nothing will be funnier than the fact that as a cult member, narinder is shorter than lamb (i think it's just bc all the followers are shorter than lamb, by design, but it's still funny to think about)
I finished The Fall of the House of Cabal a couple days ago. I do like the ending a lot. It leaves enough room for more Cabal adventures (and I'm really disappointed there haven't been any more). Also, Cabal sweetheart name reveal (I was starting to think "Berenice" was fanon). And Alisha reuniting with Horst was so sweet.
Johannes has come so far from his selfish persona from the early books to someone who is not holding himself back from doing good and more openly cares about his friends. It's really neat to see. (I also can't help but think about Johannes rationalizing saving Alisha by saying that Berenice wouldn't want him to let her boil. A decade or more apart, re-kindled romance or not, I do hope that Cabal is the type of person she would still like. Especially considering where he comes from earlier in the series.)
I do like the early character of Johannes, but he strikes me as someone who was hurt by the world and put up this defense mechanism of "I don't care about anyone" despite, well, most of the things he does. Even in the first book, he has that whole rant about obliterating death which seems equal parts altruistic and egotistic-- and it seemed like he had always planned to cheat the Devil out of the Barrows' souls. (As a side note, I did not liveblog my reading of the first book, but I loved that book up until the third act. Because it seemed to me like Johannes was only ever planning to actually give the Devil the souls of the wicked, Horst's death seemed completely pointless and a result of Johannes not communicating his plan with him. There was so much baggage between those two. These last books, especially The Brothers Cabal, did so much to remedy my gripes with them lol. I can't see them being so out of sync with each other in the later books.)
That said, not knowing what happens to Berenice is going to make me insane. Also, Zarenyia and Leonie adventures will be interesting (I remember something on Twitter about a possible spinoff idea JLH had regarding this? I completely forgot about that until typing this now), but I do hope Miss Smith gets to hang out with them again. I believe in my heart she does. Also, I'm glad they're going to help Minty :)
was hanging out with someone today and she was talking about how she would shoot the hawks and eagles if they went after her indoor/outdoor cat and i had to struggle to keep a straight face. there is an EASY fucking solution to this problem that doesn't involve killing federally protected wildlife OR your poor damn cat. who got in a fight last night and left fur all over the place.
Waited for the Date with death to launch, played it for hours and then you know, decided to hop on Tumblr to check if someone is obsessing over him as much as I do... And well, Tumblr never disappoints, thank you for being feral over blushy, stupid, dorky Reaper, he's just a bby gosh-
I love this hellsite so fucking much, don't ever stop. And please support the creators, they're just wow, incredibly amazing<3 thank you for fulfilling the dream of bullying a cute not so human, adorable, man.
Just finished my first playthrough of BG3. Romanced Lae'zel, but ending up turning into an Illithid because the idea of making Orpheus or Karlach do it didn't sit well with me (or my character).
I told Lae'zel to leave with Orpheus in the end (I heard she wouldn't stay with a ghaik anyway, which she's valid for, but also, it doesn't feel right to ask her to stay when I know how much her people mean to her). And like-
@underude is playing SM2 again and i ... we don't talk about the tunnel enough on this page and this is my commitment to because 🫠🫠🫠 mj spent ALL NIGHT chasing peter in the rain to make sure he was okay, knocking out kraven's heavily armed henchmen as she went, while INSISTING to miles that they had nothing to worry about once they caught him because she could get through to peter.
and then she couldn't.
the genuine fucking TERROR in her voice as she runs for her life from the man she loves ??? a terror that peter wakes up and DOESN'T REMEMBER CAUSING ??? he fucking strolls off down the street like ain't shit going on ??? and the next time mj sees him she FREEZES and then grabs her fucking weapon the second he raises his voice ???
yeah. there's a lot to UNPACK here
Something about people saying that movie!gabe is better than show!gabe because he "cares about adrien" rubs me the wrong way because… show!adrien is very clearly a victim of abuse that has obviously been going on for a while, i'd guess even before emilie's death. You don't get a boy as terribly afraid of his father without him being some form of abused, and that's the whole point of his story. like, if gabe cared about adrien, then adrien wouldn't be the adrien we know, he'd be movie!adrien. It works for the movie but would never ever work for the show. Show!Adrien's entire arc and character basis is about overcoming his abuse, so to take that away from him feels… gross, to me. idk!
Leo and Calypso are perfect for each other in all the worst ways.
Two desperately lonely people.
One told himself that the only way for him to be happy, after years of hardships and trauma that he hasn't healed from, is to have a romantic partner.
The other has been cursed to fall in love with whoever arrives in her prison and then eventually leave her, making her relive the same kind of heartbreak over and over.
And then they find each other. The one who finally loves him. The one who finally came back for her. And they think "this is it!" She has been granted freedom. He has been granted the fix to his problems that he so desperately longed for. They can truly start living for the first time.
But that doesn't happen. Love doesn't heal them. They are miserable with each other but neither would ever admit it because this is the only way they told themselves that they could be happy.
The cold weather got me watching Harry Potter thinking about how two of the best characters simply didn't get enough screen time. Fang and snape...Both deserve more. idk what my attraction to snape is but it's fucking there.