#severely diminished

[skanque-bombyx]

I wanted a refresher on Dave’s Obama encounter so I read the epilogues again for the first time in like. Four years.

Had a much better time this time around 👌

[dinoserious]

arc goes on a silly little trip to a dying kingdom on a finding nemo style search for its kid

[kitnita]

wyatt johnston talks his sleep schedule   —   practice   —   04.02.24 

[what’s it like getting back at six am? i mean, is it like — a day or two, or how do you adjust to that?]   i mean, for me, i think it’s … um, i know i can kind of get through it a little easier, i know some guys, you know, have kids and some other responsibilities where they don’t have the luxury of being able to sleep all day, but, um … yeah, i mean, i had — i was able to sleep in as long as i wanted and get as much sleep as i needed, which, um … you know, i think helps a lot for sure. um, obviously, it’s not easy though. uh — so definitely kinda took a little bit, but, yeah, i mean, for me it’s pretty easy just to — i mean, sleep ‘til i don’t need to anymore.  [so how long was that? what time d’you get up then?]   um … i think it was around one or so? when i got up? it wasn’t — it wasn’t too bad. you know, obviously you wanna try to sleep at night too. um … so, yeah, i think it worked out, you know, worked out pretty well.

[ferronickel]

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That’s it for Part 1 of 7. I’ll be taking a week off to rest and rebuild my buffer (but mostly to play Tear of the Kingdom), and then I’ll be back with my regular posting schedule on June 5th.

[sobredunia]

Beautiful games about grief featuring mostly gray player characters my beloved

Please play Gris and watch the Diminish series they're so fucking good and delicate and real with their subjects they made me cry

@rotkad @sansxfuckyou @blackfright @beetroot-merchant @ashs-hellhole @h3xt0r @bree-sae @helloidkwhatimdoing-0 @zecrisketch

[livelybook]

I always see people say well, if Alicent had just married Helaena to Jace, the war would never have happened. And it's like the war would have absolutely happened, its akin to the waves ever falling onto the shore, its inevitable and unstoppable, all that marriage would have done was put a bandaid on a wound for a little while before everything would just explode.

I don't think there would have been any situation where Alicient would have agreed to that. If Helaena did marry Jace, she and any children born would have been used as a hostage during the war and worse than that, she would have been stuck in Dragonstone with a group of the most volatile people who despise her side of the family, what would have Rhaenrya or Daemon have done to her, an easy within reach target when Lucerys died? Would Jace even be kind to her once his brother dies?

Or let's say that the marriage had gone through and Alicient manages to make Heleana stay in Kingslanding along with the Black team and for a little while, everyone would be in an uneasy peace, forced to get along under Viserys eye and then the Black team would want something done & the Green team would need to agree for it to happen(and this something would undoubtedly not be in favour of the Greens) or if the Green team was perceived as disrepectful whether directly as one of the members doing something(an incident with the boys or Otto secretly scheming or Alicient doing her queen duties, I can just imagine Daemon seething in the background like how dare she command while in the castle of the Targaryens) or someone implying that the Green team would be better and it getting back to the Black team, they would have immediately implied a subtle threat regarding Helaena and declared their authority as the to be Queen party(well, as subtle as a hammer on an unruly nail could be) and any slight disbelieving hopes that this arrangement could actually work would be dashed and the Green team would be furious and unable to do anything about the Black team, and the moment Viserys dies, that's it for them.

And If they had managed to secure the city, the same as the show and had Helaena & any of her children as well, they'd be using them as a hostage against the Black Team too and at least with them, she'd be better treated.

And continuing with what about if Helaena had children? She'd be known to have had children with a widely suspected bastard leading to a shaky line and Daemon is right there with his two targaryen looking boys, there is no way he or even those boys or their later children would have left her and her children alone. If she had married Jace, she'd basically be terribly screwed over twice in succesion crisis in her lifetime.

Also, if Jace had married Helaena, what about Baela? Now, I really don't think Corlys would have let it go when he's been promised a Velaryon queen on the throne and has gotten so close to it after all the other times, just to only have a bastard prince. So that's basically 2 main people besides Otto in Helaena's family who would be eyeing her and her children.

Let's not forgot ofcourse, What about her brothers with their future childrens and their claims, the relationship would never be the same and I doubt that something would not be done about her children too if they were to manage win.

What kind of life would that be to be taken away from your family and placed with people who will be actively to passively hostile to you? To know your relationship with all your family side will forever be altered, that your mother wouldn't choose you and your line over your brother and you & all your children will be in danger from everyone for a very long time?

[nuroful]

[renaissaniccatherine]

I'm a tad bit late to my yearly art VS artist but oh well 🧍

[quibbs126]

I was thinking about Sonic ships just now, and I was thinking about how when I first got into Sonic, when I was around 11, I was a shadamy shipper, I think because I had this weird hatred of Sonic the character, and because I disliked sonamy due to the whole “Amy being a crazy stalker” thing. Don’t really know how Shadow factored into the equation, but also back then I assumed that all couples had to be a guy and a girl, and maybe I just thought that Shadow was the next best option (probably also because old bad fanfiction told me it was better. Didn’t read quality fanfics till I was in high school)

But then nowadays, I personally find myself liking both sonamy and sonadow, but I think Shadow and Amy should just be friends

I just find that ironic

[mermaidsirennikita]

I'm not even the most *LEGALIZE IT* person on the planet, not because I don't believe weed should be legal but because it's just not at the top of my priority list compared to the various human rights violations happening in my country right now, but the amount!!! Of seemingly well-meaning posts by supposed libs (or actual libs but not leftists) around this year's 420 focusing on how you can "overdose" on weed.... reminds me so fucking much of all the "well-meaning" posts about how kink shouldn't be at Pride, putting your LGBT+ self in front of kids is Bad Actually, Maybe Women Are Focusing TOO MUCH On Fuckin' Freely And Have Lost Their Intellect, "Birth Control Is So Unhealthy For Your Natural Lady Body You Shouldn't Even Take It"....

What I'm saying is that some are plants and some are supposed libs and leftists who happily trot into the right wing's hands like it's their job (and maybe it is)

[cocolacola]

anyone in this hell pit want to discuss alucard with a sexy amount of nuance

[wonder-worker]

"...Walsingham, the monastic author of the St. Albans Chronicle, was by far [Alice Perrers'] harshest contemporary critic, who in his venom has (somewhat ironically) left us with the longest and most detailed account of her background and personality, her influence as Edward’s mistress, and her subsequent trial. He describes Alice as a shameless lowborn meretrix (a word variously translated as mistress, whore, or harlot), who “brought almost universal dishonour upon the king’s reputation […] and defiled virtually the whole kingdom of England with her disgraceful insolence.” Although Walsingham was not always accurate and, specifically in this case, clearly heavily biased against Alice, he nevertheless provides a truly contemporary account, and his importance as a source should not be underestimated. Likewise, the anonymous monk of St. Mary’s York recorded that in the Good Parliament the Commons (represented by their speaker, Sir Peter de la Mare) stated that it “would be of great gain to the kingdom to remove the said dame [Alice] from the presence of the king both as a matter of conscious and of the ill prosecution of the war.” During the same assembly, the bishop of Rochester, Thomas Brinton, preached from St. Paul’s Cross that “it is not fitting nor safe for all the keys of the kingdom to hang from the belt of one wife.” Although the word wife (uxoris) is used, it is widely accepted that this is a reference to Alice.”

-Laura Tompkins, '"Edward III's Gold-Digging Mistress": Alice Perrers, Gender, and Financial Power at the English Royal Court, 1360-1377", "Women and Economic Power in Premodern Courts" (edited by Cathleen Sarti). Italics by me.

[zoonotic]

not the bus driving asking me if i have alopecia when i got on the bus 🫣 no, king, i do not. but that would make things way easier for me!

[trans-cuchulainn]

feeling a lot of bullshit emotions right now and i don't know how to hold any of them

[bunnyb34r]

I know I have a severe case of dematillomania and trichotillomania bc I think ab getting surgical tools like multiple times a year when I have a particularly stubborn DEEP hair

[offrozenmemoirs]

Seraph De Vinter, Winter's Blade

This is a commission that was done of Seraph during the first arc of the campaign, he's since changed his outfit as well as earrings and hairstyle.