#no fuqs given

[eomcheong-keun-megi]

NOT A THOUGHT BEHIND HIS EYES

[fallen6253]

About the soul-swap partners:

I love that neither of them decided to stick to their given roles.  In either universe, really.

You’ll get what I mean.

Cale, who was Kim Rok Soo, does not keep up the image of trash.  He calls himself trash, he is called trash.  He does not keep his reputation.  Not the alcoholism, and he doesn’t throw bottles at gangsters.  No, he takes care of the underworld and other nobles in his own way (ie, recruitment or utter destruction).  He does not have his old reputation in this world either.  He’s not known as this cold leader who doesn’t care when someone dies, he’s known as a brilliant young man who cares way too much.  He’s known as an idiot who would rather pass out from exhaustion a week later than leave things to fester for one minute.  

And then there’s Kim Rok Soo, who was Cale Henituse once upon an apocalypse.  (First the fuq of all, nobody knew jac squat about him in the first place, and being the son of his mother probably made him something of an automatic anomaly.  I assume just being a Thames makes you kinda weird.  But anyway!) He lived as trash, an alcoholic who threw too many bottles back and then at the wall.  Then he lived through 20 years of a losing war.  And he got tired.  Tired enough to listen to a voice in his head in his last moments, to switch worlds and bodies with some stranger.  And he chose the motto that reflects the sentiments of his soul swap partner to a T: let’s live peacefullly.

And he smiles now, as Kim Rok Soo.  He sits back in his office chair, with an easygoing attitude.  He’s not the trash that would only shout; he is sly, and he knows how to use his status to properly put punks in their place.  He’s the team leader who refuses to be mistreated by anyone.  He will not be used, he would rather do his work as he needs to.  He isn’t a lowlife with no responsibilities in the wake of a war he would be just about useless in; he has a niece he has to go home to.  He drinks casually, not too much.  And he smiles in a way that’s too bright for the cold Kim Rok Soo.  He’s too happy now to be called cold-blooded. It’s like there’s a fire in his eyes that had been lost ages ago. Something that was rekindled when he had someone to go home to.

Despite changing their own lives so much, they wound up being nearly the same as one another and that drives me a little insane.

And let's not forget the best part.  One famous line they have in common in every world:

“Should I flip everything over?”

Another thing: I think Cale's gonna start resembling Kim Rok Soo. As in, he'll start relaxing a bit as the work goes on, he'll learn to rest as he goes (as in actually rest) and delegate work properly. He won't brush past comments like he used to, he will look a person in the eye and go 'I can just leave this world and leave you to your fate' which I would love to see, honestly. I feel like their individual capacity to be petty increases with age, and that's probably one of my favorite things about these characters. So them finding new ways to piss off people who don't like them could just be made into its own series and I would sell my soul for it.

[dnangelic]

ps fuq u kento i still hvaen't found anyone better and have finally hit the 'acceptance' part where ive given up hopes

[zaynes-left-chesticle]

MOTHERFUCRRRRRRRR!! This Sylus event hates me. I casually just cranked through an extra 68 wishes trying to get the second half of the AS mem pair.

If the game wants to fuq me over as usual, so be it. but giving me a mem I can't even improve anymore?!I honestly would have taken ANY other memory!!

I freaking pulled Gentle Twilight, which is already well beyond R3 and awakened... WHY?!! You could have given literally anything else!!!

[olessan]

Very light Veilguard spoilers under the cut, up to meeting Bellara - my thoughts on one element of the writing (people reacting to circumstances) after watching the start of a playthrough:

So I can't play Veilguard for a while, am good with early-game and light spoilers, and therefore started watching a playthrough to see the opening few hours of the game.

There's one thread throughout the writing that's really stood out to me so far as a bit odd and it's very obvious when their elf rook meets Strife and Irelin and then Bellara.

Part of meeting Strife and Irelin.

Rook: But it didn't go as cleanly as we hoped. Solas got pulled into the Fade, and two somethings got pulled out. Or someones, I mean. Two of the Evanuris. Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain. Irelin: Mythal'enaste... Strife: The elven gods of old. The Evanuris. Irelin: If they truly have returned... Strife: Then things just got a whole lot worse . Rook: (stern) So Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain are loose. Which means what? Strife: You thought Solas was bad? He's a bit of a bastard, true. But next to them? Let's just say they weren't known for their kindness. Irelin: There's a reason Solas led a rebellion against the Evanuris. And a reason he imprisoned them. Strife: But now they've escaped... [conversation moves on]

Bellara's intro scene.

Rook: Our gods, Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain? They've escaped from Fen'Harel's prison. And by all accounts, they want to destroy the world. Bellara: Oh. Yes. That is very much for the worse. Okay. Right. I need a second. Rook: (humorous) I've had a couple of days, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. Bellara: It does sort of explain a few things, though. [conversation moves on to the problem at hand]

Maybe it's just me, but it feels like everyone's under-reacting to the emerging crisis.

I can buy the rest of the gang not fully parsing the situation yet, such as Neve not believing Solas is An Actual Elven God™, and understand Strife and Irelin having reached acceptance of Solas being The™ Fen'Harel™ given they've had time to come to terms with that... But!!

The Evanuris prison has been ripped open! Solas opened the veil again (temporarily)! TWO OF THE EVANURIS ARE ROAMING THEDAS! Why is no one freaking out about this!?

Rook tells Strife and Irelin that literal Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain have escaped their ancient prisons and are on Thedas. Their reaction, fully familiar with the legends, is not "OH NO! FUQ! THIS IS A HORRIFIC EMERGENCY OF MYTHICAL PROPORTIONS!", it's "oh no, this is dangerous and inconvenient."

Especially with the comparison with Solas, it's the sort of reaction you'd expect from, I don't know, a new manager at your job making a decision everyone knows is going to backfire.

When Rook breaks the news to Bellara, she reacts the same way. It's not "HOLY SHIT! I'm glad I have skills I can apply to this to help! This is catastrophic!", it's "Oh, that sucks," and even considering the humour option, Rook is dismissing it the most out of everyone. It takes more than a couple of days with a concussion to come to terms with ancient gods returning.

"they escaped the prison they were in, and they want to destroy the world". Guys. Come on. Why are you calm about this? Where's the panic? Not even a sense of measured alarm?

Many people still consider the elven gods to be a myth, and not at all real. There have got to be several stages of horror and realisation that comes from learning about Solas, that Solas is The Dread Wolf™, and that he then went on to (accidentally, thanks Rook) release not only two of the Evanuris from their ancient captivity, but arguably the two worst ones: Captain Angry and Experiment Lady.

This is a common problem with games, and is in part due to the need to deliver the important parts of the narrative clearly, but I don't know, it just feels like they pass over these facts of their situation like this isn't quickly turning into a cataclysmic event.

They can be focused and on-task and still be thoroughly freaked out by it, but they don't come across that way. They're treating this like your average mercenary job or something.

It probably improves later on, but I would've expected their reactions to be a bit more energetic or dire, something like this:

Rook: But it didn't go as cleanly as we hoped. Solas got pulled into the Fade, and two somethings got pulled out. Or someones, I mean. Two of the Evanuris. Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain. Irelin: Mythal'enaste! Strife: Are you certain it was them? Solas is bad enough, but even one of the other Evanuris would be disastrous. We can't waste time. Irelin: There's a reason Solas led a rebellion against the Evanuris. And a reason he imprisoned them. They could tear the world apart. Strife: If they've escaped... well, little is worse than that.

---

Rook: Our gods, Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain? They've escaped from Fen'Harel's prison. And by all accounts, they want to destroy the world. Bellara: What?! How is that possible?! They've been imprisoned for thousands of years, how could they have gotten out? Rook: Solas let them out. Bellara: He what?! That might explain some things here, but... do you realise what this means? Thedas is doomed if we don't do something, not just Arlathan forest.

Side note, my planned elf, archaeology/history nerd Rook is so going to be Bellara's bestie.

[austinsastrology8991]

> Intercepted planets > P3 <

Intercepted sun > Its hard for others to see you for who you are. Your personality is a lot to handle, and others typically will label you an attention seeker. Given the extremity of the energies within the sun; you are in-fact capable of shining like no other, you just need to learn how to handle all that attention. Intercepted moon > Its hard for others to have empathy for you, considering your weeping a lot or telling everyone "iM fInE". You are very emotional, but this allows you to have a greater capacity for understanding emotions like no one else. Or maybe your a statue always trying remind everyone your a statue and not human. Intercepted Mercury > You sound retarded. but your actually very smart, you just struggle to explain yourself given how much crap is whirring within your mind. Intercepted Venus > You are afraid of love because you crave love. You've been rejected a lot, and this has made you ironically more attractive; because everyone wants to fix the person seemingly unfixable. Intercepted Mars > You are constantly switching between being strong and weak, and this actually makes you appear more fierce to everyone in the room (because we never know which one is on display) Intercepted Jupiter > You have terrible luck, but actually you have good luck. Given your circumstances/ predicament its easy to call you unlucky, however the fact you survived those circumstances we can actually call you lucky. Intercepted Saturn > You are the laziest hardest worker. Your the type to not try in activities where you probably should try. but maximise your effort in something that doesn't require it. you search for authority in strange ways, and you get it more often than not. But since you don't want responsibility you self sabotage a lot. Intercepted Uranus > You are pretty fucking weird, but its hard for you to admit that. Everyone else looks at you like; "How do you exist" meanwhile your thinking your not much different to everyone else (you can just see everyones uniqueness easily) considering you yourself are very much of a "wat da fuq" Intercepted Neptune > You are extremely insensitive but then become very sensitive at the drop of a hat. I believe this placement can smell bullshit easily, hence the insensitivity, but when you do show some sensitivity its like where tf did that come from? You are so lost in your imagination and it shows > so you are constantly waking up from your delusions, only reinforcing the fact that you are indeed a delusional person. Intercepted Pluto > okay you guys are so secretive its almost impossible to trust you. Ik your secretive because you feel powerless but the reality is the more you hide the more I don't trust you, but your addicted to knowing my secrets....

[vasalean]

I find it so fascinating how there are some phenomenon from the early internet that were SO popular but it seems like ever references them nowadays, the examples I've been thinking about a lot are what the fox say? and da fuq boom. wtfs was REALLY popular in its time but unlike others song from that period no on talks about it. I even remember seeing those roleplay reactions videos like tails reacts to wtfs, everyone wanted in on the hype it was the THING at its peak but it go completely forgotten about, same with da fuq boom which was a clip that was used a lot in a bunch of classic ytps and whose only recognition is being the name of the guy who made skibidi toilet.I feel like so may classic memes have been given new life in rest years i.e trollface but there are still some that haven't been talked in a decade which is nuts.

[jeanjauthor]

These bits of advice also qualify for writing stories with action/adventure scenes in them. You don't need the game mechanics, so much as the relative weights of heroic main & secondary characters versus opponents they may have to face & fight.

Also, I think they're basing the "average party size" on 3-4 characters who are heroic characters. Why do I emphasize the heroic bits? Because that's the Pathfinder 2e thing, regarding players' characters versus typical NPCs.

In the Pathfinder 2e system, when a player character's unarmed Armor Class is 10 (without dexterity modifiers), if you get to have "Trained" unarmored defense, you automatically get a higher AC rating bonus, while "Expert" gives you even more, so on and so forth. So my 5th level Witch (spellcaster, zero armor, but her class does give her a "Trained" rating in unarmored defense), who has a Dexterity of 16...?

She automatically gets +2 for being Trained, +5 for being 5th level (one per class level), and with that +3 Dex modifier...her AC is now 20. Without any armor. (Eat that, decades of spellcasters dying from too-low AC, or of not being able to cast spells at all if they do try wearing armor, D&D!!) (*ahem*) (...What? I've been playing a gazillion variations of D&D and other TTRPGs since the early 1980s! I have a lot of various-edition trauma, okay?)

Anyway, Player Characters in Pathfinder 2e are supposed to be "more powerful" than typical average citizens, town guardsmen, etc, of the lands they are adventuring in, and PF2e gives players' characters the means to be more powerful.

Different tabletop roleplaying games will have different means of addressing the central "your character is going to become a hero through their actions & choices" idea of roleplaying games. Some will have convoluted means, some will have...well...no means, it's all hard work, and it sucks to be a low-level spellcaster who is banned from wearing armor. (At least the current iterations allow spellcasters to actually learn armor proficiency. *stares hard at early editions of AD&D*)

As in everything, this means it will vary from system to system, and even game to game (depending on how your GM, games master, runs a given campaign) as to how much more powerful, equal to, or even weaker you may be to an average encounter.

But basically, the way I see it with my decades of experience in many different systems...that chart is for a Pathfinder 2e (as it says) encounter, with what I think would be around 3-4 characters in the party. (This is based on the average group size; many groups can reach 5 players/characters, but larger groups tend to get bogged down in trying to get everyone a chance to attack, and 2 players is often compensated by having the players run at least one extra character, or the GM playing one on the side.)

With that kind of dynamic, it won't be devastatingly/decimatingly challenging, but it won't necessarily be easy, either.

...The real variables crop up in the setting, location, cleverness of enemies versus party, regarding terrain and positioning, and whether or not the party is rested, a bit worn out, or flat-out exhausted/out-of-spells. (Not to be confused with out-of-fuqs.)

[sylsdiary]

7/5/24 2:05am (French time)

My anxious thoughts about R:

What if he’s falling out of love because I’ve been so annoying and get so many mood swings?

What if he still loves his ex?

What if he’s not attracted to me?

Is he just using me as a rebound?

Do I love him more than he loves me?

Now, “what would you say to your best friend?”

1. You haven’t been annoying. Stop don’t say that. Everything youve been upset about has been valid. Cooking for another girl? Valid. Not putting in effort? Valid. Anything beyond those things, you’ve apologized! And all the small things you only got frustrated with because of other bigger circumstances that are all understandable. If he doesn’t have the patience to still love you through these very valid and understandable situations, he 100% doesn’t deserve you and you wouldn’t wanna be with someone like that. I know you’re thinking “But I think I’m the problem…”. You’re not a problem. You are not a problem!!! You are a human with real human emotions and experiences who deserves empathy kindness and love while dealing with those emotions. Again, if he cannot offer you those then you do not want to be with him. And also, he has given you all of that! He has. He’s been very kind every time you’ve needed to talk and has never been angry at you for needing to feel your emotions. So yes, if he doesn’t want to be nice to you while you feel your emotions then good riddance but that’s not the case! So no need to stress about it. I know sometimes you’re thinking but like what if he gets fed up with it?? Ok girl what if!!! What if a meteor strikes earth rn. Like what if! (The answer to that first question is this: You would be better off without him and you’d go off and live your bad bitch single 21 year old life da fuq)

2. I know that’s hard. That’s really hard. But you know that is not your business! That thought does not deserve real estate in your head. There’s nothing that you can ever ever ever do to win against that thought. Simply don’t give it attention. It’s an irrational anxiety thought! When that thought comes up tell yourself “He has chosen to be with me. Anything outside of that is none of my business”

3. Gorllluhhhhhh. Not attracted to you??? That’s rlly illogical. Like actually fr that’s rlly not logical. I know you’re thinking ugh but what abt how we don’t have a lot of sex or what about that one time he was soft. Sex drive is really different for some ppl and also sometimes some ppl aren’t in the mood! It’s disappointing sometimes but NOT a reflection of you. At all. Sex drive has so many factors. This is something you can talk about with him once he’s back, and maybe once he’s back it won’t be such a problem!

4. If if if if. There’s no evidence that he is. He treats you very kindly. Flowers to your fh game. Cooks dinner for you. Pays for every date. Flowers delivered. Custom plaque and keychains. He stays up late wakes up early to say good morning good night. He holds you when you cry. He is patient with you when you’re having bad times. He listens intently and fixes behaviors you don’t like. All these behaviors prove this anxious thought wrong.

5. You have to recognize that a lot of this is just an amplified emotional consequence from being long distance. It’s so hard to feel truly loved from afar! This is a normal feeling and again you cannot trust this anxiety thought. And even if this were to be true, no need to fear! If you’re not feeling everything, you’re missing everything!!! Love big love hard and don’t stop or limit yourself just because you’re afraid of getting hurt. Feel everything deeply❤️

[thesaurus]

// we really do hope this snow storm ish situation does not fuq with the 8$ matinee ticket I already paid for

// because I have to make myself go do things and the thing I most want to do is have a 9$ beer and 8$ small popcorn and not think about my life for ~2 hours

// I sent an actual timer* to do interview prep for a call I have tomorrow where I have to fake present to a fake company (my least favorite homework project, but at LEAST I didn't have to make a goddamn powerpoint)

// because I feel really unqualifed given the information they gave me to prep

// so setting a hard start and hard stop time helped me be less freaked about it and compartmentalize a lil

// will combine my notes later this afternoon into what I think I'll actually have to stress/ talk about

// but I didn't want the thiing to take up 5 days of my time just because I have... 5 days of my time to spend lol

// (*an actual hourglass, because going analogue is helpful for my brain... I have 2, I think the big one was an hour, and the little one is like 5/10 minutes or something)

[stuffromymind]

On Video Games & "Big Name Talent": Bad Investment.

Is it because game designers are also celebrity obsessed and wasting development $$$ to work with a 'famous' person overrules common sense business decisions and creates blindness to the subsequent dip in the immersion quality of the final game that putting in famous actors will DEF create?

I've been reading up on Cyberpunk 2077 a bit of late. I'd heard a DLC was out. All the reviewers say it's good now but basically their view is always tempered by how atrocious it was on launch day. The most broken game in history pretty much. Stoopid early adopter feckers got burned. 

Again.

But having studiously avoided it, I'm thinking I may get it as a 'reward' to myself - If I can complete 10 games if I have of many, many dozens that reside on consoles and my PC.......sometime.......? Blade Runner is one of my fave flicks and this is basically aping that.

It does have Keanu Reeves in it, though. Not just the voice but him. Why da fuq do game companies keep doing this?

In a movie, actors are part of an ensemble of other human beings in front of a camera and the actor can become a character, if they're good, so any given actor doesn't stand out as 'playing a role'. In a video game it's just an immersion breaker:

"Oh, there's Keanu again."

Like Death Stranding with Norman Reedus. "Hey, I'm the brooding Walking Dead Guy."

I defy anyone to tell me these 'big names' a-d-d anything to the world you're attempting to inhabit by reminding you that an actor is strolling around in it.

Who wouldn't enjoy playing Call Of Duty now and thinking: "Hey it's that twisted pervert, Spacey! Now I REALLY feel like I'm in this game world."

I'd suggest even dropping having 'big stars' doing voice acting. Unless the celeb does such a good job that you don't know it's them. (Which begs the question: Why spend the $$$ to get them?)

Why put all the $$$ into getting this big name 'talent' when they always pull you out of the game world?

I still remember meeting the king in Elder Scrolls 4 and thinking:

"Huh. It's Captain Picard/Patrick Stewart talking to me."

Annnnnnd:

The world I was entering was "Just a game".

Thanks.

It's an utter waste of $$$ that could be spent on the game. 

I wonder how much CD Projekt Red paid Neo and if that cash, and the expense of mo-capping him, coulda made the game less of a shit show if better spent?

Why not put this truly squandered cash into more dev time or, (this one is crazy), paying people actually working on the game a better wage?

End of this treatise on yet another pitfall of getting sucked into celebrity worship - this time by game developers.

Anyhow, the price on it hasn't really dropped too often since launch but it's $40 on GOG, (no DRM so you kind of actually OWN it if you download the installer files), right now and the apparently "excellent" DLC add on is on sale for $33. You can get both for $70.39 (CDN).

[imsounderscorec0ol]

1PSMP, 2PSMP, NPSMP

okay so theres been three veriants of the PSMP. 1PSMP pretty much the shittest version of the SMP, lots of people left and there was drama, but the lore was okay (please ask about lore), 2PSMP is the last version of the smp where lots of bad people were in the server, lore was just a knock off of the dsmp (plz ask) and then theres NPSMP which is new psmp and the lore is sm better okay so 1PSMP was where thomas had made a nation and had married keys and another person platonically, but thomas became emotionally distant and neglectful. there was a god (thomas's sibling) and they had a failed experement where he made a crystal that takes your memory and thomas finds that (my name was august at the time btw) and loses all memory of keys, and ends up locking himself in his house for days at a time to work 2PSMP is where thomas (sam) has a best friend name milo and they make a nation called silo and rowan is an evil guy who joins tem to fuck things up. so theres an election and thomas wins and rowan blows everything up and thomas dies leaving a scar across his entire left side (i did SFX with that giggles) and fir a few months after thomas fixes exery thing he kidnaps Rowan's brother and takes him hostage to get rowan in silo and oh yeah milos dead rowan took all their cannon lives but yeah rowan is all like "hhey man, dont kill my brother, thats mean, i get that i killed you but two wrongs dont make a right, yk?" and thomas is like "fine ill kill you both da fuq" and so he gets rowan up there, and whilst giving a speech rowan helps Soul (his brother) escape after he was suppost to have given thomass all of his tools and they book it for a moutin. thomas and rowan start an epic fight but thomas ends up shooting Soul off the mountin, killing him and this pisses off rowan and rowan kills thomas but i cant explain the NPSMP to yall yet bc it hasnt been streamed and i dont wanna ruin it

[thoughtsaladblog]

Foolish One...

It's one of those days when you kinda wonder about your life. I mean ok, in my case I wonder that quite often, but it's a little stronger today. The other day I took a trip down memory lane and much to my chagrin I realised I may have been a bit more fast and loose with my life than I'd realised- and let me tell you...It didn't feel good. Suddenly images of hellfire loomed in front of me. Despite my constant quips about dying at 35- I realise that that may not be to my benefit, given my promiscuity.

Honestly, when it comes to random moments of everyday life, I take pride in my openness and somewhat carefree approach when it comes to love and sex- God knows, it took some pretty brutal batterings and scars to get there. I dare not let a man break me like that ever again. And yet, I am human, and I crave love and an intimate connection.

In the last few days, I've been feeling all kinds of frisky- that time of the month of course- but simultaneously I've craved a partner with whom I could simply sit and talk, or just make-out. Yep- you read that right. Make-out. I may be associating teenagers too much, because I thought I was over this nonsense. But here we are...

Anyway, looking into my life I searched for someone I could have that with and could find no one. None of the guys I know could possibly provide the kind of connection I seek- they barely manage to give me what I'm expecting in terms of sex- if they manage to do so at all. Speaking of which, Numb3rs (yes, he resurfaced) and I hooked up last night. It was Meh. I mean, the man's got potential, but I feel like he was trying to do a lot at once and didn't quite pull through in anything because of it. But more importantly- talk about selfish in bed. Dude came, turned over, said he's recovering and dozed off. Le Fuq??! Ummm... still here bro.. this is a two way street. *insert exasperated eyeroll*

And of course what followed was his usual hit it and quit it- the guy woke up at 4.30 and booked a cab back home. He might as well start leaving some money on the bedside table at this rate. And of course, because my dumbass is always drawn to the toxic motherfuckers, I'm fighting back my compulsion to think about him or feel things for him. It's a tough battle- coz I'm attracted to the dude. Don't ask me why- there's no rational reason other than the fact that I'm a lunatic who is just attracted to smart people and the fucker is smart. Feeling about as ridiculous Deepika in "New Year's Eve" at this point. But yes, I need to stop thinking or expecting anything- for the sake of my mental health. Coz foolish one, he was never interested.

But moving on from that... at the expense of sounding repetitive- yes, I went through some of my past posts...I get it, I really need to get a life instead of playing the same old broken record. Buuuut to continue... I'm starting to feel shamed of my promiscuous life and frankly could do with a stable relationship- if those exist. And maybe at this point stop collecting more sins of adultery to an already mile-long list...

I mean it been 31 years... Frankly even I'm judging myself at this point for being unable to lock down some poor soul.

And on a completely different note- I probably ought to re-read the few sensible "enlightened" posts form this blog and get some focus to my life instead of meandering through it. Might lead to less whining- and less repetitive posts.

All in good time, my dear.

K byeeee.

[divagonzo]

The thing with pulling out threads on a weaving is, at some point down the line, you have made a tangle that can't be unwoven, only cut, or invent things to justify who is kept around. Given how events have changed, there's not going to be a Finnland rescue since someone's not going through it.

If they do have a Mat lead trip to Finnland, I have no f'n clue how it's gonna work since Noal will get scrapped, Mat can't be arsed, and there's no connection with Thom. I doubt [Spoilers] will willingly return even if they have a "get out of Finnland free" bracelet and key.

Then again, after the dog's dinner the last 10 minutes of S3E8 with what happened, with what was to come? No damn clue.

But then to say it was shock value? Da fuq?

Yes, I have opinions. I'm still annoyed over it.

So who’s rescuing Moiraine from Finnland now? The folks who do it in the books have very little connection to Moiraine and have spent no or very little time with her, so it doesn’t feel particularly emotionally resonant for them to do it. And Rand and Egwene, who she has strong relationships with, are too busy.

Obviously I assume Mat will go because they wouldn’t and shouldn’t change that, but he needs someone with a deeper connection to Moiraine to go too. Maybe it’s Lan instead of Thom? If I remember correctly, Lan doesn’t actually have that much to do if we aren’t doing his super troubling Myrelle arc and Nynaeve has unblocked herself. Eventually he’ll have to golden crane but we’re pretty far from that, so I feel like he would have time to go on this adventure with Mat? Am I forgetting something? I’m only on book 7 in my reread so the later books are a bit of a blur.

I will forever mourn not getting Siuan on the Ghenjei mission instead of Thom since I 100% think it would have been the best emotional arc for her and Moiraine’s relationship - not to mention comedic as hell - but I love Lan and his relationship to Moiraine and I think they could do something beautiful with him rescuing Moiraine even after he’s mourned her and bonded to Nynaeve etc. and what that means for them as platonic soulmates. Lord knows they have to change Mo and Lan’s book ending anyway.

[djarinsbeskar]

I know it's 2am but like... Octopuses are just aquatic gremlin cats (affectionate) while squid are aquatic gremlin cats (derogatory)

[ichoriism]

@lcvewave​ – DAEHO – the heart that won’t yield ( past )

makestar was a good company. the more kibum spent time in its headquarters, the more he could tell why nght had decided to join it instead of letting war continue between their main attractions. most of the walls were made of glass and while people moved quickly through the halls, the stress and tension levels were bearable instead of annoying. he had wandered through the aisles while his manager finished the paperwork with the company for a future collaboration, eyes intent on finding a familiar petite figure he hadn’t seen in a few days.

however, the only thing he found on his way to the dance studios was the sound of one piece he hadn’t heard before. the tune had a dark tinge. as the notes escalated, kibum could picture a sequence of tension that continued to grab his attention. when steps led to the studio’s entrance as the bridge resounded, hazel orbs took in the figure reflecting through the mirrors around the room. lips pursed and whatever feeling was developing in response to the call of a siren, was held off as it turned sour in his mouth. 

daeho. the shit jinah had taken a liking to. the spec of dust with big, pretty eyes and a still lanky frame. the same worthless trash that wouldn’t last for long in the abyss of fame. the singer crossed his arms against his chest and leaned his back on the threshold, shoulders and bow-shaped lips tight with tension. he continued to watch the young trainee through sharp eyes that dissected every motion and expression to its essence, anything to prove himself the younger male was wanting. 

and yet, he did not find what he was looking for. every twirl, every sequence of fast feet held a promise for the future. kibum witnessed his shine and let himself imagine how it would look in some years after the dangers of the spotlight covered it with darkness. he appreciated for a moment the same thought that jinah must have entertained when she saw him first. 

kibum hated it. hated him.

❝ your dancing is okay, but it is lacking, ❞ his voice was petulant as it interrupted the silence that filled the studio once the piece was over. ❝ it doesn’t matter you can land the steps if your whole self is not in it. but i don’t think you know what that may even mean. ❞