Fuck it

*adventure times your pyres*

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Big Betrude

A gnarled old snake lady is exactly what comes to mind when I hear the phrase "old hag." She got sent to fantasy purgatory for making ink for a printing press in a society where reading is illegal. She has so many talents - sorcery, wagon repair, and when recruited to the party she proves to be a fantastic player in the Rites (fantasy purgatory sportsball).

Kiriko (and gang)

Every Ghibli movie has to have at least one old hag, and these are them. Their proportions are completely different from everyone else, especially the younger women characters (just look at the picture). They’re not very plot relevant on the whole (except for Kiriko) but they are absolutely iconic.

She's old enough to have shrunk to about half her young adult height, she's a badass who takes no shit, and she's funny as hell. Best character in the whole film.

She'll turn you gay

Two dear friends for dear friend @siverwrites!!! I want to make every single one of those snakes happy

Volfred: Have a little faith in us, Bertrude.

Bertrude: We have great faith, Sandalwood, tempered with vast annoyance.

got to the most important part of pyre tonight

I somehow imagined big bertrude only speaking in rhymes which I thought was weird but cool like imagine first meeting her and she says this

“Thou speakest the name Sandalwood, thou we do hope that theyn knowledge of him is good .”

Srry if that did t make sense but I thought it was a cool idea that Berty could speak in rhyme

What's your favorite fictional character from any piece of media that you've enjoyed? :)

I'm never going to be able to pick just one Most Favourite thing ever in any context so I'm just going to put the first two that come to mind.

Alisaie from "Final Fantasy XIV" is a really fun counterpart to your player character for a lot of reason & it's been really cool to go through the game & see the writers refine who & how they wanted her to be. Also she gets to be loud and spunky and headstrong and make cool explosions & there's an unimportant side NPC in the latest expansion who absolutely has a gay crush on her and that's all fun.

TOMCAT in "2064: Read Only Memories" feels targeted at me. They're a fun-loving hacker who seems to know more than they let on with a dubious past and a cool fashion sense.

Big Bertrude from "Pyre" is the best. I changed my mind she's the best ever. She's a bog hag. Look at her.

Fuck yeah.

So hard to sign my own surrender

So hard to do what I’ve intended

Completed Nightwings set, as promised.

Excuse me small but dedicated Pyre fandom where is the love for Bertrude? Where is the respect and adoration for basketball grandma? I wish to speak to the manager and that manager is Big Bertrude

Girls night girls night

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Big Bertrude from Pyre by Supergiant Games.

Candy hearts exchange 2024 letter

AO3: laughingpineapple (double-checked a-ok for treats as per the recent AO3 update blah blah)

Hello and thank you for writing for me! I hope you’ll have a great time playing with one of these wonderful canons!

I love a wide variety of fics - from the most delicate gen to explicit, any tense, any format, big yes to all kinds of weird experiments up to and including interactive fiction. In general, I love canon expansion (showing new places in the setting or exploring those that are barely mentioned, just outside the borders, and ditto with events), character work of all stripes (expanding on little quirks, putting characters in situations that complement/challenge certain personality traits of theirs, just... observing these weirdos as they live their lives, for better and for worse), magical realism and adjacent approaches. I eat up emotional moments with a spoon when a fic is character-centric (danger! catharsis! hurt/comfort! the nitty-gritty of attraction!) and also love abstract stuff that is not character-centric at all: fake academia, a wider focus, inhuman povs, anything goes.

For both romance and friendships, I love it when it’s clear (not necessarily to the characters themselves, but to the narrative) what they like about each other, how they get along, if and how they trust each other, what’s annoying but worth it, what flaws of the other are they or are they not well equipped to handle... The specificity of each dynamic! I also love it when the characters are very into something that makes sense for them, be it a hobby or a kink or whatever, even if it’s something I may not personally care for.

For art, I love when characters are doing something. I much prefer a simple illustration of a moment in their lives (basic examples: sharing coffee, walking together) to a more ornate symbolic illustration like eg a tarot reimagining.

DNW: non-canonical rape, non-canonical children, focus on children,  pregnancies, unrequested ships (background established canon couples are okay, mentions of parents and paired-up OC randos are okay!), canon retellings  

GHOST TRICK

Alma/Cabanela/Jowd: Jowd navigating the "whoops turns out I'm bi" part of the whole thing is always fun Alma/Jowd: what's their dynamic, exactly? I'm open to many possibilities, for example an Alma who's just as much of a cosmic pessimist as her esteemed husband! Cabanela & Pigeon Man: unexpected intergenerational friendship of my heart, Cabs is A Lot and Pigeon Man expertly wrangles him. Guess he’s good with birds Cabanela/Jowd: please let them be intensely ridiculous about their attraction Emma & Jowd: double menace pls Jowd & Pigeon Man: what sparked PM's unshakeable devotion toward Jowd? Alma/Cabanela: fashion! and legs! Clothes swap? Some time on their own?

PYRE

Bertrude/Pam: they get each other quietly… anything based on their paired ending, especially Downside? Ignarius & Oralech: I’d just like to weaponize Iggy’s fascination for big survivor demons and point it at an unsuspecting Oralech, for fun Oralech/Tariq: beyond the Scribes' vision… Oralech/Volfred: Downside reunion! How do you let go of all that mis-aimed anger AND mourning? Volfred & Pam: here's a guy who's very pragmatic about reaching his idealistic goals, and a gal who's a trained agent. Or maybe just two teammates after a rite. Volfred/Tariq: Tariq's small attempts at defiance?

DISCO ELYSIUM

Call Me Mañana & Steban: that time when Steban tried to talk Mañana into joining the group and it sounded like he was hitting on him (at least according to Harry, who is, on occasion, an uncannily accurate judge for this sort of thing) was fun! What about a second meeting between them, or would Steban be willing to just sit next to him and talk? DJ Flacio & DJ Mesh & Kim: I just want Kim to meet his loud, vulgar, communist-leaning (according to one line in reply to Harry, at least) heroes. Maybe after he got his shout-out? (Harry and Kim/Harry welcome if you want) Liz/Cindy: Things got very real very fast for Liz at the tribunal, can actual gang member Cindy help her through it or make things worse? Dros & Nilsen: bitter, cancelled old codgers, how unpleasant could they get? I like to picture Nilsen's ghost bothering assorted leftists in the game and Dros could do with the company… Uli/Steban: a Wirrâl session turning intensely homoerotically charged? Anything else turning intensely homoerotically charged (looking at the canon slap, it's kind of what they do)? What Mazov/Nilsen parallel do they see in themselves?

SACRED AND TERRIBLE AIR

Khan & Nilsen: as one of Elysium's famous disappearances (as per a stray line by Lilienne in the game), Nilsen should by all means be part of Khan's special interest. Khan who, for his part, dresses as a dialectical materialist, so did he like what he was reading about Elysium's Most Cancelled? Khan & Tereesz & Jesper: any exploration of their strange, frayed friendship, the ways in which they care for each other, their breaking points, how they're all called to the void… Khan & Zigi: does Khan find him, at the end of the world? Or is Zigi forever out of reach, beyond even the totality of the pale? Or does Khan manage to reach Rodionov's Trench at last, in dreams or otherwise? Mazov/Nilsen: they held hands… any exploration of any part of their lives (first meeting? Nilsen's return from his feral hut era? Reunion in the pale?) and their beliefs and their opposite responses to defeat? Lund sisters & Rodionov: party at the heart of the pale! Tereesz & Frantiček the Brave: echoes, archetypes, feeling the weight of dead revolutionaries and joining the ICP, the same story happening again, once as tragedy twice as farce… Zigi & Nilsen: ngl I need seven seasons and a movie of these two. The dialectical angle is great, the embodiment of the core dialogue between communism and nihilism, the imaginary frenemy angle is great, the ghost story is great, the concerning amount of applicable Breaking Bad memes is also great, and so on…

FULL CORE STATE NIHILIST

Esteban/Hulio: political posturing and transgressiveness bleeding in and out of actual queerness. Any exploration of nihilist, petrofascist Innocentic seat and global superpower Mesque is welcome, as well as the characters' approach to nihilism vis-à-vis Ambrosius'!

PENTIMENT

Gnaziu/Baltas: I love Baltas' whole thing and seriously what is UP with Gnaziu. I thought I'd missed some plot but he's just… hanging out there? How does he spent his days over at Baltas', in this little village so far away from home… Magdalene & Andreas: post-canon letters, maybe even a collaboration on some book to print? Otto & Ulrich: they were my act 2 faves and I just think they're neat? ;^; to Tassing's martyrs, to their kindness…

Big Bertrude!

i love that bertie immediately assumes hedwyn is hitting on her. she's a hot bitch and she knows it. all the nomads coming up to her in the downside and being like "you are so beautiful also please don't kill me"

the reader gets trolled