stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir
(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)
But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?
so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me
in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone
and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age
but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind
and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind
(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)
"I just see this place as my home"
so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3
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We were thinking of making a small mascot for FAAFictive (this blog) at one point, but I have no idea what that would even be! How would you make a mascot for a blog that reblogs (mostly) jokes that can be fictive related? The idea just came up some time ago so that our icon wasn’t just the flag- but also something else to make this blog visually identifiable.
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Now that I finally got to play TWST diasomnia chapter 1 myself, I'm gonna need everyone who said Malleus was a baby throwing a tantrum for no reason to pay me 2000 dollars each
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i do NOT feel so sigma after drawing this someone kill me
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I
Want to
Play
Minecraf
With
FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!
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I found them!!! Oh it's been too long, my old friends...
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ffxiv sounds interesting but why are all the playable characters either hairless twinks or children. where are the grotesque and or beastly individuals
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yooo,,, guess who did in fact,, cosplay the minceraft fox at night o'clock
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How does one type in big text for discord
well it broke like twenty minutes after i posted that screenshot 😭😭😭😭 so we only got a brief taste of the Big Text, but for whenever they fix it, it works like this:
# text
It only works for one line at a time, and you need the space between the hashtag and whatever text you put down! So if you want multiple lines of big text, you'll have to mark them all separately. Also, while we're here, "- text" will get you bullet points :] once its 💀 working again, ofc 💀💀💀
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everybody moved on, I STAYED THERE! (the 2021 discord server i was in)
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idea for a witcher/homestuck AU. ciri goes to fight the white frost and seemingly defeats it, but something isnt right about it, and for some reason at the center of it all she finds some sort of game with complex instructions right there. she kind of tells herself that it was leftover from some other traveler, who came to the center of all that is to destroy entropy and found themselves lacking, leaving behind only scraps of who they were. but it seems so pristine... could it really be that...? whatever it is, she feels oddly compelled to play it. perhaps as homage to a soul that was lost clutching a game and thinking of joyful times with their family.
(there is no stopping the white frost. entropy cannot be fought back. but how is she to know? when avallac'h told her otherwise? is it so wrong to dare to hope?)
the game is called something silly, like hmlet(like sburb but instead its. hamlet.)
everyone is already gathered, so when they all slink off to nurse their bruises, when theyre all still together, she brings out the game. eskel thinks its a bit grim. lambert thinks its grim, so he's completely behind it. they shuffle through the confusing rules as the first icy, frozen meteor falls far, far away, on the other side of a world that's yet to be fully circumnavigated.
my preliminary cast list idea looks something like:
1. yen (witch of time) (derse)
2. ciri (mage of space) (derse)
3. jaskier (rogue of breath) (prospit)
4. geralt (knight of blood) (prospit)
5. eskel
6. lambert
7. regis (?)
8. avallac'h
9. cerys (?)
10. letho (?)
11. triss
12. zoltan (?)
with question marks denoting placements that are the most up in the air, though i'd REALLY like to keep letho and zoltan on board. im never going to write this but i am going to have fun turning it over in my head and imagining these 12 as fun gods of a new world.
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im unironically playing club penguin again
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WHY DO I ALWAYS LOSE MY KYOUHEI SCREENSHOTS
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I don't understand why some AO3 commenters feel the need to tell an author when they're leaving a fic.
Like, that's fine? Fanfic is free, there's nobody compelling you to finish reading a story you're not enjoying?
I mean, what am I supposed to do with that? I'm sorry my angst-tagged fic has angst in it? I'm sorry that my characters aren't perfect, that it's not all fluff and roses, that sometimes they say and do the wrong things?
Newsflash, the world is FULL of people who say and do the wrong things. Yeah, one of them might deserve better and another one should have made a better apology. Nobody's perfect, including me, and I'm going to continue writing imperfect stories about imperfect people.
For free.
Anyways, this fic has more kudos on it than some of my fics have hits, so, like, obviously some people are enjoying it?? Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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YOU PLAY ARKNIGHTS!??
YEAH NAT ROPED ME INTO IT WITH PROMISES OF A GENSHIN ARKNIGHTS AU, BY WHICH I MEAN THAT SHE STARTED MUTTERING TO HERSELF ABT THE IDEA OF A GENSHIN AK AU, N I WANTED TO HELP WITH HER SPREADSHEETS, SO I STARTED PLAYING TO UNDERSTAND STUFF LIKE ROLE ASSIGNMENTS AND BASE SKILLS, BUT PLAYING AK ITSELF MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A HIGHLY ENRICHED SQUIRREL, SO NOW I PLAY ON N OFF CASUALLY
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