#what is Bootstrap

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[damiel-of-real]

im replaying pokemon legends arceus and im thinking. do you think they preserved laventon's pokedex?? like im imagining present day archaeologists flipping through the pages and suddenly seeing that porygon was documented in a journal in the 19th century. and judging by the professor's writing fucking nobody has any clue how it got there

[godbirdart]

i stay silly i stay silly i stay silly

[nenoname]

me: oh i totally get it if some folks dont jive with same coin theory, plus it's strange to conceptualise at first--

me when i see people call it lame:

[meangan-thee-lesbian]

This boomer opinion that "my kids deserve no inheritance, I'm going to spend it all on jetskis and cruises, they should just work hard like I did uwu" is so funny to me because this is the same generation who'll constantly berate the childfree about "leaving behind a legacy" and it turns out the legacy these boomers are leaving behind is their children struggling with lifelong poverty during the worst financial times since The Great Depression, something that their own parents went through and subsequently left these boomers an inheritance so as to avoid.

[rowanthestrange]

Do I want Belinda’s parents to be Them, or do I want them to ambiguously be like god-monster-versions of Them? Cus imitation is the name of the game but also… I do stand by the fact that it’s just a funnier story if the Master isn’t involved — be that stuck in the tooth or literally just chilling somewhere else — and the Doctor’s got him so stuck in his brain it keeps warping reality into these Master-themed stories.

Cus in a story where the Doctor’s beliefs are warping reality, gut feel for plot and no themes yet, if I was writing it from scratch, I would have fridged the Master. And maybe be trying to summon through into reality a god that has the powers the Doctor thinks the Master does, after triggering and triggering him. It’s your Ideal Boyfriend but of course isn’t at all. It’s wearing him, conceptually. (But probably have the Master show up at the end like “Bitch!”)

[www-donck-com]

Is there an audience on this app for pirates of the carribean content? secondarily are they here for my will/elizabeth/jack rambling. thirdly are they here for transjack who was taken under the wing of bootstrap bill and loved the man to death and bootstrap was prob jacks first real love and then he walks into a smithy just to see the young shining face of the lost love who betrayed him mhm mhm

[definitionsfading]

me, three hours after posting a fic: why did I do that

[swordmaid]

im debating whether or not thalia should help the tieflings on the grove bc on one hand, if she's going for karlachmance then i need dammon alive and she's also a sorc so alfira's robe would be so good on her but on the other i think she's more worried about her parasite and finding a cure instead of taking the time to help out refugees. like when it comes down to it, thalia is a pretty selfish woman and she'd rather save her own skin than help others. she also thinks it's more pragmatic to find a cure for the illithid parasite in the long run since if the ceremorphosis happens, more people will be in danger not just the people in the grove.

[theboarsbride]

toying with the idea of a lobster-themed siren character?????? ☝🤨🤔hmmm......

[muttmoxley]

finished parkour civ and got halfway thru the sequel 👍 its fine. not my thing but i get the appeal. has a whimsy to it that i deeply respect. however the people saying it is a well done critique of capitalism are on some crazy shit

[necromimetics]

donald trump please send send jd vance to campaign in Appalachia please please please send him to west virginia so he can claim he understands them cause he’s Appalachian while pronouncing it appa-lay-shun please please please it would be so funny

[eliounora]

I was reminded of my peak childhood obsession which was pirates of the caribbean, it impacted my identity so deeply that when I had to choose my area of study for my history thesis in university I wanted to become a maritime historian but I thought better of it since I live nowhere near a sea, ANYWAY the first pirates film is so good, there was so much lore and all the relationships between the characters were so delicious like jack and will were the perfect duo and jack and barbossa should have held hands tenderly maybe

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

5 & 8 for Wyn, 3 & 12 for Mori, and 16 & 20 for Tritchet!!!

Weeeeee, thank you!! 💜

Wyn

5. What’s one hill your OC will die on (anything from a guiding moral position to a strong opinion about combining mint and chocolate)?

Apparently, the hill that she's going to die on is the fact that she has a guiding moral principle against causing death that is drawn out or causes undue suffering. 🙄 Wyn's covenant with the god that touched her and her brother in their worst hours came because her experiences with them lead her to believe strongly in their domain, which was that death comes always, but that it should come with as minimal suffering as can possibly be imagined, and that it was her task as their cleric to do the labor required to minimize that suffering.

In a moment of incredible stress, Wyn said as much to Strahd, and apparently the Countess is taking Wyn's oath to a principle that isn't HER very personally. SIGH.

8. What’s something that your OC owns that means the world to them? What’s something they own that they don’t like, but can’t bring themself to part with?

This is such a good question for Wyn in particular, because the answer to both questions is the same thing: the book on gods of life and death that she found in her brother's study when he was dying, which she used to call him back, and which she has continued to use ever since to develop her skills as a cleric for the very same god that did the calling. The book is a reminder of her failure, and of her brother's abandonment, and of her love for him, and of everything that she has ever struggled to learn in her chosen trade. She has literally been using the blank pages in the back as a spellbook at this point. It's her most cherished possession, and sometimes she wants to throw it right into Lake Zarovich.

Mori

3. What is their stance on religion? Are they a devout believer, against the idea of gods, or somewhere in between? Do they make their practice or their opinions public, or keep it private?

I like to think that the experiences that Mori has had in her time in the Necropolis has made her keen on the spiritual aspect of religion - because much of the duties of the Watch have a cadence of the religious - but that the organized religions that she is familiar with are...not really her thing. She thinks they can be a wonderful tool for people! She thinks they also can be a terrible one! But her own personal attachment is exclusively to the covenants with the dead made by the Watchers of old, and she finds that there isn't much room for anything else.

12. What does their bed and/or desk look like? Tidy or cluttered - are they both the same, or is one neat and the other messy?

The thing about Mori is that she has never really had much in the way of possessions. You know how in the beginning of Veilguard, you get to kinda lay out all of your Stuff and it's like four things that you slap onto a table somewhere? That's basically how Mori has lived for her entire life. She just doesn't have Stuff, and her experience with the Watch bred a certain obsession with having Duties to carry out, which has manifested as a very meticulously maintained living space. That has eased SLIGHTLY with time away from the endless chore list of her home, but not...much....

Harding's suggestion of adding plant life to her room at the Lighthouse HAS eased some of the more spartan aspect of Mori's room, though! They are decorations that come with A Job, and given some time, I'm certain that they will help Mori will take on some of the absolute bomb-went-off mess that I know is buried deep inside her LMAO

Tritchet

16. Point assign D&D ability scores to your OC (STR, DEX, CON, INT, WIS, CHA; out of 27).

STR: 11

DEX: 15

CON: 13

INT: 9

WIS: 12

CHA: 13

Tritchet is MAX DEXTERITY, decent Constitution and Charisma, and dump stats for everything else. The only reason her Strength breaks ten is because she brute-forced physical training when she was a lancer, and kept it up during her brief stint as a dark knight.

This skill array probably also explains why she mysteriously disappears whenever the gang goes to Sharlayan. You won't catch HER in a library, given literally any alternative!

20. What kind of clothing do they feel most comfortable in? What kind of clothing do they wear most often?

Depends on the scenario! In battle, Tritchet tends towards armor simply by dint of being a melee-and-tank girlie, but she prefers stuff that she can still reasonably move well in, and will prioritize that over armor coverage if need be. Her armor sets tend to be heavily covered on the upper half with her arms and legs free, since they need full range of motion to do her Dragoon Bullshit. It's why she wears a lot of shorts. (Also because she looks cute in them, which is equally important for her.)

Day to day wear tends towards this trend too. She wears a lot of shorts with jackets or long-sleeved coats, and tends to eschew skirts or dresses because they are just NOT practical for being as active as Tritchet Pock is!

[bf-rally]

okay so im back in navbar hell (when i thought i escaped...!!!) but ive managed to get this set up today :D

[pathologising]

sorry but I could never look at my own kids and be like "you owe ME" like I think if you do that you're a shitty parent