#or the grace of exile

[incognitobird]

you know what I AM gonna make a post about chants of sennar and I don't CARE that only my 3 friends and a handful of pornbots will see it.

IT IS SUCH A FUCKING GOOD GAME

I am incredibly baised by the fact that Linguists is my autism special interest. but I also must state very very clearly

I HATE PUZZLE GAMES AND PUZZLES IN GAMES

they make me frustrated and and angry and more often than not make me feel stupid and I do not like them. I power through them when I must (breath of the wild I love you but fuck your shrines) or bribe friends to do them for me (viz I will sell my kidneys for you to do my puzzles)

but chants of sennar? even when I was frustrated (and incredibly sleep deprived, it was 3 am when I finally went "ah shit I need to go to bed") it only made me more determined to figure it out without help! I REFUSED to look up a guide and only caved twice, once because I fucked up my own written down notes, and the other was because in my sleep deprived state I had missed an entire room with a teleport spot and stone plate before the alchemists, making it so that I had done the ENTIRE ALCHEMIST FLOORS MISSING 3 WORDS I SHOULDVE JUST HAD. my last 3 hours of play through went soother with the help of my friend but those first 9 hrs? even sleep deprived and frustrated I was having fun!!!

even when the game took its detour into being a fuckin HORROR game I couldn't stop being FASCINATED by the language and the people and the cultures

and gods the ending made me CRY and I have so many fucking thoughts.

and the best part about ALL OF THIS?

I want to get back into learning Linguists

I had one semester in college of a gen'ed course that taught you the basics of feild work through creating a language. I loved that class. however I was actively suffering the effects of a debilitating depressive episode that ended in a mental breakdown resulting in me not attending any of my classes BUT that Ling101 class and in my second semester I dropped out. I wanted to major in linguistics but now between trauma and financial issues I will never being going back to college and it's not something I want anymore.

but I still want to learn linguistics so badly. I have a shelf full of books from the Ling section at my local bookstore (calling it a section is kind it's literally just 2 shelves). I haven't read a single one of those books because I can't bring myself to start.

but now? after spending 12 and half hours playing chants of sennar? I want to read all of them because it reminded me of exactly why I love linguistics.

in conclusion:

CHANTS OF SENNAR IS A GREAT GAME AND I WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY SLANDER OF IT IN MY PRESENCE.

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

Ghostbur: but I only have good memories with Technoblade :(

Tommy: aw, okay. Well I’ll give you some bad ones.

Ghostbur: wh- there are no bad memories with Technoblade.

Tommy: oh, I reckon there are.

Ghostbur, after a pause: no? Technoblade, we’ve only had good times together, right?

Techno: only good times. We were bros, man.

Ghostbur, overlapping: yeah!

Ghostbur: exactly!

[doomedgrrrlblog]

purple albums from the 90s

[eruverse]

Ivan when he sees humans die:

[pandorafallz]

Dreamer Spider: If you took a shot for every time you made a bad decision, how drunk would you be?

Exile Grace: Maybe a bit tipsy?

Scatter Norm: Drunk.

Exile Jake: Wasted.

Waif Lo'ak: Dead.

[maddiesbookbag]

percy jackson edit to the haunted/exile mashup…thalia & luke & annabeth on the run cut to luke’s betrayal (you’re not my homeland anymore / can’t go back im haunted) annabeth’s POV of the betrayal or even holding the sky (come on come on don’t leave me like this i thought i had you figured out) percy sacrificing himself for annabeth and grover at the arch just like thalia on the hill (i think i’ve seen this film before and i didn’t like the ending) annabeth and luke in the throne room scene with luke’s eyes flashing between blue and gold (you and i walk a fragile line/we always walked a very thin line)

[halfyearsqueen]

viserys and rhaenyra are genuinely such an interesting dynamic to me because like. to everyone else she's clearly the favorite, but the first time she ever attempts to gainsay him because he didn't tell her about the arranged marriage, that ends with her on her knees begging for his forgiveness.

[kaerinio]

also, following dany's return to meereen, she's done being tamed. she is done being tamed by the forces around her, done being tamed by the expectations around her, done being tamed by herself. quaithe told her that the dragons know who she is, but questions if she knows. daario expresses the same sentiment. following the second rebirth, she finally understands. it is time for her to drive herself and trust her own intuition more, of course while taking counsel ( that will NEVER change ), but she will not allow herself to become a bleating lamb ready for the slaughter again ; she will be as the targaryens are destined to be . . . a dragon. not just the mother of dragons, but the dragon who stops at nothing to protect her people. the dragon who leads her children. and like her dragons, she will answer to neither gods nor men.

[autistme]

DYSPHORIA HOODIE ENJOYERS REJOICE

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

Tommy: okayokay *inhales* okay.

Ghostbur: it’s Technoblade! :D

Tommy: politely- politely, die. Politely-

Techno, overlapping: yeahhhh!

Ghostbur, overlapping: Technoblade! Technoblade, I’m here! I’m here! Have some blue, have some blue, please, please, calm yourself! Calm yourself! Calm yourself!

Techno, overlapping: yeahhhhhhh, yeahhh! Have some fooood, my mannnnn!

Ghostbur: whoa!

Ghostbur, muttering: that’s a very expe…

Techno, overlapping: I have a dealer.

Ghostbur, sounding impressed: that’s expensive food.

[feastofsnakes]

grace dpdl should have become a vampire hunter

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Your voice of holy sweetness, turning common words to grace,

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Drama of Exile

[pandorafallz]

Avatar 1 AU | Both Grace and Jake are exiled from the Omantikaya following the war with the RDA for their part in the fall of Hometree and the death of many of the Omatikaya. Things get a little more complicated when Grace's waistband starts to expand and the permitted humans are struggling now Hells's gate was shut down. Can Neytiri bring herself to forgive Jake? Or will she hold tightly to the binding conditions she set for their exile?

Chapter 6 Snippet

A Toruk was not an Ikran.

That much was simple within moments of the bond and the natural instincts to throw him off his back was immense; a lot to fight through to get the Toruk to fly straight and onwards to gather his baring on his new ride.

The Toruk was smart, calculating and intelligent… but not sentient. At least, not in a way that was familiar to Jake. His previous mating bond with Neytiri had shown him the bond between two sentient beings so he…knew there was a difference.

“I need you so shut up and keep going!” Jake huffed, tugging on the Toruk’s queues for a better grip.

[icyfox17]

Foxie. I was not expecting so much wholesome in the freaking EXILE STREAM of all things aksgaksgkagsjsgshs

And Techno is such a comedic genius he is SO FUNNY AAAAAAAAH

AAAAAAA :((( I MISS TECHNO SM IM GONNA CRYYSYSJDJFKDJ