#we just played for like a half hour

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

the best thing about having a cat that Fully understands and typically obeys the commands "sit" and "stay" is that when she doesn't obey, you're Keenly aware that it's a conscious decision

#AND ITS SO FUCKING FUNNY EVERY TIME #she gets this Look. where i can see the gears turning behind her eyes #and she very purposefully ignores the command #sometimes she'll half do it. pause. and then Visibly Decide to Not #she's so funny.... #but then when she Does do it its so impressive. is this pride im feeling? #i taught her 'sit' and 'stay' along with hand gestures #so like. just a second ago #i as calling her from across the room and she was trotting over #i made the sit gesture (no vocal command) and she stopped and sat Right there and then #SHE'S SO SMART <3 SMART KITTY <3 OH SHE LISTENS!!! #absolutely unprompted #sorry im gushing about letti again <3 she's my everything <3 #shes so clever! shes a genuine Companion! #we just played for like a half hour #and its so sweet... we play with twine (her favorite) and when she's attacking it near my hand #she gets so gentle. claws Away gentle batting slow movements #letti my beloved <3 #not to mention her library of Purposeful meows. we Communicate! #like earlier she made her impatient 'come here' meow and so i did. she was on my bed and waited for me to offer my shoulder #so that she could climb on and use me as a stepping stool to get to my desk #For What Reason!!! to be Hysterical i suppose! i swear she has a sense of humor...

[warmsol]

do you crave to be home playing with your sims while you’re out or are you normal

#ugh i’ve been out all day 😭 #i had to sit through a two and a half hour marvel movie (actual hell) (for me) #it was my husbands work thing and it was free as the whole company went and then we had lunch after and omg bro #i can’t socialize for the rest of the week actually. i’m tired. overly stimulated as heck. #being a naturally quiet and shy person with anxiety is hard when you’re surrounded by outgoing extroverts for hours lol #anyway. i’m in the car going home now. i just want to work on my sims story 🫠 #it’s just hard choosing to be out on a weekend when it’s where most my free time is lmao like. huh i could be playing sims rn #oh being an adult and having hobbies and a social life and work is hard

[skeletalheartattack]

#for context. a few weeks back i was playing on a fast respawn 2fort server #mostly because i just wanted to just. hang out somewhere without any real serious gameplay happening #that said. for the first few hours i was playing on there. was mostly playing gunslinger engineer and detonator pyro #and we had a good push up into their base but were stuck just at the entrance. with a heavy hold from the enemy team #but after a while. i just kinda got bored and wanted to just fuck about with the taunts and loadouts i had #first thing i did was play pyro and do the cheers taunt before getting on my bike and swerving a bunch as i drove #but i dont think anyone could tell thats what i was doing #so after a bit i just changed to scout. and started just riding my skateboard #(i also did the drinking and riding bit a few times but i eventually just ended up skateboarding around) #(one bit being me on the top of the bridge. doing the cheers taunt. getting on my board. and then skating off the bridge and killbinding) #so at some point. i kept getting stuck in place for some reason. like speficially on bumpy ground or... in the air #and the moment i got stuck in the air (for 30+ seconds mind you) i was just like ''my quantum board technique'' #and from there. i just acted as if i was playing the newest Pro Skater game #saying stuff like ''i have to do manual ollie combo for 150000000 points'' #or like ''i have to find grindrails on this level'' #eventually found my way into the sewers and said something like ''IVE FOUND THE HALF PIPES'' #before saying like ''man they really screwed up the physics since the last game'' #a soldier on the other team was trying to find me the whole time saying ''wheres tony hawk'' #specifically because he had a tony hawk avatar. and i only realized after he said something about it #anyway. after all that i skateboarded into a minisentry and died #and my last message was supposed to be ''my combo has ended'' but i ended up typing 'bombo' #and it made me laugh SO hard i couldnt backspace. and added on with ''my sweet bombo'' #and then i left because i had nothing more to do there. my bombo had ended and i had to move on.

[theoryofwhatnow]

crafting the game

(this has been in my drafts for ages)

#i've been thinking about the boys game a lot. #the event at the end of the movie that most of us first recognized as the cycle #(or at least most of whom i've interacted with after first finishing the film) #I'm gonna be honest this all started because i was making an edit #but that's neither here nor there. #Essentially i was confused about *the game* #and was wondering whether nigel won or lost before i realized i was looking at it all wrong #duh #Nigel was talking about the creation of the game that he would contribute to #not how it's played #which only became glaringly obvious to me after i'd sat there with my thoughts for almost a half hour #(give me a break i'm not stupid i've just had a rough few weeks) #Everybody played their part perfectly the schools order begins to fall apart #(alex headmaster's son leaves. nigel grandmaster's son dead alongside his parents. etc.) #the valiant hero forsakes the religious organization (McKenzie) #and everyone else takes their place unknowingly simply through existing. #Alex finds another boy and so it begins. #Finally out of death grief suffering and ruined sanity; the game starts but we don't ever see it. #start with a Jack and then fabricate the game #like minds #nigel colbie #alex forbes #murderous intent

[raccoonnutella13]

wtf do i do with my life after i finish cotc... am i expected to live a normal life while Dying inside knowing we could've had more silly shenanigans with the beloved creek blorbos????????

#this is sort of an exaggeration but also not really #i want a half hour special about the elders playing a dnd oneshot #i want an episode about how shawn and raj met and started liking each other #i want an episode where the lesbian witches go on a date #just. thinking of all that we could have if it hadnt been for the show's cancellation #cotc #craig of the creek #coon speaks

[emblazons]

hi marie!! love your new icon <33 glad to see you've got great taste in bg3 companions 😌

ahh, thank you Jenna! ✨ Astarion is my first icon change in...over a year (?!?) and October seemed like a great time to make him the face of emblazons 🥰 I'm so excited to play his story now that I've gotten to BG3! I've only made it through act 1 myself but...I am READY for the drama, emotion and redemption (the way he deserves lmao)

#current 'Astarion Track' for me is 'first light' by Hozier and I'm....very in my feelings about it. he deserves the world fr #I'm doing a (chaotic good?) ranger half-elf run rn and...Astarion likes him a LOT even without me trying. its hilarious LMFAO #got 3 inspirations in 3 hours just trying to play as I wanted #ANYWAY. WE LOVE OUR CHARLATAN VAMP BF 😂 #astarion #bg3 #asks #fireplaceashes

[loyalmlmnsfw]

Oh nobody look at me I might be hooking up with a guy soon

#hes very sweet and we share a lot of kinks #he is PLAYING ME LIKE A FIDDLE #i am so weak #we're talking about heading over to his place and netflix and chilling ig lmao #he wants to put me in his clothes 🤭🤭🥰 #the way i never find men who text like me are into what im into and who are close by and interested #just pip #i will let yall know if anything happens but we've been texting for 3 and a half hours so i think it's pretty clear we like each other

[jils-things]

i went wandering off in my pokespe gallery and had to relieve how wonderful this scene played out. no kidding

please dont read the tags i got emotional there /lh

#the.plot felt a bit confusing to me admittedly but oras did so well in trying to make franticshipping incredibly satisfactory since #at the end of rs we couldn't really tell if they settled with each others feelings yet (APPARENTLY NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE PRIDEFUL AND DUMB/JJ) #but at least sapphire still had some thoughts about it but i was kinda mad WHY DIDNT RUBY GIVE HIS HALF OF THE FEELINGS PROPERLY!!! #WELL THIS HAPPENED WHERE HE OPENLY CONFESSES ABOUT HOW MUCH HE CARES ABOUT HER AND THE WHOLE WORLD CELEBRATED #in r/s they were constantly separated from each other by WILL BECAUSE they despise each other so much #in oras - after confessing - it literally ACHES for ruby to not see her like take a fucking shot everytime he says wheres sapphire???? #THEY WERE ALWAYS AWAY FROL EACH OTHER HERE AND HE FEELS SO GUILTY FOR EVERY TIME SAPPHIRE GETS HARMED #FOR EXAMPLE; FIGHTING WITH ZINNIA AND FALLING OFF THE ROCKET - LOSING HER VOICE - RUBY HOLDING THE SECRET FROM SAPPHIRE BY PROMISING STEVEN #LITERALLY EVERUTHING SHE DOES MAKES HIM FEEL ALL THE MORE GUILTY AND HE CANT EVEN TELL HER STRAIGHT HES SORRY BECAUSE THEY'RE LITERALLY #FUCKING AWAY FROM EACH OTHRHADHDHRHSBRBDBSHSHSHE #AND WHEN THEY FINALLU MEET UP VIA TROPIUS AND RAYQUAZA SHE TELLS HIM TO SHUT UP AND HOLD HIS EMOTIONS FOR NOW. THAT'S HOW DESPERATE HE WAS #TO SEE EHR AGAIN AHAHAHAHTDTHHGG IM SO INSANEEE #AND AT THIS MOMENT HE ALMOST EMOTIONALLY CONFESSES WITH TEARS HE DOESNT WANT TO LEAVE HER AGAIN BECAUSE WORST COMES TO WORST HE'LL NEVER SEE #HER IF HE TRIES TO SAVE THE WORLD BY HIMSELF FROM THE METEORRRRRR AKAAJAHAAJ #AND THATS WHY HE INVITES HER TO SAVE THE WORLD TOGETHER AS CORNY AS IT SOUNDS BUT ITS BECAUSE IF HE'LL DIE HE WANTS TO DIE WITH HER AAAHSGDV #AND SAPPHIRE'S REACTION WAS FAINTING WHICH TBH WAS A COMEDIC MOMENT FOR SUCH AN IMPACTFUL DIALOG FROM HIM BUT AJDHSJHDS MAKES ME HAPPY #y'all don't even get me started how this plays out when stevaide is in here DON'T EVEN #~ rambling #i just woke up and i chose violence (franticshipping) #pokespe hours

[crescentfool]

doing things outside of your usual is such a humbling experience...

#lizzy speaks #to those who are curious what prompted this: my friend and i are collaborating on a video essay together #we picked it back up a week and a half ago after it laid in limbo for a month or two #and we're currently in the phase of editing it together (scripting + recording the VO is done) #and MAN. my respect for people who work on scripted/informative content just shot up through the ROOF #most of my experience with editing comes from footage first and then edit down approach (rather than creating/gathering visuals to uplift- #a written script) and it's. well. they engage with very different skillsets i think #my friend who i am collaborating with is very amused at me because this is not her first rodeo. meanwhile me as a first-timer. #i am telling her about how i am losing my mind over my editing timeline having gaps of footage because i couldn't think of anything to put #for certain portions (or i just didnt feel like looking through preexisting footage on the internet and dl-ing it) #and she compared it to 'telling a kid whos going thru puberty that its normal' EKLHFGLHH #im ngl the way i have spent like maybe 10 hours today off and on looking up footage and fact checking the splat artbook is so. explodes #it makes sifting through an 11 hour batch of footage of me playing big run sound like a cakewalk in comparison LMAOO #anyway if you read this far thank you :D i hope that in 2024 i can continue to be humbled in trying new things #and i highly encourage others 2 do so too! try a new method of approaching something or do smthn slightly adjacent to what you do! #tis a good learning experience and also makes u very appreciative of the things that are out there methinks #im literally only editing an 11 minute segment or so idfk how people make those 1+ hr video essays LIKE HELLO??? ESP IF ITS LICENSED MEDIA #HOW DO U GET ALL THE FOOTAGE FOR THAT. U MUST BE REALLY HYPERFIXATED AND DEDICATED TO THAT. DAMN. anyway. have a good 2023 everyone!

[mantisgodiveblog]

As someone who messes up names so much, I could only remember Loop’s name from “Your ally Loop! Here to help you with the loops!” And I think it every time I say the word ‘loop’ ever in any context now. Curse you Loop. In comparison about halfway through the game (in my case like a solid 25 hours) I still couldn’t reliably remember Isabeau’s name. (Also, if images cause problems you don’t have to put so many in! I’m guessing most people seeing the liveblog have seen nearly all the game already?)

Technically speaking, we don't have to put any images in at all, but we prefer this format for allowing us to more easily "open dialogue" with the game and also the existence of this liveblog has fully convinced one of our friends to get this game as well so that they can play alongside us. We like the visual element! Also gives us something to look back and reference, later down the line - our usual favorite RPG has an extremely accessible transcript of all of the text in the game that we usually reference back to whenever we need to reference a line of dialogue, but In Stars And Time... doesn't have that, we don't think.

We'd like to be able to look back and see what we've already done, and have a reliable way of seeing what happened, because by gods if our memory fails on us we don't want it to gaslight us into thinking that. Fuck. Isabeau mentioned a line that Mirabelle has, and have that shift our area of characterization for them.

#asks #we speak #not liveblog #thatdoganon #making it more fun to look at ALSO means that you're not just looking at a wall of text! this liveblog is more than 20k words long by now #and adding images helps break that up while also making it so we dont inflate the word count more attempting to paraphrase things #and potentially getting them wrong #honestly the primary annoying thing is the uploading since we usually need two or three tries before it actually. uploads #tumblr has been insanely glitchy for us for more than half a year now #and we still have to manually check things like notes since the display has been stuck at 2 notes for the past six+ months #and will not show us if we have new notes or what blog theyre on #this also goes for dms btw our apologies if you message us and we don't get it we don't get notifications for that #we can remember the names semi-reliably but not who they apply to and this means that we are constantly mixing up bonnie and mirabelle #though we have 54 hours by now so. uhh. by 25 hours in we were definitely still forgetting isabeaus name #also presumably most of the people watching have played isat but some of them definitely have not because we brought them in #we know for a fact that our beloved friend dan has not played the game before. theyre just watching bc they love us. hi dan.

[forensicbec]

If you're playing Baldur's Gate 3 and haven't come up with a complex backstory for your character that has little to no effect on the actual game are you really playing BG3?

#baldur's gate 3 #ive been playing so much #my character started out as a fantasy self insert and now has a deep history and backstory to her guardian #am i using her to work through some stuff? maybe but shes a half elf so cooler than me and can handle it #also fun fact my character looks a lot like Neil Newbon's (actor of Astarion) character from his playthtrough #which I didn't start watching till I had already put in almost 30 hours #we just both have really good taste in looks apparently #someone please ask me about her I need to tell people about her

[myhsterie]

when i get drunk in la i spend an hour pitching a wolf 359 tv show to any tv development executive in the area

#i did seriously pitch it to a company i was interning with but i fucked up because i told them to start at the beginning #and not at episode 9 like they probably should have #no matter. it WILL happen #hell if i land this development assistant job i’m circling i’m going to fucking MAKE it happen #it would make a great sitcom that slowly turns into a thriller #i just can’t decide if it’s a half hour or an hour long format #but just know this my dear tumblr fans. i will make this show happen by hook or by crook #i did chat with gabriel urbina on twitter at one point about the possibility of it #and he’s fuckin down so that’s not a limit. he just isn’t pushing it to studios he’s like if they want it they can come to me #well i’ll just have to make sure that happens then. because out of all the audio dramas i’ve listened to w359 would adapt the best imo #and i need to see zach valenti playing douglas eiffel please please please #literally keep the actors in their roles except for hilbert obv. they’re physically perfect no need to change them #but mark my words tumblr #it’s going to take some time but we WILL have a show

[jonny-b-meowborn]

HEY IM A FATHER NOW LOOK

This is my beautiful daughter Salem she's insane and I love her

#shes sleeping on my chair rn #mad creature #my first ever cat!!!!!! #so far the biggest pet ive had was a rabbit and that was years ago #im like #going wild #shes so cute #really hyperactive but i mean shes young so shes just gonna be like that #i came home like around 2 and a half hours ago and in this time we played a lot #and also she pissed in the shower #(she knows how to use her litter box) (she used her litter box properly right after) (she looked at me while pissing) (in the shower) #my stupid baby #everyone look at her #bee buzz

[ali3nboyfriend]

kinda fully convinced that when latke’s older this is gonna be her default state

#like don’t get me wrong she’s got energy and drive she’s a Working Breed mix but she’s so fucking chilled out #we just have to do the bare minimum of like #a little bit of training and maybe a half hour of outside play #and she’s like ‘cool.’ and passes out #and she’s only 10 months old #imagine how easy she’s gonna be at 2 years #she’s thoroughly spoiled me for any dog i’m gonna get after her #none of them are gonna be this easy mode #starscream.txt #latke tag

[talentforlying]

father grimaldi: forgive me, lord, for i have sinned. constantine: — understatement of the bloody century, that is. father grimaldi: the chapel is closed to the public! who are you? how did you get in here . . .? constantine: did you know vatican city has the highest per-capita crime rate of any nation state in the world? i'd have thought a touch of breaking and entering's pretty much par for the course around here.

so #1, an undeniable slay.

#2, how long do we think he was sitting in the confessional booth waiting for the guy to wake up from ellie's fake vision quest. like an hour? checking his light, practicing his Big Reveal Pose TM? he probably brought a book with him and just shoved it underneath the seat cushion when it was time to show off.

#3, knowing how intensely he studied & continues to study in order to teach himself magic at such an absurdly advanced level without any teachers to formally guide him? and how that level of dedication would absolutely carry over into researching a mark / making sure he had every corner of a confidence scheme nailed down pat? i like to imagine that the day before this meeting was spent with his severely under-caffeinated ass parked at a public library computer, squinting at articles for 'most important things to know about vatican city before you travel' or 'top 10 little-known facts about vatican city' and using the back of his boarding pass to take notes on what would be the best throwaway line to blow off all the usual questions with.

also, he probably woke up still in his travel clothes less than two hours before this scene and had to hustle to get suited up in time for his Dramatic Apparition. the demon blood was boiling so bad in that chapel that it was giving him a killer migraine. he didn't get breakfast so his stomach was growling the ENTIRE time. but all that meant was he had plenty of room to eat UP the runway and that's EXACTLY what the fuck he did.i'm

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #always torn in half between 'john is a freaky little weirdo who just Knows Things and Picks Up Vibes and it usually works for him' #and 'john is the most Normal Dude in the whole london occult scene he just works w/ magic like a grad student prepping for finals week' #and you know what? the answer is always 'Both. Both is good.' #also on the one hand i'm truly obsessed with the idea of john just?? Always having a bunch of weird trivia available w/ his eidetic memory #like he read about the apostolic palace once in a book when he was with the peace convoy and his brain latched onto it forever #and it just Happens to become convenient later on and this happens VERY often and no one ever really knows how he does it #but there is a real real charm in considering that he's still Just A Guy beneath all the layers of false confidence and mysticism #still someone who had to work to get to where he is now and who will always have to work to Maintain as well #i like the mental image of him pacing around his temporary digs with index cards and drilling all the necessary details for the scam #or him and ellie getting blasted the night before and dramatically playing out their Big Final Confrontation to iron out all the beats #you just Know they were laughing til they cried workshopping shit like 'MY OLD ADVERSARY! WE MEET AGAIN!' and 'DO YOUR WORST HELLSPAWN!' #still trying to keep straight faces the day of the fake fight while drastically improvising to try and throw each other off their game #idk!!! i always enjoy the Strange and Off-Putting things about him but all of the Really Really Human stuff is also just. so so precious #we always get to see The Myth The Legend as shaped by the errors of The Man. but especially in later years actually SEEING The Man gets rar #all this to say that for every perfectly executed and properly horrifying loom out of the shadows with a glimmer of his freaky glowing eyes #there is always at LEAST half an hour or more practicing angles + expressions + mood lighting in the mirror going on behind the scenes #and that is very very special to me!!!! #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE. #( visage. ) AND I'M A BASTARD. #sched.