#iii *has* done this before

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[sophiasharp]

Not me JUST realizing part of why Astarion is Like That™️ is because he’s spent the last 200 years trying to keep his true thoughts to himself and this stint with the tadpole is the first time since he was turned that he’s been allowed to have no filter and not get automatically punished for it. Like, dude doesn’t know how and doesn’t care to learn how to do anything in halves, it’s either you get the “By The Script” Astarion that’s just saying what he thinks will be the most likely to let him survive or you get the “I Have A Mouth And I’m About To Make Up For Centuries Of Keeping My Dialogue Internal” Astarion. And I think that’s beautiful.

[hej-krukowaty]

Cazador: *Standing over Astarion's grave with a shovel and a camera* Cazador: Cazador: What's up Youtube today we're doing another unboxing video

[brookbee]

this scene from The Requiem for Methuselah has been stuck in my head for weeks so here’s a bad edit

[adamsrcnan]

I just had a vision. Walk with me here. Now i'm not sure if anyone has floated this idea before. But i would pay Maggie Stiefvater good money (i'm talking gooood money) to write about what actually happened to Glendower. For example, show me the battles he was fighting, the relationship with Gwenllian. When she stabbed the poet to prevent war and it back fired. Artemus. Just like all of Artemus and the tir e e'lintes. Glendower (i was fully abt to type Gansey lol) and his men carrying his body across the sea and across the fields (the same ones the gangsey would later be exploring) when the shield was left behind and fell to the bottom of a lake (maybe it wasn't even a lake then) what was cabeswater before it was cabeswater as we know it. How did they find the caves?? How did they build the tombs. The valley of bones they found. Gwenllian being sealed in her tomb. Glendower being laid to rest in his. The demon!!! The magic going wrong. How did the other body they found die??? What did Artemus do?? Why did he hide??

I need the whole story and how neat would it be if the characters acted as foils or parallels to the gangsey. Like how they say Gansey was a lot like Glendower but Glendower had flaws or parts of his story that Gansey did not approve of. So we could have like Glendower's knights and magicians etc paralleling Blue, Adam, Ronan, Noah and Henry. Do you see my vision????

All i'm saying is...it could really Be something

[melit0n]

I don't know if anybody has pointed this out yet, but, iii and ivy's masks match eachother! They're replicant molds, but their colours are reversed. Plus, while the black part of ivy's mask is smooth, iii's is rough, which Ivy replicates around the eye!

In reverse you are all my symmetry, anyone?

[mildew-dread-mold]

the real reason adam never moved in with the rest of the gangsey (minus blue) was because he visited once, saw the fridge in the bathroom, and said "what the fuck?" and immediately left

[katiekatdragon27]

I did a funny thing again! I got obsessed with another piece of obscure media! Except this time, it's a kids show! Where my Storybots bros at!? *greeted by silence and a single uninterested cough*

I was planning on posting this on the 4th (cuz murica, yeehaw), but I got busy. So here lol. Also, Answer Time Season 2 is supposed to come out in like three days or somthing, so wohoooooo, earlyish celebration!

Bios and stuff under the cut:

So, this AU is based on the Lone Drifter short from Answer Time and the "Short E, Long E" song. The other western-style songs are also an inspiration, but those two are the primary ones.

The story is primarily about Bang. He is a lone drifter trying to find his friend Kester (the girl who inspired his drifting) but ends up in a nowhere town run by criminals. Half-dead, he meets Beep and Bing, who are the first to take him in. No one really likes him at first, but some people that are friends with the Boppalots start to warm up to him, like Bo and Boop.

After some thinking, Bang decides to apply as the town sheriff. It takes a ton of convincing for the mayor to let him, but eventually Hap caves, giving him the position. Bing becomes deputy, Beep's a part time secretary, Boop's a detective, and Bo is the weapons/security guard(???).

The town has no name (I'll come up with something eventually), and it started as a sort of bank where criminals would hide their stolen goods. It was run by one man of legend, the Bandit Bot. It was said that anything under his care would last forever, and he could predict other people's futures. When more people decided on settling in town to watch their own goods, he disappeared. As a result, the townsfolk are very unwelcoming to strangers. They all have bounties over their heads after all.

But yeah, that's where my brain has been. If anyone has ideas for this thing, hit me up. I'd love to hear them :)

Have a good day fellas!

[cherry-oppa]

have this stupid poly meme 💖

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

tomjesse and tartaladon says happy halloween everyone!!

they're ready to go serve some candies to happy and excited kids!

a little ramble about their costumes down below <333 you don't have to read it I just need to let my brain out on this one

tartaladon is dressed up as soul and ma.ka from sou.l eater!

aha you've been subjected to my annoying rambles I love u

anyways

maka and s.oul are a really good duo in fighting, they trust each other and know each other's limits, but when they're not fighting, they're always bickering like an old married couple and I find it so silly. soul (ch.ilde) is usually the one to provoke maka (celadon) and she gets violent FPFKTKOFKTF

in the story, soul acts as this designated weapon (the scythe) for maka and I think it'd be perfect how celadon wields chi.lde and he's constantly annoying her like "oouuh you're so strong omg my herooooo" and she's like "shut the HELL up. why are we partners." LMAOAIDJSJJDJS

also celadon looking fine. come on she looks so badass 🥺🥺🥺

tomjesse is lup.in iii and clar.isse from lup.in iii: castle of cag.liostro! (I HIGHLY RECOMMEND WATCHING THIS PLEASE U DONT HAVE TO BE A FAN OF L.UPIN III TO WATCH IT AARAARAADA)

DO YOU LIKE STU.DIO GHIBLI. WELL FUN FACT HAYA.O MIY.AZAKI DIRECTED THIS BEFORE GH.IBLI WAS EVEN BORN!! so if you enjoy his works then I ABSOLUTELY reccomend giving this one a watch, this is a comfort movie of mine and I adore it so much 😭

okok but unlike soul and m.aka, I was more concerned about their roles in the movie, lup.in iii (tom) is a gentleman thief and he's here to rescue clarisse (jesse), a runaway bride 🙈🙈🙈🙈 i also have the mighty urge to point out how THEYRE GREEN AND BLUE CODED ASKSKSKSKDJSJDJJS DIES BYE im totally not thinking of aus no I'm not no I'm not n

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reblogs are very encouraged 🙏

[endzelej]

°|~shakespeare's kings as whatever this is called~|°

mansplain - Richard II

malewife - Henry VI

manslaughter - Henry V (duh)

manwhore - Edward IV & Henry VIII

manipulate - Richard III & John

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I was thinking the other night, that for some reason I could see Kingdom Hearts ending this way:

The entire story wrapped up (somehow) and everyone finally getting their happy ending. And we actually get to see Sora and the gang finally fully living out their lives and dying happily (think the beginning of Up). And that's the last thing we see before a black screen.

Nomura said once that he was trying to think of a way to end the series so no one could ever continue it, which I get. It's his baby that he's been working on for a large number of years now. I could understand why he wouldn't want someone coming in someday to continue it and potentially ruin it in his eyes.

But then we get some after credits scene where it becomes clear that Sora's been reincarnated into a new life, now that reincarnation is a thing in this series. (But, like, this wouldn't be a way to continue the story. Because things have so very much been wrapped up--like there are no Keyblades, Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed, Dream Eaters or what have you anymore; and this is a new Sora in a new life, and who knows how much like old!Sora he is. He's exactly like old!Sora, but shh. If you were to continue the story--and really, you shouldn't--you'd have to come up with a completely new premise, pretty much.) And you just know that he's going to find his friends, who have been reincarnated into new lives, too.

That way the series ends with a sense of hope and a new beginning, almost.

Not that the ending itself wouldn't have had that sense of hope, in a sense. It would have been a happy ending, at least (however, I can see people being sad that we see the crew die, even though we got to see them living the happy, full lives they'd more than earned).

But Sakaguchi when he created Final Fantasy said that one of the most important things to him with the series, was that whatever happened in the hours before, he always wanted Final Fantasy games to end with a sense of hope for the future: where it seemed like things could always get better. And that's something that Nomura carried over to the Kingdom Hearts series when he created it.

And I feel like such an ending might have that kind of feeling, and might be something he would do. And this does seem to tick off all his boxes of what he's going for with the ending (that we know so far) to me. -shrugs-

[novococain]

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[mossy-rock-in-a-field]

Several weeks ago, my retirement-age mother requested that I play Baldur’s Gate 3 for her because she has trouble with controllers/keyboards and wanted “to see what all the fuss is about with that cute wizard boy.” For context, my mother and I have done this sort of thing in the past with certain RPGs (dragon age, mass effect, etc.), but it’s been a few years since she’s personally requested a game like this. Basically, I control her Tav but let her make all the choices so she can determine how the story plays out without worrying about mechanics. She treats it like a choose-your-own-adventure book.

Anyway, here is a list of some of the things my mother has said and/or chosen to do throughout the course of BG3 in no particular order:

She is (obviously) romancing Gale. She is quite smitten with him and his passion for books and learning; she also thinks he’s polite and qualifies as “relationship material.” She also REALLY likes the things he’s said about his cat so far (my mom is a cat lady), so I know she’s gonna flip shit when we meet Tara in Act III.

She’s playing a normal druid Tav with a generally good alignment. Her favorite spell is Spike Growth because she thinks it’s hilarious whenever enemies walk into the AOE and die. I usually end up having to cast it at least once per battle per her request. Sometimes twice.

Contrary to her alignment, my mother tasks me with robbing every single chest, crate, barrel, and burlap sack we come across; this also includes people and their pockets. The party is always at max carrying capacity. ALWAYS. She doesn’t like selling things because “what if I need them.” The camp stash is in literal shambles. There is no hope of organizing it. She’s got like fifty seven sets of rags and a billion pieces of random silverware.

She MUST talk to every animal and corpse in the game. I think five hours of her total playtime so far (47ish) has been spent speaking to animals as many times as humanly possible. Like, I was thorough in my own playthroughs, but this is on a whole other level.

She did NOT get Volo’s lobotomy, but she did let Auntie Ethel take her eye in hopes of a cure for the tadpole. I did not understand the logic then. I still do not understand it now.

She is far more interested in fashion than equipment stats. Do you have any idea how much gold I’ve had to spend on dyes just to make things match? SO much. Same vibe as that “please someone help me balance my finances my family is starving” tweet but instead of candles it’s thirty thousand fucking bottles of black and furnace red dye.

We broke the prisoners out of Moonrise, but they got on the boat too early and bugged the fight by leaving Astarion and Karlach behind. Wulbren Bongle somehow got stuck in combat mode even after engaging the cutscene on the docks below Last Light; he he kept trying to run ALL THE WAY BACK TO MOONRISE nine fucking meters at a time while I frantically tried to finish the fight with the Warden, otherwise Wulbren would have run straight into the shadow curse. (I would’ve let him go; fuck Wulbren Bongle, all my homies hate Wulbren Bongle. But my mom didn’t know that, and she wanted to keep him safe. So.)

She had me reload a save like eighteen times to save the giant eagles on top of Rosymorn Monastery. Wouldn’t even let me do non-lethal damage just to get past things. I think getting that warhammer for the dawnmaster puzzle took us like an hour and a half alone. (Yes, I know you can use any warhammer, but SHE didn’t.)

She’s started keeping an irl notebook to keep track of her quests between play sessions. She writes down ideas and strategies when she thinks of them during the week, then brings them to her next game session at my house. I think she wrote about three pages on possible approaches to the goblin fortress alone.

She insists that I pet Scratch and the owlbear cub before every single long rest, no exceptions. Sometimes I have to do it multiple times until she is absolutely sure that the animals know exactly how much she loves and cherishes them. She has also commissioned a crocheted owlbear plush from a friend of hers and is very excited.

I’m sure there’s a bunch of stuff I’m forgetting, but those are some fun things I thought of. She’s enjoying the game and is telling all of her retired friends to get it and play it for themselves. She asked me “what is Discord” yesterday and I think my life flashed before my eyes.

anyway shout out to my mom for being neat

Part 2 — Part 3 — Part 4 — Part 5

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Astrology Notes III

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Disclaimer, these are observations I have made through personal experience and thorough research, observations also vary depending on other natal placements involved

doesn’t resonate ≠ untrue 

♅ Pluto in the 10th house has a tendency to come across as very overbearing in the workplace. This is having a routinely structure you want to have done precisely every day, so this makes you ask your coworker if they want you to do the coffee run for a meeting, staying past closing time to make sure everything is in place, doing 10x as much work as your coworkers because you like things in a certain order.

it also causes coworkers to think of you as someone who’s willing to step over them in order to appear as this solid leader who is better than them ( and often times this does manifest in the native) but mostly it is subconscious.

It honestly reminds of the devil wears Prada where Andrea gets so good at guessing what Miranda’s expectations are that she goes over the top in order to please her and it gets to the point she manages to snag the trip to Paris that has always been given to Emily in the singular year she’s worked at the magazine. Andrea being Pluto person who unknowingly becomes the ‘better’ assistant.

♅ There’s a natural discomfort when one has the Moon placed in the first house, especially if placed in signs like Aquarius or Capricorn due to the fact that their emotions are put on display which is a forced vulnerability. 

I actually find fire placements (not typically Sagittarius) who actually find enjoyment in their faces being easily read? One because fire placements are less inclined to hide their feelings, and two because they can be a bit impatient to get their point across 

♅ Virgo placements are kinda funny in the sense that they’re not necessarily clean freaks, they won’t go out of their way to clean someone’s room because it’s dirty, but they are obviously very precise with their own mess, they don’t like being messy themselves you know? It’s not seen as a second nature to clean but rather an obligation for them because they need clean spaces in order to be productive with an active Mercury influence. 

I actually find it very common for Virgo placements to have an “organized mess” too. They know where they left their green paperclip in their messy rooms (it’s under the left desk leg). 

♅ Taurus placements , fixed signs in general, but especially Taurus placements grow up with a specific set of beliefs and morals that they follow through and through. It’s because of their fixed nature that they will refuse to change, in fact Taurus placements consider their perspective to be so correct, if afflicted, Taurus placements can be the hardest to evolve in your chart. 

♅ cancer risings tend to attract very dangerous men/women due to Scorpio being in their 5th house, this is actually why cancers fall under the sweet damsel in distress who dates the big bad boys in romantic tropes a lot lol but yes they actively seek people who have a dark reputation or damaged past as lovers

♅ People with Mars in the 12th house are often accused of being unmotivated and lazy by people in their life but it actually stems from the fact that mars is uncomfortable being in a house that’s connected to the unconscious mind while craving the open expression of anger and ambition mars naturally is. I actually find they overthink their actions. You can remind a person with mars in the 12th house to take out the trash before bed because the garbage collectors come tomorrow and they will spend the whole day cleaning the house, drain their energy and say “I’ll just wake up early and do it tomorrow” but they never do 😭 They confuse themselves!! 

it’s also interesting to note a person with a 12th house prominence that includes mars will be defensive about their said actions. “Take out the trash” “I was already planning on doing it but now I don’t want to”. I include 12th house prominence because a mars in the 12th also has stealthy actions and thoughts 🤫

♅ People with their 4th house ruler in the 7th house will have emotional withdrawals if their routine does not involve socializing with others. You’ll typically see this in people who choose to search for roommates during college, move in with close friends to “save on rent” or choose to never move out of their parents home ( I support this in this economy lol)

you’ll also see this in people who are serial daters, not to say that their relationships don’t impact them greatly, but they feel a requirement to express their feelings with others. 

Could make great therapists too actually

♅ Mercury square saturn people need precise instructions whenever they do something. Mercury can be very sporadic in square aspects because their communication is being misconstrued the same way a radios antennae need to be arranged in a certain way  in order to get signal. With Saturn representing structure, they prefer very detailed instructions on pretty much anything. You need them to get a wrench? It’s on the left? Top, middle, or bottom? And what color is it? Is it in the back or front of the cabinet? 

Also, Mercury square Saturn people, we’re you the kids who’s dad yelled at them for holding the flashlight the wrong way when fixing something? 

♅ I find it very funny when Aquarius placements are dubbed the people who change the world with their innovative ideas because you will connect that to them actively trying to improve society but it’s actually because they just want life to be easier to navigate for themselves. They’re the type to invent flying cars, not for the next Industrial Revolution that will forever change man once again, but because they want a cheaper way to save on overseas travel 😭. Don’t get the wrong idea, a lot of them realize their potential and eventually use their ideas for good, but it usually starts off as very personal and self serving.