#Look what she had to deal with man

[demimonde-semigoddess]

Alright, I said strongly worded reblog to follow and I meant it.

Since this is now The Playoffs (and I actually know it), I'm gonna give some respect to the competitor here. The Cabbage Merchant, within one calendar year, traveled from the city of Omashu (off the top of my head, southwestern Earth Kingdom; cabbage cart destroyed 3 times) to the capital (Central/Slightly Northwestern; cabbage cart destroyed once), so a good couple hundred miles. At some point, he also acted as a source for the Ember Island Players on the travels of the Avatar and his group, which means he presumably either was directly interviewed by or exchanged correspondence with a bunch of fire nation propagandists.

PM has him beat on (a bunch of metrics I'm pulling out of my ass, here):

Ratio of listed job requirements to job demands: The Cabbage Merchant's employment hinged around his cart. As such, he should have expected he'd have to maintain it. Replacing/repairing it isn't that far beyond his wheelhouse. PM was a mailwoman. She had to fight an immortal god of space and help raise civilization from the ashes of the post-apocalypse.

Risk to personal life and limb: The Cabbage Merchant was occasionally near a chase/fight/misused mail trolley. He also had to handle the depredations of anyone who felt like accosting him on the road to Ba Sing Se. PM was locked in deadly combat for 3 years, crossed a planet-sized war-zone into enemy territory, and survived in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Distance traveled: See the above two points. PM walked/flew hundreds or thousands of miles under her own power and significant duress. Cabbage Merchant crossed a few hundred at most. Possibly not by foot.

Period of plot relevance/hardship: Cabbage Merchant had a bad year. PM had a bad day that put her in the fucking trenches for a MINIMUM OF FIVE (low-balling the "years in the future but not many" to two).

Acquisition of Revenge: The Cabbage Merchant failed to convince King Bumi to behead the avatar and his friends. PM successfully carried out all of her duties, dismembered the man who (nearly) killed her best friend, pummeled his ass into the dirt so hard he SKIDDED, and then destroyed the magical symbols of monarchy he'd used to attain near-godhood.

The only point of contention that comes to mind in which PM may not have Cabbage Merchant beat is what I'm going to call "Self Determination". One could argue that the Cabbage Merchant had more or less no control over his own fate and repeated cart demolition. Thus, the cleanup (and the denial of vengeance) were all the more bitter for him.

By contrast, PM's listed job was only to deliver parcels, and it was only at the request of a teenage girl (with an attached parcel) that she set off on a planet-spanning (and eventually multiverse-spanning) quest to retrieve said parcel and deliver it to its listed recipient. She could have simply chosen not to do any of this, but it would've been impolite. And she is too good-hearted for that. Still, one could argue that being good-hearted is a choice.

In conclusion: PM worked harder, for longer, and did more with, I would argue, less, than Cabbage Merchant did. She's also a postal worker, and you gotta support the motherfucking

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Overworked Blorbo Battle Round 4 Poll: 8

[captainsparklefingers]

Now, is this one night as in 'one night no matter what', or is it one night as in 'one night because the world might end by tomorrow and nothing is guaranteed and if by tomorrow we're all still here we can reevaluate'?

Because while it's likely the former, knowing the Matron and Vax's devotion, but it could also be the latter because there are world changing events happening, do the rules and status quo matter anymore?

Am I grasping at straws a little bit? Yeah, probably. I either want Kiki to finally have a chance to move on and have proper closure OR I want Vax back with them all for good, because these middle grounds do nobody any good. Who knows where things will stand come tomorrow, it all depends on how things go on the moon now.

But 'one night' without specification of what happens come morning, just implications, could still mean anything.

[spotsupstuff]

as i'm workin on my Ancient stuff- i've got to say that it is really interesting and neat (read: nasty) that there's a good chance most of the Ancient population probably didn't actually wear masks. but We think they did cuz the only really solid evidence of what they looked like at all all comes from places of the higher social circles. and those strived for religious... superiority, i guess. brownie points, not actual dedication to the religion for the sake of its teachings but either because it made them look good, put them higher in the social hierarchy or whatever manipulation have you (or the flawed look upon the religion aka "we gotta get out of this cycle no matter what")

all we are left with are the bastards. the simple people and their cultures that were left to weather the Iterators' rains were simply washed away. nobody cared for their way of life- as long as it served the higher circles well and they stayed submissive (enough so that at the end everyone would take a dip in the void), nobody had to give a singular shit

just how much do we not know about the Ancients' *everything* because of this disregard? how much do we think we are right about, when such is true only for the small but privileged piece of the species?

[marshmurmurs]

got a lil too silly it seems

[kruxband]

thinking about my F/Os in a transgender way again,,,,

[syrenki]

post depressive episode clarity like what the fuck do you mean they'll never disappear, just fade.

[grimm-the-tiger]

My FL main went through some really weird, organic development over the...oh god, I think it's been five years since I started playing now.

So my main is named Skadi Larkin. They are a little bastard. They started out extremely 2D; I named them after my favorite Norse goddess and the protagonist of the book I was reading at the time. I originally wanted to make them female like both of their namesakes, but the second I saw the third-gender option, I thought it was too good to pass up. This is where they got their primary base characterization as a mad scientist who wanted to Cause Problems.

Then I started the Nemesis ambition and forgot which option I'd chosen for who I was trying to avenge, so they lost both their lover and their older brother under tragic circumstances (only the lover was killed by Nemesis's antagonist, though).

Then I got an Exceptional Friendship and had to give my tragic backstory in order to gain entry to the House of Chimes. Skadi pulled said tragic backstory (orphaned in a hansom accident) more or less out of their ass, but it did establish that their parents are dead.

Somewhere down the line, I realized that technically Skadi is a linguist, since the Correspondence is a language, and I made that their profession on the Surface as well.

Around this time, I started working on character designs for my fan comic. I got really into messing around with skin tone, and somewhere along the line thought it would be fun to draw Skadi (who was originally white) with darker skin, and it stuck.

Then I abruptly realized I was taking a lot of options that increased my Melancholy, and almost all of them were based on the Surface. So now Skadi has a longing for the Surface.

I left the game for a few years, but somewhere during this stretch of time, and I don't know how this happened, but I decided Skadi was now Native American; specifically, Metis. I changed their design to incorporate a sash woven in a style characteristic of the Metis, which also added a bit of color to their design (which was mostly black or grey at this point).

During this time, I started incorporating Skadi into my fan comic. This would eventually lead me to actually flesh out their backstory in greater detail. When I started playing the game again, I also created my first alt by total accident (long story), and I decided to weave her backstory with Skadi's.

So Skadi is in the interesting position of being an Indigenous person who is what we'd probably consider Two-Spirit today but they'd just call "Bollocks to that gender crap". They never belonged on the Surface, since the Metis are in a bit of a liminal space compared to other tribes due to their interesting background (the Metis are the descendants of French settlers and Indigenous inhabitants, mostly Cree), and Skadi exists in a liminal space within that liminal space due to only being half-Metis and raised primarily in white culture, although they still maintained a connection to it through their late mother. They also never belonged because no one else on the Surface outside of the communities they already felt isolated from would ever accept them for their gender. London gave them a chance to express one of those, but not both, and despite knowing that the Surface hates them just for existing, they still long to return.

[bringslife]

so tired of seeing ppl (non rp fandom) complaining about the doctor crying whenever he’s in an emotionally traumatizing situation.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

Me, when Sebastian joins my party for the first time: Okay, this time I'm not going to forget about you, Sebastian. I'm going to make an effort to use you a lot this playthrough so I can better understand you.

Also me, immediately forgetting about Sebastian while finishing Act 2 and making it halfway through Act 3 before I finally notice his Faith quest: ......................Oh. Right. My bad.

[rainingincale]

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[sotogalmo]

12:22

Nevermore by sasakure...... Such a Luka song but like. Also. Ivan- but I see it as like. How similar they are

[gilliontidestriderchampionoftheu]

mayor rolan loffin's deal with niklaus was that he would gain his hearts desire, but lose what he valued most, and it makes me wonder if all of his deals work in a similar way.

[isfjmel-phleg]

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[morningmask27]

I'm going to be bitching about Star for a while now. I'll tag them all with #asc spoilers, but really what the fuck was this book?

[chaoticas-hell]

When your parents keep accidently admitting that yeah, you're the 3rd and really the only parent to your 15 yr brother:

[demigodofhoolemere]

Um, Disney… this was literally already the plot of the movie. Her motivations are pretty clearly not just about Eric (and even if they were — so what?). She’d been collecting things in the grotto for ages and sang Part of Your World, the song where she goes very into detail about wanting to take part in the human world, BEFORE she ever laid eyes on Eric. Tell me you haven’t watched the movie in a while without telling me you haven’t watched the movie in a while.