I feel like it was a mistake putting these two against each other in the first set of rounds...

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taliesin and laura remain truly so fantastic at making characters who… don’t necessarily have something extremely and inherently in common but do have experiences that were caused by similar sources and that lead them to have quite different opinions/ideas about things but in ways that are typically very reconcilable? which is a lot of qualifiers but it’s a through line of vex/percy with nobility, jester & cad with loneliness (and also god stuff but in a different post maybe someday i’ll talk about how actually their god stuff is intensely related to their different experiences of loneliness), and now imogen & ashton with being left behind.

like vex was this character who technically had a claim to nobility due to her blood but at the same time was burdened because of that same claim. and percy who was born into and raised by nobility but that nobility ended up making his family the targets of a massacre. and then vex who lets down her walls and Do I Look Like I Come From Money? and percy giving her the title grand mistress of the grey hunt because it has nothing to do with blood, or his love for her, or anything aside from the fact that it’s something she can prove herself worthy of simply by virtue of who she Is, not who someone makes her. and percy and vex’s conversation about forgiveness and it’s necessity for growth as probably two of the characters most inclined to hold grudges.

and caduceus clay who gets left behind with nothing but his Belief while his family goes off into the world. and jester lavorre who gets shut inside with no company except her Belief as her mother protects her from the world. and they both get the burden of loneliness and the understanding of love’s nonmalicious imperfection. and caduceus having a panic attack on a ship and jester telling him that the world is a lot bigger than his cemetery and that means he has to break out of his comfort zone to find his path. and caduceus telling jester that he doesn’t think she gets as much credit as she ought to and she deserves more pastries. and jester thanking caduceus for showing her how cool it is to actually heal people and caduceus asking if she wants to use his shield while he doesn’t need it.

and ashton who was left broken and dying on the ground and was given inescapable pain as their means of survival. and imogen who was left behind by the only person who could provide true understanding of the pain she’d one day come to feel. and ashton who’s a barbarian, who wields their rage casually and unapologetically and who sees the Shittiness of the world but is unrelenting in his version of optimism. and imogen who is weighed down by pessimism she doesn’t Want to have but hasn’t cracked how to undo and who doesn’t admit her anger until it comes up again and again and again and carries it like a burden or like guilt, who we only see really Grasp and feel Confidence about her anger being something good in front of others when she has those conversations with ashton. and like. ashton who looks at imogen and sees a superhero. imogen venturing through ashton’s mind and holding his bleeding and exhausted head and saying i’m sorry. i’m sorry. and imogen who looks at ashton and sees someone special. and fucking “we got him killed.” and “no, we didn’t. don’t you dare. […] we are not what fucking killed that man. […] we are his eventual victory. we are his fucking revenge.” and “i’ll be his revenge.” and “i have no fucking doubt.”

and in general rp wise they both tend to make some of my favourite characters (also typically the ones i find most frustrating) because they both tend to make flaws that are easy to hate and they make those flaws very central to their characters but i think that’s also what makes their character interactions so deeply compelling because so frequently it’s like. yes yes these two characters have like. a helix of things they have in common but also things they deeply disagree on but they’re going to spider-man point at the things that are the same and they’re going to honour their differences while doing so. and it’s just. i always enjoy it so much and i was psyched when i heard about an imogen and ashton side pit stop in last nights episode and i was not let down when i watched the episode today.

the lightwarden of il mheg !!

Characters keep referring to Sigma as a normal person, and I get that in comparison to the rest of the doa he gets stressed easier and is slightly less unhinged but. My guy was created from a book. His hair is somewhere between that of a Shoto Todoroki cosplayer, a fox, and a soccer mom. He runs a casino (which has immunity from international law?) that is floating is the sky. He has memorized the names and personal details of every one of his thousands of guests. He dresses like a cheep magician you hire for parties. He is 3 years old. I’m sorry to tell you this but he is not a regular guy.

when I was a kid I was rlly upset that art teachers didn’t like anime-inspired art, and then I realized it wasn’t the anime aspect. jumping into highly stylized art without knowing the fundamentals AND with a refusal to learn them is a bad combo

my brain: im stressed for exams

me: let's study then so we feel more prepared

my brain: no. we're gonna procrastinate because we're so stressed

me: that makes no sense, but okay. why don't we do something we enjoy to feel better?

my brain: no because then i'll feel guilty that i'm not studying

me: so let's study

my brain: NO

There were so many little moments in that German interview that just.. got me - when he talks about how he doesn't care for his birthday; because he doesn't have the right to, when he listens to the interviewer talk about the Ukrainian woman she met on the train as the air raid sirens started again and his quiet little inhale, the brief seconds before he starts talking again (about how grateful he is for her still being in Ukraine, how strong she is--) - when the interviewer asks him about moments of weakness and his little reply that he cannot afford them.

I've just been thinking about that a lot, this morning.

I keep losing people but it happens so slowly, in such small increments. Like a sweater being unraveled. And I never know it until all that's left is the threads.

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It was very stressful. Ended up failing the marking period for English, but not by as much as I was failing before. Could still pull up the overall grade by the end of the semester.

god. not to be sad online. but im sad online

I think my new personal youtube rule is going to be that I unfollow and stop watching anyone who says 'corn' instead of 'porn' or says 'shit' and then censors the back half of the word. I understand that this comes from tiktok and has been imported into youtube not wanting to promote/ put pricey ads on videos deemed "mature", but I'm a full grown adult and I feel like I'm losing my mind from this trash. And I just have to tap out of it at this point.

it floors me anytime someone is dumbfounded when the source material of ancient poems and epics is brought into a conversation about ancient myths. you’re going to look at me and seriously tell me that you think a 2000s adaption into a childrens series is going to be more accurate than the actual ancient poets that recorded the stories? you’re going to question me straight faced on how there can be a “real” or “accurate” way of telling a story when 3 different ancient poets wrote it the same way? i’m pulling all of my hair out of my head you have to watch me strand by strand.

after all of this tho i still think diluc sucks lol he still irritates me bc it’s clear the game wants you to sympathise and admire him sooooo bad and they lay it on soooo thick when i’m just like :/ no. lmao.

WAAAA thank you @high-butch for tagging me i didnt see it before 👻 This or that game: Halloween👻

cute or scary halloween • indoor or outdoor decorations • spider webs or pumpkins • candy corn: yay or nay • mini candies or full size candies • scary movies: yay or nay • ghosts vs werewolves vs vampires • haunted house: yay or nay • pumpkin flavored foods or halloween shaped/themed foods • matching costumes or individualized costumes • pillow case basket or pumpkin shaped basket• ghost shaped or bat shaped cookies • halloween starts october 1 or october 31 • spooky music or monster mash • jumpscares: yay or nay • fog machine or floating decorations • last minute costume planning or planned weeks ahead of time

I'm a baby, I can't handle scary movies 😭😭😭 I also have a fatal issue of not liking the taste of pumpkin or squash. but that wont stop me from being halloween queen #1 tagging @sunshine-butch @mommysmaze @werewolf-femme