#there was so much more

[deathsweetblossoms]

Things I can’t stop thinking about, HOFAS edition:

Ithan and Perry. Hello, I am RIDE OR DIE for them.

Aidas in the scene when Bryce finally opens the rift and he’s standing there wearing stark black? MARRY ME.

Lidia nuzzling Ruhn in her deer form before running off and saying nothing

Similarly, Ruhn going INSANE after she takes off

Ace & Bran taking to Ruhn easily, and Ruhn making sure they had a room at his and Lidia’s apartment omfg

Tharion/Sathia/Colin??? Sarah. I’m not sure how you’ve made me want a Many Waters book just so I can see this play out, but I need it now.

Flynn & Sathia’s earth magic

(Why is Flynn single 😩)

Perry being an artist who has had to assimilate to a reality where she’s expected to be a warrior

Ruhn crying over hearing his friends voices after getting out of the dungeons

Pollux’s “heavy cock” 👀…

The amount of times Bryce & Hunt say ILY to each other

The princes of Hel in their monster forms. I need Prince of Hel monster romance and I need it now.

Connor.

Lehabah (the scene that actually broke me).

Jesiba’s last words to Bryce

Azriels wingspan … canonically taking up the entire width of the cave? Help. Me.

The princes of the pit trying to keep the black hole rift open before everyone else joins them to help.

Tears on Aidas’s face when everyone thinks Bryce is gone

Perry staying behind for Ithan EVERY SINGLE TIME. EVERY TIME.

Ithan liking her laugh? Being jealous of Flynn???!? OMG

[marvelingjules]

Some lovely takeaways from my allergist appointment today.

- “Maybe you just think (your migraines) happen when you use corticosteroids.”

- “Well we can’t do anything to prove (migraines (esp during aforementioned medication use)) because there’s no way to know.”

(Me: So what do we do since my word on it isn’t enough?

Doc: What?

Me: Well you said there’s no way to prove it besides what I say, so my word isn’t good enough.

Doc: I didn’t say that. I just said that we had no way to have actual data about it.

Me: …..)

- Doctor: *explains to me what objective and subjective data is after I say I know*

- Doctor: You said you’ve had (asthma) for several years-

Me: No. I have had it for 30 years. I’d say that’s a little more than several.

[heteromerous-rhyming]

ok so i've finished the episode and i have thoughts.

i think that the main problem that i have with the episode as a whole is that it's so focused on percy. like i get it, titular character, parenting theme, etc etc. but hear me out -- by this point in the story, naturally, we should be getting trio consistently. at the beginning of the show, of course we focus on percy, we should he's our gateway into this world. but BY THIS POINT, and especially after ep6 we should be getting more trio interactions and building relationships and not individuals. we should not be getting 1/3 of the episode focused on a flashback - structurally that should have been in the first 3 episodes and then referenced to at most. this is a quest, first and foremost, but this episode didn't feel like it.

i also really really hated that annabeth wasn't in all of the deduction scenes?? like HELLO??? it really shouldn't be percy figuring everything out, it should be annabeth. if ANYONE was going to make the kronos connection it would have been annabeth, seeped in the world of gods and monsters since she was six. she can make that leap of deduction and percy should not have. and this isn't anything against percy, i think percy is plenty smart. but they've just come out of multiple high risk encounters, realistically the one who would have kept her head is annabeth. and this is to a lesser extent but i'm headcanoning that annabeth is the one who told percy about crusty and that grover is the one who smelled the monster in there because i really really hate that they just drop us in the middle of that scene, skipping the journey and the planning that they would have done to get ready for that encounter like writers please. please.

they COULD have shown that instead of the flashbacks. or at least instead of ONE of the MANY flashbacks.

the thing i really missed most about this whole episode is that it didn't focus on the trio.

grover almost dies to the Pit, and it GETS GLOSSED OVER BECAUSE THEY FIND THE BOLT THEN. THE POTENTIAL FOR A DRAMATIC REVEAL BY HADES IS COMPLETELY GONE BECAUSE THEY FIND THE BOLT BY ACCIDENT. LIKE I GET THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN HINTING THAT KRONOS WANTS THE BOLT BUT IN THE FRAMING OF THE EPISODE IT READS AS A MISTAKE.

WE MISS OUT ON ANNABETH AND PERCY AN GROVER INTERACTION NEAR THE PIT FOR WHAT.

i'm disappointed because there was some really really really excellent acting by all this episode but it had no room to breathe.

[scrawlingwithstyle]

I just feel like info-dumping about my D&D character. If you're interested, strap in.

Ash, a half-elf trickery cleric, had a best friend and partner-in-crime, a tiefling who took the name Serendipity (Sera for short) for the goddess of good fortune, Tymora.

They played pranks together and partnered up for Ash's sham magic trinket shop.

Some time in the future, Ash got teased for being a trickery cleric who doesn't know how to pick locks, and I just realized: she never learned because that was what Sera did. Sera was the rogue!

Anyway, they were close friends for a few years before Sera was kidnapped and killed. Another conman killed Sera as part of a greater tiefling-genocide scheme to try to gain power, but he also had a personal grudge against Ash, so Sera was more than just collateral damage.

Ash took it extra hard because she was working up the courage to tell Sera she was in love with her.

About 8 years later, Ash is still on the hunt for the conman, whose real name she doesn't know. She is also part of a party who are in training to become deities.

She meets Dave, a life cleric who values honesty so greatly that it leaves a great impression on her. She's immediately intrigued and thinks she'll just keep tabs on him from a distance--until he finds out her party is supposed to make a new creature and he can't allow them to meddle with the power to create life.... Not without supervision, anyway.

In a moment alone together, Ash reveals her past and real name to him, and he helps her figure out what kind of a deity she wants to be.

Not long after that, the party finds the bastard who killed Sera, put him on trial, and at sentencing, turn him over to the party's death cleric (who specializes in vivisection) and her necromancer boyfriend. (Dave requests to be blissfully ignorant of his fate.)

In a very brief period of time (like 2 weeks), Ash and Dave kiss, her party saves him from an evil goddess who kidnapped him, and a few other events lead to them getting married. Since Sune (goddess of love) officiated the ceremony, they were telepathically bonded (they share thoughts back and forth) and each knows exactly where the other is.

(This is relevant: Dave's dad has many wives and partners.)

It has been around 3.5 months in-game since then, and the party is still working on their creature. Their travels take them back to the Astral Plane, where Ash had been invited to seek out Sera's spirit (they had met thrice in the last year, and each time Ash figured it would be best not to share her feelings).

When Sera pulls her aside for a private conversation about everything she's missed (the wedding, Ash getting pregnant), it gets harder and harder to not tell her how she feels. In her mind, Dave encourages her to do so. She confesses, Sera cries, Ash cries, and then Dave interrupts with, "I love you. And I'm not the only one."

Ash has already made up her mind to bring her friend back from the dead, but she is confused at what he implies. "I thought... when I said I didn't want to share you, you felt the same way. Did I miss something?"

"I don't intend to share you with another man. I would not wish for you to share me with another woman. But she is not another man, and she is not for me. I have no such reservations in this case. Besides... she had you first."

Shocked and delighted, she tells Sera what Dave said, and asks if this is an arrangement she would be happy with.

Sera agrees and joins their party as a spirit.

~~~

This is where we left off, but now we have a new side quest to resurrect Ash's dead girlfriend. I also made this:

[daniel-darling]

Ookay okay fuck okay

There was a lot

But I was just a good little fuck toy with a warm mouth and she went so hard and deep and I was trying not to squeal

She grabbed my throat to shut me up, marked my ass and chest and spat in my mouth and made me cum three times and I almost cried

I really do sound like a puppy though ;-; and just

Fuck

Women

Hhhrnggh

[hero-of-the-twlight]

Goodwill was on fire today 🔥 😩 😫. Holy shit I worked at that goodwill and I couldn't even put out stuff this fire.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Knowledge Revenge.

[nyancrimew]

[unsung-idiot]

don't show him modern technology; it won't end well

bonus under the cut:

[cloud-ya]

outcast of the village

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

[perrieedwards]

i feel like people are skimming over the uk riots in a way that makes me want to tear my hair out. muslims in the uk are in active danger. immigrants in the uk are in active danger. refugees in the uk are in active danger. people of colour in the uk are in active danger. asian communities in the uk are in active danger. black communities in the uk are in active danger.

there are massive far right riots throughout the country right now and people like fucking elon musk and nigel farage are inciting it and still have a platform to speak. people have used three young girls deaths, people's genuine grief in southport, to try and gain traction for their own racist bullshit and it's working.

a lot of refugee charities have been forced to close leaving many people without support, homes, funding, food, etc. if you aren't able to donate please consider sending a message via the conversation over borders campaign! it will send a hopeful, welcoming letter to a refugee in the uk. there is also a guide to staying safe here.

please do your own research and donate to refugee charities, anti-islamophobia charities, mosques who are trying to rebuild after being destroyed, counter protesters, here are some i've heard positive things about but the list is extensive; southport strong together (support for the southport victims and their families), southport mosque rebuilding, riot repair fund, middlesbrough vulnerable residents, nasir mosque rebuilding, hull help for refugees, bristol welcomes migrants,

[ingravinoveritas]

"We've all got to be fighting that fight every day."

Happy Pride, everyone...

[keymintt]

more public art! these fellas were printed on vinyl for the sides of a traffic cabinet

[werethropy]

"The nonbinary afab who goes by she/her, dresses femininely, and uses a push-up bra when I—" when you what? What's wrong with her?

Is she not nonbinary enough for you? Is the way she experiences her queerness and how she presents not perfect enough for you? Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny, right? So why is she the exception? Why does she have to hate herself to appeal to your standards? Why is she any less trans—any less worthy of respect—cause it's "not visible"? Queer solidarity my ass. Don't spout this bullshit on Pride, man.