#nonsensical yelling

[autistickhunsam]

[makahitaki]

[haze-of-hyperfixations]

*meanwhile, in the Underworld* Polites: Eurylochus, back so soon? And...there's the rest of your crew. And by the gods, what happened to you? Eurylochus, who is sick of thematically-significant reprises: >:(

[rendevok]

Moon dance 🌕✨

[demaparbat-hp]

The Crew is boisterous and loud, full of traitors, inside jokes, and secrets. The scum of the Fire Nation. The forgotten tiles on the Empire's Pai Sho board. The ones who change the game.

But most importantly—they're a family. And no matter how much they complain about their boss (teenage menace that he is), they'll do anything for their Prince.

Anything.

.

The Crew is the heart and soul of my fic For the Spirits. No one really knows just how important they will be to the story...how important they already are.

[luffypeach]

I'VE BEEN CRYING FOR 14 YEARS ABOUT ROBIN LOSING HER BANGS AND HERE SHE IS BACK AGAIN I CAN'T DESCRIBE HOW LOUD I JUST SCREAMED

[sleepinglionhearts]

started reading one piece lads

[based on the stinky baby cat song you know the one]

[quatregats]

This quote is so funny but also like that is literally the most efficient summary of the difference between these books sdhfjhds

[intotheelliwoods]

I think it would be the funniest shit if I made a public discord server but theres only one channel

[y-rhywbeth2]

Watching Gortash and his decidedly un-Banite desires to have his authority questioned, valuing and desiring the esteem of another, wanting the Child of Bhaal to step on him: having my Durge rub their bloody little hands over him while looking Bane dead in the eye as they - the barely-divine progeny of his inferior/subordinate - taint his investment/property with disloyal desires and feelings:

Does This Bother You, Lord Bane?

[lurkingteapot]

going through ao3 and catching on tags:

"btw this is not rpf, but i had to tag (the actors)'s names for better reach?"

DON'T. DO. THIS.

Folks who don't want to see rpf will filter this out, or skip on the chance that it might contain sneak rpf anyway. Folks who DO want to see rpf will be annoyed that you're cluttering their tags (often sparsely populated to begin with) with non-rpf work. Everyone loses.

Same goes for the folks who insist on tagging their AU RPF with the tags of the fandom that started the rpf ship when the fic itself isn't for that fandom, or even a crossover with that fandom, but solely for the rp ship that sprung of it: don't. Just … don't.

ao3 is not xwitter/tiktok/tumblr. there's no ~algorithm suggesting shit to readers. all we have to go on are the tags! And you're making it harder when it needn't be! Stop it.

[makahitaki]

[arisveah]

hermitcraft is slowly removing my willingness to curse and possessing me to say things like HECK and DARN and GOSH GOLLY GEE like a comically angry butler from the 1800s or an old southern lady, neither of which are a good fit on a goth 15 year old

[exhausted-archivist]

Things that have been making my brain feral (tm) lately:

Patrick and John Epler also established once again that Solas doesn’t have your arm, with Epler also noting that if it weren’t for technical limitations, they should have had the arm melt away in the cutscene. (screenshot below the cut)

Healing magic just speeds up the natural healing. It can’t raise the dead or regrow limbs, but if you’re fast enough, it can reattach severed limbs. (screenshot below the cut)

Patrick mentioned how they had to record pronunciation for new elven words for voice actors. (Not clear how recent that was done) (screenshot below the cut)

Merrill is noted to be 25 in dao. Very intelligent and wise. Archetype the wise druid. Meaning she is 35 in dai and 47 by da4.

We are at least 2 months away from hearing the full game announcement; release date, game play, marketing. 3 months at most.

BioWare recently (re?)activated their tumblr.

[philcoulsonismyhero]

There's a lot of lines in Amongst Our Weapons that make me want to wave my arms around and yell incoherently about Peter and Nightingale and how far they've come and how much they mean to each other, but right now the one I want to yell about the most is this one from right at the end:

Image text: 'The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building,' said Nightingale. 'You taught me that.'

Because, like. Peter wanted to be an architect. The thing he always wanted to do was to build things. And look what he's built! He hasn't just rebuilt the Folly as it was, he's built something modern and completely new out of its constituent parts and he's done it by caring about people and being interested in how things work and by what Beverly jokingly calls 'compulsive networking'.

And everything he's done for the Folly, he's done for Nightingale on a personal level too.

Nightingale was So isolated when Peter first met him. His police colleagues didn't want much to do with him, his social circle seemed to consist of Molly and Dr Walid and not much more, he was completely out of touch with the modern world. And to his credit, he was the one who decided to take on an apprentice, but that was pretty much all he was planning to do. Train up a replacement for himself in case he got killed, pass on the Forms and Wisdoms properly, keep the status quo going.

But he chose Peter, and suddenly he's got an apprentice who wants to study the science behind magic and modernise the Folly's record keeping and work out better ways to liaise with other police and fundamentally Make Changes. Nightingale ends up with all these connections through Peter, to Beverley and the other Thames girls, to Lesley, to Abigail, eventually to the rest of Peter's family, to other police like Guleed and Stephanopoulos and unfortunately for him Seawoll... He has people he can rely on, and who choose to rely on him, and not just for magic -I especially love how Peter's mum eventually starts using him to babysit Peter's dad, and the fact that he helps Abigail's family with her brother. He's not alone anymore, and he goes from just living to genuinely thriving.

And it's all down to Peter, and what the two of them have built together. In fact, they've built something so significant that in a few years Nightingale isn't going to be necessary anymore. He's been Britain's Last Official Wizard for seventy years, all the weight of that tradition resting on his shoulders alone, and in a handful of years Peter has helped him to build something that'll be able to take the weight instead if he wants it to. There are people who can help do everything he's been doing alone and more, so finally he can think about what he actually wants for himself. (And don't even get me started on his arc re: teaching and discovering that it's what he wants to do for the rest of his life, I Will start yelling even more.)

And it's Peter who's taught him to let other people take the weight. That you can build something stable and lasting if you're willing to share the load. The wider the base, the greater the stability of the building.

Not bad for a wannabe architect who can't draw, huh?

[emry-stars-oc]

The first couple of meetings or so vs… idk like a couple weeks in

Sparknotes version below 💕

1) Bo shows up to Q’s home country bc his family decided he's the peace offering, still wearing his mask around

2) Bo decides he’s over it and if the Bells are gonna send him home and start the war anyway because they got the blemished child then that’s his family’s problem, not Bo’s

3) Q was prepared for Bo to be rightfully upset and angry when he got there. He figures it’s helpful that Bo can rant at him once or twice in a language Q doesn’t understand (yet), let him get some stuff off his chest. Q was not as much prepared for Bo to have such striking features under the mask and makeup

4) Bo’s plan to make sure Q dislikes him in return by showing off the birthmark his family hated backfires with a quickness