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managed to book an urgent passport correction appointment for Friday hhhhh

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So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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the night is full of dangers (students in all black riding e-scooters)

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i never write or publish fics and yet somehow i have now published 2 in one day, what.

putting siffrin through the meat grinder (barely) (fun!):

putting siffrin through the meat grinder (a lot) (oh god):

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i know this character. ralsei after 10 years of estrogen

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Botanical [ 8 colors ]

Nature doesn't hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

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hello, I am coming to you as resident expert in all things Aylin and game structure. i'm doing a playthrough as a selunite cleric, and despite hitting all the nightsong point triggers etc, when i used the selunite-specific dialogue option (no roll required) to urge Shadowheart not to kill Aylin, she killed her anyway! do you reckon this was a glitch, or does asking as a Selunite just piss Shadowheart off enough to make her do the opposite of what you've asked???

Hi! I'm very flattered, hahah, thank you!

It's not a glitch, no, it seems to be very deliberately scripted to go that way. The two Selûnite options in that scene lead directly to Aylin getting murdered - both the one saying kill her and the one saying spare her. The horrible reaction makes sense to me personally: Selûne, in any capacity, is the very last thing Shadowheart wants to hear about right now.

Under the cut, I took a look at what the dialogue nodes actually look like and how this was implemented.

The first one, pictured above, is just a Selûne-flavoured version of you saying "kill her" which proceeds directly to Node 9, breaking your Ancients oath if you're a paladin, then to Node 88 that makes sure Shadowheart actually has the spear that can permakill Aylin (and is an alias/reference to Node 114 detailed elsewhere which is the cutscene of Shadowheart's wound glowing and the spear appearing in her hand), and then to Node 94 aka the cinematic of Aylin being killed.

The existence of this option is actually wild to me, but I assume they wanted to come up with some excuse to give you the same direct 'kill Aylin' option no matter what you were playing.

The second Selûnite option we see here right below the nodes representing you telling Shadowheart to choose for herself. It's a simple check at this point: whatever else the case, if you told Shadowheart you can't make the decision for her and you have 40 or more approval, Aylin is getting spared with the spear getting tossed and all that familiar dialogue up there rolling on.

If you have less than 40 approval, we're skipping to Node 9 from the chain I detailed above and Aylin is getting killed. The same goes for the Selûnite option - it's a direct link to the result when you don't have enough approval. Zoomed in:

If Shadowheart doesn't have the spear when she decides or is encouraged to kill Aylin at this point, you get one of my favourite Aylin lines:

Lamb before a lion, with that proud head tilt even though she's imprisoned and in rags. Actually, here's the delivery, because I love it so much.

I love you Aylin, never change.

As always, a plug for the drive containing all the nicely parsed dialogue files to peruse to your heart's content and follow along the various nodes and options like a great big choose your own adventure book.

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HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO PUNISH A KNIGHT WHO BLUSHES AND SMILES EVERY TIME YOU TRY

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Constant occurrence where I’m like “I’m sort of pent up, but I’m an adult who can watch adult videos and jack off about it if I want to” and then I watch adult videos for like an hour and then turn off my laptop and realize ten minutes later that I completely forgot the “jorking it” step. I spent the whole hour critiquing the plot and camera work stonefaced and utterly flaccid

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Siffrin gazing

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Tumblr did not “Goncharov” Poob. Poob is Glupp Shittoing Tubi/Pluto/Roku Channel/Hulu/etc.

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Freaks.

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i played ff9 for the first time recently (and finished it!) was a really awesome game! (some doodles)

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this conversation was funny and i wanted to draw it

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Boktai: The sun is in your hand (2003)

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the author's barely disguised longing to be a real person