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[zluckychap]

my friends Don't Play Pressure (yet)

[tisslesu]

Somebody help this man...

(Izuna Week Day 2: Accidental Children Acquisition)

[thegeminisage]

there is conflicting information about where the ossuary is in veilguard.

dialogue suggests that it was off the coast of tevinter, starting with this conversation you have with him after completing sea of blood:

this implies the venatori got him once he docked in minrathous, which means the ossuary must have been close enough to drag him to while he was still knocked out. there's a dialogue i don't have a screenshot of where lucanis says something like "it's not just their prisons that are underwater but their catacombs too." also, this is an elven prison occupied and repurposed by tevene forces - tevene blood mages run it. they'd have a hard time doing that if the prison was off the coast of antiva.

so the ossuary is off the coast of tevinter, probably minrathous specifically. easy, right?

WRONG. We Must Consider The Rowboat. which rowboat? thanks for asking. at the beginning of sea of blood, the section that takes place in treviso, illario says that caterina has "arranged a boat," and leads you to a little rowboat manned by a single unnamed mage crow...

with a single rower paddling a single oar, they begin their journey...

out of treviso's canals...

arriving at...

.................................minrathous? this landscape feels so indistinct it could be anywhere

(screenshots courtesy of this video, since i'm too lazy to boot up mine right now)

i'm now going to show you a screenshot of the thedas world map:

i know it's a little hard to see, but the bottom line, in purple, is the trip the hawke family (e aveline) took in dragon age 2 to get from gwaren to kirkwall. this journey, though it was slower than the usual trip due to bad weather, canonically took 2 weeks.

the red line at the top is the trip from treviso to minrathous. even with perfect weather and no trouble from rivaini pirates or qunari dreadnoughts, there's absolutely no way this journey takes less time than the gwaren/kirkwall trip. and we're expected to believe, what, that one little crow with one little oar took us all the way there on a ROWBOAT? around the entirety of rivain??? when they could step into an eluvian and be in minrathous in minutes?

so the ossuary must be in antiva, right? but if it was, why wait until lucanis's ship took such a long journey and got all the way to minrathous if they were just gonna take him all the way back to antiva to lock him up under rialto bay? they'd have had to keep him unconscious but alive for WEEKS to make sure the next time he woke up was underwater.

it is worth noting that viago says lucanis's SHIP was attacked - this sort of implies they got him at sea, potentially right after he left antivan shores (meaning a much shorter trip to get him to an ossuary which is off the coast of antiva), but it also conflicts with what lucanis says about the venatori waiting for him when his ship docked in minrathous.

finally, there's the matter of zara. after lucanis escapes, zara is found in treviso. like we get a lead from viago about venatori being in treviso, and we follow the trail and literally find and kill her there. she's chilling out in a giant tub full of blood. she's obviously been living there at least awhile to get something like that set up. is that where she fled after lucanis escaped the ossuary* and fucked up all her experiments? is that where she went when she wasn't torturing demons? she's not just gonna LIVE in a prison, right? both scenarios imply an ossuary in antiva - an ossuary in tevinter would be way too far away to make this plausible.

in the coffee with the crows, we get this conversation:

this doesn't help us either because there are two ways to read it:

zara was never in treviso to kill caterina because illario was doing all of that. she was always in vyrantium (which is why she wasn't in the ossuary), so the crows found her at the correct spot, and this is foreshadowing illario's illicit activities. she comes to treviso later (because ???)

zara IS in treviso (because again, this IS where we eventually find and kill her) and illario is worried his betrayal will be discovered if he doesn't put lucanis off her trail.

the first scenario implies the ossuary is off the coast of tevinter; the second implies it is off the coast of antiva. admittedly, the second scenario feels more right to me because lucanis's deduction is likely meant to be read as correct by players to show off how perceptive he is and how shady illario is, but again, the dialogue about lucanis's ship (and the fact that it's a prison run by a tevene blood magic cult) strongly suggests the ossuary is off the coast of tevinter.

so which is it?? please vote with your hearts. feel free to explain your reasoning/your passions. reblog for sample size etcetc.

*i am still fully convinced that a section about the ossuary getting flooded, perhaps deliberately by lucanis and/or rook, got cut from the game, but that is a topic for another post

[undertale-fic-librarby]

U have any Errormare (Errorx Nightmare) fanfics that arent Nsfw? Thanks in advance!

Howdy, thanks for asking! Here are some fics that might fit what you're looking for!

Destructive Glitches - Echoes Of The Night by Laughing_Zombie (Teen And Up, Incomplete)

Nightmare and Error have fallen into the Void. The Gloom and Doom Boys have returned to their old homes since then. Error is greatly weakened by this event and needs magically aid, Nightmare lost his hold on the Multiverse and wants nothing more than to get revenge on his brother. The two friends vowed to be by each other' side no matter what. Together the ERROR and the Nightmare shall raise again.

The Forgotten Creator by 09Shell_sea09 (General Audiences, Incomplete)

Error always knew some things where off. He knew how to create things he had no memory of learning how to. He always felt off. It hadn't started off with a bang, in fact they had started with the whisper, and it had come over time. Over observation. Until he finally realized, exactly what had been done to him, and the full extent and reason of Fate's hate towards him.  Balanceverse - My new AU created with @gdesertsand, our new baby Inspired by Harrish6, Healing what has been broken.

The Betrayer {Card Edition} by Laughing_Zombie (Teen And Up, Complete)

Once upon a time, the four kingdoms were ruled by the Royals; the King, the Queen and the Jack. Loosely based on Cardverse. full summary and author's note inside (ch1)

Anomaly by Star_Struuk (Teen And Up, Incomplete)

The day Paperjam met their creators, it was decided that they stay with Ink. Three years later, Blue realizes that might not have been the best idea and situates them to stay with Error in Nightmare’s castle. Paperjam is reluctant. They had been fine how they were, all holed up at Ink’s. Really. (A.k.a. me not seeing enough non-shippy PJ fics and taking matters into my own hands.)

Runaway by WeirdLookingWolf (Teen And Up, Incomplete)

Nightmare gets chased out of the village leading him to end up in a new and much different village that seems much better. While he misses his brother, he just can't bring himself to go back so maybe he could make a new home here? (Runaway!Nightmare AU for the soul) (Slow updates)

[angeart]

Howwwww did you angst the world tour?? 🎀

this question made me giggle so much oh i'm glad you asked :3c there was so much yummy grian angst in the hc world tour!

it's all about grian and his penchant for destruction. he doesn't even mean to! he's not trying to be pesky; quite the opposite. he's curious but restrained, trying to be good, trying to follow instructions. he's not malicious at all! he's just there to see what people were up to, open and friendly and curious, eager to look and learn and praise. not a bad intention in sight... and yet things seem to break wherever he goes. everything he touches goes wrong.

the guilt churns, acidic and overwhelming, and grian's miserable. why is he like this? he's trying so hard, why is this the only way he can ever be? why can't it stop?

spoilers for grian's world tour video below <3

plantie pointed out to me how, during the tour of scar's train, when grian got rid of scar's arrows—the glitched ones that doc put there—he was so desperate to point it out after scar just glossed over it. as if he wanted to show that he can do something good. he can be helpful, he can fix things instead of just breaking everything.

but then we have all the other things, right? grian can't escape it.

when he was with etho and the mushroom farm exploded, he sums it up in a wretched if confused apology: "i'm so sorry. the two times i tried to use it, i broke it :( and created a water source floating— which i don't know how it happened— and flung the TNT, which i really don't understand—"

they move on, but it's so clear it lingers.

etho isn't blaming him. he's amused and brushes it off and moves along, unbothered, but grian himself can't wrap his head around it. about that propensity to breaking things, even unintentionally. the way nothing is safe around him.

he tells etho: "i can't stop thinking about your mushroom farm. why does everything i touch break, in new and unexpected ways?"

(not to mention when etho's showing him frogger and grian plays, almost instantly etho goes: "uh-oh, the game's broken", with a little huff of laugh. it wasn't exactly tied to anything grian did, but still something i wanted to point out, since grian was there for it <3)

and then grian goes to zedaph, right?

the very first game zedaph shows him. the very first. grian plays the way he was told to, the way he was meant to, and— he breaks it.

zedaph just laughs and moves them on.

(just sprinkling in a side note that zedaph's furnace minigame also didn't seem to work the way it should've—)

by the time grian gets to pearl's, it's starting to be a pattern that's so clearly eating away at him, making him anxious. he doesn't want it to happen again!

and yet.

pearl invites him to play her wordle game, and grian mindlessly goes and pushes the wrong button trying to start it... instantly stepping away with a quiet groan of a dread-filled "...oh-" followed by: "i just— ruined it already."

there's something about the mood switch. the way he seems more restrained and tame, silently upset with himself, trying so hard not to mess things up further. questioning why this is happening again. why he can't stop making it happen.

he walks over to the reset game button and asks, carefully: "can i press reset? is it gonna hurt? 🥺👉👈"

pearl reassures him he can, with a sigh noting that it'll just take a while.

there's an almost hysteric laugh from grian, followed by an exasperated, upset scream. "everything i touch breaks! when i went to e— i broke etho's thing when i went to— not frogger, his— his mushroom farm i— it blew up."

"you blew up his mushroom farm?? how? what did you do?!"

"yeah, i— i broke zed's game, instantly, pretty much, it's—"

"oh my gosh :("

"sorry 🥺"

pearl is quick to reassure him, though. "well, luckily for you, this is— you doing that (pushing the wrong button) does not break the game. it's just, you now have to wait for it to reset."

she makes sure grian knows that he didn't mess up anything terribly here. he didn't break pearl's game. it's okay! it's fine!

and then grian right clicks to open the book, and instead makes bonemeal pop out of a composter.

i think at this point pearl is a little bit taken aback by how wrong everything really seems to be going around grian. she makes sure to say, "it's fine," again, just so grian won't start worrying about it all again. "you're clicking on everything that people do not usually click on today. but it's okay. it's still not broken! it's not broken, it's alright, it's okay— i've got failsaves for people like you."

it's so sweet how she really tries to soothe him— and yet she can't help but let out that last remark.

people like you.

those few words surely lodge in more than all the reassurances. they're like splinter, proving grian right.

eventually, he gets to skizz.

during the tour of skizz's base, skizz shows him a horse statue and starts talking about how he lost his first horse at an event that grian was also a part of. and grian's stomach instantly sinks.

he asks hushedly, a bit confused, trying to remember: "was i there?"

skizz laughs. "you were absolutely there, dude."

which leads grian to ask, uneasily: "did i do it?"

skizz waves his hands, quick to easily reassure that no! that's not it, grian didn't do it!

grian lets out an oh with such palpable relief, and goes on to explain about how, "i remember witnessing it, but sometimes it's hard to disentangle whether i did it or not. coz i tell you what, on this tour i've broken everyone's stuff."

nobody was upset with grian when things broke, but here he is, several hermits down, still unable to leave it to rest. because it's him. it's him who did all of that, somehow, and he didn't mean to, but it doesn't matter. it happened anyway.

and now he can't even tell what is and what isn't his fault anymore.

the guilt is deep rooted, leaving anxious assumptions and dark, jagged precipices. how much did he destroy? what else should he be feeling guilty about? how far does this go?

he keeps breaking things, and it's such a blur that he can no longer tell what is and what isn't his fault.

the tour continues, and he delves into skizz's pyramid. and it's just— it's just a tunnel to swim through. nothing to mess up, besides potentially dying to suffocation, right?

and yet you can hear skizz shrilly exclaim: "oh he's going to end up breaking something!!"

and, (plantie's words: ) grian hearing that and just wondering, is that all i'm good for? is that all i'm known for? is that all i am?

there's no room for doubt; not really. that is what grian does, all the time, whether he wants to or not. he breaks stuff. he just— he doesn't mean to. and this tour is one big show of how powerless he is against it. (how everyone expects it from him anyway.)

despite it all, grian perseveres, trying out skizz's game, stubbornly dedicated and trying to win. (to pass; to have something to be proud of, at least—) and he gets to the powdered snow section.

there, he jumps across to a pathway that he was meant to circle to through the snow instead.

it's not breaking anything, not really. not even the rules. it's not cheating! he's just— he just did something skizz did not expect, but that was entirely possible within the game's design, even if not intended. he exploited it to his advantage; a risky, tricky shortcut.

and yet skizz remarks with a laugh: "this is what grian does! he breaks games!"

no matter what grian does... is that all he'll ever be?

is that all they'll see?

he fails getting through skizz's game, is thanked for play-testing, praises it all, they talk it all away, and...

and then grian goes to tour mumbo's base.

and fails to even die properly to his llama—

and then mumbo shows him his archive machine, and instantly panicks when grian gets curious about it, begging him not to touch anything. and grian says: "your stomach just fell through didn't it?" and after mumbo's immediate agreement, he adds: "and rightfully so. coz, almost everything i've touched on this tour has broken."

there's not a sliver of surprise to mumbo's anxious rushed: "yeah, yeah yeah! please stop now." because, of course things have broken. of course what grian touches is bound to go wrong. of course—

and then mumbo very carefully tells grian what to do with the machine.

grian does as he's told.

mumbo looks up and pauses, a frown crossing his face as he takes it in. he notes that grian probably did it too fast—

(something went wrong)

(something broke)

mumbo says: "i can't believe you come along and every single thing in my base starts [going wrong/breaking/malfunctioning]"

and then grian mysteriously ends up with an extra book from mumbo's machine, much to mumbo's dismay. grian's confused, cogs spinning as he tries to figure out what did he mess up this time to result in this.

it's clear mumbo wants grian away from his machine. it's not safe. (grian isn't safe.)

"maybe just give that to me and maybe just step away from the contraption. and then— maybe just leave me to—"

grian's upset and bewildered voice cuts in: "i didn't do anything wrong this time :(("

he's trying so hard.

he's trying so hard to be good and do things right and not mess anything up.

(it isn't working.)

(it's never bound to work, is it?)

mumbo ushers him away, and ends up showing him another cool invention—an elevator. except the second mumbo hits the button, a creeper shows up and explodes it. (it's midday.) (it wasn't even meant to be there.)

this one isn't grian's fault at all, but with everything that's happened— well, it's easy enough to link it to grian's presence. like a bad luck omen.

apprehensively, grian asks if the elevator broke, and mumbo—a bit bewildered by the reality of it—says that no, it seems to still work. "amazingly," he tacks on, disbelieving.

grian's relieved. "ohh, i thought we were in big trouble there!"

besides himself, mumbo anxiously agrees: "augh. i was like, if every single creation that i show breaks in some fashion, i'm just gonna quit."

because this isn't normal. none of this is, least of all everything at once. it simply doesn't happen.

(not when grian isn't there, anyway.)

mumbo notes that he needs to work on his lighting, and grian nods wisely saying it's a perpetual issue, but the anxiety is digging its talons in now, unrelenting. (what else is going to go bad in grian's presence? what else will he mess up? what else will he break? why is he like this?)

another remark that comes after this is mumbo's nervous: "i've actually just built up the automatic sorter which does this—which you're not gonna touch. we're banned from touching any redstone contraptions!"

and what can grian do but oblige? (but he can at least look, right?)

but does it ever change anything?

does it matter?

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at the end of the day, the others don't think too much about it.

they all say their part, pass their judgment, wave their hands, dismiss, move on. it doesn't keep them up at night.

... i think it might keep grian up at night.

a cacophonous collection of word snippets, aimed at him or woven around him, digging under his skin until it bleeds. a noose of inescapable fate, a tightening band around his chest that promises he can only ever be one thing:

a vessel for destruction.

it doesn't matter if he wants to be.

shackles and chains and a cosmic inevitability written into his skin, etched into his bones, tangled into his bloodstream. and an ever-rising guilt like stormy sea, far above his head now, drowning him.

(maybe he's not meant to be near other people and their things.)

(maybe he's not meant to touch games that were constructed with so much effort and love and passion poured into them.)

(maybe he shouldn't—)

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bonus screenshots from discord DMs (with extra sprinkles of hmtb mentions):

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bonus hmtb quotes because i kept thinking about it:

He always destroys the things he loves most, after all.

and:

He destroyed everything he touched, and when there was nothing left, he destroyed the only remaining thing: himself.

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[starrydaze]

"Do I have to get a job? I don't even know what I want to do..."

[annoying--moth]

It's always interesting writing characters who are bad people because like I did something mildly annoying a year ago and it still haunts me how are you still functioning after murdering an entire village

[ichorblossoms]

i've been bitching and moaning less abt the writing process lately bc i think i've gotten past some of the pain and agony that comes with being entirely new to things and am at a point where i'm still painfully aware of how far i have to go but at least i am now able to Get More Words on the page abt it

[artsy-1diot]

I don't like how this drawing turned out but I don't want to redraw it uuhhh current toontown mood (its fear the mood is fear)

[minophus]

i love pondering and seeinv v2mirage. fully xlothed robot and her fully naked gf who has not yyet grasped the concept of human decency

[asvidema]

i really want to make something like that reference sheet i made for hans, but for henry

[aliens-took-my-iwa-chan]

*prances away to commit atrocities*

[cadrenebula]

Vierapril Day 6 - Dream

Our paths, they did cross, though I cannot say just why We met, we laughed, we held on fast, and then we said goodbye.

"I don't know how to fix what I have broken... Please don't leave me alone..."

[whoag-10]

Gun video and beer bottle anon back again

I’m not parasocial or anything when I say this but do you have any ocs I can draw gore of ?

Ha ha that’s weird right . . . Please give me one to torture if you want tooo hahaha do it. Do it.

AHA I KNEW YOU WERE THE SAME PERSON!!

MY FAVORITE ANON HELLO!!

Not parasocial at all, that sounds like a perfectly normal request! Right now i have my persona

But! If u want someone REALLY pathetic, i have my boy Kyle, the drawings kinda old but this scientist is a horrible and pathetic PLEASEEEEE beat tf out of him he deserves it!!

[hermslore]

i’ve made it from wattpad to ao3 to here anyways seeing u and follkllore interact on here is actually my favorite telenovela

you're like a grasshopper's digital version 😭😭

[ephemeral-winter]

oh boy another literary studies blog post-cum-article on the function of the imagination vis a vis archiving that fails to cite any work from actual archival studies!!!!