#this combo was inevitable

[last-hourglass]

I don’t want you to be afraid Let me see you cry Oh I, I got an hour or so Take my hand and let it go Call me up anytime C'mon baby cry

You see Last Hourglass when you break it down to its bare essentials is really about the struggle of healing and forgiving yourself and rediscovering a self-love so strong it literally manifests across dimensions as a blue kitsune spirit in order to protect your own past self even though neither of you really believe (yet) that you're deserving of that kind of devotion

[violinsandblood]

thinking about how lestat started following/falling in love with louis after seeing him pull out a knife on on his brother in the first ep, placing the knife against paul's neck. then louis pulls out a knife again but on lestat in the last ep of s1, and uses the knife to cut lestat's neck.

the reason lestat fell for louis is how lestat gets killed by him (although not really killed, just very injured)

[feketeribizli]

this goober i drew back in june for my sisters birthday... good job today or whatever

[lesbianralzarek]

content warning: me being a HUGE bitch

i looooove playing standard because i just saw an mtg post that was like "my husband did this pro strat where he judged that his opponent was bluffing based on what mana they had up??? 🤯" and its like... yeah? thats how card games work?

i fucking love being in a format where its feasible to know every legal card. genuinely dont understand the appeal of formats that arent conducive towards/rewarding reading your opponent(s). thats, like, the thing for me or else id just play solitaire

just being a hater. like what you like. but why

[psygull]

First Snow (2006)

"Hey, they say it's gonna fuckin' snow down here this year, can you believe that?"

[glittergoats]

me and my girl don't argue she just bash my head in with a rock and i walk it off like a man

[the-terrible-theys]

hmmmm thinking abt. miles and niles each buying a pair of shoes in the same style but different colors. then swapping a shoe each so they can be matchingly mismatched.

[unabletowatchmits]

What a time to come back from a break. Zelda game staring Zelda AND a whole ass assassination attempt.

[hershelwidget]

I drew something for TBoCI for the first time in what feels like forever even though it’s only been a month

Something something AU where instead of sending each kid to the Magical Islands FT keeps all them with him and Perry as well so they ALL end up on Cold Island pre-collapse… Alternatively here’s four canon characters and two fanmade characters, guess whos who (all of that was sarcasm)

In other words I decided I will starting this over from the ground-up. It’s been over a year and my motivation is finally, FINALLY back. I will be keeping all of the current stuff on @theballadofcoldisland but that ask blog is officially shut down and is now just an archive.

Instead of being one long and strange story that only focuses on characters that honestly have nothing to do with the title, I will split TBoCI into several smaller stories that give a MUCH better insight on the motivations, groups, and the like. I will inevitably share the original files, drafts, and ideas.

This is the part where I get somewhat emotional and sincere apologies in advance to plushii, who I might mention in there. All good things, my friend. All good things.

I think this is the best course of action. There are a lot of characters in this story that despite being incredibly important, are not addressed properly or not at all until the last chapter that only exists in my notes. I mean… A massive amount of this story has only been discussed in a discord chat with a person I cannot contact anymore. It’s a massive mess of an idea that sounds stupider everytime I think of it.

And then a long while ago now, I was on Pony Town and talking to a friend I has just made. I distinctly remember they were in a Celestial skin. I think at some point they’d asked what “TBoCI” meant in my name, and I explained my story to them. They said they were writing a fanstory for MSM as well. I encouraged them to post it.

Now I daily see wonderful, wonderful content for that story, both from the creator and the fans. I finally understood what I did wrong. TBoCI was incoherent and messy where Fallen Stars was clean and consistent. I had so much in my mind that I had spilled it all out to One Person, and now there exists only two people in the world who know who the hell Kane is (possibly only one person now)!

What I’m trying to say is, in short, thanks @plushii-gutz . There’s a few factors to me being able to write TBoCI again, but you’re definitely the biggest part of that. Our encounter was a blessing.

And to everyone, please look forward to a much smoother ride. This is a fun one.

[gemharvest]

I'm tired of being upset over Discord getting rid of discriminators I just want my new username so I can stop thinking about this.

[girl4pay]

? what it is about dating apps specifically that makes it impossible for me talk 2 someone without dwelling on the fact that we’re both gonna die one day so it’s all already a writeoff

[10-dutchies-12-bicycles]

cant believe the whole murder wedding scene thing in book 3 takes only 2 whole pages.... and then its over

[galaxyhybridscentral]

As an attempt to distract myself from the world currently so I don't have a mental breakdown or something, I may or may not be coming up with a combination au and crossover (like the combination pizza hut and taco bell, but with crossovers and AUs)

[dubioushonour]

I'm about to commit every crime humanly possible within a 25 mile radius

[curiouslyodd]

just stayed up all night playing civ for seven hours non stop

wtf

[suzakushimon]

help i know guda has it so bad even w their personality being so blatant these days😔😔

and yeah this was a (mostly) genshin post. to be frank i think the genshin protag has even more evidence than guda against the “self insert character” allegations despite fgo being an old ass game (they have MULTIPLE VOICED CONVOS IN DA GAME), but i fear the genshin fandom is particularly delusional when it comes to shipping characters together or playing pretend family with a group of characters they like, and they WILL cut the mc out of the character relationship chart despite the fact that doing so will make the remaining relationships lose a lot of depth🤕

being a gacha game protag liker is such a fucking pain bc chances are they do have visuals and a base personality and interesting lore but the game has to keep them kinda blank/minimize their appearances as an individual character for the self-insert crew. but that means when the protag inevitably progresses through the story and meets tons of characters and changes their lives canonically, the fandom will straight up pretend it doesnt happen bc they view everything involving the mc as "catering to the self-inserters", and then theyll take the character-mc relationship that led to character A's development and attach it to character B or pretend character A magically did that by themself bc they dont like the protag. and then theyll go crazy w their ships and found family tropes with those 2 characters so that they can pretend the protag doesnt exist. i mean go off i guess but how are u gonna ignore the main fucking story???? it literally revolves around the protag. they dont have to be a self-insert if u dont want them to be💀💀💀 "ooooooh they dont have personality" WRONG u fucking weakling YOU are supposed to GLEAN THEIR PERSONALITY FROM THE STORY AND THE CHOICES THE GAME OFFERS U. its not like theyre standing there doing nothing all the time or the story wouldnt proceed!! how did they react to canon event a and b??? how do they talk to other characters??? what do they think of other characters, what do other characters think of THEM? just bc u cant read first person pov without inserting urself into the pov character doesnt mean the pov character has no existing personality💀 ITS A YOU PROBLEM. READ BRO READ