#POWER STRUGGLES!!!! POLITICS!!!!!

[maggiecheungs]

so I’ve got the empress of ayodhaya (with mai davika) and scarlet heart thailand (with tu tontawan) to look forward to….. icb i’m finally getting some big budget female-led historical thai dramas about political power struggles 😭😭 i have waited so long for this

[alwaysbewoke]

[zecoritheweirdone]

so i saw this old-ish post about an au centering around a villain lewis and a hero arthur,,, and i. may have gotten attached to it,, dkdndkdjs. so i decided to make some edits + doodles based on it!! i also really wanna make a lil oneshot about it as well,, but uh... whether or not i actually follow through on that, we'll see,, skdjsojdks.

edit: good news, gang,, i wrote the fic!!

[eff-plays]

Sorry no meta this time I'm just fucking obsessed with this interaction and wanted to share it!

Particularly his little "What?" that's the perfect blend between delight and surprise at your audacity. Plus you can call him a good boy and he calls you a cheeky little pup!! The way he says please? I CANNOT with this shit!! Are you seeing this shit???

I'm going insane.

[my-pjo-stuff]

Say about Luke what you want, but would he have been Roman he'd have punted Octavian into the sun by the time TLT rolled around.

[musical-chick-13]

Like. The last thing I'm going to say is that I see a lot of comments about how "Well Americans probably deserve whatever is coming to them" because [some variation of how we are all equally violent and stupid and of course we elected this guy] and I will be the FIRST one to go, "Fuck America for real, I hate it here" but. There are in fact millions of people who did not want this. Who actively fought against it and will continue to do so.

BELIEVE ME, I understand the impulse to go, "Well with all the shit America has done to the rest of the world, why should I feel bad for them." I understand that compassion fatigue is real. And I DEFINITELY don't think it's the rest of the world's job to fight my battles for me or prioritize my feelings above anyone else's.

But if people are worried for their safety. If they're scared. If they're wondering how they and the people they love are going to survive the next few years. If people are feeling despair and despondence over the fact that they are stuck in an absolutely hellish landscape they did not ask for. Just...please let them have that. You don't have to tell them that you think they deserve it.

[dontyoulistentome]

Reading the second Bloodright Trilogy book and I just know the Captive Prince girlies* would love Bonds of Brass

*gender neutral

[thewhizzyhead]

one day I wish I could actually like understand songwriting especially for theatre so that I can I dunno actually put to use the random tunes I have in my head that just spontaneously appear while I'm doing the most mundane of shit. anyways patron has the concept of an opening number now

[asha-mage]

I just beat the Royal Academy section of Metaphor: reFantazio and I just. I had to sit there with the revelation that we've passed the point of 'this is a GOTY frontrunner for me' and have entered the territory of 'if this sticks the landing- and god I think it's shaping up to do just that- it's going up there with Shadow Hearts: Covenant and Final Fantasy X as one of my favorite video games of all time.'

[laurelindebear]

How is it this close? How is that fucking possible? How are the odds against us? How are so many people so eager for fascism/authoritarianism? How are so many others so eager to destroy any good along with the bad out of frustration and guilt? I want to claw my own face off from the anxiety. How do I bear this?

[epistemofili]

Actually athy x kiel x lucas x jenny should be endgame. All ship wars resolved by polycue ending. It would be chaotic. It would be the best thing ever. Politically it would be the most unbalanced and confusing thing ever. In and out universe people would scream "sacrilegious!!" Like some puritan while lucathyjennykiel are in the most complicated yet weirdly organized polycue ever made.

[snowshinobi]

leading lady of comic: I wonder why, unlike my first husband, my second husband says sweet things so easily. Is it bc he's younger than me? is it bc he used to be kind of a slut?"

me, chin in hands and kicking my feet: ma'am. I think your lawfully wedded boytoy is in love with u

[quibbs126]

So I’m still working on the All Ancients Disappear au page for Dark Choco, but this has just been something from there that I’ve been wanting to make for a while because I thought it was funny, so I thought I’d just show you on its own

While I plan to tell this in the full page, I might as well give you some context. So in the Dark Cacao Kingdom, with the king gone, there’s trouble finding someone to properly replace him, considering that the prince is far too young. The First Watcher is put in charge, and they’re trying their best, but it’s not the same. The kingdom holds out for a bit, but with the increasing conflict and no one being able to truly fill Dark Cacao’s role, things start getting worse. This all comes to a head when one day, the Licorice Sea makes a particularly powerful attack, and because the inner conflict inside the Citadel has caused them to somewhat neglect the Wall, it ends up falling and the monsters get in the citadel. While the Watchers put up a fight, it’s ultimately too much and the Citadel ends up falling

Meanwhile, Toffee Cookie (aka Second Watcher), whom I’m keeping as Dark Choco’s caretaker when he was young, saw the attack and decided to take the prince somewhere safe, and when it became clear that the Citadel wouldn’t hold, he fled with him outside the Wall. Considering that the prince now has nowhere to go, Toffee took him in to raise as his own. And I’m saying that Caramel Arrow Cookie is his daughter, though right now she’s only freshly baked. And since Toffee worked at the Citadel, which is no longer standing, destroyed by the Licorice Monsters, he’s kind of out of a job, which is a bit of a problem when you’re now a single dad of two. Ultimately though they manage pull through

But yeah, the image of a stressed Toffee with his two children has just been rolling around in my head. Funny enough, this was also what got me to get back into this au, since I wanted one where Second Watcher raised Dark Choco, and this was my solution

So yeah

[sleepymarmot]

I've been intending to defend Minrathous basically since I became aware of that dilemma, but I was worried this option would be presented negatively. Well, turned out, it was the other way around. Not letting our enemies gain control over the entirety of a technologically advanced empire should be a priority. It would be easier to evacuate the civilians from a doomed city than to reverse the consequences of the Evanuris having access to any of Tevinter's resources they want.

Even if we set aside the fantasy worldbuilding, the game is asking "You can prevent the fascist party from taking over your country. Will you do it even if that means letting someone dump radioactive waste into the water supply of a random city in a different country that you've visited a couple of times?" And my player character is answering "I won't hesitate bitch". An interesting quest to be playing this week specifically.

[malkaleh]

🌈+ Tommy! He’s my favorite in all honesty

I know spring dawn isn’t a colour exactly but it’s the best description - so probably I’m going with a soft yellow gold - the kind you get on a perfect spring morning, when the sun catches on the flowers, the water and the sky is a golden world of soft and gentle colours. And that’s Tommy - a promise made more than good, a sweet wise kind prince who surpasses his legend and more. (Also it says how, I was going to say delicate and that is true but it’s also the way it can been difficult to paint - to get the colours right - it’s beautiful, it is everything promised but it also reflects the way that I think Tommy’s fault is that he struggles so hard to ask for help for himself as a person and sometimes his loved ones are like ‘please please let us help you we feel like we aren’t needed’ and like, if you are far far surpassing your positive legend as both a leader and a person, how much have you internalised that you have to always be responsible for managing your own issues.

send me a rainbow emoji and an OC and I’ll assign them a colour

[lelianasbong]

Can't imagine playing DAI without Sera.... she's essential to my Inquisitor's sanity. I cannot fathom being surrounded by oceans of insufferably self-important nobles and the local episcopal see without her to make the experience not only bearable but entertaining. Now where's my guillotine