#i've never ever read the play at all

[youremyonlyhope]

I really should know better than to watch dumb romcoms while I'm 90% sure I'm ovulating.

This time it was Netflix's Love in the Villa trying to make me cry.

[halfbaked00q]

Im soooo weak to when Bond is like casually being used or exploited at his expense for some ostensible Greater Good except the situation doesn't HAVE to come to that, not really, and he's so inured and even numb to it that he barely pays it any mind; meanwhile, Q absolutely minds and is very indignant on his behalf and works overtime to like either try to avert or forestall the situation before it gets to the point where Bond has to dig his own claws into more of his soft underbelly to offer up on the sacrificial alter of politics of all tawdry things, or to manufacture a way in which he does the needless "needful" so as to spare Bond at least one unnecessary additional wound upon his psyche.

bonus if Bond finds out and maybe after being angry or indignant about it - I don't need you to do my job for me, Q, this is what I'm here to do - and either Q tells him/lets slip or he deduces that like, this isn't Q thinking he can't get the job done, this is Q finding him precious and worthy of protecting, and like. he's just very in awe of that and does in fact feel very safe and cherished within the cradle of his Quartermaster's regard

[oceans-beloved]

Meme dump yayyy🥳✨️

(off to make more now muhahaha >:3)

[monards]

"It's so rare for R to be in her right mind for a spell. Should she really be wasting the precious little lucid time she has writing this?" "Don't worry. For a witch, this is the most important thing."

you mean to be telling me that it's an explicit point that rhinedottir is rarely in the proper state to do spells and write things like this. and of all the choices she had not to. she chooses to write it and places importance (read. it's established as the MOST IMPORTANT THING too.) in spending said-precious-time to write something with her friends commemorating andersdotter. hoyo i need youto stare me in the eyes and real the implications of rhinedottir expending what the other's are describing as her "precious little lucid time" to commemorate and make an ode to her dead friend HOYOPLEAS

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

men are so disappointing in so many ways i know i shouldn't expect most of them to be dignified humans but it's crazy. i need to get over this guy he's making my sense of self crumble even faster than it usually does. like he's just so unlike my usual type and i'm pretty convinced he's stupid and slutty and not discerning whatsoever. not to mention boring like i know even if i did have a chance with him he wouldn't Get Me at all so it's a bigger waste of time that usual and i'm actually pretty tired of men in general and definitely tired of parasocial relationships because they drive me insane for months typically. thankfully it's only been like 2 weeks if that at this point. idk. sigh. i know literally virtually nothing abt him as a person and ofc liking any public figure who you know nothing about is only setting yourself for heartbreak and disappointment to begin with bc you already know nothing is gonna come from it but. in a way it's almost addictive to become obsessed with someone and not be looked at with the same level of scrutiny. i don't think anyone in real life would ever try to get to know me as much as i try to get to know people who i'll never even meet. lmao! but that's the thing... idk... i have a lot of love in my heart and it consumes me and i reject my pride usually when i'm into someone. i want to know more... like VORACIOUSLY consuming anything with information about them involved simply because i think knowing someone is a very deep form of love but of course you can never truly know anyone. not completely. and that scares me i think which is why it's always probably been easier for me to never really TRY to be with anyone or have anything real. idk. this turned into me psychoanalyzing myself real quick but SOMEONE needs to bc i need to understand what the fuck is wrong w me.

[icewindandboringhorror]

currently at That Point which occurs once every few months where one briefly begins pacing around the house teary eyed contemplating selling their own organs or becoming an online scammer or getting on anxiety meds so you can bear the risk taking required to be a hitman or so on and so forth.... why must everything so Expensive... Surely all would be healed in life if only I had one big plate of lasagna and a simple loan of $40,000 ... auoughhh....

[imminent-danger-came]

I really am so sad I don't like isat. The themeing was very good

[sugarsnappeases]

thank you for the tag @fxreflyes this is so cute, except the format is trying to hinder my propensity to ramble, so i’ve rectified this in the tags lmao

i’m over 5'5 / i wear glasses or contacts / i have blonde hair / i often wear sweatshirts / i prefer loose clothing over tight clothes / i have one or two piercings / i have at least one tattoo / i have blue eyes / i have dyed or highlighted my hair / i have or have had braces / i have freckles / i paint my nails / i typically wear makeup / i don’t often smile / resting bitch face / i play sports / i play an instrument / i know more than one language / i can cook or bake / i like writing / i like to read / i can multitask / i’ve never dated anyone / i have a best friend i’ve known for over five years / i am an only child

no pressure tags for @static-radio-ao3 @inevitablestars @itsjaywalkers @carniferous @orbitfalls @transsexualpriest @futurequibblerjournalist <333

[memento-morri-writes]

everything about the tags you just put on my post sounds FANTASTIC!!! I LOVE juicy NPC relationships!!!

tell me more? 👀

- @akindofmagictoo

ZOEEEEEEEEEE. You fucking ZOOMED to send this ask, adjkasdja. And I appreciate it SO much!!!!

okay, this is literally a mile long, and I sincerely apologize for that. I tried to cut out as much of the excess stuff as I could, but this is YEARS worth of lore to condense into one post.

If you want to read more about Rook, his tag is here on this blog, and here on my personal blog where I post my more informal/silly stuff about dnd. (It's just "oc: Rook" on both blogs.) My tag for all things dnd is "morrigan plays dnd" (on both blogs), and on this blog I have "dnd writing" which is snippets of my prose versions of certain scenes from the campaign or Rook's past.

The absolute juiciest NPC relationship of all time is Rook and Sigmar, but I linked an explanation of that when it becomes relevant in the post under the cut. (In that linked post there's also an explanation of the relationship between Rook and his first captain/mentor, Zara, and also between my barbarian, Carrion, and his mentor, who he may or may not be planning to murder. Just in case you want more juicy NPC relationships...)

And I would absolutely fucking LOVE to hear more about Iphigenia. (Weirdly enough, the second dnd character named Iphigenia I've met. Had one in one of the campaigns I played in. Her player was a classics major, so they knew full well what they were doing and based on what I've read about your Iphigenia, you do to...)

And I would also LOVE to hear about your cleric. Playing exes with another PC is so fucking funny. I love it. Two of my friends once played (as temporary characters) immortal lesbians who had been married and divorced DOZENS of times. One of them was a changeling, so the other one didn't even always know it was the same person.

There is nothing I love more in the world than talking about my dnd characters and hearing other people talk about theirs so you are ALWAYS welcome to send me an ask or a DM or anything at all about dnd-related things. I love hearing what other people's characters get up to.

Okay, so context: Rook is my half-(woof)-elf swashbuckler rogue. He's the bastard son of an elven nobleman named Alistair Lockwood who is on the governing council of a country called Arborcea.

Rook's birth name was Adrian Lockwood, but for the purposes of this post I'll be calling him Rook the whole time.

Rook's mom passed him off to Alistair as soon as he was born and vanished. He has no idea who she is, and he doesn't care. As far as he's concerned he doesn't have a mom. (Ofc, realistically there's a lot of nuance to this and she most likely had zero choice in any of it, but that's not important to this post.)

Rook grew up in the Lockwood Manor, with his father and his 3 half-brothers, Silas, Byron, and Theodore. The half-brothers are all full-elves, and thus were already DECADES old when Rook arrived. All of them (the brothers, Alistair, and his wife Evangeline) hated Rook. He was a reminder and a source of shame.

When he's 17 Rook ran away to the nearest port town and joined the crew of a pirate ship. What happened after that is WAY too long to get into here, because it's 9 years of pre-campaign stuff and then a campaign that's been going for 2 real-life years.

The important thing is that recently (during the campaign) Rook ran into this guy named Sigmar. (CLICK HERE for a better explanation of the Liars and their messy relationship. + MORE.) They ended up getting really close, Sigmar becoming a sort of mentor to Rook. Sigmar was also the only person (up until last session) who knew who Rook's father was. He said he knew Alistair (which should have been a big red flag), and seemed appalled when Rook mentioned how poorly he had been treated.

Fastforwards like 20 sessions and it turns out that Sigmar is actually a corpse that's been being puppeted and spoken through by the BBEG, a mad scientist by the name of Dr. Purity. We find this out by finding basically a magical recording device in the abandoned underground lab we're exploring. In the recording, Purity (though he wasn't using that name yet) mentions that Alistair Lockwood was supposed to provide him and his daughter shelter.

His accomplice informs him that his daughter is dead, and convinces Purity to go to someone else for help instead of running away, kick-starting his villain arc. However, that's not quite true. His daughter is alive and has been traveling with the party this whole time. However, Sigmar/Purity has been essentially ignoring her in favor of spending time with Rook. (The worst part of this is that he genuinely really does care about Rook and it's going to ruin both of their lives sooner rather than later.)

She asks him about her mother, and he says she doesn't have one, that he created her to be "perfect, not a monster".

The party destroys Sigmar's body, and it's revealed that one of the party members has known Sigmar's identity since basically day one and never told Rook, even when it was obvious they were getting very close.

Fastforwards about a day and a half and we're walking through a different part of the sprawling underground laboratory. We're supposed to be looking for a hidden room with records that we need to prove that the Merchant's Guild sucks, but Rook finds a door with "Dr. Meladria" (the name Purity was using at the time of the recording) on it.

He goes inside and finds a file of documents labeled "Project Alina" (Alina being the name he gave to his daughter when she was born/created. We call her Cherry though.). Rook skims the first page or so and finds mention of both his father and oldest half-brother, Silas. To quote my session notes, Rook was "at his limit for knowledge-based self-harm" so he takes the documents and leaves.

He intended to give them to Warren, the werewolf gunslinger who's basically become Cherry's adoptive father. But that same session Warren permanently dies, sacrificing himself to save/revive Rook. (His player had been planning to kill him off for months, apparently.)

After that, a BUNCH of shit happens, including Rook getting kidnapped and tortured for nearly a month. So obviously those documents are the furthest thing from his mind.

Last session an NPC traveling with us who's from Arborcea approached Rook and questioned him about his relationship to Alistair Lockwood, and Rook reluctantly revealed that he's his father. After she left, Rook pulled out the Project Alina documents and read through them.

It turns out that Alistair and Silas were both involved in supplying Meladria/Purity with samples of elven and fey genetics, which Meladria/Purity used to create... things. Namely Alina/Cherry, who he made using in part his dog's genetics, because she's a werebeast.

Now Rook has to be the one to tell her that (a task he would have gladly passed off to Warren), which is probably going to turn into a whole discussion about Cherry and Rook's very fucked-up feelings about Sigmar. (They both were upset at the reveal of his identity but for opposite reasons. Cherry because he didn't care about her, and Rook because he did.)

I half-jokingly pitched the idea of us running into Silas when we're back on dry land (we're in our sailing arc right now), having been sent by his father to re-establish his connection with Purity's cult/organization, the Children of the Enlightened.

(The reason I brought it up is because we were going to do this tournament thing and the DM revealed to me after we ended up not doing it that Rook would have ended up facing Silas in the fencing portion of the tournament. And that Silas would have probably poisoned him in order to win.)

I mentioned it a few days ago and today the DM tells me he's been thinking a lot about it, and I took my chance and dove headfirst into spouting out a zillion what-ifs of what could happen when Rook sees Silas again. I would be shocked now if it doesn't end up happening, hahaha. Me and the DM share ALL of our braincells when it comes to making Rook miserable.

Anyways, it would be a fucking wild ride because Silas and the rest of the Lockwoods had basically assumed that Rook/Adrian was dead. But now here he is as a member of a powerful adventuring party, who happen to be standing in the way of Alistair's interests.

Of course they'd probably end up fighting and both of them would tell their companions to stay out of it. Rook is usually very self-deprecating, but I think he would end up being very arrogant during this interaction with Silas, in part because he's so much stronger now than he was as the child/teen that Silas knew, and in part because he's drastically overcompensating for how fucking worthless the Lockwoods taught him he was.

I'm hoping Silas still poisons him, lmao.

Of course Rook wouldn't kill Silas, but rather send him back to tell Alistair that yes, Adrian Lockwood is dead, but somehow he still managed to kick your heir's ass.

Since by the time we get back to dry land Rook is hopefully going to have killed his personal villain, the world's most powerful and feared pirate captain, the Crown of the Sea, Kora Wolf, it would be fucking hilarious to see Silas's reaction to Rook saying "I killed the Crown of the Sea, do you really think you pose any kind of challenge to me?". (What can I say. I want to make that asshole shake in his 200gp boots.)

Okay, phew, I think that's the end of that. If you read this whole thing, I am giving you a hug (if you want it) and all of your favorite foods.

[turtlemagnum]

one of my favorite parts of strategy games like chess and advance wars is that feeling when you haven't quite won yet but the enemy has no real options so it feels like you're just sloowly wrapping around them like a snake. when all your enemy has is their king and you've managed to turn 3 of your pawns into queens, and all you've gotta do is get in juust the right position, and in the meantime all they can do is squirm. god, that's such a wonderful feeling. nothing quite like it

[doofnoof]

They weren't lying, those Re: Dracula wedding vows can Make Me Cry Until I Feel Sick

It's just. Mina's love for Jonathan, the way he pledges his life to her and she thinks he's still delirious when he is in fact saying he's gone through hell and he'd do it again, all for Mina. The way that when he flung himself from Castle Dracula, he wanted to think only of Mina, and said his goodbyes to her more than he did anybody else in his life, more than even his father figure.

And she doesn't yet know the extent of it, but she feels the very same way for him, and the fact that later in the story she goes through the same hell Jonathan went through to protect him, and for what Dracula does to Mina, Jonathan intends to kill the thing he was previously unable to kill for his own sake, and pledges to follow Mina into hell because he loves her. She's finally his wife, and he's her husband, and they want so badly to move forwards. Imagine how they must feel. Mina thought Jonathan had died and that she'd lost him forever, and Jonathan thought he would die in Castle Dracula and never see Mina again. But Jonathan survived, and now their fears are all swept away because the thing they most want in life is eachother, and now they have it.

Love is real in this Chili's tonight. Pure, flawless love, and I am shaking and crying. I wish that Lucy, who is so unbelievably sweet and kind-hearted, could have the same luck that Jonathan and Mina had, and that her life with Arthur would be filled with the kind of love, joy, peace and devotion the Harkers find in each other, and I am devastated to know that the rest of Lucy's life is going to be torturous at best.

[jimmythejiver]

I don't have the citations and receipts to prove it, but I swear most creative decisions in the post-Eisner era of Disney has been fueled by the fact that their biggest rival Universal owned the rights to Wicked.

Think about the fact that they had Stephen Schwartz on Pocahontas and Hunchback of Notre Dame during the Renaissance and got him for their send up Enchanted with Idina Menzel in the cast) which like Tangled and Frozen would not be what they are without Wicked, from the stupid titling scheme to initially hiring Kristen Chenoweth as Rapunzel before replacing her with Mandy Moore and ultimately hiring Idina Menzel (again) for Elsa and deciding she ain't so bad after all and hell let's delete Kai and invent Anna the plucky contrast to her to really drive it home.

How about the fact that they bought and made a meh adaptation of Into The Woods, the original 'Kind is not Good' fairytale subversion broadway show. The okay that was a thing Maleficent movies where the king rips off her wings and Mal was misunderstood she was Briar Rose's real protector, see.

The fact that they sure love to market their villains, but boy do they not like to make new ones that aren't corrupted forces of nature that need their heart back to be good again or c.e.o.'s who gave us utopia only to find out he killing the planet oopsies or deceptive seemingly trustworthy Wizard-like authority figures who will stab you in the back in their best interest. A villain is either a twist to be subverted or is the hero you followed along, see. Something tells me the Mufasa movie is their half-apology or reasoning for why Scar is like that when the new Aladdin and Little Mermaid did shit for Jafar or Ursula but make them bland because they didn't have time to bake another uwu, babied misunderstood anti-villain so they made sure they can't chew the scenery or have too big of personalities to latch onto by children either, that be irresponsible.

Disney wants Elphaba and they're mad they don't have the special sauce that Broadway somehow wrangled out of a confusing book full of misdirection that pleased no one but the author and people who hate the Judy Garland film and would never read Frank L. Baum anyway to understand these characters are just different from that film and the shoes were not the Wicked Witch's birthright she wanted their power, it was not that deep, but so much of Maguire's decisions don't work once you account for Baum's that never accounted for the future MGM's art and costuming department, casting and script consolidations, but all Disney sees is, 'That Judy Garland movie should've been ours and fuck these people making sequels and prequels, those should've been ours.'

We see the root of this problem that existed before Eisner took over with Return to Oz under Ron Miller. As a company they've never forgiven anyone for having piece of the Oz pie. Oh, post-Eisner they swung their dick again and made that forgettable James Franco prequel, I almost forgot! A warning to Universal who guarded Wicked's movie rights for decades and the anger they have that Warner Bros. still owns the rights to the Judy Garland film while all of Baum's books are in the public domain before Eisner's lawyers could lobby with Senator Bono to extend copyright law in the 90's.

Eisner cooperated with Warner Bros. to license an Oz sequence with an advance for it's time Wicked Witch animatronic in the Great Movie Ride, in fact a majority of the films in that ride came from WB's vault. Bob Iger let that ride get scrapped for Pirates before he could own Fox's back catalogue. You know what else Eisner didn't do that Bob Iger did? Not make a stupid Cruella prequel to explain why she's so misunderstood, just a straight live action remake of the cartoon and Jungle Book that was boring, and not a whole lot of these were as churned out in his era as there was bad sequels to the cartoons, but oops Iger's doing that too.

Real point is Wicked the musical premiered in 2003, Eisner stepped down in 2005. Eisner and his people couldn't figure out the Snow Queen as anything but a romantic comedy co-starring a villain love interest because he forgot Ariel existed as a misunderstood and manipulated hero who could have served as a template for another similar Andersen character. Under Iger's people they casted og Elphaba and decided halfway they needed to not make her a villain after all. Coincidence? I think not!

[dbphantom]

maybe i should have gone into practical effects instead of computer science...

[justsaysomethingjayj]

I'm new to the show having finally watched season 1, and this is probably a controversial take, but I hope to God that it goes even more off the rails from the source material in the 2022 timeline this upcomig season. In fact, I'd be cool with season 3 with TVL being it for the show. I don't need to delve into any of that nonesense that comes after.

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

Pretty enby in a wedding romper~

[icewindandboringhorror]

I'm so heavily anti-advertising that all pitches sound goofy silly to me/I can never take them seriously, so I have no idea how I'll manage to to advertise my game even if I do finally finish it soon-ish lol...