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Poor unfortunate soul
#baldur's gate 3#baldurs gate 3#bg3#mizora#bg3 mizora#wyll ravengard#Wyll#bg3 wyll#blade of frontiers#break the contract?#or give your soul#UGH#I broke it#did I mess up?#little mermaid#reference#screen shots
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thinking about not only the specific people lucanis pulls in to represent the 'locks' in his psyche, but the storytelling that happens in the structure/order of them. the underlying ideas are presented something like:
the lucanis who went into the ossuary never came back out again; he died down there (the boy caterina raised is gone forever) -> you're putting yourself in danger doing this (by being close to me), you should leave because I can't bear it if you get hurt because of me -> it doesn't matter even if we do try this, it won't work anyway (again because of me) ('you know what he's like, you can open the door but he won't walk through it' :'( oofie doofie) -> what if the real secret is that there was never anything but the monster in here from the beginning. you should leave, there was never anything here worth saving in the first place. (implicitly: what if I deserved what happened, all along.)
it runs pretty cleanly from outward-oriented attachment anxiety ('caterina won't even want me back like this, she won't recognize me (the same way I no longer recognize myself)) and gradually deeper inwards until we reach self-image and self worth. or you know, the harrowing basic lack of it lol.
"careful -- they'll know we're not right," spite says in one of their first scenes... but clearly, some very deep part of lucanis has feared or suspected for much longer than that that there's something inherently not right at the core of him, way before any demon entered the picture. and the voice he gives those lines to is the person who should know him better than anyone in the world, who he has loved more than anyone in the world -- and who deliberately chose to hurt him so horrifically anyway. 'It's better if I'm just a monster and deserved what happened than it is to allow for the idea that the brother I love doesn't really exist and maybe never did'. it's better if he's fundamentally flawed in some way that needed fixing to help him survive, and that's why caterina chose to hurt him again and again -- out of love. (this one I think he might have a very sad wakeup call on one day if he ever ends up with the responsibility and care of a child of his own in some way and realizes just how alien the idea of ever intentionally hurting them for any reason is to him. oh buddy. also interesting that he keeps caterina as the outermost lock -- there IS a distance he keeps there that he hasn't with illario. he doesn't resent her 'anymore' he says, but he also keeps her carefully further away from his deepest self.)
as far as I could tell the only note in the mind prison that's fully hidden and needs to be uncovered is the sad painful helpless stupid little truth that even after all this, even knowing what happened... he still loves his brother. is there anything illario could ever do that would make lucanis completely stop loving him, do you think? sometimes the trouble with unconditional love is that it is, well. unconditional, even when some terms and conditions probably would have been in order haha.
that's the pattern you see there again and again; he would rather destroy and abandon and imprison himself at every turn than let go of love, even when it's just scraps, even when there's only ever enough of it to hurt him. it's only when rook shows up and as it were takes his hand and walks along with him that he can entertain the idea of changing the story of what walking out the door might mean in the end.
#tl;dr the demon is a metaphor about dissociation and trauma and it's doing its job thematically fucking pitch perfectly that way the end#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age meta#this mission is like ds9 the wire in terms of episodes you really can examine from a thousand different angles#and find something new and soulcrushingly sad every time. exactly my kind of episode in other words#whenever people say there's nothing to him but coffee and spite jokes some small part of me goes 'oh I'm so incredibly sorry!#it must be really hard and so impractical to go through life without being able to read :'( get better soon'#is that very nice of me. perhaps not. is the writing here *perfect*? of course not. but some people are also dedicated to being#wilfully blind (presumably b/c they would have preferred to see something else?? idk man)#lucanis' reaction to taash going 'I'm sorry I'm such a bad crow :'('... he could NEVER do what caterina did with him no matter what#you just can't use him like that. he needs the clean family/enemy/contract distinction or you just break him!!!#caterina literally what are you thinking. every day I ask myself this. (probably 'the only other option that keeps the seat in the family#is illario. so that's right out of course' lmao)#god forbid it happen anytime soon if it should happen b/c there's Stuff that needs working through first lol but he'd be such a soft dad
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wyll in a flowy shirt: the sequel
#someone put him on the cover of a fantasy romance novel#i think he should get a new glass eye after he breaks his contract with mizora#give him back his big brown eye#he deserves it#and deserves better in general#to quote shadowheart: i hope mizora flies into a windmill#but yeagh wyll is so fun to draw#i’ve been really burnt out and needed to do a low-pressure drawing lol#back to work we gooo#wyll ravengard#bg3 wyll#bg3#digital art#baldur's gate 3#bg3 fanart
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Dungeon Meshi: The RPG
#Dungeon Meshi#laios touden#marcille donato#chilchuck tims#senshi#animation#game dev diary#Please give a huge hand to my coding partner#who labored for over two weeks to figure out how to implement reaction animation for the battle icons.#You may also notice that I updated the battle portraits from my previous post! New and (mostly) improved!#The death screens were not changed because I didn't think they'd get used for this video.#But Chilchuck getting one-shotted and leaving due to this being outside of his pay? Accidental comedy gold.#The full sprite (I didn't realize the bottom third would be hidden) says: “NOT PAID FOR THIS”#And yeah he's smoking. He gets a smoke break as part of his contract. Let a guy have his vices. He's teetering on a divorce.#Dungeon Meshi would be a fun rpg in theory but it would need to have immersive mechanics like cooking and foraging.#And hunger and fatigue and other status effects.#A slightly more lighthearted fear and hunger sort of game.#But that is for some other fan to do. This is just a fun tech demo for us to learn RPG maker!#So...with this mini-project concluded#we now have a foundation we can pass over to our actual game!#Next game dev post will be some game assets (probably busts and battle icons for the main party)#And after that! Most likely some more sprite sheets (I have made a few more since my first attempt)#Thank you for everyone who has been rooting us on since I started talking about this project. It means a ton B'*)
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Brasol is such a funny ship because as suave and powerful and persuasive as Braun is, if you were to fit these two into a meme template, the one who would drunkenly break down and burn their marriage certificate yelling "Good luck trying to return me without the receipt!" would also be Braun. The fact that it kinda already happened in canon just proves it.
#I'm never getting over the 'eternal contract' thing#The bunny breaking and the later freakout after Soleums breaks too just work as greater proof#Absolutely ridiculous#Your honor I love them#Brasol#got dropped into a ghost story still gotta work#Ghost story work#Kim Soleum#Mr. Braun
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can't believe that if zevran lives he will go on to absolutely decimate the crows; completely wreck the whole ass organization seemingly for YEARS post da:o, and not even one in the crows in da:tv will have anything to say abt this? at all??? mr.bioware are you insane
#“crows dont break contracts” MY ASS LUCANIS#also if he romanced ur warden and they still alive.... “yeah ok ONE TIME a crow ran off got married and wrecked our shit for a few year BUT#zevran arainai#da:o#datv spoilers#datv#dragon age the veilguard#zevran dragon age#dragon rage
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Imagine the Hotel crew breaks into the V Tower to foil the Vees' plans and they grab a contract they think is Angel's but it's actually some random VoxTek employee that they free and this dude's now at the hotel with them like "it was awful. he made me clean his Alastor shrine every day and I mean that thing is HUGE. And he made me sing an Alastor version of My Heart Will Go On every morning before work. I had to dress up as the radio demon when I cleaned the shrine." Immediate silence. Entire hotel room stares at Alastor. Alastor's eye is twitching, the radio static is getting louder and he looks like he just malfunctioned.
LMAOOOOOO THIS IS SO FUNNY. this guy joins the main cast
and he has a song number about his mistreatment from vox and how much he had to deal with his WEIRD alastor fixation. the deep cleaning of his body pillow. the radio demon cosplay he had to put on on some days. he's so traumatised by all of vox's weird alastor shit the very sight of alastor in the flesh causes him to spiral. it was a very emotional song number. it ends with alastor blank staring at him and then saying "what" with charlie sobbing in the background.
#ask#osrs.txt#radiostatic#staticradio#onewaybroadcast#does this guy have a fucking tag#vox's assistant#vox’s assistant#hazbin vox#hazbin hotel vox#hazbin alastor#hazbin hotel alastor#alastor#the implication that a contract is just that easy to break.#probably not the case but it is extremely funny for this ask#this is a break from the commissions saga sorry this was on top of my inbox and I found it hilarious
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Friday afternoon contracts 📑
#law#law school#contracts#graduate student#graduate school#doctorate#doctorate degree#law degree#law program#college#studyblr#study break#study#psychology#books#university#library#book#reading
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Art by Art by @Dizy Wata ToonS
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Halloween 2024
After the pervious stream, Nina went completely radio silent outside of social media. Other than posts about her condition and other topics, her only major announcement was that she would be staying home for the 31st, saying that the serpents in contact with her believed that leaving the house at the current point in gestation would put her in serious danger.
The newest stream began at 6 pm. The camera activated, pointing into the penthouse’s kitchen before Nina slowly waddled around the camera and into frame, wearing a rather seductive hollow dress. One that was commonly depicted in memes as of late. She was noticeably bigger than the week previous, but not drastically. Immediately it could be seen that she was in a dower mood, pouting and looking rather distracted.
“Ugh…hey everyone…thought I’d dress up for Halloween…yaaaay…” Nina moaned as she waved her hands weakly. “Sorry I’m not smiling, but I feel so fucking bloated right now, I can’t even be bothered. I was gonna eat candy on stream, but I….ate all of it throughout the day. I think all that chocolate did something inside, because I haven’t had a single craving since…I wanna say three hours. My guts have just felt like complete crap…one sec.”
A rumble audibly passed through her body and she forced out a deep, loud belch.
“BOOOOOOUUURP!!!”
Nina waved her hand in front of her face. “Blegh, too many butterfingers. But uh, I hope you all like the dress. It was the only thing I really had laying around that my belly would fit inside comfortably. Not even my lobster onesie. Honestly, I just can’t wait for these things to get out of me.” She sighed and began to stroke her hand over her belly. “It was a little fun, and I’m not gonna let the money I get from this go to waste, but I have never felt so internally…off…than I do right now. Like, I’m growing aliens in my body, and it feels like yesterday I was skinny. It’s all gone so fast for me, and I want my body back to myself. If any of yall out there watching wanna go and do it, honestly, it’s not the worst thing you can do to get money quick, but don’t do what I did and stay home. Stay on the damn ship so you aren’t spending over 5,000 on food. I’m not kidding, all 5,000 of that went right in here to my b-“
As she was rambling and complaining about her condition, a sudden but ominous rumble visibly quivered around her belly. It made her stop and look down, a pained wince crossing her features.
“H-hold on. That didn’t feel right…they’re staring to really squirm in there…”
Nina’s lip scrunched up as she began to poke and prod her belly. But then, her stomach did more than just quiver. It quaked under her dress, another deep rumble bubbling up. Nina gasped loudly and she staggered where she stood.
“Oooohh!! Oh…oh my god…that hurt so bad…was that a…aaagghhhhhh!!!!”
With another quake from inside, Nina grabbed her belly with her hands and tried to move forward from the counter, only to lose her balance and slam down on her side into the camera’s tripod, knocking it over. The camera fell to the floor where all sight of Nina was lost. Only capturing the hardwood floor of the kitchen, the actress was panting and trying her best to speak through the intense contractions she was feeling.
“Aaaaaagghhhhh!! If you can still hear me….it hurts!!! Nina hissed and moaned. “My water just broke…oh my god…I can’t get my phone, and I can’t get up! Someone!! Someone help!!” Nina cried out, her voice strained and panicking. Internal rumbles were heard, alongside Nina’s moans of pain, which were turning into frightened sobs. “Why did I do this to myself…I don’t wanna die like this!! They’re moving so much! I think I’m gonna- oh my god I think I’m gonna…explode!! Somebody please help me!!”
After that last pleasing die help, the sound of a door breaking open was heard. Several feet and pairs of legs were seen crossing the view of the camera, followed by swaying thin black tails with pincers on the end. They spoke in identical, modulated voices.
“Brood Volunteer located! Inducing stasis!” One of the alien creatures called out.
After a brief moment, Nina’s panting went silent. Another alien spoke with a slightly deeper pitch.
“The human should consider herself lucky we were already on our way to bring her to the Annihilator for larval removal. She could have died just now.”
The other serpent spoke up.
“She should be alright now until we bring her to sick bay. Prepping her for extraction now!”
The camera was then picked up by a third serpent who looked directly into the camera. The alien had skin as black as charcoal, with a mouth full of silver teeth, slit nostrils, and a reflective membrane dome where the eyes should be. It grinned softly.
“The human was logging herself on this device. It is still recording. It appears to be broadcasting live.”
In view over the serpent’s shoulder was the other two carrying the massively pregnant across by her wrists and ankles towards the back porch where a bright light was shining through. One of them nodded its head towards its other comrade.
“Deactivate it. She will not be returning for hours.”
After that, the serpent turned the camera around towards the now fluid covered kitchen floor, ending the stream.
Shortly after, eyewitnesses reported seeing a small alien transport fly from the LA skyline towards the massive saucer ship hovering just above the cloud layer.
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I'm a freak for making him make weird faces. but he's a bigger freak for making them.
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#i had to take a break from the long projects im doing so i went back to the weird animal photos i saved for this purpose#and drew them :> i feel very reset ty#kuroshitsuji#black butler#kuroshitsuji fanart#fanart#sebastian michaelis#digital art#doodle#sketch#early contract was a doozy WOO
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"You went against your word and defied our contract! In doing so, you brought the chaos of your world into mine! I will not abide it!" - Raphael (Baldur's Gate, 2023)
#raphael#baldur's gate 3#bg3#raphael bg3#raphael baldur's gate 3#games#bg3gifs#okay one of the things i love is how if you do the team raphael route and sign the contract and choose to break it#all of this sounds SO much more personal#like kudos to Andrew Wincott... Raphael just sounds so angry and dissapointed#like he's not being smug or smarmy for the most part#which is pretty damn rare already#when he pops in and says “You?!” it's with such utter disbelief#like he genuinely didn't think you'd ever even consider doing such a thing when he has been actualy pretty truthful#he just operates LIKE THAT because as Korilla mentions “he's the devil! It's his nature!”#i LOVE that#like that third line? when he says “littlle mouse” it just sounds SO dissapointed#i just love how layered and they wrote the characters#anyway don't worry booboo i'll do a save file where tav doesn't break your black heart
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god what a wild year though for joe to have been followed by cameras constantly....
#like in ADDITION to hard knocks#but he has an MVP type season and the defense is terrible#that frustration on the sideline...up close...#his personal life...the break in!!#then the contract saga and fighting for his guys#fuck even shaving his head and dying his hair platinum lol#gonna be fascinating!!!
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The source of those rumors is a guy from Carlos's family's tennis club who is close to Kiko Navarro & knows some members of Carlos's team & is a regular collaborator with Punto de Break. According to him (he's said this before) Carlos & Juanki had a significant fight towards the end of 2023. But the claim that they nearly split up back then came from someone else who's less reliable.
As for 2025, the first guy says Carlos's dad has apparently not been happy with what Juanki is doing for a while... but it seems like Carlos doesn't agree. If things don't turn around after clay season his family might push for changes to the team.
From my perspective it's hard to understand the coaching strategy sometimes. Like you said Juanki's strength is not tactics but it seems like that's what Carlos really needs. This is just one example but I think it's crazy that he sat on court in silence for three sets without suggesting Carlos change his return position v Djokovic - Carlos eventually figured it out... in the last game of the match. And that was honestly the main factor in him losing. You could argue Juanki wanted him to figure it out himself but why on earth did they not discuss that beforehand when it also cost him massively at the Olympics (which Carlos said he didn't even think about before the match?)
I know Juanki's whole thing is treating team like family but there are a lot top coaches who say that after 5ish years a coach has nothing to give a player anymore & I wonder if their partnership has run its natural course. Carlos doesn't seem any more tactically equipped than he was two years ago & his technicals have mostly not improved either (return... backhand...).
thanks for this background - after replying to some earlier asks i dug around and saw some folks citing punto de break but not any specifics so this is appreciated. this does immediately increase the credibility to me bc i know pdb values their access and would not jeopardize it for nothing lmao. tho if it's like, a guy who sometimes writes for them and is mostly posting on his own time... i guess that's somewhere in the middle. (btw i still haven't seen anything other than reports of reports of reports? if you've got links i would very much appreciate them!)
as usual i think we're looking at two questions here: could carlos benefit from a different coach, and does carlos want a different coach.
i think we are all in agreement that for carlos to continue to develop as a player he needs something he's not getting at the moment, whether we're thinking in terms of incorporating a new addition to the team or making a wholesale switch. and i don't disagree with you at all about the natural lifespan of a coaching relationship. i've cited this before in discussions of juanki's own career (stuck with one guy; was it a mistake?) and of ferru's (split but waited too long; chalked the delay up to personal feelings).
but as long as it's presented to carlos as an all-or-nothing choice i don't think he's there yet and i would not be surprised to find out that his recent post-match declarations were a message. (tbc it very much MIGHT be an all-or-nothing choice, regulars here know i have plenty of thoughts about the academy lmao.)
the thing is that at this point the unknowns are still really, really risky. if you've had the same coach for most of your teen/adult years and you're ready to strike out and try something new, then that's exciting and stimulating and you're in a good place to make the best of it. but if you're dragging your feet? if you feel like you've been pushed? maybe someone else could give you more, but you have to be ready to receive it, you know? if you're an environment that you know enables you overall to perform at a high level (4 grand slams), where you feel overall confident and supported even if you're lacking direction in some big matches, where you get value from your coach's presence above and beyond the specifics of tennis--it is inherently going to be a risk to make a big change and if you're not all in on doing so the risks will be even more likely to find you.
that's why i keep saying is that i don't see it happening unless carlos' results gets much worse than this--or, potentially, unless a voice that holds as much weight with him as juanki's (so, his dad) gets strong enough that he listens to it. that might be where we're headed!
(incidentally i have feinted at this without saying so explicitly, but there is an unbelievable amount of money riding on carlos' success or lack thereof--i don't mean prize money, i mean his brand as a star--and it would be naive to pretend that's not a factor in decision-making. that's one of the reasons i've pointed to a sustained slump, rather than one or two disappointing slams. when the results start to affect the brand.)
just talked this over with friend who compared the ideal set-up to darren/simone for jannik--supervisory coach + tactical/court coach. if so, then the question is whether they come to that same conclusion and get the set-up in place before the decision is out of their hands, so to speak.
#and when ferru comes on board after his dc contract expires to beef up carlitos' positioning and problem-solving. WHAT THEN.#no no no keep him out of this that can only lead to disappointment#inside you are two dog-coded tennis players.#ask#juan carlos ferrero#carlos alcaraz#LATE-BREAKING ADDITION FROM CHAT: “andy murray coaches his favorite athlete. everyone is mad about it.”#anyway. it's funny that this is exactly the premise i laid out in figure skating au like 10 days ago. congrats to me ig??#wah sf in 30 minutes and i'm still here furiously typing away in the office TIME TO BOUNCE#meta
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19May24
Precisely a year since it started (The Sun forgot ratrry tongues darted)— May the next be as mild (We’re still detoxing Wilde)— The curtain’s come down, Hussell’s parted.
#larry#harry#harry styles#stunts#taylor russell#hussell#tayrry#the sun dropped the bua at 4 pm est#'Harry Styles SPLITS from model Taylor Russell after ‘make or break’ Japan trip'#the article says they've been together 14 months#which means the sloppy hemrata ratrry ratatourry makeout gets danielled#but first rumblings of harry and taylor were happening pretty much one year ago#so it seems like a nice neat little year-long contract#met gala was her grand finale#curious what the hs4 narrative will be#give me more angsty larry love songs about tokyo#limerick-hs#may 20#2024
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Love Sea Episode 9 Preview be like: Next week we're serving pain. Lots of pain. (You're welcome).
I'm really looking forward to Fort and Peat's performances next week. Their acting chops shine when they're tackling the angsty, gut-wrenching stuff.
#love sea#love sea the series#tongrak x mahasamut#rakmut#fortpeat#fort thitipong#peat wasuthorn#my distraught boys#rak's gonna do the whole 'im protecting you by leaving you' cliche that breaks the heart of person you're trying to protect UGHHHH#then mut's going to cry buckets and be completely devastated#at least the stupid contract is getting the treatment it deserves#being torn into pieces#jak is gunning for the worst father award#mut is literally getting a beating physically emotionally spiritually
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11, 21 for Sol/Lucanis
11. have they said ‘i love you’? if so, when was the first time? lucanis says he loves them by the end of the game as he does canonically. he’s very earnest abt his feelings that way, in precisely the way sol isn’t lmao. sol probably realises they never said it, feels bad, attempts to do it at what they imagine he would consider a suitably romantic moment, is still allergic to emotional honesty, gives up and tries to slip it in casually. he immediately notices and makes them repeat it. they repeat it extremely grudgingly like it’s pulling a tooth. it’s not romantic at all and he’s never been happier
21. would they be able to functionally cook a meal together? what would they make? would it turn out well? of course! they have a very well-established system! sol stands there, looks pretty, makes witty commentary, taste tests, and sits on the counter with their legs swinging until the next time lucanis unceremoniously shoos them off it. meanwhile lucanis... does all the cooking. they are both perfectly satisfied with their role. he makes a bit of everything but primarily antivan food so they can both have a taste of home, and it’s always great. sometimes (and this is how you can tell he loves sol more than life itself) sometimes he even makes things the way they do it in house de riva’s hometown instead of the trevisan way
#a lot of sol/lucanis is sol going ‘oh god he’s into romance and stuff i am fucking this up immeasurably’#and lucanis completely unbothered by this continuing to be delighted all the time by the sheer sol-ness of the way sol does things#anyway lucanis has seen how sol eats when left to their own devices#and would consider them eating like that at HIS table to be more of a personal failure than breaking a contract#he always cooks. please let him cook#sol de riva
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