#patrickdiomedes

[strangeauthor]

why did you tag that superman post "James Gunn i will kill you"?

oh because i was blinded by rage that james gunn thought superman wasnt huggable and stuff when thats his whole trait (besides being a beacon of jewish faith and showing anybody can be good no matter their circumstances)

#patrickdiomedes

[luckyspacerabbit]

what's the Hackett Tim duo indoctrination theory? I mean obviously it's that both of them are indoctrinated, but I wanna know more

Oh ok honestly I have no idea if someone’s written this down or if it’s a real thing specifically, but this is what it is in my head. Also this isn’t based in canon its just like an “oh this could be an interesting idea if it was the narrative”

So basically my Duo Indoctrination theory is very straightforward in what it describes: TIM + Hackett are both indoctrinated agents of the Reapers. We know TIM is indoctrinated as a direct result of his reaper tech implants which makes him move to stop Shepard, so the question is why is Hackett?

Well we know the Alliance has their fingers in Reaper tech. Amanda Kenson proves that’s true. It makes no sense that Hackett wouldn’t really be aware of what was going down there given the fact that he’s an Admiral and supposed close friend— especially on a project of this severity. Admirals visiting sites of such import, even in secret, seems plausible.

To me, this would be the indoctrinating incident or origin for Hackett. If not this, I can’t not believe he hasn’t encountered reaper tech elsewhere.

Military of all species have motivation to understand or take advantage of reaper technologies. Their role as a military is to increase their own species’ advantage against all else. Especially with a reaper war dawning on the horizon.

So it wouldn’t just be Hackett, honestly, I think there are a lot of reaper agents in Alliance ranks that could start crumbling them from the inside.

BUT ANYWAY

Obviously Hackett coordinates Alliance forces against the reapers but honestly if I were a reaper controlling a major head of my enemys militaries im not gonna immediately tank their power by making it obvious I’m in control, I’ll do it bit by bit.

So while TIM would make obvious moves against the galaxy Hackett would be more like Udina and play the long game of losing alien troops and upgrading alliance ones while relaying choices to the Reapers. His motivation would be really similar to TIMs, like, control of a significant power source to advance humanity above all else.

Then what you get is shepard having this choice to strike out from the Alliance since it is acting inherently against the interests of the galaxy and recruit a scrappier, independent source of forces to tackle both the alliance and cerb. So sort of emulating some me2 unlikely allies vibe

Also itd be cool to boss battle tim then boss battle hackett then they join forces lol and its like “the heads of the dogs” bc u fight like a three headed reaperfied hacky and tim (third head is a husk ig LMFAO)

The ultimate idea being shepard is an agent for destruction for both institutions, then gets to make a final choice to defeat both in the name of a united galaxy n justice and chooses the decision that best suits their view of things. 👯‍♀️ n also institutions of violence will always commit violence against those theyre sworn to protect so the only answer can be rising up as a people or smth ssmth smth

So thats my Duo Indoctrination Theory and how I would have approached me3 LMFAO

#thanks for the inquiry:) #patrickdiomedes #asks

[triflingshadows]

Aaaaaaaand the second batch of OC requests, featuring:

Rinha Surana for @kingvamps, Mani for @yanara126, Lenarius for @undyingembers (he’s actually a Pathfinder character but I accidentally put him with the Pillars crew), Tehanu for @whenyoulosesmallmind, Vaargys for @ampleappleamble, a death godlike for @iceice-baeby, a…I don’t know enough about Final Fantasy to say what this guy is, for @patrickdiomedes, and Rishan for @forestdragoncat! Thanks y’all <3

#art #dragon age #pillars of eternity #pathfinder #final fantasy #kingvamps #yanara126 #undyingembers #whenyoulosesmallmind #ampleappleamble #iceice-baeby #patrickdiomedes #forestdragoncat #reqs #ty!

[avengerphobic]

if you wanna learn more about the X-Men, i highly recommend the Cerebro podcast.

I like learning things about comics the old fashion way: seeing posts about things and being like wtf

#i can give yall fucked up not xmen storylines #answered #patrickdiomedes

[displayheartcode]

Ok I just finished Be The Serpent (not including the novella) and um WHAT

I KNOW

SO MANY SCENES HAD ME SCREAMING

#Patrickdiomedes #sm #be the serpent #I want the whole confrontation scene in the kitchen injected into my veins #october daye

[warlordfelwinter]

what's this about Asmodeus being a giant space snake?

Oh boy have you ever activated my special interest.

So, as much as I've given myself an honorary degree in Baatezu Studies, I absolutely won't pretend to be an expert on what WotC is doing or what they prefer to be canon because I imagine with something so big as D&D with as many writers and iterations it has, there have to have been numerous retcons and concurrent canons and etc etc. But I really love Big Snake Asmodeus and I don't think it conflicts with anything else just because of how he is. Which is all preface for the upcoming rant about My Favoritest Boy. I apologize in advance.

On the forgotten realms wiki page, at least, Asmodeus has three origin stories. Generally speaking, I believe his "true" origin is kept purposefully obscured and WotC might just keep coming up with new ones to further confuse it (I would, if I was them) because it adds to the vibe, or they just keep changing their mind about what sounds the most cool. Understandable, though I don't know what's cooler than Giant Snake. There's a 2nd edition book I got recently called Faces of Evil: The Fiends where Asmodeus isn't even known to the planewalkers writing the book. Could be that wotc hadn't decided on him yet, or that they had but in fiction Asmodeus was keeping himself secret (I prefer the latter).

I'm not going to address the origin story where he deposes some god that was introduced in 4th edition, it interests me the least and I've more or less dismissed it.

The most popular origin story (in fiction) is The Pact Primeval, which is the one where Asmodeus is an angel/celestial who is So Good at killing demons and he slowly descends into evil, but he's also So Good at law that the gods can't find fault with him because he keeps out arguing them. Eventually he gets tossed into Baator and becomes the Lord of the Ninth along with his contemporaries. However, this is also stated to be the origin story devils pass around the most and is implied to be a fabrication or myth. Source for this puts it at 3.5 edition.

Going back to 2nd edition, in a book called Guide to Hell, the big snake is addressed. In this origin story the universe started as a chaotic soup and out of it rose twin serpents, one winged one not, named Jazirian and Ahriman. They bit each others tails and went in a circle, forming the outer planes and bringing some order to the chaos, but they then disagreed about which plane should be in the center. Jazirian wanted the Lawful Good plane of Celestia and Ahriman wanted the Lawful Evil plane of Baator to be in the center. They fought and eventually Jazirian tore herself away and escaped. Ahriman, not having wings, fell into Baator and either fell through all the layers until Nessus, or shattered it into nine layers as he fell (which I prefer, more dramatic) (or eight layers, if Stygia isn't an original layer). Regardless, he landed in Nessus and smashed out a massive chasm now called Serpent's Coil that he lays at the bottom of, bleeding and injured. Weakened as they both were, neither snake could stop the other gods from springing up and taking over.

From Ahriman's blood soaking into the rocks, the first baatezu popped up and quickly took over Baator (possibly chasing out its native inhabitants with brooms). Eventually, Ahriman made himself some avatars in the guise of a humanoid, renamed himself Asmodeus, and took over as king of the hells. Basically almost no one is allowed in Nessus and anyone who sees/speaks of his true form is dead within 24 hours.

Since he is a giant snake deity older than the gods and older than belief, his power doesn't wax and wane depending on faith. He actually prefers non-belief (in anyone, he needs atheist souls to heal himself). He also cannot distribute warlock powers. His inability to do that implies he's a lesser deity (or less), which he uses as a smokescreen and continues to let the gods believe he is simply an archdevil that has ascended a couple times and not a greater deity (or more), which he is identified as in Descent Into Avernus, I think (I don't believe 5e or anything recent has added any new origins into the mix).

Asmodeus' ultimate plan is to heal his wounds and regain his strength and bust out and destroy literally everything and revert it back to Chaos Soup so he can remake it in his image. Jazirian hasn't bothered him because she hopes there is enough law in him to stop him doing this (girl, there isn't). She, meanwhile, is also pretending to be a regular deity of couatls.

I like Giant Space Snake for any number of reasons: the eldritch horror element of big unknowable thing older than time, the fact that it makes basically everything he does into a lie which is fitting for the lord of lies, the fact that his avatars are always covered because they reflect his wounds from the fall and he's always in excrutiating amounts of pain, the idea that he's a god trying to cultivate non-belief because consuming the souls of true atheists is what heals his wounds, just... snake......

It also really doesn't contradict any of the others. The Pact Primeval seems obviously to be a story concocted by Asmodeus to make himself appear as a martyr. The He Who Was backstory I didn't address is also fine because he could have taken up any number of roles. He's a liar, a pretender, it's What He's Best At. So why shouldn't he be a fallen celestial or an exarch overthrowing a god and taking its place? And underneath it all, in the deepest pits of Nessus where no one can look, there is a colossal serpent biding his time and perfectly assured in the destruction of everything around him.

It's just great.

#replies #patrickdiomedes #if you can't tell. i love giant snake asmodeus #it brings me great joy #like #broke: fallen angel #woke/bespoke: BIG SNAKE #pact primeval is very funny don't get me wrong he's like Lawyer Man #but it's even funnier to me as a story he made up #dnd #baatezu posts #personal

[princessnijireiki]

"#ruth e carter's put her foot in it again methinks!" I thought "put their foot in it" was a bad thing?

in White English it is a bad thing, in Black English it is a very good thing lol

#patrickdiomedes #for ex you might say ''she put her wholeee foot in these greens!'' if the food was extra scrumdiddlyumptious & made with love... #entirely different sayings 😂

[elfyourmother]

how does Gisele store her Soul Crystals? I'm assuming she made some sort of jewelry for them, but how does she make sure they're accessible at a moment's notice?

Also, the game has never actually explained what soul crystals are/how they work, right?

She made them into a charm bracelet that she wears at all times. What we know as gear sets by the game mechanics I explain ICly as Gisele having attuned the respective gear for her Jobs to each of them. When she needs to use one, she visualizes the sigil in her mind and focuses with intent, drawing it out with her aether and the use of a word (Gisele always does her spellcasting in Orlesian unless a specific language is required for a spell, so from a meta standpoint she just uses the French name for the Job). In the beginning it’s somewhat difficult, and she has to physically touch the crystal, but she becomes so practiced over time that it happens instantly without need of that, explains how she switches Jobs in combat so effortlessly. In actuality it’s a very focused adaptation of Azem’s summoning magic. She’s just summoning equipment instead of people. (She keeps the bracelet glamoured invisible so as to not make it a tempting target for her opponents)

in general I conceptualize soul crystals as being a lot like dresspheres in X-2 because honestly the lore we have on them pretty much supports that, and yes that does mean henshin sequences because what the fuck is a magical girl without a henshin sequence

#gisele surana #way too much meta #patrickdiomedes #ask bisho

[moash]

the dark eyes was because they forgot that the honorblade would change his eyes at first. He's got the glowing ones in another part of the preview image

ahhh i see, thank you!! i noticed the glowing eyes in the other part but i didn’t know if that meant anything since he didn’t have them in the close ups

#ask #patrickdiomedes

[meredoubt]

"#this movie is not good but this Dracula is kinda goals ngl" Excuse you Van Helsing is a masterpiece.

It is perfect for what it is supposed to achieve, so in a way...yes

#a MESS #patrickdiomedes

[minaminokyoko]

"#the only scene in the entire movie worth reblogging except for him being naked" What about Valkyrie licking the sword?

I felt that was kinda grody? I mean, that's blood, fam. Ew.

#patrickdiomedes #answer

[strangeauthor]

"#WAIT i know this person i based one of my ocs on her#what was her name again AAAAAAAAAAAAAA what was her name" I think that's Julie d'Aubigny

YEAH HER thank you!

#patrickdiomedes

[echthr0s]

are you saying The Thing is not a valid John Carpenter film?

I was mainly being hyperbolic but I generally don't like his work, is all

#the thing is fine i just don't like the rest of them #patrickdiomedes #congregation chatter

[e1dritchqueer]

Tag game from @marejorie Rules: tag 9 some people you want to know better and/or catch up with, then answer the questions below!

Last song: Sermon of Sister Rust. There's something really poignant about that song I love, almost done with COUNTER/Weight and have been thinking about that song a lot. (Also been learning on guitar which is really fun and cool to playyy, haunting song)

Three Ships (Last Three):

Charmuro (Mobile Suit Gundam. mech rivals make my brain go brrr)

Cassander Timaeus Berenice and Mako Trig(COUNTER/Weight. My silliessss)

I don't have that many ships tbh but yeah :)

Currently Reading: Been switching between Time is A Mother by Ocean Vuong (Good good poetry book gah) and @celestialkindliness 's Tenafic (I've been wanting to read it more bestie but I'm bad at reading ficsss)

Last Movie: Stalker. Sometimes you read a poem. Not in the sense of something to be analyzed, to be dissected, no, but to read a poem in which it moves through you, the words, the exact phrases, you might not be able to parse upon first reading it, but the emotions, the feelings, run through you with the magnitude of a train hitting you, leaving you breathless, panting, and in awe. Stalker is that kind of poem

Craving: I wanna go to an art museum but can't for awhile >:(

I tag: I'm silly and anxious about tagging peopleee so like totally no pressure @blackthornass @rae-sunshin3 @r0ryy @citrusmaris @patrickdiomedes @thespaceseagull @celestialkindliness @lunatunez @fourteenfishteen

and like... anyone else who wants too

#aaaa tag games

[displayheartcode]

"#don't be like jay kristoff" What'd he do?

In the previous version of the Nevernight books, he named his antagonist who uses blood magic Adonai — one of the holy names we use for god in Judaism.

At least he acknowledged that he messed up and changed the name in future printings of the books.

But what a research failure…

#patrickdiomedes

[synnthamonsugar]

tagged by @mxsovereign (ty!): Shuffle your Spotify playlist and post the first 10 songs & tag people.

Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants

Into The Wild - Zola Jesus

Kindred - Burial

The World Ender - Lord Huron

Smile - Wolf Alice

Into Happiness - Phantogram

This Tornado Loves You - Neko Case

Mountains Crave - Anna von Hausswolff

The World Retreats - David O'Dowda

Last Night You Were a Dream - Lord Huron

Tagging @patrickdiomedes @eri-223 @xivu-arath @warlordfelwinter @pahaninerrata @macgyvertape @eiramew @brighan @saltineofswing @titan-mom & any other followers/moots who feel like it

#i dont think it shuffled them very well lol. but ok. #music #tag game