lonepower:

little horizon zero dawn things:

– Aloy leans forward when riding her horse (sorry, strider) up a hill and back when riding down, like youre supposed to, despite never having ridden or even seen a real horse in her life

– the mount machines all have properly animated gaits, two-beat trot three-beat canter four-beat gallop etc

– the little smile she makes when it’s snowing or raining and she puts her hands out you complain about the rain but i know the truth

– the pine saplings near pitchcliff

– studious pallas

– the poetry inside the metal flowers

– aloy’s little comments to herself when she’s picking herbs/climbing ice/the weather changes/she slides down a hillside/etc

– if you ride right up to the cutscene trigger while tracking dervahl the game animates her dismounting and patting the strider’s side as part of the cutscene

– tallnecks, esp. how they’re totally oblivious to you scrambling all over them

– the fact that you don’t need the focus to track because the environmental clues (footprints, blood smears, cart tracks, etc) are actually there

– sylens sends you a bunch of information and then there’s about a second’s worth of pause and he just sends you the definition of corporation as if that’s the only thing that might be confusing

– those two mysterious named rabbits up above devil’s thirst seriously what’s the deal with them

– the really gorgeous sunsets

– the crouch idle where she rocks back so it looks like she’s sitting

– going back to visit Rost and you actually can tell him about your journeys (i cried SO hard)

– npcs comment on what you’re wearing

– the little surprised hop-jump-look animation the watchers make when you throw a rock near them

– overridden ravagers rumbling and following you around

– the fact that overridden machines have unique animations for fighting other machines as opposed to you

– PHOTO MODE

– the sound the metal flowers make

– Aloy’s little shrug when she drops the safe through the floor

– aloy shutting down all the dudes who try to flirt with her

– seriously she’s so blunt i love it the world needs more blunt pragmatic heroines

– “it’s a door”

– the hair physics and the way the sun catches in the edges of her hair

– big machines knock over trees when they go into forested areas and it’s terrifying

– the way the fog moves over the ground in waves

– aloy’s crooked teeth and bushy eyebrows and slightly chubby face and she’s stocky but also ripped from years of hunting like she looks like a person shes perfect

– the fact that the mount machines have the same base body but slightly different sounds and idle animations

– did i mention studious pallas? i love him he is Trying his Best

In other words:

Tag meme: nosy game time!

Tagged by @makocartwheels and @obvidalous – two tags means I’d better do it, right? 😉 

RULES: Answer q’s and tag 9 people you’d like to know better

Relationship status: Engaged to an IRL man and an online wiiiiiiiiifey (you know who you are!!! HAHA)

Favorite colour: Red

Lipstick or chapstick: Chapstick. I never wear lipstick.

Last song you’ve listened to: “Lust” by the Raveonettes. (I’m writing smut atm.)

Last movie you’ve seen: Shit. I don’t remember. Thor Ragnarok, maybe? LOVED IT.

Top three shows: … shiiiiiiit. It changes all the damn time. There are so many… off the top of my head, Better Call Saul, Mr. Robot, and the second season of Master of None? 

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Tagging some of my lovelies: @sun-bae, @vythika96, @littlesnowarrow, @hellarcanine, @czgoldedition, @writerlyonao3, @jadefyre, and anyone else who wants to play!

HEADCANON: The Best Werak Ever

So remember how Tatai and Urkai and Tulemak head to the Sundom after Aloy helps them out?

And also Brin the outcast shaman is wandering around in the Sundom somewhere on a machine blood high?

And also how Ikrie is wafting around now like a snow-ghost with no particular goals in mind, all alone as a werak of one?

WHAT IF THEY ALL MET UP AND FORMED THE BEST WERAK IN THE WHOLE WORLD AND I WOULD BE SO HAPPY I WOULD CRY

(And in my head, my Banuk OC Luka would be part of the werak too but that’s just me)

Aloy and Nil in the Cut: fic preview

I’m hard at work on my next Niloy longfic which follows the events of the Frozen Wilds. I wanted to write almost the whole thing before posting this time to make sure the events fall out in a way that feels natural, but in the meantime, here’s a preview:

The Tallneck made its approach again, and Nil stood, ready to grab the strut once it was within range. Suntress was standing tall in the centre of the head, her hair whipping in the wind like bloodred ribbons of silk, and Nil’s chest throbbed with a sudden squeeze of affection. He rarely had the opportunity to simply watch her from afar, but at this moment he had no choice, and he was glad: she looked like a Chieftain already, master of the Tallneck and all the lands surrounding. Her fire and her strength were two of his favourite things about her, and in the proud tilt of her chin and her loose, relaxed posture, Nil saw both. No matter what the challenge against Aratak would involve, there was no doubt in Nil’s mind that she’d win.

Finally the Tallneck moved in front of the snow-topped ridge, and Nil leapt onto the strut, then swiftly clambered up to its head. As he walked over to her side, Suntress smiled cheekily at him, her eyes sparkling with mischief.

She opened her mouth, undoubtedly to make some sassy remark, but Nil brushed her lower lip with his thumb. “No colourful words. Not right now,” he said softly. “Just kiss me.”

Catch up on the rest of A Song of Aloy and Nil in the meantime!

I saw a mountain… its haughty peak //
and bunched spine vying with the worlds on high, //
Deflecting every salvo of the wind, //
and shouldering the starlight from the sky, //
Brooding above the dunes like some great thinker //
considering days to come as nights go by //
With black clouds wrapped about it for a turban //
and bangs of redhead lightning in its face. //
And through the night, that tongueless mountain //
uttered marvelous things… //

– Mark II(F)