#some stabilisation!

[inked-out-trees]

CHAPTER 16: WILLIE NELSON'S REPRISE (ON THE ROAD AGAIN)

The cast are given a choice. They choose the future.

[somerandomcockroach]

Originally there were another characters, but they didn't fit well to a runaway scene as this fully legal duo who manages to do some clown acrobatic tricks on their way out

[blitzwhore]

It's always fun experiencing severe mental illness symptoms because of fiction, eh?

[rowenabean]

the rat saga continues (it might hopefully be over? i have not heard a rat in like. three days?) in that i was washing everything in my wardrobe (smelled like rat) and i discovered that one of my favourite dresses has been ripped up by their claws :( was my bridesmaid dress for my close friend :( the fabric was deadstock but the place it came from are doing a shout out to see if they can find a metre for me to cut a new front panel - otherwise i'm gonna have to get real good at embroidery real quick

[witchstone]

god gps in this country are such hacks. how do you listen to someone describing how dairy consumption causes energy and mood crashes and your immediate reaction is to try and prescribe mood stabilisers. like sorry but i think the easier option for everyone involved is to just not consume dairy?

[b1dl0]

trying to do shit in procreate after abandoning my ipad for 5 months

[queer-omens-in-the-archives]

experiencing The Horrors post-appointment with our GP to have her fill in her part of our disability application forms. (important note: the appointment went about as well as it possibly could have. the horrors are entirely in our mind.)

[grub-s]

my neck is in actually a pretty significant amount of pain and was also throughout this date that i had to leave early to come home (walked all the way because i’m stupid, didn’t help) and have violent food poisoning-type vomiting all night, and yeh, im feeling pretty miserable

[rhysintherain]

15 and 18 for Jaheira, Karlach, and Shadowheart :D

Jaheira

Favorite ship for this character: this is a wildly unpopular opinion, but I actually liked the BG2 PC romance plot for Jaheira. It's messy, it's complicated, but so are relationships and especially so is Jaheira. It makes sense in character, and it's really well written and I spent SO MUCH TIME walking in circles in the wilderness to trigger all the dialogues. Again, keep in mind that I pick fictional relationships mostly for the chaos they cause.

A canon relationship I admire: I mean, Jaheira and Khalid are and always will be relationship goals, and I'm still mad about how that ended (even though I know their story wouldn't be as impactful as it is if it hadn't). They were 'opposites attract' personified, and you can see a little of Jaheira in Khalid at Bridgefort and a little of Khalid in Jaheira in BG3.

I also like how her friendship with Minsc has evolved in BG3. They argue constantly but would fight gods for each other. He was a statue for a century and they just... picked up where they left off when he thawed out. After so many people have come and gone in Jaheira's life, it's nice that she has one friend who keeps coming back against impossible odds (even when she tells him to get lost. ESPECIALLY when she tells him to get lost).

Shadowheart

Favorite ship for this character: I like Shadowheart and Karlach. Shadowheart's starting banter with almost everyone is standoffish and secretive, but she immediately warms up to Karlach. Their conversations are always a little bit flirty, and I doubt Shadowheart's attempts to keep people at arm's length would last even a minute with Karlach.

A canon relationship I admire: look, if you'd asked me to make up some off-the-cuff fake facts for Shadowheart when Skye first met her in the nautaloid, "her parents call her Jen and her best friend has purple hair and goes by Nocturne" probably would have been it. And maybe "secretly listens to Mandy Moore".

That said, I really love their friendship. Nocturne is the only thing Shadowheart remembers if you give her the noblestalk. She's the only one who doesn't attack the party in the Sharran sanctuary. Shadowheart does a full religious 180 and ends up hunted by her own people, and Nocturne manages to stay in touch anyway, even though she's not willing to leave herself. That's a level of pragmatism and devotion I rarely saw from the people I grew up with.

Karlach

Favorite ship for this character: Shadowheart or Wyll. I think Shadowheart would be a stabilising influence and Karlach could have a real future to look forward to (for the first time ever). They'll eventually settle down on a farm in Rivington and adopt a million stray animals and they absolutely deserve it.

But you can't beat the drama of Wyll and Karlach: that first moment when they meet and reality snaps apart, because this is supposed to be your enemy, but you can see inside their head and it's a reflection of your own. Everything is temporary because you could die, you could be pulled back to hell, you could become something horrible and you can't even say which horrible thing will claim you first. You're both desperate to be the heroes from your parent's stories, but you can't be sure the person you love sees anything but a monster when they look at you. You're the same in infinite ways, and sometimes that's heartbreaking.

Canon relationship that I admire: hero worship is less a pedestal than a flight of stairs. The literally less-than-a-minute from "wait, you're Karlach! We saw you fight in Elturel, you were AMAZING!" To "I can't believe I get to meet THE Jaheira! She's a legend, Mum used to tell me stories about how she saved the city!"

The irony of this is completely lost on Karlach, and I love that. She manages to learn from her role models, encourage her fans, and never quite realise how far up that staircase she actually is.

[kesbeacon]

One day I'll make a post (or even a video 👀) about unglamorous sewing and the 12 patches in my oldest and favouritest (?) shorts.

[catinfroghat]

Nastasya Filippovna VRISKA checklist:

Victim of manipulation = was groomed and sexually abused as a child by the older man who was supposed to be her guardian after her parents died

Romantically interested in girls = wrote a series of letters to Aglaia Ivanovna telling her that she was in love with her and complimenting her on her beauty and purity (The nature of this love and the purpose of these letters is ambiguous but they are written romantically)

Influential over the major plot = one of the major 3 protagonists who is arguably the driving force of the entire story

Separates the fandom into haters or stanners = I'm not sure a 19th century Russian novel has a particularly active fandom but in-universe she does split society into haters and stanners

Kills or otherwise harms protagonists = Emotionally and socially ruins all 3 protagonists (Including herself through her self-destructive tendancies) and several secondary characters. Also physically harms an officer by hitting him across the face with his own whip and encourages a suitor to put his hand into a fire

Anti-hero = is one of the 3 main characters of the novel but is often thoroughly unlikeable as she can be cruel, spiteful, and sadistic

[aqpippin]

i can’t stop thinking about it lmao potassium of 7.3 is wild

[nunap]

I never wish bad to anyone but bts lunatic stans test me

[jackietracks]

Yea I def need a different screen protector

[syrinq]

local dipshit artist in hell

> hates drawing lineart itself (consciously using pressure SUCKS and the process itself is BORING as FUCK) > running on 0 stabilisation 0 post-correction because otherwise it slows down the usage of the brush by A Lot (to me) > my art without lines is a pain to colour + doesn't look clean > cleaning up sketches is also a pain and boring > brain generally short-circuits when doing the blocking approach > only finds adding lineweight after therapeutic. like a colouring book

[goblinbugthing]

ART GRRRREAASSAAAAAAAAASHHHGAGHAHGGGAGHHHAAAAAAAA