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#Where were you when Shrub was looking for the goblins huh?#Where were you Mr. Skrunkly?#I just find it so effing funny how they're both goblins#but they have such fundamentally different aesthetics#Like Shubble was the one with nature foresty little mushroom goblin#Meanwhile Fwhip is a little green man who eats rocks#I think they're both pretty neat but it's still funny#What's the lore repercussion of this anyway?#Empires SMP#Empires season 2#Empires II#Shubble#fwhip#edit: ok Shrub is not a goblin and I'm just stupid but this is still funny to me-#Tev Pretends To Be An Artist
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It looks like with the movies taking off, everyone is on the Dune train now!! Which is very exciting, I’m glad a bunch of new people are discovering this media and reading the books, but can I recommend you the David Lynch, Dune (1984) movie.
First of all, if you are invested in the lore of the books and the deeper messaging of the story, you’re going to need to turn that part of your brain Off. If you love kick ass shit and are willing to be slightly tipsy while you watch and have a great goddamn afternoon, this is the flick for you.
Now first fun fact I’m going to share with you. David Lynch (twin peaks, eraserhead director, celebrated surrealist) turned down the opportunity to direct Return of the Jedi for this film. A film that was devastatingly slow to make, changed hands multiple times, had a pricy VFX budget of $40 million and then made barely $31 million, David Lynch turned down Star Wars to work on it. And he did this when he had never read the novel, and did not even like or engage with sci fi media. THAT’S how you know we’re really in for something.
Now this film has some big names in it! We’ve got a young Kyle MacLachlan who is rocking some Devastating outfits:
We’ve got Sir Patrick Stewert as our Gurney and Sting, lead singer of the police, playing the 15 year old Feyd Rautha! If you wanted to see a grown man, sprayed orange, basically naked playing a free wheeling maniac you are in for a treat! And another fun fact, David Lynch also did not know who these actors were, he made a mistake and thought Patrick Stewert was someone else and when Sting said he was in the police he assumed he was in an organization of lawmen.
Now these characters are familiar to you, but let me get into the unfamiliar. Lynch made some directorial executive decisions throughout this film, for I suppose the ease of the viewer? I mean an adaptation is supposed to adapt so he went let me change some stuff up👏👏👏.
Those who paid attention to Jessica’s backstory may know about the Weirding Way. This is a martial arts style created by the Bene Gesserit, and practiced by Paul. It is more than just a fighting style but also an important philosophical concept, like Aikido or how Kung Fu has foundations in Buddhism.
You may also be familiar with the quote “My name is a killing word.” This inner monologue of Paul’s refers to how his title Muad’dub will be used to spur a holy war. A simple name is what people will die and bleed for, it will be what they scream as they cut down enemies.
Dark! Intense! That’s Dune, anyways in the novel it’s easy to take your time exploring these concepts. Introducing the audience to the religious ramifications of a simple name and fighting practice and how these things can have rippling repercussions upon a society like the Freman.
Now David Lynch didn’t have time for that! He had the belief (that may be right🤷♂️!) That watching a bunch of people kick each other on top of a sand dune would be Lame😭😭
So he made the choice for his film that “My name is a killing word” was to be taken Absolutely Literally and invented a device where if the freman said the name Muad-dib, shit would explode.
If they said Paul’s name, they could Explode Stuff. Let it sink in how rad that is. Hell yeah man, hell yeah. Imagine me interpreting religious text that way, imagine if I made a bible movie and the moral I took from a parable is that when Jesus asked for food and everyone donated fish, I concluded that Jesus was a mutant who had fish powers and could immediately conjure fish with magic and gave him fish death rays that shot out of his hands.
So that’s what you can expect from this interpretation, the weirding way now means everyone has Lasers its rad as hell.
Some other incredible choices made! This is a spoiler, but in the novels and the new films you can see the Freman collecting every scrap of water they can. Dr Liet-Kynes, the planetologist, reveals to us it’s because they have a long, multiple generation spanding plan to fix the planet. By introducing this water back they hope to reset the ecosystem over centuries of work. The reason they have been unable to do this is because a green planet would obviously not have worms and sand who produce spice, the most coveted drug in the empire, so imperial and harkonnen forces have been stopping this from ever happening. They want to be free from oppression so that they can start to work on slowly fixing their world, a project that plays out in Paul’s adult life and has its own dramas and complexities.
In Dune 1984??? The moment, the Moment Paul lays out his cousin and throws the final punch, it begins to rain in Arrakis. As if they were all under a magical curse and were just waiting for a teenager to come fight another teenager and then the water will come back. It’s so good, it’s so funny.
Also Pugs! House Atreides official Pugs! Paul has pugs in his lap!!
This is honestly an adaptation choice that I really really like! Paul is the result of centuries of selective breeding, this practice is an artform to the Bene Gesserit and a skill that they monitor closely. It produces bizarre and sometimes terrifying results and is the reason for Paul’s existence.
I think having an animal that was also created through selective breeding, was engineered from a wolf into an animal that can hardly breathe is an incredible metaphor! A smart and identifiable symbol for the audience, I think it’s a slam dunk and the new movies should have done it to.
Anyways can not recommend this film enough.
-The body suits the bad guys wear are made out of real body bags, that actually had been used.
-David Lynch to this day hates it.
-The original cut was four hours.
-The cast and crew were sick the Entire shoot with something they called Montezuma's Revenge, which was probably just food poisoning, side effects from the constant smog because they shot the whole thing on backup generators, illness from the cockroach infestation and terrible morale.
-Frank Herbert saw it multiple times and said he absolutely loved it.
-When they ride the worms, sick rock jams play.
If you love electric guitar, lasers, worms and will forgive me for not including all the trigger warnings cause Yes this film will gross you out, then go watch this movie.
#dune#paul atreides#lady Jessica#dune movie#dune Frank herbert#dune 1984#movies#scifi#kyle maclachlan#david Lynch#films
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Heyyyyyy just gonna dance in here and say I am not fully caught up with Q's lore but from what I understand it he has memory and language issues (reading, speaking), to the point that some people are theorizing about brain injuries due to the cryosleep or oxegyn deprivation. Awesome.
However, you might want to avoid language like "shell of a former self" and "it would have been better to have died" when discussing the repercussions of federation kidnapping and what in-world might be an acquired disability.
Like obviously showing that the repercussions of federation kidnapping might be worse than we've seen before, but yeah, like, be careful about how *we* talk about the character and the situation, no matter how the character gets to feel in-world and how other people react. That one has some real-world resonance.
Anyways continue meta-ing lore, I am enjoying it greatly, I will dance back out again.
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Cruel World 2/? (Brainwashed Black Widow!Reader x Steve Rogers)
summary: A war between SHIELD and HYDRA rages on in the shadows of the world. You live for the kill as a Black Widow until you discover Steve Rogers, the weapon for the opposing side who makes you question the side you’ve been fighting for. (inspired by Underworld, just go with the lore on this fit pls)
warnings: smut later, cussing, canon typical violence
wordcount: 1425
Part 1
I decide it would be safer for Steve to stay on the ground while I deal with the repercussions of “disobeying” Rumlow’s orders.
“You know, I can handle myself.”
“I can’t just bring in a stranger. You’ll get thrown into a cell-“
“A cell?” he interrupts. “Geez.”
“So stay here. Please.”
“I just think it would be good for you to have back up.”
I walk towards him, forcing him to take a couple steps back towards the barred radiator.
“Steve…” I look up into his eyes. His dreamy blue eyes that, in the dark of the night, look like the sky full of stars. I lift my hand to his cheek and press my lips to his, softly at first. He immediately springs to action, kissing me back. I feel alive as he kisses me, his warm breath on my cheek as he tries to tease my lips open.
He pulls back suddenly at the cold contact of the metal. Looking down he frowns. “What are you doing?”
I smile up at him though it’s more of a smirk. “So you don’t go anywhere.”
He tugs at the cuffs. “Fuck.”
I leave the cabin and make my way to the Red Room.
The greeting is less than warm as soldiers find me and escort me to the hall where Rumlow is pacing.
“How dare you defy me.” He orders everyone out. “Embarrass me! Everyone knows that I am in charge here, how could you disrespect me? I had plans for us.”
“Rumlow, when are you gonna get it through your brain? There is no us and there never will be.”
“Why did you spend a night out there? Did you find what you were looking for?”
I think back to how Rumlow’s allegiance is to Schmidt and how he lied to everyone about killing Captain America. “No, I didn’t.”
“So I was right.”
I can’t help rolling my eyes.
“Get yourself cleaned up. Schmidt will be here tonight to awaken Pierce.”
I leave the hall. “Zasranets,” I whisper to myself. Asshole. I walk towards the Cryochambers. It’s time to put an end to this.
The guard looks up at me as I enter. “Melina is looking for you.” He nods and leaves. I’m still trusted.
I lock the doors and disable the cameras from the control centre the guard just abandoned. Sitting at the machine I feel as though I am committing treason, which I suppose I am. To my knowledge no one has attempted cerebral messaging to reanimate cryogenic suspension other than our three leaders: Dreykov, Schmidt and Pierce. This requires training and discipline of the mind. Skills I have not refined. Cerebral messaging allows the former leader to pass down their memories of their term to the next leader to rule for a decade and the cycle continues. They planned this to prevent usurpers and to keep the peace among the faction. This cycle has not been broken. Until me.
“My Lord, please forgive me. I desperately need your guidance. I apologise for waking you ahead of your time but I fear the power is in the wrong hands. You may be in danger if left in cryo… I believe that Schmidt lied about killing SHIELD’s Prize for he is alive and well. I also believe SHIELD to be more organised than ever before as they were the ones to find him. I hope that when you wake, you will believe me and set things right.” I leave the machine and disable the cryogenic chamber, turning the cameras back on and exit without a trace. I decide to pick up some clothes that would fit the Captain on my way back to my quarters.
“Sestra!” I turn back and see Yelena. “Big problem.” She grabs my arm and speed walks me in the direction I was going in anyways.
“What?” I ask annoyed.
“Please tell me why I found a golden retriever wandering the grounds looking for you? What did you do?”
“Fuck.” I open my doors and see Steve sat on my ottoman looking through a book.
He stands up startled as he sees me. “I- I broke out of the handcuffs.”
I cross my arms and raise a brow. “I can see that.”
“Wow, he looks even better in the light,” Yelena comments.
“This is Yelena, one of my sisters. Widow. Yelena, this is Grant.” I lie. I’ve never lied to one of them, omitted a truth or kept information classified but never a lie.
Steve goes along with it. “Hi,” he smiles in his charming way.
“You can leave us now, Sestra.”
Yelena rolls her eyes and groans. “Fine, you’re both just boring.” With the door closed I inhale sharply and look at Steve disapprovingly.
“What are you doing up here?! How did you even- actually, I don’t want to know.”
He starts with saying my name so seriously it’s a jarring contrast to how he acted while Yelena was here. “Why is there HYDRA insignia all over this place?” he asks in a grave tone.
“You shouldn’t have come here, Steve. I - I left you down there because I knew you wouldn’t understand.”
“Understand? Understand that you’re the evil! HYDRA started the war-“
I shake my head almost to the point where it hurt. “You’re wrong. You don’t understand. You don’t know what you’re talking about, they’ve lied to you.”
“No. It’s you they’ve lied to.”
“You’ve been asleep for 70 years, I hardly think you have any right making such outrageous claims,” I shut him down and open my closet, stocking up on Widow’s bites, bullets and bigger guns. I throw the clothes I collected at him. They’re more appropriate tactical gear rather than having him run around in jeans and a tee, James Dean style. “Put these on.” He changes in front of me and I distract myself with the armoury. “Schmidt will be arriving here tonight, we don’t want to be the ones caught off guard.”
“You’re bringing me with you? You’re going to trust me? After what I just told you.”
“You’ve told me nothing, you’ve just made a bunch of nonsense up and I blame being frozen for decades. Now come on.”
“I’m starting to notice a pattern where I just follow you wherever you tell me to go…” he whispers.
“As you should. You wouldn’t make it out of here alone.”
We sneak off back to the quinjet, avoiding the guards since I know their rotations like the back of my hand. Firing up the quinjet I take off.
“We have to get somewhere Schmidt won’t find us. Somewhere he doesn’t know about…” I say more to myself but I know Steve is thinking.
“New Jersey. The barracks I used to train at.” He stands from his seat. “Let me pilot.”
I look up at him skeptically but I give him the controls. “If you think I’m so evil, why aren’t you trying to fight me?”
“I don’t think you are.”
His answer makes me frown.
“It’ll take a couple of hours for Dreykov to fully wake and get his strength. We’ll need to lay low before then.”
Steve just nods. “I never thought I’d see Johann Schmidt again.”
When I really think about it, Steve was actually there but he’s telling a completely different story to the history we’ve been taught. I shake the thoughts out of my head. Treason. If anything, this is Schmidt’s doing…
“You should get some rest,” Steve says.
“Don’t tell me what to do,” I snap stubbornly but he only chuckles. I walk to the passenger seats behind the cockpit and take off my jacket, rolling it up as a pillow. Sleep comes shortly but not without the company of nightmares.
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Johann Schmidt’s stronghold is based in Germany so his travel to the Red Room is arduous. As such, he does not expect to be met with news of rebellion.
“Tell Commander what you told me,” Rumlow states as he pushes Melina to the ground. Widows are lined up in the gathering hall.
“There has been talk of treason, Commander,” Melina whispers but Schmidt hears loud and clear. “Talk of America’s Prize being alive and well.”
“Lügen! Wer spricht von diesen Lügen?” he spits out like venom. Who speaks of these lies?
Rumlow answers with a name.
“Dreykov’s experiment?” Schmidt enquires.
“Yes, Commander.”
Schmidt clenches his jaw. “You are all dismissed.” As the Widows leave, Rumlow believes he is the exception to stay.
“Commander, what are you going to do?”
“Set course for Serbia.”
“Yes, Commander.”
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#marvel#reader insert#reader#mcu#fanfiction#bucky barnes#steve rogers#steve rogers x reader#winter soldier#black widow!reader
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For the inhuman secret, will being fae affect our behavior eventually? I notice various references to classic fae type behavior interspersed throughout the story and guide. Do changelings have like, reduced effect from all that to blend better, or is this just a reincarnation/veil complication? Anyway, amazing story so far, and I always love the chance to play a non-human character, very cool!
Being a changeling is definitely going to have benefits and repercussions that the fully human MCs won't have to deal with which will become more obvious as time goes by and the Veil comes down (and magic starts returning to the natural world.) The overall behavior of the MC will still remain within the player's control, however.
Also, if you trust Merlin (or even if you don't and want to do it for just sh!ts & giggles), you can try asking them about your situation during next chapter's Free Time period. They might have some answers for the specific questions you're asking.
Otherwise, if anyone's familiar with the more obscure bits of Arthurian lore, there's actually some foreshadowing there with what's going on with the MC. This isn't the first time that something like this happened in relation to Camelot.
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Poison frog toxic red flag murder dragon, I never play or write about?
Hey. Hey hey tell me about them. Theyre cute as fuck I wanna know more about em.
DO NOT CUTE THE POISON FROG TOXIC RED FLAG MURDER DRAGON!
Ladies, Gentlemen, and the Eldritch Beings Beyond the Mortal Comprehension of Mankind:
Meet Envy, full title: Invidia Leviathan Tepes, Prince of Envy (for redundancy)
Amongst all the Gods, Demons, and Villains I have ever created, he is the A B S O L U T E W O R S T. I am not even going to list it. Think of something bad. He's done it. He is against the Geneva Accords. Everything from minor infractions like shop lifting to being one of the reasons THERE ARE NO LONGER ANY GODS BEYOND DEATH NOW (in writing lore that is).
He is the only Voidsent Prince who is actually the Original Sin incarnate. He is selfish to extreme, is murder happy, will use, abuse, and toss away anyone and anything he wants. Literally believes the world revolves around him and anything to the contrary needs to be IMPALED WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE!
You were born.
Congrats.
You were born to worship and serve him. If you are not doing any of those two things. You deserve to die or be tortured for doing either of those two things too little, too much, or even perfectly fine but he's bored of you now, DIE NOW AND SAVE HIM THE INCONVIENCE OF KILLING YOU, THANKS!
He enters the story coiled around the heart of a Goddess who consuming her divinity himself. While driving her completely mad with jealousy which leads to the First Twilight of the Gods. Because the First God got bored one day, I shit you not. Due to taking the divinity of a deity for himself. He grows from a small snake into The Leviathan. His second act after being torn out of said Goddess's chest by her sister is to bite the hand of the Goddess of Light and tumble down from the heavens onto the mortal plane. Where he spends the rest of his time strangling the world with the length of his body and killing anything that thinks to sail on his seas. When he is eventually drop kicked into Hell. He is then forced by Death to go from a primordeal draconic being who is the length of the seven seas and two oceans to a humanoid you see before you. Leaving his tail behind to envy what he once was. Despite the downsizing, aforementioned, its done nothing to curb his ego and he has decided being punished like this is NOW EVERYONES PROBLEM!
Actively hates living things and use to cause earthquakes and tsunamis on a whim to wipe out anyone who settled too close to the oceans he thought he fucking owned.
Does he take a moment to reflect that maybe doing any of this will make people hate him in the short term and try and hunt him down in the long term? HAHAHA!
NO!
Aforementioned, ya not serving his whims or if you bore him, he do not give a fuck about repercussions. He's the edgy dude who never grew out of the edge phase is just 2 cool for school. If that guy got his hands on the strength and power to force people under his heel. Actively is immortally youthful, strong enough to fight off entire armies, the ability to generate water and cause earthquakes at a whim. Gilgamesh before he met Enkidu, but if meeting Enkidu made him even worse and he learned nothing of humility and shrugged off Enkidu's death.
I don't write him cause he is just...a walking trigger warning and that makes me uncomfortable. I would change him, but like...the cast NEEDS like that one (1) absolute bastard character. Irredeemable, unbashedly terrible on every level, is the reason people probably started to write down war crimes and formed rules around: Maybe we shouldn't do these bad things during combat actually...lets set up rules.
Not that he'd follow them. You kidding? Telling HIM what to do? The gall!
Anyway, here have his theme while you're here:
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okay @madnessmadness and anyone else within the venn diagram of ttrpgs and trigun: extremely long overdue explanation of how I accidentally made Knives in a Wizard Tower the big bad of my Dnd campaign:
So. I'll preface this by saying that I stumbled into Trigun after cooking up this particular guy. I saw the clip of baby Nai laughing as the ships fell and went Oh that's what I pictured for my campaign's backstory so I watched Tristamp and everything lined up a little too perfectly.
For starters, when my players and I sat down to start this campaign, we spent the first 6ish hours just building the world. They had a ton of input and came up with a few crazy things, like a giant desert filled with ancient tech that no one understands and some wild west towns; and the ancient tech was from a hypermagical society that mysteriously collapsed and there was genocide involved too? They basically set me up for this.
My big bad is a reflavored Karsus, the wizard in canon Forgotten Realms dnd lore who tried to become a god and fucked up magic for everyone else (Karsus's Folly -> the Spellplague). This also takes a lot of inspiration from Critical Role's Calamity, what with huge cities in the sky falling and the collapse of a hypermagical society thanks to drama between gods and mortals. I sprinkled in Prince of Egypt flavor and gave him a brother who tried to fix all the stuff Karsus fucked up. Said brother, Tarovir, was an accomplice to Karsus but tried to stop him when he realized how unethical Karsus' attempt at apotheosis was. This failed and Karsus essentially died horrifically, leaving Tarovir to wander a destroyed world and try to bury the essentially radioactive, corrupting magic unravelling around them. People distrusted him, knowing he had been on the Unethical Wizard Council and was Karsus's brother, but he keeps trying, fueled by guilt and shame. Some shit happens and Tarovir dies trying to send refugees through a portal to the feywild. Whoops.
Tarovir is reincarnated centuries later as our party's horizons walker ranger, who has no memory of his past life but is getting bits and pieces via weird portals back in time as the party travels around the map. This ranger is so fucking vash-coded. That was also unintentional. The player hasn't even seen Trigun, but she's playing a lonely half-orc who pushes people away and wields a gun and wanders the desert and has an inexplicable connection to the ancient tech that's being rediscovered from that era of High Magic... hm. Wait a sec.
Anyway. Karsus is back (party doesn't know yet) as what remained of him was discovered by a vampire (big bad #2, let's think of him as Legato but a male manipulator instead of a trafficking victim) who saw what was left of Karsus and went, yes, i'm imprinting on this guy like a baby bird, he was so powerful, let me resurrect him. This guy, Vaemyx... I'm just trying to say that he sucks (and not just bc he's a vampire). He has absolutely no empathy whatsoever and he's a little too obsessed with Karsus's delusions of power and his ex-girlfriend (the warlock's Feywild patron). Anyway. I think i got away from the point, which is that Karsus is now sitting around plotting how he's going to achieve apotheosis but better this time, and he's puppeting Vaemyx to do his bidding about it. He's going to get it right, and he's going to find the reincarnation of his brother, and he's going to use his brother's innate connection to magic again and harness the very essence of all magic that flows through the world and control it, damn it.
Oh shit, I also just remembered that our paladin was a former paladin of the cult that Vaemyx also controls and she's in the weird process of breaking her oath but also kinda towing the line to avoid repercussions (this is about to fail spectacularly). That player has seen Trigun and already connected this girl to Wolfwood and his inner conflict. Yay.
I'll also say that Karsus' method of trying to achieve godhood kills a lot of people and fucks with necromancy (of course) (very FMAB style) and he has no qualms about this because, actually, non-magical and non-high wizards are scum to him. So he really doesn't give a fuck about collapsing society as he knew it except for the fact that his attempt didn't work the first time. And Vaemyx shares a similar hatred for people and wants to prove himself/also has some fucked up rejection dysmorphia and decides to make it everyone else's problem.
Anyway. I made high fantasy trigun on accident. Sorta.
#do these connections even make sense or have i had this campaign cooking for too long?#anyway#god i hope my players don't perceive this#they dont follow me here but still
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Think the dumbest claim about Engage fans I’ve heard is “they do nothing but diss on 3H all day” or “There are no Engage fans just 3H haters”. Not saying I haven’t seen Engage fans who are unnecessarily hateful and hostile towards 3H, but when I look into the Engage fandom there’s far more content for and gushing about what they love about the game than complaining about 3H.
Yeah I did saw that and euh ... it left me confuse as ever ? Cause I barely hear any dissing on 3H ? Really ? And let's not like as if the fandom didn't do that in 2019 cause we all know they do this. Recall the F!Byleth's design controversy ? Or when they call Hubert, Lorenz and Raphael ugly ? Or Dima's noddle hair ? Anyway.
I do agree that if you look or search deep enough you will find Engage fans who reacts like little kids and attacks 3H because people said Engage was bad or whatever but as someone who checks the tags for Engage everyday, really... there is almost 0 of that nonsense against 3H. In fact... it's Engage that get that treatement. You have no idea how tiresome it is to click on the Engage tags and find yet another person who goes "Yeah Engage sucks, 3H rules" and me thinking "I came here for positivy, would you pleaaaase not tagg your negative opinion on the Engage tag or use a different wording so that when searching I can actually escape your negative opinion ?"and sometimes, I find, as you say that one person that will act as if the fandom was bullying them for not liking Engage and prefering 3H.... but I find 0 post about this. Really, not a single one! Take Bigkingly for example, he made a FE gameplayvs story tier list and even though he place 3H much higer then Engage on the story, he still got people arguing with him because he place Engage above average and said he though it was good.... And don't get me started on the pretty impressive amount of video making a bad review of Engage that have much more engagement then the one praising Engage, it's all the big FE tubers : Ghast, Mekkah, etc. The one who praised the game have very little expostion and will often have the SAME people in the comment section of Ghast "Engage fell off video" or Mekkah's or even that 2 hour long video whose views are currently getting much and much more important numbers.
And the most recent thing I saw was someone saying, and I quote "I legitimately believe the Engage fans are too lazy to actually take a break and read about the amazing lore 3H brought, along with the supports. They really believe Engage's lore is more interesting, and still prefer those supports than 3H's, that's just hilarious." or "It does suck tbh. Engage does have their own benefits, but 3H just getting targeted really does suck as it's a flawed, but amazing game." or "3H world building is just the books in the library" is one of my favorite little things that engage fans tell themselves".. and I find none of the post or comments or anything supposed to be speaking of that like... what ? And apparently there is a "3H hate train wagon" which is weird ? Cause the hate train wagon I noticed was for Engage, not 3H. Most of the 3H negativity I ever saw was in response to it being treated like an amazing masterpiece with no flaws to diss on Engage and while very childish.. that's not like the initiative I saw in the Engage hatred.
Honestly, I am thinking it's some side of the fandom trying to make believe it's a "both side" situation so they can diss Engage without any repercussion, never mind that "yeah but Engage fans said bad things about 3H" is just as childish as the part of the fandom that diss 3H just because they said bad things about Engage.
Frankly, I can't tell cause really, you are right Anon. Most of the Engage fandom, if not all is just us chilling out on characters, making fanart, fanfiction etc. While there is some discourse (cof, cof, Seadal, cof, cof, Alcryst, cof) it still stays rather silent and even the big controversial DLC romance concluded into : people who ship it can ship it, people who don't want to ship it won't ship it and we won't try to make an argument on whether opinion. And it's also acting as though we can't discuss Engage in a civle manner and that's... false ? Like, not long ago, someone told me why they though that Marni telling her backstory in chapter 21 was bad and offered a rewriting and I shared my thoughts, and not once did we disrespected each other. In fact, the most rabbid Engage haters are ... so dedicated that they retweet a lot of tweets supposed to be about Engage's writing good point to do nothing but... diss on it.
Keep in mind that my timeline is recomending me those only cause those people insist on quoting everything related to Engage and that tehy don't even have the decency to "untagg" or do something so that blocking or muting works in a way that doesn't end up with you viewing no content of the fandom you belong to.
I for one and many of the fans in my X circle are trying to spread positivity about this game. Heck, I even made a video just because I wanted to help it spread bigger and faster, on a plateform that is more accessible to everyone.
We are all tired of negativy, while would we add into this ? I for one don't really want to be known as the "3H hater" but as being a great contributor in positivity when it comes to Engage cause this is a game that has many great stuff. And again, this is more another way of stigmatizing Engage fan for liking the game, saying in an indirecct way "Engage's fan just PRETEND to like Engage, in reality they just hate 3H and use Engage to hate 3H cause really, who could love unironically this game if not people who simply just hate 3H because they are idiots ?" because like... I and many fans of Engage are pretty much the first one to say "comparing it with 3H is useless". So I ain't saying there isn't some case like that, but really ? That's a very minor part of the fandom that's hardly vocal.
Sorry it got a bit too long, (I really can't stop talking, can I ?)
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SO IT'S PANDORICA OPENS TIME
we'll do this episode on its own, because I think it's its own thing!
and oh boy do we get into that peak M*ffat bullshit now...
sexism rank objectification (female character is ogled/harassed/turned into a sex joke by the doctor and/or a lead we’re supposed to root for and/or the camera): 4/10
sexism rank plot-point (lead female character is only there to serve plot, not to have her emotional interiority explored, or to have agency over her emotional interiority): 4/10
interesting complex or pointlessly complex (does the complexity serve the narrative or does it just serve to be confusing as a stand-in for smart, this includes visually): 4/10
furthers character and/or lore and/or plot development (broader question that ties into the previous ones, at least two of these, ideally three should be fulfilled): 6/10
companion matters (the companion doesn’t always have to be there, but if the companion is there, can they function without the doctor– and overall per season how often is the companion the focus or POV of the story): 3/10
the doctor is more than just “godlike” (examines the doctor’s flaws and limitations, doesn’t solve a plot by having it revolve entirely around the doctor’s existence): 2/10
doesn’t look down on previous doctor who (by erasing or mocking its importance, by redoing and “bettering” previous beloved plotpoints or characters, etc.): 4/10
isn’t trying to insert hamfisted sexiness (m*ffat famously talked a lot about how dw should be sexier multiple times, he sucks at writing it): 5/10
internal world has consistency (characters have backgrounds, feel rooted in a place with other people, generally feel like they have Lives): 4/10
Politics (how conservative is the story): 6/10
FULL RATING: 42/100 (if I can count….)
oh dear oh dear oh dear.... and tbh. I think I was being kind
OBJECTIFICATION: River Song dresses like Cleopatra in order to be sexy for the Doctor. Let's just... get that out of the way. Amy is I believe wearing short shorts and not a miniskirt, so that's a bit better
River Song's first outfit in Stormcage is actually kinda great (and so is ofc her hair, always), but then later on she goes full sexy but competent outfit, eh. I'm rating it this low because they're our lead female characters and that's what we're getting
PLOT-POINT: OH! BOY! Amy is wandering around, asking what's going on, not really able to contribute anything other than a big questionmark, then she gets attacked and saved by Rory, but of course she doesn't remember Rory, so it's all his POV (and we do get an eye-rolling, she's up there surrounded by Romans, so you'd better get there first joke + Rory making a jealous comment later on)
Furthering that we get... for actually the first proper time this season outside of episode one! some sense that there were repercussions of the Doctor's falling into Amy's life like that, but it's a single scene of River walking through Amy's bedroom and seeing all her figures and home-made Doctor paraphernalia and going "Oh Doctor, why do I let you out," and like... look, she knows the Doctor better than the Doctor -- and therefore we -- know her, but she's just some woman still. this is her third episode. her POV doesn't quite... work... for me
more than that though, we now get bits of Amy's past, except these things have never been brought up or been important before. Amy likes Romans now, because it's needed for the plot. Amy liked the story of Pandora's box, because it's important for the plot. ARRRHG M*FFAT! this is not character-writing! and it's only casually mentioned, it's not really anything to do with her
and then she gets shot by Auton!Rory. that thing where in Cold Blood I mentioned the tragic turnaround of Rory dying when he was trying to protect Amy, but anyway. that's now back to the status quo. Amy got shot by Rory and he's sad
COMPLEXITY: classic M*ffat bullshit. it's not actually that complicated, technically, sort of, it's just made to feel complicated, because it keeps setting up mysteries -- the Tardis is exploding (do we ever find out why or how exactly, I don't remember, we'll find out!) and there's a best-of people we've seen this season in a bit of a stupid montage that's all about River finding the Doctor, and this Pandorica fairytale thing and it's about sooome mysterious being, and now ALL THE ALIENS are there, and the Romans are autons, and River called the Doctor by grafitti'ing an ancient rock... it pretends to be complicated, but it's not really, it's just about a big universe conspiracy with the Doctor at the centre. and therein lies... one of the rubs
CHARACTERS/LORE/PLOT: it does better here, because it's literally season finale part 1 -- so what do we get?
Rory is back! wait, whaaat? compelling mystery -- he's sad because Amy doesn't remember him, and then she's happy to see him without knowing why
the Doctor and Amy don't have much going on... nor really do Rory and the Doctor, outside of their first fun interaction
the Doctor and River... eh, middling, she keeps saying things that make me sigh, because it's meant to be a haha wait and see why she's treating them like an old married couple, and that assumes I want to wait and see, or believe M*ffat can pull it off (I don't think he did)
uh lore and plot, the Pandorica... I think it should have been explored earlier. the myth, that is, not the box, the box is fine here. it should have been built up more, but here it is! and the Doctor is going into it and the Tardis is exploding... my opinions on this is two points down
COMPANIONS MATTER: lol. Okay. so I mentioned that Amy doesn't do anything in this episode and she doesn't. she spend the Big Doctor Speech Moment unconscious (not that she could have done anything there either, but at least have her in the scene, in awe at all the life that the Universe is full of or soooomething)
Rory does matter in a sense, but at this point I'm so frustrated by Amy not doing anything and being treated like a plot-point that I just see his character as a facet of that. he saves her life and then goes to talk with her about stuff in the hopes she'll remember him, and then shoots her accidentally -- to be fair, more might happen in the next episode
River... does River count as a companion? she is stuck in the Tardis exploding
but man. focusing in on what Amy is doing (or not doing) is increasingly making me want to tear my hair out
“GODLIKE” DOCTOR: I SHOULD RATE THIS LOWER! THE ONLY REASON I DON'T IS BECAUSE I KNOW THIS GETS WORSE LATER IN THE RUN! oh you know that mysterious being the Pandorica myth was about? that was THE DOCTOR! who is, hold on, finds quote:
"A nameless terrible thing – soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies – the most feared being in all the cosmos -- and nothing could stop it or hold it or reason with it" siiiiiiiiiiiigh sure Jan. we have begun step one of our journey of "the Doctor is not just some guy travelling around space (quite powerful, can perceive time and is near-immortal, absolutely), the Doctor is everyone's special war criminal, who destroys everything by being So Damn Cool
oh wait, let's bring up this as well: "no plan no backup no weapons worth a damn, and oh something else, I don’t have anything to lose, so if you’re sitting there in your silly little spaceship with your silly little guns, remember every black day I stopped you and then do the smart thing: let somebody else try first.”
you see, when RTD was establishing the nu!who ethos, a lot of the time, it was companions, or other people who solved the day. compare this to the poison sky, where the Doctor is about to commit suicide to stop the Sontarans, and then this kid -- this kid who absolutely fucked up and was an asshole -- tries to do better by taking the Doctor's place... and dies... and stops the Sontarans...
or Rose. or Martha. or Donna. or Harriet Jones. or Jack. or Jackie and Pete and Mickey. or fucking Wilf! Remember hiiim. or any countless single-episode people who did cool shit!
and tbh even watching Classic!who there's a fair bit of other people sorting out parts of the plot, while the Doctor does the more sciencey-whiency stuff
the Doctor didn't yell at aliens that he was better than them and then they ran away, that's not... what happened in so many of those episodes
but no, see the Doctor is the most dangerous, most important being in the world, and rather than just fuckn... destroying him (Time Lords Can Die, it is in fact so well-established that all of them are dead, except the Doctor... and the Master)... they put him in a prison, made by an elaborate trap surrounding AMY POND
so Amy is not a character who is in this story as a character. Amy is in this story as bait. for the very important Doctor. jeez.
PREVIOUS DOCTOR WHO: Eh, I mean technically it's a best-off with the villains, but their whole Selves are now bent towards the Doctor in a way that makes no sense, and it completely forgets why the Doctor is ever able to do anything so... on the ethos of previous DW it falls hard
“SEXINESS”: actually there is less of this once we get past the whole... Cleopatra... thing.... and the Amy and the Romans jokes.... it's not as egregious as, say, the first few minutes of Time of Angels
INTERNAL WORLD: I rated this one middly, because there isn't really any world-building in this, and I gueeesss there doesn't have to be?
Amy's world-building sucks. I put it down a point
POLITICS: apart from the sexism inherent in the writing of Amy Pond, there's not anything more. and I feel like I've gone over that enough in the other points. but like. it ain't good writing
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can you spare Violante/Gortash lore? (I will take literally ANYTHING)
holding your hand so gently rn as i type this, ily thanks for the ask!! i'm going to try and give the shortest (failed a bit, sorry) backstory lore dump here about what was going on between them and Vio's bestie before the game events since i never spoke of it
Violante is actually born and raised in waterdeep, she meets Gortash by pure chance during some big fancy event in baldur's gate where she's (forced) to attend by her mother. Ruven who's her drow bestie 4 life and death is there as well and the circumstances of their first meeting with Gortash is actually funny. He shows up fashionably late at the party, spots these two almost tearing each other throat out in a quarrel and decided to jump in just to make fun of them and how 'they truly let anyone in these days' (Vio is a fallen noble, Ruven a bastard of big house devir, they hold almost zero importance in the big picture of nobility and their power) but at the same time he has the balls to ask Vio on the first dance of the night, he does it to anger Ruven really and Vio accepts just to make Ruven's blood boil a lil bit. tear the drow apart girlies
they should've been just the amusement of the night, a stunt for fun, but Gortash ends up meeting them a few more times during Vio's stay in baldur's gate. thing is, they don't actually hold any importance to his eyes nor any plan, they are nobles he can't get anything from, yet he notices something about the dynamic between them (toxic, codependent, ready to hurt one another as a form of love, Vio follows Ruven like a lost puppy but still is the one to have him on a leash under her power) and he decides he finds them..entertaining and who cares after all? they aren't even baldurians so he could fuck around and hopefully not find out without any big repercussion since they would be gone for waterdeep sooner than later. Gortash rather cunningly enters the dynamic, he plays with the clear possessive obsession that Vio & Ruven have. Violante is indeed the weak spot so his attack is lead through her, Ruven is a great manipulator and just as cunning so he has this subtle hate for Gortash as he has it for Ruven (they hatefuck, thank u) while Vio just wants to see her drow bestie suffer and it's clear that she can achieve that if Gortash is involved BUT Ruven can't let her see he's actually bothered by her interest in Gortash or he'd let her win. Basically you have these three idiots using each other and fucking nasty while they are at it.
something none of them foresee is that they end up enjoying each other presence far more than what was planned, Violante in particular (since she basically lived closed in her manor most of her life bc of a very toxic mother) finds the new company a breath of fresh air and Gortash does enjoy having a quite stimulating conversationalist in Violante. But everything was going to end anyway, right? a short lived fling they all had fun with. Vio and Ruven go back to waterdeep and Gortash simply keeps living his life.
a few years later tho Violante and Gortash meet again in baldur's gate, this happens right after Vio killed Ruven (ops) and the shock of it all plus the power she achived by becoming a warlock, makes her flee waterdeep. she won't admit it but she actually wanted to meet Gortash, that's why she went to baldur's gate, in her mind he's what little connection she has left with her dead bestie. She tells him Ruven his dead and nothing more, Gortash is way too clever to not realise she's the one that killed him but he says nothing, he finds the event interesting..and maybe beneficial for his future plans (sick and twisted woman to use as a pawn but also..an unsettling feeling of.. happiness.. to have met her again). but this doesn't last as well, a few days later after she found some ahem ahem comfort in Gortash, she leaves without saying a word. they meet again during canon game events and i'm pretty sure i'm making her side with him but for that..i'm still planning and thinking hehe and truly i've talked WAY TOO MUCH NOW
#ask#oc: violante#what's going on between them? longing..understanding..smth toxic..failure..fun..a future that never will be...all normal things really <3#thank u so much for the ask!! i hope this all makes sense i tried so hard to NOT ramble too much fkjdsfk
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hiii!!! how are you? Hope you’re doing well!!! I have some more questions about the disease in the darkest eyes, again you don’t have to answer if u don’t want to but I’m just really fascinated by this world you’ve created like I can’t stress this enough you are so talented!! anyways onto the questions, do any of the characters know about the disease? also what’s it called ? nd what role will it play in the story ? Also do any of the characters suspect that there’s a disease or r they clueless? sorry if thats a lot of questions I’m just curious! take care of yourself and make sure to stay hydrated!!!
hello !! i'm a little tired but okei, thank you ~ hope you're doing well yourself !! :O i'm happy you enjoy the lore i made up ~ ! your message really made me smile :]
(for anyone who didn't read the first part of this, i basically gave the characters an illness as a result of their exposure to the upside down in my story, which behaves a lot like a real life chronic fungal infection)
okei, so let's start with the easy part :O the name !! i took inspiration from actual scientific nomenclature and called the fungus "dieftharmenum", which has a root in the greek term for "corrupted" (διαφθορά / dieftharméni) since i thought it'd fit.
so,,, the name for the illness would be "dieftharmenosis" :]
as for the characters,,, they do know !! in my story, owens was basically reinstated to his s2 position as head scientist in upside-down-related matters, so he's keeping track of how things are going in hawkins and of the health of everyone involved in the entire kerfuffle (part of it is him repenting for his involvement in the nightmare, part of it is him being a shady scientist still x.x )
anyway, during one of his check-ups he noticed a foreign organism in everyone's blood and identified it after a little bit, putting in the resources to understand the fungus and find an adequate treatment for the infection, which he then gave to everyone. as such, the whole party is aware of it and have continued to engage with owens (albeit reluctantly) so they can get this medication (amphotericin b, which a treatment for a lot of life-threatening fungal infections) and keep from potential sequels ~
so, for the most part, that's the only role the infection has in the story. just some general world-building and adding to owens' continued shadyness >.<
there is, however, a secondary effect this whole thing has on byler and mike in particular, which i'll put under the cut since it could be a little bit upsetting :(
tw // aids and death mentions
chronic fungal infections have a lot of systematic repercussions on a person, both from the infections themselves and from their treatment. amongst many other symptoms and consequences, they tend to have a strong effect on the immune system,,,
,,,so, at a time when aids was a very real, very lethal thing that queer people (amab individuals, in particular) had to be wary of, to already be struggling with a chronic infection that lowers one's defenses and puts them at constant risk of death would be particularly terrifying situation to be in. specially with all the misinformation that was going around, specially in a small midwest town.
so, as if aids wasn't already a death sentence during this time, byler (and mike in particular) have it fully in their mind that this infection is going to get them killed the second they have contact with other queer men because there's no way they can survive both things at once :(
so yeah, that's the role my made-up infection has on the story x.x
anywayy, sorry if that's too dark or if it got too sad ;-; i promise this whole plot-point is not going to be described in too much depth (since this is from hop's pov) and i'll try to add lots of fluff and comfort whenever i get to tackle this issue >.<
i hope this answered your questions and that you find it somewhat interesting ~ thank you for the message and for letting me ramble about this stuff !! hope you have a great day or night, and please take care of yourself ~!!
the story || masterpost
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FALLOUT 4 COMPANION SPOILERS
(And some small lore spoilers)
Anyway, I am a whore. As such, and since Fallout 4 has no negative repercussions for doing so, I have romanced (basically) every romanceable companion in Fallout 4. I have a lot of opinions. I will be ranking the romanceable companions here, with short reasons as to why they've been ranked as such. A follow-up post will include my little fashion makeovers for said companions.
Honorable Mention : Magnolia (one-night stand only, the game doesn't allow more than that. I actually finished romancing Piper *immediately* after leaving Magnolia's room the morning after, funny enough. But still, an interesting side character voiced by the original live action Wonder Woman, what's not to like?)
Disqualification : Paladin Danse (requires siding with the Brotherhood of Steel and FUCK those assholes straight to hell Im not doing that)
NOW THEN :
1. Curie. The second to last companion I romanced, but my favorite. Her storyline about learning to grapple with synth/human emotions and survival needs, experiencing the Wasteland for the first time, and growing into her own person is great. Plus, you get multiple dialogues that include Flirting options- and unlike other companions, each of those dialogue sections includes TWO flirting opportunities rather than just one. Flirting with Curie also makes her adorably flustered. She's also super polite to the other companions, and the Combat Medic perk can save your life in a pinch. Normally I find a french accent slightly obnoxious, but for her it sounds nice.
2. Hancock, mayor of Goodneighbor, the second companion I romanced. Compelling character, great default outfit, enables chaos and chems, solid backup with his shotgun, fun dialogue all around (and that voice tho)... you can't really go wrong with Hancock. The Isodoped perk only adds to the benefits of not using radiation protection in the Glowing Sea, pair with the Ghoulish perk to embrace the nuclear waste.
3. Piper, the first companion I romanced. Her drive for investigation and truth-seeking is inspiring, she's compassionate, she has that little nickname "Blue" for the player-character, she helps you get connected to important characters like Nick Valentine, she gives you sweet rolls... just all-around a really positive presence in a wasteland full of cynics and nihilists. With a highly Charisma-based build, ESPECIALLY in early-game, her Gift of Gab xp boost perk was phenomenal.
3 (yes its a tie). Cait, my third romance. Her tragic backstory and struggle with addiction make for an extreme level of character depth some companions just can't keep up with. Plus, a little spiteful violent fun now and then keeps things interesting. Enabled some of my more questionable decisions, like doping up and melee-brawling a behemoth to death. I like the level of detail that her likes and dislikes around drugs and alcohol shift after her quest. The Trigger Rush perk can be a lifesaver if you're struggling at the end of a close fight.
4. Macready, the fourth companion I romanced, migrant from Fallout 3's Capital Wasteland. Good for ammo in a pinch, didn't mind my occasional thievery, but he's got some flaws. I didn't even know for sure his wife was out of the picture until the conversation where I actively finished Romancing him, and having him galavant around with me while his sick (though waiting to be cured thanks to me) son was god knows where with no family to watch him makes me feel a little guilty. His Killshot perk combined with the railroad Deliverer makes stealthy assassinations much easier, though.
5. Preston "Another Settlement" Garvey. Fuck you Preston Garvey. The last character I romanced and by far the worst. You only flirt with him once before fully romancing him, and he responds with all the passion of a wooden 2x4. Even his Romance dialogue is mostly about how he used to want to kill himself which is just trauma dumping out of nowhere to desperately try to give Garvey any depth at all. Hell, every other companion has a Thoughts dialogue option and a Relationship check-in dialogue option, but PRESTON has "Chat" instead of "Thought" and it uses the same stock few lines as if you choose "Relationship" instead. Plus having him as a companion makes talking to him to complete and receive Settlement quests that much more difficult because sometimes he just won't do those conversations. I hate him. I am going to keep him in Sanctuary to keep an eye on him, but he will not be stationed in the area where the rest of the romanced companions are. He does not deserve a seat at the table, a place in the bed. BUT his unique perk is handy when fighting large groups, so romancing him wasn't a *total* waste of time. Plus, he was by far the fastest to romance, so at least I got it over with quickly. Do like 8 or 9 of those little five-minute settlement quests and he'll be begging to fuck.
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In Defense of Persephone (Lore Olympus)
Many seem to argue that Persephone is portrayed as a bratty, pampered baby in Lore Olympus. I don't agree, to be honest. I love the series and how it portrays her. She's strong, compassionate, empathetic, and avoids conflict as much as she can. (or until someone manages to push her over the edge, which is something I think we can all relate to)
Please keep it civil if you think otherwise, okay, guys? Be adults. I am not here to start a fight, only to discuss why I think some people are wrong about Persephone.
Continuing on reading this means you are going to act maturely as requested of you by me if my opinion isn't like yours. You have been warned.
Point 1: Demeter is a Helicopter Mom
What many people SEEM to forget and/or overlook about Persephone's character is that Demeter was and still is not only a helicopter mom, but she also treated her like a baby up until the day she moved to Olympus. She even went as far as to raise her like one would a mortal, which is brought up in episode 177 during Hermes' backstory on how he met Persephone during the trial.
She is only just now getting a breath of fresh air. She didn't know how to properly adult just yet because Demeter kept her so isolated for almost the entire first two decades of her life. But now she has people like Hades, Hera, Eros, and sometimes even Artimis in the earlier chapters who are helping her figure it out and teach her the way of the world.
Hell, the poor girl didn't even know how to use a PHONE, and Demeter only let her get an email because her school required it.
Point 2: The Act of Wrath
On the topic of the trial, what happened wasn't her fault in the slightest. It wasn’t a kid throwing a tantrum as I have seen people say it was, what happened was a result of disrespectful mortals destroying a sacred ground and pissing off a fertility Goddess who had no control over her powers and wrath.
It wasn't Demeter going. "Ohhh, baby, it's okay, mommy will just pay off the messenger God to stay quiet! That way, there will be no repercussions on your part!" nonoNO, that is NOT how it was! It was Demeter trying to protect Persephone from Zeus' bias towards Demeter, now leaking into a form of bias towards Persephone.
Hades even goes on to explain that Gods make acts of wrath all the time anyways, and as long as they have enough mortals for their amusment, why should this be treated any differently?
It really does go to show how biased Zeus can be, and how just because Persephone was a lesser-known Goddess, he thought it would be okay to treat her as lesser than.
Point 3: Persephone's Kindness
Persephone has gone through a lot of character development, but I think a LOT of people mistake her kindness and openness to help others as childish. She may have started off as childish, but now she is a queen with a loving husband and subjects who also love her too.
What everyone seems to gloss over, however, is her ability to be so ruthless when someone really deserves it, like with Apollo in chapter 98, the photographer who was Hera in disguise in chapter 54, and most recently, Kronos in chapter 206.
Kindness is NOT ignorance in 99% of cases. There can be the occasional dumbass in the mix, sure, but in most cases, kind people are very smart and know when situations require a different approach.
Anywho, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. Please keep it civil in the comments, and have a good day!
#lore olympus#lore olympus persephone#lore olympus demeter#lore olympus hermes#lore olympus hades#lore olympus hera#lore olympus apollo#lore olympus artemis#lore olympus zeus
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Listen man, your writings feel like early comings of Christmas, I gotta do something in return, however small. Still shy af hence anon ask but hey, better than nothing ;-D
Oooooh, NOICE, looking forward to that prequel, whenever (or if?) it comes out 👀 (also my dumbass forgot to mention last time, Ram being flustered about his own dick in EY was adorable I can't-)
YEEEES OH MY GOD EXACTLY- More or less everything he's had to endure all boils down to his specific model, so no wonder he was afraid of accidents... now though? Not like he has much else to loose, 99.9% of R-7000s are already gone and his own reputation is beyond repair anyway so what does the opinion of other people matter? He CAN still hurt reader which sucks by itself but he's willing to put up with his fear and I just, I'm done dude who designed this fucking character-
LMAO I defaulted to hanahaki as I assumed the whole unrequited-but-actually-requited-love thing with maybe a dash of a near death experience is an easy gateway for all the piv you could possibly want... Never mind me then, sounds like you had other plans XD
And speaking of.... what do the good people of Tumblr have to do to motivate you to finish those last 4 paragraphs and hand it over? 👀 Don't care it ain't smutty I have a Need. Want another questionable anon link to horny Ram art for the motivation or something? wink wink...
PFFFFFFT Yes please, the more employees openly thirsting after Ramattra the higher the chances of new lore??? Maybe???? PLEASE??? WHEN IS THE NEW SET OF PVE MISSIONS COMING OUT I NEED MORE-
... Okay why are these asks so long, AAAAAAaaaaa- I'm sorry for being distracting >.<
fdsf re: Ramattra's dick, I mean!!! Imagine how absurd it is, you kidnap your ex and in HOPES that they'll love you again you BUILD a sex toy for them??? He's so embarrassed about his own neediness honestly.
Yes exactly! When he was bearing the weight of being a peace-advocating member of the Shambali, accidentally hurting anyone would've been such a nightmare for him. It only matters now in that he doesn't want to hurt you, the repercussions on which Reader has pretty outright stated are none since they understand that accidents happen.
Hahaha, honestly I think the reason I didn't finish it was because someone had proposed the original EY prompt in my askbox and that kind of set off a chain of events that meant EVERYTHING got tabled until EY was finished.
BUT I MEAN OH NOOOOO how could I ever continue working on Ramattra fics without the appropriate horny art???? whatever will I do????? *languishes at my keyboard*
GOD I KNOWWWW I hate so, so much that they've backburnered their actual storyline stuff :( Like, I got into OW because of the cool universe and characters, not because it's a FPS or has active esports, you know? So I've been waiting on story stuff for years and then they just had to go and make the BBEG so fucking hot and then only put out THREE FUCKING MISSIONS FKJDGJDKLSG
Supposedly I know the original timeline said new missions would be out "in 2024" so. hey. brightside, yknow?
And you're not distracting at all!!! I'm a terrible writer who thrives only on external motivation so shit like this keeps me active LMAO
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finally making this family lore post like i’ve been saying i would. nikki’s family post will be coming soon. but here they are……the jacobucci family. circa 2007-08.
if you’ve been following me or keeping up with my rikki headcanons, you know that his real name is riccardo jacobucci, but he started going by rikki kixx in the 90s. his parents don’t call him rikki, though. he’ll always just be riccardo to them lmao ANYWAY
his father’s name is salvatore and his mother’s name is nadia. the family has lived in las vegas forever and rikki’s parents continue to live there even after he’s moved out and is super famous and all that.
salvatore works mainly as a private investigator while nadia is a housewife (who sometimes substitute teaches music).
rikki and his dad have a very strained relationship. when rikki was a teen, it was always his dad having to bail him out of trouble, and because of his father’s position, rikki could always get off with zero legal repercussions. that hurt their bond, and salvatore has a hard time seeing his son as anything more than a delinquent. even when rikki did become majorly successful, he was never impressed. on the other end of things, rikki is always subconsciously trying to prove himself to his dad, as much as he wishes he could just let it go.
nadia and rikki definitely have a much warmer dynamic. nadia introduced rikki to a lot of music and happily encouraged his more artistic interests. she’s a lot more outgoing than her husband but the two have a solid working relationship.
and rikki is an only child. if that’s not obvious. also it’s a very catholic household, and both of them put the fear of god into a young rikki. i feel like i’ve talked ad nauseum about my rikki catholic guilt headcanons so i’ll just leave it at that. both of them like nikki though. even though sal struggles to see what nikki finds so appealing about his son but HEY she seems fine otherwise.
i don’t know what else to write. if you actually read all of this thank u
#i’ve had a very stressful day so i wanted to do this lol#yeah ig that’s it. if you wanna talk to me about rikki and his family hmu#my art tag#rikki kixx#metalocalypse
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hello and how are you?
Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday, beloved Midnight!
Sorry for the late ask, but we are here! Ended up getting entangled in the Realities of our World, but anyways!
Do you have myths and tales within your Stories? Is there a legend within your Worlds? How was it created? Did it have a true origin, or did it begin with the feverish whispers of gossip and excited drama?
The Not Yet Dead Author, @365runesofwriting
Thank you so much for the ask, Natsume!!
(God, I need to really make a document with the countless myths and tales in the Melodiverse, many of which I still need to create lol, anyway...)
MELODIVERSE MYTHS AND TALES
The Melody of Creation: Of course, I wouldn't have forgotten to add the titular creation story, and the backbone of which all Melodiverse lore and worldbuilding stands upon, the "Melody of Creation" story.
Basically, as a brief summary: The goddess of music and harmony, Tylmera creates a dream world of music, magic, and the loving duality of humans and animal-human hybrids coexisting peacefully, which would soon become the main planet of Terra Melodiae (which translates to "Melody Realm", in Latin hehe), and along with Ziris, helps take care of the young baby goddesses, Ydelia and Atrixi.
The Sirens of Songbourough: This story is the first actual myth in the Melodiverse, which tells a legend about the elusive sirens of Spirit Grove Lake, a magical lake that lights up with the trapped souls that have perished under the depths, creating an ethereal glow that projects beams into the sky. After this myth surfaced around everywhere, many conspiracy theorists believed that the light of the sprits projecting into the sky, was linked to the sirens murdering those poor humans in cold blood underwater.
However, historians later proved that these sirens were completely benevolent and were in no way accomplices to the murders of these poor souls trapped underwater forever, which now feel temporary freedom when their souls are briefly released to the sky in a marvelous show of light.
(Basically an reenactment of that conspiracy theory, through a clickbait title):
"RANDOM LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE CONNECTED TO SIRENS MURDERING HUMANS"
The Midnight Curse (in no way related to Midnight, the character): My favorite myth that I created, which tells the origin of the Night Demons and how young children and babies alike should stay as far away as possible from the Melody Gems, because you don't know what god you could anger if you even playfully tampered with them.
Summary: Basically a group of four teenagers went outside into the Starlight Forest just to see the sights, but one of the kids were way too morbidly curious and after rummaging around the forest and disturbing the poor faeries (LEAVE THEM ALONE GODDAMNIT, stupid teens...) they came across the elusive Night Gem. (Which for reference, looks like this:)
But even after the other teens repeatedly telling the kid to not touch the gem, they touched it anyway and the group's vision was blinded as the Starlight Forest quickly disappeared behind them, fading away like a distant memory, as they landed in the hellscape that was known as the Discordant Barrens. There would be no repenting sins for this kind of fuck up, they knew that for sure.
And they could see the repercussions of what just happened, too, as their bodies were transformed into completely black featureless looking skin, besides the constellations and stars painted all around the outside of their bodies. They all had long and thin black claws, blue hued horns from what the others could see, and bright white glowing eyes.
(a reference for what Night Demons look like)
(Art credit goes to @sizzlin-system!!)
The group sure as hell knew that it was the kid's fault for making them like this. They had all just wanted to go home and play video games or do literally anything else, than sit here in this horrid hellscape for eternity roaming around as demons.
#answered asks#themelodiverse#The Melodiverse: Worldbuilding#Species: Night Demons#Species: The Melody Sirens
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