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I found it from the nintendo dream magazine in Japan(japanese magazine)XD Therius and Asthar’s Initial setting.

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Hero's Spirit

yes I'm very emo about the Hero of Time and I still think about him meeting the Hero of Twilight to this day :') ♥ I'm on twitter / instagram

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Everything Has To End

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Temples are built for gods. Knowing this a farmer builds a small temple to see what kind of god turns up.

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Very much spoilery for Chapter 5, so read no further if you still haven’t finished the game. My Other!Bendy AU was an exercise in me finding out how much I like writing out AU ideas in not-story format, so here’s another one. It’s ‘canon’ with the loop, but I’ve put a much happier, more hopeful spin on things. Enjoy!

It only takes a dozen loops or so before Henry realizes what’s going on. He has to relive his journey through the depths of the studio, no matter how long it takes or how much he tries to change his fate. He’s trapped, always forced forward and down. 

It only takes another time or two for him to realize that the other players in this game of Joey’s that they’ve all been forced into are catching on as well. Their scripts start to change, they hesitate and falter, and they are confused and lost and afraid. 

Henry—whatever or whoever he might be—cares. He’s gotten to know the characters he used to draw, he’s become reacquainted with the toons his old friends became, he sees the way Bendy flinches at the sight of the The End tape. And he will not stand for it.

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Barbara Gordon and Cassandra Cain: Swan Song to a Dream 

To all my freinds and the athelets whose careeres changed course due to injury. To everyone who has ever watched their dreams set sail for the promised land without them. And to everyone who put thier own pain aside to make a difference for someone else.

I just want to encourage you not to give up. If you can’t be Batgirl, be Oracle. Your dreams, your passion, and your skills matter. Please, share them with this world because we need YOU. You are irreplacable. So invent. Dance. Teach. Direct. Currate. Produce. Keep going my Luvs. I belive in you. 

‘Ravel, Peices for the Left Hand’

https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/1357/concerto-for-the-left-hand

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I don't know if this is already been talked about or not, but I realized a day ago that in some gifs of FO it looked like Cal has a faint scar on the left side of his neck, but I figured it might also be a weird shadow effect. Thing was is that it was always in the same spot and on the same side. I went to try and find proof that it isn't just shadowing. Today I found some good quality photos that seem to confirm my suspicions that he does in fact have a neck scar.

I NEED to know how he got all of his scars aside from the blaster scar! Did he get in some scraps? Are they work accident scars from Bracca? Why design a character with multiple facial scars and not let us know the backstory behind them all!

At least some of the screenshot credit goes to @liderfin I don't remember where else I found these, they may also have been from you. If anyone else took any of the others let me know and I'll edit the post to credit

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appreciate fanfic writers !!

what they write is the hardest thing to write. not fantasy, or poetry, or sci-fi. this shit is tough. here’s why.

- they have to memorize the universe and environment and setting of the place they’re writing about. they have to know how life functions there. - they need to always make sure there’s an equal amount of dialogue and detail and action so the reader is interested in all aspects. - they need to know the style of the world/characters and how it’s expressed. how life is directed and perceived. - they have to update this shit VERY OFTEN. they’ve got people reading it and wanting more, constantly, so it’s hard work. - THEIR ONLY SOLID FORM OF MOTIVATION IS THE APPRECIATION THEY RECEIVE !! these people don’t get paid for their stories. they know their writing won’t be features as a New York Times bestseller or make them famous. THEY. WORK. OFF. OF. ENCOURAGEMENT. ONLY. simple comments and likes. you gotta be pretty determined to do that. - THEY NEED TO MEMORIZE EVERY CHARACTER. THEY MUST KNOW THE DARKNESS OF THE CHARACTER’s SOUL. THEY MUST KNOW THEIR BRAIN FUNCTIONS S O W E L L THAT THEY CAN STICK THE CHARACTER IN A SITUATION AND CREATE A PERFECTLY REALISTIC RESPONSE THAT INCLUDES EMOTION, THOUGHT, AND PERCEPTION. THEY MUST KNOW THE CHARACTER AS WELL AS THE AUTHOR OR CREATOR.

one last little note: with authors, always give them encouragement. constructive criticism is good but positive comments are crucial. even if you don’t like the piece, give them something nice! it’s what they need and thrive on so they don’t give up.

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on the topic of humans being the intergalactic “hold my beer” species: imagine an alien stepping onto a human starship and seeing a space roomba™ with a knife duct taped onto it, just wandering around the ship

it doesn’t have any special intelligence. it’s just a normal space roomba. there are other space roombas on the ship and they don’t have knives. it’s just this one. knife space roomba has full clearance to every room in the ship. occasionally crew members will be talking and then suddenly swear and clutch their ankle. knife space roomba putters off, leaving them to their mild stab wounds.

“what is the point?” asks the alien as another crew member casually steps over the knife-wielding robot. “is it to test your speed and agility?”

“no it doesn’t really go that fast,” replies the captain.

“does it teach you to stay ever-vigilant?”

“I mean I guess so but that’s more of a side effect.”

“does it weed out the weak? does it protect you from invaders? do repeated stabbings let your species heal more quickly in the future?”

“it doesn’t stab very hard, it gets us more than it gets our enemies, and no, but that sounds cool — someone write that down.”

“but then what is its purpose?”

“I don’t know,” the captain says, leaning down to give the space roomba an affectionate pat. “it just seemed cool”

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BUCKLE UP FOLKS YOU ASKED FOR IT 

NOTE: THESE OPTIONS ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE YOU ONLY GET ONE bc the trick of paring QT down into a play (a single play bc sequel plays don’t Work) is to pick onE storyline and cut it to about three hours max you can’t do that with the thief (it’s a tv show anyway) and you can’t do it with conspiracy or with TAT (basically any of the travel heavy ones are out) so you’re left with: 

OPTION ONE: THE QUEEN OF ATTOLIA (this one was my gf’s idea it’s Brilliant but it is not the option i choose i’m getting there)

QoA is a play, portrayed as Serious Drama. The play opens on a quaint little library and consists of several different Eddisian nobles, mostly the queen and the minister of war, pacing and talking about how much Trouble the thief of Eddis is when he gets back and explaining what the devil is going on, scene ends with a messenger coming in with a letter from Attolia

Eugenides is not in this scene

Scene two: Eddis returns with more nobles and more Worrying, in the council chambers this time, as they discuss options for what to do about the evil spiteful awful queen of attolia and how she has stolen and Ruined their precious thief scene ends when a messenger arrives telling them the thief has been returned at last. Eugenides is not in this scene. 

You may be detecting a pattern and you would be Correct Eugenides is Not in this Act

The rest of the act takes place in Eugenides’ library. The library itself stays p busy with people drifting in and out, talking in whispered voices about the state of the war and the worry the queen is in. The queen comes in and rages about the queen of attolia, about the war, about sounis, about the medes. Plots are sketched and abandoned. Screaming, glass shattering, metal hitting the floor, various other things can be heard from the other side of the door that stays firmly shut, guarding the broken thief from the cruel world outside. The world we see. It’s a tense, tight political drama with at most two different settings and a tension buzzing through the actors that makes the whole thing feel stuffy, claustrophobic, panicky. It becomes clear by the end of the act there are Few Options, and none of them are good for Eddis. 

In the last scene of the act, when the viewer is all but sure they’re Never going to see this mysterious thief that has caused so much chaos, the minister of war meets with Eddis in the library. “He’s quiet today,” she says to the boy’s father, who shakes his head and responds “he’s not in. He thought he would try praying. He’s been close to the gods since–” and the door opens. Not the door to his bedroom, the door to the library, and in walks Eugenides in all his misery. “I have been given a Message from the Gods,” he says in a hollow, broken voice, the stump of that was his hand on plain display. “Stop whining.” They talk, cautiously, telling him of wars and rumors of wars. He speaks of the queen, of his time in prison, of the queen again. In the end he knows what he has to do. 

Intermission. 

Act Two: Sounis’ ships are burning in the harbor. The magus is stolen from his bed. Eugenides is in this scene. 

The Eddisian council meets once more to discuss the turning tide. Eugenides is in this scene. 

The Queen of Attolia, on stage for the first time, discusses her own options with Nahuseresh, but something doesn’t seem right about the whole thing. When Nahuseresh leaves, Attolia speaks to Relius about what truly needs to happen. Eugenides is in this scene. 

For all his conspicuous absence from the first act, Eugenides is everywhere in act two. He is omnipresent, visible, obvious, in the background, in the foreground, in costume, his hook glinting in the bright stage lights. Was he there in the book? It doesn’t matter he’s there now, he sees all, he is everywhere and nowhere, through political machinations and Attolia’s perceived madness and the building of wooden cannon and Eddis’ impossible decisions. 

He meets Attolia in a little row boat, before you make a decision, i want you to know i love you, diplomacy in my own name, the gods betrayed you, what would you have given to save attolia? The curtain closes on Attolis and Attolia, next to each other, standing shoulder to shoulder, crowns on their heads held high and proud and grim, as all the other characters melt into the background. 

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OPTION TWO: KING OF ATTOLIA: THE HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL (and this idea is mine so it’s a looooooong one warning you now)

WE OPEN with a huge ensemble cast song of heckin course in which all of Attolia COMPLAINS about this HUGE PAIN in their COLLECTIVE BUTTS, telling the story of how the thief of eddis DECEITFULLY and WRONGLY kidNAPPED their prECIOUS QUEEN who may have been bloodthirsty and barbaric but who careS she was ouR queen and she’s beAUTIFUL and we loVE her and we hATE the king who forCED her to marry him bOO to the king doWN with the king we hATE him he’s TERRIBLE and the song ends with Aris comes sprinting on stage, disrupting all the singers and sending the song to a skittering halt bc guys!!!! 

Costis punched the king!!! 

To which there is suddenly a lot of Whispered Talking about oh nO costis is so niCE and now he’s gonna diE bc he punCHED the kinG also what did the king do this time–inSULTed teleus no heckin wonDER costis punched him but still v tragic cut to scene 2 Costis in his cell, pacing, sitting, standing, pacing again, and there’s a knock at the door. It’s the king of attolia, approaching from Stage Right, a bottle of wine tucked under his arm and two cups in his one visible hand. Costis lets him in. The king sets the wine on the table. He lifts his right hand–no. It’s a hook, the audience can see for the first time. The King of Attolia is missing his right hand. 

The song neglected to mention that. There’s lots these songs neglect to mention plot twist Nobody talks about How the King lost that Hand it is a Forbidden Topic 

There is no song when the king tells costis he’s being promoted, only a stuff uncomfortable silence whenever the king is not speaking. Toward the end of the scene in strides Attolia asking if Attolis has decided whether to hang costis or behead him. Attolis answers neither, costis will be promoted, and Attolia makes a noise of disgust and leaves. 

A few songs follow as Costis settles into his new position and since this whole narrative is filtered through his eyes, the audience is lead to believe all the things about attolis from the first song are true. He dresses like a peacock, he has no dignity, he’s spiteful with his servants, he makes costis do stupid things. The queen pulls Costis aside and asks him to Keep an Eye on the King for her, to report back to her occasionally. He assumes the queen will one day do away with this idiot king and he is surprisingly conflicted about that. He gets his I Want song, which is mostly just “I Want This Stupid King To Leave Me Alone” lol. 

Another important note: One of the songs is a council song that’s v political and it’s mainly during this song that we learn 1) the king is a v good singer so what was the deal with people complaining about his voice/speech/accent in that first song, and 2) Oh, that’s it, the king can’t rhyme. Attolian formal speech (sung, in this case bc Holy Musical Batman) is traditional broadway style meter and end rhyme. Eddisian formal speech has internal rhyme, has specific meters and important in-meter repetition, but no end rhyme. When Attolis sings, he Never rhymes, although you can see him Trying, actively trying so hard and only getting as far as slant rhyme which makes everyone involved Wince terribly bc Ugh That Accent, This Stupid Backward Eddisian Goat. Attolis and Attolia as of yet have no duet, but they meet in hallways sometimes and greet each other in song and it’s awkward and weighted and Short. Attolis has a lovely I Want song in which he locks all of his attendants out of his room and sings to himself (while costis is Right There, Sir) how homesick he is, and how much he misses Eddis and his freedom. It’s v sad. Attolia also has a solo during the council scene, which is also short, her time is coming i swear

THE KING’S WEDDING NIGHT is a bawdy awful song and an Absolute Bop and dite is terribly proud of himself and everyone’s humming it on and off for the rest of the act. It makes gen horrifically mopey which makes costis’ head hurt but the king is starting to grow on him. like a fungus. after all he sang that really sad song about how much This Sucks and yeah, fair, everybody’s putting stuff in his food and bed and crap and Maybe if we were Nicer to him he wouldn’t seem so Awful (all of the guards make fun of him for this). There is a short “lilies i rule, heads you do” scene that takes place during another short council scene right before The Dinner of the Fateful Dance, and during that council scene Attolis doesn’t even Try to Rhyme and people keep interrupting the council song to hum The King’s Wedding Night and he gets visibly more and more agitated as the coin keeps flipping and the song keeps playing and he leaves in a huff. Attolia tells him as he stalks off that he Has to attend dinner and during dinner he Forces (!!!) the queen to dance with him to a lovely instrumental song, which seems to play first in slow motion while Phriesine sings of Attolia’s backstory, of her first marriage, of the importance of the king’s humor when the queen offers him her wine. Suddenly the song speeds up, and the queen’s hair tumbles past her shoulders, and she’s smiling, why is she smiling? Costis blinks as the king gives her back her hair pins. That was certainly telling, but only if you’re paying attention. 

Act One ends with Costis on his day off with a sense of unease, until he passes some guards who are struggling to put away the dogs and suddenly he knows! and he takes off running!!! bc where is the king!!!!!

Act Two opens with Costis desperately singing a prayer (Ten Golden Cups) as he runs and arriving in the garden just in time to see the king easily dispatch the second to last assassin. The third is apprehended as the rest of the court arrives, assuming Costis has done the deed. The assassin is questioned furiously with the king leaning against costis and he spits furious vitriol about the king, the same things everyone was singing about at the beginning but with more bitterness, and ends with “The queen should have kILLED you when she cUT OFF YOUR HAND!!!!” and if there are enough nonfans in the audience and if the actors are doing their job right it should feel like all the air has been sucked out of the room bc you don’t taLK about that!!! the queen arrives then and attolis kisses her and presses his forehead to her shoulder and suddenly everyone is rhyming as the royals are rushed up to the queen’s chambers. The king is put on a bed, spewing blood. The queen faints, the king is Distraught, everyone is shoved out of the room. Attolia is left alone with Costis outside the room and she Sings. It’s a short song, and mostly is Extremely Angery about the assassination attempt in her Own Garden in her Own Court to her Own King. When they’re let back in in the next scene it’s Duet Time Babey!!!!! Attolis and Attolia sing together about their relationship and their Love and their past and their present and how they’ve learned to step past it all and costis watches, feeling like an outsider but also So Stunned. He tells the king about the cups and the king swears they will be there

From here things start happening Very Quickly, It Seems. The king is ill. The queen is singing more often. The queen of eddis comes to visit, not just the king’s cousins as in the book. Unfortunately we have to cut out the part where sophos goes missing bc sophos can’t exist in this universe he adds too many variables we get one (1) storyline and we can’t mess this up. The king speaks with Relius and that’s Scary. There’s another ensemble song during which Costis is the only one to defend the king and he is Uncomfortable when the king’s wedding night motif plays again. And Then the king Destroys the house of Erondites and the queen has relius thrown in jail (also during that time the queen has a vicious, terrifying, short solo that’s more like a temper tantrum and a panic attack rolled into one and the king Soothes her) When the king is Destroying that baron’s house?? 

he rhymes. 

Perfectly, flawlessly, he rhymes. He matches Attolian cadence note for note, word for word, and then he folds Eddisian repetition and internal rhyme into the mix. Attolia joins in, her own musical style rising up to meet his. The exchange lines, ending each other’s rhymes, Attolia ends up using more Eddisian themes than even he does. He proves he could do it all along, he just didn’t want to, and now he proves he doesn’t have to by ending that proclamation in a purely Eddisian way. And the next scene? Relius. Attolis. The dungeon. The King’s Wedding Night: Reprise. Perhaps the most terrifying reprise ever written. And in the end, he lets him go. And Relius returns to Attolia and once again begs her forgiveness and Attolia gets her own terrifying, heartbreaking solo, and in this one? she uses Eddisian cant and Attolis isn’t even in the room. She forgives him in a blend of Eddisian and Attolian that becomes it’s own musical language, and the only one used by the royals for the rest of the show. 

Does that sound like the end? because it’s noT guess who haven’t had a duet yet!!!! it’s Attolis and Costis time!!!!! the attendants wake costis bc the king is drunk on a rooftop and he is supposed to Fetch the king. Costis learns to speak the language the king and queen have already been speaking to each other, and the king declares he has work for costis to do. And yeS the king slips, and tumbles, and falls–until it’s clear he can’t catch himself, his foot is off the parapet–and he flails and Something catches him, and pushes him gently back up, and a gentle rich chuckle fills the stage as the voice of a god says “go to bed, Eugenides.” Eugenides and Costis stare at each other, wide eyed, terrified. “The gods really do speak to you,” Costis whispers and Attolis confirms it and a Vow is made, “will you serve me and my gods for all your days?” In the end Costis agrees and asks him to come to sword practice tomorrow.

The final scene is fairly short, Attolis’ defeat of the guard and of Teleus and his being named Annux, and Attolia is there, and i actually am not sold on that as the actual ending, this scene could be moved before the rooftop or could be deleted altogether except we Need the annux line and i want attolia to be there ugh problems problems but either way the curtain closing song is an invocation of hephestia which, invocations should also feature bc i heckin love me an invocation song but that’s it that’s the play can u imagine these idiots singing in front of a live studio audience boy i die!!!!

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I just watched that Orym lore drop scene again (with my face inches from the screen like I could see Liam O’Brien’s micro-expressions more clearly that way) and god, he’s absolutely killing me. And I’ve seen a lot of people (myself included) being like: ‘we knew this was coming! we knew about the dead husband already! why does this HURT SO MUCH???’

So now I’m thinking about it.

And I think, going beyond the fact that Liam is on another level when it comes to portraying grief, and always has been, even with Vax, who arguably speaking had the least amount to grieve, this is because of who Orym is.

He’s just a guy. Liam’s said it out-of-character and Orym’s said it in-character. He’s just a guy. Just a little guy in a big world, doing his best. Despite, y’know, being a halfling from a magical society etc etc, he’s probably the most grounded of Liam’s characters. He grew up with a parent who loved him, in a safe place. He discovered his strengths and weaknesses as he grew up, and eventually pursued one of those strengths into a career.

And while he was growing up, he (presumably) had crushes, and dates, and ended up marrying one of them. Ended up marrying this half-elf named Will, who, by all accounts, was also just another guy who grew up there. And while they undoubtedly loved each other, and undoubtedly that relationship was special and important to them, people fall in love like that all the time. Every single day.

That’s what makes it so painful. They were just a couple of guys, living their lives, working their jobs, loving each other. It’s that everyday tragedy, of two people who loved each other, and that still wasn’t enough. It’s that horror that love isn’t always enough. That terrible, painful, awful things happen, and they’re completely out of your control.

The grief that Liam portrayed with Caleb was breath-taking, and traumatic, but under unique circumstances. This grief with Orym, is a grief that every single person knows, in one form or another. This grief is so easily relatable to. It’s a masterclass in subtlety. And it’s making me sob into my pillow because fuck you Liam O’Brien.

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something about orym being literally the ONLY PERSON IN EXANDRIA who knows the full story of what happened to laudna in whitestone is really getting to me. nobody else in the hells has any clue what happened with the briarwoods, and no one in vm knows about laudna. laudna heard something about vm, knew there was some commotion about finding them, but they were isolated on the edge of town, they didn’t know the extent. laudna doesn’t even know who she was a warning FOR.

that leaves orym, who heard, just on the basis of where he grew up, the horrible things the briarwoods did including the most iconic c1 moment, the sun tree, to be the one with all the pieces. “like a shock of lightning through your mind” is accurate matt, holy shit. orym who has definitely seen the lord and lady of whitestone, whether in person or in an image somewhere, to look at his new friend and have every piece of her he ever questioned just click into place. i can barely get my thoughts into words right now.

something about orym, who’s husband was collateral damage in an attack, finding out his new friend was beaten and strung up by the neck in a tree to be a warning to someone she might will never meet anything goes in c3. and looking at her and seeing her contagious positivity and joy in her spookiness, and then she says to him. she tells him, how could she not be happy? the worst thing that’s ever happened to her has already happened?

and on top of THAT liam knows she has delilah in her head. orym knows that one of the briarwoods talks to her in her head, but she also just brushed that off pretty quickly. so here’s orym, running from his own home and staying away from the place where his husband was killed, who has to reckon with the fact that his sweet, lovely, new friend laudna was not only murdered for nothing, but she has her killer In Her Head. Talking To Her.

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Moon 🌌🌑

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jin

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Couples receive “parent points”, which they can use to purchase their children. Most parents wait for a few thousand, but you chose to buy the cheaper, 100 point child.

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Who Killed Markiplier characters as John Mulaney quotes

Mark

Damien

Celine

DA

Abe

The Colonel

Benjamin

Chef

George