Sometimes i forget how young kaladin is

oh 12.65 litres of blood clinging to the outside of my body, we're really in it now

the goddess of dawn

a lot of heras boon names depress me a bit but this has got to be top three. it's called bridal glow and it degrades over time...

zeus when i get my hands on you i swear to GOD-

I think there's a lot of untapped potential in the fact that Esen is, for all intents and purposes, a pretty normal dude, and the two most important people in his life are most certainly not. To some extent Esen is aware that Ouyang and Baoxiang are weird, but he has no idea about their internal monologues and just how fucked up both of them are.

There is so many posibilities here for comedy and angst. Either of these two could reveal anything about their internal thought process to Esen (probably half convinced that these are Normal Thoughts that Normal People have) and Esen's immediate reaction would be "What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck," because in fact no that is not a normal thing to think and normal people are not like this. Normal people like Esen would be incredibly horrified and worried if they were to hear anyone they loved express these thoughts. Even worse when Ouyang and Baoxiang end up enabling each other into thinking that their thought processes are reasonable. Esen would have to break it to them that no, it is literally just you two, why are you like this, do I need to call someone.

remember when i said that i should make a discord server for wlw fantasy books? well, a lot of people were interested in the concept so i did it!

the server includes the priory of the orange tree, the masquerade, the burning kingdoms, among all others (which i've tagged this post with!) here's the link if you're interested in joining:

co owned by me and @ephemeralzenith 🫶

Adolin is my babygirl tbh

who spends the most money among monsta x? jh: from what i see, it’s kihyun. he gives money to his dongsaengs, like the stylists. kh: it seems the youngest ones don’t get compensated properly for as hard as they work, so i give [money] to them.

So, what about Tellius in particular got you hooked on it?

TL;DR Everything. The Tellius games are very much my comfort games.

I think part of it was definitely the fact that the worst years of my life, so far, were from 2002 to 2006, and those games came out in 2005 and 2007. The messages of the games, the way Micaiah, Ike, and Elincia deal with their tremendous burdens without losing themselves, was something I desperately needed at that time in my life. Honestly, playing through those two games did more for my mental health than therapy was (recommendation: find a therapist who is a good fit for you. I have one now. She is amazing).

Beyond that, the world is just so interesting to me, there's so much to it and the characters feel very well written. Soren's adaptation from his childhood, Reyson and his combative personality, Jill unlearning her prejudices against the laguz, Shinon and Janaff's relationship, Skrimir's growth as a wiser leader. All of the character writing hits pretty hard, honestly, and there are no moments I can recall where I feel like "there is no way an actual person in that situation would say or do that," and the trauma responses felt both pretty accurate and treated with respect, not as over-top humor that falls flat. On the writing, there is just so much lore and so much to think about and before those two games, I'd never seen games with such world building or thought out characters before. I'd read books like that, of course, but to have this intersection of visuals, music, writing, and interactivity was truly captivating to younger me.

Speaking of the art, I've always loved the CG renders and how much they draw me into the world. I used to draw a lot more back when I was playing the games for the first time, and that style is something I very much used to want to emulate. The music is iconic to me as well, in that I can hear any song from the game and remember the feeling and image of the game when I was playing it and hearing that song originally, I can't do that with full game soundtracks normally. For years, I would play the galdr songs to soothe my anxiety, calm my mind and get to sleep.

The Tellius games, and Fire Emblem as a whole, are games that my spouse and I talked about a lot while we were younger and just beginning to date, and our mutual love of the series is very much a cornerstone of our relationship. My spouse has a very lovely singing voice and would sing the galdr to me if I was struggling with my mental health, or do the funny voices used for reading the scenes to lift my spirits when I was feeling down back then when the games were still new.

died against radiant idol hideous mass <- UNFAIR

Once again more to come when I have free time but for the moment, have you ever seen someone so perfect? I sure haven’t

Radiant Hope! Getaway: Do you think we’re friends every universe?

Radiant Hope!Hot Rod who unfortunately has become aware of the multiverse:…………Yeah

A thousand ghosts follow him, but the one who haunts him is not amongst them.

I want him to chase me through an overgrown wildflower FIELD. or like of tall grass. or WHEAT.

Every time a post either mentions TES 6 or makes me think about TES 6 I'm that spongebob meme of the guy with the spear, stopping myself from blackpilling all over again....

I am about 30% into He Who Drowned the World (spouse and I are reading it together which means I will be getting through it MUCH slower than usual), and it has been so utterly delightful. The interactions between Zhu and Ouyang are so incredibly delightful. Spouse and I are cracking up. Ouyang is just so... well, we're having a good time. I'll say that. XD

I loooove what Parker-Chan is doing with Wang Baoxiang. Meeting him through the eyes of Ouyang and Esen, they really tried to convince us that he's a pathetic and unlikeable character, but no actually, he made really good points and sometimes was so much more effective than his brother and general for being underestimated as he was. I knew he couldn't really be as awful as Esen and Ouyang thought of him, but I did NOT expect him to be such a bigger character in this book but am utterly delighted at where they could go with him.

So, so delightful. It's hard going so slow to see where this is all going, but it's so fun to listen with Empty.

I don't want to look up names using the second book's title, so I'm going to guess it's Madam Zhang that we're seeing more of too in this book, and she is fascinating. I have a feeling those posters were put up by General Chen and what an adversary he'll be for her. I would love to see her and Zhou become allies, but I can't really fathom how that could happen at this point. Alas.

I am waiting to see more prominent Ma stuff!