Coyle has truly completed his transformation into the Eddie Gluskin of The Outlast Trials because tell me why I saw someone headcanon that his mother was the one who made him into a misogynist.
Favourite thing about them: For as snarky as his dialogue gets at times, I adore just how much he's motivated by love. The way that he holds Lynn's and Jessica's hands when walking with them, the way he gently rocks the "baby", when he tries to protect Ethan from the truth that his daughter is dead, "find Lynn, nothing matters but Lynn"... he's the very definition of "it ended in tragedy but the love was there". I'm sick.
Least favourite thing about them: His lack of stamina </3 I'm so used to practically speedrunning all of the games I play and I can't do that with Outlast II.
Favourite line: "We're out. I got Jessica out. It was cold but the snow had just started. We'll find a grown up and we'll tell them what happened. We'll be okay. It's not my fault." for the tragedy of it all, and "Oh, fuck me!" for the delivery.
brOTP: I like to imagine that he and Miles were friends before their respective Murkoff Adventures, having exchanged sources and tips for their journalism. He admired Miles' commitment to investigating stories that would've otherwise gone untold, and Miles admired Blake's commitment to the finding out the truth.
OTP: Blake/Lynn. Generic answer? Maybe. But Red Barrels made me care so so much about reuniting them. They balance each other.
nOTP: I don't think I have one? I love Blake/Lynn, post-game Blake/Miles, one-sided Blake/Jessica, and one-sided Blake/Val. Maybe Blake/Waylon, but not in a "I hate it" way, more of a "I just don't see them being interested in each other" way.
Random headcanon: You cannot convince me that this man didn't have an edgy metalhead Hot Topic phase when he reached his teenage years. His childhood username was BlakeAgainstTheMachine! The signs are there!
Unpopular opinion: I think this was a bigger deal when the game first came out but Blake isn't any weaker than Miles or Waylon. People tend to forget that he's just been in a helicopter crash, and is going up against people who've been under the influence of Murkoff's radio waves for decades (which we know cause physical effects since Lynn quite literally dies from it) AND are armed with knives, machetes, flaming arrows, etc. If anything, he's incredibly resilient for taking all of the abuse he suffers over the course of the game and trucking along until the collapse of Temple Gate.
Song I associate with them: "O Light" by Kikuo.
Favourite picture of them: This is such a funny thing to answer with a faceless protagonist. This one from the comics. Why does he have so much hair. He looks like an emo kid.
hallooo could I ask for either liliya or franco for the character ask game? :3c
I'll do both! Liliya first:
Favourite thing about them: It's also her most tragic aspect but her status as this weapon or thing to be used by others, whether that be an animal of her mother's or a vessel for God or a replacement for Amelia or an enemy to train Reagents against. She's virtually never gotten to be her own person and that's greatly saddening but also so fascinating. On a more shallow note, I also love her noises when she's vaulting; my brother and I are constantly mimicking that at each other.
Least favourite thing about them: The fact that we're probably never going to get Prime Time dialogue for her since she "keeps her thoughts to herself". It's fitting, I suppose, but dammit I wanna know what she thinks of her murder coworkers!
Favourite line: "The rich will burn in hell forever and ever, amen." Working class hero <3
brOTP: Liliya and Franco, largely because they kept ganging up on me together during Advent of Bogomolova and again for Prime Roulette. They're so opposite that I think a friendship between them would be very funny.
OTP: I'm finding myself interested in Liliya/Amelia! Amelia presents herself as so human and Liliya presents herself as this blessed angel, but they're both elevated to these Messiah figures within the trials (the former by the Reagents and the latter by Easterman). They're two sides to the same coin, I think, of these abused women being stripped of their humanity to serve a purpose, and I love that sort of paralleling in my ships. Together, they egregore. Can anyone hear me.
nOTP: Coyle/Liliya is a classic example of hetslop where the male character is given all of the depth in their dynamic (even though this "depth" is just. him being misogynistic and scared of her) while the female character's feelings are completely ignored. Why would she be interested in him? Because she's getting in his head? She does that to everyone, he's not special. Considering her trauma, I'd dare to say that she would despise him and want him dead! And not in a sexy way!
Random headcanon: She enjoys ballet! Her movements are very graceful and remind me of ballet dancers, and the dance itself has some roots in Russia so I think it's fitting. Since we got to see her poetry in the latest update, I imagine she's quite into the arts in general, particularly literature, dance, music, and theatre.
Unpopular opinion: Liliya is much more complex than she appears, and I hate when she's reduced down to her sex appeal and/or her being religious, or when people say she's boring. Her depth is just a touch more hidden in comparison to the other Primes. Is this an unpopular opinion? I hope not. I don't really interact with the broader fandom enough to know, though.
Song I associate with them: "God Complex" by VIOLENT VIRA.
Favourite picture of them: Any screenshot where she's breaking character as a mannequin and looking around for the Reagents, it's so cutie patootie.
Franco will be under the cut since this is getting long LMAO
Favourite thing about them: Hard to say since he's my Special Little Guy, but I'm gonna have to go with his attitude. It's a bit cliche but I love characters who cling to creating/maintaining an intimidating, commanding persona to hide or make up for certain character flaws (in this case, his disabilities and lack of masculinity). I also enjoy how much he sasses Murkoff and Coyle, I find it really funny.
Least favourite thing about them: His hygiene. I accept it, because being a Franco fan means admitting that he's disgusting, but lord above, man, get that finger out of your nose.
Favourite line: "How do you come up with this shit? You want to kill a guy you just kill a guy. Any child could tell you that." You know Murkoff is getting nasty with their executions when Franco fucking Barbi is appalled by it.
brOTP: I already said Liliya and Franco, so I'll go in a different direction and say Franco and the Kress twins. @agentlove (hi!) has a Kress twins fic where they interact at the end, and the idea of them being in such similar situations (physically disabled, abused and nearly murdered by their fathers, outcasted, still lucid) but being unable to connect due to Otto and Arora's own self-delusion is so so good.
OTP: ...Is it a cop-out if I say Franco/Ronnie (my Reagent OC/sona)... if it is then GooseBarbi. They canonically match and enable each other's freak, and I think that's beautiful.
nOTP: FranCoyle (are you sensing a pattern here?). I love my ships a little toxic but nothing turns me off more than a ship solely based on two characters arguing. Especially since it's just Coyle being xenophobic and ableist, and Franco saying ACAB. Where's the chemistry? Where's the panache?
Random headcanon: I'm trying to think of something that I haven't seen floating around already... he's a big fan of creature features and going to the cinema in general.
Unpopular opinion: I feel like Franco's status as being visibly physically disabled is often sidelined or ignored in discussions about him. His father's abuse, his isolation from the rest of the mob, his insecurities, and his behaviour is all heavily influenced by him being disabled. You even see this in fan art, where people refuse to draw him with all of his physical traits. Give him his craniosynostosis and strabismus and missing teeth and barrel chest and odd gait! It's not Franco Barbi otherwise!
Song I associate with them: "Medicine" by Hollywood Undead.
Favourite picture of them: This panel from the comics. It reads as strangely melancholic to me.
Favourite thing about them: How multifaceted he is! It's easy to write him off as simply unapologetically evil—which he is—but he's also surprisingly sociable and willing to work with others (Iago, Nasira, Hades, etc). He's kind of uptight. He loves puns. He's egotistical. He's easily made insecure (best example of this is when Cruella insults his outfit in Cursed Cafe). He's a manipulator. He's easily manipulated. What a guy!
Least favourite thing about them: Disney's insistence that he has any sort of romantic feelings for Jasmine.
Favourite line: "A snake am I? Perhaps you'd like to see how snakelike I can be!" Such a great moment, and I love how associated Jafar is with snakes (<- guy who loves snakes).
brOTP: Jafar and Mirage! Iago mentions that Jafar used to travel a lot in search of "magical advantages" and immediately clocks that they're in Morbia in Mirage's debut episode, so I like to think that he's been there before. Considering the Egyptian imagery associated with Mirage and that cobras feature heavily in ancient Egyptian art, it's possible that she may have given him his staff. I imagine she sees him as an agent of evil, and that he enjoys having such a powerful ally.
OTP: MozenJaf, which has been my OTP for almost a decade now. I love how weird their power dynamics are, I love how aligned they are in their values and goals, I love the idea of them trying to outfox the other until they realize they're more powerful together, I love them accepting each other wholeheartedly because who else in this world is going to support you in your evil deeds... they're just so much fun and I'm really glad to see more fanworks with them, I treasure them all.
nOTP: It's a toss-up between Aladdin/Jafar and Jasmine/Jafar. Both of these ships tend to be extremely OOC, with very little thought given as to why Aladdin or Jasmine would be attracted to Jafar outside of the author's own bias, and Jafar is always portrayed as this hyper-intelligent dark CEO type that's Good For The Kingdom, Actually. It just reeks of those shitty booktok romance stories with the whimpering little subby reader-inserts and the cringeworthy dommy bad boys. Not my cup of tea.
Random headcanon: He's of Egyptian descent on his mother's side, specifically Nubian. She was also a sorceress and the one who got him and Nasira into magic—the rubies in his cobra staff were actually her earrings, which she gave to him when he was in boarding school. They have/had a very close relationship.
Unpopular opinion: I actually dislike quite a few Jafar-centric fanfics because they make him too cool. He's a theatre kid who's impulsive and emotional and loves puns! Don't erase that side of him and make him into a Boring Generic Sociopath! Angels are losing their wings!
Song I associate with them: "Are You Satisfied?" by Marina and the Diamonds. Especially for his younger years.
ok so this is another long shot but a few years ago there was a twitter post (in japanese i think?) that had measurememts for how to make this book stand thing out of cardboard that you could use to double up books and use up more space on shelves
back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore
if it comes down to it i can just take one apart and get the measurements from there but i would be very grateful if anyone happens to have the original post or something similar??
don't mind how long it's been since i made this post, anyway i realized that i don't even need to take one apart to get the measurements when i can literally just unfold it and refold it /FACEPALM
so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!
this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together
and then in the end you put it together like this!!
and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy
EVERYONE START GETTING MORE USE OUT OF YOUR SPACE NOW!!!!
Compiled some basic information I know about drawing fat characters for beginners since I've been seeing more talk about absence of really basic traits in a lot of art lately.
Morpho Fat and Skin Folds on Archive.org (for free!)
I think the british really popped off with "bloody" as an expletive but unfortunately I can't say it out loud in real life or I sound like a teeaboo from 2012
(wrinkled and dying from laying eggs) tbhhhh dubstep was better in 2009 (lays another egg) there has honestoy not been another producer like Benga (stress from that last egg makes me go blind) my eggs , where are my eggs
There is no greater bond on this earth than when you all despise and carry untold righteous anger about one person and then when you’re all together someone is like “so about that dead horse” and everyone starts sounding like Michael Jackson with the way they’re chanting beat it
In cyclops world the teens have a trend where they play "we are young" by fun and when he says "give me a second i" they put a second eye on random celebs like cyclops shane dawson
i like boys who dress like icecreams and ignore me for video games and get food all over their face so i can wipe it off and spoon feed and baby them esp when they are mean to me it’s garbage i know but i can’t help it
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