#i was informed of this yesterday

[florida3exclamationpoints]

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[vithcy]

[screechingfromthevoid]

nothing (besides everyone ignoring Orym's deal) has made me angrier than watching Dorian keep up this facade. Dorian Storm has always been a type of mask he's worn. At first he called himself a liar because of it. The happy go lucky bard was a way of escaping for him. He was escaping Brontë so he created Dorian. He didn't believe he was Dorian. Until the Crown Keepers made Dorian real. And for a while, he really believed he was Dorian. That he has this new family and new life and he could be who he truly wanted to be.

And then his brother came back and made his problems Dorian's problems. Until he had to put Brontë back on. Because even if the Crown Keepers + Cyrus called him Dorian, he was Brontë. He had to be who his brother thought he was.

When Cyrus dies, the thread to Brontë had snapped. He was going to see Orym, back to the Bells Hells, back to Dorian Storm. But the foundation of Dorian had shattered. Dorian was created in order to run from his place in life, family, Cyrus. Now he was gone. The Crown Keepers had fallen apart. His friends fell through his fingers and he couldn't do anything to stop it. He was once ready to side with a betrayer god for these people and now they're in the wind.

So Dorian shows back up to Bells Hella and he's completely broken. The foundation of both of his lives has been thoroughly rocked. No brother. No Crown Keepers. The two things that forged Dorian Storm. He wears that mask so fucking well. Because he still wants to believe in it. He said it live on stage that he should "believe his own backstory". The one he made up. The one where he was a bard.

He wants to be Dorian so bad. He spends all his money on Orym, he spins the bottle so he can kiss his friends, he flirts, he blushes and giggles at compliments. Exactly how Dorian would, should.

But he wears the gold of the heir. He has a festering animosity inside his chest. He doesn't sleep. He's thinner than he was. He doesn't sleep. He sicks abominations after their creators. He talks to God's without an ounce of self preservation, daring them to strike him down. He does not acknowledge them as they taunt him.

The god of beauty and magic calls him beautiful and he does not smile.

[sickfreaksirkay]

much to think about..

[rhcenyra]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN APPRECIATION WEEK

day 1 - favorite episode(s)- the heirs of the dragon & the black queen

[enden-k]

read up on natlan just now (since i quit gnshn since ~4.4 and am out of the loop, lit only watched that teaser yesterday w no info bc anon mentioned capitano)

and what it and some characters are actually based on/taking inspiration from (deities etc from different cultures) its really really bad now that i fully realize the story/info behind in connection with the characters i saw yesterday. we already mentioned how pale everyone is (again) and i didnt dare mentioning im disappointed w the archons design (not what i expected) to not attract unwanted arguments but the whole deity borrowing and blatant disrespect... sumeru was already a mess and they still havent learned a bit at all. dont steal or take insp of a culture and exclude the people, its the same thing all over again. sorry to the affected ppl, i hope they realize they really messed up (again) and make changes

[bogkeep]

originally for my thesis i was gonna like, focus on each aspect of the prague astronomical clock like its history, its function, and its design separately - but even other than this scope was way too big for me, the design IS the function. like, obviously, It's A Clock........ but! the reason the face plate has multiple colors is because they represent the time of day. the blue field is day, the orange is dawn and dusk, and the black circle is night. the placement of the sun symbol indicates the placement in the day cycle. I Know I Know It's A Clock Of Course It Does That but it's different to how we're used to reading clocks in this day and age.

anyway it reminded me of first year of watchmaker school, when we were learning to blue steel, a process that gives steel a specific material quality and also turns it blue. you might see high end watched that have blue hands and blue screws, for example, and it's not Just for the aesthetic, it's a sign of quality, but it has BECOME a preferred aesthetic BECAUSE of the quality. my teacher asked me if i, as a former art history student, knew whether it was common for something to Become Beautiful because it was a Desired Quality. i didn't have a good answer at the time but i have clearly not stopped thinking about it. i think it's a kind of survivorship bias - something can be the most aesthetically pleasing and beautiful but it won't really matter if it crumbles to dust within a couple years and there's no way for future generations to appreciate it. it doesn't make it less beautiful, only that we have no clue it ever existed. so in that sense, the beauty of functionality persists

[stergeon]

"I was laughing but at the same time I really wanted to give El a hug, I felt so bad for her"

Edelgard: Thank you for your concern but I am quite alright now.

Um, what's going on with this?

Byleth: Hey, I'm not complaining. Ever since we got together my squat game has been insane. My ass has never looked so good.

[lilith-of-stardust]

Sunless Sea is a great background-of-a-party game to play bc I put it on the TV and occasionally yell "~oh peanut gallery~!" when a plot choice is available and everyone gets so excited to make a decision with no information whatsoever

Also, when it comes to Pigmote Island, the rats have a 100% favor rate over the cavies which is hilarious. Below: real flier in my neighborhood rn and apparently the prevailing sentiment of Bostonians

[silo1013]

salvaged from the office fire in 1998

[divorceblogger]

when louis threw the blood at the stolen painting, he also should have done that to marius' ugly painting or set it on fire

the thing about that scene is that I think it isn’t any coincidence that he nearly gets armand in the head when he tosses the bowl violently. louis is really upset about the fact that armand facilitated his daughter’s murder. but I agree with the sentiment that he feels protective of armand - I just think the show didn’t go those places because they intend to tackle armand’s history later and they didn’t want to detract from louis’s and claudia’s story. besides if the museum scene was any indication armand has very complicated feelings about his maker so he might have had as much a hand in its placement in the dining room as louis who seems interested in collecting art and understanding vampire history. sorry I made this post more serious than you probably meant it to be.

[ariadne-mouse]

I adore the mom in Poltergeist. When the chairs start moving she's cancelling dinner plans and marking the floor to test it and get repeated results. When the family is trying to stay calm in the aftermath when their youngest daughter Carol-Ann is missing, she's very matter-of-fact with the paranormal researchers. This woman adapts and gets things done, but she also has her moments of fear and gets emotional when she makes contact with the specter of Carol-Ann. I love the dad too, he is demonstrably soft with his kids - being the one to go comfort them during the storm - and he's silly when he's having fun, but also strong and action-oriented when he climbs the tree and dives into the pool to protect them. Like I know this is a classic horror film lauded for many other reasons but man what lovely and layered portrayals? It was really the first thing that registered for me, the genuine feel of the characters and the emotional connections between them, and it's a great foundation for the rest of it to build on. It feels like a family of real people who care about each other and that's why it matters when upsetting things happen.

[shinesurge]

lol hey so my printer just didn't get back to me at all for two weeks and suddenly Volume 3 Books Are Happening sometime next week (the proofs! just the proofs, which i had to make a full order of 20 to get, so hopefully they didn't fuck it up), I was going to make more announcements about the preorders during the period but i thought it would be smart to wait for my printer to give me the delivery date i asked for first :) whatever. if you want a book or any of the keychains i have coming in go check out the shop listings here and here. there's fun preorder stuff i was super psyched for that is still there if you want it but i'm so fuckin frustrated im not writing up any cute copy today lmao. thank yall very much for your patience as usual

[britneyshakespeare]

You versus the guy she tells you not to worry about

[mitchmarner]

love to see the phf build something incredible from the ground up, work their asses off to improve player conditions and salaries and expand, all just for them to be fucked over by a league that has constantly disrespected and belittled them — and is acting the same way in the absolutely despicable nature of this buyout. pwhpa players getting priority contracts, phf players finding out at the same time as the public, and there being less teams than the phf so there is inevitably job loss for players and staff alike … just fucking shitty. a united league is fine, but so far, this does not seem like unity. this seems like a coup.

[yavin42]

just finished the second season of black sails and i gotta say i understand why it makes queers go feral