#something about it scratches an itch in my brain

[mixelation]

Homemade Dynamite is my Roman Empire. I’m curious if you actually like itadei as a ship or if you just enjoy the challenge of writing a rare ship👍

Your "Roman Empire"??? what... does that mean....

I do like ItaDei quite a bit! Deidara being obsessed with Itachi is canon, and I think letting Itachi take an interest in Deidara can lead to some really fun dynamics. I tend to like ships where they have insane interpersonal chemistry but it takes a lot of work to get them to admit they like each other, and Itachi and Deidara are both favorite characters of mine, so it's one of my top ships. Once you realize that, I think it's pretty obvious in how I write them even in non-shippy fics. E.g., in my Karin and cats fic, there's a scene where Itachi picks up and starts petting cat!Deidara. It's played like Itachi just likes cats and doesn't care about annoying Deidara, but once you know.....

I will admit that I do sometimes write things I'm not interested in just as a challenge to see if I can figure out how to make a character or ship interesting to me. Sometimes this is just like a fun exercise and I'm still neutral about the characters involved (like my Gaara/Sai fic), but sometimes I do trick myself into liking something (Caution to the Wind did something insane to my brain and gave me a fixation on Minato). However, when writing Homemade Dynamite, I already really liked ItaDei, but was frustrated by the scarcity of content that scratches my particular itch.

I also thought HD would be like 40-50k. I messed up. :(

[hrrtshape]

Heyy, I wanted to ask you smth.

I wanna go to the military in my cr, but idk if I will be accepted (yes ofc I could manifest it BUUUUUUUT) so I wanted to do a COD dr, but both is with killing people I suppose. Yeah, its for the greater good but yk what I mean. Any help? or Ideas? or should I just delete those ideas? Love u xoxo

you wanna go all ooh-rah, military-industrial complex, hooah baby, semper fi in your cr but you’re worried about the ‘killing people’ part (valid). then you think: cod dr, because what’s better than reality......? a reality where you get xp points for headshots

so now you’re stuck in this moral limbo. like, do i drop the idea? do i lean in? am i a war criminal or just a girlboss with a rifle? i hear you. i see you. and the answer is simple. what do you want? what’s the end goal? do you wanna be a soldier because you love the discipline, the adrenaline, the structure? or is it a big fat existential itch and you just need something, anything, to scratch it?

if you’re spiralling about morality before shifting, that’s your brain in a tutu and a top hat doing a tap dance like, this ain't it. like. it’s giving… premature post-war trauma. soooo maybe just. i don’t know. shift into something that doesn’t make you wanna write a "dear god, forgive me" letter before you even get there?????

but also if you still want to, then do it. i’m not your mum. i’m just a girl on the internet typing like a chihuahua with a law degree xx

[dizzycycl0ne]

the choreography of ‘this had better come to a stop’ reblog if you agree

[dust-n-roses]

I looooove this one!

[jamdoughnutmagician]

I can't stop thinking about giving Steve a languid, and tortuously slow hand-job. His t-shirt is rucked up enough to show off his soft hairy tummy, and his boxers are pulled down just enough to free his heavy cock from where it was eagerly tenting underneath the material. It's quiet, and neither of you are in any hurry. His pink tip is streaming with pre-cum to slick your fist as you stroke him. You're leaning into him, your lips pressing a hot trail of kisses into his neck whilst he lets out soft little whimpers of pleasure. His freckled skin is flushed with a scarlet pink sheen as he desperately begs for his release. When you finally take pity on him enough to stop your teasing, his stomach muscles tense and he's spilling rope after rope over the knuckles of your fist.

[serafphim]

he's so cute to me

[quinn-pop]

scared of the dark? marry a flashlight

[chandralia]

the intimacy of Deku just sitting behind Bakugo in class…

[preciouslittle-bhaalbabe]

Astarion and Esme lounging in a field of flowers while the sun is high in the sky. Bees are buzzing and birds are singing. A moment of peace.

Esme is reading a book while Astarion rests his head on her lap. She holds her book with one hand (and mage hand) and softly runs her fingertips along his chest with the other. He keeps picking small flowers and putting them in her hair.

[tabithatwo]

Courtney Eaton for Free People / May 2023

[swordscleric]

I don't know if anyone's gone through the original Dawn War pantheon* and compared the events of the Dawn War to the events of the Calamity, but it's interesting comparing how Tharizdun acts in the Dawn War to how little we know about it as the Chained Oblivion and might be useful as a theory-crafting aid for how the Chained Oblivion fits with Predathos**.

In the Dawn War, Tharizdun was a normal god, driven mad by extradimensional demons who provided him with huge amounts of power and attempted to force him to open a portal in the Astral Plane to release them. He took this power, and instead of releasing them created the Abyss. He and his would-be masters fought to a stalemate over control of the Abyss, until the rest of the pantheon found out and sealed him away, leaving him chained to a remote part of the Abyss[1].

By contrast, the Chained Oblivion is "something other entirely"[2], "less like a god and more like another world"[3]; it's been categorised as not of the Primes or Betrayers[4], and generally Matt has leaned much more into the cosmic horror vibes (sans a connection to the Far Realm) of the Chained Oblivion. It's a creature of "roiling ink and hungry darkness"[5], and was sealed at the bottom of the Abyss by the Dawnfather and the Knowing Mistress, with support from the Allhammer and the Changebringer[2, 3, 6]. The Chained Oblivion also wants to consume all and end the world and is kept at arms length by the Betrayers[5], and as a result of that plus its association with an unknowable hunger some people have now associated it with Predathos or think it and Predathos are of a similar species.

I think the Chained Oblivion is not Predathos in another form, but I do think that it's of a similar species. Looking at the Dawn War, and assuming (with the full acknowledgement that I'll more than likely be wrong) that Matt will stick as closely to the Dawn War as he has in the past, I think the Chained Oblivion is a smaller and weaker being of nothingness that decided to forge its own path instead of following Predathos' lead. My gut instinct is that the Chained Oblivion, seeing Ethedok and Vordo get eaten, took up Ethedok's mantle of darkness[7]*** and avoided working with Predathos and porentially fought the God Eater in order to survive and work its own odd plans of destruction. The Chained Oblivion makes a lot of plans to try and free itself (see the Angel of Irons or Cognouza), so I wouldn't be surprised if its propensity towards planning was present from the very moment it set foot on Exandria. Does this mean the Chained Oblivion will be let loose to fight the God Eater if Predathos is released? I doubt it, considering that it nearly killed the Knowing Mistress. And we know how the gods feel about family.

Footnotes

*The Dawn War pantheon is the slimmed down pantheon used for 4th edition D&D; can be found on page 11 of the 5th edition Dungeon Master's Guide. Used by Matt for the Primes & Betrayers with the addition of Sarenrae from Pathfinder.

**I'm aware of the pitfalls of using existing narratives and non-Exandrian lore to try and predict what's going on in CR at this moment in time; while there's not a 1:1 overlap between other D&D worlds' lore and Exandria, some of the major relationships do stay the same. For example, Pelor, Ioun and Tharizdun are all linked in Exandria and in D&D "canon" (Pelor, Ioun and Tharizdun all looked into the Far Realm and saw mysterious secrets, secrets which drove Tharizdun to want to destroy the universe as per Gates of Madness (2010). Additionally, Tharizdun is deeply associated with the Abyss across both settings). Bear with me.

***Zehir, the Cloaked Serpent is also associated with darkness; however while the Lawbearer and the Platinum Dragon are associated with order there is no explicit god of order which was Vordo's other domain. The Chained Oblivion is explicitly described as a god of darkness in both the Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (page 27) and the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn (page 34).

References

1. Demonomicon (2010), pages 7-9. The wording of how the sealing took place is intentionally vague as it's a plot hook for DMs to expand on in their campaigns.

2. Titles and Tattoos, CR Campaign 2, Episode 84, from 14:00.

3. Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (2020), page 27.

4. Matt's Discord post during Nick Marini's AMA (linked here).

5. Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn, page 36.

6. The Endless Atheneum, CR Campaign 1, Episode 106, from 1:08:16.

7. Axiom Shaken, CR Campaign 3, Episode 43, at 3:02:19.

[perfectlypreservedpie]

I drew more outfits for my sole survivor Annie Dyer bc I thought it'd be fun

[doctorsiren]

My sister infodumped the entire FNAF lore to me on Monday grrr she can’t do this to me

[plasterhound]

Should've realized something was up when my favorite character was albedo frkm genshin impact

[thestarsarecool]

“After Epstein died there was nobody to comfort them or tell them how to handle things so Paul thought he was personally responsible. I constantly saw Lennon & McCartney together because Paul came along to see that I wasn’t rude to John — who I can’t say I got on with. Paul didn’t want me to upset John and thought he could handle me better than Lennon which of course he could.”

— Sir Joseph Lockwood, former chairman of EMI, quoted in Northern Songs: The True Story of the Beatles’ Song Publishing Empire

[boykingscourt]

no but a fic about 20s or even pre-series sam as rowena's protégé in witchcraft would fix me actually