#but my family is having a rough time

[lycanfyr]

We ended up euthanizing the family dog pretty suddenly yesterday so death has been on my mind a lot. It’s a natural part of life and I don’t think it’s inherently a bad thing but it’s still hard to adapt to.

[broareweabouttoviberightnow]

am I getting too convoluted if I said Johnny dies Dallas lives n Pony loses his hearing as a result of the way Dallas hits him (to put out the fire) when he pulls him out of the church au??

[buglaur]

i've been playing the game in my own time but i gotta share this lil angel cus she's the cutest toddler my sims have ever had

[luna-the-cretar]

Loa characters as unhinged shit my family and I have said (part 1 probably. We say a lot of unhinged shit.)

Frost, to the goblinoids: both of your IQs combined are the equivalent to a fishes memory span, which is about 8 seconds

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Shepherd: aren’t cats descended from dinosaurs?

*silence*

Clayton: I think you’re thinking of chickens

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Gideon: I broke my sock with my cock

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Briggsy, about Lethica: she’s experiencing all 7 stages of grief

Marius: there’s only 5?

Briggsy: you made her invent 2 more!

(Yes, this quote was spurned by the previous one. My 16yo brother is…something else)

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Kremy: Look, I did it yesterday, and it didn’t taste terrible, it just tasted kinda bad

(This was said by my 8yo sister. No, I do not remember the context nor did I type it in my Google doc. Now I wish I did.)

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Gricko, to Kremy: you don’t kiss by doing *makes vacuum noises*. You’re not a Hoover Vacuum! You’re not a Dyson Ballsucker!

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Marius: does that say “feel my thighs”?

Lethica: I wish it did

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Gricko: he’s speaking British

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Gricko: do not drink the Milfk (milf milk)

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The Krew: “you gave birth to a black hole, a vacuum, and a squeaker toy” “and waluigi”

(I just. Really wanted to include this quote.)

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Skrimm: They cooked my hash-brown to hell. There is no hash, it’s just brown!

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Skrimm: I can whip the snake

Queenie: okay, but can you watch it nae nae?

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Barnabos: please don’t pepper my meat

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Torbek: *incoherent sobbing and vague gesturing to food and clothes*

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Barnabos: I had never before, and have never since, had to clean penis smudges off of the glass

[pcktknife]

it's funny how u can do/like something as a kid and then 15 years later ur family will still think of you like that

[lunastars21]

Maybe IDW just hates me specifically

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

I’m so peopled-out today it’s bad

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

I've been thinking about names re: durges (and especially Corentin)

I haven't really liked the whole "this character's name is The Dark Urge" because it's honestly...silly to me? A bit? But I saw someone else discussing their durge's backstory today and it got me thinking about the function of names a bit more.

Naming someone "The Dark Urge" is super dehumanizing. And, like, that's the point, of course. But Corentin, even at their most compliant, was always trying to eek out some semblance of individuality or control or rebellion. They were kidnapped brought to the Bhaalists at 15, after all. Even with the cult's (and Bhaal's) efforts, it's difficult to completely rewire someone who's nearly a grown adult, especially one who's fighting it kicking and screaming most of the time.

So while they lose their memories of their family due to the constant trauma, they do manage to hold on to some things. Their refusal to eat bog body stays the entire time, as does their insistence on maintaining a hair care routine (which is when they start braiding Orin's hair, too). But after they break, other aspects of cleanliness they'd managed to hold onto until that point fall to the wayside, and they stop resisting when Savorak, and Fel, and the Bhaalists call them "The Dark Urge" instead of their name. Orin still calls them Corentin for a little bit, but she stops eventually too as she gets more and more restless and insistent on gaining power.

And then they meet Gortash who, despite also being a horrible person, isn't as bad as the people Corentin had been forced to lead. At this point they know what the likely ending of the Absolutist plot is going to be (though they're still in the early stages of the plan) but being able to work so closely with someone who's sincere and, more importantly, isn't going to stab them the moment they turn their back to him, is like breathing in fresh air for the first time in a decade or more (both figuratively and literally). And they dare to hope that there's an actual, true way out of the hell they'd been living in.

So when Gortash eventually asks if The Dark Urge is really their name, they tell him no.

[fishbloc]

update

sent around 70 orders since my previous update! still slowly chipping away the rest, theres so much left

also. i already kinda talked about this on twitter in detail but:

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to the customer who first told me they didnt know my book was a preorder, and didnt know i wrote an estimated shipping date on my faq, and if they knew earlier they wouldnt have bought it because it was for their niece's birthday which has now passed:

you wrote back again recently asking for updates when i previously mentioned it would take the same 2-3 weeks. i cant even send you your order beforehand because i didnt even have the books. but when i finally did i sent out your copy the next day instantly. i dont understand why you filed a paypal claim (under "item not received") against me on the same day i shipped out your order. and you even lied about me on the dispute notes which i can obviously read on my end. you asked for shipping info in which i cant even really send anything because you actively chose not to have your package tracked, and you are never satisfied with any answer i had my friends give you :(

i implore you to just reach out to me personally here but you dont even reply to emails anymore. if you feel vindicated bullying a small artist trying to share their works to people then you've did it because i give up.

im sorry i dont know what you want from me.

[tatsumi-rin]

Moral Orel doesn't seem 100% like a show I'd feel seen in if you don't know me but then I remember the episode with the special ed kids and underneath the usual satire on extremist bible belt religion it reminds me WAY too much of how actual special ed departments treated me and other kids growing up.

Like the writers must HAVE BEEN THERE IN LIFE, man. I'd kill to sit down with Dino Stamatopoulos and find out what the fuck inspired him and the other writing staff that day.

[spookythesillyfella]

hv! shrignold angst doodle .,.. thatz about it ..

[moeblob]

I'm on an OC kick and also super indecisive so I spun a wheel (thank you for choosing for me, RNG).

Ricardo is a body guard and is bffs with Marlo. Ricardo's current job is watching after a celebrity's daughter who the public doesn't know even exists. She's just a teenage girl vibing with her mom and getting texts and calls from her dad (who loves her a whole lot and keeps her out of the spotlight very purposefully) and has this bodyguard and his weird friend. Marlo is just vibing with his best friend.

(Also Marlo would absolutely laugh if he heard Ricardo say "someone called me eye candy and it wasn't you and now I think you should call me that")

[sympatheticfiend]

-SAINT CHRISTOPHER PROTECT US-

[dark-elf-writes]

You know... you know when Percy goes missing Harry is jittery. Inconsolable. Aching to join the search.

I'm not sure if they COULD convince him to go back to Hogwarts while his brother is missing from camp, from home, from his whole life.

I had to google the timeline and ooooh boy.

Percy goes missing in December when Harry is in the middle of the Triwizard Tournament. Harry already can’t go home for the holidays for the first time ever and then he gets news that his brother is missing.

It’s a mess. Harry keeps trying to leave Hogwarts but is essentially trapped by the magical contract and Hecate herself stopping him because she can’t bear to lose another child after having lost so many. Harry is trapped knowing his brother is missing for months only for him to be found right around the time that Voldemort comes back and Harry… cant anymore. He runs off and gets swept into another prophecy. The wizarding world is in an uproar because Harry Potter, the boy that claims the dark lord is back went missing right after that announcement and no home has seen him in months.

Harry almost doesn’t go back at all, but Percy convinces him that he has to. That he needs all the training he can get for the third war they know is brewing all too soon. He is met by Umbridge on his first day back and things go… poorly to say the least.

[krypt-kir]

Time to update my info I guess

[cultivating-wildflowers]

"it goes without saying" not to me it doesn't. spell it out.