#this wouldn't work with Unique

[hildegardladyofbones]

One of the best things about Disco Elysium by far is that it does not fear ugly women. The world is full of ugly men, but ugly women are so hard to come by.

[canisalbus]

Machete has parents?? I'm not familiar with their actual lore, so I've been imagining Machete as a desolate victorian orphan boy

Everyone has parents, he didn't materialize out of thin air (or evolve from a crumpled napkin).

But he lost contact with them early on and doesn't remember much of anything about them. Machete was a sickly kid and his family was going through a rough patch at the time, they were constantly struggling to find the time and funds to care for him. Child mortality was high and it was starting to look increasingly likely that he wouldn't make it. He was around three or four when they left him at the closest monastery that accepted foundlings and he hasn't heard of them since.

[kah-way-loh]

What if we sat by the pond to feed the fish...

... and we were both bivalves?

[Image description: Erie is a silver and blue 2001 Blue Moon Shelby, sitting next to an unnamed 2001 Lilac Shelby with a sun-damaged yellowing shell. They're sitting on a wooden dock. Ahead of them is a pond, with several small fish eating in front of them. A few reeds border the pond. End ID.]

[fictionadventurer]

"If the structure of your world ever evaporates, I will still be here."

I think The Q might contain one of the greatest declarations of friendship/love ever.

[bylertruther]

do you ever think about how will probably wishes he was braver?

that he could tell mike the truth about himself without having to speak in code. that he could stick to his guns when he's been wronged and stand up for himself rather than tucking tail and turning the other cheek. that he could be less shy, less sensitive, less cowardly, and maybe then his loved ones wouldn't forget about him as often as they do.

maybe then they would pick him first, rather than leaving him for last. maybe then they would want to hang out with him and hear what he has to say. maybe then they would treat him like they used to, like he can still take care of himself just like they can, instead of like a fragile little thing that they pick up only when they need him. maybe then they would care about him as much as he cares about them. maybe then he wouldn't doubt that it could all come crashing down once they know who he really is, and always has been, because the rest of him would've been enough.

like, maybe he wishes he didn't freeze or run away so much. maybe he wishes he wasn't so afraid all the time, of every little thing. that he could be brave like mike, el, or his mom. i mean, el's been through so much, too. why can't he be more like her? why does he have to hide behind her? he hides behind her when the monsters come crawling back, and he hides behind her when he can't bring himself to say what he really means—even after getting on her case about it.

he spent so much time on that painting. he didn't let anyone see it—it was that special to him. why couldn't he own up to that? there's no monster in the van with him; it's just him and mike and this painting of the party, nothing inherently incriminating or romantic, and still—he can't help himself. he retreats back into the shadow, shrinks into himself, and tells lie after lie to the person that he never lies to, that he knows doesn't fucking deserve that, just because he's too scared.

of course he'd feel like a mistake sometimes. of course he'd hate who he is (if That script is to be believed), when he can't even talk to the one person that would understand without lying straight to his face, over and over again, like a fucking hypocrite. of course he'd feel so lost without the person that tells him it's okay to be this way and shows him that there is indeed strength in it. of course he'd hate who he is when he's encouraging someone to be true and speaking about their courage, all while being incapable of taking his own advice, and giving the credit for all of his love and efforts and emotions to someone else.

so many people died to bring him back, so many people died just because he didn't stay dead when maybe he should have, and for what? so that he can continue to hide rather than live his life? so that he can turn into a "worse" version of himself? so that he can live in fear? so that he can continue to ache for a past that he can never return to, while everyone else moves forward and berates him for not doing the same? time stopped in the upside down when will went missing, and he's been stuck there ever since, too. too much has happened for him to move on from. too much has changed—he's changed. he's too different now, in every way, and the older he gets the more clear it becomes.

of course he'd feel like a mistake. of course he'd hate who he is. he's the common denominator here: in his loneliness and in this war. the boy who came back to life when others didn't. the boy that got possessed and couldn't fight it. the boy that turned into a liar and a coward and must learn to live with it, even if it's at his own expense. the boy that can't let go of the past and whom the past won't let go of either, because even after everything, he's still connected to this great evil that won't let him go. they got it out of him, and yet the tether remains, because of-fucking-course it would.

just—why? why him? why can't anything ever go right with him? why is he always the outlier? i think that overwhelming amount of fear, shame, grief, guilt, exhaustion, and loneliness would wear anyone down, let alone a teenager that never asked for any of it and has experiences so unfathomably unique that the only other people that could have possibly understood are literally dead.

[hussyknee]

Not entirely sure how I'm expected to respond when I point out something is white as fuck and the person I'm criticizing goes "I'm literally PoC!!" Okay? Good for you? Get well soon??

I literally live in South Asia, a place still nursing the world's worst colonial hangover. That's like one billion brown people desperately in need of joining Bootlickers Anonymous. If I had to respect the rancid takes of every yahoo that lives here I'd have to drown myself in the sea.

Living in white countries does something odd to diaspora brains. If you call yourself BIPOC in your own head long enough you end up forgetting you're just a garden variety idiot mainlining white supremacy like everyone else.

[kaeyapilled]

when people talk about that honkai character that has ball joints like a doll and say that they wish scaramouches design had those too and mfs in the comments are like "YOU DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO SCARAS STORY! >:(" they're kinda missing the point. this is less about scaramouches fucking ball joints and more about how bland and repetitive genshin is allowed to be because it will bring profit either way

[creepychippy]

Kinda wish there were more Video Games with Protagonists/Characters who in canon have Selective Mutism, I need more Representation- qwq

[carcarrot]

so because im insane i tried to find that sweatshirt harry anderson was wearing in that friday night videos thing and found out it was a reversible disney sweatshirt, with one side being mickey mouse comics, and the other side being a huge image of minnie mouse

[raycatz]

The darkening infecting the arathim hivemind (the ascendancy) and the ascendancy casting off sick arathim to keep itself alive OR they all go mad at once? Threaders can incorporate their host into the ascendancy and take control of them so, idea, Four controlled by a threader and speaking for the ascendancy like Tavra. There could be a repeat of that really great scene where an aramthim is stabbed and Tavra screams "you're killing us!" Or maybe a sick threader that's been cast off seeking out another mind to connect to to be a little less lonely as it both goes mad from the darkening and also dies from being disconnected from the hivemind. Anyways- Four or anyone being connected with this dying desperate lonely thing.

Or like, the sick arathim start to kill the rest of the hive and the acendancy knows it's killing itself and so it seeks help from the gelfling

Wars: We're not helping the giant mind-controlling spiders

Four: We have to try!!!

[wardenmages]

not to be gay or anything but please look at Astarion being pretty and looking like a prince in shining gold armor thank u

[volivolition]

Is the Wip game finished? Can I still ask for stuff? If I still can, can I get a snippet from the one that give me the most rot (meet the parts)? If no, then I'm just swinging by to say hi how are you doing? <3

HI RED!! thank you for swinging by, im doing better than earlier!! my ear is getting better and im eating pizza :]!

okay so TECHNICALLY it's no longer wednesday, but i LOVE spoiling my fics so of COURSE you can have a snippet from Meet the Parts hkjh <33 you are always free to ask anytime, i will always be happy to share bits of my stories <3 AND SINCE THERE'S NO RULES I CAN SHARE MORE THAN THREE LINES!! here's like, a whole React Speed thing i just wrote :]

LOGIC – Along with Coach and Sparks – Flighty and Fingers too, I suppose – they're why you have trouble sitting still for long periods of time. The attention deficiency disorder... Or are they exacerbated by it? I still haven't figured out which is the cause and which is the effect...

REACTION SPEED – Point is, we got zoomies! Can't sit still. Always more to do, more to see, more to say.

YOU – "Are you why my leg is always-"

REACTION SPEED – Bouncing, yep! Fingers tapping, hands flapping, feet moving, words flying- hey, if you had wings like me, we'd never be touching ground.

YOU – "You have wings?"

KIM KITSURAGI – He jots this down with an interested hum.

REACTION SPEED – Yes! Books, what- which animal–

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Success] – You have the hovering wing type of trochilidae – hummingbirds, colloquially – with their ability to rotate their wingspan at the shoulder and elbow joints to create maximum lift. However, though you exhibit some iridescent feathers associated with the birds, your wings also connect to membranes, which share the Voronoi tessellation of the species anisoptera, the common dragonfly.

REACTION SPEED - Yeah, exactly! I'm a hummingbird and a dragonfly. Both of 'em. :)

[journey-to-the-attic]

TRAVELER IK IN NIGHTBRINGER LET'S GO.... I feel like there's a lot of potential for how she'd help the brothers handle Raphael offering to let them go back to the Celestial Realm, right? Right??!!?!?!

oh, good call, you're absolutely right!

ik's first response when raphael makes the offer would be to go "oh come on little raph, don't you realise god's full of shit" - i feel like it'd bewilder her at first that there's even a discussion to be had

she just goes "nah, they're not doing that." since she's used to world-hopping and settling in quickly, she probably finds it hard to understand the want to go back to a previous home once you've already settled into a new one

and while she's right in that none of the brothers actually want to go back, she's a little floored by the fact that some of them do consider it. and then she feels really bad for projecting how she feels about things onto them when she's supposed to be taking care of them (in this au, ik is the big brother)

raphael sort of gently tells her that "it's been so long since you last saw them, it's natural you don't know them as well. but why wouldn't they want to go home? don't you remember how happy they were back then?"

and then ik kinda overcompensates by going to lucifer like "little morningstar, if you want to go back home then you should do it, i'll stay here and take care of satan for as long as he needs me", only to find out that lucifer was planning to do the exact same thing... only for them BOTH to find out that literally all the brothers want to stay anyway

i think at this point satan would've warmed up to her a little, but he still pushes her away more often than not; ik promising to tether herself to the devildom (putting an end to her travelling) just to take care of him would probably put things into perspective for him, so it'd past this point that he becomes properly receptive to ik's big-brothering

[makeitquietly]

Happy Birthday to Oliver Hardy! 🥰🌺 In Should Sailors Marry? (1925) he plays a doctor examining the slightly alarmed Cyril (Clyde Cook) for insurance purposes.

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Oh haha yeah I'm definitely feeling better <- he is not talking to people

[sunbeargames]

I know I post on Reddit to promote my homebrew and products, but for anyone interested in getting better at homebrew (at least for D&D) I BEG you to stay off of reddit.

I got so much better as a designer when I went to communities that gave constructive, insightful advice.

Like. I disregard 90% of the feedback I get on reddit. Sometimes it's obvious they didn't read the feature properly. Sometimes they misunderstand what makes something "unbalanced" (thats a whole other can of worms tho). Sometimes they personally wouldn't use a feature and therefore consider it to be badly made.

This isn't a jab against anyone in particular in reddit ttrpg communities, its just an aspect of the culture I (and others) have observed there.

Personally, the biggest sea change for me was joining Indestructoboy's discord. Taron himself is really nice and a great designer, but more than that he built a community that includes a number of other experienced designers. Getting feedback from people like Heavyarms who know what they are talking about is so, so, so valuable when doing this kind of design. Also, that's shaped the culture and tone of discussion there, so I've been able to get thoughtful and useful feedback from lots of people there, even those without professional design experience, just because the server is more focused on improving designs together than giving a yay or nay based on your personal first impression.