#out of coffee ( ooc )

[valewritessss]

This fandom is so nit-picky that I’ve seen more criticism on every little thing about wottg (a book that came out 2 days ago) than people saying things they liked about it

Edit: someone has already gotten mad so I repeat this is a joke and not that deep❤️

[art-from-within]

My elden ring close confidant/lover Mohg hc is that he is actually…kind of shy. Like yes he has that bombastic way of presentation and exudes confidence, and besides his brother he does look stacked in the self love department. but in private, if he does grace you with a permit into his personal space, you would find he is actually the silent listener type and much more attentive than people give him credit. I like to think that outside of his totally scripted welcome speech he is not very talkative. And it’s odd because he is not exactly scared to spoil anyone, but there is a fine difference between verbalizing that you like someone and giving a 1000000 gifts to compensate ya know? Confident until he sees someone he can’t risk losing within his vicinity.

I also think it would be funny to imagine him as your local prude. Killing and cult leading? Sure. Dressing everyday like you are trying to outshine the groom at his own wedding? That’s his type of timing! Exposing 2 centimeters of skin? What is this??? A WHOREHOUSE? ABSOLUTELY not!

Oddly enough I hc he shares this quality with his twin Morgott, but they diverge at comfort level. Morgott hc he is naturally talkative, and if you manage to pierce through his 500000 layers of self loathing, depression, distrust and bear through an additional onslaught of self deprecation jokes, he will eventually open up and converse with you like an old friend/couple.

But Mohg? He is just naturally, not talkative. So insert him creepily staring at you from the foot of your bed like a sleep paralysis demon. But its okay because he has a diamond wardrobe ready for you next morning!

[sycalabs-pokemon-officiel]

NO ANKLE BITING!!!!!!

[hoboblaidd]

I can't really play the hero/villain era game with this guy, but my villain era is this:

[scramjettracy]

I would never drink instant coffee.

Aside from that… legitimate coping strategy for the reports-writing-all-nighters.

[godblooded]

leave house??? enrichment is IN house. LOOK AT BABIES.

[altarfates]

You can’t catch me four hours of sleep.

[royalbstrd]

Somebody called off today, the power went out and we're running off the generator, on customer service call with the company for our cubex machine cause it wouldn't come back on and it has all our controlled meds in it, it is getting hot in here. But we ordered coffee, we're ordering ice cream soon. I have my adhd collection of drinks.

[thanatologie]

actually i wanna expand on this a little (i say, with no visible lead up):

emmrich, to a rook not from the mourn watch, literally says that all necromancers are mortalitasi, but not all mortalitasi are part of the mourn watch, when they ask him about it and the difference between them. he's absolutely happy to clarify because it's his mission to demystify necromancy and make it less scary to the people he's going to be working with, and it's his special interest. he'll info dump all day long about it.

what you gotta understand here is that the necropolis is this huge, functioning city of the dead, yes, that employs a lot of people. not just necromancers, they've got guards and groundskeepers and shop keepers and a slew of other folks that do different jobs, a lot of which don't require magic and that magic isn't in the skillset of the people working them. i imagine the ratio of mages to non-mages is very small, actually; it's just that the majority of the people we meet from the mourn watch and in the necropolis directly are mages.

basically: not every mourn watch member is a mage, there's other roles to fill and those undoubtedly outnumber the necromancers.

running that place has got to be expensive. like lucanis has a banter with emmrich where they talk about how it's probably the biggest money draw and driving force behind the nevarran economy, because i imagine you have to be able to afford to be buried there, you have to, like any burial ground, purchase your plot. who knows how big the necropolis actually is - it's got a bit of a tardis feel to it, maybe it's bigger on the inside and it's pulling a thing like hank pym's infinite mansion and just expands as needed - but i imagine real estate there comes at a premium. emmrich wasn't able to get his own parents buried there until he'd made full watcher, after all, and i imagine he had the disposable income to have them exhumed, moved, and re-interred in the gardens. with all the appropriate ritual around it.

so, the crux of it, tho, is that the mourn watch itself...i don't think you can say it's a political entity, in and of itself. there's one thing to be up to your ass in the machinations of the nobility, and there's another to be aware of who not to piss off, and what to be aware of to keep your organization functioning. knowing the court mortalitasi and their corpse whisperer are puppeting king markus around and not saying anything because it'll look bad on everyone involved in necromancy - an already villified art outside of their borders - even if they have nothing to do with it.

and the money thing: they need that noble gold to keep themselves going. it's just a fact of life, guys, it's shitty, but they have to take in money and donations from the nobility to pay people, for upkeep on the necropolis itself, to buy supplies they need, the list goes on, organizations like theirs don't run on a budget of five bucks and good will. rook was a casualty (if a member of the mourn watch) of a tough decision, because they pissed off nobles that donate much needed money. but i don't think it was so much as kicking them out forever and ever, actually, but more to get them out of sight, out of mind for a time until the heat was off of them and the next thing to piss off the gentry made them forget about it.

rook was always going to be able to come back home at some point, is what i'm saying, they're the crypt baby. they just had to be removed from sight for a little while so the heat could die down.

i have, like, a whole other thing about the circles in nevarra - how sure i'm willing to bet money the smaller circles in bumfuck nowhere were as shitty as elsewhere to a degree (though to me - the way i've read it - it seems the mages elsewhere freaked out during the rebellions because they were afraid the people of the villages and such were going to come for them, not that they were necessarily directly involved but that's a whole ass thing if you side with the templars over the mages in dai, which is also an entire other thing). and how if the mourn watch were a purely political entity someone like emmrich - an orphan, from a poor background, taken in as a ward of the mourn watch itself - would probably never have ended up where he is, with actual status and wealth, because he is of a common origin and didn't have a dime to his name starting out.

point is: tacitly keeping your mouth shut about the king being undead to keep hundreds of people employed and not embarrass your whole ass country on a world stage isn't great (i'm american, ask me how that feels right now lmao), but it's a necessary evil when you're essentially a publicly funded university and funeral home if you want to stay a publicly funded university and funeral home.

[lupiinee]

ngl i am thinking about my future wife

[tenebriism]

// Happy 8th Anniversary to FFXV! ;_; I don't care how hated it is. 15 was my introduction to the Final Fantasy series, and remains my favorite even after I've played others. After all, the other games don't have Ignis Stupeo Scientia, so... :)

[zealctry]

me: wow imma write so much today!!

the writing:

[cannonfullofcanons]

Because I'm completely insane & can't seem to stick to any degree of self-care I have foregone sleep AGAIN, this time in pursuit of putting a ton of work in on that Tatsuki rewrite! Got as far as the Hueco Mundo arc + powers (MOSTLY) developed, and I've spent the last hour or two reading up on basically everything I can find about Tatsuki in terms of cut/abandoned material.

[midnightmagicks]

FFXIV 30 Day Writing Challenge Day 9: Lend An Ear

Lend An Ear: Offer aid in listening

Silence.

Absolute focus.

Two figures. One larger and one smaller.

The pair sat by a crystalline pond, the rays of a rising sun reflecting a kaleidoscope of colors off of small ripples on the glass surface. The larger figure, a miqo’te man with a serious face crouched down, holding a fishing rod. The small figure beside him, a child with leporine features, twisted his ears around as they scanned the surface of the water. 

Neither moved. Neither spoke, Until the little one pointed to the left, an ear matching the direction of their finger. They had heard it. The subtle splash of their sought after quarry: Fish.

“That way, baba!”

Excited whisper as the child stared with a bright smile. A hand patted the top of their head, a smile and grateful nod coming from the miqo’te man. He stood, getting the pole ready to cast out. The little one wiggled the tiny tuft of a tail they had, tapping their little feet excitedly. But, before the line was even airborne, a loud voice sounded, causing both figures near the water to flinch.

“E’WYN! E’MAL! IF I FIND YOU BY THE POND I SWEAR–” E’mal, the little rabbit-eared child, looked at E’wyn with wide eyes.

“Baba…I think mumma is mad…”

E’wyn quirked a brow, offering a nervous smile to his son. He set the pole down on the bank, using his hands to sign out words to his child.

“We’d better get back. I think it’s best we don’t find out what she’ll do if she comes down here.”

E’mal giggled at his father, jumping onto his back to hitch a ride to the little campsite they’d set up. This morning’s fishing was a bust, but E’mal would always be willing to lend an ear to help his baba.

[fivedecisivefactors]

Alright, so today was a bad, bad pain day, and, after taking a pain reliever, I spent a good little bit trying to figure out what the least painful way to lie down was and then sleeping off and on for most of the day. I am not hurting as bad now, so I am going to try to get some things done because I want to write. We'll see how it goes. 😂 [ Fun fact! I write not one but TWO characters with back problems, one of whom—Ariana—I wrote a literal decade before I had back problems or even a warning sign of them myself, and the other for around five years prior. At least I can confirm my research was solid. 🔥🙃🔥 Maybe I should start writing characters who hit the lottery and become billionaires??? Do we think that would work??? ]

[altarfates]

2am is precisely the right time to let caelus out of the cage that man is full of beans at any given time.