#be warned I didn't like the story at all
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I'm done with Dawntrail's msq! Here are some of my thoughts! The new zones are really cool and varied! It's a pleasure to explore. There are little settlements and villages scattered all around the maps and I LOVE IT! It feels so lived in and credible. It's really nice seeing npcs go about their little lives there. The graphical update really helped in seeing this vision realized and it's so nice to see. I've come to notice more details in previous zones too! Overall the battle content is real nice this expac, mechanics are more engaging than in EW. As a casual sch main (rip smn), I'm happily peeling dps off the ground in expr dungeons. I also liked the vibes and the job quests in Tural; it reminds me of early AST questline, which was a pleasure to go through. As for the rest, unfortunately msq is absolute trash tier. Some people are comparing it to ARR, but that's honestly underselling 2.0 in a lot of ways. Spoilers ahead!
First, I must confess, I am an ARR enjoyer. I love its world building, its slow pace, how lived in and carefully crafted everything is, how rewarding it is to pay attention to lore details, how incredible it is at hinting at something bigger. My favorite expac is HW, and while I haven't found anything quite like it since, I still find the rest of the story at least entertaining. Now, with that said, I didn't set my expectation especially high with this new expansion. It was supposed to be the start of a new saga and so I imagined it would start slow, with what I assumed would be a lot of settup. I was sorely disappointed. Honestly, I don't even mind Wuk Lamat, but the fact she is so present in the adventure makes it hard to ignore how poorly written she ended up being. Her character flaws never have actual consequences, every problem is resolved within one or two cutscenes and none of her victories feel earned. Several times they could have meaningfully challenged her character, but they never went past surface level banalities like "friendship is magic". As a result, she feels like a broken record half of the time. A shame!
What gave me a good laugh was how Krile kept hitting us on the head with her whole "OMG Zoraal Ja is Evil!" everytime she sees this character. It would've been nice yknow... to let us wonder about who he really was, his family ties , and what his intensions truly were. but no, they told us everything from the get go.
The characters say what they mean and mean what they say. The heroes are never wrong, never mislead, always have the purest of intentions. Their beliefs are never challenged. There's no subtext, no wonder, no mystery. So why care at all? All of it is a big fat missed opportunity. DT's characters deserved better.
In recent expacs, I've been annoyed with their tendency to solve issues like unemployment or poverty in a few lines of dialogue. For example, in ARR and HW, you would deal with the symtoms of an issue, like refugees being preyed upon, or people in need being taken advantage of. When done well, you would be given a good overview of the situation, several angles and hopefully, a bit of nuance. In later expacs, you get 16yo Alphinaud telling you if you are poor you should find work lol. The npc's agency is often cast aside so your character can look good, so you can come up with every solutions, so you can be the hero. They don't feel like a people you're trying to help, they are plot devices to facilitate your power fantasy. Writers find ways around complex situations, to reassure the player that no no their way is the best, there was no other choices. It thoroughly reduces the impact of the story imo. I really believe some issues need to stay unsolvable in a story. Not everything can be resolved by killing gods, and that's fine. It's mature, it's humbling.
In Dawntrail however, this has been taken to the extreme! A lot of these problems end up feeling very one note, and the solutions, condescending. One scene and it's dealt with! Concepts, questions or consequences don't really have time to stay with the characters or the player. It feels like characters are written in little boxes, rarely interracting with a rich world and its history, and are conveniently pushed along by little plot devices. As a result, the over-arcing narrative isn't cohesive at all. The only part that worked on me was Cahciua's questline, because we are left somewhat wondering about her or Erenville's feelings for a little while. Otherwise, nothing lingers between questlines, and things really feel badly pieced together. Now, I was really looking forward to the world building in DT! I know past expacs also had cultures based on rl ones, but the focus of the story wasn't tourism then. By drawing attention to it, it becomes apparent that every zone is rushed, reducing the tribes there to one or two easily digestible trait for Wuk Lamat to understand. She'll either solve their problems with a grand monologue about peace and love or pretend she grew from the 2 hours tutorial on "trading for dummies". It's so frustrating! Either they don't trust in their own writing ability or they don't respect the player's intelligence.
Dawntrail is shiny, pretty and colorful, but the moment you scratch the surface, it crumbles down. The plot falls apart if you think about it for more than two seconds. The elements are all there but this feels like a first draft. It's just so inoffensive and bland!!! It is ironic that the dawn of a new saga, the golden legacy of FFXIV, completely forgot how ARR came to be. How painstakingly and carefully the new game was crafted when 1.0 crashed and burned. It's a game about heritage, and yet it didn't take time to properly consider its past strengths. idk man... Time to go back to the drawing boad!
#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv#ffxiv msq#ffxiv dawntrail#msq spoilers#dawntrail spoilers#be warned I didn't like the story at all
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Kind of a weird AU but hear me out:
Finwe marries Indis, right? Most controversial thing Finwe ever done and that includes leading elves from their ancestral home to a new continent to live with gods. Silmarillion says that it happened because he fell in love and I believe it BUT what Silmarillion doesn't tell you is WHEN Finwe marries Indis. I saw posts that say the canon is inconclusive and Tolkien probably changed his mind a lot, and half of what of what Tolkien wrote is thrown from the window by fandom, so.
Anyway, one of the versions said Feanor was at least a teenager when Finwe/Indis happens (I think). What Silmarillion states is that Feanor married VERY young by elven standards, and that Nerdanel was below his station (classism? in elven society? apparently!).
Last thing before I get to the main point: Fingolfin marries Anaire, a Noldo lady, who I saw often enough written as a noble or a court lady, perfectly fine that, no idea if that's canon. And Finarfin very much marries Teleri princess.
...I don't know guys, it feels very convienient. For princes to fall in love with exactly the kind of women who would be approved by royal court and strenghten political ties with other elven factions. If it was anything else than silm, I would call political marriages.
Time for crack: based on what I wrote above I propose an AU where it was FEANOR who was supposed to marry Indis. For politics! Vanyar are the most important faction in Aman! Let's marry into that!
But the MOMENT Feanor became an adult and they could process with courting without making it creppier than it already is, Feanor runs off to elope with his coworker and there's nothing they can do. Well, that's what Finwe tells Ingwe when Ingwe rages about it to him.
Finwe loves Feanor, he wants him to marry for love, and that's exactly what happens. But, uh, all Vanyar are pissed that there's no political marriage when they were promised one (they mad cause they look stupid now), and, well. Finwe decides to bite the bullet. For his son.
It's not true of course. But imagine family dinners after that.
#silm#silmarillion#finwe#feanor#indis#crack#AU#imagine being fingolfin and knowing you could be feanors son not his brother#I mean he would at least love you but still#feanor/indis age gap now THAT's problematic internet forums would explode#it's not that type of story but Finwe sounds unhinged enough to actually do this#solving political crisis proving your love to your son and getting a hot wife to make many babies with?#that has Finwe all over it baby#in this AU nobody ACTUALLY believes Miriel will ever return#like Valars told them it's possible#they went 'uh huh whatever you say' and totally ignored them#listen there are miracles and there are MIRACLES#and bringing people back from dead is the latter#have a nice day!#duty-driven Finweans are my catnip#like SoF went nuts with their Oath obviously#but didn't get that kind of intensity about promises from nowhere#actually Finwe fucking his whole family over with badly thought out and executed promise is very on brand#I did NOT open Silmarillion for this I'm going from memory#so be warned#feanor/indis
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Why Jason Grace is The Most Tragic Character in the Riordanverse
*in no way is this trying to dial down Nico's own suffering, I'm just stating my case for Jason because godsdamn SOMEBODY needs to say it!*
@most-tragic-character-tournament here's propoganda i came out guns ablazing
List of why fans are saying Nico:
Lost his mother
lost years of his life
found out he was a demigod at age 10
lost sister at 10
rough relationship with his dad
closeted gay
crush is madly in love with somebody else
forced to come out
List of why Jason is more tragic:
Lost his mom to alcoholism/mental decline
Lost his ENTIRE FUCKING CHILDHOOD because Said Mom gave him up to Juno to be raised by a PACK OF WOLVES who would've EATEN HIM if he was WEAK FOR EVEN A SECOND - AS A FUCKING TWO YEAR OLD
Was a trained demigod FROM THE GET-GO (again, TWO YEARS OLD)
Because of previously stated separation, was TAKEN FROM HIS SISTER WHO LOVED HIM SO MUCH SHE RAN AWAY BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T TAKE THE GUILT AND FEAR AND RAGE THAT FILLED HER AT HIS ABSENCE
Was set up into a "perfect" relationship by Juno/Hera WHILE HAVING HIS MEMORIES TAKEN
Jason may not have had the awful forced outting Nico had to go through, but...that's not really his fault? Nobody has any control over their sexual identity, and Jason? Well. He never really got to explore it. Because that was taken from him too.
Thinks he LOST LEO VALDEZ, ONE OF HIS ACTUAL FIRST FRIENDS, WHO LIKED HIM FOR HIM AND NOT BECAUSE OF HIS STATUS
FORCED TO COMPLY TO A DEMANDING SOCIETY THAT EXALTED HIM FROM DAY 1 BECAUSE HIS DAD IS THE OH-SO-IMPORTANT JUPITER (*cough victim of nepotism cough*)
AND WHEN HE TRIES TO COMBAT THAT NEPOTISM HE KEEPS GETTING PUSHBACK UNTIL HE FALTERS
then. then his girlfriend breaks up with him - not because of any drama, or even a disagreement, but over a very valid point
their relationship didn't exactly start out very...honestly. Jason had been mind-wiped of all memories and Piper had fake ones implanted into her to make her think she liked Jason as more than a friend. sure. they had a pretty nice relationship, but when everything slowed down and they took a look at their lives?
Piper's the one who sees it first, and makes the decision. Jason is heartbroken, but understands - he even, dare I say, agrees that they should end the relationship. it was built on fake memories - you could say it was built on lies.
and now Jason has this opportunity to step back and analyze who he is and what he wants.
what he finds is depressing. everything he's had, everything's he's been up till now...
it's not him.
he never wanted to be raised by Lupa and her wolves.
he never wanted to be Jupiter's son
he never wanted to be the exalted leader Camp Jupiter praised him for
From day 1 his life was somebody else's. his first steps were under the tutelage of a wolf, not of the loving eyes of his sister
Camp Jupiter only ever saw him as the demigod to be praised and turn to above all others, even before he became praetor.
Jason's life...was never his own.
and now that he's away from all that pressure and expectation...he doesn't know who he is.
Son of Jupiter?
Champion of Juno?
Praetor of the Twelfth Legion?
Member of the Prophesized Seven?
Hero of Olympus?
no. he was never himself under these names.
he was never...Jason.
but maybe now he could start navigating his own life. without some god intervening for once. this would be good for him, and for Piper, to find their own way.
but then. then they talk to Herophile...and find out one of them will die. And Jason? Well, he's not going to let Piper be taken from the life she deserves. he may not be her boyfriend, her knight in shining armor, but he sure as HELL loves her - especially as a friend. And if there's one thing you should know about Jason? It's that he loves his friends.
so what does he do? He sacrifices himself. He duels Caligula himself, and urges Piper, Meg, and Apollo to Go, save yourselves! and -
he's stabbed. through the chest. the only thing he can do? Look to Apollo, to the blue gaze so much like his own drenched in horror, and ask; Remember. because he didn't get to live the life he wished, but maybe Apollo could - no, Apollo can, he can make the difference Jason wanted. Because he trusts Apollo.
Jason doesn't regret his sacrifice. he saved Piper from the prophecy, after all. He saved Apollo & Meg's lives too.
in fact, Jason didn't really mind dying. Because he didn't have much of a life either. And a life like that? shrug It's worth sacrificing for those who deserve theirs.
and as icing on the cake, remember who Jason's father is? The almighty, all-powerful Jupiter himself, King of the Gods?
he doesn't do a damn thing to help Jason. Not a single. Thing.
because Jupiter/Zeus doesn't care about his children. Especially his sons.
Zeus saved Thalia. But he didn't even try to save Jason.
Trying would have at least lessened the pain...
People like to claim Jason is a bland, boring character who's never suffered a minute in his life. That he's a golden retriever with no flaws.
Well.
Take a look up there and ask yourself - it that the life of a boy who knows no suffering?
Because it sure as hell don't look that way to me.
To me, it looks like Jason was a used, depressed young man who never got to choose his own path. Who's father abandoned him first to his wife's mercy, then to a cruel emperor's.
Jason Grace suffered.
and he never got to live that happy life he saw within the Fates.
Never got to get that family, those grandchildren he saw himself telling the story of the Argo II to.
Because The Fall of Jason Grace is a true, utter tragedy.
#jason grace#i have feeeeelings#remember when people complained about jason being “boring” and then rick was like “okay he's dead now” and then those same people screamed#about never reading toa because “how could rick do that!!! jason was supposed to marry piper and have kids!!!! :(((”#well my friends you DO remember the first page of the lightning thief don't you?#“look i didn't want to be a half-blood”#being a half-blood is dangerous#sometimes it can get you killed in painful nasty ways#~don't say i didn't warn you#- percy jackson#rick warned us at the very beginning#in greek mythology...there's triumph and victory#but the one thing greece is known for in theater?#it's tragedy#and rick perfectly displays it with the fall of jason grace#life's not all sunshine and rainbows#it's not going to be “they all lived happily ever after the end”#it wouldn't be a greek story without tragedy#and really...how many of you ~actually~ cared about jason until he died#hmm?#i'm not judging#i ~was~ one of those people#he wasn't my favorite but i was more...eh about him#he existed for me#until i took a step back and looked at his life and went...#oh.#he's not who i thought he was#and he's not who you think he is either#thank you for coming to my tedtalk#the burning maze
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#okay so i think i haven't told this story to you guys but i've been thinking about it a lot waiting for the surgery day#(oh i guess content warnings for injury and animal death. idk all of this is pretty heavy stuff)#but when this dog was a puppy he broke his leg. quite badly actually#and for the following six months i was Convinced that both he and i had literally DIED#and the world around us just failed to recognize the blazing red Game Over text superimposed over my line of sight#so we - literal zombies still bleeding from our mortal wounds - had to perform the movements of being alive#this got better when the puppy was finally healed#but the flashbacks. the hallucinations. they followed me for years and years and only slowly faded away#and now when the dog is sick again - with something completely unrelated - those are coming back again! what fun!#and i don't know if i've ever been as scared of anything as actually for real losing this dog in a traumatic event#if he just dies this wednesday#like. probably he doesn't. most dogs survive the operation these days they say#but just the small chance of something going wrong#i don't know if i'll survive if he doesn't. how can i keep going if he doesn't#i'm scared you guys. this dog is the literal light of my life#(i was going to name him with the finnish word for light but that didn't stuck in the end. didn't make it any less true)#sussitalk
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you have a sandstorm au?
I have a wholeass playlist for it, too 💪😌
I've summarized it before but it's been a while and some things have been updated so here's another quick summary, under the cut because of allusions to suicide:
Cole kills himself prior to canon by way of train, and ends up in the Cursed Realm. He meets Morro, and initially the two of them don't interact all that much until Morro figures out Cole's supposed to be the master of earth. Morro teaches Cole how to fight, Cole teaches Morro ballet because he doesn't want to owe anything to Morro, and they bond and it's nice and sweet and the Preeminent is looming over everything!
When the Cursed Realm is opened up and Morro and Cole slip out, Morro possesses Lloyd as per usual. Where things change is that Cole comes in separately and pretends to be enemies with Morro, allowing him to get in good graces with the ninja. He sticks around, helping them in their attempts to get the Realm Crystal before Morro can, and finds that it's actually... not that bad, hanging out with these guys.
But Cole knows where his loyalties lie. When the ninja get their hands on the Realm Crystal, Cole steals it to bring to Morro, who uses it to free the Preeminent as they planned. But Cole's time with the ninja had an effect on him, and he really cares a lot about Morro. Like, a lot. And while before that saw him being willing to follow Morro wherever, now (with some nudging from Wu) it's got him moving to work with the ninja to stop the Preeminent. There's a brief fight between him and Morro that doesn't do anything but affirm that they both really care about each other.
When the Preeminent's defeated and the ninja are victorious, where does that leave Cole and Morro? Wu offers to house the two, but Morro needs time and space after everything, so he and Cole set off to parts unknown. They don't return until Day of the Departed, and even once they have bodies again they're still not certain about their future. But they're here, and they're together, and there's a whole wide world and a whole wide life for them to live. So why not try?
#ask zaz#spiritshipping au#sandstormshipping#this au does require like. warning tags bc how cole gets to the cursed realm precanon is.#well. he kills himself. so#tw suicide#i have not watched s5 in forever and it shows 😞#but yeah in my head there's this scene of cole forcefully yanking morro free after morro refuses to take wu's hand#bc cole understands wanting to throw it all away to try and spite someone else‚ or bc it looks hopeless#he's been there before. he's not gonna let morro do the same thing#haven't thought too much about post-dotd in this au but. what if. when the ninja are sent to the first realm in s8/9#morro is not among them while cole is#but yeah this au is lowkey a story about healing lmao#morro and cole feeding into each other's issues in the cursed realm (but also empathizing with each other)#cole finding purpose after having none in morro's ambitions#and connecting with the ninja leading to him wanting to heal and wanting morro to heal too#and the only reason morro didn't rip his hand from cole's and let the waves take him#is bc he trusts cole more than he realizes. they're really codependent in this au fr fr#(it's not a good thing at first whoops!! toxic not-bfs who feed into each other's traumas!!!)#okay these tags are getting really rambly so. i'm gonna stop here lmao#lego ninjago#cole ninjago#morro wu
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Thank you for the tag @tonguetyd! My spoons are indeed low but my sleep schedule is GONE so. Random burst of energy let's go.
I didn't know what artist to pick because I didn't want an obvious (?) one, so I'm going super niche and choosing Bright Eyes because it's been a minute since I've talked about them, and they're one of my favourites 💙
Artist: Bright Eyes
How do you feel: Nothing Gets Crossed Out
What is your gender: Bowl Of Oranges (obviously funny but also it's a beautiful song! poetic storytelling!)
If you could go anywhere: Lua
Favorite mode of transportation: Driving Fast Through A Big City At Night (yes that is the title)
Your best friend: First Day Of My Life 🥹
Favorite time of day: Sunrise, Sunset
If your life was a tv show: A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
Relationship status: I Won't Ever Be Happy Again 🥲
Your fear: Waste Of Paint
Idk who made this or not so I'm tagging randomly, no pressure to do this whatsoever! @dearscone @corviisquire @hookedhobbies @politemagic (hi!) @leonsleftbicep @melit0n
#okay i made myself sad again#so little story time!#(okay i talked briefly about past suicide/sh struggles so be warned!)#First Day Of My Life is their most famous song AND is probably my mostest favourite love song in the entire world#like. this particular song means so much to me#there is this line that goes “this is the first day of my life. i'm glad i didn't die before i met you”#and it breaks my heart into a million pieces because that is just. so true. so pure#because for someone who was very suicidal and struggled with sh *just before* i met my best friend(s)#it's a lot. like. that could've been me. and yet i'm here. and i need to hold on more because there's still so many people to meet#and so many things to see and experience. i AM glad i didn't die before i met any of you#it's crazy to think how many things i would've missed if every single time i thought about about ending it i had actually done it#whack#also! nothing gets crossed out is incredibly depressing and poignant! if anyone is in the mood for that!#(most if not all of these are. once again i am incapable of choosing happy songs lmao)#tw suicide mention#tw sh mention#<- is this enough? let me know if i should use other tags!!!!#tag game#darya's mixtape#bright eyes
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#i didnt mention it while i was liveblogging mal.evolent but one of the other reasons i didnt like it enough#to continue listening after ep 6 was that i had small warning signs flashing in the back of my mind for the few times#that they talk about any woman on the show#fast forward to just now seeing a post criticizing the way it handles its female characters 50 eps later#[insert oprah gesturing gif]#joos yaps#delete later#EDIT oh right and it got defended by 'not every story needs to have a bunch of women in it. [...] to reach a women quota'#like you do know that roughly 50% of all humans are women. right. ok probably a little less because nb people take up a chunk but still#it would in fact be weird if your story has no female characters when its protagonist isnt confined to a small set of people or locations#and ik malevolent HAS female characters but the argument just got under my skin. it is not a burden or speciality to write women#as fully fledged as male characters#and the idea that it would be is misogynistic#im sorry. it just is. it's a batshit argument to make#the other more important arguments were to defend the shows portrayal of women which i wont argue about for obvious reasons#i could only talk about what i vaguely recall from the first 6 eps and the women werent THE reason i stopped listening#also no hard feelings to the people discussing this or feeling differently about the show;#god knows ive said some stuff online that in hindsight didn't hold water
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If I got paid for my role as a Professional Crastinator, I'd be making bank, because I have never done a damn thing when I'm supposed to in my entire life.
STORY UPDATES COMING EVENTUALLY I GUESS I DON'T FUCKING KNOW (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
#ramblings#i don't even know what to tag this#i'm just being generally useless again#i thought i was going to have an update out yesterday but then my brain was like#hey laura hey what about we don't do that#so then i didn't#and i played mobile games and listened to creepypastas on yt all night#and you know what#it was a good fucking time#but it didn't get me closer to getting over this hump i'm in storytelling wise#and i see all the stuff down the road from this part of the story#and it's good#it's good shit#i'm so looking forward to it#but i just gotta get through this one part#and i don't wanna#oh uh#gif warning#why do we warn for gifs btw?#is it a photosensitivity thing or like a bandwidth thing?#i do it because my usage of gifs will go unchecked if i don't remind myself not to do what i usually do#and spam that shit everywhere#you know what i could have written all of this in the main body of this post#but i didn't#because fuck you that's why#i'm sorry i didn't mean that#i love you#if you're reading my mental breakdown in the tags#i love the shit out of you#because you could have just kept scrolling
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Haterant- Callout post - Hello:
So apparently there are SandRay fans on twitter (haven't seen the take here, thank the gods) who hate the RayMew kiss. Not because Mew was manipulating and using Ray to hurt Top and without having feelings for him while both were on drugs and drunk, which Ray had started, BUT because they perceive both as bottoms and they think two bottoms kissing each other is BAD and YIKES and it would have been better if Top and Sand kissed WHICH WOULDN'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE PLOTWISE YOU DIPSHITS!
Fans of the ship really out there vomiting up the worst of takes although we fought for years to move on from the Top/Bottom take (and Jojo himself has bludgeoned the damn take in his shows).
Ngl but those fans are more toxic than any of the characters on the show and have proven with this that they don't care for the plot or the characters but only their faves and ships (oh, also apparently they say SandRay are not popular? What?????)! It's truly sad how little reading comprehension is in the last braincell of some of them and how much disrespect for an intriguing story and the characters' background stories and development.
Please, just stop watching the show, nuances are wasted on you, thank you.
(plus this might just NOT be your kind of show - and that's okay)
(this also includes the ones who demand more sweet SandRay scenes and are outraged that they fuck up and that they're such a mess and no soulmates - we were never promised a sweet rom com but exactly the toxic, complicated mess we're getting now - live with it and stop watching! it's okay if it's not your kind of show - there's no need to watch just because your faves are in it)
#personal#seriously#wtf#I've been wanting to scream for an hour now#this is so DUMB AND FUCKED UP#and dangerous actually#it throws us back too many years#and doesn't do the show justice#or the development#if you didn't like the kiss the reason should be that it wasn't supposed to be romantic or good not because you think two bottoms shouldn't#kiss like WTF even????#pls whoever thinks the same block me#that's easier for both of us thank you#knew a lot of weirdos would get into the fandom not listening to all warnings that this is no typical BL#and now they hate on the story and on Jojo because he's done exactly what he promised ...#ofts really out there making them all lose their minds#all of us#but for very different reasons#I vibe and watch and enjoy the mess#here's to hoping that Ray and Sand get to kiss more people
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i gotta get off instragram cause the arcane fandom is stressing me ooouuut
#i hate caitvi i hate jayce#and it's like not even in an extreme way i love the story being told in arcane and i love every character and their role in it#but jayce is absolutely not innocent because everybody spent all of s1 warning him not to fuck with magic and not to fuck with politics#but he did so all of this is his fault no matter his intentions#he was warned and he didn't listen#additionally caitvi isn't even hot#like i Love toxic relationships but it's not even complex#that's just a cop beating her girlfriend#uuuuggggh
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Haven't had the chance to play actual dnd in real life, but In this run I get the sense that bg3 perfectly captures the "party progresses in a weird sideways way that bypasses tons of the dm's prepared lore, so the dm takes revenge by dropping a near impossible encounter on them" vibe I hear so much about
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#fun fact i killed minthara by dropping her down a hole#somehow didn't get the achievement for it though#smh smh jdjsjd#but yeah. ill talk spoilers in the next few tags so be warned#first it was the goblin camp where instead of even trying to talk to anyone i just went up to the hobgoblin at the very back and attacked#took a LOT of tries to beat that encounter#slowly cleared the camp from the inside out without even seeing a cutscene with minthara or anything nxnd rip queen or whatever#then you had the duergar camp or whatever that area was called#where i didn't even realise what the deal with the drow was im just like. oh im freeing those fucking gnomes. wait we're on time limit?#can't long rest? run out of short rests? damn guess it's a challenge run#so emptied that room of all of them before blowing up the rubble. then killed the guy inside without talking to him for more than two lines#lmao#THEN THAT GODDAMN FUCKIN ENCOUNTER IN THE CURSED AREA#which was glitched 4 me until i equipped torches and deactivated turn based mode for the curse before it started#now im over the area where that gold encrusted toll collector (?) is#which apparently has more health than Grym so uhhhhhhh#maybe need to level up before tackling that#long story short im making bad decisions <3 gods bless easy mode
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i love the way luffy is so consistent and insistent in making fun of zoro for having no sense of direction that it slowly brainwashed everyone into forgetting he's just as bad himself
#it's west he says and proceeds to go east#let alone that it was actually south#and then he's told it's south and he's like it's warmer that way! must be where south is!#like sure zoro went up because he was told north and right because it was the right eye#but the fact that they have different ways of being dumb about it doesn't change that they get lost the same#it's truly fascinating#when i say everyone i mean all fans yes#but also all characters in the story (they only warn and worry about zoro)#and all official content creators (that one game where zoro alone didn't have a map on screen)#and at this point oda himself seems to have forgotten more often than not???#luffy thinks himself so much smarter than zoro it convinced everyone he might as well be#but he's not! no braincells anywhere in sight with these two!!!#'so zoro is dumber than animals' luffy laughs#what about you son!!! you don't have a thought to spare!!!!!!#i adore them#they're so unaware of just how stupid they are it's the best character trait ever
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hmmmmb private rites. what did everyone think
#guys was it bad i think it was kinda bad :(#i loved our wives & her short story collection but this just didn't connect with me idk what it was#it felt sort of fanfic-y in writing style which sounds mean lol but it really read like someone trying to imitate her writing style based#off of her first two bookswhich is crazy because it is literally by her lol. the characters felt a little tropey especially jude & like#maybe not my place to be discussing nb representation my own weird gender feelings aside but they felt like such an undeveloped paper doll#of a character. soo weird like they were only relevant to reflect the protagonists and i thought maybe that was because the perspective is#from the main three sisters but even when we got jude's perspective they didn't feel like a real fleshed out person. idk idk. and the endin#i was warned the book falls off towards the end but i hadnt been enjoying it all the way through so by the end i was like. yeah that tracks#i'm bummed about it lol idk maybe i'm being too harsh ive seen a lot of positive feedback
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a cat just crawled up my window. that's it. that's the whole post. a cat just clawed his way up my window screen like he was in a rom-com, meowing furiously the entire time. i have nothing else to say, i just felt like i needed to tell someone.
#it's not SUPER impressive because i do live in a fairly small one-story house#but like#the dedication#he slithered all the way from eden to claw outside my window#:(#guys should i let him in#if anyone speaks meowish please translate#he was screaming quite loudly#like ur dad after a night with me#sorry#just thought it would be good to have some reference#just thoughts#cat#window cat#cat distribution system#what is this work of the cat distribution system#cat distribution system working overtime#he doesn't even pay rent here#i mean neither do i because i'm a minor and this isn't my house#BUT IT ISN'T HIS EITHER#he certainly seems to think so though#weighing my options#ugh i guess i'll add another to my collection#i am a father i guess#am i ready for that?#dunno#does it matter#he howlin outside my door n didn't even warn me not to feed him :(#unfair#ok sorry
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#ASKER. Asker my dear. Before you get upset. You did nothing wrong. Your message was wonderful.#The reaction of Blue Cat within the story is not representative of how one should react to a message like this.#Their reaction is an expression of their character. Their biases. Their traumas. Their personal frustrations. And their issues.#your ask just wonderfully triggered their explosion. it was bound to happen sooner or later. And your ask was a wonderful conduit for it.#so please please please don't feel bad about it. you helped progress the story emotionally.#anyways. this is what happens when someone grows up not knowing they're autistic#and so they never learned why they can't regulate their emotions like others#and others didn't know either and never knew how to properly deal with meltdowns#fun times all around /s#off game#off mortis ghost#off the game#askblog#ask blog#should I put any content warnings on this? Let me know cuz I genuinely don't know
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either gonna remake again in the future and hand out the url privately or gonna clean out the followers list again me'thinks. so if you wanna stay mutuals and plan on writing w/ me in the future when I can actually dedicate time to doing so w/out any stressors or anxiety spikes then please, slap that heart real quick for me.
if not, it was a pleasure to write and talk for a bit and wish y'all good luck on your future endeavors 'n stuff.
#010 //: out of character.#am I trying to make it easier and less anxious on myself to write here? yes. why? too much trauma w/ discord rp servers to warrant trying#and tbh I shouldn't feel pressured or afraid to even post stuff here thinking that I'm gonna get harsh words or nasty side-eyes despite#the content not even being that bad or triggering at all compared to other things I've seen on my dash.#long story short i wanna be here but something is making me feel unwell/not be here but can't pin-point the cause so the solution is to wip#didn't I do something like this last month? yes. everyone has their coping mechanisms. mine is mhw and seeking the once a month validation#'cos it either feels like i'm just a number to most people or just the one partner they decide to write w/ 'cos their bored or something#I wanna be someone's fav. who they scream to @ 3am about muses and hcs not just another number to their follow count :(#all in all? I will reblog this the next few days just to ensure that everyone just a fair chance as this makes it's rounds before commencin#the purge/remake just as a /FAIR WARNING/.
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