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i feel like many people use "straight"...wrong
it's used a lot to mean cis, het, allo, perisex, etc.
basically just not lgbtq+ at all
but that's not true
trans people can be straight and lgbtq+
intersex people can be straight and lgbtq+
neopronoun users can be straight and lgbtq+
arospec people can be straight and lgbtq+
acespec people can be straight and lgbtq+
polyamorous people can be straight and lgbtq+
genderfluid, bigender, and other gender non-conforming people can be straight and lgbtq+
people who are biromantic, panromantic, etc. and heterosexual or vice versa are still lgbtq+
and there are so many more identities that can absolutely be both
straight does not mean not lgbtq+
#queer#lgbtq+#queer pride#trans#neopronouns#aromantic#asexual#polyamorous#genderfluid#bigender#biromantic#not a rant#and please don't come at me if i missed something#or did something wrong#i really tried to include most people i could think of#if you have a suggestion lmk but pls don't attack me#:)#i think someone has said something like this before#and if anyone could find the og post that'd be cool#cuz i was thinking about that post a lot while doing this#lgbtq+ pride#babna đ¨#intersex
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Ghouls night out
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#Scopophobia#Don't be mean Lan Wangji - the dead girl aesthetic is a curated one. Support women's rights to look dead!#I have been waiting for this scene for ages...the ghost girl entourage is such a good look for WWX.#And by gods does the audio drama actually do something interesting with one of them.#Namely that we actually get to see WWX talk with them and learn about who they were and what they left behind.#I love necromancer characters but it's way too common for them to be like âGo! Ghost no.145!â like they're a pokemon#and not...you know...someone who had a whole life that they left behind.#I love me a necromancer who has an awareness to whose soul/body they are using. It adds a lot of flavour!#MDZS is a little hit or miss with this. I think the fans do a lot of the work with making Mo Xuanyu a bigger character.#Yi City has this in spades. Even though we don't individually get character backstories#We get many painful reminders about how these 'corpses' were people.#We also get a few lines about how WWX used whatever corpses he could get his hands on (including grandparents - Woof!)#MDZS often (but not always) likes to remind us that every sacrifice and every ghost was a person.#It is so close to nailing the landing regarding the deconstruction of the necromancer character.#Anyhow. You may have noticed the uptick in quality in the last two comics. Rule of three means next one is going to be a treat B*)#See you all very soon!
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hey, remember being 18 years old and playing mass effect for the first time and it's got this like intense aura of being very small and very insignificant in a very big, very empty galaxy? remember playing mass effect for the first time and everything all of this is so new and mysterious, and it's 2am and you're sitting in a dark room in the light from your tv and you're playing through feros for the first time and you feel that this is someting very old and very ancient and you are somewhere you shouldn't be and you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going but you keep on. there's a tingling in your stomach and you're playing mass effect for the first time. the thorian is a milennia old sentient plant being. the rachni queen is old and telepathic and a hive mind and in pain. sovereign is an ancient machine that has not been built but is, and has always been, and this is something so alien and so unlike and beyond anything your human mind can comprehend, and this is something unexplainable and huge and as uncaring and indifferent as the empty galaxy around you. you're playing mass effect for the first time and you're walking on the surface of an almost completely empty planet with nothing but your two companions silently walking beside you and everything is so huge and empty and silent and you're so small and insignificant and it's so beautiful and so scary and you feel like you are on a rollercoaster about to drop down. you are playing mass effect for the first time and you're playing the mission on the moon and you stop and just look up at earth visible in the sky. you know this. this is home. you are playing mass effect for the first time, and the galaxy is so big, and you are so tiny, and everything is about to change for you.
#mass effect#wild rambles#i miss the feeling of playing that game for the first time#now i know everything and it isn't as mysterious and alluring anymore#getting lost in the tunnels on feros is one of my memories of all time. it just felt like... i was meant to get lost. there's Something her#i love the whole trilogy but man me1 really did have that sci-fi interstellar type of feeling the other two don't#also later they retconned the reapers as having actually been built by someone as opposed to ''this is so alien you can't understand it.#this is a machine without a creator. it has always existed. you are not meant to understand. this is so much bigger than you.''#which i really liked a lot more but like. whatever. im not in charge. they wanted to make things more palatable to the human mind when i#think the cosmic horror aspect of the reapers in me1 was one of the things that affected me the most#and made me stay with the series for as long as i did
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ok i swear i'm not going to talk about my breakup forever but the thing that just keeps bothering me:
i know that not getting what you need in a relationship is a COMPLETELY valid reason to end it but also. i feel like having a very vulnerable moment where i opened up about my struggles with intimacy and being relieved that i didn't have to keep doing things i wasn't comfortable with, then being dumped a YEAR later because of my lack of intimacy. is something i should be allowed to be very hurt by???
#ramble#sorry i'm currently in a phase of 'of course this happened' and 'oh i deserve this because i didn't give him what he wanted'#like he knew i was grey ace since the start. and he let it go on for SO long after i said i might be vaguely aro as well#if that's a dealbreaker for you bc of your love language then FINE but NIP IT IN THE BUD#he said he put it off because he didn't want to hurt my feelings but it only hurt me MORE#like you're an adult. grow the fuck up and communicate like one#holding your negative feelings in hoping somebody notices you're hiding them is what TEENAGERS do#and also i told him VERBATIM: i didn't think anyone would ever love me because i'm not comfortable with xyz. and he just confirmed that#idk i still feel like i'm being selfish because how could i expect someone to be in a relationship with me when i can't give them anything#also tmi but it's not like we did NOTHING. we still held hands/cuddled/were close. he just didn't have his tongue down my throat anymore#so obviously i'm assuming by 'missing affection' he just meant sex and as an ace person that just fucking sucks#also oh my god i HATED how much he would imply we were going to have sex. i would have to keep SAYING 'i don't like doing this'#he always spoke like it was inevitably going to happen and it didn't click how GROSS i felt about it until recently#also ALSO not to go there but i never told him WHY i struggle with it (it's sensory issues)#and like. what if something had happened to me that made it hard for me and i just wasn't ready to tell him. and then he did this#again sorry to overshare this is still just a lot for me and i have no idea if i'm being unreasonable#if you're ace and in a relationship please let me know bc i'm starting to think it'll end this way every single time
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hey brennan what the fuck
#the emotional whiplash of this episode was genuinely insane i think i was about to burst into tears at some point and then they cut to the#fucking commercial. vic michaelis and brennan lee mulligan i ADORE you brennan you did not have to go as hard as you did on this one#this felt like a literal fever dream#like i don't even know if i fully understand it rn the last bit w vic and the radio was a bit open to interpretation#ALL of it felt open to interpretation but like. in an insane way#someone suggested host vic has dreams of/hallucinates these guests to escape from the mundanity of her real job and they try to teach smth#i dont like the dream trope but that would be v interesting#someone also said they were in a time loop which would be. intriguing#anyways i will miss this show so much someone said it was greenlit for s2 too so i'm crossing my fingers thats legit#vip spoilers#very important people spoilers#very important people#dropout#vic michaelis#brennan lee mulligan#vip
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day 28: made you smile âĄ
(femslashfeb prompt list)
#minifemslashfeb2024#ace attorney#dgs#tgaa#goulstrade#maria gorey#gina lestrade#GOD I MISS THEM#goulstrade is so funny to me. they're both freaks. they're both weirdos#BUT IT AIN'T EVEN ABOUT THAT#IT'S ABOUT THE PARALLELS (yes. again.) AND THE#THE FACT THAT NEITHER OF THEM HAD A NORMAL CHILDHOOD#both outcasts in different ways... both looked up to someone who ended up letting them down... hooh...#on a happier note I do think that maria would find gina endearing#I don't think maria knows what feelings are. exactly.#she just sort of goes 'it's that funny blonde girl again. day 130 of gina not agreeing to let me dissect her'#and gina is just like wat da hell. you're so scary. i need you in my life#girl knows if she befriends maria then she'll never have an enemy again#and she's right!#blah blah blah gina who has seen too much of the world and maria who has seen too little of it#thanks for coming to my goulstrade presentation where I make things up#I really enjoy them. teehee
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gyus i forogt I had a tumblri think I never posted tjis here hai hello
#my art#slimecicle#elmariana#fanart#el mariana#qsmp fanart#Osvaldo palacios flores#I don't think anyone uses that tag but who knows there's probablu someone out there searching his whole name on tumblr dot com [me.........#slime story#misclick duo#charlie slimecicle#charlie#just charlie i'm just tagging charlie no last name#also just wanted to let yuo guys know I probably won't be doing or uploading more slime stuffÂĄÂĄ I broke tke chains I'm free I don't watchhi#I changed ......now I will draw regulrshow yaoi everyday... I hope everyone's happy w the changeâ¤ď¸love you guys#/j .........../hj..........#will continue drawing marina toughÂĄÂĄ he awesome I miss him when is he coming back from war ........
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Health and Hybrids (XXVIII)đ˝đťđ
[I can't remember the original prompt posters  for the life of me but here's a mashup between a cryptid!Danny, presumed-alien!Danny, dp x dc, and the prompt made the one body horror meat grinder fic.]
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Where we last left off... Danny has another hashtag breakdown! Man, we've got a lot of these, huh? It's YJ's fault this time; whoopsie doodles! ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Trigger warnings for this story: Â body horror | gore | post-dissection fic | dehumanization (probably) | Â my nonexistent attempts at following DC canon. On with the show.
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âDanny,â Diana says from the door.
Danny looks up from his place in the book. Itâs definitely aimed at younger kids, but itâs a pretty wordy picture book; there are a couple paragraphs he canât quite parse, but heâs making pretty good progress on the words he canât recognize.
Itâs a story about a cat who misses its mother. Danny tries not to relate to it too much.
âHm?â he asks, flipping the front flap of the dust cover over his current pages to mark his place. The book goes back onto the nightstand, beside his space shuttle; Danny uses the railing beside his bed to support himself stepping up and out of his wheelchair, leaning on the railing until he can figure outâŚwait, whereâd he leave his old people walker?
âThis walk is long. You will want your chair.â
Well, then. Couldnât she have said that before Danny did all that pulling? Danny falls back into his chair, kinda peeved. âFine.â
Diana smiles. She doesnât have to wear the mask around him anymoreâ Dannyâs pretty sure that his injuries have been declared as clotted, or sealed, or whatever at this rate. They for sure swabbed his ectoplasm and came to some kind of conclusion, anyway, which means he only looks gross, but isnât, likeâŚactively leaking fluids.
On the one hand, gross! But, well, you know. Nothing for it but bandaids and time.
And her face looks nice. Danny hadnât known what sheâd looked like, before. She smiles when she sees him. Her light eyes crinkle, and her lips turn up⌠Sheâs nice. Dannyâs sure that sheâs only there to be in charge of him in case he gets scary, but sheâs in charge of him and sheâs nice. She doesnât have to be nice; lots of people have been in charge of him and been mean about it. There was that one guy who kept holding himâwith the taserâ
(Time slips away from him, a little. When he gets back to the world in front of him, Diana is carefully looking at his face, the back of her hand stroking the back of his.)
Dannyâs in his chair. Heâs notâŚthere. Heâs in his chair, on a big space station (????) with a bunch of really colorful fighters on it, and Diana is touching his hand (thatâs so much weaker and slower than it used to be) and heâs not hungry and heâs only scared because of memories. Heâs safe. Heâs not being pinned down by the neck so that they can strap down his wrists and hips to the tableâtheyâre not shocking himâhe can move his fingers, heâs not stuck in his coreâ
His core throbs. Danny bites into his bisected lip, and tries not to cry.
âAre you alright?â Diana asks, voice gentled. The soft touch of her hand doesnât stop. âWe can wait. There is noââ
Danny shakes his head, and takes his hand away so he could wipe at his eyes. Itâs fine. Bad memories are everywhere: in the walls, in the floor, in the ceiling, in the hands of people taking care of him. Thatâs not⌠Thereâs nothing Danny can do about that. That just. Takes time.
âŚHe think he might have that time. Now. He thought he would die for good in that five by five box, waiting for something that would finally end him instead of just keeping him in a cycle of injuries he never fully healed from.
But now heâs not. Heâs here.
He wants to keep going.
âAlright,â Diana says, slow and careful. âHold on.â
Danny doesnât hold onâor, well, you know, he engages his core muscles and all that, but he doesnât cling to his arm rests or to the frame of his chair because he knows that Diana is really, really strong, but she also really, really doesnât want to hurt him.
She rolls him out of the medical wing and into the space station proper. Danny feels like heâs been here before, but he doesnât remember it super well. Maybe it was when he was sick or something? Either way, a lot of different people wave at him as they go byâor just straight up stare, if theyâre rudeâand Danny generally just watches people rush by, carrying all kinds of equipment, and a potted plant, and aâŚstarfish in a jarâŚ?
Oh, the starfish waves at him???? Danny waves back because?? What??
Danny rolls to a stop at a smooth, cylindrical elevator. It looks like a giant test tube.
âŚOh boy. Danny takes a deep breath, and holds it. Reflexively. Sure, this elevator probably isnât like being dunked into water to see if his body absorbs ambient oxygen from the atmosphere or if his biology is truly not oxygen-based, but the memory is. Bad.
They go upwards. Nothing happens but Dianaâs pushed button.
Danny exhales.
They get off at a section of the base Dannyâs never been to, and it's essentially just a long, somewhat narrow hallway. The walls are actually painted a creamy off-white here, and thereâsâŚlikeâŚdecorative panels towards the base of his wheels trailing down the hallway? An orange ceiling, too?
Huh??
The rooms are numbered, but theyâre not plain steel like in other areas downstairs; some of them have stickers, or drawings, or marker written straight onto the door itself. They look...cozy...? Danny thinks so, anyway, compared to the rest of the ultra high tech space base.
They roll to a stop in front of a door. Itâs got a number on it, same as all the others, but thereâs a box cutout taped to the front of it. Theâ
âThe print is of the same style of space shuttle Danny keeps next to his bed, inked onto glorious cardboard medium.
Danny stares.
âGegrapa,â Diana urges, so gentle. Too bad that, uh, Danny doesnât know that one. He looks at her. She mimes touching the doorâ Oh. Got it.
Danny leans forward just enough to touch the door with his fingertips.
The door says something in a robotic voice, but the synthesizer is too mangled for Danny to make out the words. The door slides open horizontally into the wall, instead of the way the other doors open like portals or from below, and itâs kind of cool?
Inside is a bedroom. Danny stares.
âŚNo, itâs actually a bedroom. Not a medical wing, not a cot, not a repurposed conference room orâitâs actually got a bed in it. Like. A real one. Thereâs a wooden headboard and itâs got a mattress on it thatâs thicker than a VCR.
Thereâs constellation sheets on a bed big enough to curl up on.
Thereâs a nightstand, a small desk on the far wallâthereâs a little lip where the bedroom dips into a tiny sitting room, a small television on a table and a small table and chair. Itâs kind ofâŚitâs kind of like a little hotel suite.
Dannyâs mouth goes dry.
He doesnât move, and Diana doesnât wheel him in. âItâs okay,â Diana says, andâDanny almost flinches when she touches his hair, but itâs only Diana, whoâs never hit him, and theyâre fine. HeâsâŚsafe. Itâs safe. Heâs safe here. âDo you want to go in?â
Danny doesnât move. His hands donât touch the wheels. Theyâre shaking; he puts his hands in his lap and he tries to breathe. ââŚWhat?â he asks hoarsely.
âA rum for my Danny,â Diana murmurs, quietly. Dannyâs heart throbs at the possessive. âYou are healthier now. You do not need doctors every hour, but only sum hours. You cuĂ°e spenda more time here, all ana.â
Words go by so fast even at Diana's smooth, unhurried paceâ and Danny licks dry, split lips. He looks around the roomâand the room is small, sure, but they're in space. Space will always be a premium. Even in this small room, though, the furniture is sparse and placed distant from each otherâŚdistant enough that Danny can wheel around freely in his chair.
Thereâs a Moon clock display hung on the wall over the doorway, and Danny can faintly see the outline of what he assumes is the current lunar phase as seen from Earth.
Having the lamp isnât exactly the same as glow-in-the-dark-stars, and thank goodness for that. If it had been, Danny might have cried.
(Or, he realizes, something burning in his eyes that isnât ectoplasm, maybe he is crying.)
â...Me?â Danny asks, terrified to know the answer. Is this room for him?? Is he getting a room here? Is he supposed to stay here? On the moon?! Is he supposed to stay with everyone here, in a tiny room, where thereâs nowhere to go and nowhere to escape?
âŚItâs a bedroom. Itâs already so much more than the stupid guys in white ever gave him.
âYes,â Diana says, and lets go of his hair. âUse it, or do not. Sitta here, or sitta in the medical bay, but now you have two choices.â
Okay. So Danny has choices. He swallows his feelingsâthey taste a lot like snotâand rolls himself inside to inspect the room.
Thereâs another little fridge inside the sitting area. Itâs not right next to the bed like it is beside Dannyâs cot, but it is the same style of fridge. When Danny pops the door open, it has the same styles of snacks. Fig Einsteins. Peanut butter squeezies and applesauce squeezies and yogurt squeezies. Protein shakes in bottles. Pedialight. Hummus packs.
Danny might still need someone to open the snack packs for him. Thatâs kind of a high dexterity food, if he thinks about it.
âIf you wish to sitta here, we will visit you all you like. There is a belle at your bed,â Diana says, and walks in with all her purple scrubs and tied-up hair to point to a little button on his nightstand. Itâs red. Itâs got a little smiley face sticker next to it, and Danny thinks he recognizes the style from one of his nurseâs bestickered name tags. Belle is probably a direct cognate for bell. Heâll be able to get everyone to come up here if he needs help.
âŚOkay, thatâs kind of nice. To have personal space. He hasnât had that since⌠Dannyâs eyes squint as he thinks; he rubs an eye. Wait, when had he been squatting under a conference table? Was that a real memory??
Diana is very tall, even in the little space, but when she ducks her head, the gesture makes her a little smaller, a little more manageable for Dannyâs lower-than-usual-gaze. Now that he can see her expression, she looks soft, and even uncertain, even though she looks stone and strong on the television when she goes out to fight. âDo you like it?â she asks.
Danny fidgets.
Heâdoes. He likes it a lot. The room doesnât have any windows, but if Danny moved all his things in here, got used to being able to come and go, and people coming in and outâŚthis space could be just another space. Itâs quieter than the medical ward. More peaceful.
âŚThe room is utterly devoid of other people.
(Danny thinks of The Box. Danny thinks of being in The Box.)
(Danny doesnât like remembering The Box.)
âI am scared,â Danny admits to his twitching thumbs, his fingers itching for a fidget toy or one of his physical therapy tools. Dianaâs face immediately drops.
âWhy are you scared?â
Iâll be alone Danny wants to say, but he doesnât know the word for alone and he struggled with phrasing. âNoâŚpeople here.â
âThat is triewe. You would have more dÄŤegolnes here,â Diana agrees, and straightens out of her crouch. âIs that good, or bad?â
It isnât good and it isnât badâŚ? Danny isnât sure how to phrase it. Itâs neither. Being alone is just scary.
âYou not hurt me,â Danny tries, knowing heâs missing some connecting word in the middle. He ignores how Diana comes back to kneel beside him, because if he looks at her, he wonât say anything. âDo not.â
âNo,â Diana says, from beside and below him, gentle, careful. âWe do not.â
No. They donât. Danny swallows. âBadâŚhurt me.â He doesnât know the word for Earth or planet or even downstairs, so he just meekly points downwards.
Diana stills. Itâs like watching Vladâs Maddie cat spot a bird to hunt down. Danny tries not to feel pinned. âOn eorĂžegearde?â she asks, still light, still gentle. Danny can hear a shadow of steel, though, and he counts himself lucky that sheâs never treated him like an enemy. Danny quickly nods. His eyes squeeze shut.
âWho?â Diana asks feather-light.
Danny doesnât want to tell them what he is. Admitting the name of the agency hunting him itself would be given in.
âŚBut maybe if he doesnât say the nameâŚand they...and they promised they'd help hide him...
He wants to be right. Danny wants to be right that they're nice, and that they want to help him. Danny wants to be right that they want to protect him. As long as he never, nevernotevernever tells them he's a ghost...
Maybe someone will help him. This time.
âBad,â Danny repeats, because he genuinely has no idea how to translate?? âWantsâŚhurts me? ForâŚâ WHAT WORDS DOES HE KNOW? Danny gives up and just draws a y-shaped autopsy incision on his chest. It goes down from his collarbones to his belly button.
Diana watches. Her eyes are sharp.
âDo you feel safe with the staff dunstĂŚger in medical?â Diana is quick on the ball with the question and Danny nods quicklyâheâs never alone there, and no oneâs ever hurt him, and people whose job it is to help people are always coming in and out, and Medical helps them too.
âGood,â Danny whispers. âTalkâŚtalks to me.â
âEalne weg,â Diana affirms firmly. Whatever that means. âWe will cepa you safe.â
You safe and we is all Danny needs to hear. He could probably cry by himself, but Danny wants the comfort anyway; Diana lets Danny take her hands into his, and he lets tears fall into someone elseâs grip instead of his own.
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Bruce is halfway to the monitor room before he feels himself be picked up from underneath the armpits.
Usually finding himself at inappropriate heights involves horseplay from Clark. No one else would be so bold as to actually put their hands on him within the professional setting of the Watchtowerâand Bruce has worked very, very hard on maintaining a reputation that keeps the handsier of his fellows at bay.
The culprit is not Clark this time. Bruce finds himself looking downward at Dianaâs tearstained face, fury and resignation warring in her expression.
Bruce is careful not to sigh. âWonder Woman. What is the matter?â
âSomeone,â Diana grits out, voice carefully modulated to cut out her own pain, âHurt my charge.â
On the one hand, the situation with their patient is exactly as Bruce had expected. The circumstance is tragic. The circumstance was predictable.
On the other, Diana's new upset means that Bruce now has more information to work with than ever before.
Bruce can work with this.
âTell me everything.â Bruceâs voice is just as firmâeven held midair like a cat. âI will help you in every way I can.â
#HEy guess who got a covid booster took a nap so fat that SOMEONE almost suffocated and then woke up at 6am to write 1800 words of Hybrids??#Danny: so like. They don't TREAT me like a ghost. so if I just say I'm NOT a ghost..it's good right?? They won't do what mom n dad did??#Wonder Woman (seething with rage): You are NOT going to be able to stop me from killing people#Bruce very quietly: (noted)#health and hybrids#dp x dc#danny phantom#dcu crossover#dpxdc#dcxdp#tw medical#tw body horror#tw gore#although at this point we're mostly a recovery fic#this whole thing has been a recovery fic huh#the healing power of watching someone else get picked up after being punted around like a football#I think we're also a mystery fic but I'm really drawing out the details here ngl#clark is eating chips w nightwing rn they're both missing out on the action
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if requests are open then please please please more havoc duo :3?????? i love how you draw them i see your designs and fucking explode. Would drink bleach. uhh angsty or fluff or ANYTHING just havoc duo my beloveds
i went insane on this one. okay.
i've been listening to the horror and the wild by the amazing devil on repeat and i think it's extremely havoc duo coded. if anyone disagrees with me, you're wrong. here's some more little sketches i did for some other lyrics, because i used to make animatics for fun and i still miss doing them.
#â request .#â my art .#im not normal about havoc duo#i miss them so bad#i have so many thoughts#like i have the whole animatic mapped out in my head#âthink of all the horrors that i promised you id bringâ THE HORRORS IS THE WORMHOLE. guys hear me out please#i have so many ideas for animatics#im so tempted#also i find the âwingless thingâ thing very funny#the avians referring to other species that don't have wings as âwinglessâ just seems right ykn#GOD they make me ill#havoc duo#save me havoc duo save me#parrotx2#spokeishere#lifesteal smp#someone sedate me plaease
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There are multiple gods in the game that you can directly interact with and they all have ties to the narrative. You can interact with Shar via Shadowheart. You can interact with Mystra via Gale. You can interact with Myrkul via Ketheric when he takes on the avatar form. You can interact with Bhaal via Durge and in the fight with Orin. You can interact with Bane after killing Gortash and using "Speak with Dead" in which the soul you speak to is not Gortash, but Bane himself. I would include Vlaakith in this list but Vlaakith is not a god, she is a lich presenting herself as a god. And, of course, there is the Absolute which doesn't really become a god until it ascends into the Netherbrain (although that is debatable).
But, did you know that Lolth will also interact with you? As far as I am aware, Lolth is the only non-story related god in which you do have interactions with. One of them is only available if you are a Lolth-sworn drow, and the other is only available if you are a Cleric of Lolth (you do not need to be Lolth-sworn for it).
The first instance is in the goblin camp with the spiders in the pit. This does require that you are a Lolth-sworn drow and that you have the ability to speak with animals. When talking to the spiders, you will have the option to present yourself to the spiders as Lolth herself. If you fail the persuasion check, Lolth gets pissed off as she was listening to you and is not happy that you tried to present yourself as her. And she tells the spiders you are an imposter and they attack you. But if you succeed the check, Lolth doesn't do anything and the spiders will think you are Lolth. So, Lolth doesn't really have a problem with you pretending to be her. But if you are going to pretend to be her, you better do it right. If the spiders think you are Lolth, you can ask them about what's going on in the goblin camp and the spiders only talk about one thing. They immediately tell you that there is another drow in the camp who has forgotten her way and that she is forsaken. And, as I said, Lolth is here. She heard the spiders admit this. Lolth does nothing about it.
The second instance is in the Underdark with the Phalar Aluve. When you interact with the sword, you have two different checks, a Strength check and a Religion check. If you do the Strength check, you can just pull it out of the stone and be on your merry way. If you perform the Religion check, the narrator will tell you different things depending on certain conditions. If you are a Lolth-sworn drow and/or a Cleric of Lolth, the narrator will tell you that the religious rite to pull the blade from the stone is blasphemous as it pays honor to the weak. If you are of any other race and/or cleric of any other god, the narrator will tell you that the sword is of Eilistraee and the rite pays honor to the fallen. The religious rite is that you spill a little bit of your blood and the sword will rise out of the stone on its own. If you do this as a Cleric of Lolth (you don't need to be Lolth-sworn) you will feel hundreds of spiders crawl all over you as Lolth is warning you not to do shit like that ever again. Not only did you perform the religious rite of another god, you performed the religious rite of a god she hates. And she is letting you know how much she hated that.
These are the only two instances in the game that I have found in which Lolth interacts with the player but there are plenty of other moments in which Lolth could interact with you, but doesn't (such as with the Phase Spider, the baby spiders in Grymforge, Kar'niss, or the dead spider in the Gauntlet of Shar). Of these two moments where Lolth does interact with you, one of these instances is in the goblin camp, and the other is in the Underdark not too far away from the goblin camp. I don't think it is much of a coincidence that these two interactions occur in close proximity to Minthara. Almost as if Lolth has a reason to be in that area specifically to watch and monitor things, and you just so happened to be there. And the only things that compel her to interact with you is because you pissed her off. But, as long you don't piss her off, she will do nothing and she will say nothing.
When Minthara was being tortured by the Absolute, she prayed to Lolth and begged Lolth to give her the strength to fight her enemies. But Lolth does nothing and Lolth says nothing. In fact, that was the full extent of Lolth's "punishment" for Minthara, nothing. All Lolth did was not answer Minthara's prayers and not show up when Minthara needed her the most. Lolth did not torture Minthara like the Absolute did, Lolth did not turn her into a drider, nor did Lolth eat her. All she did, was nothing. And yes, Lolth is known for abandoning drow and no longer interacting with them. A drow has to do something incredibly awful in order for Lolth to just back away from them entirely. But you cannot convince me that Lolth is going to let one of her Baenre's go so easily. It's not as if Minthara has done anything truly awful either to make Lolth that mad.
According to Minthara, she herself has sinned against the Spider Queen, but it's not as if she chose to abandon Lolth, she was forced away and mind controlled into being devoted to another god. But would this make a difference to Lolth? Does it really matter if Minthara was compelled to have faith in another god besides Lolth? It isn't until Minthara is freed and feels the absence of Lolth that she chooses to no longer follow Lolth. Minthara even mentions how turning against Lolth is a big no-no in Menzoberranzan. Minthara herself at one point has hunted down and killed those who turn their backs from Lolth so she knows the same will be done to her if she were to ever return home. In fact, if you are a Lolth-sworn drow or a Cleric of Lolth, you are given unique dialogue options with Minthara to kill her because she is a traitor to Lolth and these options continue to show up until you recruit her into your party and she joins your roster. Despite all of this, Lolth does nothing. Minthara spews anti-Lolth rhetoric left and right, and Lolth does nothing. If you take Minthara to the tabernacle, she will spit on a shrine to Lolth, and Lolth does nothing.
Minthara is also able to walk through the Gauntlet of Shar, which is in the Underdark, and Lolth does nothing. Sure, you could argue that its connection to the Shadowfell and the fact that Shar is there via Shadowheart is enough to keep Lolth away. The lore of DnD does not make it quite clear what the relationship between these two goddesses are. But I am willing to bet that Lolth is smart enough not to step on Shar's toes because Shar would annihilate her. However, there is a small little section of the Gauntlet where it actually does spit you out directly into the Underdark and into Lolth's territory. Minthara can walk right out there just fine, and Lolth does nothing.
But most importantly, Minthara's default ending is her returning to the Underdark with the sole purpose of destroying House Baenre and then killing Lolth. Destroying House Baenre could lead to a chaotic and political disaster in Menzoberranzan, and Lolth does nothing. Minthara quite literally wants to kill Lolth and has intentions to do so after taking House Baenre, and Lolth. Does. Nothing!
If Minthara goes into the Underdark and destroys House Baenre, this will cause chaos and death. And the Baenre's won't be the only ones she has to destroy, but any and all allies of House Baenre in which they do have a lot. And Lolth will feed off of all the death and carnage and chaos that Minthara is about to bring to Menzoberranzan because Lolth loves chaos more than she hates traitors.
Maybe, Lolth has not abandoned her as Minthara thinks she has. Maybe, Lolth has done nothing and said nothing because Minthara has not actually upset her. Maybe, Lolth has done nothing and said nothing because Minthara is already doing everything Lolth wants her to do. And all it took, was making Minthara think that Lolth abandoned her. There was no need for Lolth to answer Minthara's prayers, because Minthara always had the strength to fight her enemies.
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#minthara#minthara baenre#evil murder kitten#this game is all about the cycles of abuse and the characters choosing to break the wheel or continue the cycle#minthara is an example of someone who continues to cycle because she doesn't see that there is any other option#and the alternatives leave her vulnerable to abuse or death#she has had enough abuse in her life and most certainly does not want to die#when presented with the opportunity to rebound - either through bhaal or the absolute#she will choose it in a heartbeat as it is all she knows and she's familiar with it#if lolth ever speaks to minthara again - and welcomes and embraces her with open arms#i think minthara would completely relapse and devote herself once more to lolth because it is all she knows#and she expresses missing lolth and not knowing who she is or what to do without her#the only things that can pull minthara away from this relapse is you and her devotion to you#you are the only thing that can stop her from going back to lolth or embracing any of the other gods out of fear#because you are her reason to stay on the surface and you show her it is possible to defy the gods and live#you show her it is possible to have an identity outside of godly worship and that it is possible to live for one self#and to be devoted to one self#if you go with her to the underdark and successfully conquer house baenre and make your own house in its place#she's doing it entirely for the two of you#and i don't think she would accept lolths embrace and would continue to defy her
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#.....i don't think this is spoilers considering everything else i've ever done on this tumblr and jess i'm sorry if this was a secret but:#WE'RE BACK BABY#and also:#pray for me#YA GIRL IS ALREADY TIRED#(what you can't see on this schedule is my 8-5 day job)#(or the 10+ hour/week evening/weekend nonprofit job)#someone send coffee and also possibly a time machine#also ALSO i did have a solo recording in late july#but it's different to record with other people!!#i had a moment today where i could FEEL arkady's reaction happening to another character and it was great#i have missed working with my rumor crew a whole heck of a lot#tscosi#ishani speaks
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Fuck it, I'm doing the poll even though I know what I feel and I'm not changing my mind about my own interpretation, but I've seen people interpret it both ways on social media so I'm curious.
#for reference I always interpreted it as the first option#The âlove affairâ is her current relationship E.g. her relationship with the subject shouldn't make her feel so anxious all the time#because it ties into the next line of 'every breath feels like rarest air when you're not sure if he wants to be there'#e.g. the faithless love of it all -- not sure that he wants the same future you do anymore#but I've seen so many people think the love affair means her partner's affair with someone else#I don't get that vibe but whatever#wondering if I'm just missing something!#so long london
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The girls are plottinggggg
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wen chao#wang lingjiao#Realizing she was supposed to have an upper lip mole was a cold slap in the face. So sorry ma'am. I won't forget again.#They are evil dumbass 4 evil dumbass and I think we are all missing out on the sheer potential of the comedy between these two.#They have way too much power and are using it for the wrong reasons - which makes them truly great villains.#And when things don't go their way they become piles of whining sludge.#Wang Lingjiao is forever fascinating to me even though we only get crumbs about her.#She's a servant girl who's greatest asset is her beauty and her attractiveness.#Meaning she's had a life being in the gaze of people with significant positions of power over her.#I can't help but read her childishness and petty tantrums as someone who has finally been given the chance to not feel powerless.#If she was a more virtuous type we might 'like' her more but honestly...I don't think she would have survived to this point.#WLJ has only known power hierarchies her whole life. Probably accused of seduction before she even understood what that meant.#I love contrasting her with mianmian because they have similar(ish) backgrounds but different approaches to moving forwards#But WLJ's story is about flying too close to the sun and mianmian's is about going too close to the water.#Like the sea mist dragging her down into complacency - all the sect powerplays are mandatory to 'go along with' if she wants to climb-#-the social ladder. Yet she is the cautionary tale (and a foil to JGY as well) she leaves before sacrificing her own morals.#Mianmian flies away with her wings only slightly plucked while those who sacrificed everything to reach for the top crash and burn.
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ep 43 had me tearing up in a fucking shopping centre âźď¸âźď¸
b+w alt version that I truly couldn't decide if I liked it more . Also I included a lot of thoughts in the tags but they're somewhat incoherent<3
#i dont know what i expected but i was waiting for a friend and too excited to wait until later#malevolent podcast#john doe#john doe malevolent#john malevolent#malevolent fanart#grimm art#ep 43#ep 43 left me with a lot of thoughts ... i didnt quite like how much of a recap it felt like at times but that might#be because ive been relistening and like yeah everyone knows that john đ but that's not the case for everyone and with monthly uploads#things get forgotten easily#i find the discussion of âhumanityâ so interesting because John has shown that without someone that he has forcibly grown to value as an#equal... something he cannot do as the king of yellow as he is superior to all of his realm and presumably stays out of other elder god's#anyway. without that equality and enviroment to grow he fails to reach his goal of compassion and falls onto old ways.#John. The King in Yellow. shown by both times each has found themselves in human form do not just crave power and influence!!!#THEY CRAVE COMMUNITY!!! an endrich being not born or raised with nothing but power and ego#CRAVES COMMUNITY.#His goal of âhumanityâ is not a selfless goal like John projects - it is ultimately somewhat selfish as he does not want to be alone!!#which makes this desire so much more human#i don't know maybe this is just me spelling out whats already there but the way john and the witch argued about humanity frustrated me#it felt like they were missing the point or that perhaps the âgood/evilâ âblack/whiteâ retoric was already realised by me and john needed#realise it himself . which is fair !!!#i dont know!!!!#the witch was talking about how bad everyone was and how humanity is cruel and john was talking about Lily (#who also frustrates me how shes used in the plot somewhat she was literally just a nurse doing her job bro#) but to John - yes internally he is struggling with his moral greyness and im so proud of him for growing being himself SO PROUD#JUST.!!! he wants community. he needs community. he loves his friend. 'humanity' at its core does not matter as long as you try to be bette#and i think thats awesome and i really enjoyed the episode#guhh im rambling enjoy my tag rambling i dont know i want john to have more friends :(#yorrick can be another friend godd i love you yorrick so silly
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something that always gets me about klavier is that he is so clearly just like. friendly. he cares so much and he cares too much. he's one to tease simultaneously but he so clearly just like. loves and loves and loves, even when it puts him in harm's way, he likes people and he likes being around people enough to be desperate for it and for friendship like. ough
#goober.txt#klavier gavin#kristoph gavin#aa4#this is also partially why I am such a truther of nuance in klavier+kris's relationship#I think it mixes well with prev just in like. how much he cares is both part of his core and a byproduct of#being desperate for all the connection he lost + that was plenty dysfunctional on top of that (but all he had)#I think it actively hits harder if he's conflicted for missing someone who was terrible because it was still his brother and like.#I think kris having been good to klavier sometimes (adding to the dysfunction of the bad) is something that I've always liked#because like#I think klavier having a 'is it wrong to want him dead' and 'am I terrible for missing him badly' thing happenin at the same time is!!#so good and also very sad and I love you gavin brother things that capcom didn't give us. love you klavier gavin#I like the idea of him having that confliction alongside his grief :( ow#I literally don't have the right words to properly express all my thought cereal on this. other people have done it though so it is ok haha#I love when fictional grief has the confliction of 'being reminded the monster was also human and that makes everything worse' it's so good#like I hate you. I miss you. the way you were nice to me was so very you and it makes me soft and sad and tired. I miss you.#you were awful in unspeakable ways. I miss you.#sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like without you and it comforts me as much as it terrifies me. I miss you
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You know the way David wears the same sweaters over and over and holds onto clothes and other things he loves, things that mean something to him, over the years? Seeing the video of him at the Macbeth stage door tonight, that's how it feels like he is holding on to Aziraphale and Crowley and Good Omens...
#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#macbeth#harold pinter theatre#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#ineffable husbands#all the gifts he's gotten at the stage door and this is the one he doesn't pass off to his bodyguard#and then there was the big smile the other night when someone said 'Miss you as Crowley'#saying a lot by saying very little#at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard#i don't think any of us are looking forward to this more than Michael and David#and despite all the drama and anguish over S3#it is so good to know that they have each other#i'm feeling a lot of feelings#<3#gif by me
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