#ignore my rambles :)

[leopardmuffinxo]

i thought i had escaped the post that tried to take a statement on discord out of context, about durge and astarion being a 'canon ship' or w/e, but alas it showed up on my dash. i don't have the energy to go through this kind of bs w/ bg3.

THERE. ARE. NO. CANON. SHIPS. IN. BG3.

i don't care how much more dialogue a character has w/ another character. i don't care what you think is implied though a vague statement made by a writer or VA. shit like that is what caused a lot of people in the DA fandom to get harassed by so many braindead people in the fandom because their ships were "not canon". the fact that it was also added in because of crunch is a huge disappointment. it's allowed to be your canon but it doesn't make it canon for the game in general.

[risingblackmoon]

Turns out I do know how to draw. Where were my art skills HOURS AGO???? Whatever. Anyway! Sunny boy!

[djtheabishai]

Avatar of Wrath More Important Than The Prince of Hell?

Ok, so I know all I talk about is Simebarb, but y'all got to remember, I started out as a huge Diavolo fan, even if didn't show it much. I just discovered Simebarb and feel down that never ending rabbit whole and won't come out.

But Satan's birthday been advertised and Diavolo didn't get shit yet!!

Satan's birthday event ended and Diavolo's isn't even teased.

I know they both have the same birth month and Satan's is before Diavolo's but this is ridiculous.

Sorry My Lord! Dispite you're the fucking PRINCE OF HELL, The Avatar of Wrath is more important!!

[mysecretdsmpblog]

foolish saying he genuinely trusts bad especially after the election announcement is like. oh

like i knew it a little. i knew they bantered but bad still came to help him when he thought he was dying in that hole. bad still takes care of the eggs, bad shows up, etc.

but leo and foolish are literally talking about how good of a person bad is and like. yeah. yeah even though foolish is all 'oh i hate bad he's terrible and a menace' it's clear he really does trust bad. and he's not the only one

it's easy to forget just how many people trust bad implicitly on the qsmp, especially with all the shenanigans he gets up to. but like. oh

[friend-lover-traitor-narrator]

Listening to 80s music all day long to get myself back into the mood to continue my 80s top gun fics. Wish me luck!

[da-rulah]

you know that scene in matilda where Miss Trunchbull is scoffing chocolates into her mouth and snivels "far too good for children" into the camera?

i relate to her more and more every day, honestly

[thatfantasylovingdork]

Me: you know, I think I’d like to be a cyborg like Alita

Other cyborg media: okay then how about this *serves up gruesome body horror*

Me: on second thought maybe I should rethink my future plans

[leopardmuffinxo]

i just love seeing my old gifs reposted in the bg3 tag...

[ephemeral-darkness]

Finding out Neil Newbon is from Solihull is fucking sending me.

One one hand, woo regional rep. On the other.. ASTARION WITH A BIRMINGHAM ACCENT

[allthefakepeople]

as promised bestie here is my line by line breakdown of dear reader and how it's wille's song <33 (ngl this was born a little bit out of me purposely ignoring the drama going on with tay rn but hey at least we got this giant ask out of it)

Dear reader, if it feels like a trap You're already in one

the first line feels like that shot of wille in s1ep3 when he and simon walk outside and he sees everyone staring at him, because he's the last person to find out about erik dying, effectively trapping him in his title

Dear reader, get out your map Pick somewhere and just run

this is wille wanting to go anywhere with simon, and just wanting to hang out with him and his family without thinking of anything else (holding out for s3 giving us that)

Dear reader, burn all the files Desert all your past lives

'burn all the files' like s2 starting with wille burning august off a picture of him and erik with a new haircut, deserting the life he had in season one, back when he still trusted august

And if you don't recognize yourself That means you did it right

yknow that line from the s2 trailer? 'when you lose yourself, you find what matters.' wille loses himself a little in the fallout of the video, and he's no longer the boy falling in love from season 1

Never take advice from someone who's falling apart Never take advice from someone who's falling apart (you should find another)

when is the only time we see wille get advice from someone and take it to heart? august. august is falling apart too, considering they're both drunk and high at a party to avoid thinking about erik's death when he gives said advice (cooincidentally, erik gave wille advice on how to survive at hillerska, but I don't think wille took him that seriously)

Dear reader, bend when you can Snap when you have to

wille spends all of season 1 bending to the monarchy's will, and when he finally snaps, that's when he needs to the most, and that is when he begins finding who he is and what matters to him

Dear reader, you don't have to answer Just 'cause they asked you (you should find another)

wille's been answering to everyone, from august and erik to the interview where he's asked about the video and denies it. he stops answering in s2 just because everyone asks and expects him to, and finds another solution or answer

Dear reader, the greatest of luxuries Is your secrets

I mean this line explains itself :/

Dear reader, when you aim at the devil Make sure you don't miss

this is about wille not shooting august I'm kidding, but s2 wille does aim to ruin august's life (he even draws devil horns on august, come on), and inadvertently starts ignoring how his actions affect everyone else

Never take advice from someone who's falling apart Never take advice from someone who's falling apart

the repetition of this line, even though this is a piece of advice too, like you're repeating this to yourself, especially after the "make sure you don't miss line" is so s2 wille to me for some reason

So I wander through these nights I prefer hiding in plain sight

wille wandering the grounds having his main character moment to the lonely ones, and how him kissing felice right after was accepted by forest ridge immediately like the video with simon never existed, giving wille a chance to "hide in plain sight" (one he doesn't take, though)

My fourth drink in my hand These desperate prayers of a cursed man

yeah this is wille partying and the religious imagery!! and wille probably feeling like he's cursed with how much shit he's gone through!! and the cross hanging between wille and simon during their first time!!

Spilling out to you for free But darling, darling, please

okay this line is the first one that addresses someone, calling them "darling" instead of "reader," like wille knows how everyone else will read about his life in the news but simon doesn't care and will want to know wille personally

You wouldn't take my word for it If you knew who was talking If you knew where I was walking

this is such a fun lyric to tie to wille because it's like he's trying to explain to simon that his title and his family would never let him keep his prayers and promises. also it reminds me of nils asking "did he really think you'd say it was you in the video" because simon still doesn't know enough about the monarchy to understand why wille denied it, or the amount of pressure he's under (hopefully s3 changes that)

To a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there Where I pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care No one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire

urgh this is such a s2 wille line, with how empty the palace feels, like it's a house instead of a home (like how simon's house felt like), and how wille started pushing everyone away and not realizing how kissing felice affected her. and "pace in my pen" reminds me of him panicking in his room, like it's a pen that he's keeping himself in

You should find another guiding light Guiding light, but I shine so bright You should find another guiding light Guiding light, but I shine so bright

wille's never asked for his title or for people to put these expectations on him and wants them to go for august instead, but "I shine so bright" could either be him being the best fit for the crown despite what he thinks, or him being the only person who can take the throne in the public's eye

-💛✨

AHHH sea

i effectively had my hand covering my mouth the entire time i was reading this. it's sooo good and you're 100% correct. as they say in new girl, no notes!

i have to be honest, dear reader was a grower on me, when i first listened i loved the lyrics but sonically i wasn't sure but i definitely appreciate it more now.

also you're so right about how wille coded it is

i'm obsessed with your brain and i'm honored to have recieved this wonderful gift of an ask

let me see if i have any more coherent, worthy thoughts

To a house, not a home, all alone 'cause nobody's there

Where I pace in my pen and my friends found friends who care

No one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire

this is the line that sticks out the most to me, like how wille claimed he was leaving all his friends at the beginning, but then we never see or hear about them again. how a lot of s2 is him sabotaging himself without realising it.

also

my fourth drink in my hand

these desperate prayers of a cursed man

spilling out to you for free

but darling, darling please

this makes me think of wille's drunk confession to simon in ep 4 like these desperate prayers makes me think of "all the people are fake, but i like you... and that's not fake"

ugh you don't know how excited i was, knowing this was coming

(also i'm very sorry, i'm afraid i brought the taylor drama right to you but we will ignore it all together)

as always, an honor to have you here. come back any time

-miels 💜✨

[drinking-for-two]

In my experience, not listing a salary usually means they're about to wildly underpay you for the job. Whether it's a starting position or something later in life, it feels like they're hoping you don't know what the industry standard is.

My current job, while I enjoy it very much, did not list a salary and then offered me an insultingly low amount. "Negotiations" were met with "that's not in the budget" and the refusal to offer me a proper title (the job was for a "Coordinator" which in my field is basically an admin, but they're asking me to run an entire new sector). So I work for them for 4 months. Contract work. No benefits. I mean, hey, a guy's gotta make rent and this was a stop gap measure.

And then they're surprised when I got a job offer somewhere else? Full time permanent that matches industry standard and gives pension to boot. Suddenly they're offering me full time permanent, benefits, pension, salary matching, 4 weeks of vacation, and a manager position (which I should have had from the start given the scope of work this job entails). All in under an hour after telling them I would walk without any changes.

Like, I'm happy where I am for the time being, but if they could do all that in under an hour, why the fuck couldn't they have just offered me that from the get go?

[friend-lover-traitor-narrator]

Watching Set It Up now because Hit Man doesn't hit German Netflix until next month

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[wombywoo]

glasgow date 🧡

[hearts401]

am i insane i might be insane

[leopardmuffinxo]

I have 150GB of BG3 footage captured and now have zero motivation to gif any of it… send help lol