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Things are starting to get weird in my "young Jaheira for screenshots" playthrough. XD
I amuse myself. XD
#bjk talks#bjk screenshot adventures#new tag XD#jaheira#somewhere in here there's a fun time travel AU that i will sadly never have the stamina to actually write XD
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Whoops. O.O;

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Continuing to enjoy playing with Reshade. :3
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Love is all around 🫶🇮🇹 The Italian team congratulate Lucia Bronzetti after her opening match victory 🤗
#tennis#wta tennis#bjk cup 24#lucia bronzetti#martina trevisan#sara errani#elisabetta cocciaretto#team italy#i know everyone talks about jasmine (and rightly so) and of sara as well#but lucia shined so brightly in this tournament and if we won the cup it's also thanks to her#with eli unfortunately not at her best this year and martina with probably not such good feelings on court in the last part of her season#(or at least less consistent than in other moments of her career)#lucia finally got her chance to show and confirm the great level she has achieved in the latest months#i've always had the feeling that in the group she has always been a bit in the shadow of the others#after all everyone of them had their moment in the sun during the years - ignoring sara who has a story of her own for a variety of reasons#and jasmine who skyrocketed through this year - there was first martina and the elisabetta#if i remember correctly - and now finally it is lucia's time as well growing and improving#i so hope that it will be only the beginning of a great journey for her starting with next season 😊#well i hope it will be a good year for eli and marti too (other than jas and sara keeping up their amazing level ofc)#they also deserve some joys after the rough patches they've been through this year#and i want to enjoy their good game again because they're capable of great things
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i won today …
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The one I always heard was a PEBCAK error. XD
"Problem Exists Between Chair and Keyboard"

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2, 10, 12, 17, 19, and 28 for the ask game ^_^
So 2 and 10 were answered HERE but they weren’t actually like Outer Wilds fandom specific so I’ll re answer them <3
2 - Which of your fics is your pride and joy?
Out of all of my outer wilds fics i think that either Berry-Jam kisses (Time Buddies) or Sapwine and Starcharts (Startners before they were Startners :’}) have to be up there in terms of my favourite fics I’ve written.
I talked about BJK in the other post but SaS is a whole other story.
It wasn’t my FIRST outer wilds fic, that was Time to Go but it was the first time i thought about Chert and Mylo meaning something to eachother. It was the beginning of Startners, my blorbos, and hell!! I named my OW blog after it!!!!!! I don’t think its my best written fic by a long shot, i was still figuring out 2POV perspective and how to characterize both Chert and Mylo but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t live in my heart forever and ever.
10 - Is there a character or ship you'd love to write for, but haven't yet?
I mean probably Gosslate? I keep meaning to write for them but never getting around to it lmaoooo.
If not Gosslate then Cherro. Mostly because i already write for ChertMylo and now that I’ve officially included Gabbro in the startnership i really should write for the two of them huh??
(I actually have some drafts of something i was working on for them but its uh… lets just say its not suitable for this blog…)
12 - What was the first fandom you wrote for?
Written? Gravity Falls.
An INCREDIBLY old piece from back in HIGH SCHOOL about what if Stanley died in the portal explosion that brought back his brother. It’s VERY bad and i never ever posted it anywhere and i never will!
POSTED though? Stanley Parable.
Tethered-Together was the first ever fic i actually posted something for and got that sweet sweet taste of authorship. It’s definitely not my best work, the formatting is all over the place and i couldn’t figure out how to get from the last chapter i posted to the idea in my head for where i wanted to take the ending but people liked it! People really REALLY liked it!
Plus it inspired me to make You Can’t See Me Behind the Screen, a 432 centered fic that is, while again incredibly rough, one of my favourite works i did for TSP. Shout out to that one commentor who commented on nearly every chapter and the commentor who, when i came back to post a chapter after nearly a year of hiatus commented ‘HOLY SHIT YOUR BACK?????!!!!!’ Which skyrocketed my confidence to the moon. They’re probably one of the reasons i continued to write honestly.
17 - What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?
I have a hard time picking out stuff I’m proud of. I’m incredibly critical of my work and i always think i can improve or find something wrong with it. But if i had to pick SOMETHING I’d have to go with the way i write romance. Usually i stuff a bunch of angst in there and call it a day but recently I’ve been writing some softer stuff. Like my Eskerfels fics and Berry Jam Kisses, people have praised me for the warmth and comfort they exude and i gotta agree with them on that one!!!
Outside of my writing tho, the idea that so many people can enjoy my writing and even say that I inspire them to create (You know who you are <3) is just??? Thats another thing i feel so baffled yet proud of. If i can inspire even one person to get outside their comfort zone and try to create their own art, i think I’ve done my job as an artist :}
19 - How do you get over writer's block?
I don’t LMAO. Literally, i don’t actively try to shake it. The writers block consumes me until i jolt up in the middle of the night with a single cool line i want to write down and then the writing juice starts to flow again. Hyperfixations do help a lot tho. If a character can worm their way into my brain enough they usually free me of what ever blocks I’m going through.
28 - What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?
SO theres a few?
One is from YCSMBtS (the Stanley Parable fic i mentioned above) where lines of code literally tear 432 apart and unravel them like yarn until they merge into the game itself and becomes the Time Keeper.
The Horrors That Lie Beneath ft. Mylo discovering what’s under the surface of the Interloper, the very thing that was their main driving force. It’s not shown afterwards but they really struggle to come to terms with the fact that the thing they looked up to wiped out an entire race… Like they have an identity crisis about it and everything
Grieving for a World Lost to Time is a Final Campfire fic based around the 5 stages of grief. Each of the travellers gets their own stage of grief they help Mylo through or make Mylo feel, and then Hornfels was gonna be the secret 6th stage ‘Finding Meaning’. I never got around to actually WRITING more than the prologue but oughh i want to…
I could actually keep going, my favourite genre is angst and like SO many of my personal OCs i put through the wringer over and over. Literally if you put in ‘angst’ into the search bar for my works I’m pretty sure most of my fics will show up lmao.
Anyways!! TYSM for asking!!!! <3
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hey i didn’t manage to watch karo’s match today but obviously it went, umm bad. was it wrist problems or something else? how serious did it seem?
Not wrist problems (thank god), appeared to be a potentially ongoing hip issue…idk if you’ve seen but she’s been stretching it out during changeovers for at least the past few matches (maybe longer but my memory fails me). She called for an off court MTO to get treatment after the first set and then retired after the first game of the second. It didnt seem to effect/limit her movement all that much (or at least not that obviously), but she definitely looked to be in some discomfort by the end. I’m thinking (hoping) that it’s more about circumstance than anything else - she talked previously about struggling with building up match fitness because she had kind of thrown herself back into the season once the wrist was ready, plus a lot of delays/late finishes this week, so it might be related to that as well.
The good/bad news is that she probably won’t play again until the United Cup in December, so plenty of time to recuperate. Might be playing BJK qualifiers but I’m not 100% sure about that.
#point being there was no ‘incident’ like a fall or a twisted ankle or anything like that#and not the wrist#hip/lower back related it appears which really could mean anything
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This is a running joke on my stream at this point, but one such highlight XD
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I just love it when video games let you do really stupid shit that kills you immediately. I love being like "oh this is a terrible idea" and being able to do it and then die. It's good game design.
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i will be talking about the erralini BJK cup comeback forever
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First internal demo today for the project I've been working my tail off on the last couple weeks. Really proud of this so really hoping it goes well ahhhhhh.
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Of my fics in the BG3 fandom the most I've gotten is 57 on Prayers and Hellfire.
My most out of all my fics is 160 for An Unexpected Pleasure (Mass Effect fandom) although that's mostly because it's been quietly chugging along accumulating them for nearly ten years. XD
(My least kudos is 5 on Fault Lines which sort of landed with a wet thud even though I'm pretty pleased with it so far. XD But I'm hoping it might do a bit better once it has more chapters.)
Straight up cannot IMAGINE getting 500+ kudos on fics but I super admire the people who do. c:
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Johanna Larsson is the coach of Swedens BJK tennis team, and I'm wondering why nobody ever talked about the fact that she's a hot lesbian while she was playing tennis????
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Billie Jean King on Victories Past, and the Battles to Come

The more Billie Jean King talked about the past, the more animated she became about the future.King, the 79-year-old grand champion of tennis and gender equity, said she wanted to see more investment in women’s sports. More teams. More leagues. More women owners. More racial diversity, more data, more access and more opportunities.She charged crosscourt from one topic to the next, not content to celebrate the history she had made; she was too busy creating the template for tomorrow.“Equal investment is the most important thing,” she said during a telephone interview from London, while attending this year’s Wimbledon. “If I talk to a C.E.O., I ask him, or her, or whoever, ‘Do you spend as much on women’s sports as men’s sports?’ That’s the magic question.”It always has been.This summer marks 50 years since the United States Open awarded equal prize money for men and women, becoming the first of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments to offer it. King, who won 39 major titles, made that milestone possible with her relentless activism and by securing corporate sponsors behind the scenes.On the eve of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup — set to showcase the rise of women’s soccer and the movement for equal pay, led by the U.S. Women’s National Team — King’s influence still ripples through the sports ecosystem.“She is working as hard today as she was 50 years ago,” said Stacey Allaster, the United States Tennis Association’s chief executive of professional tennis, and the first female director of the U.S. Open, said. “And she’s so focused, I would say possessed. She’s continuing to live by what she believes: that sport is for social change, and it’s not what you get, but what you give.”King and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who is also her longtime business partner, have invested in six sports. In June, it was announced that Billie Jean King Enterprises would help run a new six-team women’s ice hockey league starting in January along with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ majority owner, Mark Walter, and his wife, Kimbra Walter.“We believe this is transformational, and it’s a sport that hasn’t had the platform that we believe it needs,” said Kloss, 67, a former doubles champion from South Africa and the chief executive of BJK Enterprises.Although she admitted that the path to establishing a successful women’s hockey league has been a “long road” (one that’s littered with past failures), she applauded the Walters’ commitment to women’s sports. “That belief sends an incredible message to the rest of the investment community,” Kloss said.Flashback to 1970 when King and eight other players, outraged the men were earning more than eight times the prize money that the women were at one tournament, signed $1 contracts to form a offshoot professional women’s tennis tour. The women, known as the “original nine,” risked being banned by tennis officials, but the gambit worked. In 1973 at Wimbledon, King led players in a vote that created what is now called the Women’s Tennis Association.It was a heady time for women’s sports. In 1972, Congress enacted Title IX, which prohibited sex discrimination in schools and thus led to the creation of sports programs that spawned a generation of female athletes. Against that backdrop, King, No. 1 in the world, won the 1972 singles titles at the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.In New York, she was incensed to earn $10,000 — $15,000 less than the U.S. Open men’s champion, Ilie Nastase, did. King recalled how she met then with the tournament director Bill Talbert in a referees hut.Turning her chair to face him in the tiny space, she argued that a fan poll showed massive interest in women’s tennis. Then she revealed her ace: She had secured a sponsor — Bristol Myers’s “Ban” deodorant — to make up the difference in total prize money. Equal prize money became official in 1973.A few weeks after the 1973 U.S. Open, King crushed former No. 1 Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes spectacle that catapulted gender equality onto a world stage.“It’s hard to believe that 50 years have gone by — boink!” King said.This year’s U.S. Open, starting Aug. 28, will mark the equal prize money anniversary in multiple ways, including posters of King, an opening night tribute and an “equity lounge” on the site of the United States Open in Flushing, which in 2006 was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.When she’s on the way to her office there, Allaster touches a sign bearing King’s motto: “Pressure is a Privilege.”Allaster, the previous chief of the WTA, said King was an “accessible leader,” not just for her, but for rookies and superstars alike. Allaster called Venus Williams a “modern-day Billie Jean King” for how, during her prime, Williams lobbied Wimbledon officials — and by extension the French Open — to award equal prize money to women.King’s advocacy has always transcended tennis. She started the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1974 to develop sports opportunities for girls and women post-Title IX. After she was publicly outed for being gay in 1981 and lost many of her endorsements, she later became an activist for gay rights.Phaidra Knight, a World Rugby Hall of Fame player and past president of the Women’s Sports Foundation, said King created an inclusive culture at the group. “Through that LGBTQ+ lens and her courage, she has inspired courage in many other lanes, for people to work together,” Knight said in an interview.Beyond King’s encouragement of her as a Black and gay woman, Knight said she valued how King taught her to approach rugby officials to improve business opportunities for the women’s game.Angela Ruggiero, another past president and a former women’s ice hockey Olympian, has also followed King’s lessons. She co-founded the Sports Innovation Lab, a market research company that uses analytics to understand digitally savvy sports fans. Her research shows that fans of every gender are responding to women’s sports. She has frequent brainstorming sessions with King, who never stops asking questions.“We’re going back and forth on how do we bring more capital into women’s sports,” Ruggiero said. “She’ll be at the edge of her seat, fired up. It’s just her nature to be an agent of change.”King said she secretly advised the soccer player Julie Foudy and eight of her teammates in 1995 to hold out for fair contracts and get the younger players behind them. The team won the 1996 Olympics and ignited the frenzy for women’s soccer by winning the 1999 Women’s World Cup before 90,185 fans in the Rose Bowl.Twenty years later, Megan Rapinoe led the U.S. women to another World Cup victory, this time with the fans chanting “Equal Pay.” In 2022, the women’s national team settled its gender discrimination lawsuit against the national federation for $24 million, and a pledge to equalize salaries and prize money.Last month, Rapinoe talked at a news conference about how the 2023 World Cup would be a game-changer for women’s sports, showing that “equality is actually good for business.”King chuckled.“Every generation thinks they are the first to say this — it’s fun to listen to them,” she said. “I’m glad we’re on the same page trying to get things done.”As always, capital is key. She and Kloss — who joined the celebrity ownership group of Angel City Football Club of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2020 — were encouraged by Y. Michele Kang’s recent $35 million purchase of the league’s Washington Spirit.“We need more people to continue to step up,” King said. “If you look at everything now, it’s the billionaires. And then you look at the Middle East, that’s going to be another thing.”In a news conference, King supported the WTA’s exploration of funding from Saudi Arabia, which has already bought in to professional golf with its LIV Golf merger with the PGA Tour. Although she acknowledged the country’s discriminatory policies around women and homosexuality, she told reporters, “I don’t think you really change unless you engage.” She added that this was her opinion. “I’d still probably go and try to talk with them,” she said.Engagement has always been King’s life philosophy, along with knowing your history. She’s not ready to finish writing hers.In November, King will turn 80.“She really has a sense of running out of time,” Kloss said, “and she can’t get enough.” Source link Read the full article
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All right. That wraps up Rakha's story officially. Took much longer than my first playthrough with Hector - partly because I had to take some hiatuses in the middle, and partly because Rakha turned out to be way more complex to write about and I ended up getting very wordy. XD
But I'm honestly deeply proud of Rakha's story and of how she's ended up. I've ended up putting a lot of myself into her (into Hector too, but even more into Rakha), and her coming to a satisfying ending means a lot to me.
Also means a lot to me how many people have followed her story, either all the way from Act 1 or finding her somewhere along the way. The comments, interest, support, suggestions have all meant so much to me and helped me to want to keep writing and developing her character more. I hope you have had as much fun seeing her development and her resolution as I have had writing it. <3
Tomorrow, I will be kicking off a new liveblog with a new character in Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It'll be weird to go (back) to Dragon Age after so much time writing about Baldur's Gate.
I don't intend to stop writing about BG though; I have plenty of fic still in mind, and at least one more playthrough to do in the future. But in the meantime, I hope you will enjoy the other adventures to come.
TY again all for following along and reading my work. <3
To once again pull the same quote from this comic with which I ended Hector's story:
”let’s all keep telling each other stories until the sun explodes.”
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Recently I was on vacation for a week and the Jimmy Johns delivery lady was like "Good to see you back, we were worried about you." 🥹
Starving to death this morning because ive been to the new local cafe twice this week already and if i go a third time ill look desperate.
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