swallowtailed
swallowtailed
the snow & stalled sea
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swallowtailed · 6 hours ago
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oh god oh god oh god
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swallowtailed · 7 hours ago
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It's in my hair, in my sleep In my hands, in my teeth It's in my chair. It looks like me
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swallowtailed · 7 hours ago
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please does anybody have that post from the wolf 359 team that was like “we’re on the roller coaster that only goes down”. i think it was a response to an ask about the end of s3
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swallowtailed · 10 hours ago
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you think this happened only once and long ago by Marie Howe
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swallowtailed · 10 hours ago
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swallowtailed · 20 hours ago
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I don't know how this happened. I was just sketching shapes and a Flegg appeared.
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swallowtailed · 20 hours ago
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i could draw another elf. easily
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swallowtailed · 20 hours ago
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perpetua 05-08: the flames of burzin
caoimhe wake: love her. mulder about the apocalypse is very funny. really glad she has a lesbian villain rival from school and loving sylvi playing the protagonist
antistrophe landrace: just SUCH a good name. i can't wait for keith to do some wildly broken shit with doombringer.
bronte adelvys: i think i feel about janine playing bronte the way i felt about jack playing clem. all my notes are like "janine is killing it with this motherfucker". i love how clear her concept is. this is janine's game everyone else is just playing in it
tentatively intrigued by caoimhe and bronte's relationship? them becoming genuine buds would be amazing.
WORDZIN. this is so funny. i do want to hear them stream it
a lot of austin walker classics in these episodes: divorced older lesbians, hidden and secret and syncretic cults and religions, secret priestesses of those cults/religions divorced as aforementioned and committing murders about it. my best friend has gotten into fatt beginning with perpetua and i'm so pleased that she gets to hear these kinds of plot beats already
chewing on the nondiegetic double meanings bit austin is doing with for ex milsource and sourcerot. reminds me of his thing about how naming conventions are exclusively nondiegetic (like the devotee spies). but in this instance i'm already suspicious of the nature of diegesis in perpetua so
was struggling with exposition pacing in some of my own writing around the time i was listening to 06 and appreciated hearing how austin handled the intro to the hotel. i thought it was nicely done
related: i'm never really sure how i feel about running mysteries on a clock in ttrpgs. i think i think it's a bit of a cop-out in terms of writing a mystery and gives up a lot of tension, but i also know how hard it is to write a functional mystery for a ttrpg, so like, i get it
brief mention by austin of the "great perpetuan revelation" which i assume was intended to be "revolution" (unless ?) and either way is making me think a lot about the biblical book of revelation and how that might relate to, or inform our reading of, the perpetuan cycle
oh! we've met the villain that the other arc stumbled on! how interesting! this is the person who was so powerful and so dismissive of the ennead
i am curious about the nature of the older gods. i am curious what it means to become a villain and whether there is a concrete in-universe trait or power source associated with that. i'm not up on jrpgs enough (at all) to know whether it's typical for there to be one great force of evil
keith deciding to use his crit to bring the ghost of lady m'shalia back in was really really good. it's also interesting that austin stated that this was not the kind of thing that the supreme villain wants sourcerot to be used for--i didn't think sourcerot was that directed.
it'd be interesting if sourcerot were known to the other party under a different name.
also deeply funny that they just went into the boss fight still burning the candle. i'm enjoying how blunt this party is. something needs done? okay, they're doing it. now caoimhe is dramatically unconscious on the ground.
other things i enjoyed: bronte's dance, antistrophe's two shields, frankly most every npc's energy
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swallowtailed · 1 day ago
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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
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swallowtailed · 2 days ago
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They are on their way to a wendover shoot <3
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swallowtailed · 3 days ago
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i've decided it's topographical anomaly tuesday
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swallowtailed · 4 days ago
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project designed by my advisor’s advisor, who took us to the site without using a map and then immediately vanished. each plot separated into 8 rows of individually marked subplots in a nice tidy grid, with every tree tagged and able to be checked by tag number and grid coordinates against decades worth of data. extremely robust as long term study design goes. so imagine my surprise when we finished row 8 of our first plot and saw an entire extra row of subplots on the end of the grid, marked and tagged but not numbered and completely absent from the decades long data set. we remeasured everything in row 9 anyway but i felt like i was in the fucking twilight zone. kept asking the interns to check my work (counting to 9). entire plot was also at such an angle that i kept getting disoriented and forgetting what subplot i was in which did not help the feeling of having accidentally unlocked some tenth rank of the house in blue prince
getting blue princed at the long term study site
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swallowtailed · 4 days ago
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getting blue princed at the long term study site
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swallowtailed · 6 days ago
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Song: Autumn Not Winter Artist: Jack de Quidt Album: Autumn Not Winter: Friends at the Table Soundtrack
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swallowtailed · 7 days ago
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Starting a new sports team called the Tampa Bay Trespassers and they play any sport that they can break onto the field of
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swallowtailed · 7 days ago
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fantastic dnd session today. our dm offered my character a level in cleric or paladin and i did not take it :):):)
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swallowtailed · 7 days ago
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My Child
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