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#audiobooks #literature

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I really really really want to give them gifts.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is very good however it is missing one mechanic I really wish it had, and that is being able to give the companions gifts like in Stardew Valley

Let me learn what weird little items they all like and get to give them while in camp, I want to make Lae’zel happy by giving her all the random daggers I find on dead people

#bg3

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a crossover absolutely nobody asked for!

#loki #hades game #hades 2 #loki series

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(inspired by this one for the sake of full transparency)

#fun

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Honestly MAJOR missed opportunity for Karlach to have some kind of permanent 'buff' that deals minor fire damage to anyone who touches her in melee. Like obviously it'd be strong for fighting beasts, because every time they hit her with claws/fangs they take damage, but just from a STORY-TELLING ASPECT?

How heartbreaking would it be when you're trying to cast Cure Wounds on her? In order to heal her, you have to hurt yourself and she KNOWS IT. You go to cast Longstrider on the party and you hesitate as you reach Karlach. Yeah, it's only a few points of damage, it's not that big a deal, but does she REALLY need it? Is it worth it?

You linger, hesitate. You realize you don't want to touch her. You realize that's what EVERYONE thinks when they see her. You realize she KNOWS You're hesitating, staring at her sheepishly as you try to think of whether or not it's worth the pain just to help her.

You learn to support her from a distance. Healing Word. It's not as effective, but you don't need to get hurt for her sake. And so she learns to get used to receiving help from a distance. Just words of encouragement. It's all anyone wants to give her. Maybe it's all she'll ever get.

Aid? Bardic Inspiration? You don't need to touch her to give it to her. You can keep her at a distance and not get burned. And you're still helping her.

It's just... cold.

#bg3 #karlach #game mechanics are story mechanics

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Karlach the SECOND you stand still lol

Volume up!

#karlach #karlach cliffgate #bg3

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-"The only thing I'm not good at is modesty, because I'm great at it"

-"I was born for politics. I have great hair, and I love lying"

-"How am I supposed to know there’d be consequences for my actions?"

-"I'm like a stray cat wondering in and out as i please. It's part of my charm"

Some more deep and heartfelt Astarion headcanons:

-All men are at least 30% attracted to Astarion

-When Astarion was born his mother cried because she knew she would never be better than him

-Astarion is the Paris of people

#astarion #astarion headcanons #technically incorrect quotes but they're accurate!! #bg3 #b99

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saw a tiktok of a mother taking her very tiny daughter to an art museum and she’s just walking around going “whoooa” “woooaah” to everything but then they got to a marble statue of a nude woman lying on her back and the girl points and goes “mommy🫵” and i just immediately welled up with tears and all the comments are just laughing about it and of course it’s funny but how are you not insanely moved by the way art connects everyone on earth from a centuries-old sculptor to a toddler in 2023

#art #museum

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she gets me she just does

#cassandra of troy #greek mythology #anne carson #greek women #apollo #Cassandra #poetry

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wanting to talk to people is so fucking embarrassing. literally hi it's me again I wanted to have a conversation with you because I think you're fun to talk to. oh god you can just fucking kill me if you want sorry

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#the owl house #toh #luz noceda

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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT: THE ANTHOLOGY track list as butterflies — full size & part 1

#the tortured poets department #ttpd #taylor swift #butterflies

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"his rough hands are a stark contrast to his lips - a feather touch to the wound that's yet to heal."

#fe3h #dimileth #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #byleth eisner #viria

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ALL THIS WORK FOR AN ASTARION THIRST TRAP MEME \o/

Where's my astarion simps at 🫶

#bg3 astarion #baldurs gate astarion #astarion #tav x astarion #baldurs gate 3 #sorry to be horny on main

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Knight Duties by La Draws

#knight #horse #chivalry

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i don’t care how small the room is i cast fireball

#bg3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios

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Loki God of Stories - A Comparison between MCU and Comics

I’ve never thought I (=Luci @lucianalight ) would say this but MCU did the God of Stories arc right. Having the whole picture after the finale you can see what they were trying to do and how the series was inspired from AoA arc. The series explores a number of themes.

(I’m along for the ride because I can’t just pass up the opportunity to faceplant into Luci’s metas -Hollow @theitcharchives ) 

Control vs Freedom

Chaos vs Order

Finding Purpose and Believing in One's Self

Science-Fiction, and Magic being a Powerful Lie: Approaches to Storytelling

Being Worthy of One’s Own Power

Breaking the Cycle and Rewriting Reality

Conclusion

Congratulations! You've reached the end of this lengthy meta. While I (=Luci) was thinking about writing it, I stumbled upon a post that had a totally different viewpoint than mine. I asked for Hollow's opinion regarding the topic, and after reading their answer I realized it is actually the perfect conclusion this meta can have. 

"God of stories as a librarian would be", as the s2 writer said, does make sense. If Loki gives life to the timelines, then he gives life to everything in them, and allows people to write their own stories, branching instead of having to follow one single "sacred" timeline. Calling him a god of fate and destiny would be counterintuitive, especially for a norse hailing deity, because norse gods’ fates are already written, unable to branch from their path to and during ragnarok. MCU god of stories does make sense, and if we really don't want that title for him in the mcu, he could be the god of choice, but that sounds reductive. God of time also sounds reductive. The writer's definition mentioning myth Loki starts wrong, but it rings true overall and in the end.

MCU loki and comics loki are just two different kinds of gods of stories. Their approach is different but their soul (as I've kept saying for years -Hollow), needs to be and remains the same across universes to keep respecting the original myth loki. Loki is a trickster figure. Tricksters bring chaos, unbalance that leads to change. Pantheons without tricksters are stagnant and never grow, and since pantheons are reflections of the humanity that comes up with them, that's impossible. MCU Loki (by some miracle after the 2017-2021 ordeal) is a trickster. He changes the equation, quite literally erases it, replaces it with chaos that keeps growing. He allows the unbalance to exist and bring change instead of the rigid timeline that constrained. Tricksters allow for stories to happen–myth Loki is the catalyst of almost everything that happens in the norse myths. Comics Loki was and is the catalyst of almost everything that happens in the comics, directly or indirectly through decades of consequences. MCU Loki is now the literal central catalyst of everything that happens in the mcu, in a more direct (consequences of 2011 and 2012) and indirect (consequences of 2023) way. He deserves that title, because he is a chaos bringing trickster, just in a different way.”

(Am I mad when I look for new comics apparitions I have to sift through endless and inaccurate MCU articles? Yes. Am I mad at the 616/19999 confusion? Absolutely. -Hollow)

Finally it is also worth mentioning that while both universes tried to follow a similar arc, AoA generally did a far better job than the Loki series. Themes like friendship, identity, self-love and validating Loki's pain and grievances either lacked nuance or were non-existent in the show. Therefore AoA remains the superior story.

Co-written by Luci and Hollow

#loki #loki meta #loki series #loki tv show #comics loki #god of stories