In the mind of Nite

ildikoneer

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:02:42 -0400

ildikoneer

It's all come down to this. The beginning of the end. - Kingdom...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:01:00 -0400

It's all come down to this. The beginning of the end. 
- Kingdom Hearts 3

causecatyljan: Psylocke by Esad Ribic

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:57:00 -0400

causecatyljan:

Psylocke by Esad Ribic

things have gotten closer to the sun, and I've done things in...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:56:40 -0400

things have gotten closer to the sun, 
and I've done things in small doses 
so don't think that I'm pushing you away 
when you're the one that I've kept closest

√Bestamvsofalltime ▪ Aevum AMV (by iBestAMVzOfAllTime) Just...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:54:07 -0400

√Bestamvsofalltime ▪ Aevum AMV (by iBestAMVzOfAllTime)

Just watching some AMV before go time.

beccatheb: mrphyguy: josephthrallin: Tiombi and Raiyda. Her...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:42:14 -0400

beccatheb:

mrphyguy:

josephthrallin:

Tiombi and Raiyda. Her scar is on her other leg, but whatever.

Both so cute

Hoofffff cutiess

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:41:37 -0400

andrea-the-great: Holy Warrior by ~JenZee

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:39:26 -0400

andrea-the-great:

Holy Warrior by ~JenZee

theartofanimation: Sanbonzakura

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:29:01 -0400

theartofanimation:

Sanbonzakura

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:24:35 -0400

stellar-indulgence: Pastel Night Sky

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:24:13 -0400

stellar-indulgence:

Pastel Night Sky

pleasedontsqueezethegreymatter: 30-Day Video Game Challenge,...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:07:26 -0400

pleasedontsqueezethegreymatter:

30-Day Video Game Challenge, Day 9: Saddest Game Scene

Where Angels Fear to Tread, Borderlands 2

Lots of games have had scenes that made me sad. This is the only time one has actually ruined my whole day.

Now, I know what you’re thinking, anonymous hypothetical audience person. It’s something along the lines of, “really? You went to a Borderlands game for your saddest moment? Have you not played that Walking Dead game? Did you not finish Final Fantasy X and see how heart-wrenching the ending was? Do you not know the story of why Kratos is all chalk-white like he is?” But just hear me out.

Spoilers ahead, by the way.

In all of those games, yes, there are some very sad scenes. But those are games about tragedy and loss and, well, sadness. It’s at least a major theme in all of them, if not the entire point. Everyone is expendable in The Walking Dead. If you didn’t assume before even loading up that game for the first time that it would end with the lead character dying, you clearly were expecting a different kind of game altogether. Final Fantasy X, like many of the games in that series, was positively dripping with melancholy; even the “sillier” characters like Wakka had a sort of mournful air about them. God of War is a straight-up Greek tragedy; the series opens with the lead character attempting suicide, and the only reason he takes up the quest that makes up, you know, the game itself is because he thinks he’ll finally be allowed to die at the end. In other words, those games prepared you for depressing scenes. You knew they were coming. It’s like when Amy Winehouse died; sure it was sad, but it’s not like anyone was really surprised by it.

The Borderlands series, on the other hand, is not about tragedy and loss and sadness. it’s about badassery and silliness and acting like “badassery” is a real word. A good day in the borderlands is one where you find a rocket launcher in a chemical toilet and immediately use it to incinerate a charging horde of shirtless, axe-wielding midgets. And there are a lot of good days in the borderlands. Its most-identifiable character is basically a spastic R2-D2. It’s a comedy game.

So when it was revealed, all at once and just as I was riding high from winning a pretty intense boss battle, that “Angel,” the friendly, soft-spoken artificial intelligence that had guided me through the first game and had been helping me through the second up to this point, was:

a living, breathing human being,

the daughter of the bad guy i was trying to kill,

being imprisoned and tortured in an effort to speed along the bad guy’s evil plan (something that had been happening on a near-constant basis since she was eight years old),

literally pleading with me to put her out of her misery in order to stop him,

it was pretty emotional. And to make matters worse, by the end of the fight I had to go through in order to get to Angel — who was still pleading with me to euthanize her, by the way — her evil jerk of a dad was both threatening me and begging me, in tears, “please don’t kill my baby girl.”

But I had to. I had to kill Angel, because there was no other way. And after I did, I was rewarded for my trouble with the sudden, cold-blooded murder of one of the characters I’d played as in the first game, and the capture and imminent ongoing torture of another.

I was completely unprepared for all that. After this scene, I found myself in what can best be described as a “loot room,” a chamber filled with chests that I knew would contain some of the best equipment I’d seen in the game so far, but instead of gleefully opening them up and picking out my favorite new toy, I had to just stop and take a deep breath, get a glass of water, walk around for a bit. I had been completely blindsided by the emotional impact of what I’d just experienced, and I was, quite frankly, drained.

You know that maybe-it’s-true-maybe-it’s-not story about how Harry Houdini used to challenge fully grown men to punch him in the stomach, and then he’d be fine afterward? That’s because he knew he was about to get hit, and he’d tense up his abdominal muscles and take the punch properly. But when one little girl ran up to him and just slugged him in the gut with no warning, it caused internal bleeding that literally killed him. “Where Angels Fear to Tread” is kind of like that — maybe it didn’t technically hit as hard as some other things, but it hurt a lot more because I never saw it coming.

I'ma do it.

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:06:00 -0400

the-berserker-alchemist:

a-giel:

It’s go time.

…. At least the first thirty minutes of it.

Godspeed

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:01:35 -0400

frostedsovereign: My colored version. Done by me :)Don’t even...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:01:30 -0400

frostedsovereign:

My colored version. Done by me :)
Don’t even think about stealing it now.

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:58:02 -0400

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Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:56:08 -0400

yetih2d: Psylocke & Wolverine by nefar007

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:56:04 -0400

yetih2d:

Psylocke & Wolverine by nefar007

costumecommunityservice: talesfromtheend: naiadestricolor: ref...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:55:18 -0400

costumecommunityservice:

talesfromtheend:

naiadestricolor:

reftastic:

swegener:

Speaking of different body shapes. These are all basically peak human bodies.

How come 99% of them don’t conform to what the entertainment industry tells us is the perfect body?

This is a FABULOUS set of body refs. So glad this came back across my dash so I could reblog it here :D

These images are from a book by Howard Schatz of various Olympic athletes, which was titled “Athlete.” You can buy the book [here]. Also, have some more photos from it:

Never not reblogging this.

Awesome!

demonhunting: bbcbecausebenedictcumberbatch: tigerbun: ifyoure...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:54:19 -0400

demonhunting:

bbcbecausebenedictcumberbatch:

tigerbun:

ifyoureachfortheheavens:

WAIT WAIT WHAT? SOMEONE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME?

do u even know what peter pan is u uncultured swine