#liveblogging the scum one

[furbygoblinxiv]

Link HUMS Ocarina of time songs while cooking?? I just noticed on Zelda's lullaby but I'm pretty sure he's also done Eponas song and Sarias song???? This guy loves cooking so much he's unlocking memories from a past life but JUST in the form of music?? Is that what this is???? I love him

[passions-and-pupils]

Screw the mystery

Scum villain Self Saving system live blog

Spoilers for book 3

Ch.61

First off BINGHE’S DAD ISNT DEAD?!

Of course he isn't. How could it ever be that simple.

Also my snake boy better get out of this ok 😭

[cyndaquillt]

Wymack, Abby, and the Foxes are so experienced and therefore good at judging boundaries and trauma that I forgot regular Exy teams like USC wouldn't have that

[thatswhatsushesaid]

I hope this isnt a rude thing to say, but youve said before that you felt that qijiu was the main attraction of scum villain for you. I just wanted to say that jgy is informed by shen jiu, but also shang qinghua and luo binghe. scum villain isnt just a one to one influence, but there are many themes and character ideas that coalesce in interesting ways later on in mxtxs work. Im not saying this in a gotcha way, just fyi. Have a nice day

hey no worries, anon. i haven’t actually finished scum villain yet, and took a bit of a break from liveblogging my readthrough of novels in general after finishing tgcf because it was such a beast lol. (a very enjoyable beast, just to be clear, but still, what a dense novel.) i did note some interesting parallels between lbh and jgy in the first couple of chapters; will keep an eye out for additional ones once shang qinghua shows up.

[no-nic]

kakashi gaiden liveblogging

just saving screenshots & taking notes like i'm in an 8 credit class i can't afford to fail

(tumblr allows max 30 images in one post so it's been cut a bit)

oh no he’s cute

minato is sitting there just listening to kakashi’s tirade

TINY RIN!

when your pre-teen not-son quotes the rulebook

kakashi’s teeth are deserving of their own sound effect; self-control indeed!

just say “i’m uchiha obito”. or shut up. you’re delusional, baby obitobito you need a terrible makeover by an elderly relative

anyone told you it’s trauma related? or are you just squinting really hard and hoping?

i have no idea what wee wee means but it’s very close to wheeze

how dare you interrupt their argument for some pointless mission

kusagakure = land of freaky flora (& fungi)? hashirama’s experimental ground?

no more arguing. get fucked sensei. CHIDORI!

fun details:

obito: 2 bum bags

kakashi: 2 bum bags + tanto harness. is one of those bags that med pack gift from rin?

rin: backpack

minato: backpack

big stick-finger-in-socket energy

puppy got the zoomies!!!

shortcut to mushrooms (goes through)

QUESTION! …aren’t shadow clones (doppelgangers here) supposed to be a konoha special? (if not a forbidden technique? or are mass shadow clones the taboo?)

OBITO FAIL! love rin’s expression of despair here

bby kakashi is so cute… he’s been scolded by his sensei… minato: dust can’t get into your eyes when you’re wearing goggles. it’s fine to speak of self-control, but you must be strong at heart, not just in words. like dude, shut up, that’s a kakashi-level bullying comeback.

is it a choice to hide obito’s eyes here?

“it was five years ago, on a top secret mission…” i sense another TIMELINE disturbance. CINEMA SINS! arrest this guy! kakashi genin 5 -> chunin 6 -> sakumo’s suicide some time later (implied by order of events in kakashi’s birthday column) -> kakashi currently 11 years old or more minato: unfortunately, a great deal of damage resulted. in the end, both the land of fire and his peers blamed him for everything. CINEMA SINS! how was this mission “top secret” if everybody and their aunt knew about it? FANON! “sakumo was blamed for the third shinobi war” nope

she’s so tiny!!! “she has found a new master.” shut the fuck up you pervert

and now he’s back to laws. oh boy. and you were so right earlier. now you’re just giving obito speech material.

OBITO WIN! KAKASHI FAIL! the idiot boy is going for the [combat] dialogue option!

kakashi: if you give in to your fleeting emotions, and fail an important mission… you’ll regret it later. does obito have a lot of “fleeting emotions”? kakashi: but like i told you yesterday… better nothing, than a useless burden. a shinobi needs tools suitable to the mission at hand. emotion is just a useless burden. i don’t know if he read it in danzo’s root handbook or if this is just A Fact. emotions are not needed if you’re just a tool armed with tools. how will tears help you when you’re bleeding out? how dare you be human, obititio

of course kakashi doesn’t truly believe this. obito keeps asking if he’s for real, kakashi is making sad faces and flashbacking to his father.

obito: sure, in a ninja’s world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders… are lower than garbage. however… those who do not care for and support their fellows… are even lower than that! if i’m scum… the rules are no good to me! and if breaking them makes me the wrong kind of shinobi… i’ll crush all the so-called shinobi!! anyone wants to convince me that obito is happy with konoha (and the whole system)???

242: Chronicle 4: The Crybaby Ninja (it’s embarrassing that you immediately know it's obito)

flash to minato

“there are probably at least fifty on the enemy side. by comparison, the four of us are all that’s left on our end.” iwagakure sent 1000 shinobi, konoha numbers unknown. now its 50 vs 5 (4+minato). minato isn’t even throwing his own kunai FANON! “minato massacred 1000 enemy shinobi alone” he wishes

obito (to himself): okay… let’s go! invisible enemy: where are we going?

my boy is glowing!!!

white light blade and silver hair! he’s here and now he’s there! KAKASHI WIN! the iwa guy really looked at this tiny gremlin and went “white fang???”

first time in years he’s talked about his father!!!

243: Chronicle 5: A Gift

iwa jonin i can’t be bothered to look up: remember, you’re standing in the palm of your enemy now… a fun way to say you can control rocks and they are in a cave

OBITO WIN! not for long tho

obito: i was the only one… who didn’t… give you a gift… i didn’t know… what was proper… but… i do now… he actually thought about kakashi’s jonin gift!!! obito: i’m about to… die. but i’ll… become your eye… and we’ll see what happens… in the future…

244: Chronicle 6: Sharingan Hero

hole.

kakashi: rin… obito… he loved you… you were his only one… he gave his life to protect you. rin: then… kakashi! you should know how i feel about you… kakashi brought up confessing, rin was just staying on topic. btw obito “gave his life” to protect kakashi, not rin. just a reminder

let her look at stars

(narration) the third great ninja war. with the sacrifice of many nameless shinobi, the protracted war finally came to a close. it its wake, it also left legends… the stories of great heroes, to be told and retold for generations to come. the battle of kannabi bridge. that day, two heroes were born in konohagakure, each with his own sharingan. one found his name engraved on the memorial stone… the other came to be known as kakashi of the sharingan. in time, the tales of his bravery spanned all borders, and beyond.

CINEMA SINS! obito wears goggles (on his forehead) after he awakens the sharingan. when they go to the cave where rin is held he doesn’t have them on. are they in kakashi’s bum bag?

THE END.

[comphetkoncass]

superboy man of tomorrow 2 liveblog lets GOOOOO

obviously spoilers ahead

the cover is exactly how i feel about this guy. yes. squish him. he is pocket-sized. i will pick him up and squeeze him like a stress toy <3

every panel of kon getting hurt tbh (and for fellow kon whumpers. its a fucking FEAST.) <3 but also - that post going around that says ttk cant deflect energy, this is delightful acknowledgement of that. all my homies love when the ttk shatters like an old coke bottle.

obsessed with all the panels about him talking about trying to do this with ~style~, but also getting his ass beat and feeling like this is actually a workout. yes my child. tell me it's difficult. overcome <3

"this is what i wanted. me, on my own, against the scum of the universe" baby no

"no one is coming to save me. not clark, not tim, not cassie, not bart... not even kelex." BABY NO but also. prettiest boy in the galaxy. look at this shit.

the argument about not letting innocent people get hurt. kon you are . such a good person. i love you. u just never falter

intergalactic cloning lore!!! kon finding people who share shocking similarities with him!! i dont often like random characters but i'll admit i'm a fan of these guys. i'm even bothering to remember their names unlike how i treat most side characters (sorry. im a bad comic fan. however. there are so many fucking side characters. do you really expect me to remember everyones name who stays in a comic for less than 3 issues). anyways go pira! these guys are already bonding, i love them and want the best for them. thats right babes you take down that empire. maybe listen to kon about uhhhhhh not letting everyday civilians die in the property damage though. pls.

also there seem to be similarities with some of starfire's backstory? what is it with these alien races who want to clone, splice dna, and/or genetically alter existing races fr. kon and kory should bond over this i think.

kon has sooo much respect for his friends. i love that he keeps mentioning them :') this boy is a bonafide bff. ALSO. HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR YOUR OWN RESOURCEFULNESS HONEY... YOU GOT THIS!!!

"they think i'm just a weapon? well, if both sides are looking for a fight, they're in luck -- i'm just itching to show them what the house of el has to offer." YEAH BABY YOU ARE A PROUD PART OF THE HOUSE OF EL. YOU HAVE A FAMILY. <3 <3 <3

his dorky awkward little grin. ohhh my goddddddddddd. hes so fucking proud of himself. hes teaching them :') he thinks hes such a good role model. im going to squeeze him to death.

"i start to think about what conner kent would do AND ITS INFINITELY COOLER" YOU GO BABY. im so fucking obsessed with this. im having so much goddamn fun with this issue actually. they saw kon stans and they gave us exactly what we wanted. i feel so seen

whos ready to punch through a space fleet. me. im ready. im ready to watch you have the time of your goddamn life next issue.

overall i REALLY like this issue! i don't usually love the whole, "solo series in space" thing because it seems like an excuse to separate characters from the main cast and isolate them and make any growth happen outside of their friendships on earth, which often ends up pretty meh. however. this is fun and engaging and kon references his friends enough that i'm cautiously optimistic.

i do hope kon runs into other mainline characters at some point in this series though; anything to ground this more into main canon and make sure character development ties back to the main series.

[halt-kun]

Hunter x Hunter Chapter 192 - Human Dog

let’s pick up a bit on the liveblog

So we can see Gn’s jajanken clearly did some damage

Rammot really vomited blood everywhere

It’s really satisfying to see

With this title I clearly now where we’ll end up urghhh

You clearly need a psychiatrist in your nest

Like they need healthier ways to deal with anger outbursts or strong emotions

Colt is able to enforce his authority thank god

A rift is being created in the ant nest

Cheetu was written Djido in french, I get it, they might not have made the link with the english name, it’s called a “guépard” in french

I really don’t get people who enjoy hunting, like can’t we have a ant that just enjoys taking pictures of humans on their free time

That’d be fun

Hagya is clearly a hedonist and only focuses on what brings him pleasure

Cheetu is more logical at least

TRUE

there is a bunch of humans even in the little country you’re in

probably one of the most abundant species among the macrofauna 

I’m wondering if the feline parts of Cheetu and Hagya are responsible for their enjoyment of the hunt. It probably mixed with the human personality too

Hagya is a liar

If only Rammot could die right now

Colt really wants an oligarchy

I agree that if most people just act selfishly, it’s really annoying to find a common ground

but still a lot of opinion is always better

Colt is also not a fool, he knows you weren’t very serious, he’s just not calling you out in front of everyone

They’ve already organized a work rotation system

NICE

Colt is a nice guy

Who’s dead ?

OH NGL soldiers

one of them got crushed 

ouch

I really love open spaces in Hunter x Hunter

I would love to eat with some friends here

too bad there are deadly ants and soldiers around

Yep it’s no an ants nest

This is a MINECRAFT BASE

beware of the miner here, very dangerous

They make drugs yep

I’m trying to imagine the quiproquo I could get if some of my friends took this drug

Me : “What do you mean you want some D²”

Him: Well, I’ve kinda been missing it lately, I don’t have enough money”

Me : “WHAT ?!? Since when do you go to sex workers ?”

Him: “UHHH! I usually go to my dealer”

Me : “you HAVE SEX with your dealer ?!? Is he hot ?”

Him: “What, no it’s just for the drugs”

Me : “You have sex for drugs ? Aren’t you and your boyfriend monogamous too ?”

...

ANYWAY

This is so sad

Of course NGL wasn’t the happy nature reserve they advertised. 

Still sad

all these clueless people

Kite En is impressive

I like when skills vary a bit from mental or physical fatigue

I’d probably never be able to train En, I’d be overwhelmed by the sensitive input. I could definitely train it in my apartment though or in a field and feel the little insects all around.

Let’s talk about all basic and advanced nen techniques then

Ten : pretty chill to train, I’d probably do it all the time

Ren : I wouldn’t enjoy it as much but a few times a week, no problem, definitely tiring

Zetsu : I’d love to train it, erasing my presence and making my aura disappear

Hatsu : I just need a glass of water and Ren so a few times a week would be cool

Gyo/Ryu : I’d probably do it all the time, like moving your aura around seems fun

Ken : I like to do the plank and it seems to be similar so I guess I’d enjoy doing it

Shu : Maybe sometimes with some objects but it wouldn’t be very regular

In : Pretty fun to train I bet, like Zetsu

I forgot this was next

ASSHOLE your treatment of dog is horrible, if you think this is how we treat dog you’re really lower than the lowest of scum

DOGS are GOOD BOYS

and puppy play needs mutual consent too you sicko

It was also supposed to be a trap for nice people, really rotten ants here

Poor Gon

Kite is right, you don’t have the luxury to be sentimental here

Poor guy, I hope he didn’t suffer too much

Centipede and Mosquito time

Thanks Kite, immediately estimated who was the strongest and how to fight efficiently

I won’t be sad when you die you assholes

There is a limit to who I want to be empathetic with and you’ve reached it

I’ll probably do a little break and continue later today

[macgyvertape]

BG3 Act 3 thoughts and liveblog part 6

I guess with how much I wrote about act 3 it was the act I engaged with the most

Found Mystic Carrion after breaking into a locked house while trying to get to roof to break into the fireworks shop to continue robbing it. Companions not having any reaction to Carrion when it seems atleast Astarion or Gale would is really noticeable. Like wow his undead servants are a big parallel to what Astarion went through. 

I looked up a guide to see if there were any more things about Mystic Carrion and so I did the artist quest and what a fucking pain that house was. Glad I brought Gale for fireball and remove curse. 

So I figure at best my character thinks killing Carrion would be a good dead, at middle she doesn’t want a powerful figure like that outside her and Astarion’s control in Baldur's Gate, at worse she can’t get access to his roof until he’s dead

Can’t forget my characters origins so I chose “I saved you, and need paying for it” for the Oskar quest. I did it so Astarion would be the one sitting for the painting and even though the game doesn’t say anything, it would be a cute way for my character to show him what he looks like

The girl in the graveyard wanted to pray to Myrkul and resurrect her brother, my character has happy to give her a resurrection scroll and then kill the zombies as an object lesson in misapprehensions about necromancy. Also my character is doing a lot with necromancy, how does Myrkul feel about that power being wielded by a Bhaalspawn?

Cool to get more of my character’s backstory with Gortash and the Heist from Helski. Also more sad Gortash backstory that the person he was sold to was Raphael. I wanted to look around for Mol’s contract since there's no way she got out of Moonrise towers so easily, my character is going to do her best to destroy Raphael as much as she can. 

I spent some time save scumming seeing if having my character take off her clothes and bottom for the female form of the incubus in front of Astarion, Gale, and Karlach would get me anything. It did not, but I’m not going to reload since I feel it's in character since my D!urge is a bit slutty and generally down for seducing her way out of problems. 

Anyway time to go setup a bunch of fireworks and explosives by the exit room in preparation. I turn by turn snuck my way invisibly then to the dungeon then to the portal, which was a pain in the ass.

Filling the sides of the rooms with explosives and fireworks worked great, especially setting them off as the opening move of the fight with Raphael. If I had planned it with more barrels and less carry restrictions I could have brought all 4 pillars down in 1 turn. Lmao how the game baits you with using Hope’s 1 per game damage ability but Raphael is setup so the backlash kills her instantly, so I reloaded. I took the constitution increase amulet from the vault and put it on Astarion so he’s perfect for putting near an enemy and tanking their damage then doing opportunity attacks when the enemy tries to move. Really Raphael himself went down easily and didn’t do whatever transformation since we just piled debuffs on him. 

My character of course just killed Hope’s sister in combat since she attacked while working for Raphael, and I didn’t think twice that she was savable and then didn’t want to redo the fight. Reading his diaries afterwards really does add to the sense of him as a big ego failure of a dude. My character told The Emperor of course I trust you…. I just want yunno insurance. I think its well done that if you tell the emperor that you wont use the hammer he responds saying that because you had it you weren’t worthy of his trust, but if you question about Orpheus being free the Emperor just talks about how that wouldn’t be a good idea and doesnt bring up trust or partnership at all. 

Poor Karlach, she mentions how Hope’s safe area won’t last and she’d rather die in a world she likes than live forever in the Hells and doesn’t want to ever go back. 

Killed some cultists in the park then the Elderbrain hijacked a person to come speak to the party saying we had a place in its “Grand Design”, if my character had any last lingering thoughts of taking control of the brain for herself, those plans are dead since its too dangerous

Before I went past the point of no return with rescuing the gnome prisoners, I played out what if you did the Gortash alliance, and there's really a lot of fun dialogue options if you reject Bhaal vs other ones where you pretend like you didn’t. Also really fun he does an intimidation test to see if you’ll hand over the netherstones , and that the investigation option says he has “a hint of a smile” while he does it If you give them to him he attacks, like what kind of power play games did D!urge/Gortash have pre-amnesia? 

Hilarious how my D!urge character had the most trainwreck taste in partners between Enver Gortash and Ascendant Astarion. Also wow Karlach really is the morality pet trope for my D!urge, she could have been so much worse without the influence of Karlach and wanting to make her happy.

Shame that rescuing the prisoners from the Iron Throne is incompatible with allowing Karlach to talk to Gortash face to face a second time in Wyrm rock’s fortress. Even after you agree to do an alliance with him you can go back with Karlach before you go to the Iron Throne and she has a lot of dialogue with Gortash and then will attack at the end of the conversation. However, killing Gortash there unfortunately kills all the prisoners in the Iron Throne. So I had fun seeing what that conversation was and then reloaded. 

I thought that telling Gortash you have Orin’s netherstone would be incompatible with rescuing the Iron Throne prisoners, since I looked up if killing him would fail any other quests. Instead of Gortash messaging my character, the prison is already set to self destruct when you arrive. I wasn’t able to get all the loot but I did rescue all the prisoners, though even without Wyll in my party Mizora still showed up to kill Duke Ravengard. The healing teleporting team of Astarion, Halsin, and Gale was really great.

It seems going to the Iron Throne will turn the NPCs of Wyrm’s rock hostile and takes away that fast travel point. I’m not sure if you fight through them all if Gortash would be waiting at the top since that would be a pain in the ass. The quest journal says Gortash will meet me by the morphic pools, so I’m going to destroy the Steel Watcher factory then see if that works out without me having to fight my way through Wyrm’s rock

Frustrating that Wyll and Duke Ravengard were bugged so it keeps saying to talk to them at camp but the Duke isn’t there and nothing happens. Seems to be bug other people have but reloading back to the submarine and not leaving until the Duke leaves seems to have fixed it. 

My character pushed father and son to make up but left it up to Wyll what he wants to do with his future, and shes thrilled he is going to kill Mizora.

I quickly gave up on saving all the gondian gnomes from combat damage, its just too much of a pain in the ass trying to get good dice rolls. Sad that the option of pushing Barcus to be leader and kick Wulbren out results in Barcus becoming hostile if you attack Wulbren out of dialogue in response to the threats he makes. There is no way my character was letting Wulbren walk away alive even before the threats. So I just chose the dialogue options that would let me attack Wulbren consequence free.

BG3 Act 3 thoughts and liveblog part 1

I couldn't stop comparing DOS2 act 3 and BG3 act 3, since act 3 is a bit underbaked in both games compared to the other acts, but wow BG3 just has so much more polish and content.

The prologue reveals my character is a Bhaalspawn, I feel like it's just so widely known at this point

Defining character moment for Astarion “the problem with what Cazador has done is he did it to me”. Since Asatarion really wants this she’d help him sacrifice his “siblings” what matters to her is that Astarion is safe, but she’s worried about the unknown details but is still planning as if its possible. The dialogue options of “a killer isn’t worthy of respect” is fucking laughable my character would never say that lmao. 

When the narrator was saying you have a bunch of options what will you do, for my character it felt best to say “when the moment comes I’ll do what feels right”, since she's more of an opportunist

Ooof that fight with the gith was rough even on easy mode.

My character wanted The Emperor to prove he was the protector, but then tried to read his thoughts anyway. She’s also very grateful Lae’zeal wasn’t around when this happened considering Orpheus is real and a renegade mindflayer has him prisoner

Learning that the protection against the Absolute comes from Orpheus being trapped really puts a damper on my character’s plans to not get rid of the tadpole and associated powers. It's too dangerous to count on Orphues being imprisoned. Also the Emperor was a successful power player in Baldur’s Gate, so she’s more wary of his plans and agenda than the fact he is a mindflayer. 

My character did turn down the Emperor’s offer to evolve her, sorry she just is too attached to how her body looks. She also thinks this is a line in the sand she’s not going to persuade her companions on, unlike the tadpole powers. (personally it's the fact that it messes up your teeth, huge personal squick). I guess had my character take on so many parasite powers it gave me a fucking 21 score roll to not evolve. 

EDIT: the next day I got spoiled on the Emperor’s seduction scene and it’s friendly manners being all a front; real fucking surprise pikachu face moment for me. That my character who manipulates, lies, and seduces people might encounter someone who emotionally manipulates, lies and will seduce people. I didn’t fully trust it and thought it might have its own agenda, but still I was a little too trusting that there might have been some genuine emotion. Like DAMMIT I was rewatching Felix rvb scenes before I started the game and he has a line “Funny how an act of sacrifice like that [getting hurt] buys you so much trust”. Which is exactly what the Emperor did, where it knelt down and made a big show of how it trusts me not to hurt it and when it calls on us for that dramatic rescue that while genuine was an excellent opportunity for it to be revealed. Apparently the 21 roll is because I used so many tadpoles which the game treats as buying into The Emperor’s promises. Its repeated lines of “just like you” and “i’m on your side” to establish common ground and then presenting itself as a criminal with “a heart of gold” in its backstory. I/my character was skeptical on some details considering it also presented itself as a major power player, but bought into it’s use of “allies” when what he meant was “pawns”.  

Gale had the comment “you’ve not taken this power for yourself… why offer it to me” and I wish I could respond like what Astarion said, that don’t want to sacrifice my body. Astarion had a whole lot to say on the subject but Karlach only had 1 line about being surprised I hadn’t taken the power/transformation. Funny to see how other companions had lines about how they hadn’t done any tadpole powers and they weren’t about to start now. 

My character’s made an enemy out of the undead lich Gith queen, whom only Orpheus can oppose, and there’s an entire Gith resistance working to free him as well. So that really kills any plan of using the Absolute for herself because she’d be better off with Orphues fighting the Gith queen

Really Astarion and my character have come so far from act 1 where he was warning me about how easily Cazador could kill me to now where he’s saying if Cazador comes for him he’ll strike back and he’ll have my character along with him 

The one group my character has been consistently nice to with no promise of reward is kids, so at this point she’s just resigned to them showing up at camp as long as there’s someone like Withers, Halsin, or Wyll to keep them from getting hurt. 

My character is helping the strange ox yet again. It won’t reveal what it is but she’s really curious, and it hasn’t seemed to kill people, so she’ll help it because it might be a useful ally in the future

I love Biscotti what a GOOD DOG (love the animal writing in this and DOS2)

I think its funny that for a while I was thinking that Astarion wasn’t that pale, but in the bright light of Baldur’s Gate he really is. I think it's due to my monitor that has super high contrast

Surprised Halsin has the most dialogue in the refugee area mostly about how he’s rapidly becoming disillusioned with the city, and I tried a earlier save without him and the other companions like Astarion or Karlach don’t speak up if he’s not there.

Community meme about Gortash: I can excuse him being the chosen of an evil god and using his power to found a murderous evil cult but I draw the line at him and his PMC making surveliance cop robots. Bane is just the god of cops and Gortash works for Boston Dynamics

I like to think a bunch of the companions have been a positive force on my character so she’s helping the refugees in her own manner (lots of intimidation), and wants to see the Tiefling refugees make it after all the struggles. That there were explosives in toys justifies her being nosy and helping

Karlach really wants to go to the circus, unfortunately my character is a vicious murderer lmao. Thankfully she’s great at [persuading] and charming. Astarion, Halsin, and Karlach seem to be the best “go to the circus” group

Incredibly cool to hear my bard character perform along with the other bard in the circus

The dinosaur and the magic cat in the circus are being mistreated, Halsin is right to be mad about it. I used Astarion to pickpocket the key, then mage hand to open both cage doors

My character doesn’t like clowns and after she felt that murderous urge there’s no way she’s getting on stage. I watched the different versions of sending Halsin or Karlach up on stage but sending Astarion up on stage really is the best version. Role playing it as after he made that comment about clowns being a horror and with how both Karlach and Halsin approve of picking Astarion while he doesn’t approve if you pick someone else; its some light hearted group teasing of a guy who usually has a joke at others expense “You love the spotlight, don’t you… here’s your big chance”. Yeah he says he’s going to kill me but he’s not seriously upset.

Astarion and my character both enjoy killing clowns, see we’re great together

My bard character was pissed about the Djinn scamming with the spin the wheel game so of course she went back to rig things to get the jackpot. 

Ok so my character gets her meteorites back, that she’s a Bhaalspawn, she’s not surrendering to the D!urge or worried about atoning, but that she’s being encouraged to slaughter her line and that its the woman who hurt her before is a opportunity for power and revenge coinciding nicely

For now the only person my character is telling is Astarion, this is a big thing to confess and she wants to play this close to the vest for as long as possible. While she did have earnest suspicions since the oubliette, she’s more afraid about standing up to a god and the loss of control. I personally like how Astarion comforts you after that dialogue a lot more, especially the way he says you must try to beat Bhaal and not become a slave.

[emmareadsmdzs]

SQQ as an unreliable narrator is so interesting because sometimes he’s clearly wrong and missing things, but sometimes he’s just so fixated on the original plot of the novel, which is clearly not happening here, except often it does? The System just keeps trying to push certain key events from canon, which really gives SQQ a leg up in terms of having future knowledge but does get in the way of him getting a clue about, say, it’s not that everyone wants to fuck LBH, it’s that you specifically do.

[sanchoyo]

guy whos def having SO much fun and is SO cool and levelheaded

[melodicsiren]

Ha ha ha I am filled with rage

[laughingpinecone]

😬 Humphrey it’s all on you if I am to make it to 8 letters after all...

[roaringheat]

LMAO HOLY SHIT UR TELLIN ME VICAR MAX HAD ME THINKING FOR AGES THAT WE WERE MEETING ANOTHER SCHOLAR WHEN ACTUALLY IT WAS AN EX CON THAT TRICKED HIM IN PRISON AND HE JUST WANTED TO BEAT HIS ASS FOR REVENGE???

[meridianriver]

i was gonna make a real post about this episode but LUP CALLED TAAKO ‘BABE’ AND IM DECEASED

[thessalian]

Thess vs Solasta: Crown of the Magister

So currently I am playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister. And lo and behold, I’ve found a D&D-style isometric turn-based RPG that I actually like. Reasons for this?

You can make all your own characters. This makes a difference, though I’m not entirely sure why. I mean, Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun: Dragonfall didn’t annoy me the way Baldur’s Gate 3 kinda did in that regard, but possibly that’s because you could at least pick your party configuration right out of the gate instead of relying on picking the right damn class in order to get through a certain section. Plus it’s easier to get attached to the whole party this way.

You can choose a difficulty setting. I play on story mode and I feel no shame in this. And that’s just in general. But when something relies so very heavily on dice luck to allow you any success? That’s just brutal. So give me the easy mode, please and thank you. Saves me the save-scumming I had to do with Baldur’s Gate 3 when one bad dice roll landed me in a GAME OVER situation. Again. For like the fifteenth time.

Session Zero-style tutorial mode for all characters. It follows the D&D standard “You meet in a tavern” set-up (and also actually gives you reasons for meeting in the tavern and teaming up), but it also gives each character a different individual tutorial run - they start telling the story of the difficulties they faced getting to the city, and then play through it. Those four mini-quests let you get familiar with all the basic aspects of the game - combat, stealth, locks and traps, long rests, lighting and how to deal with lighting conditions depending on species, the works. You are not thrown into a story in medias res and end up having your tense combat in difficult circumstances interrupted by a tutorial box.

I mean, it has its issues too. The subtitles do not precisely match up with the spoken dialogue, so that’s annoying for people who use both as a matter of preference. Some of the animation’s a little janky. But honestly, I’m enjoying it. And there’s no damn Intellect Devourers I end up dying to every single time.

So I may end up liveblogging my current run. Currently I have Mychae the rogue, Jallira the cleric, Astrid the socerer, and Alisaie the barbarian. Seems to give me everything I need to get through the worst of stuff. The dialogue in the actual game is quite fun, and some of the circumstances in which my party has found themselves have been suitably epic, disturbing, or ridiculous.

[wizardsvslesbians]

Podcast Episodes

Here are all our episodes so far, in one convenient place!

Gideon the Ninth

The Unspoken Name

Ninefox Gambit

The Traitor Baru Cormorant

A Memory Called Empire

Harrow the Ninth

Gossamer Axe

Empress of Forever

Green

Divine Endurance

The City In The Middle Of The Night

Unconquerable Sun

A Desolation Called Peace

Fire Logic

The Unbroken

The Space Between Worlds

The Fortunate Fall

Bonus episode: The Steerswoman series (with special guest P. H. Lee)

The Jasmine Throne

She Who Became the Sun

Bearly a Lady

Foundryside

Black Water Sister

The Raven And The Reindeer

The Dyke And The Dybbuk

Shoujo Kakumei Utena (plus Isaac’s Utena Liveblog)

Bonus episode: Homestuck (with special guest P.H. Lee)

Girl Serpent Thorn

Bonus episode: The First Annual Wizzly Awards (with special guest P.H. Lee)

Girls of Paper and Fire

Light from Uncommon Stars

Short Fiction Roundup #1: ( “How to Swallow the Moon,” “Florilegia; or, Some Lies About Flowers,” "The Demon-Sage's Daughter")

The Midnight Lie

This Is How You Lose The Time War

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Provenance

The Thousand Eyes

A Master of Djinn

Trouble And Her Friends

Battle of the Linguist Mages

Among Thieves

Catfishing on Catnet

AMATKA

Bonus episode: 2022 Hugo Awards (featuring Leora Spitzer)

Last Exit

Bonus episode: The Sandman (featuring Kiana Stewart)

Fireheart Tiger (Aliette de Bodard) and Tiger Came Down The Mountain (Nghi Vo)

Spear

Uncommon Charm

The Saga of the Renunciates - a Death of the Author Special

Siren Queen

Short Fiction Roundup #2 - Our Souls To The Moon by Tamara Jeree, Onward by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad

The Dawnhounds

Slow River

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Adolescence Apocalypse

Nona the Ninth

The Wicked and the Willing

Bonus episode: The Second Annual Wizzly Awards (feat. P.H. Lee, Kiana Stewart and Leora Spitzer)

The Book Eaters

Tamsyn Muir Short Fiction Roundup (The Magician’s Apprentice, The Deepwater Bride, Lalonde’s Inferno)

Payback’s a Witch

Sappho’s Bar and Grill

Unwieldy Creatures

Tomoe Gozen

BONUS: Everything Everywhere All At Once

Chaos on Catnet

The Outside

Even Though I Knew the End

The Fallen & The Infinite

Short Fiction Roundup #4 - “The Terracotta Bride” by Zen Cho, “Lay My Stomach On Your Scales,” by Wen-yi Lee, and “Margo Lai’s Guide to Dueling Unprepared,” by Alison Tam

The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry

BONUS: The Night-Bird’s Feather

A Restless Truth

High Times in the Low Parliament

Some Desperate Glory

The Breath Of The Sun

BONUS: The Last Unicorn

The Mimicking Of Known Successes

The Babylon Eye

Mortal Follies

We Know the Devil

He Who Drowned The World

The Water Outlaws

STAKES

BONUS: Q & A Episode 1

I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself

BONUS: Translation State

Valhalla

BONUS: Relationship Advice, Hugos

The Valkyrie

BONUS: Travel Light

BONUS AGAIN: The Third Annual Wizzly Awards

The Witch’s Heart

Santa Olivia + Saints Astray

These Burning Stars

The Saint of Bright Doors 

Ex-Wives of Dracula

BONUS: Q & A 3

Planetfall

BONUS: Foreigner (featuring Ann Leckie)

Camp Damascus

Night in the Woods

All Good Children

The Book of Love

Carmilla (Carmen’s Version)

The Spear Cuts Through Water

Someone You Can Build A Nest In

BONUS: Disco Elysium

Those Beyond the Wall

Short Fiction Roundup #5 - Miss Bulletproof Comes Out of Retirement: https://podcastle.org/2022/03/08/podcastle-725-miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/ (or https://giganotosaurus.org/2020/08/01/miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/) Selkie Stories are for Losers: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/selkie-stories-are-for-losers/ Nuca: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/nuca/

Spirits Abroad (Just The Gay Parts)

BONUS: The Scholomance Trilogy (with Jenna Moran)

Daughter of Mystery

Daughters of Chaos

Daughters of the Coral Dawn

BONUS: Pale Fire (with Kat Weaver)

Ammonite

BONUS: Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System (with Naked Bee)

The Seep

KILL LA KILL

BONUS: Q & A 4 (100 EPISODES!)

The Scorpion Rules

The Lyremouth Chronicles (forthcoming)

An Education In Malice (forthcoming)

A Dark and Drowning Tide (forthcoming)

Also: the Unofficial but Officially Endorsed Wizards vs Lesbians Drinking Game