#But it's exactly what the pacing needed

[aleyothorncrow]

Winter Melting: Chpt. 9 Back Again but Still Not Home

Rating: M || WC: (3,325/38,390) || Haven Arc || Chpt: 9/??

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Chapter Excerpt:

Haven celebrates while Mirenan continues to be a buzzkill.

“Look at him. He’s doing it again.” Mirenan peered around Dorian. They had climbed onto the roof of her little hut in Haven, where the beam for catching the snow that accumulated made both a sturdy climbing hold and a nice little seat. From there, they had a good view of the festivities across the Inquisition camp, pilgrims arm in arm with Chantry sisters, mages keeping a wide bay of the Inquisition templars-turned-soldiers even as both groups’ voices rose in merriment and song. Patrolling the party was the ruffed Commander, occasionally exchanging a nod or handshake with a drunk reveler, but never ceasing his vigilance. Dorian sat up to give a perfunctory glance in Cullen’s direction before leaning against the roof again. “He appears to be trying, in his own way, to partake in a bit of leisure,” he said with a wave of his hand. “Let him. The man could use a break from his work.” “But he keeps looking this way. See!” Her hand gripped Dorian’s arm. “There he goes again.” She collapsed against the roof, hands over her face. “He’s going to kill me, I know it. First chance he gets.”

Chapter-specific tags/warnings below the cut.

Chapter-specific tags: Lavellan, Dorian, Fionna, Alistair, Cullen, Cole

Chapter-specific warnings: No content warnings for this chapter.

Maryden makes a background appearance, and yes, she did bring her lute.

[gothwizardmagic]

oh yeah i finished sacred and terrible air and i regret to announce that the distressingly erotic autopsy scene in disco elysium was not an isolated incident

[sysig]

Wake up somewhere better, maybe (Patreon)

[fisherrprince]

Although - let me premise. I like Lyse. I don’t think Conrad choosing her to lead the resistance was earned, it felt very fast and a bit out of nowhere because she’s not a leaderly type and the traits she gained were in Doma (he didn’t see that happen), but you actually don’t have to change anything major to fix or at least better it in my brain, you just need to swap around some dialogue. Don’t have him talk to you about choosing her, have her take the reins herself or with encouragement when he dies. thassit I think itd give her some je ne sais quoi

[bronzewool]

if i had a nickel for every time a company cancelled their top rated lesbian cartoon and the animators had exactly one season to wrap up what was clearly meant to be a five season storyline, I'd have two nickels...

[sophiegoose]

I love Monster Sanctuary

Been struggling for hours to 5-star some of the tougher bosses and I've finally made a breakthrough via tossing a penguin, a spider in a Halloween costume, and someone's fursona with a knife at said bosses until they die

Absolutely fantastic game, 10/10

[tdsaveme]

Finally watched season 1 of the reboot last night and everyone was right it is SO good

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Sea Of Broken Glass

fantasy

two sisters who live on a floating village in a shallow ocean are exiled when one develops magic and can’t hide it like her sister does

they travel to the land, trying to survive searching for their mother who was exiled 20 years ago, through the wilderness and magical caves

crystal/mineral magic, magical creatures, sister relationships

[storybycorey]

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[barley-st-band]

hey does anyone know how we’re supposed to survive it all. asking for a friend

[byanyan]

god ok it's 1am i gotta like. go lie facedown in bed & not be able to sleep for another 2-3 hours lmao

[vexedtonightmares]

i got drunk & watched the rwrb movie last night and i have 2 thoughts

1. that was bad

2. it was like a bad porno but without any porn

[prometheuswounds]

this hannibal rewatch is curing me. i feel joy again

[sovamurka]

As a person who read almost the entirety of 'Legends of Bubble' series I can say that it's bonkers how 'Dreamcatcher' is the smallest book in the series yet it's surprisingly the most important book for its original source.

'Demonslayer' has, like, 5 separate legends, two of them are fucking HUGE (with 'Yarkh. Step up' being the biggest) but 'Dreamcatcher' is the only one that actually ties the first and the second part of its source material and uses it cleverly. It's amazing.

I read this one with the expectation that it's a fanservice-y kind of comic book that could potentially explore the characters but have very little impact on the story as a whole. A story for a very specific audience, a story that could be just skipped. But nooooooo.

They went HARD on this one. Not only we learn more about Balor and Yana's relationship and how it's even more fucked up than we thought (the part where we learn how their first meeting actually happened and whose fault it was had me shooked), but we also learn what kind of plans they had for the future, we learn why they do what they do in Vol.2, we learn why and how the whole 'Satan in the knife' plot started.

But the craziest thing is that they basically spoil the entirety of Vol.2. I kid you not, the way they splattered small delicate details everywhere that you only notice and connect after you read the entirety of 'Demonslayer' is insane. It was not even a Chekhov's gun, it was straight up a Chekhov's cannon. And if after you read it for the first time you're like 'Well, that was fun, moving on!', on your second reading you experience something akin to the existential crisis mixed with five stages of grief. And if you decide to read 'Demonslayer' in its entirety again, thanks to this you'll see everything in a new light and cry over things you didn't cry about before! In fact, you'll finally understand things you didn't understand! You'll also be obliterated by the ending twice as hard this time!

And to this day it drives me crazy how all of this was done in just 114 pages.

[kittychicha]

actually im cool with whatever i feel you linger in the air decides to do with the ending because nothing will beat ice paris being his own grandfather in love destiny the movie

[theheadlessgroom]

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@beatingheart-bride

“Ah, thank you, lass,” Wilhelm chuckled bashfully, rubbing the back of his neck as her gratitude-he wasn’t exactly sure how good of a teacher he was (particularly when it came to language), but he was glad that could be a help to Emily as she practiced her English, just as June had been such a help to him.

And besides, he never missed an opportunity to share his fables with anyone, always loving the chance to share the many great legends and stories he had been raised on with a new audience, and so he was happy to share them with Emily now, both as a learning tool and as a means of entertainment, allowing her a better look into Irish culture, and the stories told from generation to generation.

“Y’know, this was Randall’s favorite story when he was a wee lad,” he added with a smile, as he leaned forward, resting his head on his chin, saying, “He used to ask Junie and I to read it to him all the time, and he used to just sit and look at the pictures just as often. I think it was part of what made him want to get into tailoring and millinery-he loved the beautiful dresses Trembling wore, and I think he wanted to make something like them.”

Well, that, and he had a feeling the beautiful, golden-haired Trembling had something to do with his boy’s affection for blonde-haired young ladies...glancing at Emily’s own flaxen locks, he supposed he shouldn’t have been so surprised that Randall had become so smitten with the siren...