#oblivioustoast

[jackaldandy]

for the colours meme, i get black & white and liminal space vibes

Beautiful options! I also have the feeling that we have crossed paths somehow indeed, in some strange, large corridor of some kind of metaphysical school in which we happen to exist. And of course, in those quantum school breaks that we find ourselves in, we exchange silly stamps and gossip of our favorite dandies and behave like two adorable dorks in general.

[neil-neil-orange-peel]

So, a few weeks back, I treated myself to some TYO stuff, as we all must sometimes, and now I want to signal boost the artists I ordered from.

I got this super cute poster from @fourstarsandahamster's Redbubble. In the past, we've been in Discord servers together and both taken part in various scumbag fandom events, so I can tell you they're a really cool and friendly person and no I'm not just saying that because they added Scumbag Monthly and a fanfic of mine to the TYO Fanlore page what???

Their art is also brilliant, as you can see, and you can find more for Rik and Ade, as well as some other fandoms, in their shop!

Aaaand I got this equally cute laptop case from @oblivioustoast's Redbubble (hello, by the way!). I've been following this person for ages and we've never interacted much, but I've always really loved this design and wanted to get it on something. So I finally did! Now the gross lads can protect my writing... Some of which is about them...

You can check out their Redbubble for other awesome TYO designs - but also a lot of art that articulates emotions and parts of the human experience in a way that words can't. There's some really beautiful stuff that deserves more love there!

Give 'em both some love!

[readingrobin]

“make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s favourite!” tagged by @oblivioustoast

I don't know if these are my all time favorite characters, but they're sure the first ones that came to my brain.

Tagging @chessalbaneze @bookcub @logarithmicpanda @agardenandlibrary @theboarsbride

[buffskeleton]

“make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters, and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone’s favourite!” tagged by @dnickels. we're definitely gonna have at least one in common lol

tagging @annadelveys @radicalposture @oblivioustoast @liquidbird @beagremlin @ whomever wants to

[horrorsequel]

Tag 9 people you'd like to get to know better.

i was tagged by @bluhahae my beloved double mutual (TWO social medias!!!)

Last song

Uh genuinely I think it was Trogdor by Strong Bad which is crazy cos i've never even seen that shit

Currently Reading

I'm sad cos i REALLY wanna be reading my chuck palahniuk books but i'm in a dumb book club with a bunch of cishet women so i'm reading Evelyn Hugo BUT like it's kinda cool for a book a bunch of cishet ladies picked out. I'll allow it. ALSO: a bunch of books about crochet!!!

Currently Watching

a lot. too many. rewatching the real ghostbusters. just started ugly betty. MASH. Beavis and Butthead. new season of WWDITs. Only Murders In The Building. Rewatching childhood fav Are You Being Served? and finally getting the jokes. REALLY wanna watch metalocolypse but there's so much shit in my little mental list. a LOT of good movies in there that i don't know when i will finally get around to.

Current Obsession

CROCHETING. among other things. really into monster high and other fashion dolls. adult cartoons esp beavis and butthead. 2000s TV. ghostbusters again.

hi hiiii @b0ytron @oblivioustoast @gothmods @princessmo @holoprisms @mouthshape no pressure obvs but have fun if u want. also if u see this and u wanna do it. well then i tagged u.

also i'm glad we r doing shit like this on tumblr again i missed it

[johnbly]

tagged by @tortoisesshells to spell out my url in songs! thank you as always :D

jaldabaoth - shoji meguro

one day - hans zimmer

harry in winter - patrick doyle

no matter the cost (benedict's battle) - akira senju

bop to the top - lucas grabeel & ashley tisdale

lord of a dead empire - takeru kanazaki

your favorite color is green - james newton howard

i shall tag @vampgf @captainchilly @daniel-bryans @andrei-l @oblivioustoast and whoever else wishes to participate!

[duamuteffe]

@oblivioustoast

[cy-lindric]

I don’t know if this will fall under ur interests or not, but there’s a film called Prince of Foxes 1949 that has beautiful costuming, set in 1500 it looks like, that you might enjoy :0

oooh that looks sexy !! Also Orson Welles as Cesare Borgia omg ... I have to check it out !

[genderbinarysunset]

@oblivioustoast I was like "I'm gonna reread TYA and TMITIM just to answer this question because I always skim Raoul's parts," and got halfway through TYA before my eyes rolled back into my head. So here's the thing... the first half specifically of The Three Musketeers is the funniest thing ever written. It's consistently hilarious, and stuffed full of character moments; it has a fast pace and enough detail so modern readers know what's going on, but it isn't bogged down by it. It's an action adventure story, maybe one of the best ever told. The second half of the book is slower and more serious, but because the setup is so incredibly good you don't really care - you'll power through it because the character interactions remain top notch, and there's a satisfactory ending barring the friends going their separate ways. TTM is a complete story that doesn't necessarily need a sequel.

And that's not Dumas' fault. Like, I'm not gonna be mad that he crafted a masterpiece and the other books didn't live up to the first. And I've talked at length with @inkbee and @attentiondeficitohlookasquirrel about why that might be - Dumas having other projects (TCOMC), Dumas giving most of the work to his assistants and not touching up as much with his own particular wit and charm, Dumas going through a rough patch in his life and being generally depressed. At the end of the day, we don't know. But I've always stood by the fact that the main four Musketeers are what make the stories so damn good. TYA tries to expand the world, and as a historian I appreciate a work of historical fiction, but it goes deep into the political intrigue that was very surface level in TTM, and worse, it commits the cardinal (lol) sin of D&D - it splits the party.

Theoretically, it should be interesting to see a different mixup of characters. You get Aramis, Athos, Rochefort, and sometimes Bazin and Grimaud on one side; and d'Artagnan, Porthos, Planchet, and Mousqueton on the other. When these parties clash, it's kind of engaging! The characters are still good, even if this is where Aramis begins his slide into villain adjacency (which makes sense and is set up, but saddens me as a reader), so the scenes do work. But then we keep getting yanked away to visit Mazarin, whose every chapter is just "and he's not as cool as Richelieu" over and over like yes, we noticed, at this point we don't even need the narration to tell us this, your villain is not as compelling it's true! And that's a huge problem in these stories, because Richelieu was everything in the first book, but oh well, time marches on. When we're not with Mazarin or Beaufort, we're with Raoul. And Raoul...

Raoul... is Bomoko. Not Boruto. Bomoko. The sequel character who's supposed to be the new d'Artagnan but lacks his charm, because d'Artagnan is set up so well, and the energy of the book is so high that he just works, and is beloved. Raoul is in a far slower adventure and... isn't a Gascon. He doesn't have anime protagonist in his blood, he has Sad Boy genes, and God is he a Sad Boy. I'd be sad too if the only person I had to work with for a good while was Olivain! He's like Crash Bandicoot at the end of a bad level, and every box is a new character who we will meet for five minutes and probably never see again, with a few rare exceptions. Raoul just has everything stacked against him to be a painfully boring protagonist. And if you get enjoyment out of him, GOOD. I hope someone likes him! I just do not.

But then, Athos loves Raoul so damn much, and I love Athos, so I cannot stave off warm and soft feelings towards the IDEA of Raoul. I also think he works as a great foil to Mordaunt, and wish they had more interactions than they already do. Character clashes are the bread and butter of Dumas' finest writing and Raoul spends so long alone or with underdeveloped passerby that he doesn't get to shine. The parts where he and Grimaud meet Mordaunt are great though.

As for d'Artagnan's feelings about Raoul, I wish they had had more of a brotherly relationship under their mutual dad Athos, but I'm nevertheless glad that he slots so well into the family. Again, if a character I love loves another character, I must love that character too, so it helps to salvage Raoul for me. I'm sorry Raoul my sweet boy you had such potential and were done so very dirty by whatever Dumas was going through when he wrote this monstrous tome. I'm not gonna talk about TMITIM bc I'll have to think about the lads dying and I'll just die.

[bae-leth]

ggghhghhgghggkkkk i have to wait for 3H until my bday next month and i’m dyin

JSHAHSBSJ NOOOO IM SO SORRY.....

[duamuteffe]

@oblivioustoast

she has that sadness in her eyes that you only see in alcoholic captains of doomed arctic expeditions

[horrorsequel]

doing two for one

finally doing these things @horrorcomedies tagged me in <3

rules: tag 10 people you want to know better!

relationship status: the most single a man has ever been

fav color: pink, orange, yellow....really all of them but i will stop there

song stuck in your head: anthony's song - billy joel but specifically the nightcore version

last song you listened to: after typing the last answer, i had to pull up the video, so. that.

3 fav foods: peanut avocado rolls, salt and vinegar chips, anything with flowers in it, p much

last thing you googled: samsung worm emoji

dream trip: i really don't know cos like... idk traveling always goes bad for me so i have slightly cooled on the idea, but i DO really wanna go visit all my friends, and two of my besties are in minnesota so tHERE? also would love to go back to AUS or go to Ireland or Scotland. oh shit also i wanna go on one of those alaskan cruises... cold cruise. :)

anything l want right now: I think i need. a dnd (or other ttrpg) group REAL bad. I'm finally getting my health in order again for the first time since high school and I would love to just spend time goofing off with people

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9 people you want to know better!

last song i listened to: okay well. we know the answer. (i'm listening to My Life nightcore now)

currently watching: rewatching a bunch of british sitcoms and variety shows i really liked as a kid/teen. MASH. watching h2o just add water with my mom. my parents always turn on Suits when i'm in the room cos they think I want to watch it but i don't lmaoooo. i stay in the room tho so ig i'm not doing anything to dissuade them

currently reading: Right Ho, Jeeves! i beleive is the name of the volume i'm on now lol. love that little bitch. also Beautiful You by chuck palahniuk

current obsession: crocheting and Jeeves and Wooster. all i do is crochet while watching Jeeves & Wooster or listening to the audio books. All i think about is crochet. It's all i want to do all the time. it's so fun tagging: @b0ytron @princessmo @holoprisms @wokeuplaughing @oblivioustoast @ohgirliepleasee @bisopod @skeletood @interlibraryloan @halfvampires & anyone else who wants to have some 2012 style fun

[johnbly]

10 songs tag

tagged by the brilliant @boltlightning :D

Rules: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of  music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10  songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

i call this playlist the “all of the songs on my phone” playlist (aka not a playlist). this did get me to clean out my music library though so thank you bolt

the werewolf scene - john williams, prisoner of azkaban

end credits - hans zimmer, on stranger tides

work this out - high school musical 2

moonlight serenade - klaus badelt, curse of the black pearl

grannvale castle town - yuka tsujiyoko, genealogy of the holy war

reveal to iris/running back in time - blake neely, the flash season 1

neville - alexandre desplat, deathly hallows part 2

the color of sunrise - takeru kanazaki/rei kondoh/hiroki morishita, three houses

jalabaoth - shoji meguro, persona 5

the slug party - nicholas hooper, half blood prince

this is a good depiction i think. kinda surprised there wasn’t more potc but two out of ten isn’t bad. love that hsm managed to sneak its way in as the only song with words on this list tho (not many songs with words in this here phone tbh)

i tag @graveexcitement @philcoulsonismyhero @daniel-bryans @vampgf @oblivioustoast and @andrei-l but you guys are obviously under no obligation to do this -- also anyone else who wants to do this pls do so

[trinkettes]

oblivioustoast replied to your post: sandwich cakes are the worst

wait what is this?? bc it sounds like a monstrosity

it IS a monstrosity

smörgåstårta, sandwich layer cake apparently. Buncha shrimp and sour cream and dill and various gross things. most people love it though. they are wrong,

[applebees4prez]

@oblivioustoast the +9 one comes from when i was playing level 3 with a group and one of my fellow players was a rogue with +9 in stealth. the reason for this was that she has a +5 to dex and rogues get expertise in one skill by this time. expertise doubles your proficiency bonus, meaning she got a +4 instead of a +2 to stealth and then you add dex which makes it a +9.

as for your stats, you want to put your ability score improvements that you get from your races as well as your highest scores into your two most important stats. like say you’re playing a paladin. you want your strongest stat to be strength and second strongest to be charisma.

pov you started playing dnd

wait we’re just straight up killing people?

i have to watch literally every episode of dimension 20/critical role

how the fuck do you have a +9 to this skill we’re at level 3

i need to start dm-ing right now so that i can literally become brennan lee mulligan

what the fuck is min-maxing and how do i do it

oh god i keep forgetting my only set of dice everywhere i have to use the online dice again

shut up d&d beyond you’re not taking my money just let me make a goddamn character sheet

i was worried my character would be the most ridiculous one of the party but i’m actually the most normal

the math is so easy but there’s so much of it oh god

this is nothing like stranger things

the rest of my party has characters that are so complex and have so many secrets and i feel like i have nothing to contribute to the plot

i was told all dnd players are nerdy cis boys who can’t get girlfriends but literally everyone here is queer and if they’re not queer they’re going to be

[buffskeleton]

oblivioustoast replied to your post: the clone wars s3 episode ‘assassin’ and it very...

:0 we have a dog at work named ahsoka, she’s a husky - i didn’t realize she was named after that character :00

AAAA!!!!! tell that dog i lov her!!!!!