#the way he narrates and stuff

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

[Clip 1: c1e45] Murph: Hardwon, you jump off of the dragon, you grab the hammer in the air. What do you think or say as you grab it. Jake: (laughs) Uh-- Emily: Suck Moradin's dick. Suck that dick. Caldwell: Suck that hot molten dick. Jake: Uh, I guess I'm thinking that I-- I've known nothing but dwarven culture and Moradin my entire life, and I'm just trying to-- to channel any-- any bit of dwarven heritage that I have innate in my body from growing up inside the mountain. Murph: Hardwon. [The Bahumia Theme begins.] You grab the hammer, and you are instantly surrounded with a frosty aura, but strangely it warms you. The hammer feels right in your hand. Jake: Sick. [Emily laughs.] Murph: Uh, you hear the voice-- you hear the voice that was calling out to you guys, trying to talk to you guys through the planes, that kind of sounded like radio static or something, uh, suddenly comes through clear. You hear a voice whisper-- Gemma's voice-- [Jake gasps.] Gemma (Murph), whispering: My tall dwarf. Murph: And you grab the hammer. [Clip 2, c3e45. The Bahumia Theme is already playing.] Murph: As Jaina sees an opening, and Ultrus is hit, Ultrus begins to get back up. Instead of attempting to run through and risk it, you see she holds out the Kingshammer, crackling with magical energy, and she shouts through the plane-- Jaina (Murph), shouting: Hardwon! Catch! Murph: She tosses the hammer, and it moves with otherworldly speed. Ultrus reaches for it, but Calder and Callie are holding him down, long enough for it to get past him and shatter [shattering sound] the last barrier. Jake: (exhale) whoo. Murph: In the arena outside, Hardwon you see the Kingshammer aka the Queenshammer appear out of thin air and begin spiraling towards you. Hardwon (Jake): (sighs) Hello old friend. [Emily and Caldwell laugh.] Jake: Hardwon raises his right hand, opens his fist, and catches it. Murph: [makes the whooshing sound of the hammer flying through the air and stopping in Hardwon's fist] Snaps into your hand, and you-- Hardwon you feel it feels heavy in your hand but it feels good.

[braisedhoney]

(edit: accidentally messed up the eye so i fixed it :P)

some of you are down seriously bad for the narrator. here’s more.

(silly bonus comic below the cut)

[chaoticgoodthief]

Slay The Princess Roles Reversal Idea

Ok, it seems like my stupid ideas for this STP brainrot of mine actually keep getting popular for some reason so here we go.

Imagine this: It's at the end of the road, you're in the Stranger's cabin at the heart of the Shifting Mound, pristine blade in hand. At this point, you've become aware that there is no good ending. You steel your nerve and prepare to plunge the weapon into her heart for the final time ...But you never get to make it that far.

Voice of the Contrarian: ...I'm sorry. I can't let you do this.

Chains are wrapping around you. You can feel yourself shattering, fragments of yourself unravelling from your essence in a sensation that feels completely foreign and yet all too familiar. Everything goes dark, and you forget yourself.

Someone wakes up in a locked cabin, at the top of the stairs. It's not you. Instead, it is a beautiful maiden, tasked with slaying the beast in the basement. If she doesn't, then she will die. Or at least, that is what the Shadow keeps telling her.

I like to think that Contrarian would actually be quite convincing in this role. He is, after all, doing this for the Princess' own good. Moreover, he will be right. If she doesn't you, you will kill her. Very, very few routes end up with both of you surviving. And even those routes need at least one of you to die first.

I haven't really thought this through very well on how it would actually work, but it would be super interesting.

[doodlejoltik]

my favourite writing device is having an un-Rei-liable narrator

[platoapproved]

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[archersgoon]

how much of tesadora's personal history is filtered through perri. like from memory it feels like a lot (or most...) of it

[uzukali]

Yknow, pvp civ is actually pretty damn good when evbo isn't making meta/fourth wall breaking jokes every minute and pissing me off

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

I love Monkie kid and the way they tell stories but oh my GODS this unreliable narrator stuff starting to stress me out

(Note: i've only seen up to ses 4 ep 8 no spoilers in the tags please)

[emmodii-mode]

Just finished my first playthrough of BG3. Romanced Lae'zel, but ending up turning into an Illithid because the idea of making Orpheus or Karlach do it didn't sit well with me (or my character).

I told Lae'zel to leave with Orpheus in the end (I heard she wouldn't stay with a ghaik anyway, which she's valid for, but also, it doesn't feel right to ask her to stay when I know how much her people mean to her). And like-

Her face before she flies off---

She looks so heartbroken and sad.

[cursedzucchini]

Dp x DC prompt #whatever

Guys this has been rotting in my brain for the past month and i think it has lots of potential.

So basically Danny & Damian childhood friends.

Somehow, someway (maybe after five years old Damian kills one too many instructors, which are irreplaceable, maybe his arrogance causes one too many failures) Talia convinces Ra's to put weekly 'play dates' with the other league's children. These play dates are supposed to show Damian his superiority over them, but also make him care for his future subjects.

What the two didn't account for, was, well... Children.

Damian wasn't the mildest child, not was he trying to be likeable. He didn't see the point. And when you add their parents repeating over and over again how important the new child is.. no wonder all of them were scared to even look at him.

The chosen child himself was quite happy with this development. He didn't want to be there in first place, especially because he was specifically forbidden from cutting down any annoyances. So it was a good thing none of them dared to come to 10 meters radius to him. He didn't mind the children immidietly bursting into tears, when they lock eyes. He didn't feel angry, because these weren't even children of any important people, with no obligations to be nice to him, and they didn't even dare to breath in his vicinity (seriously, a boy passed out because he didn't wish to breath when Damian was sitting few spaces next to him. It was ridiculous).

He didnt feel like an outsider, he felt like their leader. He didn't feel loneliness, he felt proud. He didn't, he did.

So.. when a child, always sitting in a corner staring at the sky, was cornered by several of the other children, he didn't do anything. He was someone they should follow, he did not owe them to solve their petty rivalries. (Even if they insulted the child for their expressionless face, for being unable to recognize their imaginery rules of some bigger game, for being different. Even when Damian started realizing with more and more terror, this would be him, if he wasn't All Ghul)

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...maybe he should establish himself as a good leader, by helping them. This once at least.

Damian walked closer, only wanting to discuss whatever bullying problem was happening, but the moment the children saw him, they ran. Well, most of them at least.

Danyal was the child of some lower member of the league (maybe even someone who was under their protection, doesn't matter). He was a very quiet, some would even say antisocial. He would spend all his time staring at the stars and not mingling with his peers. He didn't often wore any sort of expression, but once Damian spend more time with him (unwillingly might he add, even if it was him who looked for the other boy, and maybe it wasn't unwillingly, but that's not something he wants to think about. Ever), he realized, Danyal was full of them. Every time he talked about the stars, mentioned the new book his parents gifted him, and as the time went, when Damian himself was mentioned, the demon's heir couldn't help but think the older boy would burst from them.

Damian still wasn't quite sure why he was hated by their his peers. He knew some people would find Danyal strange, but he didn't quite understood (wasn't he the same? Why was he brilliant perfect amazing but Danyal strange idiot weird?).

But what he did know for sure, was that Danyal was his. He was his subject, someone he took under his wing to protect, and in exchange, Danyal would look after him too. It might be helping him out with any assassination attempts, or telling him the stories of space, when the younger boy couldn't force his tongue to form words.

Or at least he had been.

The family Danyal was from was poor. So when one of the tougher times came, it wasn't strange one of their children had to go. And what choice it was, picking between healthy beautiful children and a 'ghost living in a body'.

Only Damian hated it. He didn't understand. While yes, Danyal was his subject, he had many of them. If he wanted to be a good leader, he can't just focus on one them. That would be unfair. He saw this choice being made so many times and he was never bothered by it, so why now—

In the end he never discovered the answer. He locked the question deep inside his chest, inside his heart, where nothing could ever reach. He was Al Ghul, he was too great to be caught of guard and be strucked in it.

So when years and years later, when he was already living with his father for some time, he saw a black haired, blue eyed teen with tan skin, and the same grin his friend subject had, of course it was natural he knocked him out and brought him into the manor.

Not because he missed Danyal or anything of course. He had to... Check if this was some sort of plot of his Mother. Naturally.

[danielnelsen]

so if you romance and ascend astarion you can kick him in the balls when he tries to turn you and it’s just very funny, he’s so pissy about it. so much for the most powerful vampire of all time or whatever, he stamps around like a toddler and then leaves forever

[featherymainffins]

Now this might be because I have issues but is it just me or does Slay The Princess feel like an allegory for a relationship?

[metanarrates]

5, 15 :3

5. if you could ask the authors any question, what would you ask them?

hmm this one is so hard because I really enjoy how obviously the orv authors take "death of the author" as a reigning philosophy in their work! breaking any kind of anonymity would feel weird to me... but if they were willing to answer, i WOULD ask them what the writing process was like. I'm always interested in things like that.

15. any characters you didnt love at first but grew to adore?

BIYOO. I'm not fond of baby characters in stories, especially not ones with Cute Fluffy Mascot-y designs. it's not that I don't like babies, it's that I dread how they're written because most authors write them as cute props rather than being, you know, living people who have specific needs due to being very very young. however i really ended up enjoying the novel's depiction of parenthood, and biyoo ended up being both cute and fascinating!!! it helps a lot that she's not human and the novel explored HOW her state of being not human works in fun ways. wuv her

[marnz]

started reading Giovanni’s Room and I am honestly bereft, even though I haven’t even finished the first chapter. It’s so beautiful and so honest and insightful and so devastating 😭 Baldwin is such a beautiful writer!!!!!