idk thinking about the birthday party today and just . when ramon first brought up fits birthday ages ago i don’t remember exactly what stream it was but he told ramon that he would be happy with it being just the two of them . it took him a while to agree with ramon about inviting pac .
thinking about how today and how so many people showed up - like bad and phil weren’t even streaming, luzu was going to come but had to leave early, and pac left him a fucking trident of all things when he couldn’t make it . literally everyone online and their eggs showed up . dapper logged in after the party had started to show up !
i genuinely don’t think fit understood until today how much the others on the island actually cared about him . he STILL probably doesn’t fully understand . like he was even telling ramon that they don’t need to take up anyone’s time because they were planning on doing a dungeon (which was actually his party butttt he didn’t know that) DURING it .
idk and i KNOW there were some extremely emotional letters but empanada’s hit hard . thank you for protecting me but let us protect you sometimes too . i hope you feel as loved as you are .
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happy heart day from everyone's favorite eldritch office comedy podcast
[ID: A series of 10 Magnus Archives themed valentine cards. They're all done in a cartoony style in rich jewel tones, and accented with hearts.
1) Mikaele adjusts his glasses with one hand while posing with a suit jacket slung over his shoulder. he smiles flirtatiously at the viewer. text reads, "You're a rare treasure Xoxo Mikaele"
2) Jane Prentiss poses inside a cut out heart, winking at the viewer. her hair and dress are flowing, and her worms are numerous. text reads, "you'll never be lonely again. love, Jane"
3) Agnes sits with her hands wrapped around a steaming mug of coffee that is spilling onto her arm. she smiles vacantly at the viewer, the smile not quite reaching her eyes. Text reads "You make me feel normal, Valentine. Love, Agnes"
4) Manuela Dominguez stands in front of a dark sun and holds out a hand to the viewer, smiling sweetly. text reads "let's do unethical darkness sciences together. love, Manuela"
5) Oliver turns back over his shoulder and smiles a little sadly at the viewer. he's surrounded by tendrils of darkness in the shape of a heart. "Loving you is inevitable. (heart symbol) Oliver"
6) Michael Distortion curls lazily in a door frame, a rainbow spiral behind him. text reads "I'm lost in you. (heart symbol) Michael"
7) Mike Crew falls through the air, cocking an eyebrow at the viewer. text reads "I'm falling for you, Valentine. xoxo Mike"
8) Gerry's ghostly form rises out of an open book. They hold a lighter and look up at the viewer with heart eyes and a slight smile. text reads "Burn me up, Valentine. xoxo, Gerry"
9) Helen Distortion hangs upside down from a door frame, pushing herself through slightly. she grins at the viewer. "You make me spiral, Valentine. Xoxo Helen"
10) Gertrude stands with her arms crossed and turns sightly to look directly at the viewer, scowling deeply. A glowing eye is on her forehead. There are no hearts anywhere. Text reads, "No." End ID]
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sometimes people will say “going dark” and then what they’re actually talking about is just people no longer presenting a carefully constructed version of their emotions and experiences.
like. emotional turmoil is not the same as darkness. laudna in this Fictional Universe that has tangibly different stakes wrt to death and killing than our own, is at best like . morally neutral for what she just did like. man has been secretly trying to kill you, and then just tried to do so again, killing him back is a fair choice. and even if i was someone who is excited by delilah’s inability to escape from the narrative, this shit isn’t about delilah. laudna made a choice. if delilah is back or whatever it’s a choice that laudna made because something in that grants her more control than her existing conditions did. this isn’t some Delilah Takes Over, it’s Laudna Expressly Makes The Choice To Call Forth Something within Herself to remedy the lack of control that’s been thrust upon her. if y’all want to Continue to limit Laudna’s agency (as the cr fandom is so, so want to do when a female character makes a choice that isn’t Good according to some weird system of virtue ethics) go ahead.
likewise with orym. little guy is not “going dark” because he has finally made direct action about his emotional turmoil in dealing with a situation which has similarly left him without control and has also placed him in a position where his stalwart conviction towards protecting and honouring those he loves and has lost alike is constantly met with other people he cares for going well.. what if they had a point/we are killing other peoples loved ones/etc. which like . yeah that might be frustrating and in fact might lead him to go, actually, i can’t afford to try and maintain some abject morality where I carry a locket that will literally only provide guilt. orym is completely committed to his beliefs, the locket and what it represents has never been a limit to what he will do, only a reminder of the consequences of what he might cause in those actions. but they Are at war and orym has a billion things on his plate. he can put down the locket. especially when bor’dor is the explicit manifestation of that locket’s symbolism. the subtext rapidly became the text and orym doesn’t need a reminder. it’s there in the fact that team issylra is walking away with two friends, not three.
these are character who have at every turn denied their own emotions in various forms while still being acutely aware of what they deny, whether that awareness was/is fully realized or not. many of laudna’s early convos with ashton show us that there is some awareness to the lighthearted spooky goth girl and how that persona fades when she thinks too much about what has led her and maintained that reality. likewise the entirety of orym’s story thus far is defined by his grief in a very literal sense, it Has extended from that grief to also the commitment he had to the purpose of figuring out the assassination attempt on keyleth but as we have seen, that purpose has fallen apart. paired with the quasi-reopening of his grief that was getting to see will again only to have to turn away, i don’t think there’s a lack of awareness in orym of how much he hurts. but between his actions and 4SD, that hurt tends to get buried under guilt or Responsibility.
and now, finally, both of them have admitted to that Not in the safety of small introspection or one-on-one conversations but with actions that they cannot shy away from or deny. laudna killed bor’dor and orym encouraged her to. and it Is a complex situation but truly I don’t really think it’s a “going dark” one. because they’re not giving into some overhanging Darkness of Morality™, they’re admitting that they are hurt and have long been hurting.
or, y’know, tldr for those who continue to deny laudna and orym agency or fully villainise them for whatever weird reasons . you could listen to laudna and ashton’s conversation that pretty much lays it out explicitly. laudna claims she’s weak for having chosen to kill bor’dor. ashton denies that and affirms instead that, no, she’s hurt.
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We do NOT talk enough about post-breakup Kaz Brekker.
Mans was rocking a fresh cut, brand-new fit, deadl(ier) cane and (most importantly) plans to massively expand his reach across the city of Ketterdam like oh my GOD!!
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if your robot doesnt have pointy anime shades then i dont want it!!!!!!! best character in homestuck GO (hal design by @futurama)
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i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????
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