#whatever can go wrong will go wrong

[howifeltabouthim]

'Damn it, we had a plan.' 'Which worked beautifully right up until the point where it didn't . . . Such is the way of plans.'

Jenn Lyons, from The Ruin of Kings

[tvmusiclife]

Please find San Diego Wave a new stadium to play at next season! Snapdragon's consistently terrible field conditions are a joke. Aztecs (college football), Legion (rugby), and the Wave play there currently. In 2025, the MLS team will begin play and get first dibs on scheduling. Move the NWSL team ASAP 🥴

[licorishh]

no way she's alive ?? yea those mental health breaks because social media makes people suck are wild huh

[perplexingly]

I kinda genuinely don't understand this fandom tendency of interpreting things a Certain Way and believing that all else is incorrect

You guys really need to get into some 500 year old theatre play, watch 50 different performances and understand that even the "set in stone 100% acknowledged by scholars" interpretations can be disputed

[circusclowne]

drew a ton of pairs with taco

[flowersforthemachines]

I'm really surprised by some people saying they imagined Neve to be taller in response to the height chart I posted a few days ago (as if in, taller than Lucanis at least).

for all intents and purposes, Neve is quite small. her height, shoulder and waist width have negative values, while the rest of her body value are set to zero. (except for the hip height value, but I don't think it even does anything, so who cares)

I'm not a fashion theorist or anything, but white, one of Neve's predominant colours, generally makes people appear bigger than they do. the puffy sleeves of her casual outfit/the pauldrons of her starting armour/the cape of the Gabardine Overcoat and the Investigator's Robes/the shoulder pads or whatever she has going on with all her other outfits make the same impression.

if you try to give her other outfits, you will notice that she is indeed three apples tall and 1 apple wide (screenshots below taken from Neve Casual and Armor Outfit Swaps and Neve in Executioner's Plume mods on nexus, which I think showcase my point well).

not to mention that she is wearing heels with all of her outfits. whatever height you see in the game, she is in fact even less tall than that.

I personally like to think that this was an intentional choice. both on the part of the character designers, and in-universe — I see it as Neve specifically dressing in a way that "conceals" her natural frame and serves to widen the silhouette and make her appear taller instead. for whatever reason that may be.

[sunlight-shunlight]

my further opinion is that: god. it is SUCH a missed fucking opportunity that the inquisitor never came back as a pc after trespasser, because... the well of sorrows geas? INCREDIBLE potential to integrate it with the gameplay.

like, how do rpgs usually work? you get quests in your log, and you can't progress until you do them! you can decide the order, maybe as you do one, another gets locked out, etc, but fundamentally your character is following a list of options and checking them off. that's... also exactly how the geas would work, haha.

like you suddenly get "gather 5 flowers and put them on mythal's shrine" as an unavoidable quest marker. you can't progress the plot until you do it. you can put it off, but it's always there! seems innocuous at first. maybe you get one that just says "go to sleep" and when you interact with your bed, you get a creepy nightmare vision of arlathan. then you get more and more specific quests - like during another quest, you get a popup to, idk, break into a specific room and take an artifact. and then go drop off the artifact somewhere else later when you get to a new region.

and the inquisitor does not have the option to say anything about this. and perhaps npcs will start to comment on them acting weird, and you start getting [leafless tree symbol] dialogue options, that you can select if you want, that allow you to speak elvhen fluently/do weird magic shit/bypass various problems/etc. maybe you avoid them completely, maybe you start relying on it a bit to deal with ancient elf stuff, up to you.

and then, at a certain point, flemythal decides to actually pull the strings. you've arrived at... idk, solas' ritual point, or some really valuable thing, and you and your companions' goals do not align with flemythal's there. so you pop into a conversation where your companions go "hey, why are you looking so strange? everything ok?" and then ALL your reply options are [leafless tree symbol]. and then it initiates combat. your inquisitor is now briefly hostile and fights the rest of the party as a distraction, as a dragon swoops overhead, does whatever flemythal wanted, swoops away again, and then drops the control once she's done.

[fogbreo]

first-time baking :)

they swapped the measurements of baking soda with sugar :(

[simcardiac-arrested]

ATTENTION: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS TREE? IF YOU HAVE, YOU MIGHT HAVE FALLEN INTO SOME SORT OF RIP IN THE FABRIC OF TIME

alt version because i also liek it :)

[egophiliac]

I'm trying to avoid getting spoiled so I haven't looked up what's happening in the Jp server's main story, but for my own sanity I need to ask; is the story at a point where we know whether Lilia will get better/survive his almost-empty magic reserves..? Was it a true death flag from the start or only a plot device for malleus' overblot....?

not yet! I do think they're going to get back to it eventually, but -- keeping it as low spoilers as possible -- there's been...let's just say a LOT going on in the meantime.

enjoy 7-6!!! :)

[cementcornfield]

Bro, I can't get Burrow to do shit, bro. Throw me the football, bro.

[cheschesterpossum]

Guys, my blorbos. They're all y/n inserts but I treat them like they're my ocs regardless.

Y/N....

I love them sm

[hopelesslyunstable]

Ajaw who consistently uses a small amount of the limited power he has access to from his sealed state in order to prevent Kinich from aging

it takes Kinich a few years to even notice. It’s not until other people around him subtly start to change. Wayna gaining a few gray hairs, Kachina getting taller, Mualani seeming more mature

and people telling Kinich he hasn’t aged a day. Ajaw usually says something snarky along the lines of how Kinich just continues to be a pesky bug who won’t die…

Ajaw knows this is counterproductive to his goal of acquiring Kinich’s body for his own use, but when Kinich finally points it out, Ajaw can only say that it’s because he wants Kinich’s body to be in the best shape when he finally dies

Ajaw isn’t stupid, he knows the body of an old man won’t be as useful to control, and if Kinich dies of old age it would be terrible for Ajaw! Not to mention having to put up with Kinich for years and years and years just waiting for him to kick the bucket and only getting a frail old body in return… so really Ajaw is just scheming (at least that’s what he argues)

Kinich didn’t care at first. What’s a few more years? Until those years start adding up, and time passes quicker, Ajaw doesn’t change—not on the outside, at least

And if Kinich outlives everyone he knows, who’s going to stop Ajaw? Kinich made the deal, and he’s hardly paid the price he agreed on, instead—he’s lost much more (and gained something else that he never asked for)

He cares now, tired of watching everyone change, watching everyone die, the only other constant is the warm sun, and Ajaw.

Ajaw who is selfish, and arrogant, and rude, even if Kinich grew to resent him for what he’s doing, what could he do? Part of the deal was allowing Ajaw his limited freedom, and Kinich never goes back on his word.

Especially when there’s a price he’s itching to pay, and one he thought Ajaw was just as eager to collect.

(Even if that has since changed as well.)

[sengenism]

What's the moment you started shipping Sengen? Mine is definitely when Gen and Senku agreed they'll condemn their soul together to hell, it's small but it's the moment I started loving this ship.

I know there's the Gen asking for cola while injured scene but idk... They condemning their soul together to hell stirred something deep inside my heart...

- 🧅

the "senku ishigami and asagiri gen will be condemning themselves to an eternity of hell" scene is so insane i think about it all the time

funny thing about this scene is that the only other time they used such phrasing was in the light novel, where it narrates homura's loyalty to hyouga

Even then, Homura had no regrets. She had offered her very own future to the other prisoner, Hyouga. Even if the future was pitch black, if it was to fall to hell with him she did not mind in the least.

homura... who is in love with hyouga... hmm interesting

btw loved them ever since the observatory scene in the anime!! the anime, specifically, because i read the manga first. but only when the anime came out in 2019 did i realise how romantic the observatory scene actually was... like... it hit me that this was the most perfect gift one could present to senku then. how much thought gen put behind it all, to the point of manipulating senku into giving him a hint to calculate senku's birthday.

it's such a lovely scene and gen orchestrating the whole thing with the help of the villagers truly speaks volume for his love and care for senku. and i don't necessarily mean love in a romantic way– well, could be– but no matter the form of love the reader interprets this scene as, it's undeniable that gen genuinely loves senku for being senku. it is the purest kind of love, for he admits he likes senku regardless of the gain he gets from it.

and this scene is so so so so gen. there's manipulation, sure, but there is also kindness hidden behind it– that's the core of gen's personality. he is a good man who hides his kindness behind layers of manipulation. similarly, he manipulated chrome into picking the card that would allow chrome to ride the parachute first because he knew how baaaadly chrome wanted to.

and one of the best parts about the observatory scene? inagaki-sensei had revealed in a Q&A session that the saturn that senku saw through the telescope was merely his own mental imagery. with gen's limited science knowledge on making a telescope, the telescope made by him and the villagers wasn't advanced enough to see a planet. which means senku was so touched, he had lied about the telescope being good.

anyways, i've talked about how important gifts are to the ishigamis here and i'd like to point out that this makes the gift mean so much more to senku than a simple (maybe useless) telescope. thanks for coming to my ted talk~

[mumblesplash]

actually while i’m still in my high level fitness competition posting era, if anyone has even a passing interest in the difference between strongman and bodybuilding this diet swap video is a pretty fun look at that:

[hungrydata]

Day 85

I like ShadowVanilla/PureMilk (which I like to call VanillaMilk bc why tf not??), but I personally prefer PureLily (PureShadowLily is also nice)

However, if you were to ask me how exactly I view these three's realtionship, it would be like this:

Sound: Helluva Boss Pilot (2019)