#support: alm

[pillarofopenness]

[21 Questions]

“Oh, Sharena! Nice to see you here, too,” Alm nearly bumps shoulders with the Blue Lion while scrolling over his newest literature of interest. He’s only encountered her once before while helping out with reconstruction with the monastery. Not the best time for idle chatter, so maybe now could be better…?

“See this? It’s a book full of random questions. I think they’re meant to get people to know each other better? But like…there’s some in here that I just don’t get.”

To set an example, Alm flips a couple of pages over and squints with tongue out to make out the tiny text. “What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever bought? I rarely track the strangeness of what I’ve purchased in the past as is. Let alone my entire life.”

Alm looks back at the fellow student. “Well I mean…if you somehow do have a good answer, I wouldn’t mind hearing it. You can hit me back with another one here, if that makes us even.”

“Alm! I didn’t expect to see you here!” An unexpected surprise, but most certainly not an unwelcome one. With the whole ‘random pairing’ thing, she would’ve figured he wouldn’t have shown, what with there being a chance of him not being assigned Celica and all. 

She can’t say the familiar face isn’t a bit of a relief though. Even if they’re... All familiar, technically. Familiar in the sense they’ve spoken before. In this context. This context being Fodlan. Not Askr. Gosh, this is complicated.

“Ooh, fun! ‘Strangest’, huh..?” The princess is already poking her head over the other’s shoulder to read the question herself before he can finish saying it allowed, potential answers already flooding her mind as she taps her chin with a finger. “Well… My friend back home’s a merchant, so she had me buying all kinds of weird things thinking they were an absolute necessity I just could not live without.” An occurrence way more common than she’d ever like to admit. 

Half of it wasn’t even regift-worthy… All that space in her room… gone….. reduced to storage……

“A lot of it was… I don’t wanna say she scammed me, but… yeah she totally scammed me. I caught on though! ….Eventually.” Definitely not because she ended up getting yelled at for spending so much of their funds. She cringes a little at the memory that definitely does not exist because it did not happen. Totally.

cough. “Anyway,” Sharena reaches out to flip over to the next page, pointing down at the first question she sees that isn’t just ‘what’s your favorite color’. “Ooh, how ‘bout this one? ‘If you had to switch places with an animal for 1 day, which animal would you choose and why?’”

[displaced-tactician]

Morgan heard about a flock of Gideon turkeese deciding to hang around Garreg Mach. She didn't know much about these birds, but rumors in the Abyss had it that they were a VIOLENT and DEVIOUS creature that often hunted the hunters! But that they also tasted AMAZING! Even the big wig cooks up top wanted them.

Someone lent her a basic bow to go hunting and off she was! Looking for food in the form of these likely extremely violent beasts.

She soon found the birds and brought the bow up in a "proper position" as the person who lent it to her recommended, and tried shooting it. The arrow flew through the air, and lodged itself in a near by tree. Okay this was getting no where.

She tossed the bow to the side, opened her tome, and cast thoron at the group of birds, MISSING EVERY SINGLE ONE AS THEY FLEW AWAY! But the beam shot far and true! Then sizzled out. Oh well... may as well shoot another!

@jasperblion

Hungry Hungry Thorons || Morgan and Alm

+1 Bow

[valentialbein]

I figure it’s worth putting on the Tumblr radar since much of this is current discussion of Niosi is happening on Twitter.

(content warnings for sexual assault, abuse, manipulation, and otherwise taking advantage of people)

On Chris Niosi, and Kyle McCarley’s defense of him:

Recently Chris Niosi (aka Kirbopher), who has admitted to abusing people around him for at least a decade, was cast in Honkai Star Rail as the character Moze. Five years have passed since his public apology, where he addresses some specific callouts from victims to debatable effect, but unfortunately he’s lied about apologizing to all of his victims (1, 2), and the specific apologies he has written are now deleted from his tumblr, calling his efforts into changing for the better into his question. Furthermore, as he has a history of taking advantage of his fans even in his more underground days (1+2, 3), putting him in a situation where he has access to more fans to put him on a pedestal is dangerous. Other users have iterated much of this already on tumblr, where it was already discussed in previous years, so this is just some context.

But I’m here to talk about something related that hasn’t gotten any Tumblr coverage. For example, people here have talked about Griffin Puatu’s reddit post defending him already. But nobody has mentioned Kyle McCarley defending him yet.

On July 19, 2024, in the replies of Moze’s introduction tweet, he had this to say:

He addresses his use of “bad boyfriend” downplaying legitimate abuse later. I don't think it's great but we’ll get to that. However, “the court of public opinion” is a concept that he does stand by, perhaps reinforced by the backlash he received for this. Some of this was vitriolic, given the kind of person he was defending from further criticism, but others did try to reason with him, including some of the above and more as evidence that Niosi isn’t being entirely truthful about his atonement, and overall most responses expressed disbelief and disappointment more than anything else.

Still, he deactivated his account the following day, on July 20, 2024.

Unfortunately, our story doesn’t end there. In the early morning of July 21, 2024, he made an announcement in his Discord server.

So here's the thing about Niosi not being a confirmed sexual abuser or rapist or pedophile. I don't have everything, with this being such an expansive case so this is off what I've found. You know the time he planned to take advantage of his girlfriend at the time while said girlfriend was intoxicated (plus this follow-up where he attempted to cover for himself)? Drunk people cannot consent, especially not when drunk sex is already a hard boundary. Although this technically doesn't make him a rapist, to my knowledge, if you're gonna argue semantics it'll just sound like "well he didn't ACTUALLY rape someone so it's not as bad". Is it not already terrible that he tried to and still downplayed it when called on it? Besides, as mentioned in Lighty's testimony linked above, he's let other in his sphere groom minors under his watchful eye, and his other ex Audrey had things to say about how he weaponized sexual favors too. If someone actually has more on a history of sexual abuse and pedophilia, though, please bring it to my attention. I'll add it to this post.

Either way, we don't know what he knows. At best, Kyle has a very incomplete picture of the situation, and at worst he does have a complete picture and he just doesn’t think it’s valid or up-to-date criticism. The person who first brought this to people's attention on Twitter also mentioned that her messages in the server were being deleted when she spoke up to provide evidence, so for someone who welcomes others to share evidence how open he actually is to it is questionable. (UPDATE: There's more to this part of the story but we'll get to it in a future update.) His final message a couple of hours from these just solidifies it.

Having joined the server myself to see, around the time of the announcements seems to have been scrubbed clean, but there is some current discussion of the topic as of this post. Furthermore, someone there has stated that they're compiling sources to send his way to give him a better understanding of the situation (even if they're not sure if he still wants to talk about this), so maybe this will finally get him to reconsider his stance! Only time will tell.

Overall, though, I stand by my point that if Niosi makes a living, it should be somewhere far away from the public eye. Don't give him a platform to find new fans to take advantage of. Don't give his victims the opportunity to be retraumatized whenever they start a new game of show. He's been given more than enough chances. It's time to turn over a new leaf instead of digging his heels into the ground.

Still, I don't know if Kyle will change his mind at this point. I want him to - I tried, back when his Twitter was still up - but even at this stage he's doubled down on a situation he knows he might not have the full story on and I'm not sure if I can trust that. For any other fans, give this some thought - keep an eye out for any future developments if you still want to have faith in him, move on from him if you can't stand it. I just want him to at least hold his friend accountable instead of trying to shield him from the lasting consequences of his own actions.

(I'll be linking future updates here: #1, #2 and #3 for now.)

[frederikvesti]

iron.dames Under the lights and in the zone. 🔥

[t0bey]

getting into the groove of SoV but i still hate the way supports r handled in this game </3 why on earth would i waste a turn in battle for two characters to have half a conversation. thats stupid

[direthunder]

"They're herd animals," Olwen stated simply. "Like sheep, yes. Though I daresay horses are a bit higher-strung, but we bred that into them. It's in their nature to run, so anything that might be a threat awakens their instinct to flee. We have to do everything we can to keep them from doing that if we're to be successful. That said, I can't expect this one to just fall in line because I have another horse with me. It's not a horse he knows or anything."

She sighed, crossing her arms over her chest as she looked at the horse in question. It certainly seemed an ornery thing, she could say that much. The look in its eyes-- that wasn't the look of an animal ready to trust her. They'd need something to sweeten the deal for it, some reason for it to want to trust them. She'd come prepared for this exact circumstance, thankfully. A quick rummage through one of the saddlebags on her own steed preceded her producing a small berry that she tossed in the horse's direction before she turned her gaze back to Alm.

"Don't stare at it," Olwen advised, "that'll only make it more nervous. I wouldn't normally feed my own horse a bunch of sweet fruits on a regular basis, but one or two as a treat won't hurt. More importantly, it's a tasty little treat for a horse. Showing them that we've got a supply of these on hand should hopefully make them eager to follow us in order to get more."

Not that she could say anything with absolute certainty. She didn't know this horse's personality, after all. From what she'd seen, the beast didn't seem particularly bold. It wouldn't trust too easily. She wouldn't be all too surprised if it turned its nose up at anything she had to offer. Still, Olwen figured that it would be better to try and use this as a teachable moment. She pulled a few more berries from the saddlebag, placing them into the boy's hand.

"Here, once he's had that first berry, offer him one of these," Olwen suggested. "No sudden movements, don't look him in the eye, don't reach towards him. Offer it on an outstretched hand, and let him come to you. If it's his decision, he'll be more agreeable about it."

you are BANNED from the horse council.

mission task: distress (riding +1)

[midnight--capricorn]

I don't see myself drawing something similar to this again but still.

I kinda like how this turned out. Can't be bothered to shade it but I like it.

Also yeah this kinda goes with a couple of personal headcanons of mine- I think I've already explained that Celica is warm. Yes that is one of my hcs for her she's just permanently warm. The other I could elaborate on. And I will, because it's also short.

Basically it just relates to post-game- neither of them have an easy time sleeping due to the events they've had to go through, so they just end up snuggled next to each other- consciously or not.

Also while I know I will not get comments like this- yes, I know Alm is taller. I wouldn't even say I draw him short I just have not figured out a good way to have him snuggle up to his slightly shorter wife besides this. Idk I am not good at drawing ship art.

[crevassier]

There’s a lot he could remark about in the current situation. The new blues that he wears that are much too large for him. Needing to sit in said blues without the borrowed clothes slipping off as he takes his first spin of the bottle. The fact that the bottle that is spun with less power than he favored slides right in front of…

…him.

Now, if it is not clear from the fact that the bottle’s chosen is now equipped with his party attire, Alm is well aware of the choice to opt out for the nearby challenges. Nor does Alm particularly pine to feel the lips of the same gender. Any other situation, and the Valentian would take the simple way out without a second thought.

But likewise…those who have spun before have expressed much bravery for committing to the game, and for him no less. Yeah, that’s right. This is just a game. No need to think so hard beyond that!

“Kind of weird to do this with someone wearing my clothes…” Alm humors the thought aloud, deciding to leave it without any further explanation. He’s already seen how Sylvain struggled to move freely earlier, so to minimize risk of tearing his paired clothing, Alm makes this quick.

He doesn’t fully cheap out, but the meeting of their lips is slightly brief. A bit off-center, too. But he makes sure to stay there for a second at most, before making his escape.

Honestly…yeah, a lot less pleasant than kissing with the girls. Maybe he shouldn’t have come in with such negative bias… Oh, what the hell is he thinking?!

“There. Now we both have at least one tonight,” Alm attempts to rectify his potential mistake before scooting back to his side.

Kiss given! 3 for 3.

Eventually able to right himself into a somewhat comfortable sitting position while remaining mindful of the outfit, he couldn’t even really laugh at Edelgard’s struggle with the hot pepper- if anything Sylvain was more amused at his own condition, easily brushing off remarks on his awkward movements. “I think you could use a cup of water, Your Highness! Not implying that you’re weak or anything, but that does look pretty painful…sheesh.” Her face was tomato-red and all, at least matching with the Black Eagles’ banner colors…

It was then that his attention went back to the bottle- pointing at him and hinting at his next partner, by pure coincidence being Alm himself. Sylvain first looked at the other boy in surprise, before giving him a playful wink and wondering if he was willing to go for a-

Oh wait, he was?

The redhead had to admit he wasn’t quite expecting it- much less that his first kiss in the night was going to be Alm of all people here, but hey no complaints. Quick and sweet, Once the deed was done Sylvain offered a thumbs up and a cheeky grin. “Look at you Alm, getting all the kisses tonight! Welp, I gotta start catching up somehow! Game's on!” It was a false competition, but there was no sin in some joking thrill.

Kiss count: 1

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Supporter (2016) by Nick Alm

[sacredechoes]

Alm and Celica supports C-A, written for Sacred Echoes.

[pillarofopenness]

New building materials are being shipped as donations from various noble houses to help with the reconstruction effort, but those materials need to actually be moved to the right areas! Big, strong arms are in desperate need to do all the necessary heavy lifting, and hey, it might be a good idea to keep a close eye on how your new room's being rebuilt… [Grants Heavy Armor +1]

Sharena hasn’t really visited Fodlan, herself, before now. But she’s seen enough Fodlans from the time this is supposed to be through the gateways Kiran summons the students from. A happy, bright, friendly world. Full of peace. Not a pile of mostly rubble. It’s just sad.

She frowns as she steps over a larger piece of wood (probably a support beam that failed its job, she assumes. Not that she blames it in these conditions), carefully approaching the nearest building that once was. Probably a home, by the looks of it. Not one for very long, but a home nonetheless. It’s still gotta be devastating.

She turns her head to the person standing next to her, the one she assumes to be the homeowner, or at least the one who rented it or something, however it works here. Despite how many people she’s seen clearly not meant to be in this world, and yet are already, she nearly stumbles back at the sight of the warrior next to her. Thankfully though, she doesn’t. That would’ve been embarrassing. And pretty rude, considering the circumstances.

Huh. Feels weird, seeing him without Celica for once.

The princess coughs, then clears her throat. She doesn’t want to startle him in a place like this, after all. She very much likes her head where it is, thank you. “Was, uh… was this one yours?”

@jasperblion

you know house flipper’s 70% off right now

[sunx28]

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[itwaslegendary]

i have a lovely dnf list in my about page and it would be nice if… yk… you didn’t follow me if you fit any of the criteria ! 😃

[nondivisable]

in the spirit of diy or die I'd like to remind yall that there's people, usually small local businesses whose is literally fix clothing

I had a pair of boots that i wore religiously almost every day for five years; had the soles fixed twice by a shoesmaker for less than half of what a new pair would've cost

almost alm of my zippers have broken at least once, local seamstress fixes them for like 10 bucks

yes, making your clothes yourself is good - both in spirit and economically speaking - but you can still pay people for fixes you can't do yourself. it's still punk af to support small traders