#this house would be wild

[tarth]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2.07 "The Red Sowing"

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

resident warrior cats...

[gunsatthaphan]

#always in character.

[chronologically-challenged]

I think that the party's communication issues can be summed up as "man, is it awkward to tell someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with them if you've only know them for a few months? Probably."

[vigilskeep]

as a fellow rook de riva player i’m really curious how sol took the whole… house egrativi being founded with the specific intention of taking in orphaned kids to become crows. final nail in the coffin moment for my rook personally

this plot thread was the first and easiest target of my mental rewrites because it just... doesn’t make sense, to me? functionally, regardless of thematically. like, i think it suffers the most obviously from the writers not really getting into how the crow power structure works. crow houses are business ventures that require money and manpower. you can’t just start one with a name and a dream while everyone smiles approvingly. also, you can’t just not have belonged to one in the first place! i spent all game trying to figure out if he belonged to the de rivas or the cantoris or the dellamortes or someone else, and when he started his own house at the end of his arc (again, ???) it was very apparent to me that this is just a misinterpretation that there is a general force of crows and the houses are simply nobility among them. no, somebody paid for your training and they want back on that investment so they own you. also, taking in orphans being your grand new venture for the crows is both insane and doesn’t make sense because the crows already do that as one of their main recruiting strategies. teia cantori is standing right in front of you as the evidence!

my provisional rewrite which i think works fairly smoothly without losing too much is that jacobus & his cousin are the sole surviving heirs of one of the three houses whose talons were killed in the antaam plot in tevinter nights: balazar, valisti, and arainai. (my self-indulgent vote is balazar, because the tevinter nights context of the dynamic with teia and viago is juicy. there’s no real reason for it to be arainai and bringing in that name for no reason would be cruel, but you could definitely cook with it if you really wanted to go for it.) naturally, these kids already have a grudge against the antaam, one that teia and viago are struggling to corral while having to treat them like crow hierarchy equals (iirc a balazar or valisti would actually technically outrank them both), and the elder cousin goes and gets himself killed trying. we’re now forced to operate with one of the four houses present in treviso being led by an even younger grieving child who is obviously a liability. this should be good for paralleling lucanis’ immediate future and highlighting what the crows do to their younger generations. in my most ideal of worlds where the crows are truly crow-ish on screen, maybe you’d have a plot choice with no good answers like...

a) teia would present this option. you decide to take a risk on this kid and believe in him and let him stand on his own two feet, and this actually pays off with sudden help in your fight against the governor like it does in the game. he chooses this idealistic, childish direction for his house where they’re taking in kids who have lost their families like him and it will all be one big family again! and he says some suddenly very nervewracking things about how they’ll understand it’s the best place to be eventually and one of the kids got hurt in the governor’s estate but heir has promised they’ll take care of it and train them all so hard they’ll never lose anyone again. he’s going to make sure of it. you’ll see! they’ll take the best contracts until they’re godslayers just like you! there’s a final shot of him standing very small and very alone. and that’s on you

b) viago would present this option. you decide this kid is too much of a risk to count on while you’re trying to save the city and the world, and maybe you care that he’s also a danger to himself. you back house de riva to forcibly seize jacobus’ house and all its assets to get the job done with, while jacobus himself is locked up out of harm’s way until the fight is over. this route also helps in your fight against the governor, there’s no sudden chaotic helping hand but everything goes smoother and cleaner, and hey, there are no children in the fight, if that kind of thing matters to you. however, all the ferocity of jacobus’ grudges turns on you and viago. he hates you. and letting him loose afterwards and giving back his house would be viago, the most paranoid man in thedas, handing a knife back to someone who wants to kill him. (which is, i suppose, the utmost charitable interpretation of viago’s main reasoning to keep hold of a bunch of assets, but no less true.) so they’re just keeping hold of jacobus... indefinitely. and that’s on you

but that’s me being self-indulgent and making it a bigger choice lmao. in answer to your actual question about my rook rather than this massive tangent, yes it was dizzying to stand there as another child was given full crow status and already planning to train other children. the cycles are cyclinggg

[gatoburr0]

New AU alert.

Thinking about farms and cowboys.

Also some Hunter doodles just because.

You can still call him whatever you’d like. (Hunter or Tremor/Trevor, honestly I like both and can’t decide lmfao).

also I can’t draw horses.

[shadowsketches]

🍂🎃 Pumpkin Harvest 🎃🍂

[daemon-is-perfectly-unhinged]

Jon: I am the type of person that likes to think things through.

Rhaegar: I once watched you eat a marshmallow while it was still on fire.

[codacheetah]

This specific dialogue interests me because it feels like the closest thing we get to a direct correlation between the True Ending and Loop giving up. I mean yea obviously the True Ending is literally the "TRUE ENDING" of SASASAP there was even a whole dialogue change to twohats in the latest update to super canonize it for the people who didn't get it. But the way this is phrased (as the direct progression of "something terrible" into "i'm here") makes me think that Loop waking up in that meadow again directly led into them making their second wish.

[iolaussharpe-24]

Monster High is my friend. (Mostly Draculaura.) I found a few helpful playsets, and I don't have ANY of them.

First up is this G3 Draculaura set (I forgot what it's called.) I like this bench (I'm currently using one from the Scaris Cafe set outside the house, and it's super cute but it's blue.) Also I love the little table. I can probably use that one inside the house. I just put a couch from the G1 Coffin Bean set into the living room (again, it's blue, but it's still cute. it's got a spider theme I like.) and this would be a really nice side table for it since I have an empty space. The pretzel with eyes kind of disturbs me though.

Next up up is this G2 set. The Vampire Family Kitchen. (I'd never seen a Monster High doll of one of the parents before this. Or after. And no, I'm not counting the Skullector dolls as the parents.) There's a lot of cute pieces here that I'd like. I do think that the colors are a little extreme, but I think it could work. (The kitchen in my house is the G1 Home Ick class set.)

The Die-ner set from... I don't actually know. Looks like G1. I don't remember this set. I just found it while browsing for ideas. This is one I could leave alone and have in a separate location to do more pictures. Like the diner Tyler worked at in Wednesday. Ooh, and if you fuse it with parts from either the Coffin Bean sets or the Scaris Cafe it would be really neat.

I'm not at all familiar with G3 monster high. I didn't like G2 and kind of lost interest in the ghouls because of it and I'm still on the fence about how they are now. Some of them I think are cute, some I flip flop my opinions on, others I think have been horribly butchered (going off the looks of the dolls alone). Draculaura has grown on me. Anyway, her accessories are cute. I'm thinking that bouquet would look very good in a black and white picture. (Or, like I said earlier in this thread, as a gift to Wednesday from Enid.)

The Eekend Getaway set from G3 is very cute. I want to use this car because I love the shape and design for it, but the pink isn't helping me! (I have the G1 Sweet 1600 Roadster, and the same applies to that.) I like the luggage for both of them (including Draculaura's backpack) and I like the food and drinks, the little coffin purse is adorable, and I love the little camera.

The G2 school bus makes me think of the RV from the second animated Addams Family movie. Which I still haven't seen. I don't have a picture for it, but the side of this vehicle opens up to get to the seats, and I think they lay down (?) and there's like a vanity that pops up on the side. Please don't quote me on that seat bit.

G3 Clawdeen's vanity set is cute enough. I personally think it's a little lackluster, (Cleo and Frankie's G1 vanities were so cool and this doesn't quite match up to those, but it's better than G3 Cleo's which is very disappointing to me.) but I think I could use a couple of parts. If I do go through with making an Enid, G3 Clawdeen is where I'd go for bedroom furniture. But since I haven't yet, we'll focus on what I can use for the family I do have. The little clothing rack. Maybe the vanity itself. But mostly the rack.

A project I really want to do.

My Froggy Stuff on YouTube made a Wednesday Addams inspired Barbie doll, and I am obsessed with it. (Yes; I am currently rewatching Wednesday as I am writing this.)

She used a curvy fashionista's head (number 188, in fact) for this project, and my only gripe is that she has a regular Made to Move body and not a petite one. (To be fair, I'm bad with timelines, so the appropriate petite Barbie Looks dolls might not have been out.) Honestly, I think it only bugs me because I know that Jenna Ortega is a small person.

If I could make my own doll, I'd use these (try to use them is more accurate, I'm not entirely sure if the colors match or not.)

As far as outfits go, there are options, even if they on the cheap side.

So... yea.

[theghostofwilburtheworm]

iiiiit was my birthdaaaayyy

[dykedvonte]

Danse and Hancock work only after blind betrayal because it’s the equivalent of the one closeted person you kinda pity getting kicked out after being outted and you and your like 7 other faggot friends take them in and help them do a 180 on their outlook on life and personal style and get them to weed (possibly grape mentats in this case).

[fraternum-momentum]

WE'RE GETTING EVICTED FROM OUR APARTMENT.

[scarycranegame]

i’m such a sucker for an f/o that’s pathetically in love with you. someone that’s desperate to be by your side and daydreams about spending every waking moment with you. an f/o that’s so in love with you that they basically kiss the ground that you walk on. they may even drool at the sight of you.

antis dni, this post isn't about the hateful kind of obsession that you guys seem to be used to

proshipper/comshipper/profiction/etc safe!

[theflowerofthecommonwealth]

Jasmine: (Does a ghostly call around a campfire) “¡Ayyyy miiiissss hijooooos! ¿Dónde están mis hijoooooosss?”

MacCready: (Puts his hands over his ears) “StOoOoOoOp!”

Jasmine: (Has her hands out in front of her as she moves around) “¡Quiero mis hijooooos! ¿Dónde están mis hijos?”

Piper: “I have NO idea what you’re saying, kid- but it’s freaking me out!!!”

Danse: (Is as white as a ghost at his spot by the campfire)

X6: (Says nothing while shuffling on his own two feet, hands in his pockets)

MacCready: “Can’t you just… Tone it down a notch or two?”

Jasmine: (Throws up her hands) “It’s Halloween!!! It’s suppose to freak you out!!! That’s the point!!!”

Piper: “After all the spooky scares we pulled on each other during the prank war- we all are a bit tender!!! So give us a break! Now we have to worry about some vengeance filled Mexican lady coming after us!”

Jasmine: (Rolls her eyes) “¡Cobardes! Y’all are a bunch of sissies! I’ve been hearing this story since I was born and so had most of the kids my age in my neighborhood.”

MacCready: “And I’m pretty sure you kids were living off a gallon of coffee and three hours of sleep all the time!”

Deacon: (Comes out from behind a bush dressed in a white nightgown and a long dark wig) “OoOoOoOoOoOo!!!” (Slowly moves towards the campfire, the smoke machine he set up earlier adding extra dramatic flare)

Jasmine: (Points and gasps) “¡La Llorona!”

MacCready, Danse, and Piper: (Scream bloody murder in sync)

X6: (Stands there stock still as his soul silently leaves his body)

Nick: (Comes running over) “WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!?”

Everyone: (Dives behind RoboDad for protection)

Jasmine: (Runs up and puts her arms around his waist, staring up at him innocently) “Papi- La Llorona wants to take me away and drown me! So you hafta protect me!”

Nick: (Heavy sigh as he picks the teen girl up) “Not the vengeance ghost lady again- haven’t you told enough of those scary stories?”

Jasmine: (Huffs) “No- I haven’t told everyone about El Cucuy yet.”

Nick: (Glances behind him at the trembling adults) “Maybe hold off the scary stories until after Christmas…”

Deacon: (Waves his hands around some more) “OoOoOoOoOo!”