#spoiler alert: i definitely and have

[zaahvi]

a compilation of everything evanuris related from the new IGN video!

and bonus commentary from the video/article:

"Another clear reaction to criticisms of Inquisition are our villains in The Veilguard, Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain. The two elven gods feel much more present throughout the events of the early game than Corypheus, the frankly lackluster baddie of Inquisition. ... ... [Solas'] history, along with the history of the Evanuris, are baked into The Lighthouse, and you learn more and more about the threat you face as you unlock Solas’ murals with various wolf statues. You even get to see some of his memories firsthand."

[nightingaletrash]

Lol. I just did the first Treviso quest after the attack. Zara calls Ilario "amatus" and everyone just. ignores it. and then are like "GEE WHY IS ILARIO USING BLOOD MAGIC ALL OF A SUDDEN" WHAT A MYSTERY FOR THE AGES

I KNOW RIGHT ALESSIA WANTED TO GO STRAIGHT TO TEIA AND VIAGO TO SNITCH ON THAT TWINK'S ASS

[dyinggirldied]

I know I'm late to the party but holy shit the movie is so FUN

[wereh0gz]

Guess who's thinking up a new au to make themself sad with

[graunblida]

lexa @ definitely not agatha: what is this covenless behavior??

[blorboresidue]

going thru the memo app on my palm pre after months of absence and man this fuckin note I wrote about asexual!haruka is really punching me in the face

[izzy-b-hands]

Got all excited last night bc i saw a post from a mod on the gta o subreddit abt the Halloween update being set to drop today around 5 AM (backed up by at least two gaming websites that had stories also stating the same start time and date)

Went in today ready for Halloween and uh. Nothing lol

Checked the actual Rockstar website and there's no mention of it, just that RDR o is getting a Halloween update this week

If i was a betting man I'd start a pool on how late in the month it'll be by the time the gta Halloween drops lmao

(also a pool on how likely it is the mod is lying; as they continue to insist they have access to all the usual Halloween stuff in GTA o today and that everyone who doesn't must not know how to restart their game to see if that changes anything, or maybe they didn't click play on GTA but a different game in their library? Which is insulting af, especially to the guy with the flare that shows he's at a level so high in the game that i frankly didn't know existed, who called them out and asked if maybe they didn't get confused and thought gta and rdr were both getting the update at the same time. Person was nice abt it, just asked plainly and said it was ok if that was the case, but that it would be helpful for others to know. poor dude immediately got piled on by the mod for it but like. he's right lmao. if that's the case it's fine! mistakes happen! but stop insisting you have access to something seemingly no one else trying to play online does!)

[original-cat-showdown]

Ladies, gentleladies and cats of assorted genders! After all the propaganda, the struggles, the drama, the classic ties, almost-ties and oh lawd we're one vote apart near-ties!

Behold! Round 1 results!!

(winners in pink, losers scratched out)

Tabby (@cure-icy-writes) vs Murphy Laud (@much-the-millers-kid)

Elle Chihiro (@cure-icy-writes) vs Clause (@mxbrightsky)

Mavis (@bookoramaenderteeth) vs Ni'iri (@sillysorcerer)

Luna (@lydiahosek) vs Spirit (@spirits-of-kin)

Jett Wild (@ravenmoodle) vs Gull (@featherfrond)

Grey Wild (@ravenmoodle) vs Paxel (@cat-skull)

Kitty Heels (@esmaelj) vs Silver (@ravenmoodle)

Ginger (@esmaelj) vs Taika Namur (@kjmellow)

Jade (@dragontoonss) vs Kitty the Kitten (@kjmellow)

Caitrionia (@kjmellow) vs Lara and Rio Coddsworth (@acromafireair)

Slash (@candlewitch-cryptic) vs Vivi (@rainewintersnow)

Mr.Catman (@rainewintersnow) vs Nico (@crownne-prince)

Narciso (@crownne-prince) vs Finch (@wickedcityy)

Miami (@wickedcityy) vs Kat (@laceghost / @laceghost-art)

Honeycloud (@rat-soup64) vs Briarfang (@plaguedbutch)

Leafcloud (@plaguedbutch) vs Greenriver (@teknoctarkamacska)

Bobsyfella (@thunderwhenhepurrs) vs Teasel (@teknoctarkamacska)

Jinna (@teknoctarkamacska) vs Ren (@j-fashion-wearer-otd)

Torchflame (@kratt09 / @torchflame) vs Tumbledown (@sugarsprinkles)

Caro (@sugarsprinkles) vs Comet Whiskers (@element-kitten-klaws)

Frozen Teeth (@element-kitten-klaws) vs Chai (@malaky-nightm4r3)

Mason Spectrespeaker (@2bu) vs Exoskeleton (@element-kitten-klaws)

Mina (@spacedragonstar) vs Zoe (@flishthedragon)

Darkfur (@spacedragonstar) vs Cherry Lipstick (@hyephyep)

Bramble (@bramblestar334) vs Lane (@hyephyep)

Saberattle (@ratherchaseamouse) vs Pawtree Purrety (@kdm13)

And, of course, let's not forget our automatic round 2 entry, Apotheosis (@horizontalnobelcat), whom you shall meet in due time.

Round 2 bracket shall be announced shortly, it will mostly adhere to the current order except I'll have to decide where to put the extra competitor and how to move apart the tied ones so we don't have to go against each other again of the off chance we both make it to round 3 :D

[catastrxblues]

hi so i just finished bridge to terabithia and now i’m unwell and my eyes are red because i’ve been crying before i’d even reached 20 minutes of it for i actually knew what was going to happen and by the time i reached an hour something something i just straight up sobbing screaming into my pillow. and now it’s 12 am and i’m still thinking about them. because god, look at them, how they were, the little world they lived in, wouldn’t you just love that, to run away, to escape, to grasp that childhood naivety and innocence that you lost a long time ago, to feel the sun in your skin and the air in your lungs and to paint fantasies and laugh and play and run hidden away from the world and find an old run down tree house and decided to make it your own little shelter and pin up canvases on the worn wood and paint and let your creativity goes wild and have someone understand you and gets you and do it with you, and wouldn’t you just love to have something so constant, so sincere, so genuine, so pure, so real, that there wasn’t anything else. if i knew i was going to cry this much, if i knew how much space this movie would make in my life, i wouldn’t have started this movie tonight. i would have been in peace on the floor of my room, not realizing how badly i actually want something like this even though i would never unironically admit this to anyone in my life or even myself when i’m outside of the familiar place of my mind, for that matters

[holocene-sims]

next // previous

july 7, 2021 1:15 p.m. grant's house

[colm] wait, how do you have this recipe then?

[grant] i literally don't know. i found the note with it when i moved to los angeles before and, uh, it just said "xoxo, your boyfriend" at the bottom. like i know vaguely where it came from but my memory stops there.

[grant] now stop deflecting!

[colm] you first.

[colm] but alright, alright. you know the basic shit about my life, right? single mom, dad out of the picture, three siblings all with different baby daddies, and no other family because they disowned my mother for getting pregnant with me as a teen. the white trash experience. but wait, it gets worse.

[colm] my mom’s oldest brother was kind of still there, but not in any real fashion. more like: “sure, ellen, i suppose your son can sit at the back table at my pub and watch hurley on the television until his sisters are done with their after school activities and can walk them home.”

[colm] bastard. hey, ellen, i know you’re nearly homeless and your nine year old son is reading on the internet at the library how to make macaroni and cheese for dinner for all of you while you're busy waiting tables, but i won’t come over to babysit or nothing.

[colm] still, he let me over in the afternoons and was nice enough to teach me how to pour beers and such when i was the right age to do it, so here i am.

[colm] it’s really the only skill i have. despite my degree in philosophy, i was always a terrible student. i have the worst dyslexia known to man and my other jobs in the past were doing security at an airport and moving furniture. real impressive. so, this is miles better in pay and for my sanity.

[colm] besides, if we’re getting real emotionally squishy here, i was so lonely all the time growing up. nothing’s better for your social life than your mom always out working, no other family around, and having to turn down your friends’ invitations to hang out most of the time because you have to look after your siblings.

[colm] going to my uncle’s place was the least lonely place i ever was because all the old men who came as regulars felt bad for me and would talk to me. mostly about sports, but i like sports, so that was fine. i suppose you could say this place i own makes me feel a little less lonely as well.

[grant] i'm sorry things were so–

[colm] ahh, cut that shit out, it’s fine! i'd rather the man with a mammy who beat him not apologize to me about my childhood. i'm over it. fucking sucks but whatever. at least my guardian wasn’t my biological father. that piece of shit’s in prison for life for murder.

[grant] mur–

[colm] he got in with organized crime because he was broke and out of work. oh, and he was way older than my mom. surprise, surprise. classic stab city in the 90s. he actually tried to murder my mother once after she broke up with him, too. that day's hard to forget.

[grant] man, that sounds pretty bad. like egregiously bad. major childhood trauma bad.

[colm] old ellen’s alive.

[grant] uhhhhh, well, some person out there isn’t.

[colm] people.

[grant] oh.

[grant] oh my god.

[grant] anyway, uh, i was just going to say that i'm sorry you suffered. you deserved to have your needs met and you deserved stability and safety. i know nothing can be done about the past but that’s not a fair way for a child to grow up, even if your mother has reasons and explanations for it. and you don’t have to minimize it on grounds of other people’s experiences. bad is just that: bad. it’s not the sad childhood olympics here.

[colm] i really don’t care. i left all of that behind when i came here to live with shannon. you all are very nice to me. you’re my replacement family. you all mean a lot to me.

[colm] maybe replacement sounds bad...but, ah, well...

[colm] i can't believe i'm telling anyone other than shannon any of this bullshit. i feel absolutely disgusting.

[colm] sometimes when i was younger i'd look at other families and wish i had that. i used to wonder what it was like to have a family, and i suppose i finally understand. and it's nice.

[grant] i'm glad that you know we love you. you are a part of us. you are family. hell, i love you dearly. you're a great friend and a great person and you make shannon happy, which is important.

[grant] do you ever talk to your family? like your biological family?

[colm] yes and no. i invited them to the wedding and clearly you know they came. you were there. the only one i talk to often is molly but it’s because they’re the youngest and, well, the most like me, so i try to steer them away from making the same mistakes as me. that is, please don’t become a delinquent and please tell someone you think something’s wrong with your brain when you think there is.

[colm] my mother just pisses me off. i know she loves me and always has but she tries so much harder to show it now that i'm an adult and i can’t stand it. it’s overbearing. it's like, where was all this affection twenty years ago, ellen? and my other siblings...one’s fine, the other i don’t get along with.

[colm] don’t go apologizing about that either.

[grant] i won’t. but i get it. family relationships are complicated. siblings are difficult sometimes.

[colm] do you have–

[grant] i have two sisters. and yes, i don’t talk about them, like, ever. now continue what you were saying!

[colm] don’t get me wrong, i love all of them. i'd die for them. i might not want to talk to them much but i'm not disloyal or nothing. but because i love them, i reserve the right to admit when they’re obnoxious or what they’ve done wrong. it’s a disservice to all of us to lie and say i'm so happy with them and that we get along swimmingly.

[grant] so...you’re admitting things weren’t great.

[colm] i'm alive and not all the way fucked up. that’s good enough.

[colm] but thank you. i know you mean it. you’re like shannon and you say it because you care, not because you pity me, which is what a lot of others do. i do appreciate it.

[bandanad33]

my creature in the real!!!!!! He is now puntable. (here's a link to the model I used!!)

[the-moogle-of-your-nightmares]

tfw a thing about your gender, and the seemingly unfitting terminology you've always felt most comfortable with, FINALLY clicks and you feel like you just discovered a fuckin prophecy twist

[denimshortsdean]

the more time i spend watching the later seasons, the more i realise that it actually wasn’t queerbaiting, it was literally written as a queer show but it had all the obviously/overtly queer parts cut out of it as much as possible. It was like being handed a piece of paper with a snowflake cut out of it and being told it was still a perfectly usable piece of paper. We were never seeing things that weren’t there, we were looking at the piece that was missing and realising what shape it was in

[marzipanandminutiae]

good for her!

also it's so wholesome that the one person thinks "there would be more dolls in the world!"

there sure would, friend. there sure would. (for the Closeted Trans Girl reasons and also if we let boys who wanted to play with dolls do so without fear of judgment)

(do you know how many male doll collector friends I have. do you know how many have stories of sneaking out to play with the Beautiful Tiny Fake Friends that we somehow decided to gender, with the girls)

UPDATE I have been informed that in this case they mean "doll" in the sense of "woman"

that would be good too of course! I'm just always thinking about dolls-the-human-effigies on some level, so that's where my mind went

[blorboresidue]

I do actually like the way kinoshita and higashiyama color and I like that they have fun with it BUT it can be frustrating to try and figure out how to describe the characters when they have a different hair and eye color in every single piece of colored art (yes I could just go by the anime art. shut up)

[social-buttface]

i watched Mary and Max for the first time when I was like, 8 and i remember it made me feel really weird and melancholy and deeply understood in a way I couldn’t comprehend & didn’t even realize at that age. At 8 I didn’t understand most of it and the ending made me so sad. I just watched it again at 24 and it made me sob harder than any movie has in a long time, and it felt like I was hugging my 8 year old self, and like I was finally able to explain the movie to her, and I’m still sad, but more than that I feel the absolute love that this movie holds