#i kind of want to be pickled

[pronounced-unsettling-at-birth]

So, if a bog is an acidic wet land, and a bog body is perfectly perserved, is it... pickled? Like, under the classifications of what makes something a pickle.

[mr-payjay]

doodle dump :)

[galaxy-fleur]

I think one of my favorite things about Ashley is that she's actually kinda... spunky when you stop to think about it? It can sorta fly over your head because she's not in a directly combative role to show off that trait of hers directly, but through the course of the game we see her:

A) full-on attack an armed, bulky, scary guy with a candlestick, not once, but TWICE. (And you can't tell me Leon doesn't look scary as hell to someone who doesn't know him, I'd be raising my hands up in surrender STAT)

And she was dead set with that, too, regardless of her - admittedly - very flimsy chances of actually overpowering someone like that. You seriously gotta admire her resolve. And she did that while still terrified out of her wits. She's not the type to just sit and not do anything about her circumstances, and we see that right off the bat. And this trait of hers gets more pronounced once she and Leon grow closer to each other, and he encourages her to keep fighting despite her fears.

B) Ashley actually get all feisty and fired up on the armaduras when you first figure out how they function. Her helping out is sweet, but I just love how it got played off as her being kind of reckless. Leon even goes: 'Ashley it's okay, just stay safe!' at her because she won't quit. All while she's all fired up and determined to help him out. And her angry: 'Stay away from Leon! >:(' is so cute honestly. I love how she can be a bit rash to try and help him out where she can.

C) This is a very tiny, minor detail, but nevertheless, Ramon points out to Leon directly: 'your princess is a... spirited individual. I must say, she gave us a considerable amount of trouble!' I'm guessing she did not take her capture lying down and fought tooth and nail with what she had.

D) The entirety of the wrecking ball sequence, honestly. She will help out, and Leon doen't get a say, now stand back and watch! Her expressing having fun with it after the fact, despite her being in direct danger the entire time, is both impressive and amusing to me.

E) Her killing off a regenerator for Leon by making the bridge retract is badass and no one can tell me otherwise.

And after all that sheer insanity, she still laughs a little during that wild escape from the island. Not to mention her playing along with Leon's quips. Shows off the trust she has in him, but it's still crazy that she can actually be genuinely playful in such a chaotic moment.

She's so great, I love her.

[skrunksthatwunk]

save me ladyklok save me

[feline-evil]

Dick or no dick confirmation Pickles was always going to be trans to me anyways; if he's swingin' somethin that's phallo babes, if he's not then his t-dick fat. What's not to get.

[tls123]

Oh my god HOW DID YOU LIKE SVSSS!!!!!

i liked it more than i thought i would but overall less than i might have given the potential of the story, i think in general i really enjoyed the characters (mxtx never goes wrong with characters, she creates them in a way that makes me feel unhinged) and the world building but the pay off to the set up—which i really liked!—felt a bit........ i mean, just alright.

the dynamics too are pure mxtx, personally the bin/gqiu dynamic specifically really was the least interesting part of the whole story. to me!! but individually i loved both characters. my interest was just elsewhere because """elsewhere""" felt way more fascinating idk how to explain it

was very, very happy about the extra with airplane and the yue qingyuan / shen jiu one because that's exactly what i wanted more of in the story itself as well as just more shen yuan/qingqiu interacting with cang qiong mountain

maybe it's my orv brain but like i told jana a while back i think i would have enjoyed svsss way more if it was more about shen yuan (loner; hater; etc) suddenly finding himself among all of these people (disciples looking up to him; sect siblings relying on him one way or another; common folk admiring him; etc etc) and starting to.... live? again?

Shen Qingqiu hadn't noticed that, unconsciously, he no longer considered the disciples around him (...) to be mob characters the novel had described in a scant number of words.

^from volume one, he starts seeing them almost immediately because he's not actually that separate and he genuinely cares. all the time. about everything. even before that we get:

This was only a book, and all the people were constructs, imaginary characters. Logically, Shen Qingqiu was very clear on this fact...but when a character was actually being taunted and bullied right before his eyes, it was just flat-out unrealistic to expect him to be completely unmoved.

like why are you lying, shen yuan (<- svsss tagline if there ever was one)

just the idea of this really lonely detached guy finding a community, i know it's not the story mxtx was trying to tell but again, with the set up i really wanted to see it go in that direction.

there's one line from vol two where liu qingge goes "you fear becoming a burden to cang qiong mountain (...) but cang qiong mountain fears not your burden"

and basically what i'm saying is that i wish the story had been about THAT

(and also ning yingying's lines in that same chapter about shizun always taking on everything himself and why is it always you like that whole moment with the cang qiong mountain almost begging him to see that they care. idek what i'm saying but you know)

(also foaming at the mouth that we only got tiny tiny glimpses of shen yuan's life from before, those handful of times he mentioned his siblings i wanted to take a bite out of my kindle. tell me more!! dear fucking lord tell me more!! keep talking! elaborate!! he really felt very "kim dokja and his fourth wall" at times, sorry once more about the orv brain)

tldr: i guess i wanted a story about shen yuan/qingqiu but mxtx created svsss to be a story about bin/gqiu. and i just have to be okay with that.

[aidoneira]

The band mother meets the gang mother.

A mother knows when another mother is lying, Pickles.

[meiloorunsmoothie]

I assume that you like chocolate ice cream and pickles. Not together, just in general lol

ah. so fun (?) fact: i am actually allergic to dairy...so ice cream in general is a no XD (and i usually prefer sorbets over the non-dairy alternatives), but i do love dark chocolate!

...i actually don't remember the last time i had a pickle 😅, but i also don't know why that is because i don't recall not liking them XD

[icewindandboringhorror]

Various recent pictures of things

[honeybreadbee]

Found an Entirely new snack I like LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[britneyshakespeare]

i finished the merry wives of windsor today btw. 4 shakespeare plays left to go

[realwizardshit]

so my DM has a house rule where if you roll two nat 1s, you get a permanent bane on whatever you rolled, and if you roll two nat 20s you get a permanent boon. this works because our roll20 settings have it so that every d20 roll happens twice and we just pick either the first roll for normal, or the higher/lower roll for advantage/disadvantage. this results in player characters accumulating these buffs and debuffs over time and gradually getting Weirder. for example, in this way my paladin has:

enchanted her own sword twice

acquired a weakness to Fire

lost her ability to grapple effectively

upgraded her own darkvision

gained the ability to detect lies by measuring heart rate (my pedantic ass must add that this is pseudoscience but it's just dnd we're all having fun here)

[jthm-gone]

you cannot be fucking serious. babe look i got you a gift it's an auditory processing disorder jellyfish rabbit

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

oh. I almost forgot that I'm currently in the fun place of being a tutor/TA I guess? kinda? for a class that a professor I had last semester is taking. you may have nearly a whole PhD in linguistics but which one of us knows more japanese grammar. that's right hehe it's me, how's that shoe feel on the other foot

[thundercrack]

anyone else drink pickle juice

[fractallogic]

Every so often I’ll be idly doing things and a thought turns to my One True Love (snacks) (don’t worry, scone’s One True Love is also snacks; we’re on the same page) and I’ll think about my current favorite snack (potato chips) and go “man there was a chip that was like a little sweet and very savory-umami but not too salty and also the perfect amount of vinegary… it was like bbq chips but like the BEST version of bbq chips because I don’t really like bbq chips… what flavor was it???”

And then I remember that it was all-dressed chips from Canada.

Dammit.