#idk how to tag this really otherwise

[inaconstantstateofchange]

Meet-Ugly Writing Prompt: Interminable Intercom

okay so this is based not-so-loosely on real life events, and has been banging around my brain as a fun little writing prompt ever since. i might make a character-specific post with it at some point, but wanted to get the general concept out there.

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Character A lives in an old af apartment building that has no on-site staff, where all the apartment entrances are in the building's interior, which you can only access through the locked main entrance doors. Each resident gets one key.

The entrance doors have an ancient intercom next to them. This intercom technically works, but the process of getting your phone number set up with it is so inconvenient that many residents do not bother.

If you lose your entrance key after hours, you are kind of SOL until business hours, when you'll have to pay a hefty fee for the management company to bring you a new key.

One evening, late, Character A gets a call from the intercom. They can't hear very well - again, ancient - but didn't have anything scheduled for delivery, and manage to catch that someone got locked out. They decide to be a good neighbor and press the button on their phone to open the main entrance door, then hang up, thinking nothing else of it.

However... it keeps happening. This Character B motherfucker must be the most forgetful or unlucky idiot to walk the earth, because they are constantly losing their key, and calling the one number on the intercom that always picks up. Maybe Character A is a homebody, maybe they work from home, but whatever it is, they're reliable. And no matter how annoyed they get about it, they can't bring themself to just leave someone stranded out there. And also, how could they make them stop? Neither of them knows what the other looks like, and Character A doesn't even know what apartment Character B is in!

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anyway, what happens next is of course totally up to the writer. are there fun identity shenanigans when they bump into each other in the laundry room or by the mailboxes and don't know it? does character a finally put their foot down? does character b find a way to stop losing their damn key?

[dyed-indigo]

so @wyyvoren's dtiys huh. here's my take!

[cupidsncheerios]

crazy to me how everyone in jayce & viktor's lives are bad friends because if i found out my pal was keeping the refrigerated corpse of his dead-in-a-terrorist-attack boyfriend within a mysterious and unexplained suspension of holographic goop. i'd say SOMETHING

like, mel, vi, and cait all knew jayce was doing the nonconsensual necromancy thing and were cool with it. like didn't question viktor's agency in the matter, didn't recommend a therapist, just dealt with their own plot stuff. vi came in trying to get some gloves, saw a suspended glowing cadaver, went "ok" and moved on with her day

[starryeyed-seer]

me: I'm not a bat

Mr pages: (stuffing novels under its robe): I must abscond

[theokusgallery]

Well someone's suspicious :/

KtS(aWtG)!AU by @greenninjagal-blog :)

[doubletroubletag]

i got almost all the next month's updates sketched! i'm not doing the last one simply because i am feeling the burn out of composing these pages. (each have at least 6 pages, a good amount have the max 12!)

that said, these are all just sketched. i want to do it in this order: backgrounds -> lineart -> transcript. i got other projects i need to work on (winning hat and NightFell) so I can't really guarantee when Tag will start to update again.

[shadowslocked]

“Rook should be allowing to be an asshole to their companions”

“You just want to enslave/murder people”

No.

Firstly, being an asshole isn’t just committing overly evil crimes like murder or selling/buying people into slavery. Though, if the writers were clever enough, they could ways to let Rook get away with murder visa “it’s for the greater good” creating another parallel with Solas…

I want Rook to be an asshole so they can actively play a role in making their companions worse. I want Rook to have a negative effect on the world as a whole, furthering Solas’ belief that it’s better to see the world burn then allow someone like Rook to continue existing.

I want a Varric who is disappointed in you at the reveal of his death, who wonders if he’d been around things could have turned out differently.

People wanting Rook to be meaner aren’t people who want wanton destruction and death, they want to be able to effect the world in multiple ways as they were allowed in the previous games. They want the ability to play different characters, to be the goody two shoes in one world and then an asshole in the next and then some mixture of the two. Even if the argument is that stuff like that doesn’t actually impact the world, it’s important to help the player build the character they want to see as they were allowed to do in previous installments. As it stands, game wise Rook is always Rook, with no variation in between aside from race, background and gender.

Changing that play style NOW, in the fourth game to a series meant to follow up the previous three, was always going to recieve negative reactions from people. Asking them to not be upset with the direction the devs chose to go is basically asking them not to engage in a way you don’t like with Veilguard.

“But you can be mean! If you only focus on the story quests all your companions will die in the end!”

And that would be really interesting if it also wasn’t written so weakly.

It’s a fine ending, playing into the supposed themes Veilguard wants to have about kindness and caring about others having a greater positive impact on the world.

And yet none of your companions react to this. Nobody, from what I’ve seen, calls you out on not helping them with their quests. Especially Davrin and Lucanis who’s goals from the beginning of joining your merry band is to chase after a threat while working alongside you. Especially not when they start talking about needing to focus on their personal matters in order to get anything done.

Varric isn’t disappointed in you for not being the leader he thought you were, Solas isn’t displeased but convinced further it’s better to focus solely on his goal. Neither of them have any reaction to your decisions.

And the frustrating thing is: being meaner wouldn’t detract from Veilguards message about kindness and caring for companions making the world better. If anything it would actually strengthen the message as, sure, you defeat Solas but you’ve left the world worse than when you found it. That’s just, if not more, interesting than simply not engaging with parts of the game.

In the end it all comes down to feeling like there is no response to your actions or words, your impact feels unimportant because the game will continue forward without challenging you directly about your choices and instead waits until the very end to try to give the illusion to your choices mattering. It’s a game that wants to be an RPG like the previous games but also pulls its punches on letting your character interact with the world in a way that isn’t solely positive or nothing.

[ganondoodle]

i often really do feel like an .. unwanted part of the fandom, i dont draw beautiful landscapes, i have unpopular but strong opinions im constantly annoying about and rarely change, dont like/dont draw the pretty young popular twinks and hot gurls to fanboi over nor do i turn characters into one, the opposite moreso, draw only one ship no ones heard of really, got little energy to interact with the few people that are nice to me and send me asks so it probably looks like im ignoring everyone and unfortunately but still rarely get so stressed i get overwhelmed and emotional about pehaps seemingly minor things and spiral almost into a breakdown feeling super embarrassed about it afterwards but the damage is already done and i look like a freak or agressive weirdo

[starheirxero]

My personal question: Can Lunar be considered an age regressor? He actively reverts into a younger mental space as a way to cope and feel comfortable.

Cause if he Is, Gemini pretty much just shamed him for being a regressor, and that's NOT okay.

Honestly, I think they can be considered an age regressor, yeah!!

I actually remember watching the therapy episode and thinking like, "oh sweet, big day for agere Lunar truthers!" bc it's a headcanon I see a lot and it's also a headcanon that doesn't require a lot of changing of Lunar's character. It just Makes Sense!

On top of that, you could also read Lunar as having autism and/or adhd (< which was actually canon at one point but I think it's retconned now 😔) which is honestly how I always interpreted Lunar from the very start bc... motions at them. yeag.

But regardless, Gemini did still shame that part of Lunar and whether it's because of age regression or because of neurodivergence or even not because of anything other than They Want To, that's still is just. kinda flat out rude!! I don't think it's causing any problems so like. come on man. 😭

[spinnysocks]

heyo spinny!! whats some of your favourite tlg ships? or just any you like in general

EHEHEHE rubbing my hands together. evilly. hehehe

well, kiburi is my pathetic wet cat blorbo and i happen to love all the crackships for him. kiburi x makuu? funny as fuck. kiburi x ushari? love them in nikki's pirate au they keep me up at night. kiburi x janja? the outlands brotp ever. my favourite character's stupid ships my beloved yknow?

in terms of other ships: reirei x goigoi obviously. baobabfruit ofc (thanks to you :] /pos). jasiri x kion because yeah. and as you could never tell (/sarc) i love poly ships so banzai x shenzi x ed, tano x nne x madoa, & kiara x tiifu x zuri are ones i really enjoy too. oh and i'll say timon x pumbaa too since they were my first tlk ship i suppose :]

[deadgit]

4 AM and I can't sleep... so it's time to post my deeply unpopular, but fervently held belief that Rimmer fell first, but Lister fell harder.

[eddiemunsonsmum]

Just saw this comment on a story posted a month ago.

*cries in Eddie Munson Solo Series no one wanted to read, interact with or request for*

No shade to the person that commented this on their own fic if you recognize it. It's not their fault. I'm not mad at them. More crying in the tags.

[lighthouseas]

okay update: kitty is going to be okay, but we will need to switch his diet since he had a urinary blockage, which can be fatal in cats. i cried a lot but it's ok because he's going to be okay 🤞 going to do something to take my mind off of it when i get home

[mla0]

i hate when people portray michael and/or patrick as some kind of master manipulator who was terrible to shaun and stormy. like, in the past, michael sometimes got portrayed with little autonomy, or as childish and overly innocent in a weird way. that in itself is an issue with the treatment of mentally ill characters (infantilization), but the solution isn't to argue that he's actually a monster who only wanted to hurt and mislead people. the same goes for patrick. i don't enjoy the "goofy flirty mass murderer" interpretation for very similar reasons, because in the canon patrick did indeed do some wild shit but i think it's a stretch to say it was out of malice, except maybe towards eric lol

obviously there will be different views of these characters and this isn't meant to be gatekeep-y or anything, i'm just concerned with how certain portrayals can quickly slide into negative biases towards mental illness. i think if you're going on this route you might want to ask yourself why, and consider how it could make the mentally ill people within the fandom feel when they see their own symptoms portrayed by their peers as synonymous with being dishonest or manipulative

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

Happy New Year!!

*pops grape juice bottle* woooo we’ve made it, guys!

2023 was such a nice year in the fandom, in my opinion. There was s3 and that was a banger, but I feel like the stuff we were up to ourselves over here was amazing too. I got to talk more with some of my mutuals who I hadn’t been as close to before, and lovely people keep coming to this corner of the internet!! We had our first sketchbook event and are currently preparing for a general Hilda Appreciation Week, I feel like this is all amazing considering the size of this community.

Just wanted to thank everyone who’s been here for the ride as well! It’s certainly always more fun when you have people to be insane with you. I just. Get very touched thinking about the amount of support in this fandom and how we creatively fuel each other.

Anyway, just wanted to write this post as a thank you. I hope you’re having a lovely end of the year, and may 2024 be even better 💜

(I do have one small writing update to add, though! The first months of the year will probably be relatively devoid of new content from me. This for two reasons. One is that I churned out so many fics this year that I feel like even the people who like my writing are having a hard time catching up (I don’t know how this happened either-), and the other is that I’ll be using my free time to get ahead on preparing my content for the rest of the year! I won’t completely stop or anything (Hilda Appreciation Week will see to that), just wanted to leave this noted so no one things I’ve Vanished from the fic writing scene or anything. I’m just preparing my next attack. Anyways that was it happy new year!!)

[voidimp]

cant believe ive made furry au AND college au of characters that are all technically in an au of what they were originally created for but now the things they were originally created for are the aus instead