#but that is most definitely not the case anymore

[thatwavephenomenon]

I disagree with the take that 'Taash's mother should have been a Tamassran' actually. Listen the Qun has never been the part of the lore that interested me the most but. From what we know it's a rigid system and society where people are assigned their jobs based on their aptitudes. Their entire selves are then determined by that role. But here's the thing. Even a system/society which very clearly dictates the way its people have to live cannot account for everything. I don't know if it's a perfect comparison but if you want another in-universe example of such things happening, there's the Circles. Mages in the Circles are/were forbidden from having families or even relationships, yet some of them still got pregnant, like Wynne. So who knows what happened in the case of Taash's mother? We don't, or at least we don't know the details, but while Veilguard in my opinion has a lot of flaws I don't think it's such a great problem here. There's also the fact that if she had been a Tamassran, Taash's mother would have probably been someone nurturing. And in a game with a lot of somewhat shallow writing, I thought that seeing a character who was so attached to the Qun/the way things Must Be and who still had something happen which made her Not Fit In anymore, who chose to leave it all behind for the child she definitely should not have had, was interesting.

[the-s1lly-corner]

fluff alphabet with alastor mayhaps 👀

E M R w/ Alastor

hello gentle reminder that i only take 3 prompts per alphabet request!/nm prompts: emotion, marriage, risk notes: reader is gn, alastor is ace still this is written with a QPR lens, that comes into play esp during M, written on mobile and while admin is fighting sleep demons cws: vague mentions of canon typical violence and death

EMOTION

You're the more emotional one between the two of you; alastor still remains composed in the face of most things, it's only in extreme cases does the mask slip

You can still pick up when he's irritated through his body language, and he does show affection towards you

But he's not going to be all over you like other characters would be. He doesn't let his tempers show in the form of clear lashing out

MARRIAGE

Marriage for tax benefits/hj except... I can definitely see him doing that-- and if not for taxes, likely for power at least until he feels he doesn't need his spouse anymore

Of course you're not just anyone, he does have some level of care for you.. though he doesn't much see or understand the romance aspect of wearing a ring and throwing a party

He does however see the devotion put behind it; however the ties and general implications of a marriage is still there. It is unlikely that he will want to marry you for any other reason stated in the above. He loves you just not romantically, and he does not want a marriage to mesh things up

RISK

If it weren't you and it was a basic sinner in your shoes that doesn't serve him any advantage or attachment he would throw them under the bus to save his skin

He will take measures to endure your safety, though. Most are already too scared to cross him, and few are dumb enough to try

It doesn't take much for him to come to your rescue, and he's not going to shy away from making examples of those who decided to harm you

[not-poignant]

Daily excerpt from chapter 102 of Underline the Black:

‘I wanted to say before you left, I think the lare body is more active than I realised. I became super aware of it during everything. I know I don’t have the glands anymore, but the lare body is still really alive.’ ‘Yes, it would be, with all the sub-larentins it’s producing,’ Temsen said. ‘That is fascinating, though. Careful, I’ll end up writing ten case studies about you.’ ‘Maybe one day I could handle that,’ Efnisien said. ‘Not today though.’ ‘Oh no, definitely not today. Now I’m going to leave so Gary can come and smother you in his pheromones. At least they don’t smell as much like a sour red wine as they used to.’ Efnisien frowned and Temsen’s eyebrows lifted. ‘You haven’t noticed? Since dropping the red wine, and getting good medical support, how much his scent’s changed? It’s still too much for me most of the time – I’m so relieved he aired out this room – but it’s…mellowed so much. Like walking through some herbaceous forest. That drinks wine.’

[cryptoseraphim]

I missed an entire week of work because I had an upper respiratory infection and needless to say I am very glad I am going back to work tomorrow lmao

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

picrews of my descendants oc because i teased her existence a little bit ago

her name is navia and she's the daughter of tiana and naveen

(her name could probably start with a 't' if i really thought of one but when i created her, i decided to just blend tiana and naveen's names together. however i really like navia for her so it's sticking idc)

here are some things that i just threw together to show her vibe (outfits and colors on the left and sample hairstyles on the right)

link to the picrews: 1, 2, 3, 4

[name-doggo]

One thing I really wish the FF Community would Stop doing is Removing All Nuance from the Parents in Those Stories in order to Make Them Abusive Supervillains who Never Loved their Kid.

Like... In the Four Years I've been here, and for how Small the Community really is, you'd be surprised how many Times I've seen it-

[ciderjacks]

Weird observation but I just noticed that when Dulcie is talking to Cath (especially in episode 4) her body language changes, sort of subtly, but you can see the way her movements become more awkward (shifting on her feet and clearly not being sure where to look, etc) and how she tries to make herself smaller (sticking her hands into her pockets, hunching down, lowering her head), contrast with how she is around Eddie, where she’s clearly comfortable in taking up the space.

In her fight with Cath, she is very deliberate to stay on her side of the desk, she keeps her voice quiet and controlled for most of it, and even when she has her big “are you kidding me?!” moment, discovering how much Cath lied to her / kept from her about the case, she stays out of Cath’s bubble entirely. after that outburst, despite being angry, she doesn’t confront Cath physically, she instead sits in the corner, hunched over with her arms crossed.

It’s only in the makeup scene, when Cath is apologizing for everything and they’re reconciling, that you see her body language open. When they kiss she reaches for Cath’s face and not her waist, she isn’t hunching, she’s also more firm with Cath too and in that scene Cath actually listens to her.

Also Kate Box should receive a million billion awards and one hundred thousand dollars

[crescentfool]

going to keep this vague on purpose but playing reload has reactivated brain chemicals in me that i forgot i had.

i think i'd want to make a more thought out post later, but i think my favorite thing about reload (aside from seeing minato in full HD glory) is how much it's made me think about video games as a storytelling medium- specifically with what mechanics and game design imply for characters.

there's a lot of quality of life features added to reload that help players easily enter a flow state and get immersed in the gameplay (most notable with tartarus)! which is so dope! reload has been such a nice blend of the mechanics from both FES and portable and it feels like a love letter to persona 3 fans.

there are definitely mechanics i miss from FES (minato's ability to wield multiple weapons being one of them). i can't deny that FES has some dated mechanics that don't necessarily feel fun for the player experience... but!

i think i mostly miss things from FES because i feel like so much of minato's characterization (for me) was informed by the gameplay experience and mechanics (e.g. fatigue system). obviously there's still other ways you can put together his personality (his dialogue responses), but i think game mechanics are a bit part of it, for me.

but in spite of that, i think reload is a really nice introduction to persona 3, it's so much more accessible and has a bunch of things to help make it more fun :) so far i think i'd recommend it to people :D

[akechi-if-he-slayed]

he sent me a snap friend request. persona fanboy who completely ruined me emotionally and is going out with my ex best friend. chat im gonna be honest i do not know what to do here

[cosmicsnufkin]

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[fingertipsmp3]

Ughhhhhhh I hate writing and I hate not writing and I hate myself

[mockturtletale]

"#also jesus christ who was going to tell me taylor hall is a blackhawk now" He's a WHAT NOW?? 😂😅 that was a surprise

right???? i peaced out of hockey fandom like ... 8 years ago, now? and that fandom was a massively formative one for me, so a ton of my friends are friends i made there and while most of them have moved on too, a few still post hockey crumbs every now and then but no one thought to tell me that taylor hall is a chicago blackhawk now!!!!!!!!!!!

before this ask, i would have been completely willing and able to convince myself that finding that out last night had been a dream. like in WHAT UNIVERSE.

several of the rosters i glanced through yesterday did serious psychological damage to me, honestly.

the NHL is like the most unhinged scripted drama i've ever even very very sparingly been aware of.

[todayisafridaynight]

rgg can have a You Did The Bare Minimum award for keepin jo alive and not continuin the trend of one-shottin every interestin antag we meet but they esp deserve it cause lettin jo live the rest of his days in guilt and shame without the power to do anythin is pretty thematically consistent for him. if i may be insane to say.

[linabirb]

please don't let me watch any character redesign videos ever again bc it's just gonna be me going "you don't know this character at all and you don't understand why they're wearing this and you're just ignoring all the important parts of the canon AND THIS JUST DOESN'T LOOK GOOD"

[whiskeysorrows]

God some people are so iffy. I'm glad you have the time to get stuck up about moral annoyances but some people don't have that luxury

[lost-on-t-umblr]

What makes Rio and Agatha's relationship even more relevant is that, you know who or what is considered to be evil and something to avoid for as long as possible, something that's feared, resented, and thoughts to bring grief and destruction everywhere it goes? Death.

Rio and Agatha are an unusual pair that works so well because they can relate to each other. They immediately find their chemistry after possibly centuries of not seeing (or even perceiving) each other, because they instinctively know what the other is feeling and going through.

Rio is able to provide Agatha with the feeling of kinship that Evanora could never have given, nor ever wanted to give her (if this translates into evident mommy issues, that's for another post with a very different tone, lol).

Evanora Harkness has to be among my most hated characters last year, really.

Agatha was like 18 in the Salem trial. Agatha was 18 when her own mother tried to have her executed. Like. That's your teenage daughter, again, telling you that she can't control this ability and begging you to love her and teaching her how to be good and your response is telling her she can never be good and trying to kill her? Then, many years later, when she asks you, heartbroken, why do you still hate her, you just go and tell her she was born evil and that you should've killed her the moment she was born? Fuck. Off?

You can tell how much this dynamic fucked Agatha up and led her to become the person she is now. She is a bad person now. Not at the time the whole Salem trial happened, though, but she is now. That doesn't make her pure evil, either. She's a complex character and that makes her very interesting. But her mother and her coven deemed her as evil, so that was all she was. And even now, even though —again— she is far from being a good person. And it's sad because Agatha is a bad person yeah, but she wasn't at the time. And it gets sad, because there are moments where Agatha is really misunderstood—like with the part that she killed her first coven to steal her magic when they actually attacked her first and wanted to execute her, or likely the whole 'child sacrifice' thing when she probably didn't even sacrifice her son, at least willingly—, and people just assume the worst of her immediately, even if in that case it's wrong.

And you know what? She doesn't even deny it or try to explain herself. She already tried with her mother and her first coven. It didn't work, they still deemed her as pure evil and not a human being. So she doesn't even try anymore with new people. She doesn't think anyone will understand her.

The only one that gets her and isn't scared of her is... Rio. Death herself is the only one who understands her and loves her and sees her as a human, the one who has her back when her mother wants to torment her again. And-- it makes the whole thing even deeper.