#the dashes are because im not wanting this post to somehow end up in the tags

[pmpknsoup]

isat fake-posting but its just

🌌 melancholy-method-actor Follow

AITA for trapping myself in a prison of my own making?

I, (27, N-B) recently trapped myself and my family (25, M), (21, F) (45, F??) (10, N-B) in a seemingly endless timeloop brought on because i selfishly didnt want our time together to end. i had to die countless times to figure out what was trapping me in time, it sort of drove me insane, and i ended up seriously hurting my family's feelings. theyve all forgiven me, and all agree that while i was out of line, i was apparently "traumatized" and that it wasnt my fault that i lashed out at them.

i think theyre being too lenient with me, but i cant convince them!!

#aita #i mean im pretty sure i am #i just ... want an outside perspective #sorry for any bad grammar vaugardian isnt my first language

🎑 poterian-photography 🔁 from melancholy-method-actor

is it insensitive to say vaugardians are just. Like That?? LMAO

#sorry that happened op #i mean if this is real #im assuming it is because #after what happened to vaugarde #anythings possible

📝 daily-pierre-jauques-ernest 🔁 from poterian-photography

As someone who's half-Vaugardian, can confirm we're just Like That. I wouldn't be surprised if they managed to blame themselves, somehow

#not pierre #sorry for so many not pierre posts in a row but this unfreezing business is crazy and my dash is flooded #aita #nta #su speaks

🌫️ blacksmithingbaddie 🔁 from poterian-photography

Digging Vaugardians on what's clearly a vent post is crazy work actually!!!

#rb #tw self hatred talk #← (from ops post)

🖼️ the-meat-slicing-addict 🔁 from poterian-photography

yall isnt op one of the crabbing saviors

#WHY IS NO ONE COMMENTING ON THIS #I THINK THEYRE THE BLIND ONE

🌅 chronicallyfrozen 🔁 from the-meat-slicing-addict

"the blind one" ableism isnt cute...

#change its always tbmfiha series fans #get a personality your series sucks

🌌 melancholy-method-actor 🔁 from chronicallyfrozen

hwat

#i forgot abt this post #its been weeks can people stop reblogging this,

[majorasnightmare]

(dj khaled voice) another one

3. How often does Dirge show his genuine emotions?

11. If someone was impersonating Dirge, what would his companions ask or do to tell the difference (curious because of the whole doppleganger subplot in Act 3)

46. Is Dirge a listener or a talker? If he's a listener, what makes him talk? If he's a talker, what makes him listen?

ANOTHER ONE 🥂

im not gonna reblog the source post and put two asks memes on the dash back to back im just gonna link it here smfnsmfnsnf

3. How often does Dirge show his genuine emotions?

You'd think someone with expertise in deception who makes a habit of putting on a persona of amicable NPC would make a point of never showing his hand at any point, but in reality hes an open and shut book constantly wearing his heart on his sleeve. He almost never hides his feelings around people hes invested in interacting with (read: the companions), and the only feelings he makes a point of hiding are his anxities relating to the Urge, and the occasional embarrasment+indignation+shame at not having the knowledge or skills to perform a basic domestic task.

The one exception to this is when Minthara joined the party and he tried (poorly) to hide his overwhelmingly blatant crush on her. She had just gotten out of a horrifying situation that violated her autonomy and trust and now is forced to ally with a bunch of strangers she had once been in conflict with who she knows don't fully trust her because of it, and he doesn't want to burden her with attending to his own feelings and affections when it shouldn't be her responsibility. He wants to give her the space to come to her own conclusions and feelings, especially because she's been denied that freedom for so long, and he doesn't want Minthara to feel like she has to cater to his affection just to stay safe and secure in camp. Thankfully she doesn't know him well enough to pick up all his tells, but everyone else in camp immediately sees hes head over heels trailing behind her like a lovesick puppy. He isn't subtle LMAO

tldr if he is Experiencing Emotion. youll know. and if hes hiding it, you can bully him to find out LOL

11. If someone was impersonating Dirge, what would his compaions ask or do to tell the difference?

A generic doppleganger would really struggle with Dirge's particular brand of body language (slightly unnerving in a way difficult to pin down or isolate, a combination of a tendency to loom, slip inside personal bubbles, and a general bhaalspawn aura of unease), so really itd take about as long as someone finally noticing they don't have a general underlying anxiety.

Orin however grew up with Dirge and is a deadringer for his body language, where she in particular slips up is his personality. The person he is now doesn't make logical consistent sense with the person Orin knew him as and the end result is always someone harsher and crueler than how he actually is. She just can't square that circle because she relies on the image of Dirge in her mind to cope with the things shes done and the person she is now. So that'd be a tip off.

In the hypothetical of something somehow managing to otherwise perfectly replicate Dirge, all someone would have to do is leave something ajar or off center. Dirge compulsively and fastidiously organizes things and is constantly adjusting things to be on center and facing forward, and its just one of his minor OCD symptoms that helps him with feeling in control, so unless a doppelganger snagged his mental illnesses to boot, just watching him walk by an off center mug would be a massive red flag.

Besides that, Dirge is so unhinged and weird there isn't really much you could get him to talk about or say that'd tip anyone off. Hes JUST a freak skfjsmfhsjfn

46. Is Dirge a listener or a talker? If he's a listener, what makes him talk? If he's a talker, what makes him listen?

Dirge goes back and forth between them because the only time he's invested in a conversation enough to be either, is when he's talking to a companion. And then he just flips back and forth because he LOOOOVES social interaction with them, he is going to get such a good grade in Conversation. He loves listening to his friends talk and he loves talking to them, and he enjoys being a chatterbox with them (yay! autonomy and opinions yippee!!) and he loves when THEY'RE being chatterboxes because at the end of the day he is a shelter dog watching his favorite person come home from work. He just enjoys interacting with them and will flipflop to whatever makes it go on longer+more enjoyable. I think he does tend to come OFF as a talker tho because of how often he has to go prying to make people open up, but getting him to be quiet really is just as simple as opening up your own mouth to talk over him.

[little-miss-dilf-lover]

First, I must inquire, what do you think are tan's and lem's real names? 

Now imagine this, his wife having really good acting skills, enough to convince everyone that she's just a terrified civilian looking for help, keeping her act up until she gathers intel from them. Feel like lem would also be so proud of her.

Tan prefers calling you, but when he can't, he'll either send the softest messages or fast typed ones with tons of spelling mistakes "My pretty girl, you're going to be the death of me." responding to the selfie you just send, "Thsi fycking twat jsut ruined m y dress shrit!". But imagine a group chat with these two. Lem and I share the same braincell so we'll disscus the silliest stuff and he'll just butt in to say "will you two please think before typing on this group chat"

Childhood friends to lovers with tan? He'll protect you even if it means he'll get an ugly wound, but it's ok because you'd always patch him up and give him an earful. It doesn't take long for lem to figure it out and pushes him to confess. And he'll be so cute too "How 'bout I take you to dinner after? " "Ask me again when you're not bleeding from your stomach." You two end up eating at home because you only just started taking missions and can't afford a 5 star restaurant. Speaking of protecting, when he finds out your carring his child, he won't let you take any missions. "They're having a baby?" asks a confused ladybug, "I'd be more surprised if they didn't." is all lem can say before he notices his brothers stare.

It's not a secret he has a big mouth, what if his girl matches that but in a more, classy way? "I'm sorry sir but I must inquire, what's with your illiterate way of thinking?" and he butts in "She means why are you so fucking dumb." All while proudly smiling.

I'm going to finish this with the most heartbreaking angst. Instead of Tan finding Lem "dead", they both survive but his wife dies. They're a trio but split up to look for the briefcase. The twins somehow get the it back and decide to put it on red so now they're looking for her all over the empty train. They finally find her and all he can do is stare at her before droping to his knees, bringing her close to him. It hits him like a train so he breaks down, screaming and crying as he hugs her. Lem somehow finds the power in himself to place the Edward sticker in her palm.

Phew, sorry this was a lot, if anything else comes to mind I'll saved it for later so that like you said, you're not spamming people's dash. Sorry for any spelling mistakes (you know who to blame). It means a lot that I get to share my ideas with you and your followers. Anyway, going to rewatch Bullet Train tonight, can't believe it's already been a year since I've first seen it on the big screen. Kisses, 💺 anon.

hii, sooo…

1. that question has been picking at my brain for a year!!! I genuinely cannot think of what they’re called, I wanted to make a post and ask everyone a while back, but if anyone has any thoughts or ideas for their names please PLEASE comment them, im dying to know. something british/ criminally english that’s all I know😭 ironically, I feel aaron suits

2. ughhh I love that!?! he’d be super proud, silently cheering her along. like a subtle nod or quick wink

3. the spelling mistakes aaahhh love that!!? also feel like the 3 typing dots would be there for ever, like he’s replying then doing something assassiny then typing again, and it’ll all be mumble jumble. he’d get annoyed at the two of you messaging eachother in the group chat but I feel he secretly loves it. also think he has trouble talking sometimes, so he likes to have the social aspect without it being awkward for him (if that makes sense) ardgsh and he’s such a flatterer I just know it!! sweet girl, pretty girl… MY SWEET GIRL!?! MY PRETTY GIRL🫠

4. love it!! and the element of being besties and knowing everything. omg imagine you go on dates with other guys (before liking liking tan) and he’s always really jealous but he hides it bc he wants you to be happy etc, but he maybe kinda sabotages it so he can have you all to himself heehe. he definitely reacts before thinking, especially if you were involved (and got hurt) super caring cute sweet innocent kinda guy, right? completely innocent bbg

5. “why are you so fucking dumb?” HAHAHAHA love it!! but yes!!! he’s got that cockney ‘charm’ so he gets right to the point. and I love that she matches his vibe (but just in a more feminine classy, femme fatale way)

6. that is heartbreaking!?! why would you write that🥲🥲🥲🥲 im just kidding, but that is a horribly sad idea

7. you’re very sweet!! and tysm for sharing your ideas!! and yes, if you have more, send em over. heheh guessing your hamster😭 ive been wanting to rewatch it for ages, I just need to do it bc I miss it lol. that year has gone quick omg?!

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hope everything I said makes sense😭 apologies if it doesn’t

[bloodydeanwinchester]

this genuinely does not have anything to do with any of the posts going around today (and im not really involved in any of those things anyway lol) but i DO feel like maybe i need a little two day siesta from tumblr. mostly because all day all i've wanted to do is write or read but somehow i can't drag myself away from tumblr? the curse of that lil activity notification bubble is that every few seconds i have something pulling my attention back to tumblr and man sometimes i end up just losing entire days to my dash+my activity feed. so yeah...maybe tomorrow and sunday i'll do that

[decepti-thots]

for so long I have felt like a weirdo for thinking that the jro pregnancy stuff is deeply unhorny. but I am going to say it now: it's only horny in the way that the alien franchise is horny: there are definitely people who are horny about it, but it's primarily about the non-sexy aspects of pregnancy. i get that it's a funny joke but a non-insignificant people genuinely act like it's "the writer's barely disguised fetish". birth is weird and scary and fascinating, even more so in robots. im probably more defensive about this than I should be but it's kind of upsetting to me that this is where the discussion always ends

I'll put this under a cut so as not to spam anyone's dash bc yeah I went off on this ask haha (positive).

I actually felt so insane about this very topic I ran a damn poll on my NSFW sideblog and the thing is: the majority of folks voting agreed no, it's not inherently, textually horny. (I would know; I know horny when I see it, ffs!) Which vindicated me! Because I agree it's so ridiculous a thing to unironically, sincerely insist is super horny, given the text, lmao.

Like, it's extremely obsessed with pregnancy, but this is not the same as 'a fetish', and tbqh I think the 'fetish' joke just shields any actually interesting discussion of what it's doing. I think the Alien comparison here is actually really telling; it's absolutely a visceral thing, a thing concerned with the body and how it functions, sometimes against our will. And it's not unconnected to sexuality or eroticism in how those things are discussed more broadly, in the sense it's talking about a thing that intersects with those elements in the abstract, but it's not. Like. It's not a "fetish" thing, and if the characters it involved weren't referred to as 'he' in text I think less people would be calling it that, and actually it kinda sucks that every time I bring it up I have to block people who see 'pregnancy mentioned' on my completely sfw posts as an excuse to go off on their personal fetishes in detail, or their desire to speculate on the imagined fetishes of the writer in equally graphic detail. (BTW, it's genuinely uncomfortable seeing people obsessively speculate on the imagined fetishes of a creator, I think. We should all do that a little less in public.)

I mean not to be a total killjoy or anything but like... treating pregnancy in itself, even in the most abstract way, as inherently fetishistic and inappropriate (the people reblogging my innocuous posts about pregnancy metaphors with fucking trigger warnings! 'mpreg trigger warning' being a normalized way to tag pictures that are just Trans Dude Who Is Pregnant!) is uh. I mean we live in a world where pregnant people are often massively marginalized by society period, and seen as somehow inappropriate for public life, and especially anyone who is remotely GNC. Like the idea that something is inherently obscene about a pregnant person is, shall we say, not apolitical. It is in fact a thing that people actually have to fight against in real life. I mean. Fandom doing this to a text that in fact is most notable for treating pregnancy weirdly neutrally in these terms is... frustrating! I think we all lose out when we refuse to engage with weird, funny texts that have things to say about these topics that fall outside our expected frameworks, like, say, 'this is A Fetish TM'. That's limiting! If we want to talk about what IDW1 phase two does with gender, we cannot do that properly if every time we talk about MTMTE we get weird about it doing sexless genderfree pregnancy metaphors, and instead make them funny mpreg jokes, tbh! IDK! Seems counter intuitive! And I genuinely think MTMTE/LL's bizarre approach to the thing is so interesting precisely because it's so odd and offputting. What if we actually examined it. I think we can find some good stuff in there, frankly.

And truly the especially frustrating thing is that the comic itself, for all it is objectively weird and hilarious and 'why the fuck is this even HERE' about it... is just never that. Like. I posted those excerpts because it IS weird and it IS wild and it IS quite funny in its way! It's alien robot body horror in a kids' cartoon franchise turned to an unexpected end! But you know what it actually manages, somehow, to never be? One: weird and misogynist about pregnancy. Two: weird and transphobic about it involving vaguely, ostensibly 'male' characters. Make all the mpreg jokes you want I guess, but MTMTE is many bizarre things but it never gives one single shit about the gender binary, and tbh I think it's genuinely kind of embarrassing the fandom saw a comic that did insane robot body horror pregnancy shit and was like. Okay well. But the mpreg tho.

Like. I've joked for years that I want to do a transmasc read of the pregnancy stuff Roberts did in TF seriously, same as I think a transmasc read of how Alien presents fears around "male pregnancy" in a trans context would be great. And for all my jokes, I genuinely would, actually. I think it's legit very interesting how Roberts manages to divorce the presentation of horror of pregnancy from gender in a way that mitigates the gendered subtext somewhat and gets at the loss of autonomy in a broader sense.

anyway it truly sucks that fandom is so fucking shitty about this. to give a little extra context, i talk about a particular transmasc humanformer AU sometimes that involves pregnancy and. i have had to Delete Some Fucking Asks about that thing, which. well that happens in normal regular real life and people talk about it like a fanfic trope (derogatory). so. i am a little sensitive to people getting Like This about the topic, aha.

sorry i went off on one anon, can you tell. i also find this frustrating. i relate. i am totally with you. god it would be so much less interesting to read it as horny so like, why is this the ONLY MODE we seem to have tbh

[glitterfartsprinkle]

please please tell us more about your off ocs im eating them up everytime i see them on my dash i do a little happy dance they are such intresting critters i will study them under a microscope

HUH. OH MY GOSH. OH OH OKAY UH. socks is angry now, at the director. i mean who isnt but i mean she tolerated hik but now she wants to kill him so bad. she now knows what happened to cheese due to eglu admitting what had happened/what he had seen (the horrors) and shes planning on killing him somehow (it doesnt end well for her, still developing that), eglu is. existing, hes better, just still very very sweaty and nervous always (we love hgim for that) but hes more comftorable and happy because pf his lovely director/husband. so yes theyre still very in love because i saud so, i might be retiring smir bnecause of the fact i just dont really, like his character anymore, to be honest pbj kind of replaced him? on the topic of pbj hes much more beastly/strange, he got burnt and it isnt pretty!! CHEESE (S A SPECTER. i posted his desgin earlier but he is sentient and non violent. he feeds on corpses though and watches eglu and socks, socks mostly dreams about him and ends up throwing up when she wakes up. dorris is doing bad. like, actually horrible. charlies inferno by that handsome devil horrible! she hates her position and hates what she does, she hates talking to dedan to report "insufficiant work" people actually taking breaks because theyre TIRED. dorris is going insane and rants to pablo because she thinks he cant speak or understand her (he does, obviously) and feeds him cow meat when shes able. edith is on her last straw of sanity, thats all i can say about her, but her and dorris are very in love so ill probably post about that more later, thats all i have to talk ab with them..

JK I HAVE MORE ABOUT EGLU. he is in the directors office 100% more of the time, he either goes there or he's called, he reports, he talks, or he sleeps. in his hands. because its silly! and eglu feels lioke hes walking on glass with only socks to protect his feet. ill report more later teehee!!

[theinkchild]

alright fine, making a silly post here since im dissapointed in engagment lol.

text ahoy ahead, for those of you who have forgotten what GD rambling looks like, since my blog postings are more and more rare these days...

and no. i refuse to use a readmore. this post should be shortened automatically for those on the dash, mobile, whatever. if not, SCREW it. i only have a few mins. one shot to ramble and i refuse to edit. will just spill my guts. BLEGH.

🔥🔥🔥 final warning long emotional post entry start 🔥🔥🔥

well to start off, yea i've been "on a break" since May. by break, i wanna define it as, changing my routine, doing something good for me that will benefit me, reflecting back on the stuff i did when i wasn't on it.

"a break" doesn't really matter here. i've been disegnaged. it's really hard for me to interact on here when i've treated this place like a grey area. it's the same for many places that don't feel like they're benefitting my growth atm. this place STILL holds alot of meaning to me, for being the 2nd platform i took root in, and started friendships (or also rather continued them) on.

i slowed down once i realized how the familiar craziness sunk too deep with me, and I've regretted some attitudes i've had in the past where i'd scream maniacally at nothing to earn not much back. like, i wasn't really getting it. and at the same time, i refused to do what i should have to make it more possible.

this time really mattered.

the growth i experienced while i was disengaged from here was quite a bit. i feel like i regained a part of me i always had latent, and didn't when i was with the wrong crowd, doing the same meaningless things day in and out.

when i was engaged in conversations that had more meaning, something back to give rather than a shallow laugh, everything started to click.

when i hung out with a different crowd not formed primarily by the friends i made here, i felt like i couldn't break away, but in a sense i saw something that i missed having... i saw the same journey i was taking but from more experienced folks.

when it came to a breaking point recently when someone deeply rooted in that community fell off, i took charge. i wanted to END the torment he casually brought to everyone. i ended up doing just that, and leaving everyone in that community with the best outcome.

NOW, i say this on my silly little blog cuz i doubt anyone in either group is listening. the chances are non zero, but i'm honestly happy if at least one person is listening, even if it's a stranger, or quiet long time fan of mine. i've been so disengaged here that i'm really just writing this for myself, like i always have been.

this place, where i feel like i lost some folks and may have even outright refused to make or advance any friendships just cuz i rejected plain invites to do so.. i could've done anything...

instead, i ended up sticking up for someone who needed it the most. everything just lined up for the both of us. all the STUPID drama from stupid misunderstandings, the grievances, the small issues, that all added up to the moment we had to do the right thing. all because even if the world gave up on us, we somehow didn't give up, even if both of us had to be repeatidly brought back to reality when we almost both ended ours on separate instances.

we helped eachother with the little freedom we had left.

we ENDED something that had to be ended and gave everyone the full happiness they deserved for all those years they didn't have it.

that, as insignificant as it is to literally 99% of the population, and fuck it, who the fuck cares if you were my old friend who hardly cared. idk bro. kindly fuck off if you are. i'm still somehow following you ._.

but, it's very very significant to me and all the friends i still regularly interact with. they mean the world to me, and i'm happy THEY saw me grow.

i will continue. to keep doing what i do best.

and i refuse to die or back down or abandon my blog, despite all the grievances i had in the past with it.

i'm just making a deeper mark on this world the more i prove i exist and continue to be a survivor.

even if my self esteem is bad on some days. even if my will isn't even as strong as a worm left to fry on asphalt.

i refuse to go on quietly.

and i'm stronger now because i refuse to be as bad as the people who treated me far worse. i finally gained some sense and standards.

and if you don't think that's crazy, then idk man enjoy your life. i'm gonna keep continue living mine lol

[strawberista]

{Okay, y'all. I am gonna try to make some more changes to the way I run this and all my other blogs. I think I might start stamping my blog with "low activity" or "sporadic activity" specifically? Or something similar. Basically, I want to try and break free of this need to completely empty out my inbox and drafts before I start interacting with the dash and my mutuals again? Because even using the queue I can never seem to keep up. It's a good problem to have, but I'll never get to interact with my mutuals again at this rate.}

{So I'm going to give myself permission to send in memes, ask, like starter calls, etc. without the need to clean out my drafts from every account before doing so. Which means I'll probably work even more slowly than I already am, but at least I can start being a little more present and stop trying to hold myself back.}

{All that being said, some of you might not be okay with things being run this way, so if you would prefer I not send things in to if I'm not finished with every, please please let me know in some way. You can reply to this post, send an IM, contact me over discord, however you'd like to handle. Just please let me know somehow so I don't end up sending stuff to you when you don't want it. I'll be more than happy to work with you, but I won't be able to know if you don't tell me.}

{That's about it for this announcement, but I feel like it's kind of a big one, so please keep it in mind going forward.}

[rarepairnation]

I love your posts about Denethor and Faramir. I'm always glad to see someone who loves both him and Faramir and gets that Denethor being this hugely impressive tragic figure makes Faramir so much better and more interesting. The relationship between them is so complex and I love it so much. The film versions make me angry as well.

oh man thank you so much...i find it kinda crazy that you're saying this to me bc im pretty sure i have a bunch of posts from your denethor tag sitting around in my drafts so i can look back at them later. many days i feel very much like an Amateur Denethor Enjoyer but i am thrilled that me just kind of being unhinged on the dash has brought you joy. and get ready bc here i go again LOL

yeah exactly what you said...denethor's tragedy informs and is informed by faramir so so so much and it's just kind of wild to me that on the tragedy enjoyers website so many people refuse to see it. on the second-best enjoyers website...the guilt-and-despair enjoyers website...the "the unimaginable has happened and i AM going to kill people and then myself" enjoyers website...i could go on! he is literally doomed by the narrative and just goes well ok fuck you i WILL die at the end but it will NOT be in the way the narrative wants me to.

it is truly the relationship of all time. faramir does love his father and yet because of the strength of his principles he is genuinely incapable of showing it in a way that denethor can understand. and denethor loves him too but after a certain point just cannot show it anymore because duty has to take precedence. he's not allowed to give faramir any quarter even in private. and YES that includes anything that would resemble a normal emotion. ngl i wouldn't be surprised if that's the only way faramir is like. LETTING him communicate with him. like i feel like the final assault on osgiliath is not the first time faramir's taken the "if you want to get me to do something you ARE going to have to order me to do it" stance. and yet denethor tries. at the end he takes trying to an unhinged level. idk it often feels like even in the general fandom insistance on one-dimensionally dickish denethor there's somehow also a lack of understanding that it IS a toxic expression of love but that doesn't make it not love. like He's Not Winning Dad Of The Year that is not what we're saying at all. we're saying is "it was born of love. it was a terrible thing yet born of love." thats all! that's why it's so tragic because it's all about love!!! augh...

ok i don't typically put quotations from my own writing in like real posts but also ive been thinking about the faramir goes to rivendell au 24/7 and i just. HAVE to pull this line bc it kind of captures exactly how i feel about the denethor-and-faramir mutual Character Honing.

Yet he [Faramir] cannot deny that each of them sharpens himself upon the whetstone of the other, and it is a debt he loathes to owe and yet cannot hope to repay.

i mean.......like are you picking up what im putting down! like! AAA! both in-narrative and out of it they are always ALWAYS making each other better (or worse. but worse in a More Interesting Way) but AT WHAT COST!!! he loves his father he would not be the man he is today without his father both in a good and bad way he HATES that these two things are true. faramir and denethor are not foils they're parallels they build each other's characters up when you put them next to each other!! faramir is who denethor wouldve couldve been without the war!! hey hang on a second is denethor who faramir would've become if he were the lord steward during the war of the ring? (this is a little reductive i think faramir's susceptibility to despair is quite different to his father's. and i wonder how long his gentleness would've prevailed / worked side by side with his duty instead of being diametrically opposed to it. but anyway. well i'll be thinking about THAT for the rest of the night. i cannot start another au i cannot i cannot i cannot). anyway you can't get one of them without getting the other and that is all...

man i always say like oh don't get me started on movie faramir and denethor and then the don't think of an elephant effect GETS me and it gets me started. last night i genuinely said like "well i won't get into it" and then three hours later it was 2am and it was so very clear that i had Gotten Into It. i had to tell our other roommate like "tell me when ur going to bed i am talking about denethor and i will be yelling." my roommate just came home and i told her about this post and then i had to explain a detail and she SET ME A THREE MINUTE TIMER bc she was like i have to go study. and that's fair

anyway i hope you are having a good night/day/whatever time it is for you. thank you for this ask it is always fun to see you pop up in my notifs whenever im denethorposting lol

[seijorhi]

rHIIIII AAAAAA I’m running laps seeing u on my dash!! but i wanted to rt your last ask so much— I always tell myself engagement doesn’t actually reflect anything except the current trends in the fandom but it is hard when something you were so excited for and worked so hard on doesn’t receive the reaction you expected and it’s hard for it not to be disheartening? I agree with everything so much omg I know I was a silent reader for a long time so I deffo sympathize with them, and I always take a step back and objectively look at how the engagement I get is a lot (because sometimes I think the fact that people are there following me and reading my works at all is crazy) buuut it’s not always easy to get out of your head! I think I got to a point where I was worried about posting anything in case it didn’t live up to my followers’ wants and needs or engagement or whatever other dumb reason alsjaoakslso and it made writing feel laborious somehow even tho I do it because it’s fun

anyways anyways SORRY FOR DUMPING ALL THAT ON you buT YOU JUST ARTICUKATDD IT SO SO PERFECTLY AND ALL THE MENTAL GYMNASTICS I EXPERIENCE EVERYTIME AND AAAAAAAA we r so blessed to have u and ur writing here though and im literally screaming at u on my dash,, hope u are doing amazing and sending u all my love <333

angeeeelllll!!! <33 i've missed seeing you on the dash too!! i'm glad you're back!

but yeah, you're 100% right, it's absolute mental gymnastics and a no-win game, and it does start to feel like you have to top yourself with every post and when/if you don't, you're annoying or boring or just bad at writing and it sucks because it's not remotely true.

at the end of the day, i'm here cuz i genuinely love the fandom and i love writing, and i can't let someone else's decision to click a button or not define how i feel about that.... which is a hell of a lot easier said than done vhfdjskjhfjdks

[pasharuu]

welps, since i got a little skrunkling in form of ararycan, lets talk about him. i hope it'll be a short one. (spoiler: no)

also to those who bumped onto my post in their or someone else's dash somehow: english is not my first language. so be ready for numerous "memories" and "forget" cuz my vocabulary is thin just like that. and some other weirdness of course.

first of all, i hate the dottore clone theory with every single cell in my body, and i want you to know that if you like it i dont care, so neither should you care about me hating it. im only speaking opinion here.

and also this is rather my headcanon just not to stay alongside with the mystery while theres a dottore theory around. i honestly dont believe in dottore theory, but i still cant prove it wrong properly due to lack of info, and that annoys me. but this headcanon doesnt attempt to debunk the theory somehow, these are just two completely different things not worth comparing.

but rlly, did anyone on that planet at least once look at ararycan's leaves more than once? cuz it feels like no one knows what is the form of the pattern. the theory followers say these are circles, on my plush these are rounded diamons. wtf dear fellow folks.

the headcanon is trying to explain ararycan's memory loss, as there is no information about this in the game. traveler and paimon just decide that "welp, aranara are forgetful sometimes" though its not really true, but its really odd of them to leave us on this cliffhanger. i once said that aranara never forget stuff unless they meet some certain condition. i didnt explain that well last time so lemme speak a word (although its gonna be long i fear, so once again, the orange text is not necessary)

in the beginning we were given with the idea that aranara dont forget anything, or at least dont forget anything as easily as we do. this was really the very first fact i learned about them since i found messily written notes very soon after i began my first walkthrough of aranyaka (funfact: in russian localization its not clear who is the author of these if you only see the first set of it, and i definitely remember that i was not able to read the next page at a place, so i bet i found it even before meeting arama in the very first time. i also found it in the second time only after completing the entire questline so imagine my face at that moment), and author of the notes says that he doesnt forget things easily, but still decides to make records because its fun to do. basically saying that these lads dont ever need to record things up cuz they remember it all by themselves.

then, during the part where we help guys in mawtiyima forest, we were told about the inscriptions on the walls. aragaru says that these are made only for humans, because aranara will not forget, while people have all the possibility to. all the other inscriptions on walls, if we keep the spoken idea in mind, are clearly made for humans as well. the only weirdness in this part is inscriptions in old vanarana, cuz the only one who needs these during the quest is arama, and its not really clear who these were written to in the first place. but we still cant say these were definitely written for aranara, or maybe i need to research more.

the events of agnihatora sutra and vimana agama are the ones that made people think that aranara are forgetful. the second one is the mystery we are trying to solve in this article, but the first one told you everything you need, but its absolutely understandable if you didnt get it in the first time (neither did i if u wonder). in agnihatora sutra the three are aware that the thing theyre going to commit is gonna make them forget everything, so they were hinting it for us carefully, yet not saying directly that they will forget us. in the very end of this questline they tell us about the sacrifice they're going to commit, and that sacrifice is actually their memories, even though its not shown on screen, unlike the sacrifice of arana's memories to get the bija. that is why we were later told that these guys dont emember us while everyone else do.

also there's the fact araja troubles to remember the events of the past, but this dude actually grew into a tree, and just like i said in the cinnamon arama article, that might be the reason of his memory loss. araja also didnt forget everything that he had expirienced before he became a tree, as sometimes he still recalls to some things as his own memories.

after all, aranara gain actual power with memories and it would be weird if you'd randomly forget stuff and lose yo power just like that. they cherish memories more than anything, either these are good or bad, and the idea of forgetting is terrifying to them (the most memorable to me was the moment when arama complained about alcohol cuz it makes people forget stuff. paimon said that sometimes there are things people want to forget, but arama was still negative about that). well, actually there is a thing they cherish more. this thing is called "friendship", and the idea is that even if you forget something, there will be friends who'll remind you, so thats why they are more dear to aranara, even more than the memories. this is as well the idea of "the forest will remember" thing, cuz aranara are friends to all the plants, animals, some humans and each other, so theres just no possibility for the entire forest (all of these things) to forget something. but that still doesnt remove the importance of memories cuz these are power and these are memories, it'll take a lot of time to gain them back, so losing them is only worth when its absolutely necessary. also remember that stories and memories are not the same, so just summarizing things up to someone wont work.

and that concludes my orange explaination, now back to vimana agama mystery!!!!

so my take is that ararycan mustve sacrificed his memories for something. if we'll try to recreate the chronological order of the events of the past, we'll see that aralohita, who possibly was some sort of a buddy to ararycan, disappears after ararycan lost his memories. or if he lost part of them, its possible that aralohita disappeared prior to that. both versions explain why ararycan still remembers the solution to aralohita's riddles.

ararycan once says that he was the one who brought the ruin golem part into the secret cave, but for now he doesnt seem to be as strong, he rather acts like a very brave weakling. as we know, aranara gain power with memories, so no wonder ararycan is a weakling now, not remembering everything. but still, his awareness about some things looking familiar makes me think that he might have lost part of his memories, but how come?

we know that ararycan most likely was the third one alongside royinjan and amadhiah in the past, so all the vamadhas, including the one that was sealing the secret base, most likely were set after the childhood of the two, which means that might happened not too long ago. that might line up with a fact that pir kavikavus accident happened around the same time, because vamadhas were obviously set for reason. i recall ararycan saying that vamadhas are set when aranara dont want nara to enter some certain places, but says that he doesnt know who set these. so i think that actually could be ararycan, but since he lost his memories, no wonder he doesnt remember about it. and so uh, setting these could be resulted in memory loss as it might take some power. he probably did know that amiti device might be used for no good by some foes, so vamadhas are only set in places that either have amiti device fragments in them or places related to it somehow (and nowhere else, by the way, so vamadha is for sure some kind of ararakalari that both ararycan and aralohita used to wield). we can see the direct memory loss from using ararakalari in case of arama, when the one hit one of ruin guards really hard and returned back to goofy. we dont know how the memories amount needed to do some action is measured, but if we connect the dots, it all seems possible.

the only question left is why the heck did ararycan move the detail into the cave and the answer is i dont know. it was def moved before the cave was sealed since roy (seemingly) confirms this place not changing at all since he was a kid, and probably even before the kids found this cave because otherwise someone said something like "dude, i recall this place empty, but then somehow this huge detail appeared here, no clue how tho i dont remember". but why did ararycan move it there is forever a mystery it seems, unless aralohita is confirmed to be his accompany most of the time and prolly found alive ofc. aralohita might say something about it in that case, unless he forgot everything as well. but its all just my silly wishes.

also arama, while summarizing the places we shall visit, says that ararycan may know something about the sus person we were looking for. ararycan later confirms he used to help kids in vimara village cuz arana asked him, but thats all he says, none of details were thrown after that. his wording that marana avatar is capable of the trouble feels weird, but marana avatar to aranara is many things, not only the actual marana avatar, so he could be calling fatui like that. i now think that ararycan could possibly help us with finding out who the sus person is but for whatever reason it was cut down by his own troubling.

and i know that at this moment it feels like im just coping but idc. once again, my speculations have nothing to do with the dottore clone theory, its just a thing im rather comfortable with. fact of the day: dottore is my least favorite character in the entire genshin impact (among some that are somehow major) and i'll be quite disappointed if my precious ararycan turns out to be his clone or creation or whatever. i wont argue with it, i'll only throw, tear and murder.

and that concludes my tractate. it took me the whole day to put in words and i feel empty rn, especially since i dont know many words, and if you ever ask me why am i speaking english if i could just use my first language - none of your business. if u ask me why i made this tractate - none of your business. till the next time.

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It's officially been one year since I posted the epilogue of this story and not to be sincere on main about it, but I remain wholly proud of it, scales and all 💚

Thank you to any and everyone who has offered their time and thoughtfulness to this fic, it's one of my favorite things I've ever written and I'm beyond grateful to have gotten to share it with you and your kind words and your amazing insights.

🐍 PS. I may or may not be sitting on a little one-shot in this universe to be posted a couple weeks from now once Febuwhump is over (and everyone has had a break from seeing me on their dash So Very Much) and I can't wait to share it with you (:

pspsps sneak peek under the cut

It’s a near-sacred place, these panels of wood and screws, the spot that once held a beaten-down couch and now sports the beautiful handcrafted swing that Steve had made for them completely of his own volition. 

It’s sacred because it’s theirs, their home, but it’s only that because they decided it would be. They made it this bubble of earnest communication and so when Eddie asks do you ever think about it with a heavy sort of sincerity lingering on his tongue, the only context Steve needs is—

“About what?” 

“The marriage thing,” Eddie says, a quirk of something like a smile at his lips despite the melancholy of it. “You know– wedding, rings… trip to the courthouse.”

Steve looks at him, really looks like only he is able to do with such ease, and then he snorts. 

“I think we’ve both had enough of government agencies for a lifetime, Ed,” he points out, “besides, since when do you care about the marriage thing, mister anti-establishment?” 

And that makes Eddie drag a deep breath in through his nose. It makes him stall where he is. It makes him feel out the boundaries of this sacred place and smile that melancholy smile because Steve knows him and Steve is right. 

Eddie has never particularly cared for those sorts of things, but he cares about Steve. He feels the ache that Steve doesn’t like admitting to about what they don’t get to have because of who they are. 

“Steve Harrington,” he exhales and lifts the hand draped behind Steve’s shoulders to instead twist and tangle in the hair at the nape of his neck, show his cards, “you are a hopeless romantic to end all hopeless romantics and if you asked me to throw you a white wedding with a big ‘ole cake and hundreds of flowers and a party in the south of France, I’d fuckin’ find a way.” 

Steve grins, all that warmth leaking out of him but somehow going undiminished even as it spreads through Eddie’s own chest and makes the reptile of him preen. 

“You would, huh,” he says, not an ounce of surprise to his tone, only fondness and teasing and deadpanned fucking sass. 

“I’d get the Pope himself to officiate,” Eddie beams right back, leaning into his space, sharing air, sharing everything. 

“Pope’s not in France,” Steve points out. 

“I’ll get ‘im a plane ticket.”

“Think we can afford Pope rates?”

“I’ll rob a bank.”

“Probably pretty expensive.”

“I’ll rob two banks.”

Steve kisses him. Hand cradling his jaw and lips plush and comfortable and earnest in the way they open up for Eddie the precise moment he presses forward in want of more. Lazy and slow, languid and unhurried, it’s a deep lungful of air after too long submerged. 

It’s the glow of the sun after a summer trapped inside. 

It’s the stretching of limbs after so long spent healing. 

“I don’t need any of that,” Steve murmurs up against Eddie’s lips as they pull away, his hands holding Eddie’s face right where it is and unmoving with a gentle sort of ferocity. 

And Eddie believes him, he does, wouldn’t doubt a word out of Steve Harrington’s mouth if Perseus himself held a sword to Eddie’s throat, but his eyes sting all the same. His voice box falters at the back of his tongue. The hissing sings a mournful tune. 

“But do you want it?” he asks against his better judgment, against every bit of self-preservation he’s gained in the years since that one defining moment when it slipped through the cracks.

Vecna asks Eddie to share his body with a being called Kas, but Eddie never gets much of a say in the matter. In the aftermath, it's hard to remember what having a say in the matter means.

read "METAMORPHOSES" on ao3 🐍

[libulanns]

I would just like to look at some female positivity posts but the tags are literally overrun with posts shaming me telling me I’m not allowed to appreciate the female body unless I’m putting tr/a/ns/wo/m/e/n first 😬 Like I just literally want to see posts of like pretty art of the female anatomy or encouraging acceptance and stuff why am I met with posts calling me evil and disgusting for wanting to do that on the premise that doing so is somehow harming t/r/a/n/s w/o/m/en this is literal insanity. Imagine if we overran tra/n/s/p/osi/tivity tags with shaming, hatred, victim-blaming, and outright bullying. Oh we’d never do that because we actually fucking care about them having human rights and healthier views of their bodies meanwhile they’re all misogynists and wish death and violent sexual crimes on us for trying to love ours.  

[toh-tagteam-au]

Is Hunter still going to be aroace in your au?

EDIT: I’m going to be sticking with Aro Hunter going forward, and I appreciate all the replies to this post! I’m keeping this up for personal reference, but just a heads up I’m no longer unsure. 

Original answer below:

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Im glad you asked this because I've been wanting to make a separate post about this since Labyrinth Runners but I kept chickening out. Apologies for the wall of text in advance.

Full disclosure + some context before I get into it: I really like keeping Tag Team as close to canon as I possibly can. It's why towards the beginning of development I kept certain plot points open ended. I'm lucky that I didn't have to retcon any comic parts that were already posted pre-season 2b (the next few updates would have been ruined by some of the reveals in Hollow Mind, so I'm kind of glad I waited).

I never really expected Hunter to get into a relationship/hint at attraction at all back when it was season 2a, so I was comfortable having him be aroace since the chances of it being conflicting with canon were slim. I was in the group of people who were like "there's no way his character arc would have that much time/it would be rushed/wouldn't make sense if it did happen" etc. Plus, I'm aro myself. I was kind of excited to do a storyline that sort of reflected my own experiences with attraction and lack thereof. And I liked the ships that fandom brought forward, but I wasn't expecting them to move past the crack-ship category. So again, I felt secure in my canon-compliant-ness of Hunter's aro-ness.

But season 2b introduced the REALLY INTERESTING concept of Hunter and Willow actually being canon somehow. Or at least Hunter being attracted to her in some way. I was fascinated. Their actual canon dynamic is GREAT!! Teen soldier who was introduced as a hard-ass gets blushy at a school girl who can and would kick his shit in and is implied to not even think of him romantically yet. Not to mention the whole narrative catharsis at seeing a clone of Caleb, notorious husband of a witch, also falling for a girl. I love it SO MUCH!

So that brings me to an unfortunate choice I was sort of hoping you guys would help me with?

On one hand, I love Hunter and Willow. I love that they're implied to be a potential thing and that they'll have more dev in season 3. Their dynamic is my jam and it makes so much literary sense that they'd have chemistry, not to mention it just brings out the best in both of their developments in canon (Willow being a nervous shy girl with no self esteem turning into someone who can and will kick the emperor's ass to save her friends, Hunter being a heavily abused high ranking child solider turning into a blushy mess in front of a strong girl). I just love it. Nothing about his sexuality has come up in-comic so far, so I wouldn't have to retcon anything to make that a thing in TT.

On the other hand,,, I've already said that TT!Hunter is aro on this blog. I've sort of built up/mentioned this pseudo-romance arc he was going to have around the Grom episode. A lot of you seemed super excited about him being aro back when I first mentioned it, and I don't want to disappoint you guys and fake you out by being "surprise!!! he's allo!!!" I guess I could have him be Demiromantic or just ace to keep that vibe of aspec, but I don't want it to feel like a consolation prize either.

So it's this unfortunate back and forth between me really liking Willow and Hunter/wanting to keep things as canon as possible, versus sticking to what I've said out-of-universe in the past. I kind of get the sense that both options have their own baggage – I'm unsure if the aro hunter vs hun//tlow discourse is as intense as my dash makes it out to be since I try to avoid it and I generally like both options, but choosing one kind of feels like I have to choose a side. So I wanted to ask you guys what you think/want to see.

Feel free to reply to this post, say ur opinions in the tags, or send me asks on what you think. I probably won't respond to all of them, but I'll definitely read them all and take them into account.

[obitv]

hi your riptide / killjoys thing sounds SO FUCKING SICK please tell me about it

prefacing this by saying i havent finished riptide im on ep50 ok evverything else i know is gathered from fics and from my dash so if it doesnt properly line up with backstories FUCK YOU DONT TELL ME YET. also im using a ton of kj fanon slang bc its what im used to, if you dont know what a phrase means just ask. ok anyway

the factions honestly line up pretty well?? the navy is BLind, the pirates are killjoys. high ranking navy officers like jays family are crows and exterminators. the boats are cars, the undersea is like.. maybe the lobby. tritons are droids for the sake of this ok (not often seen out in the zones, have a wildly different culture, etc) because i diid NOT want to have to worldbuild an entire faction of like. goddamn radiation mutants since the reason nobody can leave the zones is bc its surrounded by a fucking killzone. alright. so we're doing droids

whether or not chip is sandpup or cityborn is kinda irrelevant - he ends up out in the ones real fuckin early regardless and gets picked up by the black rose crew etc etc. but they get caught in a REAL bad clap with crows and he just has to fucking leg it and pray. that OR theyre cauht in the bombing of zone7 idk i havent listened to the oneshot and i dont believe in factchecking. whichever works. he ends up stuck in the zones, alone, at a way too fucking young age and nobody ELSE wats some ittle kid dragging them down so he ends up in the lobby and makes it work there instead. he has something to do with juvie halls? i dont know enough canon backstory to say much more but yeah. he falls in with tthem until he meets JAY!!

ferin family = scarecrows thats fairly obvious. higherups in BLind get benefits so shes never been on their meds (this helps out in the desert with being a better shot, bc she has no withdrawal shakes. same with drey) and just like. generally is allowed more freedom. but obviously with this freedom she realises BLind fucking SUCKS and somthing something her sister was a crow and died etc etc. also i think ava wouldve been fairly known in the city for being on BLind broadcasts. jay too maybe because i think chip teasing her for it is funny, and because obviously crows use fake names so the "ferin" name would be less known than her appearance. she visits the lobby fairly regularly but doesnt have the guts to leave until she meets chip

GILLION THOUGH. since im using droids we're Going to pretend here that in my version of kjs there are sentient droids that ARENT SEXBOTS. OK. WE'RE PRETENDING THOSE ARE A THING. he was probably a sentry or guard or something. robots are autistic so this tracks. but he gets kicked out of his post for some fucking reason and ends up just kind of. aimless in the lobby. he becomes VERY invested in the preachings of destroya. at some point, after jay and chip have left, he somehow manages to get out by himself and collapses in the sand in zone one which is how chip and jay find him. also ive yet to decid how to handle the plus addiction thing since thats. not really a topic that comes up in riptide. ill think on it maybe

um other than that.. as for names im . well gillion tidestrider sunds like a kj name its insane and punny enough. i have a lot of naming convention hcs that i cant explain concisely but ill just say chip only having a first name makes sense despite kj names being 2-3 words typically. jay im totally stumped on though bc girl she HAS to change her name and it should really follow the two word format and again. she cannot keep her last name bc anyone from the city would recognise the ferin name. so theres that. yeah thats all i got hiiii i will make this better when i catch up i promise

[patchdotexe]

doip. / 6.23.22

Folks, It Has Been Over Half A Year but dragon of icespire peak continues!

hey remember doip? yeah that's still happening

story so far: we're traveling around and rallying people back to town because a white dragon is sieging the area! we fought a manticore, survived the gnomish pita cutter, stole some barrel crabs, efficiently cleared out a dwarven excavation site, solved a pillar puzzle, escorted don jon raskin to were-rats and then just kinda left him there, stole a bell, and then wandered off to neverwinter instead of actually doing anything about the dragon. also found an orc hiding in a closet with a bucket on his head on the way, solved a totem puzzle, and oh god neverwinter isnt in the module jorb im so sorry LMAO

ended up talking abt sonic origins w jorb while nyx was afk. god i wish it was out when i was doing marathonic

I CAN POST IN CHAT AS THE BARREL CRAB?? nyx: does the barrel crab notice? jorb: the barrel crab does not notice because it is in phandalin

UH OH THE DRAGON IS HERE. ROLL FOR INITIATIVE

OH GOD IT'S CRYOVAIN LMAO

alidaar ducks behind cover, takes aim with his crossbow, aaaaand misses. whoops leo: im gonna save [my action surge] for when things get more dicey nyx: this entire situation is just a sack of dice.

CRYOVAIN FLYING IN FOR A BREATH ATTACK leo: the good news is i have cold resistance, so that's good nyx: the bad news is-- leo: --there's people behind me.

NAT 20 CON SAVE LET'S GO ALIDAAR TANKS THE HIT ali uses his fire runes and natural resistance to tank the hit! and basically just has a bit of frost on him alidaar: i give cryovain a shit-eating grin.

nameless goes bear mode jorb: ..ARE YOU GONNA GET OFF THE CART BEFORE YOU DO THAT? oh my god nameless just fucking Launched at cryovain ..and then got knocked off bc of a nat1. lmao whoops nyx: you know those pictures of bears just sitting there like a human person?

OUR CART IS GOING TO FALL INTO THE FUCKING RIVER

ali runs up and dual wields at cryovain! silvered battleaxe gets a nat20 but warhammer goes doip jorb: alright let's see if the breath weapons recharges leo: UH OH! (it didnt)

NAMELESS TAKES 20 PIERCING DAMAGE AND 8 COLD DAMAGE. UH OH LMAO MAX DAMAGE

"can i ask you to make a wisdom saving throw for me please?" nyx and leo: OH NO oh god nameless failed so nameless freaked out over the bell river situation and disengaged to focus on that instead. which leaves alidaar right up in the dragon's face. uh oh uh oh uh oh

VINCENT NOOOOOO THIS FUCKING OX IS TAKING OUR SHIIIIIIIIT THE BELL!! IS IN THE RIVER!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA

THIS ENCOUNTER IS SO SCUFFED alidaar fucking books it to try and salvage the bell but is out of actions once he's by the river bc of a dash. cryovain now ALSO wants the bell bc shiny. everything is going tits up YES OMG CRYOVAIN TOOK ENOUGH DAMAGE TO LEAVE WITHOUT THE BELL. THAT'S A VICTORY, LADS

So The Bell Is In The River nyx: what do i DO leo: uhhh check your pack?? that's what i'm doing nyx: I Am Currently A Bear leo: oh. you are currently a bear.

nyx: every day. every day i suffer.

BELL RETRIEVED how many people and also a bear does it take to get a cart out of the water? The Answer May Surprise You

alidaar chats up a couple guards! apparently good ol buckethead scampered to neverwinter seeking safety and got captured, so the guards offered for us to interrogate him ..and also recommended that, seeing as alidaar is a fightboy, he go check out the gladiator arena! and ali's just like Haha Yeah Sounds Good (I Will Not Go There) alidaar: [annoyed] fucking neverwinter

everyone promptly gets distracted googling what binturongs sound like (they sound like angry cats)

WELCOME TO NEVERWINTER holy fuck we did it

note to self: remember tiber exists and that we need to get him before we leave i swear to god

Alidaar Is Now The Party Leader dear god. this is a trainwreck somehow manages to finagle his way into getting a room and meals at an inn without embarrassing himself too hard. also managed to roll like 2 nat 20s. how the fuck. TIME TO GET RID OF THIS FUCKING BELL let's go to the jeweler's guild! woO!! alidaar and nameless promptly have a tussle because Nameless Loves Bell. which results in alidaar holding a very angry binturong over his head while casually talking to the guildmaster. guildmaster was not impressed.

got an hour to kill while the bell is assessed, let's go interview buckethead! interrogate. let's go interrogate buckethead. we are now interviewing buckethead for the job of "staying alive"

some guy showed up to tell us about a new shop! Nameless Disliked That. meanwhile, alidaar has nameless on his head bad cop, bad cop, and binturong alidaar interrogates buckethead with a binturong on his head

buckethead's info: there's a rumor that there's some barrow southeast of neverwinter that's got a dragonslaying sword. also cryovain probably hates us and like [alidaar voice] Good HIS NAME IS BUCK buck im so sorry about your life alidaar fucking cackling at buck. buck i am SO sorry ilu

^ alidaar at nameless

ding, bell's done! 2500 gold! holy fuck! or 200 plat and 500 gold

alidaar, staring into the bag of money at nameless who has crawled into it: can you please be normal

shopping trip! aka time to buy things for the Literal Animal riding alidaar around scimitar: 25 gp / studded leather: 45 gp / boots of the winterlands: 100 gp / 20 crossbow bolts: 20 gp new boot goofin! (all of that except for the bolts was for nameless lmao. alidaar's good) (update: after the session we went back and got alidaar some splint armor bc it turns out he Can get an upgrade that isnt 1.5k gp)

nameless attuned to the boots! New Boot Goofin also nameless has been having external impulses to cling to gold. this is definitely because of the amulet they stole. this is normal nameless also has a binturong tail in halfling form! and beans.

alidaar thinks nameless is "like, twelve"

got a gilded acorn! nameless can now Summon Beasts also got some healing potions, a scroll of comprehend languages, and a scroll of remove curse! ali also got some smith's tools bc why not. proficiency.

time to check out the sus shop! the Shop of Secrets! contains: cloak of billowing, Infinite Mayo Hack (alchemy jug), gloves of thievery, dust of disappearance, ring of weaving (which gave ali the strong impression that he'd be better at underwater basket weaving), bag of holding which is now putting the fear of god into us OH NO THINGS ARE GOING WRONG IT JUST ATE NAMELESS oh my god it was a bag of devouring. lol. lmao IS THAT A FUCKING DECK OF MANY THINGS oh lmao it's just a 13-card tarot deck. jorb scared the shit out of me

(LOOK, AFTER THE BAG OF DEVOURING, MY PARANOIA WS RAMPING UP)

got the gloves of thievery (which are Always Invisible) and the dust of disappearance (one use)!

It's Been A Day. back to the inn

nyx's necklace is SO cursed jorb: in the module it is not cursed leo and nyx: YOU DID THIS

plans for next session: We Forgot To Turn In Our Quests In Phandolin