#kal thoughts

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astarion: yeah my former master gave me these scars

my oath of vengeance paladin:

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All rise for the national anthem 🦍🩷🦖

Ship art mostly sourced from Twitter, by notstevely, _zetou_, @flaming-iguana , @kaiju-krew , @startheskelaton , @roybattyrabbit , ImKiara_123, Austrorapt49590, @samgojigammacrow , Paulbagnot, @awkwarddork-0 , and @monstatron

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I think the biggest thing that speaks to me about Veilguard is... I haven't touched it since I finished it.

Almost any game I've ever played that I've enjoyed, truly enjoyed, I've played at least twice if not more. It's actually a terrible habit of mine to have a bunch of saves that I haven't completed because I adore the game so much that I want to experience it over and over again.

Inquisition, Baldur's Gate 3, Destiny, Transistor, Skyrim, Stardew Valley, Witcher 3, I could keep going. The point is Veilguard couldn't deliver on the one thing that makes me love games and that's replayability. All the incentive of making a new character, making different choices, is gone because there's barely any choices to be made. So little reward for choosing a different companion to romance because the formula is the exact same for every single one. Restarting feels more like a struggle to the finish line. I dread the first six hours of gameplay because the dialogue is like nails on a chalkboard stale and stilted. I honestly dread character creation because the backstories are pretty much the same and I don't want to edit my Inquisitor and their choices every time. (Don't get me started on aesthetics.) The fact that the last three games I've sunk hundreds of hours into means NOTHING to Veilguard. That every beloved NPC from previous better games is reduced to whatever plot point serves the weak narrative.

What is there in Veilguard actually worth seeing again myself that I can't just watch a clip of on YouTube and be done with it? I look back at the roughly 80 hours it took for me to finish the game and think that I could've just made a new save on Inquisition and had a way better time. At the end of it all... I can't help but grieve for the game we could've had.

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SPOILERS FOR PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS BELOW CUT

Because I need to yap about that ending 😁

so. holy fucking shit. I need to preface by saying that I am a newcomer to this series and I’m not sure how many people will share my perspective, but I need to get this out anyway. The reason I love the Yautja is mostly for their personality. The first time I watched Predator I saw the Jungle Hunter as, while having a degree of respect for tradition and his prey, was also a bit of a cocky asshole who saw himself as a tier above the rest, and he had the might to back it up! That kind of character immediately drew me in, and I saw similar traits of that cocky attitude appear when I started watching more movies. To me, the Yautja have their customs and cultural norms to abide by, but many of them do not shy away from skirting around those rules whenever they can. Some of them will do anything for the love of the game and to chase the thrill of blood and gore.

AND THAT FUCKING WARLORD PREDATOR. HE EMBODIES THAT COMPLETELY AND I AM OVER THE MOON ABOUT IT.

I was GEEKING when I saw this man. HE FUCKING TALKS???? HE TALKS??? OH MY GOD OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS OOOHHHHFGGSHAGSGHGH

he came out here with this deep ass voice speaking fucking YAUTJA LANGUAGE (which sounds so amazing and I am SO EXCITED to hear more of the conlang in Badlands), wearing a YAUTJA SKULL AS HIS MASK, and tells the characters to fight to the death so one of them can fight him and OBVIOUSLY die as well. DUDE. THE FUCKING AURA ON DISPLAY. IM GEEKING IM GEEKING IM GEEKING. The way he fondled the spines on his cape??? His chuckling??? HIS VOICE???? IM FUCKGJHNAGAGGDBBFJNSBSUBHIBJNJOR

This man is a serial aurafarmer and he NEVER LOST AURA ONCE. When Ursa and Kenji were kicking his ass he took that shit in strides, when they got away, he didn’t cry about it and throw a fit because then he would lose aura. He turned around to his clan, gestured to the ship and said, “Let’s go hunting!” THATS THE MOST YAUTJA FUCKING THING EVER BRO AAUGGGHHHAGSG I LOVE THESE BASTARD ALIEN JOCKS IM TWEAKING THEY MAKE ME SO HAPPY

and to calm down for a second, I’ve seen some discourse about this ending, and honestly I understand where people are coming from. While it’s frustrating that the movie doesn’t say it outright (which, they hardly ever do and thats doubly annoying), I think that this clan is definitely something like a group of Bad Bloods and does not represent the whole of Yautja. They might even be the clan that Feral Predator was from, given all the bone decor, but I don’t want to get too crazy. In any case, while these guys are very dishonourable assholes, the Yautja are not a monolith and Dan definitely does not treat them as such, especially given the variety of Predators he’s created. Dek is going to be our next protagonist and needs to be a sympathetic character, and it would be difficult to keep him that way if he comes from a society of people who will literally never let someone who fairly beats a predator get away. I have faith in Dan and his team, but I get if people were rubbed the wrong way by this ending. I kind of am too in a few ways, cough Naru cough, but I’m kind of way too autistic about these aliens and this fucking warlord bitch to be that bothered by it 😭 I really really liked it and my Predator and Deltarune brainrot are going to be fighting each other once I finally get my hands on that game. If anyone actually read this whole yap I appreciate you.

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Been in and out of tumblr for a while now (mostly out), but with Twitter continuing to use anything and everything you can post on their site for AI training, I’m feeling less inclined to stay on there and am once again trying to pick up my neglected tumblr blog. In general I haven’t been very active posting art on social media, which is mostly because I draw a bunch of oc and fangoji stuff that stays on discord between me and my friends. But I do want to try and begin to properly curate my dash again since I miss posting on here. Will likely be posting about Godzilla Rekindled on here again soon. :P

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Hey hi I’m Kal and I draw things sometimes. Please don’t expect me to be super active on tumblr! You can find me more frequently on twitter and especially discord… however I still feel the allure of this site sometimes, so I figured a profile on myself would be helpful.

I’m agender, currently 18, and use he/him and she/her pronouns interchangeably. Please do not use they/them to refer to me. For random posts where I yap about my thoughts check the #kal thoughts tag. I’m autistic and post about my different hyperfixations and interests, including…

Godzilla, Undertale/Deltarune, Predator, Transformers, Planet of the Apes, Wings of Fire, and palaeontology and the natural world. If there’s a neat, potentially sapient creature in it, chances are I’ll like it. While I may reblog WoF content, I have largely grown out of my interest in the series, so please don’t follow me for WoF art, as they will likely be once in a blue moon. On the other hand, Godzilla and kaiju are what I post about most often, whether it’s about the canon media or my own fangoji story, Godzilla Rekindled. You can find posts about it through its own tag #godzilla rekindled, feel free to ask me questions because I love yapping!!! :)

(Pictured: Gojira and Gojirin, who make me want to walk into oncoming traffic. I’m trying to post about them more frequently because I spend too much time yapping on discord instead.)

My Socials

Twitter - Unfortunately most active here, the site is really becoming a pain for me so I’m making the effort to be on tumblr more often

Toyhouse - Read my yaps boy

YouTube - Inactive, unless…? (I plan to post some stuff here when I finish them, I used to animate a lot and you can look at it if you wish. Been trying to slowly get out of my burnout)

Archive of our Own - Read my Kongzilla fic #meeting halfway if you want… I’ll write the last two chapters eventually lol (4/6 chapters are done if you just found this out now I am so sorry I forgot to update tumblr 💔)

Discord - Kaliido_scope, dm me if we’re close

Art Info

Commissions? At the moment I only take commissions for Discord Nitro as it’s my only method of compensation. I usually do this for friends or people within certain discord servers, so for public comms, the answer is effectively no. The same can be said for art trades. Art requests are closed unless I say otherwise.

I use IbisPaintX to draw, Alight Motion to edit, and Flipaclip on the rare occasion I animate. Do I recommend these apps? Not really! I’m just stubborn and like sitting through ads and not paying for things.

That’s all the info you need to know, thank you!

(scribble of my silly dog sona by my buddy @corvidcaws )

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I’M FUCKING LOSING IT OVER THIS MAGAZINE COVER 😭😭😭 DUDE THEY’RE BOYFRIENDS

LIKE COME ON

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so nice of dr. michael "robby" robinovitch to appear in my dream and talk me through my subconscious panic attack. not so nice for me to then wake up and be immediately disappointed im not resting my head on the shoulder of pittsburgh's finest physician. the world truly is a cruel place 😔