ever since the don big naturals thing started I have had at least 70% don related thoughts and now I'm cursed. anyways love don so much

Without color

Trying to warm up because ive been slacking on the askbox!!! Yay!!!

rainbow moon :]

comm for @ cocoa__cola! oh to be in Baxter's place rn

hello painsomnia my old friend...

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i need to get adopted by someone who knows how to cook

Also weird how before the trailer viv was always tweeting to hyper her show up with gifs that had animation errors before the finished product... Like with an attentative view from the sidelines it's a wonder why she's purposefully choosing the shittiest shots with obvious fucking errors or mistakes that could've and will be fixed but like.... this shit has been in production for 4 years I'd hope that they would have cleaned it up and been a bit more careful unlike Helluva Boss....

Maybe one day I'll learn.

⟢ highlight of the hour: my dearest [21/21] ⟣

before and after

[Image ID: A black and white inked digital drawing of Digimon character Lilithmon. She is wearing a simple kimono holding an umbrella over her right shoulder looking to the right side. Lilithmon herself is a humanoid digimon with four bat like wings, two at the top of her back near her shoulders and two around her abdomen- the two at top have a spike respectively and the two below are longer and bigger and more tattered, with various piercings or jewellery dangling off of them. Her right forearm is metallic and covered in swirly embellishments ending in long claws. Lilithmon has two short curved horns coming out of her head, a fairly extravagant hairstyle with two long bangs coming from her middle part framing her face, the rest of her hair straight falling at the shoulders with a large bun on top, adorned with a hair comb, and other accessories like hair sticks that have a pendent at the end of them which each have their own pair of small wings. Long tendrils come from her hair as well ending in arrowhead tips. She has a relaxed expression on her face, and a bat emblem on her forehead. /End Image ID]

I like Lilithmon a lot

In other news, I recently bought no mans sky and have been playing it for the first time. Its really very good honestly

okay wait i need a more thoughtful compilation of the earthsea passages i have saved

1. alwayyys tenar once i meant to kill him now ill make him live if i can which of us saved the other from the labyrinth. always. the farthest shore walked as a heroes journey adventure so that 20 yrs later tehanu could run in the aftermath of the heroes journey from the perspective of the women who had until now been excluded. and her boldness reminds me of when she was arha

2. tehanus that will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life i did live the love i loved and the breath i breathed. dear dragon girl

3. these two go together. tenars almost immediate love for lebannen like she sees immediately why ged cared abt him she loves him for the same reasons. my son my king my dear boy.

4. ged finds a girl in a cave and she locks him up but they wind up escaping together and in her nervousness about an outside world she was secluded from all her life she says she just wants to live in the mountains and he genuinely is like yes itll be hard but if thats what u want we’ll do it. okay tbh hes probably already in that existential crisis we see in farthest shore and tehanu

5. this is like the companion to the tenar-with-lebannen passages because now its ged-with-therru (step-parents w the kids the other person adopted LOL) so many of my saved passages r feelings over little therru

bonus um. the i do know you. i do know you. its like this + the whole section after but vetch is so important TO ME. also that fanart of this scene i rbed a while ago. real

While I totally get the wariness and desire for new and unique takes on the franchise, I find the "ugh it's just G1 again, IDW did such new things and this is the same generic G1 story" response to Energon Universe I've seen from some people very bemusing.

Besides the fact that we only have like, a 2 page cameo, 2 posters, 1 image of Optimus Prime and a very generic piece of marketing copy to go on, I'd like to offer a soft reminder that IDW1 also started on the extremely generic premise of "the Transformers War comes to earth", and not only that but with these cookie cutter G1 character designs:

Looking "extremely G1" doesn't mean we aren't going to get an engaging, interesting and unique story.

Disclaimer that I love G1 with my whole heart and "looking G1" is absolutely an allure for me lmao

so I realized the main four geats riders could all be tracked to the four stages of grief and the lamentation arc went hard so:

Right so after THAT (linking to @rooftop--runner 's post) q&a from Ian Flynn, I felt inspired. (IDW Sonic spoilers? I guess?)

Dont repost to other socials thanks!

The scene that influenced me under the cut:

So I finally got my hands on a ps5 and the first thing I did with it was play my ps4 copy of Shadow of Mordor (as one does) and maaaaannnn im thrown back into how much I love and adore Talion and Celebrimbor but not as this angsty game canon "forced to be together and betray each other" but in a "God wouldn't it be fun if fanon celebrimbor just went off about how much he loves Dwarves and crafting and Talion is being haunted by a loveable and brilliant yet socially naive ages old Elf who is burdened by Elf made horrors beyond comprehension?"

Talion asks about Celebrimbor's skills with a bow and he goes off about his uncles Ambarussa and Celegorm, or asks about Eregion and ruling and he gets tales of Maedhros and Caranthir, maybe Talion has trouble sleeping one night and Celebrimbor sings him a song he learned from his uncle Maglor.

He tells tales of his Dwarven husband Narvi, of his mother who died when Eregion fell, of the young Elven girl he adopted with Narvi as a babe, who kept him going after his husband's passing, and never got to grow up. He learns about cousins and uncles and aunts and grandparents who should by all accounts are important figures of history but Talion only knows of them as Uncle Finarfin that got bit by a swan, or cousin Fingon who once climbed a tree to help Celebrimbor get down and broke a tree branch on his way down and ended up breaking a wrist protecting the young Elf.

For that is all either of them have, just stories to tell of people they have loved and who have moved on without them, by no fault of their own. They are each other's company during such horrible times, and they both care for the other deeply.

When the Age of Elves is at an end and the Shadow is banished, I believe they deserve a kinder ending, one with one last journey together, and being able to visit the White City one last time, maybe having a glimpse of the New King. Maybe They keep walking, passing through the Gap of Rohan and walking into the Land of Holly. Celebrimbor could tell a few more tales, maybe even one of the father he never speaks of. They sit in the ruins of an old castle, one that feels like home to both, and together they pass over to The Halls and whatever the Gift of Men has in store for Talion. A red dawn can kiss the cheek of the body they both inhabited as they leave.