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I wish it was easier to start new islands on acnh, or at least they let you change the name. How do ppl who make lots of different themed islands do iiiit. The grind to 3 stars & terraforming gets so boring and tedious when youve done it more than a few times
#acnh#im almost at the point i can start decorating and designing my new island#but the slog was real#if i ever finish it i would need to restart cos the name wouldnt fit any other theme 😩
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alongside someone like you
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#yuji itadori#megumi fushiguro#itafushi#fushiita#fanart#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk spoilers#jjk manga spoilers#jjk 266#jjk leaks#i feel like i say this after every piece at this point but iam once again. SO TIRED#collapses dead#cries i did it again i ws up all last night finishing the first 1.....tht one took *counts* 8 hours...#got 3 hrs sleep n picked up where i left off on th second one at 8 in the morning#2nd one absolutely ruined me n made the third one feel like a herculean task . even tho its literally just them on a bed#rooms....KITCHENS......beloathed!!!! public enemy no1 kill on sight!!!!!!#hell is real and they make u render different rooms of houses from scratch no perspective tool no clue what ur doing#n they see how long it takes u to completely lose it#clipped yuujis bangs back tho n i thought tht was cute . silver linings#1ST ONE WAS SO FUN ALSO idk if its bc outdoor environments r forgiving or bc i had more energy n was fresh faced n hopeful or what#but it is by far my favourite. once again pulled out nearly every nature brush in my arsenal#third one meh simple safe soft w/e i was just so exhausted after th kitchen tht working on it was such a slog#oh ya i added a bunch of scars 2 yuuji's arms n lobbed off his ring finger sighs the yuuji injury list (tm) grows every minute#also HINA USE YELLOW CHALLENGE CLEAR golden hour in2 sunset my beloved <333 easy warm light + safe homey Peaceful vibes...bless#cries eternally thinking abt them let us have this let THEM have this pls thank u#ok i need to not look at these anymore take them enjoy my contribution 2 the domestic itfs pile
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As someone who read the second half of the Drizzt series as it came out (yes I'm that old lol), I just know you have thoughts about him/the books so PLEASE share! So glad there are so many younger DND players getting into it and keeping our lovely boy alive <3
YOU'RE SO RIGHT ANON I DO HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT HIM
i just!!!! love him!!! so much!!!! he's such a treasure
idk if this is me just overthinking things but the fact that he's THE dnd hero but he's also like. a petite little guy and his defining character trait is being KIND and he loves his friends and he's very physically affectionate (which feels kind of crazy to me that the early books came out so long ago and he was always like that??) and his best friend is his cat and he likes to have FUN and he treats swordfighting like dancing and he STILL sought the approval of his family even after years of abuse aND HE JUST LOVES EVERYONE SO MUCH
he's truly the fantasy protagonist of all time i love him i need to kiss him on the forehead
#ramble#legend of drizzt#i love that people just Know how i feel about him akdfhdfh#i am nothing if not consistent#spoilers ahead for these decades old books lmao#and also it's wild to me that he has VERY obvious ptsd/survivor's guilt but nobody outside of the drow make him feel less than for it???#ngl it was a slog getting through the opening of book 1 but then he started drawing on the floor with his feet and i was in love with him#i am SO excited to take him to mcm in may#i never do cis male characters but i'm also a short king so i feel weirdly comfortable akdhdfh#i'm cooking an essay in my brain about the drow bc i have so many thoughts#disclaimer: i do practice media literacy. i know these books aren't perfect and a lot of dnd lore is. bad#there's a lot of it where i'm like 'hm i don't feel good about the real world connotations this has'#tbh i think all you can do is say 'this was problematic then and it is now so let's acknowledge that it happened and not do it ourselves'
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I can't stop thinking about Colin on his travels. Colin, alone, on a journey to 17 different cities, across several countries. Colin on his own.
Colin who writes letter after letter, to his family, to his friends, and barely gets a response back. How long before he understands that they didn't get lost in the mail? How long until he realizes that, just like when he was a boy, no one has the time for him? The space for him? How many letters unanswered before he lets it finally take root and fester in his mind?
He could have died on that tour.
Would they even notice? Would they see when the letters slow until they cease? Would they wonder why? His mum, surely (maybe, possibly, but she has enough on her hands, besides, and he's never been a concern, in need of her assistance, before), but anyone else? Anthony on his honeymoon, Eloise a stormcloud personified, Benedict taking on the familial responsibilities, Fran preparing for the marriage mart and in Bath, regardless. Daphne, his closest sister, a mum running her own estate.
Greg and Hyacinth who enjoy his stories, but are children.
Pen who ignores him. No explanation, no goodbye.
Colin who has no one in his corner. Colin who travels city to city, putting on personas. Will they like me? What about now? Colin who has hardly anything to read from the people he loves. Who do not think of him.
And yet he thinks of them. Brings them back gifts, writes his recollections for them until it hits him that, oh, they don't care. They don't care what he's doing, how he's doing. They didn't want to hear it before, when he was there with them, and they do not want to hear it now, either. Did they even open those envelopes? Did they see them come through the post, just as proof he's alive, and shrug off the contents? Did they look? Once, Colin sends an empty page. No one notices. Easier, then, to send just the outsides. People only ever care about the outsides. Pretty and prim in neat packages, uncaring of what lies beneath. Sea sick on the rocking boats, staring up at stars on the continent, Colin grows aware, but not bitter. Sad, but resigned.
He loves his family, he loves Pen, loves them to grace, loves them to it's okay. It was him, he determines. Too chatty, his letters too long, uninteresting, his passions dull or droll, or else, worse, he's displeased them in some way. Colin who takes refuge in stranger's arms and homes, who dreams and tries to sate his curiosity. Colin who pretends, because anyone, anyone but him would be received better, he's sure of it. Colin who must talk too much, surely, and with no one to listen. Colin who learns to hush.
Yes. Remarkable- as in, I have many remarks about it.
How many times did he go to excitedly write of what he did that week, and stopped himself, knowing it was a waste? How many times did he write and throw into the fire a letter asking Why don't you see me? Why don't you care?
If he didn't make it, how long would it take for anyone to notice? A month? Two? A year? Would they wave it off as his frivolity, denounce him as a flake and fume about the funds? Would they wonder where it was he had lost himself off at?
He cannot fall into that, so, he writes in his journal, instead. Of the ache of it, of how he longs for connection, for understanding, for someone to take him seriously. He keeps it with him, this log of his discontent, of his folly and felicity, of his pitfalls and pains.
If he didn't make it, would they realize all that's left of him is what he sent them, not even a body to bury? Did he look over the side of a bow of a boat and look at the churn of the ocean and think of how many bones it held? Did he tip his face to the sun? How many new scars did he earn? Who did he befriend?
Who did he become?
Somewhere along the line, Colin learned. He learned the real him wasn't wanted.
Somewhere along the line, somewhere between Patmos and Paris, Colin left Colin behind.
And, somewhere along the line, Colin laid face to face with loneliness in his bed, and it wrapped its arms around him.
#colin bridgerton#bridgerton#polin#say what you will- i understand why pen did it- but i still think ghosting your friend with no explanation#when he's off on a journey he could very well die on. . .not great#and what the fuck else was his family doing that they couldn't respond to his letters? they are aristocrats living in an off season#in the country- write a letter back to your son/brother who could perish in a land where no one knows him#idk i think about this a lot like colin was just. . .so uncared for and so unseen#he went off on travels to Europe in the early 1800s#anything could have killed him#and eloise last told him his letters slogged on and on and if he liked it so much he should have stayed#in an ideal world when colin said he apologized for what he said pen would ALSO apologize for not telling him sooner#i don't think she realizes just how lonely colin actually is#just how unseen he is#she thinks like so many others think that he's a popular man and oh so well regarded#that colin isn't real#colin isn't listened to- i wish more people would have empathy for him about that
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The thing about Otohan is that she had an awesome mechanical build and she served a narrative purpose in that the party lived in fear of her for nearly 60 episodes but she truly did die as she lived, with a personality replaced by frogs and murderous intent. And the thing is I suspect there's plenty of interesting stuff about there. I've been there as a DM, having built a super cool NPC with worldbuiding ties that the party simply did not give a shit about, and I think that's the same situation here.
Legend of the Peaks isn't particularly meaningful since only two party members have any recollection of the Apex War and neither show the slightest interest in the politics thereof and they haven't really been relevant to the story. We don't know why she worshiped the Raven Queen once nor what happened to make her stop while still using that symbol...and it hasn't really been relevant to the story. We don't know if the backpack came from her or was from Ludinus...but it's not really relevant to the story other than tracing the potions of possibility back through Treshi and Jiana. We don't know what specifically drove her towards the Vanguard other than lacking answers as a Ruidusborn - which may have simply been enough - but again. Not relevant. We have Liliana to represent the perspective of a Ruidusborn who went through the Omen Archive study and whose motivations warped and twisted from a place of genuine worry and fear, and we have Ludinus to represent the centuries-long architect of this entire plan (plus he can't stop monologuing about his motivations, and that is a compliment). That's plenty.
And so Otohan consistently fails the Sexy Lamp With A Gun Attached Test, and it doesn't really matter, and I'm sure there was a backstory there but there's quite literally been no reason to care about it at any point, and I think most people do not. Her entire purpose within the narrative was that of a sentient evil Jersey Barrier that ultimately had to be blown up. I'm infinitely more interested in the loot drop that resulted from her death (and obviously the emotional ramifications of FCG's sacrifice) than any of her repetitive zealot bullshit.
#sam should play an apex war veteran#having further Thoughts re c2 character creation vs. c3 here#bc like. fwiw due to the ties to jiana? i suspect if the party hadn't been able to call in the VM favor for laudna#otohan might have become rather more relevant#OR if treshi/bassuras had been paced out differently and they had to spend more time in the Paragon's Call#like again i think the campaign mostly recovered post-solstice from the slog of the 20s-40s infodumping#though the scars remain; but i think otohan's intrigue was absolutely a casualty of the issues at that time#as i think i said recently had the party gone to yios first i think that would have fixed a LOT#anyway. last hanging thread of plot from that has finally been severed thanks fcg you were a real one. rest in piss otohan#cr spoilers
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Behind the Curtain
#tw eye contact#foxy#five nights at freddy’s in real time#fnaf in real time#five nights at freddy's#fnaf#digital drawing#digital doodle#this was my favorite part of the game tbh#helped keep it from feeling like a slog too quickly compared to most fnaf fan games I’ve seen#also the soundtrack for the part absolutely fucks
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I saw @khrysalisposting do a tier list based on music, so I had to do one too lolol ❤️
#lemuria? PEAK. esp ursai village and the ending. no notes#arcanum is so pretty. and the combat themes fuck so hard#KH is self explanatory lolol#empyrea? MOST SLEPT ON MUSIC EVER#ITS SO GOOD#AZ is fantastic but I hate the combat music lolol#SL gets a perfect score#but it’s brought down by the rest of KT#KT is nostalgic but they were also still trying to find their footing at that point#mirage is SO good. just didn’t have the same oomph as the top tier#KM gets a high score for the theme lol#it’s just so catchy and annoying and I love that they got people to sing it#UGHHH WL IS SO GOOOOOD#a couple that missed a little bit#but it has my favorite Dasein theme so it’s all good#it took me a longggg time to warm up to NV I’ll be real#still a banger. but it took awhile to get used to#WC is so iconic. kinda repetitive but how can you not start humming the shop theme#ZF is so unique. didn’t have the oomph of the higher tiers but still so good. atmospheric af#same with AV#MB gets real repetitive after awhile lol#GH gets major points for WT. Nick Jonas u knocked it out of the park#the rest of the music is. fine.#MS is so repetitive#I can’t stand the Olympus combat theme lolol I wil actually mute the game#DS gets very samey very quick#reminds me of slogging thru the world too#I literally can’t remember anything outside of the hub theme for PL. nothing noteworthy at all#WS is annoying 😭#so is CL. didn’t fit the theme and was real boring. got used way too much in p101
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Screenshotting my original post so my addition shows up in the tags.
Two-siding a genocide in your ongoing podcast while an actual real world genocide is going on is WILD.
The humans have been confirmed to be colonizers of land originally inhabited by monsters. They have carried out multiple genocides and forced the monsters out of their homes and into cities on the fringes of the world. Then more human invaders show up to destroy those cities (also the monster cultural centers).
We have confirmation that the city they hit first has been leveled entirely now. The city that Olala was seeking because it contained so much information and history about monster kind.
We've also got political leaders refusing to get involved unless the bombing comes to them, and the monsters being treated as primitive and ineffective against the advanced tech of the off-world humans. This is a really uncomfortable if unintentionally a parallel and actually awful if it is intentional. Best case scenario, it's trying to make a connection between fictional monsters and real life people in a way that's both othering and pretty racist. Worst case, the writers actually believe this is a two side issue and that any attempt to stop Israel is "just as bad" as an ongoing genocide.
Does anyone know if anyone has made any statements? I'm not expecting every creative to do so, but when your work is hitting this close to real world situations, it might be necessary.
#The Penumbra Podcast#TPP#TPP Critical#The Penumbra Podcast Critical#The Second Citadel critical#The Second Citadel#tw genocide#genocide mention#tw genocide mention#Again I'll say that Eskew Productions made a statement when their show skewed close to real world happenings#it's wild that Penumbra hasn't when what they're doing is much closer#If anyone has anything more coherent to add please do#I might revisit this again with transcripts later#This season has already been a slog and now just... woof
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Sneak peak of my one shot for @gwynweekofficial below
Currently sitting at 4.2k words but I have a touch more to add before I’m ready to wrap it up. This is for the day one prompt but it’s going to be a beast to edit because I basically wrote this while half asleep so not sure it will be up in time. (I know it will not be up in time).
In the mean time enjoy
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Her cool fingers brushed against his as she took back the blade, the feeling of sparks on skin left in their absence.
There was something odd about this female. It felt like a secret that he should know only he couldn’t remember.
“What is your name girl?”
Those teal eyes met his again but this time he saw more than the blue of her eyes. There, woven throughout every strand of blue was the bright burn of flame, like rays of sunlight under the surface of the ocean, illuminating and brightening the blue of the water.
“I…” She looked almost as startled as he felt in that moment.
Not possible, he thought to himself.
#quality over timeliness#editing is my weakness#if I’m being real it going to take me like three days to get the courage to slog through this#gwynweek2024#eris vanserra#gwyneth berdara#azriel acotar#azris
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This is a fucking Tome. This is a textbook. does not bode well for the editing being better than in 4.
#i really did enjoy Rhythm of War but some of the Navani sections can be a real slog if you're not a rabbid lore junkie like me#personally I love Sanderson's obsession with going on tangential rabbitholes explaining the logic of his magic and economic systems#but the prose DOES wander and I see how it can be a turnoff for most readers who would rather read something with better narrative pacing#cosmere#wind and truth#stormlight archive#brandon sanderson
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in my perfect world everyone makes so many lesbian muses the men then have to deal with the exact same behavior when every single post ever written isn’t about dick.
#CLAWS RETRACTED.#[real talk: I’m a lesbian transmasc little enby guy. but my gender? is lesbian. it’s how I explain it. my attraction to women is a part of#my innate gender. that’s just how it is and the two things inform one another. heteronormativity is still so alive and now everyone can put#it under progressive little labels where the character is bisexual but everything that’s focused on for miles is the hetcoded shit. it’s a#cool little thing people do now. it went from when I was a kid and ‘there’s no such thing as bi you’re just confused’ to ‘everyone is bi#because it gives me points but I will never meaningfully observe the queer aspect of that identity and it can make me seem comfortable with#queer identities’. it’s lip service so much of the time. and I never ever ever say you’re only valid if you write bi characters in a#queercoded relationship. bisexuality is forever valid always even if you’ve NEVER been in a queer relationship. but this is writing and#real bisexual people (I’m not even bi I’m literally a lesbian) have experiences irl that make them feel shitty#when they see them boiled down to shallow. a lot in the same way I get upset when I see lesbian relationships brushed off or ignored in#spite of my own excitement toward the ship. MY POINT IS that lesbians are completely ignored by this point and I can say this both irl and#on here because when you live a life that excludes men from your romantic space you’re basically illegal. it drives me fucking insane. the#way anyone can make a fucking whitebread ass man on this site and their inbox will be exploding but you make a lesbian and you have to pad#quietly around because from jump you’re already worried about how people will perceive you and you KNOW they won’t be immediately welcoming.#this is an irl thing in such a big way and I’m a NEW YORKER. but the fact that this exists in the rpc? truly I miss when we just wrote and#enjoyed things and this wasn’t a cesspit of discourse instead of an actual creative community. like. I went to college to study boring#theses that couldn’t keep my attention. I slogged through litcrit theory. do I love it? yes. but some of yall really just wanna be on#debatebro YouTube and not in the actual rpc. it’s wild. everyone’s a philosopher but no one wants to meaningfully engage. and if they do#they want to in either bad faith or basically hardheaded ignorance about an issue. someone’s 2 seconds from rping destiny.#swear to fucking god if I see one person make an asm.ngold joke I will cry.]
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Honestly it’s really telling that 90% of the time the clowns are driving the car on rotten tomatoes movie reviews when juror #2 can get a 92% for a relatively bland fake staked and half baked (and half ripped from 12 angry men) courtroom drama and give a 31% to joker 2 which actually speaks more in conversation with courtroom dramas of the past while putting its own narrative needs at the center of the conversation while also being like. Actually true to how the justice system works without needing to raise the stakes outside of that
#like seriously what a slog this thing is#it’s genuinely silly like there are no real film critics who have any idea what film is anymore they just follow a public opinion or whoever#pays them the most
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Hello im darundik on ao3 and have been so slowly working through your works and am currently on The Feast We Promised and I am so IN LVOE with how you interpret canon events into practical terms. Like I always assumed that Maria entered the healing church after the cainhurst massacre, bc she hides her relationship to them, but of course this idea of cainhurst being allowed and THEN disappearing makes sense. And also the whole thing of gherman being a designer first and foremost and being the hardest hitter, the fact that there’s a difference between academics and prospectors — LOVE THIS. The moment where you said “Maria joined the church as a botanist” — of course. Of fuxking course. The term “hunter” now means “just a person who wacks beasts” but it doesn’t necessary only mean that — as evidenced by the choir members in-game, who definitely don’t hunt, but ar hunter-type enemies. I’m just. Tearing my hair out. I love this so much. I’m reading SO slowly but enjoying it SO much.
Thank you so much, the engagement with my work means a lot :') Especially Feast, because so much went into it.
Please have this Maria sketch I have been noodling for part of the day as thanks.
#ask#bloodborne#writing#lady maria of the astral clocktower#those of you who have slogged through Feast are the real MVPs#thank you for reading#still going through the ask box
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me telling people im bisexual because im too scared to be aroace. be honest is it an aroace thing to only want to get in a relationship not bcuz u necessarily want it but bcuz you want to see if it WorksTM on you…
#the aversion to romance becomes too real now bro….#too bad im bitchless 🤷♀️ (yeah… haha… too bad…)#therapist said dont freak out and do whatever without overthinking it. idk who she thinks shes talking to tho 🙄#slogging#aromantic#asexual#aroace
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patiently waiting for my libido to come out of jail
#i!! want!! to !! write!! porn!!#but im just not in the mood.#and im one of those writers that need to be in the mood at least a LIL .........#or else writing smut is just a real slog#yup... liquids and pussy and whatever.
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one of the funny bits of fujieda's route in slow damage is that towa has absolutely no room in his head to deal with madarame coming back from the dead so when he does see him face to face hes just like hah?? the fuck??? and fujieda asks him hey that was ur ex right? and towa looks at him like he's stupid
#slow damage#spoilers#me rambling abt this vn on here bc i have no one to talk to abt it#im gonna replay fujieda tbh i love him so mach#that one noncon scene though . .. i close my eyes#yes ur intention was to hurt towa but like damn girl ..#it was worth slogging thru madarames route tho LMFAO#taku and rei i did not appreciate ur routes enough ur the real OGs
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