#Got yeeted off the platform

[harbingersecho]

READY AIM FIRE

#rvb #red vs blue #lolix #locus #felix #sam ortez #isaac gates #felix mcscouty #mine #*24 #art #if you wanna know the vibes for this it's the aim is in your head by and one. had it on repeat a bunch lol #anyway felix's shield is such an interesting part of his character. like the manipulative selfish ch is one of the few to have a shield #its a small shield and he mainly uses it for himself but y'know. the shield itself is also his opposite not just from a selfish/protective #stance but in color too. i just came up with a dumb 'it could be that deep' theory symbolism thing re: felix locus + lolix lol. like its #v pepe silva/cornplate but y'know. his trust in the shield is part of what got him yeeted off the platform. using the shield offensively #bc someone already has his back. the shield + felix being a two-way barrier between locus and the world. them vs others. you get it. #the sketch i posted abt this was cursed tho bc as a thumbnail it looked like they were getting it on 🧍‍♂️ #STOP having sex in my notes I cant take you idiots anywhere

[verraising]

i'm three eden raids in and honestly they're fun! loved the time delay mechanics in the second one and the platform begone part in the third one... so far the scariest thing is the wait timer :')

#professional raider thank you for asking #one of our healers got yeeted off the platform with the stack marker which. i've never seen that before but it was hilarious #just slid right past me like. godspeed soldier #😞

[astralflows]

pov: zodiark

#im so fucking glad the boss died right after half of the group got yeeted off the platform bc i had aggro #also. hm. why do i keep getting zodiark and rubicante in my trials roulette? do they want lil kissies? #endwalker spoilers #<- boss name is a spoiler

[myfandomrealitea]

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

#discourse #ao3 #ao3 discourse #fanfic discourse #fandom #sephiroth speaks #archiveofourown #proship #proshipping #antishipping

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Is there an argument that Sextus Pompey is one of the most underrated Roman generals? (well admiral technically)

[slams desk] He is the very definition of underrated! In fact, I think this calls for a Sextus Pompey Appreciation Post!

We first meet Sextus in Egypt while he helplessly watches from a boat as his father gets into another, smaller boat, then is stabbed in the back and decapitated.

After that Batman-esque origin story he joins the republican army, almost kills Caesar at Munda, and escapes to raise an army again in defiance of Caesar's dictatorship. This boy was fighting for the republic while Brutus was still getting his angst workouts in. Did I mention Sextus was only 22?

Army - ahem, I meant navy. Romans in general were shit at sailing, but our boy is shockingly good at it, and also very good at Not Getting Caught for several years while Caesar gets shanked and a four-sided civil war erupts in Italy.

We have Sextus to thank for Livia's family escaping the proscriptions! He gave sanctuary to them and many other refugees and republican sympathizers, especially after Philippi, and later got the proscriptions lifted so they could return home.

Sextus proceeds to kick Octavian's ass, sometimes through raids and destroying ships, but mostly through blocking Italy's food imports. Astonishingly, a lot of Romans side with Sextus and pressure Octavian into making a treaty with him, or else Octavian might end up like dear old Uncle Julius. Yep. Sextus came very close to overthrowing the future emperor with economics.

So what does the treaty look like? It looks like Sextus, Antony and Octavian standing awkwardly on wooden platforms a hundred feet apart on the ocean, because Sextus is NOT letting himself get sea-shanked like his dad was.

At the celebration party afterward Sextus' lieutenant asks "Do I shank them sir? While they're drunk and surrounded by our dudes?" And Sextus goes "Uggghhh why did you have to TELL me, you should've just killed them but now I'm honor-bound to say no."

Also the treaty lasts for like five minutes before Octavian and Sextus are fighting again. (Antony runs off to vibe with Cleopatra.)

Sextus goes ✨full theater kid ✨and starts calling himself the Son of Neptune, sacrificing horses to the sea, and wearing a spiffy blue cape. Oh, and he celebrates beating up Octavian with a commemorative coin. That's Scylla the sea monster on the right there. Metal.

Octavian continues to be an incredibly bad admiral, at one point being reduced to huddling in a cave and cursing out Neptune after a storm destroys his ships. He resorts to calling in Marcus Agrippa from Gaul.

Agrippa takes one look at this terrifyingly competent pirate/freedom fighter/Percy Jackson roleplayer, who can wreck ships faster than Agrippa can build them. So Agrippa has to build his fleet in a fucking lake that's supposedly the entrance to the Roman underworld and connect the lake to the sea, just to keep Sextus from wrecking his shit too early.

You know you're a badass when it takes an army from the gate of Hades itself to stop you.

Sextus Pompey and Marcus Agrippa have an EPIC showdown (and Sextus destroys Octavian's fleet again, just for fun). Agrippa wins because he's absurdly perfect at everything. Sextus yeets off to Asia Minor where one of Antony's lackeys executes him.

And you'd think that would be the end of it...but...

400 years later Emperor Julian writes a...fanfiction? in which Neptune is still mad at Octavian, and bullies him again, making this one of the longest-running jokes in Roman history.

Sextus Pompey was the last great leader claiming to defend the republic against the triumvirs, and he was incredibly resourceful, competent, and brave from a young age. His tragic backstory, flair for the dramatic, moments of honor and compassion, and the fact that he very nearly won mean he deserves way more attention than he gets.

#put him at the same table as ventidius and labienus and lucullus and sertorius #the underappreciated roman commanders club #sextus pompey #sextus pompey appreciation post #just roman asks #jlrrt essays

[thecampjuicebox]

Astarion reacting to Tav polymorphing Cazador into a sheep (or better yet, a rat, like the ones he forced his spawn to feed on) and then knocking (or picking up and yeetting) the transformed vampire lord of the edge of the platform.

Please.

While I think Astarion would find it painfully hilarious that Tav polymorphed his tormentor into a sheep, or better yet a rat, I think there would be the possibility of anger and resentment, had they not previously agreed on that plan.

How simple it was to render the vampire lord essentially useless. How Astarion could have done that in the first place, had he known that blasted spell. How easy it would've been to make Cazador disappear and rid himself of all of his problems. If only he had thought of that.

Let’s imagine that Cazador doesn’t just respawn in the coffin in the middle of the platform, and yeeting him over the edge actually kills him. Or Tav simply got to the coffin before Astarion did. If Tav were to throw Cazador off of the edge of the platform, it could go one of a couple of ways.

The first being, Astarion would be livid that he didn't get to administer the final blow. He'd yell, he'd cry, he'd spit. Tav took away his opportunity for revenge. While the tyrant would be dead, it wouldn't be by his hand. And that, I think, would ruin him. He'd waited years, centuries, to finally put an end to the torture and abuse. And it all slipped away in a single moment. I genuinely think he would attempt to kill Tav over it. Now this is all under the assumption that Tav and Astarion are not together, and he wasn't planning on ascending.

If he WAS planning on ascending, I can almost guarantee he'd turn the blade on Tav and make them his final sacrifice. If he couldn't carve the infernal contract into Cazador, he'd find someone else. That someone being Tav.

If Tav and Astarion were together at this point (and he remained a spawn), I think a compromise could be made. Tav would cast the polymorph and Astarion would get his chance to monologue in the way he deserves without the issue of constantly being interrupted by the horribly rude Vampire Lord. After his speech is complete, he could either administer the final blow and stab Cazador to death like he so desperately wants to, or, he could shove him off of the platform and watch his little rat body fall into the dark void beneath them. A win/win, in all honesty.

I hope you enjoyed! Let me know if you agree/disagree with any points I've made. I love to hear what other people think about these scenarios! 💕

#bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 fanfiction #astarion headcannons #bg3 headcannons #rip cazador #you probably smell anyway

[lorekeeper-backset]

It's time for... things I noticed about Pokemon Evolutions Episode 7: The Wish because I'm bored and having Zinnia brainrot.

I'm 2 years late to the party on talking about this.

Zinnia's Pokemon are all in Ultra Balls.

ZINNIA HAS FANGS!!!

May is riding on Latios meaning this is Omega Ruby.

We've got a kickass remix of the Sky Pillar theme/the theme that plays when summoning rayquaza in the opening.

Okay but May leaping off Latios onto the ground and into a run without stopping is badass for real.

So Zinnia just has the ability to summon illusions of the past when telling stories apparently. Cause May very clearly reacts to the flashback and later an illusion of Rayquaza just straight up knocks her off a platform. Guess this must be Aster's "Special Power" they talked about in that interview.

May's spirit(?) in the flashback illusion is green like Rayquaza.

As per the usual, Groudon and Kyogre's battle theme kicks ass.

Origin Pulse and Precipice Blades look just like they do in the game.

Zinnia's dialogue is similar, but not identical, to her game dialogue.

Hearing Rayquaza pronounced that way out loud will never not bother me.

Towards the end of the tale, the music transitions into a remix of Zinnia's theme.

When Zinnia's in Sky Pillar it clearly has no roof but then when she gets to the top it does. I think the animators wanted a cool shot of her looking up at the sky and forgot that the tower has a roof.

Piano remix of Heirs to Eternity.

Zinnia handing Aster to May fully convinced she's gonna die which, like, yeah girl if this worked you wouldn't have even gotten a chance to fight Deoxys you'd have suffocated to death from the lack of oxygen in space.

They shorten the summoning prayer down to two lines. I get they had to cut for time but man that's just disappointing. Also the Man on the Internet cover of her theme managed to fit the whole prayer into, like, 30 seconds so they totally could have done it.

May just fucking yeets the meteorite at Rayquaza.

Zinnia hands May a Pokeball and she proceeds to use the Aggron inside to fight Rayquaza. Zinnia, did you steal May's Aggron?

Love little Zinnia practicing throwing Pokeballs at a drawing of Rayquaza.

Sick remix of Zinnia's theme.

May headband Pikachu and Brendan Hat Pikachu for some reason.

The VA who does May's grunts and gasps isn't credited but I'm assuming they used the ones from the original Japanese instead of redubbing them because why would you do that and also they sound like they are.

#backset blabbers #pokemon #pokemon oras #lorekeeper zinnia #zinnia pokemon #may pokemon #trainer may #rival may #rayquaza #pokemon evolutions #Youtube

[sicherheitzuerst]

Brussels night 2.

There’s probably so much I’ve forgotten. I almost got my phone notes page out.

Till still sounds phenomenal, Flake went at him with a shorter whip in Bestrafe mich this time.

Till had a mic malfunction at the start of Bestrafe. You could see him spin it in his hands about to yeet it across stage before the thought of the €400 bill crossed his mind. And if he’d have hit the tech rushing the new mic to him I could imagine the headlines about workplace bullying and him abusing his position of power (sarcasm).

Richard did a lot of what my partner calls ‘slut leg’ wafting his coat out of the way and planting his foot on his mic riser.

Speaking of feet on risers, Schneider and his audacity put his foot on Tills platforms getting a highly theatrical talking to as they bickered their way off stage.

Paul and Schneider beat Till to the drumstick theft at the first bow, throwing most of the contents into the crowd. Of course Till wasn’t outdone and when the rest left for the boats he sneaked back on stage and emptied the rest of the container throwing the sticks with such force im pretty sure the back row caught one.

No crowd boat intrusions, flake received the sparkly cap and it seemed there was an intervention by Paul and Till on Richard for his ‘bringing inflatable shit back’ problem. Both waited for him on the walkway, Paul only retreating when he was sure Richard only had a small cuddly creature (I’m assuming shark).

Mein Teil was fun, the gremlin accomplice hid below stage so the bloody menace to society tugged him back on stage by his ear.

I couldn’t watch just one thing last night, I sort of tried to take in as much of the sights and feels as I could. To feel the bass rumble and the heat of the fire.

One more show for me tonight, I wanted to be here for the last one, but I’m almost certain while it’s the last of this run it won’t be the last last.

#till lindemann #rammstein #rammstein 2023 #rammstein live #my favourite menace to society #i guess i’m a tour reporter now 🤣 #tour takes #Rammstein Brussels #❤️‍🔥

[levia-san]

With (credible) rumors about tumblr soon selling its data to midjourney for AI training, it truly is a peculiar situation for everyone on this website.

Personally, it's a choice between yeeting all my art off the platform à la twitter or keep it, but with some asterisks attached for the future.

For one deleting it all won't actually delete the post (and thus art) itself, due to how tumblr works. Even now glazing everything in post is useless, because edits don't carry over in existing reblogs.

So deleting the blog is mostly off the table.

But what now?

It's a bit hard to say for me. As I do have some attachment to this hellsite. That's why even when I was mostly on twitter, I kept being somewhat active here

But as time goes one, the good will I had keeps getting stretched and now this is the final straw for me.

Obviously, going forward, every picture on this blog will be glazed, nightshaded when the webversion is out. Sadly, I think this also means the update frequency will decrease a lot, as glazing will add a not insignificant amount of time to the posting process.

I'll also start using tumblr less, either migrating to other websites like bluesky etc. or just become less active on social media as a whole. I'll still be in the qijiu week discord though, so you can find me and my scattered art there too.

Otherwise, when I remember, I post occasional stuff on ko-fi as well.(even have a sorted gallery of sorts, so it's a nice place to have things sorted)

I'll link all those places below.

Anyway I thank everyone who has read so far and the support I got on tumblr. bluesky (x) non BL bluesky (x) QiJiu Week Server (x) ko-fi (x)

#not art #long post #its long but im already holding back because i have a lot of negative thoughts about generative AI as I'm holding back saying #its a genuine detriment to the internet because not only is the data harvested in ethical abhorent ways; exploiting million of ppl #it also makes spamming so much more viable #the internet is now full of AI generated shit #I'm watching the integrity of information online deterioate live #genuinly depressing #and dont get me started on companies being generous being giving u the chance to '''''opt out''''' #eat my ass #anyway #the CEO can eat my fists <3 #among other htings

[legendary-defender-of-fandoms]

Reasons why Technically Technology Technician Bad Batch the Third Isn’t Dead

Maintenance Clone 99 didn’t sacrifice himself when he died. He was shot while trying to get more ammo for Echo & Fives during the Battle of Tipoca City. It was tragic, unfair, and heartwrenching, but not a sacrifice. So naming a sacrifice plan after him makes no sense.

No corpse, no proof of death. Goggles with an intact strap are not a corpse. And isn’t it weird that the goggles were on Tech’s face under his helmet, but Hemlocke just found them at the crash site with the band intact? They couldn’t just fall off his head, which means either Hemlocke removed them from Tech’s head or Tech left them as proof of death as part of his plan.

No one at Disney or Star Wars will say “Tech is dead.” They’ll talk about his sacrifice, or say “he doesn’t come back this episode,” but they won’t outright say he’s dead. They keep saying “it’s complicated,” which makes no sense if he’s really dead. It’s only complicated if he’s alive.

Tech would definitely sacrifice himself to save his family, and he knew his odds of surviving were slim, but he would still do everything in his power to increase his own odds of survival once he knew the others wouldn’t fall with him. It’s easier to save one than five.

No clone death has ever gotten this much social media focus from the official platforms. Not Gregor, not Mayday, not even Jesse.

Tech’s death is getting more “we sure miss hims” and “relive his adventures” than the deaths of Han Solo, Leia Organa, and LUKE F*CKING SKYWALKER!!!! No way Disney would spend more social media time mourning a clone from one of the spin-off animated series than the OG hero trio unless the death wasn’t real.

Star Wars has always been the antithesis of nihilism & grimdark. I’m not saying it’s all sunshine & rainbows, but the core of Star Wars has always been the power of hope. Even in stories where everything goes to shit, Star Wars will always try to end on a hopeful note. And if the Bad Batch loses a member for good, there is no hope.

Tech has a lot of unresolved plot threads. His relationship with Phee, finding something to do besides nerf nugget deliveries or hiding from the Empire, reconciling with Crosshair. We need closure.

Disney loves the theme they composed for the Bad Batch. They love playing it when the brothers fight together. And they ONLY play it for the brothers & the end credits (sorry, Omega) We haven’t heard it in-show since the last time all five brothers were together on Kamino, and I have no doubt they’ll bring it back once more in the last season. But to do that, they need all five brothers.

Tech didn’t have an “Uh Oh” arc before the season 2 finale. Echo’s rescue in Season 7 of The Clone Wars was his “Uh Oh” arc, Wrecker kept taking head trauma that led to migraines & his chip activating, Hunter got yeeted out a ship, fell into a mountain, and got shot by Cad Bane, and Crosshair has been nothing but “Uh Oh” arcs ever since Order 66. Now it’s Tech’s turn.

Star Wars loves repeating patterns, and with The Bad Batch getting only three seasons it’s the perfect setup to mirror the original trilogy. Not necessarily in actions, but in emotional beats. Tech in Season 2 follows similar emotional beats as Han (complicated relationship with a smuggler, struggling with emotions, betrayed by a shifty ally, etc.), culminating with both men being cut off from their found family in a dramatic confrontation with the Empire. Leia got Han back, and I knew Omega will get Tech back.

Saw’s insurgents mucked up the plan to track Hemlock’s personal ship back to Mount Tantiss to find & rescue Crosshair and the other clones. The team needed a new way to track Hemlocke, and a new infiltration plan. What better way to get behind enemy lines than to fake your death, steal a proto-Stormtrooper uniform, and pretend to be a normal soldier? Especially since Tech looks the least like a Fett clone, so if he does take off the helmet no one will recognize him.

Omega coined “The Tech Turn” as the name of a certain flying technique that only Tech uses. It’s something only the two of them know. And it feels like a plant, like in Season 3 there will be a scene where Omega sees a Stormtrooper pull off The Tech Turn in a shuttle, or Omega will hijack a shuttle & someone will tell her to do The Tech Turn to get rid of some proto TIE fighters on her tail.

There are a ton of Star Wars characters who have died onscreen just to show up several installments later. Maul, Ventress, Gregor, Echo, Palpatine, Boba Fett, Fennec Shand. Heck, Artoo’s died onscreen TWICE and been fixed up good as new before the end credits, and Chewie was totally blown up by the First Order until he suddenly wasn’t. So Tech returning isn’t unprecedented.

Star Wars doesn’t tease. They don’t leverage the possibility of seeing certain characters to get more seasons or new movies. Young Justice does that will Wally West - they “killed” him in Season 2, and use the promise of his return to get fans coming back only to say “Whoops, no Wally this season. Guess we’ll have to be greenlit for another season in order to see if he comes back.” Star Wars doesn’t play dirty like that. Star Wars always delivers. If all of this attention is suggesting Tech is alive, then Tech will be back in season 3.

Tech is the first canonically autistic Star Wars character. Star Wars won’t invoke the “bury your neurodivergents” trope. They’ve been getting better at inclusivity in recent years (mostly in writing, but there are baby steps being made in the TV shows).

#disney #Star Wars #the clone wars #the bad batch #tech bad batch #tech is not dead #brown eyes #goggles

[nephrastar]

Musk's genuine surprise that lots of people stopped using Twitter after he let chuds run wild just reinforces my belief that, if a site lets chuds get away with their bullshit after having prohibited it since its inception (Regardless of how well they did it, pre-musk Twitter staff at least did something about it eventually,) that community will die a slow and painful death, regardless of if the website itself remains.

Even in smaller forums I was a part of back when I was a teenager, whenever the mod team decided to give the chuds/trolls leeway because they "didn't technically break any rules," their community soon went to shit because those chuds knew they'd get away with it and the good folks left as a result. If you've ever seen the Nazi Bar problem thread on Twitter, this is it, almost to the T. Just replace a real life bar setting with any given online community.

And honestly, I think it's for this reason we don't give any chuds leeway in already established online spaces, be it Tumblr, BlueSky, or anywhere else. Use the block button with extreme prejudice, as well as any filters these platforms have to offer. I think Tumblr could stand to take a few notes from BlueSky and yeet users out of existence when you block them (ie: remove any reference to them entirely be it replies, reblogs, etc) and they're off to a decent start with Community Labels.

I think we've come to a point where we've got to moderate our own experiences because the people in charge of actually banning users from their platform simply won't half the time, and even if they do, what's to stop a chud from just making a new account and keeping at it?

Starve these people from getting any engagement. Chuds are more susceptible to getting that really nice dopamine hit whenever their shitty posts does numbers, even if those replies and reposts are people dunking on them. Deny them those numbers, and they deflate like a hot air baloon.

#twitter #social media #tumblr

[camelliagwerm]

house of hope is going well*

(*gale got yeeted off the edge of a platform to his death)

#harper.txt #bg3 spoilers /

[hawkmothmoon]

So my first play through of BG3 was done on easy mode (first time playing a D&D game) to get a feel for it. Next one I’ll go to normal mode.

I played as a high elf sorcerer, with wild magic subclass for most of the game; at the end I respec’d to the weather magic one (tempest?) which I think was the right choice.

Next play through… maybe a Drow or Tiefling? I REALLY love using magic but also like using all the different arrows. So maybe Paladin or Cleric. I dunno! I wanna have high charisma so I can persuade people to not fight me or to give me stuff lol

FULL POST BELOW

Karlach and Astarion were easily my favorite characters/storylines, although each character had a fantastic story. Their voice actors did a wonderful job.

I loved how consent and bodily autonomy and choice were such prevalent themes from the very start. You go under the violation of having a fuckin alien tadpole go into your brain, and then can choose whether to fight against it or go along with it.

Karlach was obviously not a child soldier, but she was kidnapped and pulled into a war against her choosing, enslaved and forced to fight. She’s got a ticking time bomb in her chest. She’s been through hell, both literally and figuratively, and still remains one of the most empathetic and optimistic characters in the game. I loved when she got her engine tuned up and was able to give and receive hugs for the first time in a DECADE. And when she confronted Gortash, you could hear the agony and fury in her voice when she tells the group she was in denial that he could have betrayed her. The motherfucker was her mentor and then threw her to the wolves. Samantha Béart, I want to hug you!

At the end, my character convinced her to join Wyll and return to Hell with him. Idk it felt like if she had a friend with her (and also we had killed Raphael and Hope had taken over the House of Hope) like they could make a difference.

I’m a basic goth bitch so I love a vampire. 😭 that being said… there’s plenty of tropes and rehashed storylines about vampires. So when reading a bit about the game via all the gorgeous fanart posts I saw (which is what got me to buy the game!) and people were like “no seriously this is a REALLY great vampire character” I was curious.

First off Neil Newbon has such a DELIGHTFULLY FANCY voice. He brought so much to this character: the snark, the flirting, and the eventual vulnerability when he reveals the deep wounds on his psyche.

Seeing the “promiscuous sex-loving vampire” trope shifted to “this is a guy who had to use sex to lure victims back to his vampire master and probably had to seduce some pretty gnarly characters but he had no choice because he’d be locked alone in darkness for a year if he didn’t” was… something. Again, Neil’s voice really brought his backstory to life: the fear, the uncertainty, the growing desire to be with Tav while grappling with their many traumas regarding intimacy. It was powerful.

And when he finally confronts Cazador, I chose to stay silent and let Astarion do all the dialogue. In typical abuser fashion Cazador berates and antagonizes, then puts him in the magic binding circle thingy (side note that fight was fuckin HARD and getting yeeted off the platform sucked 😬). I then went with the option to kill Cazador and release the spawn. I loved the dialogue where he brutally murders him, but realizes he’s stopped the cycle and never has to fear him again and could be different than him was wonderful.

Finally, the scene in the graveyard was just super sweet where he acknowledges that the person he was is dead, but he’s ready to begin living.

I loved the humorous banter amongst all the characters. I haven’t played the first two games so I didn’t have familiarity with Jaheira and Minsc/Boo, the latter of whom became one of my favorites.

I definitely feel like I’ve got a much better understanding of the game mechanics now! I’ll be playing it on computer next (played it on PS5).

Anyway here’s some of my game shots. The cheese scene will never not be funny to me.

FINAL RANDOM THOUGHTS:

- for my next playthrough I might want to do the cheat thing where you kill Karlach to get the armor, then revive her and have her join the party; and the cheat where you knock out Minthara to go save the druids and then save her and add her to your party later

- Orin was a really cool villain. She was creepy as fuck. Please dont ask me how many times she bamboozled me with her shape shifting, it’s embarrassing

- those little bombs you can buy anywhere are actually super helpful during fights

- I nuked that dragon with the little bombs lmao

- being able to fly or misty step is VERY helpful

- I do NOT want to fuck the tentacle emperor or a bear but you know what I’m glad the monster fuckers have options, you do you!!!

- I should probably get the eyeball from Volo because the “shroud self” assassin guys are annoying as fuck

- people made it sound like when Orin kidnaps your companion that you have to do it within a certain amount of time or they’ll DIE but I don’t think that’s the case? I got a whole bunch of shit done while Lae’zel was in the crypt.

- ngl I thought Shadowheart was super annoying for like a third of the game, she sounds like she would be even worse if she chose the Shar path

- being able to throw buckets of grease at enemies? HILARIOUS

- enemies (and your party and yourself) slipping on ice or grease and falling over and just lying on their backs staring at the sky? ALSO HILARIOUS

- wild magic sounds cool but tbh it ended up being more trouble than it was worth, although the first time you turn your entire party into cats or sheep is very funny

- also if you wild magic and it turns all your enemies into cats and dogs and they’re low enough health that you can take them out in one shot they don’t change back so it just looks like you carried out a massacre at an animal shelter

- okay what was the deal with that goth dude who was a necromancer in the shadow lands? He felt like he was maybe important but then he disappeared after I got that journal for him

- the fairy in the lantern was very funny

- Zara the mummy seems like she’d be fun to have in the party

- those displacer leopard things are cool as heck

- Mizora was so comically terrible, love her

- owlbear cub!!!!!

#baldurs gate 3 spoilers #baldurs gate #bg3 #Baldurs gate 3 #Astarion #karlach #Mizora #shadowheart

[fluffytriceratops]

How goes saving your stuff?

i was able to save some things, thankfully, but a large amount of it has already been deleted. and the rest of it will be deleted eventually and there's nothing i can do about that. which sucks.

q has strict af rules and i accidentally violated them on one of my accs. they have a thing called groups and multiple ppl can join them. if ppl do things they arent supposed to in the group, not only can they get into trouble but so can the creator of said group. i was the creator. i got into trouble. but it was also my fault and i'm not blaming anyone. quotev just has stupid rules lol.

it also memorizes your ip address and so any and all accs of mine have been disabled too, just bcuz i fcked up on that one acc. but that also means that my sisters accs have been disabled. which is bullshit. we've both lost a lot. i've been on quotev since 2015. she's been on since 2015/2016 i dont remember exactly.

it sucks. and i'm pissed about it. it also wont let me create a new acc because they know my ip address and wont let me sdhdfhg. so i either will never join quotev again. or it'll be a long time from now when i do. one of the worst parts is i have ppl on there that i talk to all the time and i only talk to them on quotev... and now i can't and they have no idea whats happened. i've basically just deleted my acc and yeeted off the face of the earth for all they know. i'm so fucking pissed idk what to do.

i just want certain ppl to know that i'm okay and stuff. maybe give them other platforms/sites they can reach out to me on? but idk how i'm gonna do that. quotev, you fucking prick. seriously idk if i'll ever be able to go on the site the same way again. idk if i want to. this is shit. if anyone has a quotev account, and is willing to try and message a few ppl for me, please message me. that would be great help to at least let them know i'm okay and give them other places to reach out to me on.

ily guys. q can suck a nut. <3

and thank you sm for the ask and for checking in, lec! xox

#fluffytriceratops #quotev #fluffy asks #ask fluffy #fluffy spam

[blackjackkent]

Good news, everyone! There are TWO Spectators in the House of Hope dungeon, not just one.

No sign of Raphael yet but probably only a matter of time.

First order of business is to get Hope out of her chains.

The chains are anchored on giant crystals on each side of the arena, which possibly we could also destroy, but the hammer comes with a unique attack, "Unshackling Strike", which says "Smite the magical bonds keeping a a creature restrained, paralyzed, or stunned, freeing it." So we just need to get into melee with Hope and smack her with it.

I loaded Jaheira up with the hammer since she's the one of us least dependent on weapon attacks; unfortunately she's also the slowest of us so it took two turns during which I had everyone else start clearing the room.

The spectators, as usual, are scary as fuck and have 3 billion attacks; the most concerning bit was that one of them managed to land a paralyzing ray on Jaheira, which puts her out of commission temporarily. Unclear if this was deliberate because she had the hammer or just unlucky.

However! Hector has a freedom of movement potion, and we have Magic Pockets(tm) meaning Minsc could throw it on Jaheira before her turn. TEAMWORK! STRATEGY! I'm SO GOOD at this VIDEO GAME!

(Not really, but I try. XD Throwing the potion apparently doesn't work if you're ALREADY paralyzed, which is fucked up. >:( )

I think their target must not have been random, because they KEPT doing this to Jaheira, forcing us to kill them before we could cut Hope free. A surprisingly scary bit of this ended up being maneuvering everyone so they wouldn't get yeeted into the abyss by the knockback on the imps' eldritch blasts. (I did have to do a reload for this because Karlach got knocked off; I considered a feelsy drabble about it but it didn't really feel like it served any greater character point beyond "oh, whoops, shouldn't have stood there." XD )

The reload went much better; I was able to get Jaheira over to Hope and hit her, at which point absolutely nothing happened. >:( So I guess we were supposed to go for the crystals after all.

At this point I just got annoyed and beat everything up before trying to continue. XD This had the added benefit of letting us short rest and heal up before actually cutting Hope free.

Strike one.

Strike two. And she's out!

"FREE! I never thought I would be, believed I could be, hoped I might be. HEADS WILL ROLL!" she crows, waving her arms around. Then her face falls sharply and along with it, her voice.

"But we must address the hollyphant in the room. I can see how you avoid looking at me. I must be so terribly mutilated after all these decades of torture. Don't hold back. Tell me how bad it is."

Her head bows, her shoulders hunch.

Hector looks at her with some bemusement. "You look perfectly normal," he says, because she does - really more normal than one would expect under the circumstances.

She smiles weakly. "We both know that's not true, but thank you for being so kind."

He blinks. "No, really... you look fine."

The smile strengthens, but turns all the sadder for it. "You truly are the kindest fool I've ever met..." she murmurs. A pause, and then she turns away sharply. "We'll carve our way to the entrance hall and chop Raphael into messes! That's the hopeful version of course. The likely version is that WE ARE THE MESSES AND HE IS THE CHOPPER! ONWARD!"

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Hector and the others watch her leap back to the platform where they came in, and all of them look more than a little troubled.

"What's she talking about, Hec?" Karlach asks in a low voice. "She looks fine."

"I don't know," Hector answers grimly. "I'm more than a little concerned that perhaps she doesn't at all. It wouldn't be the first thing we encountered here disguised under a glamour."

The deep red of her face pales slightly. "Oh. Oh gods..."

"I hope I'm wrong. Gods, I hope I'm wrong."

#bjk plays baldur's gate 3 #hector carlisle #bjk writes her own party banter