#abilities tree

[tillydouspart]

and there we go! continuation of my hermitcraft but lore accurate au thing! with a reconciliation of sorts?

part 1 | part 2

[an-albino-pinetree]

Thank you, Chesh, for the extremely cursed stripe bandaid 👍🏻

Inspired by @endomentendo ‘s amazing gift art, obviously -v-

[ijustthinkhesneat]

Imagine the external speculation on Each of the kids inheritance. Like trash tabloids are all gossiping about how much each kid gets when Bruce croaks meanwhile behind the scenes they are all playing a very complex game of Batnopoly, Yahtzee, connect 4, poker and capture the flag to find out who gets the Batmobile, little do they know Bruce is leaving everything to Batcow, Titus and the bats that populate the cave.

The true truth that no one knows is that everything is actually in Alfred’s name and when he dies he’s leaving it all to Clark because none of the Wayne’s can be trusted.

Very silly, very mindful, Very Knives Out

[crossdressingdeath]

It's kind of funny how the game sets up fighting the Paintress at the Monolith as the endgame just because *gestures at all the stuff that hasn't been unlocked yet going into the Paintress fight* don't lie to me. It can't be helped, that is the downside of having some sort of third act twist as well as a skill tree and upgrade system that shows you things that'll be unlocked later, but still.

[secretsofthewilde]

Anytime someone tries to talk to me about how complicated the family tree is in Once Upon a Time or House of the Dragon is I just want to grab them by the shoulders and tell them they haven't seen anything remotely close to the mess that is the family tree in Dark

[clear-morning]

"Cutting winds were raging around her, but she offered up a prayer and the winds sank down as if they were going to sleep; and she went on till she came to the large empty hall, and caught sight of Kay; she recognized him immediately; she flew to him and threw her arms round his neck, and held him fast, while she exclaimed, “Kai, dear little Kai, I have found you at last.”

But he sat quite still, stiff and cold."

[sir-adamus]

"Do Not Fall"

i really wonder about Ambrosius's warning

he knew the Ever After was down there, and it's not really any more dangerous than Remnant, and there's a known exit, so as ominous warnings go it's very strange

but it makes me think that the Relic spirits might be forbidden from sharing information about the Ever After or the Brothers' pasts (it's never even hinted at in either version of the creation myth about them, and it's clear Oz and Salem never knew about it), and that Ambrosius using that dimensional space for the central location was exploiting a loophole - gambling on somebody falling in and ending up in the Ever After and finding out what's going on

[vigilskeep]

the one thing that’s weird about the specs so far is that duellist could not more clearly be assassin with a bonus necrotic damage theme. and it would be maybe a normal alternate name for it if duellist wasn’t an established other thing in these games. obviously veilguard is trying to do its own fresh thing with the specs but then why would you say duellist and lead people to believe it’s duellist like just think of a third name

[koremakaria]

If Looks Could Kill ... well then ... loads of people would be as dead as a doornail.

When it comes to Mu Qing Ge/Xue Ran Ran, Su Yi Shui can't control his protective instincts and if that means he has to release his Demonic essence then so be it. Because nothing. I repeat NOTHING is more important than her safety.

Love of the Divine Tree Episode 17

[astraeus-tree]

You know, I can imagine that mc is a parental figure for young spiders and them being just as this sound from tt where children scared of their mother (also what about mc having some special abilities like Miles, personally I love the idea of them having best regeneration from all spiders) love your work, can't wait to read next chapter, take care

Definitely! I like to think that the younger spiders were the whole reason that MC and Miguel got together in the first place, since both of them are a little emotionally constipated

That sound is also perfect for them 😭 (If I'm thinking of the right one) Since Miguel has a short temper they're already used to it, but since reader rarely gets angry (they're usually more concerned that angry), it definitely does scare them a lot more

As for MC having a special ability, let's just say I have something in store for it😁

Glad you like my work anon! Please take care as well <3

[herebecritters]

Updated the trio references! Plus bonus god powers~

[thewalrusespublicist]

Mike Tree's Adventures in Nutopia #3: John Lennon Aspiring Boy Bestie Syndrome

The final part in the Mike Tree interview write-up! This final bit is about his relationship with the man, the myth, the face that launched a thousand one-sided best friendships: John Ono-Lennon. His relationship with John is very typical of John as in people adore/worship him but he can be an utter terror.

Mike doesen't try and pry John with questions, which makes John curious and so starts talking to Mike and developing a friendship. Yoko wants Mike to not talk to John as much as it's 'bothering' John but Mike scoffs at that as John was focused on him not vice-versa. I respect Mike as he doesen't pretend to have magic memory about those convos and freely admits he can't remember much of the discussion save a rare instance of John talking about Uncle George. Whether it was bothering John, with the later stuff in mind I don't think he was but I can understand why Yoko was concerned about that.

John has a little device thing to keep time that he called his Ringo robot <3

John gets so excited about the idea of his fig tree producing figs it's so cute.

John believes that Mike was destined to be a musical genius due to some astrological stuff and gives him his banjo. Years after his death Mike tries to sell it to Yoko who accuses him of stealing it in the first place. Classic.

A buddhist monk points out to him years later that John probably wanted him to play the Banjo with him :((( That's so sad if he's right.

Mike was tasked by Yoko with bringing drugs and money to John in Bermuda. He refused to do this. I wonder what drugs these were as Mike states he only smelled weed but this incident and the wasted recording suggests more than that. I've talked about the money thing elsewhere.

As with any friendship with John it wasn't smooth sailing. Whilst in Bermuda they really get into it once John has something to drink and John attacks him by bringing up his vulnerabilities and then recommends primal therapy?? W H A T.

Mike tries primal therapy but finds it too intense, ngl it sounds weird af so good on Mike. Apparently it does improve his posture though.

He was with John when John found the sign saying 'Double Fantasy'. Mike believes the name has a connotation for a sexual fantasy for John. Whether that's accurate or not it suggests that Mike did know or suspect things about John's sexual proclivities. What fantasy it would be referring to is anyone's guess.

John's really excited about the album in Bermuda and Mike talks about a moment where John is playing, Sean is dancing and his nanny Helen is beaming. It's a beautiful moment.

He had a strange feeling the day John died. John comes to him with a new haircut saying something along the lines of his new haircut being a throwback to his old one and how hes 'right back to where he started'. Mike thinks that this is John's awareness of his own upcoming death, it more reads to me of John's seeming 'embrace of the past and desire to reclaim it' thing going on in 80. It was a look to the future, not to the end :(.

When John dies Mike has to sort through John's bloodied clothes in a bag to get the glasses for the exhibition. Instead of horrifying he finds it cathartic. I'm pleased he found peace in that moment but god I think I would have been sick.

I think that pretty much covers everything? I will be posting additional quotes from the interview. I hope one day that Jawbone press will stop holding the book to ransom as the passage he read out was evocative and his perspective at least attempts to be measured and fair. You certainly have one willing customer Mike!

[dia-viller]

What did Menoa Tree take away from Eragon?

That has to be something important because the tree wanted to kill Eragon and Saphira, and it was so mad at them

(Eragon still can use magic and has all his memories, so it has to be something else)

[dorianpavus]

ok so i'm thinking...

rogues: bellara, harding, lucanis

warriors: taash, davrin

mages: neve, emmrich

does that seem right?

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

Both my parents actually suffer from HORRID emotional dysregulation and are prone to snapping and going into rages. My sister is the same way tbh. I am now realizing this is why they are constantly baffled by the question of whether or not I am mad at them.

I don't have external meltdowns.

I could. I don't let it happen.

I keep my rage on the inside and stay pretty quiet about it. It's just as strong as theirs [physically shaking nose bleed from high blood pressure kind of bad], but like as a kid I saw how terrifying it was to be around [dad breaking dishes, mom putting our lawn chairs into walls] and I just internalized that I wasn't going to wear that anger on the outside.

So my mother genuinely cannot tell if I am just being quiet or if I am silently hearing the dial-up noises of pure rage. This has lead her to both making strong and confident statements like "You are a pacifist who would never hurt a fly U.U" but also acting like I am secretly dangerous maybe... It's because she has never seen me snap.

She knows what her temper is like [throwing chairs through walls], she knows what my father's temper is like [pick up child and toss out door], and she can tell I am being tested, but she doesn't know what happens when I snap or where that breaking point is.

Her -perhaps unhinged- solution to this, my whole life, has been to do things that should obviously enrage me or shut me down completely, like ignoring important boundaries, repeatedly, punishing me for expressing emotions or needs at all, etc... And then to constantly ask me if I am angry with her when I get too quiet [right after near directly telling me to shut up].

It has occurred to me now, they have never once seen me lose my temper, so they literally just can't tell if I am angry at them. My sister is easy, my mother fights and screams with my sister constantly, my mother understands this. My mother doesn't have any grasp of feelings or boundaries that are not screamed at her [apparently, and I fear my sister is the same way]. Her and my sister are close despite constant fucking fighting because they understand each other.

They are trying to get me to engage the same way and it is not working. I realize now that this has been hard for them.

I was so successfully taught to suppress my emotions, by being punished for any outburst, that rage quiet looks the same as any other kind of quiet from the outside. To them anyway.

I did tell her. For the record. I used my words. I did tell her very calmly that my response to rage, in order to avoid doing the things that terrified me as a child, was to simply leave [the autistic urge to GTFO]. When a situation or person causes too much of the dial-up rage noise, I simply extract myself from that situation, up to and including never speaking to a person again. I explained this calmly. I explained it calmly 100 times and I explained that I explain myself calmly as my rage response 1-5 [also pretty much every other negative emotion tbh], and I told her that what came next was me simply opting out and fucking off. I told her this. I couldn't understand why she never took me seriously, or why she never fucking understood.

I couldn't understand what made her like this.

But it's the same problem I have with everyone else multiplied by a factor of 10.

If I am explaining myself calmly, they can't understand that it's actually serious or that I am actually upset. ESPECIALLY because they read me as "female" and women "aren't that rational" so if I am not screaming and crying about something, which I never do, people assume I can't be upset and it isn't serious.

And then after having my boundaries ignored too many times despite having calmly explained how and why it's a problem [shaking inside or not]... I leave. I leave and everyone gets upset like this is unexpected behaviour, even though I told them 50 times that is how I would respond if they kept doing *the thing.*

And for neurotypical people especially, they are expecting there to be a disconnect between what someone says they need or feel and what their actually boundaries and feelings are, and they expect the latter to be demonstrated with emotions. Telling them bluntly you do not function that way somehow never helps?

My mother isn't just looking for normal yelling or a few tears to know I am serious, whether or not I do those either [I don't], she's looking for an explosion to know there's a problem at all.

Fucked if I know how she proceeds through life this way in general or if this is just her expectation of her own kids???

And I couldn't get why my mother couldn't read my emotions and didn't seem to think I have any. It's because she's testing for the rage limit to see where my 'actual' limit is instead of taking my word for it. Never the fuck mind that she could simply *not* test at my boundaries instead of letting me have them. Separate issue.

I couldn't figure out what made her *like this*

She's expecting me to throw a giant meltdown violent tantrum at people when I have 'actually' had enough. Maybe she got away with those being like 5'4" in another time, but I am the size of the average man, I do not get to have giant screaming rages, whether or not people perceive me consciously as a woman, and least of all because a lot of people -at least unconsciously- read me as 'masculine' or at least always "they guy" of the situation compared to all other women and some men [bigger stronger and more rational, more able to just absorb the damage and let it go so the less rational screaming/crying one doesn't have to be dealt with]. Even if it was in me to be willing to terrify people [usually never], there are such limited instances where it wouldn't just blow back on me. Potentially very dangerously.

I am going to be the quiet calm one. You are going to have to let me use my words, bitch.

So she kept ignoring my boundaries until I had to cut her out of my life, and she probably doesn't understand and probably thinks it feels sudden -after 36 long years of bullshit- abrupt and unfair.

But I told her hundreds of times.

I probably should have just screamed at her.

[robo-dino-puppy]

revisiting childhood memories