#[ logs on for the first time in a while

[rodatirhaalo]

I think my favorite little parallel between Ascended vs Spawn Astarion has to be this little, probably even unintentional, detail in the epilogue:

Mr Vampire Ascendant, when confronted about freedom, asking the pc if they'd prefer sleeping in the dirt over "living" in his prescribed decadence.

Meanwhile, if left as a spawn Astarion is like

*Passes several chairs, rugs, a pile of pillows, and two log benches to plant his pretty little ass in the dirt*

"THIS DIRT'S THE BEST! I LOVE DIRT!!"

#get tav/durge drunk and let him have a little sippy and he's GONNA be makin' little gothic mud castles #Shadowheart come over here and enable this man! #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #bg3 spoilers #astarion ancunin #spawn astarion #ascended astarion #Like it's so inconsequential but like it's so not? #i've heard it's a sneaky little EA reference #but still #dirt gremlin time #Dirt is freedom guys #Y'all ever sat in dirt just because? I recommend it #Also while I was getting that bottom pic Halsin was creeping ever closer to my durge like he was makin' a move #First sitting on the floor then on the far end of the log then the spot on the log next to my durge #almost spit out my drink when i saw it #Note: Mr Ascendant would refuse to sit down as well. He physically CANNOT relax #Fs in chat

[b4kuch1n]

made a mushroom pin that's also the hardest object to photograph on earth. I still have a brick and a half of air dry clay left so I hope to make more :]

#bakuspecial #I dont think I have a craft tag lmao. well #really wanted to make the gills on these shrooms more uh. physical. but I did Not have the patience for it fskjdfhdj #next time hopefully I will have more. #also the matte spray is really cool... its cocomelon shit to me it really does dry matte...... #the other pins in that first pic are from a saigon art shop and a prize for a queer art contest I placed in two years ago #I need a good way to display them lol. mostly so I dont lose them #need to make like a scroll of fabric or something to hang on the bookshelf #my vision for this thing is a nice wide brimmed hat thats earth toned and I paint it to look like a log #and figure out how to embroider moss on it. and then mushroom pins #its genuinely not my style at all lmao I just wanna try and make it #alright I should go to bed soon.... Im gettin another stretch of sleepin at normal human hours for a while. best to make use of it #have a good night lads! making some fucked up little things really is so fuckin good for ur brane n mind

[pierswife]

This is the most on-model you will ever catch me drawing of this man

#piers #piers pokemon #pokemon piers #gym leader piers #data log: manda's doodles #and yes this goes in the main tag cause this is the first time I've drawn pure fanart in a WHILE #but yeah like??? bro I can't NOT make his hair fluffy #I do have a version with my piercing headcanons but I'm gonna color that later #punk king of spikemuth #also scheduling this as a morning (my time) post <3 #happy friday! woe! piers be upon ye!

[floodnetworks]

just realized i graduated from high school 6 years ago and am only halfway done with my undergrad degree. wtf have i been up to 😭😭😭.....

#gotta calm down i love my life i love my life............... #guy who dropped out of college twice or even 3 times if you count the time i first tried to go and dropped out after going to my first clas #ITS FINE i forgive myself........................................................................................ #personal log #i have achieved other goals like transitioning and moving to a new city and having a girlfriend #not that i couldntve done those things while in school. help girl

[dailytomlinson]

It feels like yesterday that we were writing to welcome the beginning of the Walls era: Louis first big project as a solo artist. The first time we’d get 12 tracks in which Louis was the only person in charge of it’s final product, from lyrics, to melody, to everything in between. With the past two chaotic years of loss, fear and uncertainty, many of us turned to music, once again, to find comfort when the world was falling apart. More than ever, we allowed ourselves to bubble in the feeling that it brings us. Walls reached number one TWICE, reached new fans and, above all, got Louis in the right space of feeling comfortable in where he is at currently, as a musician, songwriter and performer. When things slowly started to pick up again, we all hit the road with the so awaited LOUIS TOMLINSON World Tour. Louis has been our constant, definitely, and getting to see him go up on stage and regain his confidence performing to an audience everyday has been a ride that we’ll not forget. He built bridges and made the world seem smaller, he connected all of us, watching streams daily, cheering on him, anxiously waiting for our favorite lines, in our pyjamas, from our rooms. We were all there, every show. He got us plugged in timezones, multitasking from work, from public transportation and everywhere. We were all there. After 6 months (+2 days), 82 shows, 31 countries, and 1 broken arm, it’s time for the the Louis Tomlinson World Tour sadly, like every ride, to come to an end. Congratulations to Louis band for accepting the ride and delivering an AMAZING tour beginning to end and to Louis: you worked so hard, got an album out and travelled the world with a sold out tour. You did it. Heres to closing this chapter on a high and getting ready for the next one, just around the corner. 🥂

Bye, LTWT. 

#flashing tw #writing this with tears in my eyes #we all been hanging on to this album for so so so so long #and just like that #its time for a new chapter #also 82 shows bc this year was 80 shows but dont forget the first 2 in 2020 #thank you everyone thats been a part of this and gave a lot of different meanings to this album and this tour #and a massive giant out of this world thank you to my partner in crime during tour #Ingrid #delicatepointofview #you are amazing and this blog wouldve fallen apart during leg 2 #and to all my friends that randomly logged in on my account while i was working to update #you guys are the backbone of DT and my MVP #i love you

[rongzhi]

Any good Chinese LGBT drama/ movie recommendations? And where to watch it?

Hmmm I thought I would have a lengthy list of recommendations but limited to just Chinese-language films/dramas, and ones that I would actually recommend, I realise that my list is a lot shorter 😅.

These are pretty much all going to be gay (mlm). Sorry for the lack of diversity 😔. Summaries are taken from Letterboxd for the most part.

Film Recs

(in chronological order)

霸王别姬 || Farewell My Concubine (1993) - China (mainland), Hong Kong - dir. Chen Kaige

Personal rating: 4/5 || [HQ link, EN subs]

Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled “Farewell My Concubine” that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo’s explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.

东宫西宫 || East Palace, West Palace (1996) - China (mainland) - dir. Zhang Yuan

Personal rating: 4/5

A heterosexual Beijing policeman and a young homosexual challenge each other’s sexuality.

春光乍洩 || Happy Together (1997) - Hong Kong - dir. Wong Kar-wai

Personal rating: 4/5 || [link, EN subs]

A couple take a trip to Argentina in search of a new beginning, but instead find themselves drifting ever further apart.

自梳 || Intimates (1997) - Hong Kong - dir. Jacob Cheung

Personal rating: 4/5 || [link, ZH subs]

Set in Hong Kong and China in the early 1900s, an older Wan and Wai travel through China in search of Foon, Wan's true love. Wai, whose on-and-off status with her boyfriend leads her into a struggle with self-identity, slowly learns about the life of the aging Wan. Through flashbacks, we learn about Wan in her early days and Foon, who move in and out of each other's lives.

美少年之恋 || Bishonen (1998) - Hong Kong - dir. Yonfan

Personal rating: 3/5 ~ 3.5/5 (I flipflop on this lol)

Jet is a gay hustler who one night spots a young man walking with a woman, and falls for him instantly. He does some research, and discovers that the man is called Sam, and is an apparently straight policeman.

蓝宇 || Lan Yu (2001) - China (mainland) - dir. Stanley Kwan

Personal rating: 5/5 || [HQ Link EN subs] [HQ link, ZH subs] - Bear in mind these are both the cut version of the movie. There are about 4 scenes cut from this version, which is unfortunately the most easily found.

A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

春风沉醉的夜晚 || Spring Fever (2009) - China (mainland) - dir. Lou Ye

Personal rating: 3/5

Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled in a clandestine affair with the other man. Along with Luo’s girlfriend, they succumb to the delirium of drunken nights, but how long can their tryst last?

谁先爱上他的 || Dear Ex (2018) - Taiwan - dir. Mag Hsu, Chih-yen Hsu

Personal rating: 4/5 || [HD link, EN sub]

When Sanlian’s ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.

叔・叔 || Twilight’s Kiss (2019) - Hong Kong - dir. Ray Leung

Personal rating: 3.5/5 || [HD link, EN subs]

One day Pak, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, a retired single father, in a park. Although both are secretly gay, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years. As both men recount and recall their personal histories, they also contemplate a possible future together.

刻在你心底的名字 || Your Name Engraved Herein (2020) - Taiwan - dir. Liu Kuang-hui

Personal rating: 3.5/5

In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Extra mentions (haven't watched these ones yet but they have decent reviews):

夜奔 || Fleeing by Night (2000) - China (mainland)

Saving Face (2004) - U.S.A

盛夏光年 || Eternal Summer (2006) - Taiwan

Drama Recs

Most of the LGBT dramas I've watched are trash or censored, sorry to say, and I tend to watch movies over dramas, so what's left for me to recommend is just from the HIStory (Linked: wiki with summaries) Taiwanese webdrama anthology:

HIStory1: My Hero (PR: 3/5)

HIStory1: Obsession (PR: 3/5)

History2: Crossing the Line (PR: 3.5/5)

History3: Trapped (PR: 3.5/5)

#text #answered ask #movie recs #long post #all the movies i recced are dramas basically #there are a few movies out there (that i've seen) that are more lighthearted but also.... not good lol #personally i don't think a movie has to be 'good' but this is a rec list so... #unrelated but i ended up rewatching farewell my concubine for the first time in a while yesterday and one of the top letterboxd reviews #is a terrible take lmao #shoutout to sally on letterboxd you uncultured swine lol #but that's what happens to most chinese movies on letterboxd -u-' #either barely anyone has logged it #or it's popular to the point of there being a bunch of white film bros writing reviews where they manage to add something #offhandedly sinophobic #or otherwise add how they think the director became a sellout later uwu but THIS film is pure bc blah blah (yes this is about zhang yimou) #(white film bros - speaking broadly) #anyway. lol. #my letterboxd rant no one asked for. #i just think we should be allowed to downvote reviews on there that's all

[cerealmonster15]

while im here. take my stupid dog son and also sebeks there too this time. i think i decided he is in fact a first year in pomefiore and ALSO on the track team w/jack and juice. let him run. set him free. ok bye

#twst oc #oc: fidel #ocs #cereal tries to draw #i think i scribbled this right after i drew him the first time #i wasnt gonna post it but what the hell ever this is my house #ive been playing with markers irl more lately it's fun #doin doodles and hiding lol #i did update my artfight with scorpius finally last night i think #but i still gotta add his lore later. i just need to add flannery #i could add dogboy for funsies i suppose #i made myself log out of tumblr for like a week a lil while ago #and now im just sporadically popping in to lurk or make a post or two and then run away #bc i keep getting really anxious about god knows what lol im stressin myself out #however the booping tethered me im glad i checked in last night #to see the start of the boopening bc id be bummed if i missed that #anyway im doin some type of soul searching i just dunno what it is im lookin for #anyway x2 um hits you with my paws i guess. look at my son. ok good bye bonk bonk bonk bonk

[moonchild-in-blue]

Took a nap 👍 headache is back 😕 pizza has been ordered ✌️

#i will probably log off for a while and answer the rest either later on or tomorrow #cus screen time is NOT helping #nap was good though #parents got home after a work trip thing and we are all too lazy to cook right now so pizza it is. which is fine i love it #i'll use this time to catch up on lotr. i am VERY behind on this week's chapter 🤧 #can you believe there's only 4 sleeps until the first ritual of the year??? WHACK

[logan-the-artist]

played around with some watercolours this week

#my art #painting #first time in a while i’ve used watercolours #log's art #art

[aahsoka]

then swallow it bitch

#i just logged onto my student loan account for the first time in a while and OOF #jordan talks #so i was looking at what was happening w loan forgiveness

[marinehero]

Stares off into the distance. Garp believes in Luffy so much. Believe isn't even the right word, he knows. He knew Roger. He knows if there's anyone who's going to do it, it's Luffy. He knew it early on and it terrified him. Just as he knew Roger's sotry, he knows how this story ends. He's terrified. He loves his grandson. He knows who he works for. He knows the powers in charge. But Luffy kept proving the world wrong again and again and again and even he couldn't deny anymore that if there's anyone who can make it and survive, it's Luffy. He's so damn proud, he always has been. Luffy's going to be the one and he knows it to be a fact as given as the sea.

#{ ooc } ✗ 「 wenp reporter 」 #[ logs on for the first time in a while #[ immedietly sees lala's reply to the bingo #[ has a real normal one for a moment #[ RAGH. garp going im proud of him @ sengoku garp saying you haven't seen anything yet at the levely #[ garp constantly being shown of being proud and happy for luffy when he's not. around luffy. raaghhhhhhhh #[ he is so messed up #[ i will die on the hill that when shirahoshi referred to him by 'luffy's grandfather' instead of 'vice-admiral garp' 'garp the fist/hero'- #[ -etc. was one of the best days in his life. this man is a living legend and he'll go down in history as luffy's grandfather and he'd be #[ so damn happy ab it #[ gh! fucked up old man learn how to show how much you love your family to your family instead of your coworkers Now!!! #[ gh. okay normal moment is over <- sorray guys im dying a thousand deaths and havent rp'd in so long :( #[ every know in then i will think ab my fucked up old man from the trenches (gh. get me out of here) and i will be so os normal about it #[ Sighs. once again apologizes for absences and hopes everyone taking care

[squisheebugdoodles]

technology is trying to gaslight me tonight i swear to fuck

#first patreon had this weird glitch that's still happening #where a post i made wouldn't show up on my page but it showed up for others and also everywhere EXCEPT my main page #it was in the drafts and the manage recent posts section and the collections but NOT the main home page *for m e* #and me alone it seemed #tried to fix it and only made things Worse somehow #then. my pc decided to set the clock back by three hours? at seemingly random??? #tumblr isn't letting me like posts and any messages sent or received on here disappear or don't show up at all on my end #while typing this up it wouldn't autosave and then it wouldn't post #and at least for tumblr it usually only does that when i've been force logged out without it actually kicking me off until i refresh #so i refreshed the page to see if it would force me to log in again #but??? i was still logged in so i was like okay i'll just log out and log in again maybe that'll help #nope!! still acting funky!! #third time typing this post up bc of it!!

[andypartridges]

hearing andy say that colin is his favourite bass player in 2023…….. im going to need to lie down

#also hearing him say that he’s really proud of the music xtc has made just makes me :-) sm. bc as u should king !!!!!! #anyways. xtcposting again for the first time in a while hi hello <3 #ship’s log

[mariejordans]

omg why is it that whenever i’m busy w holidays the gen v cast chooses to drop a bunch of gen v content but when i’m free it’s crickets???? this is so me-phobic 😭

#when they dropped the mariejordan cut while i was on the road #they really have something against me fr #need someone to tell me what i missed bc i log onto twitter for the first time in days today and jaz and london are on a panel?????? #WHAT IS HAPPENING #gen v #gen v cast

[everymlmhybrid]

this part genuinely makes me feel like eating dry wall like i can't explain how i feel about it without making some of you finally tire of me and block me about it i think

#.txt #reservoir dogs - #sorry for just randomly posting clips . i was actually working on my vid i swear but then i started Thinking. and here we are. #anyways going genuinely insane in the tags . i'm so sorry. -> #(im only sorry for the sheer amount of tags or if u disagree w/ my interpretations / headcanons. if ur just annoyed lmfao sucks to be you!) #anyways. you guys ever think abt the way orange HAS TO know white's lying to him abt his odds of survival. #bc i think abt that genuinely constantly. all the time thinking about it. #also the ''joe's gonna get you 100% again'' -> first of all . lol. second of all -> ''he was the only one i wasn't 100% on'' hello? HELLO!! #also freddy's voice here makes me feel like punching walls . like it makes me wail in anguish. #no but yeah i think abt the theme of lying & the fact some of the first lies we hear are in this scene in a way #also this part is leaning wayyy harder on headcanon but i always think. like if orange WASNT lying abt who he is. then it'd be reasonable #forhim to not know how likely he is to die and/or how blatantly larry's lying (''i'm talking days!'') but as a cop he SOOO knows he's fcked #but like . what's he gonna do. ''hey i know that's bullshit'' like obviously not and partly bc of How he knows but also bc like #you just don't argue with the only guy who's caring for you while you're seemingly on the brink of death!! LMAO #and certainly not when he's the only one telling you you'll be fine!! even if he's just bullshitting you so you don't freak out!! #I DON'T KNOW i go kinda insane about this scene . as . you can tell. #if you too are insane about this and the implications . don't worry. in several months. my fic will feed you. you will see. #idk . larry lying to and/or for him <33333333 kinda makes me go insane. kinda makes me go wild. #idk. i should be getting ready for bed rn. WHATEVER. bye. logging off. if you read all these i'm in love with you okay #i've just been turngin them around in my head like a microwave for hours so i needed to infodump or else i would explode i think

[codecicle]

Do you know any good qsmp lore supercuts? I want to watch more qsmp content (since i've really only been following along with liveblogs; i only really watched wilbur's vods almost up to when the eggs were first supposed to disappear) but there's so much to watch and it doesn't all hold my attention.

https://youtube.com/@QSMPInfo?si=FUrtOTX89-XRWLvF

^^ this is the official qsmp lore recap channel!! honestly the best source I think you could get they condense so much of it so well. as for more recent stuff they haven't gotten to yet I'd recommend going on twitter (yeah i know I'm sorry 😔) and looking through your language of choices update accounts!! they're all run by official admins and have translated updates on every streamer per day. its a lot of lore but also liveblogging is how most people consume other lore, since there are people constantly streaming on the server. i look through the qsmp tag when i wake up in the morning and get home from school like a newspaper LMAO

typically I'd just suggest the twitter accounts, the recap channel, picking at least 2 or 3 different streamers to watch casually and looking through liveblogs. im a huge charlie guy obviously but I've literally never seen a cellbit stream before despite him being one of my favorite characters, I only know him through other streams and liveblogging. my spanish streamers don't stream on there anymore (cmon mariana and rubius D:) and so i mainly get Spanish updates from Spanish speakers on here!! point is you're doing great already LMAO just watch some of the recaps and look through the update accounts and you'll be fine.

(plus every stream they have to relay old information from one person to another so eventually you will get a lore info dump if you want to or not)

#i make yet anothet post just for me 👍 #we have mail :] #AUGUAHJGFHH IM SORRY I DONT HAVE BETTER ANSWERS LMAO I WISH I DID!! #best recap of the story over the past couple of weeks that no channels have really covered: #the federation (big bad) kidnapped the eggs from the parents while everyone was asleep. this wasnt this first time theyve done this but!! #this time felt much different. like they were really gone for good. #forever was given brainwashing pills by cucurucho (federation worker/census bureau for the island) #and these pills fucked him up BAD. he keeps hearing a ticking clock sound and whenever it gets the loudest he snaps and takes more drugs #bbh has been grieving and every stream he loses a little more color. he lost all of his color and streamed his 'acceptance' stream #where he kidnapped the drugged members and put them in cages along with torturing fed members to get them to talk #phil finally logged back on and with tubbo and fit's (? I think) help they covered the main federation building in cobblestone and lava #essentially just griefed the server as a threat LMAO #phil wrote and delivered a note that essentially said 'give the eggs back by the end of the week. or else' #then we got cryptic messages that cellbit decoded #they said: 'the answer is not in the center' #that all leads to todays stream where charlie tubbo and roier went to the center of a maze they found through coords #(that fred not the feds gave to them in 3 seperate books) #and there was a wheel in the center surrounded by all of the eggs items. tubbo spun it and it landed on 5 #then lava poured from the ceiling and mobs spawned kicking all three of them out #now this saturday (or tomorrow i think?) is a huge stream that was teased a couple says ago with the roman numerals 2 #and the spinny wheel in the maze was written in roman numerals #so we think todays stream and all the lore is leading up to something with the eggs tomorrow/Saturday i forgor the date #and thats basically whats been happening this past few days!! theres a LOT more lore than normal dw we have just been experiencing. #The Horrors. this isnt normal LMAO #qsmp #<- forgot to tag this