#while i revamp things

[savage-rhi]

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[threadsun]

Blehhhhh my interest in sdj is pretty much entirely gone at this point. I'm gonna step back from snaccpop stuff and move toward writing more OC stuff and possibly stuff from other fandoms I'm into for a while and see if it comes back.

[aquared]

i really need to get back into the posting grind

how have things been while im away

[chiara-klara-claire]

updated my article about Norwegian Bunads!

[hermitagereheadcanons]

Hi all! I'm sure you've noticed I'm posting again. Things are moving slow for a lot of the same reasons I took a break, plus some new real life things, but they're moving!

Some things need updating, so expect some changes to the layout of the blog, as well as to the pinned post and other information. None of the guidelines are changing too drastically, but I feel like some things could've been written more clearly.

Feel free to keep submitting, and if you're inspired to draw or write something based on a post here, don't be afraid to share it and tag me!

[phoenix-flamed]

I've been contemplating the last few days doing a complete overhaul of my muse, but ultimately have decided against it for a multitude of reasons -- and one of them is this headcanon.

My Elwin is an incredibly flawed man. He makes mistakes. In fact, he fucks up -- a lot. He fucks up as a father, and as a husband, and as a ruler. He even fucks up as a friend.

I know the game itself has this weird tendency to sort of almost paint him as this altruistic paragon of virtue by the way that the people of Rosaria talk about him, but not only is their opinion of him understandably biased, it's also not something I see as being the case at all, even canonically.

The approach I always try to take with my muse is that he tries to be these things. He tries to be selfless; he will give everything for his people. He will do anything for his people. He will sacrifice anything for his people, including the safety and immediate well-being of his own ill child; he sacrifices his relationships with his family, especially his sons, and he sets himself on fire again and again for the good of his people.

But this is not selflessness, in my opinion. This is selfishness while trying to be selfless. These sacrifices that he chooses to make for the good of his people do not just impact him, they negatively impact other people like his family as well. They don't just mean that he's giving up the bond he could have with his children, they also mean that he's robbing his boys of their father. It's things like that, if that makes sense?

He chooses to, overall, disregard the fact that he and Anabella do not agree on so many significant matters, and that the High Houses are very much against him and his agenda. He chooses to stand against them and push onward, because he believes it is right, and he believes it is just, and that it is for the greater good of everyone, including his family. But what he doesn't take into account is the fact that these choices, these decisions do not just impact him, again; they impact everyone around him as well, everyone that is close to him, including his own family.

He convinces himself that the choices he makes, the sacrifices he makes, the awful things he does, the blood that he spills -- all of these things are what needs to be done for the sake of his people. And this is not true. This is just a way for him to assuage some of the guilt he feels for making decisions that he doesn't want to make, yet goes ahead and does anyway, because in his eyes it's what's best for his people.

My favorite example of this is the situation with the Northern Territories, and his choice to bring Jill to Rosaria.

It's always, always what he believes is best for his people. Key word there is "believes". Just because you believe something is justified or "right" does not mean that it is justified or "right"; it doesn't work that way, nor do good intentions automatically mean that the outcome will be good or positive. You can have all of the best intentions in the world, but in the face of cause and effect and of consequences to one's actions, intentions mean absolutely nothing.

I could go on and on about my thoughts and views of this man, and how I strive to portray him, and the complexities of what he chooses to do and how he thinks, and how they translate into and impact his family and his people, but I'll sum it all up with this:

He's human. He is flawed. He is imperfect on all levels. He does good things, he does bad things. He can be kindhearted and compassionate and gentle and happy, and he can be ruthless and cruel and angry and emotional. He can be loving and devoted, and he can be narrow-minded and selfish. He's more than just this positive force of good and benevolence -- he is human, and he is messy and complex, and contradictory, and he is morally grey.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I’m always paranoid of my tumblr being deleted or malfunctioning or something like that someday, so here’s other places to find me/follow me, just in case lol

~ instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lucalicatte/

~ main youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/LucaLiCatte

~ games/sims youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@cloudycatte

~ facebook page (I rarely use this because I hate facebook but.. it at least allows text posts better than instagram does, so idk maybe I’d use it more if tumblr went away? lol) - https://www.facebook.com/cloudycatteart/

~ Other Links (stuff I don’t use often/isn’t Main enough to list here, like twitter, neopets, other tumblr sideblogs, youtube channels, etc.) are here - http://icewindandboringhorror.tumblr.com/otherlinks )

[miabrown007]

a minute of silence to my skills to estimate how long a project is ever going to take

[anderstrevelyan]

Uh oh, I’m going to use bg3 as an excuse to finally get a decent pc aren't I

[sketchyroad]

So I'm working on an archive of sorts for my OCs with their basic info, where they start in their stories, their artwork, etc. And I'm gonna have to redesign and rename some of them for sure, but what really gets me is that I seem to have a blockage with my male characters? :') I draw men so rarely that I'm almost scared to try, so now all my girls at least have concept designs while my dudes are just... vaguely floating in my head :|

[homosexual-fanfiction]

this might take a while

[echotunes]

just got reminded of the dsmp lore books wiki page... my beloved. my pride and joy

[insidi0summoved]

i still feel like absolute crap 'cause the fever is back at full force, so i'm going to try and do some of those kiss memes if i can manage it

[stupid-sloot-headcanons]

I'm going to sound like the MOST spoiled brat but I'm lowkey dreading the Disneyworld trip my Mimi and family are doing in a few weeks. Like I love the history and artistry of Disney's parks and that's why I fucking hate how much they've declined in quality. The current philosophy is so corporate driven, with decisions saying "We'll make cheaper things with lower quality at higher prices because fuck you, Disney has been a highly regarded brand"

(Ranting about theme park bullshit way too much)

EPCOT has always been my favorite resort and the original theming has been gutted. Whenever Chapek talks about things being "more Disney", he means "Let's slap a bunch of Disney characters on our shit regardless of the theming that has been established for DECADES, so kids will beg their parents to come on an expensive vacation". The Frozen ride that replaced Maelstrom has no business in the Norway pavilion other than a paper-thin connection via Arendelle being based off Norway visually. The World Showcase was made to...you know. Showcase cultures around the world in a respectful way. Adding Disney characters at the cost of the original message of the area is cheap and it's ruining an already crumbling brand integrity. It compromises the creative integrity that the parks had that made Disney parks fantastic and historic.

My favorite Disney ride used to be The Great Movie Ride at Hollywood Studios. This thing was a love letter to classic cinema and had Disney tie-ins added seamlessly along with non-Disney-owned IPs, because its purpose wasn't to push Disney characters in your face and sell merch to gullible kids. It was the centerpiece of the park area, which was built entirely as a living homage to the glitz and glamor of romanticized Hollywood: Eisner called it "the wonderful Hollywood that never was" and that theme is perfectly encapsulated in The Great Movie Ride.

What's there now? A bland dark ride that's 90% screen projections on blank walls. And it's themed around Mickey and Minnie with no thematic tie-ins to Hollywood Studios because fuck you, you're here to see Mickey and Minnie right? Look, wanna visit the gift shop outside and buy Mickey and Minnie shit?

And Galaxy's Edge is such a slap dash effort to ape the success of Universal's Harry Potter area that it's ridiculous. It's the height of Chapek and Iger's era of mediocrity and creative bankruptcy, a glorified mall with a few attractions based off the sequels to encourage your stupid kids to want to buy merchandise based off the recent films.

Anyway EPCOT is still my favorite but that's because Spaceship Earth and Soarin' are still there, and with the additional dining areas all over the place it's basically just a giant Disney-themed bar. If I'm gonna be bitter then I can at least be buzzed yk?

[mxgoldenwood]

I can feel myself very much descending back into my vampire era and like… don’t get me wrong, I still love my elves too, but good god do I have a strong desire to take all my vampire characters and just smash them together and make things with them…….

[anderwhohn]

Isabela is technically a registered biotic, though she lacks the combat proficiency necessary to have classed as an adept, vanguard, or sentinal (of the three, she would likely have been a sentinal, given her tech skills). Her biotics are a result of secondary exposure to element zero at the age of 14 (2168 CE (ie a year after L2 biotic implants were developed) - which is canonical, but never properly gets addressed in the mainline series, so it's easily missed and most people quite understandably assume only those classically trained in biotics is capable of them).

Since she also wasn't detected as even being biotic until she's 17 (2171 CE - again, this is canonical), she receives an L3 biotic implant as opposed to the L2s when the latter prove to be dangerous and so L3s were developed a year prior (2170 CE), which is later subsequently upgraded to an L5x by Cerberus in 2185 CE when they successfully rebuild and revive her (meaning that in AUs where that much doesn't happen, she remains an L3, and thus doesn't gain as much control as she does over her biotics themselves by ME3, at least not without wilfully undergoing the procedure for the upgrade herself).

Ignoring game mechanics so that it's possible to use prior to it being available in game, Izzy is only really capable of using her biotics in a Flare (bonus power learned from Aria in the ME3 Omega DLC - though until ME2/ME3 timeline, she has lacks any real finesse with it that she gains from the L5x implant and Aria's input), as well as minor things that come up when her biotics react to her emotions (think that conversation between Sara and Cora in Andromeda and Cora's biotics act up because she's frustrated and so her kicking a box has biotic energy behind it), so she'll end up with biotics flickering around her hands or entire body - which she uses to her advantage as an intimidation tactic as well (paragade with strong renegade tendencies - it's only because her galaxy changing decisions are more often paragon-aligned that she ends up more paragade than renegon in most cases, and even then she's often exceptionally close to being 50/50 through most of the overarching missions until the end which pushes her closer to 60/40 in favour of paragade).

Izzy definitely isn't capable of precision work with her biotics - she struggles even to use them to deliberately move things no matter their size, her attempts at barriers are as weak as wet tissue paper, etc. - and yet she still ends up with the weakness of human biotics where she has a higher metabolism and easily burns out much factor than a non-biotic operative would. As a result, she always carries a handful of high protein ration bars with her (mostly levo, though after bringing Garrus and Tali aboard, she starts carrying a couple dextro ones as well, for emergencies), but even that doesn't guarantee she won't end up burning herself out, or overcharging her amp and needing help getting back to the ship or even outright extraction if they're overwhelmed.

Most people don't assume Izzy is a biotic at all, thanks to her being in infiltration saboteur and engineer, and that she doesn't resort to them often unless overwhelmed in the field, at least prior to the Reaper Invasion, at which point she relies on them heavily when fighting reaper ground forces (further adding to her exhaustion during the war), and as that gives her an active advantage in combat, she likes to keep it that way as much as possible. So typically only those she brings out into the field on a regular basis enough to either witness her biotics, or that she's comfortable enough with to talk about them herself, ever actually realise, especially when she doesn't always seek to eat a biotic's rations (much to Chakwas's chagrin when it inevitably leads to Izzy burning herself out more frequently).