#i wish we could play both but

[handsomeejack]

blood on the clocktower & call of cthulhu >>>>>>>.

#call of cthulhu #blood on the clocktower #no rolls barred #chaotic neutral #nrb #they’re so fun and interesting #i love watching blood on the clocktower #i wish we could play both but #aphantasia + audhd makes it hard to though

[lionbearfox]

SO excited to hang out with this fucking weirdo (affectionate)

#honkai star rail #hsr #march 7th #god i love her. so excited for launch day tomorrow #she's everything to me. i will play this game at least until we get 5* march #everyone else excited for 5* dan heng meanwhile i only give a shit about the fact that this means 5* march is both possible and likely #wish i could do something bigger for launch but alas! finals season is upon me (WOE) #so little march doodle will have to be sufficent #id in alt and click 4 quality as a;ways

[ladyalicentshightower]

"Team Black is better than Team Green because Luke's funeral is private while Team Green hold a public funeral for propaganda purposes!"

Kingslanding is the biggest city in Westeros and is densely populated, and while Dragonstone is also densely populated, it's infinitely smaller. If Team Black were in Kingslanding instead of Dragonstone, they would never have been able to have a private funeral because the small folk would want to attend too. Furthermore, as an island, Dragonstone is isolated as few would travel for a funeral in a time of war. Kingslanding even during war, has Westeros' highest population density. Aemma and Baelon also had a public funeral in season 1.

In the books (hopefully in the show too), Haelena is remembered as being beloved by the small folk. Jaehaerys, as her son, was loved by and is mourned by them too. Even if they wanted to - and likely they did want to - have a private funeral, they wouldn't have been able to due to public reaction and outcry.

#hotd #hotd spoilers #house of the dragon #house of the dragon spoilers #alicent hightower #haelena targaryen #i wish there would be more emphasis on the common folk by both the writers and by the fandom #because they play a significant role in whats to come #one can argue that rhaenyra is disconnected from her people and that is one reason why things end the way they do for her #rhaenyra to me is reminiscent of mary queen of scots #but also we only get two characters who are not noble but they only either get dogs abuse from or are ignored by the fandom #mysaria deserves so much better #she gets a better ending in hotd i beg #the essays i could write about criston cole

[masterqwertster]

Ok don’t publish it if you don’t have to but man this weekend is bumming me right out with this “

Yeah, there is certainly some aggression going on against people wishing for resurrection because others find it a poignant narrative that a sacrifice can't be undone, that it lasts and has consequences, that it puts weight to the stakes. And they think that coming back to life after specifically doing something you know will 100% kill you cheapens sacrifice.

Personally, I think that being brought back after you willingly and knowingly and successfully gave your life for others tells a story of how much you're loved. It's your friends saying "Fuck that. You're going to live. We're all going to live. We'll keep dragging each other back until we can't anymore, so fucking be here and fight."

It also adds another level of desperation to be stronger, smarter, to not be caught like that ever again because who knows if you can get them back next time (and however many times you fail after that). Resurrections get harder ever time a person is brought back. This is part of what bit Scanlan's ass right before Bard's Lament: the Revivify didn't take, so the rest of Vox Machina brought in his daughter to call him back during the Resurrection (which he hated) and got the chance to be dicks about bringing him back with the dumb pranks, all of which led to setting Scanlan off. And sure, Bells Hells had that desperation to keep each other alive from the Bassuras fight, but that doesn't mean that the sentiment can't be further sharpened even when you've managed to steal back all the lives of your party members that she took.

Honestly, I think that just having Chet and FCG die against the Murder Machine of Otohan after Bells Hells specifically and successfully went to efforts to get stronger still ups the stakes even if both end up revived. "All our might and we still faced that loss. It would have been all of us if FCG didn't make that play. We still cannot face the enemy leadership head-on as we are. We must get stronger still."

And I really think there's some fun character development to be had in giving FCG a flesh body. Will he actually like what they've envied about the others? How does one handle a completely new body that they're grateful for (that they should be grateful for, otherwise they'd be dead) but is just so different from what they know? Yes, FCG had that last moment clarity that he was in fact already fully alive, but there's definitely some "alive in the flesh" things to explore.

And more faith to explore too. Like, did he get to meet the Changebringer and talk with her in the afterlife? The Raven Queen? Speaking of just being in the afterlife, what about meeting Eshteross again? The other members of the Division of Public Benefit that he killed?

Also, I'm not sure how big a fan I am of the heavy breakdowns that will happen if FCG isn't resurrected. Bells Hells is suffering pretty good as is and I'd like them to have some happiness inbetween all the Moon Bullshit. Conflict drives a story, but you need soft moments to wind it down between heavy moments.

Because truthfully, most of what you get from keeping FCG dead is a bunch of breakdowns in the party without it's most optimistic member who actually advocates for communication, which they all suck at for various personal reasons. And a push towards the Villain Arc path that, honestly, a few are walking just fine without FCG staying dead and/or can still be pushed further down it just by the fact that he decided to kill himself to save their asses when no one wants to let any of the others go.

I do think that as far as martyrdom goes, what FCG did took a nice step away from "giving my life because it's worth less than any one of theirs and I think dying for a cause will give me absolution for the people I rage killed" and into "giving my life because it will save them and I don't know what else to do that will save them." There are certainly posts that get into the distinction between those choices better than I have. Which is where I think the "best ending for FCG" idea comes from, as it happened under the "best" reasoning for FCG to martyr himself. And to a certain degree, people have decided that martyrdom was unavoidable for FCG or that he was just highly prone to it and this was a good time/way to do it.

Still doesn't change that a self-sacrificing character did in fact sacrifice themself, though. Or that it didn't have to be the end that FCG met.

And I understand to some degree how Everyone Comes Back to Life if You Try can feel like it undermines the stakes. Because if no one stays dead, what do you have to fear from walking into mortal danger? Everyone will be fine right? Which is wrong. There is still trauma in dying, even when you're brought back. The realization of mortality, the struggle to steal back a life when it's not just a quick prayer in the heat of battle. And the ever looming possibility that you do it right and it's still not enough to steal them back.

Also, from the wider in-the-game-world's perspective: Resurrection is rare as shit and only people with immense wealth, connections, and/or power even have a shot at it.

Even mechanically it's not easy. You have to mind time limits, expensive costs, body conditions, spell levels and slots, not to mention that the dice can always say no.

So yes, Bells Hells probably needs to go to less effort to Reincarnate FCG than they did to resurrect Laudna because all they're missing is components while they have the likes of Keyleth who kind of owe them for Moon Scouting and killing Otohan and should be able to provide.

#I don't know if this covers it right #but like. there are reasons to leave FCG dead (mostly Sam's wishes) and reasons to bring him back #both are valid and we won't know which way it swings until the next episode(s) #and it's not hating consequences to want FCG back. it's knowing it's possible and wanting that sequence of consequences #like Sam could take FCG back and impose some new limit on them. play “didn't come back right” beyond the new body for consequences #so. ya'know. trust the cast to tell the story and don't get on each other's asses about different hopes for what comes next #MQ&A #critical role #cr speculation #cr spoilers #fcg

[marcsnuffy]

kaiser and ness. thoughts?

#txt #ask #as a duo i am both compelled and disturbed by the toxic sludge of a situation they've got going on #i think it's awful for them both to be like that with each other. but they're like a candle and brother im a moth #as characters though #ness is legitimately one of my favorites. his attachment and hysterical behavior have enamoured me since day one #he's very charming to me i like characters who devote themselves to highlighting others #i want to see more of him #i want him to get an awakening since therapy isnt real in the blue lock universe #actually i wish his backstory had gone more in depth abt how his family treated him early on #i feel like what we got was kinda shallow #but then maybe he woke up one day and decided to be a loyal freak. i respect that. #...michael kaiser is a prodigy ng11 striker who plays for bastard munchen or whatever. sorry i dont know that guy #i could talk more abt kaiser but i dont feel like it so thats his wiki entry

[aromanticasterisms]

ah. so elynas and durin really are siblings huh

#personal stuff #thorn plays genshin #hm. hm. #can't believe albedo has another sibling! fontaine event where albedo goes to elynas. who's with me #hsdgfjdkh but fr i thought so after completing the quest! #big dead dragon born from a cosmic void with blood that crystallizes. cells that literally drop Alien Goop #and then the world quest where we get the pov of the ship's crew talking about the Abyssal sea monsters #AND THEN. now. rereading durin lore #durin specifically arose from the Sea and is described as being a black *serpentine* dragon in line with elynas's appearance #festering desire also speaks of a Mother #then dragonspine spear paints durin as being gentle and wanting to befriend the people of mondstadt #and feeling no ill will towards them or dvalin when he died #which is VERY in line with elynas saying he realized the things that interested him brought fear and pain to others. #and that if he could traverse this world without causing pain or fear he would. #is very similar to durin wishing he could have met dvalin and venti and mondstadt under different circumstances #both weapons speak of being born from the same darkness that elynas talks about #AND both of their hearts are still intact. why tf did jakob want to get elynas's to beat again. what the fuck #just aoooh. i love how much of genshin exploration is just realizing how fucking fitting the Cataclysm is as a name for what happened #and how much it happened Everywhere #like. at least 3/7 of the original archons died. which is fucking. bonkers to me #considering MOST of them lived until that point with the only confirmed exception being the og pyro archon #don't even get me started on the fact that most of these deaths aren't even known #makoto obviously and rukkhadevata retroactively. no one in fontaine says a WORD about the lord of amrita #the only ones who seem to care about her are the oceanids. what the fuck #but god. like #the narzissenkreuz institute and the order of skeptics questline. the impact that people trying to investigate the cataclysm had #on others and themselves #like it makes a lot of sense but we don't see it anywhere else!! fucking of course people would try to study the cataclysm!! #of course people would try and find out wtf happened!!! #but now everything to do with the cataclysm is confidential to the point where people don't believe that most of the stories are true

[a-mythologynerd]

Just finished The Familiar and it was very fun! Definitely captured my imagination and I adore Leigh Bardugo’s historical and modern fantasies. She does such a great job of evoking those themes of injustice and the grey morality of being locked in systems and corrupt power structures. I’ll probably talk more on this later but if you’re a fan of her work (especially the Alex Stern series) I’d give it a read.

#the familiar #leigh bardugo #it was just fun and fantastical and I wanted to learn more about the world #the romance was sweet and pretty believable although I wish the book was longer so that it could have felt more natural in its weight #the whole ‘we are like and understand each other’ makes up for the difference though #I liked how Luzia and Santangel were their own characters in their own right and not just clones of other LB characters #that made it very fun #I especially loved Luzia particular brand of morbid and cynical humor #I said I’d say all this later and now I’m in the tags whoops #I do wonder if I’m missing some allusions though specifically the orange groove references #loved the varieties of greed and ambition and the similar vibe I got from kamet in thick as thieves regarding the honor and code of the #peasant class #the sort of forgiveness for being screwed over as wouldn’t you do the same #or the refusal to owe favors and the like #hualit was super interesting as a character #I loved her I hated her I think both are good options #I liked how LB played with the pov and the omniscient narrator connecting the threads and the sort of without time without boundaries world #of stories the world seemed to inhabit #myth.txt #book talk

[mimzy6bunny]

god put us in different media bc they knew we would be unstoppable as canonical best friends

#this is ebisu and sabitsuki :] thanks vire for the idea!!!! #uhhh idk i just love them #i wish they could get ice cream together and play videogames idc #myn.arte #.flow #drhdr #what if we were both girls and doomed by the narrative

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

oughh......

#laya plays dragon age #da2 #oc: liam hawke #this happened a bit ago already & i wanted to draw sth for it but idk if i will finish that #but i gotta yell abt them anyway because OGH. #i have a lot of emotions about this quest ok #bartrand was the perfect scapegoat he was perfect to direct all the rage and pain at all these years #years of imagining gleeful revenge while bartrand is gloating and laughing like an evil soulless bastard #and then you meet him and he is just. a pathetic husk of a man with barely any own will left #and whats worse. varric is so so torn up about it #varric. the guy who never makes anything about him and who will always handwave and joke when something hits too close to home #drops all efforts to be smart and is just. desperate. begs hawke to not kill his brother #and liam wants to want bartrand dead so bad. he wishes he could look him in the eye and enjoy taking his life #and he knows varric will listen to him if he insisted. he knows when it comes down it it varric will yield to his decision #but he sees this broken guy who is barely the villain he kept projecting onto him and he sees varric and he sees two doomed siblings #and knows what its like to lose your sibling to your own blade #and he cant do it #and he hates it so much. but he wont do it. #and its the reason why i cant decide who dealt the killing blow for bethany bc it makes this scene juicy in different ways #if varric kills bethy its equally wanting to spare each other their siblings blood on their hands #as it is taking some form of revenge (on liams part). we both killed each others siblings. now we are even #the revenge part would still be there if liam did the blow on bethany himself. you made me do that and now i will take bartrand for it #but its also much more i know what its like. i wont make go through that too #if varric killed bethy and then also bartrand it would be more #''its my fault she is dead. i will take the revenge she/you deserves if you tell me to even though it will hurt me #dunno. all good variations i will. have to rotate them in my head more #or maybe just never decide idk they can be in canon limbo forever #anyways thats it for shouting into the void about them for now it Will happen again

[mariathechosen1]

Was Anyone But You a good Much Ado About Nothing adaptation? No, not at all, but fuck it was fun!

#y’all know I have many thoughts about this play and these characters #but even though the movie didn’t completely live up to my expectations as an adaptation #I still really enjoyed it! #and I really despise all those people making posts about how sydney sweeney can’t act #idk it seems a little rude #my main problem is how they messed up the benedick and beatrice characterization and dynamic #I love that they played up the ex lovers thing (which is left up to interpretation in the play) #and i love love queer Hero and Claudio!!! #but their hatred of each other didn’t really pack the same punch as in the original #I suppose I wish they weren’t afraid to make the characters bigger assholes? #ya know- give them more flaws? #because right now the enemies part doesn’t really feel believable for big parts of the movie #They really could have leaned more into making Bea a bit of a cold and snappy mess (as she is in the original) #and Ben more of…ya know…actual human disaster who can’t commit #both of their characters in the play are driven by their desire never to marry and their distrust for the opposite sex #They included this a bit with Bea (her not believing in true love and all that) #but her break up with Jonathan (because he was too nice???) didn’t really convince me of it #They also keep insisting that Ben is a fuckboy but we never really see it demonstrated? #I personally don’t mind the fact that they changed up the whole ‘convincing them that the other secretly loves them’ bit #especially considering this is only loosely based on much ado #but I do think they made it a bit messy considering they included the gulling scenes but only as a joke #I wish they’d either leaned fully into the much ado plot or ditched it #I think what a lot of adaptations get wrong is that they’re either too afraid of leaning into their og media #or too afraid of seperating themselves from the og media #oh god I’ve reached the tag limit help #anyways- rant over #anyone but you #maria talks about things #much ado about nothing #beatrice x benedick

[lurking-latinist]

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#I also keep seeing modern au aubrey-maturin art #that makes me wish I could draw and thereby contribute #unfortunately I can't even *write* modern aus generally. but I like transferring character dynamics from place to place in my brain #and I feel like I could do a university AU very nicely if I could do AUs at all #because I have had rowers in my class with as far as I could tell jack's exact personality #(unfortunately it has to be a US university AU because (a) that's what I know and (b) afaik nobody else does randomly assigned roommates) #(and I cannot pass up the opportunity for randomly assigned roommates. #OR RATHER #for 'you seem more or less human - quick let's request each other so we don't have to go into potluck' #I think that works best) #(but maybe they are both international students anyway. that works fine. & therefore extremely alarmed by potluck [can't say they're wrong] #sophie is a sorority girl. english major I think. and I can see her so clearly #(she's the part I want to draw) #she's not that into the high-octane social schedule her sorority expects her to have #but her pushy mother was a member and it is Unthinkable that sophie should not be #and a lot of the other girls are sweet :) so it's fine :) she says #feel like she has roommate issues (unlike her original self she is able to live away from mrs williams so this makes up for that) #so she's always over in jack and stephen's room. people who know her tangentially sometimes gossip about which one she's actually dating #(at that particular moment it is actually neither of them she's just hanging out with stephen) #diana freed from the shackles of 19th century womanhood creates even more and weirder drama than in canon #idk I just want to see the plot of post captain played out over text message #don't ask me HOW idk HOW i just want it #stephen is a biology major/pre-med obvs. if he can survive organic chemistry #jack is some kind of engineering major. I think he'd enjoy that with the math. diana has changed her major 7 times #(I don't know whether to put jack in rotc. I don't think it Actually actually fits - he's in the navy in canon because he's in the navy #not bc he's Inevitably Military In All Worlds. he would not want to do that if he didn't get to sail #but at the same time I find it hard to picture him not belonging to Discipline somehow. #it's more than a disinterested passion for cleanliness that drives him to wash stephen's mug for him that has had coffee and ramen in it #(and NOT in that order) #in the bathroom sink

[netripper]

actually now that i think ab it johnny wouldn’t get pissy over vic’s driving. he strikes me as a joyride kinda guy. i’m like 100% sure he grew up around a bunch of car rednecks with these crazy ass hotrods in the 90s, then hotrod culture died down, then he got to NC and lo and behold it’s fuckin flourishing

#johnny silverhand #vanta rambles #source: both halves of my family have car rednecks #they regale me with tales of street racing and souping up these beautiful cars in the 80s #i think partly the 90s too #there was such a rich and vibrant road culture back then in FL and i’m kinda sad it’s all been sterilized #good to be safe on the road but ykwim #it’s like the death of malls to me…… #the proximity of the cyberpunk setting to the 80s is what makes this whole thing work #ok i’m gonna ramble more ab florida roads hi guys #there’s also more ppl here than ever (Stop it. Don’t move here! It tooootally sucks!) #so it’s just untenable to do some crazy shit on the road like u could 30 years ago #i can’t even pull out of my neighborhood without having to play fuckin frogger waiting for the right moment to go #even going out the BACK is rough #if it was as quiet here now as it was when my parents moved to this neighborhood we wouldn’t have a problem #now literally the car line for the elementary school reaches our neighborhood AND ppl park in our neighborhood to pick up their kids #WHICH IS EXPLICITLY NOT ALLOWED #anyway. point is god i wish the roads down here weren’t a fuckin nightmare #driving is fun and i like it even if it exhausts the hell outta me #wouldn’t be so exhausting if all the dang ol orange groves weren’t squashed to make way for subdivision no. 287

[sieglinde-freud]

im promoting my little guys in awakening now and you know i fully understand intsys’s descision to canonize hero!inigo in fates bc yeah, dancer guy should get to do his twirly spins and flips mid fight!! makes sense. fight like his mom or whatever. HOWEVER. i like giving him a horsie :) look at him. look at his face. THAT is the face of a man who needs a little buddy mid fight :) also hero!severa bc women with axes are hot that is all

#unfortunately i need inigo to get sol so hes gonna suffer without his animal friend for a bit #but im js. bow knight!inigo supremacy #he just. he just gives way more horsegirl energy than severa does im sorry #and like yeah they could both be bow knights but i like keeping variety in army. and like i said axe girls are hot #wish he couldve inherited pegasus knight from his mom tho… now THATD be peak inigo gameplay #rip to that one lost scene of inigo flying in on a pegasus… whoever at intsys lost that we have beef #one time i ran him as a falcon knight in fates and i think i discovered what world peace felt like #ann plays awakening

[noonaracha]

I was tagged by @hongamon & @fauna-and-floraa & @hhnquokka to do this! Thank youuuu 💜💜

Post your Lock Screen, Home Screen, last Spotify song, and first Pinterest photo on your dashboard

I’m tagging @your-slayer @skz-maybe-incorrects @drewskywalkr @blueprintchan @lunaaaa-99 @ambivartence !!

#skz skz skz… who is surprised #I was playing drake in the car with my sister we both believed this was some of his better work in a while… #but man I wish I could have gotten 4 for 4 #noonaraebang

[plushiehamuko]

ask shinji if he's dating hamuko and he'll say it's none of your business. insist after that and he'll tell you to fuck off. nobody knows what happens if you still persist beyond that bc nobody is stupid enough to push after shinji says to fuck off. HOWEVER ask hamuko if she's dating shinji and she'll come up with a different answer every time, becoming increasingly more outlandish with the responses the more she is asked

#squishy talks too much #squishy plays p3p #and it's funny bc neither of them consider their relationship dating. not even in an “it's complicated” way #they could just say “no” but they're both too extra for that #“hamuko is aragaki-senpai your boyfriend” #“jeez i wish... but he is actually moving to america next week and neither of us wanted to do long distance so we broke it off. yeah sad ik #or “yeah but i'm thinking of breaking it off. you see he's actually secretly a vampire and it's kinda draining. in a literal sense.” #she is just SOOOO stupid and weird #posts that only appeal to me and are only funny to me #about hamuko <3 #about shinji <3

[sexybritishllama]

‘while away the quiet hours’ hello???? zenos you’ve killed a lot of people the wol isn’t gonna fuck you

#eloise talks #ffxiv spoilers #eloise plays ffxiv #love the image of my wol hearing all this #the insistence that they’re one and the same and we both crave violence or whatever #and the whole time just thinking #‘man I miss Haurchefant. wish we could have gone on a vacation together’