#also me: nah son

[bee-sidebranch]

How i acquired my second child

These two are my travel companions on the monk campaign i use for pearl hunting,

Pearl and Pond Scum

I'll show them off properly in another post but basically Pond is a scrawny tiny baby who needs all the love and Pearl would probaly kill lizards on her own if i wasn't dragging her where i wanna go

(This is exactly how i found her btw, bullying a lantern mouse on my way to shoreline)

[quill-pen]

Soooo, you know that part where Rook and Emmrich argue before the final battle, and the game gives you those three options to pick from? And EACH ONE still results in a fight?

Which on do you see G’iney choosing, if she had to? Because I get three totally different vibes from each, and I’m curious which one she’d default to.

Ooh, this was a hard one because the argument is just so... nothing. Barest of bare bones. (No offense, Manfred.) And awkward. And I can only really imagine Guinevere and Emmrich getting much deeper into it than the game seems to let you, with much more passion, raised voices, feelings and worries shouted, etc, probably ultimately ending in some form of affectionate touch, whether or not they actually really come to an agreement at the end.

Ex. Guinevere stopped at the corner and turned to look back towards the dejected necromancer, leaning wearily against his desk. Her heart thrummed with a sudden ache that dampened the annoyance she felt at his stubbornness. What he had said to her was aggravating... but it didn't feel right to leave things like this. She didn't want him reading too much into it. And honestly, neither did she. Turning on her heel, the young mage came back to the man. She reached out to take one of his large, elegant hands in her dainty one and pulled it to wrap his arm around her waist. She moved into embrace him. Instinctively, Emmrich brought his other arm around to encircle her as well. Guinevere reached up to cup his jaw in a palm and draw him closer down to her height. Moving up on tiptoe, she touched her lips to his ever so tenderly. A quiet moan sighed from her lungs as he indulged the contact, nudging deeper into the kiss to embrace her lips with his own. Despite what lay before them, there was no hurry, no haste. All there was at that moment were two devoted lovers enveloped in a soft, sweet exchange. When they finally parted, they remained close, brows touching, noses brushing together as they gazed deeply into the other's eyes. "Emmrich," Guinevere breathed after a moment, stroking his cheekbone with her thumb, "I'm not giving up so easily. On anything." A spark of hope that seemed to have gone out of Emmrich's eyes during their argument glimmered to life again deep within his hazel depths as he picked up on her meaning. His hold on her tightened gently, pulling her still closer. "Then neither shall I," he murmured sincerely, "my darling Rook." And he angled his mouth against hers for another gentle kiss that she eagerly obliged.

That said, you asked if she HAD to choose what the game offered. It would probably be the "I mean something to you!" option. That feels most like her out of the three. The first option kind of shoves Emmrich's insecurity in his face, and I don't ever see G'iney doing that, as she hates to have that done to her. And the last option feels just a bit too cheeky for her, especially considering the topics of love and someone being in love with her. But her kind of teasing him about being able to say he cares about her but not go all the way to say he loves her feels mostly in line with her. "You know, it'd take a lot less time to say "I love you" than "I care for you deeply" and mean the same thing, Mr. Always-chooses-his-words-carefully."

[abusedog]

❝ great ! just― fucking great ... ❞ he feels so fucking tired of fighting , of crying , of fucking living . he wants to sleep forever , comfortably wrapped in the softness of his expensive sheets watching new york from the sky , but the idea of moving , of going anywhere seems like an impossibility ❝ thank you . ❞ he adds for good measure , an afterthought more than a true feeling .

❝ i'll be leaving tomorrow , i won't bother you anymore ❞ he says , curling in on himself as he wraps a blanket around his body , but before he can stop himself he continues ❝ but before that , is there any chance you could give me some sleeping pills , doc ? ���

there's shame in that , he's a crazy as connor's momma now , fucking terminal . he tries to explain himself even if no one is asking ❝ i just― i don't wanna think anymore for tonight . ❞

“You’re more than welcome to stay the night here if you need to just - get away from things for a bit.”

@abusedog

[hollowsart]

hmmm...

[backpackingspace]

The philoctetes is a comedy actually

[sforzesco]

Do you think it's fair to say that Crassus looks at and understands the narrative, while Pompey looks away and ignores?

I actually think that, if we're using Plutarch, Crassus is the one prone to rejecting the narrative everyone else is going along with, while Pompey acknowledges the trajectory for what it is!

Crassus does not care for the omens, and rationalizes events as just. shit that happens (it's an interesting personality trait and narrative parallel that he shares with Cassius, to a certain degree! see: Plutarch, Brutus 37 & 39.4)

Plutarch, Crassus

and it results in a narrative where men cross over into an under/other world before they are dead.

The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East, Gareth C. Sampson

Pompey on the other hand, has this to say about his own mis/fortunes, which is a very honest and pragmatic acknowledgement of his life

Plutarch, Pompey

and additionally, Pompey tries to actively subvert people's expectations ahead of time (which could be read as a kind of genre awareness, if we want to keep going with the narrative comparison/framework) altho it doesn't seem to work in his favor lmao

(ibid.)

[welcometoteyvat]

jing yuan and yanqing are giving zhongli and xiao if the latter’s canon relationship was Actually fanon’s made up father figure/adopted child dynamic

[britneyshakespeare]

10 words every girl wants to hear

"jared, you have been evicted from the big brother house."

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[guinevereslancelot]

just met with my old coworker from my last job for breakfast and she told me all the gossip and how my evil old supervisor is going down in flames already 🤭❤️

[dykeferatu]

the outsider's perception of clerics vs what it's like to actually play a cleric is pretty funny. i can probably count the number of times i used a healing spell on one hand

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

Limp Bizkit:

ME:

[hauntingblue]

Yabushige count your fucking days. I am so mad

[kai-keda]

"Gollum's Song" came up and I got all up in my fee fee's about Memories of Malice Red Son so I drew the baby realizing that no one remembers him and that he's lost all claim to the respect all the years of being Guan Yin's student had earned him.

Feel free to send in asks about the Memories of Malice AU, btw, cause, uhhhhh I'm obsessed with my own thing

Considered doing a full SIMV to this song but I've got a lot of shit going on right now. It's nearly 4 am. I just got caught up in emotions and this was the PERFECT release for them.

This song is totally Red Son singing to everyone in the Celestial Realm

Alternate version with no lyrics under Read More

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

Mother fuckers saying that they hope the submarine never gets found because it serves them right or whatever, when there is literally a 19yo on there who is probably going to have a slow and traumatic death lack empathy just as much as the billionaires they criticise do.

[arlathen]

pushing the fat agenda in the dnd campaign i am tentatively planning by having all the fat characters be sweethearts and having the mean/evil characters be thin + as they descend into being more evil they get thinner. peace and love on the planet earth <3