we don’t know how many campers fighting on the Titan Army’s side died as well. We do know though that CHB’s size approximately tripled after the war, with a height of about ~150 campers in the summer and closer to 100 in the off-seasons - and that many of those new campers were either ex-Titan Army members returning or joining camp for the first time or completely new campers who had just been claimed.

And finally, my favorite fact about the statistics of that one winter at CHB - this means that list? Those 12 campers and 13 Hunters are the only ones to have ever known what Nico was like before he ran away. Nobody else knows he used to be different, or even that he had previously been a camper before re-joining officially in BoO. Nobody at all.

the pyon legion........

i drew this early last year when a friend went through the entire mass effect series, this one from ME2 and GOD the whole thing with the geth were so EMOTIONAL I just wanted them to get along aaaaa

hi, my name's daniel and I make music every now and again. It's a bad habit that shouldn't be encouraged, but it's cheaper than therapy so I keep doing it.

Recently I posted an npr tiny desk submission on youtube of this song, but I wanted to share my original demo for it somewhere. And no better place than within this gated asylum I've come to love so much.

This song is kind of a love song, and also fairly autobiographical. Some poetic license was taken however, such as: I was actually dropped on the head twice (true story).

So whether you like sad songs, angry songs, or hopeful songs, this song might be the song for you.

"The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now."

nap time~

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

I Am Fully Only Mysterious If You Have Not Spoken To Me

We Were Not Put In This Universe To Silently Cultivate Grudges In The Bone Gardens Of Our Thoracic Cavities

Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire is part of my preferred transmog, so this could all just be a coincidence, but I think I got a little wink towards the relationship between Tyr and Xal'atath just as we revived him.

I was expecting a little something, but got nothing when we revisited the tomb where Tyr fell and I pulled the knife from Zakajz's body, nor when we took the role of Tyr in fighting him.

But after a short stint to get back his disk, after a more morally dubious mission that made the Paladins seem uneasy, after the great and grand resurrection of the Titanic watcher...

Xal'tath whispered me to remind me that the Light looked to trap us in total obedience and stagnation, whereas she offered both freedom and strength.

Not sure it's intentional, but considering she's going to be a bigger part of things going forwards, it just might well be... wouldn't be the first time I doubted that we were finished with the Old Gods...

why are offline ttvs the most toxic ppl in dbd

In the professor au there was no real proposal.

Querl and Lyle had just graduated, and on the way home from the ceremony Lyle made a joke about them getting married, which turned into a serious talk about really do it, and then they agreed they eventually would.

it still wasn't an important goal for them though, so it wasn't for another two and a half years that they eventually got married. They also made a day out of going to get the rings and fake proposing to each other for a second time a few months before.

they just went right down to the courthouse to get married and only invited a few people last minute to be witnesses and then went out for dinner to celebrate.