#i havent played this game yet how is it doing this to me

[iamnotshazam]

in ffxiv, dragons can sense other dragons, and mortals can train themselves to "see" and feel other mortals' aether. there must only ever be a few people at a time in all of coerthas, much less inside ishgard, that can do both, and well. those who might, dragoons and blood-changed heretics, have until recently spent their lives racing towards death or dragonhood. no one knew . . .

which is why estinien is. a bit surprised. a little unnerved. when he wakes up in ishgard after the final steps of faith and something is . . . different about everyone in the city. it's very slight and takes him a long time to even try to describe. like there's a breath of dragon's aether just slightly layered in between their eyes and their mortal soul, but in ways not physical. it's neither mortal aether nor dragon aether. and it's so stretched and thin it should break and yet it's inexplicably strong.

it should not be familiar to him in his mortal shell but it is. nidhogg's memories and estinien's own acknowledgement of the truth of the war (that they do not deserve her) both pull against making the assumption but eventually he has to admit-

ishgard is steeped in ratatoskr's aether.

it gathers strongest in teachers and bards and parents nurturing children. it croons grief, and yes, anger, over the dragoon training grounds but also rejoiced when they drove back dragons that would kill the dragonets children of the nest city. it settles into warm bellies with the bite of fresh bread and twines around thumbs as if amazed. it keens hardest at betrayal and abandoned children. if an orphan in the brume is very tired and lonely or afraid as they fall asleep, they might hear a moment of a lullaby from a voice that isn't real, in a language that doesn't exist on hydaelyn or the dragonstar, but they understand all the same. it delights over the choir in st reymanaud's cathedral and dances over the air let out from the pipe organ. it coils around the soft skin of the elderly on a deathbed and gives what comfort it can for a people doomed to mortality. it is awestruck with every live birth, so painful, so triumphant, so weirdly . . . mammalian.

it is not really her. more like the echo of an echo. nidhogg expected the ascians to try some terrible scheme with her memory, as they had with tiamat and bahamut, but they didn't. perhaps the villains knew the first brood would never fall for that again. no matter how badly he missed her he knew she wouldn't want her life extended unnaturally if her eyes and body were gone. yet midgardsormr and his brood are not mortal, and something of choice remains for them after death. to dissipate into the aetherial sea? or, like midgardsormr resting in the lake, to linger for some watchful purpose after death?

estinien books it the hell out of ishgard with a lot of flowers. he's got a lot of graves to see, and he doesnt plan on stopping until he reaches sohr khai

[bumblingbabooshka]

Live Fast & Prosper

[simcardiac-arrested]

honestly don't even remember what happened in 2017 at all, it was a year. that year is no longer.

what the fuck DIDN’T happen in 2017

[asyipyip]

jesus christ episode 5 of arcane was so fucking good

[elegyofthemoon]

reading springfest now after everything in nagazora is making me crave more fu hua and mei interactions. i feel like thus far in my go through, i've never actually seen them interact, but it's kinda fun that the person who made the recommended reading order put springfest after nagazora (though of course this is probably in preparation for whatevers going on with senti/fu hua rn in ch 19)

but the way that the empyrea isolates herself so she doesn't have any attachment to those who she will outlive and how she winds up becoming lonely as a result threw me back to mei isolating herself in world serpent so that she can protect kiana and just... idk..... i think the two talk about that isolation would be interesting

also. i love fu hua. she's still at the top of my list for best character so i'm just a happy little guy getting more fu hua content now in the story :> yippee fu hua

[4arconinoma]

I need to write an essay about Little Nightmares or something I like it so much :((((((((((( I like it so much I need to infodump about it so bad but I don't even know how to go about it I like itn so much I like it so much

[odysseys-blood]

i think a big problem with games in series nowadays is they always wanna show off how good it looks with modern tech (like oh look how pretty the sky is and how sleek the models are and look at all the particle effects we have!) that they think its ok to just completely slack on the story aspect.

[lunariarts]

If a ttrpg has options for the player characters to be furries, they will succeed. Homebrew can solve any problem, but baked in RAW furry rules are your ticket to fame.

Cyberpunk: Absolute horseshit no one is running around as one those handsome little robot sergal fuckers

Lancer: Deergirl piloting a mech, fuck with me

Monster of the Week: Become Cryptid

DnD: Pirate all of their content, become tabaxi, come aarakocra, become harengon, become leonin

Monopoly: play it in your fursuit you had to pass go fifteen fucking times to afford I guess

SO fucking true. My enjoyment of a setting is hands in hands with how many weird lil fellas there are running around. Like one of my sonas is a kobold I'm not immune to furrybait ttrpgs

Also can you actually play as a deergirl in Lancer because uhhh uhmmm 👉👈

[kurtbrussels]

need a new video game to put all my focus into 😫

[socksandbuttons]

rereading my pokemay au stuff and just

i love this au so much

[corruptimles]

I’ve never played sonic games so as I keep up with like four separate playthroughs of sonic frontiers I genuinely can’t grasp how people see that fast

[holytrickster]

idk i think it's so funny I went down a survival horror game rabbit hole when a) I'm too freaking anxious for horror games I will make myself cry, b) it was all PS2 stuff which is extra funny bc I've never even played on someone else's playstation let alone had one, i was always a wii kid lol. but now my brain is like ah yes. time to consume everything I can about games I can't even play and that are stupid expensive/hard to get now

[todayisafridaynight]

So, Ichiban’s mom isn’t Janel Monae (as in she’s not black)? If so saaaaaaaaad and missed missed missed opportunity.

if we're real with ourselves there wasn't ever really a chance ichi's mom would be anything but japanese- im more surprised at the fact she's alive lol

[astrxealis]

sometimes (often) i think about the characters i kin or relate to and then the realization comes in again and again that i need therapy (/lh?)

[mrfoox]

Tired of being obsessed with one person, please get me back to looking forward to a video game or a group of people

[svankmajerbaby]

im so curious about that m3gan movie. of course i love the inherent uncanniness of dolls used to maximum creepy effect and especially when it applies to some sort of commentary of the way we depict and conceptualize childhood and children themselves But. i also really do not enjoy when the line between doll and robot is blurred, for some reason?? they obviously have a lot of things in common, robots and toys, in a sense, but i also think that theyre fundamentally different in the way theyre used and the social functions they have...... and besides theres the fact that robots are just not something that kids really interact with, unless its a tamagotchi or one of those hopping doggies......