#i still have characters to ascend

[rubys-domain]

the raiden shogun weekly boss feels more like an endurance test than anything

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #maybe my dps is just ass idk #my units are very ult-dependent tho so it kind of is what it is #the fact that I need an electro character，to fight an electro boss with a giant fucking electro shield，is very annoying #tbf I haven't really done any dedicated artifact farming yet #saving that hell of a grind for later 😬 #i still have characters to ascend #if only I had a character who could tank that giant sword and not instantly die #at least I finally learned the trick to reliably avoid those pulsing electro ring things #I'm too lazy to actually look up a guide on beating this boss #and even if I did，it'd probably just say to use xyz character that I don't have #I think my highest crit is like 26k on chong #his ult I think #or it could've been his skill or smth insane like that #either way that's my ceiling for now. while i can't be bothered to do artifact farming #I hate that the purveyor of punishment achievement also counts events where you use trial characters #now I got to keep grinding just to get my own authentic crit in there instead of the 50k that I got probably cuz of shock-boiled brew ayaka #it just furthers my resolve not to pull for her tbh #chong will be my only cryo main dps until I stop playing this fucking game #ig I should just be satisfied that I'm at the point where there are domains that I don't need healing food/food buffs to comfortably beat

[egophiliac]

they're baaaaaack

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 6 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 6 spoilers #<- are we still tagging those? i don't know where en is #tagging basically just because it's college ortho #anyway HOLY CRAP THEY'RE BACK #TSUMSUTE 2: THE STACKENING #the disappointment at the lack of episode 7 news is tempered by my glee at the return of the most delightfully stupid event of all time #sometimes i think about how the characters were canonically visited by tiny stackable toy versions of themselves from another dimension #twice now! #it doesn't get any better than this #eyes #itty bitty little ominous eyes #look i know it's going to just be more charming shenanigans until the tsums abruptly ascend back to heaven(?) until they're needed again #but if they decided to do like. a tsum slasher flick parody. i would lose my entire goddamn mind #that's why we have fanart i guess

[youaskedfurret]

The lack of media literacy in the baldurs gate fandom is astounding. There's a good ending for Astarion and a bad ending for him and people keep picking the bad ending for him and being shocked when he's mean to them LMAO.

#dnd lore is very specific about vampires too they don't have souls but spawn do #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #not to mention i think the writers of the game confirmed that ascension is a bad end #neil said he has an a and a b end which is basically the same thing #as for the soul thing the reason true vampires are so evil is bc of their lack of souls #and bc when a player character gets bitten and becomes a spawn they still have their soul and cognition and alignment #ascended Astarion #Astarion x reader

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

the sylph of light has been waiting a very very long time to meet you.

#homestuck art #homestuck #aranea homestuck #aranea serket #im still sooooo mentally ill over her i rlly thought id go through the SLOG that is openbound and be like #nah araneas cant be as great as a character as i remember her surely i have been far too influenced by my own interpretation #no shes still fucking awesome to me just wholesale. shes an awful person but so good at making you think shes not #and the way she had those panels where she was paralleled to a2 dd made me go fghdfghergsr bc YEAH #she DESPISES being rushed and dd: ascend more casually just further inspires that parallel for me #it truly encapasculates how much of a passive class sylph is like. you know?? YOU KNOW?? #and further contrasts vriska and araneas personalities bc vriska SUCKS AT ACTUALLY MANIPULATING PEOPLE #SHES JUST A TEENAGE BULLY. #but aranea only needs to use her words and its like #of course the beforus trolls dont like her. bc they *know her.* aranea seamlessly worms her way in with the meteor crew and the a2 kids #because they DONT know what shes really like #and now that meenahs back she has a friend that makes her seem more *reasonable* by comparison #serket mind gaaaaames!!! #anyway. i adore her. im glad that she was a fucking idiot.

[atlabeth]

ascended astarion fans scare me ngl

#like i appreciate the character and especially neil’s performance bc he does so well #making spawn and ascended so different #and i have no problem with people that like the character #but the ones that are hopped up on copium that insist that it’s NOT the bad ending for him?? that it doesn’t repeat the cycle of abuse?? #and insist that he sees tav as an equal when the whole point is that he sees them as lesser than #you’re not his partner you’re his CONSORT you’re a treasure a possession for him to enjoy #he literally says your future is his to decide because the tadpoles are gone he can control you to do whatever he wants #he’s meant to become tav’s cazador; literally says NOT AGAIN when tav asks about freedom #acting like because he’s treating you better than cazador treated him there’s no problem at all but a gilded cage is still a cage #like enjoy ascended astarion all you want just don’t try and ignore everything around it that isn’t “hot sexy vampire lord jfc #anyways rant over #anti ascended astarion

[51ft]

all the bg3 companions have this really well realized conflict between 'want' vs 'need' and it's really cool to see how they get rly nice satisfying arcs with both their 'good' and 'bad' endings

' i just wish the game itself didnt so heavily disincentivise less-good playthroughs by barring you from so much content and making everything you could do so cartoonishly evil it just doesnt make sense

#bg3 spoilers #like as silly as some of the discourse became it was really cool to see the insistence that ascended astarion was a 'good' ending #and honestly all the character writing for the other characters also had that same level of nuance imo #in a different game gale fighting god or shadowheart becoming a dark justiciar would've also counted for a 'positive' ending #but bc the player character themselves can only pick the stupid evil options it makes exploring that stuff feel so much clunkier to me #it would've been cool to do a more morally grey playthrough to have parity w/ the moral greyness ur companions get... #durge is cool but they are also stupid evil bc everything they do is the murderhobo option #they get a better motivation to do those things but its still not the same... #my flavour......... #but im just ranting in the tags bg3 is still the video game ive been wanting my entire life and nothing will change tha #also we dont talk about the lack of any real endings i look away

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Update on how reading Thrawn: Alliances is going

I am s t r u g g l i n g to finish it..im barely past halfway

#to those of you who warned me..i should have listened to you #yall were right it really isnt the same as that first book #i'm still gonna finish it though because i have the uncontrollable need to learn everything i can about my hyperfixations #i really like the clone wars era flashbacks...but every time it switches back to the empire era stuff i get bored and put it down #so far my favourite parts have been: #anakin being a dumbass trying to hide the real nature of his relationship with padme from thrawn #vader being a dumbass worrying about whether or not thrawn knows he is anakin #vader being a delusional dumbass referring to anakin as a separate person even IN HIS MIND #vader shutting down every mention of anakin by just saying #anakin skywalker is dead #and thrawn being like #sure jan #the chapters ive liked the most though are the ones from padmes pov....i wish there was more of that #anyways im 60% in and i have 9 days to finish it :) #also the further i get into this book the more i miss eli #i still think thrawn is an awesome and super interesting character #but man i miss his dynamic with eli #thrawn #thrawn: alliances #darth vader #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #palpatine #the clone wars #thrawn: alliances spoilers #thrawn novels #star wars novels #eli vanto #mitth'raw'nuruodo #chiss ascendancy

[stairset]

I do think it’s kinda funny seeing Thrawn fans be like “they’re gonna ruin him by portraying him as a villain” like we are talking about this guy right

#and before anyone accuses me of not knowing things i do know yes i know full well that he is a complex character #yes i have read the canon thrawn books (not the ascendancy books yet but the first three) #(i haven't bought many sw books lately aside from battle scars cause i'm still between jobs and don't have an infinite bank account) #and yes i know about the whole tug-of-war with rebels wanting to make him a threatening villain #vs the books wanting to make him more of a sympathetic anti-hero #and i do think it's possible to reconcile those seemingly contradictory characterizations #but my point is this is a sequel to the show where he was the main villain for the entire second half #(and need i remind you the show that made him canon again in the first place) #so like if you're NOT expecting him to be villainous in it you're kinda setting yourself up for disappointment #grand admiral thrawn #star wars #star wars rebels #shut up tristan

[killjoy-prince]

I didn't know he can resist being thrown into the ritual outside of his origin run but here we are

#prince's gaming tag #ok so like the first playthrough i walked up to him as my character to get his dialogue and he succeeded in throwing him into the ritual #and that means not having astarion in your party until you run to the other side of the map to free him #so the next two playthroughs i just attacked him without doing his dialogue and kept him as far away from astarion as possible #bc if you dont do the cutscene and just initiate battle the cutscene can still happen if cazador gets close enough to him #but i was able to beat him quick enough where he couldnt move far enough to reach him #in my origin run i had to roll a constitution check to prevent myself from getting used and i had accidentally split him from the group #so if i failed i think the game would consider it a game over bc i was 'alone' and with no one else to stop him he would ascend #but i passed the check so idk for sure #but i only got this scene bc i was sneaking and attacking him individually and i got to astarion and since i didnt kill him #but was close enough to him the cutscene triggered #and im glad but man seeing him angry will covered in blood and dirt is. very nice

[saltpepperbeard]

I’m confused about what that anon thinks therapy is because most of the time I talk to my therapist about how my current week has been and how that’s affected me. Like I’m getting a massage this weekend and I talked to my therapist about that earlier this week. OFMD being canceled was probably mentioned in a lot of therapy sessions this week!

First of all, HI BONNIE HELLO BONNIE <3

Second of all, deadass! 😭

I really do think it was just an all-out attempt to make me feel Some Kind of Way/provoke me however possible, but lol Nah. Because yeah, it was just ridiculous shdjklsdhjkls.

Me: lost something very important to me. is subsequently sad. just so happens to have a therapy appointment that same week. brings it up because it's on the list of Things That Have Made Me Sad over the past few weeks, as one typically does in therapy.

Random people on the internet: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

#Answered #safeinpeetasarms #LIKE HSDJKSHLDKS #'oh you're sad? perish <3' #like bonnie can you even imagine what would have happened if mj2 had received the same fate as ascendant #CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE HSJKLDHSLKDS #17 year old me would have dropped the fuck out #man sometimes i think about that whole ordeal--the fate of the divergent franchise i mean #and i've been thinking about it a lot NOW of course lol because man #they sat in the pre-production void for so so long #the date of alleged release crept closer with nothing to show for it #then they were like 'lol tv movie actually' #and then the cast said 'lol absolutely not' #and then they were like 'okay lol tv SHOW with new characters actually' #and then that just. Never Happened Either. #like being strung along for YEARS like that? holy shit #but a big difference there was a lot of people had already checked out/were done by the time insurgent came out PFFFF #PARTICULARLY when allegiant came out #but man #it's still hard out here #ALSO YES MA'AM BONNIE GET THAT MASSAGE HSDJKLS #AS YOU SHOULD

[aireterra]

spoilers present!!

My first time reading the light novel series, Ascendance of a Bookworm had only 20 English translated volumes available then and I opted to read the rest through the web novel by MTL along with the short stories and Hannelore's 5th Year.

I reread my favorite volumes after as I can't get over it and Hannelore's 5th Year hasn't concluded yet. The last I remember about it is Dregarnuhr and the gazebo proposal. I feel bad for Hannelore😭.

My obsession with it hasn't ended there though. I still reread it from time to time. Recently, I rewatched the anime and reread the translated LNs available from Part 1 to Part 5. It feels like dejavu sometimes as I feel like it's something I've seen myself do it in the past already—which I of course, did. It still made me cry a lot and it's still as enjoyable to read as ever. I'll probably reread it again when the English-translated LN Part 5 volumes 8 to 12 will be available.

I ain't really a fan of reading LN as they're more expensive than English novels and has more volumes than I could count but I'm glad I've chosen to read Honzuki. In fact, I want to read more and see what happens after Alexandria is established as a duchy and see who ends up with Hannelore and Charlotte.

Hannelore and Wilfried would have made a cute sincere pair. Ngl, when Hannelore accepted Wilfried's hand during that intrusion in the ditter game, I really rooted for Hannelore's liking for him but I Hannelore deserves better. I know Wilfried tied him to his circumstances and the people around him (his retainers) doesn't help either but I can't believe he's still so naive until now. How can he reject my favorite character Hannelore twice? I'm not sure if it's only my imagination or my poor memory but is it because he likes Brunhilde? I'm not sure if that's a fact and it's been so long since I've read the WN and rereading the LN didn't really mention anything about that. Must have just been my imagination and different comprehension before or because of MTL. I can't think of any good pair for Hannelore tbh. I only like her with Wilfried because she likes (liked?) him. Kenntrips is nice but I still can't swallow the fact that they're cousins and that such stuff is commonplace in Yurgenschmidt. On the other hand, I don't really have much of an impression on Ortwin except that he's smart and plays Wilfried like a harspiel which is not a good impression either. Hannelore's ideal guy is someone opposite of Lestilaut and she seems to like sincere guys that will do everything to get the love of their life (the Sylvester kind, not the Anastasius kind- I believe there's a distinction between the two). Wilfried has the sincerity I think... but he's still immature and frustratingly naive. With that said, I really can't think of anyone to root for for Hannelore's partner. I'm not comfortable with yuri but the only person I can trust Hannelore with are Rozemyne and Charlotte. There's not many archduke candidates we know of and I believe the only one left is Melchoir but he's much too young and if I remember correctly, he'll only be a first year at Hannelore's last year. I can't root for either Kenntrips nor Ortwin 100% but they have the best chances. And I'd rather root for the former than the latter despite them being cousins only for the fact that Kenntrips seems to understand Hannelore in some way. In any case, I will make a note for the future me to read the LN if ever Hannelore's story be made into one.

In Charlotte's case, I envy her mental and emotional strength. Given that she aspires to be an Aub though, I wonder if she will take interest in genwinnen and perhaps a bit of ditter as unlike Rozemyne and Hannelore, she doesn't have much experience in battle and strategy yet. In any case, I also wonder who's gonna be her partner. No one really comes to mind.

I'm just glad that Ehrenfest has Charlotte and Melchoir as archduke candidates. With them, I think Ehrenfest will be fine. Considering the law that grooms and brides be only married into Ehrenfest and not the other way around for 5 years, Charlotte may be able to stay there if she finds someone that'll support her as an Archduchess when she graduates.

Melchoir has a great sense of responsibility and seems to be more mature than Rozemyne. He has the potential to become Aub but I see him more as a support role like Bonifatius. I hope he takes the good points of his brother and sisters and grow up suited to be an Archduke.

#ascendance of a bookworm #honzuki no gekokujou #honzuki #i may or may not have a blatant dislike for the royals #i hope they get their hands of Hannelore or any of my favorite Characters #The only royalty that matters to me is Adolphine #I recognize that King Trauerqual is kind and overworked though #I hope Wilfried does not grow up to be like Sigiswald #Honzuki has a lot of great female characters #where's the wholesome male characters population at? #Tbh I still kinda hope for Wilfried to be saved and it's nice to see that someone sees him in a positive light given that that doesn't often #I'm annoyed that he lashed out on Hanne tho (iirc) but I don't really dislike him as I think he's a sincere person #his circumstances is mostly to blame

[theautistichalflinghole]

Listen, am I happy that you now get to rule the world with your SO and be evil together? Of course, evil couple takeover for astarion and minthy romancers, especially when they egged you on to do so, makes much more sense. However do I miss the tragedy of a characters who thought they were finally free and powerful being ultimately betrayed by the one they loved? Having thier love become corrupted and warped into something cruel as thier lover perpetuates thier own cycle of violence and abuse? Yes absolutely

Also yes I know this change is old but I've been busy ok

#i had a whole storyline man 😔 #with an animatic song and everything 😔 #i mean ill still probably make the thing but I have to adjust the in game storyline for that character #idk i wish it was a choice to enthrall your partner or not but also i genuinely do think this is a better option #makes more sense and doesnt break up the cutscene #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #it was gonna be an evil dark urge who romanced ascended astarion and they both loved each other once but its become so corrupted #astarion after ascension and durge after siding with thier father in the temple #also they both had trust issues and were victims that continued the cycle <3<3<3<3<3<3<3 #but yeah now im rewriting her to still be evil but prob minthy mancer? #i could stay with ascended but he doesnt see his love interest as an equal #and thats not as fun when i get to do it the other way and betray him right back #also the song is kiss me son of god and i am obsessed with it so i still will most definitely be making the animatic with the enthralling

[heirtotheempire]

No one is calling Thrawn a saint 😂😭 We're calling him traumatized and that the Ascendancy made him into who he was, which is fucked up af. Thrawn would not be who he is if the Ascendancy never fucked him up, is what we're saying

Look man I know not every Thrawn fan sees him as a good guy who did nothing wrong. I was not addressing fans like you. I've made posts about how the Ascendancy is fucked up, if anything I AGREE with you there. But in the past I have seen people who view him as morally right and the type of guy to do the morally correct thing in every given scenario. That is what I disagree with, not the idea that Thrawn is nuanced.

#I don't want to be an ass. but my posts sometimes arent directed at you specifically #most of them arent directed at anyone or anything in particular #sometimes i just want to rant about this stuff lol #i think there is a lot that could be said in a discussion about how Thrawn was shaped into who he is #like how much of it was the Ascendancy how much of it eas he born with how much was simply a choice he made #I've toyed with the idea of him having a personality disorder in my private explorations tbh #But even given something like that the Ascendancy still influenced it #As I said there is a lot of discussion there and I think it would be quite fun actually! #I will say. I do flat out disagree with the idea that Thrawn would be morally pure if not for the Ascendancy #We have seen chiss characters with better morals than Thrawn lol #If the Ascendancy was 100% to blame then you'd think the other chiss characters would be similar to him #Idk! Keep in mind that I am biased towards Legends Thrawn so I do tend to enjoy him best when hes absolutely awful lol #He is fascinating

[lixbf]

i was so productive in bg3 today fjsvcjdhd

#did the house of hope (aka fucked an incubus and killed a devil) #did the steel watch foundry (accidentally had a few gondians die but then still said fuck you to wulbren) #did the whole ansur thing (holyyyyy fuck why are there so many revelations abt this one characters identity like) #And killed gortash (karlach my bby..... 😭) #and after all this w karlach constantly in party her approval of me is at. 51 now. wtf girl. ily and this is how you treat me fjdvckdvcjdh #this also made me think of more like. wrong/bad endings for the companions #duke wyll. god gale. sharran shadowheart. ascended astarion. dead karlach??? i guess?? lae'zel??? idk whats like the bad ending for her #anyways i am rapidly approaching the end of my very first bg3 playthrough and it makes me kinda sad #but then again i keep adding more ideas to playthroughs i wanna do.... #like i wanna do everyones origin. i wanna do redeemed durge and evil durge. i wanna do regular evil. #i wanna make shadowheart and lae'zel have the enemies to lovers story they deserve #i wanna try to actually save every tiefling (rip rolan and also arabella i think bc i forgot abt her existence after the grove was done) #i wanna become half illithid and do a bunch of absolute stuff #i wanna maybe yknow uh save barcus in grymforge and not encourage nere to kinda maybe kill him and the other gnomes #i wanna play as ascended astarion but also as unascended astarion #judging by how im like 140hrs into this playthrough. all of this is gonna take me the rest of the year gjxbckdbdj

[crescentfool]

so called free-thinkers when they see new pictures of minato... it is me.. i’m free-thinkers...

#lizzy speaks #GOOD MORNING I AM GOING TO EXPLODE THESE SCREENSHOTS LOOK SO GOOD #i haven't thoroughly looked 2 hard at tartarus's gameplay but i hope tartarus still functions similarly to how it did in game #like... doing replays of p3 is so fucking nice because i dont have 2 bother with puzzles. tartarus is soo. oddly calming to me. #idc what people say abt tartar sauce! i will defend it with my life!! i liked going up that tower thank you very much!! #also the tired mechanic. fucking swag. yeah its an inconvenience for gameplay. do i give a fuck? not really. i think it fits thematically #anyway... the person i will become when they drop portraits of the other characters. i will ascend #if this thing gets an artbook i WILL get it! i need minato in my home right NOW!!!

[deiscension]

Isn't it crazy how M.itski's Nobody is a deep dive on SQX's character development.... 'I just want somebody near me / Guess I'm a coward / I just want to feel alright'. 'And I know no one will save me.'

The heartache of realizing you never knew what it was like to be wanted, you didn't even know what it was like to be needed, and it wouldn't have mattered anyway because what you had wasn't yours and you still took it. You still took it and you couldn't give it back even when you tried because you weren't strong enough to say the right name when it mattered the most and you weren't brave or just enough to understand and condemn the one who poured blood all over your hands when he handed you a fate you were undeserving of. And really what does it say about you that you mourn what was despite the fact it never should have been? What does it say about you that even when you had it all there were pieces missing? Of course you'd never turn to resentment. That's not who you are, it never has been. It's not your right either. You'll find a way to die happy but that's not really the same as peace or contentment. Are you allowed to want after you've had? Hard to say.

#▌ ◈ ooc ; ⌜ he fucking ascended again! ⌟ #an oversimplification to a degree to be for sure but huh. hm! #i genuinely might do an analysis on all the different ways this song applies to sqx #not tonight though its way too late #also 'i'm just asking for a kiss' i can't entirely extrapolate what i'm thinking into coherent thoughts but! #even if sqx's character arc isn't focused on any such thing as romance it's still so fitting #all that power and influence. all they want are true friends. #i have my own interpretations of sqx and hx but if we're going strict no subtext taken into account canon #how INSANE is it that xl is sqx's first no strings attached friend #applying this to my modern/au verses too-- all that history #she just wants companionship just wants connection can't stand the idea of being an empty collectible trinket #but so much is already decided for her and about her and even if she has her fun its an uphill battle #thinking thoughts. as we can see. thinking many thoughts. #she does just want a kiss! then she'll be alright! #the subtle angst with her in canon even pre-black water has me in a chokehold tonight #distraught over 'too busy with my brother's scolding' #shi wudu ur one of my faves but i hate you and you stink also.