#but I have nowhere else to put them

[butleroftoast]

One especially ill-fated romantic entanglement of Skullduggan's:

They're involved with a lady they actually seem rather keen on and, for once, everything is going well. Morris doesn't trust her, she seems suspicious to him, but neither Skullduggan nor anyone else cares what Morris thinks. Cherry is also uncertain, but Robin thinks they're being silly. This lady is a paladin, so ultimately she must be good, right?

Right. That turns out to be the problem. Skullduggan is, of course, chaotic neutral when on their very best behaviour. Not a natural fit for a lawful good paladin, but when they meet her she is oathbroken, which they assume explains how she is able to tolerate the Marquis.

One night the lady gets Skullduggan away from camp on some pretext -- and shoots them in the neck with a crossbow bolt, pinning them to a tree. As they cough up blood and slowly, agonisingly choke to death, she does the natural antagonist thing of conveniently explaining her motivations, the short version of which is that Skullduggan's wanton, reckless, "this idea is objectively stupid but it sounds fun so I vote aye" attitude in court had devastating consequences for her, and was possibly related to why she felt forced to break her oath. Killing Skullduggan is an objectively Good Deed for her god, and as Skullduggan dies, the paladin's god speaks to her and lets her know that her oath can now be renewed (for the low, low price of 1,000 gold at your local deity's temple).

Luring them away from camp meant the cleric wasn't there to help Skullduggan immediately. Fortunately, one of Morris's rats smells the blood, recognises the rest of the scent as someone Morris knows, and goes to check with Morris whether it's okay to eat them now that they're dead. Morris wakes up the cleric and they follow the rats to Skullduggan's corpse, now grey and lifeless, smeared with old blood across the chin and neck, still hanging by the bolt from the tree.

It's borderline whether revivify will work, because they don't have the capability for True Resurrection, it's been more than a minute or two since the death occurred, and the cleric is still unsure of her newest abilities. She manages to bring Skullduggan back, but there's a snag: their first words upon returning to life are "what the fuck have you done?", as they realise that they are now permanently in their skeleton form.

They later discover that using their helmet now makes them look like their human self. As before, however, the change in appearance is a temporary illusion, breaking as soon as anyone touches them.

Reverting the change takes a while as the group has to track down both someone who can cast True Resurrection and the funds to pay for this service. Even House Skullduggan won't pay out to fix the problem: a Skullduggan who gets themselves killed deserves everything they get.

[salthien]

bugs. gay ones, even

[squeakadeeks]

hehehehe, with Rhea, the lineup of all my primary lead OCs is done! These are all the main characters from the stories I tend to work on the most, down the line with Pupet, Rhea, Pacific, and Sulu....sewing world, dream world, tropic world, and space world 🤨

these are all various monster high dolls with sculpey + apoxy sculpt hair

also they are friends :^)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

.....you good? You lost it a bit in those tags

this is the "losing it in the tags" blog

it's what we Do

[cuteniaarts]

The weight of the world is a heavy burden

Especially for a child

(Or, in slightly less dramatic terms – I imagine that the first of her past lives that Avatar Suiren [who is the Avatar after Aang instead of Korra in my AU, and also Ghazan and Ming-Hua’s daughter] gets to talk to is Yangchen, because she is too plagued by memories not her own [including Jetsun’s death, fun fact]. And Yangchen wouldn’t want another child to go through what she did on their own)

(Or maybe someone just needed an excuse to draw @katkastrofa’s latest obsession in a context that interests them as well, just in time to maybe cheer her up a little? You can’t prove anything)

[dorothywonderland]

I love normal human beings that have more than two braincells and decide to make character sheet reference for their drawings.

Unfortunately god made me the laziest person alive and all I have is my tears and the tiniest stupidest doodle in the corner of the canvas to guide me.

[gaytoddhoward]

they should invent a period that doesnt make me the most miserable person on earth

[forestshadow-wolf]

Hey, that part of people's brains that make you think clutter means messy? Yeah fucking KILL IT WITH FIRE

[billcarden]

my beautiful shelf + ikea sonic and shadow for size

[dooxliss]

note for the unaware: 100 gold coins = $1 and i have 625 so whatever i get will detract $6.25 from the total price

[bunnihearted]

5 million male chicks per year are brutally murdered right after birth bc they're "worthless" to the egg industry yet im supposed to believe that humans arent inherently evil lmao shut the fuck up

[componentcables]

Cold take incoming

absolute zero, liquid helium, Dry-ice, Frostburn take here, but im so disappointed that Prowlers weren't in Monster Hunter Rise. like, how could you bring back the Palico Ranch, the entire framework for giving Palicos specific moves that require training, NEW MOVES AND the ability to have two in your party AND the Palamutes. but absolutely refuse to bring back Prowlers it would have been so silly and cool.

i fail to understand why to tease me with many funny little cats in the game but REFUSE to let me play as them. i am stuck as the Non funny absolutely Negative silly human character. Can the Human character pull out pom-poms and start dancing on command? Can they get in a little funny tank? NO, NO TO BOTH!

Don't get me wrong, I like Rise, hell I love rise outside of the Stampede missions, it takes the stuff people like from World and gave me MORE of it. but COME ON! It would have been cool it would have been SO COOL. And i highly doubt that they'll ever even come back in later games since that RIGHT THERE was like. THE chance to bring them back casually.

At minimum Palicos still exist so I cant be too mad, At least I can live vicariously through watching the cats do the funny silly little moves with their boomerangs. The Gadgets in 'World' are genuinely just.. good. yeah its not playable Palicos on the same level as your average hunter. but again, its something better than nothing. TLDR: There's basically no chance that Prowlers are ever going to be in a new game if they refused to add the mode while adding the supporting framework. And i am pissy because of it.

[wowbright]

Ugh why lately do I keep remembering traumatic events from my childhood that explain so much?

[mwagneto]

crazy how going to the skatepark in my commie bloc just to sit there for like 30 minutes doing fuck all and then leave immediately fixes my brain

[detentiontrack]

CZ has a new crime of the week. One of the side effects of my medication is super dry mouth, so I have a box of special mints on my dresser. CZ has figured out how to open the box, stick his paw in, remove a mint, and then he throws it on the floor and chases it across the room, batting it with his paws, and crashing into all the walls and furniture

[calamitoustide]

My memory is pretty bad and causes me some anxiety iver what did and didn't actually happen, and I remember when you first started talking about Dear Reader on here and how Helios was James, so when people started thinking it was Remus or Peter or what have you in the comments I fucking spiraled over whether those old posts I was sure of having seen had axually existed or not

I am wracking my brain trying to think of what post you might've been talking about. I know as soon as I started posting Dear Reaader in Jan 2023 I didn't say a single word about who Helios was because I wanted to fuck with people it was fun :/ but I think maybe I might've made a post back in Nov 2022 when I first came up with the idea. It would've been just me saying James runs an advice blog. So I'm not saying it's impossible my memory is just also hazy from that time. If I didn't have a TikTok from back in November about Dear Reader I wouldn't have thought I came up with it then 😭

But I'm gonna say you're right about me posting about it because I remember like early Dear Reader days not knowing how to describe what it is without spoiling it. Actually... while typing this right now I feel like I remember answering an ask game about Dear Reader and fully saying Helios was James

So yeah you're right lmao. I did do that! When I started posting it though I was having much too fun gaslighting people into thinking it was someone else so I stopped after that.