#oh lets absolutely go insane

[deathfavor]

@furiaei said: ' you know, ' the sinner sighs as she muses aloud, ' i have no idea why the chief arrested you. had i known about your tricks sooner, i'd much rather have drunken the poison of you than live in this reality. look around! who, in their right mind, would want to live in reality? ' ( for serpent ! because i do think they'd be so deliciously dangerous, something something mya would allow serpent to poison her if only she could promise her a second of oblivion. what if we went insane? )

   Serpent sits with one leg crossed over the other, a sleek smile on her lips as the sun warms her skin. It’s peaceful in the same way that a sleeping snake seems peaceful in the sunlight. And like encountering a snake on a trail path, most of the sinners choose to give her a wide berth. It’s only natural then that the presence of someone venturing close would draw her eye and she watches the other sit down beside her. She does not mind the unanticipated company joining her.

   The words come as a surprise. Something flutters around in her chest like Monarch butterflies scattering from the trees during migration. Someone understands.

   “ It’s not poison, silly. “ Serpent chirps cheerfully with her signature performer flair. Well, she supposed it could be classified as that, but that was such an ugly way to think about it. “ More like, hmm, a potion?” Which was only one letter and one order change from poison now that she thought about it. It sounds better regardless.

   Then her voice dips into something mellifluous and lower pitched, like a predator slithering into a body of water without causing ripples upon its glassy surface. “ The chief doesn’t understand at all. Because they don’t understand, they believe that their way must be right. They believe that everyone must crave reality over sweet dreams, and that the only real happiness is what few scraps that people can find. They deny everyone a sweet dream because they don’t understand its appeal.”  A rare frown breaks her ever-smiling façade as she reflects on the encounter with the chief. “ Their land is barren and empty, so they can’t picture how wonderful it is. How desperately people want it. That one kind hand can make up for an entire world that hates you, or decades of endless torment and suffering.” It’s naïve. At least her sweet dreams truly do offer people the happiness they were denied in reality.

   It’s nice to find someone who holds her same views. “ Reality isn’t so nice or pretty. I admire the chief’s dedication, but they’re doing it all wrong. That’s why I want to bring everyone to the dreamscape, to let them have sweet dreams forever. I want to take away all their pain and suffering, even if their sweet dream is just a peaceful rest. “  There’s a wistful yearning that remains in her voice ; she might not have her own, but she can be a caretaker to everyone! Their joy is her joy!

   Serpentine eyes survey the room, noting the guards and other sinners with a calculating intent in her gaze. Then she leans closer towards Mya, voice barely a whisper across her ear. “ I still have lots of it. Chief thinks I don’t. “ There’s a sly, pleased tone in her voice as she leans away and out of her space.  “ My own venom has some traces of it too, though, obviously that one is not very utilizable compared to a nice drink.”

[dizzybizz]

sleepy gill and gill with the bubbled evil cat

[keirientez]

band au rahhhhhhhhhhh

[vaguely-concerned]

It's really interesting that Wynne actually has quite a measured, bordering on downright sympathetic response to hearing what Jowan did in the prologue -- if the mage Warden says "I still can't believe Jowan was that stupid", her answer is something like a thoughtful "Stupid, or desperate, or merely curious?". She seems to think of Jowan as a kid who got in over his head, rather than any less charitable interpretation. I do believe she genuinely is as against blood magic as she publicly expresses and as the Circle party line demands, but as a private person she clearly has a more nuanced and potentially kinder understanding of the reasons why someone might resort to it, at the very least.

(related: when she says that part about Irving telling her what happened, there's no dialogue option in the first stage of the conversation (except choosing the 'leaving the conversation' one) that doesn't net you +2 approval! no matter how the warden feels about it, she is ready to recieve it. I think that says something sweet about how Wynne conceptualizes younger mages and the honest real affection she has for them. if you didn't snitch on jowan and say you stand by that decision, though? +3 approval, apparently! what Wynne says and what Wynne thinks is not always the same thing indeed, her idea of where personal loyalty and integrity stands vis-a-vis a mage's responsibility to the circle may be more flexible than she'd have people believe, you'll be surprised to learn lol)

I have always liked wynne and found her interesting, in all her hypocrisies and her earnest care, but with slightly older eyes she's extra fascinating to me in the same ways that Iron Bull is -- seeing someone whose mind has had hollows carved out in it by the need for double-think and compartmentalization imposed by the oppressive systems and ideologies they live under, and the quiet fight of the self to still preserve vital parts of itself that the system deems unacceptable in the hidden backstage areas of the soul, as it were. (and for both of them part of that self is love and protectiveness of specific other people, beyond what their 'role' dictates is acceptable for them.) I think Wynne has managed to sneak more of her internal self through the meatgrinder relatively intact than Bull overall, but it's the same logic underlying it, for me, and it makes me feel such intense affection and compassion for them both to see how hard they try

[skunkes]

im at a point where its like ok i need to see gouache artists record every step of putting a stroke down show me the palette show me the paint mixing and show me how ur cleaning ur brush in water bc i gotta be doing one of the steps from getting paint onto brush -> getting brush onto paper wrong 😭

[coffeecatcraze]

Will never get over Charlie's absolutely feral growl, this woman was ready to lunge across the courtroom and tear Adam to shreds and I am HERE for it

[nova-antares]

I HAD A VISION!! it's 6 am and I still haven't sleep but I HAD A VISION

[widevibratobitch]

in terror, four lieutenants; in t3m, four musketeers. Conclusion?

conclusion - same as always: destiny.

but wait oh christ okay. they even kinda fit...

you've got the og trio of

Wet Pathetic Loser

Deeply Religious Guy

Fancy Lad

which ig would make dundy... d'artagnan?? no. no oh god ok. listen. d'artagnan is jopson im afraid:

1. has a deeply homoerotic father/son relationship with a suicidal alcoholic

2. is actually kinda obsessed with him tbh

3. doesn't really start out as One Of Them, has to wait quite some time to get promoted

4. big part of the fandom actually ships him with little aka our athos

it makes sense you gotta believe me it does it does

[vettelcore]

people with outdoor cats be like: yes my cat came back home half dead, caught hiv, is full of parasites and sometimes has gone missing for weeks but i don't care bc at least the cat is free and not locked inside like selfish people do!!!

[keeps-ache]

porch time porch time woowoo !! :D

[perenlop]

bdsp is still by far the worst pokemon remake to me and at least that keeps lgpe from being the worst anymore, but that's not exactly helping it too much...

i'm gonna try to be more charitable to it on this playthrough because i've grown more attached to kanto in the past few years, even some of its more overrated elements like charizard, and i love things like the art style and the revamped ost, but man.... this is probably the most unnecessary mainline pokemon game to ever exist.

[queer-crusader]

It's that time of the month where I go "hmm meds mask how bad the horrors are so let's put off taking them to see if the horrors ARE actually horrors and I'm not needlessly taking medication". Only for the Horrors™ to kick in and me suffering BAD pain for an hour before the belatedly taken meds kick in

[psalmsofpsychosis]

after my ✨️third✨️ attempt in the past 4 days to expose myself to standup comedy and build my lukewarm-jokes survival muscles i'll hereby conclude that jesus christ i'd rather fucking die

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Chapter 10 done \o/

[steakout-05]

i think having TF2 as a special interest really early in my childhood influenced so many things about myself and my identity.... my gender is big men my sexuality is big men and my sense of humour is big men. i even named myself after the "very tiny and scrawny but still big" big man and i think about all the big men in TF2 on a semi daily basis,,,,,, anyway yeah i like the men in TF2 :)

[skitskatdacat63]

2005 United States Grand Prix - aka Tiago Montiero having the best day of his life and everybody else having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day