#Clash of perspectives

[undergroundrockpress]

Nuits punks à Paris en 1977-1978.

Photos : BJEP (Belle Journée En Perspective), soient : Alain Bali, David Cosset, and Jean-Luc Maby.

[seirindono]

The Missing Scarf VIII - part 55

Their dream.

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[macadamia-shithead]

TASKLINE MANAGERS YAAAAY (reaching 3am delirium goodnight)

[adheredweird]

SHOWTIME SHOWTIME!!

[pomodoko]

I'm allowed to be uncomfortable by a man with a one-sided obsession on a woman ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

? Okay radfem in the making? Isn't Marcille the same in her drive to bring Falin back, to the point she used the Dark Arts to perform fucking Necromancy (highly illegal and banned across all nations as of right now in anime canon)? You people were applauding her for her sacrifice and her drive, and yet Shuro who has a crush on her, who fell in love with her authentic self (her compassionate nature, her love for creatures others would be disgusted by, ie, dungeon caterpillar) is hated. He acknowledged he was wrong in mistrusting Laios, but when he left the party, he still risked his own life to find her, to the point he's on the verge of starvation and exhaustion. His dedication to saving her is born from the same love and appreciation Marcille and Laios held for Falin.

I understand that the prospect of a man in love is disgusting to you, especially if that man is from other culture with different courting customs than you. But can you at least recognize his drive? And that despite him proposing to her once, he never pushed her to marry him? She told him to wait and he did, for months. None of his behavior on screen has shown him to be lecherous. If she had told him no and he kept pushing, then it would be seen as obsession and creep behavior.

I don't mind that you dislike him, but you're refusing to acknowledge the depth of character Ryoko Kui is bringing to the table. That, I dislike.

[nabesthetics]

Welp, began going through the Arcana blog, chronologically, and reblogging most of the ask arcana replies, concept art, lore tidbits etc. onto @arcana-crumbs , trying to kinda sorta categorize it all.

I'm about 200 pages into the blog (WHEEZE), 450 more to go. I don't recommend following it for now because I'm not timing these reblogs lmao, dozens of them in rapid succession.

It's also interesting to see how quite a few of these old posts don't really... match some of the later personalities and lore in the game. If Dorian simply reposted them today, some people (me included) would get annoyed lol. Reminds you that these things don't really have to be taken seriously, aside from a few fundamentals.

[meguutron]

harassing each other

[wantonlywindswept]

arla escapes DW ficbit

bit of a slower story than i've been writing of late; will see how far it goes. i don't think of arla as a super popular character in SW? tho that might just be bc her character is so obscure.

but she's basically free real estate imo and i am RUNNING with it

--

Arla spends two weeks in a shitty flophouse on an even shittier planet in the Outer Rim, jumping at every sound outside her door and pulling her blaster on shadows, before she realizes that she might actually have gotten away.

She gouged all three tracking chips from beneath her skin before her escape attempt. The ship she was given for her last assignment will have reached its final destination by now, set on a collision course with a star halfway across the galaxy. The droid that removed the explosive implant at the back of her neck auto-wiped its records, and she scoured her armor clean of bugs and paint in a single-minded frenzy that left her hands caked in blue and black.

It was the first job she was allowed in the Core, after years of faking loyalty and swallowing her pride and fury in order to rise in Death Watch's ranks. They previously hadn't trusted her not to disappear into the massive populaces found on Core worlds, where anonymity was the norm and people had enough that they could afford to be kind to strangers, instead of scrabbling desperately for their own survival. Tracking implants, on-board ship cameras, regular comm check-ins: they held tight to her leash with their grubby little fingers even as they finally allowed her to stray.

They were smart not to trust her--but not smart enough to keep her from disappearing. 

If they haven't found her yet, it's likely they won't find her at all.

When that fact finally sets in, Arla curls up in a corner of the room and wastes a couple hours on a hysterical, weeping breakdown, because why the fuck not?

She's free.

[cog-go-boom]

i guess while were on it: met chip revvington? another manager with some real baggage (and not in a pun way)

[[OOC:]] cake belongs to @whatwishesare! this also counts as a gift for you ^^

[ria-the-camel]

Imogen isn’t sure she wants to save the gods, these beings that not only ignored her her whole life, but most likely actively fear and despise her. She is “tainted” by their worst enemy, why would they feel any different?

I saw some takes about how self-centered it is to expect to be loved back for your own love to be deserved, and while that is a good topic to explore, it made me think of a switch in perspective: if we see a small animal in distress, we feel the instinct of compassion, we want to help. But what if its a scorpion? A venomous snake? Would we risk getting stung, getting bit?

[moe-broey]

I keep.. thinking about replaying Book 3....… I don't remember shit about fuck.... but it feels like Such. A Commitment.

[themagicalghost]

Stinky shenanigans

I accidentally got the chair out of bounds while moving it around and then it went upwards

Since I couldn't retrieve it from there I tried putting it in the attic while he sat there and he got sent somewhere in the void along with it

He also got stuck in it because of this

-until he managed to get out of it, to which neither of us know how

He took screenshots of me as he flew further away

[macadamia-shithead]

couple of sketches nothin fancy o7

[blackjackkent]

It's interesting - I did get to pick Rakha's name during character creation and her name is on the save file, but the game doesn't actually seem to care? In the dialogue logs, combat logs, combat overlay, and Rakha's own opportunities to introduce herself, it still says The Dark Urge.

I'm not sure if the intention here is that Rakha ONLY knows the name The Dark Urge and her file being named Rakha is only for my own benefit, or if the game is bugging out, or what.

Anyway. Had another quick chat with Zevlor. He informed Rakha that the settlement they've arrived at is a druid grove - not belonging to the tieflings as Rakha assumed - and that the tieflings themselves are about to be kicked out; the druids blame them for the recent spate of goblin attacks.

The tieflings are refugees from a place called Elturel which recently suffered something called the Descent. Rakha, of course, has no memory of what that could possibly mean - and does take the time to ask, as she never misses the chance to add to her limited store of knowledge about the world.

The story is brief and brutal. A city dragged to the Hells due to the bargaining of a corrupt official with devils. Its tiefling population shunned after their safe return to the material plane. A desperate flight through the wilderness.

Rakha listens impassively and does not overmuch feel that this is her problem. She has her own business and her own threats to attend to, her own story of being pulled into chaos without her will or understanding. The fate of the tieflings only concerns her insofar as the one named Zorru is here somewhere and she must learn what he has to say before he is gone.

(They will go out on the road, murmurs the beast gleefully in her head. They will go out on the road and they will die and there will be corpses upon corpses, all laid out in blood...)

Zevlor does, however, tell her that there is a healer here who might be of use. That's a lead worth following up on, if Lae'zel's plans regarding the creche don't work out.

[curry-and-gunpowder]

Feeling completely normal about Oda Sakunosuke this morning.

[lemonduckisnowawake]

Me, today: I will not get angry about people slandering Jesus. I will not lose my temper seeing yet another post throwing His character in the garbage as some politically woke or politically conservative people pleaser. I will not stab my hand with a fork when I see people poking fun at his friendships as homoerotic - *sees a post like that and slowly steps out of the internet*

No seriously. I am shaking the screen and BEGGING people to remember that even though Western Christian traditionalism has deep, *deep* wrongs, There Are Literal People Dying And Being Tortured Because Of Their Faith In Christ In The Modern World. And the way I see people making light of faith and outright mocking it or "dumbing it down" to appeal to their own moral worldview is sometimes kind of painful