#aaaaand there we go!

[little-mouse-adventures]

@orangerosebush's post here, with my comment and @fowlblue's tags today got me thinking.

Artemis Senior has been teaching his son matters of business from a young age. Not only was Artemis, at 11 years old, discussing stocks with his father, but Fowl Senior had been imparting his wisdom onto his son for years by that point, discussing the ever-increasing value of gold with him before tucking him into bed. Even outside of pure monetary value, Sr. had tried to go legitimate with his business dealings, leading Artemis to have a few legal ventures of his own.

We also see very early on in the books that Artemis has been regularly using Butler as a resource for his plots: bouncing ideas off him was apparently a fairly common tactic when he was scheming.

Both Artemis Senior and Butler are interested in (or at least, not opposed to) educating Artemis on the ways of their lifestyle(s). It would be Artemis Senior who would have taught his son the value of banks and safety deposit boxes and hidden safes but it was Butler who was actively working with Artemis to rob those safety deposit boxes.

In the same vein of breaking-and-entering, TLC also gives us the fun little moment where Butler hands Artemis his own lockpicks, to get into the workings of the bomb.

With one line we learn that Artemis knows how to pick locks, but does not have his own set of lockpicks. Butler, on the other hand, has both the tools and knowledge how to use them. Partnered with a brief mention in TTP of some the specific trades of those previously employed by Artemis Senior (including such things as crime lords, insider traders, and cat burglars), we can extrapolate that Artemis Senior would generally hire someone to pick a lock for him, rather than do so himself.

It's pretty logical to conclude then that Artemis learned big-picture management from his father, and day-to-day skillsets from his bodyguard.

Essentially, Artemis Senior taught Artemis how to run a criminal empire. Butler taught Artemis how to be a criminal.

[owlfacenightkit]

Wanted to draw some eyes, so I decided to draw out my headcanons for the Infinity Train character’s eyes

[s4pphic-sh3nan1gans]

I'm so horny for the way Bojan's voice sounds all whiny and desperate during the line "u ovom gradu ko da nigde nema kraja" 😩 aaaaand send post

[moonchild-in-blue]

what are YOU doing at the devil's sacrament, except it's me going for a bathroom + water run at 3am, only to find both of my parents awake doing random stuff and tea, which led to me and dad watching a bunch of youtube videos on strange musical instruments until almost 5am. i guess we now know how a hurdy gurdy operates tho 🤷‍♀️

[thawthebeez]

rewatching sk8 for the third time in the span of 2 weeks. i fear the haikyuu hyperfixation is on the brink of going back into its 2-year hibernation. fear not! it'll be back in 2027

[saltynsassy31]

Frye Fest - Final Countdown

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♡Back when it was just us♡

👋Team Paper👋

Splatfest World Premier 27-08-2022

[Master Post - coming soon]

[blametheeditor]

“What are you?”

Scott freezes at the question. The same one he’s heard countless of times in different stories. One’s that all ended the same way no matter who told it.

And with how the voice sounded like thunder, there’s no denying he’s been found. By a human.

The young borrower doesn’t even look behind him. Instead he desperately tries to pull his arm out of the knot his thread made around it. Shrieks in terror and pain when it only makes it tighten around his wrist more. But he can’t think of anything else to do, he has to get away he’s been seen the human is gong to kill him!

“Ooh, that ain’t pretty.”

The human sounds a lot closer, and just to prove it, the ground suddenly jumps.

Scott can’t help himself. He sends a look over his shoulder. Doesn’t dare breathe when he comes face to face with a shoe. A massive one. With strings he could use for rope that would be better than the thread he uses to climb. At least those are thick enough they won’t wrap around his arm and make it feel like it’ll be cut off at any moment.

But he could never take those strings. He’ll never get the chance to. Because any moment now and the shoe is going to crush him.

Panic has Scott yanking his arm again, yelling in pain when his thread only tightens more. And now it’s bright red, and his hand is going numb.

“Alright, just calm down little guy,” the human thunders. “Keep pullin’ like that and you’re gonna lose your arm.”

Terror keeps the borrower frozen, not wanting to upset the towering being who could easily complete such a threat. Or finally stomp on him to get it over with. And he doesn’t want either to happen.

The only problem is that he gave the human the perfect chance to grab him, fingers curling around him before he realized what was happening. By the time he does, he’s pinned down to easily stop his squirming.

Scott chokes on a sob as thumb taller than him nudges his thread, a hum shaking him to the bones.

“Damn, you really tangled this up, huh?” the human muses. “Don’t worry, I’ll getchya free in no time.”

And the moment he’s free, Scott won’t even get the chance to run.

[tomfoolery-m-coolatta]

Working sooo hard in the Mann Co. factory to get Saxton Hale pregnant so he can give birth to more guns

[soraeia]

How humiliating!

Riliane ripped off whatever was left of her Tengmen-styled ensemble and threw it to the floor, glaring at the pile until it was shredded by shard of crystalline ice. Her fist clenched tight around her fan and when that eventually it snapped, it was discarded given the same treated, joining the heap of torn silk.

She went along with her father's idea to parade around donning Huaxiu's culture on her body as if she had already belonged to the man, only to be pushed away like a plate of food he no longer wanted!

She felt like a whore. And after all she's done for her empire---for her father--- was that what she was reduced to!?

Oh, the scolding her father will give her when she returns.

She didn't get him Ahnia.

She didn't get him Tengmen.

Even if she did manage to win Vralyra (with only one option left, she already felt defeated), she can still feel the weight of her father's anger. The sting of his rings across her cheek.

She couldn't be the next disappointment.

[silent-sentinels]

GRINS. WE ARE SO HOT. WE LOOK SO GODDAMN GENDER. THIS IS EVERYTHING.

[katsigian]

Hrrmmmm trying to think of how I'm going to go about building my new bg3 OCs. Do I just. Make up a little backstory for them separate from game canon? Do I...go completely balls to the wall and develop them to an insane degree before the events of the game? Knowing myself, I'm going to likely be infused with the hyperfixation any minute now and be lost in the sauce

I've picked their ships already it's just. it's going to be inch resting trying to develop my companions with my OCs in such a way that's still canon (has no idea what theyre doing).

Because look, Callistus is my very competent and quiet high elf ranger boy. He loves kids, has a zest for life under the calm exterior, smiles easily but is a little shy. I think it would be delightful to pair him with the vampire for reasons of sweet shy boy with the (seemingly) edgy and very troubles Astarion. He sees that vampire and goes "oh you need some loving. Thank god im the right man for the job." Do u see my vision

I'm thinking about making a lady, perhaps a half drow sorcerer who is so grumpy, just a complete thundercloud. Aaaaand predictable little old me is going to smush her up against Karlach because oh my god that would be adorable. Big, tough, smiley lady with small, grumpy lady, I die. The little grump getting attached to the one person who can make her smile and blush without fail. Mayhaps I'll call her Arien, or Ari for short.

And of course I need another boy because I want to smush somebody up against Gale, that big nerd. Powerful educated bookish man needs........someone bordering on downright dastardly who will slowly open up and soften up oooooohhhhh. A rogue? A chaotic neutral rogue......who immediately likes Gale and goes "Oh shit I gotta be nice if I wanna be with this man." He needs an H name me thinks. Helthros has a nice ring to it. But I also feel an L name. Larkspell keeps coming to mind.

[pttucker]

[Story, 'Demon King of Salvation', is continuing with its storytelling.] I managed to endure only because of my Stories. They continued to whisper into my ears – they said that you're the 'Demon King of Salvation'. You must save people. Just like how they did to Metatron and Agares, Stories were whispering to me.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I know that Dokja has always been very Dokja about saving people whenever he could, especially his companions, but the way that this is phrased...

Is the fact that he became Demon King of Salvation actually making his whole "saving people at whatever cost" thing worse? Not to mention the fact that his only stigma is not only about saving people, but specifically about sacrificing himself to do it.

I know that stories in ORV give beings power (and can also give them weaknesses too) and Dokja himself has talked about how people can be taken over by their stories but I never thought that maybe the fact that his whole thing is saving people (by sacrificing himself) might have generated some kind of circle.

He saves people (by sacrificing himself) > gains a story/modifier/stigma related to saving people/sacrificing himself > that increases him wanting to save people/sacrifice himself > he saves people (by sacrificing himself) > that adds to his story of saving people/sacrificing himself > that increases him wanting...

Well, at least in regard to his companions. There have absolutely been times where Dokja has chosen himself over complete strangers or where he's chosen his companions over others. In fact, Heewon even says so in her fight with the Demon Kings:

The next one to pop up in her head was Kim Dokja. ⸢We should save him. But, if you do that, you'll die instead, Heewon-ssi.⸥ Kim Dokja might say the right things, but because he was worried about her life, he'd turn a blind eye to Kyle's plight.

Hmmm... so is Dokja being affected by his own story or is this just a natural reaction to him finally having friends & family that he cares about combined with the fact that even from the very beginning he's never thought much of himself?

Or both. Both is good bad.

[muirneach]

pro sexism rn because its benefitting me buying rogers cup tickets. why are the mens qfs 155 dollars and the womens qfs 60. thats laughably bad.

[olliegolliegee]

oh my god why is that weird stomach feeling there

is this anxiety

is this because of the religion discussion last night

did i eat something weird?

how to get it to go away

is it because none of us can express ourselves

do we feel guilty for existing

are we scared that one of our close friends is transphobic, and that would really really suck, especially because, um, dude, my best friend in the whole entire world is trans

is it because some of us have different beliefs

is this because basically every denomination of christianity thinks the bible is infallible

i hate everything

[vonlipvig]

my post-game summary is looking abysmal ngl

[fappellmoan]

i mean it’s just kinda crazy cause. and forgive me if i sound somewhat spoiled here but. this trip im doing to take more credits and get experience and make connections etc is obviously expensive and i talked abt it with my parents. a lot before trying to do it. and somehow my dad didn’t understand that yk we would have to pay for it. ??? and is putting me in this spot of ‘figuring out what we’re gonna do about it’ and it’s like dude. i mean i’m going i paid for my fucking flights you know i’m. regardless i’ll be there. and i make $10/hr i have not been able to work consistently and when you don’t have thousands and thousands of dollars just sitting there accumulating more interest it doesn’t fucking last. like what exactly do you want me to say? i’ll drain all my accounts and give what little i have to you? tldr my main point here is the only way this man truly shows any kind of affection is through money and since he fucked me up im glad to take advantage of that lol like why wouldn’t i. so to have it thrown back in my face is just um an awful feeling. like im not even worth this to you. this is just too much. it truly does feel like someone put a number on love and im just not up there