i wish you well, lethallin. we will not meet again.

castor. 21+. they/he/it. lucaanis my beloved. [icon id: drawn bust of alistair theirin in grey warden armor in side profile header id: gif of the bg3 menu screen, a statue looking out over a coastal city with greenery in the foreground /end id]

[cheaphalloweencostume]

“oh so only your hyper specific interpretation of this character matters? no one else gets to have theirs?” yes precisely. now go my flock peck them clean for their insolence 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[wingsofantiva]

#myattempt at replicating the romance tile art style. now everyone can pretend they romanced lleyth 🙂‍↕️

[blue-green-memes]

[april]

ⓘ Tip If you feel unfulfilled by how you spent your time today, you can stay up late to try to combat the sense of dissatisfaction. This will ensure that you feel even worse tomorrow.

[fishmechs]

kingsley experiencing came back wrong horror but in the sense that he did not come back as who everyone wanted him to be and the knowledge that he has been both a friend and an enemy to the only people that know him in any capacity but he is not either of those people anymore but everyone keeps looking at him like maybe he should be lmaooo

[fishmechs]

the thought of the only reason you exist is because people desperately wanted someone else back and they got you instead and they are being so nice about it but you know and they know that this isn't what they meant when they put your body back together and prayed you back to life. ahh!( me yelling)

[energyprison]

the way i feel about retirement is similar to how suicidal teenagers feel about getting to 25

[wingsofantiva]

there's something tasty to me about the way the despair demons single out rook throughout the game in comparison to eventually ending up in the torment nexus regret prison

[gyrovagi]

care and tenderness as violating and coercive acts. being forced into vulnerability for your own good by someone who does not actually see you as a person but as a symbol or a figure too valuable to let die. you have power over so much but not your own body. you have lost the right to risk. everybody cheered

[do-angels-dream-of-starry-seas]

For context on how huge this is

EDIT:

It is now in more theaters than the top 10 movies in the world

[ghostofhelena]

What I am going to get the most amusement and joy out of from this whole experience (outside of the movie itself and watching Mark succeed and achieve a longtime dream of his) is 100% watching Hollywood (like mainstream Hollywood and the entertainment industry, who still do not see Youtubers like Mark as legitimate creators) lose their fucking minds over how successful this film is.

This movie is officially in more theaters than Zootopia 2 and I guarantee you there are going to be studio heads and execs banging their heads against the wall because how does a self-financed, indie horror debut feature film by a relatively "unknown" (unknown outside of the sphere of Youtubers and streamers/gamers; I known In Space got nominated for an Emmy but Mark did say he was largely ignored by the media at the ceremony) filmmaker, based on an indie horror game, create this much traction?

Mark is an anomaly in the entertainment industry and I love that for him.

[64mpg]

(emerges 3 hours later covered in blood) i figured out what emotion i was feeling

[mlembug]

Now if Iron Lung the movie gets a Blu-ray release, I suggest adding in the director's commentary starting with "Hello everybody, my name is Markiplier..." and also Markiplier in the corner.

[alcordraws]

I watched Iron Lung yesterday and as I was sitting there in the theater in my Who Killed Markiplier T shirt, thinking about the Date With Markiplier bloopers and bts and its tiny little crew and feeling like. Holy shit man. We really made it HERE

[phoenixqueenwrites]

Can I just say a few things about Iron Lung that are not spoilers that have tickled me absolutely pink for the last week?

Mark planned Jan 29/30th for the release of his movie. It was an arbitrary date for a movie that was supposed to be seen in no more than a hundred theaters. Of course he was excited to maybe see more happen, but 4000 theaters across the US and around the world...

He also didn't plan for it to release opposite other big name, highly advertised films such as "Send Help" and "Melania." (Note, I did not say these film were reputed to necessarily be good. I said they were highly advertised.)

While I know that the only reason "Melania" exists is for the bri- I mean VIBES, the fact that Amazon and Jeff Bezos invested 75million actual American dollars in a film that no one is seeing while an indie filmmaker with a dream, and a hope, and determination managed to make a film that people care about and actually want to see.

Now we want to see it because of him. To support what some of us have spent 3+ years listening to him struggle through. We have been along for this journey and we went to support the process as much as we went to see what the movie was about. We went to see it because we know the blood, sweat and tears, render farms, and water problems, and hospital trips, and injured backs, and pickup shots that went into making this film. And boy howdy did it pay off.

But think about it. We have no desire to see Melania, because of the people involved. We know it isnt a genuine production. We know its about as real as reality TV. We know every shot is propaganda... but even if it isnt, we know the whole movie was a payof- I mean vanity project. I have no desire to go hate-watch it. That will contribute nothing to this world or my life. I have no desire to further support Amazon and neither does anyone else I know. And more to the point: they could waste 75million actual American dollars on a film for which 2/3s of the crew who worked it asked to be uncredited. It contributes nothing to this world but propaganda and the perpetuation of more lies and half truths presented as worthy of our time while our country crumbles. It is as tone deaf as her rhinestone jacket so many years ago during family separation.

Markiplier, on the other hand has set up mobile blood drives at his movie because there is a shortage of blood in our Healthcare system and he made movie about and ocean of blood and: It seemed like the right thing to do. It was a way he could help.

I hope Iron Lung (a studioless, professional promotionless, indie dream) absolutely buries Melania this weekend and next weekend and the weekend after. I hope people keep going to see it again and again. I know every person i went with last night though of someone else in their lives who needs to see it.

I will go back to my regularly scheduled Doctor Who Posting and Dragon Age Art reblogging soon here. This is not a hyperfixation, but this is my heart feeling absolutely full at the triumph of a person with a story they felt needed telling, and just enough notoriety to do get it done accomplishing something these companies that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a self-contained film would never take the chance on. This is my heart exploding at the thought that the right dream CAN outweigh odds that seem insurmountable if you have the support behind you. This is Me and the rebel in my soul being overwhelmed by the idea that a small crew, really a handful of people, treated with respect and paid conscientiously put together a film that I will remember for years to come while all the blockbuster films ive seen in the last decade have been mostly forgotten in a couple of days, because explosions on a screen don't hold much meaning.

This is poetic in a way. Not in one that really makes sense but this is poetry in the way that it is almost proof of something we, the little guys are all brought up believing: we matter. Our voices matter. Our stories matter.

And while Markiplier hasn't been a little guy for a long time, he's never really thought of himself as a big fish, (well maybe sometimes, but comparatively). Don't get me wrong: his fame and success absolutely made this possible, but he still did it against incredible odds. There are still hurdles to come, but unconventional voices can still be heard.

[oyoshiart]

Every time someone draws a hook nosed baddie with a tiny dainty little elven nose an angel loses its wings (and I become violent)

[lesbianboyfriend]

it’s rotten work. to me if it’s me.

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