#sigh... someday

[silverselfshippingchaos]

obsessed with how stupid looking he is

[zaltesker]

if i ever do make my own game i think it would be so funny to add a jungle area with jungle music. for the bit

[suntails]

ride the carousel!

[foldingfittedsheets]

There’s a very deep vein of paranoia on my mom’s side of the family. Growing up I was filled with dire warnings of being robbed and raped with wild abandon if I didn’t constantly keep my guard up.

My nana once refused to sit down in my home and relax because I hadn’t locked the door behind her. In broad daylight. In a condo community with kids running and laughing in the parking lot. My mom has often spewed vitriol about how she’d never trust anyone to come into her home for any reason.

Even while acknowledging how unhinged it all sounded some part of it lodged into my mind.

So now I find myself having to overcome this instilled distrust. The worst of this manifests in that I desperately want a house cleaner. I cannot even explain how much it would improve my quality of life to have a bi-weekly or even just a monthly run through to help with dusting, vacuuming, all the nooks and crannies we never get to.

Every time I look at rates I pine for how nice that would be and how I could use some commission money to justify the expense and every time the snarling feral thing my mom created in the back of my mind insists that it would be cataclysmic to let someone into my home and that I’d surely get robbed.

Like. Our stuff isn’t even nice, and it’s insane that a reputable company would allow that to happen but I always close the tab without booking.

[blueskittlesart]

zl wedding (again)

[pigskinmask]

Me when I said I'd be annoying but then I get a job 🫤

[realbeefman]

house would put a tracker on wilson’s car to monitor where he is at all times but. then wilson would find out and start purposefully fucking with him. como he’ll leave the tracker in the parking lot of a strip club while he goes grocery shopping and then watch house lose his mind later over why wilson went to the strip club and didn’t invite house along

[maxknightley]

the french call orgasms "la petite mort" because they understand that being murdered by someone you love is fundamentally a sexual act. this is one of only two "Ws" I am willing to credit them with.

[dreadfutures]

The Dreamers | Solas and Ixchel Lavellan

[madaqueue]

i love fucked out men i love their whines and gasps and nonsense babbling i love their unfocused and glazed-over eyes i love their inability to do anything but nod and smile and say “thank you” i loveeee <33

[alena-draws]

Little snippet from a vashwood reincarnation comic that I do not have nearly fully fleshed out in my head with written down text that would surely be 50+ pages and which I will probably get to draw never aaaah

[tei-to-tei]

December 5 - Solidarity

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ...

[lyntergalactic]

so there's a lot to be said about the weird lionization of the crows in veilguard and i've seen other people talk about it real well. but one thing that's been sticking with me is what happens post-game. or what, in a world that plays by the original rules of the crows, would likely happen post-game.

dialogue implies lucanis is very aware of the fact that he's in a hella delicate position politically after he's made first talon. he's got a contract to finish but he doesn't know how long he'll be able to "put off" the rest of the crows. and he's been saddled with a Very Important Title, even if it's still caterina calling the shots--for now.

because that's where you leave his story: in a tense limbo that's bound to snap.

illario, whether you imprison him or forgive him, is always going to be known as the traitor crow now and the crows do not deal well with traitors. especially since it wasn't just them he betrayed, it was all of antiva. sure, they'll appreciate the poetic justice of him living in disgrace for a while.

but that's clearly just because no one wants to piss off caterina dellamorte.

how much longer does she have? not just in terms of her natural lifespan. a lot of the mystique and shine of her reputation has to have worn off now that all the crows know illario was able to capture her and imprison her. sure, it was with the help of the venatori, but if anything, some crows are bound to take that as a challenge.

house dellamorte has only survived this long because caterina was holding it together with her grit and iron fist. if she dies, or is injured, the whole house of cards comes crashing down. illario won't be protected anymore. house dellamorte will be just lucanis, then. and, sure, he's a god-killer now. but he's also an abomination who very obviously doesn't want to be first talon, even if he knows that's what he's been groomed for his entire life.

so what happens, when caterina's health fails, or someone gets a lucky shot it, or a disgruntled and ambitious crow finally gets fed up with the fact that illario was allowed to live?

lucanis may have allies in viago and teia, but i highly doubt that's enough to save him should the rest of the crows fight for the seat of first talon again. or, hell, even just decide they don't want an abomination as first talon.

either he dies or he spends the rest of his life on the run, much like zevran. there's no real other option. not without some serious political maneuvering that i can't help but think lucanis would hate even if he would just resign himself to it because, well, this is what he was made for, isn't it?

so much of veilguard's story is about leaving behind the terrible things in the past, only taking the good with you, and working for a better future. but lucanis? he can't do that. he's stuck. and there's no good way to get him out of this.

[luna-the-cretar]

I want yall to know that it was technically Torbek’s entire character that made me realize what Kremy and Gideon’s character arcs are, and that they even had character arcs in the first place

And I have an actual explanation for this. I’m not just pulling this out of my ass here.

Torbek from the get-go is everything that Kremy and Gideon are not. He is honest (or as honest as he can be), kind, compassionate, morally decent (I’d say the goblinoids are the 2 party members with the highest morals), and is incredibly emotional (and forthright with said emotions).

Not to say that the husbands are incapable of being any of these things—in fact, Kremy and Gideon both have repeatedly shown signs of kindness and compassion, both to their friends and to strangers. But also…im not gonna sugarcoat it, they’re not good people. They steal, they destroy, they murder (and actively enjoy the murdering process—or at least Gid does), etc. Kremy’s whole character is built on lies (literally his part of the opening poem says “when turned to words, could only lie”), and Gideon is very emotionally stunted (I’ve made a separate post going into this fairly in-depth, so I’m not gonna get too into it here, but he clearly hides behind a mask of anger whenever he feels genuinely sad, nervous, frightened, etc).

Anyway, I didn’t realize that Kremy has been going through a sort of character arc regarding his lies until they met Pincushion, where Kremy tried lying and bullying his way into getting what he wants (and it not working), and Torbek tried being kind and truthful into getting what information they needed (and it working wonderfully).

[murdleandmarot]

Cats art has stalled just a tad bc of artfight (a problem I plan to remedy soon), so I just wanted to share an old Lonzo from when I was in Germany :)

[jaggybot3000]

well lol if theres anything chaos week has shown me so far

IS THAT I WANT TO GO SEE CHONNY JASH LIVE SOOOO BADDDDDDDDD AUUUUGHHHHHHHFHJHHGHHH!!!!!!!!!