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picoday2006 · 15 days

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Pico's School link buttons (1999)

#newgrounds #1999 #picos school #cassandra #hanzou #gothpunks #link to ng #old web #old internet #.gif

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tritoch · 1 month

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i know a lot of people (very understandably) dislike the paladin job quests in ffxiv, particularly HW, but i do think it's fun that, now that the pre-ShB MSQ revamp is complete, paladins now have a very cool and thematic in-game storyline that happens without a word being spoken: the development of passage of arms.

none of the below is directly stated in the script, but imo it's a fairly obvious gloss on what the game presents, if you assume a paladin warrior of light. spoilers for all expansions through the end of 6.X.

in the new version of steps of faith, as vishap breaks through each ward protecting ishgard from attack, lucia mounts a final desperate effort to hold him back, with a very familiar looking animation:

but even lucia can't hold back vishap's flame alone, so the temple knights surge forward to assist her. their efforts make the shield visually more powerful and larger. the temple knights here band together in defense of ishgard, and their knightly resolve to protect their home is the difference between victory and defeat.

lucia and the knights do ultimately succeed in defending the last ward, as you have to defeat vishap before their shield falls or you lose.

later in heavensward, obviously, we will get ffxiv's most famous (failed) attempt at blocking something with a shield.

this moment can be read as fairly impactful on the warrior of light's development; as i've noted elsewhere, after the trauma of watching haurchefant bleed out in their arms at level 57, at level 58 paladins learn to channel their magic into healing (and it's called "clemency," or mercy. mercy for whom? who was guilty?), and as someone pointed out on that post, at level 58 dark knights used to get "sole survivor", letting them heal in response to a marked target's death.

for a time, you literally carry haurchefant's shield with you, and 3.3 very much literalizes in genre fashion the idea that even when you are standing alone, your fallen friends stand with you. you don't need to call any allies to stand at your side and raise their shields with you because they are already there, in spirit.

stormblood marks a pretty important turning point in the warrior of light as a combatant, in my opinion, and the text makes this clear in several ways. first, in pretty much all your jobs, you've now far exceeded your trainers and are pioneering new techniques. this is no less true of paladin, which for 60-70 abandons any trainers at all for you to show off your peerless skills in a tournament.

second, stormblood is straight up a story about you getting stronger. at level 61, zenos kicks your ass. at level 70, you kick his ass. why? because you fought and got stronger and developed incredible new techniques and became a one-man army.

for a lot of classes, this story lines up nicely with the big rotation changes or flashy new finishers on the way from 60 to 70. SMN is now busting out bahamut and casting akh morn; RDM gets verflare and verholy; DRG starts harnessing nidhogg's power directly through dragon sight and nastrond.

the tanks are divided in two: warriors and gunbreakers get huge damaging upgrades at 70 in the form of inner release and continuation, each of which lets them hit the same button many times for lots of damage and satisfying animations. paladin and dark knight get more protective abilities; dark knight gets the blackest night, and there's been plenty said about that already by pretty much everyone.

paladins get passage of arms. instead of a relentless new attack (and you get requiescat at 68, which is a way bigger deal for your dps rotation), your big reveal at 70 for zenos in your fight in ala mhigo is a superior way to protect your party, a shield that lets you stand for your allies so they never have to fall for you again. it's lucia's same shield, except you need no allies' shields to reinforce you, proof of your martial prowess and your ability to transcend limits, and perhaps in truth a reminder that you never really stand alone.

in many respects passage of arms should really feel like a paladin signature move to you now if you are playing it at this point, because you should be popping it in pretty much every fight (you are using your mits, right...?). basically every FFXIV fight has at least one big AOE with downtime that warrants passage of arms usage, usually after the mid-fight add phase with slowly filling bar. since that AOE usually drops during downtime, there's no reason not to pop passage of arms (which otherwise restricts your movement and actions), and even on normal, sometimes every little bit counts on a damage check even if it means dropping DPS (thinking here of harrowing hell P10N on release, which was...less consistent for a lot of roulette parties than you might hope).

so from 70 onward, passage of arms is in a sense a paladin warrior of light's signature move, and certainly the one a player gets to most actually enjoy (since if you're using it, you're by necessity not doing anything besides moving your camera and admiring your sick animation). it doesn't have any competition in terms of spectacle until confiteor, and those you're usually throwing out in the middle of movement.

it's such a signature, in fact, that the only other person shown using your one-person version of passage of arms is your greatest admirer, who studied your legend for over a century.

and it's when he fails (should've popped arm's length, bud) that the warrior of light decides they can't let their friends fall for them, and sends them away with the transporter beacon. this is all wrong: you were meant to die for them, not the other way around. yours is the shield that stands between your allies and defeat. it is you who will win this passage of arms and break your opponents lance. and you do.

and then later, when they need to quickly establish zero's domain as a place of fallen grandeur, the home of someone who once believed in heroes but is now a cool and cynical vampire hunter d, what do they use? a decayed statue of someone in the paladin endwalker gear doing the passage of arms animation, of course.

from a visible instantiation of knighthood as a joint effort to defend what is sacred, to a tribute to the fallen friends whose memories stand by you and animate you, to a symbol of the wol's power as emulated by their allies or darkly mirrored in other shards.

not bad for a mit button you hit once per fight and otherwise never think about!

#the one-handed passage of arms animation is from a mod that afaik is no longer available #it was junjou laina's eikonic paladin mod but the creator appears to have pulled the version i used #pld #ffxiv #the new steps of faith is a solo duty and there's no way i'm doing all that NG+ for two screenshots #so i got those from youtube (sources in the links)#haurchefant greystone #g'raha tia #lucia junius #tbh i'm corny so i was slightly miffed when g'raha jacked our paladin swag to do passage of arms in an important story cutscene #so placing it in context as him emulating you made me enjoy it a lot more lmao. i'm petty!

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eve-of-halloween · 1 year

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Got a doodle of little Link playing in the water with his Mama. I think Yona would be a very good mom.

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rwrbmovie · 6 months

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via Out Magazine

#they know whats up lmao #rwrb movie #rwrb cast #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #tzp #ng #the boys #thanks for the links anon

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questionablealibi · 9 months

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Posting this silly doodle separately 👀

Heres the link to the post i made that it's related to ^^

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icecreampizzer · 1 year

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On that ref grind, you know how it is with AF approaching and all. Here's the 2nd group from LOATM: The LOVECORP guys! They can get a bit silly sometimes. I've set up their profiles already but I still need to add more info on it.. Not gonna link it though bc for some reason tumblr's destroying external links by adding href li shit on the front of it. Like what

#original character #oc #reference sheet #lamentations of a time machine #loatm #gene art #gene ocs #valentine lovegood #venus lovegood #zenith avenil #darcy eon ng #The link thing is really annoying..

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sevensistershigh · 6 months

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who is she? - i monster

#myart #persona 4 #yosuke hanamura #saki konishi #or well. the implication of her anyways #i've been fascinated with the relationship between saki and yosuke #and the way it kickstarts the entire main plot and is the backbone of yosuke's arc #since i first went through this game #i'm in a NG+ right now and i'm only now finding out naoki has a fucking social link. it's nigh criminal #i'm saki's no. 1 fan and i believe everyone else should be as well #p4 #yosuke #saki

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phoenixcatch7 · 3 months

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Started playing oracle of ages and WOW this plot is already going so much harder lol. We've got possession! We've got mind control! We've got tree amnesia! We've got the gay best friend with a sword! We've got the amnesiac tree who we saved from an attack as a sapling swear to marry us and wait literal centuries for us to return! We've got workplace abuse! We've got!!! Toilet hand and the mailman!!!

#Is it just because this is technically a ng+ or what lmao #I swear the oos plot wasn't nearly this interesting #loz #legend of zelda #oracle of ages #Also Ralph darling I know you don't think much of me but we're friends now.#Disney Princess turned evil and her flamboyant af overprotective bestie with a sword 10/10 no notes #Also what is it about this kid that makes people throw themselves at him???? He's like 15 at best lmao #tloz #the legend of zelda #oos link #ooa link

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hahskeleton · 11 months

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new chapter of No Good AU!

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jackalspine · 4 months

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Consuming LU fics that use mipha’s grace like a ravenous cow in an infinite field

#nomnkmnomn allllways loved episodes of shows where the cast thinks the mc is dead. not gonna read into that but #momjomnomnomnmmn the way different authors change the mechanics of the champions powers hehehe the author’s personal game experience bleedi #ng into the narrative nomnomoomnom #the way you can tell Botw is the only loz game they’ve played #when they have played another loz game and you can tell it’s their favorite by how many head cannons that link has #loooove #I love you linked universe ur my best friend

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picoday2006 · 15 days

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#1999 #newgrounds #logos #banners #link to ng #old web #old internet

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eluneu · 2 years

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Spy had the sudden, childish impulse to braid daisies into that hair [...] Her fingers went to the rose at her lapel. // There was a firefly resting on her palm. It tickled, warm and faint on her hand, and Spy smiled at it a while.

Art based on chapter 9 of I Can Dream About You (If I Can Hold You Tonight)

#tf2 #sniperspy #sniper tf2 #spy tf2 #fem fortress #i was reading the chapter like hhh oh i want to draw both a rose braided in sniper's hair and spy seeing the dot as a firefly #(and LOOK I know the rose braiding didn't happen but it would have been pretty alright)#but two drawings a lot of work :(#so i took a page out of rev o lutio n ary gir l u t ena and reused the same pose to also get Bonus Symbolism Link Kinda #and honestly it allowed me to reuse a good half of one drawing for the second one #also never. really done an. involved environment like the second one before #happy enough with it i think #i do like the colours and feeling of the first one more though #enjoying experimenting with these sorts of scene illustrations to convey the images the writing invokes in my mind #and yse i know sniper's shirt is missing the emblem but I think the coherentness looks better without it #also sniper can have a couple of plain red shirts. as a treat #anyway. i should. also get to sewing the m s paul i ng cosplay at some point skdflhsd rip

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eve-of-halloween · 1 year

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TOTK/Tears of the kingdom spoilers below the read more (Zora Domain)

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Ok so While the reveal of his fiance/wife Yona hit my Sidon simpin ass like a fucking freight train. I’m actually not angry about it. There’s a part of my heart screaming it should a been me and a part of it going “good for my boy.”

while its an arrange marriage which makes alot of sense given that he is royalty and this is not the first time its been used. I actually genuinely like Yona. She’s really sweet and really cute and I like that she’s not afraid to to be like “JUST DO IT!”

My biggest issue with her in all honesty is just some color choices. I would a made her just a little less saturated to work better with the render engine and personally would have done yellow dots over her eyes as I’m not feeling the pastel pink. But that’s minor nitpicks that do not hinder her for me. (tho I do wish some of the plot/dialogue was written a little better i feel they made the Zora talk to one another way too formally even people who are close. I personally would a liked more organic speech but that’s more an issue with the writing) And I love the sidlink ship too. I adore so many sidlink artist as well. But what I do not like at all is how much hate I’ve seen to Yona. Like she doesn’t deserve all the hate. I also do like the idea some people have that Link and Sidon are more brothers than lovers due to Link being betrothed to his sister Mipha.

I like both sides of the exploration with sidon and link be it romantic or platonic in nature. But i really don’t like some of the nasty views I’m seeing stir up. Tho the welcome home cheater memes funny as hell to me. but all the hate i’m seeing for Yona does full my spite NexGen tendencies and I am very tempted to make them a child who is named Link because Sidon would 100000% name his kid after link. EDIT: Caved and made him. Meet Prince Link. I’ll develop him more after I finish my last batch of commissions.

Used design elements from his Parents and Grandfather. Green and Banded like his mother (saturation duller and darker tones due to his fathers coloring) With Cyan and yellow fins like his Father’s family and his father’s face and golden eyes, but with a head tail much like his grandfather’s.

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flame-wing-dragon-phoenix123 · 9 months

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Clarice as Dragon-Phoenix 2

#clarice ng #yugioh #yugioh 5ds #yu gi oh duel monsters #yugioh dm #yu gi oh #ygo duel links #ygo #ygo dm #ygo duel monsters

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landlordevil · 2 months

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Yk i never finished p4g. Like i've beaten p4 a few times but i'm literally in the final battle and had to stop to do smthn. I should finish that....

#i also wanted a ng+ bc i've always wanted to choose the answers you can only give if you #naturally have really high stats #and i think i have 4 out of 5 maxed out? and half of my social links are maxed out?#anyway.... if i could see kanji rn you know i would

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sunb0rn · 10 months

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fun fact:

ex ng kuya/pinsan ko si ate Acel, yung orig vocalist ng Moonstar88. yes. sila ni kuya nung "Torete" days. repost ni kuya yung ss sa left.

core memory sa akin na sya yung GF ni kuya na kasama nya sa college graduation. tska yung twing may tv guesting yung band super proud kaming mag pipinsan and our lola HAHAHA

so ang cool/funny ng photo na 'to- Ms. Acel with Elegee Custom Guitars owner na nakausot ng Malachi, na skate apparel brand ng kuya ko. ahhkk? coincidence?? hahaha.

promote ko na din- follow Malachi Beyond Skateboarding on IG and FB!

#repost ko to pag makuha ko link hina na ng net ko load lang nang load sa platforms

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