#catherine plays

[ladyxerra]

Yay I've unlocked a new conversation with Zhongli in my teapot 💛

I imagine all sorts of conversations over numorous cups of most delicious tea...

[dornishsphinx]

Spoilers up to Chapter 6

Celica von Warp Ragnarok Pink Palette Best Emblem

Crimson Cheer, Verdant Faith and…. Alabaster Duty. At least call it Silver Duty, but his clothes are just as ‘azure’ as the others’ are red and green! Ah… (also personal skills based around Our Avatar, sigh… just make them less effective and applicable to a wider variety of unit…)

In any case, I’m really enjoying what they’re doing with clerics being able to make a protected unit around them, especially now that I have two, it just becomes an advancing formation and they can heal each other to let them chain guard the next turn. Plus being effective against ranged! Also backups are fun! Boucheron is pretty forgettable but I like how the backup mechanic works enough that I keep giving him preferential treatment lmao, he currently is Marth’s pet unit. Break is fun as well.

Also I’m really actually pretty enjoying the joke of the fact Yunaka is obviously an ex-assassin and nobody realises it I wish it had continued rather than her immediately admitting it for sympathy points. I’m already a little biased towards her because Micaiah got attached to her - clearly because Sothe reasons.

[crowleybrekkers]

god keep your ladyship still in that mind, so some gentleman or other shall ’scape a predestinate scratched face.

much ado about nothing (2011)

[misandriste]

↳ endless gifs of lena luthor ✰ 85/∞

KATIE McGRATH as LENA LUTHOR in SUPERGIRL ⪼ 5.14, "THE BODYGUARD"

[cynassa]

Hey hey what if I told you that Jason throwing himself on Sheila to save her against the bomb right after she betrayed "Robin-him" to the Joker ... is the SAME STORY as Jason throwing himself in front of Zur-en-Arrh to save Bruce right after he forcibly injected Jason and tried to kill off "Red Hood"

[henley-reeves]

"I do love nothing in the world so well as you."

[elliot-amy]

Catherine Hicks in a behind the scenes photo from Child’s Play (1988)

[paradox-n-bedrock]

[mizgnomer]

Rivals vs. Doctor Who - Parallels

[yrsonpurpose]

Nicholas Galitzine talking about the connection between Mary & George and Red, White & Royal Blue

[chelshiart]

shout out to my siblings for being tolkien-nerds because they make it possible for me, a dwj-nerd, to photobomb their lego rivendell set <3

context of dwj's history with tolkien:

"Tolkien was a different matter. He was just a kind of eminence grise and a legend. You couldn’t hear him lecture. He worked at not letting you hear, because he wanted to go away and finish writing The Lord of the Rings. So he had the very smallest lecture room. First of all it was packed out, so he spoke with his back to the audience and mumbling. Unfortunately he was talking about - meditating on, really - what a plot is like and how it mutates into other plots, and this I found so fascinating that I went back the next week as did one other person. And this meant that he couldn’t stop lecturing and still get the money, which apparently in those days you could if no one turned up - it was a dreadful racket, really. He could have given just the one lecture and then been paid for a term if we’d all stayed away."

 (Quoted from “Interview with Diana Wynne Jones, 22 March 2001” Page 170 in Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom, by Teya Rosenberg et al. Peter Lang Publishing, 2002.)

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[ladyxerra]

I know that nobody plays Epic7 but I gotta share this. I finally beat Zio!!!!!!

And here's my team:

(for whoever needs the stat info, I didn't use high end gear, only made sure that STene, SSB and ARas had 100 % crit of all the stats)

[dornishsphinx]

Spoilers up to Chapter 12

So, I may have cheated when I played through Chapter 10 and 11 once I saw that Ivy and Zelkov join at Lv17 and my squad were at ~Lv11-13, so I went back and did some grinding because skirmishes are terrifying enough as is without the bridge map flier swarm going up by four levels out of nowhere. Plus I really wanted Canto (okay, “Canter”) on Chloé given that it’s been pretty useful to have a pegasus knight who can hit then get out of harm’s way and we’re losing access to Sigurd for a while, but SP is difficult to grind, so I’ll just be saving hers up until he inevitably comes back. They’re really stingy with money in this game too, though I suppose weapons don’t break…

Also, now people are arriving promoted, so maybe I should start using master seals at a specific level on units so I have some idea about vaguely who’s at what level. Though looking it up, seems Lv1 Paladin Vander is Lv15 overall, while everyone has raced on ahead of him now, so I’ll just have to keep that in mind.

Yeah now I might need to actually give my units a critical eye. Clanne is blowing Citrinne out of the water in everything but magic, for example, but Citrinne is a lot more interesting to me haha. (Maybe I should second seal him, but his magic is still better than his strength!) I’m trying to use everyone, so it’s not like I’m having to make a decision over which to keep on the main team just yet, but there aren’t that many master seals, so difficult decisions might need to be made…

Three Houses has given me the bad habit of not needing to choose who to put on the sidelines since I always went with the class or faculty-Wolves on Church route lmao.

Yunaka is on the team no matter what, of course, her personal skill and crit personality change are too fun (also! I found out her real name!). I actually like Lapis a lot more than I thought I would, but Kagetsu, Diamant and Alear are all taking up footlocked sword roles… Alcryst was kinda way too cartoony for me when he was introduced, but when he is in serious moments, he’s fine and “Get Behind Me!” proccing all the time when he’s behind a frontliner is fun. Alfred has the opposite problem, where he had more potential to be interesting at first, but his supports get dull when they’re all about bodybuilding while his sister has to reveal why he’s the way he is in other supports - but Amber is also v gimmicky and probably the least interesting Brodian unless his supports pull things around, so eh. Jade is more interesting to me than Louis, a good front-liner, and at least one axe, but her personal vs his means she’s more of an all-rounder compared to Louis’ pure defence, especially now I slapped Res+3 on her… Jean was initially a little bit more unique, but Framme’s support had her call out Brodian aggression against Elusia so I’m warming to her lol. But her personal only matters when Alear is fielded…

…It’s gonna be a Brodian run, isn’t it huh, and just after me complaining about Morion lmao. Diamant’s insistence on peace in his supports compared to his dad has endeared him to me, though. I’m interested to see more of his supports with Elusians who are not Kagetsu who is from somewhere else which is why I guess it’s fine that it’s just “ohh let’s have a duel and compare our strength” FE support number 5890267

Fogado does seem interesting though, Pandreo seems decent, fake horse Boucheron left my memory the moment I won the map.

[anghraine]

Also, after all my years of using the Project Gutenberg etext of P&P, I only today noticed that one of the illustrations is of a scene we don't actually "see" in the book but that's hilarious to think about: Lady Catherine telling Darcy about Elizabeth's outrageous!!!! refusal of her demands. It's not my favorite style of art but I kind of love this one:

Details I love include:

Lady Catherine's sheer indignation and Darcy's "..." response.

Lady Catherine's hat feathers, and the inevitable fur edge of her ... pelisse? I always forget my fashion terms. Also, that Darcy doesn't have his cane but Lady Catherine does.

Darcy's height and spindly legs (though I don't like the curls; I picture Darcy as one of those people with very straight, smooth, thick hair that refuses to hold a curl).

Lady Catherine and Darcy having the same nose.

What I'm guessing is a pianoforte for Georgiana to play on the side of the room despite the fact that Georgiana's status and wealth allows for her own separate residence.

[expelliarmus]

[fistfuloflightning]

‘Oh! I must tell you, that just after we parted yesterday, I saw a young man looking at you so earnestly - I am sure he is in love with you.' Kattika coloured, and disclaimed again. Isara laughed. ‘It is very true, upon my honour, but I see how it is; you are indifferent to everybody's admiration, except that of one gentleman, who shall be nameless.’

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