#its all led up to this

[cherumie]

This is my magnum opus

#its all led up to this #kuroshitsuji #grell sutcliff #black butler #grelle sutcliff #william t spears #lawrence Anderson

[dantesinfurno]

we're talking about names for the babies (planning on getting two sisters) and we picked herbs as the theme... naming one each. beck (wife) has locked in bergamot as the name they want and well... i will be naming my beautiful baby girl salvia divinorum (callname sage).

#its all led up to this #rabbit journey #also we moved the compost and flattened the ground where their hutch/run is going #!!!

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[shapeshiftershenaniganary]

my knee-jerk response to horror (specifically jumpscare horror) is to just check out emotionally for a while, so the Nightmare path for Slay the Princess was a lot of just

"uhuh. uhuh. yeah thats great sweetie. heart lungs liver nerves"

#oh ok i sorta get how that all led up to this. #feels a lil weird tho #thats my new live laugh love btw #Slay the Princess #“and theres that fear again” yeah sure thing. whatever you say. heart lungs liver nerves #chattering #stp spoilers #loved that inbetween bit tho thats so good in the greater context of the story #like I didnt get Nightmare first run through and the ending did kinda feel a lil like #Nightmare ending its like. oh no ok yeah 100% #totally got you man no notes here #edit: yo what the fuck scrambled my tags I didn't even know that was a thing that could happen whadda hell

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

honestly wally is stronger than atlas. if i had to constantly calibrate to the nature of my reality w/ full consciousness i would simply lose my fucking mind

#like babies dont Think while they learn how to exist #imagine straight up spawning fully aware and then everyone else is up to speed but youre standing there like #🧍‍♂️uh. hello. what is everything. what is this. huh???? #LIKE???? i feel so bad for him. dude got dropped right into the middle of the ocean and was told 'learn to swim' #and hes trying. but he doesnt know what drowning is so he cant sink either #i mean i get it at least a little bit! its the Autism Experience but w/ him the dial is cranked up to a thousand #you dont know what you dont know but life goes on like you should. fuck #wally i am mentally beaming you a thousand apples grown in the shape of hearts #i believe in you dude you'll figure it out #well. im probably beaming apples into the past if the time discrepancy is real but yk yk #cause if it is then Current Wally probably has a solid handle on things. from a basic standpoint #in a wider lens i am led to believe that he is Scrabbling #is this speculation??? #i think it counts. #wh speculation #homebogging #whenever i think about the tidbits we know - ex: wally learning about differences in size #internally i start howling. wally is just constantly dealing with things that would drive a person insane if they had to live it #how is he not Exhausted... it's all so much for someone who knows whats going on let alone someone scrambling to catch up #at least the other neighbors dont have to deal with memorizing physics and skills and behavior #and just Literally Everything That Comes With Being Alive #wally is a blank slate left to write itself. #ough. damn. fuck. i think i need to go stare into the woods for a bit...

[iangallagherisadeadman]

something something a fanfic in which ian has a crush in mickey who works at the alibi and he wants to make a move but he founds out Mickey is married to svetlana who works there too so he gives up but then he sees svetlana idk hooking up with Kevin and Veronica aka their bosses and he don't know what to do but then he founds out svetlana and mickey are not really together so apparently it was not cheating but how could it be they have a children they are very much married but apparently mickey is very much gay? make my boy ian really stressed and make everybody toy with him all the fucking time

#i dont know the circumstances which led to that #make svetlana and mickey good friends and she needs a greencard #that would be nice #and idk about yev make him a mistake make him a mutual decision between friends of starting a family #i think its not even important to be mickey biological but he must have his eyes and nose so ian is extra confused #also i dont know where mandy fits in it but she has to be there im up to suggestions #maybe she toys with ian a little too and eventuality pitted him #maybe shes gets her big addition of another but there somewhere #make ian battle really hard its all about his ethical vallues VS the immense desire to fuck mickey to oblivion #gallavich #shameless #shameless us #mickey milkovich #ian gallagher #svetlana yevgenivna #kevin ball #veronica fisher #mandy milkovich #kinda #og. #fic idea

[veone]

an ordinary night.

#ts4 #sims 4 #simblr #sunbleached:extras #idea is to shoot people just living and occupying a space they live in #jamie is sleeping over for a change she usually stay with her boyfreind most night but wanted to sleep alone for a change #vics drawing and chatting with jamie in whispers because nick fell alseep watching him draw and was listening to their convo #i like to think seung is having a moment and concerning andrezej but he's listening to her vent about how shitty things are #he getting ready for bed but is gonna end up sitting up all night talking to her in this bathroom #sis is having a moment she wanna take a long nap #andrezej pitrowski #seung ra #jamie yager #vincent dasilva #nicolas ishida #them two may be listening to their convo though thin walls #jamie's playing music though its in the link #it raining the power kinda went out but the led lights still work for some reason and so candle light!

[soldier-poet-king]

So I'm doing my first full qt reread since rott, and also my first audiobook listen, and was listening to the thief on the way home today and had Some Thoughts.

In the conversation about Gen being named after Eugenides the god, and how Gen's mother was a thief but his father wanted him to be a soldier, Sophos is surprised, either that Gen's father was a soldier or that Gen knows his father. And Gen, replies, perhaps a bit acidly, that no he's not illegitimate, and yes he even has siblings from the same father, and yes his siblings are all in respectable professions.

Which of course, given the rumours and speculation about Gen's parentage in rott raises a few questions. If we take as fact the belief that Gen rarely lies outright (but rather gives partial truths and lets people fill in the blanks in a way that suits him), what does this say about how Gen views the MoW? And vice versa? That despite rumours, despite what must've been a complex and at times painful situation, that they viewed the other as their "real" father/son? We already knew Hektor cares for Gen deeply, he funds Gen's heist in The Thief to save Gen's life (though of course we only find out the truth of this in rott), and I've always thought part of the reason he pushed Gen towards being a soldier rather than The Thief of Eddis, was to protect Gen from the isolation of the thieves, their ultimate death in falling, and from the Eddisian court which already viewed Gen with suspicion that could be life threatening as it was after Lader's death. Idk. I was struck by that convo with Sophos in a way I wasn't before.

And then further, I've noticed that in the myths told by Gen and the Magus so far, Eugenides the god is always referred to as "Earth's son", and the "woodcutter's son", despite the fact that his origin tale focuses on the woodcutter's wife's desire for a child (and presumably Eugenides the god was raised by the woodcutter and his wife, we hear of Earth visiting only in disguise to see her son). So, in a way, the god Eugenides also has three parents, just as Gen the thief does. And each Eugenides is deeply loved and wanted by his non-biological (or suspected non-biological) parent. Another similarity between Gen and his god?

I really dk where I was going with this. Just. Thinking My Silly Little Thoughts.

#queen's thief #qt meta #eugenides #sorry if this is SOOO obvious maybe im just stupid #also like. rott left me with so much grief alongside all its hope #i loved it. pheris is the most dear to me #but smthn about the recontextualizing of gens past grieved me #his relationship with eddis the country. with helen. with his father. #with the events that led up to him going in the quest in the thief #idk why it wounded me. it complicated my emotions. its not a bad thing. it just is #and so rereading (or listening) now its just. hm. thinking #idk what my conclusions are im just thinking #idk if its deliberate even! #i mean mwt is a mastercraft in plotting obvs #but also like. the thief came out the year i was born. this series is as old as i am #and ive been following it since aged 11. #so maybe my heart is the one seeking certainty and allusion where there is none #either way. this is a hektor/mow appreciation blog always #im just. smthn smthn father figures and its complicated but its love

[starofhisheart]

So much of the "bad" behaviour in ofmd are trauma responses and i love that they show how yeah sometimes we dont respond in the most healthy of ways, we fuck up and we hurt those closest to us, but we still deserve love and kindness at the end of the day

Just so important to me

#its just really important to me #and is why i will defend this show to my dying breath #ofmd #our flag means death #spoilers in tags: #stede's response to ed & the crew potentially leaving #ed's whole kraken era lol #there's so many examples of their actions being led by their trauma #and even the characters whose backstories we dont get #its heavily implied that a lot of them grew up either poor #or at least on the outside of conventional society #whether it be for attraction gender or class #and growing up around violence!! #thats a big one! #violence as the only method of solving problems #why they're so confused and rattled by stede #when you've never been shown kindness before its hard to show it to someone else #or recognize when its being shown to u #i so wish max hadnt cut the budget and episodes #bc s1 did such a good job of showing all this w added backstories #and more breathing room #and while i love s2 it has suffered from the reduced time #especially in this regard #i do think the post-kraken crew dealing w their traumas differently #was some of the best television ever #like they dealt w such a serious topic w the complexity it deserves #(tho again had they had more time it could have been ever better) #and sure there was some humour #but it wasnt cruel #ofmd s2 spoilers

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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#guys (neutral) i have made a mistake #theres a guy in my classes whos also pakistani (but like FROM pakistan) and from generally the same areas as my family i guess #and we're the only two in the class (for context the other desis who make up the majority of the class are all indian international student #and i know that im a friendly person #but i fear that i made a connection with this guy too quick #and have given him the wrong idea #idk if hes just attached to me bc im the only other pakistani or that AND bc ive accidentally led him on or smthg without even realising #like he will hover near me and will only leave when i leave (and its gotten so bad over like 3 days that my other classmate noticed -> #and was like ... girl yk hes attached himself to u right #asdhjkasldadhajkldadhajsd #anyways thats besides the point #hes rly nice so i feel bad asdkjlasd;adjkl;adadjksd (and he doesnt rly have any friends here besides family and classmates so im giving -> #him the benefit of the doubt #and yall today was the only day i left class and he wasnt right beside me bc i think he left to do smthg #and i went to help anther girl get to her car #and i guess because he couldnt say bye to me (esp since its the weekend now) he started DMing me on instagram #there are more details but i will spare yall for now bc the ig messagse are whats makign me more worried <3333 #anyways gn #mehrtalks

[mejomonster]

On a serious note, I do feel mysterious case lotusbook has a lot of sincere themes about getting older, realities of responsibility and dreams realized, how it's difficult to succeed and not always the direct path one expects, how there's value in little aspects of life. Almost every li lianhua scene seems to be about that to some degree. The murder cases aren't particularly deep as far as super complicated to figure out or Able to be predicted super well (since they don't always give all the details in the initial setup), but the themes about who was killed and why do connect to li lianhuas situation.

#mysterious lotus casebook #lb #by all this i mean: a lot of the positive things li lianhua AND di feisheng say are fairly good advice tbh #like a fei? hes like you need to be fair in your decisions for your actions to be worthwhile and earned #li lianhua: sometimes being the one taking all responsibility was bad for you and the people you led who felt burdened #by You taking the burden. and stepping back can be a respectable choice. #cooking is more difficult than fighting. keeping yourself alive is Hard and its the hardest thing we do #and its admirable even when youll never be a hero never be able to achieve what those around you might #your peers are worthwhile if they choose diffetently than you (qian wanmian isnt lesser for not choosing to lead a sect and instrad #dissolving it. di feisheng doesnt think li lianhua is no longef worth his time even though hes weaker now. li lianhua is still someonr he #wants to see alive see brlieve in himself see passionate about things. the monks think its never too late to #reconnect to people again. that people who love you will want you and accept you even when you fail. #even fang duobing by knowing li lianhua gets the experience of someone who wants him alive #and fondly smiles and Is proud of him. evrn if hes learning and fails and moody #fond of him in a way his family wasnt that strangers lied about due to his status #in a way that he clung to li xianyi for ALSO seeing value in him when he felt he didnt live up to expectstions of the world #its the Kindness of little moments of acceptance. of being kind to yourself and kind to others (even down to #not wantjng to kill suspects but take them to trial. not wanting scapegoats blamed. which arent usually done in wuxia) #its the fact this show is quite about gentleness and healing (i see the Love and Redemption screen writing ismilarities) #rather than about power struggles. do you know what i mean?

[thedevilsrain]

from volume 6 onwards, CMX comics (the DC branch which went on to translate 15 eroica volumes, before being terminated) started adding these little notes on the back of the FEWL volumes, roleplaying as if it were the major and dorian writing notes to themselves or each other. besides being really charming, a lot of these are just plain hilarious, especially the taglines

this one doesn't have a note, but here's the back of my volume 5, which made me scream the first time i read it

(these were taken from various ebay listings, fourth pic is by my dear friend @bishonenspit 🌹)

these are so iconique, in fact, that the team currently scanlating eroica (the iron rose team) redid the back cover format for the chapters they're translating, and i love them all so much

#'iron klaus only has eyes for eroica' made me die just a little bit #the devil works hard but the iron rose team works harder... #from eroica with love #been a while since ive typed up a long eroica post like this. hello. i love this series w all my heart. its so dumb and i love it so much #led zeppelin shoujo yaoi manga tag

[andromeda3116]

of all the questions i thought to trip me up with writing this story, the "did the ancient lost city of akkad probably experience much in the way of thunderstorms?" to be the one that i'd have to pay nasa for to read a paper of even passing reliability

#i figured ''okay well the generally-agreed-upon location is like. vaguely babylon-adjacent so start there'' #first hurdle is that there is a babylon in new york and everyone on google dot com is dying to tell me about its weather patterns #second hurdle is the clearly-ai-generated content #third hurdle is ''semi-arid climate with hot summers“ which is like. great! we're getting somewhere #and then you run into the brick wall of ''the climate changing in the middle east probably led to the fall of the empire'' #so like. what was the climate before then mister google dot com. what was the climate before. #i thought i knew what kind of climate these cities sprang up within. i thought i already had this knowledge. #i just want to know if thunderstorms were a yearly occurrence or more of a once-in-a-decade rarity! that's all! #why is this a complicated question!

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

every time i think i know what worm is about i see a post like "did [character ive never heard of] effectively utilize girl power when she [horrific human rights violation]?" and I have to try to figure out how tf that fits into anything

#from what ive gathered #its about a girl with bug powers who wants to be a superhero but semi-accidentally becomes a supervillain instead #her hometown is full of gangs #i think she ends up taking over and/or destroying most of the gangs? #every so often giant horrific eldritch monstrosities attack and everybody with powers has to team up to fight them #theres at least one shady government(?) organization giving people powers that turn them into monsters #the multiverse is real and they sometimes import media from a universe where superheroes dont exist #theres a group of government sponsored teen heroes just sort of hanging out #theres a gang of serial killers led by the joker if editorial mandates were a canon superpower #theres a family of superheroes but the girl with healing powers has serious issues and i think goes evil? #also all of these people get powers by being traumatized which means theyre all wildly unstable #(this is deliberate) #the main character changes her codename at least once possibly twice im still not sure if the second one is a name or a title #i think a few people change their codenames actually #i still dont know why its called worm #i also dont know whats spoilers and whats just information presented up front when relevant

[illithiddies]

So I never realized that Astarion's cantrip ability comes from being an Elf actually, I always thought it was from being a Rogue.

The dndbeyond page mentions that High Elves tend to have an affinity for magic, and use the Wizard spellcasting list and mechanics for it.

And while BG3 doesn't specify between Sun and Moon High Elves (of which Astarion is probably the later) the FR wiki mentions this about them:

It's not really talked about at all during the game, but Astarion definitely has at least this tiny bit of magical ability. Even more so if Arcane Trickster is chosen as his subclass later on.

Firebolt is his default cantrip, but it's default for everyone so I'd say it's up to interpretation if that's what he would have chosen. With his constant discussion about how much he loves the warmth of the sun, I feel like he probably would have taken firebolt, or at least maybe changed to it after he was turned.

He would have had this one singular magical ability with him for most of his life, both as an elf and as a vampire. Maybe he ignored it, maybe he relied on it, for self defense or maybe even comfort. Cantrips are the one thing you can almost always reach for, even when you've been disarmed.

There's a chance he might have had some further arcane knowledge in the past, but I feel like he most likely just didn't personally care to explore it. It might've not been worth his time as a magistrate. But, alternatively, he maybe 1) wasn't allowed to pursue it during his time under Cazador's influence, or 2) he actually did have some more magical affinity, but it was wiped out with the tadpole, as it was with Wyll.

Anyways, I feel like this can add a lot of fun extra context to his interactions with spellcaster Tavs or Gale!

#astarion #bg3 #this is long sorry lmao i love dnd meta #ive just never really made a rogue OR an elf so this was all new to me! #and yes. yes i made this entire post with bloodweave in mind lmao #listen the act 1 weave scene is still on my brain today. #i feel like astarion is probably actually a much better caster than he initially led gale to believe #especially if this is early on and he's still trying to (unnecessarily) manipulate gale into an ally. letting himself be 'taught' lmao #granted yes he'd have nowhere near gale's ability as a wizard. #so i think he would have ended up getting an extra taste of weave more so than he ever would have on his own #also semi-related but also hilarious: i realized this is why shadowheart kind of sucks in combat with firebolt lmao #its her elf ability not her cleric ability. it uses int not wis to cast. she's not super strong on int #questlog

[kaeyachi]

We have so many Alberich clansmen straightup mentioned in gamefiles, 3/5 have been shown (Clothar, Caribert, and Kaeya as the only playable alberich) while the 2/5 (Antforas and Kaeya's bio father, unsure if 2 diff people yet) are mentioned, and then there's Pierro who might also be an Alberich just based on similarities with Kaeya's design.

that's a lot of notable Alberich clansmen with heavy lore impact right there. What did they feed this clan?

#kaeya #kaeya alberich #alberich clan #the alberich skeletons in the closet saga continues #Antforas prev. Knight Marshal then King Regent btw #We all know of Clothar and Caribert as well #Pierro look a bit too similarly designed with Kaeya #what if antforas and kaeyas dad is actually just 1 person #and of course kaeya the most famous alberich we have in current teyvat #no seriously its suspicious how we have 2 alberichs who led 2 different things #antforas and clothar being brothers question mark? #clothar reference lore would indicate that there should be 1 more brother....and what if the 3rd brother is Kaeyas dad lmao #me at every alberich clan mention: #genuinely thinking antforas clothar and kaeyas dad are the 3 alberich brothers now but hey watch me be so wrong #also whats up with the sudden boom of theories? is that just me seeing them everywhere now? i cant keep up #guess im sticking with the alberich clan for now