#but no they had to get all philosophical

[everestgale]

I really love your StP art! Do you have a favorite path/vessel?

Thank you so much!!! <3 And I do indeed! Though my favorite path/route/chapter is different from my favorite vessel/princess, but I already talked about my favorite vessel/princess in this post, so I'll focus on my favorite chapter!

My favorite chapter is definitely a tie between Moment of Clarity and Happily Ever After, both of which had an immense impact on me at different points in time (MoC for pre-Pristine Cut, and HEA for post-Pristine Cut).

While I have a few problems with Happily Ever After (specifically with how it never calls you, the player, out on your decision to stay in the cabin), this chapter affected me too much for me to let this knock it down from the favorite spot. All the descriptions of staleness and fear, the slow realizations of everyone that this is not working, the desperation to cling onto something that was once so exciting and so dear to you... realizing that nothing lasts forever.

"At least you still have the memory of how good it was the first time. Right?"

As for Moment of Clarity, the monologue from Nightmare to this chapter is one of my favorite moments in the entire game, oh, how I wish I had the words to describe how deeply this moment affected me. And The Shifting Mound quote for Moment of Clarity is also one of my absolute favorites:

"There are few things more terrifying than one's own heart, and there is almost nothing more terrifying than sharing it with another. But the most terrifying thing of all is to leave one's heart unshared. ... Could you bear the weight of an eternity alone? Do you dare to shape a reality of solitude and thrust it on creation?"

It's... genuinely something that I think about sometimes. How scared I am of putting myself out there, how anxious I get about sharing my work sometimes, how awkward it is for me to exist here as Everest Gale at times... But the desire to get all of the ideas out of my head, to share what I'm passionate about, to find a community, a company, that also shares my passion... all of these are so much stronger than the fears I'm feeling.

And so here I am! And so here I will be, while the torches are still burning brightly. They will not last forever, but I want to cherish all the moments while they do.

[faaun]

Jack Marsh (2005), Friendship Otherwise - Toward a Levinasian Description of Personal Friendship

[milkweedman]

Fig and apple pie with pecan-cardamom crust. The figs and the apples were both foraged, which is always fun. Smells super good !

It was supposed to be in a pie tin, but I had 3/4 of a pound of figs rather than the half pound the recipe called for. And then needing to scale the recipe complicated the already confusing situation of reading while dyslexic. So I largely gave up on reading, and this is more inspired by the recipe than anything else, but here it is nonetheless: Fig, Apple, and Walnut Tarts. Anyway, it ended up too big to fit in a pie tin, hence the cobbler dish.

[daincrediblegg]

You know the older I get, the less star power means to me. Give me shows where the leads aren’t played by a true A-lister, who actually cares about the part they’re playing and why they’re playing it and the nuances they want to convey with that over some hollywood darling any day and THEN I’ll pay attention

[heybiji]

What are some ttrpg's on your game wish list? Ones that you'd want to play or plan to play (or maybe don't have time to). also as a side note your love for ttrpg's fills me with a lot of joy and reminds me why they're so special! : )

Inevitable: COWBOY KNIGHTS TRAGEDY this is number one i wanna play this so bad with a crew who will watch a few anti-westerns and arthurian films beforehand and fully commit to the tragedy aspect (big bold decisions if you know it ends in tragedy!) oh my god this specific flavor of game appeals to me a little too specifically

some kind of horror game. VTM, Curse of Strahd, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Call of Cthulhu, whatever lends itself to horror well. the horror genre is one of my favorites and i would so be down to play some good horror!!

MASKS as a PC!

and always more dnd.

uhhh I'm sure there would be other things but I don't know many ttrpgs off the top of my head. quite like ttrpgs. would very much like to play more. especially with a group of artists who will post dodoles and songs that remind them of characters and talk about them throughout the week and do psychological deep dives and theorize about the story and themes and and and

[lazywriter-artist]

What's the deal with two commissars being so close to Magos Dominus? Are they friends or have to tolerate each other for some task? Why there's visitors from Imperium in the first place? Did someone do a lil heresy? :D And why those three guardsmen in particular are so easy (and fun) to steal? :D

Ooo very fun one 😈

So a bit of both, Storvis wants nothing and had never wanted anything to do with the machine cult as a whole, his old mentor instilled distrust into him when it came to the tech-priests which only continued to fester and grow as he got older and interacted more with them in the lines of duty

But, for most of when he was training and mentoring Galileo he was going through a period of grief and frustration as he had just lost his arm and had been horribly scarred on his face so his normal control over Galileo was half assed and very lax. On one day Galileo gets shooed away for storvis to sulk and while wandering about our favorite Magos Dominus finds him! As pre established, Our beloved centipede has a big soft spot for creatures smaller then him and this pretty young commissar in training wandering about all alone is one thing definitely out of order, but storvis’s hard headed nature and tendencies to yap about people he dislikes is ah a pretty easy way to get your ass in some deep shit (among some other stuff he’d like to keep unmentioned) especially since Storvis’s own mentor was discovered guilty of heresy.

So, since Magos Dominus’s skitarii took a liking to the young commissar, he kind of blackmails Storvis into allowing Galileo come for visits (shared custody B>) for teaching moments for his skitarii and just because he wants to ensure Gali is okay and not being tempted to chaos or something by Storvis (whom is not high on the magos’s favorite persons list)

So in a sense yes UwU someone did a little heresy but not the guy you’d think!

Meanwhile Galileo being the sentimental and goofy fella he is has a connection with the magos so he comes for visits periodically to catch up and be mauled by skits- that and sometimes to confide in the magos with some of his struggles, which Centipede doesn’t always understand but he tries his best to help out ^w^

As for the guardsman! Eerrrrmmmm yes :)

I have no particular reasoning they’re so easy to scoop up and scurry off with other then the fact they’re guardsman, all those guys are practically identical smh— that and I mean if you were one of the most expendable people in the imperium wouldn’t you want a giant scary murder robot who’s literally titled after how good he is at killing things to protect you?

As for why it’s so fun, magos Dominus just thinks the little guys are neat and they get along with his skits so they get to stay UwU

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

i don't know if i am horrible at communicating when i want a little attention or when i feel forgotten, or if people just in general never think it is about them because in their mind all of our needs are met and i am venting about everybody else?

[age-of-moonknight]

House of M: Avengers (Vol. 1/2007), #5.

Writer: Christos N. Gage; Penciler: Mike Perkins; Inker: Andrew Hennessy; Colorist: Raul Trevino; Letterer: Rus Wooton

[black-rose-writings]

In terms of Christmas gifts, dad has a really poor taste.

(he gave us all covid)

[sapphiccyranodebergerac]

jean jaques rousseau just has mommy issues and a victim complex.

[badolmen]

Hate scifi-fantasy magic/energy dichotomies where they talk all about balance but use genocide one side or the other to achieve it. Buddy breaking the scale doesn’t make it balanced. What the fuck do you mean the dark ones are all evil? They have an evil ideology? Okay yeah I see where that can be taken as evil but - NO it’s not balance if the only thing left is the light! You’re telling me there’s never been an evil light user? Oh there has? Then why the fuck has there never been good dark users??? (Answer: author doesn’t care about representing balance they just want easily coded good guys and bad guys).

[star-is-a-cat]

There’s nothing wrong with identifying as a curtain theriotype and later realizing it was wrong/your identity changed.

“What if it’s just a phase”

Everything is a phase. Nothing is permanent. Our lives are a phase. A millisecond-long phase in the life of the universe.

Don’t waste it wondering

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Rewatching some clips of King Bradley fight scenes(fmab, particularly the ones during the end) and i am sorry for this but Zarkon deserved that- he deserved a climatic fight to the death at the end of the series with his character foil (who themself had a character arc and introspection throughout the series symbolically shown during this fight), he deserved to go down fighting where it took blood, sweat and tears of several people to get here and has audience knowing this was not a fair fight and if he had been in his top condition and not wounded he would have won but still cheering for his death. He deserved death at the hands of all those whom he hurt and he deserved to be remember as a monster he was

[paradife-loft]

ah yes. the morally correct torture. the torture that goes right up to the line but doesn't cross it. that torture.

[istherewifiinhell]

[Blearily awake from critical fell asleep on couch incident] anyway i think ppl will always partially loose me in anything with regards to self care and amelioration if you do not acknowledge a persons inalienable right to hurt themselves and get worse.

[please-picturemeintheweeds]

Evermore anon, I just reblogged @wavesoutbeingtossed’s brilliant posts of that exact theme! YES something about all of this and the weight of forever, the reality of a a future that forces a person to get truly philosophical about joining together two humans in such a final and intimate ceremony. That introspection can recomtextualize a lot of relationship stuff that maybe felt more symbolic or abstract until it’s Happening.