#other than that? this fucking slaps.

[mixedindy]

Just re-listened to this song for the first time in years. Still holds up

[sforzesco]

I love how much Lucullus can't stand Pompey, and also this

Pompey the Great: A Political Biography, Robin Seager

with something from this thrown in for extra flavor

Crassus and Pompey, on the other hand, ridiculed Lucullus for giving himself up to pleasure and extravagance, as if a luxurious life were not even more unsuitable to men of his years than political and military activities.

Plutarch, Lucullus

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

so this is why you dressed up nice today like fuck off

[krotiation]

i'll genuinely never stop thinking about codependency in rhack and how it's mostly coming from jack's side. both jack and rhys treat their relationship like rhys is the one who needs jack to not just survive but also thrive, but it's really the opposite and i think that REALLY adds to how much jack twists the narrative to make it seem like rhys can't do anything without him just to keep giving rhys a reason to keep him around and trust him

[loud-whistling-yes]

Oh woah woah definition: a part of a crane wives song that has no meaningful words other than extended "oh woah woah"s to convey vibes

With that new definition, and now that beyond beyond beyond is finally announced, fellas....

[aeonophagic]

me, the jester, asked the court if yaoi could bloom even on a battlefield. the court was so kind as to even help me care for the fields for it to sprout and then bloom — is it my fault?

bonus

[weirdmageddon]

sorry for liking davejade in 2023 btw its in a cool way though

[bleaksqueak]

This song has lived in my head for decades at this point and it shows no sign of ever leaving.

[youngpettyqueen]

I wish Julian and Martok would interact more cause I think they could have the funniest possible dynamic. they spent 5 weeks together in a Jem'Hadar prison I just know they have a friendship that looks fucking INSANE from the outside looking in

[tathrin]

Took these off of another post in my queue because OP doesn't need my ranting in their notifications about something entirely unrelated to their post, so I'm going to rant here instead:

#i will admit that i was real torn on the elrond/durin/disa stuff in the show #on the one hand: i love whenever any of the dwarves are on screen they're awesome #and the relationship itself was utterly adorable #HOWEVER it would have been nice if celebrimbor had been the one to have the storyline centered on dwarf friendship #because that's. you know. one of his big things??? #and it would have been nice for him to have ONE nice thing in this show lmao

#(and like. sure it's nice that they put narvi into the show. but then they didn't DO anything with narv? he was just THERE?) #(yeah yeah they built the door but like. as an obligatory afterthought.) #this happened in canon so i guess we have to show it! ugh.)

#anyway celebrimbor could have had more than one dwarf friend! he could have done that WHOLE PLOTLINE okay just sub him right in! #honestly celebrimbor having multiple dwarf friends would have been THE BEST #and hey add that to his motifvation for making the seven! #he has dwarf buddies! he totally trusts them and wants to repay them for their help with the mithril! #he wants them to be able to live long lives like the elves do! #HE WANTS HIS FRIENDS NOT TO DIE!!!!

#so he made them rings. that doomed them. #just like the silmarils did his family. yikes.

#AND it would have still allowed for the whole ''the elves need our help eregion is under attack'' thing to happen #in durin's plotline #it just would have been so TRAGIC afterwards to realize that they came too late to save celebrimbor!

#(and honestly elrond being bffs with the dwarves never really made sense because...what happens between now and lotr then?) #(like yeah sure he isn't ANTI-dwarf or anything; and the dwarves seek him for counsel and all. but they clearly aren't CLOSE.) #(and sure okay that's maybe just because thousands of years have passed and all the dwarves he was friends with have died fine.)

#(it's still just irritating. celebrimbor should have been the one with adorable dwarf friends dammit!) #ANYWAY don't mean to rant on an unrelated post haha sorry OP!

[blueskittlesart]

i am an athena cykes defender forever and ever until the day i die but god. somewhere out there there is a universe where apollo justice got actual follow through and it kills me that i am not living in it

[skeletons-in-ur-closet]

i libbed out and got too optimistic i forgot the average american voter is a fucking idiot

[wolfsong-the-bloody-beast]

You know, after playing for a while, I've got to say that, in my opinion, Veilguard is a good, fun game and I've been having a blast with it. Some legitimate criticism could and should be made towards Veilguard, yes. And those things are not mutually exclusive. But considering the current internet environment, I'd worry to be piled up with the howling maniacs that act like the game somehow killed their dog, stole their family jewels, and burned down their house with its writing alone (because the previous games were all absolutely perfect, apparently), or with the "anti-woke" brigade who get their panties into twist over every little bit of diversity in the game, spending their free time trying to review bomb the game everywhere despite not having tried it, and who sound like they want most of us dead, so... If I look like I'm just having some carefree fun here, trying not to think about this shit, it's because I am.

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Man idk the argument about hvy being a Chinese company and so they're restricted on having characters with dark skin tones when dislyte is ALSO a Chinese company and they typically are really good at representing the culture they take from for their characters makes it somewhat mute

[aetheternity]

"Venti stans are low key annoying complaining about Venti not being the main focus of the Windblume festival."

First off we do not care. Second off ok???? Literally every character stan complains about their fave not getting enough screen time hop off.

It isn't even about screen time for me. It's about the fact that Venti hasn't truly felt like Venti in several updates. The last time he truly felt like himself was during Weinlesefest but even then he still didn't feel like the Venti we met all the way back during the first archon quest. And I don't wanna hear "hE hAd cHaRaCtEr dEvLoPmEnT." Cause no that isn't what happened, he regressed as a character. He's becoming fanon Venti in game. He gets used for alcohol jokes and Paimon calls him lazy then he dips. 🙄

"He was just in the Lantern Rite.." Shut Up. Shut Up. Shut all the fucking way up! He was terrible in LR and honestly if you cut Venti out of LR you basically have the same event. He did literally nothing of substance and he shouldn't have been there at all.

The first Windblume festival centered around Venti and showed us more of Venti being Mondstadt's archon. The second Windblume festival has barely anything to do with him. Excuse us if we're fucking disappointed, we have every right to be. Like I said literally every character's stans complain about them not getting enough screen time. Yeah sure if every Mondstadt event centered Venti it'd get old but the biggest problem is they decided to center a MONDSTADT EVENT around fucking SUMERU CHARACTERS. Fucking Collei gets more screen time than any Mondstadt character. Which wouldn't be a problem but this is a main Mondstadt event. Even though Venti was in LR 3 he wasn't a main focus he was a background character to the rest of the cast. Which is what Collei should've been cut out Tighnari and Cyno.

Mondstadt has so many underutilized characters and their screen time got spliced for the Sumeru fuckers who already have too much screen time. The entire last five updates have had Cyno in almost everything and Tighnari as well and while Collei has less screen time than them she has yet to be under used. If this was about Collei meeting up with Amber again they could've had that in a different event. If this was about Collei facing her anxiety it could've happened in a different event. They should've just had Sucrose helping Mondstadters cause guess what? You think this is going to be the last time a nation's event gets characters bombarding in? Hell no Fontaine is coming soon we're one hundred percent going to get nation festivals with random characters that have nothing to do with anything probably until the end of the game.

We'll see how happy ya'll are when your fave gets less screen time for some randos that have nothing to do with the nation you care about.

[kelin-is-writing]

give me some days to recover... i'm feeling way too much heartbroken right now...