#the risk i took was calculated but man am i bad at math

[wildestheart4ever]

The fabric I risked 27 - plus shipping - dollars to get

Seriously, if I wanted to check if it was the actual Joann online store I should have bought smth cheaper lol

Good thing it was, right? 😅

[littlelostmabari]

Chapter 13: To the Gallows, the Long Way ‘Round (Part IV)

Whew! The longest single scene I've written. 4.4k for one little chat (/s)

Fandom: Dragon Age 2 / Dragon Age Inquisition

Current Pairings: Cullen Rutherford x OC. Background F!Hawke x Anders

Rating: M (Canon-typical violence & behavior, check tags)

Links: Whole Work | Chapter 13 | Saoirse Character Sheet

(Dividers by cafekitsune)

“Knight-Captain, I shall make you a promise here and now never to lie to you,” she offered, proffering palms towards him and taking a step away from the window and into the office. It was a terrible risk, and the sneaky rodent part of her mind was screaming to stay as close as possible to the easy exit. She pushed the thoughts aside. “I would only ask that you offer me the same courtesy.” His eyes narrowed.   “Why in Andraste’s name would I trust you, Witch —” “My name is Saoirse ,” she interrupted with some venom, and before she knew it he had started to round the desk and begun to close the distance between them. She ducked back  around the other side so that the furniture remained between them, her hand swiftly pushing her cloak back to reach toward her dagger. “I'm sorry for making a mess of things yesterday, for making your life harder, Knight-Captain. Truly I am.” She tried to bring back a piece of the calm they had reached a moment ago. “And I know you could kill me if you really wanted. A druid with a dagger is no good against a paladin with a longsword. So go ahead,” she said, cautiously. “Silence me. And when it doesn’t work, we’ll talk.” 

[rox-of-iu]

channeling my inner bingbing by getting up from my studies and making congee in the middle of the night instead

[rotarywires]

i love how i fought one (1) dragon in inquisition and then decided Yeah, I Can Fight The Guardian Of Mythal AND An Archdemon

[an-apocalypse-of-magpies]

We just got mullered because we had to deal with two berserk mode fights in a row, RIP us

[sanctus-ingenium]

gatecrasher

[probablygayattorneys]

Guys stop reblogging this I got fired and blacklisted from half the hotels in town

I've decided that I'm going to channel Katrielle Layton's enthuasim and energy for her job into my own job, when checking guests in at the hotel I work at.

My boss is going to love it.

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

my autistic ass tryna figure out the perfect amount of interaction to let my crush know I'm an option but not enough to let them know I'm interested (I am, but some part of my brain tells me thats pathetic):

[tenth-sentence]

He was taking a calculated risk, with a greater likelihood of failure than success.

"Icebound" - Dean Koontz

[oneatlatime]

The Chase part 2

Apologies for the technical problems. Battery power must be conserved for necessities, which unfortunately does not include Avatar. But the power's back on now, so!

Picking up from Toph treating a senior citizen like a snooker ball...

I do like how Mai's not shy about participating in Ty Lee's nonsense.

The way Zuko Jr. says "I'll follow this trail" is very menacing.

We're continuing last week's cowboy theme.

This village has the same menacing single windchime as the village in the Spirit World Part One did.

This was may more satisfying than I was expecting! It was completely unfair how easily the Fire Nation ladies defeated Sokka & Katara so getting Appa'd was a nice payoff.

No disability unmocked this episode. Also nice stance from the lizard.

This whole scene with Toph and Iroh has the most beautiful backgrounds. I sense phone wallpapers in my future.

Forget about the visuals, every line of this exchange was golden. Two towering pillars of wisdom and emotional maturity meet for tea and not a soul goes untouched. Also a nice moment of calm in an otherwise frantic episode.

Can this PLEASE be the rock bottom for Zuko. I can only take so much more second hand embarrassment.

Fully-provisioned princess of the fire nation v. sleep-deprived half trained avatar v. starving outlaw who seems to have forgotten to bring his swords, the only weapon he's good at. Place your bets, folks!

Zuko in a nutshell.

Ok so we're getting the whole gang back together.

The whole whole gang.

The whole whole whole gang.

How the hell did they mess up six on one?!?!

A princess can't surrender with honour when she doesn't have any!

That was kind of Katara to offer to help. I didn't expect that.

Final Thoughts

This episode doesn't let up once. Even the break with Toph and Iroh having tea doesn't do much to dispell the rising tension from the chase. The musical stinger that plays over the title card was a surprise bit of foreshadowing in that way.

That tank thing was neat. Shame about what it contained, but that's a really cool design.

Poor Appa was once again the MVP this episode. It was uncomfortable watching him get so exhausted.

It seems like the thin veneer of level-headedness cultivated by Katara over the last season or so is indeed quite thin. It was interesting to see how the different characters reacted to being tired. Sokka was alternatively amped up and completely chilled out, Aang got quiet (until he felt Appa was being insulted), Katara reverted to her early season one characterisation. It's hard to say with Toph, because we've only known her one episode (it feels like more) but I think she just got more Toph-like.

Please let this be the end in Zuko's experiment with independence. He's not good at it. He needs uncle. Points for trying, but he failed, so please bring uncle back.

Sokka low key wins this episode. He's the one with sense, the only one who stays clear-headed when it counts, and it turns out that clear head of his can defeat the pokey thing Ty Lee does.

I don't know how much time is supposed to have passed between picking up Toph and the start of this episode, but I can't help but feel that Toph really got the short end of the stick here. She did give up everything, even if much of what she gave up was not that great for her personally. And in return she got to travel in a way that completely blinds her and get yelled at. Meeting Iroh was a nice consolation prize.

Now I kind of want a story where Toph doesn't come back to the Gaang and instead goes around unleashing bending hell on the earth kingdom.

Was there no b plot or c plot this episode? Everything kind of collided in the final couple of scenes, which I did not see coming.

Frantic is the word I keep coming back to for this episode. Everything fit together nicely. I'll definitely rewatch it when I have the chance to do so in one sitting, without unforseen technical problems.

[actuallybestrpgideas]

Shut your fuck up my beloved

So, there’s been a lot of talk about Wizards of the Coast’s leaked documents about their intent to repeal the Open Gaming Licence and whether their intent to do so retroactively is legal and/or will work. And hey, I’m a gaming blog, I can have my own two cents. Four years ago, Hasbro decided they were going to double the money they were making from their subsidiary company WotC in five years time. They did it in three years, so their response was to try double it again in another three years. If you ask a serious Magic The Gathering player how that’s been over the last few years they’ll probably have some opinions about how that’s been going for them. The continued extraction of every last cent from gamers has been building up for a while and there is no reason to believe it will slow down.  The OGL nonsense is clearly the latest in a series of desperate cash extraction measures because WotC kind of don’t have options. It’s mostly run and staffed by people who like the hobbies they sell and care about them, but when you’re owned by a giant corporation who’s shares are then mostly owned by big financial investment corps, you don’t get a choice. If you’re upset or confused about it, don’t give them any money and play other games that aren’t owned by WotC. Give your money and exposure to companies that aren’t pulling this shit and aren’t owned by megacorps who can pressure them into doing it in the future becuase they saw WotC get away with it. What does the OGL revocation mean for the future of D&D? If you get into a different system now, you won’t have to care. Dungeon World is practically open source so no chance of this happening there if you really want that sweet D&D flavour. If SJ Games was going to sell out hard they’d have done it a decade ago. World of Darkness is mostly not even made by racists anymore so we can enjoy those without being cancelled again. Or play second ed D&D from before it was aquired by WotC in the first place, which won’t be much fun but it will be funny.

[xerith-42]

Writing Advice of the day: Let your characters be cringe! Sometimes they have a genius idea, an actually coherent thought, but they completely botch the execution due to an oversight. Maybe the idea was dumb in the first place, and they thought it was the newest innovation of mankind. Sometimes they're trying to sound cool and don't realize they don't or get interrupted and lose their patience. Let them be confidently wrong! Someone asks them for a piece of information, and they say something that is factually incorrect, but they believe it and you must have a foolproof argument with supporting evidence to convince them otherwise. This isn't about characters being flawed, that's an entirely different thing, but that even in the most serious and dramatic and dark story TM, there needs to be moments where characters are just human and kind of bad at it because every human is kind of bad at being human.

[karasong]

when your reputation of falling for your friend’s ocs turns into “swiper no swiping” instead of “here is the marriage certificate”

[milfweirdal]

[emblazons]

This album feels like the studio who produced perfect albums like The National’s High Violet & Trouble Will Find Me decided to produce the musings of a 16 year old girl trying to sound more sophisticated than she is her diary and I’m not sorry for saying it.

[childotkw]

What does wemond feel though, will he go in for the kill this time?

Ahh, see, you think he would - and even Aemond talks a good game of wanting to kill Lucerys in the beginning. But those two weeks he spent thinking he actually had were some of the worst in his life. He never thought he'd ever really succeed in doing it - and he never thought about the consequences of what killing his nephew would do to him.

The quiet grief and mind-numbing ache he endured during that time will haunt him forever.

Finding out Lucerys is still alive and is definitely gunning for him reignites Aemond's spirit. He was completely lost when he thought Lucerys dead by his actions. Now he chases the rush he feels when he encounters his nephew.

It's branded across his soul. He never wants to lose Lucerys again, but like hell will he leave the boy alone. He needs Lucerys, needs to fight and throw himself against him, again and again and again because it's the only way he feels alive anymore.