#i dont care about that trial

[davincsoo]

"If you think Amber was the abuser, you're delusional."

Hasn't it been a year or damn near that close? Let me put this in terms you fuck heads will understand.

[3-aem]

oh my god oh my god

HAPPY GOJO GETOU DYING DAY!!!!

[aphel1on]

not sure how to phrase this but something i have been ruminating on recently is that xue yang is strangely fragile. obviously he is also incredibly resilient. he survived, and continues to survive, impossible things. he has a million barriers between himself and the world, but none of this actually matters when it comes to what he feels. everything is personal to him. everything pierces straight through all that armor and goes right to his battered heart, the heart that no one else believes he has. that even he is not fully cognizant of. the world strikes and strikes and strikes and so he strikes and strikes and strikes back, even (especially) when the wound is something other people would not think worthy of retribution.

xue yang would never realize this- would be outraged at the concept of it- but the way everything, everything is something to rally a defense against is in itself a form of fragility. he does not know how to let go of things, or let them pass him by. passivity is death. so he is ruthlessly cruel and violent. he projects himself as a lunatic untouchable by anything you might possibly do to him, and on some level he even believes this. but in actuality he is one raw emotional wound. he never learned to separate himself from his emotions, much less process them. the volatility is not so much insanity as it is the constant lashing out of an animal in a trap, and the trap is the world, and the trap is himself, and he is never going to get out. and like so much else, this pain is just part of the background radiation of his life. it hardly registers. to be able to register the hurt, you would have to be able to register a time in which you were not hurt.

i feel like it is a fragility that could blossom into such tenderness, given exactly the right set of circumstances. how at the very first touch of softness in his life he fell into a domesticity from which he never recovered. how much was there, still, to be salvaged from the cruelty. on some level i am always thinking about the little apple bunnies. about the meal for daozhang and the straw in a-qing's bed.

it was too little, too late. it shattered like glass when the world intruded back in. but the tenderness was there. no one, least of all xue yang, knows what might have happened had it been unearthed in him any sooner.

[moghedien]

I don't want to be a spoil sport or whatever, but I just feel like every fantasy story set around the Salem Witch Trials which suggests that the victims of the trials were actually witches is almost certainly regressive and bad and the writers should be shamed

[bi-badass-geek]

Patch 2

Well of Charon the icons for items has been added in place of circle with letter :

Chaos Trials two cases got nerf in difficulty based on aspect changes but it doesn't show so only can display that they added icons for weapons and keepsakes :

Fated List of Minor Prophercies only got changed that one curse got taken out :

Keepsakes got their icons & Selene's got buffed :

Hexes mostly got nerfed :

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Daedalus Hammer : (Cut from the game ones)

Aspects adjustments reworks :

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Of course there is way more to the patch but it's the glimpses i managed to grab (i'm a visual). Not going to lie a love that you can just press E now for ores and it gets you all 3 instead of clicking it one by one. Nemesis not offering Death Defiance if you don't need it can't say it hits me personally since she never was nice enough for me to offer me such thing. Nocturnal Arms got tweaked but nothing that can be 'shown' & I don't possess Eos or Medea to check the differences but they got tweaked too. For the Hammer will update post when i get new stuff/changed. Whoever kept talking about adding more Driftwood bless you i hope you have great time because holy hell i'm either that unlucky or it's just that bad and it's not even resource you need tools for. There is one change in Oath of the Unseen but it's not in the description (has to do with duo and legendary boons). Can't say it's a lifechanger for me but it's nice that they made it so you can snap out of family portrait sooner it was taking forever previously. I'm curious to see if Golden Boughts will show Nemesis waiting there now because i had situation when i got all rewards but had no idea Nemesis encounter was waiting for me since nothing was shown only after running from one corner to another i finally saw her.

[ciderjacks]

The JD vs Amber Heard stuff was actually insane. I didn't keep up with it because I disagreed with the sheer principle of publicizing something like *that* but the misogyny was MASK OFF...

NO LIKE FRL IT WAS SO INSANE

[dukeofthomas]

Something I really especially love about btas is that every character is just… a human. Batman doesn't just show up and incapacitate 30 people no issue, he has to fight and brawl with just 1 or 2 henchmen. He can be taken out by hits and poisons and such. The rogues have to surrender when the cops get guns to their faces, and can be overpowered even by normal people. Joker isn't some pure evil incarnation of the Devil or whatever, he's just… a really bad man. Same for every other villain and character. And Bruce actually gets to show personality and emotion beyond Brooking and Grunting. He makes jokes and laughs and gets sad.

I'm really getting to understand why people call this the best Batman adaptation.

[hope-ur-ok]

Something I really don't understand are the assumptions people on the side Israel seem to hold about everyone who is free Palestine, I.E. that we don't think the hostages should be returned or that we think all Israeli citizens deserve to die for the crimes of their government. Like I'm sure there are people who think that, which is gross and frankly unacceptable, but the fact that they approach everything said in support of Palestine from that angle isn't okay either. All that they are doing is trying to simplify everything in a way that makes Israel the indisputable victim and everyone who opposes them into an antisemitic monster when the reality is that most of us just believe in the value of ALL human life and don't think more than 23,000 peoples lives are acceptable collateral damage. Like we just think that Palestinian civilians should have basic access to food, water, healthcare, and shelter and should not be facing arrest just for being Palestinian as if that somehow makes them inherently dangerous, where are you getting the batshit assumptions from in statements like that?

[mukuberry]

how do you go from "investigated to the end and confirmed every detail" to nearly beating multiple people to death because someone said they were bad once

[alchemania]

All of your Wanderer and Furina fics hit me right in the feels, I- THEY ARE SO GOOD. "Well SOMEONE has to be [angry]", this broke me. I need to see them interacting in canon now-

AWWW thank you so much! This put a huge smile on my face.

I saw a post on how they have a lot of parallels and my mind just ran from there, honestly.

I'll also admit that Wanderer yelling about being angry came directly from the heart - like after everything was over and said and done, besides Neuvillette deciding that he would make sure Furina would want for nothing; like. No one was angry on her behalf. No one seemed to be horrified by everything she'd suffered through, or taken aback by the weight of everything she endured, on the HOPE that everything would turn out alright. It was out of love, yes, but it hurt and it hurt very badly and Wanderer seemed the perfect candidate to be like "Where is your fury? Where is your righteous anger?" Because that's literally him as a character. Like. Even Shouki no Kami in the descriptions it talks about how he has seen so much SUFFERING, seen people go through so many things and how he understands humans, he has felt their suffering, he LOVES them. Because he's been there.

For him, taking that fury and weaponizing it, that is love. He will take your anger that you refuse to hold, or that is too heavy to, and cling to it like it's his lifeblood. He will stand in front of you and demand answers from the ones who wronged you, stain his hands red out of rage. That's just who he is. Eye for an eye and all that. And so like, with Furina, he sees what all happened to her and he sees that no one is angry or questioning and he's like oh. Okay. Then I Will Do It. He's the one holding up her anger to her like TAKE IT. TAKE IT. IT IS YOURS. IT IS OKAY TO HARBOR!! Do it!!

He's got a bigger heart than he cares to admit and good lord he feels SO strongly. Bro will kill for you if he cares.

[yonemurishiroku]

Huh. Now I think about it, Alabaster was the first one to do that sword-coming-out-of-thin-air thing. Well technically it’s a card—-anywayyyyy. What if Alabaster was the one who taught Nico that trick.

[whatifwekilledgodandwebothgirls]

Also i think theramenes and alcibiades should have had sex at least once . I have no idea if he was alive during the trial but im sure if he heard him getting called a cothornos he would have been at least intrigued. Maybe he would have found it cute .

[jettison-my-gift]

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[pop-roxs]

look at my SON MY BABY BOY

[solei-eclipse]

uh um WELLNESS CHECK!!! how are you today? im hoping you’re doing well but if not, no pressure to respond to this ask and saying your ok, just checking on you and um STAY HYDRATED!!!!

hello! thank you so much for the wellness check, that's incredibly sweet of you :)

short answer is: yeah im okay! in the sense that I am alive and Doing things as a normal human would do

long answer is: things have been really hard. recently I've felt pretty suffocated by the workload and the very little breathing room given inbetween everything. every day I have something to worry about and whenever I get through it I am given yet another thing to worry about HAHAHA it's like it replenishes itself or something. the best way I can describe what things have been like recently is just. like a load of things (me included) and events have been thrown into a hydraulic press and are being squeezed impossibly tight together. once again any kind of personal downtime or rest feels like a luxury and even then it isn't truly because there's always the worry about things I haven't accomplished yet as a looming omnipresence. In short, Life is Lifeing.

But despite all the challenges we fucking ball!!! I'm just going to do what I can to get by in one piece. It's tough work, but it's nothing I wasn't expecting. As most things in my life go, the only way out is through and I am going to push forward to the best of my ability. Don't worry about me too much, especially since you most likely have your own lives to worry about. I'll just be out fighting my own demons for a while! I shall return with milk and cookies and unicorns and nice things.

I hope you guys are doing well, too! I've heard about the discord server and I truly hope you're all having a blast :) I personally don't use discord (and kind of never figured out how to use it at all) plus my current issues, so I'll just be over here for a while. I hope you're all taking care and resting, sleeping and eating well. Don't forget to drink water, too!

I'm very sorry for my absence (once again), things have just been really messy lately. I just want you to know that even despite this absence I still lurk from time to time and look at all the wonderful things you guys have been up to. I hope you all keep being you :)

[13eyond13]

What's confusing me most about the IWTV show right now is:

-why certain characters are behaving the way they are, since the circumstances and relationship dynamics and vampire powers and personalities in the show have changed a bit from the way they were in the books, and the changes aren't always easy for me to keep track of or understand

-how much these different character behaviours and relationship dynamics are because of the show making actual real alterations to the books' story, and how much are due to unreliable narration and edited memories from either one or more of the characters involved