#thoughts from the crypt

[doggasm]

i don't know how to function like a normal human being.

with anything, relationships - both romantic and platonic - human interactions, engaging in conversation.

it's like learning how to walk for the first time, and you keep falling

and you don't know how to balance yourself properly.

so you keep trying, over and over, but no matter how hard you try, you just keep falling.

i'll stumble over my words, say the wrong things, do the wrong things, act the wrong way in front of certain people.

i think i used to be able to function properly, like an actual human being instead of an ugly thing wearing a flesh suit,

but i can't now

and i don't think i'll ever be able to again.

wanna know the real kicker?

i'm gonna be like this 'til the day i die

even with the medication and the therapy,

it will never go away; i'll never feel complete again

i'll never be able to genuinely, truthfully function and feel like a human being, like i'm normal, like i don't feel like i'm pretending

like i don't feel alive at all.

[shrimpricebowl]

oh thank god

[martyrbat]

[ID: a panel of Bruce Wayne with his fuzzy tits out and cowl on. He (pathetically) requests, “Don't leave Gotham. Stay. Help me make it better.” Minhkhoa Khan is shown in a close-up as his speech bubble has been edited to be a Tumblr post by @/dotjade. The post reads: ‘put those awesome boobs away dude now isn't the time’. END ID]

[mendelsohnben]

Nathan Page as Detective Inspector Jack Robinson ↳ Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

[sillypuppybarks]

npd and aspd culture is not saying thank you because you feel like people should automatically already know your grateful. like. my relationships are already transactional. I'm gonna do something for you later because of this. why do I have to verbalize my gratefulness. what more do you WANT!!!!!!!!1

[rhythmmortis]

Another suzu thought. In love with how her personality and always rushing ahead into things comes from her gameplay in crypt where when you kill an enemy she rushes forward until she physically cannot. Fantastic. I love all the characters getting characterization based on gameplay, that's so wonderful.

and on that Note Eli would be a soccer coach, based on him kicking bombs in crypt.

Also neither cadence nor dove knew what yoga was prior to the rift implied yoga does not exist in their world, and that's funny to me

YOU'RE SO RIGHT OH MY GOD. she's very headstrong in the sense that she literally murders enemies in crypt by dashing into them. with her head. the characterisation for the characters in rift taking elements from crypt makes me LOSE IT i seriously think they did so well in that regard

eli being a soccer/football (< apologies i am british) coach is so CUTE i really love that!! he is amazing at scoring goals consistently provided they are always 3 tiles away. incredible work. i think he should also be a life coach on the side given that anyone he (rightfully) gave advice to ignored it immediately (dorian going to find the lute and eli telling him 'hey maybe don't leave your mourning infant daughter alone', cadence going to find dorian) went and got themselves killed, thus losing their life. he is so smart but surrounded by idiots (lovingly)<3

i still like the concept of aria also being a scientific researcher, considering she sought out the lute to heal the plague that ran through the village!! melody being a bard as she was in crypt was also an idea, but i thought that was too similar to cadence's whole thing, so maybe like a manager of sorts? honestly the main thing about thinking what melody and dorian would be like in rift is that dorian is a trophy husband. very important.

also god dove literally appearing in the rift world in the MIDDLE of a yoga session is so funnyyyy like it's her natural habitat. it's like rehabilitating domesticated animals in the wild. she is finally allowed to destress after the whole crypt she was practically made for yoga even if she has no fucking clue what's going on

[dragon-subway]

wait did i ever tell you guys molly's full name (molotov cocktail) is a translation localisation? the literal translation is molluska cocktail, after Senator Molluska another oc of mine i made soley for this. he's pretty much a big snail with a mustache.

[haikkun]

Little Miss Spite for Sore Eyes

Pretty unremarkable

It’ll never be funny

We’ll never laugh and slap our knees to crack

The anecdote to friends across a dinner table

I dare not even write it

And I may cry

But you just sigh

It makes me want to pluck them out

To never be seen again

Or glimpsed into with doubt

To learn, in fact, they’re blue

I’d drain the colour

If I could

___________________________

Maureen Armstrong @haikkun

[invinciblerodent]

so i just realized that I had a hard save just before the end of the ritual in my Astarion romance game, and that I could see for myself the whole entire ascension dialogue, without needing to rely on whatever can and can't be shown on youtube

................ yeah, I don't............. like it

and that's not a surprise, i knew very well that I wouldn't (a butt or a tit being censored doesn't change that), I've seen most lines if not the whole scene uncensored and as-is before, but having your own fleshed-out character be there, it kinda changes things a little bit.

in that it feels objectively much worse altogether. to me. like i didn't understand how people could see this as anything other than a humongous red flag before, and now i understand it even less.

the whole.... demeanor he has now, and that line about having "earned his body", and the repeated dismissal of the PC's very realistic and honest anxieties with an "I'm so powerful, it'll be fine".....? just...... eugh. yuck. slimy. gross. do not want.

just how close Iona was to this happening too, that's probably what makes my brainstem prickle the most. how easy it would have been for her to just... let him convince her that this is all for the best, and stay convinced until it's far too late already.

this guy may be wearing Astarion's face, but whoever he is*? fucking hate the prick

(*yes i know it's him just with his worst fears reinforced and his worst qualities amplified, but for the sake of the expression? it does feel like a stranger is wearing his face, and that stranger suuuuuucks)

[planetquest]

discord sploded but its back to normal now

[martyrbat]

superman adventures #7

does anybody else remember how weird those 90s superman comics got lol

[vanniemnz]

youre right actually, because we cannot presume that horror is only the type of contet to scary people, but it shows a brand new universe for the kids, a new way of seeing the world!! It can teach them things, it really can!

Here in BRASIL we had some famous programs about this thematics, that told stories and gave lessons to all children, and everyone who whatched on the tv, remembers the characters, the musics the stories!

its somethin so complex to discuss because, Yes its import to care for children mental health yet it need different influences to children really evolve a way to see the world in the different sides of things, yes Pocoyo and are great, but monster house and coraline are too!! There exist good ways to represent scary things without affecting in a bad way a kid, but the fact that cute and cheap 3d can farm money easier its a thing right now, and real artist are being suffocated right now, so its like the million other things we know... Its CAPITALISM FAULT OF COURSE!!!

(here the images of HISTORIETAS ASSOMBRADAS e DANGO BALANGO)

ps: Dango Balango, its not about scary things but iit shows for the kid the consequences of actions in a.... different way i guess thats word to it lol

idk how to say this without sounding really boomer-ey, but like, what happened to horror content for kids? maybe i’m using the word “horror” a little liberally but i remember when i was a kid there was SO much out there that existed solely for the purpose of scaring kids in a safe, fun, age-appropriate way. just off the top of my head there’s goosebumps, scary stories to tell in the dark, tales from the crypt (little before my time though), coraline, mirror mask, monster house, dark crystal (more incidentally scary but w/e), even courage the cowardly dog; all these really fantastic books and shows and movies that let kids explore being scared on their own terms.

now there’s idk, those new addams family movies? but those aren’t really scary.

i see people talking about the “kid-ification” of horror games and i can’t help but wonder if part of the reason kids latch onto that stuff so much now is because there’s nowhere else for them to experience healthy, safe fear. a little kid wants to get the thrill of being scared, but their parents won’t let them watch any actual horror movies, so they go on youtube and what do you know, there’s markiplier playing another cheap horror game set in a toy store or whatever, and now that kid’s fear quota is being met. (obviously there’s more to it than that, but it’s a theory i have)

this like, doesn’t really matter probably but idk, i feel bad that ~kids these days~ aren’t getting the experience of something scary made specifically for them with their genuine enjoyment in mind, rather than whatever the next fnaf ripoff is that just wants to sell them merch. being a kid and watching a well-made scary movie feels like you’re finally being taken seriously; you’re not being babied or coddled, you’re being trusted to face the skeksis and the other mother and the nebbercracker house and not back down. i wish people were still making media that respected kids that much.

[sillypuppybarks]

should i make a list of characters I think have npd or aspd. should I. should I should I should I (im gonna anyway but I want the attention)

[andthewormscrawlin]

was i really that bored??? looking through the past messages i literally constantly ignored him i know i get bored of people but I swear I remember loving him more than myself???? was i genuinely just there because i liked the attention i swear to god i was obsessed with him

[starship-kitten]

Honestly I consider this a form of anti queer propaganda at this point. Spread this shit around. Don't let them get away with the lie that people in your own community are the ones you need to fear

[immanueldid]

*Pulls up chair*

Spoilers for BLACK PYRAMID discussion below.

Their Lord-Celestant, their namesake, was stolen. It was Sigmar that set them on this mission to speak with the Mad God in the first place, but Ramus does not blame Sigmar. Ramus blames Mannfred, because without Mannfred they never would have found Nagash. They might have all died, sure, but at least they would have returned to the forge.

The part that Ramus refuses to acknowledge, and one that Gardus brings up directly in this confrontation in Black Pyramid, is that he was  given a chance.  The Beasts of Cartha thru Only The Faithful shows the expedition that Ramus was given, and perhaps longed for more than Tarsus’ Rescue because his emotions were still running hot.

He wanted Mannfred.

Ramus may have been under the belief that Mannfred would face judgement from Sigmar. But, I’m almost certain the plan was to trade him for Tarsus. This did not end up happening.  Arkhan came, collected Nagash’s prodigal son, and that was the end of it.  Ramus received no closure or resolution, just denial of satisfaction. And for what? They still did not get Tarsus back.

So Ramus did what anyone would have done.  He petitioned his peers, all but begging outright for aid. Tarsus could not be left alone in Nagash’s clutches.  Ramus knows better than anyone, for not only was he in the room, he is a Relictor. Morbus’ perspective from Plague Garden gave us that extra little addition, that the Relictors can hear Nagash. They’re not deaf or blind to what the Supreme Lord of the Undead is capable of.   But again, others sympathized with his plight, but they all said no.

The stormhost were, for all intents and purposes, abandoning Tarsus.

And then, there was Gardus and Grymn.

Grymn was swallowed by corrupted realmgate. Thrust into the Garden of Nurgle.  And Gardus went after him, without thought to even ask permission.

And that in of itself upsets Ramus, certainly, but I think what stings more is that Sigmar helped them.  If Ramus is then left with only questions that he’ll never know the answer to.  Had not asked directly of his god to be refused and just leaped into the nearest gate to Shyish, would Sigmar have aided him too? Or would he be abandoned to the same fate? Would none of this have happened?

It seems that even with the gods among us, too often they are silent and faith must take precedence.

I think, in his heart, Ramus knows it would be the latter.  They are not yet at War with Nagash in this book, and that is why Sigmar could not allow Ramus his justice, or take Tarsus back by force.  The black pyramid itself is being built, far off in another facet of Nagashizzar, and Sigmar remains openly ignorant of it for the sake of trying to maintain what alliances he has.  Nurgle, they were at war with.  He could grant his power and punch a god in the face with a lord-relictor. Nagash’s revenge is simmering in silence.

And all of this was addressed directly by this one scene with Ramus and Gardus. It is going to get worse. Because now all that’s left to Ramus is desperation... and a certain vampire that isn’t as sneaky as he thinks he is.