#don't read too much into this

[lexumpysfunland]

Oohhh hi hi I've been thinking about this for a bit!

Is the adventure line/The Narrator's tie in any way sentient, or is it just a part of him, like an extra arm? Wanted to know because I've only seen it move only once i think!

Ok bye, sorry

It's part of him that's all.

Let's see if I can make this work

[if-mirrormine]

"We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last." Alternatively, if you're nasty like me, le petite mort. Many kinds of deaths!

you get me anon let's kiss

[corgiteatime]

I just noticed a very amusing thing.

The persuasion check to give folk hero Wyll a little kiss at the refugee party where we are celebrated for doing the right thing...

... is the same persuasion check amount of talking Astarion out of, uh doing a very bad thing.

Due to game mechanics (playing as a monk vs paladin, & having someone to cast guidance), it was easier to talk a power hungry, blood drunk vampire/abuse victim out of slaughtering 7000+ people and sending them to directly hell so he could be The Most Evil Vampire In The World after 200 years of the worst torture imaginable than it was to give sweet Prince Charming Wyll Ravenguard a cute little peck on the lips at a party.

I know these are very different story beats in different runs of the game. But also that is an amusing detail.

[mirrorcatcreditcard]

Me normally: Meh. Life. Humans. Fascinating. Leave me alone. Curl up time. Where is my husband; I want to go home. Food. Let's get silly but I'm scared of doing that near others. I don't like you. I do like this flower tho. *stimming noise*

Me when energy and no bad headspace: I CAN TALK TO PEOPLE FOR HOURS YIPPEEEEDEDSE *proceeds to be as social as social media will allow me to be*

[cece693]

That awkward moment when you thought you saved your work as a draft but it published....apologies to those two people who viewed it 😞

[cherienymphe]

Ward is looking....especially DILFy

[tigressaofkanjis]

Imagine someone going over to your house and your house is dead silent other than these sounds. And you pretend not to hear the noise and drive your guest insane thinking your house it haunted. And then they get to the basement when you tell them to avoid going to the basement, they see the rhubarb and hear the unnatural noises they make like popping bones and then you appear behind them with an axe and say, "Now you will join their symphony too."

[uescontactlight]

something about a bonfire. something about a storm, a wildfire, a tornado (hurricane?), set me ablaze, set me free. judge of souls, of hearts. staring deep into you.

[somewhereincairparavel]

"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-

edit: my full analysis is out now! here

[inkskinned]

idaho is already moving to repeal same-sex marriage. they say it's an overreach of the governmental power, and that the law should be determined by "state's rights".

trump is expected to sign an executive order banning trans women in women's sports. in the article i've linked there, he notes that the "biggest hand" (most applause) he gets is when he attacks trans women. isn't that interesting.

i know my own father voted for him. my own father, radicalized by podcasts and bad youtube, voted for this; felt smug about it. he genuinely believes the dems want to "put christians in camps." as if the dems could ever get off their silken asscheeks and actually do anything. i wish they had strong enough messaging to be misattributed like this.

my girlfriend and i worked the polls on election day, counting ballots. my father was eating noisily beside us. "see? you're freaked out about nothing." after all, i live in massachusetts: beautiful, expensive, no-working-transportation MA. the only state to go all-blue.

"if it's state's rights, you'll be fine," he said. i'd been sworn at a few days before this. a year ago almost to the day, i got hit in the head with an empty beer bottle. he said i was being dramatic. after all, first-adopter "the gay state" Massachusetts would rather explode than get rid of same-sex marriage. so what should i care, after all.

this man is a deacon. i guess he expects me not to get out of the car in any red state. i guess he thinks my relationship dissolves across certain borders. he doesn't see why it's concerning that i can't leave, because why would i want to. who wants to go to idaho? who cares about the real, living, breathing people in idaho.

(but then again: who cares about the real, living, breathing humans on deportation planes. they're not us. after all, my father came here legally. i am an american citizen because of birthright citizenship. i am even debating this because he immigrated.)

i texted my mom about it. i feel sick. no matter how much activism and research and outreach i do: it's always shocking to see a room full of people who hate you so much that they take legal action against you. on my small ex-work-laptop, i watch the shaking hands of people in idaho begging their representatives to reconsider. the fear in their voice is palpable. no person should have their relationship threatened this way. the motion still passes, 46-24.

it's all just happening so fast. i feel i am pushing my hands through glass pieces, watching the cuts before i feel them.

people often reference "first they came for..." when stuff like this happens, and while that's fair - there's a very quiet part of me that always says they're already at your door, you complete idiot. the same force that governs trans women's bodies will also be used against cis women. the censorship about supposed "DEI terms" will also be used to stifle science in general.

it won't just be idaho.

[egophiliac]

I don’t think we’ve ever seen you draw knight of dawn before 🤔 what are your thoughts about him? Or take?

I've drawn him a couple of times, just really little/in the background. but I should draw him more, I love this guy a lot! I have many, many thoughts about him and the way he parallels Silver...and also I think it is extremely funny that his ghost is stuck in a ring. especially considering where that ring has been for the last 16-ish years.

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[wanderer-clarisse]

me every time I read the Silmarillion: I think Maedhros needs a hug

[extraterracetrial]

Personally I think Ody already knew Eury opened the wind bag, initially bc there's just something about his tone and the way Ody cut him off in the beginning of Puppeteer that felt... deliberate? But it's also mirrored in Scylla and Mutiny

It's just a little thing in Scylla but when Eury first tries to confess in Puppeteer Ody gives him a task instead "go check out the island" vs "light up six torches" instead of talking about it, like he's avoiding it

But more prominently is "whatever you have to say can wait some more of this I'm sure" sounds to me like "don't tell me. If you don't tell me we can pretend I don't know and I don't have to do anything about it. Lie to me (by omission)" vs Eury's "tell me you did not know that would happen" and "then you have forced my hand" while said in anger can also totally be ready similarly. I've already seen others talk about how he was basically begging Ody to lie to him so like, "lie to me so I don't have to do anything about it" again

(whether or not Eury would've been able to play along, assuming he did want that, I don't know, and ig we'll never know)

Also Ody's total lack of reaction. Sure Scylla had "leaving them feeling betrayed" but having it said out loud could still sting. It could also be a "I thought we had a deal to not talking about that" type betrayal.

Anyway many thoughts head full

[muppenthings]

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Ruh-roh! :)

[flightless-stranger]

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Early morning at the Kitty Cafe!

I had a lot of fun playing with this one.  Hermits and kitties, what else do you need in life?

Close ups under cut!