i'll come back to haunt you

perpetual student. this blog is a mish mash of nonsense. you can expect fandom, rp ramblings, cats, video games, writings, just about anything any everything.

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[briargeese]

A hibiscus flower under ultraviolet light, shining for the polinators.

[crowarmy]

my photogenic boy

[miggylol]

You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

Are you still buying the house?

🥳 Yes! Are you kidding?!!! Now I'm buying the house BECAUSE of the ghost!!!!!

😊 Yes. I'm happy to have found this house, and the ghost is a nice addition.

😶 Yes, but the ghost doesn't play into my decision at all.

😒 Yes... I guess. I'm not happy, but I'm not passing up an affordable house.

❌ No. I've found my limit, and this ghost is past it.

Voting ended onMay 11, 2025

[caesarsaladinn]

every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

[tlirsgender]

Being sensitive to changes in barometric pressure is crazy what do you mean my problem is that the wind changed direction. What do you mean it's the fuckin clouds

[tlirsgender]

Eastern united states how are we feeling. With that fucking barometric pressure

[clusterbuck]

someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

[exhuastedpigeon]

I can admit this is a little out of hand, but I promise AI didn't write my 150k fic 😂

[fuctacles]

Reblog if you're a human that uses em-dashes

[nymphoutofwater]

fuuuuck that is my circus. are those…? yep… those are my monkeys….. goddammit.

[twobabkas]

CHARLIZE THERON as ANDROMACHE THE SCYTHIAN in THE OLD GUARD (2020)

[hydine]

Damn, I shouldn't think too much. I just had this random thought that...

Lucanis spent a year in the ossuary. A year filled with loneliness, a demon in his body and probably other psychological torture. Based on what I've seen ingame, other people broke under whatever was done to them. But not Lucanis. Lucanis is strong, no doubt.

And my thought went like... How many times did Spite have to take over because Lucanis couldn't take it anymore? Couldn't take the torture because his mind would break? How many times did Spite save Lucanis?

[lindira]

What’s so compelling about this for me is that it would be Spite as the demon to help Lucanis keep going. Despair would sap a person’s will to live. Rage would burn through a person. Pride would not allow its human to continue living under such torture. But Spite? Spite is motivating. It’s patient. People have lived with nothing to keep them going but Spite. And that’s exactly what Spite did for Lucanis.

[kingcael]

feel the light shine on my face

[irabelas]

they stopped a whole ass blight. give them the griffon.

[oldshowbiz]

Starcade (1985)

[fabiansociety]

da2 isn't the best dragon age game *because* it's openly a tragedy, but being a tragedy forces a level of narrative coherence that the other games in the series don't have, and *that's* what makes it a better game.

okay, so. dragon age 2 runs on nested foreshadowing and a limited set of themes that almost every character and plot beat fall into: love is not enough, wealth is not enough, power is not enough, good intent is not enough. the problems you run into are structural, rather than individual, and your ability to resolve them as one person is strictly limited. the arishok is a central figure for this, because he prefigures every other tragedy and makes the game's thesis statement as clear as possible. he doesn't want to be in kirkwall, but he is compelled to remain until he gets back what was stolen. he doesn't want to lead a coup attempt, but he is compelled by qunari codes of justice to act. he does not want to die and fail his duty, but but he is compelled to by the other two impossible demands. every tragedy in kirkwall is the result of too many people with wildly different definitions of justice crammed into one place specifically designed to maximize human misery and suffering, and so you get a wonderfully nested narrative onion where each quest reinforces that idea, where there are no good options, just positions you can take — even the affinity system plays into that, where constantly gassing up your friends or constantly pushing them to change are equally correct ways to go, but ones that won't ultimately make a huge difference in their lives or characters, because no matter how much they like you, they're not under your control.

this coherence is even justified by the framing device. of *course* the moral of the game is "insisting on a dogmatic, narrow idea of justice destroys individuals and societies," it's a yarn being spun by varric the con artist to a chantry cop!

neither origins or inquisition play with that sort of narrative complexity. origins is a jaundiced hero's quest, certainly, but it's still basically a hero's quest; inquisition has a number of characters who question what you're doing and why, but the multitude of voices pulls the game in too many potential directions. DA2 was so constrained in its production that it pulled on decidedly ancient theatrical traditions, and it worked so, so well

[thestuffedalligator]

Cooking horror game where you play as a cook working in the galley of a ship in the 1800s. There’s some kind of supernatural nautical horror story going on in the background but you barely notice this because you spend all day cooking in the galley.

[muffinlance]

As the game goes on you have to cook for fewer and fewer people but their orders--and the ingredients they bring you--become increasingly unhinged

[visenyaism]

like a fool i have always forgiven the dc metro system every time it fucks me over because the stupid sexy 70s brutalist aesthetic is just too swag i am sorry

[kirby-the-gorb]