#Broken Harbor
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rereading broken harbor to get into the spooky halloween spirit and damn it still really creeps me out. i think about it every time i hear animals squabbling and scratching around on the roof.
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the grip tana french’s dublin murder squad is insane. they literally have me in a chokehold. i am listening to broken harbour and the two detectives, kennedy and curran are a fucking fire duo
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Sequel to This Post: How Far Are the Fallout DLC Maps from the Main Game?
I linked them to each game’s main metropolitan area, not the specific launching-off point for the DLC, sorry. Travel times are for the 21st century and don’t reflect resting, carrying equipment, or stopping to fight giant bugs every half-hour. They also don’t reflect that it’s the apocalypse and you can walk on a national highway if you feel like it.
Here’s The Pitt, which I haven’t played yet, sorry
This is Point Lookout, though it’s important to note that in-game you get there via the river and it takes a month? For some reason?
Anchorage is a simulation, Broken Steel uses the original game map, and Mothership Zeta is… in space.
We know next to nothing about the Sierra Madre and I can’t really approximate where it is. I couldn’t find the in-game travel time to get back to the Mojave.
Zion Valley, by foot but also by car since it gives you a weird walking route. In-game, it’s a two-week hike.
A rough approximation of the location of Big Mountain. It could be anywhere in Death Valley; all we know is that it’s south of the Divide. In-game, of course, you teleport there and back, so you likely won’t need this info.
The Divide. In-game, the journey is three hours.
The Island. In-game, you get there by boat, and as far as I can tell it takes about an hour.
We don’t know anything about Nuka-World’s real location except that it’s in Massachusetts. Assuming the train is running, you probably don’t need real travel times, but if you do, you can make something up.
#fallout#fallout 4#fo4#new vegas#fallout new vegas#fnv#fallout 3#fo3#dead money#old world blues#far harbor#nuka world#broken steel#mothership zeta#operation anchorage#point lookout#the pitt#honest hearts#lonesome road
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brian jaqcues 🤝 tana french
mustelids are ontologically evil
#broken harbor truly book of all time.#there's all the unspeakable rich deep horror and misery of scorcher getting his shit totally wrecked#AND you get to learn mink facts!!!!#fact 1: they're evil.#fact 2: but you know what's even more evil? property developers!
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i love the slasher fandom because i know for a fucking fact billy wouldn't like leslie at all. leslie would go up to a younger billy and start ranting about his worth ethic and billy would look up from reading war and peace and go "i...i literally didn't do any of that." and leslie would be like no you absolutely did look at this technique and billy would be like "i was in a psychotic episode i thought literally none of this out." brahms would call leslie a slur. the reason why they all did what they did is sooooo different and leslie assuming they're thinking on his level would be his downfall
#i love them so much their dynamic is so finny#just in a realistic depiction i really do not think billy and leslie especially would like eachother#brahms i feel like harbors a lot of guilt for his kills too since the only true confirmed kills he had are either accidental or like#in a weird form of self defense (ie the doll being broken)#if leslie pulled the technique talk on brahms hed literally kick him#slasher#leslie vernon#brahms heelshire#billy lenz#read my rant boy#my shit
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realizing that Dappletuft, Softpelt, Harelight, and Gorseclaw are all littermates. Dappletuft is killed in a failed assassination attempt against the impostor and he is buried like a rogue without the proper vigils, his family mourning silently for him. Softpelt is killed in the battle against ShadowClan and Harelight is banished for fighting against RiverClan. Gorseclaw is the only one of them left in the Clan, their family torn apart by the impostor
#dappletuft#softpelt#harelight#gorseclaw#gorseclaw rc#riverclan#warriors#warrior cats#wc#tbc#the broken code#harbor's posts
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It dawns on me that the journey to the west took 5,040 days exactly, right, and while the book goes from tribulation to tribulation, there were still only 81 of those. And they were missing one when they got there. And some of the tribulations Tripitaka went through happened before the journey even started.
So, even being generous and saying that most of the tribulations that occurred during the actual journey could be said to have taken a few days to handle each, that's still only about 10% of the journey. A tribulation was anything that happened that put Tripitaka in danger or presented any sort of obstacle to him. Anything even remotely exciting would have fallen into that ~10%, and nothing else could have happened, because otherwise they wouldn't have gotten west one moderate inconvenience and/or major trauma short of the prize. (I mean, unless the thing that happened managed to not involve Tripitaka at all in any way, but that's very hard to do when you are all attached at the hip.)
Holy cow they really were just walking. ALL THAT TIME. No wonder Zhu Bajie was stirring the pot at any given opportunity. It was literally the only thing to do.
#jttw personal#how did they not kill each other#I was thinking about this while still picking at chapter 27#tripitaka was super gullible in that chapter in a sort of inexcusable way but also#it sooooort of makes sense when you think like#statistically#across the whole journey they could have gone moooonths between demons#years even#and suddenly sun wukong's claiming to have killed 3 (they didn't know it was the same demon) in a row in one morning?#even if tripitaka HAD believed him (or just harbored doubts) after the first one how likely was it the second was the case? or the THIRD?#obviously the evidence was in his face but couple the idea that their encounters with demons were actually SUPER rare#with the fact that tripitaka still had major trust issues with sun wukong from the fact he HAD trusted sun wukong previously#only to have that trust pretty solidly broken#and tripitaka's probably operating on a level of 'fool me once' hyper-vigilance against him that actually makes zhu bajie seem reasonable#I mean who are you going to trust? you and your own shitty judgement when you've already been wrong about the guy once before?#or the DEMON who probably knows more about DEMON MAGIC than you?#tripitaka's got TWO expert consults telling him two wildly opposing things but only ONE of them's seriously burned him in the past#(while the third expert consult and tie-breaker is notably abstaining. gdit sha wujing.)#anyway the characterization here is actually really good#tripitaka doesn't know the story framing - WE know something's up because otherwise we wouldn't have a story about it -#but tripitaka doesn't realize he's in a book#and I'm just saying tripitaka is being less foolish than the meta knowledge of being The Reader makes him seem#still a total brat though#he's definitely letting his own pride and hurt (and like...trauma) bias him against sun wukong unfairly#which is something he needs to work on and IS something that he pays for#(even with the bandits: expecting sun wukong to behave to tripitaka's standards of morality prior to TEACHING him those standards)#(wasn't fair. but also when he *tried* to address it sun wukong got angry and took off. and then tried to kill him. so.)#it's just interesting and whoever told this story originally was clearly putting a lot of thought into what it would be like#to actually be in these guys' shoes. Like ugh. HOW is this book so good?
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/takes a little breath amidst a quiet dash. Starter call!
Though I have threads/asks to get to, I'm curious if one of these would catch anyone's attention. I know sending in sentence starters isn't always up everyone's alley and it's a little harder when it comes to interacting with a character who's canonically dead in present day, like mine. Although (I need to write up the details for the first iteration of it) I do have her resurrected in a present timeline (see tags). If you're interested in me either coming to you, or fishing up something with a bit of a red line, give this a like and I'll see what I can do! Trust me when I say, if we're mutuals, I'm interested in writing with you. See this as a little cheat to grab my attention if you want it!
#[ so i've simply been dying to get her in a modern setting /without/ changing the course of events. ]#[ so while i need to refine the details and the circumstances may differ down the line-- it won't affect interact with most of you-- ]#[ as i heavily tie guizhong to the moon/night due to too many references to it in her attire and symbolisms alike... ]#[ and also to the chasm and its origins-- that's a whole other hc. ]#[ i've decided the first iteration of resurrecting her to simply be based within the concept that the gods never quite die... ]#[ because the elements that they're tied to never do either. they're not 'personifications' by any means-- but they're a part of. ]#[ they can manifest into a corporeal form and in the same way; that form can be broken and destroyed. ]#[ and it weakens them immensely; a much more severe form of osial being 'restrained'/locked away for thousands of years. ]#[ i envision that they can't simply reform. but they could over-time. or at least when 'stars align' of sorts. ]#[ when their element is at its strongest and can gather elemental energy from /somewhere/. ]#[ so /after/ the events of the game thus far-- during moonchase; on the night when the moon is at its fullest... ]#[ and at its apex. it's shining less brightly than it normally is-- and it's because it's being used as a battery of sorts. ]#[ you know all of the dust above cuejiue slope? that cloud of dust moves towards the cliff by the harbor-- by that sole glaze lily. ]#[ and dust from across liyue and possibly even teyvat-- slowly gathers. it would look like a shadow from afar. ]#[ and it gathers and along with the energy that the moon supplies that night; when everything falls into place... ]#[ it allows her to regain her corporeal form as it existed prior. ]#[ this is after 'rex lapis' has stepped down and retreats from his position as archon of liyue. ]#[ she doesn't step in by any means whatsoever-- her re-manifestation is actually (in my verse) witnessed by him from afar. ]#[ and then witnesses it up close as she finally forms after a long time of this process. ]#[ she wouldn't go by 'guizhong' except by adepti who remember; but she might go by haagentus. at least initially. ]#[ /breathes. hi. hello. i'm sae and i'm a mess of an individual-- pls come here and don't leave me despite it. ]#[ ooc. ] wherever her spirit may be among the countless grains of sand and specks of dust between the harbor and the mountains…
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Anyway frothing at the mouth at the fact The Crane Wives’ “Never Love an Anchor” perfectly fits Cody and Jango Fett’s relationship in my multiverse au.
#chili rambles#like— gaaahhhhh!!#‘so I did the only thing that I could and I severed the rope to set you sailing from my harbor’#‘you are someone I have loved but never known’#‘I am selfish I am broken I am cruel I am all the things they might’ve said to you’#’do you ever think of me and my two hands and wonder why…’#*on the floor*
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Not me realizing that a man breaking into my house is the source of all my stalker dreams and all my breaking and entering dreams and all my late night paralyzing anxieties about someone being in my house uninvited. Duh.
#for years and years i thought i just inherited anxiety from my mom#i thought that too many shane dawson videos and true crime docs gave me this unshakable fear#and then one day this memory surfaced like a hippo coming up for air#and now it all makes sense. a man i knew was dangerous broke into my house.#broke down my door. i heard the door and the inner frame crash to the floor#for years afterwards the door did not shut right. if it was unlocked it would swing open in the wind#even as i dealt with this every day. even as i knew that my door had been broken through before#i did not truly understand the weight of that memory until very recently.#i could not have told you about the intruder taking my moms purse and car keys#could not have told you where he put them#could not have told you about the neighbor man who came to our door. who offered to fix it up for free#who offered to buy my mothers broken gun off her hands. who waited with us while the cops went on a manhunt#who was found out to be harboring our intruder in his house the whole time he was talking to us. he had invited him in#thats how this neighbor man knew where to find us and what had happened#i could not have told you any of these things that i remember so clearly. i remember it happened on a tuesday#this was all lost to me for so many years. buried in the mud at the bottom of my mind#and now here it is. clear as day.
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I WOULD DIE TO READ THAT HARBOR BAY FIC AHHHHHHHHHHHH
I'm-I'm trying, I'm trying to write--I'm almost--AH I CAN'T GET THIS SHOE ON🤬
It's gotta be first person cause I'm gonna be faithful to the source, but I have no idea how I'm going to start it. Like AHHHH I have so many ideas and they all want to be in the fic and I just AAAHHHHH. Like do I start en media rest and it's Cal's POV? Or do I start from the point where he's dragged on to the sand and it's Mare's POV and I get to do the whole destroy the world from her perspective? I KNOW I gotta have the part where it's low key Coriane pulled Cal back from the brink, and I gotta have so many other headcanons that I personally love. But are they gonna all fit???? I'm shoving it all into this fic like its a clown car 😫 I have to go put on my clown makeup to do this.
#(*ask lily*)#(*shut up lily*)#red queen#glass sword#kings cage#war storm#broken throne#post broken throne#marecal#THE Harbor Bay fic#listen starting it is the hard part#the song francesca is currently my most listened to song on spotify because of this fic#I SWEAR I am going to tear myself apart over this fic
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fuck copyright law!!! can you imagine if all the paintings of the renaissance were locked between a copyright cage??? Imagine the total loss of history, the loss of artistic theory, the loss of ideas and expression. This is exactly what will happen with video games if corporations sue archivists and emulators. It’s not like they have any interest in preserving the history if it doesn't make them money
#like as a history buff i am heart broken about this!!!!#video games are one of the biggest artistic mediums today and greed keeps us from accessing its history#fuck corporations pirate and rip video games as much as u can#preserve that history when it inevitably becomes lost media and corpos dump thhe master copies into the ny harbor
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Stars of the Lid | Broken Harbors
#*gentle humming*#good night#stars of the lid#broken harbors#the tired sounds of#the tired sounds of stars of the lid#ambient#Bandcamp
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hate reading a murder mystery about mental illness because i feel myself turning into a very defensive reader but the mystery genre so often uses mentally ill characters as horrible evil wicked people that it is very hard to not feel defensive and short tempered with the book! ah well!
#i should instead read a murder mystery where a mentally ill person solves the mystery and it was actually the cops or something. inside job.#no idea how that would work#tbd#this is about broken harbor by tana french#if **** did it then i'm tapping out lol#something that is helping is that the narrators in these books are SO unreliable that you know that the narrator isn't the author u know?#anyway. i miss rob and cassie
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Loving all the Mine chat today! In a world where neither of them have Daigo to fixate on (for whatever reason) what do you think interactions between Mine and Masato/Aoki would be like? All your comics have them obv pitted against one another (always gives me a giggle gotta say!!) but I'm curious bout your thoughts on them/their potential interactions if Daigo wasn't part of the equation. I think they could be so evil together in whatever capacity. Real "I could make him worse" territory.
Sorry if this is a bit silly (I know removing Daigo removes a lot of other things too) I just love listening to you talk about guys ™️ lmao
i am a renowned Guy(TM) Talker this is a fair thing to assert
BUT honestly they'd probably like. not be friends or Sincerely get along but they'd probably use each other one way or another if given the opportunity: aoki wanting to exploit mine's skills, knowledge, and wealth, all the while mine At Least keeping an eye on aoki's influence (and if he wanted to do his homework probably keep tabs on the arakawas) and considering if it'll have potential use down the line. it's not like it's hard to imagine them having similar ideologies or morals either
mine'd absolutely loathe aoki's pride in his philosophy tho- even if it does align with his own somewhat LMAO
#snap chats#tl;dr they could be collaborators that hate each other#aoki'd prob be gaga over mine's potential use to him tbh lol#LIKE yes mine generally has a distrust of people and doesnt believe in them but at his core he also wants to#hence why he'd just. despise aoki's blatant narcissism LMAO its a gross mirror to look at#at the very least mine wasnt proud of his philosophy when he told kiryu about it. it seemed more of an unfortunate fact of life#very big difference compared to to aoki's enthusiasm and almost giddiness to use and dispose of people#all the while without harboring /too deeply/ of a want to connect with others#evidently we find out deep in his evil black little soul he did want SOME kind of connection and normalcy#but it wasn't as. so to say as much of a 'romantic' want as it was for mine#and i dont mean in terms of ACTUAL romance just in that. take mine joining the yakuza for example#he had a very romantic idea of 'the bonds between men' and so on and so forth#like ultimately his goal was sincere relationships- all the while aoki's goal was. ????#like i KNOW what it is but as a person.. scratching my head now that i actually have to label it#i guess he really did want admiration from others in the end and to not feel so 'weak' or 'broken' anymore#idk i guess the lines can blur if you try hard enough but im rambling LOL bye
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i'm not a person i'm just wearing skin fabric i've pulled over my skeleton
#vent art#vent#sketches#i wander mindlessly for days and nights. until i stumble across a lone house in the middle of nowhere.#the roof caved in long ago but someone's hung up a thick tarp in its place.#the walls are crumbling and the banisters that once held up the porch are rotted.#but somebody sits there in the shade. and it turns out he's been sitting there watching you for quite a while.#and i walk closer and closer. the man who lives here is named hamboo. he deems that i'm not a threat when he sees my tattered clothes#which are stained with blood and mud and the sea. he sees that i have died and risen again.#he asks what happened. i tell him i got my heart broken and murdered in one fell swoop#he looks at me with pity in his eyes and asks if i'd like his assistance#and for once i did not find myself hesitant in accepting the help that i so desperately needed.#he leads me down to a nearby pond and helps me wash away all the blood and brushes my tangled hair. lends me clothes.#i tell him only what i can remember. that i was asked out on a date and wound up face down in the harbor.#later he stitches my wounds together. i ask him why bother and he says it will help in the long run.#i think he must be lonely to want to care for me#but i don't mind#and when i have dreams. i tell him. i tell him how real they feel and the emotions they invoke and he treats them as significant.#and it feels like i've been believed for the first time in my life.#reggie speaks
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