[This is entirely stream of consciousness and I know only a small corner of the lore so forgive my ignorance]
There are 9 keys, but only 4 were present for the meeting. At least one cucurucho was murdered just before they got sent to prison. I'm curious how close they'll weave the creators personal lore to the over arching qsmp lore? Will some of the personal lore villains turn out to be in that group of 9 that have keys? Richarlyson told Philza the mission to purgatory to rescue Celbit and Baghera would be in a week or two, and I wondered a little why Richars picked Phil specifically for that, and seemingly only Phil of all the adults? When he does have other people about who he could asked. Like Etoiles would have been so down, he lives for that kind of adventure and he'd do anything for Pomme. So I was thinking maybe there's a plan for Philza (as leader of Bolas) to encounter purgatory lore and maybe come face to face with the watcher? Or maybe I'm overthinking it, maybe it's just that he's the only one Celbit and Baghera would trust and follow in their probably fragile state of mind? But heck knows how they'll prepare for that mission now. It's unclear how much of their stuff will survive the upheaval. I really hope Missa is there when Phil leaves for that because he's definitely not telling Chayanne and Tallulah where he's going and why because they'd never let him go alone. A lot is uncertain about the effects of the reset, but Rose's sanctuary is for sure saved. Like it makes absolutely no sense to the lore if a sanctuary protected by a demi Goddess would get destroyed by something that isn't world ending. On the other hand this is definitely going to significantly sap her strength and I wouldn't be surprised if the sanctuary were to be compromised in the not too distant future.
Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !
Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)
I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!
someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)
uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE
(image description: two colorful nude portraits of male characters with fat bodies. Image one is a drow in shades of orange, pink, and purple, standing in an empty space. Image two is an orc in shades of green, blue, and yellow, sitting halfway on a tree stump with a simple forest background. end description)
I pulled these poses from posespace.com, it's a very useful resource.
The orc is K'arik, one of my favorite ocs. He's deaf and also a celibate aroace. He breaks so many hearts, because he's got the body of a warrior god and zero interest in romance or sex. But he does have a very close platonic bond with my two main protagonists.
The drow is a new and mostly unimportant oc, he's only relevant for a couple of scenes in a new side story I'm writing. But he is important in those few moments! So I needed to flesh him out and get a sense of his looks and personality. His name is Biscuit.
There are two types of male drow: those who only have the instinct to travel far enough to find another colony and bond with a Matriarch, and those who are driven to wander outside and occasionally visit drow colonies to mate with a Matriarch and then leave. Though they've evolved past mere instinct as fully sapient people, many amab drow still go off wandering, and they are built to carry large amounts of fat to sustain them as wanderers. They've developed their own nomadic culture as well. One of their traditions is picking a new name when they leave the caverns, typically based on a new favorite thing they've found in the outside world. Sometimes it's an animal, a landscape feature, or a weather event. Sometimes it's a food, like Biscuit here.
Biscuit may not have a large role in my writing, but he is very good for figure drawing practice, so I think I'll keep him around.
Drop me your pride flags and I'll describe the colours as beautifully as possible✨ pls my brain needs someone to name some flags so it doesn't have to think too much- I've already done nonbinary, lesbian and bi. Lemme know if you would like to read the descriptions :)
because my dash were being all coy about the 'news' about now and then I had to track it down via men being serious on youtube and dear god
(the only interesting news is that they've apparently used AI to make Paul's voice sound younger, which is kind of the most interesting thing they could do, and I love them for it, because yeurch all the AI bullshit on youtube at the moment, but if paul gets hold of a machine and can make his voice do whatever he wants it to, is that AI bullshit or is that just paul being very paul? what might it be and where might it end? BUT! that is not even the news the serious men of youtube are REMOTELY interested in though! honestly they barely mentioned it. the "news" they care about is that they've used a three way harmony vocal chord from a take of 'because' for backing, and slowed it down to change the key. sounds lovely to me but the men do not think it is lovely, they think it's quite serious, and they're not at all sure how they feel about it, except that it's worrying, if not actually concerning. The news is also that george played rhythm guitar on it, not lead guitar, and that's also something which it's hard to know how to feel about, but probably best to feel very serious about. And george might not sing on it, (apart from in the three part harmony) so how terrible to say it's even a beatles song if george is only playing on it and singing on it, and it's odd, isn't it, that it's all just going ahead when actually the serious men of youtube aren't sure they want it to, and when they're not sure it's what george would have wanted. (it turns out they know just as much as tumblr's george fans what george would have wanted, so that's good, they can all discuss among themselves and perhaps have a little war to decide who is the most upset about literally nothing and who can best protect George from literally nothing, I don't know.) Also the news is that ringo probably didn't even want to do the track and giles martin had to 'talk him into it' so yet again paul was the only beatle who wanted to do the thing, which we all already knew, and which is fine, isn't it? NO. Nothing is fine. incredibly, they seem to think makes it less of a beatles track, when that's the very thing that makes it most beatley, but it would be wrong to just enjoy that, or indeed enjoy anything, it's all very concerning, and we can only assume the very worst and be serious about it. On top of all the "news", it's important you know that they're still not sure we even NEED a new beatles track but it is happening anyway as if their opinion might not matter, and that is very troubling. they don't seem to have even considered just not giving a shit, oh gosh the shit they give. They also seem to feel that it matters a lot whether it's a good song or not? !!! They're so confused. And they're still worried it's not really going to actually even be a beatles song !!! which is extraordinary because obviously it's not a beatles song, is it, they're half dead, so worrying on and on about whether or not it's really a beatles song is a terrible use of time, but they have a lot of time. Also apparently the news is that they're remixing the blue and red albums which also apparently we should have serious opinions on but I had to opt out of those opinions because I died.)
Let me be absolutely clear -- the problems with Tumblr will keep getting worse if the disabled minority and the trans people and the people frothing at the mouth at the opportunity to yell at a transphobe, keep @’ing staff and the developers on this site, tell them to kys, because in the meanwhile the transphobes and racists and white supremacists will keep using the actual tools Tumblr provides for blocking and reporting, further poisoning the datasets used for moderation, and encouraging the idea that using the official tools does nothing to basically ensure the only statistically meaningful data available to Automattic is poisoned, poisoned all the way down, poisoned beyond usability.
Hatespeech and bias needs to be reported for it to be considered statstically significant to act on from a developer point of view. Suicide baiting and spamming any of the official means of communication will get you eliminated as a spammer, even if you’re peppering legitimate criticism within your ventpost about how you hate the new thing. You are playing the TE/RFs game.
it's actually so fascinating to me that Brennan has created a character that maintains a pretty relaxed and mild-mannered demeanor and has said multiple times that the absolute Core of her is "FEAR" and how often we see this Fear manifest specifically in Avoidance; it really nails a relationship to that mentality where your brain fully Stops recognizing the emotion properly out of like, sheer self-defense from the stress of having to carry it all the time
I think this is also perfectly showcased in the way we tend to see Tula swing so suddenly from 'level and steady' to 'snarling Panic' and then back again - Just because your brain has detached itself from the Conscious Recognition of the emotion doesn't mean it can Actually stop itself from experiencing it. So the Fear is always there and always acting as a stressor, but because of that inability to Identify it there's no way to recognize or address it before that final straw hits and your bodymind jumps Straight into Full Meltdown Mode; but then once again, once you drop even a Little bit below that Peak Terror your brain ceases to process the emotion; it's like the most exhausting form of Poor Object Permanence in the world
And even if Tula is aware of this happening to her, that doesn't really make it any easier to deal with / address. Even if you're able to spot the symptoms Around the emotion -- chest pain, irritation, nausea, whatever -- because the Emotion Itself is basically impossible to find, you can't really Successfully Pin Down what the problem is OR a way to cope with it. If you can't figure out That You Are Anxious, then figuring out What Is Making You Anxious is impossible, which makes Find A Way To Make Peace With That incomprehensible. That's where the Avoidance comes in: you can no longer identify what might be a Dangerous Situation, which means that Anything New has a big potential to be Really Bad in a variety of ways (ranging "I don't Feel Good" to "Fully Lashing Out bc you've entered Fight/Flight and can't get out of it" to "Actual Outside Danger This Time") and that means the Only Way you know how to be Safe is to just Avoid Doing Anything New and Only stick to Familiar Situations, because anything unfamiliar is a monster of a gamble you don't know how to prepare for or cope with