#scroll delivered

[idliketobeatree]

my only resolution for 2024 is to count the times I've been caught unaware of some important information and only learned it from that Castiel saying "I love you" meme

#so far its been 2 times this year #supernatural #spn #castiel #dean #destiel #marcela talks #destiel news #confession scene #its been three years. and its still working #when you just scroll through this hellsite and actually get world events hand-delivered by a clown

[aedyre]

to be honest, the biggest issue with eso’s writing, and one i really hope they finally address and get their heads out of their asses over, is how badly integrated the main character has become into the story ever since they switched to their chronological nightmare philosophy of “everything can happen at any time”.

compare how much more grounded the pc feels in the alliance stories and main story vs the xpacs, where it is becoming increasingly more egregious how you’re treated as just a random mercenary/adventurer/what have you because you might be doing stories out of (release) order... meanwhile you may have beaten molag bal in single combat, ruined the plans of the daedric triad and saved summerset and vvardenfell, stopped a dragon invasion as well as the gray host returned and beat back mehrunes dagon into oblivion twice. and that on top of everything you do in the alliance stories.

and then you get to high isle and... are once again Random Adventurer #1534, with lady arabelle saying you’re “on retainer” and pretending she hired you (???), like you aren’t an eye of the queen/the king’s arrow/emeric’s champion, and close friends with the alliance leaders, and very likely involving yourself with the situation for that reason.

this works if you are still Random Adventurer #1534 because in the utter confusion that is starting eso these days, you started with the peace talks instead of the alliance stories (despite anyone who does that being able to clearly tell that they played out of chronological order, no matter what zos says), but if you actually played the story in order? no amount of “hello my friend :)” or random side characters from side quests you may or may not have completely forgotten about will fix the vast sense of disconnect created by who you are supposed to be, and who you are treated as.

the alliance stories don’t do that. the alliance stories build up over each zone, creating an actual narrative, with your character at the center. the dc will even pull the main story into it with the repeated references to your soulless status. as a result, the alliance stories make for a much more cohesive and enjoyable story experience, despite the fact that i think the writing quality in some of the xpacs and dlc is vastly improved over the vanilla content. admittedly not high isle’s though, that one is a lost cause either way. at least ayrenn and emeric got fancy new looks???

#eso #elder scrolls online #that's not even getting into how awkward cadwell's silver and gold make it #which is weird because i think jorunn treated me as ayrenn's champion in the greymorr epilogue?? #and that was wayyyy after i did silver on lanny #meanwhile all three think i'm their champion in high isle and lanny is like <.< #also i know a lot of people hated blackwood because of eveli #but i'll take eveli being overly cheerful for the situation at hand over arabelle getting constantly hyped but never delivering #jules.txt

[vesrimm]

The Sleepers

AKA The Narrative has become aware of you but you are not currently aware of it.

#nerevarine oc #nerevarine #morrowind #morrowind oc #vayeth just wants to deliver some notes and have one of their worst dreams in months. stop talking. #tes #the elder scrolls

[procrastiel]

have you ever wanted something so bad you throw all responsibilities out the window and frustratedly scroll through tumblr for hours

#because I have #and I do #ugh #the want is strong #yes #obviously this is about #good omens #why were you even questioning it #gdi #ineffable husbands #insatiable #crowzi #tumblr #doom scrolling #am i glad the #good omens fandom #delivers so expertly

[thesherrinfordfacility]

okay yes unknown/nth is distressingly husbands-coded i won't deny it but why the fck are we sleeping on heavenly kind of state of mind by lewis capaldi

#good omens #ineffable husbands #crowley #aziraphale #yes unknown is beautiful and haunting and makes me feel things™ but #the sheer amount of theological themes in that song is breathtaking and i will defend it to my dying day #aka 28th july then yall can do whatever the fuck you like #i actually did an edit of the boys to that song and its probably one of the most beaut things ive ever done (shameless plug) #scroll through its under the ineffable husbands tag #lets just say i prefer an upbeat number and lewis fucking delivers #gomens... shitpost? idk

[riftdancing]

🖊 BLONK VAINHERO

I wanna talk about Judas Slevin.

Because after those screenshots* I posted last night, I want to get into some of the backstory behind them, and the ones yet to come. But abstractly, that means I want to write about Blink. So your wish is my command!! (lol)

* Part One | Part Two <- Screenshot URLs

[ TRIGGER WARNING ] - Death, Domestic Violence/Abuse, Stockholm Syndrome

Blink and Judas share an incredibly complicated past. I've written about it here from Blink's POV a little bit, but it doesn't really fill in a lot of the deep plot points between these two. Judas is an incredibly important character in Blink's character development as he is a large reason why she is the woman she is today.

Judas Slevin was Dominic (Blink's Father) Vaniro's right hand man. His hound so to speak. While Blink was growing up (think teenage years), Dominic had appointed Das as the 1st Mate of the Harbingers. There are some complications here, though, as Das always had feelings for Blink's mother, Saeva. In fact, in the past, the pair of them had some off and on flings before Dominic became prominent in Saeva's life. Despite his infatuations, Das knew and accepted he was out of the picture with Saeva when the two married, but continued to support Dominic as his Captain.

While in her teen years, Blink was already aiding the crew with her piloting skills, but practically being sky-pirate royalty, at this age Blink was a bit of a spoiled brat. When she wasn't helping, she was causing problems. While she aimed most of those problems at her Father in a plea for attention, unfortunately most of the clean up boiled down to Das and it didn't help that Blink happened to be the spitting image of her mother.

To say that animosity developed between the two early on, would be an understatement. Blink was tallying Das' frustrations many years before reaping some of his punishments for her crimes(not that the punishments are justified).

So when Blink became of age and fell in love with another pirate from a rival crew and tried to secretly elope with him... you can start to imagine how ugly things got. When Dominic found out about his Daughter's betrayal, he lost the last sense of stability he had. Blink, for all intensive purposes, was the one he had hoped to entrust the Harbingers to one day. The person he had started to groom towards eventual captaincy, even if she had a long ways to go. ...Then she went and broke the two rules you don't break as a Harbinger. She tried to run away, and she tried to marry a rival.

Irate, hurt, and bitter he sent his hound to hunt both Blink and her groom to be down, and Das found them with ease. Donny was killed in cold blood on the roof of his airship in front of Blink whilst claiming he would defend her. But against Das' battle prowess, he never stood a chance. Das, forcing Blink to watch, would toss his bloodied corpse off the side of the ship before dragging Blink back to her Father for judgement.

This was the turning point in her life. Up until this point Blink's life had been relatively easy. She grew up spoilt. And with this one poor choice, she lost all the comfort she'd had.

First and foremost, her Father disowned her, and once his judgement was cast she would lose her freedom and be given to Das as a reward for his loyalty. Dominic was also hellbent on making sure she would never see the inside of another airship cockpit again.

It is unfortunate for Blink, Das wanted nothing to do with her at this point. He was so fed up with her previous bullshit that she was one of the last people he wanted in his care. Bitter about her past actions and reminded frequently of her Mother, Das started by taking his frustrations out on Blink.

Highly confrontational, the pair often got into fights which resulted in violence. Most notably Das pistol whipping Blink on more than one occasion, which is also how she got that nasty little scar across the bridge of her nose.

However, after a while, Das came to a decision. Frustrated with Blink's inability to heed him, and further more enraged by her sass and backtalking Das got it in his head that if she were to be such a nuisance he would at least make her a useful one.

He would teach her how to clean every weapon he owned. Then once she had mastered that, he would teach her how to use them. He was strict, rough, and incredibly hard on her... but over time this proved to give them both purpose. Surprisingly, Blink responded favorably to his teaching... though not right away. It wasn't without a few ass kickings and some hard taught lessons that Blink started to value the knowledge Das was imparting upon her.

Meanwhile, Dominic's hold over the Harbingers had begun to weaken. Driven to partial madness, he had begun to make poor decisions which would eventually lead to his downfall. While in the past Dominic had been a reasonably fair and good Captain to his crew, since his Daughter's betrayal his requests had grown more and more vain. It was becoming clear to both Das and the crew Dominic was starting to lose his touch.

The choice to give Blink to Das never sat well with Das either. Despite the animosity he harbored for the girl early on, she had not deserved the fate her Father had bestowed upon her. Blink and Das bonded over this ideal.

As her writer, I will make it clear there is a bit of Stockholm syndrome woven into this portion of Blink's story. Despite that, Blink and Das did eventually grow to have legitimate feelings for one another and the more Das grew to care for Blink, the more he wanted to set her free.

So he challenged her Father for his captaincy. Harbinger law stated it would be a duel to the death. Das and Dominic scrapped hard, and in the end it came down to Das dealing the final blow. ...But at Blink's behest Dominic was spared, allowed to find life elsewhere and live on. Thus, Judas became Captain of the Harbingers and appropriately instated Blink as his first mate.

In a way, Blink became Das' protégé. He taught her how to be the haunting ghostly hound everyone feared him to be. ...And that was his life's work, his love, passed on to her.

For a short spell, things were good for the Harbingers after that. Das was a good Captain and Blink was an excellent first mate as his side. Some say she even thrived in that position. But unfortunately for the pair, there was trouble in paradise.

Remember what I said about Dominic wanting to leave his Captaincy to Blink? Well unfortunately, her older Brother (Skorn), thought he was owed that inheritance. With an ego the size of Eorzea itself, he'd sat in the position of Navigator for too long. Skorn was hungry for power and Das was growing increasingly more aware of the problem Skorn would become.

Das knew Skorn would eventually challenge him for Captaincy, and while he was mostly certain he would win that battle, Das was always prepared for the other out come. He spent the last few months making sure Blink was prepared. That he had bestowed every ounce of knowledge he could into the girl.

And then Skorn challenged him.

And then Blink watched Das lose his life to her Brother's poisoned blade.

Despite her Brother offering to shelter Blink in the Harbingers still, she would not sit for this.

So for six long years, Blink dropped entirely off the radar.

And she resurfaced only when she had enlisted, cold and bitter, with the Garlean Empire to further hone her battle prowess...

And that my friends, is the first ark of Blink's origin story.

The Harbinger ark.

Crazy to think about how all of this was roleplayed out almost two decades ago. All of the characters in this story were played by real actors.

Blink's character has come such an incredibly long way.

I look forward to exposing the rest of that journey to those of you here who have come this far and are still willing to read. But that's a story for another day.

#riftdancing - writing #character - blink vaniro #The platonic love of my life asks and I shall deliver #It's all under the cut because its LONG and I didn't want people to have to scroll for ever lol #riftdancing - answers

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Avarenya, stumbling into Weynon Priory with the Amulet of Kings in her pocket: Brother Jauffre, may I?

Jauffre: Oh no! Not here please! Come to my office tomorrow morning. We'll do everything businesslike.

Avarenya: . . . I'll be there at six!

Jauffre: I'll be there at ten.

#and when he finds out why she wanted to meet with him he will hit the roof #and then he will put the amulet in his sock drawer #jauffre #weynon priory #oc: avarenya #hero of kvatch #amulet of kings #deliver the amulet #nerevar queue and star #incorrect quotes #incorrect elder scrolls #incorrect oblivion quotes #tes #the elder scrolls #Oblivion #the elder scrolls iv: oblivion #source: casablanca

[headphonemouse]

Orv adaptations mean official soundtracks and theme songs. Omg. I'm so excited omg there's gonna be so many other storytelling elements that are only possible through movie/show format.

#orv #sometimes an adaptation can fall short on delivering the major themes of a story but some good things just come with the territory like #music and being able to hear important lines spoken aloud and actions scenes will be easier to parse #i actually really dislike action sequences so reading them in the novel/scrolling through them in the manhwa is frustrating #i dont know which lines are skippable action words and which lines are important context #but in shows they have the important stuff voiced over the fight happening onscreen

[canadiangold]

It's 3am I can't sleep and I'm thinking about that weird last paragraph from The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell

#keep scrolling #i really am a fucken English major eh? #when i read it in high school that weirdly abrupt ending didn't make sense but now I'm like it's the only ending that does #the story was over by that point. the themes had been explored the concept delivered #a fight scene like what we probably expected would have done nothing but waste space #like. do you get me? the actual flight didn't matter so he just left it out. the winner was all we needed to know #i love fluff as long as it. y'know. does its job #but a short story like that? no time. no reason for it

[trans-xianxian]

my doors in my new bedroom are actually Barn Doors that do not have real doors on them at the moment and it's just like. corrugated plastic that I just Know the bunnies will find a way to bust out of so I have to purchase actual doors and there's something that feels very mature about buying a door. like ah yes the adult activity of purchasing hardware for a house

#scrolling through doors on amazon as if I know anything about what makes a good door #also something comical about having a door delivered? #ghost posts #text

[rox-of-iu]

book depository closing down. no nice things allowed.

#i cannot express enough just how much this upsets me #that was the only way for me to get books at affordable price thanks to the free shipping #because the prices here on overseas and indie books are pretty jacked up and the shipping from other websites is also very painful #so no winning #and we're not even mentioning that some books you just cant get here anyway #man im so sad actually heartbroken #they also delivered super fast the catalogue is expansive and the website overall was nice #man im glad i had the chance to pre-order my s/vsss special edition because without book depository i wouldnt had the chance at all #again. no way to get it here and the shipping from other website would make it very unreasonable monetary decision #with how our currency is holding up against others #oh well #guess ill just order t/housand autumns while i still have the chance :( #and light a candle for it #also fpr context i briefly looked why theyre closing and apparently they were bought by amazon in 2011 and now they are making cuts #so bd took the hit #edit. scrolled through the bd tag and seeing other non US/UK ppl heartbroken over it really hits o(-( #saying theyll order a lot now because they most likely wont order books online after that because the shipping just is so much pain #and yea that really do be it huh. man... #like ok i know theres maybe some other website out there that could work out well enough #but this was THE place #good prices and guarantee of quality with how big and long standing it was

[dragonknightofsummerset]

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#the elder scrolls online #eso #elam drals #why did I like how he delivered the last line in the 3rd screenshot

[bugdogg]

i really dont wanna go tomorrow, but ik i should

im trying hard to keep my energy but im tired a lot, idk how people manage having shit going on 5 days a week

im hopeful it'll get easier but for now im just stressed and tired wagh

#i hate being like this #i shouldnt have stayed up so late but idk #i felt motivation in the moment #added music to my blogs and drew that cute Frye #ill be okay #i can manage #i hope i get my phone delivered soon #it'd make it easier to lay in bed and rest #ik scrolling isnt good for some but its the only way i can get myself to stay down #alright shower time #and probably good night #byebye

[goji-pilled]

Talking about human Walpurgis activates my art brain. Behold!

YES FUCK YES THATS GREAT,,,

#felix answers #your honour i LOVE HER #YOU NEVER FAIL TO DELIVER BANGERS!!! #pmmm #so that everyone who scrolls through the blog may see her #domestic witches

[orchidopium]

I’m sorry but have you ever been left on delivered and started respecting them more for choosing to protect their peace, like, good for them, I get it 

#just scrolled past it i've been on delivered for 2 months lmaoo

[99probalos]

terfs keep liking my art. maybe i should just mail shitty printer paper versions of my sketches out to my mutuals to save myself the trouble of seeing "i-hate-those-transgenders liked your post!" pop up on my phone

#im so fucking tired of it all #maybe i should start a mailing service. you too could get attaboyart's fucking. ancient painting scrolls delivered to your front door #im jusy. fucking. jesus #one thing they dont tell u about being a trans rlm fan. It gets rough sometimes #and this is Not just in relation to the nasties in the fanbase. looks at mikes shitty Buh Bwuh Woke Twitter jokes #whatever. whatever ignore me #bigfoot took the wheel