#and a normal brick too

[uterinbomber]

PIXAL CALL THE PLUG THIS SHIT TOO STRONG /ref

[tendafoot]

im living for scoops billy btw. you guys are geniuses

[babyloniastreasure]

something that kind of bothers me about modern feelings toward the epic of gilgamesh is how it's been COMPLETELY watered down to being "gay". Bear with me as I explain.

this is more of an extreme example, but I see this take all the time (not the yaoi part. the gay lover part). it's boiled down to the fact that it's gay over literally anything else in the epic. Gilgamesh's lament to Urshanabi about Enkidu's loss is overshadowed by the fact that Gilgamesh is mourning his gay lover. Gilgamesh is on a journey because he lost his gay lover. Gilgamesh and Enkidu were gay.

Now I understand that with a modern lens, people tend to lock on to how unabashedly Gilgamesh mourns Enkidu, because it's gay and because it's the oldest written epic in human history. People feel deeply connected to the idea that people like them have been around since the dawn of literature. But placing exclusive focus on the nature of the relationship as gay, rather than why the relationship or its loss was important, erases the story the epic is trying to tell.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a story about love, yes, but it is not a love story. It's about the fear of death, coping with loss, and desperation to stave off the inevitable. It's about the bonds of friendship, about hardship, coming to terms personal change and losing pieces of yourself as you learn and grow. It is about consequences, arrogance, death, second chances, mourning, yearning, loving and LIVING. The Epic of Gilgamesh is about the entire human experience and one man's struggle to accept it. What does it mean to have lived? What does it mean to have loved, and lost? What does it mean to die, and to be remembered? What does it mean to be human?

It is perfectly okay to find appreciation for the Epic because of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's relationship. But also understand that the world's oldest story is not about two gay men who loved each other. It is a story about being alive.

TLDR;

[hailsatanacab]

Happy Ghouls and Gangs DPxDC Bang event posting week!! Here's what I've been working on for the @dpxdcbigbang 🥰

Summary:

It’s a normal day for Alfred Pennyworth. He spends it taking care of the manor and watching over its inhabitants, just as he does every other day. It’s an exhausting, never-ending task, that he wouldn’t change for the world. But that night, he is confronted by a stranger in his rooms with a copy of every single soul-binding contract he’s signed for the protection of his family. The new Ghost King wants to update his terms and conditions.

Alfred POV, Ghost King Danny, with some Post-Vivisection goodness and only a little (a lot) of blood and gore and medical fun, but that's for later. Not for the squeamish, please check the tags!!

Snippet under the cut!

It’s a normal day for Alfred Pennyworth.

He wakes up early enough to be ready to greet Master Duke with breakfast when he shambles into the kitchen, he cleans, he greets the rest of the manor’s residents when they finally make it downstairs, he cleans, he goes down to the cave to rouse Master Tim from another sleepless night, he cleans.

It’s a quiet day, or as much as one can be when the place he calls home is filled with vigilantes.

He drops off Masters Damian, Tim, and Duke at school and uses the rest of the trip to pick up some groceries for dinner. Coq au vin tonight, he thinks, it’ll be perfect for the changing of the seasons. A mushroom and lentil substitute for Master Damian will do lovely.

The rest of the day is spent preparing the meal and doing a spot of gardening before it’s time for the school run again. He can’t help but smile fondly as he listens to them needle and tease each other, only stepping in when it starts to become too pointed.

Yes, it’s a normal day for Alfred Pennyworth. It’s at night when it all changes.

There’s a ghost waiting for him in his room. 

A soft glow emanates from the creature’s vaguely transparent body and a crisp frost creeps slowly across the floor, sparkling in the darkness like diamonds.

“Mr. Pennyworth?” it says, the voice bouncing off the walls so that it sounds like hundreds of beings instead of one.

Fear squeezes at his heart and the air in the room turns dark and heavy, so that Alfred struggles to breathe. His mouth is dry, his head is swimming, and he’s not entirely sure if he’s going to survive the night.

[fisheito]

is oli gonna be a maid bouncer. like. customers are gonna try to get handsy with the maidboys and dante's first reaction is to snap someone's wrist in twain rei becomes an unpredictable liability bc he could do SO many things. he could not care. he could escalate the inappropriate touching for personal gain. he could poison their drink (with higher chances of fatality than usual)

so oli needs to be the mediator of all making sure customers don't act out of line and that staff don't kill someone . all he has to do is wield a menu like his holy book and everyone will behave

[wereshrew-admirer]

it took her an hour and an incomprehensible amount of vulnerability to get that armor off, and now somebody’s gone an called an alarm? they better watch the fuck out.

(a hint of violence for fatt pinup week!)

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Wait why would you need to say sorry to Noisette?

Pep: "..."

Pep: "Reh ot deil I... I..."

(Flashback Begins)

Noisette: "Is someone out here? We are open!"

Noisette: "Omigosh, hi there!!! Come in, come in! There's no need to be shy!"

Noisette: "You're just in time for some fresh pie! Not that it was gonna go anywhere, since no one's come in today... But still! If that growl was you, you must be starving!!!"

Noisette: "Now you just sit right here! Don't move an inch! I'll be right back!"

Noisette: "Tada!!! I hope you like cherries! It's on the house!"

Pep: "...?"

Noisette: "Are you asking if it's for you? Of course, it is, silly! D'you see anyone else in here? Now, eat up! There's plenty more where that came from!"

Pep: *happy Pep noises*

Noisette: "Oh, I'm so glad you like it!"

Noisette: "Now, if you don't mind me asking, where did you come from? I haven't seen you around here!"

Pep: "..."

Pep: *uncomfortable gurgling*

Noisette: "Oh, do you not speak...?"

Noisette: "Well, that's okay! Do you know any sign? I'm pretty good at it!"

Pep: "...?"

Noisette: "Oh! I can show you some!"

Noisette: "I-I mean, if you'd like! If you wanna just have the pie and go, that's okay too, of course! Hah."

Pep: "..."

Pep: "...!"

Noisette: *happy squealing*

(Flashback End)

Pep: "Deneppah. Tsuj ti dna dekcinap I, eil ot naem t'ndid I..."

Pep: "Em. Gnieb yb gnihtyna niur ot tnaw t'ndid I, yppah dna dnik os tsuj saw ehs tub, reh llet ot gniog saw I..."

Pep: "'Lamron' eb ot retteb eb d'ti thguoht I."

[neuxue]

me: *slaps roof of sentence* this bad boy can fit so many subordinate clauses in it!

sentence in question: *collapses at the slightest touch like a fucking jenga tower, adverbs clattering down all over the floor, nouns lying broken and bleeding, impaled on verbs they were never meant to touch,*

[unar-mage-ddon]

not sure if everyone else has already figured it out and i'm just slow on the uptake but... remus is probably referencing brain's situation here, right

"but that wouldn't explain those keyblade skills of yours... hm? or would it?" makes me think he's comparing player's sudden appearance to brain's, since brain also kinda fulfills those two points (being a drifter, technically, and being a skilled wielder)

however: assuming that sigurd is one of the founders (whatever that entails), the line "otherwise the founders would be here" likely means that if player were in a similar situation to brain's i.e being from the past, they'd be here to pick them up like sigurd did, but clearly they're not. the clothes comment could also be talking about how brain showed up looking exactly as he did in his normal clothes, but player showed up in clothing more typical of scala ad caelum residents, thus throwing them even further off the trail of possibly-maybe being from the past like brain (worth noting in jp he uses the word 姿, which more vaguely means "appearance" instead of just clothing)

not to mention that brain does have his memories, while player remembers practically nothing

so it's basically just remus with his head in his hands going "maybe they're from the past like [brain] is? or... maybe not??" which is also exactly what i do when i think about anything in this series

[electric-plants]

slight hsr spoilers but—

they might as well have just impaled me on a stake

[aroace-poly-show]

if youd like to ramble here that would be great!! :D /gen

i checked the sideblog i thought it was on but i think i got it wrong heheh ,:)

he looks so fucking stupid. i wanna punt him. thinking about war lore and his execution and ex valk and nazuna makes me want to die. did you know he called nazuna his soulmate. and he avoids him in this one event bc he knows he’ll start yelling at him and he doesn’t want that bc he doesn’t want to hurt him. misses nazuna but is happy for him and how he’s growing without him. what if we all just died

[thegreatyin]

The scoundrel has a stat for Masters but all of the "be a Master" checks are either DC 5 (They're humoring you) or 20 (they're not) and instead it just causes a bunch of obsession to pop up in her head via passive checks. +11 Master of the Bazaar makes the game nearly unplayable whenever space bats are on screen.

love this concept wherein the masters are basically walking infohazards to the scoundrel's sanity. your mind is beautiful

[yukyunotabibito]

Nasir Post Epiphany Situation (I'm So Sorry for This Man)

So um... yeah, Nasir ran as soon as he saw shit start to go down up at the monastery (in his defense, he did panic and his first thought was not "I should go all the way up there and save Kurthnaga" but "Oh, I should make sure that I live through this and also that everyone on my crew makes it out of here alive"), gathered up his crew, and fled for wherever he was keeping his ship. (Most likely wherever the closest available port would be, but not the point here. I also do not know where that would be. Where would that be chat.)

He did not incur any injuries as he had somewhat of a head start and he and the members of his crew spent the month at sea, waiting for things to blow over before returning to Garreg Mach. He ultimately returned some time soon after the final battle and reunited with both Kurth and Ena. (See the drabble on Ena's blog).

While I haven't talked much about his ships crew before, other than mentions of them in posts, I imagine at this point in his life, after having returned to Goldoa, their ranks are made up of a mixture of younger beorc sailors (he dismissed any older beorc members of his crew to go back home to their families) and dragon laguz, mostly white dragons. He keeps them on pay even though they are not sailing at the current moment, allowing them to enjoying their time in Fodlan as if it were an all expenses paid vacation. This has nothing to do with his shift, but more of a fun fact.

Despite how he may seem at times, he does actually feel rather guilty for leaving Kurth behind in his panic, but would rather not have to confront what he did at this current point in time. That's too much of a complicated emotion for him to not shove down and pretend that it meant nothing :)

For Nasir's arc leading up to his probable August lore participation, he is slipping back into a lot of old habits, and will continuously shift the blame onto others if he has to. (The blame shifting is unrelated to his old habits.) (Lots of lying, and much less opening up than he might have done in the past.)

He is not an ultimately very good person - though that is part of what makes him fascinating to me - and while he hasn't shown much of his overtly spiteful side since arriving in TOA, until he's fully confronted with consequences and some sort of life altering event happens (sorry Dheg, whatever punishment you inflict on him isn't going to be enough in this case), he will be much more outwardly hostile because instead of internalizing his feelings and processing them like a normal person, he lashes out at others.

While he may be able to be more reasonable and objective at a later point, until he has another character shift, he's going to be far quicker to respond with anger and hostility than anything else, especially with strangers.

He does not know the full extent of what happened, nor who is responsible, but because of the circumstances that he could have observed and seeing Fodlan fall into war, he is sorely disappointed in the people of this land. While not surprised, he is still disappointed that his more cynical worldview was proven correct in this instance. Good luck Fodlan muses especially on this one, you're going to need it.

Ideally, he will be able to have some meaningful threads before August that could bring him back around somewhat, but I'm also fine with him remaining like this until then. Whatever happens happens, and I'm going to hit him with a truck <3

[mountainsideturnip]

I'm alive. Have some notebook doodle colorings

[sociallyawkwardseal]

Okay, so not fanfic/writing stuff but do you ever think of how close Calla and Kody used to be? How sweet and bright and encouraging she was towards him when they were younger? How friendly and warm she was? How they smiled at each other? It makes me want to eat rocks.