#As a rule I pretty much never choose the options that try to back out of an exceptional story

[alexis-royce]

Started The Bloody Wallpaper, and the hook is really good. It’s also got a great variability to it; if you’re a lower level character, this is a nightmarish or promising opportunity. If you’re endgame and powerful, this is a complete and utter humiliation and someone needs to pay for it

Or maybe that’s just my character talking

[v3nusxsky]

Hiiii! So I have a lady Lesso request

Lady Lesso x drunk reader (either a student of age or teacher) whichever you are comfiest with

Reader is a very goofy drunk until they start to sober and then they are very emotional and they just keep explaining how in love with Lesso they are in front of the staff and beautiful they find her inside and out. How they want to marry her and live forever with her. Reader is also super snuggly and clingy when sobering up and pushing her away would make her cry.

Emotional Love

*Authors notes~a small break from the smut, not that I don't love it but this one's been sat here for a while now*

Trigger warnings~ drunk reader teacher of age x dean Leo pining reader trying to initiate sex under the influence

Prompt~ see ask^^^^*

A simple plan, a few drinks with some of the fellow Ever staff soon resulted into a game of never have ever. The rules were simple, if you did something you drink a shot, and then get to ask the next question. If there was multiple people who took the shot it was always passed to the left. It was no secret that you walked the line between good and evil, so it should've been obvious that you'd be the one who ended up the most drunk. Yet you still indulged the woman to play.

"Never have I ever wished for a child" Clarissa murmured watching as a few of the woman and yourself took a shot before taking her own. "Never have I ever had a sex dream of another woman" Anemore chose with a smirk, of course you would take a shot. "Never have I ever hated my subject" you smirked back at Emma as she took a shot. "Never have I ever had a personal conversation with Leonora" Helga whispered, her eyes stayed away from yours. In their male form Yuba and Leonora were sort of acquaintances. You took your shot alongside Clarissa. The game continued on much like that until you were very very drunk. "Oh! Let's do dares!" You giggled excitedly as if you'd just said the most amazing idea ever known to man.

"I'll go first, truth or dare Rissa?" Emma asked and naturally the dean choose truth. "Is it true you wish to join the schools together as one?" A silent nod was all she was given. "Truth or dare professor Espada" a small pause before "dare" was whispered. "I dare you to show us where your most hidden dagger is on your body."  Standing up the more masculine woman pulled a dagger from the middle of her bra. "Truth or dare Y/n" you were so far gone you honestly went for what you thought was the better option, a dare. "I dare you to go and find Leonora and call her min s��ta tik." "Min söta tik" you repeated before standing up and leaving to find Leonora.

On the walk between the schools the air seemed to be harsher than before, instead of caressing your face it was now whipping it. Only then did it really hit you how drunk you truly were. Giggling as you tried to walk in a straight line which only resulted in you toppling over. Everything seemed to have you in a burst of giggles. The moon appears to have a face on it and you were happily having a conversation with the moon about why it was so yellow. Why yellow? Didn't it know yellow was not the way to go? No wonder why everyone says it's made of cheese if it wants to look yellow.

Arriving to Leonora's chambers you didn't even bother to knock, just barrelling into her room with a newfound confidence. But that very thing disappeared as soon as the redhead spoke up. "Dove?" Was all it took for you to burst into tears. "By the gods? What on earth is wrong?" She asked but her tone seemed to make you cry more. "I just I love you so much, you don't even know I exist! You're so pretty. On the inside. I wanna get inside you and stay foreverrrrr! Buy you don't know I want that. You're so beautiful Nora. M wan marry you and wake up with you next to me. Gods Nora I wanna make you feel so good, I could you know? I could make you feel like every colour of the rainbow, every star exploded in the galaxy just by my tongue in your-" your rant was cut off by the red head. "Woah woah dove you're drunk, you don't have a sound mind right now, you probably don't feel those things love" she rationalised but that made you sob, "I do feel them! I want you! I want to fuck you, marry you and love you! Why don't you want me?" Your tears and sobs were now bothering the woman, she hates to see you cry, let alone be the cause for it.

"Come here dove" she demanded opening her arms to you in an offer. One you immediately took, settling on her lap as her arms snaked around your waist. "Shhh see I'm here okay? But you're so drunk darling and I'd much rather have this conversation with you sober" she whispered to you hoping to soothe you with her presence. "M not drunk! Drunk can't go this" you explained with a goofy smile before attacking her neck with your lips. A hand trying to trail between your bodies only for Leonora to stop it on its way. "Darling, not while you're drunk. You're to special for that dove."

"min söta tik" you mumbled to her being absolutely star struck by her eyes, you look so adorable that she almost missed what you said to her then. "Pardon?" She replied with shock evident in her tone. "min söta tik, they said I had to say it? Is it bad Nora? I don't know what it means" you explained and Leonora knew she'd be having a word with Clarissa in the morning to discuss this. "It's not so nice darling, so we don't say it again okay? You're a sweet girl and that's why I love you." You snuggled into the woman's body in response, not processing that you'd just called her "my sweet bitch" but she was comforting and warm and that just made you wanna get closer and closer to her.

"Dove, you need to hop off my lap darling, my knee isn't liking the position" Lesso whispered to you only for you to start crying again. "I want stay. Warm!" You sobbed trying to cling to the woman but in your drunken state you interrupted it as her trying to get rid of you, why would she push you away? Doesn't she believe your feelings for her? Doesn't she care? Does she care for you like you do her?" You stiffened as your mind went round these thoughts on a loop. "Hey you, what's going on in that pretty kind of yours? I just thought we could snuggle in bed? You know Nora has a bad leg dove, it was cramping up so if I lay down and stretch it I can still hold you" she explained as you sniffled all tear eyed. "Mkay" you mumbled and allowed her to lead you to the bed, magically changing you and herself into some sleep wear before allowing you to come and snuggle up to her chest. "Sleep my dove we can talk in the morning about this emotional love."

Word count~ 1272

[catgirlscout]

Johnshi Week 2024 | Day 3 | DnD Headcanons

Since the prompt for day 3 of #johnshiweek2024 by @johnshidaily was DnD Au, I thought I'd share some headcanons for Johnny and Kenshi.

You can also read them and chapter 2 on my Ao3!

Johnny would definitely go all out. He would make up a whole intricate backstory, act out his role, and put on a full cosplay for every session. His dice match his character, and he even bought and painted a miniature himself.

I can imagine that he would also love to be the DM and create his own little TTRPG campaigns. He loves improvising and gives each side character a distinct voice. Everyone always gets super intense during fights, and he feels very proud of himself for being able to pull his friends into the scene. If they would struggle making a character sheet, he would help them and throw in some prompts.

Back in school, he used to be a real nerd about DnD. He still has all of the books. This is really where his love for screenwriting comes from.

As for his character, he is really diverse. He loves to make new ones and figure out every little detail about them. In a game with the MK1 cast, I think he’d be either a Paladin or a Bard. I’d personally choose Paladin over Fighter in his case, because he wants to fight for the right cause and be a knight of the people. And if he’s playing as a Bard, he’s definitely gonna try to romance everything and anything!

He loves playing as any race that isn’t fully human for the fantasy experience. Non-human species have a special place in his heart. So, his choices would probably be Halfling, Orc, or Dragonborn. Perhaps even Elf, but he would probably stray away from your typical perfect, never-aging Elf, even though he’s fancy like that. But he prefers the whole underdog, having to train hard to become the hero storyline. Twist villains or morally gray characters are also totally his thing.

Kenshi, on the other hand, never had time for games in his youth due to growing up with the Yakuza breathing down his family’s neck. But of course he let his best friend Johnny talk him into it. He’s pretty new to DnD and doesn’t quite get the rules yet, but once he’s in the zone, he really gets sucked into the world-building, exploring everything there is and leaving no stone unturned and chest unopened. It’s become his escape from reality in a way, at least for a little while.

His character would probably be pretty true to himself, and he would make choices based on what he would do in real life. Of course he always fights with a sword, preferably an old family blade that wields some type of magic. He doesn’t roleplay so much, although he begins talking very epically when he’s making important decisions. From that point on, his character goes through a lot of development.

For class, Johnny advised him to go with Warlock, but Rogue would also be a good alternative. Race-wise, he would most definitely go with Tiefling, as that is closest to what he feels like, and the fiendish ancestral origins fit best with his actual background. When given the option, Kenshi also always chooses to lose his eyesight one way or another, if he doesn’t start out blind. Both Liu Kang and Johnny have continuously told him he doesn’t need to, but he does it anyway. The self-insert is real!

[goddessofmischief]

     —   ACROSS THE STARS (SITH!KIT TANTHALOS X READER)

Summary: Kit Tanthalos is a Sith apprentice - and your biggest enemy.

CHAPTER ONE: THE DYAD

Kit Tanthalos had been a thorn in your side since the day you were born.

She was a princess, and so were you. She was princess of Corellia - a planet of thieves, liars, and smugglers - and you were the princess of Naboo. You stood for kindness, hope, and purity.

You two had interacted throughout the years, at various royal functions, but never held much affection for each other. Still, Kit had always seemed protective of you. She was more likely to tease you than offer a compliment, sure, but she wouldn’t let anyone push you around.

One day, all of that changed.

Kit broke her parents’ hearts and overthrew them, turning to the Sith teachings and ruling Corellia with an iron fist. She was still only an apprentice, but it was hard to tell from the level of power she held. Her master was mostly unseen, leaving Kit as a largely unchallenged presence of evil in the galaxy.

You couldn’t have been more different. Your planet flourished under your rule, and you were beloved by every citizen. You knew that no matter what happened, you would protect them, and so did they.

There was only one issue, though. They wanted you to marry.

You had a couple reasonable suitors. A few Mandalorians, a prince or two. A Lady of some considerable wealth. They were all coming to see you, today. One of them, whichever the people chose, would be staying on this planet for as long as they lived.

You didn't like that it was up to the citizens to choose your spouse, but since you were an orphan, you had no parents to select one for you, and Naboo laws refused the option of allowing you to choose for yourself.

Still... how bad could any of them be? You’d carefully reviewed the list of people attending today, and none of them were indecent, or unkind, or cruel. They were good people, people you could trust. Even if you couldn’t love them, you could at least work together to bring your planet into prosperity.

This wasn’t about you. This was about the people.

Or so you tried to convince yourself, this sunny morning, as you rode through the woods on a white horse, lightsaber hanging off your belt-

Oh, yeah. That’s the other thing.

You were a Jedi.

You supposed that’s probably why Kit hates you. You were natural enemies. You hated her for her crimes, she despised you for your tolerance. It was probably why you were so reluctant to marry, too - falling in love was strictly against the Jedi code.

You hummed to yourself some old Naboo lullaby, your horse carefully stepping over a small creek and walking nimbly to the other side. You climbed off it, brushing off your dress and beginning to pick flowers.

Suddenly, you heard a sound behind you - crunching leaves under foot. You whirled around, face to face with-

Well, guess who.

“Hey,” said Kit, dismounting her own horse. You began to back away.

“...Hi.”

“Missed you, princess. Been awhile.”

“Yeah. Um... what’ve you been up to?”

She laughed.

“What have I been up to... um, ruling the galaxy. Yeah. That, pretty much.”

Without warning, you pulled out your lightsaber, holding it to her throat.

“Why are you here?”

“I’m not here to fight,” she said warningly, pulling out her own lightsaber and holding it to your throat. “Just wanna talk.”

“I don’t believe you.”

You rush forward, trying to land a blow. She deflected your attack, grabbing your wrist and flipping you onto the ground.

You moan in pain. Kit lowers her lightsaber, still pointing it at you. She offers you her other hand. Reluctantly, you let her help you up.

“I’ll see you later, princess, alright?”

Just like that, she was gone.

...

You could swear you’d seen everyone in the galaxy by now, or at least all the most boring ones.

Fortunately, none of the citizens had really seemed to care for them, either. You could tell they were reading your expressions, trying to gauge who you wanted them to choose.

No one. You didn't want them to choose any of them.

A few had made it on to the next round: Jade Claymore, another Jedi knight, Graydon Hastur, a prince, and Prince Airk, Kit’s exiled brother. You’d always liked Airk, but he never seemed to show an interest in you outside of how you looked.

In just a few minutes, you would be done. In just a few minutes, you could take this ridiculous dress off. In just a few minutes-

The doors burst open.

Of course, it was Kit. Of course it was.

She stood in an imposing set of black robes, lightsaber displayed prominently at her side, red jewels gleaming at her throat. Kit strode in confidently, glancing at the crowds sitting on either side, strutting confidently up to you.

Somewhere in the distance you heard Airk mutter, “oh, shit.”

Read Chapter Two here

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[kairunatic]

*sigh*

As promised Casino Billford CG

Lesson learned never hype anyone in this game cause you'll legit end up being disappointed

Cause that's exactly what happened to me idk what to feel about this lmao

Habbit literally showed Billford worst side

Cause he Legit R*pe someone and twice!!!

So yeah heads up

CW:R*pe

So we start with Billford taking a break from the Casino. Hoping he could relax a bit one of the security personal got an alert there is something happening in the backrooms

You'll get two options to either go with Bonvoy or Marion

For Bonvoy he was dealing with a Spoiled rich kid who was in debt and can't pay up. He tried telling the two that his dad will pay him up but it seems he can't(Yeah you don't have to tell me this guy is literally Rook but a furry)

With no money to pay as per rule of the Casino he has to pay with his body.

So Billford literally fucked the rich kid. And took pics of it since that's part of the Casino rules

Even though the rich kid "DIDN'T WANT TO IN THE FIRST PLACE"

After fucking him the rich kid cried and he promised to never do it again. Billford suddenly developed a conscience felt bad for the rich kid

So what he did is he deleted the pics he took of him and will do something about his debt as long as he doesn't come back here. To the casino

Bonvoy ask if what they did was alright and Bill said its fine since what they did is pretty bad and they don't have to stoop that low to get money

(Well bad news cause the 2nd option is probably the most fucked up)

If you choose Marion

This time they are already dealing with someone who lost all there money and can't pay debt but the only difference is this dude destroyed several machines in the process

And as usual Billford fucked the guy and took pics

But what's fucked up about this is the dude is not gay yes he's a straight guy. And he literally begs Bill not to fuck him cause he's not gay(and he's a Homophobe btw)

What's worst is This dude passed out from being fucked so hard cause He insulted him that his dick is tiny and took it personally

After that they left the guy there while Billford goes see Bonvoy. And Marion trying to get a copy of the video he took

Sooo yeah that's basically what happened in Casino Billford CG

And you can tell I'm legit not happy with this lmao

Imagine saving half a year for 1k only to be given a R*pe CG of your favourite character....

This event literally made billford Dirty😭

Ugh idk what to say hahaha like yeah I know its AE and pretty much majority of the CG here are always questionable but seriously come on This is just WTF

But oh well rant over lol

I may need a break from Bill for a few moments hahhaha

And again Yes I know Bill did something awful but pls don't ever fucking blame Gamma C for this, I don't wanna see another Posporo corca incident

If you have a problem with how they did with Billford just keep it to yourself and don't ever bother the Artist

[curiouslavellan]

hi it's me annoying you with my request to answer all of the ask game questions for the soupmates <3333 feel free to skip those that dont apply or you dont like tho :'D

you're never annoying <3 ty for still being The soupmates fan lol

Gonna put this under a cut because I skipped 0 questions and it got long

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

You lmao. As I've said, big part of why I'm actually writing it down! Re: the way I wrote it though, I've basically always written stuff with lots of POV switches, I like to see the differences between people's attitudes and levels of knowledge. If I ever write a story where everyone in it starts with all the same facts, I've probably been replaced by a pod person

2: What scene did you first put down?

I write chronologically, so that first scene with Ariel and Bethany was the first thing I wrote

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

Ariel wasn’t the sort to leave things up to chance any more. Anyone could have seen, and anyone could have turned them in, so there were no fireballs or ice storms for them. No mage’s staff. In Kirkwall, it was all down to daggers and luck.  Sometimes that luck seemed too good to be true. Sometimes Ariel moved faster than a person really ought to be able to, and sometimes the idiots trying to kill them tripped over thin air. Only the paranoid would call that magic. 

Join me in my apostate Hawke as a rogue agenda

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

When Justice in his chapter 1 section remarks on Wade and Herren being soulmates with

“I do not see it. This doesn’t happen to spirits,”

mostly because I immediately said "Ha, incorrect" to myself lmao. Justice himself obviously, but using Wade and Herren was an extra joke because idc what the creators said, if Herren is a desire demon in Darkspawn Chronicles, I believe that it's true for every timeline

5: What part was hardest to write?

Can I say the chapter I'm working on rn? I am being very picky about the first meeting because it's pretty essential in a soulmate au

6: What makes this fic special or different from all your other fics?

I've never written for this ot3 before, or actually published anything for Ariel or DA2 as a whole. It's fun to get into Kirkwall! Also there are some pretty big time jumps between scenes, which I have done before but not in stuff that follows a set plot like a video games, so it's neat to kind of work into the spaces in an existing timeline

7: Where did the title come from?

The song Out There from Hunchback of Notre Dame lmfao. I'm just glad it wasn't actually called omg they were soupmates at this point

8: Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

Not really

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Not for the overarching plot but I did have a Lot of back and forth over certain details like Anders and Karl's relationship, when different scenes happen and from whose POV, where this story ends, etc

10: Why did you choose this pairing for this particular story?

because I love them <3 more seriously, because I love Justice, and I'm sad he's barely a character in DA2, especially because he's so interesting about love in Awakening, and I wanted him to be an equal part of the story. Also because they're the weirdest option in a soulmate au, so I get to poke at the "rules" of the genre

11: What do you like best about this fic?

writing Ariel is so fun! purple Hawke you will always be an icon

12: What do you like least about this fic?

Balancing the different POVs has been stressing me out a little, I know it doesn't actually matter that much but I do want them to be at least roughly equal

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

I don't listen to my character playlists while writing, because I can't write and hear lyrics at the same time, so I've just been putting on youtube mixes of fantasy writing instrumentals lol

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

ummm Justice is amazing and you should love him

15: What did you learn from writing this fic?

this is the fic that got me to commit to small daily increments of writing instead of waiting for inspiration to hit, which we've all heard plenty of times but finally hit me on this one

[maxwell-grant]

What did you think of Mortal Kombat X, and the new characters introduced there?

Never really played it compared to it's predecessor and successor, came out at a time where I had kinda fallen out of keeping up with MK. I did go back to catch up more to it and watch the entire Story Mode and all but, just never really did much for me. I barely even play Mortal Kombat as is and I completely forget this even had a big Story Mode, even now I couldn't tell you anything that happens in it besides Johnny Cage getting tortured by bees and later beating Shinnok, and the D'Vorah parts, because D'Vorah rules obviously.

Still, I like the Variation system, at the time I thought it was a really cool idea and I enjoyed trying these out the few times I played the game. Custom movesets and special variants are allright but I liked the idea of every character having between 3 optional movesets and playstyles to choose from. I also like some of the choices the took with the characters here (what they did with Mileena's teeth was total cowardice though, frankly way worse than killing her off right as they're taking her character somewhere interesting). I definitely appreciate their commitment to creating lots of new characters instead of immediately padding out the roster with the 3D era revamps of has-beens and never-weres

Really it's just the characters I have thoughts on when it comes to these so let's get to them (won't be using any images of them in X and instead just talking about them in general, man was everybody ugly in X now that I'm looking back on it)

Cassie Cage: ...you know what, she grew on me a bit in MK11. She is pretty much the Mortal Kombat version of Luke and I hated her for most of the same reasons but, 11 had her take the backseat a little and patched up some things and generally made her funny and occasionally cool enough, with some fairly good Fatalities, that she grew on me. I like her better than Sonya, which isn't a lot but it's something.

Jacqui Briggs: Pretty cool, I like her the most out of the new heroes and she got the mother of all glow-ups in 11. I like the contrast between her and Jax and how her moves and gameplay are very different from Jax while also having basically the same powers. I like that she's a kickboxer and that she has no innate magic abilities and instead gets by on enhanced gauntlets and tech, makes it feel like she's always at a lot more risk than the other fighters. I really wish she had more of an identity besides Jax, Jax is great but they overplay it to the point I think it drags her down a bit. Still, easily the best of the new heroes.

Takeda and Kung Jin: They're allright, cool weapons, you could do worse for the first confirmed gay character in Mortal Kombat, but I completely forget these guys exist most of the time, I have their profiles in hand right now and still couldn't tell you much of anything about him. Idk man most of MKX is just a memory hole for me and these guys weren't anywhere close to the most interesting things about it.

Triborg: Not a character so much as an excuse to feature all the cyborg ninjas without having to cram them into a narrative role, and fine, there could be worse ways to go on about it, the cyborg ninjas are a staple of the series with individually fun playstyles, so putting them all together via the Variation system is a practical and good solution. Only really bummer for me is that I like Cyrax as a character quite a bit and would have like for him to stay around, but I get it.

Ferra/Torr: Vaguely uncomfortable? Really don't care much for when Mortal Kombat flirts with fantasy race worldbuilding and I hope Ferra's not supposed to be like, an actual pygmy, we're probably only gonna get clarification when she shows up in MK1. I feel like they could have used an extra turn on the drawing board before being put in game but putting these aside though, pretty allright, borrowing from Mad Max freakshows feels like a no-brainer for MK and they're a fairly novel idea for a fighting game two-in-one character.

Kotal Kahn: Kotal's pretty great. He's the heart ripper to end all heart rippers a killer design and silhouette, he's got some pretty cool ideas for special moves, he is a fairly great fighting game character design. He's used to glue plenty of separate storyline threads together and he's a very solid midcard character, in that he can and frequently does job to just about anyone but can still get individually cool moments like his takedown of Goro and amazing Fatalities enough to justify him being enough of a threat in-universe to be Emperor. He is fairly novel in being The Next Emperor of Outworld who isn't a wholly evil bastard like Shao, even if he is very much kind of a bastard a lot of the time. Phil Lamarr's excellent voice work does most of the heavy lifting in making him seem a lot more cool and honorable than he actually is.

He isn't really "noble" so much as he's just regal in a cool way, and humble and honorable enough to not be at cross-purposes with the protagonists most of the time or at least own up to his mistakes, and having that bare minimum of decency is enough to make even a murderous heart-eating violent warlord who executes and enslaves people for petty thievery comparatively a great guy next to the ones that came before him, the guy who relinquishes the throne to Kitana as someone who was far better than Shao Kahn, but not good enough to properly heal Outworld from Shao. His romance with Jade is pretty allright as well.

Erron Black: I'm frankly shocked that it took Mortal Kombat that long to add a Cowboy to the roster, seriously you'd think that archetype would have shown up in the wacky MK3 years or something. Erron's pretty great and I feel like his appeal is fairly self-explanatory and everybody's more or less on the same page that he's great, so I don't have as much to say on him. They get a lot of mileage out of him as a wildcard mercenary dirtbag, who is just different enough from Kano and Kabal and the lesser variants of those two that popped up over the years that he works in storylines with, and against them. Obviously his named bullet X-Ray is the sickest shit and they do a surprisingly amount of cool stuff for his moveset, I love that he's a total scavenger and it shows in his specials. Also love his voice work, love how mysterious they keep his background.

Gunslingers tend to get a bad rep in fighting games because of how cheap their options can be, but frankly I think gunslingers nearly always tend to make for cool characters because of how much they have to be designed around game design limitations and having to give them movesets besides The Schut. Erron's easily the most iconic of the new characters and I think he's the only one who's more or less guaranteed to keep showing up, I'd be surprised if they didn't add him to MK1.

D'Vorah: People have no taste whatsoever, D'Vorah fucking rules completely. If I'll give NRS one thing, is them not capitulating to fan outcry and diminishing her in 11. The fandom went nuts over her killing Mileena in X, and so for the sequel, they let her get away with taunting Shao Kahn to his face about killing his daughter and then killing fucking Scorpion, absolute queen shit.

Women characters designed to look cool and fearsome over looking attractive are already goddamn unicorns in videogame/fighting game economy, and designed to look unapologetically monstrous and unsympathetic and horrifying, let alone all of these in one and more, are much rarer still. But disgusting? A rotting parasitic baby-eating scavenger with flaky, cracked open exoskeleton skin, filthy rags, appendages and spikes everywhere leaking gooey poison, whose belly tears open for her to caress giant maggots before the fight? I don't think any other major fighting game franchise would pull off D'Vorah's design the way they did. She only looks like a naked yellow alien lady from a split-second distance before you actually look at what's going on there, and that dissonance makes her work even better than if she was a shapeless or purely-insectoid monster. She looks just close enough to all the other bikini-clad women that it makes what she actually is and does stand out more.

It's not even like D'Vorah is that much new ground for the series besides her design, because for the most part she is just one among many backstabbing sadists with agendas looking to get a leg up by throwing their lot with the villains (that was basically Mileena's role for the longest time, which is why D'Vorah has to one-up her in grossness and kill her), it's just that unlike Mileena and most of the others, D'Vorah actually gets to follow through with backstabbing fuckers and playing them for chumps instead of getting trampled in the sidelines (and she is beatable, yes, but she's very good at last-minute dirty tricks with bug swarms and poison and scurrying away). She is every bit as much of a disgusting dirtbag heel as Kano tuned in a completely opposite direction from Kano's funnyman sellout antics, driven by a fierce blood loyalty to the hive that she embodies alone and far more capable of killing you than you ever would be towards her

I think D'Vorah is easily best female character design in the series, she's one of the finest heels in fighting games, her Fatalities are some of the best in the series, she is beauty she is grace and her maggots will melt your face, in 11 she's got the cutest voice ever, and I think she should get to kill and feed to her bugs as many of your beloved characters as she wants to. As a treat for her and her babies.

[deepdonutkid]

Part 3/5 Katniss and Peeta’s roles reversed in Mockingjay

I kinda figured out everything I want to say about this whole situation and now I’m adding the part, where I eleborate on why I think:

Peeta is a bad-ass motherfucker

"you’re punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. now, i’m not saying you shouldn’t have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. but i think it’s time you flipped this little scenario around in your head. if you’d been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?” demands Haymitch" (mj, 229) (thanks again @thesmileykate for searching that quote)

So, Peeta is in Katniss’ position in D13. He is approached by Coin to represent the rebels and the ongoing revolution, after learning his own district was bombed to pieces and his whole family is dead. Katniss is gone. He doesn’t trust Haymitch anymore. Finnick is a crying hot mess. Gale and him will never be friends. The house is literally on fire.

Of course, his biggest concern is going to be: saving Katniss. Just like she was so desperate to save him. But he is still not the type of guy to run around with a gun and killing randoms... he is just not like Gale. He was never a hunter, since he was in the Games, he knows: “Killing is always personal.”

Like even when he is put in that position, where he has to be this brave war hero, I can’t really wrap my head around this one. Yes, he can act, but I highly doubt his moral compass would allow it. Also, he is smart enough to play Coin and Plutarch. He would convince them, that they’re going to get a better result, if they let him do this his way.

His way would involve, getting a weapon of his choosing. And it’s not going to be a gun. Katniss already stated in the books, he doesn’t have a good aim like her. Yes, he managed to fight Cato in the first games, but that’s mid range at most, and that was only in the movies or assumptions.

Since Cinna already got everything ready for Katniss to become the Mockingjay, it’s raising the question... who would Peeta become? There are some posts about him either being a mockingbird or a jabberjay. (personally, I would tend to jabberjay, but maybe he would also get a totally different ‘nickname’ )

It’s safe to admit, since the main goal of the rebels in the third Quell was getting Katniss- that’s why every other Victor had to prove themselves to Katniss-, not Peeta, they wouldn’t as prepared for him as they were for her. So, he pretty much had free choice in how to present himself. Maybe he even got help from Portia.

Peeta would pick something he is familiar with, like a knife, probably longer than shorter. Something like a machete. And then I just got this idea... He already says in the books to Katniss, she and Haymitch are too similiar. Haymitch’s partner in the games was Maysilee Donner and she used a blow gun with poison. And if he views himself as the counterpart to Katniss, why not sticking with the analogy. With the blow gun he has a mid range weapon, which doesn’t have to be deadly. He would probably have some different darts, some of them deadly, some of them just have a strong soporifics or some paralysing effect, some might inflict pain. He might have need some training to get used to it, but he has shown to stick to his plan with some sort discipline.

This blow gun thing would also give him the opportunity to play by his own rules. Sure, D13 would hand him a gun, but he would only use it, when there is no other option to take.

But fight is not what makes Peeta Mellark a bad-ass motherfucker. It’s clearly his gift for words. And while Katniss is out of his reach in a harmful enviroment, Peeta is not just losing his mind... he is getting frustrated and impatient with those around him.

Snapping at those, who try to keep him from Katniss or try to argue with him, when she is back, about what she needs. He knows what she needs and it’s not to watch the Games again or some clips of him, because that’s not helping Katniss seeing who he really is. She met the real Peeta, but never with cameras around them.

And he knows by now, how important he is for the revolution. They need a figure to push their agenda through. Peeta is very aware of the effect the media has on people. And if someone can own that role, it’s Peeta. He is giving them a run for their money.

Just imagine his talk with Coin giving his requests. He would walk in there, with a complete list of demands (not like Katniss half empty piece of paper, but our girl never been the writer type) and oh boy, Coin better be prepared, because he is going to argue as long as he need to, until he gets what he wants. And yes, he even has some minor demands, he can drop to give Coin the feeling of control, when he clearly has the upper hand. Peeta is really going to make Coin wish, she got Katniss instead of him XD

“First things first... we need to get Katniss out of the Capitol.”, Peeta says. 

Coin shakes her hair slightly. The grey vail hovers over her shoulders. “That is not our highest priority at the moment. We have to focus on.-”

“On getting Katniss back!”, he interrupts her: “She is the Mockingjay! She is girl on fire! It’s her, can’t you see it? Her actions started the whole revolution.”

“The general assumption is the star-crossed lovers ignited the flames of revolution in the Districs. As long as we don’t control the Districts, the war will go on. I’m sure, you’ll understand this, soldier Mellark.”

A long sigh left Peeta’s lips. His muscles still ached from the arena, but he didn’t want to stay any longer in this damn hospital bed. There was this dire need in him, stronger than ever, just to hold her. Katniss. Maybe running his fingers through her dark hair, if she let him.

His eyes flickered. He was too tired to keep them open. So exhausted from yelling, he just muttered under his breath: “Wouldn’t it be weird? I’m mean, I’m not just her fiance, I also publicly announced, we already got married and are expecting a child. Wouldn’t it look bad, if my first mission wasn’t saving her?”

Plutarch nodded. “Yes, I guess, we can’t leave a pregnant girl in the hands of the Capitol.”

Little excerpt of some dialog that’s been in my head for a week now.

[anotherrandomkink]

I have so much to say about ticklish! Dick mf grayson heres my word vomit:

-With his family they suspect he likes being tickled unless he outright tells you (which hes only told like 2 people family wise) its just suspicion because he is the gaslight and lying king. (That legit canon i dont make the rules. However he tries not to do it to team mates and family but hes not broadcasting this ya feel?)

-On the family note he truly honestly is such a fucking tickle monster do not let him find out you are ticklish.

-Jason knows it best of everyone because he also can school his features well and dick loves a challenge

-doesnt normally get tickled by his siblings mainly because him getting revenge on them is always brutal (note: brutal as in whatever weaknesses u have consider it fair game i.e. dick does this thing where he sort of baby talks and tim surprisingly cannot handle it and dick doesnt normally do it unless hes being mean or jay hates being restrained because it makes it 10x worse) but bruce isnt scared of him and will tickle dick until hes reverting back to Romani

- but even after stunts like bruce tickling the shit out of him he'll pop up grinning like nothing happened. His siblings are always baffled

-even tho he can be brutal hes generally quite sweet which is why his siblings allow it or is quick about it like they'll try and tease him at a gala and he'll squeeze their knee once when they least expect it (bruce has a rule against this dick could care less)

-on the sweet note yall ever been tickled by someone sweet but ruthless as fuck? Dick grayson people. And hes nice after too. Aftercare king. Will sit with you until ur good. rubbing his sibs back and asking what they need, he knows, he just likes giving people the option to choose.

-also listens to all boundaries a king.

-with his significant others its a bit different.

-hes whiny about being tickled by partners with his family its all bravado and shouting and fighting but with someone like kori or wally he just lets it happen while saying they're mean and he doesn't deserve it and leave me alone!!

-if his partner is really feeling mean theyll stop prematurely and this always gets to dick. Hes a bit spoiled (i hc all batkids this way) so he feels he shouldn't have to ask. In that same breath he will ask. Red faced and a bit pissy "please?" "Please, what dear?" "....tickle me...please>:(" (its his inner actor coming out)

-also will tickle his partner to death only if they reciprocate at least not minding being tickled (wally never cared either way, kori didnt like it all the time she wanted to be asked, etc etc)

-i also hc his thighs are his worst spot but his partners know he has a tickle spot on his inner thighs that gets him screaming and silent laughing until hes crying after like a minute. He has a love hate relationship with that spot.

-hes also a walking tickle spot unbeknownst to his siblings all teasing works on him. His significant others usually learn pretty fast because it goes from dick barely fighting and being teasing back and all it takes is one "well aren't you adorable" and hes screeching at them to shut up!! And god forbid u pull him back when hes half heartly crawling away. Everything makes it worse for dick. He cant help!! Is what he'll say if u point it out. (He really cant)

-his friends also tickle him but only the closest to him know he likes being tickled.

-its kind of hard to hide that from friends when they are constantly around you and ur significant other

-they catch on eventually or when they try and stop the "torture" and his significant other goes "u wanna tell them or should i?"

-is ok with friends tickling him but would prefer only people hes close with him kinda like brucie boy

[moyokeansimblr]

Hi Moyo :)

I would really love to know about your rules regarding wants/ltws/secondary asp etc. How do you choose aspirations for your sims? Is ltw (for example, career one) more important to you than regular wants (for different careers for example)? Are you trying to acomplish ltw even if sim doesnt have many wants about it?

Hope this is not too much questions :)

Have a nice day!

Hi nonny!

That is so weird, I was just thinking last night I wondered if I should post about some of my gameplay rules and here you asked! Let's see, how can I organize my response to not ramble... I'm gonna ramble anyways I can't help it.

I try to follow my sims' wants, within reason. 90% of the time I'll do whatever they want but it is my game at the end of the day. I don't have a lot of specific want-related rules. One that comes to mind is when teens roll the go to college want. I will entirely ignore it if they roll it prior to their birthday. If they roll it any time on their final teen day then I'll lock it in and then they'll go. But I don't lock it in before because they could change their mind 😉 College is a big decision! With things like engagement & marriage I'd ideally like both sims to want it but that doesn't always happen and then I have to decide whether I think the desire of the sim who does want it trumps the other sim not having the want. Usually I decide it does.

Sims don't get jobs unless they want one, meaning there's no guarantee a sim with a career-related LTW will fill that. However, I do keep it in mind when a sim is looking for a job - in the cases where they just roll a generic 'get a job' want or if they roll any job want I'll hold their LTW career in higher regard and if it's one of the options I will choose it instead of whatever the want is for. I won't spoil which sim but this exact example is in my queue atm. But if my sim isn't showing any want indication for a job I won't go out of my way to be like "well your LTW is x so here you go!"

So to answer that question I'm not sure if that makes LTWs more or less important than regular wants...I guess they sort of are less important because I want there to be a chance that not every sim is fulfilled. At the same time there's a lot of gray area. You could argue with former-townie Renee Andrews who has the custom Self-Employed Talent LTW that I shouldn't make her start a business until she has a regular want for one, but I've kind of made the executive decision that whenever she can afford to that I want her to start one...mostly because businesses are really fun imo.

The same goes for whether or not I'm trying to accomplish a LTW even if they don't roll many regular wants regarding it - it's a big ol' depends. Pol's LTW is to raise 20 puppies/kittens but it's not like he's had wants for Baby and Tarabas to try for kittens (is there even a want for that?). Pol did want to obtain a pet and adopted Baby, but I had to force the adoption of Tarabas and do the rest. But that's because I've personally never completed that LTW and I want to give it a shot so I am. The Max 7 Skills LTW is usually pretty easy because Knowledge sims always want to skill anyways so I don't have to intervene at all there. Same with Romance sims, they'll roll wants to have x lovers or woohoo with x sims regardless. But I obviously have their LTWs written on my spreadsheet for a reason. I'm not going out of my way to fulfill them but they're always in the back of my mind. I guess that's the answer.

Aspirations are chosen based on Zodiac. I have two tables saved on my spreadsheet and I'm 99% sure they're from Cindy/Pleasant Sims because I borrow a lot of the way I play these days from her. I have one that does incorporate Pleasure as a primary asp and one that doesn't - and seems like from my past-self's decision to highlight the one that does that I am using that one for Strangetown 😜

Secondary Aspirations are calculated using interests with this calculator, which I don't know if it was made by Cindy? But I know I borrowed from her. The only additional rules I have regarding secondary asps are that I only assign them once a sim is an adult, and if a sim has the highest number of points in their primary asp then they won't have a secondary. If they tie in a category then I choose.

This seems like a good point to mention that I also don't look at LTWs until a sim is a young adult...unless of course I see it by accident. I have a few age-specific 'rules' for when I check things and add to my spreadsheet. Here are those, along with some other rules I wrote down for myself so I don't forget. Such as because I use the shorter university mod I cheat sims $1k for each semester it skips because idk I think that's fair... gives graduates a little extra money. And then I wrote down the actual amounts per grade in case the popup disappears before I see it since I will put that into each sim's individual bank account. Wondering now if it'd make more sense for me to do body hair as teen too... 🤔 I've always done it at YA but I only recently added in that I want to start rolling for glasses and facial hair otherwise I forget and none of my sims will ever have them. Dunno.

Let me know if you want clarification on anything or have any other questions! I'm always happy to answer about the way I play 🤗 One of the best things about this community is being able to inspire and be inspired by each other!

[theangryjikooker]

You know i often enjoy your takes on certain things but one thing i’ve noticed with you which isn’t great is that, you never bother to do a little research before posting things on your blog and to me, it’s just sloppy. If you had bothered to search just a little bit, you would have known that Jk didn’t have any interest in SDT (where Taehyung is) i know u didn’t say anything about TH but the unit Jungkook mentioned on that Live is different from SDT.

https://x.com/haidy8_8/status/1760955048073257374?s=46

So you are not wrong when u say he probably would have wanted to be in the special forces (SDT being one of the units but not the one Jk wanted) but i’m sure by now you also know that his tattoos didn’t really have anything to do with him not being able to join the special forces but it was about the time. The unit he wanted was about 4 years so he couldn’t do it and come back in time for the reunion. So i agree with you on the point that Jk might have wanted that because we know he likes to challenge himself.

But you know one thing you and many others are missing? Jimin might have wanted that too. You sound like Jk had no choice but to join the buddy system with Jimin because he couldn’t do what he wanted but you don’t know that. All we know is that Jk might have had an interest in the special forces but only he knows the reason why he didn’t do it. We don’t know if it had anything to do with Jimin or not. Plus, even if he couldn’t do what be wanted, he didn’t have to enlist with Jimin. He could have enlisted alone but he still choose to enlist with Jimin even though he had other options. Jungkook has probably known for years what the military rules are yet he still did everything he wanted to do to his body.

At the end of the day, we are all just speculating on the whys and why nots but all that we know for sure is that Jungkook and Jimin for some reason best known to them decided to enlist together. The reason could be what Jikookers think it is or not we will never know but the last thing you or anyone else should be doing is trying to invalidate this decision they both made especially because if this was any other pair, nobody would have been writing think pieces to reason out why they did it. Jikookers and other people aren’t just saying this proves their closeness for nothing. There is literally precedence. In the past we have had moments which have shown that for some reason, Jimin and Jk actually really love being together. For you to pretty much spend all of your downtime in someone else’s room, you must really love being around them so why are you surprised that they might have done this because they didn’t want to go that long without seeing each other? Y’all say jikookers come at anyone who says otherwise but that is because everyone and their keeps trying to invalidate Jimin and Jungkook’s bond and this has gone on for years on end. Everything Jimin and Jk do is either fanservice, forced, not that deep, not special or because they had no choice. How tf did they have no choice when they could have enlisted separately? Regardless of what you think Jk wanted or not, him choosing to enlist with Jimin proves nothing other than the fact that those two are really close and love being with each other. All this mental gymnastics is just not going to change reality. You can spin it which ever way you want but at the end of the day, you know as much as i do that their decision to enlist together is very telling about how much to mean to each other.

The anon was asking me about Jungkook, not Jimin. I responded accordingly. They asked me how it would affect Jkk; again, I had no idea and responded that I didn’t think it would/should, but I never said anything so concretely as to why. The issue seems more to be reading comprehension and knee-jerking every little thing I say because Jkkrs on Tumblr are aggrieved by my existence.

I’m an opinion blog, not a fact checking blog. With all due respect, you say you enjoy my takes, which I understand to mean that you’ve been here a while. I don’t know for how long, but it’s known to a lot of readers who go way back that this is how I’ve always been. When I don’t know something, I make it known. That’s where my responsibility ends—and as I very clearly mentioned to the OG anon, I wasn’t going to have an answer (at least to what they were asking me, which was implicit). The fact I mention this should make it obvious where my weaknesses lie, and if people want to fact check me, they most certainly can. Some people have done so politely, but most people are focused on what makes them reactionary.

[aloeverified]

What do you think would be the best ending for the characters in Miraculous Ladybug?

ahhh there's so many different options i feel would be great!! about a million different miraculous au's exist in my mind and each have a different ending so it's hard for me to choose just one.

i'm going to be honest, i hate how gabriel completely doesn't care about adrien anymore and just uses his identity against him. i don't want gabriel to be completely evil — or, at least, i don't like the way they went about it. he flipped back and forth between loving and not caring at all for adrien and i wish they would've just done a downward decline if they wanted to make him just overall irredeemable.

so, no gabriel trying to kill or hurt chat noir after finding out he's adrien 🚫 i'd much prefer an outcome where hawkmoth hurts chat noir before realizing his identity or simply trying to convince adrien to see his side of things after finding out. if adrien finds out about hawkmoth's identity beforehand, i don't have much of an issue with him trying to attack gabriel as it would be a justifiable emotional response.

i think that having either ladybug or chat noir severely hurt in a fight would be interesting — hurt enough to where one has to make a wish with the miraculous to save the other. with adrien being hurt, you could even have either marinette or gabriel make the wish to save him.

with gabriel, he has to choose between bringing his wife back — the whole reason he's been doing all this — or saving him son, the last good thing he has going for him.

with marinette, someone whose always prioritized being ladybug over anything else, it comes down to her saving her partner/love of her life or obeying the number one rule she's had drilled into her since day one.

with marinette being injured and adrien having to make a wish, it's also equally upsetting because he has to choose between bringing his mom back and finally having his family together or saving the girl he's in love with while his father watches his last chance of saving his wife disappear.

i'm also a huge fan of au's where marinette is gabriel's mentee so it'd be pretty interesting to even have a situation where gabriel gains both miraculous and marinette is terminally injured. gabriel sees his son go through the motions of realizing the love of his life is going to die and there's nothing he can do about it, seeing himself and emilie through them. he makes the decision to save marinette, letting go of his wife, and maybe even joining her if he has to trade his life for marinette's.

i also think the idea of the miraculous then no longer existing could be interesting. maybe only adrien and marinette remember them, but everyone else forgets. similarly, a situation where the kwamis are freed and are no longer tied to the miraculous objects, but maybe the powers are just granted to the former wielders? idk. i think getting rid of the miraculous system is a good way to end the series though. the kwamis don't die or anything though, i could never let that happen to my girl tikki 🤞

i also think an ending where maybe the universe resets to one where the miraculous never existed and it restarts on the day marinette and adrien met. they don't know each other, but they feel like they do — and maybe the show ends on a teased little "love at first sight" thing. or they have a flashback to what their lives where like. idk, maybe some people would feel like that's a cheap way to end it, but i like all the little comic au's i see of it.

[reignmaefall]

hi dear moot. i would love it if you told me more about amelia and pandora being roommates and selling together. what house are they in? is there anyone else in the dorm? who are their regular clients? is xenophilius involved? are they close friends or just friendly because of the circumstances? how does amelia feel about pandora's friendship with the slytherins? idk i'm just really fascinated by the idea of them two interacting i never thought of it before

Okay admittedly i didn't think too hard abt it originally but I feel like it'd be something like this

Pandora wasn't really friends with her roommates, choosing to just stay to herself most of the time, until like 5th year. She and Amelia had a few classes together (herbology lmao) and often got paired together because they were both "intelligent and respectful young ravenclaws!" (wrong so very wrong), and they started to talk more and realized they had more in common than they originally thought. They both had an odd sense of humor and often joked about how herbology would be "so much more interesting and silly" if they grew weed (once the professor heard one of them say that and knocked off a few house points but it was worth it for the joke). Somewhere along the way, Amelia figured out how to grow Marijuana and one thing led to another, and then, somehow, they were testing to see if they could actually grow it in the ror.. and well..

Anyway turns out they grew a bit too much and didn't know what to do with it so they did the only logical thing they could (there were definitely more logical options), sell it. Eventually they ran out, but they counted their money and realized they had made a shit ton of profit and actually had a lot of fun doing it, so they started growing more and expanding their business. Amelia was the brains of the operation, coordinating meet-ups, running background checks on clients to make sure they aren't rats, making back-up plans and strategies for how when the teachers eventually caught on. Pandora was the saleswoman and spokesperson, she sought out potential clients, psychoanalyzed them to the point they maybe got a bit scared of her, she did all of the dirty work that kept the ring going. And they didn't, under any circumstances, smoke their own supply (wrong so, so very wrong).

Since Pandora was naturally giggly and spacey, professors didn't think anything was out of the ordinary when Pandora was actually high. Amelia, however, definitely had quite a few professors raise an eyebrow when she giggled at nothing or zoned out or acted sleepy in general. But Pandora having Pandora as both a friend and roommate was a good crutch, Pandora would always just hum a little, giggle, and say "sorry professor, we talked a lot last night so she's a little sleepy, I think im wearing off on her too, we'll try not to do it again tonight though" when teachers would ask.

As for their clients, they sold to a lot of people, experimenting 4th year Gryffindors, most of the people in Hufflepuff, stressed out Ravenclaws, depressed slytherins, although their clients were a variety of ages, they did have one main rule, no selling to 3rd years and below, and only give 4th years a very small amount. Their biggest clients were the Marauders, often they'd send Peter because it was less questionable for him to be seen talking with Amelia or Pandora than it would be for Sirius or Remus or even James. Sometimes Marlene or Mary would buy some for parties or just because. Even though Lucinda, Emma, and Hestia were Amelias friends and Hestia was their roommate, they still had to pay when they bought lmao, Amelia didn't give friend discounts. If Pandora sold it for more than the actual price when Emmeline bought from them, that was nobodies business but her own ("she's just so obnoxious! Acting like she's so smart and perfect and pretty and kind and sweet and.. whatever, payback and all that" "..if you say so" "really I hate her" "..uh huh...")

Xeno was a huge client, Pandora didnt really know if he was buying all of it for himself or for his friends too, but he definitely was a major client. That's probably how they met/got close (in this au at least), drug dealer x stoner yk the deal. Eventually, Pandora and Amelia gave xeno a special discount and he probably ended up working with them for a bit too.

Amelia was a bit wary of Pandora at first because of her friendship with the slytherins, but eventually, she realized that the slytherins are just people, and Pandoras connections were actually better for potential clients.

Anyway yeah, Amelia and Pandora being very strategic, and very successful drug dealers and being those friends that know a lot about each other and talk a lot, but also don't really talk much outside of the classes and business they have together. Like work/class friends that get along real well but probably wouldn't hang out outside of class and work

This got a lot longer than i expected lmao, anyway tysm for the ask lovely moot, I get so happy on the rare occasion I get them

[agendratum]

okay second words soup incoming

playing awakening made me realise how i kinda miss playing a character who just kinda sucks as a person. who's just kinda not very good and not easy to be around. my hawke was purple, my inquisitor was a pretty straight-forward and simple, but overall nice lady, and i'm planning to make rook a pretty easy-going and funny kid, and i don't want to change that plan, but i just a little bit miss playing as someone who is kinda a bitch. and ruth is!

being back with her in awakening is great because of that

but the thing is. i still have been choosing nicer options, at least sometimes. and here's the thing, i can explain

this is like right after origins ended, right. the memory of fucking up with alistair and like generally fucking up his life is pretty fresh in her mind. and she will not admit it, she will say, if asked, that alistair was a piss baby and it's all his fault and he wasn't ready to rule the country and why would she even care, but the thing is she cares. and she feels bad.

so now having this new group in awakening, you know, people she's supposed to rebuild grey wardens with, she's kinda maybe trying to not alienate them as much. especially with anders (and this is not my favoritism for him speaking for sure, for suuuure), she sees him and he kinda reminds her of alistair (even tho they aren't really alike). but like he has all these problems of his and complains and she thinks, gods, how do i make this one stay and actually like make him feel valued or something. and it's a bit like an alien trying to figure out how to speak a foreign language they never heard before.. or maybe like trying to take care of a puppy (or a kitten?) you just found in the woods. because she never did this before, but she will try, awkwardly. if she sees a kitten, she'll pick him up and bring him to anders, and if he asks what she would do if she could stop being a warden, she will give this thought some actual consideration, even if her final answer will be just "i'd do something else"

and if oghren wants to complain to her about his dreams, she will *try* to listen even is his dreams are stupid. and if hearing about someone's nightmares about children hits a bit too close to home, no one has to know about it

and that's also why she lets nathaniel go with his family's things and why she lets him stay later. might as well figure this one out too

but like when she sees another elf murdering people with fucked up trees magic, she isn't going to pretend to dislike her for that, after all she can't literally pretend to be someone else, right?

[tears-of-boredom]

ok finished life is strange true colors. probably gonna be spoilers in this. so, i dont know if its because i was expecting to not like the ending, but i didnt like it. ended up really angry at the ending. tbh the whole vibe of the story was weird. my vibes didnt match its vibes. reminds me a lot of tell me why in a sense. with the siblings being reunited after both were separated when young and so the foster care system fucked them up even worse. and they can only begin to heal once they get out of it. and they investigate a family member's death. and the character models never seem to actually be touching anything around them. kind of like trying to get your barbie to hold something that didnt have that small finger ring. but the difference is that i like tell me why. maybe its just because the emotions matched mine more. idk. i wish we got to meet izzy. oh and yeah im not gonna even do the bisexual thing.

idk just left me angry and feeling shitty. but ig something happened outside of the game at the same time so that might contribute to my mood too. but man. i didnt even get to cry. and no one even went after someone in a fit of unbridled rage.... i mean,, of their own choosing you know? i wanted alex to walk into the black horse and just charge jed with a knife. and it is so fucking annoying because everytime i saw jed, i was thinking about how happy i am that for once the old man who the community trusts didnt do some horrible shit. like oh my god, i wasnt even fucking surprised when he pulled the gun, i was just so disappointed. i fucking hate that trope. so much. let old people be fucking good people for once, who arent trying to hide their past at all costs. like oh my god, let a main character actually get a father figure into their lives without them being a liar and a coward. and sorry but why the fuck did the game even give you an option on whether or not to forgive him?? like, yeah i could've fucking forgave him for being a bit too proud and making a horrible mistake because of that, but who the fuck fucking is forgiving him for all the shit he did to keep the secret. he didnt intentionally kill those miners, but by creating this lie about being a hero, and putting everything on keeping it up, he killed someone. and to be honest, i would not be surprised if there were more. and why the fuck did they make alex see herself in him? whatever her "gift" canonically is, she did not choose it. the monster she is ashamed of was something she did not choose. but jed made a decision. he hates himself because of a choice he made. neither of those things are less real or,, anything. they are just different. pretty fundamentally. hating yourself for something you cant change, and hating yourself over something you can change. oh my god i hated the ending. and hated how unlike me alex was. despite there being so many similarities between us. that flashback about the guitar, when shes imagining gabe and her at the orphanage. it hit me quite hard. i wonder how many kids have thought that. because i sure have. i wasnt even there for that long. but everynight, when i wasn't allowed to do anything but lay in my bed,, i think i thought "they cannot be so stupid to do this to me with sincere intentions." but,, i wasnt stupid myself. i knew that they were genuinely trying to help with all the restrictions. so eventually i concluded that they're stupid as fuck and know nothing. but they think they know better. the worst fucking combination ever. impossible to argue against people like that. usually they are like cops too. if you make them question the rules, they just fall back on "well thats still how it is (and there's no changing that)". adults love to obey authority and not question anything. and i would understand that if it was just a choice for an individual, but they affect a lot of other people by being like this. young people. but thats just how it is right. adults fuck up kids because they dont want to challenge anything, and then those kids grow up to be afraid of challenges too.

im really tired. i cant really tell if im even making sense. im gonna shut of my pc now.

[seance]

I need some advice/help. I am a bit confused on a gifset I am trying to make and am most likely over thinking it far too much knowing me so just want to know what someone else would do.

So I have made 2 sets so far for 2 different episodes for a Character and their wardrobe both sets have been the same layout size of gifs and number of gifs showing the outfits from different angles e.g front, back, side, full body shot and close ups of the shoes, and bottom half as well as the top half (well you get the gist right? haha) and in both episodes the person wears the same outfit.

But now onto episode 3 and the person wears 2 different outfits and only has a couple minutes screen time there's not as many angle of both outfits and you can't see close ups of the bottoms, shoes on either one really plus the 2nd outfit only has a very little moment where as the 1st outfit is shown a lot more? So would you carry on the same layout for this one or do it differently?

I really hope i'm making sense here lol.

hi! well i see your problem, it happens often when going for theme-gifsets but i believe there's no stone set solution for this one! i'd say go for the option that lets you be more creative/stress less. it's not that important to keep perfect symmetry, especially if the gifsets are on different posts, no one is gonna notice and even if, i'm sure it'll still come out incredible and they will engage with it anyway! overthinking is pretty much a gifmaker standard practice, i feel you ahah but i can't tell you how many times i find myself sweating the smallest things just for everyone else to never notice these supposedly fatal flaws!

maybe you could mix it up and use both outfits, just so that you can choose the angles you like more considering you won't be able to replicate them exactly as the previous ones. or go for the outfit you like most and still zoom on whatever you like, even the same detail from different distances, that's your gifset and you get to decide the rules! it helps to distance yourself from your work when it gets intense like this but i have no doubts you'll come out on top, have a good day ♥