#one for dh actually

[graedari]

fuck you- *ice creams your John Malevolent Doe*

[no-light-left-on]

my gift piece for @a--ttano for the @dishonoredgiftexchange! all the prompts I got were fantastic, but I chose 'an overseer oc who makes the music boxes getting engrossed in the music and finding himself drawn more and more into the void'

I hope you like it!

some details under cut

[redcallisto]

Danstelle week 2023 Day 2 - Nightmares | Stellaron Hunter Stelle

[stealingpotatoes]

me initially following your blog during your dishonored era vs my friend following you for your star wars art (she sent me one of your posts and i was like "stealingpotatoes? you know stealingpotatoes?")

LMAO omg that's so funny,,, and :D you remembered me! BUT ALSO the dishonored era is never truly over, here’re some sketchbook dishonoreds!

[seriousbrat]

actually Lily is the main character of the marauders era

[akkivee]

i finally got the hypster magazine from earlier this year sent to me and in it, they had the divisions reminisce on their beginnings going into the final drb. and rosho was surprised to see sasara and rei seriously talk about how glad they were to have met each other and fight together so when asked what he’s thankful for, he turned to rei and. like. seriously thanked rei for scamming him and his student LMAO

[noctilu-uca]

Hey guys im tired and not fixinf the picture but i made hypcookies and a squid ig i tried biting into one and it hrut my teeth kke YEEOOOWWWWCHHH

[speedy-beans]

on pinterest i saw an edit of furina & focalors & how they saved fontaine and there was one comment that was like wheres traveler?? and then another like what about neuvi?? this. isnt about them. if it was an edit about how neuvi saved fontaine would you guys be asking anything

[poppy5991]

After finishing my read of Lady Chatterley’s lover, I don’t want to hear anyone complaining about weird or badly written sex scenes in fanfiction. We’re really not even holding a candle to the classic lit genre

[catsarehumanstoo]

what is this Mars thing

this Mars thing is also a timkon fic! it is set in the late 1920s and features kon as a former silent film child star trying to make the jump to both adult movie roles and talking pictures while also trying to work out who he is and where he comes from! also featuring tim as a surveyor for a map company (read: spy), who has a plane and a 35mm camera! i do have documents detailing exactly what camera and plane he has because i spent way too much time researching what was available then to lose that information!

it is not a no capes au but it is a low capes au - superman is very much around and kicking, but batman is not a thing bc bruce is busy doing other things (running a spy ring).

also featuring the various archaeological discoveries happening in the middle east and egypt bc tim's parents are archaeologists and i wanted to write about ur. sue me.

this one is on the backburner mainly bc as i worked out the plot i realised i needed to know more about contemporary middle eastern politics, and the more i looked into the history and politics of the region the more i realised there was more i needed to know. so it's on the backburner until i get a degree in 1920s middle eastern history and politics ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

snippet for you anyway!

"You'll be safe, won't you?" his mother said, stretching her hand up to clasp his, reaching out of the cockpit. "I've seen the terrible things that can happen when these airplanes crash." "Most of those crashes happened when there were other planes shooting at them, Mom," Tim said, smiling at her. "I'm just doing triangulation. No guns on this civilian craft." He patted the Redbird fondly. "How much does this job pay you, anyway?" Jack asked. "I can't say it's a career I expected you to go into." "It pays enough, Dad. And I get to keep the plane after five years' service." "Well, if you're sure. You know, it's not too late for me to write to Marin, see if he can get you a job in the company." "I don't want a job pushing paper for Drake Industries, Dad. I'm happy doing this." Jack nodded and shrugged. "Have a safe flight, kiddo."

[no-light-left-on]

So the Death of the Outsider lacks a chaos system and it makes perfect sense

(I recommend reading my other post on how chaos works in the DH universe first but it is not mandatory.)

The point of the chaos system is, at its core, a reflection of how a world already at its tipping point reacts to the player's actions: Dunwall ridden by the plague and oppressed by the Lord Regent’s rule, Karnaca bloodfly-bitten and slowly torn to shreds by the Duke with people scared after the recent coup.

Billie, however, simply exists as a person once the world has been tipped towards the better, Emily having reclaimed her throne and Karnaca slowly but surely steering towards better times. Her quest is not motivated by politics or by a falling empire. It is entirely personal to her, Daud, and the Outsider.

Billie is an ex-assassin. She puts the world on a tipping point, but she does not decide whether the world rights itself or comes crashing over the edge. She takes jobs from the black market, sometimes killing people for money, because that is all it is to her - a job. And while she may kill innocent people while at it, there is no more terror it can bring atop the cruel rule of the Duke and people dying in the mines. In the end, she will disappear into the shadows. It is just another mugging, another unfortunate murder of a father coming home in the evening. Nothing more, nothing less. No responsibility to take over it after.

She is dedicated to her quest, and that quest is not even hers - it is Daud's, and she is just going along with it out of maybe guilt, maybe old times' sake. She is not even that interested in killing the Outsider herself, has very little stakes in it, and decides to go through with it because it's what Daud wanted. There is no world that can react to her because she is the world that is reacting, in a sense, to Daud's wishes and the Outsider's subtle interventions.

Compared to, say, DH2 which takes place months before the events of DotO, Billie has very little to lose, no place to reclaim, no world to save. The results of her actions, no matter what they might be, won't change how the world is at the end of the game. Emily can choose whether a brilliant doctor lives so she can save lives, she decides whether the Howlers or the Overseers take over Batista, dictates who rules and with how much power, with what level of cruelty. Billie is killing a god, no matter what it takes, and there is little need for consideration of how this result is achieved.

The game does not even have targets, save for one, the Outsider himself. All the missions are about gathering intel and preparing for the job. The structure of the whole game is very different to serve the purpose of the plot and honestly it's a clever choice so that the focus remains on the one thing only - killing the Outsider.

One thing I did not mention in relation to chaos in my other post is that the chaos also influences the Outsider and his speeches at the shrines. Which, fair enough, it is just one more change in dialogue among many. But in the case of DotO, he is directly involved. He is not an observer anymore. He has real reason to be emotionally invested in what is happening and what Billie is doing. He needs to bait her into murder, or change her mind to spare him and free him from his eternal imprisonment. There can't be a change from interest to cynicism as Billie kills more people to get to him, because in the end, he is the target. He wants out of the Void by any means necessary, which means he has to be fully invested at all times. He has no reason to suddenly go soft and make subtle comments. He comes across as so much more malicious in this game, maiming Billie and being so incredibly cruel when he tells her that Daud has passed while she was away. All this because he can't risk her changing her mind, thinking to herself, “Hey, maybe he sucks but he’s not That Bad” and then turning on her heel to leave. He is trying to influence Billie instead, which he didn’t do with his Marked (unless you count his mentions of multiple possible outcomes as influencing, or him telling Daud about Delilah).

So no, the world won't change for you, the player. It won't change because you chose not to kill anyone, not even the contract targets, because if you don't do the dirty work, someone else will. And the Outsider cannot change either, because Billie is not changing the fate of an empire. She is changing the fate of Him, personally, and he cannot afford to let her choose the only bad choice - indifference. So there is no point in a chaos at all.

No matter what Billie does in the end, the outcome will be the same - the Void will change. sShe will change the universe as they know it, but no matter how she goes about it, the change will come. She is not faced with a question of what she wants the world to be. She was guided there by others, expected to do one thing - kill a god. The world has set her up, and now she has to react.

And so she comes to the Void and is met with the only choice that will matter: Is she going to show mercy, or remain the same?

[seventh-district]

so uh. that 2.2 Special Program, huh

[gemkun]

──  romantic gestures. bold what applies to your muse , italicize if there's potential / it depends.

      ⸻         veritas   ratio

  holding   hands   ·   buying   flowers   ·   cooking   ·   cuddles   ·   writing   a   poem   /   song   ·   holding   door   open   ·   tying   shoe   laces   ·   sharing   a   milkshake   with   two   straws   ·   offering   their   jacket   when   it's   cold   ·   kissing   in   the   rain   ·   publicly   confessing   love   ·   long   walks   at   the   beach   ·   doing   the   titanic   pose   on   a   boat   ·   taking   cute   pictures   in   a   photo   booth   ·   sharing   a   taxi   /   uber   ·   kissing   the   back   of   their   hand   ·   slow   dancing   ·   getting   tickets   of   their   favorite   artist   /   sports   team   /   other   ·   introducing   them   to   their   parents   ·   lighting   candles   ·   flower   petals   on   bed   ·   love   letters   ·   star   gazing   ·   brushing   /   doing   their   hair   ·   picnics   ·   teaching   them   to   play   an   instrument   /   sport   while   gently   guiding   their   hands   ·   compliments   ·   late   night   drives   ·   taking   selfies   together   ·   drawing   them   ·   self-made   gifts   ·   massages   ·   proposing   with   a   family   heirloom   ring   ·   lending   them   their   favorite   book   to   read   ·   paying   for   dinner   /   coffee   ·   mixtapes   /   playlists   ·   surprise   birthday   parties   ·   feeding   them   ·   handing   them   keys   to   their   apartment   ·   making   space   in   drawer   for   their   clothes   when   they   stay   over   ·   sharing   a   blanket   ·   couple   costumes   ·   tucking   a   hair   strand   behind   their   ear   ·   running   after   them   at   the   airport   /   keeping   them   from   leaving   ·   moving   cities   to   be   together   ·   blowing   a   kiss   ·   breakfast   in   bed   ·   defending   them   in   a   fight   (verbally   /   physically)   ·   joint   bubble   baths   ·   dropping   the   L-bomb   ("i   love   you")   ·   dedicating   a   song   at   the   karaoke   bar   to   them   ·   wearing   their   clothes   ·   yawning   before   putting   an   arm   around   them   while   watching   a   movie   ·   granting   them   the   last   bite   (from   meal)

      ⸻         dan   heng

  holding   hands   ·   buying   flowers   ·   cooking   ·   cuddles   ·   writing   a   poem   /   song   ·   holding   door   open   ·   tying   shoe   laces   ·   sharing   a   milkshake   with   two   straws   ·   offering   their   jacket   when   it's   cold   ·   kissing   in   the   rain   ·   publicly   confessing   love   ·   long   walks   at   the   beach   ·   doing   the   titanic   pose   on   a   boat   ·   taking   cute   pictures   in   a   photo   booth   ·   sharing   a   taxi   /   uber   ·   kissing   the   back   of   their   hand   ·   slow   dancing   ·   getting   tickets   of   their   favorite   artist   /   sports   team   /   other   ·   introducing   them   to   their   parents   ·   lighting   candles   ·   flower   petals   on   bed   ·   love   letters   ·   star   gazing   ·   brushing   /   doing   their   hair   ·   picnics   ·   teaching   them   to   play   an   instrument   /   sport   while   gently   guiding   their   hands   ·   compliments   ·   late   night   drives   ·   taking   selfies   together   ·   drawing   them   ·   self-made   gifts   ·   massages   ·   proposing   with   a   family   heirloom   ring   ·   lending   them   their   favorite   book   to   read   ·   paying   for   dinner   /   coffee   ·   mixtapes   /   playlists   ·   surprise   birthday   parties   ·   feeding   them   ·   handing   them   keys   to   their   apartment   ·   making   space   in   drawer   for   their   clothes   when   they   stay   over   ·   sharing   a   blanket   ·   couple   costumes   ·   tucking   a   hair   strand   behind   their   ear   ·   running   after   them   at   the   airport   /   keeping   them   from   leaving   ·   moving   cities   to   be   together   ·   blowing   a   kiss   ·   breakfast   in   bed   ·   defending   them   in   a   fight   (verbally   /   physically)   ·   joint   bubble   baths   ·   dropping   the   L-bomb   ("i   love   you")   ·   dedicating   a   song   at   the   karaoke   bar   to   them   ·   wearing   their   clothes   ·   yawning   before   putting   an   arm   around   them   while   watching   a   movie   ·   granting   them   the   last   bite   (from   meal)

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[eemoo1o-potteroo]

I think it should get to the point where they should genuinely just stop printing Harry Potter. Not just because of Rowling as a whole, but because it’s also going to get to a point where the books – which are a time capsule in and of itself at this point, a staple of a specific love and nostalgia – will just lose their magic. Like there’s a lot of copies online, either kept rather untouched or battered to hell but still legible, just buy them. Pass the second-third-fourth hand books around as much as we can until the corners are curled and the covers are white from the crackly fold damage. Beautiful.

[rabbitmotifs]

of course i know that my childhood was definitely not the standard but it still blows my mind that some people didnt have Music Lessons when they were in like elementary-middle school. and not lessons where you learned how to play an instrument but rather where you sat next to your dad for 2-3 hours while he infodumped on various artists songs and concerts

[foxghost]

Everyone else in the house has come down with the flu

I checked my temp (normal), walked 3km over snow to the store and back, and picked up groceries thinking that I'm the only non-sick person in the house.

Just checked my temp again -- 101.2F

Well I picked up citron tea, at least