#since the flag is the background

[rei-does-stuff]

Did another coloring <3 not that good but ykyk

[cj-the-random-artist]

I let them get friendship married so Narinder can get his tax benefits lol

But legitimately. I mulled this one over repeatedly for literal months. Like. Do I want them to get married in front of the cult? Should they even get married? It would be hilarious if the Goat married them and then cried at the altar the whole time, but also... that doesn't feel right, so maybe I won't do that. And then once I decided it should be a personal friendship-marriage ritual where it's just the pair of them making vows to each other, I wrote four different scripts and hated them all and ended up just pulling this one out of thin air pretty much on the spot and that was that. At one point, I wanted Lambert to basically suggest this idea and then have them get friend-married on the spot, but that didn't feel right (and it was also gonna be unreasonably long) so that's why there's no context going into this one. And the actual friend-marriage ritual is... maybe not the best designed one ever? I wanted it to in some ways be similar to like, the way I imagine a romantic marriage happening in the cult- the parties exchange vows and do rings and stuff...? (If it's not obvious, I haven't been to many weddings...) But I figured they wouldn't want an audience, or to party with the whole cult afterwards, or anything like that. I also had them kiss each other's rings as opposed to like... faces... because one of the fights I had with myself in deciding how I would want this to go was whether it would make sense for them to kiss or not. And I ultimately decided that in this AU at least they just wouldn't want to. They're also wearing the rings on their not ring fingers cuz. Honestly it just felt right that way. Based on vibes. But basically I just wanted them to exchange a vow of eternal partnership in a very casual, chill setting, because I don't picture QPR AU Narilamb doing... anything other than that.

Also this is the rest of Lambert's office, which I actually had a pretty clear vision for after my last doodle but I didn't really bother to draw before starting this comic. Maybe I should've but eh it looks good enough. Interior backgrounds are hard......

Anyways. I think I'm happy with this one? I was enamored by the concept of a chill friendship marriage, so I definitely leaned into it here. As per usual, it's not perfect, I think I could've done a lot of stuff better / differently, but honestly?? If I were to ever get friend-married I would want it to go about like this, it makes my little aroace heart happy, and I spent too long on it to not show it to anybody. Thus. Enjoy, and also happy new year cuz I totally forgot to make a post individually about that...

[babykittenteach]

This post (suggestive) came along the dash and I had to use those knee tattoos.

[mr-orion]

i always thought my space paintings were very cheesy so I never thought to show them, but people seem to like the one i did on my sketchbook , so I made another one. The inspiration for this one is me ✨

[doctorsiren]

it’s gaymer month 😁

[skeletalheartattack]

hell yeah pride pfp thats--um. sweating nervously. whats that in the background

[dullahandyke]

[ID: Sora's talk-sprites from Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, edited so that the bigender flag is in the background.]

for vert @riftgift :] with help from my two beautiful girlfriends ms paint and windows magnifier... free 2 use w/out credit but just lmk bcos itll make me happy

[collecting--stardust]

Starting to think that ugly facial hair is really cele's good luck charm

[izzy-b-hands]

Also. URL change not bc I suddenly hate Ed or any of the other characters (not at all, and I'm still hoping the best for all of them in s3), but I figured someone else might like my old URL even more, so I decided to see what izzy related ones might still be available and wound up here (the b is for basilica lol)

Now this and the side blog have Izzy related URLS and I do love that for me

[look-better-in-gold]

i made some koala pride icons!! rb if you use :)

[logstedshire]

i love when you show up on my dash a lot cause your blog reminds me when i used to adore dsmp in 2020 . i miss it

holy shit this is like . the sweetest ask ive ever gotten?? thank you?? also this is so funny to me because this morning i got an insult being like ‘are you stuck in 2021’ so this is like the polar opposite of that HAHAH!

but seriously thank you ?!?? again this is just so sweet and it made my day . anon i am kissing u gently on the forehead mwah

[the-weeping-dawn]

And she's officially broke me again.

[i-am-aprl]

[ID: A video clip showing a Black person in a green coat interviewing an elderly white person holding up a flag, with more protesters in the background displaying Palestinian flags.

The interviewer asks, "Why is it important for you to be here today?"

The protester responds, "Well, uh, I'm Jewish, I'm Israeli, my parents were the only survivors of their families from the Holocaust. They both survived Auschwitz. I'm not going to support genocide am I?

"I'm here with the Palestinians, and we are here with Palestine, because we don't believe that what the British government is doing is correct. The British government is supporting this genocide! It's arming Israel, it's financing Israel.

"BBC and the other media here is supporting genocide. This is illegal. This is immoral. We don't agree with it, we will never agree with it, and as Jews -- and myself as Israeli -- I am totally against it, and we will continue to be against it.

There are now more than 60 such events in the whole of Britain, uh, people don't want to support this. They are against this government on so many other issues, but especially on this one."

Another elderly white protester next to the first joins in, leaning forward to add:

"And, also, this didn't start on October the 7th. In 1948, Palestinian villages, hundreds of them --"

Another elderly protester interjects specifically, "500 of them".

The second protestor nods and continues, "were demolished, thousands of Palestinians, innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered, and seven-hundred and fifty thousand Palestinian refugees were created. That's when it started, and it hasn't stopped since!"

End ID.]

[osterby]

Ilberd is hands down my favourite villain in the game. He's exactly the kind of desperate nothing-to-lose do-bad-things-for-good-ends character I always go for (fun fact: he's the villain Ardbert tried to be), but I have to squint and peek around the corners and fill in the obvious glaring blanks.

And, yeah, the background that would really sell his motivation and overall story to the average player who isn't playing an Ala Mhigan WoL and doesn't laser in on any minor character with desperation as a key plot point isn't even in the game!

That's a complaint I have about SE's writing overall, especially in the early game. They think up all this good lore and then just... don't bother including it. But they really dropped the ball on Ala Mhigo in general and on Iilberd specifically.

Ilberd was so badly communicated in story I'm not even mad anymore. Just disappointed.

Like I hated this man with passion. Mere hearing his voice or seeing his face made my blood boil. At least the Japanese dub makes him more sympathetic, because he speaks calmly, albeit painfully, not just complaining like his English dub sounds like.

But I bought the book and did some digging and wow? He was paid with McChickenNuggets and a sword when he worked as an adventurer to support his family. Man was treated worse than a dog, and he had a family - possibly partner, possibly kid too, I mean, he was 40 years old. Or idk, very nice of him to take care of his elderly parents, I guess - and he lost them to the calamity. Mfs were barbecued by bahamut.

And yeah, Ilberd lost 100% everything, and had nothing to lose anymore. He wanted to take their ashes back home, and when enough people told him "no", he said "fuck it", and backflipped straight to god.

Also. He likes tea. Like he drinks tea. A LOT.

Like excuse me. How about telling this in-game? Sounds like the writing was a little... what's the word... slo---

[sortanonymous]

Welp, at least now I know that Mother Nature isn't totally biased against NASCAR!

[n0valey-sys]

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