#dunno how I feel about it yet

[eatyourmaker]

@yippee-11 my totally normal eldrich horror husband

[greyrain23]

A gift for @tohruies !!

"The perfect winter day."

Word count: 400

Not proofread ! (Also, I haven't gotten alhaitham's character down fully. Bear with me 🤧)

The air was chilly as snow fell in soft clumps, collecting in the pairs' hair as they walked down the streets covered in a thin layer of white.

Alhaitham carried a few bags in one hand, different designer brands from the mall. He'd only have the best for the one he loved most. In his other hand was coco's, tucked into his jacket pocket to keep her hand warm while he tossed a short glance every once in a while to make sure she kept her other hand tucked in her own pocket.

The silence between them was comfortable, laid over the area like a warm blanket in the cold air. It wasn't long before alhaitham was pulling the door open for coco to step inside, following after her. As she took her shoes off, he gently placed his hand over her shoulder, making sure she won't fall before slipping his own off.

After putting away the new items they bought together, he made sure the heat was on before joining her in the kitchen, a nice warm drink already being poured into two mugs. He smiled softly, resting his hands on her hips as he pressed himself close, giving a soft kiss to the back of her head.

"I made you some hot chocolate." She turned her head to look up at him, a soft smile to match his pulling at her lips. "..thank you."

The two made their way to the loveseat near the tv, alhaitham sitting down and pulling her onto his lap as he gently took the hot mug from her hand to set it beside his on the end table. "What was that movie you wanted to watch last week?" His voice was gentle beside her ear, hus breath warm against her skin.

"Oh!" Coco grinned and reached for the remote, leaning back against her lover as she set the movie up, yet his gaze did not stray from her lovely face. "Ready?" She turned her head to meet his gaze and held back a small laugh at the expression on his face. Absolutely lovesick.

She leaned in to press a quick kiss to his lips and directed him to watch the tv, starting the movie.

He couldn't help the way his eyes drifted back to coco every once in a while, admiring her beauty before he forced his gaze back to the screen.

[eye-of-yelough]

my original concept of Slater Adaar was 20, but recently i’m more and more compelled by the concept of her being At Least 38. which would give her a 17 year age gap with Sera. by the way.

[donutfloats]

Gabriel’s flock is the closest you’re gonna get to a cult that actually isn’t a cult due to their mostly pacifistic ways

This does cause problems however when dissenters or spies start causing problems

Gabriel is a little backwards with how they deal with people like this, as they simply just kick them out instead of forcing them to to change their ways

Granted if they cause actual problems, like stealing, damage to property, or hurting others: they will get sent to jail

For the most part it’s these individuals choice if they want to stay, Gabriel isn’t forcing them

Doesn’t mean Gabriel can’t get frustrated tho and contemplate “what if I just said fuck it and murdered these people”

[turtleblogatlast]

“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo

[shaykai]

[benevolenterrancy]

hi! I recently came across your tgcf fics, and I wanted to say you’re a phenomenal creator. the recovery series fic and the gloves fic and just all of them. thank you for your content and great attention to detail.

do you have any thoughts/hcs on FXMQ and Xie Lian you’d be willing to share? within the original story or the universes of your fics!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you're enjoying them! (ﾉ*^▽^*)ﾉ.｡:*☆

hmm, random thoughts about the FXMQ... a silly headcanon: Feng Xin has very much been hoisted by his own petard by heckling Mu Qing! That is to say, he'll harass Mu Qing relentlessly about something stupid only to be confronted with a similar situation and realise that there's absolutely NO way he can act in anyway similar to Mu Qing or he'll never hear the end of it.

(For example, he has tolerated some truly atrocious divine statues in the past because he's heckled Mu Qing so much about how picky he is with his divine statues that there's no WAY he can say ANYTHING without seeing that smug bastard's face in his head so he just has to bite his tongue and tolerate some unspeakably ugly statues.)

Mu Qing doesn't generally suffer from similar overthinking (he'll just prepare to kick FX's ass if he dares to say anything about it) except for things more directly related to himself. I think he genuinely finds sewing/embroidery/etc rather relaxing work but he'd rather die than have anyone ever see him do it because he's made such a big deal about not doing that sort of "servant" work anymore.

(He actually really enjoyed stitching Ruoye back together because it gave him the perfect excuse -- he's returning a favour!! and Xie Lian is hopeless!! of course he had to!! -- and he secretly considered using white thread to embroider some invisible little designs just because he doesn't quite want to stop... only he knew he'd get caught if he messed with Xie Lian's spiritual device like that and gave up the idea)

[seventh-district]

again and again i find myself lamenting that audio roleplay isn't taken more seriously by some people. like yeah, they often have a romantic element, and by nature they usually directly involve/address the listener- and i totally get that those things aren't to everyone's taste. no art or entertainment is universally appealing, and that's okay! but.. it still makes me a lil sad that the "cringe" reputation of asmr/audio rp precedes it. there's a whole lot of talent and creativity being poured into these audios by so many people that i feel goes unrecognized and/or disrespected simply due to the medium that the stories are being told through.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[kumakuma-circus]

just randomly remembered that during my like 10+ attempts at the shadow yukiko fight i more or less consistently ran out of revival beads so yosuke was just dead (well unconscious but whatever) on the ground for like half the fight gfhfjvhfhfhd-

[midnightswaltz]

So, I finished Veilguard & have some thoughts.

On the whole - I enjoyed it. I can understand the problems some people have, but I liked it. I liked the combat, I liked the companions. Even the stuff I saw coming I thought was fine & the stuff I didn't, surprised me.

That said, major spoilers ahead:

I played an elven woman, mage, veil jumper.

Every guide I ran across that discussed how to get the best ending, says that you HAVE to save Minrathos instead of Treviso. As I had already chosen Treviso at that point (& honestly, the city with only the assassin's guild as protection probably needed my help more, even if you didn't split the team evenly sending half to Minrathos & half to Treviso - which you do.)

Anyway, THIS IS WRONG. I was still able to save everyone who could be saved even after saving Treviso. Even got the trophy.

Also, while you can't rank up the city, a stall in the spirit market in the Crossroads will sell you stuff from the Spirit Dragons & you can sell stuff to up the Shadow Dragon's Strength, which is separate from it's Rank.

I cried when we found Hector & Lorelei's bodies.

(Actually, I cried more than a few times in this game)

(I'm not discussing Varric. I can't hate it, but I'm still not over the rug pull, even when I realized it was coming, I'd hoped not)

I do not like the uneven consequences for choosing which city. If you can't continue a romance with Lucanis after choosing Minrathos, you shouldn't be able to continue a romance with Neve after choosing Treviso.

Whoever you choose to lead the distraction team in the endgame will die, you cannot change that - but none of the guides I've run across have mentioned that if Davrin dies ASSAN DIES ALSO.

Not fly off to mourn for the rest of the game - DIES WITH DAVRIN

(I wonder if this is effected by whether or not the griffins stay with the Wardens or are sent to Arlathan - I had them set free in Arlathan.)

The hardest choice in the game when I replay it, is going to be having to choose between Assan & Harding.

I loved Davrin, he is awesome, but Harding is Harding.

But Assan is basically a PUPPY

This game should go up as a warning on that "Does the dog die?" website

The Lucian romance was sweet, but a major dearth of kissing.

It's literally like they totally forgot to put them in.

There's two in the spending the night scene at the end of the game

but that's it

There's like 4 romance scenes other than that & each one should have ended with a kiss - it was right there, but it didn't.

The desert scene would have been absolutely perfect if Rook & Lucanis kiss & Neve walks in, sees & says "oops, don't mind me. please continue"

I also missed being able to have just little romance moments with your L.I.

The dialogue was hit & miss, but no better or worse that any other DA game. It got really awkward at times, then there were times where I'd comment & Rook said the same thing I just did.

(Maybe that says more about me though...)

I LOVE ERIKA'S VOICE AS ROOK

Admittedly, I'm biased, I love Erika Ishii just in general

They definitely should have given more than 3 questions to input our previous choices.

At one point you can talk to Harding & she will talk about the Inquisitor's Inner Circle. She specifically talks about Sera & Cole - two characters you don't have to ever recruit.

She also speaks about Charter being the Inquisition's spymaster - if Cassandra or Viv are chosen as Divine, Leliana remains spymaster. I'd at least have liked some acknowledgement of why Leliana retired.

Not to mention: Morrigan, the Well & Kieran. What they had was kinda okay, but it wouldn't have taken more than a line or two to explain Morrigan's situation in game.

There was a love letter from my inquisitor's love interest to the inquisitor in the miscellaneous section of the library.

It was really sweet

I really, really liked the various ways you could react to all the info about the gods as an elf yourself.

It was kinda nice how people didn't seem to keep forgetting that my Rook is an elf.

I actually enjoyed having everyone sitting around the table discussing certain revelations.

I sat up straight during one particularly subtle revelation - which I had not seen coming & fully expected none of the characters to notice - but Davrin noticed it.

Give Isabella pants, goddammit.

Or at least some indication she's not walking around in all that sand and salt water with just a massive peace of jewelry protecting her bits.

I was finally happy with how my Inquisitor looked in the character creator.

Ravi Lavellan in DAI does not look anything like Ravi Lavellan in my head. But Ravi in DATV looks much closer

I did a little dance when Dorian showed up

I did a little dance when Dorian teased my Inquisitor about having someone waiting for them back home

And given her reaction I'm choosing to believe that they survived

This is also something I really liked. One of my biggest irritations in Inquisition was that something MAJOR was going down with the Wardens & my warden apparently just kinda fucked off to find a cure?

But there's a very, very good reason why the Inquisitor is not more involved - the south is fucking falling to the Blight.

(And still they show up like 3 times)

I was a little surprised (& disappointed) that the endgame came so soon, until I realized how fucking long it is.

These are not all the thoughts, just the ones I can remember right now.

[woahjo]

im about to say something a little emo but bear with me pls.

i genuinely am happy being single. im okay not having a partner and not doing the things. i love having me time and i love being able to devote my time entirely to myself and my friends and i KNOW that my worth isn't contingent on having a partner or not. but sometimes man, it just gets a little hard. because it's never happened for me yet and because there's a small part of me that doesn't think it ever will. it's not because i need someone else to make me feel fulfilled. i am plenty fulfilled by my own company and by my art and by my hobbies and by my friends. i just want to love, you know? i want to experience loving someone and being loved back. i want to be able to look at someone and love their eyelashes and their smile and their nose and their chin and their shape and be able to tell them that. i want to be able to imagine a future with someone. platonic love exists too and i don't think anything will be able to replace it, but i would like to experience romantic love. i want to know what it's like to care and be cared about that way. but the problem (and the nice thing i guess?) is that im not in any real rush. i'm looking, but im not devoting my time to it, nor do i feel the need to "settle" just to experience it. but it does get incredibly isolating, especially BECAUSE i don't care much about that stuff. idk how else to explain it other than isolating. it seems like everyone i meet has dated or is dating and that seems to be what people want to talk about, while i've never really done any of those things, nor do i know what its like to be cared about that way. and while im okay with the fact that it hasn't happened yet, the insecurity creeps up constantly that it never will.

im not wording properly but it's isolating. i feel very isolated in my experience with romance and dating. and while i have limited experience (strictly sexual, which i have mixed feelings about), i feel like i am too far behind for anyone to take me completely seriously. i need to move slow and it feels to me like everyone moves so fast. at least in my country/state, it feels like "sex first, talk later" and i don't want to do that. it's an isolating experience and the lack of... idk understanding (?) or maybe willingness to learn about me when dating can sometimes make me feel like maybe people think that there is nothing worth knowing or learning.

[contagious-addiction]

*grinding my teeth*

No I don’t need a partner… but what if I wanna be a little unhinged about my interests and cuddle someone and get a little kissy or two and have someone willing to let me talk their ear off for a second and then let me listen to them talk about whatever they want cos I want to hear them talk about something they’re passionate about and maybe fall asleep together while we’re chatting because we’re comfortable with eachother and don’t want to be away from eachother :(

[velveteen-vampire]

trying to remember how to draw sonic characters again

[unknownarmageddon]

ight, DAILY HOZIER!!!

last two of wasteland, baby!!!! then we move on to an EP and THEN unreal unearth

just so i dont gotta redo everything tho, tomorrow you get three songs cuz i’d already taken pairs of songs, so tomorrow is the only time you get a three set

I ALMOST FORGOT FUCK wailing i was watching. snapcube dubs i forgot i had hozier homework /silly

but yippee yippee lesgo!!!

[kazieka]

chronic pain thots in the tags