#if less potent

[whotookmysenbon]

I have a corpse flower. It might not be deadly but it smells like death like a sewer

Love it when the Fire Daimyo just pops into my inbox to show off his ultra rare ten foot tall endangered sewer plant.

Corpse flowers aren’t deadly in and out of themselves but I’ve seen some of the sticky chemical that it produces to make that awful stench in some smokebombs made for fighting against dōjutsu users when tear gas poses a threat to the eyes. It’s also good for keeping away Inuzuka.

[skunkes]

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.

[clovesnz]

What I wanna know is if people without kinks have the same amount of horny as me but just towards more normal things, or if I just have extra horny. Because like, I can be on my bed, not even feeling worked up at all, but think “eh I’d like to come rn” and find the first wav I come across and reach orgasm in like 2 minutes. Whereas if I wanna cum without snz stuff, I gotta kinda be in the mood, and really settle myself into a fantasy, or search and search for porn that actually does it for me - it’s a bit of a process.

So what I wanna know is like, is the latter just the normal vanilla experience of self pleasure? Or can vanillas just like look at people fucking and cum in 2 minutes the way I can listening to someone sneezing

[lighthouseshepard]

watching everyone throw up over tmp and the new malev simultaneously

[unorcadox]

i love making text-heavy stuff tbh. i think i've realistically "outgrown" weirdcore at least with regard to the more heavily edited stuff, but i still deeply love the idea of making my writing pieces look like they're fucked up pieces of old web lost media, so i think i've found a way to keep going despite that

[bees-tes-blog]

so uh, my plan to optimize my inventory by carrying only small nuts and mushrooms as health and stamina curatives isn’t going as well as I had planned. more than anything else because nobody fucking sells small nuts at the ridiculous quantity I would need to make them effective for healing. may need to pick a slightly less weight-efficient curative

[bioethicists]

remember when you were younger + learned for the first time about any sort of radical thought-- this idea that things were much bigger + questionable than they seemed + you weren't doomed to accept the logics of misogyny or racism or classism or homophobia etc? remember how that was terrifying but also exhilarating, upsetting but also a great opening?

i am constantly seeking to channel that energy when i am wrong or challenged + i am constantly seeking to experience that over + over rather than settling or falling back into the comfort of always being right.

[lgbtiwtv]

god the fact that louis and lestat keep claudia so sheltered despite her literally being a murderer is sooooo compelling like they really are a family she is their daughter but….the fact that that sheltering and withholding of information is partly what caused things to go wrong to begin with….the way their desire to treat her the way they do ultimately just causes her pain…the fact that both in human and vampire affairs she’s completely innocent and at their mercy and of course they are both so….unprepared in many ways for this situation and like…..the fact that even as she grows older, she was turned as their child and thus they don’t see her as their equal, they see her as their daughter. there’s always going to be this imbalance of power where she’s forced to rely on them for so much and like….it’s so compelling….she’s so compelling and I am so sad

[snappybot]

So does regular sugar exist in elder scrolls or is everyone just shoving cat cocaine into their food

[archivesweats]

[ladyyatexel]

I sure do like them.

[sexybritishllama]

just stumbled on someone's improv piano piece based off neath dark waters and at one point they snuck in the undertale riff and let me just say. i don't think that should be allowed

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

I know finding a way to make koenma a little kid would have been difficult but I'm disappointed they didn't even TRY... That takes away so much charm ..

[mabelsguidetolife]

i like when you do some light skincare and you can feel your facial circulation improve

[pochapal]

eva/natsuhi nation how are we coping :(