#and occasionally amusement

[dataframe]

he truly tries zhangmen </3

[ID: Scum Villain sketch, set in The Wick Remains. Liu Qingge shrugs and says "I kill demons... what else do you want." while Yue Qingyuan and Shen Yuan exasperatedly sigh, "Liu-shidi... Please just attend the seasonal meetings." END ID.]

[thesummerstorms]

Okay, but what if Lucanis does buy Rook de Riva an important (mage)knife.

He gets knives, he has a good weaponsmith, but mages don't use their knives as much for stabbing/slashing directly as channeling elemental magic to stab with, so he goes to Emmrich and asks for the simplest, most paired down explanation of crafting materials' effect on magical frequencies that is humanly possible, specifically as it applies to knives.

Emmrich reminds Lucanis that he is in fact a stave user, but Rook would be a good person to ask.

Lucanis grits his teeth because he can tell from the older man's smile that Emmrich is having some fun at his expense. Of course Emmrich knows it's for Arsinoë. Lucanis hadn't wanted to be that obvious, but he can admit that it is.

Unfortunately, even when sincere, Emmrich is incapable of simple. Poor Lucanis knew this going in, of course and decided on Emmrich anyway because Neve would catch on too quickly and spoil her own gift and Bellara was equally incapable of simple and more prone to distracted tangents. It doesn't mean he's any more prepared to make sense of all this, and in the end he has to take Emmrich to meet his weaponsmith directly.

(The resulting "collaborative brainstorming session" almost scared Lucanis, put his favorite weaponsmith in a mind to possible shift specialties entirely, and cost House Dellamorte the price of a fully functional forge. It's still worth it.)

The end result is a beautiful piece of everite that feels vividly like the air in a storm in Rook's hands yet looks deceptively crystalline and fragile. It immediately becomes her favorite, unlike the vanished knife he gave Viago all those years ago, and from her shy smiles, he likes to think this time he's been understood.

Altogether, things are going well for once. If he feels more pride than maybe is reasonable every time he sees the everite blade in her hands alive with magic that cuts through a Venatori, then that's between him and Spite.

And Arsinoë. And Neve. And honestly everyone else because he's so terrible at hiding it.

All is going well, for once.

Until Tearstone Island, when he wakes up to Neve's anguished face, purple shards like crystal that cut through his gloves as he reaches for the snapped blade and severed hilt, his blood mixing with the sand, and-

and no Rook.

[violent138]

I just know the batkids go around carrying fake blood capsules and either play dead as ploys against enemies or occasionally overreact during fights with each other and this amuses everybody except Alfred and Bruce.

[syn0vial]

how each of the BG3 companions gained their combat expertise

wyll: i was trained as to be a formidable and honorable combatant since i was young, i've protected the frontiers for years, and i have magic devil powers karlach: i was forced to serve on the front line of the blood wars in hell for the past decade lae'zel: i was brought up in a strict, militaristic warrior society that emphasized martial prowess even in its youngest members shadowheart: i spent most of my life being prepared in the ways of subterfuge and magic by a brutal cult gale: i've spent decades obsessively studying magic and even studied under the goddess of magic herself to perfect my craft astarion: i've got a lot of repressed rage and a dagger i found on the ground 15 minutes ago. let's go turn someone inside out :)

[tiredsn0w-extrablu]

For days on end he only consumed Bonk!, passed out really bad, so now he's grounded until he eats normally. If unsupervised for 5 seconds he will run away like a shelter dog seeing an open door

[igotsnothing]

Beginning/Previous/Next

[ostensiblynone]

WHAT IS THE STORY WITH THAT AMERICAN CLASS RING?

Well, I bought it in a pawn shop in Tokyo in the '90s. And I actually wasn't—an' hangover when I bought it. And, uh, I actually put it on in the shop and couldn't get it off, so I had to buy it. But, um, yeah it's from, uh, it's from Ruston High School, in Mississippi? And, uh, yeah. It's started many a conversation in a bar in America. That of, yeah. Amounted to nothing. A G.I. said to me once, in an airport, 'Where'd you go to school?' And I said, in an American accent, 'cause I was drunk, 'Oh, Ruston High School, in Mississippi, I went there!' [laughs] But, ah, it's a wonderful, wonderful piece of kit.

[Noel's Instagram] posted 3rd Nov 2024

note: there is no Ruston, Mississippi

[reddit ama 2015 - noel's answer]

↓ psst - click the Keep Reading ↓

He is dressed top to toe in his favourite navy blue, his only adornments being a gold chain bracelet that he bought himself for Christmas and a gaudy ring purchased in a Japanese porn shop. "What? No. I said Japanese pawn shop," he cries, when I mishear his low-pitched, Mancunian rumble. He continues: "I fucking lie to everyone about this ring. I say, yeah, this is a ruby, man. But look. It's pink glass."

—Noel Gallagher - Daily Telegraph - 19th June 2001

[taraxippos]

Honestly few things more obnoxious than when an online artist with a big following sees one of their followers maybe being a little derivative of them and publicly puts them on blast over it. Like I can understand not liking it but get over yourself a little. It fucking happens. If someone's making money off of shit that is directly 1:1 lifted from you that might be another thing, but a 30 follower art blog taking a little too much direct inspiration isn't exploiting you

[teasugarcoffee]

tea matcha matcha tea matchy matchy

[triglycercule]

i think killer sans would listen to frank sinatra no this isnt because im listening to him and i think his love songs are the kinda slow heartfelt romantic messages and vibes in them fit killer and his romanticness,,,,, ok it totally is hehee,,,,,,,

i think it would be cute if dust and horror dont expect it when they ask killer what music he likes. killer doesn't really seem like the type to listen to music at least right?? or at least not something so sappy really!! dust just nods his head and thinks about it (actually it's a pleasant surprise to learn killer likes that genre) and horror just rolls his eye (what a douche liking songs like that,,,,,)

[stardustdiiving]

I love Neuvillette and find him so interesting to compare to other characters he shares characteristics to—I rlly wasn’t expecting them to go the route they did for what kind of character he was going to be but I’m so on board with it he’s so fun

First comparison I’ve been thinking about I suppose is him and Zhongli. They’re both distinguished old men (tm) who r powerful non human entities, but the way they both go about this are both enjoyably distinct. Both of them are both capable of deep gentleness, but Neuvillette’s gentleness feels a lot more “innocent” than Zhongli’s does. Zhongli is gentle from a place of experience of having to be not gentle in his time as an Archon who had fo hold his country together through apocalyptic war and calamity, but while he is gentle from a place of certainty about himself and what he’s learned/will learn about the world, I feel Neuvillette is gentle from a place of uncertainty and feeling he still has much to learn about himself and the world

We still don’t know a lot about Neuvillette’s history as of 4.1 but it’s interesting to me Neuvillette feels like a non human character who hasn’t had a lot of unique suffering tied to being physically nonhuman, and/or calamity intertwined with him learning about and building a relationship with humanity, like a lot of other non human characters we know have. A lot of his hardship in this vein feels very…grounded on a human level (see: his SQ) and different than say, a Scaramouche or any of the Archons

Neuvillette seeking out humanity and the way he connects to communities and other societies I think can have this additional sad edge to it because I wonder if you could frame that as being influenced by the fact he doesn’t really have any community of his own kind around him to feel a sense of identity with. So like, compare how Neuvillette engages with humanity, compared to how characters like Yae Miko or Xiao—I feel there’s a level of disconnect and difference in how they want to/feel they should engage with humans because they have a sense of identity as youkai/adepti that Neuvillette might have never really had a chance to develop, because of the circumstances with his own kind

The way he forms bonds with humanity and the melusines just feel very distinct to me, and feels like he’s been able to explore it with a less jaded view than a lot of other characters have been able to do. That’s sort of what I mean when I describe him as having this certain feeling of “innocence” to him

He’s just very earnest in a way that’s honestly really endearing. I like how he sincerely responds to Paimon’s silly suggestion to refer to himself as a “dragon out of water” rather than a “fish out of water” because he’s just genuinely spending a lot of his time trying to learn and understand how to communicate and engage with others very often. It’s funny how it’s not even like Neuvillette isn’t jaded or doesn’t hold strongly worded opinions or dislikes of things. His earnestness about this sometimes manifests as him being kind of sassy and it’s honestly hilarious. He’s very a impartial judge who cares a lot about fairness but also he must scoff at a lack of respect towards the Art of drinking water and Zhongli + Venti LARPing normal mortal humans , you see. Love this guy

[ashes-in-a-jar]

With regards to my gender, I've never thought of myself as male but sometimes when I look in the mirror I get this strange jolt of surprise that I'm female

[distracted-obsessions]

The urge to make a Whumpee based off of this coworker of mine...

[thethndr]

the hilarious problem is that i know I'M okay with sending a talking car into others' inboxes but i have no idea if anyone ELSE okay with it

[kitsune-kaos]

Not me discovering Luke and Noah’s love story from As the World Turns and subsequently binging out-of-order 5-10 min clips on the YouTubes 😳🙈

[shootingcookielover]

Hmmmm