#I'm flailing this was so lovely

[egophiliac]

Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

[bywandandsword]

So I was just told something interesting

You know how a lot of these big Victorian houses have seemingly useless railings around windows that are clearly not balconies? Come to find out these sorts of houses were built so that you could close off parts of the house from each other, like if you had guests or were hosting a party or something. But staff still needed to be able to get around so these windows would be large enough that staff could go out one window from one closed off section of the house to the other. It also gave the effect that guests rarely actually saw staff moving around doing day-to-day tasks. And apparently, a lot of these windows had hidden panels that swung out and make it look like the window wasn't there from inside the room When I heard that, I immediately thought about a lot of modern criticism of older novels books that feature wealthier protagonists, who talk about their isolation and loneliness. I've heard people discussing these protagonists say things like "How can you be lonely when you're surrounded by staff? It must be their sense of class that prevents them from seeing the staff as people who they can socialize with". That is absolutely at play, don't get me wrong. But with the windows in mind and the knowledge that one of the marks of a good staff at the time was to be as unseen as possible, I think it's completely possible that these protagonists, and the real people they represented, really DID feel that they were completely alone in their houses. Not only were all these social structures in place to keep them separate from everyone else in the house, but also these physical structures that further limited interaction. Because we no longer build houses like this and a lot of older surviving houses no longer have this feature, it's a bit of context that modern readers aren't aware of

I think it's really interesting, cause it gives a whole new context to these stories and social life in the period, and also makes me wonder about what other context that we're not aware of when looking at history or fiction from previous time periods that would re-frame our understandings of the event of those times

[mariyekos]

One of the things that makes me feel crazy on DMC5 replays is the way V phrases his request to Dante.

He doesn't say "we need your help to stop the demon." He says "A powerful demon is about to resurrect, and we need your help, Dante." The implication seems to be that V needs Dante's help to stop it...but if you've played it before, that's not what he's really asking. V needs Dante's help in order for the resurrection to take place. Because until Urizen is weakened V has no chance of rejoining him, so he needs Dante's help to weaken Urizen so he's primed for merging and bringing about Vergil's resurrection. The "we" V refers to could also absolutely be both V and Urizen in that case, instead of just some general "we" of humanity. So he's not really asking for help to stop the resurrection, but instead to bring it about, hiding the truth in plain sight and careful wording.

The DMC 5 localization can be wonky in some places, but in other places it just shines. "We need your help, Dante." Not to stop it. He never says that. It's to bring about the resurrection itself.

[statementlou]

Tbh i am not surprised that a person who openly talked about having drinking problems since 1d days, because of how crazy 1d worked has been agressive. What surprises me is people being surprised (they never seriously saw drunk person?). But i am also confused about this whole book. Apparently Maya said that that book is not fully bout Liam but compilation about her exes and some of the worst parts are not about him. But recently she said that the book is “ofc about him” so what is true then? Or did she meant it that ofc some parts are about him or that whole book is about him?

Sorry, just confused

I also am not surprised- we've learned so much more about the real stories of things and about the guys' actual lives over the last years, and the story that has unfolded around Liam has been totally consistent throughout if you've been following it, and so the information Maya is telling us is shocking and upsetting but not difficult to believe. I got an anon yesterday saying they were worried about getting similar revelations about the other boys, like "if Liam could be doing this we just don't know, any of them could", and while in a way that's always true I guess, anyone could be doing anything in private like... that doesn't really concern me. Because none of these Liam revelations are coming out of nowhere, there have been many MANY steps along the way leading us here if you've been watching, and he has talked openly about both his mental health struggles and his addiction issues. So to answer that anon... to find out something similar about Louis would in contrast contradict everything we know about him and no I'm not worried about it. Is he probably very irritating, absolutely, but an abuser or a loose cannon, well that news would shock me. But anyway as for the book I don't find it strange that she was nervous when it came out and treading lightly and later decided, fuck it. In the absolutely on point tiktok she dropped today (YES👏GIRL👏FUCKING TELL THEM👏) she even mentions attempts to keep her from publishing the book, presumably by Liam's team, that I am riveted by and cannot WAIT to hear more details about actually- like I said I don't find it at all strange that she was nervous and downplayed it a bit then. But if she says now that it's just about Liam, well, I would say it's been clear from the beginning that the book is their story. Maya herself brought up the parallel of songs being written about stuff and I think it's the same thing; it's true (she was in an abusive relationship that involved certain kinds of events) but maybe not 100% literal (I'm sure details were changed to make the story work, it's not like a word for word timeline of their interactions or whatever).

[honestlydarkprincess]

chewing glass at the idea of something happening to the fourth pearl and percy, a twelve year old child, having to choose between finishing the quest, preventing war, and saving the world or saving the one person he loves most in the world

[starleska]

[submission by the incomparable @grossrottie] Oh my goodness, another pairing falling down the transformation chute??

This one got you and the Toymaker all tangled up, oops!! 😨

Oh hold up, Rudolph says he has one more gift…One sec, lemme go talk to him.

what? same chute, different flavour? what does that mean, Rudolph?

Er—yup, just got word from the red-nosed boss, there’s one more after this! ^w^

[finduilasclln]

I love you to the core? Wha?

Ryan Guzman singlehandedly killing the entire Buddie fandom with one phrase.

Oh how I have missed this.

[betchiwilleatyou]

no one can stop me from calling the 41 year old woman my precious little pookie pie

[landgraabbed]

i know that a while ago i drew a comparison between veilguard and avowed wrt both universes being potentially subjected to fundamental change. well i was wrong because veilguard didn't even dare to give us an ending where we let the veil come down, and bioware generally tends to uphold the status quo (i'm half expecting the south to just rebuild and go back to their normal selves if they ever get to make another da game).

i'm so happy that deadfire ended the way that it did and i hope that avowed honors that (so far i'm hopeful it will with the way it is handling godlikes. ffs i don't even know if my watchers who are both godlike will survive) and keeps playing to the series' strengths. i'm hopeful that obsidian will continue listening to our feedback and that this is the w they need and hopefully we get another pillars of eternity down the line if this one is good

[lover-of-skellies]

What do you think of the possessive (lv20?) Cross x Shattered Dream's?

Ehh, I'm kinda 50/50 about it??

I've seen probably next to nothing for that specific version of the Cream/Dark Cream ship, so I'm not sure how the dynamic is. Sometimes possessive behavior isn't bad, and sometimes it can even be amusing to see if nothing serious happens and it's meant to be a comedic thing. Other times, possessive behavior can go waaaaaay overboard, right into yuckville. Think yandere territory, but potentially worse, somehow

Uhhhhh I guess the tldr is that idk much of anything about LV20 Cross and Shattered Dream as a ship. I see the potential and I'm intrigued, but eh. Slightly iffy, because I'm not sure how possessive we're talking

[fakeoldmanfucker]

Daniel and Louis piecing together what happened in San Francisco and helping each other?? This is the type of poly rep I like to see!!

[ominous-feychild]

I was just looking through some of my old notes and I came across something that's hilarious (or so I think).

So, obviously I have faeries in my stories. Daleira, Valyarus, and Soren are all noted faeries in Sun and Shadow.

But did you know that the Arcane Rifts has faeries, too? And, in fact, that they're even more important there? (Like faeries as a "species", not just the faerie characters, haha.)

Introducing: Vysio and Rhys! They're respectively faeries of Glavnran's forests and nature in general (with a special propensity toward storms (aka water/electricity/wind/blizzards))!

Anyway, for those without context, my faeries are kinda... conceptual beings of pure magic that create forms for themselves! They're shapeshifters that can be who- and whatever they want.

The SaS faeries are all "gendered"--Soren and Daleira are male/female respectively, but actually! Valyarus wouldn't mind "they/them"! He's just gone by "he" for as long as he's interacted with humans, so it's just what he knows! So feel free to use they/them for him, if it makes you guys happy, haha.

TAR's faeries, however... well, they're not! (Actually, tragically, Rhys has lived their whole life with male pronouns. I can't really get into it without spoiling stuff, but suffice to say that they're not in a position where they can be themselves.)

Rhys is, well... an absolute gremlin who you shouldn't trust with any degree of authority (and yet they have a LOT of it--).

They'd probably prefer they/it pronouns tbh, but I'd have to get to a point with their character where they'd be able/willing to think of that sort of thing, so. (And let's just say Rhys doesn't appear until book 3, so they're def not getting that any time soon, OOPS!)

And then there's Vysio. My boy Vysio, the entire reason I wrote out everything I have here.

He's kinda just "whatever" with his pronouns. He's an entity of pure chaos (technically, not literally, but he is chaos-leaning!!! 👀) and is as close to your typical fae as my faeries get! He's a major trickster entity who just wants to cause every single problem possible, and gets so, incredibly angry that nobody recognizes him as the terrifying faerie he is! (My poor baby boy, you'll get them next time. 😂)

But, when I was going through my notes, I found the most wonderful thing.

A silly little "joke" that was 100% true.

Vysio would choose the pronouns "cryptid / bitch".

[paperlovesadness]

Oh yeah. This is a thing that is worth a post.

Yes - Miles staying over at Alex's flat when he's gone on tour is (/was) apparently a thing. That happens. Happened more than once at least. And yeah - it's flail worthy, I don't care what you say.

I think there were times when he was inbetween two places/moving so he'd just stay at Alex's?

But also... Do I have to say what type of fluffy/longing fanfic-type images come to mind when you hear something like this???

Goodbye.

[izloveshorses]

the more i learn about mando s3 the more i’m like...... they should’ve just ended that whole story in s2

[heymrspatel]

you seem so cool and we have several things in common besides shameless. i would love to get to know you better but i am so intimidated to talk to you directly in comments or asks. you seem to have a good group of friends you are very close with on here and like you only interact with them in comments and stuff like that. I get it since your group seems really close. im only writing to let you know that I think you are cool and hope one day i can get over my anxiety and interact with you as not an anon

OH 🥺 HI! HIII! i want to give you the biggest hug, can i?

i've been staring at this ask since it came in and doing some version of this face 🥺 the entire time, and just wondering how to tell you that you have nothing at all to be intimidated by! i'm just a dork screaming in the tags 💙

i've been so lucky to have found an amazing group of friends here, that's true! but i'm open to talking to anyone!!! i'm also very awkward and socially anxious and get shy when commenting and interacting with others that i'm not as familiar with sometimes. i can yell in the tags all day long but commenting/dm-ing is another ball game! but i try and i'm so open to chatting!

i also started off as an anon that would drop into inboxes (of my now friends) to chat because i was intimidated! so i totally understand. i'm here if you ever want to come off anon OR NOT! if talking on anon is easier for you, that's ok too! that's what i love about the anon option!! it just makes it easier to interact sometimes.

thank you for sending this to me! i hope you come back? if you want? sending you so much love 💙

[the-punforgiven]

ngl mork borg was on my list of games to check out for a while now and my god why have I not checked it out earlier