#i am expecting … idk 3 likes lol

[b4kuch1n]

same teacher, different lessons

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[wizardsix]

i guess i have to say it a million times since people insist on being dense: gale is just as much of a victim as the other companions. this isn't the trauma olympics. everyone has been through shit and deserves healing and redemption.

gale is not the self entitled, manipulative abuser people are painting him as. he's a lot of things, but nothing so heinous. he was groomed by a goddess who has a history of preying on wizards that threaten her power, and as a result, gale's ambition and faith was what drove him to discover the netherese orb. what he did was for mystra - in his mind, it was to prove his love by restoring her missing power - and by extension for the betterment of mortals. his actions were never malicious or selfish, in fact he puts himself so low on the priority list it's pretty much non existent. he was never going to use that power to usurp her, but mystra definitely saw it like that, which is why she didn't hesitate to present suicide as his only solution. he never crossed her personal boundaries in the way people are twisting it, he only wanted to cross the boundaries she put on wizards and their power.

people who insist he's all of these things and more clearly only spoke to him once or lack the reading comprehension to see past how much of an unreliable narrator he is. i can understand first impressions might put some people off, but you can say the same about the other companion introductions. i don't like comparing but since people insist on doing it; gale is one of the easiest companions to get along with just by being a good person, yet his honesty and selflessness makes people think he's secretly evil? while the companions with the capacity to be evil don't even try to hide it? how are people being so backwards about this? it's genuinely baffling and tiring to see people continuously spit out incorrect takes all too confidently.

no one is forcing anyone to like him, but it's unfair to completely mischaracterize him because you refuse to learn critical thinking. i promise using your brain is not as scary as it seems, or you can just. not talk about things you don't understand.

[skunkes]

ok posting it here bc im not sure if its going to stay in the doodle page

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

not to be nitpicky on day one but i do think it's kind of frustrating to not be able to have greying hair and that so many scar options are like. Designs. instead of a bigger variety of Regular Scars. Or thst there are such limited colour options for tattoos??

[13eyond13]

actually stunned by how gay The Beatles has been all this time and I just never knew

[plexippusangel]

About to hand weave this man a potion carrying pouch in his character colors. I was already thinking about it. And then was like no. It's too early. I'll just give him a bit of the yarn my pouch is woven out of that I hypothetically would use as one of the components as a favor to wear for the tournament. I will be normal. So normal.

AND THEN HE GAVE ME A HANDMADE POTION CARRYING POUCH IN HIS BLUE THIS MAN MATCHED MY FREAK AND I TEMPORARILY SCALED BACK

gonna stay at 100% freak going forward

[britneyshakespeare]

you know i'm also glad i was able to be a long-term sub for a para at the middle school for the last few weeks of the last school year bc once people's typical college semester ended, getting jobs in the sub management software fucking sucked. all these fuckin college kids popped outta nowhere and crept into every corner and everything was like you had to grab it as soon as possible, which is also just the worst bc like, summer is around the corner and that's 2 months where i don't get to earn that regular income.

and i have an odd resentment for the college kids who sub for that short gap between may and june and i dont know why. is it jealousy? is that a proper word for it? morally i know they are doing NOTHING wrong, and if anything they are doing good bc they're ACTUALLY WORKING!!!! like the sub shortages for the rest of the school year is fucking crazy. the few ppl who actually do show up to sub on a regular basis (AKA old retired teachers and me) get pulled in every which way and frequently don't even get a full half-hour break. i guess i just feel like, it must be nice for that job to be a convenient short-term thing for them. bc it's not, for me.

perhaps i feel some sort of pride in being useful and reliable at my shitty little unglamorous poorly-paid job in a public school district. perhaps i do. where were you college students in the dead of february right before the winter break week and peak flu season? huh? where were you? in your DORMITORIES? i bet. well i was here. in the hall

[reaganingridleys]

for every like this post gets i will draw breagan /ronbreagan / handtler

[theflyingfeeling]

fic talk in the tags 💝

[aphverse-confessions]

I'm just here to say Thank you for all your hard work.

I think you do a great job.

and I love seeing all the hot takes and confessions people send in, and with you I would never get to see them.

So thank you.

Thank you so much!!

[repurposedmeatlocker]

How would you rate film school????

Oh boy! Hmmm. Admittedly, I'm never good at rating anything so I'll just give my solid thoughts and you can take from it what you will.

I think in a lot of ways I have learned a lot and I'm personally happy with choosing to go! As someone who wants an artistic-related career and is passionate about the subject outside of just being a hobby, it is a good experience. It was nice to take classes dedicated to filmmaking with other extremely talented peers. I loved the film crit classes as well and got exposed to some really great movies and essays. Film/animation school gives you accessibility to a lot of things that might otherwise be expensive to get on your own like programs (Adobe, Toonboom, etc) and top of the line film equipment, which means you have lots of opportunities to be experimental.

On the other hand, and I'm not sure if this is in part due to MY specific experience with MY university or not, but my biggest gripe had to be the sense of competitiveness and elitism in my peers. I think way too many people are concerned with "connections" and "technicality" and "making it big" or whatever. This logic from other people made it kind of lonely to me. I work more in an animation path, which has a way better vibe and group of people in general, but as someone who struggles socially, going to university was a bit alienating. I don't think this is exclusive to me being in film school though. I'm sure it would happen in any major I dedicate myself towards.

I'll finish by saying that film school is certainly not for everyone. You will be put in positions where you might even hate what you're doing as a once enjoyable hobby becomes yet another assignment. But for me...the need to create is so strong. I've really come to embrace that with the final classes I've been taking. I legitimately can't see myself doing anything else longterm...

[worm-in-a-trenchcoat]

Absolutely hate hate hate talking on the phone. It should be illegal.

Hate hate hate it 😭

[cuyberpunk]

god i hate my damn school 😭

[francy-sketches]

just randomly remebered a book series i read as a kid ok no actually i just read books 3 4 and 5 for some reason and there's like 6 but I was really into it for a while. anyway it was one of those geronimo stilton books but the stupid rat was not in them idk why they had his name on the cover they were actually kind of gruesome from what i remember. ngl they went hard they had cool little sketches in them too and there was this blue dragon with half a tail i loved him sm i was so upset when i couldnt find fanart bc nobody knew this book u.u I'm like 99% sure it was never translated so its just an italian thing but. any of my fellow italian girlies remember this. was I the only one to ever read it

[robyn-goodfellowe]

also sorry i know ive been incredibly autistic about twtt lately and like. im going to continue to be this is my blog i dont care LOL. but also im a little embarrassed. anyways i know theres a few people that have been reading since the original one in 2019 (or even the people that have been reading since the rewrite started!!) or OR honestly literally anyone who got to go into it blind. i really just want to sit them down and be like hey. what did you think was going to happen going into this. did you expect literally any of this