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[sailorjojogames]

Day 6- Element If Gaea was a Sim, the goddess of the Earth/ Sims World

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100 Days CAS Challenge ish

Disclaimer: This will not take me 100 days to do this challenge because I am a perfectionist    am only using this challenge to create a save file and to use the CAS more… best believe I used build and buy mode to create ✨ lol.🙈  

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

One really tiny but really flavourful detail in BG3 for me is one of the steps in the "Find the Nightsong" quest. The quest in itself is a big fave of mine, not just because of its buildup and dramatic twist and the fact that it deals with my personal favourite character, but also because of the way it winds through all three acts of this immense game. Here, though, I want to highlight a small and relatively early portion of it.

Initially, when you are sent after the mysterious and much sought-after relic called the Nightsong - classic adventurer stuff, really, there's even a wizard in a tower who'll pay you for it - all you have to go on are rumours that it is hidden in an old Selûnite temple in the region you happened to crash in. And sure enough, you explore the cool temple ruins, maybe you do a little puzzle-solving to open a sealed moon-themed door leading to a passage deep below - or you get into the Underdark via one of the other routes available. In any case, once there, you find the tragically doomed underground outpost some of the temple's residents tried to establish, as well as several records of their final hours. But there are no signs of the Nightsong or anything related to it ever being there at all. At that point you have no more info to go on, and your quest journal updates to say so:

Explore the Underdark. The trail goes cold in the Underdark. Where is the Nightsong?

Except... there is something here. And that something is a book - not an ancient record, but a recent publication: This tome appears fairly new-printed; it can't be more than a decade or two old, the item description says. But above all, it is very conspicuously and prominently placed at the foot of the large statue of Selûne that dominates the remnants of the outpost (and that, as part of its defenses, shoots rather deadly magical moonlight beams until you disable it).

The book is called "In Search of the Nightsong". It is marked as a quest item and it is there purely to provide you with a lead and to bridge the gap until the next bit of insight into the Nightsong you will get (which is at this point probably quite a ways away in Act 2, other than the possible tidbit around Nere and the collapsed bridge as you approach one possible end of Act 1). You are absolutely meant to find it and read it.

Fascinating that such a seemingly valuable object has proven so difficult to track down. Indeed, treasure-hunters the realm over have travelled to the Sword Coast with one goal in mind: To find the Nightsong. Yet each by each they have failed, indicating dead ends, rebuffs, or else disappearing altogether. My latest enquiry was with a half-orc named Graly, who insisted he'd come as close as possible to the relic as one may go without forfeiting his or her life. He indicated that the object is not, as most reports indicate, in the Selûnite fort adjacent to the river Chionthar. It is, in fact, held in an old Sharran fortress somewhere in the environs of Moonrise Towers. However, Graly reported that some kind of potent shadow prevents one from approaching where this fortress might be.

In fact, your next quest journal update comes from going into your inventory and reading the book:

Find the Sharran Temple. We found a book that told of a secret Sharran temple that contains the Nightsong. It is hidden underground, somewhere near Moonrise Towers.

How did this recently-published book end up sitting there, just waiting for you to read it, in the sealed, long-abandoned outpost, beset on all sides by unfriendly crowds of goblins, drow, minotaurs, a spectator, you name it? And why is this cool to me? Well, it's a bit meta, but it turns out that Selûne, She Who Guides, goddess of, among other things, questers, seekers, navigators, and the lost finding their path, has more than earned her title. And indeed, here we see that both in gameplay and in lore, Selûne guides.

In this particular case, though you don't know that yet, she's guiding you, both the character and the player, to hopefully save her long-lost daughter.

[alexissara]

What A Year For Games! Top 10 Games of 2023 For Little Lesbians Like me!

I am on and off again with video games often switching between years where I am really into games and years where I am snoozing but I started to dedicate myself to finding and sharing more sapphic art so people can stop saying it doesn't exist lead me to playing tons more games and wow I played so many fucking amazing games this year it was an extremally hard year to pick a top 10 games. Now these aren't a top 10 sapphic games, it's just the best 10 games of the year, on an objective scale because I am the goddess of this world and there for right. Not all of these games will have come out in 2023, it's games I played in 2023 why limit ones self?

These games are roughly in order by how confident I am to put them on this list but each of these games did something different than me so I wouldn't say that a game is "better" rather than what I got out of it at the end of playing felt biggest.

Stray Gods

It's a musical, it's a video game, it's Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. This game is a really fun little Greek myth story telling experience with an neat interoperation of myth and the characters to provide a fun experience to people with or without attachment to the stories. The dynamic music changing to your choices is a really cool concept although I wish more of the songs were a bop. I also wish the game explored the idea of polyamory like the Greek gods were not monogamous and I see no reason I can't kiss Freddie and Persephone in the same playthrough. What is there though is still compelling, fun, and engaging with a great set of characters across the board romanceable and not.

Pokémon Emerald Rouge

Pokabbie's amazing Pokemon Rom Hack that shows the utterly wild shit possible for Pokemon experiences we could get. It's amazingly fun to do runs of Pokemon where you catch new pokemon, fight trainers and get to then recatch that species to use in later runs. It's a really great gameplay loop that really just uses what's fun about pokemon and allows for a lot of different run customization which leads to the loop not getting stale and makes it easier to find particular pokemon you want. This was my favorite Pokémon experience this year.

Street Fighter 6

Street Fighter 6 has some of the worst monetization to date in fighting games. However, despite that it provided a lot of fun to me this year playing the base game's amazing World Tour mode and in enjoying the greatly designed new characters who I hope become Street Fighter staples. All while making my favorite SF character Juri even better with new interactions, a little bit of progress to her story and more. I hope that World Tour mode encourages a lot of other fighting game devs to step up the single player experiences in Fighting games and I also hope [as seems to be the industry trend] that "modern" controls take over. It was so nice to be able to do all the special moves consistently and more easily feel like I was in control of the game rather than feeling light I was fighting my hands to move out an input.

Drums Of War

I sure do wish a Fire Emblem game came out in 2023, it's been so long since Three Houses and Hopes is amazing but not the SRPG gameplay I came to love. Well if there was a Fire Emblem game I am sure it would have ENGAGED me, wait, there was the amazing Fire Emblem rom hack Drums Of War. Parrhesia utterly killed it with this take on Fire Emblem. The heart of the story being an emotionally damaged lesbian and the dancer with a big secret who fell for her makes for an utterly captivating romance paired with a real "war is hell" story that really does it's best to show you how fucked all sides of this conflict are until the player finally gets to forge their own path forward. Roxelana and Calista would be among my most favorite Fire Emblem lords if I was ranking them alongside all the lords of the series with both characters being utterly delightful and some charming side characters too like Estrelle. The gameplay itself aired a bit on the harder side to what I like but regardless I had a great time with the majority of maps and by the end of it I think I finally managed to get with the curve of the difficulty even if I wish there was an easier mode.

Cassette Beasts

The soundtrack alone would put this game on this list but luckily it has even more than a soundtrack. The whole cast are really charming, I totally fell for Viola and the other characters all have their own special charms. The game has plenty of faults I talked about in my review of it but despite the flaws of the game basically right until the very end where it massively declined for me this was one of the best games in all of monster tamers for me. The DLC was sadly not so great that came out later in the year but I didn't mind giving the extra money to the devs when the core game was so good. The monster taming is fun, the gameplay feels flexible enough for you to find the niche you like to play in and become really good at that niche, it allows for a lot of flexibility from folks who wanna swap partners all the time to people who will find their favorite characters and monsters and stick with them. I really hope the developers keep moving forward with Cassette Beasts and making new strives forward with their concepts because of all the indie monster tamers I've played this is leaps and strides above the rest.

En Garde!

This extremally short little romp is a compelling experience that is just a little bit longer than your average modern block buster. It's a simple and sweet swash buckling game where you play as a bisexual vigilante woman with a big crush on a sexy pirate woman trying to stop the oppressor of the people's evil schemes. Each chapter is like another adventure of Zoro short and puppy, fun and with ever so slight tension but you know the hero will come up on top. It's a really good experience and it has some great accessibility features for folks with reflex issues like me to still be able to enjoy it. The music is staller, the voice acting is fantastic, it's a great package that instead of padding itself out fills every second with greatness.

Luxaren Allure

I am a massive fan of turn based RPGs, I love getting to look at menus and think about my actions, being able to multitask while I play, enjoy a big juicy narrative and so I was very happy to play a JRPG style experience that's all about lesbians. An amazingly fun concept for a JRPG plot where one woman's beloved whom she chickened out of confessing too gets corrupted by an evil power and she is tasked with being the hero to take her out. This gives the interactions and the end goal a sense of uncertainty, will this be a sad case of tragic yuri, will she find joy with someone else, will she be able to save the woman she loves from this evil power, will she submit to the evil herself to be by her side? Everything feels uncertain with just this little angle added to a fairly typical JRPG formula. All while on the side having an adorable romance between a naga and a human girl giving us the good good lesbian sweetness between the dramatic tension.

Baldur's Gate 3

I am so often the contain, the noted hater but not on this day, nay I say, it was pretty fucking fun. The game is flawed, pretty flawed, like it's got a lot or fantasy racism shit I hate, it's tied to an IP I hate, it's got so many bugs that happened on my own run but if there is one game from this list I will probably think of the most and play the most in 2024 and beyond from this year it's probably this game. The games depth of interactivity, the wide breath of options, and the mods, oh the mods, the many many many mods, this game has so much to do and will for a very long time. It's rare to get a truly great multiplayer game and this game also provides that, this is a fantastic experience for playing online with others and makes for really great runs. Then there is the romances, oh the romances are really great, the girls are all fantastic and the side queers are super brilliant too. It's just a really fun video game and it does a good job exploring trauma and different takes on abusive relationships and overcoming [or succumbing] to them.

Thirsty Suitors

What a fucking great game, while the gameplay is mostly quick time events it does an amazing job of making each aspect of the game feel distinct from each other. While skateboarding in general kinda sucks in this game the combat and cooking all feels really great. Then there is the vocal performances and writing which are all fucking stellar. It's really great to see a fully fleshed out and fully real feeling queer woman who has had messy exes of all genders and has done a lot of fucked up things in her time. Jala's road to redemption with her family and exes all feels really great and this is a special story and I realized sometime after there is some level of variance too that I could have seen if I made some different choices. It's really great and even if it's not a dating sim like I thought it might be it's still a really great little thing. Then you factor in all the cool queer brown people in this game and wow, like I felt so scene by this game like the angry mess Tyler is speaks to my little transbian heart, the high fem lesbian struggle with family that Diya has I could feel echoed in my own life, I just, wow, it was great. I am so happy this game exists and I will likely always see this among the best narratives in all video games.

The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood

My game of the year, The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood fucking blew me away. In a shocking twist of fate while I complained about a lot of endings this year I didn't like my original ending for The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood either but then that drove me to go from liking the game to loving it as I ran the game again in spite of it, fueled by spite alone I felt a sense of determination, I would change my fate! This thematic fortune telling game where you make your own cards, help people or end up seeing a fate that only hurts them, I knew how to play it, I knew the systems now, I understood how the cards worked, the truth of my powers and the price I agreed to pay and I'd use all of that to make the happiest fucking story possible for Fortuna aka ME. So I dart through the game, I help the trans woman be herself and happy, I get my hot butch girlfriend, I help everyone out with their life problems crafting only the best cards possible to make sure I can give the best fates possible and then I hit the end point, the time to pay the price. I say no, the game says, you have to, I keep saying no, and then I draw my cards again and shape fate and in that I defied fate, made an ending I could be happy with, a better world for all my fellow witches, and so my story ends with my friends back by my side [probably gonna be a polycule] and a whole lot to look forward to. What a fucking experience, what a cool fucking game.

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[fanboy4u]

Ah! There you are pup! I’ve been waiting!! Never keep a goddess waiting……. Anywho! I suppose the gameplay doesn’t seem too difficult. Mostly trying to look left and right… managing power… checking cameras…..

On second thought, I think it’s hard.

And no worries, no need to block them! They left because we were both very VERY attached to each other. And I also have really bad self destructive habits that drain the life out of people. So no need! If only you wish, little one!

I’ve been searching for souls who would hopefully be able to handle me. Or at least, be able to entertain me with thier patheticness..

-🌸

I'm so sorryyyy I fell asleep randomlyy . . I don't know how I napped for that long It was mostly the power thing that I had trouble with , since I kept getting paranoid and keeping the little door shutter things closed . I'm sure I"ll get it one day though ^_^ Ohh I get that , I have certain habits when I get attached too . I get obsessive with anyone who I'm more than acquaintances with and I sometimes say things that come off as creepy / weird . I can't help but be overbearing ( •̯́ ₃ •̯̀) I need to find someone too but more vise versa . I act pathetic a lot when I like someone

[boy-above]

How do u feel abt the new(?) genahin characters? Like that judge guy and the other ones :0

neuvillette (aka judge guy): he's probably a normal good dude but he gives me such sussy vibes that i can't un-sus my opinion of him. kind of pretentious, but his gameplay looks so fun. probably 5/10 for me

furina (hydro goddess): extremely cute, supreme girlfailure, i thought just from her design that she'd be an asshole but it turns out she's just a sad wet piece of paper, i want to protect her, 9/10

lyney and lynette (magician twins): very cute, i've been waiting for them for a long time. my lyney build crumbles like a piece of tinfoil but whatever. lynette is a catgirl which improves the rating significantly obviously. upset however that lyney doesn't Also have car ears >:I anyway they're great, 10/10

freminet (little diver boy): cute, has freckles, doesn't really have much of a personality imo and feels left out considering he's lyney and lynette's third sibling but they clearly care about each other more than him which makes me kinda sad. 7/10

navia (long awaited new geo character): cute, love that she has body guards, really enjoyed her story in the archon quests, really hoping she plays well considering geo is like the worst element in the game. 8/10

charlotte (reporter girl): she's cute but nothing special to me, there's nothing wrong with her (although i kinda don't like the monocle that's a me problem). her gameplay really overdoes it with the photography theme tho lol. 6/10

wriothesley (prison warden): he's okay? as everyone who follows me has probably gathered my type is mostly twinks like myself so i don't have the capacity to thirst after him like a lot of people do. i like his fun hair. 6/10

chlorinde (purple gun lady): cannot read her name without thinking of clorox or chlorine. very disappointed by her design compared to the concept art. she's a big "meh" to me right now. she gets points for having a gun though. 4/10

arlecchino (lady harbinger): scary, compelling backstory, fun design, 9/10

sigewinne (baby nurse): i was not prepared to be psychologically manipulated by this fetus. she was scary. she had a gun. a gun. 10/10

[thegeminisage]

Hmm. 20-22 inclusive …. making you be negative 😈 I’m assuming you’ll do zelda but as a scholar I’m also interested in your spn thoughts so you pick mwah

oooh dealer's choice this is so tough...what if i just answer for both LMAO im so sorry ok Lets Go

20. part of canon you found tedious or boring

for zelda: i really, really wish i liked wind waker. i wanna like wind waker so fucking bad. i love wind waker's story. i love wind waker's ganondorf. i love how bright and cheerful the graphics are contrasted with how solemn it is underground. i love the dungeons and the gameplay. but god i HATE the cartoony little balloon heads. it takes me right out of those serious moments. i don't mind stylization but if it could have been just a LITTLE BIT. less stylized. just a LITTLE LESS like animal crossing characters. it's beautiful to look at but for a game with such serious hidden elements WHICH I LOVE i find trouble taking it seriously.

for spn: god, all of crowley's little arcs. he was almost never interesting, and while you can excuse bad writing for cas because it's cas, you can't make crowley happen. fetch is never gonna happen! you can show me his fun hot mom and his dead son and it still isn't happening! he's just the walking talking embodiment of the "angels and demons are just like OFFICE WORKERS" trope which i hate so fucking deeply because it's the least sexy direction they ever took and the exact opposite of what i want from my angels and demons. all of the middle seasons suffered deeply from this. crowley COULD have been interesting, but tbh, i liked him best in the season they killed him off.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

for zelda: i could do wind waker again but actually i completely understand the hype, bc wind waker is a great game even if i can't deal with it like a normal person. same with botw - i found most of the joy thru exploration, so it just didnt Hit on replays the way other zeldas do, but its influence cannot be understated and the hype is deserved. what if everybody is right all the time to hype any and everything about zelda?? oh wait actually. sorry. twilight princess ilia. idk if people hype her but if they do theyre wrong. love and light to her, she's Fine, but it feels kind of like a knockoff of malon (superior) and i generally dislike when link has romantic interests besides zelda, even if the love interest gets amnesia (wistful sigh). this sin was especially egregious bc zelda barely has any screentime at all, but i forgive tp for this because what screentime she DOES have is spent being in lesbians with midna. so it works out just this once due to the power of gay people, but that's some thin fucking ice. anyway, sorry to ilia and ilia fans for being a misogynist

for spn: i hate canon claire. i can't get into it in depth but like...sorry, even without the issue of My Own Claire Ideas, i still don't know if i could do it. being gay does not save her from having the exact same "damaged but spunky teen girl" personality given to almost EVERY OTHER TEENAGE GIRL (or young woman) on the show. to some extent she, krissy, mary from the winchesters, charlie, jo, alex, etc etc all have the same personality with a few defining quirks tacked on as an afterthought. do i love some of these characters? yes, of course. are they well-written? absolutely not <3

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

for zelda: in general, i think skyward sword gets a bad rap despite lanayru desert's entire (waves hand vaguely) and zelda being a fucked up evil goddess who canonically manipulates link's love for her. AND GROOSE. never forget groose. more specifically i think not enough people have acknowledged 1. the champions corpses are definitely still in those cockpits 2. oot link essentially became a stalfos by walking into the lost woods without navi and never came back. hello?? generally those dark little implications that u have read between the lines to get <3

for spn: oh baby its michael!dean. i waited so long and i only really got what i wanted for one episode but it was so good. it was SO good. no one else is as hype about the fact that it took nine REAL LIFE YEARS to get there. a DECADE of my finite time on earth. but ohhh was it ever worth the wait. what else could i possibly write 100k+ about

[ASK MEME]

[over-the-time-flow]

Edwin apologizes for keeping the crowd waiting; he then reminds us all of the unprecedented crisis facing the Earth as of now, but then hypes the crowd up by saying that it is nothing to fear, as long as our steel heroes are here to protect us!

"The steel maiden, Diana A, and Sayaka Yumi!"

"The fullmetal goddess, Venus A, and Jun Honoo!"

Edwin then works in some audience participation!

"Next up is everybody's favorite, the king of laughter! What's the name of Boss' wacky robot?"

The kids all shout "Boss Borot!!", and then, as if summoned,

Boss: "Dun dun duuuuun!!! Thank you for waiting, good boys & girls of the world! Boss Borot has arrived!"

Sayaka and Jun can't help but notice his enthusiasm, and Sayaka has to remind Boss not to get too carried away, or he might make the Borot fall over!

"Finally, the robots of justice who protect the world from the wicked Mycenaean Empire! The sky-soaring fortress of steel, and the hero of the skies!! Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger!!!"

Koji: "Guys, those Mycenaean stooges won't get their way as long as i'm around!"

Edwin tries to introduce Tetsuya as well, and the crowd IS excited to have him, but... he's a bit too awkward to know what to say in a situation like this, even with Koji nudging him.

Edwin goes into scheming mode, whispering to himself about how swimmingly the plan has gone so far, and how he's going to turn all these civilians into Soldiers, but...

Great General of Darkness: "A parade, huh? I'll show you all what happens when you side with the Science Fortress Institute!"

Edwin freaks out over the unexpected appearance of the Mycenaeans edwin my brother this was about as unexpected as finding a fork in a kitchen what were you thinking, as the Mazinger Team gets to work on helping the citizens evacuate the premises. But as Tetsuya protects a little girl...

The girl manages to get rescued by the GEAR crew, but Tetsuya gets hit once more!

Staying true to the show but also subverting the expectations of Great Mazinger fans in the audience, Tetsuya is out of commission, but he did not pass out like he does every episode! Rather, the Great Mazinger simply can't move. Yet again, Banpresto shows masterful knowledge of the source material.

He'll stay here at 10 HP, unable to move, but if an enemy comes close enough he can actually attack them with no issues. You're forced to assume that the Great must have specifically gotten hit in the legs or something.

In her signature motorcycle, Vega rides out to try and help even the odds. She explains all the civilians are now safe, and that she isn't their only reinforcement!

That's us!

The Great General is frustrated at having even more of us to deal with, but it's no matter; he'll rout us all the same. And Kouji says that's our line!

NEXT WEEK: GAMEPLAY!!

[dcwnthercbbithcle]

10 facts about the Mountaineer?

YES YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ASK! I can go off for hours about my gal!

10 Facts About My Characters || ALWAYS ACCEPTING

Fíadh started as merely an Inscryption OC to fill in a niche the gameplay lacked! It's not; she's not a fix-it character, at least not in essence. I adore Leshy's part of Inscryption beyond words, but playing through, the hooved beast cards were always so LACKING.

Not terrible, but primarily chump blockers, nothing to call home about and which stood out in its own right. Likewise, Leshy's section, though excellent with eternal replayability, just didn't want to take advantage of the mountains or highlands that were RIGHT THERE and seemed like the perfect place to hide a monstrous maid and some more powerful hooved creatures and encounters.

Thus, Fíadh was born, to tie these concepts into a package that could be implemented into my own writing and to flesh out the world a touch more. But then, me being me, I gave her a life beyond this; I used her to flesh out Leshy as a character, to explain how he had grown from the first time we had seen him in Sacrifices Must Be Made and the P03 divorce arc. Then, I wanted to do the same with the other followers of Leshy's, because they have FOREVER been a massive bunch of favs for me.

Then, I gave her a story and goals of her own outside of them, I gave her full gameplay dynamics and whatnot and wrote up a campaign of her own. Then just built on her more and more; until now, she is really a fully-fledged character of her own, born from the simple desire to build on something I love and now she has a wholeass life!

Fíadh has SO MANY VERSES, not only in Inscryption, but primarily outside of them: she has the classic fandomless horror and human verse, and she has a DBD verse which I've put a ton more emphasis into due to my hyperfixation with it returning (Herman may return? Possibly), a couple of verses that plays into the fact that she is considered a Goddess of the Hunt, namely an American Gods and GOW/GOWR verses!

When I say Fíadh has the lower body and especially legs of a mountain goat, and many, many other beastly traits along those lines, such as a tail. I do not mean it in an appealing way exclusively.

No, there is beauty to it, but she is not a woman with nothing more than permanent furry leggings and hooves.

Her ENTIRE skeletal system has been altered, made from plantigrade bipedal human design, into an unguligrade sort of bipedalism. Her legs are angled and beyond muscular to accommodate her ability to climb and the weight distribution more evenly, and to give her the strength to jump and climb up seemingly unclimbable surfaces. Her pelvic bones are wider to accommodate this, as well as to make her center of gravity far wider, as is her spine.

And that's not even BEGINNING to touch on the shit going on with her upper body, shoulders, and arms built to aid in climbing her legs can't achieve. She has the same vibe and function as Mr. 'Big meaty claws' Leshy!

She is BUFFER THAN SHE HAS ANY RIGHT TO BE, built like a beast wearing her pretty green dress and I just adore it for her, my body horror queen!

On the topic, her facial features, holy fuck, she's the epitome of 'I like that, wait no, go back, stop doing that,' in that, she looks perfectly human and not just that but stunning in one or two positions, but other than that? Wrong in ever-intensifying shades of horrifying.

Fíadh has no whites in her eyes; they are solid gold with those distinctive oblong goat irises, which she cannot. move. No joke, it's cute at first to see the way she'll pivot her head around when speaking, but it is a necessity, not simply a quirk, and it's hard to unsee it.

Fíadh has veins that are particularly visible about her temples, near her ears and on her cheeks, almost camouflaged by the long, thick wool-like hair atop her head and the pre-existing freckles of her body, which would be expected in any normal person, but hers, they are BLACK, pitch black and stagnant.

Her mouth, god, her mouth. Have you ever seen those pictures of horses photoshopped to have the mouths of dogs? SHE IS JUST LIKE THAT. Usually, her mouth doesn't look amiss, a cute little cupid's bow that draws into a slight smile or a pout; it's sweet. But then she turns to grin, and the skin retracts and retracts, drawing back to reveal more and more sharp canine teeth and a large sharp tongue just behind them.

And when she has not fed for a time, tiny slivers of the true nature of being slip beneath the surface and the decay begins to take hold visibly. Her eyes will seem to sink in, the sockets ever darkening, her lips will seem to curl back, her colour worsening from a grey to a bruise purple, and then the skin begins to slough away, and the decay/starvation state takes hold. Not fun!

[kitsunebishake]

I'm so amazed at how honkai star rail for once got me hooked into a gacha game story

this rarely ever happens to me in gacha games, I usually go on for like a week and then lose interest (since it tends to get boring)

like, for example, with genshin I only started to catch interest in sumeru, yet I never got there because the gameplay being overwhelming + how much text I had to skip on inazuma lol (no hate if others liked it, I just didn't find it that interesting so I'd skim through it waiting for it to pick up,,, at some point I was only reading whatever ayaka and thoma said and ignoring everyone else, never even reached ayato)

MY POINT IS THAT THIS GAME HAS GOT ME ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO READING MORE AND THINKING ABOUT THE STORY EVEN 2 WEEKS AFTER I FINISHED WHAT WAS AVAILABLE OF MAIN STORY

this game? hooked from the start

here's a screenshot of my best friend realising I was actually reading the story and not just skipping dialogues (something I am very famous for doing in my friend circle, it's a meme that I only have 2 modes: "I read this 3 times and didn't understand anyways" and "I read the entirety of this in 3 hours let me make an entire dissertation about it for you", and me going into the second one is a COMPLIMENT to the writer)

it's amazing

on that topic though, I think so much of that stupid coffin of luocha's... like genuinely, I'm like 99% sure I know what is inside of that shit and I am so fucking looking forward to seeing it happen

but also I've been also thinking of the relation between the xianzhou's history and fu hua's "no mercy for the corrupted" era

she's clearly the marshal, there's no way they're teasing a "marshal hua" (it's in one of the assignments), saying BARELY ANYTHING about the marshal on the xianzhou story video, and NOT making it the hua that is famous for destroying that of which she believes is corrupted without exception

the hunt's relationship with the abundance is exactly what was happening back in that plotline

plus we have jing yuan here who had to kill his own master, who imo looks like fu hua, and since he looks like jingliu there's that relation there for me, no one can convince me I'm wrong ok

his job as the general in the luofu feels as if fu hua and zhongli were mashed into a single character

(which worries me seeing the little twerp that is his disciple but I'll give the little shit the benefit of the doubt, I'm gonna enjoy avenging my goddess in the boss battle anyways)

WHICH

TAKES ME TO THE COFFIN

THAT'S TOTALLY JINGLIU

whether jing yuan requested it or if it's some sort of twisted "gift" from the abundance themselves I still can't tell from the clues we've got

these clues being:

luocha having a much stronger connection to his path, to even heal cyborgs with magic, carrying that shit everywhere, saying it's "a favor" from someone, saying he only met the person in the coffin once, his "it's a secret. (smiles)" as a response to being asked what his thoughts were on jing yuan in a JAPANESE MAGAZINE THEY REALLY DROPPED LORE IN A PART ONLY JP WOMEN AND POSSIBLY QUEERS WOULD READ

there's still nothing about whether this is also part of jing yuan's calculations or if this will throw him off guard,,,

AAAA I NEED ANSWERS HOYOVERSE WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME

[gooperblooper]

i like impa's stilts

also saw this page in the other leak and forgot to mention but is that gonna be like the hawkeye from tp? since we apparently don't have the slate anymore and presumably can't zoom in on stuff otherwise

WHAT IS WITH THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE

mohawk gerudo lady is … a choice

i like getting to see the actual inside of new places

wait he's got his own sorta sheikah slate thingy???? i wonder what the cable thingy is for

heart rock sword things?????

i hope the letters in bottles are an actual gameplay thing like how there was the tingle bottle in wwhd where you can send letters to other people, that'd be fun

so far link's new outfits aren't slapping as hard, i do like the hair down option though if that counts as part of an outfit

also like that the other zelda/goddess lady whatever gets to have nice long pretty hair since zeldy cut hers off

KOROKS WITH GIANT BACKPACKS!!! god i fucking love koroks

please god let the keys mean that there's gonna be traditional dungeons

the weird animal person thingy page says its called Rauru??????? intresting. veeery intresting

[tacticalhimbo]

XBOX DIRECT THOUGHTS

more of the same. more unedited, stream of consciousness reactions to the showcase

Fable

- Vegetable Enthusiast. He cute honestly.

- GIANT. PUMPKIN.

- The graphics are pretty and I love the idea of normal guy in fantasy world sm.

- is this thumbalina???? or whateva her name is????

- FABLE??? remake??? new game???

- I AM LOOKING

South of Midnight

- ooo swamp

- oooo stop motiony animation! i like the style

- baby possum baby possum baby!!

- i love the protagonist's style. she looks cool as fuck

- very interesting concept!

Star Wars: Outlaws

- massive and ubisoft?

- STAR WARSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! WOOO BABEYYYYY

- oh the protag seems cool! i love her little pet

- HEIST PLOT???

- AN EXCLUSIVE??? OH BABEYYYY

- already wanna rp her fr she's gonna be my babygirl who i defend to the death IDC!!!

33 Immortals

- ooh thunder lotus making another game! didnt play their other big one but it looked so nice

- pretty visuals as always tho!

- the death animation slapped honestly

- not my cup of tea gameplay wise buuut looks good

- 33 PLAYER CO-OP???!?!?!? WHAT DA FUCK

PAYDAY 3

- HUH

- do these games have a story?? i've only ever seen multiplayer maps and stuff.

- it looks fun honestly. like siege if it was cops and robbers

- dubstep gameplay edit holy shit

Persona 3 Reload

- ooh anime in unreal engine- PERSONA!

- i played a bit of 5 and i liked it honestly

- idk shit abt it but cool!

Avowed

- oo pirate game

- obsidian?? oh it's gonna be good

- it looks cool honestly. i love their style.

- battlemage combat fr

- i wanna play it

Sea of Thieves: Legend of the Monkey Island

- rare and lucas film???

- sea of thieves and star wars?????

- i mean get it ig!

- i didn't mind sea of thieves but it seemed repetitive

- m o n k e

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

- FLIGHT SIM SKFJFKDJD

- okay but the added mechanics and mission type approach seems fun

- it looks visually stunning as always

Microsoft Flight Simulator • Dune Expansion

- desert

- oh. it's dune

- is it bad i haven't seen that or read it? probably

- i mean cool tho! y'all have fun

- theatre experience too??? aight

Senua's Saga; Hellblade 2

- cave! scary. but pretty

- it looks pretty,, i like the character rendering

- the whispering is throwing me off i cant understand shit (and there's no subtitles)

- ohhhh that was trippy

- it's got my curiosity; i support women's wrongs fr (joking)

Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

- ooh another look at like a dragon?

- OH HE IS NAKED OKAY 😳

- ong wait is he in MIAMI?? IT LOOKS LIKE MIAMI

- HELP HIM!!!!

- oh new game

Fallout 76

- I GOT SO EXCITED THEN JUST "CALL OF 76"

- MY BRO AND I CHANTED "VAULT TEC VAULT TEC VAULT TEC-";#[#*$*$*$*

- Another DLC? Probably

- I don't hate 76 but I am very >_> toward the direction

- Atlantic City??? WE GET A NEW LOCATION IN AN ONLINE GAME????

- 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😡

Path of the Goddess

- ooh capcom. i s2g if it's more final fantasy.

- nothing against the series but man after sgf i'm salty

- okay it looks different. and pretty! love the mythos elements

Forza

- Oh my godddd fucking cars

- i mean cool! i just don't get the racing games 🤷‍♂️

- it looks nice tho? i can't tell what's real footage and what's game tbh

- the cadillac does look snazzy i cant even lie

- ALL THIS FOR 2 CARS?? shit's wild

ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: Necrom (Shadow Over Morrowind)

- oh shit bethesda

- GOR FAMN IT ANOTHER ONLINE DLC

- eso was boring to me... then again i didnt play much bc paying for live is so tedious

- i am always a slut for this daedra tho. i dont remember his name

- tentacles yum yum

OVERWATCH 2

- overwatch??? fuck that game

- fuck the studio but also just fuck the game. it's not even any different from ov1 they didnt even do pve

- i mean cool heroes and design and lore but man. 😐

- story missions??? yeah right lmao

Persona 5 Tactica P5T

- chibi perdona

- cute style! see my last persona notes tho

- no new thoughts, looks aight

Starfield

- bethesda 3!

- the music is giving outer worlds.... tell me y'all hate that obsidian did better without telling me LSJDKDKD

- i mean. okay! it looks decent tho i can't be too mad

- it's got me curious about the story and lore if anything. i love space games 😌

- even the gameplay looks good... hm.

Jusant(?) // Font was hard to read

- ooo this style is nice. reminds me a bit of road 96

- i love the little blob. feeling very much cuteness aggression

- gameplay looks nice too! dunno about the lack of ui but maybe that's trailer purposes

Still Wakes the Deep

- ooh the water looks pretty

- so does the interior

- IS THIS A HORROR!!!

- im curious!

Dungeons of Hinterburg

- i thought this was the postal worker game honestly the style was similar

- it looks cute! again not my cup of tea but yea!

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty

- KEANU!!!!

- YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!

- SHOW US. SHOW US!! SHOW US KEANU

- 👁👄👁

- Still mad I won't be able to play it but I'll write my V's canon

- "Johnny, I'm dying. Nothing can stop that" OUGH

- wait... "i can save your life" DLC BASED ENDING???? NEW ENDING????

- Oh this district fucks

- BIG MILITARY MECH!!!!!!! AWOOGA

- NCUSA FEDS!!!!

- SCREAMING AND THROWING UP AND OUGHHHHH

- wait is it not coming to other consoles or?? they only showed an xbox release 🤨

Cities Skylines 2

- oh another cities skylines thing.

- this management system confused me honestly

- but i like watching ppl play it so! huge win

- it looks visually appealing

- curious about 2 because??? what are they changin

Metaphor

- atlus again okay

- is this another personal thing? i really am confused abt this aeries

- doesn't seem like it tho they said it was a new story

- it looks cool tho!

Towerborne

- creator of the who?

- this conematic style is interesting

- looks like a cute fantasy rpg

- nice that it's co-op and such

Clockwork Revolution

- oou bioshock infinite core

- the guy with the mechanical red carpet... iconic

- wait no stop this is looking more like bioshock with the gameplay i'm scared

- oh god oh fuck oh god oh fuck

- bioshock infinite if it was good

- bioshock infinite if it didn't demonize bipoc revolutions against the white upper class

- bioshock infinite if ken levine was dead 😌💕

BONUS

- ooh-be soft??? is it not you-be soft??? i've never heard it said like that

- okay "we made it easier to find new gen consoles" but why stop supporting current gen entirely????

- also the "new" series s... i hate the fully digitalized concept

Then Starfield direct started and I couldn't be assed to write notes

[catofadifferentcolor]

Terrible Fic Ideas #10: DA:I, but make it Old God!Inquisitor

I don't think it's ever mentioned in DA:I, but before the Temple of Sacred Ashes was discovered, Haven was home to a heretical dragon-worshiping cult only eleven years previous. While I think it would have been hilarious for someone to have brought up ("I guess they have no dragon to worship this time, so I guess some nobody with a glowing hand must suffice."), it also makes me wonder: what if the Inquisitor was a dragon - specifically, the same dragon the cultists worshipped as Andraste reborn?

Hear me out:

We know from the games that archdemons have to be killed by Grey Wardens or else their soul will just pass to the next darkspawn, making them effectively immortal. But what if that wasn't an archdemons thing but an Old God thing?

We also know from gameplay that just approaching a normal dragon tends to get one attacked very quickly. So either the dragon the cultists were worshiping at Haven was unusually docile... or it was the type of dragon that welcomed and was used to worship, such as one of the two as yet uncorrupted Old Gods: Razikale, the Dragon of Mystery.

(I chose Razikale largely because she's the only stated female Old God and there were a lot of eggs in the tunnels, but also because I love the idea of the goddess of mystery being such a mystery to her Ancient Tevinter worshippers that they'd never notice she'd occasionally go on holiday and leave them worshipping a simulacrum. This is how she managed to avoid being trapped like the others - she was on holiday and just kept hidden afterwards.)

So anyway, the Warden "kills" the dragon the cultists were worshiping, and while they're busy getting the ashes Razikale shunts her soul into the nearest available body and decides to chill out in the mountains for a decade or two. There's a Blight going on, after all, and the last thing she wants is to run into one of her Blighted brothers.

This works out pretty well until The Conclave happens, with all the noisy visitors disturbing her rest and eating her goats and blowing up what had once been her place of worship. She's not so much spit out of the Fade as the only thing left standing in the aftermath, albeit with somebody's annoying mark trying to eat its way into her magic.

And so Ragna, the deceptively fragile-looking human avatar of the dragon Razikale, becomes the Herald of Andraste.

Ragna runs with it. It's not unlike her cult days and she was getting a little bored just sitting in the mountains waiting for things to calm down. She comes to enjoy running around with her little mortal pets, ferreting out secrets and being asked her opinion on how to fix things. It makes her feel Important again.

Corypheus' attack on Haven just makes her angry because how dare he. These are her minions, not his, and Corypheus is still nothing more than the whiniest of her brother's whiny minions. Ragna can't even make Dumat deal with him because her brother's been dead for a thousand years, and what's the point of being a god if she always has to clean up her brothers' messes?

Things proceed apace until the Fade, at which point Ragna is revealed to be Razikale, largely because she goes screw it when it comes time to fight the Nightmare and shifts into dragon form to fight him. Everyone survives, but things get awkward after that.

Surprisingly Dorian is the most accepting - granted he's a little unnerved by Ragna declaring him to be her new High Priest ("Dumat's been dead for a millennium. If he can still have one, I get one too.") but she's a goddess of mysteries and he's a nerd. It works out.

Iron Bull has a more difficult time accepting, but only because he's shared a lot of his dragon sex thoughts with Ragna while drunk - and then only because she's shared a lot of her dragon sex thoughts with him in return. The realization that her thoughts might be dragon sex deeds she's actually done breaks him a little bit. As does her, "Sorry, but I'm only sexually attracted to dragons." (Blackwell and Sera eventually work themselves up to ask All The Questions about this and are a little broken themselves with the details - and also the admittance that, should they stumble across Lusacan before the Blight gets him, she'd jump him like a tree, "I haven't gotten laid in so long.")

This is probably what the bulk of the fic is - the Inquisition finding Ragna just slightly odd before the reveal and struggling to deal with the truth afterwards.

At all points, Ragna should be notably draconic, in action if not appearance, but everyone keeps coming up with excuses for it - "She's an exceptionally strong elemental fire user and arcane warrior, of course she'd be arrogant about it, who wouldn't?", "Who doesn't like shiny things? I hoard them too and people call me a businessman," "I think the minions thing is meant as a term of endearment. She always fusses when we get hurt, doesn't she?" - and then hating themselves afterwards because she made no attempt to disguise her personality at all.

As for the actual plot, the final battle ends with Ragna in dragon form just eating Corypheus - which can't be good for the digestion, what with all that red lyrium, but seems to work out well enough.

Otherwise... just dragon shenanigans, and dragon/mortal cultural misunderstandings, and at least three instances of someone bringing up the old dragon-worshipping cult.

...and that's all I have. As always, feel free to adopt, but let me know if you end up doing anything with it.

More Terrible Fic Ideas

[hematomes]

YELLS I AM HERE AND LATE YET AGAIN BUT UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE

i am. a childe haver . i have. i have mr. tortellini man,, I AM SO EXCITED his kit is so interesting to me i cannot wAIT to build him and run him with xiangling <33 also acquired a C4 yanfei and a C1 chongyun along the way, and got ning to C5,,,, and qiqi (bless i love her) so ig my ning is cracked now,, and my eventual permafreeze kaeya team will just. obliterate everything ft. chongyun and qiqi ,, jfc

AH ANYWAY yES PLS CAN WE GET A GEO CHARACTER THAT WORKS WITH EM?? i keep thinking abt liek,, swirlable geo,, bc geo, hydro, and anemo are my faves and im very upset that geo and anemo so far don’t have much synergy!! so like. idk i want swirlable geo (like come on, guizhong was the goddess of dust, that’s literally just geo-anemo) bc then EM geo would be SO COOL and omg albedo <333 hes so precious god i hope he and gorou work well together (even tho i am not an albedo haver)

mono geo supremacy, mostly bc crystallize is :/ and the best way to have elemental synergy when ur using geo is just… to avoid other elements lmAO i mean obviously other elements are good but they don’t have access to reactions w geo so :/

I FINALLY DID THE ARCHON QUEST I HAVE SO MANY THEORIES SO MANY AND RAAAAAH but it’s already a long ask so,, i will send them after u answer bc i don’t want to u to suffer thru my literal essays pls

HHHHHHHHHH NO IM THE ONE WHO'S LATE i can't believe i forgot this ask (ive been cleaning my ask tab these days so answering them was kinda taxing DSKJNSD me running away from them and answering asks only when they were in my notifications-)

omg CHILDE HAVER AAAAAA so happy for you <33333 and 4* constellations!!!!!! SO COOL especially ning since, yk.... geo supremacy

qiqi is so so cute i love her so much cute lil baby deserves the entire World

and permafreeze yesSSSS

sdskdsjn WELL WE WON'T GET A GEO EM CHARACTER FOR NOW APPARENTLY..... though i do have to reread gorou's kit bc im not entirely sure of how the guy works sigh

tho swirling geo does sound super cool.... if cyno is geo i think he could be linked to sand and shit so,, maybe??????

albedo and gorou are extremely broken together from what ive seen so i literally cant wait for itto's banner, im finally gonna go full geo (i love ningguang but hate her gameplay so itto is a Blessing)

and fr monogeo is the way, tho i have to admit at first i was using albedo on both def and em bc he was my team's shielder in the abyss (since i can't DUPLICATE zhongli smh) and his em allowed me to pass through the sheer cold phases,,, what a king

AAAAA DO SEND YOUR THEORIES IM BEGGING ON MY KNEES

[kurozu501]

Is there ANY redeeming value to Artemis and Orion? Cause I just got spooked by them and I can't burn them due to my self imposed ruling: Can't burn it if I don't have it. So I am DESPERATELY looking for some redeeming features in the two.

uh, gameplay wise they are apparently a strong single target archer with a special effectiveness against male enemies? kinda like a stronger euryale? so they’d be good against saber/berserker bosses? ive found their kit mediocre the few times ive been forced to use a support one tho.

character and lore wise they are a walking trash fire. a disgraceful pathetic mess that shits on both characters source material. artemis, the badass goddess of the hunt who chose never to have sex, is turned into a moronic giggling yandere bimbo who talks openly about how she cant wait to have sex with orion. im sorry, im still so furious about this. that whole scene in okeanos still makes me see red. the fact that this unfuny comedy duo’s only gag is to use male abuse as a joke is icing on the shit cake. the tity hill bullshit in the recent summer event just reminded me of how terrible they are and honestly? just burn them and use a euryale instead. then go read “god’s behaving badly” for a good story with a genuinely excellent artemis. 

[autumn-foxfire]

I saw the leaked yelan gameplay and ayato will have to wait. I hyped him up and was so anxious for my man but then she came out and took his place lmao. I will try to get my girl with her bow and if they both come early then I’ll try to get one of her cons as well. also about the lore thing: I think mihoyo finally listened to their players, they took a different route for the second part of ei’s story quest and now this area and all missions surrounding are amazing and well done. and about the fatui… in fiction I tend to prefer the “bad guys”, the fact they are willing to do all that shit (like letting dottore do what he does) is what makes them more interesting. childe hinted that the tsaritsa wasn’t always like this and I wonder what made her become what she is right now. why would such a loving goddess become someone who lets a mad scientist do all that to innocent people? I don’t know if I made my point clear buuut I hope it’s enough to explain why I’m “on their side” instead the archons or the traveler or dain.

You're not the only one I know who decided they wanted to go for Yelan too XD My boyfriend is going to do the same thing (he was originally going for Venti but as he lost the 50/50 but got Jean, who he's been wanting for months, he's happy to use his guarantee on her instead).

I'm happy the story quests and the character quests are getting better too, they really flopped with Inazuma for the most part, though the second quest for Ei and the quest for Yae were very beautifully done and were their saving grace. I was a tiny bit disappointed with Ayato's quest as I wish we had a chance to actually use him more but I also liked looking into the clan politics so I can't complain too much. It would be boring for anyone not interesting in that though.

Also I totally get what you mean about the "bad guys"! I was just giving my reason as to why I personally don't support them, however I do find them extremely interesting. The Tsaritsa's change is one of the biggest mysterious in the game so far (we know it's because of Celestia's actions 500 years ago but we don't know exactly what made her this way and I want to know).

I'm not sure if I'm on anyone's side. I find the traveller to be too focused on their twin to care about the world until they're literally being forced to do so, I think Dain is a bit too pessimistic about his circumstances (almost defeatest) though I do understand why he wants to stop the Abyss and I've given my reasons for why I don't support the Abyss or the Fatui. I'm just curious to see how everything comes together.

I would love to see the archons make a move eventually too as I have a soft spot for the ones we know currently (I wonder if that will change when we start to meet ones who weren't original archons or relatives of them like Ei).