#girlfailures unite

[shiningstarr15]

I am asking, no BEGGING this fandom at this point to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE start depicting Vanessa more as a silly, dorky, awkward, girlfailure loser. Bc THAT IS WHO SHE IS.

Yes she is attractive, but she’s also just an absolute disaster. She’s a disheveled mess, she has massive eyebags, can’t do her makeup worth shit, pulls her pants up to her fucking belly button, walks like she’s a goddamn question mark, can’t talk to people (or animatronics) worth shit, literally MOCKS people (that is CANON), and literally just has no idea what she’s doing at any point whatsoever.

She’s a dork ok. She would rather play video games than literally do anything else. She has a glittery pink journal with goddamn puppies on it, she bakes cupcakes and has rainbow hair extensions. She put toe beans on a RABBIT costume when RABBITS DO NOT HAVE TOE BEANS. DORK!

Even in the MOVIE, she’s a soggy loser. She threw a man’s sleeping pills in the river, she threatened to SHOOT a man on sight if he ever brought his kid sister back to Freddy’s. She asked said man to dance in the most awkward way possible, and she actively built a fort with a bunch of ghost kids haunting animatronics.

So please. Literally on my hands and knees BEGGING this fandom.. MAKE HER THE SILLY DORK LOSER SHE IS. She’s not a ‘serious’ character. She’s overly anxious and screams at people bc she can’t control her own emotions. Take a better look at her character and I promise you’ll see it!

PLEASE!

[nicktoonsunite]

idk anything about nicktoons unite but all of ur jenny art makes me very so happy so thank you for drawing it :-)

Thank you!! I've finished watching mlaatr recently and enjoyed it a lot especially because of how fun Jenny as a character is. She's such a girlfailure (affectionate) to me

but now it's just left me wishing there was a game within the NU series that actually INCLUDED HER (and manny) IN THE STORY and this is why I now think Attack of the Toybots DS is the superior installment

[i-stand-unshaken]

Pepper Ann appreciation post

So my bestie recently introduced me to the classic Disney cartoon Pepper Ann that aired from 1997 to 2000.

I'd seen it some as a kid, but for whatever reason I slept on it at the time and in the ensuing decades. Having finally watched the whole thing, and seeing how slept on this show is online? I wanted to make a post telling you why it's well worth checking out.

It's hilarious... much more hilarious than you may think at first glance. It seems like a fairly lowkey little slice of life show (and in several ways is), but the protagonist is such a girlfailure that her exploits always go to some hysterical places. And beyond that, the show gets downright batshit insane. Here's a sampler: Mark Hamill becomes President of the United States. And I'm not talking about a character voiced by Mark Hamill, oh no. It's literally Mark Hamill as voiced by Mark Hamill.

Despite this, the show has so much heart and can be genuinely emotional. It's also not afraid to tackle some mature subjects, like death, cultural appropriation, feminism, and even puberty.

The main characters - Pepper Ann Pearson herself, her best friends Nicky Little and Milo Kamalani, and her mother Lydia and sister Moose - are all very lovable with well-defined personalities who play off each other really well. And it is so refreshing that we have a dude who hangs out with two girls, and there's nothing romantic going on whatsoever. They're just really close platonic friends. (that said I have become shameless Pepper Ann x Nicky trash and this ship has taken over my mind please send help)

On that note, there are practically no unlikable characters. Even the more antagonistic characters are amusing and charming in their own ways.

To elaborate on Pepper Ann herself, she's such a fantastic, unique protagonist. It seems like a shows aimed at girls, especially around the time this one aired, were afraid of depicting their protagonists as anything less than basically perfect. Pepper Ann? Uh-uh. No. She's a total girlfailure who is somehow both REALLY smart and REALLY dumb at the same time (we're talking some WataMote tier cringe comedy at times) and can be a selfish jerk but also has a huge heart. She's just so fun and has an A+ character design and amazing voicework from Kathleen Wilhoite.

There are like zero bad episodes. And it got a proper finale that's a very satisfying and emotional ending.

So yeah, this is just a show that deserves way more love and attention. At least it's on Disney+, but can we get a Complete Series DVD release too?

[eadekki]

girlfailures, unite. your queen has risen

[utilitycaster]

Regarding Editing and Innovating in the space, 2 people who get a Fraction of the credit they deserve are Ivan Van Norman & Marisha Ray. I mean, they created and developed one of the original mixed media cinematic interactive actual plays, Sagas of Sundry: Dread, and then Sagas of Sundry: Madness, and Marisha (later hiring Ivan as well) has continued that trajectory in some of the more intriguingly edited mixed format Actual plays at CR, like Call of Cthulhu, Undeadwood, and others, and being Instrumental in the developments at CR. Like, when you do watch the interviews you get a sense of just how Much of CR's current content designs, ttrpg intentions, and series are marisha's brainchilds, and it sucks that she doesnt get the credit others involved in similar projects, and even those projects, do.

This is a great point. I've mentioned this before w/r/t the fandom - Marisha, perhaps more than anyone, gets reduced even by many fans to "she's pretty and her characters are like what if a girlboss were a girlfailure" and her creative direction goes unheralded. It feels like this has gotten worse in recent years; I was baffled at how many people seemingly resented Calamity or Candela for taking up space they felt should go only to the main campaign when those were not only showcases for Marisha as a performer but also clearly something in which she had a strong hand in designing. Whenever people whine about there only being two main campaign episodes in a month because of Candela Obscura, I do think "You realize this was probably Marisha's call?"

I was focused in my response much more on Daggerheart, and so on the game design side (quick side note - reviews of A Familiar Problem, which Marisha worked on, were pretty positive; I wonder if something's happened in the past 2 years since that's when I've really felt this Damn Critical Role energy among actual play journalists), but I had been thinking about Sagas of Sundry and Undeadwood! I think I mentioned Sagas of Sundry in one of my posts about how Kollok isn't, in my mind, impressive. I loved Dread but never finished Madness before Alpha folded, but actually I was imagining something like Madness - fully on a set, people walking around like it's a play - for Kollok! When I saw everyone at a table with that rotating rock I was like "is this...it?" And, you know, Sagas: Madness wasn't entirely for me, but you can't fault the innovation. Similarly, when I think about the (baffling) criticism from one of the prominent actual play journalists I've had in mind while writing this, that Candela Obscura the show did not fully teach people Candela Obscura the game, I think about how Ivan Van Norman did straight up teach Savage Worlds during Undeadwood. Whenever people gush over the shadow puppets in Burrow's End I think it's deserved, but when they claim it's utterly new? Nah. Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Crystal Palace did it first. And Marisha had a guiding hand in the creative direction of all of these.

I think this is sort of elaboration on one of my points in my original post: I think a lot of the journalists are really out of their depth. I don't remember seeing their names when I first started watching CR in 2018, or when I got deeper into the fandom in 2019. My first actual play was TAZ, which I binged in late 2017. I really think a lot of the journalists flat-out don't know Sagas of Sundry or Undeadwood because they didn't show up until after Alpha folded. I've mentioned this elsewhere but so much of the claims of novelty and innovation are completely incorrect and not even terribly obscure. Look, I've seen/listened to most or all of 9 actual plays (this is counting D20 and CR each as one single unit, by the way - I've seen all but scattered one-offs from either), and seen or heard an episode or two of many more. I think that simply by doing that? I know more than a lot of these journalists.

Again: Worlds Beyond Number? The innovation is with the Witch class and the Wizard of the Citadel subclasses, and the allowance of extremely long downtime, but: longform podcast actual play with sound design? RQG did it starting in 2015. Griffin McElroy and Emily Axford have been composing their own music since 2017 or 2018 for their respective shows, both of which are also longform podcast actual plays. Again, Brennan pretty explicitly said "I don't think D20 is new, nor longform" in a quote and the article that quotes him argues that Fantasy High is new and longform...and that article also talks about how before D20 most AP video was livestreamed before talking about how boundary-breaking D20 was for having a livestreamed second season (you know, the thing that they just called old hat a paragraph earlier) that quickly pivoted to remote (even though remote livestreaming was actually quite common in smaller productions well before the pandemic, since you don't need anything but laptop cameras to produce it). I don't even keep up with much in the really indie AP scene, but those people I know who do are even less impressed by the state of Actual Play journalism than I, because D20 executes a lot of things extremely well, has a very talented roster of performers, and a budget most productions cannot hope to match, but a good deal of what it's credited for inventing (and which, again, it never claims to have invented. I want to be clear that the journalists decided to be like this for no clear reason) already existed. And, by placing this heavy emphasis on production, they are automatically making it hard for indie productions to impress them. For all they claim to be going after the 700 lb gorilla, they are simply cozying up to the 600 lb gorilla. It's real "um, why don't you try this little indie game called Pathfinder" hours.

I am fairly sure a lot of the people in prominent journalistic positions in the actual play sphere today came in only after the collapse of Geek and Sundry, is my point, and so I think they literally do not realize how much the medium owes to, for example, Marisha Ray and Ivan Van Norman, because they weren't watching in 2016 nor even skipping through the G&S archives, as I did as a new CR fan. I think they're absolutely out of their depth, and most of them don't even realize it.

[sosadraws]

OC Inspiration Meme!

First of all, thanks @lynxfrost13 for the tag, because finally I have a reason to talk about the origins my characters, SPECIALLY Sasha and Powder. Because I can't talk about their inspirations without bringing up the fact that they're wildly different from their first iterations.

(Warning: lots of yapping, potentially long, Also, I added songs and animals because personally they're a bigger inspirartion for me than existing characters).

When I said Powder was a loser, I man a legitimate, actual certified girlfailure (current Powder at the very least is competent at her job), who kept her cool composture until she mets in the mines with this particular unnamed mynah and cries in her arms. That's it.

...ok she's still like that, but now she has more nuance, I think.

Like, she keeps up an cool and overconfident facade, it's quick to make bad choices, and being aloof when things go wrong (like Morganite from hnk and the song "Nothing Man"), but it comes from a place of worthlessnes and wanting to be useful for the others (Powder from Arcane, which YEAH I stole her name, NO the bangs are a coincidence that I'm just noticing I swear-).

She's like a dog, but those "scary dogs" that area actually quite playful or Police dogs that fail their training (I visualize her as a doberman with cropped ears but an long tail, to be specific), and most of her character can be summarized with the songs "Fighter" and "Two Time".

Sasha came to be because one day I asked to myself: "What if a MNHR unit was a total party animal and loved drinking?" And then I came up with this silly, but also very messed up story for her (which is why DRHDR is listed as an inspiration).

A Mynah got decomissioned, survived, and it's found by this pair of gestalts that have a shady bussiness selling metals and other usable stuff from scrapped/stolen goods. They go "HELL YEAH FREE MANPOWER!!" and kinda adopt her. Eventually she starts trusting them, opens up and develops the personality of a loud but well meaning teeneager with dark humor, who also does a bit of organ harvesting (because, well, "scrapped goods" also includes other decomissiones replikas...)

Nowadays she's waaay more chill (like, literally none of the previous characterization applies anymore) and her arc is more about grieving your past self in face of new discoveries that shatter your previous beliefs, as well as figuring out your identity with being "reborn" into someone new (Inspired by Phosphophyllite from hnk as well as the song "Still Feel" by Half Alive).

Bottom left is a double feature, both for the lyrics of "The Unknowing" (in a way that she tries to move on with her life, but she feels haunted by memories from her gestalt donor and the implications of such); as well as the cover art. She's pretty much like a cat, but those that are shy and hide behind furniture until strangers leave, so it takes time to gain their trust, similarly to how she keeps most people at arm's length.

Anyways, I tag @clodcakes, @plasterhound, @fischlich, @shpakatsila and anyone else that wants to do it (as always, zero pressure tho)

[quackle]

reasons axelle sweep should be real:

1.

just think of the tropes yall. just. c'mon. let's think here:

girlfailure who acts like a girlfailure x girlfailure who acts like a girlboss

trainer x trainee

barbie gf x oppenheimer gf

"me (axel) and the bad bitch i pulled by being autistic (nichelle)"

tall gf x short gf

2.

this pic alone.... like the world stopped when this came on the screen!!! TOTAL YURI ISLAND BECAME MORE REAL HERE!!!! THE CAMERAMAN KNEW WHAT HE HAD TO DO!!!

(also you can't tell me axel wasn't flirting here. she spits game by talking about weaponry and survialism.)

3.

close your eyes. and imagine. axel standing on her tippy toes to give nichelle a kiss. now open your eyes. notice how you're smiling? yeah. axelle's power is real.

4.

they were LITERALLY at a pride parade TOGETHER!!! LOOK!!! THIS IS TOTALLY REAL, I WAS THERE!!!!!

5.

they can both learn a lot from each other. nichelle teaching axel the true meaning of teamwork and how lovely it feels to be in a group? axel teaching nichelle to be strong + authentically herself instead of a fabrication forced on her? WALK WITH ME HERE Y'ALL. WALK WITH MEEEE.

6.

they were 2nd most popular new gen ship on my totally unbiased, scientific poll i dropped in the tag, which means they have chemistry like no other☝🏾🤓

(yeah i voted on my own poll. sue me.)

7.

take this little snippet of this multi-chapter axelle fic i've been working on. as a treat. and persuasion. but mostly a treat:

8.

i just think they're so cute together. like their designs and color pallets fit so well next to each other. idk. just think of the fan art. they always deliver. cutie patooties.

9.

i have never seen a group of people as delusional yet joined together as axelle shippers. we join hands at least once per week sobbing about what could be. we stand as THEE united front in the total drama yuri community. we are the strongest soldiers of today's total drama fandom 🫡

anyways that's all i have, get your axelle on and vote ‼️‼️‼️

(and thank you @totaldramabrackets for your service 🫡)

[feydrives]

I should make one of these extended bios ig

Multimedia mecha specifically designed for creative chaos.

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hi, i'm violet aka fey. i'm an 19 year old evangelion unit piloted by 2 girlfailures and 3 angels.

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i make music, graphic design, write, and play the occasional game. currently playing pizza tower.

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i'm a proud mess and believer in the abolition of the state, money, copyright law, ip law, and gender. do not debate with me, i am right. i don't read theory but i should

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sorry i don't talk much! i straight up just don't got much to talk about because everyone else puts it better than me. i will mostly like and reblog art and takes that i agree with and endorse. if you see previous reblogs that contradict my opinions, take it up with past fey because my opinions are everchanging.

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i like to pretend i was born in the late 90s and my art reflects that. i'm a huge sucker for y2k consumer aesthetics, specially vectorheart and the graffiti inspired artwork of games like jsr.

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i have a soundcloud for all my music things. i make dnb, ambient, and anything weird that won't fit in my main alias.

stay weird

[sugarcoatednightshade]

I am actually obsessed with the canaries. Elite group of international criminals and dropout girlfailure nepo-babies all united in their love for their heavily disabled leader

How do you prepare for magic casting?

[callilouv]

Oopsie when I typed that Oc autocorrected as mc LMAO

but yeah yeah!!! I made a hsr oc

I have a couple doodles of her but please bare with me dawg, I’ve been going through major art block (literally haven’t drawn in like months) so I’m very rusty…

Anyway here she is!!

So currently she’s nameless… honestly making them was kinda an impulse decision like their whole concept began because of a certain tiktok

Have you seen the TikTok’s about the Jing Yuan where the sparrow or wtv pecked his lip and people would go that bird is me? Well that bird is literally her ong/hj

What I have so far is that she used to be a merchant so she is well aquatinted with the Xianzhou, but after some events (still plotting that out) she became an assistance of sorts to Jing Yuan. She works as a Intelligence and surveillance unit in a sense. Because she can literally morph into different birds, so they are a great spy in a sense LMAO

Uhm, she craves emotional and physical intimacy but commitment is #scary to them- it doesn’t help that they literally can gain a crush out of no where. However she’s pretty good at disguising when she has a more romantic attraction towards someone. It’s more difficult for them to keep even super close platonic relationships because (the commitment) however they’ve gotten better throughout the years and are happy with the friends they made

Uhm mommy and daddy issues (girl pick a struggle /j /j)

Her path is the hunt, and her element is imaginary. Weapon is still being drafted but I’m leaning towards something like a whip, and she when she’s in a bird form, she wears metal claws hooked on her talons (idk if you’ve seen the movie but it’s sorta like the owls from Gaurdians of Ga’hoole)

Uhm I think that’s it so far, she’s my girlboss who acts like a girlfailure sometimes

Don’t ask how she hears- I’m just gonna retcon and say her ears are hidden in the plume of feathers LMAO

Sorry for rambling on your inbox 😭😭😭

BRO WHY DID U MAKE HER SO MECORE…. she’s just like me frfr w those commitment issues skull emoji HELSXXONX

[ms-anne-xia]

According to the ASOIAF wiki, AWOIAF, only two people defected from the Greens to the Blacks: Lord Humfrey Bracken and Ser Luthor Largent.

Meanwhile, about fifteen people defected from the Blacks, one of them obviously being mister Lord Corlys Velaryon himself.

Like, say what you will about the Greens, but arguably their strongest trait was their loyalty to one another. The show tries to make it that the Blacks are all a united front and the Greens are divined and fighting amongst themselves, when in the book, it was the other way around.

Similarly to how the show portrays Rhaenyra as a girlboss and Alicent, and even Aegon, as a girlfailure/boyfailure, when again, the books has it be the other way around.

Not once did I get the impression that the Blacks were ever a happy family. Like, the Greens aren’t exactly the healthiest family ever, but they still felt like a unit.

Also team Black actors share the same misconception and misunderstanding that many team black fans do that there is no love or loyalty within Team Green, when most of Rhaenyra’s team abandoned her in the end and they don’t even like and trust one another as it is currently. They aren’t supporting Rhaenyra because they believe in her. Theyre all supporting her because the position they’re in, there is no other choice or they personally want something- Daemon to be King, for his blood to eventually sit the Iron throne. Corlys, very much the same reason. He wants his name attached to a King. Rhaenys while throwing this accusation at Alicent, follows her husband’s lead far more than Alicent followed Viserys. Plus their Granddaughters are Daemon’s daughters and are now betrothed to Rhaenyra’s sons. They weren’t even betrothed because Rhaenyra considered them great candidates for her sons, but because she needs to use their legitimacy to bolster her own sons. She tried it with Helaena. Not to mention, Rhaena has lost her claim to Driftmark with the death of Luke, the deal with Rhaenys/Corlys was so weak and fickle that it broke within 3-4 days. Corlys distrusts and resents Rhaenyra more after Rhaenys dies fighting for her. Rhaenyra eventually calls for the heads of her most innocent and loyal supporters and one by one they abandon her too.

While team Green, despite their dysfunction were loyal to each other to the very end. Everything that Alicent has done since she was a teenager has been out of fear for and for the safety of her children. She is their only parent, their only source of attention, affection and discipline. She tells Aegon that he’s no son of hers, then 48 hours later- as futile as it is, she stands in front of a Dragon to protect him, he tries to pull her back with him and she removes his hand to push him further behind her but then there’s an understanding that they’re going to die together. Aegon doesn’t want it but he takes the throne anyway because he understands that his rulership will be the only thing that protects the people he loves. In the trailer you can see that the murder of Jaehaerys not only destroys Helaena but Alicent too. It also forces Aegon to mature, take more of a leadership role and actually fight to show that he’s “as fearsome as any of them”. Aemond talks shit about Aemond and wishes he was the firstborn son but ultimately he fights for Aegon until his dying day. Alicole are meant to contrast Daemyra with many seeing Daemyra as superior but Daemon has put his hands on Rhaenyra. Grows angry and resentful of her, takes a new little girl as lover, abandons Rhaenyra and doesn’t answer her call to be beside her when she needs him the most. While Criston is killed trying to make his way back to Kingslanding to save Alicent and Helaena. Daeron also dies trying to make his way back to KL to liberate his mother and sister. Otto isn’t shit, but even after being removed as hand, he stays loyal to Aegon. Aegon wanted to build giant statues of his brothers in their memory. He has it written into Law that Alicent and Helaena were the only Queens during the dance era, a law that still stands in Westeros and one Rhaenyra’s sons and other direct descendants didn’t bother to change. He marries his daughter to Aegon III to ensure that she’s Queen after he dies and she is known to history as Queen Jaehaera Targaryen even if it was brief.

If this isn’t love and loyalty, then I don’t know what is. There were no defectors on Team Green.

Even the commoners stayed loyal. Part of the reason they revolt against Rhaenyra and storm the Dragonpit is because of what happened to Helaena’s boys and Helaena herself and because of Brothel Queens even if it’s not clear whether it was a rumor or true. The people still loved Helaena and Alicent. While on Dragonstone, where Rhaenyra ruled for years. A broken and Dragonless (at first) Aegon goes and turns these people against Rhaenyra.

The phrase said by actress Raena about the fact that there is no love in the green family sounds quite comical. Because the character she plays received absolutely no love from, for example, Daemon. Yes, there were some scenes in the cut script where Daemon hugged his daughters after Laena died, but we're looking at the final script and that wasn't there. In the same episode, Raena complains to her mom that Daemon doesn't pay attention to her because she doesn't have a dragon, and in the next episode, Daemon marries Rhaenyra shortly after Laena's funeral. And the children were clearly not happy (and tb stans, please don’t make me think that they were simply frozen then. Their faces really showed a lack of understanding of what was happening). And the actress calls it love? Seriously? Is there love in the black family? Show it to me.

Now I'll be interested to see how Corlys reacts to his wife's death and whether he will tell Rhaenyra that it was her fault. Just wondering. Or will he stick his tongue up his ass again and say nothing? Will support the black team for no reason simply BECAUSE?

(no hate towards the actors) but most of them say real nonsense, their arguments are like “tb are good, tg are evil, there’s no need to choose, our family loves each other and hates them.” This is so funny. Okay, let the tbs kiss their ass, this video was edited for them.

[m-for-musings]

I use the party limit begone too! I added the Teleport to You (because even with only 4 companions they somehow get stuck along the way... Especially Gale with his rotten knee, the guy can't jump to save his life) and some visual mods to add hairs for Tav and clothes to camp slot. I haven't tried the Sit This One Out, gonna check it out later.

It bugs the hell out of me people calling Minthara a "girlfailure", to me that dialogue (when I first got it I recruited her by knock out) it only served to show me how the Choosen Trio act: they are quick to discard anyone, no matter who they are, if they don't serve their purposes anymore. Everyone is expendable, no matter how faithful, truthful, loyal or skilled. It must be heartbreaking for Minthara to realize that, since she was excommunicated by Lolth just as quickly. She was cast aside TWICE for the same reasons: because of a whim of her superiors, not by her deeds. Her failure or her success was of little consequence in this scenario: she would have been discarded all the same, regardless of the result of her effort. It's just as sad in my opinion, but of course, relationship-wise, the raiding the grove route adds more to the Tav-Minthara dynamic.

Thanks for sharing the fic by the way. I'll read it as soon as I have some time (probably this weekend). I also saw in the notes that you're writing one of your own, feel free to tag me as soon as you post it!

(I'm cooking an idea born from a multiplayer gameplay where everyone played as drow. For roleplay reason to knock Minthara, since my girlfriend never recruited her before, my Tav was a lolth-sworn bard that fucked up in Menzo and just got excommunicated; in the rp, she was Minthara's younger, erratic, annoying cousin with a previous disaffection relationship between them. My girlfriend's Tav is a seldarine paladin of Elistraee who was born in the surface, dreams of uniting the drow and had sworn to never spill drow blood. Our friend's Tav is a half-drow wild sorcerer who is somehow sure that her father is Jarlaxle Baenre, but never met him for obvious reasons, so as soon as she knew about Minthara, she thought it would be a good opportunity to arrange a meet-and-greet.

They're also all morons, so Minthara will clearly be the brains of the operation.)

(actual footage of Minthara in this gameplay)

I do agree with Emma Gregory that, while it's nice the knock out method has allowed more people to enjoy Minthara's character, it has the potential to weaken the complexity of her character, especially for those who never experience her full arc (act 1 included) as intended. It also, I think, fundamentally changes the relationship between her and the main player character.

The decision to raid the grove is a deliberately heavy one, and I think there's an irreconcilable difference in the dynamic between Minthara and a player who actively participated in one of the Absolute's atrocities, and that between Minthara and a player who remained morally irreproachable throughout act 1. Raiding the grove leaves you with no moral high ground over Minthara post-mind control, except for what you do going forward.

That's how it worked for my Tav (now a Durge)—she regretted it at the time, but as her bond with Minthara grew she found her confidence in her own Paladin ideals returning, and she sought to not fall into despair or seek atonement, but to carry on doing good despite her fall. Had I skipped that entire dilemma by knocking her out, that bond wouldn't be the same, they wouldn't be struggling with such similar past burdens, and their story would suffer as a result.

As Fray the Dark Knight trainer from Final Fantasy 14 said, "Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should."

Killing the grove, I think, weighs exactly as it should.

[youareinlove]

two girlfailures in love united by spotify shuffle

haha remember the time i tried to make a decision surrounding a boy. and i decided to do it by hitting shuffle on a playlist of all taylor's songs. and it played foolish one. haha remember that. bc @thesunandstarss does haha