#one for every expansion

[ievaxol]

54 seikecred

Father, would you be my guidance Would you look for sails Until my ship comes in

I.

"I heard you buried the victims of the massacre," Thancred says to Seike's back ─ aiming for jovial and wincing when it falls flat, wondering why the fuck he'd choose to go with that tone to begin with.

He's been off balance as of late, ever since being dragged back to the surface of his own mind to find his hands stained in blood that everyone else insisted wasn't on his conscience. The first nights after he was off bedrest he'd been up to his elbows in soapy water, hot enough to hurt and he'd spent hours scrubbing, scrubbing, scrubbing.

Seike doesn't even turn to look at him and so doesn't see the way his shoulders sag in relief when she asks nothing of his motivations and simply says:

"I'll take you there."

II.

Yda ─ Lyse ─ takes a chunk out of his shoulder and leaves bruises black as night all over his back. There's a Papalymo-shaped hole in their formation that he doesn't want to dwell on and yet can't seem to escape, like a tongue runs over a missing tooth.

Over and over he returns to it, feels for the gap. Mourns, tries to pick himself back up and repeat ad infinitum.

"You did the right thing," Seike says and while he barely manages a 'please don't talk about it' through gritted teeth, the words nonetheless warm him.

III.

He hears of the battle in Rhalgr's Reach with a several hour delay, Lyse trying her damndest not to let her voice waver as she recounts the event. Thancred feels a surge of pride at how much she's grown ever since taking the mask off but it's quickly swallowed by the shadow Zenos casts over the conversation.

A monster. A beast. A man who no words could capture and he'd cut Seike down like she was nothing more than fodder.

"Is she alright," he asks mechanically, forcing the calm.

A hitch in Lyse's breath has him clenching his fists, the only concession he allows himself.

"She asked for you," Lyse says, so quiet it can barely be heard. "But don't tell her I told you that. She was feverish."

He can't go. He can't go to her.

Thancred feels rotten and hollowed out, dumbstruck by how much he wants to.

IV.

Urianger tries to get him to talk about her. Y'shtola as well. Alphinaud and Alisaie join the choir when they arrive on the First, missing Seike loudly and openly, lamenting her absence so easily that it has his jaw tick with envy on bad days.

He ─ he doesn't want to delve into it. Unfair, perhaps, but there is a practical aspect to it.

Thancred tells himself it's practical.

After all, they don't know if she will ever arrive, if the Exarch will manage a miracle and bring her over before time falls out of sync and either they or she grows old.

So he hisses at Urianger to forget about Seike, tells Y'shtola to leave him be and easily ducks any attempt at conversation from the twins until their hands are full enough that they forget to ask.

And then from one day to the next, she exists in the same world as he does again and it's with mounting horror that he realizes that he doesn't know what to do with it.

V.

On the ship to Sharlayan Thancred finds Seike on deck, watching the sea with a smile so soft and private it feels like intruding to simply see it.

He might be a great many things but he doesn't fashion himself a coward and so he approaches anyway, leaning over the railing with her and casting his gaze to the waves.

After a while she shifts and presses her arms against his, a point of warmth in the biting wind.

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#i forgot how much i love writing this format hell yeah #one for every expansion #wolcred #wol x thancred #seikecred #seike #ask #rinzukodas #mine writing

[booasaur]

Beacon 23 (2023) - Official Trailer

#beacon23edit #beacon 23 #b23 aster #b23 halan #b23 coley #lena headey #stephan james #sandrine holt #beacon 23 spoilers #aster x coley #femslash related stuff #hehehe #so I get a lot of new show and movie trailers on my youtube recs #and watched the one for this because obviously I'll try anything with lena headey #she's been in some weird stuff but this looked like a legit thing with stephan james #and scifi so yay #I figured it'd just be the two of them and then being attacked so no f/f but then?? #that little glimpse of the kiss lmao #I was on my phone so I couldn't make out who the other actress was but for a sec was like sandrine holt?? #but then was like nah it can't be her every time; the expanse was just a coincidence #but looking at imdb she IS in the show #it'll probably be some sad flashback but it still made me laugh #they were like we need a girlkisser in this canadian-feeling scifi. sandrine holt? sandrine holt

[sarcasmprodigy]

I can finally die.

#splatoon 3 #splatoon #side order #side order spoilers #To finish a single chip you need to have five of that chip in one palette run #and to finish a match set you have to finish the chips in that set #and to finish a hue you have to finish all of the sets in that hue #and tjen finally. The little circle at the far right colors in #its a lot #but it looks nice. #i’m the same guy who finished every level with every weapon in the octo expansion for all the check marks #i’mm a little mental about completing things

[thefirstknife]

New article with more details (from Jason Schreier who first broke the story). If you can't see it, I'll copy the whole text under read more.

About 100 employees were laid off in total (8%) and one of the main reasons listed is "underperformance," "sharp drop in popularity" and "poor reception of Lightfall."

So you know when for the last year and a half content creators have been shitting and pissing on the game as a full-time job and the amount of negativity and ragebait content became the only thing to make content about for them? Well they certainly won't take the blame, but I will let it be known. These people either don't understand the influence they have or they do and they're doing it on purpose, and I don't know which of these two options is worse, but I am 100% confident that their campaign of rage and hate contributed to this.

You don't base your entire community around constantly hating everything about the only game you play (despite clearly not enjoying it anymore) and somehow avoid galvanising thousands and thousands of people into perceiving the game negatively. Imagine being employees who have barely worked there for 2 years and the only community reception they've seen is 24/7 hate train for their work and then they get fired because of "poor reception" and "drop in popularity." How can they not take that personally? I am absolutely devastated for these people who delievered a banger product and who were met with an unrelenting barrage of toxic gamer children which ended up having more sway over their boss than them.

Which brings me to the next bit and that's FUCK THE CEO. He is now my mortal enemy #1. I am projecting psychic blasts directly into his brain. What an absolute spineless coward who is more willing to bow down to fucking gamers than to protect his own employees. This is absolutely rage inducing because this has happened before. From the article from 2021 about the toxic culture at Bungie:

Reading this shit from the new article absolutely fucking sent me into blind rage because I immediately remembered this. Another instance of employees suffering because of comments on reddit. And because of toxic players. And proof that leadership is not protecting employees and is instead siding with players.

Match made in heaven. Asshole gamer content creators and asshole CEOs, all of whom sit at home on piles of money made from someone else's labour. I hope they all explode. None of the people that worked on this game deserve this.

Another article with an infuriating comment from the CEO:

In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.

"Kept the right people." Really. Veteran composers weren't the right people? Die!

Bloomberg article in full:

Bungie’s decision to cut an estimated 100 jobs from its staff of about 1,200 followed dire management warnings earlier this month of a sharp drop in the popularity of its flagship video game Destiny 2. Just two weeks ago, executives at the Sony-owned game developer told employees that revenue was running 45% below projections for the year, according to people who attended the meeting. Chief Executive Officer Pete Parsons pinned the big miss on weak player retention for Destiny 2, which has faced a poor reception since the release of its latest expansion, Lightfall. The next expansion, The Final Shape, was getting good — not great feedback — and management told those present that they planned to push back the release to June 2024 from February, according the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The additional time would give developers a chance to improve the product. In the meantime, Parsons told staff Bungie would be cutting costs, such as for travel, as well as implementing salary and hiring freezes, the people said. Everyone would have to work together to weather the storm, he said, leaving employees feeling determined to do whatever was needed to get revenue back up. But on Monday morning the news got worse: Dozens of staffers woke up to mysterious 15-minute meetings that had been placed on their calendars, which they soon learned were part of a mass layoff. Bungie laid off around 8% of its employees, according to documentation reviewed by Bloomberg. Bungie didn’t respond to requests for comment. Employees who were let go will receive at least three months of severance and three months of Bungie-paid COBRA health insurance, although other benefits, such as expense reimbursements, ended Monday, sending some staff racing to submit their receipts. Laid-off staffers will also receive prorated bonuses, although those who were on a vesting schedule following Sony Group Corp.’s acquisition of Bungie in January 2022 will lose any shares that weren’t vested as of next month. The layoffs are part of a larger money-saving initiative at Sony’s PlayStation unit, which has also cut employees at studios such as Naughty Dog, Media Molecule and its San Mateo office. TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a report Monday that “events over the last few days lead us to believe that PlayStation is undergoing a restructuring.” PlayStation president Jim Ryan announced last month that he plans to resign. Many of the layoffs at Bungie affected the company’s support departments, such as community management and publishing. Remaining Bungie staff were informed that some of those areas will be outsourced moving forward.

#destiny 2 #bungie #long post #and like i don't care what's anyone's opinion on lightfall. it doesn't matter #the expansion is fine. there's some bad shit in there as there is in every expansion #literally nothing on this earth was so bad to deserve the amount of vitriol that lightfall got #it was purely motivated by hate and rage from people who have clearly lost their interest in the game a long time ago #no one else normal enough would respond even to a weaker expansion this way. and lightfall wasn't even weaker #literally nothing ever released in destiny deserves to have comments bad enough to end up affecting employees #there's been some bad expansions/dlcs/seasons. whatever. none of them were like... gollum level. not even close #people genuinely treated lightfall like it personally killed their dog. it was insane. the reaction to it was insane. #it stemmed from people who should have stopped playing a long time ago and stopped being content creators for one game #i can't even properly explain just how long and tireless the ragebait content campaign for destiny has been #opening youtube and seeing 10 videos in a row of just complaining and bitching #opening twitter and seeing thousands upon thousands of posts and comments dedicated solely to hating the game #imagine being an employee trying to maintain some communication with the community #hippy was relentlessly bullied by people I've seen suddenly lamenting that she was fired. you caused this #they will never accept even a miniscule portion of the blame for this ofc. they will just keep claiming they don't have that influence #but they do. it's been proven years ago. in the same way #community comments DO reach devs and community comments DO influence what happens to them and the game #'the event is bad' 'meta is bad' 'pvp is bad' 'raid is bad' 'story is bad' stop playing. no longer asking. #it's a video game. if you hate it stop playing. you don't have to justify it to hundreds of thousands of people and take them with you #especially when it leads to employees taking the fall #so to all content creators who are appalled and baffled after spending 2 years hating the game: you did this. #and to the ceo even more: explode into dust and be forgotten

[gooperts-gunk]

im so crazy over the tragedy of everything q!bbh does being under a demon pretense even though he's a fallen angel.

do u think he just accepts the demon label because it's easier. do u think he believes it too, and catches himself in his thoughts with "oh, right. im not exactly that". and maybe he believes that he did this to himself? do u think what he did was to protect himself or someone? no matter the fall, he still has so much kindness to give and his brain just isn't wired the way a natural-born demon would be, he can't hold back instincts when time demands it, maybe that's why he fell in the first place.

and when he's finally bad, not good, it's treated like the end of the world, without empathy on why he would act out. do you think this keeps happening? the same scenario, multiple times, every timeline? he has to be used to it. so he has to take it in stride. he's good until he lashes out under extreme pressure, and suddenly he's called demon. and once again he's what heaven made him out to be. what he made himself to be, his brain would ruthlessly provide...

i don't think he wants to be that, though he hides secrets behind secrets of which neither identity is a home... but i don't think he wants to have to change, either. and i don't think that's wrong of him.

...you collapse atlantis ONE TIME and all of a sudden YOU'RE the bad guy and SURE it was FUN but REALLY now,--

#lots of expansion on this in tags beware #this is a draft from 2:40AM the day before i just felt something within me and i needed to write about fallen angel q!bbh angst NOW #this post is brought to you by q!bbh in purgatory and post-purgatory i will never forgive you purgatory 1 #no one can bear to have a healthy conversation about q!bbh's behaviors let alone TO q!bbh. BUT IF Q!BAGHERA WASN'T STUCK ON THE ISLAND... #i miss u bbh + baghera interactions let me see u soon pls #he isn't impossible to communicate with ur just not jiving with his autism right u can get through to him i swear BUT TOO LATE he DIED #now he doesn't remember!!! (unless that part of the library is recovered) u lost ur shot!!! (ur issues with him will rise again) #now every time bagi goes “'cause he's a demon” with bbh i go OH MAN SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT'S MORE... it hurts how flippant it is sometimes #because WE KNOW OH MAN WE KNOW IT'S MORE and this concept of him being fallen adds SO MUCH CONNOTATION to EVERYTHING he does #it isn't just DEMON THINGS it's GOD MADE ME THIS THINGS and i just can't wait to know WHY what did you DO!!! #your instincts are to be nice though cautiously detached when your life restarts so WHAT DID YOU DO IF YOU ARE NOT INHERENTLY BAD??? #goopert talks qsmp #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo

[feelboss]

me when I've never played a game with a character creator before

#bg3 #please be serious #like come on #i love the game but the character creation is literally one of its weakest points #i can think of at least four games with far far FAR more expansive character creation off the top of my head at 4am #like bro you can't even customize body build??? #something that's pretty fucking standard for every goddamn character creator #YOU CAN'T EVEN NOT HAVE ABS #LET ALONE BE FAT #like i understand that not everyone has played saints row 2 #but most gamers have seen the sims customization!!!!! #ffs!!!! #come the fuck on #straight up the character creation in bg3 is bad #and extremely same-facey #its not a good point when your pc will end up sharing multiple traits with multiple npcs

[rosepompadour]

From the ruins rose the Empire State Building, lonely and inexplicable as the Sphinx and, just as it had been a tradition of mine to climb to the Plaza Roof to take leave of the beautiful city, extending as far as eyes could reach, so now I went to the roof of the last and most magnificent of towers. Then I understood—everything was explained: I had discovered the crowning error of the city, its Pandora's box. Full of vaunting pride the New Yorker had climbed here and seen with dismay what he had never suspected, that the city was not the endless succession of canyons that he had supposed but that it had limits—from the tallest structure he saw for the first time that it faded out into the country on all sides, into an expanse of green and blue that alone was limitless. And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining edifice that he had reared in his imagination came crashing to the ground.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "My Lost City" (1932)

#f. scott fitzgerald #this brings the tears every single time #especially as a new yorker #but also as his grieving widow #the gatsby vibes are certainly not helping #what is 'an expanse of green and blue that alone was limitless' if not 'the dark fields of the republic roll[ing] on under the night?' #i love so many authors but also just one #🖤 #literature

[allastoredeer]

I discovered Just kiss Already after you uploaded part 3 and I have a question. So Part 1 is 1 chapter, Part 2 is 2 chapters, Part 3 is 3 chapters. When you say your writing "the next fic" do you mean like ALL of Part 4, which you then break down into chapters before you upload them or do you upload chapters individually as you complete them?

The fics themselves aren't so much chapters as they are a serialized collection of fanfics that have an overarching plot.

The reason I'm writing "Just Kiss Already" as a series instead of a multi-chaptered fic is because each fic has its own little mini plot inside it. Each of them are a mini story that's gradually building up the larger story at play.

I'm also keeping it as a series because I go back and forth between POV's a lot. Hopping between POV's in a multi-chaptered fic can work, but I usually like keeping them contained to a single POV. It makes it easier on me and the reader, so I don't have to clarify which character we'll be following in each chapter.

It's a collection of stories that are all linked together, kind of like a TV show, but you can totally view them as parts too.

"De-Lovely" is part 1 , "Holy Suffering" is part 2, and "Damage Control," is part 3.

I've actually split up the entire plot of "Just Kiss Already" into three different arcs (or three seasons if the TV analogy helped), each with their own theme. But I shall not tell you what they are, because that would be spoilers 😈

Sometimes, I don't intend for the fic to be split into multiple chapters, but if it gets bigger than I expected, I break it up because it's easier on me when I get to the editing stage. Editing one large chapter is so much harder than editing a couple small ones 😅

I hope you're enjoying the series! I'm very excited to get into the juicer bits of the story 😏

#I really didn't expect to even write Just Kiss Already #it sprang up on me #I just wanted to write a silly one shot of Lucifer finding Alastor cooking in the middle of the night #then I just wanted to add a silly addition about Lucifer finding Al and helping him heal #by then an actual plot started to build and I am such a sucker for plots #I have so much fun with them #i can resist a large expansive plot #they are my weakness #every fic I've done started this way #girl help the narrative is growing and I can't stop it #honestly I'm still hashing out a lot of details of the story #I'm building it as I go but I have plotted out a lot and I know where I ultimately how the plot will go #I'm very excited to get into all the juicy bits I have planned out hehehe #hazbin hotel #alastor #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel alastor #the radio demon #lucifer morningstar #lucifer magne #appleradio #radioapple #alastor hazbin hotel #alastor the radio demon #radio demon #hazbin hotel lucifer #hazbin lucifer #lucifer #just kiss already #asks

[simmysunset]

just thought i'd leave this here

thanks to this wonderful video, i learned how to get access to all of the sims 4 expansions totally legally. if you don't wanna go through all those steps, you might just be able to get them, too, if you follow this link...

instructions can be found in the video or in the tags. i will make my own video for my process in the future. when i do, i'll edit this post and link it here.

#soo it's a bit confusing but i'll try to explain it the best i can #download the ea dlc unlocker first #then download the one called DOWNLOAD THIS ONE #extract them both #you can take out any of the expansions you already have #in the ea dlc unlocker folder you need to scroll down and click on setup #at the top it should say “dlc unlocker not installed” #press 1 then enter to install the dlc unlocker #allow the application to make changes to your device #it should now say “dlc unlocker installed” at the top #press 2 then enter to select what game dlc you're installing #press 19 then enter to select the sims 4 #it should now say “game config copied” at the top #press 3 then enter to make sure that the config copied properly #there should be two files #“config” and “g_The Sims 4” #if both files are there then you did everything right #you can now add all of the expansion packs to your sims 4 x86 program files (or wherever your files are on your device) #run the sims 4 like usual and all the expansions should be in your game #you will need to reinstall the ea dlc unlocker through the setup file every time the sims 4 is updated so don't delete that folder #i will add new expansions to the drive files as they come out #it might take up to a week for them to be uploaded because i get them from another site #plus i work and have a life outside the sims #so please don't rush me to get new packs uploaded the day they are released

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

#fun fact sometimes condensing meds just means poorer treatment of some conditions #this is a re-expansion + new thing #so that instead of poorly treating my mental health and using an unusually high dose SNRI for another (physical) condition #i will hopefully both be in less pain AND not depressed af AND also have an appetite again #i doubt i will be lucky and not have a fucked stomach due to meds but one can hope that an appetite will allow me to eat foods that upset #my stomach a lot less #my health is forever a massive balancing act #every time a medical thing is like 'so what meds do u take' i'm like here i wrote it down for u #and they're like 'oh. ooookay. let me just...' *five minutes of typing and clicking later* #'so! what did you come in for again? uhuh. you said you experience pain daily? with your chronic pain thing? hm. have you tried yoga?' #/gen #like. straight up every time i say 'i am in pain all the time due to fibromyalgia' they are like 'ooh studies say regular exercise helps' #and like. theoretically yes! but also. i would be lying if i said the fibromyalgia studies i've skimmed don't set off general 'bad science' #alarm bells in my brain #like... cool you performed a fibromyalgia study with... all male lab rats? mhmm? so are you aware fibromyalgia appears to occur #overwhelmingly in women? like. data seems to suggest between 70-85%? #(not that the data can't still indicate things but it certainly makes male rats a poor choice of model for tests on it) #also just... idk i've looked at some metaanalysis and been like 'okay cool theory and for all i know about human bio or bio in general that #sounds more or less correct BUT. you never discussed that one study on this subject that did NOT support your conclusion. #and that's 1) interesting when it was the most diverse group of subjects and the exceptions often teach just as much as the 'rule' #2) just shitty science. tell me how your theory is still credible when some evidence doesn't fit the model. #like... 'given that all other studies were primarily conducted on white american women in their 30s to 40s it is possible that this model #only explains (the early effects of fibro since that's a typical onset period) / (a possible genetic link primarily found in white women) / #(a possible sign of bias in diagnosis that demonstrates the possibility that there are different causes) / combinations of all of those #like... idk a paper that just throws out things that don't support it is a pretty big red flag #it doesn't mean the conclusion is entirely incorrect but it is often important to understand the context in which it applies #like... it's very easy to jump to an incorrect conclusion if you used something in the wrong context #ie: thumbs up is a good job / positive thing in a lot of western civilizations. teenage kee once went to china and discovered it to be #neutral to offensive in many areas outside of major tourist locations that were used to it #anyways i gotta sleep

[eriexplosion]

Anyway the thing that got me most about Rogue One I think was the pervasive hope in it, like every death was painful and tragic but no one died for no reason. They all got to see their part in this finished, even if they don't see the outcome of it and they can't know that they succeeded they at the very least know that the flame is still alive and that success is still possible, they passed the baton on at least one step further. Their dying was a tragedy but it wasn't pointless.

Literally, because those fucking death star plans really did serve as the baton in the galaxy's shittiest most high stakes relay race.

I know I'm as late as it is possible to be to get to this movie and that people have said much more interesting things about it than I have, but I'm just a simple bitch that cries when there's hope in the darkness is all.

#rogue one #also literally every character was perfect and I would watch expansions on all of them #going to start andor tonight or tomorrow though

[landoffreaksandfrogs]

*thinks about ult dirk* *crushes phone between my teeth*

#THE WORST OUTCOME FOR HIM THE WORST WAY FOR HIM TO FIND MEANING AND PURPOSE #HE WAS ALWAYS CAPABLE OF IMMENSE EVIL BUT HAS THE CAPACITY FOR THE MOST ARDENT LOVE #TO BE COMPOSED OF EVERY VERSION OF YOURSELF WHEN ALMOST EVERY VERSION IS A DEAD END #WHERE IS THE HOPE. WHERE IS THE FAITH THAT THINGS WILL GET BETTER. #SOMEWHERE OUT THERE. IN THE VAST EXPANSE OF PARADOX SPACE. A SINGLE VERSION OF DIRK IN AN OFFSHOOT TIMELINE SAID. NO. #NO. I WILL CHOOSE LOVE. I WILL CHOOSE FAITH. #IT WAS A ONE IN A MILLION CHANCE. AND THIS. THIS SINGLE INSTANT. WILL EAT AT ULT DIRK FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFR. #BECAUSE IT MEANS THAT HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN WRONG. BECAUSE IT MEANS HE HAS. #HE HAS THE ABILITY TO TRUST. AND TO HOPE. #AND NOW. HIS STORY. THE ONE THAT HE WAS SO DETERMINED TO SEE THROUGH. #IS NOW. INDEFINITELY. INCOMPLETE. #lofaf ramblings

[unproduciblesmackdown]

reread the rest thus far of lackadaisy and there's the both v easy & difficult task of gathering a shit ton but only a shit ton of excerpts (like every single page is a highlight i'm not exaggerating)

and every single element is superlative and the way it all only becomes More So....already mentioned the way the like smooth gradient shading made the successful evocation of 3D Shapes more noticeable, along w/the consistent geometries of character design & details in fabric folds; the way Lighting & Coloring only goes on to become more prominent elements only enhances that further. the compositions, backgrounds, pacing, angles....everything is so dynamic & expressive, such as including the expressions which you know i also Love / absorbed

going "hell yes for people to discover this superlative comic" then having to occasionally refresh past site traffic overloaded server errors like "nooo" but actually yes

whilest clapping & cheering for the fun of everyone who's been here a minute. My God the invigorating reward when again i started reading in '07 & the concept of rocky & freckle on a "proper" run had only manifested via fun official bonus art, then a literal decade later as it was actually happening in the comic like screeeeaammm i can feel it coming in the air tonight oh lord etc....i've loved following it, again, if i see another new comic page. i am going to be Enriched

i also really was right on the ball myself this time around like okay okay yep i have picked up on Everything, at least to the degree i can lmao. i love the mysteries. i love how Character Focused it is too ofc and there's no characters i'm uniterested in / dislike. you gotta point to one of them, truly, and i have been a [pointing at freckle] enjoyer these fifteen years but fr i am a connoisseur of everyone, i love that so many characters are a weird mysterious chaos element story driver in their own right. i considered mordecai more intently than ever, love his like ultra mystery (and that we leave off on him doing some detectiving even) and truly fun that like, the source of the more Immediate problems he keeps having in every damn interaction isn't the like [wow mordecai with the just diving into the hatchet murdering] factor so much as it's that he's generally like "i am just standing here" and is not nt in any way that matters and people insist on fucking with him on that front. the peak tragedy of him in a bonus comic getting bullied into having to dance with someone to Be Polite like i'm so sorry i wish you could be that ficus too. anyways intrigued with the marigold &/or mordecai mysteries including that it's like, how coincidental is it that he talks about marigold having a thorn in its side & the savoys' nickname for him is peekon = thorn. there is so much to consider, love that for us truly. and i'm rooting for mordecai & nicodeme's dynamic out here, is another conclusion....very enriched by comparing & contrasting that serafine nicodeme mordecai triumvirate with the rocky ivy freckle one, to be sure. im enriched

i'm also enriched by every footnote that's got like historical facts / research notes / [this is inaccurate for xyz prioritization but here's the disclaimer] explanations. i Love information. and everything else like i loooove this comic it's Soooo Fucking putting my hands to my temples and inhaling at length through my teeth

#first time i've really taken tumblr up on that new thirty image limit expansion; bit of a surprise maybe lol #put your back into autism acceptance month &/or press j; scroll fast; read through it actually; filter the following: #long post // #learning abt the overwhelming popularity of baby ruth candy bars from lackadaisy footnotes? relevant to gtm:pota aficionadoship at one pt #remember discussing what i learned from another footnote abt some christian denominations / other religions being very Anti Prohibition #every time i use the word cagey i think of lackadaisy. cagey thing... we've all been there #fantastic time revisiting and i love to be considering all these characters all the further / with reckless juxtaposition #especially the two triumvirates as mentioned. rooting for them all #rooting for mordecai to be relieved of that v realistic [ppl sensing a Mess With His he is not nt in any way that mattersness Free For All] #either let him be or start shooting at him lmfao. but i Love that the gang had that pleasant nonbrunch together & no shots exchanged yet #more brunches! and i think nicodeme could be mordecai's bestie or w/e he wants. turn out to be Supportive in any way that matters #they are more so the ivy and freckle of their group after all lol. slightly would-be Unlikely coupling there as well anyways; and yet! #i am as enriched and intrigued and appreciative and etc as ever #and reminded that in my rereading i haven't yet gone over all the bonus material lol.... #also stumbled across that sungwon cho had fandubs of lackadaisy comics posted like 9 yrs back?? #which means i probably saw one or two; think i remember one being shared and checking that out #like hey didn't know i'd encountered you before like; vines & oh the lamps are fucking & etc. and now there he goes voicing mordecai yaay #lackadaisy

[asteria-argo]

Jan Maas is obsessed with the sims 4 because I said so

#he has every expansion pack #he has a multigeneration legacy family that he's been playing for months #he maxes all of his sims skills and careers #has every single collectible in at least one save #all the achievements #full on guru

[puhpandas]

SIDE ORDER IS INSANE SO FAR

#I HAVE TO TIRN IT OFF TO GO TO BED BUT. GOD #as someone whos insane about octo expansion and very attatched to it and who loves it very much #just seeing even the beginning of this #its incredible #ITS SO GOOD AND ITS GONNA GET EVEN BETTER!!! #every detail is QJDBJWHDIWH #im gonna fucking cry at the end i know #saying this as someone who tears up every time he hears fly octo fly #i hear that jingle for every floor passed and im waiting.... im ready #im ready for that song at the end thats gonna kill ke #one of the first times ever im playing a game as my first viewing instead of watchinf someone else too #just cool all around #pandas.txt #pandas talks #side order spoilers

[sapphroditewrites]

workin on a little gift for the holidays for y'all bc i'm so damn slow with the affair au (which i've weirdly started writing backwards? it's funny how that helps sometimes, but it's helped a lot)

it's not gonna be super polished and spit-shined like i usually try for, but it's something i was hoping to get around to every year, if that doesn't spoil the surprise lol

#it'll def be shorter than usual but then again #every time i say that it's never fucking short so i dont even know why im trying to speak that into existence #it's like i literally cannot shut up even when writing amazing it's a real talent that i have #plus im also trying to finish my hawkeye cracked video so i at least pushed one out this year #LMAO #goddamn well hopefully now that i'm moved out #i can save up for a beefy PC with better processing power for editing #and better storage #bc lemme tell ya an ipad is not great #and i need my mac memory for..... ok fine the sims dont judge me please i have an addiction #which is impressive of me to maintain bc whenever i buy an expansion pack #fucking TD locks my card and i have to call to confirm the purchase #do you have any idea #how humiliating that has been #literally for over a decade #even with the sims 3 #they just. constantly have done that #and i have constantly had to admit that yes #yes i am doing that. yes again. yes it's that much. yeah but this time it has cute hair cuts i like. #or yeah it's tiny home living . how do i explain that like a normal person. i talked w an agent abt the chickens for five minutes.