#kind of long at least

[hinamie]

I'll give them shelter like you've done for me

[snarkspawn]

I really enjoy playing through tnp again like hi it's been a while

[greywoe]

child ward in search of belonging indulges in juvenile fantasies as a coping mechanism. sad!

[lbhslefttiddie]

honestly i don't think sqq (jiu) would have minded the accusations of preferential treatment from yqy if they'd felt true. like as children he guarded the title of being yue qi's Favorite with teeth and claws. why shouldn't he be given preferential treatment? everyone ought to know just who qi-ge likes and trusts over everyone else. and for good fucking reason--who else here is watching out for qi-ge? as peak lords he's literally 2nd in command and chief tactician, if yqy values his word over yours, then its both what makes most sense and also what he deserves.

the thing is that to sqq, being accused of being favoured by yqy over others now just feels like a sick joke, because obviously (to him) that's not the fucking case. if he actually gave him preferential treatment you'd think he'd listen to what he has to fucking say, instead of believing what anyone else tells him about sqq. you'd think, if he was yqy's favorite, he wouldn't have left him to rot.

so i think, in a setting where they reconcile after becoming peak lords, that sqq would very much slap yqy's love for him in everyones faces as a kind of power move. a kind of, "oh, you thought that was favouritism? you havent seen yet what it looks like when qi-ge lets himself favour someone."

[flickering-nightfall]

Some bugs for fun!

[pixlatedvampire]

hi the literal whole entire reason i made these was bc i watched this 10 sec clip on youtube pls watch

[failsquirrel]

magical cat design

[screwpinecaprice]

I was trying to eat noodles neatly and for some reason I got sad midway. So I drew them messy eating a biscuit and a strawberry to combat sad noodle blues.

[horreurscopes]

i like my body when it is with your body.

[serpentface]

Faiza performing the Kagnoma Odo (pretty literally 'lion dance'), a weapons dance and one of the more important ritual duties of Odonii priestesses. A relatively new addition to this traditional dance involves the musket as the primary weapon, which is fired mid-twirl into the ground at the climax of the dance. Faiza is experiencing an 'oh fuck' moment because her shot is more than ideally diagonal, but she’s being so cool with it.

This is a wholly ceremonial performance at the onset of the pilgrimage, performed in full regalia and lion skin (of the small, semi-domesticated strain) but no armor. It’s also distinctly a display of political allegiance between the powerful and beloved Odonii priesthood (and its loyal military) with the increasingly reviled and destabilized imperial family, with Faiza prominently wearing a bracelet of the royal serpent, which was gifted (along with the musket) by the usoma Stavis Amanti himself (Usoma is the Wardi word for king, which has been retained in the context of emperors).

The Kagnoma Odo is the ultimate demonstration of the Odonii as an embodiment of the Lion Face of God and living vessel of military might and sovereignty, demonstrating her fitness and proficiency with weapons and as a spiritual unifier for soldiers. It is accompanied by drumming and occurs in stages, running through the three keymost weapons used in war- the spear, the sword, and the musket. The musket is of the most significance, given the weapon has developed a particular esteem as the ultimate embodiment of might and superiority. Assistants (almost always other priestesses, occasionally high ranking soldiers) load and prime the musket to be fired at the climax of the dance, where it is shot into the ground as the priestess leaps out of range of the shot. The firing signals the end of the dance and the rite itself.

While not the utmost exemplar of trigger discipline, only fully inducted and senior (and therefore very thoroughly trained) Odonii are permitted to perform the dance, and injuries during actual performances are quite rare (though are known to occur during training, more than a few Odonii have burns and wounds on their feet).

The most important renditions of this dance are performed upon declarations of war and before battles (in this case, generally done in full armor along with the lion pelt). It is also done during some trainings (while a dance, it is carefully choreographed to include naturalistic maneuvers of the weapons involved and helps soldiers limber up and learn to move their weapons). It is regarded as an impressive and motivating sight and a morale booster, and, seen at a distance, potentially intimidating to enemies.

A special variant of this dance is performed as means of fully incarnating the Odomache, which is done in full nudity with the body covered in the blood of the freshly sacrificed lion and cloaked in its raw pelt (the lion has become the corpse of Odomache in the moment of death, as part of its recreation of God's sacrifice). Her public, full nude appearance once (and only once) in this act is what allows the Lion Face of God to incarnate within her. Those in attendance see the spiritually vulnerable, naked human body obscured with the sanctified and deified blood and cloaked in the sanctified and deified skin. It is a merger of the contradictions of mortality and divinity, the boundaries between the two indistinct in flickering firelight and the flash of musketfire. She is witnessed by her people, dangling in between humanity and divinity and leading them in dance, and and is thus transformed.

[unriding]

me n moze say good morning to the world !!! ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

art by @rabbbitseason of course <3

[museofvoid]

not that anyone's asked but i keep thinking about this and i feel like i need to explain how this happened

so, when i started this game everything was new and confusing and very overwhelming to me, i was only there to kiss the vampire ffs. either way, i left the crash site and, after picking up a few companions along the way, i found myself at some ruins. i killed the bandits outside and had my first long rest right after. the next day i tried to get inside the temple, but the guy at the door wouldn't let me through and i didn't know how else to get inside so i gave up and left.

instead i found my way to the druids grove, i fought off the goblins and was let inside. i talked to the tieflings and the druids, who were all talking about some ritual to close off the grove and throw out the tieflings, unless! their missing archdruid would come back to stop it! and the ritual was almost done, so i had to find him!

from this i made the assumption that this quest was on a time limit. i thought that if i long rested now, the druids would close the grove and the tieflings would be doomed.

so, i rushed over to the goblin camp! as a drow, any goblins along the way were very nice and let me pass without any trouble. i got to the temple, and made my way straight inside. there some goblins were telling me about their three leaders, assuming i was there to see the drow. so after a few stops along the way to help some prisoners, i went to see the drow.

i find the drow, knowing i have to kill her, and get straight to it. i honestly don't remember exactly what i did here, i think i wanted to get rid of the scrying eye, which obviously upset minthara, causing her to attack me in turn. this fight took me several tries, because i was still at like level 2, maybe 3? anyway, after much struggle i eventually defeat her, but it took a toll on my party.

but i kept going. i found bear halsin in a cage and helped free him, and i was so relieved. this meant he would return to the grove and the tieflings would be fine! i was again in pretty rough shape after that fight, so i thought it would be a great time to finally take another long rest :)

but halsin didn't like that. "what are you doing?" he asked. "we need to kill these goblins!" he said. so, reluctantly, i kept going. thankfully with halsin on our side we got some much needed support in the next fight against priestess gut. it still took a few tries, but was far easier than minthara.

only one leader left now, but the team was not looking good, and our stock of healing potions were running low. halsin with his healing and, what? level 5? was a god send. the fight against dror ragzlin was still pretty bad. his band of goblins were mostly fine to deal with, but if ragzlin himself got close he would practically one-shot any of us with that fucking hammer.

i had to get a bit creative to survive this one. learning how to take advantage of the environment, and using area damage, with what little i had to work with.

in the end, i'm not even sure how i did it, but beat him. and after some final exploration of the now empty temple i just fast traveled back to the grove (thank the gods i didn't walk out the front door!)

and that's it, the druids were happy (except for kagha), the tieflings were happy, and they wanted to have a party at my camp. so i got to fuck astarion very early on which was fun, but other than that i was a bit disappointed that this party i had heard about happened so early in the game lmao

TL;DR - i thought that if i long rested after finding emerald grove, the druids would finish the ritual and throw out the tieflings. which meant that to prevent this i struggled to defeat the goblins in one single day while being severely underleveled :)

after now having spent over 500 hours playing baldur's gate, it's kind of insane to think back on that in my first playthrough i had the tiefling party on my second long rest

[sherrymagic]

Wait until I find out who that boxer is.

Aou Thanaboon as MEK and Boom Tharatorn as DECH MEMOIR OF RATI | GMMTV2025

[cecoeur]

How do you sleep at night? No one to hide behind Betrayed every alibi you had You had every chance to make amends instead you got drunk on bitterness And you still claim that you're innocent, it's sad

[samarecharm]

Ryuji having the worst bi crisis of his fucking life bc his mom just had to fucking ask “oh, whats this young ladys name?” when he showed her a picture of Akira petting Morgana. Like okay yeah Akira is like objectively pretty, hes like the Classic Delicate Pretty Boy just like Yusuke which is like whatever; straight dudes have eyes, and they know what women like to see. But now hes like. Seeing things he likes in girls IN Akira now and he cant make it Stop like its genuinely keeping him up at night 😭

Pretty boy used to be A Face that would come up in his mind when he thought of the term. There was no specifics in mind, just like. Pretty Boy. Pretty boy! You say that and theres like a Face Template that shows up in ur minds eye and hed just attribute that to any dude who was like Vaguely Pretty. But now its Akira 😭 and he finds himself cataloging things that Akira does that he KNOWS he finds cute when girls do it. The hairtuck behind the ears. The headtilt when he mishears a question. The Actually Pretty Doe Eyes. The breathy, nearly inaudible chuckle he does in place of a Real laugh (thats made better by the fact that its so hard to get him to laugh in the first place). He likes cute snacks. He blushes easily. Ryuji is sitting here like ‘theres no fucking way man. Like theres just no way. That shit makes NO sense (a lie)’ lying in bed in the middle of the night looking like this vvvv w his phone in his hands (looking at pictures of akira)

It drives him insane bc like he did Not see any of these things as like inherently girly or whatever. Like thats just akira thats just his bro! And he does OTHER weird shit that cancels all that shit out. Hes like a messy engineer/tinkerer, he rolls out of bed and whatever situation his hair is is everyones problem. He wears that AWFUL gym uniform and doesnt tweak it AT ALL?? He likes baseball?? hes got a whole binder of trading cards that he will show off if u show any moment of weakness. Like hes just Some Dude but also manages to be Some Girl at the same time and Ryuji is like thats not fair. Life sucked ass but at least it made sense before Akira stumbled into it 😭

[deoidesign]

I met the me who made different choices