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Seven of Nine + her journey in Starfleet (S02E09 vs S03E01 vs S03E10)
#and what a journey it has been!#jeri ryan take a mf BOW!#seriously i'm in tears#so many tears#i'm so proud of her#for forging her own way#through prejudice#through her own doubts#and here she is.#seven of nine#take a bow!#my girl#i'm so proud#so so proud#star trek picard#picard spoilers#s2e9#s3e1#s3e10
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i’m a mike defender until the very end because i love my boy so so much but nothing makes me angrier than when he calls el “eleven”
#like bestie what are you DOING#YOU gave her that nickname#WHY ARE YOU CALLING HER THAT .#it's just like .#the way the nickname el humanizes her in s1 and makes her more than this lab experiment and is one of the first moments in which el gets#a chance to forge her own identity#an identity that isn't solely shaped by her trauma or pain#but one that is now beginning to be shaped by friendship and love#and it's so special to me that the boys give her this nickname#but then anytime ANYONE calls her eleven i was to strangle them#i just.#mike. why.#WHY.#the one that really really drives me up the wall is the one during their fight scene#like i just get so flabbergasted by how people can still think this is healthy#and i love both of them so much#so it just makes me so sad to see how toxic they really are as a romantic pairing#anti milkvan
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so I saw @kyri45 's ISAT and Sky: COTL au and I HAD to chime in with my tiny redesign of Iez for the au. Unfortunately her mask is a Giant personality of what she is so she carries it at all times with her anyways but it's a welding mask now. And I kinda removed Ray from here cause it may be a little much for her if she's gonna just be on the side LMAO
#still hangs out in forest mainly and still loves forging#but she got even more mad scientist now#sky cotl#iez#isat#she would absolutely also be a cryptid. she knows every single inch of forest by heart and has made her own umbrella device#would see the gang and be like “can't fly? pathetic. here let me show you how it's done” and fall off a cliff because she tripped on a rock#the lack of ray (krill for those reading tags and have no idea what im talking about) would just crank her mad scientist personality to 200#sky ocs#however. talking at kyri now if you read the tags and see this post. if you want a little gremlin with a pet krill feel free to give her ra#basically a smaller than usual slightly blue tinged and way more grey than black krill that she rides like nobody's business
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it's no secret that i am absolutely not nightheart's fan, but idk where all the "oh maybe he'll go back to using the flame- prefix" theories are coming from cause idk that seems like a pretty shitty way to conclude someone's (already pretty flimsy and shittily constructed, don't get me wrong) arc about choosing their own identity instead of one put upon them by others
#wind spoilers#i mean not really even remotely spoilers LOL i've been seeing this posed since book 2. just tagging just in case#the only way i can really see flameheart 2.0 coming to fruition is if they kill off sparkpelt for his character development#and i would fucking HATE that after how they wrote her in sky. most miserable disservice to a character ever#to a lot of people nightheart is a character about forging your own identity and coming to be accepted and respected for it#so if they kill sparkpelt to walk back his arc literally everybody loses
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“Image-obsessed celebrity can’t be struggling behind the scenes because being ultra-famous and almost pathologically protective of your public image is famously a very mentally healthy experience with no psychological downsides” is just as much of a dogshit parasocial take as “famous straight conventionally attractive if sometimes cryptic celebrity is leaving secret puzzles to prove to me specifically that she’s gay”.
You don’t know these people. YOU DON’T KNOW THESE PEOPLE. You can just like or dislike the music and it will be ok. I will not send the art cops to your house. Go to a coffee shop and put a tenner in the busker’s guitar case if you’re that exercised about it.
Also, not for nothing, being wealthy can be helpful with mental illness, but pushy stage parents and legions of obsessive fans historically Are Not. We’ve somehow blown straight past “money can’t buy happiness but it can pay for rent and doctor’s appointments which sure fucking help” to “no rich person has had a real problem ever” and I regret to inform you that that second statement is what the original platitude is about. It is, tragically, possible to have rent and groceries and doctors bills and cute clothes paid for without a second’s thought and still have a bad time of it, because even rich people are human beings who come from families of human beings and have human friends and lovers and staff and coworkers and part of the human condition is that sometimes some of us suffer.
I get the impulse to be resentful of someone singing about having a hard time when the spare change from between her couch cushions would easily save your life. I’ve been through a period of my life where I tried not to obviously resent my friends for *having food*. It’s ok if you can’t listen to her for that reason and in fact I’d argue that you shouldn’t. It’s painful, and it’s not the kind of pain that produces anything worthwhile, just more resentment. But “she’s making up alcoholism for clout” is such a deeply stupid way to phrase that. You don’t know her. What if she isn’t? What if she IS? Making up personas is literally part of her brand. Do you need a hug? Sincerely. I think a hug would maybe be more productive here. I’m sorry things are hard. It’s not fair. You’re right. It isn’t.
I just think one slightly overexposed pop singer is maybe not the main reason it’s hard.
#I’m probably not making any sense#but the utterly unhinged fanfic that just crossed my dash while masquerading as cultural analysis made me see red#I don’t even particularly care about tswift#I own 3 of her albums and don’t keep up with new releases#she’s done several things i deeply disliked#but i don’t think she’s a bad person#just young and out of touch#but the idea that having nice things is the same thing as being mentally or even physically healthy is rancid#it’s the cornerstone of the self-care bilking machine#and a way of making you miserable without giving you any tools to actually make your life better#HUMAN. CONNECTION. IS. HEALTHY. MONEY. IS. NOT.#that’s an oversimplification#rent obviously is healthy#abusive family isn’t#but your guiding principle needs to be forging strong healthy connections#not accumulating so much stuff that god can’t touch you
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hey folks did you know i love super dangan ronpa 2
#marzi speaks#thinking abt the themes in that story#ESPECIALLY the letting other people’s perceptions dictate who you are vs choosing who you are for yourself and not letting anyone stop you#like almost every single one of the sdr2 cast has a front they put on/identity they’re ‘supposed’ to be vs who they truly are#komaeda’s i could write an essay on so we’re gonna skip him bc. energy#hajime’s is obvious. i don’t need to explain that one. though he tries really hard to come off as more masculine as well which. augh#speaking of masculine souda is a victim of toxic masculinity. he was bullied and had a dad who sucked so he changed himself to look fiercer#ibuki left her band due to ‘creative differences’- she didn’t fit into that classic pop band mold and she allowed herself to deviate#mahiru puts extra pressure on men around her bc Her Dad Also Sucked and she’s sick of having to deal with weaponized incompetence#gundham is this sweet kind kind boy who hides it all underneath a veil of darkness. the darkness is not a lie either though he is both#sonia. literally a princess. has huge shoes to fill. in reality she’s a horror fiend who just wants to nerd out abt true crime#nekomaru’s heart condition would have taken him out of sports forever but he found another way and started team managing instead#fuyuhiko is set up to be the next head of the kuzuryu clan but on the inside he is so compassionate (and canonically a prude lmao)#peko is literally raised as a tool and tries to embrace this role even though the one she works for just wants her to be herself#i haven’t seen hiyoko’s ftes but i imagine she’d be far less cruel if she didn’t have to deal with constant infantilization and perverts#twogami just. as a whole. the whole character. yeah#there’s for sure more but i haven’t seen everyone’s ftes so. yanno#like fuck !!!!!! people will always have a perception of what they think you should be but you cannot truly be happy#until you allow yourself to disregard those expectations and forge your own path instead !!!! fuck !!!!!
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need to start ocposting. Ooohhh u wanna know about blorbos from my mind palace soo bad
#i need to yap ab the syzygy (game im making) chars so bad guys theyre so important to mee😞#my beloved weird chronically online gaggle of teenagers:) Theyre freaks and i want only the best for them#im working on their designs rn...mwahahhah... well i have their designs i mean like their outfits. im not a fashion savvy guy so im-#struggling picking what to make em wear yk.. andalso theyre not all super developed (im tryna flesh out 2 of then specifically rn) so.#but. i want to. show them off. My children that i forged feom my brain like im riordanverse athena<2#once i finish their designs ill start posting ab them bcI LOVE THEM SM ok. im 3/5 way done for the main character protags#(i still havent designed the main villain but. we dont need to talk abojt her 😛.)#cam.txt#Sometimes u must be a freak about your own creations godbless. actually u must Always do this. my final message#btw i have a pinterest board of them all w sections for each character and their dynamics etc... Smiles widely. at u.
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Master Eiji is two things to Mizu: a parental figure and an artist. He has a great respect for sword making, it's a process and a labour and it comes from both body and soul. Swords are weapons yes, but they're also the soul of the samurai. It's funny how Mizu's potential actual father, Abijah Fowler masters the arts (paining, woodblock, etc.) in technical terms but has a deep disdain for art. He considers them a waste of time and while Master Eiji puts time and effort and love into what he creates, Fowler has no love and resents that he has time and energy to spare for the arts he uses to pass the time. Mizu grew up with Eiji's philosophy in life and now will likely have to learn from Fowler on her way to London. Master Eiji may be the angel on Mizu's shoulder but Abijah Fowler is most certainly the devil. It'll be interesting to see how much influence over her he ends up having now that they're stuck dealing with each other for the next while.
#blue eye samurai#I guess Eiji and Fowler are kinda narrative foils#it is interesting how Eiji lost his sight in a fire#I wonder if he was perhaps on his own revenge quest#perhaps we will get backstory#I guess one possible ending is that Mizu gets her revenge and perhaps like sword father gets blinded in the process#perhaps she will go back to the forge after discovering the real father is the sword maker she met along the way#and fowler very much does not see revenge as an art so I wonder how his perspective might affect Mizu
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some of my durges heehee some of my tavs: [part 1] [part 2]
#HIII dont read the tags if you dislike talks of extreme violence OR murder OR torture OR cannibalism OR just general bhaalist activities lol#if u do read the tags though llol hiiiii sorry for the ramble but erm. enjoy ig#something ive done with all my durge playthroughs is have orin take a trophy from each of their bodies in some way.#in this case; casimir's horns and carrion's right eye#she took casimir's horns and capped them in gold as a slight#before da lobotomy cas said the way shed kill herself after murdering the world was to forge herself a crown of gold from her own horns#cas wanted to be king of the murdered world in the name of her father. therefore crown. yeag#“crown” as in she would pour molten gold over her horns and let it drip down and boil her alive before she joined murder dad in death#so thats exactly what orin took from her#she made her horns into a golden crown then took it from her by cutting them off#in my head orin made the crown of horns wearable and would wear it during their duel#carrion's trophy situation is different from casimir's#carrion's name pre-orin lobotomy is still unknown to her#carrion was just the first thing she remembered when she woke back up after everything#all because orin called her that while torturing her#orin picked at her body like it was carrion and she was a vulture. she plucked out her eye and cut her open and ate her flesh and innards.#and when carrion finally remembered this she decided to keep the name and wear it with pride#as she would the the world's final piece of carrion#made to be the final rotten meal for her father to supp on after the world dies by her hand#she would be the carcass that houses the world. a true gift of flesh and murder only for her father#ALSO orin kept carrion's eye in a jar on her desk to look at fondly while doing her creative writing or whatever idk.#after carrion killed orin and found her eye she ate it lmfao#ok that’s all bye :3#my art#my durges#bg3#bg3 art#artists on tumblr#baldurs gate 3#dark urge
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Hearth to hearth, the Flame of War went.
Over snow-blasted mountains and amongst the trees of tangled forests, hiding from the enemies that prowled the skies. Through long, bitterly cold nights where the wind howled as it tried to wipe out any trace of that flame.
But the wind did not succeed, not against the flame of the queen.
So hearth to hearth, it went.
To remote villages where people screamed and scattered as a young-faced woman descended from the skies on a broom, waving her torch high.
Not to signal them, but the few women who did not run. Who walked toward the flame, the rider, as she called out, "Your queen summons you to war. Will you fly?"
Trunks hidden in attics were thrown open. Folded swaths of red cloth pulled from within. Brooms left in closets, beside doorways, tucked under beds, were brought out, bound in gold or silver or twine. And swords-ancient and beautiful—were drawn from beneath floorboards, or hauled down from haylofts, their metal shining as bright and fresh as the day they had been forged in a city now lying in ruin.
Witches, the townsfolk whispered, husbands wide-eyed and disbelieving as the women took to the skies, red cloaks billowing. Witches amongst us all this time.
Village to village, where hearths that had never once gone fully dark blazed in answer.
Always one rider going out, to find the next hearth, the next bastion of their people.
Witches, here amongst us. Witches, now going to war.
A rising tide of witches, who took to the skies in their red cloaks, swords strapped to their backs, brooms shedding years of dust with each mile northward.
Witches who bade their families farewell, offering no explanation before they kissed their sleeping babes and vanished into the starry night.
Mile after mile, across the darkening world, the call went out, ceaseless and unending as the eternal flame that passed from hearth to hearth.
"Fly, fly, fly!" they shouted. "To the queen! To war!"
Far and wide, through snow and storm and peril, the Crochans flew.
#Chapter 65#Kingdom of Ash#Sarah J. Maas#Manon Blackbeak#no spoilers please first read along with me#spoilers in post and tags with more notes reactions quotes annotations etc in tags#Dorian had gone to Morath. Had flown from the camp on wings of his own making.#He would have chosen some sort of small ordinary bird Manon knew. Something even the Thirteen would not have noted#Crunching snow told her Asterin approached. He left didn't he. She nodded unable to find words. — she knew. East not North.#She had offered him everything and had thought he'd meant to accept it. Had thought he did accept it#She had offered him everything and had thought he'd meant to accept it. Had thought he did accept it. Yet it had been farewell.#He would not cage her would not accept what she'd given. As if he knew her better than she knew herself. Do we go after him?#Today-today they would decide where to go. Today she'd dare ask the Crochans to follow. — The Last Crochan Queen The Witch-Queen#to head back into hell The sun rose full and golden as if it were the solitary note of a song filling the world. — for him she would#Terrasen calls for aid! A young Crochan's voice rang through the camp. — but for her people — THEY GOT THE CALL — GO NOW#Even if she'd needed it waited for it. The Flame of War. What say you Queen of Witches? A challenge and a dare. Manon lifted her chin to -#-the two paths before her. one to the east to Morath the other NORTHward to Terrasen and to battle. The wind sang and in it she heard the#answer. I shall answer Terrasen's call Manon said. Asterin stepped to her side fearless as she surveyed the assembled camp. As shall I.#And so it went. Until the leaders of all seven of the Great Hearths stood gathered there. — I’m not crying ur crying — fire bringer#Rhiannon Crochan rode at King Brannon's side into battle. So has her likeness been reborn so shall the old alliances be forged anew.#Light the Flame of War Queen of Witches and rally your host. — the eternal flame — darkness will not claim them#Even the wind did not jostle the flame as Manon lifted it a torch in the new day. The Crochan crowd parted revealing a straight path toward#Bronwens Hearth. Each step was a drumbeat of war. An answer to a question posed long ago. Your Queen summons you to war. — Hearth to Heart#Then and only then did the young scout from the final clan take her burning torch grab her broom and leap into the skies.#To find the next clan to tell them the call had gone out. — nothing but a smoldering speck against the sky then nothing at all. — Hope.#Manon offered a silent prayer on the wind that the sacred flame the young scout bore would burn steadfast over the long dangerous miles.#All the way to the killing fields of Terrasen. Hearth to hearth the Flame of War went.#Fly fly fly! they shouted. To the queen! To war! Far and wide through snow and storm and peril the Crochans flew.#Terrasen calls for aid — so they follow. — Hold on LysAedion come on Aelin — I’m not crying I’m just crying — NOW GO QUICK#The true Witch Queen child of peace and war Manon Blackbeak of the Thirteen & Rhiannon The Last Crochan Queen
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had quite the night drive earlier this evening.
#just me rambling again#web weaving#(?)#uh. one of my friends who is out of town for college was visiting and i got to see him and our friends and the only core member of that#group of people missing was my ex girlfriend who you may also know of as my wonderful wife#who has I assume been very busy with their own life things but has also barely and very sparsely had any hint of communication with any of#us within the past few months which I've been realizing very recently sort of hurts my feelings because we used to be so close and#they had been saying that they would be constantly making sure we still were in each other's lives. but then very quickly have#seemingly dropped off the face of the earth#anyways. I was driving aforementioned friend who is in town back home (family home not college obv) and when i was finally going back#towards my house afterwards my Google maps finally lead me to an area that i was more familiar with driving and i got to an#intersection and it was telling me to take a right to go home but i knew that i knew the way perfectly from that intersection to my#ex girlfriend / best friend / wifes familys house from all of the times I've gone that direction through the past years and so#i turned off my directions and i took a left towards their house#not super sure why but my brain and body just knew it was something i needed to do and so i went and drove down their street and cried#a lot the whole time and then drove myself home from their house once again following a super familiar path#and idk im still feeling very emotional about it. the fact that halloween by noah kahan was the first song to play on Spotify#after i made that left turn im sure didnt help (knowing that i miss them so much and am going to be leaving this area myself#soon enough here and there's been an open offer for a while now that they are welcome to follow and live with me once they get their degree#(and also um. halloween is next week lol)#idk i just havent felt the full force of how badly i miss having them in my life until tonight. when i was around this person i could feel#our souls singing in harmony. i genuinely cannot describe the feelings of our relationship in words i feel like only vaguely abstract art#could communicate the connection that was forged between us and the level of understanding and knowing#something not dissimilar to looking into the sun directly or trying to describe a vivid color to someone who is completely blind#something about the way the entire universe breathes in unison and everything around us are all pieces of the same stars#sigh#i miss my wife tails i miss her a lot /ref
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so, i've been seeing a lot about the new BG3 epilogues, but i gotta ask: do you get a similar epilogue if you choose to become the absolute at the end? i know it's unlikely, but... i have thoughts about how that could go 👀
#baldur's gate 3#like maybe absolute!tav gets bored of being surrounded by mindless thralls#and magnanimously gives the party their minds back for one evening#not enough that they can fight back but enough to say what they're really thinking#i think it'd be interesting to see which companions have resigned themselves to or even accepted their fate#and which ones are still fucking furious#and it could depend on things like companion quest outcomes and relationships!#for example if you never killed cazador maybe astarion would be more resigned to his fate#bc tav isn't as cruel a master as cazador was and in a twisted way keeps him safe from being taken back in by cazador's compulsion#whereas if you killed cazador‚ he'd be furious. bc he had just had his first taste of real freedom and you took it away from him.#different flavors of angry for spawn vs ascendant astarion of course#or like if you were playing a shar cleric and shadowheart stayed a shar worshiper she might actually see your actions as a good thing#seeing you as taking control of the absolute in the name of shar#whereas if you'd encouraged her to forge her own path she'd be disgusted with your hypocrisy#things like that#basically: feed me the angst pls
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obviously gaius is my main man because i’m in love with him but i also can’t stress enough how important ricken is to me. i really relate to him in a lot of aspects and it feels like i’ve grown up with him in a way
#tactician's log#awakening#august of awakening#bc like i was 15 when i played for the first time and i personally think he’s 14-15 at the beginning of the game#and something about also being a kid who felt like she had something to prove just forged an incomparable bond between us.#trying to prove yourself and then getting a little overwhelmed in the attempt because you bit off too much is. smth i have experience with#i also relate to sumia in a lot of the same ways but to a lesser extent? bc she was technically older than me the first time i played#and being fans of both of them is fun in a different way from being a gaius girlie bc like. pretty much everyone likes gaius#but ricken is underappreciated and sumia has historically been a little bit. shall we say divisive (through NO fault of her own)#so its like. its me and my losers against the world. i love them both so much#this is like the 10th time ive posted about this or something but i really think about it often
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Thinking about naiah and rayaan.. rayaan has a very complicated relationship with religion and I think meeting naiah helps him with that and she ends up becoming very important to him and he's important to her too I think he's one of the very few people that knows part of who she is behind everything she fakes
#my habibis#oc tag#this relationship is so interesting to me. guy who is perpetually angry because its the only way he knows how to cope with being in so#much pain and guy who is perpetually calm because she believes shes an awful person and is at peace with accepting the consequences for that#guy who feels a connection with religion but feels unworthy of it and doesn't know how to mend his broken relationship with it and guy who#forged her own religion from the thing that gave her hope her whole life and carries that faith next to her heart#guy who wants to be loved but wraps himself in anger and hatred and guy who wants to be loved but is surrounded by layers of fake niceties#so nobody knows the real her#etc. they're interesting.
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The mountains are like mole hills
So Atlantis rose to sea level
Our Heart is Forever in Atlantis though
#like the T#Imperial Colonial Developments#I want to meet the woman that plays with Cooper#mom was a deep person in her own way#I was able to reach beyond her depths though and that is why she listened to me when I forced it upon her#it was with caring and love though#well it's a strange society where we had to go to planned parenthood take control and layaway and then call them back home#like painful yes but we forged a bond beyond and before#yes she did turn our genes very nicely#well of course it was my section to breed her.... you're a leabian for Christ's sake#mirror the star at an angel and the Coyote arises to howl at the moon#I don't know what part of me was rolling when I did my art that day#but a non profit organization supplied a tool so I used it#it's a certain electric tone that holds the green triangle cycles together#I was always just happy to look into your eyes and then really reach into you with my trinity leg#she just staring....how riude#nah it was a tone of oh wow and the courage to want to take it and so I gave it#who says I can't blast from the heart to your pussy#and the water poureth forth from Love on a wet morning#you love it when the reply of i luv u 2 always comes back#pardon me but I do declare his rank is fixed#A gentle...O' son how they work in tandem when they need to
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okay i just finished got and tbeh i think people that were so pissed about the ending just cause their fave didnt act how they wanted her to
#got#like??? the first fucking thing we learn about the targaryens is that most of them are ticking time bombs#and we know that she has a vengeful streak a mile wide#and over the last 4 or 5 seasons shes gotten more and more obsessed with the iron throne#and her descent into madness was narratively appropriate!! she was born damned!#and the tragedy of her going mad exists IN UNIVERSE it wasnt like they did it for shits and gigs!!!!!!#like?? tyrion and jon werent just like ladidah about it they were both devastated#it didnt feel like lazy writing ti me even though it seemed like the neatest way to tie the story up#it felt like that was the road we were going down all along and no one saw until it was too late#and everyone elses endings were nice! tyrion and jon spend the rest of their lives atoning#sansa won robbs throne back. arya goes off to explore new lands and forge her own destiny and wander to her hearts content#and the man who knows exactly what every king in history did wrong gets the crown.#like yes dany did all this work to make up for her familys awful legacy#but in the end fell prey to it anyway#and its a fucking travesty!! its devastating!!! THATS THE POINT!!!!!!!!!!#jon having to make another decision he hates to save lives? jon having to kill his own love?? jon ending up once again at the wall??#chefs kiss. delicious
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