#depending on where they end up

[wyllzel]

different origin companion endings I've now seen after 3 playthroughs 👀 (bg3 epilogue spoilers!)

ASTARION

Romanced - "Leader of the Spawn in the Underdark"

Adventurer of dubious morals 😎🏹 (x2)

GALE

Professor Gale Dekarios of the Illusion School at Blackstaff Academy 🤓 (x2)

Romanced - Rebuilder of Baldur's Gate

KARLACH

Returned to Avernus with Wyll (x2)

LAE'ZEL

Head of the githyanki revolution against Vlaakith (x2)

Remained in Faerûn, hunting down Vlaakith's Sword Coast strongholds

SHADOWHEART

Selûnite, let go of parents and adventuring on her own

Selûnite, saved her parents and lives with them on a farm (?)

Chosen of Shar, the new Mother Superior

WYLL

Returned to Avernus with Karlach (still pacted to Mizora) (x2)

Romanced - Grand Duke of Baldur's Gate (unpacted)

[sotiredmostnights]

i know everyone likes to put tharja in the "yandere goth girl" category but tbh i feel like pigeonholing her into one specific archetype does a huge disservice to her character. is she obsessed with curses and robin? yes. is she constantly shoved into a fanservice role by intsys? absolutely.

but i think a lot of people forget just how impactful a lot of her supports are...there's something about tharja that makes nearly everyone who interacts with her divulge their deepest secrets and points of anxiety with her. we see this with libra, who tells her of the abandonment he endured at the hands of his parents. we see it with nowi, whose cheerful demeanor slips off as she tells tharja of her missing parents. and although tharja is not the only one lon'qu confides in regarding ke'ri, their support is notably the only one in which lon'qu divulges that there was romantic involvement between he and his childhood friend.

and despite her antisocial exterior, she always listens mindfully and offers to help! she even goes out of her way to discreetly help the shepherds (getting virion to do odd jobs that benefit civilians, interrogating henry to make sure he bears no ill will towards ylisse, etc).

a big thing about tharja is that she IS kind. she IS considerate. she just also has a reputation to uphold as a dark mage and that (paired with her overall awkwardness ofc) makes her true nature hard to see at first glance

[ricky-mortis]

Curtwen Week Day 6: Happy Ending

[nadiasna7]

Hold me in your arms, you smell like home

[popsicle-stick]

im murder im mansplain and im malpractice the QUESTIONABLE CRIMINOLOGY TRIO

[tariah23]

One of the main reasons why I used to avoid Isekai’s, and fantasy works in general, like the plague is because of how over saturated they’d become with things that didn’t feel like they even belonged to the genre to begin with… it’s not too hard to find works that stand out but so much of those works have been pushed down and forgotten, it just sucks.

[daisyachain]

I’ve made this post before but I can’t be bothered to find it. In what we commonly consider a ‘traditional’/patriarchal European society, the paths in life are: marriage with children (acceptable), bachelorhood (frowned upon, locked out of certain professions/roles), spinsterhood in servitude to parents (probably suffering), religious servitude. An unmarried person is a servant either of the local lord, the Lord, or the parents. The parental relationship has a built-in hierarchy of the senior parents and the underling child. All pressures push down and toward marriage as a form of (highly limited for women) freedom.

One of the few ways around this system is the sibling relationship. Sticking with a sibling can provide an avenue to independence from hierarchy via a peer relationship, a person who moves in with a married sibling is protected under the auspices of that marriage (though somewhat dependent on the sibling) and is not automatically subordinate as with aristocracy/religious orders/parents. I’m interested in the sibling relationship as a kind of lifeline or shield against the buffets of social expectation specially in a world where there is some kind of censure against unmarriage and in which marriage is seen as the final step in growing up. Siblings are the playmates of childhood, they are biological family, to remain part of s biological family unit is acceptable, to remain unmarried is not, the sibling is the last line of defense against a spouse without submitting to hierarchy and/or could be read as the last line of defense against growing up.

This isn’t coherent. I like the idea of two siblings choosing to remain close into adulthood not because they necessarily like each other that much, but because they understand the consequences of abandoning someone to social forces. Siblings as a kind of delayed maturation, a sign that something is wrong, a failed evolution, a vestigial relationship, you’re supposed to be close growing up and then split into different clans, but they have failed to do so and have closed the loop to return to childhood.

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Insane again thinking about Sonic and Tails

Everyone always talks about the ways in which Tails is dependent on or revolves around Sonic. We talk about the ways in which he's depended on Sonic to save him, the way he likes tagging along on journeys, the way Sonic has inspired him, the way he always maintains Sonic's plane, leaves his door open for him with place to rest and good food to eat

But we rarely talk about the ways in which Sonic is secretly dependent or reliant on Tails

In a large portion of the games, if Tails isn't straight up on the journey alongside him, Sonic has the security that Tails can communicate with him from afar, and Tails usually appears to help out at some point during one of Sonic’s solo journeys. He doesn't have to be without Tails for long

And we see what happens (especially in Sonic Frontiers and Sonic Prime) when Tails is inaccessible. In Frontiers, he wonders where Tails aloud is unprompted, wanting to find him. Sonic's other friends even convince him to bother with the secrets of the starfall islands because doing so may lead him to Tails. He wants to find Tails so Tails can make sense of what's happening. And in Prime, Sonic ends up scrambling without Tails around. Especially in Prime S1 while things make the least sense, he seeks out Tails first (and then later hopes variants other than Nine can fill Tails' role) because he trusts him. He trusts that if Tails is here, then he can just tell Sonic what to do (come up with a plan for him to execute). With Tails around, Sonic doesn’t have to worry about not understanding the situation because Tails can figure it out. Without Tails, Prime!Sonic often shifts between trying to handle things himself to the best of his knowledge while rolling with the punches, and deferring to someone he can trust as a smarter strategizer to tell him what to do (a role Nine fills most notably, but other characters such as Rebel and Shadow fill on the occasion).

Of course there's also the earlier mentioned way in which Tails takes care of Sonic as well. I'm sure Tails isn't Sonic's only friend that he could crash with, but it's Tails who goes to such lengths to open his arms for him. If Sonic wants to crash in an actual house, if he wants to eat his favorite food, if he just wants to hang out, or if he needs help, Tails's home is open to him, accommodating his every need.

In my eyes, Sonic is the one who is surprisingly codependent here, who flounders a bit when everything goes to shit, Tails is nowhere to be found and can't be contacted, and there's no one else that can help him make sense of things. He takes Tails with him on so many journeys, even in games like Colors, where Tails largely follows behind Sonic while Sonic does a lot of the physical work. Tails doesn't need to be "useful" to tag along. He likes having Tails around, he wants Tails around. When Tails can't go with him or it's something Sonic should go alone for, he can always communicate with him and hear his voice from afar. And I'd argue there are more examples than Sonic Prime that may demonstrate Sonic trying to find someone to fill Tails' role the first chance he can get when Tails isn't around and can't be contacted.

The conclusion here is that a lot of people talk about Tails being dependent on Sonic or revolving around him, but they truly are partners. Sonic wants to be around Tails at this point perhaps as much as Tails always wants to be around Sonic. The two are strong together, they fill each other's gaps in ability. They both feel more secure when the other is around, and they rely on each other's presence. They are each a comforting existence to the other in similar and different ways.

[sadclowncentral]

How does one get into Space Law?? What choices led to that as a career? And can you give me a rundown of a normal day in Space Law?

well, getting into space law is easy - you study space law in uni. every continent offers multiple degrees either in space law or in international law with a space law specialization down the line. the hard part is knowing it exists, everything else is peanuts.

i have had two space law jobs so far, and both of them are very different in their normal days.

when i used to work in space law development, our days consisted of either being at the united nations and arguing with other states about new space law, or being at home in the ministry and writing advice for the government how to handle legal problems in space.

as a legal researchers, i mostly read a lot of papers, publish work and present at conferences, so just like any other academic job i imagine, just about - space law. there is five international space treaties, dozens of policies adopted by the UN and other intergovernmental bodies about all aspects of spacefaring, most countries having national space law and with over 8000 satellites in space, there is always something new to write about!!

[abtheb]

Haven't flexed for the internet in a while.

[kristybluebird]

Kozue accession as one of many surprises in an anarchic last year of operation at Ohtori.

In my freshman year of highschool there was a group of kids who spent 8th grade as the last class of students at a middle school that was to be decommissioned. The teachers were all either waiting to jump ship or retiring, a lot of work went undone, alot of student cruelty went unchecked. The upkeep was dismal, the roof leaked, light bulbs that extinguished themselves were not replaced, the students were only allowed in certain parts of the school. There seemed to be a liminality to the experience, spending most of your days within walls that would be torn down that very summer.

That's how I imagine Ohtori without Anthy and her power, a strange dwindling thing still shook by the conclusion of normality and humming with anticipation of the deathblow.

Anyway, Kozue Co-prez!

[tardxsblues]

[tearlessrain]

it's just so goddamn frustrating that we just live like this. we've currently got an administration actively (successfully) working to improve our lives and protect the planet and we could have had another but instead, because a bunch of idiots wanted lower gas prices (which they aren't gonna get anyway), we've got two months before we have to let the fascist wannabe dictators who want to destroy everything have a turn. because somehow nothing they've done has been enough for us to be like "maybe we shouldn't keep letting these people be in charge and fuck everything up again".

and the rest of us just have to deal with it. and survive the horrors until we can get rid of them again.

[olive-nothere]

Correct me if I’m wrong because at the end of the day I did fail math and I’m still a rookie when it comes to F1 BUT there’s two things that have crossed my mind and I fail to see people mention when it comes to the whole argument about how a lot of people think Oscar should just have let Lando switch places with him in Monza because “Lando has more of a chance to win the championship” and those things are:

1) Oscar is still in contention (even though yes it will be much harder for him to achieve than if he was in Lando’s position); and

2) even though F1 is a team sport, it’s also a individual sport and Oscar is not going to sacrifice his chances to at least be vice champion just because Lando has more points as of now and specially since he still has a chance to actually win the championship.

Like call me a dumbass or whatever but if I was in Oscar’s place I wouldn’t just give it up if I was still in contention. Not to mention that nothing is set in stone yet so. Oh well anyways would love someone who’s more knowledgeable to correct me if I’m wrong lmao

[thegreatyin]

honestly part of the reason i've been really looking forward to finally playing light fingers (aside from the obvious horrors and whatnot) is because it, alongside bag a legend, contains a Choice™ i to this day am Extremely Torn About Making. like i've known for ages that the Choice™ exists in this ambition and STILL i am undecided about it. this Choice™ is of course. well. let's just say that by the time this ambition ends, caeru may not be the only catboy around town

[gregoftom]

greg not only being tom’s attack dog, but his therapy dog, sheepdog, guide dog, watchdog, service dog