#linden talks

[linden-after-hours]

Y'all, they're in Germany and have peak chillo-guys-drinking-from-glass-bottles-enjoying-small-live-music-events-and-wearing-birkenstocks-energy, of course they're growing mustaches, every German guy like that ever has a mustache

[michelangelinden]

violent reminder for the artists out there to please stop making Julie so skinny. She has hips and boobs and thighs and a round face and she is beautiful as she is, she doesn't have to be to be this petite lady some of you draw her as, it feels wrong

[croissant-enthusiast]

Ich will einfach nur, dass Leo in der nächsten Folge nen Breakdown hat und dann in Rage, heulend, schreiend, irgendwas kaputt schlägt.

Ob dann einer seiner Freunde Kollegen kommt und versucht ihn zu umarmen, er sich erst dagegen wehrt, dann aber völlig erledigt, immer noch heulend, in deren Armen versinkt? Ja, das will ich auch, bin ich ganz ehrlich.

[stroopwafel-enthusiast]

Wesper Song!!

Hear me out!

"The Alchemist" by The Faim is the most Wylan song from Jesper's perspective I've heard out of the blue (as in, it came up in my playlist)

First of all, banger song, listen to this

But look at these lyrics, I am going feral actually

Black eye and afraid of love

Was in pieces on the floor till you came around and stitched me up

Tell me this is not Jesper pre-Wylan, deep in the trenches of the barrel, indebted, addicted, ashamed of his Grisha abilities. But then Wylan came along and helped him dig himself out

'Cause you took this lead, turned it into gold

You took my heart and made it whole

You created diamond from a stone

This is just ✨chemistry✨ and sappy, but also Jesper being fascinated and so impressed by what Wylan can produce, in love with his intelligence and cleverness and wit. And how Wylan chose him (Jesper would call himself lead in comparison to gold) and helped him become something greater!

When I'm with you, you turn my blue a warmer colour

(this is just a beautiful line)

I was a lonely drifter, gone with the wind, girl

Never saw a life like this

You make December feel like the summer

Oh, you showed me that love exists

You're the alchemist

Again, Jesper pre- vs post-Wylan. He was living life as it came along and presented itself to him, good or bad, until he found someone to live for, to be good for, to put in effort into himself for. Wylan showed him a different side of what life can be, like how kissing him can be an equal thrill to gambling.

This is a Wylan appreciation post, but from Jesper's perspective. Hopefully one day I can turn this into more than just analysis rambling and maybe write a fic or draw something, but for now this needs to be enough, thank you for listening

[loupy-mongoose]

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Well well, look who's back~

I don't know how many of you remember what his age was--15--but after figuring out some timeline stuff, I've decided to change it. Nico is now 21 years old.

[lindenmori]

kind of a force of nature

[dragon-cookies]

Okay so overall thoughts on the new indie horror game, Suffer the Night by TaintedPact Games. I saw some clips of it on TikTok and decided to check it out

It's got an interesting premise and fun characters, but kind of suffers from an identity crisis during the second and third acts. Heads up for spoilers below the cut.

The game starts you off with a mysterious top-hatted man appearing at your doorstep and giving you a game on a floppy disc, with his only instructions being to play it, or else he's going to break into your house and murder you. It's a simple yet effective premise that gets straight to the point.

The entire first act is just you playing through a text-based horror adventure game, while the hatted man stalks you from outside the house, taunting you in a fun little sing-songy voice and occasionally reminding you to keep playing. There's a button designated solely for looking over your shoulder while at your computer too, something that's freaked out basically every let's player who noticed it.

With the way this first act is set up, and how the demo is also presented, it kind of leads you to assume this is going to be the entirety of the game. You're trapped in your house, forced to play a game through to the end, while fending off a powerful and mysterious threat. But then you beat the game, get got by the hat man, and then it goes through a pretty large and drastic shift in mechanics.

You wake up in a gothic, Amnesia-like area with musty stone walls and mutilated bodies, where it's revealed that after Stacey signed the book at the end of the game in the first act, she has now been transported into the world of the game itself where the hatted man, who we learn is called Mr. Tops, has total control over. Now, you must survive Mr. Tops' gauntlet of challenges he's set up for you, and gather the items you need to make your way to his domain and defeat him in order to escape.

It's at this point where the identity crisis kind of kicks in for me. The tense, atmospheric horror you might have experienced in the first act is now replaced with puzzles you need to solve, obstacles to overcome, and enemies to either avoid or kill with weapons you pick up along the way. Not a necessarily bad thing if you like this style of horror, but it's very different from the first act like I said. You also go from this gothic horror setting, to a creepy carnival playhouse, and then back to gothic horror with a dose of cosmic horror right at the end. All of which are not bad subgenres of horror, but they are a bit thematically jarring when crammed all into one game.

The third and final act features Stacey confronting Mr. Tops, where he reveals that he put her through all those challenges in order to claim her body as a new vessel, through which he'll use to supposedly wreak havoc on the real world. Stacey refuses, which leads to the final boss fight between her and Mr. Tops.

This is also just kind of a 'me' thing, but I found Mr. Tops' final boss form once again a bit thematically jarring.

The bat wings and scythe are cool, but they don't really fit very well with the rest of his appearance in my opinion. I feel like maybe black raven wings and longer claws could've fit a little bit better, but again that's just personal preference.

Stacey defeats Mr. Tops and stabs him with his own dagger (honestly a very badass move) and goes to finally escape the game world. It's here where, if you've collected all the Tarot cards throughout the game, you can unlock the good ending where you find the original developer of the game, who tells you can destroy the game's source code and delete everything. Follow his instructions, and the game and everything within it will be erased from existence. Stacey wakes up the next morning in her house, and smashes the game's floppy disc under her foot.

If you don't have all the tarot cards, or just choose to not delete the source code, Stacey will still escape back to the real world, but it's soon revealed that Mr. Tops essence still lives on within her, and she mutates into her own monstrous form as a living vessel for Mr. Tops.

So yeah like I said at the start, I think the game is strongest during its first act. I personally found Mr. Tops to be the most intriguing during that part, where we still don't know who he is or what his true intentions are. Learning more about him kind of kills that intrigue in my opinion. It's kind of like if we learned who the Happy Mask Salesman is from Majora's Mask and why he does what he does, a lot of the fun of that character comes from what we don't know about him.

But yes overall, not a bad experience. I'd probably put it at 7/10 like a fair number of other reviewers are. If you want to check it out yourself it's available on Steam!

[penrose-quinn]

[dollhousemary]

wait actually i’m gonna make this a post for everyone instead of just asking linden. what are the top five episodes that cas isn’t in that you would add cas to?

[emeraldgreaves]

Breaking my own rule and asking the same question 3 times because I'd love to read the snippets for wip ask: 📝📝📝

📝Share a snippet of an unposted WIP, with or without context. three different flavors of wip for you!! done in ascending length order because why not.

[wip asks]

1. the fic i can’t post yet for alpha build spoiler reasons Chase produces a clear green stone the size of a duck egg. “That can’t be real.” “Wouldn’t know. Haven’t fenced it yet.”

2. the fic i can’t post yet because i only started it like a day ago The first time, she’d known midway through their fourth year, when the oddly misplaced spikes of irritation she’d felt all semester graciously deigned to resolve themselves into jealousy. She’d spent a few days feeling stupid, then a few more feeling sorry for herself, until finally she’d determined that whatever imbalance of affection might exist between the two of them, he was still her friend first and foremost, and there was no point in waiting on something about as likely as the two moons crashing together. (Truthfully, it was a relief to have named it at all; it wasn’t anyone’s fault that Red chose to flirt with them anymore than he chose not to do so with her, and then she could make a point to not let it leak into her behavior.)

3. the fic i can’t post yet because it’s a longfic au and those take forever to write When Red had first begun the study of languages, the first step towards the unlocking of other worlds beyond Albion's shores, he had first thought it merely a matter of memorizing vocabulary. This, he’d quickly realized, was an elementary approach to the situation at best; he could sometimes make himself heard, but it took a great deal more thought to make himself clear, and even more work to make himself truly understood. Though he might be able to clumsily string a few words together in a flimsy, childish way of speaking, it was taking the time to craft a sentence carefully, to land that clear and perfect understanding, that was often more rewarding, and more satisfying besides. When working on a contract with Riel, the two of them would pore over the best way to compose their translations for hours, batting about turns of phrase and minute differences in search of the most precise distillation of their intent. So it struck him as deeply ironic that the queen had managed to select, out of a crowd of what should have been perfect strangers, the one person who might be perfectly suited to translating for the princess, only for the gate to be barred from the other side.

[maskofasoutherngentleman]

@dreamsofalife liked for a starter!

"So what you're telling me, is that someone bought up your debt in order to get us to do a dangerous job for them?"

Linden looked a bit sheepish. "Yeah. It's not like I could refuse. I mean it's not like we have enough suites to pay it off... What other choice did I have?"

"Well I'm in," Montrose said, giving Linden a reassuring pat on the shoulder. "We've dealt with blackmailers before. I'm sure we can do this no problem. What about you? Are you in?"

[linden-after-hours]

I feel like non German speakers need to know that in German we call bats "Fledermaus", which translates to "flutter mouse"

Cause, you know, it's a lil mouse that flutters through the air

Might as well leave a little sparkly trail with how cute that name is imo

🦇🦇🦇 *flutter flutter bat noises* 🦇🦇🦇

[michelangelinden]

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[croissant-enthusiast]

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Hello! Ich wurde von @karin-in-action getagged! Ich mache das ganze mal auf Deutsch, ist ein Deutscher Blog hier. Danke für den Tag!

LAST SONG: Demoni - Joker Out (bin I'm März auf ihrem Konzert hihi!!)

FAVORITE COLOR: Alle Farben kurz bevor sie schwarz werden, egal ob rot, grün, blau, alle banger!

CURRENTLY WATCHING: Die 16. Staffel Drag Race, die gerade läuft

SWEET / SAVOURY / SPICY: Definitiv savoury!

RELATIONSHIP STATUS (or whatever you want): Single und ready to mingle oder so. Voll viele meiner Freunde ziehen gerade mit ihren Partner*innen zusammen und ich bin mega happy für sie aber auch ein bisschen 🥲

CURRENT OBSESSION: Besagte Drag Race Staffel, Spatort immer noch (Pia und Esther beloveds) und notgedrungen das Theaterstück, bei dem ich Regie führe, weil es 80% meines Tagesablaufes in Anspruch nimmt

LAST THING YOU SEARCHED: Ich hab die Search History ausgestellt, aber wahrscheinlich die Öffnungszeiten eines Chiropraktikers weil autschie Rücken

Okay, neun Leute zu taggen ist immer tricky, deswegen nehme ich einfach die hier, aber fühlt euch frei euch einfach trotzdem getagged zu fühlen: @juliaandthephantoms @die-ringeltaube @starlighnes @murderous-spaten

[stroopwafel-enthusiast]

✨ Hello hello!! ✨

I'm Linden, 20, any pronouns, and this is for my unhealthy Shadow and Bone/Six of Crows hyperfixation.

This will mostly be me reblogging random gifsets and posts, but I'll probably post the occasional thought or meme I come up with. And if we're lucky, some art and fanfiction as well. (This will be sfw for the most part I think)

Feel free to join me :)

My main is @linden-after-hours for whatever stuff I think is fun, pretty, or important (beware, not always sfw)

Read my fics on AO3 under michelangelinden (currently only for registered users until the AI shit stops)

Any racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, xenophobia or hate in general will be blocked and deleted so don't even try! If you are queer, jewish, muslim, disabled, neurodivergent, or a person of colour, I will protect you here!

[riveramorylunar]

Top 5 Lovestruck character?

1. Xenia

2. Dr. Xendaila

3. Cecelia Visconti

4. Mackenzie Hunt

5. Lorelei Linden