yeah, sure I’ll reblog that

Keeping this around.

Alright so I'm seeing a bit of hate at Barbie for dismissing Blitzø like she did, but at the same time, even though we don't understand what happened between them, it's still completely understandable as to why she doesn't want to see Blitzø.

(1) He doesn't respect her decision of NOT wanting to see him, constantly trying to sneak in the hospital to see her and her needing protection from the NURSE of all people.

(2) when he does find her, even though he knows she doesn't want to see him, and to be left alone, he still acts like she owes him something, and tries to make her look like the asshole.

(3) He doesn't even attempt to try to call of the hit for her, despite knowing she needs the guy to do her job. (Don't get me wrong, both the guy and her job are shitty, but it doesn't change the fact that she needed the both of them if she wanted to move on with her life.)

One could argue that he only started holding her back after she attacked Moxxie, but it doesn't change the fact that even beforehand, he did nothing to stop Moxxie from killing the human. Even when they're fighting he still doesn't stop Moxxie and even helps him.

(4) Even after all that, after her supplier is killed, he doesn't offer an apology, a way to make it up to her, or even just something that would go to HER interests. He JUST started to talk about what HE wanted. This whole thing about finding her and repairing their relationship wasn't about her, it was about him.

In the end, though we all know he cares about her, it's obvious through this show that he doesn't care about her ENOUGH to put his own interests aside and focus on what she wants. Even though he genuinely does desperately want to repair things with her.

And it's so, so sad.

it's always the evil men doing that pose.

B-But I’m allergic to Strawberries!

Merry Splatfest

No joke, I really hope Sweet wins this.

For all you Sammy fans, sad about him getting shot down (ngl I found it hilarious, given the situation). I present to you Audrey’s book of ideas for the new cycle she has control over:

She may be planning on having him survive.

Here’s the other ideas that were shown, if anyone’s interested:

“That it’s chorus may ring for all”

Buy the Print here.

Keep thinking back to the lines of Marie just roasting Agent 3 during splatoon 2's storymode- combined with playing an octoling in 3, I like to imagine the new captain left an unfortunate legacy behind

Come to think of it, when and why did people start to headcanon that Captain 3 was an unhygienic stinkfish?

i thought weve been through this as a fandom, but i saw a post of my dash recently saying that agent 3/captain 3 "canonically and exclusively uses they/them" and anything else is "misgendering" them so as a they/them nb myself i must remind yall ahem

1. nonbinary people can use they/he/she/whatever it does not have to be "exclusively" they/them if they so chose

2. agent 3 and every subsequent agent Is The Player. they are not their own character, there IS NO "CANON" lol atleast not in the way we view it normally in fandoms

the other characters in the lore are npcs, they have set genders and pronouns, and the game acknowledges that the player could be Anyone and uses they/them for Every agent. they/them is a gender neutral set of pronouns, meaning they can represent someone who uses she/her if the person speaking does not know that yet, out of politeness. not everyone who is referred to by they/them uses those pronouns, thats the point

splatoons fandom is very unique in that we make content for characters that are. honestly non existent? like theyre us...but they also exist in the lore..

but theyre US yk??

not everyone who plays splatoon uses they/them, and therefore there is no "canon" set of pronouns. its whatever u want, u cant "misgender" a conceptual character lol

personally i view agent 3/captain 3 as nonbinary and uses they/she/he, but my agent 4 uses she/her. i am allowed to do that bc yk what? i said so its my copy of the game lmfao

what does zaun export like, i know this isn’t even a big deal, but besides shimmer (and singed’s fucking chemical bombs in lore), we haven’t really seen zaun’s industrial capacity 

like, yeah it is a place where illegal transactions and experiments can be carried out that otherwise wouldn’t be sustained in piltover, but surely that can’t be enough to sustain its economy, esp where powers like noxus, for example, can just find trading partners in piltover or other semi-autonomous areas under its control

idk just thinking about this since noxus seems to be a growing player in arcane s2 and noxus and zaun have a decent relationship in lore

Though Shimmer is what we see being abused as a drug in Arcane, Zaun’s biggest item is Chemtech. Cheaper, more volatile, and able to work with Hextech. It’s something that gave the Chem Barons their name.

Endeavor is such a good, well written character and it REALLY sucks how fans just boil him down to being a Shitty Husband/Dad like people miss the point so hard to the point where they still think hes the same person from season one like yeah He did shitty and horrible things BUT NOT ONCE DOSE THE NARRATIVE EVER ASK HIM TO TAKE PITY ON HIM FOR FEEL SORRY FOR HIM they leave it totally up to you if you want to forgive him or not just like how it is painted with his kids and if you can’t forgive Enji for what he’s done that’s totally fine BUT DON’T SIT THERE AND ACT LIKE HE HASN’T CHANGED OR ISN’T TRYING TO BE A BETTER HERO.

like really, my only big issue with Todoroki’s is that they don’t put this much effort and thought when writing with his wife, I could go on for hours

Collector meets alternate universes of other collectors.

Prisoned collector

Collector amity (i made a small hint in her necklace that it shattered when the collector possesed amity.)

Human oddly collector (Colin Cole)

Collector luz

(Wooh! i cant believe it took me 5 long hours to make this)

You know the recent Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers movie? Do you think a film like that could work but with anime characters? Think of it like a massive actor AU.

Things I’d like to see if this film were to be:

Wow…this is a lot of negative…I should think of more positive ideas:

That’s all I got for idea on little things the film could have. Anyone else have ideas?

Come on, everyone let’s come up with more ideas to add on!

For me, I can imagine Matoko Kusanagi and Scarlett Johansson reminiscing about the time one coached the other on Ghost in the Shell, and occasionally talking about the mixed reactions on the Live Action movie.

(my one gripe with Myths of the Realm below the cut)

Going to need to swap to Reblogs for convenience.

Not Ra-La. That one was one of the worlds she talked about before the Meteion of Etheirys transformed. I was referring to the “being of greater power” that killed its followers in a fit of rage, then killed itself when she asked what it lived for. This was when you finally catch her and she begins her report.

Moving on from that, I did not imply that all beast tribes were artificially created. I was using both the Sylphs and the Ixal as examples that not every deity thought up would be real. This is to address what you mentioned about the Twelve being “righter” than other religions. The deities may exist, but there is evidence that some are fabricated from Time’s progression.

Now, as for the opposing question of Deities not existing at all, that serves only to halt the discussion as it calls into question what the questline showed with neither side having enough information to solidify an answer. The scenes provided the information that the Twelve exist, and that they’ve observed the lives of those who worship them, and that calamities show their own true forms to those who happen upon them. They reside in a place that annoy be seen in any other circumstance, and existed throughout all of those calamities, giving rise to belief in them. Whether this is true or not is still up in the air, but logic dictates that their sightings gave rise to the religion that worships them, at least for Ralgr.

As for the question of why they did nothing…I dunno. We only have part 1 of the whole storyline, so that can’t be answered or properly speculated. My guess would be that it was to work along with Hydaelyn’s plan, and not coddle the people of Eorzea out of their ability to fight back against the Final Days. Like I said, that’s just a guess, so don’t look too far into it.

I don't really think Meteion seeing the creature before travelling back to the Ancients and transforming excludes the possibility of it being Ra-La, as she could have went back there after transforming to trap the souls inside the giant egg thing. Also, a "being of greater power" is a very loose term. Midgardsormr and Hydaelyn are both a lot more powerful than most residents of Etheirys, and therefore could be considered beings of greater power, but rather than deities, they are a dragon and a primal respectively, meaning that (which again, could be Ra-La, though the scope of it's powers isn't much explained beyond it being a final dungeon boss, but).

Regarding the information, all of this is assuming the Twelve are actual deities, which is still up in the air, as their sightings alone do not prove their status as actual deities (communities with lower scientific knowledge may have just seen them and thought they were gods because they didn't have any other explanation), and they seem to conceal a lot of information. I actually wrote in my other theory post that both their realm and what they have shown us so far both look like something within the abilities of the Ancients, leading me to speculate that the Amaurotines may have created them at some point (which would also bring up the question of why, but that is just one theory of their origin, some also theorize about them being aliens or some forms of auspices). And the way Emet formulates his last phrase, "the real identities of the Twelve", makes one think that they are not what the general public believes them to be.

As for "not coddling", I think that there is still a lot of worse things an actual deity could have done, such as, say, preventing souls from falling apart during the Final Days. Or making sure that people won't die of random circumstances and instead face adversity as a human consequence. Or at least made sure that there was a more reliable backup plan in case no one could defeat Hydaelyn and go to fight Meteion other than just letting a bunch of Sharlayans pick and choose who lives and who dies (as they were originally not planning to accept everyone on the Ark and would have just let whoever they would deem "a potential cause of conflict" get blasphemied).6.1

I don’t really see any evidence of that entity being Ra-La, especially when the account of how Ra-La and the entity in question differs in the way they act. Ra-La wasn’t shown or said to help the civilization prosper, it was made to usher a gentle end to its creators/worshipers. The entity mentioned in the screenshots, however, was reported to have destroyed its worshippers out of rage, and implied to have committed suicide out of despair.

Your theory of the Ancients is interesting, though there are other possibilities that can be made with it as a base, and with so little information any of it can be believable. They could be creations or creators. Maybe they’re evolved concepts that gained sentience and power. Maybe they’re fellow conspirators of Hydaelyn. Maybe they’re what remained of those new lives that would’ve been sacrificed to Zodiark. It’s very interesting to think on.

It seems I didn't see the whole dialogue because Tumblr's image resize is a bitch. Still, my point stands that there is no proof towards that "auspice of higher power" actually being any sort of a deity for it to count as foreshadowing towards anything, as there are plenty of beings much more powerful than an average human that we encounter on our travels that are not deities, and yet could claim to be ones (Ultima the High Seraph) or be perceived as ones (Hydaelyn and Zodiark) due to their level of power and inhuman perception. As for them being creators, I am really not convinced of it, as Ancients in general appear to be non-religious, with there being no mention of the Twelve (outside their sigils being on one Ktisis weapon, which... could mean different things) or any sort of similar faith, as well as a lack of any similar tradition on the First, leading me to believe that the religion itself only became a thing on the Source post-Sundering. Which also begs the question of how they escaped Sundering if they existed before it, but this is a question we also still have with the Unsundered Ascians (which also reminds me that the realm of the Twelve is not dissimilar from Pandaemonium, a place strongly associated with Lahabrea, in terms of spatial distortion and how it stays hidden). And there's also the Azem-Azeyma-Azim connection that still hasn't been explained... Besides... After all that happened in the game up to this point, I just don't think there is a place for the "God is real and he loves you, you are right to worship him" types of religious narratives after all the run-ins with "gods". Maybe my bias against such narratives (as they remind me of the time my family tried to get me to stay religious even though I made up my mind about dropping it) plays a role in my perspective, but the way I see it the implication of actual gods that want nothing but the best in the game only makes the story more contradictory to me. Because if there truly are gods that genuinely want the best, why didn't they intervene in so many cases where their intervention would have been beneficial (even if we take Hydaelyn's vision into account)? And why should such beings be worshipped in the first place?

There’s not really any way for me to argue further than Meteion personally meeting and interacting with the entity and saying so in her report. Regardless, the point wasn’t that it was foreshadowing, but rather it was a nod that deities may exist outside of being a Primal. On a somewhat unrelated note, I consider foreshadowing to be the fact Tataru gave a journal to the WoL just in case they lose their memories, followed by a joke that the player can select as an option at the start of Hildibrand’s new questline where they say that the multiple concussions should’ve knocked a lot of memories out already, but I digress.

Going towards your mention of religion being a post-sundering idea, I don’t believe that in the slightest. Mainly because Zodiark was worshiped religiously before the creation of Hydaelyn. Yes, it was a last resort to halt the Final Days, but it was still pre-sundering. This brings into question about the origin of such a concept on Unsundered Etheirys, as it would be ludicrous for even the desperate survivors of the event to suddenly go through with something that was thought up last minute, let alone make it work. Though, to be fair, it could’ve been a concept born from those who lived outside of Amaurot, and 13 out of 14 convocation members decided to use it.

Finally, I believe that both of us are influenced by our personal beliefs. We’re certainly adamant about the directions we want the story to go with the Alliance Raids. You have bad history with religion being forced upon you, and the concept of the Primals being fake deities made from mortal belief and superstition resonates with you. In contrast, as a religious person myself, I find the possible existence of benevolent deities working behind the scenes to be a welcome change of pace to a story that involves killing fakes.

(my one gripe with Myths of the Realm below the cut)

Going to need to swap to Reblogs for convenience.

Not Ra-La. That one was one of the worlds she talked about before the Meteion of Etheirys transformed. I was referring to the “being of greater power” that killed its followers in a fit of rage, then killed itself when she asked what it lived for. This was when you finally catch her and she begins her report.

Moving on from that, I did not imply that all beast tribes were artificially created. I was using both the Sylphs and the Ixal as examples that not every deity thought up would be real. This is to address what you mentioned about the Twelve being “righter” than other religions. The deities may exist, but there is evidence that some are fabricated from Time’s progression.

Now, as for the opposing question of Deities not existing at all, that serves only to halt the discussion as it calls into question what the questline showed with neither side having enough information to solidify an answer. The scenes provided the information that the Twelve exist, and that they’ve observed the lives of those who worship them, and that calamities show their own true forms to those who happen upon them. They reside in a place that annoy be seen in any other circumstance, and existed throughout all of those calamities, giving rise to belief in them. Whether this is true or not is still up in the air, but logic dictates that their sightings gave rise to the religion that worships them, at least for Ralgr.

As for the question of why they did nothing…I dunno. We only have part 1 of the whole storyline, so that can’t be answered or properly speculated. My guess would be that it was to work along with Hydaelyn’s plan, and not coddle the people of Eorzea out of their ability to fight back against the Final Days. Like I said, that’s just a guess, so don’t look too far into it.

I don't really think Meteion seeing the creature before travelling back to the Ancients and transforming excludes the possibility of it being Ra-La, as she could have went back there after transforming to trap the souls inside the giant egg thing. Also, a "being of greater power" is a very loose term. Midgardsormr and Hydaelyn are both a lot more powerful than most residents of Etheirys, and therefore could be considered beings of greater power, but rather than deities, they are a dragon and a primal respectively, meaning that (which again, could be Ra-La, though the scope of it's powers isn't much explained beyond it being a final dungeon boss, but).

Regarding the information, all of this is assuming the Twelve are actual deities, which is still up in the air, as their sightings alone do not prove their status as actual deities (communities with lower scientific knowledge may have just seen them and thought they were gods because they didn't have any other explanation), and they seem to conceal a lot of information. I actually wrote in my other theory post that both their realm and what they have shown us so far both look like something within the abilities of the Ancients, leading me to speculate that the Amaurotines may have created them at some point (which would also bring up the question of why, but that is just one theory of their origin, some also theorize about them being aliens or some forms of auspices). And the way Emet formulates his last phrase, "the real identities of the Twelve", makes one think that they are not what the general public believes them to be.

As for "not coddling", I think that there is still a lot of worse things an actual deity could have done, such as, say, preventing souls from falling apart during the Final Days. Or making sure that people won't die of random circumstances and instead face adversity as a human consequence. Or at least made sure that there was a more reliable backup plan in case no one could defeat Hydaelyn and go to fight Meteion other than just letting a bunch of Sharlayans pick and choose who lives and who dies (as they were originally not planning to accept everyone on the Ark and would have just let whoever they would deem "a potential cause of conflict" get blasphemied).6.1

I don’t really see any evidence of that entity being Ra-La, especially when the account of how Ra-La and the entity in question differs in the way they act. Ra-La wasn’t shown or said to help the civilization prosper, it was made to usher a gentle end to its creators/worshipers. The entity mentioned in the screenshots, however, was reported to have destroyed its worshippers out of rage, and implied to have committed suicide out of despair.

Your theory of the Ancients is interesting, though there are other possibilities that can be made with it as a base, and with so little information any of it can be believable. They could be creations or creators. Maybe they’re evolved concepts that gained sentience and power. Maybe they’re fellow conspirators of Hydaelyn. Maybe they’re what remained of those new lives that would’ve been sacrificed to Zodiark. It’s very interesting to think on.

(my one gripe with Myths of the Realm below the cut)

Going to need to swap to Reblogs for convenience.

Not Ra-La. That one was one of the worlds she talked about before the Meteion of Etheirys transformed. I was referring to the “being of greater power” that killed its followers in a fit of rage, then killed itself when she asked what it lived for. This was when you finally catch her and she begins her report.

Moving on from that, I did not imply that all beast tribes were artificially created. I was using both the Sylphs and the Ixal as examples that not every deity thought up would be real. This is to address what you mentioned about the Twelve being “righter” than other religions. The deities may exist, but there is evidence that some are fabricated from Time’s progression.

Now, as for the opposing question of Deities not existing at all, that serves only to halt the discussion as it calls into question what the questline showed with neither side having enough information to solidify an answer. The scenes provided the information that the Twelve exist, and that they’ve observed the lives of those who worship them, and that calamities show their own true forms to those who happen upon them. They reside in a place that annoy be seen in any other circumstance, and existed throughout all of those calamities, giving rise to belief in them. Whether this is true or not is still up in the air, but logic dictates that their sightings gave rise to the religion that worships them, at least for Ralgr.

As for the question of why they did nothing…I dunno. We only have part 1 of the whole storyline, so that can’t be answered or properly speculated. My guess would be that it was to work along with Hydaelyn’s plan, and not coddle the people of Eorzea out of their ability to fight back against the Final Days. Like I said, that’s just a guess, so don’t look too far into it.

Val and I watching the cut-scenes to the Hildebrand quest line trying to figure out what we just saw.

Perfection. That’s what they saw.

he is definitely listening to Cavetown

I’m sorry, but I just can’t stop myself from imagining him listening to “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush.

Blame Stranger Things

Season 3 prediction

I’m amazed none of them brought any guns XD