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Today in “actively batshit things I’ve done in the name of writing”: very intently observed an injury in the name of understanding the color of blood and how it exits rather than, I don’t know, treating it?!

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Also like, trying to not make TLoU AU Kseniya just…wildly overpowered is fucking hard. Because yeah sure, chronic pain and looks visibly infected (meaning anyone with half a brain cell and a gun will shoot on sight) and blind; that all sucks…

…but she can fucking talk to cordyceps. She can talk to the Infected. Her and Pierce run across three Clickers? No problem, just let Kseniya casually walk up to them and make them go away. Because unlike Ellie the Infected read her as one of them, so not only will they not attack her but they’ll treat her like any other Infected. Cordyceps isn’t inherently evil or violent—it’s a fungus, it can’t have morality. It’s doing what every fungus wants to do: survive, propagate, and make more of itself. It just mutated into something that can use humans to do that, not because it hates humanity but just because that’s how it went.

So if Kseniya’s like “yeah no, not a viable host, sorry!” the Clickers will wander off and leave Pierce be.

That is UNBELIEVABLY overpowered in a TLoU context. 50% of the threat to their survival is just…gone! Poof!

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There is nothing more frustrating than having a song you know goes on a character’s playlist…but not finding somewhere where it doesn’t sound wildly out of place

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How long do you think Vader can go without sleeping? Some sources say he basically never slept once he was in the suit but even for a super powerful space wizard that seems unlikely.

i actually always liked that explanation simply because it's really funny. but i do think sleep is an enormous logistical problem for vader, to which the idea of "you can meditate in the Space Magic and that replaces sleep" is a convenient magic bullet for. otherwise you have to contend with two things:

the noise of vader's respirator was so loud it prevented him from falling asleep, meaning if he's actually going to sleep it's more that his body is giving out because it is otherwise impossible

The Horse Factor: i have theory that vader actually can't lay flat on his back very long while he's in the armor, or at the very least he shouldn't. the armor is incredibly heavy, and a lot of that weight is on his chest, and he already is on a ventilator, making it harder to breathe really isn't the goal. it's not impossible to imagine that laying down flat can put too much pressure on his lungs, and either they can't inflate completely and fluid accumulates, or excess blood accumulates, and yeah, that is also exactly what happens to horses. vader either has to sleep sitting up (which may or may not help) or sleep without the armor on, and since we know it takes a damn robot pit crew to get this man dressed for work, i'm guessing he falls asleep in the sith la-z-boy after watching the game like the average middle aged father.

unless he's on a star destroyer that has a hyperbaric chamber with a chair designed to keep him upright, sleep is only occurring if his body shits the bed and hits the deck. that in and of itself is pretty dangerous, because, like, he is a delicate little flower who can get pneumonia from laying down too much and for too long. a good chunk of the time he probably already has pneumonia and laying down puts him at, well, drowning risk. my solution to the inherent unsurviveability of Being Darth Vader has been to apply space wizard magic to the gaps and hope for the best, and i do that here. vader spends the vast majority of his time nowhere near either a bacta tank or a hyperbaric chamber, he's gotta come up with the difference somehow.

even in places where he actually has the option of sleep, there are probably a lot of other factors that limit vader's ability to both fall and stay asleep, like for example the hideous weight of his litany of terrible crimes. this is why when legends mentions palpatine drugging vader with Sith Chemicals that increase vitality, i am absolutely convinced those chemicals induce an effect like fucking methamphetamine, because, like, look, do you want a remotely functional wizard warlord or do you want one that's about to fall over? simple solution, you gotta give him Hate Meth.

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Trying to figure out a coherent map of Bioshock 1 + 2 Rapture for A Phoenix Must First Burn is impossible, I swear to fuck.

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People who drink coffee: why did you start?

I don't drink coffee and I've never wanted to, but that's obviously ~not normal~, so I'm curious why most people do start drinking it.

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please reblog i wanna see something. also say if you would survive just cuz XD

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There is truly no greater love than taking your most adored fictional character and throwing them into the emotionally-devastating angst fueled trash compactor and pressing every single button on the machine just to see what will happen

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Writing Pathologic fic is the weirdest shit just, conceptually. Especially considering my POV is Daniil. I have quite literally become the Powers That Be pulling the puppet strings and I don’t know how to feel about this?

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I forgot I had this account but as Twitter seems to be on a one-way trip to hell, I figure it’s best to have a backup plan. From one hellsite to another, am I right?