#but also nobody's paying me xd

[gothpersy]

Me *slapping together several different art styles*: HARDCORE

[caenith]

Books that I've been thinking about getting physical copies of literally went from ~20GBP to 30GBP to ~37GBP each (!) in the span of... a week? Two weeks?

What is this economy exactly.

[sunaluv]

Hi not sure if you take requests i just saw this idea on tiktok 😭i was thinking if you could write isagi, rin, nagi, kaiser where their fem s/o is talking to a friend on the phone and tells them that she got her brazilian wax done by a guy (it could be any name) IM ALREADY CACKLING JUST IMAGINING THEIR REACTION

i know this is kinda suggestive but since it's not necessarily nsfw i'll just take my chance xD

Feel free ignore if you don't feel like writing it! :*

i feel dumb i literally had to look this up to confirm i know what im talking about 😭

feat: isagi, rin, nagi, kaiser

cw: suggestive, cooch talk

ISAGI

isagi watched as you gently pressed down on your crotch, wincing at the sensitive feeling. you could feel his frown from his spot at the doorway despite the fact you’ve insisted you’re fine.

“are you sure you don’t want me to get you some ice or something, babe?” the bed dipped slightly as he sat down, hesitantly placing his hand on your thigh.

you sighed. “i’m fine, ‘chi. i’m not gonna break.” giggling, you moved to sit up on the bed. “i don’t know why it hurt so bad this time, i think he might’ve—“

“he?” his blue eyes blinked.

there was a pause as you chose your next words carefully. “yeah…he…”

his hands pinned your shoulders back down the the bed, his eyes declaring urgency. “you’re telling me another guy saw your,” he gestured down below with his eyes. “for free?!”

patting his cheek gently, you sighed. “technically not for free, i payed him.”

“baby whyyy!”

“relax yoichi,” removing his hands off of you, you sat back up again. “he made sure i was okay with it, the only girl on shift that day was available half an hour before we leave and i’d rather bear the pain now than on the plane.”

the boy held his head in his hands as if he was betrayed and you had to hold back the urge to roll your eyes.

you walked up to him, placing your hand on his shoulder. “if you want, you can come with me next time?”

your eyes finally met as he craned his neck up. “yeah,” he wiped his running nose. when he started crying you do not know. “i-i’ll go with you next time.”

“good god. and they say women are more dramatic.” you muttered, leaving your boyfriend to sulk on his own.

RIN

the car was awkwardly silent as you and rin sat in the parking lot. he had just came to pick you up but was caught off guard by the guy giving you aftercare instructions for your brazilian wax.

“…did he wax you?” he was hesitant to ask.

you were silent as you contemplated the best way to go around this.

“i see how it is.” he obviously mistook your silence. “was there nobody else to do it? preferably someone with less meat between their legs?”

your eyes widened and you had to swallow your laughter. “rin that’s inappropriate. he’s just a waxer.” you regained composure.

“my ass,” he sighed, finally starting the car. “he couldn’t possibly have gotten you right, he’s a guy he doesn’t know his way around pussy.”

“…you’re also a guy?”

“and?”

“do you know your way around pussy?”

he side eyed you, knuckles whitening as his grip on the wheel increased. “i don’t know [name], do i?”

you silence spoke all he needed to know. “then it’s settled, i’ll wax you next time.”

“okay.”

“okay?”

“okay, rin.” you chuckled. “who knew you could be so jealous.”

“nobody’s jealous.”

when you arrived home, you didn’t see rin for the next hour, little did you know he was cooped up in your shared bedroom, watching various waxing tutorials.

NAGI

your legs swung as you chatted on the phone idly whilst your boyfriend played games on his pc.

“how was your brazilian girlll!” your friends voice sounded around the room.

you sighed. “it hurt so bad! you didn’t tell me how much pain i was gonna be in!” you frowned dramatically to the camera. “luckily the guy was nice and gave me a heads up and all.”

the nonchalant demeanor of your white haired boyfriend dissipated as he got off his game at record speed and snatched the phone out of your hand, ending the call.

“…did you just say he?” his brows furrowed and his bottom lip jutted out ever so slightly.

“hey i was talking!” you got up. “give me the phone, sei.”

“how could you let another man see you like that,” he dropped down to his knees dramatically, hugging your torso. “if you wanted to break up with me, you coulda’ just said so ya know.”

“relax you big baby,” you chuckled stroking his hair. “he was just waxing, it’s not like he had his fingers inside of me.”

he squeezed tighter. “don’t say that!” his face pressed into your stomach. “and don’t say ‘he’”

you laughed silently at his theatrics, moving to lie down on the bed.

for the next hour (yes hour :|) you stroked nagi’s hair comfortingly, dismissing his mutters about the poor waxer man who was just trying to do his job.

KAISER

you were catching up with a friend at the football stadium after the match had ended. the stadium had cleared out a bit, leaving you two some time to gossip.

“how’ve ya been girl,” she looped an arm around yours. “i feel like i haven’t seen you in forever!”

you laughed, “i’ve been good, mostly working and stuff.”

the two of you idly gossiped, not realizing there were a few people left. your friend left with her husband, giving you a business card before you met up with kaiser to leave the stadium.

“hello beautiful,” he kissed the back of your hand. “what do you have there?”

you skimmed the front and back of the card before handing it to him. “a business card for my waxer my friend recommended. he did a good job, might get him to do my next one…”

“who did a great job?” he asked incredulously.

you repeated the name of your waxer.

“that sounds like a guys name,” he chuckled.

“because he is a guy…” you trailed off.

there was silence for a couple seconds before a rip sounded through the air.

“kaiser!” you snatched the torn card out of his hands. “why would you do that!”

“he’s a guy!” he stated as if that’s a valid reason. “how can i sleep at night knowing my lady is letting another man tend to her bushes?!”

flustered, you turned your back to him. “stop talking like that!” you held your face in your hands. “…you’re embarrassing me…”

he breathed deeply before turning you around by your shoulders. “i’m sorry, sweetheart,” he peeled your hands from your face, angling your neck to meet his eyes.

“how about i make you a compromise, hmm?” his smile told you just about how unfair this was going to be. “i won’t talk about you tending your bushes if you stop letting other men see it, okay?”

he stuck out his hand and moved yours to shake it before you could protest.

“you don’t play fair, you know that?” you interlocked your hands before heading out.

“of course i know that,” he grinned, pearly teeth and all. “how else do you think i’ve come so far.”

kaiser could now get a peaceful sleep knowing he is the only one between your legs.

[punkpandapatrixk]

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Ideally, we’d hope for our Future Spouse to be the only person we would ever be married to🎎Having said that, this reading isn’t catering to a Future Spouse aenergy; this reading is entertaining the idea of a dharmic Soulmate who’s destined for our Highest Intended Good.

Our Destined Person—he or she whose soul essence lights up the whole world after we’ve learnt to light up our own world with Love towards ourselves🥰

To those of you reading this who had been married before or are currently bound to a weird loveless contract, please know this reading is still for you in whatever way it resonates for you🌷We all deserve to be happier and happier still at whatever stage of Life we’re in. It isn’t greed we’re talking about; it’s knowing everybody deserves to find Love in the end💝

And aaa~ happy holidays, Witches~!🎄

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MOVIE: How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)

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Pile 1 – Making A Soft Bed of Flowers with You

VIBE: Schatze Page & Tom Brookman

why I was attracted to you – 9 of Pentacles

Umm…you’re kinda giving off this coldass bitch boss aura that sends news to the entire town that you ain’t needing nobody in your Life. You’re so ULTRA independent it actually scares the living shit out of normal people XD You’re too powerful; too resourceful in your aloneness; too successful in your solitude; damn, are you sure you haven’t got an army of jealous bitches wishing ill upon you?? There are IT girls whom all girls want to be and guys want to be with, but you’re a whole different game, hon.

Girls know they can’t be you however much they pay! Guys know they can’t ever bend you however much they hate that you won’t pick them! Your aenergy is weird…you’re too happy…too authentic. The wrong people can only shake their heads in disbelief, gossiping that there must be something shady you’ve done in Life for you to be this real, this successful without being an ass-licker.

At the top of your game, you make the news go round and round you’re making them money from talking non-stop about you. That’s when your Destined Person hear about you and fell in love with your character. You’re swag, or something. You’re savage and honest. They fucking LOVE that you’re an unbreakable bitch boss. You can be a bitch boss to the world, but to your Destined Person, you’re a Goddess of Realness! And that’s rare AF. You’re a true gem. Finally, an equal to them!

how I fell in love with you – King of Cups

Well, in spite of how you appear to the world, your Destined Person was able to see beyond the façade. You act tough and all that but you have a kind and generous soul. People can’t be strong all alone for so long. If anything, the way you appear strong and unshakable incites your Destined Person’s protective nature LOL Your Destined Person has a big heart and wants to nurture. I think their love language might be gifts and attention just because they really like to give. They will give you all their money and attention LMAO

The main reason they fell in love with you is that you’ve inspired them to get even more in touch with their sensitive side. When your Destined Person sees or talks to you, their minds are opened to new ways to express their emotions. It is because you’re eloquent and you have a great library of words to impart your thoughts and feelings. Your Destined Person thinks you’re inhumanly intelligent and so new wave! Whatever that means XD

They also see that you, too, have a big heart. That you’re more understanding than anybody they’ve ever met. Below the iceberg castle you’ve built to protect yourself, you have an entire flower kingdom of kindness and care. It is your generous nature, your heart your Destined Person truly fell in love with. You’re gutsy and talented; you’re honest and courageous; but most of all, you are a genuine Lover with a divine heart and your Destined Person wants that for themselves…

Umm…with this King aenergy…I think your Destined Person is a possessive and territorial style? ^_^;

when I knew you were The One – Ace of Pentacles

Buhahahah… I think your Destined Person knew you were The One from the very beginning. From the moment they were intrigued by you, they already knew you were made for them! Not saying they never had moments they doubted themselves, especially when it comes to whether or not they are deserving of someone mega awesome as you, but they were head over heels from the get go. They couldn’t deny this attraction and they thought, whether or not they’re the marrying type, if they ever want to spend the rest of their days with someone that would have to be YOU~

When they met you…or got to know you (before meeting)…your Destined Person had been wanting to have a new beginning of sort. I think their Life was already secure and they’d achieved quite a great deal in Life. But that security felt fleeting. They wanted to offer all this greatness to someone. Your Destined Person is undoubtedly a lover LOL They want to be in a loving relationship. They want to share their Life, their riches, their comfort with someone. Obviously, it’s YOU~

With this Pile, rather than the idea of your Destined Person needing time to decide on you…it’s more like they actually had to stop themselves from creeping you out by not proposing to you on your first date! LMAO This is a Ted Mosby saying ‘I LOVE YOU’ on his first date with Robin kinda vibe. Something along those lines. Just pretend you didn’t know they already wanted to marry you from the beginning, hon XD Your whole courtship might feel awkward but cute because your Destined Person struggles a lil with behaving like they’re not crazy about you LMAO

I LOVE YOU🔻💙

in sorrow and in sickness – Gold Historian (Raphael Holinshed)

I vow to be there for you – Priestess of Patience

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Pile 2 – I Could Tell You Were So Much More Than Your Silence

VIBE: Pola Debevoise & Freddie Denmark

why I was attracted to you – 3 of Pentacles Rx

When your Destined Person first saw you, they noticed that you were distant, rather aloof. Not sure if it was shyness or something else. Depending on your Destined Person’s base psychology or the environment they were brought up in, your Destined Person either thought you were a bitch, unfriendly, or they simply wondered by you were THAT shy, THAT quiet. I think it’s possible the day you met them you simply weren’t in a jolly mood, so you were rather uncommunicative.

Be THAT as it may, your Destined Person ain’t a bitch and if anything they were attracted to your coolness. There is something in your aura, your vibe, your body language, that tells them…you were so much more than your unfriendliness. Perhaps it’s in your gentle gesture, perhaps it’s in the way you gaze at someone else, but your Destined Person could tell, you’re a sensitive person who’s careful with who you get friendly with.

Your Destined Person saw…felt, rather…that you must be a compassionate, empathetic person who would make them feel safe. They could tell that you were society’s outcast of sort, that you were not generic, and that because of this you weren’t the type to quickly judge somebody without knowing their story first. Your Destined Person admires that about you. They think you have high morality and that although you aren’t always smiley or anything, for the most part, you’re really a polite person who’s such a delight to talk to once you feel comfortable with someone.

how I fell in love with you – 8 of Pentacles

Your Destined Person could tell that you’re somebody who’s battled your own inner demons. You’ve worked hard on yourself to be the superior version of yourself. And because you’re naturally kind and very keen on human psychology, your Destined Person saw that you’re the type that can easily understand other people’s crazy. That’s why you’re kind, quiet, and for the most part, patient with other people. You’re cool because you understand the world—you’re based. But you’re also aloof because you understand that most Humans are a waste of time LMAO

Your Destined Person thinks you’re the coolest person who’s ever walked on Earth! This is kinda telling me either your Destined Person is a few years younger than you or they could’ve come from a rather easy background so the maturity of their psychology is behind you XD Do you have significant Scorpio placements? Anyway, your Destined Person is charmed by your maturity, deep knowledge about uncommon things, and that once they get you talking, like whoa, your knowledge and perspectives are SO interesting. They could hear you talk for weeks on end.

Obviously, your Destined Person feels inspired by you. They also feel you’re the safest person they could talk to. If anything, you help them overcome their own demons or pains from the past. When they talk with you, they understand themselves better and they love that your perspectives on people and things are genuinely rooted in your desire to comfort and heal. They think you’re deeply spiritual but based, realistic and pragmatic, and before they could put words to it, they’ve already fallen in love with your character🥰

when I knew you were The One – Knight of Cups

I do see that it takes a bit, juuust a biiit, of time for your Destined Person to know you were The One for them, forever. Personally, they themselves are quite wary of people so just because they were curious and subsequently friendly towards you, didn’t mean they wanted to marry you immediately. Which, all things considered, is very sweet because when you met your Destined Person, when you noticed they were trying to get to know you, they were genuine! They weren’t just trying to get into your pants or wanting other superficial things from you.

Your Destined Person, I feel, is a very charming and handsome person. They’re likely popular, too. I think they know a lot of people, have a large family or perhaps have multiple large circles of people they know, so in that sense, they’re not the type of person who’s needing people just to fill in some kind of emptiness inside. They’re very genuine with you and in trying to get to know you, if anything, they’re the one who wants to offer you something precious: their attention and affection. There’s something poignant about you that makes them feel ultra-protective and they genuinely love that feeling of becoming a true romantic in your presence.

I LOVE YOU🔻🧡

in sorrow and in sickness – Green Magus (John Dee)

I vow to be there for you – Priestess of Inspiration

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Pile 3 – Oh, Dreamy Beauty, You Elevate My Dreams

VIBE: Loco Dempsey & Eben

why I was attracted to you – Page of Wands

‘Okay, I’m not trying to be creepy or anything but damn you’re SEXY.’ Your Destined Person was first and foremost attracted to your beauty—your sex appeal, to be precise. They find you incredibly sexy…but why the goddamn hell are you cute?? Is that allowed? Little did they know that this appeal is actually your authentic soul. You’re actually a lot more honest than you give yourself credit for. You live Life quite honestly and you’re just being yourself. You don’t really give a damn if people find your essence offensive. ‘I’m not everybody’s cup of tea and that’s perfectly acceptable to me—so what are you gonna do about it?’

Though you’re strong like that on one hand, on the other you’re also quite stupid because you trust people too easily! At least your Destined Person sees you this way. They think, because you’re always honest you could fall into the trap of believing everybody is just as honest, as straightforward as you, which, most people aren’t! Plenty of people are sneaky and dangerous! And your Destined Person noticed this and felt a pull towards protecting you… *why don’t we have a melting heart emoji?*

Your Destined Person felt a pull to be there for you, protecting your Light, your innocence, your joy and happiness. I feel your Destined Person is actually quite a thinker, but when they were drawn to you, as if falling into a trance they couldn’t follow logic anymore. They were drawn in by your passion and delightful personality and before they knew it, they felt like they’d been swallowed whole by your flame🔥

how I fell in love with you – Queen of Pentacles

You’re a wholesome character and that much was apparent to your Destined Person right after they’ve got to know you a bit better. How quickly your Destined Person fell in love with you varies with this Pile, but some digging, some getting to know each other, and some learning is definitely required with this connection. Essentially, the moment your Destined Person learns that you’re so much more than how you look, they couldn’t help but develop genuine feelings for you. It’s a Soul-based kind of Love that transcends human ego.

I feel like your Destined Person could even shed a tear from realising just how much they care about your wellbeing. It’s pure like that and I promise you they’re not so used to feeling that typa feeling for just about anybody! As much as they see you as this very unique, very strong character in your own right, they want to be there to protect your heart. If your Destined Person is a masculine person, they will also want to protect your body and provide for you. They want to make things easier for you! They’re willing to make sacrifices to give the whole world for you, simply because you’re worth it.

Your Destined Person loves how you’re essentially the main character of your own world and…they want to be part of that world? XD They don’t mind being a side character in your world whom you fall for. I think this person could be younger than you or they’re simply not that mature yet emotionally or spiritually! What they love most about you is how you’re literally the most unique, resourceful, strategizing character who knows how to build your own world from scratch! You’re literally the most wholesome character they’d ever known throughout their Life. And they want a part in that world you’ve built with so much love and care. Now, they want to care for you…

when I knew you were The One – 10 of Wands Rx

Let it be known that your Destined Person is quite an intense bitch LMAO When they love, they love with all of their being and their devotion is no joke. This ain’t a playa over here. Or at least…when it comes to YOU, they ain’t got no game. Trust me. You must’ve done or said something that completely changed your Destined Person’s entire view on love and relationships. I betcha you’re the type of intense bitch who’d never settle for anything less than real Love. And that literally brushed off on your Destined Person. In the beginning, they went to war with themselves over this notion of real Love with a capital L.

They never really knew what Love was all about or if they were even deserving of Love. Just like everybody else, they had a very silly take on romance—this is especially the case if your Destined Person is a masculine being. Because of you, now they understand that money ain’t it; sex appeal ain’t it; status ain’t it. Aesthetics comes after real Love. You taught them that. And they’re grateful and they realise you’re the only person they want to love. It’s kinda possessive like that…I think your Destined Person could have some Taurus or Scorpio placements??

Anyway, in some way, your Destined Person could’ve been so embarrassed about their own childishness and felt super lacking as a person. Like, they don’t really know what to offer a divine being such as you…but they vowed to better themselves and grow up as quickly as possible so they could become worthy of your Love LMAO Gosh! It was around this time they realised they wanted to grow up as a person that they knew you were the ONLY one for them! Umm…like they just knew they could and would never be able to feel this way for any other person that’s not you. It had to be you~

I LOVE YOU🔻💛

in sorrow and in sickness – Silver Magus (Merlin)

I vow to be there for you – Priestess of Innocence

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[hacked-by-jake]

SPOILERS

Alright I have way too many thoughts and emotions so there ain't no way I'm gonna be able to organize everything into a nice sentence but I still gotta get it out 🤣🤣

First off, my notes app with some of my thoughts I wrote down while playing (in chronological order):

Where's Jake?

No premium?

Why and where is nymos

Why are we playing candy crush instead of hacking

Again: Where's Jake, he prob sees our chats and knows whats happening (hopefully)

The characters seem like an almost identical reflection to duskwood

What happened to Richy, please don't die on me 😩

Where's the others

We're now paying to see the secret chats

Why's this game taking so much of my money

Ash really be making me cry about Jake again 🥴

Eric be throwing himself at us when I still want to stay loyal to my hacker boy 💀

The ending: I KNEW MY BABY WAS ALIVE I LOVE HIM, I DEMAND HE TALKS TO US NEOW 👹

AND ALAN I MISSED HIM TOO MWAH MWAH

Rant 1:

The money milking makes me sick and don't even get me started on the ai 🫡 I spent 17 bucks today, halfway through the first episode and already out of all the materials I bought. It's disgusting how Everbyte has completely flipped and is practically scamming their players. Based on the prices, it's almost 3 dollars to view one picture 🙄 I would be more than happy to buy a premium package like duskwood for $20 or even 30 but $17 for not even half an episode is a crime 😭😭

Rant 2:

It's crazy how long this game took and yet it's way worse than duskwood. I was expecting a few additions, not subtractions.

Rant 3:

There is no way to see previous media and calls like in duskwood and no chat history like they promised. I never would've thought it was possible, but these mini games are way worse than duskwoods. And I realized how childish it all looks, I hate how we get no explanation for anything we're doing in the game.

Conclusion:

I'm pissed but seeing the anonymous mask gave me life. I need to go replay duskwood to cleanse myself of moonvale 😮‍💨

Pahahaha you're really killing me with your thoughts, I love your humor so much. 😭

I really should also start to write down my first thoughts while playing but I fear I will write down something to every little sentence I read. xD

But it's so true, where's Nymos? Give us Nymos back! My emotional bond with this unreal little dude is huge so I seriously need him. It's literally a program but it's a he you can't change my mind because I imagine Nymos as Jake best friend who's exactly like Jarvis from Marvel. (Sorry if you don't know it but then I really recommend you to watch the Iron Man movies. (Actually all marvel movies but we're talking about Jarvis here so you best see or more like hear him in Iron Man)

Btw my headcanon is that Nymos is not just any program but also an AI. So and now I will expand the headcanon and say Nymos is an AI that is against AI art and nobody can stop me, hehe.

The Candy Crush comparison makes me laugh every time and it hurts me because it’s true. xD

The thing with the characters being identical with the Duskwood characters... It's a hard topic in my eyes.

Some people say it way too early to judge this. And it's true. We didn't saw much now. But I do think we can already judge them a bit by what we saw. And when we compare it with how the Duskwood characters were in the first episode, I do think you can see that there's not much yet, sadly.

Like, we had Thomas, the idiot in love with problems to take criticism. We had Jessy the hanger-on that were clinging to Dan but then decided to change sides. We had the funny sunny boy Richy. The pretty cold acting Cleo. We had bitchy Lilly and of course we had the grumpy and unfriendly Dan. They all acted pretty strong from second one, in my eyes.

But I somehow absolutely don't think the Moonvale characters are like the Duskwood characters. Because well, I really think they need stronger personalities.

We have Eric who's a pretty normal guy and even though he tripped twice in one episode he's not at all like Thomas.

We have Ash who's like a very, veeery light version of Jessy and Lilly, in my eyes. Somehow kind but somehow absolutely not trustworthy.

We have Violet who's just.. there sometimes. Even the drunken police chief is more expressive.

Well and Charlie is.. Somehow like Richy and in my eyes has the strongest personality so far.

Oh and not to forget Brian who wasn't even there. Lol.

So yeah, I understand both points but I might see it a bit differently.

"Why's this game taking so much of my money" had me on my knees, laughing and crying at the same time because it's almost funny what Everbyte did and it's just as sad.

During my first playthrough I was also like: Someone give me a crucifix I need to get rid of Eric as soon as possible.

But while replaying I just had to see what happens if you decide to get closer with Eric and I swear it didn't disappoint me. It was hilarious and truly, I want this with Jake. I need such a chat with Jake! Everbyte, please!

I mean, I'm not flirting with Eric because I think he's hot or anything. Sadly, his character isn't interesting to me in this sense. (I need the mysterious guys xD) But I just had to try it and I mean, who knows if it will be important later. It's manipulative, I know, but don't judge me. And also, there's still this little hope for a jealous Jake. *ahem* Sorry, I promise I still feel bad for flirting with someone else. 😩

But gosh, the side story end. It was worth all the wait, really. I said before, I don’t forget about the negative things because of it but I'm just a silly, lonely, disappointed girl in love with a fictional hacker, let me have this adrenaline boost!

And yes, I was so happy when I saw Alan's body cam. I immediately knew what that means but at first I was just so happy to "see" Alan as well. I really like this guy, I can't stop myself.

About rant 1: I love the comparison with "So expensive is a picture" it is just as true and actually shows again how incredible it all is. I’ve said my opinion many times now, and I still want to protect Everbyte and give them a little empathy. But it's sadly just true.

I had a thought about that (what you said in rant 2) before and wanted to make a post about it later. So I hope it's okay if I get to it later.

Rant 3: This is actually one of the things that botherse the most. We can't rewatch calls, videos and pictures. The chats are disappearing and are gone forever. And they told us it will be different and that's so annoying. Not being able to see it in the app is just bothering for me. And yeah, that they broke the "promise" is as well. We all were so happy about the chat thing and now...

I actually like the look of Moonvale even if I would prefer something much darker. Especially with the mini games. The background is AI, of course, so. It would look much better with a real background.

And the damn mini games... I loved the ones in Duskwood so much. I really did. It was so much fun and I was one of the people who found them very easy.

But now the Moonvale mini games. By lord. Even though they're much easier for me in my replay, the first time I was actually this close to throwing my phone against the wall. I mean, I even went to sleep at some point and finished the game the next day! Everyone who follows me since duskwood knows I would rather shave my head than that. But they're just pain. And I seriously hope Everbyte will make them a bit easier or give us moves! Because this was often the biggest issue for me. Not enough moves. But they want you to buy gems so... 😒

Your conclusion sound good. I'm definitely planning to replay Duskwood as well. If I want or not. I have to. I need the comforting atmosphere and my emotional support hacker.

So I would say, see you in Duskwood, my detective friend. 🫡

No, jokes aside. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me and us. As I said, I love your humor and the way to describe the things. And I really enjoyed answering it. 💚

I hope you could calm down a bit as well. I definitely needed some days before I could see it more clearly.

And as always a huge pleasure to see you here again. 💚😌

[putschki1969]

hello, thanks for uploading the audio rip of kaji fes day 1 and 2! is it possible if you make a ISO image rip of the Bluray and create a torrent file for it ? :) we usually download some ISO from jpopsuki just few days after release but somehow nobody have uploaded ISO of kajifes there yet XD

Hello there. Sorry for the delay, I've been holding off on replying to your question for a while. To be fair, when I saw this in my inbox just a DAY after my response to the Kaji Fes. MP3 ask, I was more than a little annoyed.

It's not like your message is inherently rude or anything (in fact, it's a bit more polite than the usual stuff I get) but it tells me TWO things about you:

You either purposefully ignored everything I wrote in that Kaji Fes. MP3 post or you never actually saw my original post and got the download link from someone who reposted it to another site. If you had made an effort to read my response from a few days ago, you would know that I always planned to share rips but first, I needed to receive my package. People are really out there thinking I have immediate access to everything. That is a misconception! The truth is, just like so many of us, I am at the mercy of endless shipping/customs procedures and have to wait very long for stuff to arrive at my place. Then I need to find the time to do all the ripping/encoding while working a full-time job and also having a life.

You've never actually visited my blog and thought it would be a good idea to use your first time here to make a huge request. I seriously doubt that you are one of my regular followers or lurkers because in all of my years running this blog, I've never ever provided t0rrents so I have no idea where you would get that idea from. Yes, I share a lot of content but I do this by uploading reasonably HQ files in converted formats to Google Drive for archival purposes. Early on, I considered providing ISO files but they proved to be too troublesome to handle on a personal cloud (they take too long to upload/download and use up way too much storage space - I already pay more than enough for my current plan). Also, I wholeheartedly believe that those who want raw files should simply BUY the Blu-rays and do the ripping themselves. You can't have high standards like that and not be willing to invest the necessary money and time. Contrary to what people may believe (based on the content I share), I am a big proponent of supporting artists by buying their releases. My main goal is to make life easier for overseas fans who struggle to overcome the countless hurdles between us and Japanese media but that certainly doesn't entail providing everything in the highest quality imaginable. To sum things up, all you can ever expect on my blog are encoded files which should have high enough quality to satisfy the vast majority of people.

Anyway, enough about that. I have good news! My package FINALLY arrived yesterday. BANZAI! Depending on how busy I am, I will hopefully be able to get the files uploaded by Thursday *fingers crossed*

[grigori77]

Critical Role, Campaign 3 Episode 117

What? This is IT FOR THE YEAR?!!! That's so soon ... O.O ... I mean okay, but still, it's shocking ...

You leave Robbie out of this, Riegel ... oh my gods ... then again, I mean, he does have taste, at least ... Phillippe is ... easy on the eyes ... but yes. Apologise to the man, Riegel ...

Oh, Daggerheart? The Critmas One Shot? Okay, that makes more sense ...

Artbook? SQUEE!!! Sweet ...

I just remembered! Imogen's mum! What's going on? What happened? Is she really dead? What does this MEAN?!!! Oh Imogen ... baby ... what are you gonna do? What CAN you do? An hour? CAN THEY make it in time? I mean Ashton's right, it's OBVIOUSLY a trap ...

Liam: "I like how long Matt's leaving you to twist in the wind." Yeah ... and that was such a serious moment, too ...

So we're really doing this, then? Okay ... let's go, then, I guess ... and Matt's got an ACTUAL TICKING CLOCK GOING?!!! Serously? You evil bastard, that's awesome ...

Don't go in that brain, Imogen! You don't know WHERE he's been ...

Imogen and Fearne are VISIBLY TETHERED?!!! That's trippy ... but also potentially glaringly obvious ... hmmmmm ... hope nobody picks up on that we don't WANT to ...

Whichever way you go Matt scribles something down ... the "bad choice wheel"? Gaaaaaaah ... not good ...

Ah yes, the Pipe of Remembrance ... Laudna's using it to look distinguished ... hmmm ...

Oof ... tick-tock-tick-tock ...

Are you two LITERALLY FISHING for Matt to create an explosive distraction for cover right now?

Wow ... Matt: "It comes for us all, Ashley." Riegel's t-shirt nonsense takes no prisoners ...

So ... wait for the explosions or try fighting the way through ... yeah, Laura's getting as anxious as Imogen is right now ...

The Trojan Horse play? Really? I wouldn't touch THAT plan with a really long pole ...

A Flying V ... wow ... this is so desperate ... I have such a bad feeling about this plan, I swear ... bound by her ribbons? Fearne keeps getting kinkier, I swear ... I mean yeah, okay, but still ... XD

I really don't like these odds, guys ... O.O ... deception check? Oh gods ... halflings indeed ... NAT20?!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!! Phew ... okay guys, sell it ...

Juggernaut: "You don't have to kick her." Yeah, c'mon Braius. You don't have to sell it THAT hard ...

OH SHIT!!! That's it! It's all going off! Time to move, guys!

Good idea. Follow Chetney's nose!

A smell? Oh for fuck's sake ... what have you got in mind NOW, Mercer? Balls ... he's really not going easy on us ... avadons ... great ...

Braius: "Ashton, is there a way to get us into the stone?" Ashton: "There's a way to get ME in the stone, and if it comes to that it's been a pleasure knowing you all."

Are they SERIOUSLY just all jumping in the Hole, right now? Gods ... I thought that LAST plan was a bad one ... oh ... wow, this plan sounds even MADDER ... if THIS works I'll be fucking AMAZED ...

PUSH!!! PUSH, I SAY!!! You got ONE CHANCE!!! Oh bollocks ... is this fucked already? Oh, it's actually IN the Hole ... keep it up, then ... O.O ... "gnomish might"? Sure ... oh all right ... we'll make allowances for the alpha ...

Crap ... rumbled now ... NOW what? "With MIND BULLETS!!! That's telekinesis, Kyle!" Ah crap ... yeah, this is fucking up, I totally expected this ... you got too cocky too fast, people! And now Fearne is being MUNCHED ON by an awfdul alien dog thing ... oh okay, here comes Braius with the steel chair! "You have to treat a woman with respect!" Yeah, that's it ... and now it's finally in the Hole ... so Laudna uses a Mage Hand to flip the it up ... phew ...

Sam: "Thanks Marisha, now sex it ruined for me."

Matt: "We are ... OLD." Travis: "You bet your sweet ass we are."

Another smell? Oh for ... musty? Hmmmm ... well that's just ... unsettling ... you couldn't PAY ME to go in there ... oh, it IS myceit? Okay, then ... awwwww ... actually they're really cute ... hmmmm ... yeah, I doubt they're actually gonna be much help in THAT capacity ... Primordial? Oh, okay, that could work ... Whispers! It's been a hot minute ... Sam scrambles for a plug ...

Fuck ... oh yeah, this place is just a total LABYRINTH ... this is just GREAT ... oh okay ... stawberries and Pate ... interesting ... and now they're smearing assorted fruit across their caps ... this is getting adorably surreal ...

Oh! Little tunnels going down! Yes! THAT has potential. Sort of ... it's pretty tight ... oh ... okay ... IMogen may have messed up there ... O.O ... Travis: "Insight the fungus!" And now Robbe's broken his chair ... wow ... what the hell is even GOING ON in this studio right now? And now Santa brought him a new one ... this is pretty surreal again ...

Robbie: "Sorry, I can't! I have a cushion on the way."

Travis: "Are you starting the downward trend?" Marisha: "It is me, starting the downward trend." Crap ...

Wow ... they really are trusting the weird little sentient mushrooms to guide them down right now ... O.O

Imogen! What do you weird sorcery eyes see?

Slide? Really?

Wow ... here we go, then ... yeah, this is turning into a terrifying Lovecraftian version of the waterslide sequence in The Goonies ... O.O

Oh dear ... yeah, that was all fun whle it lasted ... but now it's turning quite dark ... I hope this doesn't mean a particularly grim TPK for really dumb reasons ...

So ... this turned out to be perfectly successful? Okay, then ... and the myceit have followed ... ALL OF THEM?!!! Wow ... that's also kind of adorable ...

Do the Seed, Ashton! Do it now! Before we get eaten by some bizarre fungal alien monster ... oh ... oh dear ... what's THIS about, then? Are we in trouble right now?

Laura: "What if Predathos is just a big bunch of mushrooms?" Oh please, don't tempt fate like that ...

An Initiative roll, Matt? REALLY? Travis: "Oh, he's gonna fuck us!" O.O ... crap ... oh ... well THAT did something pretty definitive ... so I guess we're committed, then? Meanwhile Chetney is now OILING BRAIUS UP ... dear gods what has this session even BECOME?!!!

Braius goes swimming ... or at least TRIES TO ... wow ... oh, okay ... is he being REJECTED by whatever this is, or is he being EATEN by it? O.O

I really am getting serious Mystery Flesh Pit National Park vibes from all of this. It could go south SO FAST ...

Oh, so ... they're being JUDGED?!!! Really?

Speak With Plants? NOW?!!! Fearne ... oh, I don't see this going well ... okay ... so this is ALL the same thing all around them ... oh that's just LOVELY ... O.O ... and it's communicating with her through COLOUR? Intriguing ...

Yeah, no ... stop tickling the fungal hive mind nightmare swarm, Fearne ...

It has ACCEPTED the Seed with full knowledge ... wow ... this is fascinating ... oh, so they can get OUT now? Yeah, definitely better make a move NOW, guys ...

Matt: "It tastes like the Pirates of the Caribbean." Yeah ... don't lick the freaky water, Chet ...

To go all the way down, stay to the LEFT ... okay, then. Good. That's good. Oh ... more water slides? Great ... again I question their forward planning right now ... and Fearne just gets completely swept away again, definitely ...

LEFT!!! TURN LEFT INDY!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! BIG HOLE!!! NOT IN THE BIG FUCKING HOLE!!! O.O Roll well, people! Clearly there's NO coming back from THAT!!!

SHIT!!! They're all on different slides? Crap! It's that fucking bit in Ice Age now! That's not good at all! And now they're seperated into two different groups? Shite ...

Oh! Well, at least they can still see each other ...

Yes, of course ... Imogen can fly, after all ...

Return of the shoebill! Awwwww ... :3

So the potential ultimate destination may actually be in sight? Hmmmm ... now they just have to reunite and then get down to it ... ferrying across in groups, then ... goes smoothly enough, at least ...

Labyrinthine Recall? Nice one, Braius ...

"Are we there yet?" Oh boy ...

Voices muttering ... and a soft, faint WEEPING?!!! Crap ... O.O

Yes ... this must be the place ... Ludinus Da'leth! And Liliana! We're here! We're in time!

Fuck ... Imogen, your mum doesn't look like she has much time left AT ALL ...

Chetney wolfs out! Laudna assumes her Form of Dread! Yes! Game faces on, people! Braius inspires Imogen ... with a smiley face ... :3 ... does Orym want to be a MOUNTED fighter? O.O ... yay, Coriolus ... winged horse action for Wee Man! Nice ...

Going in, then! Here we go ... and Matt goes to break!

Battlemap time, then ... okay ... well this looks ... risky ... not more crystals ... after last week's session I don't like the look of this shit AT ALL ...

So they've been spotted ... ROLL INITIATIVE!!! Great ... O.o

THREE ROUNDS to set her free? Fuck! More ticking clock!

Chetney Curses his chosen opponent with Muddled Mind ... then THROWS HIS CHISEL at him? Blimey ... it hits! Wow ... and it inflicts some SERIOUS damage, too! That's very impressive, all things considered ...

Fearne throws a Scorching Ray at Chetney's opponent ... first misses, but second, third and fourth does ... and she pours a whole bunch of hurt onto him ... but he weathers it well enough, though ... hmmm ... Mister shoots Flaming shit at the guy next to him ... but it bounces off their Shield ... crap ...

Braius goes for the big fucker ... Misty Steps right up to him, then swings Poison Pen at him ... A CRIT!!! Wow ... and the second hits too! Divine Smite and a nasty little poisonous charge too ... oh yeah, that's A WHOLE LOT of damage in just the first hit ... O.O ... 109 points in a single hit and he just ENDS this guy on the spot! Braius: "Moo." Nice ...

Laudna assumes her Form of Dread and gallops in like a monstrous nightmare, unhinging her jaw to spit out her Hound of Ill Omen ... sweet ... oh! Fireball! Nice ... blasting two at once ... BOOM!!! Wow, that is A LOT of dice ... oh yeah, she just torches these fuckers. That must REALLY HURT ... the the Hound rushes in and tries to rip into the nearest guy, but is held off ...

Crap ... exaltants going for Laudna ... Mirror Image for the save? Crap ... not this time ... ouch ... at least one of them is now SCARED of her ... more going for Braius ... and they hit ... SILVERY BARBS!!! Beautiful save, Laudna! Or it would be if it worked ... balls ... oooh, that hurts ...

Ashton rushes in to attack Laudna's foe ... but the basterd uses sneaky psychic shit to BEAT HIM OFF?!!! Not fair ... yeah, Ashton's just swinging and missing now ... crap ...

Dorian flies up with his Winged Boots, starting to dance as he casts Hypnotic Pattern ... oh, okay ... nice ... yes! Get those three! Perfect ... please roll shit on the Wisdom saves, Matt ... O.O ... okay, one down ... two ... well, that's something, both distracted now ... Limewire Visualizer? Nice ... XD

Imogen focuses her energy at those same ones Dorian's just Charmed, and casts Whirlwind to drop RIGHT BETWEEN THEM ... yes! She batters both of 'em! Sweet ... and that's a lot of dice too ... and they're getting sucked up into it ... now she's PICKING IT UP with her mind and starting to guide it up through the air with them inside? Beautiful. So she sucks up the one who was menacing Chetney and now they're ALL getting chucked about ... fucking hell Imogen, that's just NASTY ...

The remaining exaltant next to Chetney releases a blast of Synaptic Static to blast a bunch of us ... oof ... this could be extremely bad if it works ... O.O ... AAAARGH!!! Psychic damage to Laudna, Mister, Orym and Coriolus ... OW!!!

In response, Laudna pours a Hellish Rebuke into him ... oh yeah, that has to hurt ... and she breaks his concentration! Yes!

Phantasmal Killer? Oh, that's not nice! Hey! No Frightened! Heroes' Feast for the WIN!!!

Dissonant Whispers? ALSO not nice. Damn it, he pretty much ROUTED Imogen there ...

Orym turns Coriolus into the fray and swings with Seedling ... damn it, that's a miss, then ... he flanks Braius and goes for his attacker instead ... "Fuck him up, Areolis!" Braius: "He doesn't even know my name!" Coriolus starts attacking the guy himself. Then Orym starts in too ... fight well, Wee Man! Yeah, he's messing this guy up, but not quite managing to break his concentration ... Action Surge! Again, that's a lot of dice ... yeah, even more mseed up ... but STILL holds his Concentration!

Ludinus can't so any spells right now ... but he tries to perform a Crush Will on Imogen ... she shrugs off the worst of it, but it still Stuns her! Oof ... oh, he is a MASSIVE C-WORD!!!

Chetney claws at his own chest to draw blood, then lays into his opponent ... RIP!!! SHRED!!!

First round down ... yeah, Liliana is HURT ...

Fearne casts another Scorching Ray into Imogen's Whirlwind ... okay, this should be interesting ... three out of the four hit! Yes! More hurt poured on them all ... now Mister chucks some more flaming shit at the guy on the ground ...

Braius stabs at the guy with the sharp tip of his flail's handle ... misses ... so he tries again ... Secon Level Wrathful Smite this time ... and this one HITS!!! Yes ... and he gets the HDYWTDT! He tries flirting with Orym through eye-contact while he does it ... then he gets in close enough to Laudna to pours a Healing Word into her ... nice ...

Laudna grabs hold of her opponent's armour and pours a Shocking Grasp into the plate ... oof ...backing off, she starts hurling Eldritch Blasts at whoever catches her eye ... okay, yeah she ENDS the one that Chetney's been struggling with, turning him into a bag of bones ...

THROWING A GLASS BLADE WITH PSYCHIC POWER at Imogen? Not cool ... thankfully he misees BADLY ...

Ashton burns a Chaos Burst and tries a Wormhole Strike ... oh yeah, he smacks the guy RIGHT THROUGH A PORTAL, so he just walks up to him and takes another swing at him ... Psychic Buckler? Hey, not cool! But at least Ashton still knocks him flying ...

Dorian goes to check on Imogen ... oh she's HURT ... he turns and hurls a Lightning Bolt to try and take out a whole BUNCH of them ... BOOM!!! Yeah, he seriously fucks them all up ... yes! Inspire her! Snap her out of it! Nice one, Blue Boy!

Another Hypnotic Pattern? Not cool, Matthew! Indomitable! Go Orym! Resist that shit! What ... AGAIN?!!! Come on ... fuck ... now Braius is CHARMED?!!! Fuck!

Shit ... Coriolus is just BLANK now, caught in a stupour ... not good!

Phantasmal Killer again? ALSO not cool, Matthew! And Telekinesis? GAH!!! Fuck ... resist it, Chet! Fuck! Now Wolfman's helpless floating in mid air ...

Orym JUMPS OFF the horse's back and charges in to attack Ashton's opponent ... yeah, he comes in SWINGING ... HACK!!! SLASH!!! CLEAVE!!! This guy is getting SHREDDED, but somehow he STILL managed to maintain his concentration! Fucking hell ...

Ludinus hurls a Mind Sliver at Imogen ... yeah, he really wants to mess her up SO BADLY ... yeah, this one hurts her TOO ... but she's shaking off hisStun now ...

Chetney tries to break free ... so he MIsty Steps out of the Telekinetic grip and poofs out to jumps onto the Whirlwind with claws flying ... oh yes, CRIT that fucker! Yeah, he SHREDS this guy and all that's left of him is bloody ribbons. Nice kill there, Chet! He howls in victory ...

Fearne casts a Ring of Fire through the Whirlwind ... oh shit ... full-blown FIRE FUNNEL now! She torces everybody inside ... oh yeah, she DESTROYS the two that are left in there. And now Braius is released from the Charm ... finally Mister chucks more flaming shit at another one ...

Braius takes a very balssy risk to jump over the Whirlwind and try to get to Ludinus ... NAT20?!!! Beautiful Dex save ... so he just lands RIGHT IN FRONT of him ... Shining Smite? Nice ... POW!!!

Laudna forms a Void Puppet for cover, then pulls out Caleb's Globe and chucks it, hoping for a Disintegrate if it works ... oh NICE ... TEN D6? Wow ... 72? Wow ... she spends a Sorcery point to reroll some more dice ... EIGHTY-THREE points of Necrotic damage? HDYWTDT!!! Ths Void Puppet grabs the guy by the throat and ATOMISES him ...

The Shield is now GONE ... Braius unleashes his Smite ... and it MISSES ... his second attack ALSO misses ... shit ... yeah, Ludinus' new powers are ALREADY kicking in? Fuck ...

Ashton uses another Chaos Burst and tries to attack Ludinus ... shit, yeah, that's a tricky angle ... A HIT!!! Wait ... Silvery Barbs? Fucking Ludinus ... yeah, that MISSES ... shit ... UN-FUCKING-FAIR!!! Damn it, Matthew ...

Dorian flies in fast and hard as he can, trying a Hail Mary now ... Force Cage? Oh ... yeah, this could work, or it could fail SPECTACULARLY ... but he has no reaction so he can't Counterspell ... LUDINUS IS TRAPPED AND LILIANA IS FREE!!! Oh my gods I can't believe that worked ... O.O

Imogen drops the Whirlwind and uses Telekinesis to grab her mother ... oh, she is a WRECK, so very fragile right now ... Imogen pours a Cure Wounds into her ... wor, that's a lot of HP, Laura ... oh yeah, that's so beautiful ...

Reunion ... that's so sweet ... gods, I am so happy for Imogen right now ... and now Laura is SO FUCKING SUSPICIOUS of Matt ...

Give her some of your ESSENCE?!!! Blimey ... it doesn;t work, though ... shit ... she;s still fragile ... and Ludinus is POWERFUL now ...

Orym mounts Coriolus again and guides him up overhead, taking up a wary overwatch above the Temults ... he takes a look at Ludinus now, making sure it's not a Snowdinus clone ... nope, looks like that really is him ...

He's feeling TALKATIVE now? You arrogant prick ...

And Matt calls TIME on the session! Gods ...

Is it Thursday yet? Or rather ... is it the New Year yet?

Merry Critmas, guys ...

[greypetrel]

Oooh I'd love to know more about Rolling a Wave 👀

Hi Mo!

It's the general plot of my original story which I'm translating into English. I'm working on character studies, but it's been slow these last months. I hope I'll finish Raina's in this winter break and quickly design secondary characters. I may pick Priscilla back as a design, who knows. I can't wait to start planning actual pages. xD

First act summary under the cut, tagging also @bfire92 who asked me about this. :3

ACT I – Iceland

1907. A marine biologist, Aisling, is finally at the head of her very own arctic expeditions to study the social behaviour of sperm whales. She has to reevaluate her plans, when she saves a harponeer from the shiprwreck of the Hvalur, a whale fishing ship caught in a bad storm. She’s the only survivor, and also a woman, Naroa, from San Sebastian, who crossdresses to work on the ship, and tells her that it was a sperm whale to cause the wreck.

The expedition was born unlucky: Aisling has received very low fundings, both because nobody really trusts her in a leading position as an unmarried woman, both because her father was a former professor for the same institute that funds her. Small detail: he was stripped of his role and exiled from the Kingdom for having used public money from the university to finance the Irish rebels/Fenian society. Aisling was really able to get some money and sponsorship because she asked for years upon years, has a couple of contacts that vouched for her, and basically is a person that causes very little trouble. Her goal is to gather enough data to demonstrate that sperm whales are highly intelligent social animals, and that their hunting should be severely limited before their number drops. It’s very important to her, not only for personal satisfaction and crowning a lifelong dream of becoming a proper scientist, paid enough for a living and with prestige that female researchers in female colleges were not granted in England, but also to avenge her family. She MUST publish in Oxford because it was the institute that kicked her father out, she must reinstate the good name of the family.

So, with very little money to her name, she rented the smallest, most run-down hovel she could find, 40 minutes from the harbour, fix what she could to make it inhabitable, and hire a small sloop with a fully female crew. Ex piratesses running from the law, widows of fishermen and other figures that needs a living runs the Lusca, not for gold, but to chase whale pods.

In spite of being broke, Aisling welcomes Naroa in until she feels better. Their forced convivence is difficult at first: Aisling is over-enthusiast over whales and is actually diving with the whales to observe them better during the day (“I thought I would have drown today, but Cacciucco was absolutely adorable, you see, so it’s ok, he can bump me again.” “… Da fuq.”), Naroa had fished them for years, and after the shipwreck has not much love for the animals, of course there is only one bed. After a while, Naroa starts working, and embarks on the Lusca to help out, too, there’s some mutual pining and they slowly confess they like each other, fuck gender roles and so on and so forth.

Until one day arrives a letter from the Royal Society, informing Aisling that they’re gonna cut her fundings: the season good for sailing is ending, they’re not willing to pay her to stay another winter doing nothing. Winter that Aisling was planning to use to organize her notes and write the essay for the peer review: it must be done exceedingly well if she wants to have a chance, she doubt they’ll give her another chance if she fails now. She manages to obtain another month, but nothing more.

She quarrels with Naroa: the harponeer tells her that even if her research should fail, it won’t be the end of the world. She has a roof upon her head, a fucking university degree (in France, more open for women), she can decide to do anything else, she has brains and possibilities, what’s the problem? Plus, if her research gets published, it could hit an industry that offers work and livelihood to so many people that have not her chances and possibilities, and for whom losing the job would be much more of a problem. For Naroa it would be: her family is still in San Sebastien, she’s the first of 4 sisters, her father died, and she’s sending money home. Don’t mention she introduces herself as a man because she doesn’t fully feel herself in women clothes and canonically female roles: she can’t afford to lose the job. Plus, she’s Basque, and technically in Iceland it was legal to murder Basques until 2014 (old medieval law they forgot to abrogate). Naroa can’t understand why Aisling is so stubborn and so compliant towards a bunch of idiots that don’t consider her, and all for what? Personal pride? What if her research fail, she’ll be better off without it.

Aisling gets mad, just a little bit. She can’t tell the RS to fuck off, and chances for female biologists aren’t that many. She isn’t very sensitive for whalers, as Naroa fails to understand why an academic research is so important. They split up pretty badly, Aisling leaves for London.

ACT 2 - London

ACT 3 - Alghero (necessary quote)

[harlequinoccult]

thank you for explaining the caustic personality!! honestly Vulpine might as well have caustic as his main w apathetic tendencies instead, ig ill find out when the demo is updated XD both personality types fit him too well. honestly he's not that aggressive as a person, he's actually mostly quite polite, but he does have a tendency to stare. the ones who really get to see his aggressive side are the people he dislikes (Host better fucking prepare himself-)

well i figured i'd just finish what i started, and continue on my never-ending ramble. usually i like making Ariel an orphan, it's a bit of a callback to his roots and it fits him, but this time i think the second option i usually go for him fits best: single child of a single mother. she's the only family he has that he knows of, a very loving, religious and hard working lady who was shunned from the community for getting pregnant out of wedlock. the very first fights Ari would get into in his childhood were against kids who would say some unsavory shit abt his mom. having a mother who was blindly dedicated to the same church that constantly made her suffer for the mistake of having a kid without a husband also played a very big part into Ariel becoming an atheist and rebelling against the church in his teen years.

she was p absent as a parent, having to work p much the whole day to be able to support them both, but she tried her best the moments when she was present, and Ari recognizes that and loves her dearly. he started stealing things and got his first job quite young to try to help her pay the bills.

he got arrested when he was around 18 yo, probably getting caught on one of his "heists", trying to steal from the richer houses around, and he hasn't seen her since then. his time in prison was... bad. really fucking bad. the worst, lowest point of his life, in fact.

i have no idea how the legal system works in england and i have no desire to learn, but for what's worth he is caught trying to escape at least once, and spends 2 miserable years in there until he finally manages to leave.

did he actually complete his sentence? lol. lmao.

no. no he didn't. be it by a month, a year, a day, the important thing is he didn't.

is Ariel Fox even his real name? i doubt it. that would be stupid wouldn't it, illegally immigrating to a different country after escaping from prison and using your real ass name to do it, he's smarter than that.

fun fact abt Ari: he does not want to go back to prison. he'll kill himself before they have the chance to catch him.

on a... "unrelated" note, the reason why Carter managed to wrap such a tight leash on Ariel is bc he learned smth he shouldn't have and he's holding that little secret right over his head. im sure you can't possibly guess what he found out that would make Ariel put up w his shit the way he did-

so the fact that Ari ends up in this city (i forgor the name and i can't leave the askbox to check or ill lose everything i typed 😭) is honestly not rlly much of a surprise, nor is the fact that he's p much alone despite living there for years. he's always been a bit of an outcast, a loner, someone who avoids people on purpose. he hasn't seen his mom since he left england, but he looks her up every once in a while. debates whether he should call her. decides it's for the best that he doesn't.

he starts over. new life, new me, or whatever the hell people say. starts off already with shifty connections, he needs a fake identity and a fake birth certificate and a fake everything if he has any hope of passing by unscathed, after all. needs to lay low. not call too much attention. be a nobody. wait until things calm down a bit.

he stays at least a year living like that, settling in, subduing his accent until he can pass it off as having learned it from a family member or some other bullshit. applies for university. becomes just another american college student.

meets someone.

falls in love.

has them taken from him. has his entire life destroyed. again. needs to try to pick himself up. again. is struck with such crippling grief unlike anything he has ever felt before. it's almost as bad as the two worst years of his life.

almost.

he's never letting anything like that happen to him ever again.

anyway! as mentioned before, he was working on getting a doctorate when Carter came along, and he sort of had to drop out after that, to the dismay of his teachers. what was he getting a doctorate on? honestly p much anything would be in-character for Ariel, he's an everything nerd, from language to history to engineering to biology that man wants to know quite literally everything the world has to offer him. his infodumps are the most complete and varied possible, he's a walking talking encyclopedia.

he's an extremely paranoid person who overthinks everything including his own overthinking and really, if nothing else here's to hoping that OD can at least teach him to loosen up a bit-

he never enjoyed doing drugs very much, despite partaking in them quite often in his youth. he's way more likely to experience a bad trip than a good one, so he learned to stay away from them as much as possible, but alcohol and nicotine were a completely different story. he's still addicted to nicotine to this day, the one drug he allows himself to never let go. he was an alcoholic through a big chunk of his life, until someone did Very Bad Things to him when he was too drunk to be able to fight back. that experience just flipped a switch inside of him, it broke him badly enough to make him promise himself to never touch another drop of alcohol in his life, a promise he did very well by until Carter killed his beloved and he had the worst relapse of his life. he's back to being a straight edge now tho, its fine! its not fine

he has immense distaste for the cops of the city, but part of him is kinda grateful that they're so bad at their job or else he would be Fucked. he absolutely despised doing work for Carter, even after he became so numb to it all it made him want to tear his own heart out just to make sure it was still beating. i cannot stress enough how much he suffered inside at the start, part of the reason he started drinking again was to try to ignore how much all of it hurt. at least he could try to make sure Carter didn’t kill innocents. he couldn't really be sure every time, but he tried. he really did.

he probably tried killing Carter at least once. or thought abt it, at the very least. made plans. had it all figured out in his head, down to the last detail, how he would do it and get away with it. ngl, he was probably on the verge of putting it into action when Host sent him that email and just gave him the perfect chance to do it just like that-

as a killer, Vulpine is very much the stealthy type, hiding in the shadows, walking withouth making a sound. if its a group, he'll pick them off one by one, until someone notices and all hell breaks loose or until all of them are dead. if he's forced to kill someone he doesn't think deserves it, he's merciful. very quick, clean deaths, going straight for the vitals, almost painless. if it's someone he thinks deserves to suffer, however... well, he's always been curious to know what a human vivisection would look like.

truth is, he's a sadist. well, a sadomasochist really, but he gets off on making people suffer, and he hates it. he especially hates the fact that hurting the person he loves is such a tantalizing thought. marking them blue and black, covering them in red, it's not really his fault blood is such a beautiful thing, is it? and if his lover wants to do the same to him, well, he's more than happy to oblige. anything for his love. except bondage. getting tied up/held down is actually a pretty bad trigger for him, he hates it, no matter the context

ok well i think that's everything! thanks for indulging me!!

-🦊

The ask is somewhere around here, i know it, but with caustic mcs, Carter assumed they were all bark and no bite. Fitting, i think.

And, given everything, OD is a fitting match, they like learning and they are smart -in their own way- the drugs and partying is for themselves, they aren't the type to pressure people into drugs, in fact, they can and will tell you about the various side effects of any given drug because they think its legitimately interesting.

[teecupangel]

What if after Desmond runs away from the farm instead of ending up in the city he finds himself where his ancestors are at the same age

Also side idea that I had while typing runaway Desmond ends up after the ancestors have the children who lead to Desmond so that we can have them being paternal about the kid who keeps slipping away somehow and Desmond being like "wow the people dad sent after me are rant persistent" before finding out they don't know Will at all

So I had a post about Desmond being pushed into either the Third Crusades or to Renaissance Italy when he ran away but I can’t find it TTATT It’s somewhere here in Tumblr, don’t know where though. Hopefully, I can get to it during my Tumblr posts to AO3 ‘copying’ (still in Dec 2022 XD).

Anyway, in a nutshell, that idea had Altaïr and Desmond being very close to one another because they’re both isolated and had nobody else and it would be so easy for them to tip the scale to fall onto “us versus everybody” mentality for the two of them (especially since that idea had Desmond not become an Assassin so Al Mualim is using him to keep Altaïr in check).

The Renaissance Italy idea is more light-hearted, if I remember correctly? More on the side of Desmond having a happy family life thanks to the Auditore family.

I didn’t include it but Ratonhnhaké:ton’s version of this idea was pretty much reused for the Yew Branch A New Way To Do Things.

The main idea is that, since this is a Desmond that has not been in the Animus, he has no idea who these people are and the events that will happen (hell, he won’t even be able to know their language immediately) so he’s just trying to survive and live the best he could. This means he cannot stop the tragedy that will happen (or, in Altaïr’s and Ratonhnhaké:ton’s case, he would be too late to stop it). The Renaissance Italy version could have a happier ending since Desmond would be there for the arrest though. Probably. At the very least, Giovanni would order him to take Petruccio and run, so… at least Petruccio would survive. Probably.

Now, as for the second idea.

Since this is a Desmond that never went to the Animus, he wouldn’t know how important these children are so we will have…

Sef and Darim

It would be Sef who finds him and he’s just a traveling merchant who went to Masyaf to sell his stuff. Sef would always visit him and ask him about this and that.

Darim finds him while looking for Sef and Desmond just gives him another one of the sweet breads he buys for him (and Sef).

This goes on for days until Malik finally visits his stall and talks (interrogates) him. That’s when he finally learns that the two kids he’d been talking to are the kids of the head honcho of this place. And he’s currently out and the kids are a handful (Malik may or may not imply that their parents’ frequent journeys are to blame) so he offers Desmond a job as their ‘caretaker’. Meals and lodging are included, the pay is great and Desmond is getting tired with all the traveling. Plus, Malik promises he doesn’t have anything to do with the Brotherhood.

At that point, Desmond is already fond of the kids so he agrees.

When Altaïr and Maria returned to Masyaf, they’re greeted with Malik going “I found your sons a caretaker and they might like him more than they like you. You have no one to blame but yourselves.”

Flavia and Marcello

But for this one, Desmond could be working in Firenze for a merchant that Sofia likes to go to. Flavia and Marcello would go with their mother and they’d get close to Desmond.

One time, Marcello gets lost and Desmond finds him. He brings him home and that’s how Ezio meets him…

And now for the kicker. This would be the angstiest of the three ideas to be completely honest considering how old Ezio died and the fact that Desmond doesn’t even know about his connection with Ezio during this time, which will only serve to hurt Ezio.

Io:nhiòte and her older siblings

For this one, we’ll have Desmond become part of the homestead. He got there by ‘accident’, he was just walking around and found their homestead. Luckily, Oliver and Corrine needed help in the inn so he helps out, in exchange for lodging and food.

Io:nhiòte is the one who finds him first and Desmond just plays with her and shares his food. Her two older siblings find them together and Desmond becomes close to them.

Ratonhnhaké:ton would visit the tavern one time and thank Desmond for playing with his children. Perhaps he’d try to recruit Desmond into becoming an Assassin but Desmond would say no to it which Ratonhnhaké:ton would understand.

In this one, Ratonhnhaké:ton sees Desmond primarily as his children’s favorite friend.

[finshingpool]

sundays philosophy explained very badly

and yes he seriously needs to go see a shrink.

!! spoilers for the 2.2 story quest!!

also hoyo is trying to be very subtle with the HI3 World Serpent reference.

first thing first, the positives. his ideology might be twisted but Sunday has never use his position of power to sabotage the opposing party (the backstabbing kind)(not that i know of💔). He seeks total dominance from a fair fight, ultimately to prove his beliefs superior.

he never outright rejects the ideas of our protagonist but instead use grounded argument to support his. its not a fight for total oppression of the people but a wrestle among philosophies, that he believes the worthier one will be judged by the people, the aeons, and fate itself.

✦ . 　⁺ 　 . ✦ . 　⁺ 　 . ✦

! kay so what is Sundayeology.

"a dystopia for the survival of the fittest, or a Sweatdream Paradise for all?"

the way i see it, Sunday wish to bring the closest form of equality into reality(dream xd). a place where strength, status, gender, etc. determined at birth does not affect the life that person desires. he wants to resist the flow of nature, an inherent evil in his eyes that calls itself Natural Selection. The method of such resistance is through Order.

"nature is always accompanied by predation and sacrifice... Its antithesis is known as Order."

how does Sunday define this "Sweatdream Paradise" of his? in his perfect world, nobody would need to work, and hence, would entirely avoid the hardship of reality. it would lead to a forced evolution where we would evolve into a life form detached from our physical state. This transcendence beyond the physical world mainly applies to the human spirit. without hunger and such as, human can cast aside our primal instinct and truly live a life striving towards self enlightenment. only in this hypothetical world do people return to their original self and when faced with their predetermined end, they would leave in the purest of spirit with their dignity intact. To feathered head, this is universal happiness.

so the whats!? mild food for thoughts, facing hardship degrade your dignity???

(might!! have an idea, where most people would assume 'growth' in a emotion sense, 'growth' in Sunday eyes is more on the spiritual side. therefore, in his world, by removing physical limitation where also removing spiritual pain)

"and it is only on these days, that people do not have to adhere to the law where the strong prey on the weak"

in true antagonist fashion, Sunday is a bit of a hypocrite, the status quo where "the strong prey on the weak" is erred but a system where "the strong govern the weak" is perfectly acceptable.

Sunday believes that the individuals that go against his philosophy are the exception, not the rule. as the weekend man himself put it, the ideals the Nameless fought for only represent a small percentage of the people/ 'the fittest' and their actions would negatively impact the 'anonymous and frail member among the masses'.

Sunday view our protagonist quest as quite selfish as they were only focused on striving for a Penocony they deemed right in their eyes, but disregard the perspective of the average Penocony residence (he thought he stood for)

💤⋆.ೃ࿔*:･

! Sundayeology pits against others (the ones i actually pay attention to)

Robin

it's clear robin was his first 'order awakening'(weird). her being shot in the neck and all shows him how Penacony or the universe at large cannot be salvaged through the path of Harmony.

' the bird

nature vs order, an overarching theme in Sundays philosophy. if you played through the 2.2 quest you'd notice the bird flashback is a reoccurring theme. it really helps translate his complex ideas into fornite terms for me. to put it simply, the dove is wounded and Sunday wish to keep it alive by caging it up, it'd be too weak to survive in the wild, at least this way it would continue on living. however, Robin held a different view.

2. Firefly

i think firefly rebuttal during the big yap scene really hit home for me. #powerfulmoment #moved #touched #girlboss #SAM

without any hardship or challenge, people would never have the chance to overcome their weakness and therefore this "blissful world" would only act as an escape for the forementioned weakness

these adversities we faced is just the way of life and the right to deal with them should never be taken from us in the first place.

"the want to escape may be innate in the weak, but whether they are weak are not... it is not up to another to decide

perhaps in your mind, you also view me as 'weak'?"

SHIVER ME TIMBERS. THAT LINE WAS DELIVERED SO WELL ONNNGOD I WAS SQUIRMING.

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

! some random references i wanna point out

⋆ SIMULATION CONSPIRACY RING RING (i watched far way too many wendigoon lately) if dreams are undisguisable to reality, whats wrong with that

⋆ The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: for the masses to achieve eternal happiness, one person must shoulder all their pain (oh sunday)

"the cost is minute, merely a personal.. and eternal sacrifice. If this paradise is to be maintained for everyone, someone must remain trapped in solitary wakening, until the end of the cosmos."

like come onnn, they're not even trying to hide it.

⋆ like i mentioned before, the whole thing is just a big World Serpent reference (with less pressure for survival, MUCH LESS BLOODSHED). Sunday you're NOT Kevin Kaslana.

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

i like how everyone has their own interpretation of "why do life slumber?" for lil vro its " because we are afraid to awaken from our dream"

silly beans:p

~ a/n: i like how allat means nothing at all.

signing of for good

[cammiluna]

i also posted this on instagram and because those are supposed to have pics attached, i drew this quick portrait of my vtuber sona! XD

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These last few weeks were kind of a disaster in terms of preparing for the top surgery (what i had to describe to my cardiologist as "bilateral double mastectomy for transgender people").

Once my insurance approved it, they only gave me a 3-month window for the approval, and my surgeon gave me a 10-day window to get necessary stuff required for pre-op clearance- an EKG, Labs, charts, and a clearance letter saying I'm fit for surgery.

The problem here was that after years of ending up with the most awful primary doctors in all of Puget Sound, I decided to go with my employer's Teledoc service, so my primary doctor is now remote.

So I went on an almost 2-month long search and lots of back and fourth between Teledoc's staff and many providers to see who can give me what I need for these clearances. My primary doc won't give me the clearance because she can't physically check my heart and lungs (and she also disappeared for a week so many communications were passed around nurses, took full business days to get responses for, and forgotten), so I was directed to try urgent care facilities, but none in my area offer pre-op clearance checkups because of the liability of something went wrong.

Nobody else on internet searches had the same problem I did, which made this harder to figure out.

So then I took it to myself to reach out to a heart hospital to see if i can get the ekg there at least. It was a 2-week process getting a referral and appointment because the thing with heart hospitals is that America is the heart problem capital of the whole planet. my referrals took a week to get filed and i was hung up on twice because the hold time to get anyone went past business hours.

Today stars that 10-day clearance frame. My new cardiologist saw my paperwork and got my clearance letter, EKG AND labs done in an hour.

I have 9 days to make sure they reach my surgeon with my primary's chart notes.

I'm hoping this all goes well! <3

As for the fundraiser, I made enough to pay back the $1000 deposit i had to fork up when i made the appointment, and the remaining $2200-ish will go in my credit card since there's no way I'll be able to get that much before the payment deadline on the 1st.

Anything further coming from the campaign will be used to for living expenses during my unpaid time off for recovery and to pay off the $2200-ish debt I'll be putting on my card. I appreciate all the help and support and shares my campaign has gotten! this has been a very sudden thing to have happened to me! even if the GFM dies, i can't complain one bit! <3

[archaeren]

how did you get into game writing and VNs and such?? i did one freelance job a while back and loved it but since then its been so hard to get into the industry…. i keep getting rejected despite having writing experience/publication in other areas 😭

(omg I didn't realize I have a bunch of messages in my inbox oops) Unfortunately, my game industry work that pays the bills is mostly as QA director, for which we are contracted by other studios. I do writing for our own studio, but I tend to not pursue contract work for writing because I don't want the creative pressure. (Though I was spontaneously offered work on that by another studio recently, so who knows, maybe I'll cave XD) But I will tell you what I tell people who ask me how to get into the games industry. Sorry if you already know some of this, I can't tell from your profile how much experience you already have in the industry! >.< 1. Build a portfolio of game work. You can do this by participating in game jams, itch.io has tons of them running all the time. If you can find in-person game jams (such as the Global Game Jam), even better! They'll help you build connections. If you can show you have strong skills in branching narrative, that's a massive plus. (yeeeeah, this involves basically doing a lot of unpaid work in your free time. but hey, nobody else is getting paid for it either! game dev notoriously pays like shit anyway. XDDD as the joke goes, if we wanted to make money, we'd work in software dev.) 2. Go to where the game developers are. In person. I can't stress this enough. If you want work in the games industry, the best/easiest/quickest way to do it is to meet devs in person. Some people may argue this is not necessary and that you can find work online--in my opinion, those people are either very lucky or very hopeful. You can maybe find some work by hanging out in game dev spaces online, but from personal experience, every client our studio has EVER HAD was either someone we met in person or someone we were introduced to through someone we met in person. Every single one. Here's a list of ideas of places to meet developers: - IGDA meetups, see if there's a chapter in your area. (Or if there isn't and you have the time and ambition, maybe you could start one!) - Local non-IGDA dev groups, you can sometimes find these through Meetup or Facebook - If there are colleges in your area that offer game dev degrees, you could try asking their professors if they know of any local events - See if there are any local game studios in your area that would be able to point you toward the community. Game dev studios aren't just in big cities!! It's not necessarily comprehensive, but you can check out https://gamecompanies.com/map - Game conventions/expos such as PAX - Game developer conferences/events, such as GDC or language/engine-specific conferences such as PyCon (GDC is WAY more worth it than PAX, but extremely expensive. I don't advise going to either until you have a solid game plan of what you're looking for there. There are also organizations that are willing to sponsor people with less means and underrepresented perspectives to attend GDC, so make sure to investigate that!) (And if you do go to a major event like PAX or GDC, make sure to google the afterparties list) And final protip for attending any sort of in-person event: We don't use the word 'networking'. It is a cursed word. We are not networking. We're meeting new friends and like-minded creators. <3

[shadowcatzone]

Thinking of angsty RenHeng things.

Like the Preceptors and Sanctus Medicus catching on to Dan Heng carrying Blade’s child.

At least with the Preceptors, Huohuo gives the heads-up that as long as the child is born on the Express and nowhere on any Xianzhou ship, they will be officially recognized as an outsider even if one parent originated from Xianzhou. So, the Preceptors literally will not be able to do anything to the child without provoking enmity from the Astral Express Crew, who are recognized as allies of Xianzhou. Doing so would bring down on them not only the Astral Express and the Cloud Knights because the former helped with the Stellaron Crisis, but also the Ten-Lords Commission because TB helped with recapturing the escaped heliobi. Plus, Hanya mentions in a letter to someone that the suspects among the Preceptors have already revealed themselves (though not to us the audience, unfortunately) so lifting even a finger towards the child would drop them in boiling hot water.

Sanctus Medicus on the other hand… They would certainly take an interest in both Dan Heng and the child—and they attack the train when the Crew visits and everybody else is off visiting friends on the Luofu.

Elio of course foresaw this and sent help and Pom-Pom recalled everybody back to the train, but they’re unlucky enough (“bad RNG” as Silver Wolf calls it) to get delayed and Blade arrives just in time to see several dead Mara-Struck soldiers. And Dan Heng is in Vidyadhara form and in…very bad condition, utterly maimed and slumped in front of a door (like that first episode of Oshi no Ko) with one last Sanctus Medicus agent looming over him, having done to Dan Heng what was done to Dan Feng in the Shackling Prison.

And all the while, Dan Heng was doing his damnedest to make sure that Sanctus Medicus did not get past him and further into the train where his child could be hiding in any of the rooms.

The only thing laughable about this would be that even though, for once, the Preceptors actually had nothing to do this incident (a genuine moment of “it wasn’t me/us this time”) they still get heavily scrutinized because of suspicions of them colluding with Sanctus Medicus.

That's fair bc the preceptors are always somehow at fault, no matter what happens.

Yeah sure i guess they're giving birth on the express. An actual trailblaze baby! Hopefully they don't learn any behaviour from caelus/stelle!

Considering the sanctus medicus, well there are vidyadhara among them too. Imagine you're just minding your own business, doing heinous abomination abundance things, suddenly some lotus peony or whatever guy bursts in yelling about your former high elder, imbibitor lunae, being pregnant? Vidyadhara are barren though? Has he found a way to conceive and suddenly every vidyadhara sanctus medicus wants to get their hands on the child to find out how they too! Can get pregnant! The audacity!

I think blade would show up sooner though bc 1.elio and 2.tHREE MUST PAY THE PRICE and HOW DARE YOU TRY TO DIE WITHOUT ME!!! As in i don't think elio would miss the timing. Like, not elio, he might send blade ahead of ttime, sending him there in advance.

Recalling an older post i made, the preceptors would probably only think to mention renheng child ONCE to Dan heng bc honestly, nobody wants the post, he wants the child to grow up "normal" (at least more normal than his or dan fengs childhood)

Also, i lost my train of thought bc i kept going back and forth on this post xD so it may be a bit messy.

[moonspirit]

Since when did you start shipping Aruani? And how?

Hello!

Since 2013, really!

I was instantly drawn toward Armin tbh, he was everything I liked and the more that I got to see of him as S1 progressed, the harder I fell in love haha xD Back then, nobody was sure how much, if at all, romance would have a place in the story, it was still too early - but ofc that didn't stop anybody from shipping lol. Aruani were already a ship by the time the FT Arc aired.

But I didn't really pay much attention to them until I started reading the manga every month (post S1), and got caught in the fun of elaborate theorising that used to happen in the comment sections (I used to read the manga on some of those free websites that had Disqus accounts linked, so readers could comment and connect across chapters). But much of the foundation of Aruani as a ship was based on Armin calling Annie "nice" and Annie falling into his trap. As for me personally, I saw the spark when it was revealed that Armin waited a whole month before outing her identity. Until that point, there hadn't been such an obvious instance of hesitation between two characters who clearly did not stand on the same side, in a world as unforgiving as the SnK universe. It was also the whole aspect of "trusting" and "manipulating that trust" that made the ship even more fun.

When I joined Tumblr in 2014, I saw quite a few discussions regarding Aruani - and the more I read them, the more sense the ship made. People are really amazing, the way they can analyse characters so deeply.

Again, I still didn't know if it would ever become a canon ship once Annie crystallized herself - it felt more like a doomed ship; but I still saw the appeal, I liked them together a lot.

Then the later chapters rolled around, and you know xD The rest is history.

[griseldabanks]

🥐, 🦋, 🐚, 🪲, 🎨 , and 🧩, please?

🥐 ⇢ name one internet reference that will always make you laugh

Like a meme? This one usually earns a chuckle from me:

🦋 ⇢ share something that has been on your heart and mind lately

I spend so much of my time trying to escape the real world. I always have. I love stories that I can dive headfirst into and forget the world around me, live vicariously through the lives of people who live in worlds of magic and adventure, so at least for a short time, I don't have to worry about my own problems. But maybe sometimes it's better for me to not try to escape this world. I wholeheartedly agree with and love Tolkien's sentiment about escapism, and how it's understandable to want to think about something beyond the iron bars of our prison. But Tolkien also clearly loved the world he lived in, and paid attention to its beauty. Sometimes I feel like I need to do a lot more of that. There is some good in this world, and it's worth paying attention to. After all, this is the world God gave us.

🐚 ⇢ do you like or dislike surprises?

I mean, I think I speak for most people when I say I like pleasant surprises but dislike unpleasant ones XD Also, I particularly like the anticipation when someone's like, "I have a surprise for you," so you know a surprise is coming, but you don't know what it is yet. I like to anticipate my surprises :P

🪲 ⇢ add 50 words to your current wip and share the paragraph here

Okay, this paragraph is 58 words, but here:

In the hotel room, Hawkeye sat with Addie on the couch, a comforting hand on Addie's spiked shoulder. Addie's face was in her enormous hands, and Roy was certain that, if it were possible, her face would be a mess of tears. When the door opened, she quickly straightened, then wilted again when she saw who they were.

🎨 ⇢ link your favourite piece of fanart and explain why you like it

Just one?! Out of every single fandom I could choose??? Impossible! But here, this is quite possibly my favorite fanart of Kaladin Stormblessed and Sylphrena, by @ayhotte

🧩 ⇢ what will make you click away from a fanfiction immediately?

Any kind of smut or pairings I don't like, I guess, though usually that only happens if it's not tagged properly. What will probably make me click away even faster, since nobody tags for this, will be a huge block of text with no breaks, or dialogue that isn't formatted correctly so you can't tell who's saying what.

Writer's Truth or Dare Ask Game