#and i am trying to finish it this weekend

[combefier]

the thing that really gets me about how bad the writing for rook in particular is is that it would take so little effort to make it better. and it would probably make the writers' jobs a lot more interesting, too. you should be able to piss off your companions. in every other dragon age, you can piss off your companions. you can piss them off so badly that they try to kill you. if you just sort of fail to impress people one way or another in da2, you can end up having to fight your best friends to the death, or have one of them peace out after prompting an invasion of your city. the ability to have conflict with your companions wasn't always handled WELL (trying to talk to cullen about mage rights in dai comes to mind, as does trying to talk to dorian about slavery beyond the one conversation), but the option was there. it seems like the only way you can piss off your companions here is by making tactical disagreements they don't like. there's no room to have a personality some of your companions find off-putting, even though there are multiple points where your companions are put off by one another. purple hawke we're so not back. and the reason can't be "well you had to be someone varric would choose," because varric's best friend was hawke and there can be very many different kinds of hawke.

you're given a fascinating backstory and it will not come up beyond occasional comments relevant to your faction. mourn watch rook why does your backstory almost never come up i would tell people that story all the time. it's like dming for a player who came up with the most rich backstory you've ever seen and then watching them ignore it every time you dangle plot hooks in front of them. bioware do you remember what you wrote. bioware u good???? the sanitization of various factions aside because that's its whole own post, it would be so easy to give a dialogue here and there where rook could show more of what sort of rook they are by letting them reflect on their backstory. it would be so easy to write aggressive answers that are actually aggressive.

i've spent enough time in editing that i've just been trying to figure out if there's any possible motivation beyond a lack of investment in their own story, or a shocking paucity of good editors in their work environment. is it because the way they designed the game necessitates that everyone be there at the end? but you can still fuck up the ending by making the wrong choices there, à la me2, and you were allowed to piss people off in me2. if you can get people killed at the end anyway, why not let the choices you made and the responses you chose matter beyond "did you do enough sidequests?"

at a certain point, it's just confusing. they know how to do this, even if they don't always do it well. the lack of any real room for agency or personality or conflict is just... odd. this is also leaving aside how easy it would have been to incorporate SOME past choices from past games per their previous work. bioware i just want to talk

[sunflower-chai]

thanks for the tag @thoughts-of-caly !!

last song: apple by charli xcx

last book: still the voyage of the dawn treader. i will finish it eventually.

last movie: i think it was a paris christmas waltz. my mom picked it, it was just as cheesy as it sounds lol. but pretty scenery <3

last tv show: to no one’s surprise, dancing with the stars. so glad stephen and rylee made it to the finale!!

sweet/savory/spicy: savory. always.

relationship status: single. as much as i complain about wanting a boyfriend, i don’t actually want one right now. i need to get my life together first before i try to share it with someone else lol.

last thing i searched: cleveland browns field logo (i’m watching football with my dad and i was trying to figure out what the heck i was seeing. apparently it’s their mascot, brownie the elf. go figure.)

current obsession: it fluctuates a lot these days, i don’t really have a steady hyperfixation right now. my brain is usually bouncing between narnia, phineas and ferb, and anakin skywalker.

looking forward to: GETTING POINTE SHOES ON SATURDAY i am so excited!!! also my sister coming home from college for thanksgiving break, the wicked movie, yummy thanksgiving food, a four day weekend from work, and decorating the house for Christmas <3

no pressure tags: @doodleoo @ramblings-of-lola @justmossyall @cloverstellar @authenticcadence18 @alonelyfry @clingyduoapologist @lmanburgseulogy @pistachions @iiusia

10 people i'd like to get to know better tag game:

tagged by @franollie tysm for the tag

last song: red light heaven by Bess Atwell

favorite color: pink ml, unless it’s for hair dye in which case purple any day

last book: got bored last night and finally read the sequel to AGGGTM last night in 3 hours which mentally wiped me out, but I loved it

last movie: the half of it! I recommend (not all of it is good, but the first half of it is epic) I actually want to eat all of their relationships so bad it’s centred around two kids who never get together and focuses on their friendship, and also the 3rd girl that they’re both in love with!

last tv show: arcaneee I love love love it

sweet/savory/spicy: I love sweet but I can only have a little and then savoury all the way. Tragically not got the spice tolerance for comfortably having more spice than chilli heat wave Doritos

relationship status: situationship is low-key over so single and sad about it. I never want to make a move on a friend but I very rarely flirt with ppl I don’t know yet

last thing i searched: was Christina Rossetti a lesbian, I think? I believe she was at least somewhat queer still no matter what Google says

current obsession: women, always. Spent ages today explaining just how beautiful my friend is with another friend who hasn’t met her but knows what she looks like. I don’t even like the friend romantically whatsoever but like she is stupidly beautiful. Vibing with arcane rn and also the odyssey!!! Homer really cooked imo.

looking forward to: arcane finale also!!! Tdp s7! And also I get to go to a ball soon so fancy dresses!!!

No pressure tags: @littlegreekhero @winged-bat @twinklefwinkle @foursixtwonineoh-pizzas-of-lego

[kingsofeverything]

32506

[harbingersecho]

neath dark waters

[bugboybuck]

smelling like a bonfire, lost in a haze.

@bucktommyweek (belated) day 1: alternate first meeting

buck/tommy, 4k words, 1/4

“I’m, uh, flattered,” Buck says, and there’s absolutely no explanation for why the next thing that comes out of his mouth is, “But I don’t date people I meet on calls.” Not I don’t date men. Which he doesn’t. Hasn’t. Well, hasn’t because he doesn’t, hasn’t ever wanted to because he just doesn’t swing that way. He was totally intending to say something like I’m not into guys, but we could grab a beer as friends — he doesn’t know why, staring at Tommy Kinard's grease-streaked biceps, his mouth didn’t send out the right words.

or. Buck meets Tommy Kinard while rescuing him from a car accident. Buck's got no problem with being flirted with on the job, really, it's just — well, it's not usually older men with biceps bigger than his head who are doing the flirting. And he didn't really expect how much he'd like it.

read on ao3!

[tj-crochets]

Today’s tally so far: one crochet baby blanket finished (except for weaving in the ends, it had only needed like half a round of the border), and @creations-by-chaosfay ‘s awesome rag quilt inspired me to start cutting the scraps from my flannel baby blankets so I can make them into a rag quilt. 11 squares cut, a whole lot to go lol

[tetzoro]

gooooood morning and happy thursday ! ^_^ we are almost at the weekend !! and halloween is approaching rather quickly, isn’t it ? 🌟 i hope you guys are getting into the spirit . . . pun intended ! (๑´>᎑<)~*

is anyone dressing up this year ? i’d love to knoooow !! 🤍💫

[pseudoincestuous]

people don’t see Kusuo and Kuusuke’s relationship for what it is because the format isn’t what they’re used to. They speak the love language of metered resistance, push and pull, harsh words and empty spaces where the emotions go. They can’t say what they are feeling. They can’t do it either. They do everything else instead. Brothers’ love languages are fights. Strangers’ love languages are kind favors and nothing asked in return. They occupy that liminal space between the two. They don’t realize how much they mean to the other. They don’t realize how much the other means to them.

Kuusuke pulls at Kusuo, trying to break his walls down and trying to break all of him down with it. Kusuo threatens to do the same to him, all the while trying to figure out how not to hurt him. Neither of them really mean it. Except when they do. Kusuke provokes kusuo, Kusuo hurts kuusuke, again and again and again. kuusuke comes to understand this is the only kind of contact he will ever have with his brother. He pulls away. Kusuo tries to forget; estranges him in his mind. Kusuo sees kuusuke as a stranger at their next meeting; Kuusuke has never known Kusuo so well as he knows him that day.

There are hard feelings that seem insurmountable. Kuusuke knows things that Kusuo doesn’t. Kusuo doesn’t know this, but he can sense it. He doesn’t understand, now. Kuusuke does. Kusuo had loved him all this time. And Kuusuke has loved him more than Kusuo could possibly understand.

You wouldn’t hurt someone you didn’t love. you wouldn’t hurt them because you wouldn’t see them as some part of yourself. they would be someone different to you. but hurting your brother is just self harm, contextualized. it gives meaning and structure to what doesn’t make sense in your life. He can suffer like I can. he feels what I do. and yet he isn’t you. he is the other person you could not become.

He is your equal; your mirror and he is who you are not. He is a perfect stranger. he exists on a different plane. He reminds you of yourself.

He is your brother.

[byakuyacoochie]

im bored and i need to know if its weird that i have an unhealthy obsession with jjba and specifically ghiaccio

I mean I (or the people who follow my blog) probably can't judge anyone for having a unhealthy obsession with jjba 👀

I go through ghiaccio phases now and again. The only part 5 character I'd probs think is weird to be obsessed with is Pesci. I am a Pesci hater!!

[monpalace]

where are the girlies that are still actively into tmnt i have a treat coming sometime this weekend

[essektheylyss]

guess what I didn't do. guess what I didn't fucking get around to this weekend. my goddamn video game homework.

[queenerdloser]

i'm writing a speculative short story for this writing class i'm taking where a cleaning robot witnesses a bloody mutiny and its aftermath. (why? no clue, i just love the idea.) for a long time, i only knew what i wanted the robot to be named and just had placeholders for the humans involved, but yesterday i finally went in and gave them all names. and halfway through the naming game i had the VERY amusing (to me) thought of giving the ship officers all names of historical ship officers involved in deadly ship crashes that ended in cannibalism. (the mutiny that serves as the plot is based on a lack of food resources after their ship gets attacked lol.) so the ship's first officer is named fitzjames. i'm rubbing my hands together eagerly waiting to see who will expose themselves as terror fans in this class or if i'll get away with my easter eggs.

[pheedraws]

been told that our office will be closed tomorrow because of the riots which is. kinda fucking terrifying. lol. but it means i am now legally required to stay home and draw heinrix all day so 🥂

[calmlb]

WIP WEDNESDAY

slowly but surely chipping away at sicktember fics 🥹 18skk living together 🥰

[alfheimr]

hiya folks - i wont go too into details but im getting hand surgery on, well, my drawing hand on monday after months of things like: imaging! hand therapy! ive been able to draw but not as often as id like and not without pain. its been a bad time to put it lightly. it’s also quite expensive. im not asking for donations or anything of the sort, but if you’ve ever wanted a print of mine or have been interested in perhaps my zine, well, i would be very appreciative if you checked them out.

i plan on opening commissions at some point - ideally whenever ive recovered enough that i can actually draw again. i know it has been quite some time since ive done commissions and i honestly miss them a lot! i dont want to make any promises regarding an ETA however, so i will keep you all posted.

[blujayonthewing]

love to have Literally Just More Than One thing I want to do for myself for fun and get completely fatigued and paralyzed by overwhelm about it