#(still at work but eyes emoji)

[salamispots]

hmmm probs won't go with this style but we'll see

[sixofclovers]

Willow v hunter! (first 10 seconds) 

[skeletons-in-ur-closet]

how do i make myself unattractive to all men forever

[munamania]

ok im a really chill and normal person and i get over things and am well adjusted but take a walk with me here. just give me my time to complain when im not in the absolute fucking trenches. and yes i believe i suffered more than those in trench warfare. it was literally a lesbian situationship with a bistraight girl come on. just. magenta choppy shag with the roots coming in. camo cargo pants black t shirt with red lettering and striped long sleeve (sign someone likes music. confirmed). lip ring big black stud earrings and nails. red docs. i think lesbians should be allowed to kill one dyke baiter in their lifetime idc

[redstonedust]

I'm not sure what exactly you need for your oc lore, but I personally use obsidian, which is basically a notes app, that lets me link different notes to eachother, as well as link specific sections in them, and its been working pretty well for me so far. Also for some similar stuff you might want to look into some stuff dnd players use for notetaking, seems like they have some good stuff figured out!

oh yeah ive heard some of those notes apps are good, but i think thats just like. two steps left of a google doc, right? but good to keep in mind tbh

[dandyshucks]

something that makes me laugh when I actually take a second to think about it is that when we (system) are unsure who is fronting and care about figuring it out then one of the newer questions we'll ask ourselves is "how do i feel about guz.ma from pokemon right now" SBDHDHJSSKL

IF THERE'S FEELINGS OF SWOONING THEN THAT'S ME. if there isnt then it's literally any other part of the brain SBDHDNMSL

[casinoquartet]

as much as i love casino quartet being a silly lil sitcom style polycule that's very light hearted, you cannot deny that there is definitely angst potential with all of team chaos leaving red in the dust. like i get clownzy being gay was the highlight of s3 for a lot of people but like. they Did leave red in the dust while ash was basically in the ls equivalent of a coma and red Did have to betray them because they weren't clear on their plans . that is a Thing that happened that i think some whump writers might enjoy . just a thought

[didsomeonesayventus]

Okay, I trust you as a source for all things Fire Emblem - can you please tell me if Fire Emblem Engage is worth getting? It's a lot of money, and I've seen a real mixed reception for it. I've read reviews that call it uninspired and shallow, storywise, and that some characters are difficult to enjoy. Is it actually worth it, or am I better off just replaying Fates? I am TORN over here.

SO! Good news in brief: if you liked Fates I'm fairly certain that you've got a good chance of liking Engage. I honestly see Engage as Fates 2 with a much better focus on what it wants to be and do! In fact if I HAD to pick a previous entry for fair comparison/vibe similarities, I'd pick Fates, maybe Sacred Stones (though I've yet to finish that one).

Engage is right now my favorite entry of the series.

MORE DETAILED ANSWER UNDER THE CUT (I have only played thru once on normal + casual as of writing)

I still maintain it's a good game and worth it, but you HAVE to be open-hearted about it. It's going to be silly. It's going to be hammy and subtle as a sledgehammer. It will even say the most cringe ass shit with it's whole heart. It's just about the farthest from 3H you can get on the fire emblem scale to the point you could have it sitting next to Kingdom Hearts and I, personally, love that for it, but feel like comparing it to 3H's darker tones is the thing most negative reviewers fall prey to.

Is it simple? Yeah. Absolutely. Terribly predictable, even. Is it heartfelt? YES! ABSOLUTELY! Engage has no time for "wow that was cheesy" because it LOVES cheese and it wants you to know that LOVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL THING EVER. It knows it's running a trite and cliched story and it doesn't care about that so much as trying to hit its notes with just the right vibe- and I argue it does a majority of the time, but can concede some things are rather silly. It's full steam ahead with the power of love and friendship and it does that with about as much reverence as a Sat. A.M. cartoon. A good Sat. A.M. cartoon that you're still thinking of years down the line that was a formative childhood joy.

And it's not about romantic love, actually! Hardly at all! There's a lot more focus on familial and platonic love than romance!! There are explicit "I love you"s regarding family bonds and multiple sibling relationships that make it clear they would do everything for their family. The only romantic aspect is whoever you choose to have Alear S-Rank (the game calls it a ring rank for Reasons but its essentially an S-Rank), and everyone else's supports end at A. Even then there's room in a fair number of Alear's S-Ranks to get interpreted as Really Good Friends, as the focus is not on "I Love You" but moreso the fact Alear and the blorbo in question have a deep, deep bond (though there are S-Ranks that are romantic-tinted and some who will explicitly say they love Alear, and regardless of gender picked! wow! diversity win!). If you were looking for pairing up your sexy chess pieces and getting paired endings, though, there'll be a bit left to be desired.

Again if you like Fates, or Kingdom Hearts, or stories that are cheesy, simple, cliched, but heartfelt, you're going to like this one. The cast is wonderful, and the story has some surprisingly good emotional beats. Oh, and also some of the FUNNIEST supports I have seen. Ever.

Alear in particular has become my favorite lord of the series, just barely scooting ahead of Corrin by virtue of having a more solid characterization and arc that Fates didn't quite let Corrin have. Which, yes, you can rename Alear and give them their own birthday, but there is NO question that Alear is their own character; hats off to Laura Stahl and Brandon McInnis for bringing stellar performances that are essential to the character. Frankly hats off in general to the voice cast as a whole they really bring a charm to the game that cannot be ignored.

I will say that supports are pretty hard to grind out, though, requiring units to be adjacent, and the leveling curve leaves a lot of... wonkiness? It's VERY easy with the rate of receiving new units + leveling funk to have units fall behind, or your army to feel underleveled, if you're like me and mostly skip the side skirmishes (bad gamer, I know). I hear the skirmishes are also kind of wonky and scaled to Alear's level which. Can Be A Problem if you're trying to level or support grind weaker units. Though I will say that playing Normal + Casual playing straight through the main story, while it occasionally made me sweat, it did not make me have to completely redo a map (or, if it did, it was probably only once or twice and I've simply forgotten about the inconvenience). Just made unlocking supports irksome as units fell off and/or made it hard to keep some characters off the bench.

There's also an OBSCENE amount of freedom in what you can do with your units. Go crazy go stupid try not to die. Resource management can get tricky, there's not quite enough gold or bond points to do everything, but you can do a lot of stuff, especially if you find a favorite to focus in on. As for the Engage mechanic: very powerful, but not to the point of sapping all the challenge out of things, and fairly balanced. The Break mechanic introduced I think is a great addition to the weapon triangle mechanics and adds a nicer layer of consideration to unit placement + weapon diversity in your army than before.

Also, if you're worried Engage overly relies on it's intent as an anniversary celebration, don't! Engage still is doing its own thing, and moreso uses references to past entries as spice or flourishes of color. They add some fun easter eggs and flavoring to the story, but it doesn't rely on the emblems or any throwbacks to tell the story it's trying to tell. Are Firene and Brodia a 1:1 for Zofia and Rigel? Yeah! Probably on purpose! They literally got the guy who voices Duma in FEH to do King Morion! Do you need to know anything about Shadows of Valentia to appreciate that? Nope! Just nice to know. Corrin's ring is found in a Northern Fortress, to further help illuminate the cute nods involved.

If you're on the fence, totally get that, especially since dropping 60$ on a game in this economy- ~90$ if you wanna add DLC -is a lot of money to ask for. But I've thoroughly enjoyed what Engage has to offer, and currently am hopping along through playthrough #2 and trying to tell myself to S-Rank someone who isn't Alcryst (I will probably S-Rank Alcryst again). I'd suggest looking into the first few eps of a playthrough if you're still not quite sure, and, frankly, imo there's no shame in just purely enjoying it from a "watched a playthrough" perspective, if you have to.

and, if none of this has persuaded you, please direct your attention to Zelkov and this Honest-To-Alear real support exchange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_lsOLB68g

[hero-of-the-undersea]

*sighs* it’s that time of year again. anyone in this club know what a shimeji is

[quilleth]

*elmo fire* ok deleted basket of everything and mod fixer and installed script extender and it seems like Vanora's playthrough is working now! i had to use a couple of saves back but i was finally able to turn in Nere's head, so now i think i just need to go back to the creche/ monastery and a) figure out the blood of lathander (maybe? i know it's a powerful weapon but also it's a side quest sooo), orpheus (can't do because i failed the persuasion check earlier with the githyanki kid xD. whompwhomp i didn't realise it was considered part of the personal questline at that point because the quest hadn't actually triggered for me), and figure out what i'm doing wrong/ failing to trigger with the captain so that i can bring lae'zel to the investigator. and then i think i'll be done with act one? finally? i feel like i should be higher level for this all (i'm level 6) but idk what else to do really :/

[that-was-anticlimactic]

just got in an argument with my mom and sister because they said that comedians making offensive jokes are funny because “they’re not talking about a specific person, you just don’t have to take it personally” like HELLO??? i used an example with ts since, you know, i have ts and they were like “i’d laugh at a ts joke because they’d be joking about the stereotype” like yOU DO SEE HOW THAT’S EXACTLY THE ISSUE, RIGHT??? and i said that there’s a difference between Me making ts jokes and someone who Doesn’t have ts making ts jokes because 1. mine are actually funny aND TRUE 2. coping 3. I’M NOT MOCKING TS like God

comedians aren’t funny and if you need to insult other people to Be funny then you were never funny to begin with UGH

[ievaxol]

61 for a Seike ship of your choice 👀

Give me reason to stay here Cause I don't wanna live in fear (don't wanna live in fear) I can't stop the rain But I can stop the tears

Three days after Gorgagne, Seike sets out to mend her armor and replace what cannot be salvaged. Thancred — as much as he hates acknowledging it — has been hovering around her. Still is. And yet she doesn't protest when he laces his boots to tag along and they make for the Jeweled Crozier together.

In silence they tread the worn cobblestone paths down the markets and wherever Seike makes her stops, Thancred takes up a position of vigilance at her flank, listening to what the city has to tell him. Instead of nitty gritty gossip he focuses on finding the pulse of the city, which merchant stalls smell of fear and which ones are bright-eyed with new opportunities.

It's also a good justification for if she asks, that he's came with to gather intelligence — which he is — but she never does and the excuse stays lodged in his throat where it keeps growing until he finds he can't speak around it.

Since their first night back in Ishgard, she has been blank and unreadable — even to him. With carefully constructed calm she navigated the questions posed by both the Fortemps household and Alphinaud, picking up her duties as Warrior of Light as if nothing happened.

But Thancred knows. Can't ever forget the sight of her body rent asunder by tooth and claw and beyond all of that the small, private smile of relief that she wore before he arrived.

As if she was ready.

"I'm sorry missus, but we've no business with foreign coin. We don't want none of your trouble." The tone the man running the shop applies manages to be apologetic and full of disdain both and Thancred raises a brow at him.

He isn't the first such conservative they've run into today, nor is it probable that he is the last. A vestige of the ones trying to hold back the wave of change sweeping over the cold nation — most of whom see Seike as the symbol of everything wrong with Ishgard these days.

"I see," Seike says, uncharacteristically sweet.

Everything happens very fast after that.

The blade of Seike's lance sinks through the piles of fabric on top of the stall and then the wooden planks until it hits the road with a resounding thunk. Where before she'd made herself unassuming she now radiates pure hostility, enough that a shiver goes down Thancred's spine simply by virtue of being in her presence.

There's an alleyway to their left and that is where Seike drags the poor merchant — the streets are empty enough, with the few witnesses scuttling away like rats and it dawns on Thancred that she planned this as he follows, swearing to himself.

"The man who tried to assassinate Aymeric. The True Brotherhood of the Faith. How long have you been funding them?"

[alexcabotgf]

a heart shaped locket with a carefully folded note inside that says “i pushed a boy out of a tower window 👦🙌 🆈 🅴 🅴 🆃 crippled him for life 👨‍🦽💯 for cersei 👸💗👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 i strangled my cousin with my own hands 🧑👐💀 just to get back to cersei 😍👫💞 i would have murdered 🗡️💀🔫 every man 👨👨‍🦱🧔 woman 👩👩‍🦳👱‍♀️ and child 👦👶👧 in riverrun for cersei 😘💍🤰 she’s hateful 😈💥 and so am i 😉💓🤴🤝👸”

[girl-bateman]

I think I've spent waaaay too much time on tumblr today. I've witnessed a concerning amount of rancid takes, had to unfollow a bunch of people for agreeing with said takes, and now I feel like I'm falling into the rabbit hole of really lame discourse. Like super duper lame. Epically lame.

[altertyped]

Roulette Starter Call, but specifically for one of my Seasons 1-3 Verses! You can specify which of the three if you're feeling spicy!

Remember to specify your muse if you're a multi.

[sevenciircles]

And people wonder why she tends to stay out of Pride whenever possible.

"I do support the cause, just fyi."

She'd been mistreated one too many times by some wannabe and legitimate overlords to pity them.

And sinners, but nobody was ready for that conversation.