#and unfortunately I must also tag

[honeyhenry]

GUYS, GENERAL ACACIUS’ NAME IS NOT MARCUS WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK IT’S MARCUS

[poketkit]

art for @yourminecraftboyfriend bc his au is rlly funny to me !! eating shitty food court pizza

[luck-of-the-drawings]

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saw alot of comments on prev pages; saying 'i HATE that mean teacher! im gonna FIGHT HIM!!' & i LOVE the energy!! it WOULD be nice. to have that catharsis. but the story of young tidestrider is Not one of catharsis. it is a story of being so small and so special and sucking so bad.

[speakofcompersion]

For jjong month ♡ part [1/4]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

what is your favorite thing about charles and your favorite thing about erik? separately, as in what you like most about their characters :]

a devious question this one is, my friend!!! it's hard enough for me to explain my thoughts cohesively, but having to pick ONE thing i particularly love is difficult. with characters like charles and erik, theres been so much done with their characters over the decades and so they have so many components to them that make them so interesting and fun to observe. BUT I TRY FOR YOU TODAY. under the cut i kinda ramble and the size of this text box makin me anxious

i think if i were to be simple and broad, what i enjoy most about charles is his determination to help others, even if he isn't really thanked and/or if people don't even like him. ofc, this isn't to say he hasn't done wrong- to be honest, the fact he does wrong/questionable things at times is another aspect of him i really enjoy, maybe because- broadly speaking- he's meant to be altruistic (intent vs outcome and all that). i don't know if that's super exciting to most people, but it is for me

as for erik, my reason for liking him is easier to explain tbh. To Be Simple And Broad, his progression from villain to antihero over the decades has been fun to observe (as much as i have so far anyhow) and analyze. i think to be a bit more specific, him using his rage and pain as justifications for his villainous actions is definitely what compels me the most: hurt people hurt and the sort, an idea i've always found interesting (something something vicious cycles and the like). yet now, he recognizes this wasn't really. A Just Thing To Do and is beginning to change that, which i enjoy

[wundrousarts]

I need to get back on my Jess interview grind and finish before Silverborn press starts up because tell me why I'm skimming one trying to find something and then realize she's talking about Ages. ACK! This is vital to my theorizing.....

[emcapi-gaming]

Intro: Arkose (they/them)

Basic info:

9th reflection shard of Arkadios (Azem)

23 years old

Pansexual & nonbinary

Born and raised in Everkeep

Cousins with Erenville

Disabled/chronic pain: mild form of levin sickness, manifests as nerve pain and numbness in hands and feet. Varies depending on the day from minor tingles to full numbness past mid-shin/forearm, usually falling somewhere in the middle.

Uses mobility aids (platform crutches and boots with built-in ankle/foot braces)

Does some work for Oblivion, but isn't one of the more hardcore members

Can go outside the city with relative safety, as most monsters ignore them

(Personality, background, likes, and dislikes under the cut)

Personality/Background:

Arkose is a Traveler who can't travel, because they're stuck in an impenetrable lightning dome. While everything Solution Nine had to offer was enough to satisfy them when they were younger, there is a deep unhappiness that's been growing more and more every year.

For the most part, they operate on the philosophy of "but we stay silly." They cope with the existential dread with humor. Most people's impression of them is "cheerful, hyperactive, sometimes a bit annoying." They do have a bit of a temper and will get snappy if pushed too far.

Their other main coping mechanism is going on camping and fishing trips in the wasteland outside Everkeep. Because they refuse to wear a regulator, everyone, even most members of Oblivion, think this is incredibly stupid. Most monsters ignore them because of being levin aspected, they've learned the basics of Gatherer Sneak to avoid the few who don't, and they always set up portable lightning rods at the campsite to deal with the perpetual storm. Despite this, most people think that they're taking a pointless risk by going on these trips with no regulator and very little ability to fight.

Arkose is able to get most of these people to shut up by reminding them what happens when they stay in the city for too long. It results in both the approximate lifestyle/energy mismatch level of a husky in a high-rise apartment, and increasing levels of Staying Silly to counteract the growing existential dread from being stuck in one place which is distinctly artificial. The end result is an Arkose who is bouncing off the walls and driving everyone around them up the walls, to the point where most people they know are practically begging them to go camping.

Their life is a perpetual balancing act between inside and outside Everkeep. If they stay outside for too long, the uncontained ambient aether causes the levin sickness symptoms start trending more heavily towards the 'severe' side of the scale - they can sometimes push through it, but it will mean more bad days and a longer recovery period when they get home. But if they stay inside too long, as mentioned, they start losing their mind. They've settled on spending a 3 to 4 day block each month out camping.

They grew up wearing a regulator, and listening to Aunt Cahciua's stories about Tural. When they happened to meet her again after getting her memory erased, and realized what they had lost, they were extremely upset and swore off regulator use. They feel that the memories were stolen from them.

They also missed the vast majority of the events of MSQ because they dropped their phone during a camping trip, the local legendary fish ate it, and they got stuck trying to fish it back up. Everyone was surprised when they showed up again, because the logical assumption after being late coming back and radio silent in the middle of a war was that they were dead.

Arkose and Ardwin meet for the first time a little while after MSQ and (as most Arkadios shards tend to do) immediately get along like a house on fire. They asked her to take them with her; she agreed to do so, as much as possible, and as of post-7.0, the two of them are now slowly working their way through a long travel itinerary/The Great Etheirys Roadtrip.

Ardwin had previously discovered that shards of the same soul have an osmosis effect with imbalanced aether through skin contact, as Ardbert was able to siphon some of the Light poisoning from her in Shadowbringers before they fused (which was still necessary, as it was roughly the difference between bailing out a leaky boat with a bucket, and patching the hole). (Also, this only works for partial aether corruption, and has no effect on her reaper avatar.) She has the same effect with Arkose, which is how she discovers they're another Azem shard.

Although the siphoning effect is helpful for Arkose, it's more of a therapy than a cure; it improves symptoms significantly, but the strongest effects only last for a couple of days before starting to taper off, and it takes around a week until Ardwin and Arkose's aether levels return to their natural state of balance/imbalance, respectively, to meet the relative threshold to trigger the effect again.

Likes (pre-MSQ):

Wasteland camping/fishing trips!

Bringing Genolt energy drinks and/or rare materials from outside in exchange for lessons on fabrication

Underground raves (and loves mosh pits if they're having a really good nerve day!)

Stories from Aunt Cahciua about Tural

Simulation games that try to replicate the world outside the dome

Fighting games

Watching Arcadion matches

Likes (post-MSQ):

Other Arkadios shards!!! <3

GOING OUTSIDE THE DOME!!!!!!!!

THE SKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dislikes:

Regulator-induced memory loss

Strangers fussing over them

Being patronized

Feeling trapped in the city

How everything in the city feels artificial

(To a lesser degree) Feeling trapped in the dome

People trying to talk them into wearing a regulator

People trying to talk them out of going camping

It's Complicated:

Queen Sphene (were actual friends for a time, but had a nasty falling-out)

[nightfal1n]

*Reads Galaxias (serialization) chapter 1*

"Hey we got dragon Hoshina here and he looks very sas"

*Dragon Hoshina got a 1st episode villain/future rival humiliated defeat treatment*

".....Well not exactly vice capt but glad you 'survived'"

[batsplat]

the way tennis to motogp pipeline is definitely a thing…….

switching to motogp really does highlight how a lot of those atp guys are just soooooo freaking boring in comparison. and I’m talking about big 4 and 00’s players here. current gen is so so much worse. horrible. abolish atp

*nods in agreement* I mean it's not a completely one-way street - obviously I'm never going to stop following tennis, I'm never going to stop PLAYING tennis, I want to do more coaching again in the future... and this stuff does come and go in waves, like 2019-2022-ish I was definitely drifting more from motogp to tennis again (minus going crazy on the motogp archives during the pandemic). but at the start of this year I did have a moment where I was like... no. enough. I do still follow women's tennis very closely!! but the state of the men's game looks SO dire right now headed into next season that I cannot even pretend to be mildly excited about the australian swing (which I usually am every year, in charlie brown trying to kick the football fashion)

but yeah honestly every time I revisit motogp it's this kind of... man, I am operating with crumbs when it comes to tennis, and then motogp is kind enough to hand you an entire buffet. and admittedly valentino does deserve a lot of credit here, also makes the other blokes more interesting, can't imagine what the sport would be like without him. but crucially, you do just end up with a far more interesting slate of guys. it's a shame because, again, I might be biased but I fully believe tennis as a sport has insane amounts of narrative potential. it's just... yeah, idk what's happened. it IS also a men-specific problem, like obviously noughties wta cooked insanely hard by every metric and the women's game is still plenty engaging since then. but still!! frustrating

also my thing is. okay so the women's game right now obviously also isn't feuds galore, the top girlies mostly get on fine and there's not TOO much of an edge there. but I still far prefer it to the men, and not just because I think the women generally have way more personality. it's also just... idk, I sometimes joke with my friends that I have a chart in my head with two axes that goes. x axis = skill; y axis = evil. or maybe not EVIL, just like. capacity for drama. and draw a line across the chart. and if you're under that line, I just can't deal with you. I love underdogs, I still root for a bunch of scrubs on the men's side who are journeymen or chokers or just kinda mid. same obviously with the women. but then at the top of the men's game, it's just?? these guys who dominate SO much and are SO good, but who quite frankly do not have enough narrative juice to sustain that kind of dominance. (okay maybe rather than 'evil', let's say 'narrative juice' as the y axis.) I'm not saying they're ALL so boring that I'd hate them if they were ranked ten positions lower, but given the chokehold first the big three then this current lot have had on the game... simply not good enough

whereas with the women, we've obviously had a chaos era or three, but now we have these women who are all like... really strong, really pushing each other forward, but also deeply imperfect! and I mean that in the best way possible. igatha with her rigidness and fragility and inability to step back when she's returning - who's so fucking good, but also constantly seems to be walking a mental tightrope and is currently in a bit of a crisis where her game is at. sublanko with her history of semifinal choking and serving yips and who's constantly visibly fighting herself on the court. the fascinating contrast that particular rivalry provides, not least in how they behave on the court. gauff, who constantly appears to have a major part of her game falling apart whether it's the forehand or now the serve - and who is overcoming that primarily by just making herself ridiculously hard to beat. I could go on, I mean where do you even start with ryba... all these current stars of the sport who really feel like they're here to stay - yeah, they're not cooking up complex feuds so it's never going to be COMPLETE brainworms territory for me, but I still find it deeply deeply compelling!! I love watching them play, I'm rooting for them to figure their shit out... but also not. like. too much. it's great to follow in sporting terms!!

and if you are going to be so dominant over the sport, so unyielding, so unblinking in your refusal to allow new major competitors to emerge for such an extended period of time... well, then, as far as I'm concerned you'd better be motogp alien levels of deranged. like, that's the bar for me. sure, then I can accept it. none of this awful 'oh well, the less talented guy lost his five hundredth consecutive slam final, what can you do' business, if you're going to suppress the less talented then at least do it with the ruthlessness and affinity for existential horror that valentino displayed towards sete. enough with pretending like crowds booing your opponents for having the temerity to challenge you is something you don't even notice - at least weaponise it like valentino did. tennis as a gentleman's sport is unbearable... I'm not a gentleman, I want mess. and if you're going to dominate, at least attempt to beat each other to death with hammers!! god. is that too much to ask for

[lecliss]

I'll never be able to take the theory that Vincent is Sephiroth's real father seriously cuz I cannot stress enough how important I think it is to the plot that Vincent wanted to fuck Lucrecia and did not get to.

[zunra2]

I told myself,

I wasn’t gonna post it to tumblr

i gave in

[chateau-dilf]

Making more weird fanart & the advantage of having seen this film 4 times is I can just about remember what most things look like

[theskoomacat]

M*uthwashing was good, the only things i didn't enjoy lie in the area of writing (but so do some things i enjoyed the most!) - but I expected more from it? kinda?

[posallys]

"This is what he promises: it will happen. He will make it happen. And may the Fates bless anyone that tries to harm him; he will stop at nothing to keep his son safe." TAYLOR POSALLYS OH MY GOD??????????

IM CACKLING HEHEHEHEHH THIS FIC MEANS EVERYTIHNG TO ME AT THE MOMENT

[atalana]

having one of those nights where i'm just. extremely frustrated about fatphobia's existence and the fact that whatever i do to try and change it will be a drop in the ocean and there'll always be people who think i'm just saying this because i'm lazy

[syaraan]

Lessons it took a lot to learn (or sometimes a lot to acknowledge)

• You can like someone and not agree with a word they say.

• If you don’t respect your enemy as much as - (and in some cases) if not more than - your friend, then something's going, is going to, or has gone wrong.

• Respect is NOT honour, nor is it love in any kind

• Friendly does not mean Kind. Good, does not mean friendly.

• It is a lot harder to lose your trust in something/someone than to build it back.

• (related to the last one) (in metaphor form) one bad book in the series doesn't mean the rest are also rubbish. But no matter how many good points the others are supposed to have, no matter how many people tell you your opinions are wrong, no matter that you've seen for yourself that at least one book in the series is good... When the worst one is the first one you read, its hard to pick up the second.

• you never know how small an action it takes to change the course of a person's life … until it's you that is changed.

• It often feels better, to hold onto the hope of lies. But truth is far better than hopeless hope in the end.

Two of these, I was taught. One, I figured out by observation. Some, I learned by experience. Some, I wish I never had to learn at all.

Clue for the one of the taught ones:

"Now I absolutely love this guy. ' Don't agree with anything he says, but I love him." - a teacher who was great at teaching, but not so great at being a teacher.