#I'm not exaggerating in the slightest

[pathsofoak]

Today's per peeve is companies pretending to have a lifetime price as an alternative for their subscription plans but it's 600 dollars.

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Okay so I need someone who's better at landscapes and art style replication than I am to hop on this idea. because this man and his alien planet biome and storyline were made for the scavengers reign art style fr

[antennatoheaven]

i don't care that there's a murderbot tv show in the works. it should have been animated instead

[molsno]

I didn't like ryoji on my first playthrough of persona 3 but I have to admit, I have a bit of a soft spot for him, because knowing the fate that awaits him, I can't help but feel like he's a tragic character, and he really bolsters my transfeminine reading of the story

like, ryoji gets the chance to live life for the very first time after spending years living inside your body, and shows sheer joy at being able to get to know other people. he's never had the chance to do so before, and because he hasn't internalized masculinity as something he needs to perform, he quickly finds himself popular with girls; although because he doesn't seem to understand himself as a man, he violates heterosexual courtship rituals by being overly friendly and straightforward multiple times, and consequently comes to be viewed as a dangerous creep by most of your female party members

this, in turn, pits you as the protagonist against him, which is tragic on its own, given that he was once—very recently, I might add—a part of you, and the bond you share is still clearly felt. he even all but admits that he loves you for giving him the chance to live and learn about the world:

I remember feeling connections like this with other "boys" like me growing up and feeling as if I had to distance myself from them in order to obtain the conditional acceptance of other people. I know how painful it is to have to turn away from people that I saw myself in to protect myself from being "marked" by society for failing to conform to the role I was assigned. so when ryoji confides in you that he feels afraid to form bonds with other people knowing they will one day be permanently ripped away, it feels all too familiar:

knowing that he's going to remember the nature of his existence, the role that was forced upon him from the moment of his birth, a burden which overwhelms him with guilt, I can't help but feel terrible for him

if this transfeminine reading of ryoji's character and the story itself seems off, let me remind you that ryoji's final form is an avatar of nyx—an explicitly female goddess—who is nonetheless degendered as an "it". as nyx, ryoji is represented by the inverse death arcana, symbolizing stillness, stagnation, literal death, and the end of things. ryoji's transformation into the nyx avatar represents a resigned acceptance of the role he was forced into as the harbinger of death. in defeating nyx, the protagonist is overcoming the challenges of the death arcana, which symbolizes change, cycles, metamorphosis, regeneration and transition. to confront the fate that awaited ryoji for accepting his assignment is to look death directly in the eyes and accept it as an inevitability, and choose to fight for the chance to live a life of your own creation

[beargregor]

Chef greg delivery just for you. it's a wonder I hadn't bearified him yet, he's my fave greg too 🔪

gays literally only want one thing (to be chopped up and eaten by a depressed man) and it's fucking disgusting

[lmaster37]

started to think about francesca by hozier as a strawbarrow song from kodya's perspective and now i am sick with longing

do you think i'd give up? / that this might've shook the love from me?

if i could hold you for a minute, / i'd go through it again

though i know my heart would break, / i'd tell them, "put me back in it." / i would do it again

you understand. the unconditional love of it all. the desperation. hoping against hope, subjecting yourself to pain over and over again because the love was worth it.

[icewindandboringhorror]

Help complete the poem:

"I bear a heavy somethingnothing others seem to lack, they drift and frolic freely, no weight dragging at their backs. I keep with me my somethingnothing, nurturing the rot, as somethingnothing is my bones, it cannot be forgot. I long, I yearn, I try to swim, alas I never float, for there it is, the somethingnothing, tugging at my throat. Somedays I fear my somethingnothing is the whole of me, (now you pick the final line from choices below)

(context: In the game I'm making one of the characters you can talk to is some moody nervous exiled prince and in one quest you can help him with his writer's block on some of his poetry. This is one of the 'poems' (+ menu choice prompts) that I decided not to use in the game, but I thought it was kind of amusing on it's own and might would be fun to see the votes on)

[arcticwaters]

i've decided to check out the newer viz dub of sailor moon and while it's been nice experiencing the show as it's meant to be, one small issue i have is most of the voices kind of sound a little samey? like i'll be looking away and think rei or usagi is talking but it's actually luna. one of the biggest strengths of the dic dub was how distinct all the girls's voices were. like the new ones are fine just kinda generic. better than cloverway tho

[vaaaaaiolet]

hiiiiiiiiiiii vivi i’m here with some promised song recs on valentines day!!!! i tried to make a general list of songs i thought had a chance of you maybe liking them but there’s also a few that are just ryncore 😭, sorry there’s so many. ily 🩶

holy terrain - fka twigs

no church in the wild - jay z

mary magdalene - fka twigs (i also like the song papi bones that she did with shy girl but this whole list can’t be her)

just be good to me - s.o.s band

sunlight - hozier (my favorite song of his other than blood upon the snow)

babylon - 5 seconds of summer

heartbreak feels so good - fall out boy (my favorite song of theirs is 27)

rush - william singe (or pyramids by frank ocean)

i’m still missing your love - s.o.s band

i don't even wear rings anyway. YES I WILL MARRY YOU

I JUST WENT ON THE HOURLONG EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THESE RECS 😭😭😭

spotify ver for anyone who wants to listen along :)

i'm going to spend the rest of tomorrow going through fka twigs' entire discography. i'm in LOVE with holy terrain i can't even express. mary magdelene was also stunning i need to sit down with a pen or something and annotate all her lyrics!!!!

my sister is a huge frank ocean fan so she heard me listening to no church in the wild through my shitty earbuds and called me out for being years late to the party 😭 LOVED it btw. now i'm finally in on your blog lore i feel vip and special <3

your taste in hozier is amazing. i love sunlight (wasteland baby is so dear to my heart) and i didn't know he made music for god of war??? hozier in a video game???? if i ever play god of war ragnarok i'll play it just for him trust.

BABYLON IS SUCH A JAM HOW HAVE I NOT LISTENED TO IT BEFORE. i looped it twice before moving on shhh. i listened to youngblood right after too i miss those days </3 27 and heartbreak feels so good were such good throwbacks too. DUNUNUNUN NAAA!!! DUNUNUNN NOO!!!

also loved loved loved s.o.s. band, i think this is the first i've listened to them!! their sound is very 60's to me, a little like jimi hendrix?? sadly the only jimi hendrix knowledge i have is all around the watchtower :,) but i'll be listening to a lot more of s.o.s. band + reccing them to my 60's music loving friend (the one i was yelling at earlier to listen to fka twigs </3)

i LOVE YOU. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH AGAIN!!! THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN and i discovered a lot of songs i'll be blasting on loop for the week <3

AND DON'T THINK I'M LEAVING YOU EMPTY HANDED. i also have a shitload of songs for you whenever you have time to listen, literally NO RUSH at all and i'm sorry for how they don't make any sense together HSFHSFKJLSF

[thoughtpeek]

I'VE FINALLY FINISHED BROTHERSHIP IT WAS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!

[invinciblerodent]

oh sometimes i'm overcome with the realization of just how sentimental a bitch i am

like i really am straight up just playing make-believe with these characters like they're digital barbies

okay so in Iona's inventory, i've had this necklace

since very early in act 1.

it was in Aradin's chest at the Grove, and it was the first thing "we" managed to get with the "I distract them with conversation/busking and you steal everything that isn't nailed down" act/trick I had thought up for her and Astarion. I thought it'd be kinda cute for him to, at the end of this test run, present it with a ~theatrical flourish~ once just out of earshot of its original owner, and for her to ~graciously allow~ him to drape it around her neck, as a hamfisted and silly act of mock-courtship they both know is false. (it was kind of a... "we both know what this is all about and where it's headed, but wouldn't it be fun to play make-believe and pretend it's something entirely different" type of thing.)

I thought it'd be cute, if a touch bittersweet for her to keep it, just slotted away in her little "sentimental items" pouch, like.... next to the dog toy, her old wedding band, and the other useless junk she couldn't bring herself to throw away or sell.

and then today, i found this as I was selling stuff in the Glittering Gala.

it's the same design. and i like to describe Iona's eyes as "amber" when I write about them (they're kind of a reddish/yellowish, pretty medium brown). and she looks much better in golds and reds than she does in blues and silvers.

so. um.

guess who got this bloody thing "sneaked" into her inventory at the long rest.

if you think i won't 1.) exit a trading screen abruptly, 2.) switch controlled characters, 4.) buy a silly and utterly useless junk item AS that character (thought about just picking her pocket but.... we have 35k gold. why would i.), and 4.) keep it in that character's inventory until it "seems like" the PC isn't "paying attention", and then 5.) drop it into their inventory "unnoticed", all for LITERALLY NO GOOD REASON other than just to act out a silly little gesture and support the little fanfic in my head, well.

you'd be very wrong.

((and i was grinning and giggling downright embarrassingly the whole time too))

[they-didnt-last]

some of the best music recs i've ever gotten didn't come from spotify or from any other streaming platform, they came from reading julie and the phantoms fanfiction

[can-of-pringles]

It's insane how you're preparing for something probably a bit uncomfortable and it makes you nervous, but otherwise it's fine, and your body will instead be like "WE'RE GOING TO DIE UP THE ADRENALINE ALL SYSTEMS GO" like we're still in caveman times puts you in survival mode and tries to convince you this is the end, and then after the inconvenient thing is over, returns to normal

Imagine that happening every single time you have some sort of appointment. You are now in my brain.

[yuriyuruandyuraart]

pat pat

🍫 here, have a treat to calm your misery

[btw, you're amazing]

teehee thank youu :D i'm calm i'm great now even >:Dc <333

[copdog1234]

So, I'm finally in Act 2 for the second time ever, and things are already extremely different from my first full playthrough.

See... the first time, the lantern with the pixie broke for me. It was unusable, so I had to go to Last Light Inn and speak to Isobel to get blessed for my trip to Moonrise Towers, except, oops, some people come to kidnap her, and so, I tried to protect her, but. I failed. And I wasn't blessed with Selune's protection and neither was Last Light anymore. This led to me stumbling about Act 2, avoiding Moonrise, and tripping my way into Shar's Temple, where I freed Aylin. Making everyone at Moonrise immediately hostile, and killing yet more innocents who were imprisoned.

This time? The lantern never broke. I haven't spoken to Isobel at all yet for fear of repeating my mistakes. So, I'm finally experiencing Moonrise in all it's full glory, including Ketheric Thorm, where my only interaction with him before was his boss fight. (Which was the final straw making me permanently change my game from balanced to explorer mode)

And yet, I still didn't even realize just how terrifying he fully is. The cutscene formally introducing him? Terrifying.

[glitterdustcyclops]

anyway i was absolutely fucking bodied (affectionate) by my therapist today because i was trying to explain my latest fucking meltdown to her (honestly, it's the same as all the other ones i've had the past week) and i can't quite remember exactly how but she gently suggested that the thought patterns i was expressing might be OCD

which. you know. that's a whole thing that i have to feel now.