#ringing forward

[a-la-campanella]

I think I'll finish the main story update on Friday; I've spent a few hours on it between other obligations and as it stands, I'm a little over halfway done.

My schedule for tomorrow is crammed too, but I might get an hour or so of gameplay in. Everyone's been fun so far! A completely arbitrary favoritism tier list of the Penacony characters (STC):

Acheron—the red text? HI3 Mei references? And her overall aesthetic design... she ate up so well. I want her viscerally, carnally, and every way I can have her.

Sunday—his in-game CN voice caught me off guard more than I'd like to admit. I've heard his voice from the 1.6 trailer, but hearing it in game felt more off-putting. He's short? And the same height as Stelle? The way he stands is a kind of... if I speak, I'm in trouble.

Firefly—I will cry.

Misha—his eyes look like keyholes and the doors of the Reviere Hotel. From what I've gotten up to, he definitely seems to have a deeper connection to the overall plot. And his animations are cute!

Aventurine—he's... also shorter than I expected. It makes the scene with Dr. Ratio a little funny, actually. His eyes look cool, and I'm interested in knowing more about his past before the IPC! As expected, business major vibes, though he lays it on a little too thick to not be intentional. I didn't expected the comments from Dr. Ratio and Sparkle... at least in Dr. Ratio's case, I expected better, but he's already proven to be quite prejudiced in his approach to education.

Sam—haven't met him yet, but I quite like the Stellaron Hunters, and he's one of them, too!

Sparkle—she's funny. I like that. I don't know how much I trust her on Masked Fools lore yet, but I'll take any Aha lore regardless of the facts. She's also antagonistic towards Aventurine, but he did stalk her for 45 system minutes, so I can understand being a bit put off by that (those comments were rather over the top, though...).

Robin—she's pretty and definitely some percentage of lesbian. Her dress is so nice! I love her design. Though for someone who's whole thing is being in the limelight, we don't really get to see much of that (yet?).

Black Swan—Garden of Recollection lore has me on an email list. Unfortunately, I don't dig her design that much.

Gallagher—not my type, haven't seen enough to move him up the ranks.

For Duke Inferno and the rest of the Annihilation Gang—I still don't think they're showing up.

#honkai: star rail #hsr #ringing forward #penacony #nothing here counts as a direct spoiler #or at least. not a major one?

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

This is how it feels to be a Cyn defender.

#Murder Drones #Liam Vickers Animation #Glitch Productions #Better Call Saul #The Lord of the Rings #Lord of the Rings #LoTR #Murder Drones Cyn #Saul Goodman #Gollum #Went to the dentist yesterday #Turns out I've got cavities #And impacted wisdom teeth #And a back molar that never grew in #So y'know #Looking forward to dealing with that in the future 🙃 #Straight From the Dragon's Mouth

[sillylotrpolls]

The reasons, of course, are because it's entertaining.

#lotr #lord of the rings #poll #polls #looking forward to finding out who I should have included instead #probably Thorin #but knowing my audience #the more likely complaint is a lack of feanorians

[bisexualmultifandommess]

Love the idea of anytime Bofur gets really drunk after meeting Bilbo his go to drunk action (we all have one) is to just grab hold of Bilbo and cuddle with him all night while the others still bring him drinks. Bilbo is just content to lean back against his chest and enjoy the cuddles.

Someone walks over and tells Bofur he needs to get up to do something and he just grumbles. Fili and Kili were in hysterics laughing when Bofur ended up accidentally telling Thorin to fuck off because he didn’t notice it was him when Thorin asked him to do something. Bilbo is trying not to laugh while the others are laughing their heads off and Thorin is rolling his eyes but doesn’t take it personally because he’s happy his company are enjoying themselves when they have such a tough road ahead of them.

#drunk bofur is feral about his love #nori once tried to pick pocket bilbo as a joke during one of these times and let out a high pitched scream when bofur bit him #every is surprised when ori who is usually the quiet one of the group let’s put a really loud cackle and then falls to his knees laughing #because you’ve got to laugh at your big brothers misfortune #so a new rule is put forward #when bofur is drunk cuddling bilbo no one goes over unless they’re giving them something #the lord of the rings #lotr #the hobbit #lotr headcanons #the hobbit headcanons #bilbo baggins #bofur #bofur the dwarf #fili durin #kili durin #thorin oakenshield #bilbo x bofur #bofur x bilbo #bilbofur #boffins

[braxix]

Elrond: I'm jumping out a window.

Gilgalad: Okay, have fun!

Galadriel: NO!

#What bird do you think Elrond will turn into? #None! He isn't jumping out any windows #Aw I was so looking forward to it #lotr #lord of the rings #incorrect lord of the rings quotes #silmarillion #incorrect silmarillion quotes #incorrect quotes #elrond #lotr elrond #elrond peredhel #galadriel #lotr galadriel #gil galad #erenion gil galad

[todayisafridaynight]

Family™

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 2 #yakuza 2 #daigo dojima #haruka sawamura #kazuma kiryu #for like a hot second #snap sketches #hes gonna buy her mcr and korn cds #this just started out with wantin to doodle daigo paintin her nails but then i figured they should wear the same outfit #just cause i thought it was cute they both wear white jackets #also ive decided im just going to draw Emo Daigo with piercings and eyeliner ive decided this is the move forward #the impulse to give him a pants chain is so strong but im going to resist i dont wanna add too much #because i could. i could give him rings too #but i have to STOP i have to draw a line SOMEWHERE #its not my fault rgg didnt go balls out when making him emo

[bluetiefling]

That is why I will never be at your side.

#tropedit #lotredit #ropedit #galadriel x halbrand #galadriel x sauron #galadriel #halbrand #sauron #the rings of power #lotr rings of power #mygifs #nevahhhh she says... as she leans in real close... looks at his lips...strokes his neck with her dagger like mimicking a lover's touch #and then lingers there staring up at him forever instead of idk stabbing him #almost like she's in CONFLICT yall #what a concept! #a concept too difficult for many tolkien bros and prudes to understand i know #anyway this was very hot and I look forward to these two force skyping each other #'platonically' continuing to invade each other's personal space panting and sniffing each other's hair etc

[pearl-kite]

Space demon? Space demon

#kirehn draws #uhhhhhhhmmmm so andy gave me an idea and I ran with it #it went a bit different than I expected but I like it o3o #it was bigger than this but then I was like HAH backgrounds I'm not doing that much background #anyway looking forward to a good old fashioned corruption arc with space demon #was clueless about what color palette to go with him and then figured he'd probably embrace the astral part as much as possible #so I color picked from a HaRGB photo of the ring nebula in lyra which is the constellation you find vega in and kind of went starryish #this idea is thanks to andy thank you andy the idea possessed me I need more possessive ideas like that #might do a proper painting version later but for now his is it #'s fun #redacted asmr #redacted vega #redactedverse #demons #tiefling #digital art #anyway got a bit of a crush on vega and the eventual corruption arc that comes with him #I can't remember if there's more things I should tag ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #a lot of just experimenting going on here

[m-eltdown]

#11:11 #i've been looking forward to relaxing all day #it's cozy time #mine #my post #myself #me #fashion #body piercing #comfy #cozy #soft #alt aesthetic #soft grunge #tummy #belly button ring

[thefangirlofhp]

“The earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal” but let’s talk why that is an oxymoron. 

To love is to be changed, goes the saying. And when Durin is faced with a drowning friend holding out his arm for salvation, Durin thinks little of his own empire. His father, King, is wary: knows that Middle-Earth and all its variations are landmarked with remnants of empires and old glories fallen to memory and time and knows that, like all else, the elves have a time, the end of which they must eventually meet, no matter how long. It is bitter, as all passings are, and inevitable like all truths. To save the elves would mean their own demise; to risk dwarven lives, to plunge deeper into the depths of the earth with its foreboding reality hanging overhead: to dig further would be turning over the soil of their own graves. And yet, Durin does exactly that. 

To love is to be changed, and who’d have thought a dwarf would defy king and duty for the sake of elves (read: one half-elf who’d taken up a sword to save his life from a troll or two. Some think three and that the sword be a bow, but that is of no matter) and yet it is exactly what Durin does. Cripples his empire to save his friend (in hindsight, it does not fall in a day or two but years do feel like days to elves), and no-one talks much about how yet another ruin fell for love. When mentioning Durin’s great line, it is with the bitter taste of remembering yet another glory of another time brought to its knees. The dwarves pinnacled in their lifetime, it is remarked, but greed is a vicious master and they met ends in the depths of mountains where fire rears its head with a whip and a wizard would meet his match, where even Orcs and fell creatures of the dark cower in fear. But there is no-one to reiterate: Durin dug deep for his friend (read: the entire elven race). Durin’s empire had little gain from elven timber of a Whatnot Sacred Forest or wheat and grain though it turned the interest of dwarven lords, but Durin—loved and loving, against his wishes and better judgment—who rushed under crumbling mines to save his mining subjects from death defies king and country, and digs up precious ore for a most vicious greed: that he should keep his friend, for one more day, and one more lifetime. 

Empires are built to fall: it is the inevitable truth. Someday, whatever day it be, regardless of the cause. Empires believe they are eternal, or so the saying goes, and offers the evidence: ruin littering the earth. Yet all recognize the ruin, and the song such empires once hummed haunt the corridors and abandoned archways. Durin’s line broken, Gil-Galad fallen. Elrond passing into memory.

To love is to be remembered, and Elrond carries the memory of Durin’s hearty laugh and the set of his brow over determined eyes and recognizes its bearing in his descendants. Thorin looks little like his late friend but for the same fire in his eyes, the same secrecy and pride. Elrond is tempted to uncover such secrets if only to see whether the same spluttering indignation exists; Elrond misses it. Durin and his kingdom fall, or rather, it shatters into scattered starlight, yet it still remains. In elven memory, and elven kingdoms, shedding its light onto changed, remembering hearts. 

#elrond and durin #elrond peredhel #the rings of power #durin #the rings of power drabble #look the show was...something but i found that if you kinda plug your mental ears to the fact that it's meant to operate on the same #wavelength as the hobbit and lotr and pretend it's something of it's own then you kind of see something enjoyable. #there were a lot of interesting storylines/messages in the subtext or so i discern #anyways elrond and durin's friendship struck me #because it kind of goes past typical enemies become friend/from enemy countries sort of trope. #especially considering durin pushed for mining mithril just cause elrond asked for him to save his race. #“the dwarves were greedy” yeah but the king shut down the mines because they were dangerous and they had no real need of them #so really mithril was mined for the elves AKA: for Elrond's sake #or at least in the show's narrative i have no clue if this is true in the books I'm yet to read the Sil. #which you know still is a beautiful fact: mithril was dug up for the elves/fast forward to Khazad Dum and the Balrog and yeah.. #it struck a heartstring.

[a-la-campanella]

Journal On Penacony • The Sound and the Fury (Page 1/7)

Finished the 2.0 Penacony main story a while ago, and I'm now rewatching the cutscenes from a streamer's VOD. This is meant to be more like a very public journal with some speculations, not a comprehensive summary. Bullet-pointed notes for myself, with key points in bold, and of course, spoilers. I will not warn you twice.

Side note: I alternate with pronouns between the player(s), The Trailblazer, and Stelle. Take it or leave it.

The Sound and the Fury, which is the name of this Trailblaze Mission chapter, is a reference to a novel by the American author William Faulkner. I haven't read it, but I've heard that there are a number of parallels between Penacony and some motifs in the novel.

Pom-Pom introduces us to memoria, and we get a throwaway comment about the Memory Zone. The Memory Zone sounds like something related to Fuli and the Remembrance, and the Forgotten Hall/Memory of Chaos...

The Trailblaze and the Star Rail are what connected Penacony to the rest of the universe; and with the Express leaving Penacony, three Trailblazers stayed behind on the prison turned hotel. They were Tiernan (the guard), Legwork (the mechanic), and Razalina (the surveyor).

Some people have theorized that Misha might be the grandson or a descendent of one of these Trailblazers, and I'm inclined to agree. Of the three, he would likely be related to Legwork, as he's described as being "skilled at fixing a variety of machines" (Character Details).

Interastral Peace Broadcast update! I highly recommend listening to these for anyone who likes worldbuilding, just treat it like in-game current events. Most of what they said here isn't directly relevant to the main story, but the collaboration between the IPC and the Garden of Recollection is particularly interesting... I wonder what's happened since the events of Gold and Gears?

Also, Emperor Rubert I lore! I expect it to more relevant as we continue to get involved with members of Genius Society... I'm looking at you, Polka.

Dan Heng chooses to stay on the Express—totally understandable. Bro gotta celebrate Lunar New Year. And you know, we need someone to stay watch on the Express. He'll come find us eventually, he shows up in White Night after all.

It also doesn't help that Dan Heng took center stage for the Luofu and now there's not much mystery to him anymore. His story isn't complete per say, but all that's left to explore for him is the time between him leaving the Luofu and joining the Express, and the future. It'll probably be the backseat on lore for him until we head back to the Luofu.

Okay, the cutscene before the jump? Every time before we jump, there's a focus on the chessboard. According to this lovely reddit post, it's from a game that ended in a tie—and I think it's a direct reference to Jingliu's line, "This is a chess game between Aeons." Stelle, then, might be the black rook, because that's the piece we get a zoom-in on; though it's also possible she's a pawn, or not even on the board at all. Or the piece is the Astral Express (faction)? Questions, questions...

It also doesn't really matter how the game ends, because (1) when the Universe reaches its end everything will restart anyways and (2) the rules can be broken and new pieces can appear out of nowhere. Aeons don't have to play by normal rules (see: Mythus).

Flash: Acheron (moving backwards), Firefly, Robin, Acheron again (still moving backwards but closer to Stelle this time). This isn't the first time we've glimpsed into a/the future; the other time it happened was when we protected March from the Doomsday Beast on Herta Space Station.

The implications for seeing into the future seem pretty fucking big, but as it stands, I'm not sure how relevant that is right now. It's about the journey, not the destination; what matters isn't how the Universe ends, but what we do until we reach that point.

Blink and we're in the Dreamscape version of what becomes our guest room. No clue how we got there or if we're even really there.* (I'll expand on this in a bit.)

Acheron sighs, then says, "Not another one...." The other person she's talking about might be Black Swan...? I don't think it could be anyone else. She barely knows anyone else, even.

She also tells us we'll forget everything when we wake up, which is bull fucking shit when you see some of the dialogue options.

Okay, this might go pretty fucking meta (any ORV fans?), but Acheron's ability hear our "thoughts" might be similar to how we read the text stating the character's voicelines. Or to put in ORV terms, it's kind of like Kim Dokja reading the Wall. And HSR does go meta on character dialogue, they've given color to select words (e.g. Kafka's golden text, Acheron's red text), and alternative readings to other words.

*It doesn't make much sense to see the other characters in the dreamscape when this dream isn't being shared with them, and they're all people that (assuming we haven't arrived on Penacony yet), neither Acheron nor Stelle should know who they are -> they shouldn't appear in her dreamscape. Like, you don't just imagine whole ass people. Acheron calls them shadows, but they're all memories of conversations that have happened.

I saw a theory (no clue who said it, I think I read it first in a Reddit comment, but I thought it was interesting) that we've rewinded time on Penacony, and Acheron seems to be somewhat aware of this. In the first iteration, Duke Inferno may have successfully destroyed Penacony. In the second, Duke Inferno is slain by Acheron before that can happen, but the Memory Zone boss might've fucked us over. We'd be on the third iteration, then, and Acheron allowed the Memory Zone boss to kill Firefly. There's not much merit to this to be honest beyond some wacky voicelines, but I still think it's worth lingering on.

To be in the Memory Zone like this, I feel like it would imply that this is a memory, and these events would've had to have happened in the linear past. Acheron told us this is Penacony's "welcome", but I don't think that's the case. There's some time fuckery going on for sure.

The doors that lead us to meeting Misha are different than the other doors we saw, and lack the lock-like motif.

Acheron makes no acknowledgement of Misha. Keep this in mind, okay?

"...have we met somewhere before?" Yeah, maybe in another branch of time. None of the dialogue options are absolute an yes/no answer. (Or maybe before Stelle was "born" on Herta Space Station, but I doubt that a little. If that was the case, I think the Stellaron Hunters would be more aware of Acheron.)

If you play Stelle, the red text says "she stood shoulder to shoulder with me", and if you play Caelus, it says "he crossed blades with me". The former is a reference to her Nameless friend Frebass, mentioned in the new relic set Pioneer Diver of Dead Waters. Not sure about the other guy. These could also be taken as parallels to HI3 between Mei and Kiana/Kevin.

Her red text questions are so fucking wack, y'all. Inception reference: Would you wish to stay in the dream world? Elio/player meta: Would you wish to keep going, even if you knew how this story/game would/might end? Fourth wall break meta: Do you remember her?

Anyways, she does seem to be able to notice the different branches of time from different dialogue options; "countless versions of you[...] gave entirely different responses".

She tells us "in that monochrome world, there will be a glimpse of fleeting red, and when you make a choice, it will reappear before you once more..." The red, from what we can tell so far, is her red text. What we hear seems to change based on the choices/dialogue options we selected. If that's the red, then the monochrome world would be... the text you're reading? This really does remind me of ORV.

Then she kills Stelle. Well, not really. Death in a dream is one way to wake up from the dream in Inception, so that's Acheron's way of waking her up, huh.

Acheron looks like she's crying blood-tainted tears. And her eye looks kind of like the void in White Night, too...

Okay, Stelle goes with March to the front desk, and we remember meeting Misha. So what's that all about? We didn't forget jack shit.

March calls out to us, and she doesn't make any acknowledgement of Misha, which is out of character for her. If she saw we were chatting up a new friend, I get the impression she'd try to introduce herself. But she doesn't. Isn't that interesting?

#honkai: star rail #hsr #ringing forward #journal on penacony #penacony spoilers #every time I have to think about the text/camera as meta #I get orv flashbacks #the grip that story has on me is something I'm stuck with

[mi-spark]

i got my first tattoo and look what it is :3

i’m so happy with it!!! it was done by my friend @nicoyotl.ink on instagram 🥺 if you’re in their area, i really recommend booking an appointment with them <3

and here is the reference i provided!

i found it here on tumblr, however i forgot which account i saved it from— i’ve had this image saved since 2019– but i do remember that it was free to use. if anyone recognizes the source pls lmk! EDIT: THANK YOU @/infernape, it came from nimarts!

eventually i want to get the extra stuff around the gear but for now i wanted to start out small <3

#pmd #explorers #i’m looking forward to getting another!! #you know what could be cool #a magnagate ring tattoo #that’d be kinda subtle tho #posting

[stealthywing]

"See you in the UK" 🥰🥰🥰

#Kris is definitely looking forward to this trip more than the rest of the guys #Kris also has a ring on his finger #khihi #he's very exited #hes so sweet #cuties #joker out #joker out tour #see you soon tour #kris guštin #jan peteh #jure maček

[originalaccountname]

#(one fic i remember had dazai really eager to handcuff chuuya but chuuya just kept breaking them and doing whatever he wanted anyway#(so dazai was going for more and more heavy duty restraints it was absolutely ridiculous)#(bro just give up you're gonna break the bedframe at one point)

do. do you still have this fic..... this sounds like peak comedy for my silly little brain

I read that like 2 years ago I have NO way of tracking it down now, sorry 🫡 I remember it being short, the POV being Dazai, and the focus being on Dazai trying to figure out how to make it work, with very little actual sexy content, so there's a solid chance it's an M rating and not an E one.

#if it rings a bell for anyone do come forward #bsd #bungou stray dogs #skk #soukoku #ask answered #apparently i talk sometimes #suggestive

[saurons-pr-department]

An interesting find in the bookshop today 👀

#even got a discount 'cause the cover is damaged #i'm planning to read some non-tolkien once i'm done morgoth's ring #but i'll be looking forward to getting to this

[whyyouacknsocraycray]

The curse of playing Sekiro before Elden Ring is that Sekiro's combat is way more satisfying. Wolf fights in a way that shows his skill and punishes the opponent. He'd earn the title of Elden Lord (not that he'd ever accept lol) but my tarnished is just rolling to sort of victory. Maybe that's the point. Maybe no one deserves to be Elden Lord and we are all just scrambling to pick up the shards (hehe get it) of a broken kingdom that shouldn't exist.

#do i look up how to get a “bad” ending because that's what i feel like should happen #or do i just continue forward and make selfish destructive choices #i guess that's what ng+ is for haha doing the ending you want rather than the one that just happens #elden ring