#permanent sunlight

[autumnrevisited]

No Devotion at St. Vitus Bar, July 11, 2022 photos: Chris Kopinto

do not repost without credit to the photographer

[markantonys]

THE WHEEL OF TIME | Rand, Mat, and Elayne in 2x08

[worldbuildingwanderlust]

We burn our brightest In the hours Of our greatest Transitions

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some interesting frosty leaf patterns!

[thegreatyin]

Oh cool so apparently if I do chess with death enough it gets harder

If I fail and end up at “the garden” do I die for good?

you can't die for good in fallen london!*

*unless you go seeking The Name. then you don't necessarily technically die but you do experience something infinitely worse and also get your account bricked for all eternity. do not seek The Name.

[the-ashenstreaked-doctor]

Gabriel, has there been anyone who’s left an impression on you in the recent past for any reason?

“I know Sylas is in the room over, but our relationship is far from a ‘recent past.’” The Saint chuckles softly. “I can give a less predictable answer, I swear.”

His eyes flicker upward in thought, hands folding one over the other. When he seems to find something he’s looking for, his gaze returns to you.

“There was once a pair of siblings, whose eyes rested ever skyward. The elder, she knew her way around a variety of weapons. The younger, a gentle heart that refused to let those around him be hurt.”

“One day, the sky pierced the earth, and the people of the sky did battle with the people of the earth. A watchful eye, searing with the light of the Sun, gazed down upon the warring peoples. The siblings took to the front lines. I had the opportunity to patch them up, where they informed me of their plans to take wing and meet the Sun. The younger felt, in his heart of hearts, that he must be the one to take up the burden of meeting the Sun. The elder, she had convinced herself that doing anything less would be failure on her part.”

His expression does not change, but his gaze averts somewhere else.

“I watched the Sun’s eye collapse in a glorious blaze, and never saw them again. Sometimes, I wonder if they made it out, or if the Sun claimed them as it had countless others. They were far from the only people to make that final flight, but they were the ones I remember most clearly.”

“…I never did catch their names.”

[galaxywarp]

I just did some really helpful guided meditation.

A few years ago I had a dream that I met God. I can’t remember all of the details of the dream. I remember everything being bright and warm but also soft. I couldn’t see her face but I know she was female. She asked me if I wanted to hold the universe in my hands. She asked me in a way that was very excited — it reminded me of an excited kid running to show you a frog it found (I remember thinking that was significant. Not something she made. Something she found).

I said yes and she placed the universe in my hands and the galaxies tickled my palms as they swirled. I woke up nearly on the verge of tears with an overwhelming sense of peace and warmth.

That meditation I did just now. Thinking about some of the experiences I’ve had. Dreams. Feelings. I.

I think my god is the Sun.

[thunderboltfire]

The dove and the blackbird, by the words of the bard. Aerie and Viconia have always been one of the most iconic characters of BG2 to me, and so I had to take a chance to draw them in my style. More thoughts on the design choices under the cut!

The underlying thought behind this drawing was the realisation that the drow are canonically the shortest of elves. For some reason, the vision of honestly intimidating and snappy, but not very physically strong* Viconia also being quite short made for a coherent vision.

If the drow are the shortest of elves, that would mean Aerie would probably be taller than Viconia. We know avariels’ distinguishing feature are their wings, but I thought it would be really cool if they had other features specific to them, so I made Aerie’s frame taller and slender, reminescent of a long-legged bird, like a heron or a stork.

I also decided that as a priestess she should carry Baerwan’s holy symbol. The coolest part of the wizard clothing in BG is that it’s layered, so I made up a multilayered robe which would also have a side slit™ characteristic for many in-game robes.

Actually, I was on the fence about whether or not I should give Viconia a visible symbol of her deity - but in the end I’ve decided against it. While she isn’t exactly secretive about being a priestess of Shar, openly carrying a symbol of an evil deity could draw even more hostile attention than she already does.

I’ve changed a color of her cloak too, because it’s really easy to be picked out of the crowd while being dressed like a construction worker I didn’t really like that part of her original design. I dressed her in a scale armor. While it doesn’t exist in-game, it’s a similar grade of armor to the chainmail she usually starts with in my party.

* They actually have very similar stat distribution, with low strenght, very low constitution, relatively high dex (actually, Viconia has insanely high dexterity of 19), wisdom and intelligence and decent charisma.

[clarasghosts]

remember Americans and all other who have to turn the clock back one hour before sleeping tonight: this is not daylight savings. daylight time is what we have been on since March. we are ending daylight time and returning to standard time, the time we should really just be on all year around anyway.

[stigmatamama]

Geoff telling me he was supposed to do a No Devotion song but forgot was so evil but so funny of him

[lirillith]

Daylight Savings Time is uniquely disorienting for a nocturnal person with time-blindness. Like, the experience of looking at the computer clock and going "wait, how is it 3:30 already?" is familiar, but this one night a year it's turbo-charged.

[hauntedwoman]

literally feel suicidal thinking abt it being winter again

[nikatyler]

Every time I explain the Caleb alien pregnancy thing, I revert back to being 17 and my brain just goes "hehehe mommy" until I stop talking about it

[morgenlich]

oh btw reminder for monday!

even if it’s obscured by the moon!! it’s the quality of light rather than only the quantity—even during an eclipse sunlight is very high energy and looking directly at it will burn your retinas and can cause permanent vision loss!! so don’t do it unless you have proper eyewear!!!

[tired-aliensoul]

A rainy, dreary morning

perfect for sleeping

[maddisandy]

is astarion and soleil going to be what drives me into becoming a 100k fic writer. is that what it took