#This is the most fun romance so far

[pushing500]

Shockingly enough, Candlelight won this fight. My little Water caste T'au is getting better at melee, it seems. Maybe all those "practice" fights with Laurie have paid off. Candlelight left this fight with two bruises on her torso, and Andrei had two broken bones in his right leg and a broken left arm.

What if we pushed our Rimworld beds together?

Jk, jk!

...

Unless...?

I know they all sleep in their clothes in-game, but that seems so uncomfortable. I'm going to just keep drawing everyone in pyjamas.

Look, I don't like Wookshys, but I can appreciate a man who takes time out of his important chores (spending all day fishing) to remind his secret girlfriend that she is loved and very smoochable. As much as I hate to admit it, I think Albina is in good hands.

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[optiwashere]

Huh, I didn't even realize it'd been a year since BG3 came out until I opened tumblr this morning. Kinda wild. I didn't think much of the game's release: I like Larian's games, and I like the BG series. I wasn't ever going to skip the game, but I didn't think I'd play it at launch because I was busy working on a novel in 2023 and not doing well financially.

Thankfully, circumstances left me with a little bit of extra money last year just before launch and it meant I could spend on a video game. I needed a pick-me-up after said 2023 novel failed to go anywhere, and BG3 was right there. Like most CRPGs, I played it in basically every moment of free time that I had and did as much as I possibly could in one playthrough.

It's so odd how these small happenstances can snowball into coming back to fandom, finding some friends I might've never met otherwise, and writing a lot of fanfiction along the way. I'll probably have something more interesting to say/share when it's the 14th, AKA when I sat down and wrote my first fic for this fandom.

Anyways, it's been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to more years to come 💜

[bitchfitch]

I've started playing Potion Permit, and so far it's one of my favorite games I've messed around with, but the most big brained move the devs made was giving you a dog on day 1, and then making that dog able to track NPCs and lead you directly to them no matter where they are in the town.

[itsmistyeyedbi]

Thinking about this ask and wouldn't it be so fun if Zuri and Farah ran into one of Farah’s exes?

Wouldn't it be so cool for her to be reminded of how people wanted her for a night or a weeks long fling, but not a relationship? Wouldn't it be so awesome for her to remember how hesitant Zuri was to choose her? That that's what she could have ended up being to her?

Wouldn't that be so cool?

[arolesbianism]

Sometimes I just look at Isabeau and just know that if isat came out and I got into it when I was like 16 he would be my favorite character and I would've gone absolutely buck wild over this man and feel like he was laser targeting me. But alas Odile has a grip of steel on me rn due to her virtue of being a middle aged woman

[tisorridalamor]

Recently I've been reading Ozawa Mari's works on MangaDex and have really enjoyed them! They're all slice of life / family drama stories focused around families with single parents. Oddly enough all of them also have Christmas moments too, which has made them nice for the season. These all have under 30 chapters and are really easy quick reads :) The stories above are:

Alice & Amaryllis: A mother and young daughter work hard to support their family after the disappearance of the father (the most dramatic of the three here!)

Dandelion Fluff: A short look into the life of a family of three, a father, an older brother in high school, and the younger brother in kindergarten

Nikoniko Diary: The one I'm reading now! A single working woman ends up becoming the guardian of an old coworker's daughter

[keeps-ache]

in a cafe rn. this place is nice :>

[tauruswiftie]

sometimes writing thousands of words of an unhinged epistolary thing set during a timeskip in ur current writing project that you are probably never going to actually include in the draft can be something sooo personal.... especially when person a is in a political marriage that person b suggested, and person b has been fighting a war for person a's sake, and they have not seen each other for 4 years, and their dynamic is probably incredibly toxic and unhealthy, and they are still insanely in love. sue me!!

[god-of-identity]

gale: *exists*

me: i like your funny words, magic man

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

Snowflake. ❄️

[mokeonn]

Currently I have so many bg3 saves bc I refuse to delete my old ones that will likely never be finished (first ever gameplays, not optimized, everytime I open one I get overwhelmed and stop), but also because I keep making new games with the specific purpose of romancing a certain companion, seeing special dialog, doing a specific style of run, or getting an achievement on steam.

[tachvintlogic]

Been reading The Lightning Conductor sequel from the Literary Letters substack and I finally caught up.

and— just—

Jimmy Payne was not a great suitor for Molly. He was a love rival that was destined to lose. Yes, he was reckless with a car he didn't own, but he wasn't that bad of a guy.

He was no Ed Caspian, is what I'm saying.

Ed Caspian just extorted a engagement out of Patsy so that her friend who fucking saved her father from becoming destitute wouldn't be utterly humiliated at a party, and it make it worse, he specifically manipulated the situation to ensue that Storm would be humiliated. The only reason Storm wasn't is because he had connections that Caspian didn't know about.

And even now that Patsy knows that he extorted her for no gain on her part, it's still going on because apparently otherwise her father Larry would engage himself with Mrs. Shuster for her money to prevent himself from being poor, and she literally says this:

Larry matters so much more than I do! I wish I were being engaged in France instead of here, because there I think les jeunes filles do not have to kiss. Here, one says they do. But I will not!

Fuck, even her maid in her letter agreed that Larry being free to marry for love was much more important than for Patsy to be able to! And just— what's wrong with Mrs. Shuster? She's not that bad! If she wants a hot trophy husband then good for her! Better that than Patsy being forced to marry Ed "Extortionist" Caspian.

...What does Mrs. Shuster think of the whole extortion thing? Cause Caspian told her all about it in his letter. What's her stance of his clear manipulation of Patsy and the fact that he's clearly treating her secretary Mr. Storm poorly.

We don't see much of Larry, and there's a lot of talk about how young he looks and how hot he is and how charismatic he is, but the thing about Larry that stuck with me was that he wasn't there when Patsy arrived and got off the ship because he was busy gambling trying to win back his fortunes. Not a good first impression.

Like, everyone can talk a big talks about how great he is, and I'm just not seeing it.

Peter Storm is the best new character so far.

Peter's first letter: I won't say I'm in love

Peter's second letter: Shit.

Also, memes!

[yuripoll]

you might have noticed but i DID forget to schedule the side d match ups yesterday. fear not, for they'll be up same times as planned tonight 👍

[frostwork]

Ive been enjoying dav so far but i do have a lot of criticisms and beefs that are all directly tied to why you shouldn’t lay off or squeeze out the majority of your writing team as if writing isnt what made those games what they are.

But anyway if i posted some of my opinions i think id be torn apart by dogs or people with no media literacy (which weeks apparently thinks we all have none of)

[stardust-and-fries]

Oh boy!! A chance for me to yap about gender at length?!?!!?!? DON'T MIND IF I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [See tags for details. But be warned... I Popped the Fuck OFF writing this one, it's a doozy!]

Sorry if this is rude, but how do you identify? I looked around a bit and couldn't find anything, my apologies

Not rude! Honestly, I don't know these days! Lots of thoughts swirling around in my head. Maybe this is too much, but also maybe saying something instead of keeping it inside will be helpful... I'll put my gender thoughts under the cut... maybe someone can relate and offer some thoughts lol:

Recently, I came to the conclusion that I'm really not attracted to men at all, and maybe, I never have been. Looking back, I can kind of clearly see that any crush on a guy I thought I had was more like "wow, this person is COOL as HELL. I hope we can be really good friends." And then I noticed, that any crush I had on a girl felt... different. The feeling was totally different, and it still is. Have you noticed how most of the men I draw are quite feminine? I also have no idea what's going on with my gender. I know I'm me, a Yugo, I also can't comfortably say what exactly I am. Though by technicality, I am nonbinary, the word doesn't feel QUITE right to use for me. Maybe genderqueer is better. I've never identified as a man, but I have identified as transmasc and taken T. I really do like the results I've gotten from that. But at the same time, I don't really feel close to "manhood" at all, but something about having a mustache sometimes, like I tend to do, feels right to me still. I also like to wear lipstick and stuff. I don't know. I'm also not a "woman" I don't think, but I identify with more... I don't know, masculine expressions of womanhood if that makes sense? I am very androgynous in expression, in short. So basically I don't know what the hell is going on. All I know is I love women LOL. Can anyone relate to any of this? Any ideas?? I will not be offended by any assumptions you might have lol. Maybe I should just make a comic about this.

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

this has already been said but my biggest complaint about the us version of ghosts is that it's SO obsessed with the characters being in relationships lol... and like i wouldn't mind it, except none of the ships have been particularly interesting (except perhaps the hetty/trevor one lol)... i also think it kinda gets in the way of more interesting characterisations tbh