#tal's take

[paintedscales]

"The Fury take these ridiculous flying rodents!"

[tallyhawley]

Sighs really loudly in Boostle Brainrot

[dent-de-leon]

Thinking about...Taliesin saying that Molly would've taken Caleb out drinking and partying. Tried to quiet all the gutting guilt and grief eating Widogast alive by offering him a pleasant distraction from all the pain--a bit of fun, a spark of desire.

And just the implications of...a night spent in someone's arms for the first time in the longest time, Caleb so achingly touch-starved and lonely. Molly's touch far gentler and softer than he'd expected, the same comforting warmth as a tender forehead kiss he still clings to the memory of.

The way Lucien also used sex as a coping mechanism when he was at his most depressed and despondent, so lonely and self-isolated and desperate for any taste of affection. And when Molly sees Caleb wallow in all his self-hatred and sorrow, drawn to his own self-destruction like moth to flame--he can't help but long to reach out, to connect. To give this other Empty, shattered soul a bit of the love he always craved.

Thinking of Molly having the chance to be with Caleb, even just for a moment. Both of them sheltered in the Moonweaver's light, swept up in the lulling comfort of a lover's embrace. Both of their hearts feeling lighter come dawn--

[danwhobrowses]

Prefacing that, again time zones, I've only been able to glean the latest CR episode and that I do not agree with their in-character opinions on the gods, I'd like to remind fans to try and not get super ugly about their criticism of Ashton Greymoore.

I'll be the first to throw my hands up and say they're among my favourite C3 characters so there may be bias, but I've been getting flashes of the Shard Incident from reactions towards their recent and vocal disdain for the gods. Disagree with them all you want, Taliesin knows that the gods can't simply leave since they're the one who said that the Wildmother would die if she left, but understand that it's a character flaw and if you recall the hardships of their backstory, the unanswered prayers, and that their only exchanges with the gods have required them to do something or, with the Dawnfather Angel, have been met with cold disregard, it's understandable how they got to feeling that way. Ashton has lived alone and been told they don't matter for a lot of their life; no gods, no family, no nurturing presence to guide them, they've been abandoned, used, and - with additional influence by the Dominox accusing them of wanting FCG to die - are currently between blaming themselves and the Changebringer for their closest friend's death.

Make no mistake Ashton is wrong, I think the self-confessed hypocrite with also self-confessed poor morality knows that deep down, or at least knows that they're not the kind of person who should be in charge. Vassalheim is a difficult place for a titan vessel to be in so it is unsure what they will do from here; perhaps investigate the Earth Titan? Commune with the Emperor and Empress? Or maybe be brought to the gods and be able to vent or reconcile with them (and maybe get some closure with FCG, speak with his spirit as like a mediator between the Hells and the Gods)? But it feels like Taliesin is being vocal for a reason, and it's either to invite Matt to challenge it (I've said in other comments but I would love if Ashton found some comfort, not worship or a pact but maybe just a dialogue, in the Everlight: a goddess of healing, temperance and redemption - all of which would help Ashton mentally - as unlikely as it'd be) or find another maybe primordial route to give Ashton a narrative tether towards stopping Predathos.

Let's just, not be cruel about the character, they are more than just their bad trauma and grief-led opinion on gods remember?

[tal-vez-o-quizas]

People must be aware that every time a character states something in a show, what will happen is the opposite of that.

Some examples:

Will on S3EP1 when he said "I'm not... gonna fall in love" and we learned that he fell in love with Mike on S4.

El in the letter Mike read in the beginning of S4EP1 "We're gonna have the best spring break ever" and what happened? They had the worst spring break ever for very obvious reasons I don't even have to state. The reasons are endless...

El when she said to Mike on S4EP2 "You'll meet my friends later, but today, I want today to be about me and you" and what happened? Mike actually met "her friends" who are actually her bullies later that day and the day got ruined because of them.

Eddie when he said to Dustin on S4EP8 "Never change Dustin Henderson" and what happened in EP9? Eddie died and I'm 100% sure Dustin will be very different next season because of that.

When Will on S4EP8 said to Mike on the van "She'll need you Mike, and she always will" regarding El and I'm sure she won't, haha. At least not romantically for so many reasons and we'll see that next season.

Things that are stated and said in such a direct way in a show will bring the opposite sooner or later.

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

twin

where have u beeeennn

[localcryptic]

redownloading the sims was a mistake. i spent 7 hours making @b33tlejules 's and my sidesteps an apartment and then making the entire rangers team. i'm building their apartment/headquarters/hypehouse tomorrow. send help

[hand-of-devotion]

The take that Ashton should be punished/"nerfed" by losing his dunamantic abilities and having the hypothetical elemental themed ones replace it is? So wild to me tbh.

Like. If we're being honest, the titan abilities could literally be ANYTHING. So instead of introducing an entire new set of abilities for a functionally new subclass while getting rid of the ones we've been seeing all campaign? If the rewards would really make a single character THAT unbalanced? It would probably be 100 times easier to just nerf/adjust whatever hypothetical abilities they were supposed to be adding in the first place to make it more "fair".

Because they already have the Ka'mort shard and the only mechanics "benefit" it's given thus far is the fact that it changed Ashton's pre-campaign race from half-elf to earth genasi. Which is arguably not even a benefit because he didn't keep the features/traits of a half-elf. Then the only known narrative benefit has been the fact that they seem to have an unnaturally heightened connection to nature/eidolons. Which has only ever been for ultimately inconsequential narrative implications or adding a little spice to explain/"justify" the effect of certain dice rolls.

So we have no real established expectations for what the "awakened titan" abilities will be. It'll be sad to have them watered down but would make way more sense than just scrapping an entire homebrew subclass's mechanics?

[patetemult]

I know everyone was going mad at Tal/Ashton for making that Choice, and yes it's just the kind of reckless decision he would make, but Fearne was also a part of the reason. She expressed multiple times that she didn't want to take the shard, despite how much everyone else was encouraging her, and we know from what Ashley said that she was worried about becoming that evil version of herself if she did. So while it seemed like a completely reckless decision with no regard for the others, Ashton was, in part, doing it for someone else. Fearne didn't want to take it, and he wasn't going to make her, not when there was any kind of chance he could do it himself

[lbctal]

some shanes from s1e12 of the shield.

[paintedscales]

AuRaugust 2024 :: Day Fourteen :: Serpentine

"Leviathan...Leviathan... A fight with the serpentine Primal continued on til sea's descent. Rocking upon the platform, we had to push on tirelessly...even if the raging winds, rains, and waves brought a sickening churn to the stomach."

[tallytals]

pov you show up at the most annoying pm/ada couple competition but mori and fukuzawa are already there

[patheticbatman]

@derinthescarletpescatarian

Third incarnation of the third Crew of the Courageous! They’re getting chickens!

If you’re wondering why there’s suddenly a lot less people in the crew picture, why don’t you read this story about a totally normal space ship? :)

[dootplusone]

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Thinking. Abt this but with Bones. Like. Post-Tholian Web? Post-Mirror Mirror?

For AOS, could be after Into Darkness and/or Beyond.

A Bones who's just. So anxious. So stressed. So overwhelmed that it starts taking a toll on his health. Maybe he doesn't even realise - or maybe he does and tries his best to push through it until it knocks him on his ass. Kind of in the vein of "You don't actually know how tired you are until you stop. And then you just physically cannot start again." It becomes his new baseline, a problem that just brews and storms in the distance.

And he just carries on. And keeps going and going and going until one day he realises that 'Oh fuck, I'm not okay' and has about 5 seconds of warning before he straight up collapses, doesn't matter if it's on the bridge, in the madbay, on a planet - he's going down. (Maybe a repeat of Tholian Web where he just straight up faints into Spock's arms? Full whammy, why not)

Maybe it's a high-tension situation getting resolved that does it. The pure relief of it reminds him of how tired he is. How tired he's been for a while. His body sees that momentary rest and goes "More of that, please. And I'm not asking."

And he's so rendered by it that he doesn't grumble about being coddled like he normally would when he wakes up. He knows not to fuck with the medbay staff - they're just as firm as he is on recovery, and that's not by accident - and he knows that Spock and Kirk will be hovering, because they see any problem as something they, too, should shoulder the burden of.

...And because they're some of the most protective people in the damned universe. And that goes for pretty much all the people on board the Enterprise.

In some scenarios, it's just a case of letting his body and mind rest properly. In others, there's a lot more recovery involved than anyone initially expects. Luckily for him, he has a found family who are determined to be there with him at every step. It just takes a couple reminders, every once in a while.

[rotisseries]

there was literally no reason for the government to stick dazai in mersault actually, like the only thing his ability does is nullify others. they could have stuck him in any old 6 by 8. in fact I think he'd have been in there longer if they'd done that

[normal-thoughts-official]

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