#Pillar of Responsibility

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

Photos from last night's Pillars of Character Recognition Gala

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[factual-fantasy]

@palettepainter (Comment was left on this post)

Awe!! Thank you!! :DDD Idk if canon Barnaby is much of a hugger, but my Barnaby sure is!

And most would say he does give the softest hugs.🥺🥺 Though Barnaby will usually only hug those who offer/or ask him for one. Because of this many people might not know that he likes hugs at al! :0

Also the marketable plushie comment just made me think of this XD 👇👇👇

[lbhslefttiddie]

anyways. i think its hilarious how much lbh would scream and cry if he knew how often sqq thought about sqh while they are fucking and it kills me even more that knowing that sqq thinks about him in these scenarios wholly in a derogatory or accusatory manner would actually upset him More because that should be Him he could be scolding sexily!!! neither sqq nor sqh would ever describe the verbal thrashings cucumber inflicts upon airplane as being in any way erotic but this does not help

[cyanwyrmy]

Ever drawn Eddie and Frank getting married? 💐🤵💍💐

And what do you think of @chez-cinnamon 's WH AU of Eddie, Frank & Howdy's poly relationship? ✨😃✨

I haven’t drawn a Frankly-Dear wedding picture yet. I’ll need some kind of inspiration, like some super cute outfits for each of them, or a funny photo to reference. If I do draw them getting married I’ll definitely post it!

The poly ship of Eddie, Frank, and Howdy is super cute. I absolutely adore how @ /chez-cinnamon draws them and the entire cast for that matter! I also really like the idea of Eddie and Frank both crushing on Howdy, and Frank being interested in Howdy’s buggy-ness. Really as long as Eddie and Frank are happy together I am happy haha!

Oh! Here’s an unrelated doodle:

[lavampira]

(COUNT)DOWN TO DAWNTRAIL — day four: shadowbringers

atlas my old friend I found some people want to lend a hand carrying the weight of the world

[batsplat]

It's a thing I already knew but all your beautiful analysis really made obvious (to me) how much of a grudge holder vale is. That man is never letting it go he's gonna hold his grudges into his grave

you know, I do think this is an interesting issue, because I'm not sure this is true of all his grudges. just sticking here with the grudges he accumulated in his capacity as a competitor, rather than just his general approach to life or whatever... how you judge this will kinda depend on how you feel about the 'reconciliation' he's experienced with some of his rivals - and whether you read the whole thing as sincere or not. now, personally I reckon he still dislikes biaggi, but also you are allowed to just dislike people so I'll give him a pass for that. some of the others, I'm a little more convinced by the whole reconciliation schtick

let's get valentino's take:

interesting that he mentions those three together, isn't it? and like, he's still not messaging biaggi or inviting him to his home - "even with max" kind of tells you all you need to know - but the other two? they said some proper nasty things to each other over the years!! I mean, the casey rivalry, there's some remarks from both sides where quite frankly I think I would struggle just a touch to get over it

I don't know, obviously this could all be pr stuff, but I kind of feel like... y'know, why bother? it's 2022, you're retired, who gives a fuck? sure it's a good look to be all magnanimous, sure it can be a bit of a way of twisting in the knife to the guys left in the cold, but also, who would care if you don't play nice? I think especially with jorge, you surely don't need to do all that, inviting him to your home and dancing with him... (which, again, some of the spats those two had...) and with the casey rivalry, if there's one guy who's still hung up about what happened between the pair of them, it's obviously casey (speaking of blokes who can hold a grudge). maybe this is giving valentino too much credit, but personally I buy it's more or less sincere. there's nothing to really indicate he's still particularly bothered by any of their past disagreements - he's basically going for the 'all's fair in love and motorcycle racing' approach. he knows he was an asshole, he accepts they were assholes too, whatever, that's how these things work. he's generally a fan of drama in rivalries, unsurprisingly, and he was happy enough to contribute his fair share - but he does see it as fundamentally being part of the game

to point out the obvious, check out who he's left out: sete and marc. that's where he can't let go of the grudges... because it's not about the offence itself as much as it is about the betrayal. this is the thing with valentino, right, it's about what kind of bond you had with him. if you weren't his friend in the first place and then piss him off as a rival then, y'know, whatever. obviously he's going to be vicious in trying to get back at you, but also he's really not going to waste his time feeling too aggrieved by it. I mean, think about how all the bullshit between him and casey dropped off sharply post-2012... from valentino's end anyway. think about how jorge and valentino pretty quickly got on again whenever they weren't fighting for supremacy within yamaha. they weren't friends in the first place, then they were enemies for competitive reasons for a while there, then it's over and valentino is basically happy enough to call it bygones

but... if it's a certain kind of bond you had with him and then you wrong him... that little mental list of all his past grievances, all your past transgressions, that's where it comes in. that's where he ices you out. denies you any emotional warmth. ensures that any interaction going forward is conducted entirely on his terms. where even any public 'reconciliation' won't truly be sincere.... or, certainly he's not going to forget what happened. if something else happens... it's like you've always got the potential of triggering this lingering resentment, in a way, where all that past stuff is still primed and ready to be called upon. he certainly doesn't just let it go

or, as he puts it in his autobiography:

Biaggi and I never talk to each other. I mean, we've never had a real conversation, anything that's lasted more than the requisite time to insult each other or put each other down, in the nastiest way possible. In any case, I don't hate him. It's true, we've never been friends, but hatred is something different, and that's too serious a word to describe our relationship. Far too serious. No, we have a reciprocal antipathy. No doubt this is a result of what we do for a living and the fact that we both want to win every single time. And perhaps it's also a function of the fact that we have very different personalities and very different ways of seeing things. Still, I don't think this means we hate each other, as some journalists have written. I think I could feel hatred for someone, but only for someone far worse than anything Biaggi has done. For example, if I were betrayed by a friend, then, yes, I could hate him. But Biaggi will never betray my friendship for the simple reason that we are not, and never have been, friends. Our relationship is very clear: we compete on the track - outside the track, each goes his own way. You could say we detest each other cordially.

... I mean. he said it, not me. and given this book was first published in '05... biaggi can't betray his friendship because they were never friends... I'm not saying he's thinking about sete, but it has to at least be a possibility, right? he's talking about one rivalry here and refusing to even mention the other... and the one he's refusing to mention is the one where he was friends with the other bloke. I don't know, maybe that's reading too much into it! and anyway, even if this passage wasn't really about sete, it's obviously still revealing. "detest each other cordially" is essentially what he was doing with casey and jorge (or from his point of view in any case, not entirely sure they'd agree with that). the grudge comes when he feels let down by you... and then, yes, he'll never let it go

of course, he's willing to set aside his grievances for a while if there's sufficient motivation for him to do so. in 2009, when he had so definitively won that rivalry with sete, why bother kicking up a fuss? in 2016, quite frankly it was just too much, and it was getting to the point where it was obviously hurting him too. on the one hand there was the media furore that had been going on non-stop since sepang, on the other hand it was also hurting his own approach to racing. there's reports from the time how visibly aggrieved he still was in the first few races of the season, and it took until they got back to europe for him to... y'know, have fun again. it's not sustainable to be walking around with a constant dark cloud over your head and broadcasting burning resentment towards your two main rivals. certainly not for someone like valentino - he needs to be having fun! the slight rapprochement needed to happen, in a way, because otherwise those years would have been even worse for everyone involved. but that doesn't actually translate to forgetting any of those grudges. this is about convenience more than anything else

goes to show, really... most of the time he doesn't take these things personally. I talked about it a bit in this post, how maybe it's also something that changed over time for him: the question of whether he was willing to develop these kinds of bonds in the first place with competitors... because he does possess a certain level of self-awareness in terms of what these kinds of rivalries are like and what they do to interpersonal relationships. ideally, you don't want to be hurt by a friend like that, right? better not to have that kind of emotional attachment with your competitors in the first place. how unfortunate it'd be if all those years after sete the circumstances aligned for him to see a competitor as something like a friend again... because, after all, those are the only people who could betray him. those are the only people where he thinks he could truly hate them

[welcome-to-neighborhood-park]

can each neighbor tell us a joke?

Hoo boy this took a while to gather up! But here ya go!

"What do you call a dog with no legs? It doesn’t matter, he still won’t come when you call!" - Barnaby (classic)

"What do you call a cold dog? A chili dog." - Wally (Barnaby taught him that one recently, he's proud of himself)

"A joke, huh? And what do I get for it?" - Howdy (I have nothing to give him and he refused to tell a joke. bruh)

"No." - Frank (couldn't get anything from him, I tried.)

"What did the number three say to the number two after beating him in a game of checkers? I One!" - Julie (she's still trying to convince Barnaby that this joke is funny. it's not working)

"Did you hear the joke the mailman told yesterday? His delivery was so good I say he Mailed it!" - Eddie (no comment 10/10)

"Don't theater jokes always seem so staged?" - Sally (I blame my sick days on me not immediately getting this when she said it.)

"Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. Safely. Using the crosswalk." - Poppy (she wasn't expecting it and kinda panicked so I guess this is the first one she could think of)

"Light travels faster than sound, which is why people like you appear bright—until they open their mouths." - Home (Home's in a bad mood so he's more snarky than usual rip)

[birbwell]

Tell us about different monastery burning motifs! Would be interesting to hear how each of them work narratively

hi! this was mostly explored when @st-vesta and I were yelling incoherently about it. I also don't have a very good grasp on The Name of the Rose as I've only watched the show. tbh I'm really only confident of my interpretation of PotE SO WITH THAT IN MIND

[SPOILERS FOR THE NAME OF THE ROSE, THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH AND PENTIMENT]

Right from the get-go their burnings are very different in when they come into the narrative. It comes very early on in Pillars of the Earth, with Kingsbridge Cathedral burning down right near the start. It's the force that drives the plot. Pentiment's Kiersau Abbey goes up in flames in the end of the second act as a culmination of the long-standing tensions over the course of five (?) years. The Name of the Rose ends its story with the burning of its mountain monastery.

How do they happen? Till the last second, Kingsbridge's fate was kinda just strung on a line of bad luck and split-second decisions. A forest boy named Jack tags along with a mason's family, becomes refugees of a burgeoning civil war, and ends up in Kingsbridge. He gets the idea to burn down the cathedral to give the kindly mason a job, and isn't even fully sure of his decision as he lights the vault boards on fire. He’s just a child. 

And yet.

Fire is a catalyst. As much as it is a catastrophe, it also presents three groups of people all fucked by the hellscape of 12th century England with an opportunity to build something brighter. Aliena’s family and earldom taken by the Anarchy, Philip and his languishing priory, and Jack, coming from the fringes of society all working together to pull their futures out of the ashes of the cathedral… Kingsbridge and its town start thriving again. 

(Fire is very much a motif in PotE. Someone as powerless as Jack using this volatile force of nature to bring down something as grand and sacred and built-to-last as a stone church! The Church controlling fire to produce a ‘miracle’ and restore faith in the institution! Fire as Hell, the only thing that has ever scared William Hamleigh! Fire as hope, Philip treading the aftermath and watching the sun rise with Tom!! I;m very ill)

Kiersau and Tassing, on the other hand, have been fostering tensions that would eventually destroy the monastery. It is the powder keg’s inevitable explosion. Neither the village nor the abbey are willing to back down, so it culminates in a situation where one or the other caves in. Nobody has been having a Good Time for a Long Time. Especially not Claus. In his grief, he walks into the library and sets it on fire.

Fire is an answer. It is a terrible, terrible night. We are told that the Benedictines scattered to the wind. We don’t get to see the immediate aftermath, but does it matter? Magdalene explores the abbey and it is still the same derelict cathedral from years ago. She wasn’t there to witness it, but there its soot-stained carcass stands as a reminder of tragedy. Some saw it as a victory, certainly- the humble villagers triumphing over their Benedictine landowners. Things grew from it, though- Wojslav and Matilda find their new chapter of life here, Mathieu and Illuminata find new, loftier prospects outside of Tassing, and Andreas finds a way out of an unhappy life.

The mountain monastery in The Name of the Rose has a long-kept secret, and attempts to unearth it are met with death. It goes up in flames after a week of murders as a last-ditch effort by Jorge to destroy its library and bury its secret for good.

Fire is the end. No matter how grand and complex the library labyrinth was, it would have never held up against fire. William and Adso didn’t succeed. They couldn’t have saved the library and they couldn’t stop the deaths. Jorge did what he set out to do! The elusive Finis Africae is still shrouded in mystery and anyone who knew of the contents is dead! The monks disband and William comes out of it disillusioned. 

TBH, all three of them make use of monastery burnings to destroy some hidden truth or secret. The history of Tassing? Records largely in flames, and even given to distortion, since we, the player, are able to interpret that segment! The truth about the White Ship? Gone with Prior James’ bones! And Finis Africae. Fire, if anything, can hide and rewrite. 

TL;DR: fire do many thangs and pyromaniacs everywhere are right.

[teddybasmanov]

Looking at all the stuff people say about the new Baldur's Gate, I'm getting a feeling that my beloved Pillars of Eternity II gave me a skewed impression that "you can kiss your anxious elf twice throughout the whole game" is an extensive companion romancing system.

[eddies-post-office]

Welcome Visitors!

Our neighbors welcome you with a lovely picnic! And such manners too, no one was allowed to eat until you all arrived, good thing you're here! (Truth be told they were getting antsy waiting for you!) With that all said, feel free to send any letters or parcels to your beloved neighbors! ♥ Home ♥ Wally Darling ♥ Sally Starlet ♥ Frank Frankly ♥ Poppy Partridge ♥ Howdy Pillar ♥ Barnaby B Beagle ♥ Eddie Dear ♥ Julie Joyful Ask them a question, give them a gift, maybe do some magic witchery!! Have fun with your visit regardless!

Asks are officially open!

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[scamoosh]

this is gonna sound whiny but nonbinary ppl can immediately tell when u just see them as their agab jsyk👍 its just frustrating 2 b surrounded by other queer ppl and even in those communities without fail if i make any comment abt period cramps or having worked in childcare or shit like that theres an Immediate shift to like oh okay ur actually a Girl got it . like . there was anothr nonbinary person i used 2 kno who had zero problem using the right pronouns for me until they heard how high my voice was on a call once ☠️

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

olivia.hubert Last month, I had the honor of supporting my momma as she was awarded as The Pillar of Trustworthiness! My family and I had so much fun cheering her on! ❤️ As an added bonus- The Pillar of Responsibility was awarded to none other than @jamesroday who I had the pleasure of meeting!! (Had a complete fan girl moment and he was the nicest person ever) 🥴🥴 It was an overall amazing night!

[factual-fantasy]

Making a relationship chart sounded fun, so I made my own! :))

This isn't really the typical relationship chart I don't think, 😅But I hope it gives you a good idea for what their relationships are like! Thank you for the idea! :)))

[solas-backpack-mug]

15 lines of dialogue

Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!

tagged by @herearedragons thanks <3

rangi moa, watcher of caed nua

I'm nobody's holy woman

He's a giant made of living adra that can absorb souls in an instant. Got any ideas?

Why are we arguing about this when Eothas is destroying the cycle?

Begone. I've heard enough out of you

Everything that's happened, everything that will happen - it's the gods' fault. We're better off without you

Everything living has a soul, fish included

For all of the information it carries, the soul is ultimately a form of energy. It has no volition and no purpose save that we set it to

Oh absoultely guilty. The gods are assholes

The soul remembers what the body perceives, but the mind is not perfect. There are always biases and flaws

I didn't think you had the nerve

tagging @adozentothedawn and @ampleappleamble if you have anything to share :)

[luridleftovers]

Logically John would be immune too right?

Right?

"The answer is..........a bit more complicated." TRIGGER WARNING FOR BUGS

[bragganhyl]

Adaryc wonders if the Watcher's companions are religious, the answers might shock him