High-key Trash

| Li | Asexual Aromantic | pure trash | they / them |

[prokopetz]

Soulslike boss fight with a really overwrought intro culminating with the health bar growing so rapidly that it shoots off the right edge of the screen, but then there's a loud clank from stage right, the bar jolts, shudders, and snaps in half, all the red dribbles out, and the boss just falls over.

[prokopetz]

You deplete the boss' health bar, they fall to their knees, then give a great roar as the "oh shit, it's phase two" fanfare begins to play – then halts awkwardly mid-note while the health bar stays empty. The boss glares at it, then reaches up and gives it a stout whack, whereupon the music restarts and their health begins to refill.

[enki2]

[liminalstrands]

Good news! It gets worse!

I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHARKS HAVE BEEN AROUND THE GALAXY TWICE

[asteroidtroglodyte]

It’s a very good design

[sunderwight]

Do you think in pokemon ancient times when capturing and training pokemon was a rare and expert process, that young princes and princesses and the like would be presented with the finest, youngest pokemon that their vassals could catch as they came of age, to select one to be their personal companion? As like a reflection of their power & authority & ability to tame the nation, even things so unruly and frightening as pokemon? And if you were the vassal who presented the chosen pokemon it was a feather in your cap?

Do you think that's where the idea of the starter pokemon came from? Over time, as taming pokemon became more commonplace and accessible, more of the lower ranking nobility and merchant class wanted to show off their station by invoking similar rituals, until eventually it became a coming-of-age ritual that was standard for most families?

And whereas once the pokemon for royalty would be vetted by the scholars and wisemen and court wizards of the era, these were eventually replaced by actual pokemon experts, until every community had at least one such local expert whose job included preparing and/or approving starter pokemon for the kids?

Cause like. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Emperors trying to acquire exotic pokemon from foreign lands for their heirs. A queen scouring the land for pokemon experts after her ten-year-old chooses a particularly hard-to-tame companion. Murmurings about this or that ambitious lord who skirted the edges of propriety by awarding a rejected starer to his own son, instead of passing it along to the military as would be custom. Princesses showing favor to their chosen knights by sending their pokemon over with a token for the jousts. Rumblings over the succession because the new King never did manage to train his starter pokemon, but his younger, more charismatic brother rides his into battle. Assassins targeting pokemon companions to discredit and punish the political rivals of their employers, because kinslaying might be taboo but there are no divine laws against shooting your cousin's kangaskhan.

[sunderwight]

#dude holy shit. Im going to be thinking about this all night now#pokemon#i could also see this leading into the canon 'starter' pokemon because theyre easier to train but become incredibly powerful.#could also explain why those pokemon arn't so commonplace in the modern day - they were sort of obsessed over and so their numbers declined#like pokemon are in the churches they're on the battlefield of COURSE noblilty would get weird about them#dragon types are incredibly difficult to train but the status of having a Salamence to soar over your lands and your troups with? unmatched#The rich hiring the best pokeball craftsmen they can find to make the ball both aesthetically pleasing and have a better catch rate#also even having a more common pokemon thats TRAINED well than its still better to have a rare exotic pokemon that hates you#Young children would know that their parents are going select their options. Would they make requests?#Would it be considered gauche to only allow them to choose between three of the same type because it would be beneficial to their future?#POKEMON DRESSED UP FOR COURT?!#Would it be an honor or a disgrace for one's starter to be an egg from their parents pokemon?#A lord is deeply distraught that his daughter didn't show for her selection of a gothita#a nidoran#or a shinx because#she found a weird colored feebas the kitchens rejected for soup and now its her best friend#a decade later and she and her shiny milotic are the talk of upper society#BRO (@thesadisticsiren peer reviewed damn these are good thoughts)

[bayofalgecirascranes]

Subscribed to @muffinlance's patreon to read the first few chapters of the third Fox's Tongue book and holy cow i can't believe i forgot how much i love Aaron, i need to reread the entire series as soon as i've finished catching up

Anyway this is your yearly reminder to read Fox's Tongue and Kirin's bone: it's a dark fantasy story with Intrigue and Scheming that explores themes of identity and friendship and it is without a doubt one of the best book series that i have ever read

[torchwood-99]

"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

[pixelartpeach]

E—m—d—a—s—h—N—e—c—k—l—a—c—e

[pixelartpeach]

Y—o—u—P—e—o—p—l—e—W—i—l—l—R—e—b—l—o—g—A—n—y—t—h—i—n—g

[seven-oh-four]

needs an em-dash at the beginning and/or end, otherwise the first or last letters will be right next to each other

[pixelartpeach]

϶—O—h—T—r—u—e—ϵ

(added clasps)

[pancake-blogging]

϶—F—r—i—e—n—d—s—h—i—p—B—r—a—c—e—l—e—t—ϵ

[too-many-blorbos]

϶—C—U—R—S—E—D—A—M—U—L—E—T—ϵ

[bees-official]

Cursed amulet necklace that doesnt have a cursed amulet its just the phrase cursed amulet

[sentientballofpeas]

϶—C—U—R—S—E—D—(¤)—A—M—U—L—E—T—ϵ

[pixelartpeach]

϶—T÷h÷a÷t÷s÷A÷G÷o÷o—d—P o

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀i n

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀t

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀S

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I⠀⠀⠀⠀H

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀T

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀F

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀U

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀C

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀K

⠀⠀⠀⠀M⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Y

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀B⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀EA

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀D

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀S

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ϵ

[heimeldat]

sometimes i wish running away to sea was still a valid career path

[tsalala]

Cheetah cubs feasting on an impala Taken in Maasai Mara, Kenya Photographed by Madhur Nangia

[insomniamamma]

unrepentant and covered in blood with mama

[diamondringsandgutterbones]

"do it scared" "do it alone" "do it bored" what about MY strategy. do it later

[cjskribblez]

duck duck goose!

[justsomeguycore]

i have final destination premonitions all the time but instead of seeing death i see all the possible liquids i could knock onto my laptop

[hidefdoritos]

engaging in a high risk behavior (lying back down after my alarm already went off)

[sanctus-ingenium]

and there was no border between sky and sea | print

[valtsv]

real sadists understand that you can torture The Character simply by forcing them to live with themself

[kseniyagreen]

[conchobarbarian]

hate when I'm trying to just take a normal drink but it turns out I'm thirstier than I thought so I end up gulping it down like a goddamn cartoon characer. the indignity of water lust.

[tenisperfection]

Yes your blorbo is tortured and pathetic and slutty and pretty and suffers more than jesus and all that but never forget that your blorbo is, first and foremost, a loser.

[joseopher-deactivated20260418]

before you stab someone: THINK!

how can you make it Tender?

how can you make it Homoerotic?

how can you make it Implicitly intimate?

how can you make it Noticeably a metaphor for sex?

how can you make it Kind of gay?