#em but not pvp

[daisychainsandbowties]

every bea ship

bea texting lilith/ava

re: our discussion earlier

pg 1 of 87

[radioves]

its quite shrimple actually

[herooflions]

This is like a silly thing to be proud of but I beat my first invaders in Elden Ring today!!

[tenebriism]

// Slow turns towards the 62 Dark Knights and 84 Dragoons on the opposing PVP team.

[impossible-rat-babies]

born to make ppl mad in frontline by telling them frontline doesn’t matter <3

[phycology-lemon]

@utopians Tell them 👑

Note: If you go check it out in their page, the person politically reposts their homestuck meme. They then repost battle.

Utopians wins.

BTW I didn't repost the thread incase cardinal's politic talk would've you uncomfy, enjoy the the slay. :)

[trans-leek-cookie]

imagine how things would've went if Amangeaux realized with her ring that they were killing the queen of Candia.

[thingsmysplattershotjrtoldme]

There's a Direct coming out tomorrow and everyone is pretty sure they will announce the new season then, maybe even DLC!

What are your hopes for the new season trailer? Personally I'm hoping for new Octo hair and that jukebox to be available for listening. Other than that, maybe new gear like dresses or more customization options!

[ultimablades]

I’m feeling much better today than I was yesterday. I reread my memory-loss fic before bed last night and I was like wow…this IS good, why am I beating myself up so much.

[vociferans]

HE RLLY DOESNT HAVE TEETH

[carcharadroid]

sixth game in a row btw lmao I cannot stop

[daisychainsandbowties]

10 17 22 idk if you've done those I'm illiterate

10. Has a piece of writing ever "haunted" you? has your own writing haunted you? what does that mean to you?

EM. YOU. yourself. come over here and ask if i am haunted?? yes, every day, by the image of shannon slipping mary's motorcycle helmet off her head. this:

"then she steps forward and removes Mary's helmet with careful hands and Beatrice has never felt more a voyeur in her life than when she watches Sister Shannon dab the blood from Mary's split lip with the pad of her thumb. Watches Mary bat her hand away, her eyes rolling, "I'm fucking fine" and "Language" a practiced one two punch" ~ tmtl ch. 1

and this:

"Lilith shudders at her touch, makes a mournful sound, then comes awake in an instant.... Beatrice withdraws, sits for a moment on the edge of Lilith's bed before rising. Lilith's melodramatic groan of relief makes her tempted to drop back down, to curl up alongside her and try to pick the pieces out of her, to reassemble them and form an image that's whole, but she resists. All the better to let sleeping Liliths lie."

~ tmtl ch. 3

i terms of other things i think the book of the outsider trilogy by Mark Lawrence is quite haunting, as a story. i find a lot of the poetry i read very haunting. but mostly it is lines like those above - moments of absolute intimacy shadowed by restraint. that line from harrow the ninth that goes "you were so afraid she might touch you. you were so afraid anyone might touch you. you had always been afraid of anyone touching you, and had not known your longing flinch was so obvious to those who tried."

my own writing... sometimes. when i write about sickness, certainly. that feels haunting. but mostly my own writing is when i let the ghosts fly out of the window.

17. talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. tell me about the lore, the history, the things that won't make it in the text.

as you well know i have about eight WIPs. but my actual novel really actually resonates with that very popular line from, again, tasmuir "love is too long and life is too short" but ah... kind of flipped. what happens when the life goes on and the love is there but not the beloved? the story started there, moved onto a dragon with a clockwork heart and a boy and the colour purple, of a very empty landscape and the very loud dead. naturally i have spider-people and none of my characters have bodies without a bit or the horrific or the angelic crammed into them (often both). the lore is a lot, but the story is about gods and spitting in the face of fate. it has Monster Hunter vibes and also a bit of Cormac McCarthy's the road (vast emptiness. two bodies inside it). it has all the things i like - horror and blood and intimacy. but yeah, the lore doc is a chonky boi.

22. how organised are you with your writing? describe to me your organisation method, if it exists.

my entire process involves the notes app on my phone and like three documents all called the same thing except lore 1, lore 2, lore 3 where i dump vomited-up fragments of sentences and half-baked ideas and then occasionally a 8000 word dump of pristine lore. i plot only inside my own brain. my masters thesis supervisor had to cut me open to get a plot outline from inside me, and it was all lies anyway. i am more of a character writer than a plot-specialist, but i feel like once i have My Guys and A Problem the story pretty much writes itself (and i'm so wrong about that). mostly i outline in my brain and then by writing random lines from the start, the midish, and the kind-of-end, and then i do linguistic gymnastics to reach those sentences. (and boy am i clumsy)

i type everything. writing with pen + paper is still not my favourite thing to do - still slow and a bit painful - so i prefer to type. i have calluses, in fact, from typing, which is really quite embarrassing.

[starlit-mansion]

Tired of seeing pro-deer propaganda on my dash lol. I don't hate them because i have no joy or wonder for the beauty of nature, i hate them because i drive at dusk and dawn!!!!!!!

[royalarchivist]

Baghera: We are insulting each other! :D

Jaiden: OH, ok. No, go on! Don’t let me, uh, crash the party.

Baghera: I’m saying that «Etoiles est une petite pute» [Etoiles is a little whore]

Etoiles: Yeah, Baghera «est une grosse connasse» [is a big asshole].

Baghera: Yeah!!!

Etoiles: Yeah, don’t repeat it! [Laughs]

Baghera: Repeat it! « Grosse connasse » [Big asshole]

[Baghera and Etoiles start sparring]

Jaiden: Chat, this is the friendliest PvP fight I ever seen. They're laughing and giggling and insulting each other!

(HUGE thank you to @/lmorphos for translating the French dialogue and transcribing it for me!)

[ Full transcript / Translation: ↓ ]

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(As always, please let me know if there are better ways to translate things or phrase things!)

Etoiles: [Joking with Baghera in French] People are sociopaths, because we have no problem, they want to create problems on their own to see things move. So for the moment, I just have to send you a message “Well damn, can you wait for me asshole?”

Baghera: [In French] Yes, well, there you go, we can actually talk.

Etoiles: Sorry Jaiden, we are insulting each other in France. In French.

Baghera: Yeeeeeah, it’s real!

Etoiles: Sorry, Sorry.

Jaiden: You're– you're what?

Etoiles: We are like saying–

Baghera: We are insulting each other!

Jaiden: OH, ok. No, go on! Don’t let me, uh, crash the party.

Baghera: [Overlapping with Jaiden's comment] I’m saying that « Etoiles est une petite pute » [Etoiles is a little whore]

Etoiles: Yeah, Baghera « est une grosse connasse » [is a big asshole].

Baghera: Yeah!!!

Etoiles: Yeah, don’t repeat it! [Laughs]

Baghera: Repeat it! « Grosse connasse » [Big asshole]

Jaiden: No.

Baghera: Oh. [She walks away sadly]

Etoiles: Allé hop dans ta gueule. [Here we go, in your face] *

Baghera: [In French] Eh, oh your mother, you–!

Etoiles: [In French] In your face. Ok, go 1v1, go 1v1, go 1v1!

Baghera: Ok ok ok ok!

Jaiden: Oh– oh- oh sh– Ok, we’re fighting, we’re scrapping now!

Etoiles: Ok, ok, ok, ok, yeah! [In French] Well-played, it’s awesome. Oh, you have a totem, you are cheating! No, don’t use your totem.

Baghera: [In French] Ah, sorry, I removed it!

Etoiles: [In French] No don’t use your totem, because you shouldn't use it for this.

Baghera: [In French] Yes yes, I removed it, it was when I was with Pomme.

Jaiden: Oh! Get 'em with the special move!

Etoiles: Ok. Ok. Ok!

Baghera: [In French] I hurt you a little, or not ?

Etoiles: [In French] Now I’m close to dying. [Literal translation: Now I am two fingers away from dying]

Baghera: [In French] Really?

Etoiles: [In French] Yes, it’s very close! [Laughing]

Baghera: [In French] No, you are lying, you are lying! [Also laughing]

Etoiles: I am minus 4 hearts.

Baghera: [In French] I lost one, so it’s ok.

Etoiles: [In French] This is exceptional.

Baghera: [In French] Well, we're never going to kill each other, just tear off our armor.

Etoiles: [In French] After, I can show you a PvP trick that isn't very funny.

[Baghera and Etoiles both laugh]

Jaiden: Chat, this is the friendliest PvP fight I ever seen. They're laughing and giggling and insulting each other!

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* No perfect translation for this, but essentially saying "shut up!" to Baghera in a playful way.

[etoilesbienne]

out of curiosity, what are the common qEtoiles mischaracterizations, and the accurate characterizations you wished people used more? Sincerely, an English speaking fan who is re-learning French!

honestly i kind of consider it a mischaracterization when people like... make etoiles into this team leader who always knows what to do and move things forward. or like that he has a bad attitude to like... match his fighting skills. or like the dark knight brooding warrior. he says he is these things. these are lies. he lies about himself constantly. i wouldnt trust a good 2/3 of the things he says about himself to be true. you read him clearer through his actions than his statements.

in my opinion etoiles is more like. sturdy second in command. he's not there to lead, he's there to fill in the holes where they pop up. he's there as cover. he's quick witted in shortchange scenarios, but that is so not the same thing as a genuine strategist. in another expression, if someone is a leader, the leader is a doctor, etoiles's role is more like... the EMS team in an ambulance. He's not there to fix your problem, he's there to keep your problem covered until you can get someone else to fully fix it. but that doesn't mean his role is any less important when he's needed.

Etoiles is also, like, so very much a team player if he respects and trusts a person. And it is so easy to have his respect and trust. His trust starts at 100% for everyone. he's also so very very very good at reading people (gesture to the bbh clip where bbh moves his mouse slightly downward and etoiles calls him out on being depressed). He read Mousey as enjoying dungeons and pvp way more and wanting to hang out with her. He's also one of the only people who like continuously runs in the girlies group and makes all of them pvp with him and they all love it so he keeps coming back to pvp with them. Thats how he started his whole thing with Tina and pvping with her constantly. Reading other people also, he loves finding other pvpers so he attacks roier constantly now bc he knows roier can pvp.

What else OH Etoiles loves whining (and this is because Rayou loves whining) that dude will just complain constantly. You haven't seen an etoiles stream if youve never seen him whine. Can't say I'm not kind of endeared by it. With this too he loves over explaining things (RIP armor powerpoint wish you couldve been given...) because he wants to help everyone....

OH and he's very over exaggerated too in replying to people in a complaining way and a self deprecating way and also likes to try to push the envelope with people and he does all of that to try and get a laugh out of others. like he's well aware people find him going "Oh so you don't give a shit about me and want me to die ? you want etoiles to die ?" fucking hilarious and also loves complaining in the first place thats why he does that. if your etoiles isn't complaining and whining then it isn't etoiles. the self deprecating thing is... its interesting bc he does have full faith in his abilities but will never say it out loud unless its trying to reassure someone who is worried. pushing the envelope is so specific he won't do it too much and its like........... from what ive seen (correct me if im wrong) heavily directed at non francophones where if they laugh at something wack he's done he'll try to do it again to make them laugh more. shoutout to the time he made bbh laugh so much when he cursed he didn't get languaged by bbh so he kept cursing to try to make bbh do it again. the dudes a total people pleaser.

smaller thing ive talked about extensively already (u can prob find it in my q!etoiles tag if i remember i'll edit a link to the posts in here soon lol) etoiles hates losing he looooooves winning he's very intense about it lol. its cute!

on a final note even if you don't become deeply unwell about etoiles like i am i think this highlight clip video has like everything he's like condensed into like 11 minutes. You should watch it. It's a good starting point.

[paper-mario-wiki]

do u still fw clowns question mark

yeas. it's not my "thing" anymore, but i still enjoy them and will talk about em sometimes. this blog has really become a like. Capital B "Blog" again. I've been posting so much more frequently in my own voice about things that interest me and at my own whims, regardless of engagement. feels good.

i'd make the leap to neocities for full creative control of the entire experience, but i like direct engagement a lot. it adds a collaborative nature to the affair. but i guess like. i could solve that with a comment section and public email for questions. that could be fun.

though beyond the follower interaction, i'd also miss direct interactions with other members of the community that may not be directlt connected to me in any way. as passé (idk about the accent im just guessing) as it is to say, i do enjoy the PvP (BvB?) nature of tumblr.

much to consider.