#2019: feb

[spock-adoodledoo]

wtf this poster for nezha is really cute (source). ao bing wiping away the tear in his eye ahskldjglkw

edit: if you’re reading this go check if a local theater has nezha 2!!! go watch it!! <3

[farharbour]

fallout 4: new vegas - more vault boy animations

[teddy-bear-naps-and-random-snaps]

[kaixiety]

I’ve recently come to understand that having read nearly 1000 TLC fanfics is not a normal thing to have done. So many have been deleted. What if I am the only person that remembers the long deleted TLC x Stampylongnose Minecraft crossover fic.

[aeolianblues]

I think that Father Of All… would’ve probably been considered a really good album if it was anyone BUT Green Day’s album. Seemed kinda foreshadowed by Green Day’s own legacy, it was a catchy album. Were this a new band we’d have been talking about how cool the dance punk vibe was. Or maybe we weren’t yet that into ‘new rock’. A lot of that seemed to happen through and after the pandemic.

[yume2kke]

i hate ROHAN!!!! I HATE HIM

[hasuba-art]

2024 Art Summary 🪷

[yay-is-for-yorses]

whats a yorse i have no idea how to react to this

hiii!!! a "yorse" covers a couple different things, but generally it means yang + horse, and is regarded as cursed. Here's an example! (source)

When referring to yorse (just yorse, like a person's name) this probably means the concept itself, or whatever your personal interpretation of yorse is.

Yorse can also appear as a Centaur (ex.), or, more rarely, a yellowey horse. (ex.) These two options often present as less-cursed interpretations, likely from those who enjoy playing around with the concept itself.

I can go more into Yorse History if you'd like! It's a story of inspiration, betrayal, AND . yellow horsies :3

[louisrecords]

posted by lthqofficial on Instagram, Feb 4 2019

[sage-nebula]

Book Reviews: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - Christopher Moore

Rating: 4/5

Let me preface this by saying that although I was raised in a (loosely) Catholic household, I am not religious in the slightest. I am agnostic, and so this was not a book I picked up to either affirm or challenge my religious beliefs. It'd be rather hard to do that, given that I don't have any.

Instead, this book was recommended to me by a friend, who described it as hilarious. In truth, it was. But it wasn't just hilarious; Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal was equal parts hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking. Even though the ending is a foregone conclusion (even those of us who aren't religious know what happens to Jesus -- or, as he's known in this book, Joshua), it's Biff's reaction to those turn of events that sells it.

The premise of the book is simple: Back when Jesus / Joshua was growing up, he had a best friend most people knew as Biff. Biff was edited out of the Bible because of actions he took immediately following Joshua's death, but, at Joshua's request, he's resurrected from the dead and told to write a gospel of his own. The book jumps back and forth between the present day (where Biff both learns of the Bible as we know it and is roommates with an angel who loves soap operas and pro-wrestling) and the gospel that Biff is writing down. As the story continues the chapters spend more and more time in the past than they do the present, but all is told through Biff's narration, which is striking, hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking depending on the moment.

While Moore clearly takes liberties with certain details (such as Biff having an idea of what gravity is before it's invented, or Biff himself inventing sarcasm), it's clear how much research was put into the book in order to make the past sections period accurate and also shed some insight on some very important questions (such as, what if Jesus knew kung-fu?). Although this book is a comedy, it doesn't take potshots at religion or turn the entire thing into a joke. Rather, it's treated with gentle gravitas that truly makes you feel for Joshua, even if you're not a person who believes in Jesus yourself. All in all, I would highly recommend this book to anyone, but especially those looking for a bit of laughter to brighten their day.

[words-on-pages]

I just looked at the dates on my AO3 bookmarks and noticed that I get antsy and start looking for a new ship every 2ish years.

[impossiblepluto]

I was tagged by the lovely @rosieblogstuff to make a post with all the file names in my WIP folder (pfft... folder... you think I'm that organized?)

"So, I don't get a gas mask?"

and now for something even worse

Pinkie Promise/ blood oath

como scar revealed

holding baby mac

bozer as a "jack signal"

drugged gal

2x04 like a bad penny

a near death experience

LP

parrot fever

the fix

tbi and drugs

it's all greek to me

skeeters and sons, freckles and fathers

if you have no been tagged for this game yet I am tagging you. I want you to say that I tagged you and @ me so I can pick out one of your wip names bug you to work on it ask you about it

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

What do you mean this audio is 6 years old, I just heard it yesterday--

[mizugucci]

IM MEETING YUTO!!!!!!!!!! and secondly but still very important IM SEEING ONF!!!!!!!

[jesse-wilder]

Holtzmann: I guarantee you, in ten years, I’ll be Jesse’s second wife.

Jesse: What happened to my first wife?

Holtzmann: Nothing you can prove.

[whimsicmimic]

if you want to! tell us more about your lizard PCs because i’m so angry on your behalf from those tags

ohhhh i will HAPPILY talk about my old lizards, Especially the First Lizard, Avra Ree, because Avra Ree went on a fucking Journey.

So this! Is Avra Ree, she was a copper dragonborn and a death cleric, and she was my First Ever DnD Character. She was a fucking mess, both wrt stats (because none of us knew what we were doing; fucking TAZ:Balance taught me more about mechanics than my group at the time, and Balance was. Hooo boy.) and in terms of group cohesion, but that’s okay, because I loved her!

The gist of Avra was that she came from a clan of dragonborn that worshipped a goddess of death and rot. It was a heavily isolated group, and in leaving it to go on a pilgrimage, this would be Avra’s first time encountering the new world around her. She was full of love and joy, and she was Terrified of rain and water. She was a mortician, and regarded death with a certain gentleness and love. She also had a brother, who died from illness at a young age; she never really moved on from the grief, and kept his skull, which she kept with her and used as a spell focus.

The core themes of Avra’s character were isolation, love, and grief.

I’d play her like a few more times over the years (once in another campaign that never really took off the ground, and a few more times in one-shots) but it wouldn’t be a while until she came back.

In February of 2019, my buddy Hollis wanted to run a campaign. We were RP partners at the time! I went yea sure count me in!!!!!!

I knew I wanted to play Avra again, but I kinda wanted to mix up her design after the last few years of Lizard. so ENTER!!!! Marvey!!!!!!

Avra Ree would be rewritten as a firbolg grave cleric named Himemiya “Marvey” Llue.

Over the course of Everything, there’d been more lorework and detail given to her backstory and the setting of it.

She’d be from a clan of firbolg living in an archives that once was the hoarde of an ancient silver dragon, which was regarded as the savior of their people. They were dedicated to the preservation of knowledge above all else. Though the Great Dragon was long dead by the time Marv came about, the logul people were dedicated to the preservation of the hoarde and its expansion! On occasion, people would leave the mountain to go back out into the world and gather more books, articles, papers, newspapers, paintings — anything they could get their hands on, really. Go out, learn more about your field of study, come back and report what new discoveries had been made, if any.

Marvey’s mother would leave on a pilgrimage. She’d leave her kid and her husband behind with bright eyes and promises to be back in a few years, and then she never came back. So! Later on. Marvey would also leave. Head out into the world, find out what happened to her mother and maybe find some closure.

She’d become a cleric of Jergal, after finding a dilapidated temple of his that’d been taken over and inhabited by all sorts of imps and other nasty critters + helping clearing it out and tidying it up.

Core themes of her character were once again love, death, grief, and isolation, and some of her central conflicts revolved around trauma as a result of heavy childhood neglect, (more) grief, and also unlearning harmful shit from your upbringing and environment.

Also? Anger. Oh my god. Anger.

Marvey had ! Many, many issues. There was a big conflict between her and another party member early on that neither one of them really recovered from, and it ended up becoming a big issue that was slowly driving the party apart. Marvey was also fucking, deeply deeply angry and felt things VERY intensely, which ended up causing a lot of problems vis a vis character bleed for me, and it ended up negatively impacting my mental health to the point where we made the hard decision to let Marvey go + start playing another character.

We never found Marv’s mom, and Marv never got her closure.

Instead, Marv joined the mafia. She now — post campaign — acts as a doctor for the mob + runs a small community clinic by herself. She’s a fixture of her newfound community, and she’s fiercely protective of this small corner of the city she’s made for herself.

HOWEVER.

Avra Ree had a Real Cute Design, didn’t she? And I kinda wanted to play a lizard again after so many years. I made a lot of mistakes with Marvey; she was a source of conflict, when I wanted her to be more soft and warm, the glue that holds the party together. So when Marvey and Ish (Marv’s replacement)’s campaign ended, we decided to return to lizard.

Enter: Tamara Bhatt

This is Tama, my sweet beloved Tama. I love her So Much. She’s a brass dragonborn gunslinger/rogue. She is!!! Just A Guy! And i’m Insane about her.

She’s the oldest of five, and she comes from a very small town. She left home to head north into her country’s capital to apprentice under a weaponsmith. The way that she joined the party/campaign? Her mentor was having her deliver a package in person to one of their clients (an npc named Yu Huang, a famous actor and important political heir a few countries over. Tama and Huang would later become Best Fucking Friends.)

She’s Just A Fucking Guy, but she’s got some of The Best characterization I’ve EVER done, and I just really have a fucking blast playing her. I love this lizard so much. She’s just a guy. Just a small town lizard who went into the Big City to deliver a package, met some people, and now she’s so thoroughly entangled in this deep web of conflict with no way out. To protect one of our party members, our only options are to Get Famous, or Die Trying, and now? Tama’s in far too deep.

If I had to assign her core themes, they’d be identity, what it means to be brave, family, and isolation vs community. And Love, of course. You can fit So Much Love in this lizard.

It’s been really interesting though! Because Avra most certainly became Marvey, but Tama’s character was certainly informed by mistakes I made with playing Marv. Marv was a character who would’ve been really fun to read in a story, sure, and I love her to bits! But ultimately, she wasn’t a character well-suited for an improvisational cooperative game. She was too heavily developed, and it made her incredibly rigid. She was sweet and friendly, but INCREDIBLY stubborn and Driven. I wanted her to be a stabilizing force for the party, but she ended up becoming a source of conflict.

With Tama, though? I’ve actually managed to succeed! Tama is likeable! She’s the Big Sister of the party, the one people turn to for comfort, the mediator. There was a two-session gap where Tama actually died during combat, and her body had to be left behind, causing a lot of uncertainty and grief in the party because That’s Tama, and We Left Her Behind, and What If We Never Get Her Back? and ngl, it was genuinely Fascinating to see the hole Tama left in the party, because her absence was VERY MUCH felt!!!! You could see the arguments play out and all the spots where Tama would usually step in and help work things out, and it was ROUGH!!!!!!

But ! Idk man, I just think its Neat. That’s the story of my first DnD character, Avra Ree, who paved the way for Marvey and Tama, all three of which who are Distinct, but also kinda overlapping still. Its neat!