#we took a test and it was like yeah you deffo have parts of this but NOT diagnostic enough

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top 10 funniest mental illness bits in my life is getting into arguments with my therapist repeatedly over not getting a diagnosis for something debilitating me and then going to college and taking an online test (with her encouragement, and on a zoom call WITH HER talking over every question and its accuracy to the condition etc) that says You kind of have this condition. and she was like yeah you might have tendencies. and despite literally insulting her over this very topic before i just go Oh okay that makes sense ^_^ and then i no longer believe i have these tendencies at all. girl WHAT ?

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

this DLC has me FUCKED UP and i keep screaming

spoilers for Bounty of Blood under the cut, keep reading at ur own peril. Also some Guardian Takedown spoilers for anyone who hasn’t beat it yet

tl;dr: a comparison between something taken from BL2 and a thing taken from Bounty of Blood. more spoilery tl;dr below the cut.

also the siren thing is not spoilers so i’ll share it here for anyone curious, it’s just this: siren tattoos are blue but when lily absorbs eridium in 2, they turn pinkish/purple. just like how vaults do from bl1 to bl2. they’re white/blue in bl1, then purple-pink in bl2 (and tps), y’know, after Eridium begins erupting from the ground. just a neat little detail i noticed that im not entirely sure was intentional but im gonna believe it is.

tl;dr: Gythian Blood = Core and the Ruiner is of Eridian Origin even tho everyone in the DLC likes to say it was created with Jakobs’ bioengineering. disclaimer: idk if I’ve found every hidden ECHO so I may be missing a few things but I have done every side quest and took ample screenshots of all important dialogue in the DLC : )

“man i just sat here for like 15 minutes staring at my keyboard mentally comparing core and eridium like the dumb bitch i am. 

it's not like we can do an actual comparison because we have no idea what the natural fauna of gehenna was like before jakobs came and mutated everything with core unlike pandora where we know what skags and rakk and shit were like BEFORE the eridium crust erupted. 

altho!!! there's a neat comparison between joey ultraviolet and rose. like obviously he wasn't getting tattoos and was just doing lines of crushed up eridium but the point stands they both have glowy eyes and unique powers so i don't necessarily think this means rose is a siren just because she has magic powers especially when we know she got the whistling passed down to her from her grandmother. 

especially because we've never seen a siren interact with core before. altho that leaves the question we have seen core tattoos now what are eridium tattoos like? actually rose's tattoos were on her right arm obviously she isn't a siren as we know them right now (I saw a post on reddit where people thought rose was a siren) 

of course that brings up the point perhaps siren tattoos ARE eridium tattoos. but then we hear the general's log about how the devil riders were tattooing a man with core and blood so obviously they're not ‘naturally’ occurring unlike siren tattoos. so odds are they're probably not equivalents but something interesting i thought of while thinking about this is how well siren tattoos compare to the Vaults from borderlands 1 and borderlands 2″

anyway. this is all ive been thinking about. yes yes i know guardian takedown post but! >:( im still salty even tho this update has been lovely (outside of Blane not getting his correct damage scaling ‘till today......). so i’ll do that at my own damn pace. now let me elaborate so i can sleep at night lmao

Eridium

refinement produces slag, which weakens people and can mutate things

has mutating properties, mostly with imbuing elements into shit- possibly causes insanity

seems to be connected to another dimension, likely the one the Eridians are from

Core

has a secondary form of Infused Core

has mutating properties, mostly regarding a thing’s body and mind

apparently radioactive

there are some things i wanna note

1) People throughout the DLC say the Ruiner was created by the Jakobs corp (the company) thru bio-engineering but I’m 99% sure that’s not true. The paperwork seems to me like they found the egg somewhere on Gehenna and decided to roll and experiment with it like all corporations do when they find weird alien shit. so maybe they experimented with whatever was inside the egg, but I don’t think they actually created it entirely

“Excavated from [REDACTED] ... Local legends speaks of a [REDACTED]. This theory is not endorsed by our research personnel.

2) The Ruiner’s design reminds me a lot of the Warrior.

3) Core immediately reminded me of Gythian Blood from Guns Love and Tentacles and I don’t think that’s coincidence to have 2 back-to-back DLCs where the big bad is focused on green death juice. I think Gythian Blood and Core are of the same stuffs.

4) Therefore, I think the Ruiner is (mostly) of Eridian origin (if you haven’t already guessed). 

This gives us an amazing look into how the Eridians actually create their beasts!!! And I’m so happy they showed us this.

(side note, Interitus Regina (the long name for Ruiner) literally means Destruction Queen and I think that’s beautiful <3)

i mean the idea that they plunge them from orbit to create an explosion similar to a nuke is fucking horrifying (but holy shit I love it so much ahhh it’s so cool!!!!)

the one side line from Oletta about how the company couldn’t control the Ruiner deffo makes me double down on this theory. I’m not entirely sure how Rose’s grandma knew about the whistling (I don’t think I’ve found every echo log in that area YET), but I would bet it was part of the testing given how many fuckin’ tape players they have throughout the facility. The Warrior was controlled by verbal commands via Jack, so it’s possible that the Ruiner was intended to be controlled similarly, but Jakobs intervention (or something like the way Rose hatched it) fucked it up.

now we know the Warrior was created to protect the Vault of the Destroyer (hmm.) so what the heck was the Ruiner created for? Ruiner is a name given to it by Jakobs/the people of Gehenna so we can’t really assume, but then again the monster names are pretty apt in this series even tho they probably technically shouldn’t be. 

it was only an egg, so maybe it was another test of Core? A Vault Monster incubating until it was ready to protecc and attacc but was never hatched because the Eridians ‘sacrificed’ themselves before it could? (I’m still not convinced the Eridians are the good guys. Listen. LISTEN. The guardian takedown is something to think about, BUT it doesn’t disprove that theory and I’ll stand by it because I 100% trust the Overseer more than bitchpants mcgee over here who thinks he’s soooo special for no reason fuck you and your dumb ‘I did what the Watcher could not’ bull you haven’t done shit.) ok sorry im done he just angers me. stupid guardian man. your whip is stupid and you should feel bad. oh also I totally called us actually being Guardians thru Guardian Rank before the game came out aha yeah.

I definitely think Gythian was a test/use of Core from the Eridians. We see in Bounty of Blood that core seems to mutate more the physical (and occasionally mental) parts of people, like with the crew challenges u do for Juno with all the weird hybrid people and whatnot. Gythian had the whole ‘the heart still beats’ thing going on (which is definitely a physical mutation if i’ve ever seen one), plus the whole, you know, mind control and shit. Which is p similar to what the menta gnats can do when charged with Infused Core. And keep in mind in BLaT we see DAHL notes on what happens to test subjects when injected with Gythian Blood. They mutated physically and went insane.

What im saying is Sirens and Eridium and Elements are connected, so what does Core equal? body/mind sure but are there unique creatures for core (yes holy shit I’m not talking about h2o au for once and FINALLY they gave us a canon name for the green stuff!!!). If not, I’d love to see a Siren interact with Core to see what it does to them. seriously why hasn’t tannis interrupted us yet. horrible excuse for a science lover (kidding kidding, I love her). I’d also really love a fuller rundown on what the hell Rose’s powers were. Because the whistling thing seemed to just be her grandma’s thingie passed down to her from her mom

but the core stuff

her gun seems to be infused with it. So did her sword thing. I didn’t really get a good look at it i was too busy trying to see thru my blurry tears of LOVE for this DLC.

Strangely while her tattoos are (mostly) green I actually don’t know if they’re core infused bc look at this

n look back at hers. hers aren’t very lime.

anyway

her eyes

I’d love to know if the core gives her immediate future sight or just increased perception or reaction times. there’s a huge difference but she seemed to be able to shoot the gun outta the sheriff’s hand near immediately and it seems kinda implied its because of the core (or at least because her eyes are glowing green)

there’s a possibility she has some unique core powers/possibly implants because of her relations to the project in the first place, or as leader of the devil riders after looting the facility. it’s really hard to say without more info and like i said im not sure if i missed an ECHO or two or not regarding her backstory :( 

Her hair is also green which I just noticed. Maybe she has core powers bc her grandmother got suuuuuuuuper irradiated/influenced working on project horizons and it passed down thru her n Rose’s mom, to Rose. Tannis does have a line about Sirens having unique hair colors and, if Sirens are linked to Eridium, perhaps those linked to Core also have unique hair color. Could also explain why only Rose seems to have those whistling powers. That said we don’t really see anyone else trying that whistling thing out afaik and idk if it was, like, a special ability or a certain tone/ditty or w h a t. 

i know being vague with everything gives them more creative freedom to create amazing characters and scenarios, but dammit I want A N S W E R S.

All THAT said man I’m so glad magic is real in the borderlands universe. oh, sorry, “magic”. It’s magic. Science it, tannis, I dare you. either way, I win. Either it’s magic and H2O AU is canon, or it’s science and I finally get my goddamn answers. Hey gearbox can you make a book just explaining all the science and eridian stuff. please. I’d love you forever. please. pleaheheheheaaasseee it’s all i’ve ever wanted.

oh also can i just say, suuuper disappointed we didn’t learn anything about anshin. Really wish non-fan favorite corporations would get the spotlight/lore for once. Like, I like Jakobs as much as the next guy, and I get WHY they did it (can’t have a corporation looking too good!!!) but they now have 3 DLCs (Jakobs Cove, GLaT, and Bounty of Blood) and also a hefty chunk of the main game. Like... we all know Jakobs fuckin sucks, look at what they did on Pandora. I really just want info on a medical corporation �� I have to do everything my damn s e l f. but SERIOUSLY IMAGINE the possibilities that could come from a medical corp getting its hands on eridian tech. like, yeah obviously the weapons corps are gonna use it for weaponry and stuff BUT WOULDN’T THE MEDICAL CORPS MUTATING PEOPLE MAKE MORE SENSE??? ldfhgldfshg I have to do everything my damn self...

anyway all that aside, this is definitely by favorite borderlands dlc by a LONG shot. Nothing comes close. Ahhh the lore, the nuclear aspect, the a e s t h e t i c (seriously, have I mentioned how much I adore Trigun???), the art, the music, the cryoslinger, the fact I can bust out going beeEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAans like Ray Chase at any time and it will MAKE SENSE. I love all of it.

oh, also, Rose is totally not dead. C’mon, they couldn’t find her body. She pulled a Lilith. “Are you sure she didn’t just suffer a wound that LOOKS fatal, only for her to come back in a blockbuster sequel...?” is a line from mr Jones himself (the movie guy)

I just hope when she comes back she gets to meet Captain Scarlett. I’d love to watch their interactions plus pirates and or ninjas. That’s 2 DLC villains now that have vanished without a trace. And I like Captain Scarlett way more than Rose (seriously I spent the entire beginning of the DLC complaining about how her voice bothered me- I was so happy she was a villain, I was hoping that was the case).

oh yeah, reminder, the people of vestige were living next to highly radioactive egg for likely years. i feel really bad for them :(

also!!!

this made me smile

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1/5/10/13/22/25/34/33/46 :3 I rlly love your thoughts, advice n blog. Thank you 🤗

Awh thank you! I’m glad I can help in any way! I’ve reblogged a few ask things recently, I’m assuming you’re asking for the most recent one, but if not let me now and I’l do the one you meant!Lesbian Asks!

1.Femme or butch? As in myself - I’m definitly femme, though I tend to dress more athletic/’tomboy’ if you could call it that, being a dancer I live for my nike and adidas! Regards to a partner, I deffo love a girly girl!

5.Describe your aesthetic As I said above I tend to wear a lot of athletic wear, and I have a deep love for my denim jacket, and I love a shirt, but I also love getting dressed up in pretty dresses and spending hours on my make up/hair etc. I have a deep obsession with trainers, i love me a smart pair of nikes! I think I’m one of those people who changes between looking a compleate stereotype and the most girly princess ever! 

10.Describe the best date you’ve been on Gosh I’ve been on so many good ones! My girl knows how to spoil me! I don’t have a favourite but can I do top 3? Both this year and last year for my birthday my girl took me to London for a couple days, to see a show and explore, last year was Les Mis and this year was Dreamgirls and god they we’re brilliant! We went to the museums (which I absolutely love because I’m actually he bigest nerd ever!) this year we went for afternoon tea which was so lovely, she always finds such nice hotels as well and it was just so nice to explore London hand in hand with my love! So yeah those two for sure, and last spring we went to the beach one eve - I’m a student in brighton - and had chips and hot chocolate with a blanket and talked the hours away whlst the sun set, and it was so simple but god it was so perfect!

13.If taken, talk about your girlfriend/wife! I am indeed taken, by my beautiful girlfriend Ashleigh! We’ve been together just over 1year 8months and it’s been the best time of my life! We matched on good ole tinder, but turned out we had a mutual friend and the rest they say is history. She’s the love of my life and I know at 21 people might think I’m too young to know, but I do, and I’m gonna marry her one day! She’s got the most gorgeous blue eyes, they’re the first thing I noticed about her, and everytime she looks at me I swear she can see into my soul. She’s the kindest most thoughtful person, always looking out for others and is so beautiful inside and out. She makes me a better person, I don’t care how cliche it sounds! I have a hard time with feelings and opening up about things, but she’s always there, patiently waiting for when I’m ready and I couldn’t be more grateful! It’s just like she gets me, I have all these different sides to my personality, as everyone does, my childish side, my vunerable side, the student, etc, and she always knows exactly how to deal with them, she just gets me. (her tumblr is http://ashleighgrey-blog.tumblr.com but please ignore the hideous picture of me!)

22.What lesbian stereotypes do you fit into, if any? I’d say I dress quite stereotypically, as I’ve said above, I love a shirt and I dress quite athleticy. I’m also very into sport, I used to be captain of the football team in both junior and senior school, I used to swim a lot, I did running and athletics and danced ridiculous amounts, which is something I now do profesionally. Not sure if it’s still considered a stereotype these days but yeah! 

25.Be positive! What do you like most about being a lesbian? I mean, girls are just so gorgeous arent they?! Honeslty, I don’t now, that’s a tough one, I struggled for a long long time to accept myself, its only a recent thing that I have, so it’s not something I’ve ever really thought about. I’d say it’s nice that the person you’re with understands what it’s like to be a female! It’s nice to have someone who understands when you’re having super bad cramps or you’re having a bad hair day, all those things that (in the nicest way) most males just don’t get! I don’t know if that sounds weird, I’m not sure, it’s just nice to be with somehtine that gets it fully!

34.Ever fallen for your best-friend? Oh boy, fallen, I wouldn’t say fallen, at the time I thought I had yeah, but it was definitly more of a first crush situation and nothing more. There was a girl in my friendship group in school that I was crushing on, hard, and she knew about it. It might seem like a silly comparison, but pre season 1 PLL Emily crushing on Ali, yeah that was me. In short, because it’ s a story I could write thousands of words telling, I was crushing, she found out, and played with my heart in every way, slowly breaking it more that I ever thought possible. And this was a time I was still coming to terms with who I was, so it fucked me over for a long long time. I spent from year 9 until about halfway through AS levels, letting my heart be screwed over by her, it took me a long time to pluck up the courage to say no more. Looking back I can see that I was definitly an experiment, but I made my peace with it a long time ago, and I’m more than over it now. And it’s kinda weird, because our friendship group still is, and we’re both very much a part of it, and honestly it’s something that we’re both very aware that happened, but I think it’s a kind of mutal silent understanding that it’s somehting that happened but will never be brought up. 

33/43, not sure if you meant 33 or 43 but either way! 33 Do you love easily or does it take time for you to warm up to someone? I pretty much answered this in an ask I did yesterday, in short yes, but once I’ve fallen I’ve fallen hard! 43 Can you drive? I mean, I know how to, I had lessons, I’m just very very bad at it and failed my test monumentally and kinda just never went back to it! 

46 At what age did you come out (if you have)? I have indeed, I’ve been out for a long time, and tbh I came out to various people at various times. The first time I admitted it to myself was kinda early year 9, so age 13 and not long after I told a couple of people, end of year 9 was when my above mentioned crush found out so I’d have been 14. That was it for a while, then I told my parents the summer before AS so like 16, although it was out of nowhere and I fully wasn’t planning on it (in the middle of Epcot in Disneyworld, but that’s a story for another time). I told the rest of my friendship group not that long after, so still 16, and then one of the boys took it upon himself to go tell an ex boyfriend, thus rumour spread around college and everyone found out. However, and I think it’s important to say, throughout all of this, I still hadn’t accepted myself, I was still struggling with who I was and yeah it made it easier on me that people knew and were okay with it, however, the most important person to me, my mum, wasn’t okay with it and that destroyed me. Even then, it wasn’t something I was open about, I wouldn’t willingly tell anyone. It took me starting stage school/uni (so 18) to feel comfortable enough about it to be open about it, and even then I wasn’t straight away. I told, a couple of friends a few weeks in, and then about a week later I told a guy on my course, who then drunkenly told the whole college at a party i wasnt at, which left a rumour for me to confirm when I went to college on the Monday. Since then I’ve been pretty open about it, but even then my fmily didn’t know. Started talking to my girl at the end of first year (June) and we became a couple that august. I moved to Brighton when I started second year that same summer, (literally 3 days later) and that’s when I told my mum I was with someone, (and that kinda screwed some things up but it’s all chill now) and a few days later I plucked up the courage to make it facebook official as they say, thus coming out to my family, my dance friends, everyone else that I knew. Now, I’m compleatly accepting of who I am, and so is everyone around me, my mum had a hard time with it but it’s all good now, but yeah! It was a very long and slow coming out, and honestly in a way a lot of it was done for me, which as much as it hurt, and sucked majorly, it took a lot of pressure off me, and I kinda wouldn’t change it. This has a been like an essya in an answer, so sorry about that, but, like a lot of people, my coming out wasn’t as simple as just doing it, it was a very slow and long, painful process. 

Thank you for asking, and like I said at the beginning,  assumed this was the post you meant, but if not hit me up and I’ll answer the questions you meant! PLus, if you ever have any questions you wanna ask or need advice, I’m always here, just ask away!Luce :)

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

Honestly, it's really pretty depressing the state of the game right now. I know with BL2 there were people who started playing around launch and have kept up all the way til now, and it seems like you've honestly been one of the game's biggest supporters even when there were obvious flaws, so the fact that GB has screwed up enough to make you stop playing is... yeesh.

Yeah :( I will definitely come back later on, but I've gotta take a break for my own sanity because geebus. I'm getting nowhere trying to force myself to have fun. I'll deffo play the new dlc!! (I mean I already paid for it, might as well) but I don't know if I'll go further than that. I'll have to see what the patch notes bring.

I've been a constant player of bl since 2012ish. I got bl2 on my ps3 and fell in love- I got the guidebook and that thing went with me everywhere (Zer0's sassypants is my favorite line from it). I got it on steam a couple years later when the goty edition went on sale (I didn't have the dlc on my ps) and now I have 1500 hours in it. I bought Bl3 as soon as the pre-orders went up, had a countdown on my phone, and beat the game in 30ish hours with a 2 hour nap in between sessions (and I only stopped bc my game audio glitched out to the point of complete silence as I was on my way to carnivora). I have about 300 hours in TPS and BL1, too. I think 40~ish in tales, I know I've played thru a few times. Spent countless hours sorting the BL2 audio files for people and compiling a list of cut content. Obviously spent a lot of time on this blog before bl3's release. Basically, these games are my life.

There were some things I didn't like that gearbox did with Bl2s development, but the thing is: they fixed it eventually. There's still some broken stuff (bee shield...), but a lot of it is forgettable (is that the right word?) because the main game is playable and f u n (Like when it took them forever to fix Maya's Cloud Kill). But with Bl3 it feels like they're trying to get us to ignore all the problems they're not fixing by constantly throwing new (broken) content at us. The patch/hotfix notes are really depressing to look at every week when it's a single tiny change, or a buff that means literally nothing, meanwhile there's a billion things on fire and all the VHs are screaming and it's a mess. It's worse that they sometimes do acknowledge these problems, and maybe even do attempt to fix them, but then they don't work for a week (Zane's Quick Breather skill anyone?). So it's clear they're not testing the things they implement, or only testing them at Mayhem 0, or *something*. It's mind boggling to think the Guardian Takedown was released at the state it was, when every player immediately realized something was wrong the second they entered the first room. That was kinda my tipping point because that basically proved they did not test it at all.

M10 is not so hard that their testing teams cannot go up to that difficultly level. There are youtubers like K6, Joltz, LazyData, ThiccFilA who are releasing m10 viable builds constantly (some with save files for PC!!!) and once you have that and the right modifier rolls, m10 is not difficult to get through. So it's not like their testing team can't snag a save file (or just give themselves the gear!) and test their changes with a 100% perfectly geared out character on M10 (even though that's NOT how it should work). And it's worse that Moze players just *keep* getting screwed over by gearbox's design choices. At least Zane has his one singular class mod to make him viable. But Moze players have been struggling really badly, it's like they only have one person on the balance team and they main Amara or Fl4k or something and forgot there are three other characters that need fixing. (Not that Amara and Fl4k both don't have their own set of problems that need to be addressed).

And I really hate to say it because these games have been a part of my life for a long time and I love them to death, but also it honestly feels almost like gearbox is intentionally sabotaging Bl3. That's how awful watching every Thursday's 10am update come and go has been. They either need to delay hotfixes/patches to every 2 weeks or 1x a month or something so they can properly test everything and give us substantial updates (even tho the Phase 1 update took them a month and was so pitiful I thought it was a joke at first), or they need to let their stream team have early access to the hotfixes/patches to test them. Bc clearly something is going horribly wrong with their internal testing team.

All in all I just really hope the Guardian Takedown release was an eye opener for them. Even tho this basically happened before with the Maliwan Takedown and the broken Guardian Ranks. But we can hope, right?