#page 286

[sharry-arry-odd]

"Hard to tell sometimes. Some girls, like Yates over here"–I paused to jerk my chin at her and smirk–"like to send hearts with simple messages. It's like: are you gay or friendly?" "She could be gay /and/ friendly," Yates protested, and I snorted.

The Scapegracers, by H.A. Clarke

[macreadsstormlight]

(Twilight, 2005)

[pesterloglog]

Jade Harley, Aradia Megido, Davebot

Page 286-287

JADE: As a point of curiosity-

ARADIA: oh shit!!!!

ARADIA: :(

JADE: as a point of order, you never answered dave’s question.

ARADIA: which one he is very chatty

JADE: you experience time in a way that is woefully unfamiliar to me and it has... piqued my curiosity enough to learn more.

ARADIA: ?_?

DAVEBOT: shes asking how old you are

ARADIA: in this form our bodies stop aging once we reach maturity i think

ARADIA: the god tier keeps our physical form locked in a state of undying

ARADIA: even in death the bodies do not decay

ARADIA: only lay dormant

DAVEBOT: no thats boring

DAVEBOT: like how long have you been alive

JADE: yes, that one.

ARADIA: oh maybe a few hundred years or so

DAVEBOT: what

JADE: what?

ARADIA: well if i had known you were going to be so judgy about it

DAVEBOT: when did this happen

ARADIA: oh i spent some time in other doomed realities and timelines and came back before anybody could tell i was gone

DAVEBOT: oh just out for a bit of fun then

DAVEBOT: just hopped on over to a different reality

DAVEBOT: real casual like

DAVEBOT: oh hello dont mind me just popping in to see if it really is as doomed as they say it is

DAVEBOT: did not disappoint

ARADIA: yes almost exactly like that :)

DAVEBOT: who did you hang out with are they cooler than me

ARADIA: it is complicated to explain

DAVEBOT: oh ok nevermind then

DAVEBOT: all clear

DAVEBOT: a whole alternate universe ripe with the coolest motherfuckers imaginable

ARADIA: you were there too i threw your air conditioner into the sun

DAVEBOT: wow thats fucked up

DAVEBOT: thats not where that goes at all

JADE: these events are not-canonical.

ARADIA: rude

DAVEBOT: i think what the ghost possessing a corpse of my ex is trying to say

DAVEBOT: and correct me if im fucking wrong

DAVEBOT: which for the record im not

DAVEBOT: is that the trope of being hundreds of years old but looking young forever patently sucks ass

DAVEBOT: a plot device an asshole would write

ARADIA: :(

JADE: that is not what i am trying to say at all.

DAVEBOT: hmm wow yeah thatd really be a sort of pot/kettle situation i guess

DAVEBOT: i cant believe im the only woke one here

DAVEBOT: its hard being such a visionary AND such a fine metallic specimen

DAVEBOT: but im an altruist first and fucking foremost

ARADIA: so selfless

JADE: yes, the greater narrative is truly blessed by your beneficent presence.

DAVEBOT: oh so you got jokes now huh

JADE: i have always had the ‘jokes’ of which you speak, but i have heretofore exercised restraint in laying you low.

JADE: i possess knowledge of many of your iterations, as the scope of my powers allows me to exist in several narrative structures at once.

DAVEBOT: but can she see why kids love the sweet cinnamon taste of cinnamon toast crunch

JADE: i do not know, or care, what that means.

ARADIA: neither do i :)

JADE: its cultural significance to you as an earthling is wasted on the two of us entirely, as we have not conflated the misguided notion of clinging to nostalgic cereal advertisement trivia with socially relevant conversation.

JADE: one could say that your reference is lost to

ARADIA: .....

JADE: ......

ARADIA: .......

JADE: time

ARADIA: ouo

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"We're monsters, too. We never had a chance to be anything but monsters."

Katee Robert, Cruel Seduction

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

Getting to the end of The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, and I'm having a hard time getting through it without crying. I thought Scum Villain was bad! But this book is a much more emotional read for me!!! I had to stop reading every chapter for a while there because I couldn't see though my tears. I took a break to ugly cry for twenty minutes! I keep thinking it can't get any worse, that nothing more traumatizing can be revealed. But every chapter is still unleashing a new flood of emotions! I have never cried so much during a book and I love it!!!

[sixofravens-reads]

I have finished Light from Uncommon Stars! What a wonderful book, emotional, great characters, the ending is perfectly bittersweet. I did think the alien technology was a little bit deus ex machina bc we don't go into The Science Of It All, but also this isn't hard scifi so it's not a huge issue.

Going to start Wizard of the Grove by Tanya Huff now. It's potentially the longest book on my TBR (I didn't compare all the books lol), but apparently it's actually two books bound together. It's been on my TBR for ages, and I've been juuust interested enough to not get rid of it yet, so it'll be good to get it off the list, whether that's by DNFing or reading it lol. I am a little worried cause the last Tanya Huff book I read was absolutely chock-full of weird incest, but I've heard that's an outlier and not all her books are so cringe, so let's hope for the best with this one.

[heahven-2023]

oct 14, 2023

today has been one of those days. fights with the bf and visiting grandpa at the hospital was not a great combo. just an annoying day overall- dont know why i’m into the toxicity of the relationship when i don’t receive any respect as well.. when will i learn

[secondbeatsongs]

as a bi person, the bisexual flag brings me infinite joy and always puts a smile on my face, however as a person who has a Passion for Graphic Design, that undersaturated shade of purple infuriates me when it's used digitally

like, on an actual flag - which was its original purpose - it looks great!

those look fine! lovely, even! with the semi-transparent fabric, the way it catches the sunlight, it looks beautiful!

but now look at how it looks digitally

the pink and blue are so vibrant compared to the sad, lonely lavender!

and let's look at this statement from Michael Page, the creator of the bi flag:

(sidenote: he created this flag in 1998, so if his takes on bisexuality is different from yours, it's okay to notice that! a lot has changed since the 90s when it comes to lived experiences and the way we describe them. but, it's also important to respect his thoughts about this and the way he presented them, even if today, we'd probably not say that bi people "blend unnoticeably into both the gay/lesbian and straight communities.")

so in pantone colors, the pink is 226 C, the blue is 286 C, and the purple of the flag is 258 C.

but...here's the deal

Michael talks here about how the key to understanding the symbolism is to know that the purple blends into both the pink and blue. and on a physical flag, I think you can see that!

but digitally, it absolutely does not blend. it clashes badly, and looks oddly separate from the other two colors.

which got me wondering...what purple do you get if you actually blend 226 C and 286 C?

oh! oh, my god.

look at that! look at how nicely it fits between those colors!

look at it next to the original color scheme! look at how much more vibrant the purple is!

and friends. this is just blending through rgb! you get even more purple variations when you use other color spaces!

let's compare all of them:

(top: original, lab. middle: lrgb, lch. bottom: rgb, hsl)

look at all of the different purple options you can get just by combining these two colors!

if you want almost too-vibrant saturation, you can go hsl, if you want something more relaxed that's closer to the original, you can go lab or lrgb. and if you want to split the difference, lch is bright and violet, while rgb is there with its saturated but darker purple.

anyway, I guess I don't really have a point here? this isn't so much an informational post as it is Me Getting Weird About Colors, but I think it is a useful lesson about how colors look very different on screens compared to how they look on objects in real life.

and sometimes, I think it's okay to compensate for that.

out of all of these, this is my favorite bi flag:

it's the one where the colors were blended in lab color space. for me, the lighter, softer purple is close enough to the original bi flag purple, while also feeling like a smoother blend of the blue and pink

but that's just me! and it might not even look the same to you, since every screen is different, because technology is a nightmare!

anyway, thank you for coming with me on this colorful journey! I will now retreat back to inkscape and make pained sounds about inkstitch gradients until something tangible pulls me back into reality

[heahven-2022]

oct 13, 2022

the weather has been putting me in such a sleepy mood. i took a nap earlier but i’m still so tired.. oh and i literally fell asleep (for a sec!!!) while driving….. 😵‍💫 thank goodness tomorrows friday

[omenarchive]

C3E091 True Heroism

The Archivists have been hard at work gathering Episode 91 data. You can visit our site for a fuller picture, but some highlights are below, starting with some statistics about our beloved Faithful Care-Giver:

FCG dealt 967 points of confirmed damage over the course of the campaign, with their top damage episode being C3E057 The Sorrow of Molaesmyr, when they did 150 points of damage.

But, as we know, his greatest strength was in protecting his friends. Across 91 episodes, FCG gave 1,452 points of confirmed healing. Their final episode, C3E091 True Heroism, was also their top healing episode with 286 HP.

Additionally, FCG used Transfer Suffering to mitigate 243 points of damage across the campaign. Of all the Hells, he most frequently took damage for Imogen, and took the highest number of points for Fearne.

Appropriately, their favorite spell was Guidance, which they cast 140 times. Their other top spells/features included Cure Wounds, Transfer Suffering, Enhance Ability, and Channel Divinity (Sympathetic Binding).

At the time of their death, FCG had taken more damage than any other PC: a whopping 2,062 points of damage over the course of the campaign.

He got three HDYWTDTs, wished people a smiley day 51 times, and made (or inspired) 66 unfortunate references to having a flesh tongue.

He was made of metal and wires, but he was alive, and because of him, his friends are too.  

Visit our site for the rest of our FCG highlights, as well as a special tribute that you should make sure to click. As for the Legend of the Peaks, some truly frightening highlights:

Otohan Thull dealt 847 points of damage. With four attacks per turn, they were likely a level 20 Psi Warrior fighter. She had two legendary resistances, and she took a total of 501 points of damage, 299 of these before exalting.

At 399 damage, Otohan took a health potion and healed 66 points. She then took 63 additional points of damage before FCG made their sacrifice.

Presuming that Otohan was not resistant to the damage from FCG’s explosion (79), which seems likely given the particular arcane nature of FCG’s core, that puts her total HP somewhere between 400 and 475 points.

For comparison, these stats put her in the same HP range as a Forge Guardian, the demon prince of undeath Orcus, or an Ancient Dragon Turtle, with more multi attacks and damage resistances than any of them. Terrifying! 

Visit our Episode 91 page here for more detail about Otohan, and check out our homepage for some additional highlights.

[anis-book-club]

"'You can look at every individual carving or pane of glass and know there's this wealth of stories there, that everything was put in a specific place for a reason. Everything that a meaning, an intention.'

"'Everything is a story, never finished.'"

[sharry-arry-odd]

"One day, we'll all be free." I sighed, looking at the glowing tongues of the fire. "Or we'll be dead. But then, I suppose that's a kind of freedom too." He twisted our fingers together again. It seemed to be how he best liked my hand, like we could tie us together as easy as braiding fingers. "Let's try not to be quite that free, Scar."

Scarlet, by A.C. Gaughen

[demeter1111]

Image from page 286 of "The Savoy" (1896) Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley

Source

[felassan]

Article: 'Legendary Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect veterans team up for a "high challenge" D&D book that sends you straight to hell'

Excerpt:

"The designer of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Dragon Age: Origins, and Star Wars: The Old Republic, James Ohlen, has written a new D&D adventure with Children of Time author Adrian Tchaikovsky. Called 'Chains of Asmodeus,' this official 286-page sourcebook (which is available on Dungeon Master's Guild) sends your characters into the Nine Hells to save a soul – theirs, or that of a loved one. It also serves as something of a reunion for ex-Bioware staffers. Alongside Baldur's Gate designer James Ohlen, Drew Karpyshyn (who was involved with Mass Effect and many of its tie-in novels) is listed as a writer on the project. While it's primarily available as a PDF download, Chains of Asmodeus will be given the print-on-demand treatment 'soon.' Either way, all proceeds go directly to Extra Life, the charity that provides medical care for children. Designed for players levelled between 11 and 20, this will be more of a challenge than most Dungeons and Dragons books; alongside more than 50 'High Challenge' monsters that would very much like to kill you, adventurers will have to battle through a new item corruption mechanic as well as the Archdevil Asmodeus himself, Lord of the Nine. As those lofty titles would suggest, he's bad news. Such bad news, in fact, that he spends most of his time plotting to entrap major figures like politicians, rulers, and adventurers. That's where you come in - he's either caught your soul in a pact or has captured the soul of a loved one to coerce you. (An average Tuesday for characters in the best tabletop RPGs, in other words.) If the Nine Hells sound familiar, that's because they're the setting of the Baldur's Gate 3 opening. They also feature heavily in the game's D&D prequel, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, so Chains of Asmodeus could serve as a good add-on for that adventure. If you want to check it out for yourself, you can grab Chains of Asmodeus for $29.99 here."

[source]

[clevercatchphrase]

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Bonus page this week since monday's was so simple~

(Links coming in afternoon reblog!)

[delusionalwriter02]

INSTA AS NIKOLAIS GF???? IM CRYING CAUSE OF HOW GOOD YOUR OTHERS WERE???

Insta as Nikolai's GF

a/n : hello love! thank you so much for your request and your kind words! hope you like it<3

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Yn_theoneandonly : sneaky pic

Golgot : you took foreverrrrrr

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : goddess knows how to make an entrance

↳ Golgot : well the goddess must learn how to be on time for her DATE

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : dare to tell me I wasn't stunning

↳ Golgot : you were breathtaking but 30min late

↳ Yosanurgirl : what's 30min in a lifetime

↳ Golgot : still 30min

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : stop being annoying, you're always late too

↳ Golgot : late for meetings, not for you

↳ Fyofyo : you're finally admitting it

↳ Golgot : oh shit

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Yn_theoneandonly : got creative

Golgot : creative on my fav shirt

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : i just know it became your favorite bc of me

↳ Golgot : can't say you're wrong

Yosanurgirl : love men who wears pearls

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : got this necklace for his birthday, he NEVER took it off

↳ Yosanurgirl : he's so down for you

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : ik right

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Yn_theoneandonly : he's hot

Golgot : hot but you're afraid of it

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : i'm not afraid of bike, i'm afraid of YOU ON IT

↳ Golgot : i got my license, no needs to be scared

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : you stole that bike, you never got your license

↳ Golgot : it's been yearrrrrssss, i'm a pro now

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : you almost killed a woman yesterday ???

↳ Golgot : she was on my way, not my fault

↳ Yosanurgirl : girl I beg you, get him arrested

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : if only

↳ Golgot : WHAT

Fyofyo : You have powers, a bike and you STILL managed to be late EVERY. SINGLE. TIME

↳ Golgot : I have a VERY good explanation

↳ Fyofyo : I'm all ears

↳ Golgot : I don't have a watch

↳ Fyofyo : Run. Run very far. Leave the country, I swear I'll find you and destroy you

↳ Golgot : I'M SORRY I PROMISE I'LL BE ON TIME

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : Fyodor it's my birthday tomorrow, I got plans with Nikolai so please wait a little more for your whole "i'll find you" thing and I remind you that tonight there's a party at my place and you're invited so no fight, no killing anybody

↳ Fyofyo : Fine but ONLY because it's your birthday

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : thank you

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Yn_theoneandonly : w my girls @.Yosanugirl @.Gintonic @.Higucci @.Kyôk_a @.KoyKoy

Golgot : and WHERE AM I ???

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : are you a girl ?

↳ Golgot : no but we took pictures too

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : love, you're all over my page

↳ Golgot : not enough

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : I'll post you next time

Ranthebestpo : never thought we'll have a party with litterally everybody

↳ p0e : strangest thing ever

↳ Daze_i : it was fun

↳ Chu_uya : for once, nobody tried to kill each other

↳ Koykoy : just for a night

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : unfortunatly

↳ Gintonic : it was strange to see Aku and Dazai actually talk yk

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : alcohol makes you do things

↳ Gintonic : like make out in front of us ?

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : WHAT ??? I HAVEN'T DONE THAT

↳ Gintonic : you both were kissing like you won't live tomorrow

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : well in my defense, Fyodor said he wanted to kill him

↳ Gintonic : i'm done with you, i'm DONE with you

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Yn_theoneandonly : want to marry him so bad (i blocked him just for this post)

Gintonic : the little sweat is so cute

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : he stole it

↳ Gintonic : he's rich rich but never pays anything

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : yeah that's him

Yosanurgirl : okay i'm on "make him marry you" plan

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : LOVE IF ONLY

Fyofyo : I can't say anything

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : hmmm okay so don't ? idk what to reply

↳ Fyofyo : I can't say anything

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : OK SO SHUT UP WHAT DO Y WANT ME TO TELL YOU ????

↳ Yosanurgirl : he's sus

↳ Ranthebestpo : He can't tell you that Nikolai will ask you to marry him

↳ Yn_theoneandonly : RANPO WHAT ????

↳ Fyofyo : I CAN'T SAY ANYTHING

Hey! Hope you liked it ? Thank you SO MUCH for you kind words and your request!! I had so much fun writing it!!

with love <3