#and choose accordingly

[trappedinafantasy37]

Imagine being on the verge of death, your mind being ripped apart by the very gods. You beg and you pray and none of the gods you know and worship show up for you. They all leave you to die. Except one person. They come for you at your time of need and they save you when they didn't have to. In fact, they had more reason to kill you, but they risked their own life to save you anyway.

You travel around with them and watch all the things that they do. You question them, try to understand them, because they intrigue you. They are extraordinary. They are powerful. They are exquisite! They see the world in the same way you do, value the same things that you do. They are willing to stand before the very gods themselves and defy them, challenge them, and destroy them. And you accept them for everything that they are. You appreciate them for everything that they are. And you wouldn't want to change a single thing about them because you think they are marvelous just the way that they are! You love them with everything that you have, because they exist in the way that they do. You are loyal to them, devoted to them. You want to go where they go, do what they do, see what they see, because you can't imagine a life without them.

And then they turn around and look at you and say you are broken. That you need to be fixed. To be changed to be "better". You realize that they do not accept you in the same way you accept them. You realize that they didn't take a single moment to try to understand you. That the only parts of you that they like are what is convenient for them. And whatever they do not like, they want to scrape out of you and replace it with what they think would make you "better". They have spent this entire time, harshly judging you despite not spending a single second to get to know you. They want you to change, not for your sake, but to appease them. To them, you were only worth it because they thought they could change you, remold you into something that would make them feel better about being in your presence. Because your presence disturbs them. And when you make it clear that you will live as you are and you will not compromise for the approval of others, they throw you away and discard you. Calling you cruel, and evil, and a genocidal lunatic, when all you have ever done is just try to survive whatever situation you found yourself in.

Minthara accepts you and loves you for who you are and will NEVER ask you to change a single thing about yourself, and especially not for her sake. She wants you to just be... you. She likes you just the way that you are. She doesn't always agree with every single thing that you do, but by the gods, she will still love you anyway. No matter what choice you make, good or evil, she will still love you and accept you and go along with whatever you want to do.

Why won't you show her the same courtesy? Why do you only love companions when you think you can change them into what you want them to be? Why do you look at companions and only see their flaws and see it as something that immediately needs to be fixed into something you like? Why do you abandon companions when you realize that you can't change them into something you want? Why does she have to be the one to change? Are you willing to change for her?

Do you ever spend a single second asking yourself why Minthara is the way that she is? Cause if you did, you'd realize that she shouldn't be changed, and she can't. This isn't to say that Minthara can't change at all, she just can't and won't in the way that you want her to be. Minthara is very confident in herself and has been through many tribulations in her long life and has prevailed above them all, because she is the way that she is. She is proud, strong, loyal, and a survivor. And you are telling her that all of that is wrong.

[unordinaries]

presented without comment

(chapters 280 + 344)

[quietwingsinthesky]

i do love canon amy & rory but god, does some part of me wish they really had gone with the idea of the doctor picking up a child as a companion (and then later, that child’s best friend with a huge crush on her.) with the rest of the season really not changing at all, except now it’s amelia pond with an angel in her head killing her and lost alone in the woods. it’s little rory who dies and is forgotten and becomes a toy soldier. if this is going to be a fairy tale, then let it be one. children have never been safe in fairy tales.

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

if dorian didn't show up, do you think louis would have shot minnie?

I do. I know some people think either he wouldn't have or he would've missed so that's why the writers had him shoot Dorian instead, but mmmmmm no, I don't personally think so. I like to think that if he had taken the shot, his shaky hands would've caused him to shoot her fatally.

Mostly because I'm already so normal about the fact that of the Ericson crew, Marlon and Louis are the only ones with a body count. Well, that we know of, but shown to us in the game, at least. Plus, we know it's Louis' first kill.

Like yeah, Clementine and AJ become part of the crew and they have bigger body counts, and if we're counting indirect kills caused by actions, then Tenn has a count... and I guess everyone has blood on their hands for blowing up the boat... but I'm talking about killed directly with a weapon like....... I lied, I'm not normal about that at all, Louis and Marlon are the ones who have killed someone in Louis' route. I'm also not normal about the fact that Louis kills Dorian and then even as he's clearly in shock, he tries to go with Clementine to get AJ, and then later on when they talk about it, he says it feels like bile but not quite and he's glad he has it in him to do it.... listen, listen, listen... I'm obsessed with that.

Anyway, so if Louis shot Minerva, I think he would've accidentally killed her and can you imagine? He's already enough of a mess after killing the woman who pinned him down and tried to cut his finger off [or succeeded] but he knew Minerva, they were friends before the twins were taken. Even Violet couldn't kill her even though that would've been the smarter thing to do, and we know thanks to meta knowledge that killing her would've saved lives, but Violet couldn't, and I don't think Louis would intentionally either.

Speaking of Violet, if Louis killed Minerva, I hate to think about what that would've done to Vi. I think she might've actually left at that point, like what was planned before it got changed to her being burned. I don't think she would've attacked Louis over it, though, like yeah she attacked Clementine in the cell but Louis? I don't know, but I don't think so just because it's Louis and he'd be a mess about it anyway.

Though if he did kill her, it would be a neat parallel to draw... y'know, because Louis forgave AJ for killing Marlon even though he was pissed and heartbroken, and Violet was annoyed with him the entire time... but could she ever forgive Louis for killing Minerva? Y'know? We already have a similar parallel with AJ shooting Tenn, but still.

If Clementine killed Minerva in that moment, though, then I could see Violet attacking her since in her eyes, Clem proved her right.

So yeah, I get why they added the Dorian kill to his route. It adds another compelling element to Louis as a character, but we also need Minerva alive for episode 4; Louis can't kill her, he can't miss, and he's not going to stay with her because we need Violet to stay on the boat and him to be on shore for all routes.

[spiderwarden]

By the way, High Elves aren't the only ones insulted in the first meeting of ACT 1 Minthara, (and in fact it tells me exactly what your Tav is if you talk about which insult is thrown at you), every single race gets insulted and called inept and worthless to her until proven otherwise. The only ones that don't get insulted are female drow, and the bias for that is obvious.

[caressthosecheekbones]

i have like one hour left to decide...

[wis-art]

Wiki goes from gender neutral to woman when she learns about human understanding of genders from her girlfriend. She's not trans in the same sense I am!!!!

[elizabethrobertajones]

TBH my NG+ of Stormblood has mostly reminded me that in Frogverse, Lyse has the hardest time of it because by mid Stormblood, she, Frog and Alisaie hug constantly, having formed the tightest little mean girls squad of the Resistance who are always hyping each other up and whispering together and conspiring to get Yugiri to sit with them at lunch etc, but Lyse is the exact height that if Frog hugged her, her boobs gently rest on Lyse's head, and Lyse is Too Gay to handle this. I also think Alisaie has a big gay crush on Lyse she's not handling well, along with her inevitable long-term crush on Frog, all of which is pushing her to rather reckless heights to impress the older girls who she's trying to measure up to both in all the canon ways she's pushing herself but also in the psychosexual lesbian drama way.

And meanwhile in this time, Frog is mostly just staring moodily out of windows thinking about how it never would have worked with Hilda but the fact she's now dating Joye is still gutting and maybe she should just stop levelling machinist entirely before her heart is stomped flat.

Like, it's peak stupid gay drama hours and everyone is just pining. Honestly, G'raha's intervention in the story couldn't have come sooner. If he'd raptured Frog pre-Doma Castle she might have thanked him regardless of the geopolitical danger.

[peonyblossom]

ethan's reaction to the explosion was highly unrealistic, his first instinct would be to find sydney and make sure he's okay thanks

[pretentiouswreckingball]

Can I have a raven playlist pls 🌚

You can have it all raven <333

r -> Ready Or Not by Dr. Brigit Mendler

a -> all the good girls go to hell by billie eilish

v -> Voyage Voyage by Desireless

e -> Everybody (Backstreet's Back) by Backstreets Boys

n -> Never Wanna Fall in Love With U by nelward

Send me your name and i'll make a mini playlist with the letters in your name

[halfmoth-halfman]

Been following you for a while and I wish you wouldn’t hate Sarah J. Maas. She’s my favorite author and I don’t think I can continue following you or supporting you while you hate on her. I’ll miss your fics but they aren’t worth it.

don’t even worry about it, you do what’s best for you. i’m all for curating the content you want to see on your blog. if seeing my blog or my dislike of someone you enjoy upsets you and you need to unfollow then please do! block me if you need to! i won’t ever be upset or angry if someone decides to unfollow/block me, that’s what those options are there for!

fandom is meant to be fun, and if you aren’t having fun on my blog then it’s okay to not interact with me! it’s okay to just unfollow or block people because you don’t like one of their posts or you don’t like their vibe or they don’t like one of your favorite authors! i’ve blocked people for less before, it really doesn’t have to be that deep!

and that goes for any blogs/people you may come across on here and other social medias. create your spaces to make you feel comfortable, curate your content to what you want to see! and don’t ever feel bad for doing so! it’s your blog, do what you need to do to make it a safe space for yourself.

….but i do have to genuinely ask, what were you expecting when you followed a blog with the title “sarah j maas hate account”?

[shiroselia]

Friendly reminder because I’ve seen it happen before and we all should not be eager to sweep this shit under the rug just because it MIGHT (Keyword Might) end alright

If Helena (and any of the other people affected by what is almost certainly budget cuts, which is why I doubt this might actually end as well as we want it to) gets rehired, that does Not erase the fact that we have yet to hear anything official from SSE other than the fucking instagram comment that doesn’t count, because it Shouldn’t, about this situation, and that they have completely skrewed over people with the way they’ve been assumedly handled it from what we as outsiders can puzzle together, and that even if this might end up being overturned because SSE got direct confirmation that people want to spend their money on them (keyphrase Spend Money) it does not erase their actions and it doesn’t erase the shitty business principals we’re currently seeing

All of the people affected deserve better than this absolute flipflop bullshit, and we as consumers deserve an official proper announcement

[redhead-reporter]

º ✧ 。hi my little cheese toasts ! just popping by this hump day for a reminder that while i TRY to be cognizant and respectful of how long people have been waiting on drafts/replies and mix up the queue? i do NOT necessarily post in chronological order. muses are fickle things and mj is no exception, and it's better for her longterm health (and mine) if i just let her do what she's most drawn to at any given time ♡

[callstheadventurescience]

If you invite your grad students out for a lab dinner and aren't going to pay for their meals, I am begging you to at least choose an affordable restaurant.

[sunnylolli]

do you have a playlist for when you work?

Without outing myself too much, last I counted my spotify playlists, it counted 100+ :,) I listen to,, So many playlists depending on my mood

I do have favorites though, the three I listen to the most right now are these: