No victory, no defeat.

Hayley // 26 // she/they // x: @kazuhiraaa // insta: @hardwoodhayley

[sniperduel]

seeking hands and radio static

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

pyrrha dve: look, kid. look at me. i know you're kinda reeling right now but before we're swallowed by cthulu i need you to understand that i did fuck your mother. yes i know you just met your father for the first time and hes god or whatever, but so you know you've always been a daughter to me, especially that one time when i killed your mom and also maybe you. it's ok she understood why i did it. all that said i think we should kill ourselves right now. what do you mean you don't want to kill yourself? your mother would have killed herself with me.

[thanergetic-hyperlinks]

I have never before heard Pyrrha speak in my mind with a voice so like a detective's in a pulpy noir.

[chekhovs-guns]

okay but we should talk more about edward miller's artwork for the locked tomb series. like. these are so beautiful. the only style in which i would like to see tlt adaptation.

illustrations by edward miller for subterranean press edition of gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

illustrations by edward miller for subterranean press edition of harrow the ninth by tamsyn muir

illustrations by edward miller for subterranean press edition of nona the ninth by tamsyn muir

[light-camera-bitch-smile]

ianthe: harry can't POSSIBLY love you, nav; she lobotomized herself to forget about you! to love is to remember!

not five pages earlier: gideon waxing poetic about how harrow tenderly wrapped gideon's sunglasses (that harrow allegedly hated btw) and sealed them tightly in an envelope for eight months on the OFF CHANCE gideon came back in some way shape or form

gideon: yeah seems legit. i mean she didn't even seem happy when i died for her so like.

[sniperduel]

It is such a crime first kill got cancelled because it literally made sense for the Vampire to be the submissive in a Vampire / Vampire Hunter ship. Amazing subversion of expectations and writing

[1nterspace-2]

A quick illustration of my favorite lesbian space necromancer <3

[jbaileyfansite]

Jonathan Bailey as Anthony Bridgerton in “Victory” (Bridgerton - 2x04)

Gifs 321/?

[samimarkart]

Finally, some new art! Really had fun with the colors on this one, feels the complete opposite of the rainy spring I’m experiencing right now 🌧️

[sniperduel]

I miss when video game DLC was like genuine iterations and interesting new ideas that may not have been perfect for the base game but still would be fun to interact with. And like not DLC is base game content we cut on purpose (pls buy the preorder deluxe version which just becomes the deluxe version once the game is released), cosmetics, extra areas that also should have probably been available before the DLC released, more of the same type of radiant and/or sidequests in the base game, does not bring favored characters back to allow for further canon material to develop their character, etc etc etc

So many beloved DLC I have now been able to play as a working adult with my own money is how WORTH IT they were. And I get so upset, because huge formative years of mine were spent with video games, and so I missed this cool and amazing thing. But that’s a small problem to the fact that nowadays these DLCs mostly bullshit. It’s not mass effect citadel, it’s knowing that we can monetize the shit out of cosmetics that would 10 years ago would be accessible via a cheat code on the main menu.

I am so upset that games are amazing, because they are the most monetizable reward entertainments that our ape brains can latch, and this only upsets me because of extreme capitalism :((

[sniperduel]

SHOUTOUT to FIRE EMBLEM THREE HOUSES for doing this great DLC with Cindered Shadows… in 2019. 7 years ago.

But I have a completely different opinion for strategy games that have a series. I think it is natural to want to upgrade the game every once in awhile due to changing technologies, so the reboot happens in the form of a sequel. These sequels should keep features of the original game + DLC as much as possible, but also leave room for those complicated systems be produced after the game has a following and a community. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that these strategy games get created in chunks, because I think DLC should iterate on concepts and play with more complicated ideas off of a base set of a rules. But I do think it’s bad that capitalist greed forces things to be overpriced and as expensive as possible.

Humans ❤️Games 😊

Humans❤️ Power, resource hoarding, and control ☹️

[sniperduel]

Okay, but then also that created human conflict and that create our entrenchment of competitive ideals in societies around the world. (** again to some extent considering even older agricultural factors like wheat vs rice culture and climate)

Those factors of human society gave us really gracious material for GAMES. Ah. Well it’s a circle isn’t it. Competition is games. Which is actually a great side concept to discuss, what it means to be a cozy game. I think the actual genre of cozy game is Low Stakes, Low Self Competitive, and low Community Competitive. That meaning there’s low accessibility to counting personal high scores and low accessibility to directly competing to other people. Example. I think Stardew Valley teters on very edge of this Cozy / Competitive game fence. And then remember that speedrunners exist so there’s a possibility a perfect cozy game could become a competitive game in some communities.

[sniperduel]

I miss when video game DLC was like genuine iterations and interesting new ideas that may not have been perfect for the base game but still would be fun to interact with. And like not DLC is base game content we cut on purpose (pls buy the preorder deluxe version which just becomes the deluxe version once the game is released), cosmetics, extra areas that also should have probably been available before the DLC released, more of the same type of radiant and/or sidequests in the base game, does not bring favored characters back to allow for further canon material to develop their character, etc etc etc

So many beloved DLC I have now been able to play as a working adult with my own money is how WORTH IT they were. And I get so upset, because huge formative years of mine were spent with video games, and so I missed this cool and amazing thing. But that’s a small problem to the fact that nowadays these DLCs mostly bullshit. It’s not mass effect citadel, it’s knowing that we can monetize the shit out of cosmetics that would 10 years ago would be accessible via a cheat code on the main menu.

I am so upset that games are amazing, because they are the most monetizable reward entertainments that our ape brains can latch, and this only upsets me because of extreme capitalism :((

[sniperduel]

SHOUTOUT to FIRE EMBLEM THREE HOUSES for doing this great DLC with Cindered Shadows… in 2019. 7 years ago.

But I have a completely different opinion for strategy games that have a series. I think it is natural to want to upgrade the game every once in awhile due to changing technologies, so the reboot happens in the form of a sequel. These sequels should keep features of the original game + DLC as much as possible, but also leave room for those complicated systems be produced after the game has a following and a community. I don’t think it’s a bad thing that these strategy games get created in chunks, because I think DLC should iterate on concepts and play with more complicated ideas off of a base set of a rules. But I do think it’s bad that capitalist greed forces things to be overpriced and as expensive as possible.

Humans ❤️Games 😊

Humans❤️ Power, resource hoarding, and control ☹️

[sniperduel]

I miss when video game DLC was like genuine iterations and interesting new ideas that may not have been perfect for the base game but still would be fun to interact with. And like not DLC is base game content we cut on purpose (pls buy the preorder deluxe version which just becomes the deluxe version once the game is released), cosmetics, extra areas that also should have probably been available before the DLC released, more of the same type of radiant and/or sidequests in the base game, does not bring favored characters back to allow for further canon material to develop their character, etc etc etc

So many beloved DLC I have now been able to play as a working adult with my own money is how WORTH IT they were. And I get so upset, because huge formative years of mine were spent with video games, and so I missed this cool and amazing thing. But that’s a small problem to the fact that nowadays these DLCs mostly bullshit. It’s not mass effect citadel, it’s knowing that we can monetize the shit out of cosmetics that would 10 years ago would be accessible via a cheat code on the main menu.

I am so upset that games are amazing, because they are the most monetizable reward entertainments that our ape brains can latch, and this only upsets me because of extreme capitalism :((

[sniperduel]

Bruh when will terfs stfu stop bullying people on the internet by posting random screenshots of people they don’t know

[sniperduel]

Like I sincerely do not give a fuck if they post it so far removed from the original poster that she will never see it… why the fuck are these people using their misandry as a justification for accusing random trans women they don’t know of “faking it”? just because what? They have some stubble on their chin (i have chin stubble too)? They haven’t had FFS? They have transitioned later in life and are going through the awkward phase many women go trying to find their unique personal fashion sense? They are a bit flat-chested? They are, oh good heavens, using the restroom in public?

[sniperduel]

Bruh when will terfs stfu stop bullying people on the internet by posting random screenshots of people they don’t know

[anniebracketts]

Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter

SCREAM VI (2023) dir. Tyler Gillett, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

[cymk8]

karbubu and sharbubu for my brithday

(full art and other versions on patreon)

[sniperduel]

The horrors of people shipping Edelgard with men who don’t understand her

[sniperduel]

panam is literally like no Homo V but if you don’t live with me forever I Will Die

I literally did not get a notification for this but LITERALLY at the end of the questline she’s like “bestie you’re always welcome here. Bestie I’ll do anything to try and extend your lifespan so you can live with us. Bestie thank you so much for intimately connecting with me to pilot a tank with me.”

honestly It makes no sense for it to be straight-locked the way it is (with the weird fucky gender settings in character creation) bc she is obviously very attracted to V regardless

[sniperduel]

Somebody liked this so this is me reblogging this to say CDPR should make every female romance-able character sapphic because obviously they don’t know how to write a straight girl interacting with other women.

They will not have this issue with Ciri obviously because they will probably give her 10 different women she can fuck and one man who will be shoehorned into the story of TW4 but nobody will really want to romance him because 1) their romance will likely be poorly written and 2) everybody loves gay Ciri