#garlicbreadbowl

[witchy-capri]

This is about Euthanasia by Garlicbreadbowl specifically

[20smileburgerstoagunfight]

If yall know, yall know :)

[24hourfool]

Putting out feelers to see if anyone can help me find a fic I've been looking for

So... Euthanasia by Garlicbreadbowl is one of my favorite Yakuza fics but I also remember there being a fic paired with it that was more Taiga-centric (like with him going back to clear out that shithole apartment, ect) but I can't find that one now

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and where I can find it?

[crispywisp]

Is this your Twitter? I know it's your art but a few things seemed weird to me so I just wanted to make sure.

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(submitted by @garlicbreadbowl ) yes that's me! i mainly just retweet fanart and post my own art there, so don't worry, this is not someone impersonating me, but i appreciate the concern!

[nuka-rockit]

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[border-spam]

Bit of a subjective question, but I'm at a crossroads with my au. I posted a while ago that I think Ava should have been Lilith's apprentice - and while I do still think that, I think it for the story we had. A lot of its problems came from Ava's connection to Maya when she had more of one with Lilith - but I'm changing the story, and I do like Ava's relationship with Maya. So, in a different world, would Ava work best as Maya or Lilith's apprentice?

This is such a great question that I’m gonna essay it because I’ve not commented on Ava as much as I wanted to in general. Any choice you make here in regards to using her is going to work, because she’s a blank slate character you can develop to fit your overarching planning. I like Ava. There is nothing wrong with her character build, she’s an exciting and interesting idea to work with. The problem is:

Ava in BL3 was a plot mechanic for a plot that never actually happened. She was seeded into the game story in a way that destroyed the “Sirens can choose who they give their powers to” rule in the same game it was added to canon in.

Throughout Bl3, Maya repeatedly drops hints that she knows Ava is going to be a Siren. She does this more than once, it’s literally the driving cause of her death when Ava mouths it to the twins (apart from blatant fucking stupidity from all sides which I’ll cover later), and that as well as how much Maya cares about Ava, is meant to be a major plotpoint in the game. 

It isn’t, it gets completely ignored after the entire plot shits itself when Troy goes full e-thot and dies. 

Essay under the cut. /dab

Ava exists as a character to further a very simple and clear plot that’s fed to us from the point we meet her:

She is going to be a Siren.

Maya knows she is going to be a Siren.

Maya has taken her on as an apprentice because she wants to train her how to be a Siren before she becomes one (wat). 

She is very important to Maya and may as well be a sister figure.

We know this, and we sit and wait to be shown it instead of told it, but the problem is that BL3 completely falls at showing not telling (which I covered before), and instead we are left wondering WHY the hell Maya, a character we know very well and understand is very intelligent, is doing any of this at all.

We have no context for why Maya cares about her, we have no build up of relationship or backstory. It’s hamfisted and shoved into the game plot and like most things in BL3, the writing thinks the players are stupid enough to just accept it and move on - which is why the story has been slammed in general as time goes on. If Maya had for some reason met Ava and decided this kid was going to inherit her powers, it means also she had vast amounts of knowledge she was refusing to share with any other Sirens and chose newcomer Ava over any of the women she’d known very well who could be excellent choices over the years.

None of this is very Maya at all, so we move onto option two for why she chose Ava:

Because we have no actual explanation for WHY Maya is so close to this kid or HOW she knows she is going to be a Siren, we have to rely on mystical fuckery instead. That Sirens can somehow... sense.. other future Sirens? And this is where things start spiraling downhill very quickly. 

If Sirens can sense other future Sirens, then they aren’t choosing who their powers go to, are they. 

They can’t decide who gets them, it’s preordained. And if they can sense this, why did NO ONE cop Tannis was going to be one or WAS one the entire time she was? It makes literally no sense, it’s contradicting its own plot as the story continues, so now we are left with something really terrible. 

Now we are left with Maya and Ava having a clearly written side plot of:

She is going to be a Siren.

Maya knows she is going to be a Siren.

Maya has taken her on as an apprentice because she wants to train her how to be a Siren before she becomes one (wat). 

She is very important to Maya and may as well be a sister figure.

.... except as the game progresses you realise this fits nowhere in the story. It literally does not fit into BL3′s plot, it contradicts it blatantly.

The story needs to get Maya’s power into Ava for some reason, it’s stressed she knows Ava will get her powers and is highly defensive of her and given us no actual explanation of why, and suddenly we are in a cutscene that’s going to haunt a huge group of players for a long ass time, watching Maya, this intelligent woman we care about and know:

Grab one of the fucking Leech Sirens who kill with direct contact with her hands. 

Have him fumble at her arm as she has him in a choke hold and begin to husk her despite not having a clue he could do that. 

Stare in surprise and give a “Wat lol” response (I don’t blame u Troy that was mine too)

Threaten our dearly beloved Ava

We are meant to care about all of this, but none of this intended plot has been put in the game correctly so instead we just stare in complete confusion and try and work out what the hell just happened. It’s garbage tier storytelling. It’s absolute wankery.

The only way to redeem this arc would have been for Maya’s death to somehow have some grand saving grace across the rest of the game, like for Troy to turn on Tyreen and join the raiders - become the true Leech and return Maya’s power to Ava with a somber acknowledgement of her loss, or to have Ava become a force for good, mature and step up to the mantle Maya had known she would bear and use Maya’s gifted powers to defeat the God Twins, but instead we got nothing. 

Ava was completely forgotten about till the end of the game where suddenly she’s given control of the Raiders, and Maya just.... lol. Goddddd. No one cared.

Because this fizzled so badly, and the actual arc was:

Maya dies -> Troy gets power ->Troy pisses on moon -> Troy dies -> Ava gets power -> Fart noises -> Ava big girl commander now 

Ava is hated for being a shitty character and people want Maya back. 

Ava isn’t a shitty character, her and Maya (and Troy’s!) plots were not part of BL3 and so came across as clownshoes honk honk leading to people hating that entire arc. 

If you’re using Ava in an AU, go ham with her! Don’t even consider the canon, it’s -shite-. If Sirens don’t predetermine who an upcoming Siren is going to be, then don’t even have her in your AU if you want, because there is no reason for her to have been in the position she was at all. 

She’s not in Leech Lord as a main char for the above reason, there is literally no logic for Maya to have taken her on as an apprentice because Siren’s can’t.. magically.. tell.. who will be one in the future. She’s just a kid who got a chance at a home and a live with Maya’s sect instead of some star crossed Mary Sue the game used her as. 

I think personally, Ava’s way of interacting with other’s and explosive emotions does suit Lilith a little closer to Maya, but we got so damn little of her canonically that you cannot go wrong. Just have fun with her, give her the use she missed out on BL3.

She’s a great char, she just needs a chance. 

[outervvorlds]

Completely stupid question: What the hell is Max's hair color? I thought it was blonde in the OSI building in Edgewater, it looks brown elsewhere, and on Monarch and dimly-lit areas it's completely black. In some places it looks pink??? Is he dying his hair to not feel old

Hmmm

Upon observation it looks like it’s supposed to be a greying brown, which would reflect different colours pretty well, hence the discolouration in different lighting ...

But the idea of Max dyeing his greys away is way too good and I’m going wild ... like pwease can I get a pink haired Max I beg

[raidbossmadi]

Some Momara thoughts

I blame @border-spam and @garlicbreadbowl for giving me something I didn't know I needed Until I did.  I wanted to throw some of my own thoughts onto the mom Amara and her adopted feral son train.

Amara teaching Troy to mediate, the Boy is full of angry energy and like she’d rather he find a less destructive outlet for that

Amara teaching Troy how to actually throw a punch on her punching bag  because damn all the meditating in the world can’t solve the sheer amount of nervous energy Troy emits. and she realises it’s because if he’s idle for too long he doesn’t know what to do with himself and starts feeling worthless so she gives him an outlet.

Amara earning Troy’s trust and realising just how tightly wound her new adopted son is and casually getting him to agree to let her try acupuncture on him  

Troy is like fifty percent certain that she’s really just gonna kill him but hey what’s the worst that could happen 

Oh surprise! it totally helps with his chronic pain 

She’s just super concerned with how this sickly  child has made it this far like please eat more food Troy you look like you’re going to break  

She takes him to kitchens when he mentions he can cook, He’s scared of Moxxi but whose gonna mess with him when his new mom is like right there 

Speaking of which don’t give Troy dirty looks while Amara’s around, he’s trying his best what are you doing? 

[metalforhands]

hi hello, do you remember that person that sent in a link for an x6-centric fic? She is me, i've revamped and updated said fic. 20k+ words, and a huge upgrade in quality from the first one. title is 'my hope and my fear is human interaction' on ao3 if you need to waste a few hours and/or need x6 content

i do remember you: hi!!!!!! 

oh my god, i can’t tell you how excited i am about getting some good x6 content!! here’s the link for anyone interested: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23859931/chapters/57348883

i’ll definitely check it out when i can, thank you!

[doblehkiin]

I'll finish my Thief's part tomorrow, it took me like an hour and it's barely at the halfway point awhufskfs this is what happens when you write a character for 5+ years

i haven’t had any elder scrolls oc for that long, but i have had a general oc for that long so i totally get it haha. i love hearing from you all and your ocs are all great i love it!

[majimasleftasscheek]

Different anon, it’s more inspired then a 1 to 1 on the lingerie, but they do directly cite your lovely piece as the inspiration. It’s Chantilly by Garlicbreadbowl on ao3

ZOOMS THE FUCK IN

HELLO HI

GARLIC

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Chapters: 5/6

NEW CHAPTWR THAT I HAD TO SPLIT INTO 2 PARTS LETS GOOO

[nuka-rockit]

the most interesting thing about writing x6-focused fanfic is the ability to head-count how many people actually like x6 based on how many people click on your fanfic. x6 has exactly 34 stans and honestly? thats more than i thought he had

Oh mood, X6 is super underappreciated. löv that roomba boi

[border-spam]

Have you noticed Tyreen's speech pattern? It's more noticeable early in game, but she'll start a sentence perky and lighthearted, then she'll drop in pitch and say something ominous and threatening. It's not all of her dialogue, but it's all of her dialogue early on. I've never seen a more obvious crutch in writing, and it isn't even writing! It's speaking! Her VA is so good but did they not realize Ty's dialogue is almost monotonous?

Definitely noticed this and it was hard to ignore once you picked it up. I don’t think it’s her VA’s issue, I think Eliza did great with the very few lines of remotely interesting dialogue she was handed. I think it’s a combo of not being as experienced with “working with what you got” as Max is, and that she just wasn’t given lines with gravitas in the first place.  The only lines I can think of where Tyreen could have pushed the “Ok I’m dropping the persona now and we can actually talk as real people” opportunity Max got while talking about Troy’s childhood or in the Jacob’s manor, were her few interactions with Typhon.

Those could have been fantastic, but it feels like she was pushed to just come across as angry during them, and making Ty’s only real emotional plays she had throughout the game being anger and conceitedness? You end up with these VA tropes you noted.

Start with: Quirky! Funny! Making light of the situation! Then: Threatening, attempts at intimidation, ominous statement.

Over and over almost every communication, repeated till you got bored of it. Max is a very experienced VA with a huge amount of time under his belt and a massive skillset, who got given the character that had moments of depth written for them.  Eliza was handed the one that apparently only ever needed to be angry and kinda a bitch, she did great with what she had and I hope to hear her in more VA work in the future. Honestly, it’s not just her. Think of Lilith’s dialogue throughout the game, Maya’s. Excellent VAs struggling to make bland dialogue remotely engaging. It was a global issue for a lot of characters in Bl3. “Hey, killer.”

Asks are Open!

[lycanomancy]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Fallout 4 Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: X6-88 and Piper Wright, X6-88 and Male Sole Survivor, X6-88 and Curie Characters: X6-88, Piper Wright, Male Sole Survivor, Curie Additional Tags: Hate-reading bad mom-books, Anxiety, PTSD, Mental Health Issues, Angst, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Cats, piper is a good friend, Happy Ending, Hopeful Ending, Interior Decorating, Donuts, 

I forgot to post this here. Redoing that X6 fic I abandoned from...last year? 

Anyway, we’re on chapter 3 and past 10 thousand words. Working on chapter 4 right now. 

[overwatch-does-stuff]

Hello! I read your analysis on Sigma's skins - those shackles you mentioned on his ankles are probably, if not almost definitively, Oregon Boots/Gardner Shackles. They're used in prisons for escapers. They're rings that can weigh 50 lbs that are meant to weigh down the wearer. While they might just be design aspects, they have way too much in common with Oregon boots to ignore them. I have a post on them that has more details but the tdlr is that they're probably meant to keep him from floating

Oh, wow! I didn’t know that. Thank you so much for pointing that out! That would make a lot of sense.

I don’t think they would work to keep him from floating (because flipping gravity would essentially make them weightless), but that detail helps to show that the asylum Sigma was being kept in really didn’t try to understand/help with what he was experiencing. 

Excellent eye, Mx. garlicbreadbowl!