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Theodore Roethke, from "What Can I Tell My Bones", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

#grimoire.

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George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner, from Poems translated from the Greek; "Last Stop,"

#grimoire.

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feel myself getting old is when i let myself play the game into daybreak as reward for finishing my (admittedly overdue) project and that wiped me out for the rest of the day

#ooc. #miss the days when i could just run on pure adrenaline and air or whatever

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the ache of nostalgia

#grimoire.

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I know that hope is the hardest love we carry.

— Jane Hirshfield, from “Hope and Love”

#grimoire.

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continuing the grand tradition of me wanting to write the most when i have like ten other things on my adult to-do list... i used to write these combat one-shots of vespin fighting alongside a partner's character, using actual dice rolls. and i'm itching to do that again...

#ooc.

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Abaddon by JasonEngle

#!!! #vestige.

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“What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever said?” The boy asks. The horse replies, “Help”.

k.b. // the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse - short movie

#grimoire.

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"if you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around" (will rogers) is the kind of asmodeus "joke" he will drop before siccing vespin on someone

#ooc.

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Denise Levertov, from O Taste and See: New Poems; "The Old Adam,"

#grimoire.

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— Robert Lowell, from “The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell.”

#grimoire.

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accidentally discovered nimblewrights and im in love

#ooc. #those who've known me for a bit know that i love constructs and robots and artificial sentience.....

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from “The Plot,” by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Elaine Kerrigan

#grimoire.

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Fernando Pessoa from The Book of Disquiet (1982)

#grimoire.

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my new dnd character is going to be a kobold battle smith artificer piloting his steel defender like a mini-gundam and im honestly quite excited

#ooc.

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Franz Kafka, from a diary entry featured in "The Diaries of Franz Kafka,"

#grimoire.

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thinking about the durge narrative and where vespin fits in and where he diverges.

one thing i hold onto from exu calamity is how viscerally asmodeus is against redemption -- he's against redemption, against reparation, against the very idea of restorative justice. fundamentally, he is the antithesis to the belief in growth. in vespin's og verse, amnesia is asmodeus' tool to both prove and ensure that vespin will always make the same mistake, over and over, as justification for his continual punishment. adapting him to the fr/bg3 world, this weaponized amnesia is externalized. he's not the "greatest villain in history" (there are too many of those in the fr, and i don't want to step on karsus' role in the canon lore). instead, he's a lesson that didn't get learned and didn't get to be learned. asmodeus made sure the world forget -- about vespin chloras, about his crime, about his mistake -- so it cannot learn from his example. part of vespin's resistance, is to guide other people so they don't make the same mistake he did.

#ooc.