#The FOUNTAIN is the key

[theworldibuilt4you]

[Owl wipes the tears from his face, smiling softly.]

I won't mind. I promise. As long as you're as comfortable as possible.

-🦉

[When all is said and done, that's the only thing he can change right now... Shedding this old form and reverting to what he was made with. He.... He was almost unwilling to do it. Like something was telling him, itching at him, that the older form wasn't good enough. Not anymore, at least, not with the changes the web has undergone..]

[But Owl was looking at him so... expectantly. And something in that seemed to override his reluctance.]

[...So his bigger, almost 8 foot tall figure had seemed to bristle and scatter, the pixels of it finally beginning to shift and twist- Until it was gone. They were alone. He had left, he had to have, where did he-?!]

"Down here..."

[Oh.]

[llovelymoonn]

my favourite faye wei wei paintings

little blue bird from the pillow flew (2020) \\ first i must clean the keys of the piano with milk (2022) \\ the black bells of a distant new mexico (2023) \\ an echo trapped forever (2023) \\ sweet velvet flower there is no time/ I ask to go back I wish you were mine (2021) \\ two butterfly lovers (2021) \\ untitled (2022) \\ nectar for honey (2021) \\ red i (2022) \\ fountain lies the sun (2017)

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[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

I miss you, missing link…

2025, we’re comin for ya 💪🗝️

[serenedash]

I love thinking about daily life in Daybreak Town and I'm gonna put a read more for my own sanity here LOL feel free to add your headcanons about Daybreak Town :]

one thing I really like thinking about is what quests/missions and raid hour was like for wielders since khux loved to make game mechanics actually Mean Something lore-wise. If you never played khux, raid hour was twice a day (11am and 11pm in my time zone) where powerful enemies would appear called raid bosses and you and your party could take them on solo or together

So like. Daily missions/quests are really only mentioned briefly in actual cut scenes (off the top of my head, Ephemera mentions it to Player that it would be suspicious if they were gone too long because it would look like they were slacking, Strelitzia also is shocked that Lauriam basically gets all of his missions done before noon) but I imagine that daily missions take up most of the day for wielders (again, another gameplay mechanic where you earned in game currency for doing things). And you know obviously we get to see lots of wielders around during the day, we get to see our character and others going to bed at the end of the day, and when Player waits for Ephemera at the fountain we see how no one is around at night,

I've seen a lot of discussions about night time in Daybreak Town, headcanons about how there are wielders that only do their missions at night, how darkness is more potent and there are more heartless (I especially love when people point out the night sky would be pitch black since the worlds are still one world so there would be no sky, only adding to the darkness at night). But back to raid hour!! I like to think about wielders getting their daily missions done and going back home to relax/nap/whatever and then when raid hour happens the clock tower rings and its like the empty streets suddenly fill with people, wielders meeting up with their parties or people going for the solo boss fights, and they all go ham until the bosses disappear and everyone goes back to bed. In the khx novel chirithy says that the clock tower only rings at "special times" but never elaborates so I like to think raid hour counts lol

for other daily life things tho, I've always had this headcanon that since the unions were formed (or maybe since the master of masters took on apprentices,) wielders just flocked to Daybreak Town and kinda. basically drove out the original people in Daybreak Town so its literally like a town run by kids (and moogles) and I like to think there's a good amount of kids/teens running little shops like there's that one part of Daybreak Town that's like a street market and I just know those were all run by like 15 year olds (also you can't convince me that 18 is like the oldest people get in Daybreak Town bc the game makes it SO SO SO CLEAR that wielders die CONSTANTLY and its VERY NORMALIZED) but anyway yeah some wielders not really doing their wielder stuff and instead just running businesses because you can't tell me there's moogles for Everything,

I've also had some very clear ideas about how parties work like since day one of unchained x, I like to think party leaders have get togethers to discuss what's happening in town or in their union and each union has their own like. Office I guess? for party leaders to gather and I always liked to imagine the leaders going there in the morning for reports of where strong heartless are or orders from their union leader yknow (idk in my head its like a post office, go to your little mailbox and get your stuff)

I don't have anything else those are my random disjointed thoughts👍

[aplpaca]

fun tip for people who have "intrusive thoughts" that are things you would actually be tempted to do or that you wouldnt mind doing or that you think are funny and neat and that just generally do not distress you at all, those are literally Not intrusive thoughts

[rossithepixie]

can't lie.. Childe gets some great fighting sequences.

Also you guys have no idea how much restraint it took me to not liveblog me playing the main quest in fontaine. No idea. I fucking loved it though.

[keiteay]

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[obitv]

82/85 oculus and fountain lvl17... so close

[theworstsimblr]

Rouge Aether

Virtuoso / Light Sleeper / Star Quality

[theworldibuilt4you]

[Snake's brow furrowed in concern.]

Hey. Hey, you don't have to apologize, alright? You didn't ask for this.

[They paused, an idea coming to mind. They weren't sure if it would work, but if It didn't, it was the thought that counts, right? Carefully, they slid their keyboard and mouse aside and wrapped themselves around their computer, hugging it tight.]

…I'm hugging my computer right now. It's the closest thing I can get to actually hugging you.

We don't have to talk about what we find if it makes you uncomfortable.

-🐍

[Sonny went quiet for just a moment, seemingly trying to focus on any foreign sensation he hadn't picked up on before.]

"Nh'm... Vm's vby aopa bcg... N hbvgk Q pfb zrxl i onh is pazzyv.."

"...Nh'm abcm."

[an-enigmatic-mind]

I interrupt this irregularly scheduled Hozier spam with a message:

When uh... when filling your eyedropper pen. Make sure your eye dropper has no ink in it before you pull away...

*sigh*

[sirswooshnoodles]

1st image description;

a weathered fountain that is statue of a woman, wearing a headdress and a belt like thing below her boobs, who is squeezing her breasts. From her nipples spouts the water of the fountain.

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2nd Image description; tags

#i say this in all seriousness its because americans are weak and only continue to get weaker

#we're so used to being advertised to we've absorbed advertiser friendly content norms and mistaken them for morals

#so you can scroll right past an ad for soap with a bunch of women in bikinis and it's fine #but any piece of artwork with a bare breast or a penis will get hand wringing that you need to put content warnings on it

#even if its something as banal as a marble statue you'd have seen if you've ever studied art even once for five minutes

#anyway i could go on about how this is ultimately dangerous for the Igbt community as well but its late

#what i want people to take away from this is dont be a wuss

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For real, I feel like I can’t talk to some people in ways that are now normal for me bc they were raised Christian and are still and puritan and or prudish or whatever you wanna call it.

Example: gaming with siblings, someone said “sister wouldn’t do the Beatles” and I said “of course she wouldn’t do them, she’s married” and they responded with varying levels of “well that went, places” like y’all, just- it’s not taboo

Words are failing me but that moment and what it shows has been on my mind for the week or two since it happened, and I’m like, disappointed? In my siblings? Idk how to put it

I also can hardly send them tumblr posts bc they’ll see usernames like “pepsimansthicjucyschlong” and be all idk, uptight?

Anyway, Bodies, and things people do with them, are not inherently shameful!!

fountain in italy

[rabbitcruiser]

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[flanbolt]

I don’t remember where this story was from but it was about how the writers older brother died when he was young and years later had a son who, had never met the brother had the same mannerisms as him. Ok I think I remember the key words were “my son drinks from the water fountain like my brother” or something

[keiteay]

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