#*ARC; tbd

[enden-k]

also he looks so kittycat here, i need to eat him alive so fucking bad im gonna cry fr

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

Okay wait I’m suddenly 100% bought in on Moiraine and Siuan being Birgitte-Gaidal Cain style soulmates, meaning that Siuan is right now in TAR waiting for Moiraine. The promises of “in this life or the next” and “I’ll find you/I’ll wait for you every time” are not just about the cyclical turning of the wheel, but come from the fact that Moiraine and Siuan literally do this over and over and in between they wait together in TAR. Siuan is in TAR, she knows who Moiraine is, and now she just has to wait for her to return to her. Siuan Sanche does wait for only one woman, after all!

That reconciles Rafe’s comments about us seeing Siuan again (and maybe even the angel emoji??) and his comment that you can already tell how they set up their endgame, without it being reduced to flashbacks and a brief epilogue moment which feels really trite and glib and not meeting the moment. He also calls them soulmates in that Q&A 👀

Plus we’ve already seen them in dreams together. Siuan clearly has a connection to the dream world. Even their ter’angreal hut was a world of their own creation that they visited at night. The roles that they play in the narrative are roles that we need over and over if we are to defeat the dark - they are the instigation, the inspiration. They don’t just show us a beautiful love story of dedication and sacrifice, but they are the very water that turns the wheel and thus a cornerstone of every age.

[nullfier]

strange behaviour from the arcane fandom when a woman that has relations with another woman goes down a darker path and people condemn her whereas if she was a man in love with another man this would be lapppped up as “toxic yaoi”. please get a grip

[hirak0s]

Hot Cocoa for your Thoughts? (cont'd from here) || @kuurosakiis || Ayame & Ichigo

"Ya looked chilly out here in the autumn air!" She blinked after watching his reaction, trying to make her intentions clear. That... usually worked with people who were recovering from an injury who just woke up.

"Hmm!?" She blinked at the mention of her brother. "Oh, yeh, he's my cap'n an' my brother. Twin, specifically, if ya'd believe it." It wasn't like she knew this man other than, well, he did save the Seireitei once or twice and then she heard of him from Shinji. So she knew of him, but not personally.

"Um, I'm Ayame Hirako…" She'd introduce herself before bowing gently.

[psychic-master-will]

((More PokeSpe things:

Pryce should have never been forgiven, nor let back into the league after what he had done. Especially his treatment of the masked children, which I believe was/is implied to be abusive.

Then again, they pretty much redeemed Lance in the HGSS arc and let Will and Karen be elites.

My point still stands though.))

[v-arbellanaris]

in an attempt to recover from a bad depressive slump, im doing both a kotor 2 playthrough (i have not played the first game. u can blame @scrollofgrease for telling me to play the second game first) and an evadne playthrough. will update with blorbo details as soon as possible. and screenshots of evadne because she's so cute what the hell. i couldn't get the heterochromia mod to work </3 but she still looks good.

[mushroompollution]

hey guys I have a confession to make

I probably won't write a drabble to wrap this up bsjssjzjhwjwd

[murmursdraconic]

Preventing Murders one Retail Incident at a Time

[enden-k]

on the other hand, cant wait to see this grown ass man being a cute pouty loser again

[lingeringscars]

ben was doomed because the jury went in thinking he was guilty <3

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

i will say is seeing people unironically go 'gale's arc is about how bad he is at communicating' is just the funniest fucking thing i have read in my entire life and i haven't laughed that much at something since the early access conspiracy theories

[askfallenroyalty]

i love how that happened partly because of that but also i feel the trick to a good darkner design (for a "humanoid" one at least) there's a visual motif of darker faces. could it be a coincidence? probably. most likely.

but the idea is that the eyes are obscured OR they have a shadow face.

ain't nobody got normal white scalea eyes here!!! (excluding the shadow faces.)

Ralsei seems more, idk, lightner like in his second form. i don't count him.

anotehr detail, and again it could be a coincidence, is they have black on their design. (or dark enough to substitute as black, as in Rouxls Kaard's case.)

see they... blend in a little bit. ._. not a lot. i think it's my reluctance to use straight black outlines that help them stand out too much. and Forget-me-not King is a bit too detailed.

but past that! they kinda fit, design wise at least

[dethrite]

im giving Emmrich a black butler verse. Either a Victorian era botanist, doctor, or a reaper (which would be very interesting to explore as a concept!)

[deiscension]

Will you guys still like me if I put a pause on my 'very little activity for the week' mandate to post part of my thesis on writing Shi Qingxuan from a gothic horror lens. I have a lot to say about it.

[recitedemise]

When people remain so hard on Gale for 'still talking' about Mystra, it's just.....ohhh boy. Of all the main cast, Gale's definitely one (alongside Wyll) whose relationship with their authority figure, abuser, manipulator, keeper, however you want to call them, is routinely discredited. Their abuses aren't digestible enough. Isn't 'sympathetic' enough. Shadowheart and Astarion have clear overbearing abusers with exceedingly evil personalities. It's apparently 'easier' for some people to show compassion to a victim's hurts if they've the physical scars to prove it, if their abuser fits every bill of a sadist without any effort to hide said sadism. But show Gale, a man who looks older than essentially the whole party, who was with Mystra who appears younger, speaks in a polite/levelled tone, who was 'simply upset' with Gale for 'disrespecting her boundaries', and Gale just becomes...the hung up ex who fumbled a baddie. Y'know, barring the fact that she knew of him and very likely kept eyes on him as a boy, had never actually told Gale the book he was looking for was Karsite in nature, left him to die alone, then came back and said, 'hey, I'll forgive you if you literally blow yourself up by SINKING A DAGGER STRAIGHT INTO YOUR CHEST when I have every ability to remove the orb myself.' Barring, too, that beyond his lover, she was his GODDESS, a goddess who controlled his fealty and commanded his utmost devotion, he being Gale Dekarios, a mortal, human man who was undoubtedly manipulated. Being with someone like that will destroy anyone's reality. He scrabbled for any sort of approval from a far more powerful figure. Many victims of abuse do.

But hey. And don't get me started on Wyll. Man literally made a pact to save others, sacrificed his freedom for the benefit of all, and ended up hard leashed by a literal devil. A devil! Goddddd. Also iffy that Wyll had no agency to make his decision with his pact in act 3 while barely having any lines to speak of, and how Gale is encouraged to apologize and make amends with Mystra for his character arc. Hmm.

[fatescattered]

me checking the wiki and seeing the wano arc is almost 200 eps long