#Blogger Laments

[soundlesslament]

Apparently the internet hates "The Acolyte", but after watching the first two episodes I still can't figure out why.

It has twins separated and fighting for different sides, a mystery, revenge, the word 'mekmek', neat alien designs, showcase of different Jedi powers, cool fight scenes...

What more do these people want?

[soundlesslament]

I am a monster with no regrets.

[meow-moment]

when youre scrolling through the blog of someone you respect and they make a post for no clear reason that indicates they have a hang-up that would prevent them from liking you as a person. and it truly does not matter but youre like Ow and you feel your opinion of them shifting in real time

[unopenablebox]

having a rollicking good time browsing the blogspot-hosted weaving blogs of various middle-aged and elderly women

[breechingbaby]

The IWTV takes are getting extrenely wild

[soundlesslament]

Reblogging from my TS4 blog and tagging @for-the-love-of-starwars who wanted to see my KOTOR sims. I'm not the best at screenshots, RIP.

I wanted to make sims of my Revan and Exile (+Malak) from the KOTOR games. Spent an entire day looking - and failing to find - all the CC I needed, then pulled a "Screw it, I'll do it myself" and learned how to recolor items.

Behold my KOTOR sims and my first attempts at Sims CC ever. I am really proud at how the Exile's armor came out, and Revan's undersuit (which also has an underwear version based on the game). I also made Revan's mask, and Malak's suit, jaw piece, and head tattoos.

Most were recolors of game items, but I also recolored CC by @puna-sims (mask), @lady-moriel (jaw piece), and @natalia-auditore (hooded cloak). All mesh credit goes to the original creators.

[grimlock]

fun fact: if you put someone's url in "filtered post content" it's a way to mute them if you don't want to block someone but just don't care for their posts

[gildingthelilies]

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i have to cancel on movie night tonight.

it's not a grave situation but it's definitely major enough that i have to ask him to reschedule and it's just so irritating

he'll probably understand but there's obviously the part of my head going "what if he doesn't", and i've just really been lookong forward to this so it's just frustrating that i have to leave campus

[lukolathoughts]

The ship that hasn't sunk...yet

Picture this it is night time on a gentle, rolling sea. The night is starry and bright. The moon illuminates a lone majestic ship, as she glides seamlessly through the calm waters of some unknown sea, black in it's vastness. The ship is so beautiful, that all passengers glory in it's pride and resplendence. They are proud to be aboard. The crew stand in unison at the bow to watch the calm sea, as the ship drifts on. There had been some choppy waters earlier in the week, but alas most passengers had stayed aboard unperturbed, waiting hopefully for the final destination.

Suddenly, BOOM like an incoming missile, an explosion creates a massive hole in the starboard side. The ship rocks violently, teetering to one side. Passengers and crew scream and cry in confusion as their bodies are thrown mercilessly in all directions. The ship begins to take on water.

I frantically get to my feet, holding my head, my hair in disarray. What in the holy hell was that? Someone thrusts a pair of binoculars in my hand. I am afraid to look. As chaos reigns all around me, I reluctantly lift the binoculars to my tired eyes. And do a double take.

"Jesus H Roosevelt Christ!" I exclaim, echoing the sentiments of Claire Fraser. "It cannot be..."

"It is ZG!" My second in command shrieks. "It's the USS Lutonia!"

I suddenly here a dum, dum, dum ringing in my ears like screeching static. My feet wobble on the unsteady deck and I look again.

It is none other than the USS Lutonia anchored some distance away like some forgotten tomb that rose from the depths of the sea.

"But it's just sitting there, number two!" I bark at my petrified second in command. "What is it doing?"

"I don't know ZG! It doesn't seem right..."

The USS Lutonia seems out of sorts. One side is sequestered in a unnerving darkness I do not recognise, the brown vines creeping eerily around the exterior of the ship in a sleek camouflage. The interior seems unstable and not matching the exterior of the ship. The two sides seemed to be at odds. Money had been spent on the exterior, but the interior is drab and second-hand in comparison. Trying to be something it is not. The smoking cannons are clearly visible.

As I look on dismally at the USS Lutonia, some passengers start to jump overboard. I scream to the crew to lock down the bulkheads to stop the USS Lukola taking on water. In the background, the mournful lament of Nearer my God to Thee starts playing yet again and I run over to the band, snatch the violin from one guy and chuck it overboard. I then slap his face. "Get a grip, for Gods sake man!" I holler and elbow the cellist in the ribs. "I've had enough of this shit!"

I then stomp down to the massive hole in the ship's starboard side with my crew and start the painful task of yet again patching it up. Anyone got any tape? In the end, the impact wasn't lasting. Friday I sleep.

Well guys, what a week. If June 13th hurt, this one again was a steamroller. Forget about the USS Jakola, that one is dead. Currently, sitting on the ocean floor making small talk with the Titanic. The USS Lutonia is seemingly back and bolder than ever. Or is it? I know that a plethora of other bloggers have been over this now thoroughly, but I wanted to throw in my pennie's worth.

A few weeks ago, I touched on Nicola's motorbike ride of death to Graham Norton's studio on 13th December 2024. I outlined the reasons I suspect it was a complete PR stunt, including the fact it was recorded by her PR company and released to their Instagram page. The reasons why are debatable and ambiguous, but you won't change my opinion on this unless I see footage of Nicola being whizzed through the streets of London, or at least footage of her driving off up the road on the back of the bike. In my opinion it is contrived bullshit.

Skip ahead to last Thursday 30th January where my quiet evening was hijacked by none other than Luke and Antonia emerging from a car at David Beckham's Boss event. I had touched on the Tower in my previous blogs and I had done a Celtic cross on Antonia, that I had released on you tube the day before. Sadly, the first card out in Antonia's current situation was the emperor - my card for Luke. Everyone heard my gasp and I though oh shit, but I decided to press on. Her advice from spirit was the three of swords. Let it go, let him go because there is always someone in the way. The external forces position was the the queen of cups - Nicola.

I am an empath as most of you know and what I saw from Luke last Thursday was something I had not seen since last year in the Sorrento photos. Darkness. It is something I hope to never see from him again, but I'm not that lucky. Nothing about that night made sense for me energetically. It's like a disjointed jigsaw puzzle I can't make sense of in my mind. This was further added to by the red carpet video I saw this week and the angry looks he gives Antonia. You can call me delulu, but I know what I see energetically as well as in body language and this is from the both of them. She looks petrified and unprepared and Luke just looks pissed off. If you watch his People interview and then this red carpet appearance, you might have a hard time thinking Luke is the same person.

This is an orchestrated PR stunt in my opinion. I was angry about the motorbike, but this takes the biscuit. I understand Luke's motivations, but I am still sad he felt he had to do this. I feel he pulled a 'Colin' and took matters into his own hands to fix a situation, much to the horror of his helpless PR company who have spent the last eight months trying to scrub any trace of him and Antonia from the face of the internet. It backfired badly and that is why my friends the USS Lukola is still afloat. Barely. I have found the silence this last week particularly suspicious, especially as it was Luke's birthday yesterday. Not a dickie bird from either Nicola or Antonia about the birthday boy. I am keeping a weary eye on the the anchored and ghostly USS Lutonia, silently lurking in the open waters as the USS Lukola regains passengers and tries to stop water leaking in.

There are many things I could list such as to why I think this was PR. The article from the Daily Mail that was released before the event and featured Antonia's bio heavily. Antonia seemed to be wearing an outfit from her own closet, her hair and makeup was not professionally done. She did not have her purse or phone inside the event. She has not posted about the event. Luke's odd behaviour, his refusal to put Antonia actually in his grid or stories. His liking spree last weekend of Nicola's posts and anything she is tagged in. The fact that he and Nic still often appear online together at the same time.

Another thing they seem to forget about us Lukola's, is that we have receipts and a lot of them going back months. I know full well where Antonia was for Christmas and New Year and I'm telling you, it was not with Luke Newton. She did seem to appear cosy with some other male dancers in the Maldives though, just saying.

So we will wait and we will watch quietly. We also have the hilarity of Nicola's audio book 'Misdirected' to keep us entertained on our deck sun loungers, sipping margaritas while the band plays upbeat tunes. Quite coincidental that Nicola's audiobook is called 'Misdirected' with all this misdirection going on at the moment, is it not?

[devildomwriter]

They Were Loved | Satan x Reader

“It will be okay my dear…” Satan whispered to you as you cried in his arms. “I know it doesn’t feel like it now but I promise it will be okay…”

Satan was equally distressed over the loss of your beloved pet but in the presence of your sobs he was as stoic as he could be, he needed to be the shoulder you could cry on.

You reminisced through sobs about meeting your pet, the cute things they did, the cute things you’d never see again, the moments you regretted scolding them. You went over everything, repeating many things as he rubbed your back and kissed your forehead.

“D-do you think—“ you stuttered through tears as you struggled to ask if your pet lived a good life.

Satan nodded earnestly, “How could they not have a good life with you as their parent?”

“B-but I didn’t do a-anything amazing l-like some pet-parents, I—“

“You did everything you could for them.”

“N-no I didn’t! I-I was so lazy sometimes and—“

Satan cut you off and kissed your forehead again as you continued to let out your sobs so loudly everyone in the house of lamentation could hear.

“Listen to me ___, you are an amazing pet parent and you did what you were capable of as often as you were able to. Not everyone has the same parenting style when it comes to animals and yours was phenomenal compared to most. Forget about the few random bloggers out there who probably only do those things for attention and not out of love. I know you and I know that (your pet) knew they were loved and is playing with your other late pets now waiting until you can see them again.”

Your sobs softened a little but came back at the thought of them in heaven waiting for you. The idea was equally distressing to Satan, that you may one day die and go where he couldn’t. But what mattered now was your emotional comfort and he was going to do everything and say everything he could to remind you what a good job you did in their life and how grateful they were to live in a warm and happy home.

[soundlesslament]

So I saw the latest TWC progress update and I love the idea of the detective getting a one-word description based on their reputation within the Agency.

What would your detectives want their word/reputation to be?

My Lauren would want to be known as 'efficient". 🙃

[horsegirl]

but who would hear the blogger’s lament except the silent html of its post

[delawaredetroit]

Worst part about your posts regarding how interactions between Izuku and Toga could have gone is that there is nothing of the like you are describing anywhere.

I read your posts and I want to read them interact like that but nothing. Canon is a lost cause and fanfics might as well be a desert where I need water.

Curse you Bayle Blogger for having posts too good.

That would be why I was lamenting that missed potential that was Izuku and Toga's character dynamic, yes. Because it wasn't explored in the manga despite all of their parallels even through Ochako who was the glue connecting the two of them in canon. If there were good fanfics that explored their dynamic more (as well as Ochako and Toga) I'd love to read them.

Sorry, anon. As a consolation, if you want to read a manga where the teenage yandere with systemic social critiques who wants to consume/become their narrative foil gets more focus and an interesting relationship with the protagonist, may I recommend you Mairimashita! Iruma-kun. You may like whatever is going on with Amy Kiriwo.

[freakoutgirl]

Tumblr is annoying because I can make a post lamenting how CDs aren't as popular as they used to be, and random bloggers will be in the notes like actually ☝️🤓 I from the humble land of San Francisco still see CDs sold at record stores.

[terresdebrume]

So, ironically, after I said I'm no good at keeping up relationships (not a plea for reassurance, if I don't see a person regularly I tend to let the relationship deteriorate unless people take the first step which is uh. Bad.) I was looking at ideas for simple trackers layouts (RIP the original ADHD friendly bujo, you've been taken over by aesthetic bloggers whose livelihood depends on complicating you) and came across the concept of relationship trackers...

And honestly I think I'm going to give it a go next month. Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't, but it's better than just lamenting the fact that I keep losing friends without doing anything about it

[soundlesslament]

Since no one answered my questions about "Dragon Age: The Veilguard", I ended up caving and buying the game, and here are my findings. Plus my Rook, because he is very cute.

Spoiler-free!

THE GOOD

The game is nowhere near as linear as some reviews made it seem! You can still explore large areas, finding secrets and picking up quests, and do said quests in whatever order you choose.

The Codex remains and is great.

The game looks beautiful, even at low resolution. I love the illustrated narrated scenes. The look of the 'hub world' is customizable and cozy too.

If party banter gets interrupted (e.g., by an enemy encounter), the characters will pick it back up later.

You can set an 'appearance' outfit to override the look of whatever armor you actually have installed. No more choosing between appearance and stats. All armors can also be upgraded.

You can pet cats and dogs, and even hug a baby gryphon. I have had Assam for one day and if anything ever happened to him I would kill everyone in Tevinter and then myself.

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There are many difficulty settings, including a "storyteller" mode for players who are more interested in the story aspects that allows you to disable death for your character. No need to stress about boss fights.

THE MAYBE

In general, I love the new combat system. I am not a fan of strategic combat, and this feels much more dynamic and fun. That said, they also made it way too complex. Besides short and long-distance attacks and skills, there are special effects using different key combos, using runes, setting up combo attacks between (otherwise independent) party members, and changing weapon types.

They did not override most decisions from previous games. Everything is simply not mentioned. The only exception is when you ask about the companions from "Inquisition", as it assumes all companions were hired, which wasn't obligatory to do. Also, for some reason, Vivienne is not mentioned at all.

Regarding discourse around the game: People are apparently complaining about the game being 'woke', but honestly the only thing I have noticed is that you can have your character be transgender. And maybe Taash struggling with her mother complaining she isn’t feminine enough (is that woke now?). That's about it. There is no 'woke ideology' in the game. I don't know who is making that up.

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THE BAD

The character creator is bad. You have to choose three different premade faces and morph between them instead of working with each separate feature (which you can only adjust a little). I couldn't recreate my Inquisitor properly because it was impossible to alter the eye shape to what I wanted.

I also couldn't give her the scars and tattoo she had. In fact, the scar and tattoo options aren't the best. Some scars look a bit cartoony. There are no small tattoos.

More bad writing: it makes no sense to sideline the quest to stop Solas and have the two evanuris be the villains instead. I think they are interesting, but this development is not the best.

Bad writing. Not all the time, but enough times to be noticeable. Emmrich talks like a cartoon character in his introductory mission, for example; fortunately, it seems to be toned down later.

Bellara has it the worst of all, though. She is the bubbly, ditsy maniac pixie girl that I am sure is some tech boy's dream. The 'cutesy' way she talks and squeaks honestly makes me uncomfortable. I have been actively avoiding having her in the party.

Choosing a faction doesn't really have that big of an influence on the game. Your faction will grow its influence faster and there will be a few lines acknowledging your history with them, but that seems to be about it. There are no special missions, nor a separate start like in "Origins". It feels a bit like an afterthought.

Despite having dialogue choices with different 'personalities', Rook always agrees with everything. The different lines all end up being the same basic response, just in different words/tones.

You can't talk to companions unless there is an event involving them. It's immersion breaking. Seriously, they couldn't have a couple lines on repeat?