#be normal and nice and come play

[bbubbleo]

okay making a real post now- made a pumpkinduo discord! light hearted environment to share content and have discussions!

server is 18+ (not nsfw), kin & system safe, has a simple verification system, and I will be setting up a java smp if anyone wants to play minecraft with peeps smiles!!

come join and hang out and listen to me YAP! 🐏🦆

https://discord.gg/KUpUCRjZ

[elodieunderglass]

Once, you said Charlie sings tenor with his pub-guys-who-sing-sea-shanties. Is this like a Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends level of thing, or is this a hobby that's widespread enough in the UK that he's on a more amateur level?

(in reference to Killie the jockey OC's horseless brother Charlie and this post.)

Charlie’s neatly-trained-but-insufferably-twee warm tenor voice is very portable, and costs nothing but his dignity to use. Once a week he sings sea shanties down the pub with his middle-aged mates from grad school, where the baritones drown him out. That’s Thursday nights, so you can avoid it.

It’s a hobby! Charlie is by nature an eternal amateur - unless you have plot-related needs to call on a bunch of auxiliary fools and weirdos in the Killieverse for, like, a talent show. The other folks are a loose collection of people from Charlie's days in grad school and probably some tagalong boaters.

There are enough people in sufficient density in the UK for such things to coalesce regularly, although in my experience it's often in a sort of private and secretive way. you hear about them from word-of-mouth or invitation.

the actual real-life informal pub sea shanty group I knew best was actually all people living on narrowboats, who would manifest for the purpose on Thursday evenings at The Cross Guns at Avoncliff if you wanted to avoid it - except the Cross Guns, like so many boatie bastions, has now been sold. Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the ---- (gunshot)

Charlie’s admittedly bizarre decision to Get More Educated was influenced by Ken, his best friend in undergrad. Ken is a good-natured guitar-playing guy who lives on a narrowboat, who was - at the time - going on to do a PhD in geology. Ken is exactly as sweet and weird as you'd expect a geologist boatie to be; and, Charlie lacking all direction, and being lost and lazy, followed him to grad school in a panic. He applied to the same programme, bunking on the boat - he's short enough that you could just sort of park him sideways across the dinette, without even turning it into a bed; he was an absolute liability in boating life, but Ken's too chill to care much - and, like, did the chores (he's terrible at chores; but Ken is a geologist boatie) and fell into the canal a lot. It is extremely on-brand of Charlie to be so lazy and confused that he did a PhD largely by accident.

and that is how Charlie got one (1) normal friend, and what he does with him.

Anyway, Charlie and Ken and their weird mates are very annoying, with their increasingly complex and silly a capella harmonies, but no pub is going to turn away that many punters on a weeknight - and some people say they like it.

and some day they might enter a contest if you want to laugh hysterically at the idea of charlie being in a sea shanty contest.

[king-lena]

it isn’t clogging up his brain but the next thing he is quoted as saying is “roger’s got this fabulous chin dimple in his chin…” after looking wistfully at an old pink floyd photo LIKE GIRL COME AWNNNN and then like twenty years later he puts out his album on roger’s birthday and then like two months after that brings him up unprompted in an interview by lowkey calling him a heartthrob while trying to get a dig in at him and then saying that the interviewer should ask roger how he feels about david being a heartthrob lmao like sir i am afraid you are losing the idgaf war and bad 💀

[sleep-deprived-luka]

Gog au niigo for tonights doodle

[adamanteine]

placing myself in low activity jail for the next three weeks or so because i'm moving on the 9th to a new flat (WAHOOOOO) and i still need to finish packing and then will be starting a new job on the 20th so i need to finish sorting out my current projects! not a semi hiatus per say just a "my schedule is packed so activity will be spontaneous"

[celestielbeing]

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[octoooo]

Got some Bnuyus in Minecraft, one black & one brown, guess what I named them

AND THEN GUESS WHAT HAPPENED

They actually have 8 kids but I didn’t take a more recent photo

,,then guess what I did

Also a lil difference between my two Rabitos

[sieglinde-freud]

i know that in the hypothetical situation laslow married xander they would stay in nohr because xander is kind of. like. you know. important. so they stay there like inigo is smart enough to understand that if you bag a literal king you sit down and shut up!! HOWEVER. would it not be a little funny if they went home to ylisse… would it not be a little funny if inigo went back to all of his childhood friends who watched him get rejected and humilated his whole life (and probably did some of the rejecting themselves) joined by what is canonically one of the most beautiful men alive like omfg i’d be so annoying

[moiraimyths]

Before we call anon rude because let’s see it from their perspective, imagine getting an entire feast to eat. That can be pretty hard to start with so much that’s going on, but if they start with one thing they know they’ll like (aka one character they like) that can be the start for them leaping to other characters to finish the story and the bigger story. I struggle the same way to start book series if I don’t have at least one character that drives me to read it, it’s all about what can be the hook to push them through. Sounds like the anon is neurodivergent (just a guess) so they might genuinely not see it as rude and see it as a solution to even play the game to start with.

Btw absolutely adore the game, the complex and rich characters making them all so unique is amazing. The art is so pleasing to the eyes I love it!! I’m waiting for it all to get out at once so I don’t get too impatient. Shae however interests me the most, which routes will have the most lore for them? Will there be routes that give more lore in general based on decisions you make or do they all share the same amount? (I mean general lore not just Shae lore)

Apologies; we are not trying to accuse any asker of being rude! We are simply explaining our perspective as the developers / are trying to broadly encourage folks to dip their toes into other areas of the story outside of the main route(s) they're interested in, especially considering some routes will be made available sooner than others, and these other routes will likely contain additional scenes/lore of everyone's fave(s) regardless! We want to give each main cast member an equal amount of love (and lore) regardless of their overall popularity, so our goal is not to tut-tut anyone for having strong preferences for one character over the others, but rather to explain that you may be surprised by how much *more* you learn about your preferred characters in the other routes. That's all!

For Shae... Well, they were a foot soldier for one of the worst periods of the War. Lore wise, any other story that touches on the War will likely have content relevant to them and their experiences. ^^

[nikothebookdragon]

to anyone not feeling the "christmas spirit" or any kind of cheer in fact, I'm sending you much love. we may be strangers behind screens but in spirit we are holding hands and getting through this together <3

[br1ghtestlight]

unfortunately justin saying that paper wouldn't really ramble about something usually unless he felt comfortable (like around oj) is actually a win for fanpaper shippers cuz if paper has rambled to fan about warrior cats many times That means he feels really safe around fan (which ig was already true judging by how bitchy they are when they're together). all this in a second-tier canon sense but i think they're cute <3

[coquelicoq]

good morning can i show you guys the christmas card my little sister wrote me in french (she does not know any french)

joyeux Noël, j'espère que vous comprenez ce que je dis compte tenu de la fiabilité de Google Translate. Jespère qu'à l'avenir nous voir plus de deux fois par an. Je ne sais pas vraiment quoi dire d'autre, alors joyeux Noël et j'espère que papa t'a offert. Profitez également des autres choses que je mets sur la carte au lieu de vous ècrire un essai complet.

and then she wrote me a little crossword and a "connect the language to its way of saying 'merry christmas'" game 😭

[bmpmp3]

how did i not know there was an amnesia: memories musical..... an entire decade ago...................................................

[rinofwater]

So outside of the bond quest events and main story, the characters in Azuma get pretty shallow characterization, huh?

[roomba-mangga]

taking a little break from writing for a few days to cool down the brain but first... yaad&thistle au fic preview under the cut. this is clocking in at 12k atm, i haven't finished drafting all the scenes yet, but i am deeply enjoying this one.

[htilney]

"i don't like t.ilney bc he scolds catherine!! what a mansplainer!"

i'm sorry... if you found your houseguest sneaking around looking for the place where your dad has supposedly hidden away/murdered your mother, your response wouldn't be 'girl what the actual fuck???'