#and now lovers apparently

[ingravinoveritas]

Oh my God, Georgia...

[hikarry]

I've been writing so much fucking fanfic material that I just yelled "AZIRAPHALE!!!" when my cat jumped onto the table 😭 the brainrot is becoming too real

[weirdglassthing]

This is all I have for you avantris community 😔😔 my ipad is being fixed so hopefully I'll get a lot more done when I get it back

[sentientsky]

+ a bonus! (post-season 2)

part 5 (because i have to write a paper and i’m procrastinating). welcome back to “wren makes shitty gomens posts using her real-life actual text messages”

(Part 1)

[waterdroid]

ok I'm gonna ramble for a bit. The Thing about Wyll baldursgate3 Ravengard is that his character arc could've been so so much better (in my opinion) if he could become a Paladin in a route where he breaks Mizora's pact BUT rescues his dad.

AND YOU MIGHT THINK that a. Wyll Does Not worship any gods and in fact doesn't really like them (i think he says so himself after Mystra tells Gale to blow himself up) and that b. going from owing his power to a devil from owing it to a god isn't exactly a good character arc, and I Agree, BUT!!!!!

The thing about Paladins in DnD 5e is that Rules As Written*, they do not necessarily get their power from a god-- most do, but they also get it from their paladin oaths; they pledge themselves to a cause. And is there anyone more devoted to the people of Baldur's Gate and the Sword Coast than Wyll Ravengard, who LITERALLY made a pact with a devil to save it?? Who, even after being exiled by his father when he was SEVENTEEN, still went on to became The Blade of Frontiers, protector of the people????? He's PERFECT paladin material!!!! This way, Wyll's arc could be one where he learns that he can protect his people not with the powers that a devil or a god granted him, But with his own pure determination and devotion for his people, that he is enough on his own, and that he doesn't need to be in his father or Mizora's shadow.

Look, I'm just saying that if you break his pact but rescue his dad you should be able to go, Hey Wyll you would be the greatest fucking paladin to ever grace the Sword Coast, wanna smite some devils, for realsies this time??? and you get a training montage where his strength is raised and Tada, here's Wyll Ravengard, Hero of the People, or something. please Larian cmon

*I do not care normally about RAW in these kind of things but like this tidbit of paladin lore IS really important to my point and also i like it.

[todayisafridaynight]

what makes minedai even sadder is that we never rlly see daigo try to build a bond with anyone else like he did with mine it rlly shows how badly it effected him like yeah he reached out to shinada in y5 but that’s rlly it and he probably would wanna leave him alone after that and not involve him in any yakuza stuff so i don’t think they would’ve hung out or anything like that afterwards. All he rlly had were saejima and majima but they were more like babysitters than anything, wish we saw more of their dynamic tho like we did with majima and daigo in dead souls since that was fun and we were lowkey robbed but in canon he’s just as lonely as he was before majimas promise to kiryu. And mine is the only person he really had a meaningful relationship with romantic or not they were still really close and we don’t see that again with daigo ever (from what i recall after y3) ok sorry for rambling LMFAO

even with shinada, he reached out to him more so out of 'duty' and trying to make up for the misfortune that befell him because of yakuza than wanting to rekindle any kind of friendship they might have had in high school (though it sounds more like they were just acquaintances if shinada needing a second to remember who daigo was is anything), so yah i doubt they really had any kind of bond afterwards

dead souls really was the only time after Y3 where we got to see daigo be more sociable with someone, but its as you say majima and saejima are more like retainers than close friends

[yikes-ajax]

*toy story woody voice* There's a cat in my bag!

[pocketramblr]

I always found it slightly awkward how media makes siblings or people who see each other as siblings call each other brother/sister all the time as in real life you almost never see people do that with their own siblings (maybe someone out there like that)

In the case of Arkham Shadows I see why they did though because Bruce quite literally tells Harvey he loves him and Harvey says it back. Can't have the audience think Batman is in love with the DA.

They had Bruce pay for his college, pay for his campaign, pay for his surgery, pay for his therapy and had Harvey have him as his best man at his wedding. Wow..... Sugar baby Harvey is real.....

The calling sibling title thing is less common in English than in some other languages for sure- me and a couple of my siblings do it on occasion, but it's for a bit then. More common is when I call one of my close family friends "my sister" or "my nephew" when talking about them to someone else because it's faster and easier to say that than to say "my friend who I've known since she was born and lived with for a few years and consider a little sister" or "child of a close family friend who considers me an aunt" to someone who doesn't know them. Which is a lot of words to say that if they wanted to fully sell me on the brothers thing they should have either had a different bit or should have referred to the other as "my brother" when talking to an unrelated character instead.

But "oh no we have to make Bruce not look gay" has been a problem DC has struggled with more than once for many decades and it basically never works so I guess at least they didn't try to solve it this time by having Bruce pick a lady love over Harvey or cutting the holding hands thing

Because I saw that scrapbook! I know Harvey has been Bruce's sugar baby since he was ten years old! But we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him the love of his life because ok technically that's Gotham but also because gay. And we can't have Bruce take Harvey's hand and call him his best friend because they're not ten anymore and somehow that seems gay also. So brothers it is, I guess. Even if I think my brothers would bite my finger if I ever tried to pay for everything for them on that scale, guess it's different at billionaire levels

[yaeggravate]

just wanted to quickly share my thoughts on ronova's possible parallels to the character kundry, from wagner's opera parsifal

when the lord of the night talks about ronova she has this to say about her:

Yohualtecuhtin, Lord of the Night: The one you wish to know about... I call her "The Ruler of Death." She helped Natlan establish the rules. It was also under her guidance that I created the Night Kingdom... Yohualtecuhtin, Lord of the Night: It was an expression of love, as well as an act of reparation. She was seen as having significantly overstepped her authorities as a Shade, which quite displeased the almighty... Mm, Heavenly Principles. Yohualtecuhtin, Lord of the Night: She succumbed to self-pity as a result, and no longer cared if others discussed her identity. Even so, her existence remains unknown to all but a select few.

in the memory of xbalanque, we find out ronova has little freedom to do as she pleases. (though it's unclear what this means exactly)

Ronova: Very well. I shall agree to help you. But I am merely a Shade, and I do not have as much freedom to do as I please as you might think.

because i have anfortano on the brain, all of these bolded tidbits immediately reminded me of the sorceress kundry. in wagner's version, kundry was an (unwilling) accomplice in getting amfortas (spelled with an "m" here) cursed. kundry was wrecked with guilt over what she had done and tried to help amfortas and the grail knights despite her being under her master's control.

PARSIFAL Gurnemanz: Methinks a curse may still be on her life,—She is so wild and strange, so sad her very eyes. But now, whate'er the past, she is with us, And serves us to atone for earlier guilt. Perchance her work may shrive her of her sins. Surely she does full well to serve us well, And in the serving-help herself and us.

kundry was cursed herself to reincarnate over and over again for eternity. (because she laughed at jesus while he was being crucified lol.) she went under several names, one of which stood out to me; gundryggia. this name seems to be an invention by wagner himself that he gave his own meaning to:

In Act 2 of Wagner's music-drama, one of the names by which Klingsor addresses Kundry. Cosima's diary relates, "... at lunch he tells me: "She will be called Gundrygia (sic), the weaver of war", but then he decides to keep to Kundry" [14 March 1877]. Although it has been speculated that the name was that of a Valkyrie, the author has not been able to find the name Gundrygia or Gundryggia in any of the Old Norse sources, which contain many Valkyrie names. There is, however, a resemblance to the name Gunnr (meaning strife or battle), one of Odin's principal Valkyries, and this might have been the inspiration for Wagner to transform Kundry into Gundryggia.

at the end of the story, kundry dies and is freed from her suffering after parsifal saves amfortas.

back to capitano, it's said that ronova sent him on a long journey and that cap has a final foe to face. it's not explained yet what this means and can be interpreted several ways but when you consider possible kundry parallels perhaps ronova is helping cap break the curse which could potentially defeat her too or release her from her own torment/guilt over the Crimes™

anyway just something to think about, even if ronova isn't kundry, it would still be interesting to see her character implemented in the story in some way.

[onejellyfishplease]

How do you think @livvylubug Lunanardo would act with your OpenYourShell Donnie and Mosquitello?

Oh, my Donnie would absolutely hate how chill Lunanardo seems to be with his mothness.

like??? how are you just fine?? with being part moth??

make it make sense

[nostalgia-tblr]

tagged by @eek-a-tron and then by @lokiinmediasideblog and the latter of those reminded me that i had this sitting drafts in from the first tag. I am very good at memorying!

bold the trope you prefer:

slow burn or love at first sight • fake dating or secret dating • enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers • there was only one bed or long distance correspondence • hurt/comfort or amnesia • mutual pining or domestic bliss • canon-compliant or fix-it • smut or fluff • angst or crack • redemption or dark fic • reincarnation or character death • one-shot or multi-chapter • arranged marriage or accidental marriage • college romance or middle age romance • time travel or isolated together • neighbors or roommates • oh no they’re hot or monster s.o. • fantasy au or sci-fi au • apocalyptic au or modern au • historical au or isekai fic

[hawkwidows]

oh I hate twt so much hate it hate it hate itttttt turns out when you block people and just don't go online - shitty stupid things still get said, still get believed, still get a disgusting amount of likes and me who removed myself from the cesspool to be a happier, sane, nuanced person can only watch on as that many people run around an echo chamber parroting nothing of their own thought 💀 never wanted to have the ability to reach through the screen and shake people like I have lately but no I'll settle for closing the app and having a rant before bed. peace and love to my small corners of the internet that are still sane 🫰🏽

[faithfromanewperspective]

if anyone wants to know what the australian evangelical church is like in a nutshell, an irl acquaintance of mine (!!) who's also a pastor summarised the whole bible in taylor swift lyrics, published it online with a national evangelical blog, then got basically canceled by the american evangelicals for doing just that

[tenebrius-excellium]

You should know that there is a sense of peace, love and community fun waving through Germany during the European Soccer Championship right now that I don't think I have seen before in my lifetime

Germany and Scotland have fallen in love with each other. Germans think the Scots are super cute. Like an elephant finds a human cute cute. Germany has adopted Scotland. They're offering to make them the 17th state of Germany so they can be in the EU again, even giving the island of Mallorca back to Spain in return (which is a huge deal if you know what I'm talking about) lol (!it's a running gag! chillax)

No but in all earnestness, when the German soccer team is good (which it seems like again, after two very bad seasons), we get what we call a "summer fairytale" - our grudgy, grey, square and proper country loosening up a bit and finding common joy in the soccer championship. It's pretty much the only thing we get to be innocently proud of after you-know-what. It's the only place where we get to wave our flag and display a teeny-tiny bit of open emotion and a teeny-tiny bit of national pride. All other days, it's this constant pressure to be humble, to be hard-working, to be rational, to second-guess our every thought because. You-know what. Well, we do carry the generational memory. Which is okay. It's important. But this means that soccer as a positive emotional release is massive for us.

So yeah, just wanted to report on overall good vibes and chill over here in Germany

And before this post gets hijacked for any political agenda, I am also pleased to report that my town has started to plant so, soooo many wildflower meadows. Bees are returning. Butterflies are returning. Ants are returning. Snails are returning. It's nowhere near the amount of bugs that I had been used to as a child, but it's looking hopeful!!! Especially within the very short amount of time of one (1) summer!!!

There is so much good in the world despite all that's going on

Let this be a positive post please and thank you!

[sentientsky]

oh we're so deep in the brainrot, but i can't help but but imagine this as post-divorce pop princess crowley

[arnavot]

happy valentine's! here's the first golden lovers match set to Heart Attack