#light rant

[merkredonn]

I find it sooo amusing when people act like women presenting and acting feminine isn't the norm.

"I wanna see more feminine female characters!"

"Let women be feminine!"

"Let women fall in love!"

Please go outside.

[fortunekookie07]

I don't know if anyone else who has the Arum pass has noticed this but..

Why did only Sylus and Caleb get the thirst trap?

I was expecting an expansion on the combined OP like it was for Caleb and Sylus.

Oh no, not even.

Is it cause they were the originals and the Arum pass thing came later or what?

I am burning with questions.

[r0-boat]

Is it bad that the new announcement made me lose interest completely in the game? Like it was the last nail in the coffin. From my Pov the spoilers were the fun part bcz at the moment there is nothing for f2p users... The dailys are repetitive and morning and the "new rewards" are so little they might as well not be (talking about the new rewards u get on a new card 1 red key is gonna do dog shit). I might need to go back and check but didn't they said there were some big updates for us f2p and we still didn't gotten them? Also... The story? Where? I know marketing is important but.... Aren't we important too?

Don't take me wrong I understand what they are doing and agree with certain stuff but at the moment, for me at least, whb is dead and abandoned. There is nothing that can keep me waiting and wanting to play it anymore.

Sorry for the long text just wanted to rant and you seem like a safe place.

Sorry again. You can ignore if I was insensitive.

I completely get that feeling.

Pretty busy is- what I've heard, a relatively newish company

And what I've seen they seem to be pretty small.

I'm not saying that losing interest in the game is a bad thing. In fact this is a natural outcome if you don't produce content for players who do not have the money for paid content or for me in particular story content.

Event content is relatively free if you play it around that time.

But I feel like most people want story content.

Whb is an amazing concept and frankly we don't have a lot of games that are for people who like men.

I love the game And I want more content but it's really hard to wanting to continue when I don't get new content.

They are making promises and they are not keeping them That is bad for business. I hope they change it soon because the slow pace is really killing people's interest.

I have felt that's pretty busy has gotten better especially with English translation.

I'm not saying "be patient blah blah blah-!"

I'm saying that you're frustration is very valid and something we're kind of all feeling just a little bit.

I for one love what and hell is bad and I'm going to be in for quite a while. And to be honest I think the fandom is really the MVPs here.

[rmelster]

Someone should truly speak bout the “later wife effect” that seems to have haunted historical figures since times long forgotten.

To break it down to you, what I call the “later wife effect” occurs when a male historical figure suddenly looses his beloved wife (most of the times, his first one) in an untimely and tragic manner -either by a childbirth gone wrong, an accident or a sudden illness-, turning the once mirthful husband into a grief-stricken widower. Perhaps because he lacks succession from said wife, because he has to provide spares to his heir, or even because an alliance is needed, he is forced to marry again; but the love never arises fully, their marriage turns into a bound of duty, and no matter what she does, or how loved she is outside their marriage: the later wife will forever be under the shadow of the first, a perfect idol, immortalised by her early death.

The “later wife effect” knows various levels:

In 1673, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, lost his beloved Margaret Theresa when she was yet to turn twenty two and with child. Their seven years of union had produced four children, but only a daughter lived when Margaret Theresa died, and he went on to marry twice again; and even though he would sorrowfully remark that neither Claudia Felicitas of Austria or Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, his following brides, were “not like my only Margaretha”, his marriages were remarkably happy and so was he. This could be one of the mildest examples.

The middle ground would be when the marriage with the later wife is dutiful and polite, but loveless. Frederick William II of Hesse married Alexandra Nikolaevna, but soon lost her due to complications of childbirth. He would remarry nine years later to the beautiful and lively Anna of Prussia, and even though they eventually had six children, their marriage was notably cold and unhappy. Leopold I of Belgium widowed of his wife, Charlotte of Wales, soon after she gave birth to a dead son; fifteen years later, know king of Belgium, he took Louise-Marie of Orléans hand in marriage; she was shy, delicate, witty and partook in many charitable causes, earning the love of the Belgians, and the respect of her husband, with whom she had a fruitful and tranquil union; but Leopold would not be faithful to her, committing adultery with a much younger Arcadie Claret, who was said to resemble the long gone princess Charlotte. She perished a year after he had a son with Claret, and her dead did not stop the relationship between the two of them.

More unhappy cases of this effect would be those of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his descendant, Joseph II. When still an archduke, Maximilian married Mary of Burgundy and loved her much, a love so legendary it lived through generations in the art commissioned by their descendants. But the fairytale would come to an abrupt end when, after five years of marriage, Mary would find her untimely dead while pregnant with their fourth child, after her horse threw her off the saddle. Maximilian was most heartbroken and, after a failed marriage attempt with the young duchess Anne of Brittany, he would wed Bianca Maria Sforza. The empress from Milan was deemed “more beautiful than Mary” by Maximilian, but neither her beauty not her many charms of her would soften his callous attitude towards his wife. Having endured a miscarriage during the first months of their union, Bianca Maria, the once most sought after princess in Europe, had become a ghost in her own court, severely neglected by her husband, who refused to attend to her own funeral nor dedicate a gravestone for her. Similarly, after the traumatic passing of his wife, Isabella of Parma, Joseph II was forced to remarry to Maria Josepha of Bavaria, who he did not found as attractive as the late archduchess. He grew so disgusted of her that the same devoted husband that has been by Isabella’s bedside now commanded to put a wall between his balcony and hers, so that he could not see her, distressing old servants in the palace so much with his cold attitude that some left. When, after two years of marriage, her life was robbed by smallpox -the same ailment that had taken Isabella’s life four years before-, Joseph declared she had been worthy of respect and that he repented his coldness. However, he refused to visit her bedside and did not appear during her burial.

This should not be confused with what I call “the younger wife effect”, which takes place when a widowed historical figure, who had long remained unwed by choice, suddenly takes marriage to a beautiful and much younger person that is described to bring happiness to his once lonely and dull life. This would perfectly be exemplified with prince Maximilian of Saxony’s marriage with princess Maria Luisa Carlota of Parma, almost twenty one years since the passing of his wife (princess Carolina of Parma) or Edward I’s marriage to Marguerite of France.

[f0xy5o1]

THIS IS A PSA FOR YALL WHO ARENT AWARE

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME SFSG FOR THE MASS TAKE DOWN MESS ON SCRATCH

THEY ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PURGE THEY ONLY WANTED PAID ASSETS (usage of sprites from v5-v9) TO BE REMOVED FROM THE WEBSITE AND SCRATCH SCREWED UP BIG TIME

THIS IS NOT SFSG’S FAULT 🗣

[anonygowose]

sometimes I feel so overwhelmingly sad over my inability to draw dragons because I just want to make art of my FR Lair 😭

[reesdomain]

I can already see Sylus getting the Wyll and ascended Astarion treatment and I’m about to be so fucking sick. Please otome gods do not let Infold run with this and take this disrespectful shit in the future. They did outstanding with this launch😭😣

[secretly-larry-daley]

I miss doing RPs with people. It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve done one with someone. All my RP partners have fizzled out and it’s hard to find new ones. Aw well

[quetzal-animations]

Partially serious

That feeling you get when you post a bunch of cool stuff on Tumblr, but the majority of your notes/likes/reblogs are from something you reblogged from somebody else ages ago.

(Half-joking.)

[crow-posting]

Earlier I said I wasn't going to post my thoughts on Week 4 of Act I.

I lied. :)

When Saint said, "I'm just a copy of a copy of a copy," I could see that coming from a mile away. Do I believe he's a simulation? No (see this post for thoughts that are more coherent than mine). Do I believe anything that's currently being said about Saint? Absolutely not, given the unknown nature of the Conductor, the Sundial, and so on. But whether he's a temporal paradox, displaced in time like Elsie, or something else, I really only have one reaction:

How am I supposed to feel sad about anything? Saint-14 the Guardian is a "ship of Theseus" like all Lightbearers are. Saint-14 the Exo is an echo of Saints 1-13. Saint-1 was a copy of the human Saint. If that wasn't enough, Saint is the partner of Osiris, a man known for his Reflections, who could have easily explained the nature of Saint's return (we literally saved him with a gun named Perfect Paradox) and the experience of being a "copy." In my mind, Saint's identity crisis is/was entirely avoidable from the get-go, Conductor shenanigans or not. We know who Saint is even when personhood is called into question. It can be traced, like Uldren/Crow and Ana and Micah.

(Might add more on Guardians and personhood later.)

But even if Saint's identity crisis was inevitable, why is it so bad Osiris is finally dealing with the consequences of his actions? Grieving or not, he has a history of overestimating his ability to Make Things Happen, from Dendron to Rohan. The only consequence he couldn't circumvent was Sagira's death, and he lost her through no fault of his own. But everything else was of his own making, so why should I feel sorry for him?

As much as I love O14, this feels like an entirely manufactured crisis that exists for The Angst. I feel like Savathûn when she says, "Oh no! Who could have foreseen this? :)" anytime someone says she is next. Sure, hindsight is 20/20, but I see it more as a miscommunication trope than a real issue. Cayde "came back wrong" - Osiris just fucked up.

And since "we" [the Young Wolf] were Osiris' co-conspirators in bringing Saint back, we're stuck with the aftermath too. (That "apology at a later date" better be printed on parchment.)

I get that conflict moves The Plot forward, esp. in a game like Destiny. And I do appreciate the effort that the writers put in, even when it falls flat sometimes. But god do I wish I could snark at Osiris while doing my silly little tasks for him and Saint, because 70% of this shouldn't have happened the way it did. Maybe not even at all. As said in Hamilton, "Congratulations, you've invented a new kind of stupid."

[patchwork-crow-writes]

Have to say, the definition of "Spoiler-free" seems to have changed somewhat from back in my day.

Youtube keeps recommending me videos about Shadow of the Erdtree - bearing in mind I haven't even completed the base game yet - with titles like "Spoiler-free guide to building around [Name of Weapon] from [Name of Boss it drops from]" with a big old picture of the boss and weapon in question in the thumbnail. Which... I appreciate that no plot-relevant stuff is technically spoiled here, but some people might not even want to know the kind of stuff you get in the first place.

That's part of the joy of games like Elden Ring, discovering all the different absurd weapons and their effects, as well as all the interesting ways new bosses will utterly eviscerate you in a matter of seconds. And given I've kinda spoiled myself over the past two years with the base game, I'm trying to keep my DLC experience as blind as possible... which is a little difficult sometimes.

I mean, I'm not going to have an aneurysm over it, but it's just something I've noticed recently.

[phopollo]

Can we

Pretty please start normalizing letting other people enjoy things we personally don't?

I'm so tired of feeling like I can't share things I'm excited about with my friends because in every server I'm in, there's always one person who makes me feel miserable for enjoying something,,

[saddi3grl]

[f0xy5o1]

Neester

Neester, buddy, I love you and your content, but please keep your server under control. I beg, PLEASE-

IM ON MY KNEES

[anonygowose]

heeheeheee so normal about my bugsnax fixation coming back after 4 years omg my brain is so them <33

[quetzal-animations]

Reconsidering/Overanalyzing My Thoughts Pt. 1

My cat says hi. I figure people will pay attention if there’s a picture of a cat. This is the Internet, after all.

Why is it that when I have a headache, I’m dizzy, I’m cold for no apparent reason, I’m in almost any sort of discomfort-

Why is my first reaction always to drink a ton of water?

Like, it doesn’t matter what my symptoms are, I immediately turn to water.

Probably doesn’t make sense to anyone but me, but I gotta ask.

W H Y?