#also to a lesser degree

[parasiticstars]

You ever viscerally hate a character so hard and for so long that it sorta rounds itself out into a fucked up obsession? make no mistake i’d rather stick a lit cigarette in my eyeball than stay for more than .002 seconds in a room with them, but at the same time I need to study them under a microscope and vivisect them and watch them squirm and if I don’t get any more content with them I will Die

[cataclysmcrows]

big fan of when grief drives characters to do fucked up things that are ultimately pointless and do more harm than good rather than just like. going to therapy

[cripplepunkbarbarian]

Hi guys is this anything

[pisstiel]

i do have like a clergy kink but i need the outfits and attitudes to be serious. no fucking fishnet stockings or smoky eyes. the nuns and priests in my fantasies don't revel in being "naughty," they either provide solemn corporal punishment or they are so overwhelmed by lust that they give in to their desires with immense guilt. making it all porny just ruins the fantasy for me

[spicy-apple-pie]

It was a tragic day in the Wayne Manor

(their friendship is so slept on)

[serpentface]

Some government assigned fursonas:

Palo - hare

Janeys - hyena

Brakul - dzo (vaguely)

Hibrides - green heron

Couya - also hyena

[foxstens]

i love neil because while you're in his head his words and actions seem somewhat reasonable

but then from jean's pov he's just insane

[katabay]

sort of revisiting this scene, mostly just playing around with it while I figure out the visual vibe I want bad governance to have! this is more like an abridged version of the scene I ended up writing.

for some scene context, Felix was planning on red tagging Cesar as payback, since Cesar’s family was Felix’s political opponent in the elections, but Crasso convinced him not to do it (Crasso’s family was murdered by cops when he was a teenager. It’s a cycle, baby)

I don’t really like to attach too many Ancient Rome sources for these anymore because it’s not supposed to be a modern retelling (again, the naming conventions were inspired by the Iron Heart, but for fun I thought I’d lean into it more. really ham it up, especially since Ancient Rome has a “relationship” with the Philippines lmao), but we’re still in the fucking around stage so as a treat, I’ll mention that this particular thread was partially inspired by the theory that Crassus might have been involved in getting Sulla to back off harassing Caesar. ymmv on whether or not it’s likely, but for me it’s delicious drama to think about.

I’ve also introduced Seth into the plot because politics and business go hand in hand, like you can’t really do one without the other. This is Seth’s historical counterpart, btw!

Crassus, Catilina, and the Vestal Virgins, Ronald Syme

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[daughtersgallery]

ok yeah anyways LOOK AT MY LAPIS LAZULI REDESIGNS, BOY.

[legionofpotatoes]

I know the discourse well is poisoned and no one hates bioware games more than bioware fans, but I am just 🫠 having so much fun with veilguard it's unreal. It is selfishly the dragon age game I always wanted. with less emphasis on cRPG, a more focused story, curated mission based design that spotlights the high fantasy stuff, slowburn structure with companions, significantly less sidequest bloat, and a fully real-time action-oriented combat system that isn't riddled with the growing pains of previous titles. when I first played origins I imagined something almost exactly like this as my ideal version of a sequel; and it was one of those dirty, selfish thoughts that I knew was disrespectful to the then-established DNA of the thing, but I can't help but feel giddy about having it here and now. like down to the shift away from the childishly dark tone and to something more inherently flexible with a baseline aspirational quality. I hate aesthetically depressing games so much. am I not alive right here and right now already

When I say "aesthetically" there though I do mean it. I'm fully on the opposite side when it comes to tone and positions expressed in the story itself. I am just not including that in my analysis because I am not done yet - so please no spoilers! I think I am where most people consider to be the second act, and I definitely have my gripes with the narrative framework and some of the optics, but I won't put the cart before the horse and will see how it wraps things up first. Above that level, in terms of how it presents itself, of how it plays, of how it balances its core pillars - it is such a bioware-ass game and I could not be any cozier in it. So grateful it exists

[stone-stars]

people need to get less comfortable calling emily insane

[dongslinger--420]

No but you don't get it. Boane IS Boherb. Every decision that BoJack makes in regards to Diane is based on his time with Herb. It's why he always stays in her corner when she's at her worst. It's why he kisses her directly after he falls out with Herb. It's why he recognises that she doesn't owe him forgiveness, and doesn't ask her for it. He saw Diane as many things, but one of the largest ones was that he saw her as a second attempt of his friendship with Herb. They even have a sky motif.

[finelythreadedsky]

ugh i am going to have to say things about euripides' helen. this is bad for me, a person who is incredibly intimidated by euripides' helen.

[aceyanaheim]

NO SHUT UP ATHENA MATCHING TELEMACHUS' MELODY FROM I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER

[jewishicequeen]

There's something amazing about Stormlight fanart, that despite people having so many different takes on the characters, they're somehow always INCREDIBLY recognizable.

Like, the amount of times I scrolled past something fast on my dash, then went "wait.." came back and it was the exact character I thought it was is INSANE. And I happened to mistake other fanarts to be Stormlight ones, but never Stormlight fanart to be something else. Those characters are just instantly recognizable and it's AMAZING for a book to reach this point. I'm honestly buffled. I love it.

[bitegore]

mfs will hear "a common thread of this mental illness is a debilitating fear of something very bad happening, or doing something reprehensible, and this fear is so overwhelming that it changes this person's entire life as they desperately try to keep from ever having to even come near the possibility of this thing happening" and will somehow convince themselves that that means that person is in fact exactly the thing they're terrified of being and should be shunned and reviled on account of how they are a person who clearly wants to do this terrible thing so so much