oh no I smoked too much weed and gave myself zoomies both from the excitement from my new peak pro and the excitement from the new weed itself and def smoked way more than I should have and probs will continue to smoke more than I should because of this double dose of excitement until I finally just pass out after days of hardly sleeping recently lmao
but ANYWAYS before that happens !!! I currently have the strongest urge to go wreck people in fucking battlegrounds to level one of my assorted disc priests and because like …. ever since I got 100k honorable kills achieve, I’ve wanted that goddamn fucking ‘the Bloodthirsty’ title from the 250k honorable kills achieve and I was farming that before I stopped having the drive to game a few months back.
so let’s see how queues go at 2am on a fucking Wednesday morning, I wonder if I’ll give up before I find a bracket with fast pvp queues tonight tbh. it’s more likely I’ll end up pugging a raid on my mistweaver main if it takes too long to get into a battleground just to preoccupy myself for a bit and try to get a chance at trinkets and shit lmao
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Salvation is all I can offer. I wonder if you could handle it.
Born and raised into a life of sainthood, Ophis’ access to the outside world had always been limited - but now, after being branded as a heretic, they’re free to roam Eridia to their heart’s content. Endlessly devoted to their church, and now carrying with them not only the gift of salvation, but their God deep within their flesh as well, Ophis eagerly searches for ways to expand their small, little family.
Contrary to popular belief, Ophis sees their so called “Curse” as a blessing. Or perhaps a rather useful asset, should potential believers and devotees refuse their teachings. It’s safe to say that getting rid of their gift is not within their best interests, despite their complex relationship with it.
my Touchstarved MC, Ophis <3 but you can also call them Fifi, they think it's an adorable nickname! They're super normal, super well-adjusted, super stable in every aspect and super nice (only one of these is true, take your pick)
I have their sheet here but it's still a work in progress cause it's so hard to put thoughts into words, but feel free to take a look if you'd like to know more about them!
The template for the relationship chart can be found here, made by @laymes-art. The template for the blank touchstarved sheet in gdocs can be found here, made by me.
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at the beginning of season 2 fleabag says ‘this is a love story’. Most obviously between fleabag and the hot priest, and then also between fleabag and her sister claire. I see a lot of people saying the love story of the season is ACTUALLY the 2nd, although the first is there, not to diminish the first but to… say something I don’t know. But Why can’t it be both? Why cant it also be about fleabag and her father, who never quite knows what to say to her but does obviously love her. Or about fleabag and her love for her mother who is gone and how that impacts her life, always being compared to her, stealing away the sculpture that her godmother said was based on her. Also fleabags love with herself, which has shown to have progressed in between seasons but comes to its satisfying ending when she walks away from the viewers at the end of the final episode, no longer in need of an audience or validation.
Its a story about love. Why must one type of love be prioritized over the others? It feels kind of absurd. Its all love
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Tell me how I, the gal with terminal "can't stop thinking about Tai Sui" disease, read hundreds of thousands of words of Mo Du over the course of months, starting right after I finished Tai Sui, yet it took me until right now in this instant to put together the Fei Du->Zhou Ying parallel
Like. Here's the favored son of a man who is incredibly powerful and morally bankrupt. He hates his dad and would be quite happy to commit patricide, should he get the opportunity, but he doesn't directly do so because it wouldn't suit his schemes. He has spent his entire life since his teenage years painstakingly putting together the chess pieces necessary to both destroy his dad and unravel the truth of a grand unknowable conspiracy that has haunted his entire life. He's a genius and the way his mind works is utterly incomprehensible to everyone else in the world, even those who know and love him best. The right kind of placid smile from him can be the most terrifying thing anybody has ever seen. He is willing to use himself up and toss himself out completely if it is the means to the final end of his schemes.
It's just that with Fei Du, the whole point of him is that he's not nearly so terrible as he thinks he is. He's not a psychopath. He's not cruel, regardless of how much empathy he may or may not naturally have. He's just spectacularly traumatized by his childhood. And the presence of Luo Wenzhou in his life both saves him from spiraling down into his original epic self-destructive plot and allows him to access his buried human emotions.
Then, 5 years later, Priest came back to revisit some of the same ideas and turn absolutely all of them up to eleven. She wrote a man who doesn't just think differently from others, but who perceives the world so wildly differently from anyone else that his experience of existence is utterly incomprehensible to his peers. She wrote a patricidal prince who doesn't just want to destroy his father and his company, then tear out the truth of a criminal conspiracy, but rather wants to destroy his father and his entire country, then tear out the truth of the sky itself. She wrote a man who genuinely doesn't give a single damn about anyone other than himself and his tiny tiny selection of loved ones. Who would destroy the entire world in a fit of vengeance and who uses his own willingness to kill innocents as leverage against others. She wrote a man who plans to achieve his goals by way of epic self destruction and does exactly that, leaving the main character's loss of him as the central beating tragedy in the otherwise best possible ending.
She also wrote a story in which, when Zhou Ying's closest and most loved person realizes the dark and scheming truth of him, rather than saying "I can fix him; I don't think he's really so bad," he says "yeah, this is my cousin and he's a terrible menace who tries to destroy the world sometimes. I love him more than anything."
You can absolutely see how Priest's interest in similar ideas informed both characters. It's just that Fei Chengyu didn't succeed in raising his perfect little sociopath successor, but Emperor Taiming and the demons of the impassible sea absolutely succeeded in Jokerizing Prince Zhuang. They just couldn't possibly anticipate the kind of monster that the demon of the east sea would become.
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okay but on a fr note why the fuck is rhea getting so disrespected by the rest of the judgement day as of recently?? like dawg if not for her all the guys wouldn’t be… like anywhere like they are rn.
they wouldn’t have the tag titles, dom wouldn’t have had his title before, BOTH times he won it. the amount of times she’s helped them during matches is like unreal??? and that’s just these past few months like.
like where is this coming from all of a sudden… lowkey pissing me off fr she doesn’t deserve all that bs
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Taylor Swift Songs That Mention Cars That Are Totally About Phoebe and Silas - Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
i looked at you like the stars that shine / in the sky, pretty lights
"She terrified him. She grounded him. She should have been named after an epithet of the sun instead of an epithet of the moon, because it was inevitable that everything in Phoebe Hong's vicinity would circle her in orbit."
and our daddies used to joke about the two of us / growing up and falling in love
This one isn't really exact. But this has similar vibes to Orion constantly third wheeling with them and being really tired about it. Especially since Phoebe and Orion are pretty each other's only constant family members.
take me back to the house in the backyard tree ... take me back when our world was one block wide
Maybe it's just because we have TPATS or maybe because Phoebe and Silas have such a long history, but I can picture both of them being very reminiscent of the time they spent together in London. Before the trial and both of their recruitments.
i dared you to kiss me and ran when you tried / just two kids, you and i
ok but am i the only one who thinks they would have done this.
well, i was sixteen when suddenly / i wasn't that little girl you used to see / but your eyes still shined like pretty lights
Even though a lot has changed since their initial promise to "do well together," they still have each other. At least in theory, but this song is happy so we'll go with that for now.
they never believed we'd really fall in love
At this point, being around their miscommunication has probably become such a fixture in Orion's life that once they actually get together it might surprise him a little bit.
two a.m. riding in your truck and all i need is you next to me
Obligatory car line + "I just want to do well. That's it." ""Let's do well together."
take me back two the time we had our very first fight / the slamming of doors instead of kissing goodnight / you stayed outside till the morning light
In FHH they are going to fight. I don't think there's a way around that. However, regardless of what either one of them thinks, I don't think either of them would truly leave the other, no matter the circumstances.
a few years had gone and come around / we were sitting at our spot in town / and you looked at me, got down on one knee / take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle
It's either going to be this or an open ending I think.
take me home where we met so many years before
Phoebe and Silas are each other's home in a way that is parallel with every other ship in the Secret Shanghai universe (absolutely insane how this keeps happening). They both feel a ton of pressure to do well while still feeling forgotten by their families. Roma and Juliette both were raised as gang heirs despite not being blindly committed to their sides. Ben and Mars lived together for years. Then there's the whole, "She was not a remnant of his life before who expected a foolhardy version of him," thing for Rosalind and Orion. And the balance between loyalty to a cause and caring about people even when doing so might make you take actions that don't align with The Cause 100% thing for Celia and Oliver.
after all this time, you and i / i'll be eighty-seven; you'll be eighty-nine / i'll look at you like the stars that shine / in the sky, oh my my my
Even though everything will continue to change around them, they will still have each other. Unless Chloe decides to be really mean but shhhhhh
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