#botf

[quasi-normalcy]

So when I was about 13 years old, we kept our computer in our basement, which is a place that I otherwise would not want to be. Not just because of children's natural fear of basements, but because my family's house was slowly sinking into the clay and the basement had already flooded many times and consequently always had a stubbornly persistent scent of mould to it. But our computer was there, and I liked playing games, and so I would spend long hours down there.

Anyways, I remember one time I was playing Birth of the Federation, and I really wanted to form an alliance with the Romulans. And I kept contacting them over and over each turn, trying to sweeten the pot a bit more until they agreed (I think that I was playing as the Federation or the Ferengi). And finally, I got this diplomatic message from them that was like: "If you continue to pester us with this, we will consider our friendship to be in abeyance," or words to that effect. And I was struck by this, because like...I had played *many* games of BotF before that, and I have never received such a message; I played several games after, and I never saw it again. I have asked around and looked online and I've never seen any record of such a message in the game's diplomacy text. But it is, admittedly, completely in character for the Romulans to say. And to this day, I have no idea whether this actually happened, whether it was a dream, or whether I was perhaps hallucinating from all of the mould spores I was inhaling. I also recall being very sickly and stupid when I was in junior high, and in retrospect, I wonder how much of that was just the hours that I regularly inhaling unfiltered mould while playing on the computer.

[y0uc4n7kn0w]

YCK Resolutions

Hey readers! For those of you that have been here for a while or those of you who are reading this for the first time, this is our yearly resolutions! This is where we talk about goals for the blog as well as things we plan to roll out within the year. Sometimes we use this post to announce how the blog is evolving. Releasing Season 1 of Crash Course in Fandom and recording a new season of…

[theoplum]

if you're new to my comics, my story from last year's SBCF is on my itchio page if you're interested in more comics about two guys in a big weird magical building. It's another historical fantasy romance, this time leaning a bit more victorian & with more fun bickering. Here's a synopsis:

"The art of magic was lost one thousand years ago. The site of its mythical disappearance, a great stone castle, sits crumbling in the center of a city that is rapidly changing. While the city’s people deliberate on the future of the castle, an art historian and a scholar of theoretical magic are tasked with completing a detailed recording of what remains inside."

[bogkeep]

the very image of devotion

[bonefall]

whats the botte?

Battle Of The True Eclipse! The BB version of the Great Battle at the end of OotS.

It's in contrast to the Battle of the FALSE Eclipse in BB!Po3. That first battle was a mere preview given by Sol. Instead of the eclipse ending that battle, it's the tipping point to a full war.

BOTFE: Brackenfur's death. The catalyst to Hollyleaf's downward spiral. NO LONGER causes Blackstar to lose faith; that happens towards the end of OotS. Occurs in Po3.

BOTTE: Battle versus the Dark Forest. Huge bloodbath. This allowed the demons to attack but only on this one night. Occurs in OotS.

[sexynetra]

Guess who wrote a fic loosely based on this video 🤭

Thank you @thecollectionsof for encouraging me <333

“You trust me, don’t you?” Dawn smiled hopefully — a dazzling grin that had Amanda’s brain shorting out.

She did trust Dawn. More than she trusted anyone in the world.

[bread-making-vikings]

I'm looking forward to getting to forge of darkness but ngl the path to ascendancy books are taking too much of the mystery away from the malazan series - like it's cool to see kellanved and dancer goof about but it feels like it's just checking off names people recognise, even when it contradicts stuff we know about Whiskeyjack and Dujek (for example) just to have them be there at the start?? I'd much rather each book skip ahead a decade or something, and focus on stuff we barely even heard about before, not just "oh you remember that really cool thing we hinted at? yeah here it is laid out pretty prosaically".

Idk if it's Ian Esslemont, bc from the two (2) of his empire books I've read I really enjoy his writing style and think it meshes well, but they're just kinda draining a lot of the magic out. Things like the Tiste Edur and K'chain Che'malle are talked about as slightly niche but common knowledge, and it's just a bit lame?

[theoplum]

so incredible!!!!

fanart of Daegal from Blade of the Fane by Theo Stultz / @theoplum; one of my favorite comics to come out of this year's SBCF!

[meteors-lotr]

In the middle of watching botf with my girlfriend, and during the scene where Tauriel confronts Thranduil in Dale, and the moment where Legolas intervenes gf yells because she had not realized that him and Thranduil were different people

[theoplum]

About 5 days left of ShortBox Comics fair... it closes at 8pm UK time, 4pm Eastern on October 31st! If you haven't taken a look at my comic yet, you can do so here. For the last few days I'm going to post some drawings based on BotF illustration thumbnails my partner @cowardlyworm made for me :•)

[bonefall]

im sorry but it took me forever to figure out what BOTTE meant fjahfhsb i thought it was a new slang for like. something similar to meaning of banger 😭

not your fault it’s Mine dhahfhsh. I often mix up the acronym TPB and TNP bc I’m simply illiterate </3

sorry to be off topic i just thought it was Funny

MAN I was sitting there like, "should i say BOTTE or should i write it all out. shoot, i mean, i've been talking about this for a while, SURELY I can write BOTTE and people will know?"

NOPE

But for everyone else who hasn't figured it out and is too afraid to ask;

BOTTE means Battle of the True Eclipse, because in BB there is a Battle of the False Eclipse (BOTFE) where Brackenfur dies in Po3, and a Battle of the True Eclipse (BOTTE) that happens at the end of OoTS.

BOTTE = Canon's Great Battle

BOTFE = Canon's Eclipse Battle

[theoplum]

MY GOD........................ IT'S THEM....!?!?!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH

some fanart for @theoplum's blade of the fane, which was just such a lovely read. its available from shortbox comics fair here! i highly recommend checking it out!

[astrosociety]

Which character do you think got disrespected most?

Also are dms open?

Putting bias aside,

Adamai and Amalia kinda felt less like characters and more like excuses to develop yugo's character after the OVAS

Also I think oropo too , he was supposed to be this big scheming anti hero type but ended up just having severe daddy issues.(I Would say lady echo and the rest of the botf but I still need to read the ogrest manga)

I don't think disrespected but also Eva a little bit , mostly because dally always kinda ends up being in the spotlight when they are in a scene and she falls kinda in second light (totally not because of tot iop bias no no)

Also yes my DMS are open!

[nikuttek]

i probably don't have any finnish speaking bagginshield followers but goddd........ "sinun vaikka hajoat" by happoradio is such a botf bagginshield song

[gregoftom]

I love Greg, but if I was Tom I would have teared the bitch to pieces with my teeth if I saw him having a ball of a time with the fascists, after having agreed to go to prison for him. He did the same thing with boar on the floor and the proposal of a business open relationship afterwards. Which in retrospect is very fucking crazy. Dude had to stand in an empty pool and got pissed on, but still didn't talk because of a little 'pls 🥺' only for Greg to break-up and blackmail him. Love them, fr.

JASJAKSJAKJSAS yeah i'll be honest that hurt me too.

it's kind of crazy the way that greg reacted then compared to now and you make a good point - twice tom makes these big proposals of love and twice it's kind of thrown back in his face. this is something he's used to so it makes sense that he goes off and pelts bottles at greg. you can kind of understand tom, LOL.

but he keeps pursuing him! like a lovesick little bitch! it's so..... A. there are probably multiple reasons why greg reacts the way he does to tom at the start; 1. he thinks that's the way this world works having observed the family acting that way [tom even praises him for the blackmail, in the end greg is mostly satisfied with being treated better and respected and being given a sense of belonging. tom knows just how to seduce him right back in] 2. he's not sure, like i was when i first watched boar on the floor, just how long these kinds of gestures could and would last so he doesn't take it quite so seriously hence trying to leave after [also up to that point tom had been uh. pretty mean to him!! and he gravitates towards niceness, it's only then i guess that he managed to pluck up the courage to ask to leave bc tom had this sudden burst of kindness and greg felt like he could leave without getting Killed lol.] 3. he's just being selfish - he takes these gestures and runs with them, esp the getting out of jail free card. he's like, oh thanks! then thoughtlessly celebrates his freedom with a bunch of. dudes. anyway.

BUT THEN LATE S3-4?????!?! WTF HAPPENED HASKJASAS this bitch was like minnesotan dick got me acting unwise. "prove it" shut the hell up slut!!! tom can't even react properly cuz he's like HUH?????? i thought you didn't even like me back!!!!! and it's just so fucking fun bc it pairs up very nicely with how much tom acts like a schoolboy around greg. these mfs be acting like high school idiots and it's so entertaining. it's like i said somewhere else on a post; one of them will take steps forward while the other steps back. the nero sporus scene was greg's "oh!" moment, i think. that was the moment he was like, oh wait, this is for real? bc ever since then he's been glued to tom's side and in the latest s4 episodes been singing his song like hey hi i'm greg of tom, i'm tom's mistress, how is everybody, hi mr president did you know i love that country boy. also i am here. like he mentioned himself second!! not exactly a huge thing like botf, but it's still a gesture! just a shame tom wasn't there to see it; maybe it'll be addressed in some way in the finale or he'll bear witness to greg doing the same thing for him in kind and we'll either get a break up as a response [touche greg] or... not?? which!!!!! A but i'm kind of expecting something within the former range. but i don't think it'll be an easy decision for tom and tbh, i'll take that. it at least means greg is important to him.

something happened between s3 and 4; they became friends, the trust grew, they must have spent a lot of time together. the disgusting brothers [which atp could just be them fucking each other and calling it disgusting bc they're fucking dumb and internally homophobic] bullshit, which sounds like something some idiot frat bros would come up with. "DIGUSTIBUS" GREG U WANNA FUCK THAT SENIOR CITIZEN SO BAD IT MAKES U LOOK STUPID. like. we had tom acting like that, now it's greg's turn. the scales tipped the other way and now tom is like. whadda hell... he likes it for sure we can see it here and there. but he's taking the step back now. i just think that's interesting!

ANYWAY SORRY I MADE THIS INTO A HUGE POST LOL but the point is. i also love them fr and tom should've [redacted] whenever greg was a little unappreciative asshole.

[stagerie]

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