#i hope the presentation went well!

[gerrykeay]

im not putting this post into words. beams into your mind The Parallels

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[once-ina-blue-moon]

something something ceaseless watcher

[caramelmochacrow]

"You know that I want you And you know that I need you"

[sysig]

Challenge level: Impossible (Patreon)

[fuchsea]

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[you-are-constance]

i am going to FAIL at my presentation tomorrow.

[grinchwrapsupreme]

being super normal about White calling Billy "a dreamer"after the events of Maybe No Go

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

I really hate the inconsistencies that exist just to make SB (and CF technically) work, but also how hard Petra basically simps for Edelgard to the point it deconstructs aspects of her character.

In Houses she mentions her siblings being in danger if she died, but in SB she just doesn't even make any mention of them in this situation. She's just willing to possibly die all of a sudden for someone who never actually treated Brigid like its people were independent (which she could've done at literally any time from the moment she became emperor). She was relatively vocally I guess you could say "good" to Petra, but the way the writing handles Petra's response to all of it feels like Petra's just been brainwashed.

Petra says she would always choose survival and makes a point to emphasis that, but in SB she's completely and carelessly willing to risk her life and possibly throw it away... for Edelgard? Who still has not actually officially freed Brigid? And if Petra were to stop being Edelgard's ally?

"Reconsideration". Because Brigid was never freed and now they're not going to be as long as Edelgard is in charge, because their queen is no longer bending to her will and fighting for her. If she was ever truly planning to free Brigid, Petra's decision alone not to fight for her shouldn't have changed that fact (especially since she supposedly gives her the choice in Houses to fight for her or not, and on non CF routes she does this by sending a letter, to which Petra refuses).

It should, of course, be obvious with this that everything is very not hunky dory between Adrestia and Brigid, but then...

...eh wot hooligans???

I mean sure, if you considered forced vassalage to be "peace" and not being a free people "peace" then sure. But like... it's not a peace her people want and she should know that, but the game tends to do this back and forth with this topic. I hate it though because it makes it come across as being forced into submission and not having the means to fight back is "peace".

I know this game has lots of issues with uh, if you're attacked or if you were defeated by another military force you should submit and be happy about being taken over, and when you can't fight back anymore that's "peace" because nobody's fighting... but uhh... why is that only an issue with the Empire? I mean, we know why - the devs wanted to walk with her and they admitted it! But like... they should still know when they're writing something reeeeally icky.

Duscur doesn't have this problem and they're not under Edelgard's foot. Anything under Edelgard's foot though is treated like they should be thankful for her control and/or invasion(s). That just overall sends a really nasty message. I don't know that the devs meant to do that as far as an Empire, but I do think it's because they went a little hard with the Edelgard bias and somehow forgot what it would look like to an audience playing the game.

It's like they know it's not a good thing but they keep pushing the "Brigid isn't actually free but it's still peace because nobody is fighting" narrative.

Like... I don't care how much you love a character you're writing. You can't tell me that oppressed nations would just call oppressions "peace" or that their leaders would be more than happy to fight and die for the leader of the nation oppressing them. It gets even worse when you get into the racial territory of it, but that's a topic I've already covered so I'm not gonna go over it again here.

[ruvviks]

having an idea for a game but it's miles above your skill level

[definitelynotshouting]

HEY KING, ITS BEEN A HOT MINUTE

Been super busy with school (my grades are SUFFERING) plus studying for the ACT, PLUS trying to figure out what i want to do with my life so thats.... fun :)

Logged on to Tumblr to discover the prequel oneshot hungerau thing and ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH! keep at it dude, we're all cheering you on <3

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Hey bug anon!!! :D

Oh my gosh that sounds like so much on your plate dude 😭😭😭😭 GODSPEED BRAVE SOLDIER I AM ROOTING FOR YOU!!!!!! also im so glad you liked the oneshot!!! I worked really hard on it and i am treasuring every comment 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Also im hoping you dont mind a bit of unsolicited reassurance, but your comment about figuring out your life really vividly reminded me of when i was in high school trying to figure out college and my career and life in general, and just. Couldnt come up with anything. And i still remember how fuckoff scary that felt, so i just wanna reassure you, as someone who is a few years shy of 30 and never even ended up going to college, from the bottom of my heart you do not have to figure things out for yourself yet. I know there is so so much pressure surrounding that concept, but your life and priorities can drastically change as you grow. Sometimes you dont settle into what you want to do until you're far older, and thats okay!!! In fact thats genuinely the norm-- i didnt know i wanted to be a professional editor until about 6 years ago. And in the future i might decide i want to do something else, too, and pursue that instead!!

You never have to settle on One Path for yourself. Things change, people change, and everything is in constant fluid motion. Its okay not to know what you want out of your life-- genuinely, at this point in time youve barely even lived it. Ive barely lived mine-- im only just now hitting a point where i can really think about the longterm and put down lasting roots. Give yourself the space to figure it out organically, and i promise you as someone who has gone through this exact same thing, it will ultimately turn out okay❤️❤️❤️❤️ its a big learning curve, but you arent alone, and there are countless people out there who will be willing to help you as you go along :]

[victorluvsalice]

-->As Harvestfest started in earnest! And, as Victor was already in the greenhouse, I had him kick off the celebrations by offering a pie to one of the happy standing gnomes in the corner by the front door!

The gnome was immediately like “Fuck you and fuck your pie.” XD Poor Victor pleaded for forgiveness, but only got a nasty shock for his efforts. I had him flee the greenhouse in favor of upgrading the dryer in the laundry nook by the stairs to ALSO be “Whisper Quiet” while Smiler busied themselves putting up some holiday-appropriate banners and bunting with the decoration box (not that anyone could really see any of it, given the miserable weather they were having, but it's the thought – and tradition – that counts). By the time they were done, all the gnomes had teleported to the living room to gather around the TV, so I had Smiler approach the “Guardian of the Gnomelaxy” alien gnome and offer it a future cube. It accepted happily, so I decided to have Smiler try pleading for forgiveness from the upset pie gnome –

Aaaand they got electrocuted too. Damn – and they’re the charismatic one! I had them flee back to the first floor hallway, where they hung out with Victor while he finished his upgrades, while Alice (after a quick bathroom break) came down to offer some coffee to one of the pool floatie gnomes. This was also accepted, so SHE tried her luck on the angry pie gnome, begging for mercy –

Aaaand got shocked (which unfortunately I didn’t get a proper picture of). This gnome was just NOT having it! All I could be grateful for was the fact that the happy gnomes seemed to be fixing the TV as much as he kept breaking it!

-->With the gnomes mostly appeased, and the thunderstorm having settled down and become a less-dangerous rain, I had Alice recover from her electrocution by listening to some classical music to fulfill a want while Smiler briefly went out and raked some leaves – and I mean VERY briefly, because I quickly decided they shouldn’t be raking them in the rain, that made no sense. And besides, they wanted to give Victor a hug, which I liked a lot more. Unfortunately, the original interaction ended up timing out by the time Victor was finished with the dryer upgrades – fortunately, this allowed me to make them embrace more romantically. :) And then I had Alice come in and give Victor a cuddle from behind, while Smiler looked on with interest. XD I love when I can do a little OT3 moment with them…

-->Anyway – with Necessary Romance done, I had Alice go back upstairs and finish her book while Victor appreciated the classical music from the living room phonograph before heading down into the basement to experiment with his cauldron and Smiler went upstairs to listen to some New Age tunes and do some yoga in their room. Mostly because I’d switched them over to the Inner Peace aspiration and the former would help them find peaceful surroundings. (Which reminds me, I gotta send them to that spa I built at some point…) Alice finished her book quicker than I anticipated, so I had her take advantage of the break in the weather to clean out the chicken coop and the cow pen – which took a bit longer than anticipated because she started cleaning up all the stinky leaf piles on the lot too, and her first attempt ended a T-pose and her dropping some random garbage on the ground. *shrug* Anyway, I put the garbage in the can for her and had her feed Toothy (who had the old cake tongue out) before sending her to muck out the cow pen – this she did successfully, AND managed to clean up more stinky leaf piles, this time without any T-posing. Yay! It’s nice to see the lot looking a lot cleaner, that’s for sure.

[linguisticparadox]

I got my siblings raspberry pi zero w kits for christmas so they can set up pi-hole and I'm trying to save them a lot of trial-and-error hassle by typing up simple instructions but. it's hard when I don't even know what routers they have? bc that can complicate things.

ugh I better make sure they don't have fucking AT&T

anyway I'm doing the desktop environment version of the os bc I don't feel like coordinating getting their router logins and fucking IP ranges or whatever to do headless setup, and setting up wifi via the command line is a little weird so the lite os wouldn't work either (again I am trying to keep this simple). Plus idk how complicated SSH is for headless setup, I've never done it and even though I'm sure I could I don't wanna add on any weirdness for them to deal with. but I'm like. should I go so far as to install the os's for them or is just imaging the sd cards enough...

I also keep having to fight the impulse to be like "well I don't want to do all the FUN STUFF and leave none for THEM!" because like. I Am An Outlier in that respect I think.

[szappan]

also today me and an exchange student i became tentative but earnest friends with over the semester realised we're probably never going to see each other again it's all so strange how quickly you can start missing people

[amygdalae]

I really hope i get a good grade on the presentation I did Wednesday cuz i just remembered I'm pretty sure I shouted "LETS GO" as I transitioned past the title slide and that only really works if the presentation was also really good

[miffyghost]

I know I’m always making posts about how I hate my job but I really do feel like it’s gotten to the point where I just can’t do this anymore like the number of people who’ve left in the past 6 months is insane like 4 senior managers 3 members of staff probably more that I’m forgetting tbh it’s just like a revolving door at this point but I’m trapped inside still let me outtttttt

[arolesbianism]

Yet another beautiful day to have the Maxwel tag blocked (can't see half of the posts in the Wendy tags)