#kind of a bummer ngl

[scribz-ag24]

Who hasn't heard about the Great Dusknoir? :D

(scene inspired by the post-game of the romhack Special Episode 0, go check it out, it's available in English :DD https://x.com/PKMM_ESPEP0/status/1779568235437863046)

[solns]

i thought lighter had elf ears in the release trailer but i guess not

[solradguy]

I wish I was more openly hype about being a trans dude because there's like zero positive stuff for trans men like anywhere and it would be nice to help change that, but I've been out/on HRT for like idk 8 years now and being trans is like the 4th on the list of things I think are interesting about myself rofl

[invinciblerodent]

Y'know, puttering around with my recordings, I think I really am going to give Davrin's romance with Ver a pretty serious twisting around. Rewrite some things a bit, change things around, keep most of the "slow burn" of it intact- but also add in the "friends with benefits" elements that I feel match what he says in the check-in scene after the point of no return better.

I think I have a post from like, months before release, when all we knew about the character was "charming Warden (who may or may not have been the Storm Coast team's commander in '41)", about how I sort of expected his to be the romance that starts off more casual (with the expiration date all Wardens have, it's not surprising that someone who's been one for at least ten years would be hesitant to enter any genuine emotional entanglements, platonic or romantic), and then for him to find himself falling for Rook unexpectedly (and kind of against his will) anyway.

And from some of that late dialogue, I still think that that may have been the exact intention, initially, but maybe they didn't want to create too big a disparity between the different romance paths, or like they didn't want for it to come off like they weren't taking him as seriously as the rest, so the path sort of ended up getting a bit... I don't wanna say "subdued", but I can't think of a better word lol. Brought to match the pacing of the others and the overall story more, that's more like what I mean.

.... Anyway, I kinda think I wanna have them sleep together for the first time either after his personal quest (no more distractions, clearly established romantic interest in- and some commitment to one another, but with still an opportunity to angst about everything else) or preferably, that night after drinking with Lucanis.

I'm leaning towards the latter thought, specifically because it'd be clearly a very, very bad idea.

It'd be far too fast, far too early, I got that scene like right after the Cauldron, so deep in the thick of his personal quest- plus, the mutual interest was barely expressed like one day prior to it, and there was alcohol involved. Which all kind of makes it perfect, because it's an awful time to toss that complication in there.

But, it gives me an opportunity to have the both of them keep thinking that it being just a casual, physical thing is what the other wants (despite the "well, I could see us heading somewhere, someday" of it), and to have their feelings developing sort of in the background of it-- and then!!!!! that forest kiss can also take a role more like another complicating factor, with the "heart of a halla" line being a bit more ambiguous.

Like, casually kissing your booty call/situationship/FWB you've been secretly falling for, it's a bit more touchy-feely than the previously established [they were not established] guidelines [there are no guidelines] suggest is appropriate [none of this is appropriate], but it feels right, and that alone makes it feel weird and confusing, ykwim?

But, then the whole "Most of my life, I've gone it alone. With you... I never want to go back." thing makes more sense being where it is, after his personal quest, to me at least. Because that sounds like a confession, and with being free from worries and the griffons safe (with Eldrin, in that game), there's a great time to have a long-ish, actually serious conversation about what this is and where it's going.

.... That would also mean that some of the bed scene dialogue doesn't make as much sense ("Is this all just for show"? "Just like I imagined"? Girl you know exactly if it's for show and what his hands feel like, you've been getting dicked down semi-regularly for weeks), but I can work with some tweaks to that lol. The final parts of it, about planning the future and getting soppy still make perfect sense, it's just those lines in the leadup that need some minor tweaking.

Idk, I really liked the in-game experience I had, and I love me a good slow burn, but I can't deny that it's more my style when "slow burn" doesn't also mean ".... so sex is a thing that happens only at the very end, when all feelings are resolved". I like it adding more uncertainty and confusion into the mix, and giving a sort of "oh, this is different now" feel to that first time once the feelings are also resolved.

(The date though, I wanna keep where and how it is exactly, because he mentions he got the tip for the picnic from Evka and Antoine, and I find it really cute to imagine him just sort of looking at them after speaking with Valya like.... "... they probably have the right idea of it, don't they. While we're here, let... let me just go ask. How to, uh. Do this whole. Romance thing, I guess. Make it sound, idk, casual. And chill. We're... chill." Never mind that Evka and Antoine are literally one of the most romantic couples any of them know, but yknow, nbd.)

(And then it goes all the way sideways? Love it. Love the "hey so this tea I thought would be a fun, cute thing for us to try made her trip absolute balls for a while, so maybe this outing is not a great opportunity to like, talk. Seriously. About how I may or may not be falling a little bit in love with her. And by 'little bit', I mean 'up to the very tips of my ears'. Nbd, just gonna... postpone, spilling my guts out for her perusal, I guess." of it all. A+, no notes.)

[randoimago]

Decided to join a dating app (it technically has options for dating and friendship) so we'll see how that goes 😖

[waspgrave]

The biggest tragedy of our dnd game was restarting at session 67….we were so close

[albatrossisland]

Now I've come to the ultimate question for L&O characters:

Which is worse, an awful personality (Abbie) or no personality (Serena)?

Jury is still out :|

[moe-broey]

DEVASTATING. Guy who was born to hang out can't even do that right

[hollowboobtheory]

courtney's ONE lucky break in this au is that she never has to experience bastard pregnant black widow mafia princess gwen and catholic bridgette at the same time

the printessa universe is so much fun i keep forgetting that bridgette's fucking dead

:) confirmed kill

[squeakadeeks]

i dont want to say this in a whiney way i mean this in a "trying to find comedy in a bummer situation" way but its kind of funny that from a social media perspective, objectively my sculpts/OOAKs, illustrative art, and plush work is strongly disliked. i have not been able to post any non-cosplay work without losing a good number of followers and they preform very poorly compared to cosplay stuff, like 900 vs 180K poorly. and again i dont want to be caught in social media games and the whole "performance as merit" thing (even though this does kind of bum me out ngl) but.....just from a comedy perspective the thought of someone being like "ug, you made a little guy? disgusting. I hate you. unfollowed." is....kind of bonkers ngl

[cookie-de-baunilha]

[bridgerton spoilers]

ngl i understand being frustrated because your favorite story/ship/character didn’t get adapted in a way that is super faithful to the source material, but some bridgerton fans are losing it and being completely homophobic

“how would two women be together in the 19th century? it’s not historically accurate!!!” lmfaooo you are trying to argue historical accuracy in BRIDGERTON of all shows bffr

also it’s not like queer people didn’t exist and didn’t get together, they just weren’t public about it. so what is “historically inaccurate” about two women being lovers??

[this reminds me of outlander fans saying that is not “historically accurate” for john grey to get a boyfriend because “back in the day it wasn’t easy for queer people” lmao]

“but francesca’s story deals with infertility issues!!!” well, that can still be done anyway with a few changes

the biggest problem that i see with the changes they made is that apparently (from spoilers i’ve seen, i haven’t watched it yet) they are making the fran/john relationship platonic and based on friendship and companionship rather than passion/romantic love. which is kind of a bummer bc fran did love him romantically and her story deals with grief and rediscovering love after loss and it challenges the notion that you can only (romantically) have THE love of your life bc soulmates or whatever

i think people should be more pissed off about that because it does alter the whole point of francesca’s story whereas genderbent michael doesn’t

[graveyardcuddles]

don't get me wrong the evil endings are great and all but ngl to have them as the last big update was kind of a bummer like I say we need even happier good endings now to balence things out like give me extended cutscenes of gale and tav's wedding or homesteading shadowheart or adventuring in avernus with wyll and karlach or raising xan with lae'zel depending on your ending/who you romanced pls.

[broken-clover]

Shiny!

This one's just dumb. Still not over Blue gifting Phoenix an empty dented can. Ngl I am never 100% sure how to write Blue Diamond, she's kind of a difficult character, but an effort was still made

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Being a four-man party meant that it was difficult to hide anything from anyone for too long. I-no had swiftly noticed one of the money jars missing from the table they’d been using to fill them. They tried to divide gold evenly between them, it was just simpler that way. If Tao wanted to buy eight HP Bananas instead of better armor for the third time, then, well, that was her money to spend. Even if everyone wondered where she found the room for them…

I-no knew which one was hers. Tao’s had little cat paws scribbled all over it. Phoenix’s had a purple lid. That left Blue. And given the lack of muffled sniffling, that meant she was probably out at the market buying something with those savings.

She tried not to be envious, but if Blue had wanted to go shopping, why not invite the rest of them? Would’ve been cheaper to split a cart that way. 

Unless it had been intentional.

Every once in a while, Phoenix had come back with a gift for someone that he’d picked up with his own money. His habit had begun to rub off on the rest of them. I-no had been gifted a couple of random tchotchkes from Tao a couple weeks back. She’d tossed some nice-looking seashell in a box and presented it to their poor sod of a leader at some point, if only to avoid looking stingy compared to everyone else. If it was supposed to be something like that, it had to mean one of them was gonna get something nice real soon.

“Meow!! Tall lady’s back!!”

Grinning darkly, I-no fluttered off in the direction of her guildmate’s voice. Tao had gotten busy greeting blue before she even had a chance to get through the door.

Aha, and there it was. A gift-wrapped box, currently being held up out of Taokaka’s reach. Blue had the benefit of height, towering over the rest of them, but Tao’s presence still had her looking uneasy.

“That’s enough, Taokaka, you’re going to make me drop it!”

“Welcome back, princess,” said I-no. She gestured to the present. “Was wondering what you’d ducked out for.”

“Ah, I-no,” her accent tugged on the vowels as they came out of her mouth. As much as she hated to admit it, I-no did think it gave her singing voice a distinctive edge over her own. “I think I’m finally getting this ‘gift-giving’ custom!” Blue smiled softly. “I can’t give pearls or colonies anymore, but trinkets aren’t too different, are they? I hope he likes it.”

‘He,’ then. Bummer. Didn’t mean I-no had to get through this completely bored, though. “What, you trying to schmooze up to him?”

“What- what do you mean?”

“O-ho-ho, Tao gets it!” The cat darted by, trying to swat at the gift again. “Red Lady thinks Tall Lady wants to take naps with Good Guy!”

A more g-rated implication than I-no had been leaning towards, but Blue still seemed to get the point. “S-stop it, don’t speak like that!”

I-no could feel tears welling in the corners of her eyes, but she disregarded them and flicked the wetness away. The woman’s weird emotion powers still took some getting used to, but the imp wasn’t one to break down in hysterical crying.

“Relax, yeesh.”

“Hmph.” Raising her nose, Blue pushed past her two teammates and headed down the hall. She found the room next to the one she’d been sleeping in and knocked. When he didn’t open it, Blue let herself in. Their leader was napping facedown on his bed. The sound of the door made him twitch. 

“Mhh…who’sat?”

“Phoenix?”

“Blue?” He felt for his glasses along the mattress. “Something wrong?”

When he could see properly, his attention drifted to the package she was carrying. Blue took the opportunity to present it. “I saw this and thought of you!” She held out the little wrapped box with glee.

Phoenix blinked owlishly. “O-oh, for me?”

“I wrapped it up just like you did.” The box was placed in his lap. “Is that the correct way?”

“Uh, it looks great! You did a great job,” he chuckled, sheepish and still a bit confused from being woken so abruptly. But far be it from him to refuse such a kind gift from someone he cared about. He tugged at the ribbon to undo it and carefully pulled apart the wrapping. Blue watched with both hands folded behind her back. While her dark eyebags were ever-present, her smile permeated the gloom of it.

Nestled inside the mass of colorful tissue paper was an empty, dented tin can.

She looked at him with eager eyes. “Do you like it?” 

“E-er…” He looked between the ‘gift’ and Blue’s serenely smiling face. “It’s…that’s very kind of you, Blue…”

‘Did I do something wrong? Is she trying to tell me something? Am I doing a terrible job? ‘Reminded me of you,’ does that mean she sees me as trash? Is this some sorta alien metaphor? Oh god, she’s probably about to yell at me. Blue’s gonna yell at me and call me stupid. I’m the worst. Why did I try and be a leader? I’m the worst at this.’

‘I’m so good at this,’ she thought to herself. ‘I can’t wait to tell the others. They’ll be so impressed.’

[desperatepleasures]

well I fuckin. actually don't have energy to write tonight. that's kind of a bummer ngl!!!

[bragganhyl]

ngl it's kind of a bummer that there is no godlike reactivity with Rekke, like imagine getting shipwrecked, passing out, floating in the ocean for who knows how long and then you finally get fished out by someone and they're on fire??? speaking in tongues you don't recognize??? like okay maybe you got really fucked up by that shipwreck but nope, you recuperate and they're still on fire??? okay??? then as you learn the local language you realize that oh some people are just on fire bc... god touched them... like you came here to be a missionary what do you do with that

[cruelfeline]

The plants have gone into their pots!

It's kind of underwhelming, all said and done. It always seems like a lot of plants when I load them into the car; once their arranged on my patio-porch, then don't seem nearly as impressive. Thoigh they'll do some growing, provided I remember to water them!

NGL, it's always kind of a bummer to be reminded how much I hate gardening. Especially because it should - theoretically - be something I love: being outside, planting flowers, growing things, breathing the fresh air.

But it's the perfect activity to really call attention to how ungainly and clumsy and just... ill-equipped my body is for even basic physical activity. Soil spilled everywhere, pots knocked over, legs cramping, somehow managing to cut or bruise or bang something despite trying to be careful. I can never seem to do the thing with the sort of finesse and accuracy and competence that seems relatively easy for everyone else. Really reminds me of how much I hate my body.

Ah well. At least the flowers are nice. I guess.