I just spent the last hour infodumping to my therapist about witchcraft and hellenic polytheism.
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I’m reading Witch King by Martha Wells, and now that I have read more than one (1) series by this author, I have been suddenly brained with a two-by-four sharpied over with “realizing that I really enjoy novels by Martha Wells because they live in the specific niche created by the intersection of casually and thoroughly queer casts and non-romance storylines”
I am as ever a sucker for non-human main characters struggling with their very human feelings, which is why I jumped on Witch King the moment I saw “the author of Murderbot wrote another book with a main character that’s non-human,” but I live in this dichotomy where I can really enjoy reading queer romances but I don’t really identify with non-ace characters (which is not actually something I figured out how to differentiate until I was Last Week Years Old). so there are lots of books out there that I enjoy reading but it’s comparatively rare for me to read something that feels like it was written For Me and Martha Wells does that very well
anyway, give me more ace it-pronouns human-spliced robot main characters and people-eating demons who consider rank over gender when finding new bodies to inhabit
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I do appreciate the fire side chat clarifying the actual stakes and damages of the last episode. I think Ame is probably going to have issues accessing the Citadel or her contacts there-in going forward.
Especially because Suvi, regardless of whether they make up or not, is probably never going to give Ame the same access to her (i.e. The Citadel's) resources as she had this arc. Which I think makes sense for a consequence in a long term campaign.
Part of what Ame needs to work on most is her ability to make her own allies and navigate social situations where she is not acting as the Witch of Toma but is instead The Witch of the World's Heart with all of the relative status, hierarchy and real politik implied by that.
Suvi has for various reasons been doing a lot of that for the Party as a whole and I think it'll be noticeable how much that is a weakness of Ame's almost immediately once we get to the Notth Pole.
In a weird way despite the class privilege - it feels like Suvi is just more aware of (or maybe just more affected by) human consequences than Ame is. Even thinking back to her first interaction as an adult in the campaign - the consequences Ame imposed on that asshole were incredibly Witchy.
I have seen a possibility (through magic) that this man may cheat and so I have given him a ring that will punish him magically if he does that.
It's a fun choice but not one that actually requires her to deal with the emotional fall out of any of that. A more direct/ but less Witchy thing would have been to warn that girl from her village her husband might cheat on her so she could decide if she still wanted to have a baby with him.
When Suvi is involved she does not get to have that distance- the person she killed was killed with her own hands. When those guards died on the wall she was right beside them trying to draw Orima's stranglers away. Now she's also the Citadel's no. 1 nepo baby but I think it's easier for us as an audience to parse that on sight rather than what's happening with Ame.
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I am SO glad I'm replaying the entire DA trilogy cause???? There's many thing I forgot or legit never experienced
I fucked the landsmeet for the first time, Anora managed to betrayed us TWICE??? I never had that happen before- sent her ass to the dungeon and made Alistair king fhhfhf
Habitually, Anora either become queen or get married to Ali' so that's brand new to me
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Would you ever consider making Queen of the Night or Emergence into skaters? I'm a bit too short for the maxis, lol. No worries if not though! Just curious. :) (PS: love your stuff!)
Thank you!
So for Emergence probably no, but I have been thinking about putting Queen of the Night on Midis (anything shorter like skaters/minis I'm not so sure).
I might do a round of preorders at some point in the near future (July?) specifically for just moving designs to other skirt types. We shall see..
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i've seen it a lot so this is just my two cents but i don't think that?? new orleans witches are powerless outside of new orleans that's always been an odd thing people claimed to me
they can do magic outside of new orleans they just practice ancestral magic in the city because that's where their ancestors were consecrated and it makes them stronger??? they don't just. lose the ability to practice magic (obviously, considering the ancestral well was destroyed in season three and vincent was still able to do magic in season four. followed up by them restoring it in season 4 but making davina the keeper of it all and, in season 5, releasing all the ancestors from the ancestral well while still being able to practice magic afterwards). not to mention papa tunde said he practices ancestral magic but wasn't from new orleans so obviously there are other ancestor aligned covens in the world but he, in new orleans, could use their magic anyway?? keep in mind that the ancestors that we've seen are specifically on a plane separate from the other side & the plane everyone's living in and the harvest is the thing that restores power to them for witches to use
sooo. YEAH. to me it would seem like they're still fully capable of doing magic, it just wouldn't be drawn from the ancestors (which only boosts their strength to begin with). it'd be their own power. which, for witches who leave their covens anyway (such as davina, who was not only able to do magic after leaving the coven BUT ALSO after being shunned by new orleans ancestors & witches alike), are already doing that??
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*slow blink*
I have new followers that don’t appear to be bots? This is very strange and unusual. I think you might be lost cause I’m not one much for content. Can’t remember the last time I wrote something that wasn’t vague ideas in my tags.
But you are welcome to stick around for whatever this is.
Er, I looked for a ‘vague gesture’ type gif and tumblr vomited up a load of Supernatural gifs and I just don’t have the bandwidth for that sorta trauma on a…Friday…it’s Friday, right? night.
Anyways, greetings and salutations non-bots.
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So, life update:
(a casual one no worries)
My best friend has been into Ni No Kuni for a long time and I was supportive obviously cuz it looked great. Well, I finally had an opportunity to properly give the series a try when i discovered the mobile name Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds and… I love it!
So I’m playing this game and I love it, right? Well, it’s an MMORPG meaning maintenance occurs frequently. It’s the morning after the day i discovered and played the game for like 16 hours and BAM it’s an entire day of maintence on my server.
So I’m all bummed about it but willing to find other things to do. Then, I realize maybe the game- since its mobile -is available on my switch, too! It’s still account based so I couldn’t play, but at least I’d own it there too, right? GUESS WHAT I FIND‽
For the price of 30$ plus tax I can own both Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch and Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant’s Kingdom which typically sell for the price of 110$ plus tax. ONE HUNDRED TEN DOLLARS DOWN TO THIRTY. Obviously, I coordinate with my dad (holder of my money, voluntary) and I get both.
Now I’ve been playing through ALL THREE games and I love them! The world, the stories, the characters, and gameplay all keep me so entertained and make me happy. I finally know some of what my best friend feels when she’s fixated on it now. I’m so grateful.
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