#IN A GOOD WAY <3

[amielot]

Horse Girl AU is a year old 🎉 :D

[raayllum]

i’ve talked about stories Choosing to create malevolent (magic corrupts), neutral (magic is a tool and good or bad depends on the user), or benevolent (magic renews/is sustainable/low cost) magic systems, or subsets, but i really think in TDP’s case, the people who cannot accept that yes, it doesn’t matter how many regulations there’d conceivably be, dark magic is bad, is like

a massive red flag of “i didn’t read and/or understand the Story Contract i was signing”

cause like, I’ve been playing “tears of the kingdom” a ton this week, and the game is effectively using dark magic; you kill mindless ‘monsters’, slap their body parts onto your weapons and shields to use in other battles, or make potions and shit. now TOTK (or indeed “breath of the wild”) isn’t interested in the ethics of this. it’s a game mechanic, monsters are spawns of the villain, they don’t seem to be any more sentient than animals, and they will attack you if you don’t attack them in most cases. this is an example of a game having a ‘magic system’ if you will and going “this is neutral, if not good, because of the positioning of the game’s morals and narrative.” 

TDP is not that. it has never been that. it will never be that. it has a similar magic system, yes, but dark magic actively weakens the user the more they use it. it takes from creatures that are on a ‘human level of intelligence’* (*whatever people have historically decided that to mean is a slippery slope, as we know) with cultures and world views and a range of thought. it’s not sustainable, it’s not neutral. it is actively harmful to both the caster and just about everything it uses for spells, and it can use everything for spells, being a personal moral free-for-all for each individual mage. just a candle and viren’s smoke magic was able to use the assassin’s remains (and souls, implied by through the moon) to wreck international havoc. 

TDP’s story contract uses dark magic to explore the corruptive force of power and desperation. to ignore that is to completely disengage with everything the story tries to explore with its magic systems and its mage characters; if you act like it should all be sunshine and rainbows, you completely de-fang every character that is tethered to dark magic, and reduce them to pointless husks.

TOTK/BOTW isn’t wrong for its more neutral/positive leaning state. it wanted a more neutral/positive leaning magic system for its game play. but TDP also isn’t wrong for having a malevolent magic system. it’s a Chosen Feature, not a bug or a flaw.

you may not agree with dark magic’s in-universe foundation (humans were backed into a corner, yes, but we’ve known they can have access to primal magic for 3+ seasons now) but that’s what you signed on for. it’d be like complaining that the main characters are children when it’s a kid show, or that a fantasy series has magic at all. it’s in the story’s Contract. if you don’t like it, go find other stories with magic systems you groove more with; i promise they exist, and everyone wold probably be happier if you did, yourself included

[kandulce]

This is for the iz fic Final Exam by PatchworkPoltergeist plEASEE read it!!

[hopecountyshenanigans]

I can't remember what chapter but in The Permanent Efficacy of Grace I commented that Jacob was reminding me of LDR's lyric, "your mom called I told her you're fucking up big time". Anyway I saw LDR in Pittsburgh the other day (she was angelic) and now I'm listening to TATUOB and I think Lana would've LOVED Joseph Seed as her cult leader.

ALSO if you abbreviate the Permanent Efficacy of Grace it is PEG which I think is hilarious.

your third eye is wide the fuck open my friend, reading this ask I felt like Wile E. Coyote getting repeatedly battered with anvils

[revenantghost]

your passion and joy for enjoying media (also in trigun brainrot hell, woo) and creating things - don't get me started on your fantastic writing - is honestly such a joy to see on my dashboard, and i just want to cheer you on to keep having a good time. hope you're having a wonderful day or night, too.

Alkajnsdlakjdn oh gosh thank you?!?!?! So much?!?!?!?!?!?!? This legitimately made me tear up when I clicked on my inbox <3 I'm so, so, so happy that anyone gets anything from whatever I create, especially my writing because I have such a tough relationship with that, so seriously--thank you!!!

[lunarw0rks]

https://www.tumblr.com/lunarw0rks/731097052087451648/which-141-member-do-yall-think-is-the-most-into

johnny.

real, he told me yesterday.

johnny is way more aggressive about it tho. more than gaz.

[hinamie]

matching eye horror for u and ur back-from-the-dead bestie <333

[isatwothree]

there were angels dining at the ritz

[i-seeaspaceshipinthe-sky]

#old married couple [insp.]

[eddiesghxst]

I could never really leave you, Rachiekins. I'm just being dramatic, even if I really am worried (to a point) about the things in my previous asks and am pissed off at Richie and still want to see Skank Supreme die a slow agonizing death. Maybe at the end of Lady Applejack's poison soaked kukris after they've been lodged firmly in Skank Supreme's back. 😈

Seriously though. Unlike with some fics I've tried reading in the past, I'm invested and can't quit this close to the end!

IM AJSHSJSKS

LADY APPLEJACKS POISON SOAKED KURKIS PLS, ERICA WOULD HATEEEEEEEE LANY, SHED EAT HER ALIVE !!

i’d pay cash money to see those two go head to head <3

[brainrotcharacters]

"I walked away. They called after me and I walked away. I always do."

[oasisofgalaxies]

Ok gn my brain is fried

[artist-rat]

my sister finished her first bg3 run, here's evil gang reunion photo <333 (withers invented polaroid for the occasion idc)

[turtleblogatlast]

Leo learns something about himself 🏳️‍⚧️

Based roughly on this old post.

Bonus:

[Leo is taking the fact that he was born biologically female simultaneously very well and also not so well but overall he’s mostly coping with the fact that it was Draxum that just essentially gave him the turtle equivalent of ‘The Talk’.]

[beybuniki]

they should go on a fishing trip pt.1

[rainbow-femme]

I think it would be really funny if you could get Wyll out of his pact by having Withers reclass him

Mizora over here pissed off because she didn’t anticipate Wyll being friends with the god of paperwork who would get him out of his devil contract for 100 gold, meanwhile he’s punching trees in half because he’s a monk now and giggling the whole time