#yeah I won't speak

[halfyourheart]

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[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

[shadowboxmind]

Maybe a hot take, but I don't think the Traveler was being inconsistent or out of character in the last archon quest at all. People are getting upset at their reaction to Lyney and Lynette's behavior from the perspective of players, with meta knowledge of the story that the Traveler, the character, doesn't have.

The players know, for example, that because they're playable characters, Lyney and Lynette are ultimately friendly and on "our" side, and we can also trust that what they told us about their backstory is true. The Traveler does not have that knowledge.

TO BE CLEAR this post is talking about my thoughts on the TRAVELER'S thought process. If we want to talk about how I personally would have reacted to the situation, I'm an overly trusting bleeding-heart who would absolutely get scammed and probably murdered by Fatui in this universe.

(Also characters, even main characters who you normally like, can do things you disagree with and that doesn't mean they're badly written. I mean, sometimes they are, but I don't think that's true in this particular case)

But think about it! Looking at the entire situation from an in-universe, in-character POV, it's a really bad look for Lyney and Lynette overall, because here are the facts as the Traveler is aware of them:

Lyney and Lynette are not only members of the Fatui, the primary antagonistic force in this story, but are specifically members of the House of the Hearth, which is known to specialize in espionage, subterfuge, and sabotage.

Both of them also work in a field that would further require them to be masters of misdirection, audience manipulation, and drama.

They "coincidentally" ran into the Traveler right as they arrived in Fontaine and immediately began to do them favors and be very friendly, including saving them from Furina, bringing them to meet their family, and gifting them VIP tickets to Lyney's show.

During the trial, the twins withheld key information, and not just about their identities (and listen, I get it, I fully empathize with why they did it, I get the reasoning, but it's still a bad look when it gets figured out) but also about what they were doing in the tunnel.

They admitted that the entire magic show was a ruse to do, guess what? espionage! To break into the room with the Oratrice's core and find out how it works. To, through subterfuge, obtain Fontaine's secrets about the nation's most important mechanism and central source of power.

The Traveler has known these people for like, a day total.

So what conclusions might the Traveler draw from these facts? When the evidence shows that Lyney and Lynette have a record of misdirection and obfuscation for their own ends? When the Traveler has no way of knowing if even their initial meeting was orchestrated for an ulterior purpose? How are they supposed to know if the tragic backstory is even true, or if that's just Lyney trying to win back some favor and sympathy? In my opinion, at that moment, they don't. Hence the coldness.

My interpretation of events is that the Traveler does like the twins, and wanted to keep liking them, but was struggling to reconcile their initial impression of two friendly magicians with the realization that these two friendly magicians were dishonest with them for most of the time they'd known each other, so they needed to have some space to figure that out.

And for those saying the Traveler is inconsistent, here's the thing: they still helped Lyney. They still acted as his attorney, investigated thoroughly, won the case, and cleared his name. They've done similar for other Fatui members in their acquaintance—they helped Childe with Teucer, they helped Scaramouche/Wanderer with getting his memories back, they helped that other member of the House of the Hearth fake her death and escape the organization—whether or not they fully trusted them, and generally they didn't.

As for the Traveler's supposed hypocrisy, my view of their relationship with Childe is that it's only improved because, despite Childe trying to nuke Liyue in the past, the Traveler knows that

a. They can handle him if it comes down to a fight again; b. He likes them, regardless of if the feeling is mutual or not, and is indeed aggressively friendly to the point where it's easier to just be civil; c. Childe is generally upfront and honest about his actions and will strike from the front, not stab them in the back; and d. He's worked together with them before when they had a common goal (for example, the labyrinth they went through with Xinyan).

They know how his mind works and what motivates him. Childe is a known quantity, the twins are not, and it took in-story time and shared experiences for the Traveler to get to even this point of neutrality; they were openly suspicious of him during his story quest.

As for holding his Vision for him, the Traveler didn't exactly volunteer for the job, Childe literally threw it at them with no warning and peaced out. What do you expect them to do, drop it in the sea? That would be inconsistent with their characterization.

Wanderer's whole situation is even weirder, since the Traveler was able to experience his actual memories and emotions and therefore has good reason to trust that he's had a genuine change of heart. Not to mention that they're not friends, I'd argue they're in that same nebulous "neutral" zone, and that only because Nahida usually functions as a buffer (and also because, again, the Traveler knows that they can handle Wanderer in a fight, and Wanderer also tends to be blunt and honest).

Also, in Lyney's story quest it seems like everyone got over their problems pretty fast and they're all chummy now, so you can all rest easy that the twins' feelings weren't too hurt about it.

Anyways if you disagree go ham, refute my points, whatever, just keep things civil.

[gatheredfates]

Also team, let this be the year we are more comfortable interacting with each other. Forget aesthetic, like/reblog to support your friends. Comment on their work. Be feral. A community is only as good as the members in it and we should strive to support each other.

[cuubism]

hello friends. despite my 9 million existing dreamling wips i'm feeling the need to branch out a bit for the sake of my mental variety. what pairing other than dreamling should i write a little something for? could be romantic or platonic

other way of phrasing i guess: any pairings you really want to see more fics for in the fandom?

[chase-ing-shadows]

I can’t stop thinking about bear Atreus and Sindri

[shima-draws]

Perona and Zoro are so sibling core...

[deesi-academia]

If a woman is ranting about periods, any man in vicinity must immediately:

1. Apologize and ask what they can do

2. Hide under burrows unless talked to

[notquitedeadpod]

okay I've finished the rough cut of the next episode now, and. yeah. ohhhh boyyyyyy. it's called Sound & Fury and there will be fury i am certain of it.

[apollos-boyfriend]

I'm being honest when I ask this, but what did matpat do? I know there are the claims he's transphobic but I really don't think he is, and the video where he did use gender stereotyping as a basis for his pyro gender theory was bad but I really think he's learned and has grown since then

oh, i believe that too! i know a lot of people use that video to "cancel" him, but i honestly think it's insane. the pyro video was over 10 years ago, and like you said, i would also think he's learned and changed! and maybe, to some extent, he has. the issue that's more recent is his undertale/deltarune theories, where he consistently misgenders frisk, kris, and i believe chara, at the least (i can't recall how he refers to the other nonbinary characters like monster kid and napstablook). he was called out for it during his first video with frisk/chara, then again during his multiple videos with kris. i don't think he's some horrible purposefully malicious transphobe, but i think he still does hold transphobic views he hasn't fully been able to grow from.

[svnnykokoro]

Where Tf is my dad getting this from??? 😭

Around 2 days ago I had a discussion with my dad over if I had adhd or not because of my (VERY OBVIOUS) adhd symptoms, for context he was calling me an idiot, a dumb person, stupid, and lots more things to indicate that I am dumb like he usually says whenever I get one thing wrong (he is an echo chamber like that), but I don't believe any of what he's saying about me being stupid and I said that I have adhd (I have come to this conclusion after lots and lots of research) anD YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID??? I AM BEING 100% SERIOUS WHEN I SAY THIS HE DENIED I HAD ADHD WHICH MAY NOT SEEM ANYTHING CRAZY OF THE SORT JUST REGULAR ABLEISM BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID AFTER THAT??? HE SAID HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT ADHD THAN ME AND HE *TOOK A COURSE ON ADHD* HE HAS ACTUALLY SAID THAT HE TOOK A COURSE LIKE THAT AND *THE THINGS HE SAYS GETS CRAZIER FROM HERE* HE SAYS THE CAUSE OF ADHD IS THE MOBILE PHONES AND IPADS AND TABLETS AND THE CURE FOR ADHD IS NOT MEDICATION BUT ITS FREAKING M E D I T A T I O N ADHD AND NEURODIVERGENT TUMBLR I NEED HELP WHERE IS HE GETTING THIS INFORMATION WHICH PSYCHOLOGIST SAYS THIS DOES A COURSE ON ADHD ACTUALLY EXIST AND ***HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET AN ADHD DIAGNOSIS WHEN MY DAD KEEPS DENYING ALL THE PROOF OF MY ADHD I NEED SOME HELP TO PROVE MY ADHD TO HIM GUYS WHAT SHOULD I TELL HIM*** 😭😭😭

[the-skeleton-speaks]

I've seen it enough times that it's worrying but how can ppl forget Wyll made that pact not in a bid for selfish power but Literally to save the people he loved and cared for when the looming threat of something literally divine was ready to kill everything he knew

[da-proti-toku-grem]

my mom found this super detailed online test that helps you find careers that you'd probably like according to your answers (ofc we know that it's just a test and it doesn't mean you have to study what they give you, but i just can't find anything that i like and i'm running out of time, so we were like, why not yk) so, i took the test and after 30 minutes of answering questions you know what i got? biotechnology. the same career that i chose last year and the one i dropped out of in january.

idk if i want to laugh or cry tbh

[hum-suffer]

The way I'm getting irritated and/or offended at small things rn 🙂🙂 pre periods mood swings I hate you

[dorosen]

*punches the wall* Interactions between Cronus and Horuss would be so stupid and funny... Cronus would tell him to shut up, and he would listen. Horuss would talk about his experience being a horse, and Cronus would play into it because he finds it entertaining. Horuss would support Cronus' therian experiences wholeheartedly. I can see them bonding over their mutual interest in the arts. Horuss would show genuine interest in his music. What if they kissed? Idk. I think they would annoy people simply by conversing with one another. They would be hemocasteist together. They both have personality issues too. Cronus' dumb flirting would fluster Horuss for sure (even if he tries to ignore it at first). I want to see them argue too.

[airenyah]

so i finally got to yank-kiss-yeet with my mom and when zo just leaves joke hanging after calling joke his boyfriend my mom (and me too actually) were already cracking up about it and then the scene continues and then the door opens and zo yanks joke inside and my mom laughs in surprise and goes "ahahah nice!!" and then they're kissing and my mom is like "that's a beautiful kissing scene. yeah, i get it now" and then zo yeets joke back out the door and we're laughing even harder and just continue to laugh all the way until the credits roll