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[hejnokavek]

I know it's a bad timing considering your last reblog, but I'd love to hear more about your OCS! :D

which last reblog-

oh that one, this is what I get for turning off all my notifs

so, this is Kyan, the guy I'm currently playing.

he is half dragon, half bishounen (for lack of a better word), half muppet. named after a rock (kyanite), and he is dumb as rock as well, and I say that lovingly.

As he is currently, he's a wholesome, simple-minded, easily excited, but ultimately well-meaning guy. Kyan doesn't know much about the world, partly because of how he came to it.

Some years ago, lightning struck a rock face near a small, poor mining village, unveiling a previously unknown cave system, littered with faint blue veins. Upon exploring it further, the people of the town discovered a rather egg-shaped boulder. When they tried to move it out to asses if it was worth anything, it cracked, revealing a sparkling blue interior. Inside stood this guy, scaly, horny (in the literal sense), hunched over, and confused, mumbling what at first seemed to be gibberish.

After the initial surprise, he was led out into the sun, and presented the elders of the village, who eventually identified Kyan's mumbling as a much older form of the language they were speaking. Kyan himself was taken in as the benevolent immortal spirit of the mountain. His missing horn was then explained as a gift to the village's people, as it seemed to be from the same blue rock that was found in the cave. It turned out the rock was quite valuable and brought the village a brief period of prosperity.

During this time, Kyan spent most of his days getting adjusted to sunlight, people, and the current language, which he was slowly learning. He did not remember a thing, which did not seem to bother him much. He watched the people who took great care of him, and had enough sense to go along with whatever legend he was supposedly the personification of. He also conveniently didn't mention that the inside of his egg was inscribed with something, but he couldn't read it and the people of the village couldn't see it.

Eventually, he's adjusted well enough to go outside freely. His preferences and personality also made themselves clearer. The light, plant-based, diet his "believers" provided him was great and clearly made with care, and all Kyan was just much less of an enlightened being and much more of an animal than he tried to let on. As such, he took to sneaking out at night and... fishing, and eating the raw fish as they were, and he guiltily realised that he liked that much better than cooked food. In his infinite wisdom, he then decided that the best course of action, would be to make friends with the people cooking for him and learning from them. This went surprisingly well, and he bonded with the mostly older women around the kitchen and the kids who hung around. There, it became clear that he is very much a yapper with very little filter, who uses his inhuman features to play pranks on kids, and that his cooking is just fine, but nothing exceptional.

It was also there where he received perhaps the most valuable piece of advice, the exact words being: "son, you can make it really far in life with just your looks and height alone, that is if you shut up, though."

Unfortunately for Kyan, he started out as a dnd character, which means a mandatory trauma or two. As such, his 3-year-ish career as a minor benevolent dragon deity ends with a violent torrential downpour that triggers a landslide that buried the village. Kyan crawled out of the rubble a few days later in the form of a dragon. after spending days searching for survivors and contemplating whether he was somehow the cause of this catastrophe. Finally, he puts up a stone there to commemorate the place and essentially runs away.

After this, he spends some years not wanting to engage with his past at all, and largely travels alone, despite feeling profoundly lonely. Eventually, he starts doing odd jobs, mainly in kitchens and inns but his loud mouth tends to cause him trouble and gets him sacked multiple times. After one of these events, he meets a troubled noble whom he quickly befriends (clings onto) and starts travelling with...

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he's also had a life before his cave-timeout. That part of his story is still kinda vague but it actually explains why he's missing a half of his horn. there is so much more to him tbh, but most of it is confined in chats and this is already long as hell

[mumpsetc]

The Art of Holding On

[blackcardz]

 me  and @lucidrims  on  call  trying  to  figure  out  our  time  difference  when  she  goes  to  other  side  of  the  world  and  trying  to  figure  out  calling  times  :  chaos.

[candylungs]

LOOK AT FFISHSTICKKS NEW POST🥵 GOOD LORD

Oh my fucking GOD. You are such a comrade for feeding my derangement with this ask to let me know. Just got back from purgatory and am back in Hell, burning for him.

I AM FUCKING DERANGED OVER BARE, EXPOSED WILL.

[bogkeep]

thinking about the kingkiller chronicle again...............

i've read the kingkiller chronicle several times and i'm definitely going to read it again!!! because it's fun and i love it so much!! it's near and dear to my heart!! and the thing is. i Agree with all the very valid criticisms of it. i Fully understand why some people do not like these books. i can't even say that had i read them for the first time Today rather than the early 2010s that i would have liked them as much - it is very much tied up in nostalgia for me. (i read them because they got recommended to me by a classmate i was maybe??? flirting with???? we had Something going on and it unfortunately faded away when we went to different schools, and we have reconnected since and we've both transed our genders and she's engaged now so i guess i fumbled a bad bitch and i will simply live with it IT'S FINE!! IT'S FINE. ANYWAY)

for those who aren't familiar with the kingkiller chronicle by pathrick rothfuss, there's currently two books - the name of the wind and a wise man's fear, it was Set Up to be a trilogy and it's been many many years and i think rothfuss has made a statement that it's gonna have to be four books. which is unfortunate for the Format (each book is supposed to cover a day in the framing device, and it's very specifically supposed to be Three Days), but makes a lot more sense for how many gotdam threads need to be tied up. the story is about Kvothe, a beloved hero shrouded in myth who's been involved in Adventures and some Recent History that is yet to be revealed. the framing device is him telling his origin story to an author guy going by the name of Chronicler, so that he can explain how he became such an OP mary sue he's now known as. and it's fun! you have to accept the premise that he IS an OP mary sue kind of character, and that delving into his backstory is a deconstruction of the Archetype of a Mythic Hero.

i think the most common criticism/reason to DNF this story At The Time (and it was massively popular, like "the bookstore clerk was singing its praises at the checkout" type popular) was because readers found kvothe to be a really annoying/obnoxious/pretentious protagonist. which, you know, fair. he is!!!!!!!! and i love him for it, is the thing. if you enjoy pretentious know-it-all characters, especially of the sort to cause problems due to their own hubris, you might like kvothe!!! and if you don't, i cannot in good conscience recommend this series. so that's fully a taste thing.

the other most common criticism is The Sexism. which! yep. it is a bit of a time capsule in that regard - it's written by an author who clearly Does actually like women and wants to have cool female characters, but is still stuck in a certain Guy Writer Mindset. i don't think these books read AS sexist at the time as they do now, simply because the fantasy genre space at the time was uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh................................................. it had room for improvements. i sincerely think this is why people who read it now go ???? why is this series so popular???? what the hell??? when back then it was like, more, yeah. shrug. we were deep in pop feminism era on the internet and analysis was shallow.

here is my controversial opinion however. people always talk about how the second book is weird because it has a sex fairy. and my opinion is that the sex fairy is fine. if you want your cool protagonist hero to get really good at sex and be a legendary good lover, "he got tutored by the sex fairy" is a PERFECTLY reasonable explanation, in my humble opinion. he convinced her to give him sex lessons fair and square!! i respect kvothe's manslut era for as long as he respects women. what i think is way worse than the sex fairy is this:

the way 95% of the notable female characters get crushes on kvothe. he fumbles most of them so it's not as annoying as it could have been, but it has some real isekai anime harem vibes which makes me roll my eyes real hard.

people talk about the sex fairy and not the iSOLATIONIST MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY THAT DOESN'T KNOW HOW REPRODUCTION WORKS??? THEY'RE MATRIARCHAL BECAUSE THEY THINK MEN HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PREGNANCY??? i talk about this all the time because it's so silly. the idea is that these people just have sex whenever they want with whomever they want and women just get pregnant at random. they have no idea what contraception is. and on some level i respect the bold storytelling choice because at least it's new and interesting, but. mr rothfuss did you forget about queer people. there are canonically queer people in your books. how... how does this work........................ like i think there was a Thing in fantasy that if you have a matriarchal fantasy society you had to come up with some good reason for why women would be in charge, and the things authors would come up with was. maybe not always great? i think "they're better at magic than men" is a common one. anyway the adem people are such a fascinating worldbuilding piece to me i rotate it frequently

the absolute WORST thing in the entire series. late in a wise man's fear, After kvothe got good at sex AND good at swordfighting, he rescues a pair of girls who were held captive by a fake edema ruh troupe (the edema ruh is a whoole nother thing that's way above my paygrade. they are clearly inspired by the rroma people, and i think they were created with good intentions, but i genuinely cannot tell you if their depiction is problematic or not). it's pretty heavily implied they've been assaulted and are severely traumatized as a result. kvothe slaughters the whole fake troupe and escorts them to their home village. on the way, one of the girls make some statement in the vein of "i hate men", and, hoo boy. for a moment kvothe gets turned into a 2010s redditor going on a whole "not all men" rant. it does not at ALL read in character or appropriate for the situation. it's such a bizarre happenstance!!!!! like he doesn't do anything worse than rant about how he saved them and how generalizing statements about men are Bad, but. come onnnnnnnnnnnn

i can only hope mr rothfuss has had a feminist awakening since 2011! and honestly, i always did like how he wrote denna. denna is kvothe's main romantic interest, who he's so hyperfocused on he can't tell other girls are falling for him left and right. she's a conwoman who frequently changes identities to trick rich guys into giving her money. kvothe is often jealous of all the other men, but he NEVER judges her for this (or if he does i don't remember), and honestly? pretty groundbreaking for its time. the way their relationship (as it were) is written has such a tenderness and fragility to it that i adore. it's made so clear that kvothe sees her through a lens that makes her the specialest person in the entire world even though she is clearly a flawed, flesh and bone human.

the writing is so evocative!!!!! there are so many parts of these books that have embedded themself into my soul because of how evocatively they're put forth. there's actually a video of a the oh hellos concert with clips of an interview in between where tyler heath namedrops name of the wind as a source of inspiration (and i remember it so clearly because i used to put on this video in the background Constantly), because the way these books describe music... i've already said evocative but it's evocative!!! i always think about that scene where kvothe plays at that one fancy inn for the first time and denna joins in... i think of it every time i listen to this czech cover of scarborough fair, i know the song is intended to be far longer and more complex than that, but. it has The Vibes. to me.

and the magic...! i think that now the fantasy market is a bit oversaturated with Hard Magic worldbuilding and brandon sanderson in general, but at the time, the magic in kkc felt really special and interesting to me. it felt like it really was made a science and that you really did need to go to school for it. also it was fun to read about a magic school that actually delved into their studies. and also student loans. idk it was just!! it's fun!!! these books are fun!! kinda wanna read them again right now but i dont know where my copies are at the moment...........

anyway retrospective moment over for now

[starrulet]

Ok, so long story short, I'm changing a DVD into MP4 format, because I'm not buying a film I already own, just so I can watch it with my class.

And so I put in my Iron Giant DVD into my PC to start the ripping process and discover-

There's an .exe file on the disc.

Now, I've ripped DVDs before. They do not have .exe files.

Thinking what kind of urban legend creepypasta did I get stuck in, I decide to eff around and find out, clicking on it and-

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH

As a program from 2000, it doesn't work quite right, but-

My questions. They are. Endless.

WHAT IS THIS

What does Network Card Connection even mean-

Forbidden Wallpapers.

OH BOY. THIS IS SOME OLD STUFF HUH.

I clicked on "Play Movie" and got this error message. I have never had old software insult me before, but here we are. It's not even AI, how is it able to be so rude.

I guess if I want this working properly, I'll have to try opening it in a Windows 95 or Windows 98 emulator, whichever is more stable. My holidays are coming up, so I might try to get it working then, since I've earned this DVD for about two decades and never knew about this PC option.

Below are the wallpapers I could actually download.

They're actually pretty darn cute.

[formulapookie]

do you roughly know when the next part of your bezzeti or rosquez angst storys will be out?

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH

*takes deep breath* no

NOT THAT I DON'T WANT BUT

first I have an exam soon and for how much I joke abt it i need to pass it

so I need to study

the next rosquez chapter is finished BUT still have to check it AND I cannot publish it if I don't have AT LEAST another one ready to go cause then I get anxious

the bezzetti I have the next chapter but same thing, cannot publish it mentally if I don't have the next one written already, plus I still need to finish it it's 1.2k words I can add something else

I'll try to publish them as soon as possible butttttt I need some time to study and get back on track irl cause i also have a few things going on

[ask-dreamtalia]

Yooo America! How have you been doing my friend! What is your opinion on your own arcana?

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh my what. Oh yea that that dream dude or whatever.

I wish England could figure out a way to like suck it out like a tumor or something, it's messing with my sleep! Canada complains about his sometimes too, but I don't really hear anyone else complaining?? It's weird. Even before we got together, it was just really weird that it was so crazy!! I mean, it has MY face, you'd think it'd be the guy trying to help us get rid of Reve and help people!

Though I guess I'd get a little aggro too if someone was taking away my bro, which it might have thought that's what we were doing. Doesn't really explain the whole world domination thing... you'd think Germany's would be more like that, ya know? But... still! Weird!

[mo-ok]

Kikaider for character asks?

JIRO MY BELOVED BOY

How i feel about the character

Precious buddy i love him so very very much. He's got it all (autism). Worlds number one transgender allegory. He's THE quintessential sad robot

All the people I ship romantically with this character

This boy is aro/ace. Miss him with that shit. King.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Mitsuko loves him so much. She knows he's never gonna reciprocate her feelings but she never lets that stop her from being there for him. There is something very chewable about their relationship

My unpopular opinion about this character

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh. Uh. Hm. I think he's a pussy bitch for leaving without saying goodbye at the end?

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

HE SHOULD HAVE SAID GOODBYE. KOMYOJI SHOULDNT HAVE LET HIM LEAVE WITHOUT SAYING FUCKING GOODBYE. Outside of that, they put this poor fella through so much i cant really think of any other situations i want him to be in

[sentofight]

ooc. *cAVE MAN SPONGBOB MEME* OK BECAUSE I SEE SOME P3 PEEPS I HAVE A SUGGESTION I HAVE BEEN ENTERNTAINING FOR A WHILE BECAUSE I CAN

hold on. dont kill me yet.

i make

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wait for it...

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IMAKEMIKIASANOCWHOSURVIVEDTHEFIREBUTGOTSOMEMAJORDEGREEBURNSANDHASSOMESLIGHTRESENTMENTTOAKIHIKOANDSHINJIPERHAPSSHINJIMOREBECAUSEHEDEFINELYDIDSTOPAKIFROMSAVINGHERBECAUSEHEALWAYSLOOKSAFTERTHEMBUTACTUALLYSHEDOESNOTHATEANYOFTHEMITSJUSTTEENAGERANGSTSHECANTFACEHERBROTHERBECAUSESHECANTREMEMBERHIMSHEWASTOLDHIMABOUTBUTWHYAPPEARINHISLIFEIFSHEFORGOTTENABOUTHIM???hMMMMM?????LISTENIFYOUREADTHISFARMANYOUARETAINTEDBYMETOKNOWIMUPTONOGOODTHUSREADINGTHISTILLTHISMOMENTWOWILOVEYOUCOMEHEREGETACUPCAKEANDSTRAWBERRYMILSHAKEMWAHOHYEAHSHEGOTAPERSONA.ORNOT.IDK.MAYBE.BUTYEAH.

now feel free to kill me. bye. torturing akihiko since 2015ish. only wars can kill me at this point. she knows all my fatal weaknesses.

[shiningwonho]

i got asked the other day if i had kids i was going to be taking trick or treating and like. it's a reasonable question for someone my age but uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh it made me feel ICKY and i would like to never be asked that question ever again thank u.

[madmonksandmaenads]

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh....

...Can I offer you some Nothing? The fundamental emptiness of being in which there are 0 things. Would that help?

it would be cool if the enlightened could come to a less dogshit hideous philosophy than monism

[xstrange]

       >supposed to be doing drafts all day        >spends all day watching bf play b.l3

[elfdyke]

anyone got uhhhhhhhhhhhhh... 600 dollars lying around

[vexter-the-comedian]

"Aint it where ya like...everybody or somethin'?? Like, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh- Husker?"

*One afternoon, when Vex and Mimzy were cuddling on Vex's bed, Holly was walking past his room*

"Hey Vex, have you seen Quinn?-"

*She sees Vex laying on top of Mimzy, his face in her chest as they both look at her*

'Thought ya said we had the hotel to ourselves today!'

"I thought so too!"

'Well yer wrong!'

*He looks at Holly then back at her* "...really??"

'...gimme that tail-'

"HOLD ON!"

[thebusylilbee]

....................got bitten twice by a domesticated cat that I often see and who’s usually really nice, I don’t know the owners so I left a note at the door with my phone number...................... gonna have to go to a clinic just in case I guess...... ugh