#big oof dude

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

[vonneschlecht]

okay if you see folks get ecstatic that lukas kristjanson isn't the main writer for any of the companions.

this is because his previous characters are Sera, Carter, and Aveline.

[bruciemilf]

How are you, hon? 💗

Bit stressed out bf of my SATs, but I'm trying to pull through!!

[thebonerpit]

After playing four huge new games in a row recently I wanted to jump back into a game I've already played, and I ended up on Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It kind of made me reflect a bit on how initially I was quite disappointed with this game but now it's really, really grown on me.

I'm a huge fan of the newer AC games but when Valhalla first came out it was a very distant third place in that trilogy. There are still some things that annoy me (being forced into open combat for so many encounters rather than being able to stealth) but I think what threw me off the most at first was coming into it after Odyssey which has SUCH different vibes.

Like, Origins to me is a really fun adventure/mystery story. It has some dark and serious elements but it also has Bayek who can be quick-witted and funny, it has the great Bayek/Aya romance, and it has the creation of the Hidden Ones which is SO cool. And then Odyssey is just pure joy imho. Alexios/Kassandra is a big old goober and they're so silly and I mean I guess it depends on the choices you make but it always makes me feel so fufilled and happy at the end when the family gets back together. It's heroic and light-hearted, has a lot of really goofy side missions, and even the world itself is bright and colourful and full of life.

Then you have Valhalla. Valhalla is DARK. It has this overarching sense of futility and inevitability, like your fate has been written and there's no escape. Eivor is stoic and brusque and violent and quite frankly a little unlikeable. A lot of the victories don't even feel like victories. They're tainted by loveable characters dying, friends betraying you, basically: winning but at what cost? Eivor often feels lost in their own story, being manipulated by people like Basim and Fulke and Alfred. They're also burdened with Odin's memories and end up having to leave everyone they know and love to deal with that.

But it also has these moments of searing beauty that make it into a wonderfully stirring experience, and I think it took me a while to realize that. I missed the joy of Odyssey so much I couldn't appreciate what Valhalla had to offer. I've been listening to the OST a lot and I think it captures that bittersweet vibe perfectly... the main theme alone is so haunting. Most of the England you explore is dirty and muddy and brown but every once in a while you are at the top of a hill and you see a beautiful sunrise light up the gold in the trees and it's breathtaking. That, to me, is what Valhalla excels at.

[depravedangelbaby]

ok I lied this is my last post before I go back to sleep.. someone remind me to find the picture of my back all scratched up from a fwb hookup!!

[mickgaydolenz]

@ninetimesbluedemo i fucking found the interview. i had only ever seen the clip where he says mike had the biggest breasts, but i’d never watched the full thing so let me warn you this is one of the cringiest interviews i’ve ever watched. i was legit covering my eyes at the force of the cringe. if you just want to watch the part where he answers the question and then talks shit about mike the time stamp is 3:16 to around 4:20

[aviiatrix]

// Due to circumstances with one of our elderly dogs getting hurt I haven’t really slept and I have to stay up to fix my sleep. I may answer small-ish stuff but that’s if I can make sure I’m coherent enough to write. Otherwise I may just be around tomorrow after my sleep is fixed. 😭 Or if I can squeeze a small nap in today.

[critterbutt]

what the FUCK was that dream holy shit

[thegaymalefatale]

When your former youth pastor is on Grindr asking for S&M shit and you message him saying his name and he immediately blocks you:

[panic-at-the-gender]

friendly reminder that on ao3, e does not stand for everyone 🥲

[hallowed-nebulae]

Poor Alphinaud he's only a teenager he's gonna have. SO much trauma

[bardicious]

While I ain’t got no stake in any Witcher drama, what I realized from this is I absolutely loathe celebrity cultists.

[notjanine]

okay so our internship cohort is pretty tight and mostly women, so we be girl talkin. and the girls have gotten invested in my love life, partly bc this situation is so ridiculous and partly bc they're not autistic so they're like Omg you just talked with them directly about your wants and needs?! multiple of these bitches have expressed their desire to live vicariously through me in the context of all this etc etc. so anyway. a bunch of us are chatting about this after class and it's fun and loud, so Messy Guy comes up like Ooh what are we talking about?! and classmate is like Al out here dating two people, living the dream!! and i had to leave for a meeting before i could catch his reaction but they were still giggling about it when i left so l m a o

[blog-of-reaction]

Yeah, let’s just casually make an enemy of a high ranking CIA dude, that can’t go wrong.

[wp100]

god i love him

[lightlesstual]

like i love karlach but having 6 of these motherfuckers in my range of sight installs fear into anyone