i wrote an outline. it gets fuzzier as it goes. idk if this would actually be good but it seemed fun in my brain
rpg game
ACT 1
somewhat basic rpg set up. ragtag group of adventurers get together and do quests. maybe an adventurer's guild set up? fear of demonic forces attacking? demon king??
MAIN PARTY
the leader. a sparkling, chivalrous knight. even when the party bickers, they believe in his vision. blonde, blue eyed white man. (maybe? might be a little too obvious. maybe throw some silver hair in there) extremely classic stereotypical hero.
the ice queen. main spellcaster of the party. beautiful woman. cold. hard to get along with. her powers are innate, and though her fighting ability is on par with the rest of the team, her powers are stronger than they seem. but hard to control. maybe has an outburst somewhere that shows how powerful she can be. bickers the most with the rogue character.
cleric. short, cute, bubbly. pink hair? the light of the party. bit of a comic relief character possibly. was a woman in my dream. could be a guy, but maybe a generic harem set up in act 1 would make act 2 more interesting?
rogue. in my dream this was a man, but i'm thinking a woman would be more fun. cynical, smart-mouthed, but has a soft side. for all her whining, genuinely wants to save people. maybe attracted to the hero in act 1? the main thing about act 1 that makes this seem less generic is that the story is from the rogue's pov.
most of act 1 is the party settling together and doing quests, maybe finishing one involved story quest that makes the adventurer's guild trust them a little more. maybe people are being abducted from town and our team figures it out? doesn't super matter, mostly just trying to establish characters and dynamics.
once things are settled, a quest comes in. the party goes to investigate a cave where there are rumors. maybe of whispering voices, maybe of strange demonic forms, something. they get there, and they find a demonic army is getting ready to pass through. (there's a cave in that the party doesn't realize. should the player know? not sure) a grand demon attacks them. extremely difficult boss. not sure if it should be unbeatable for cinematic reasons, or should be worthy of the final boss of act 1. either way, it's a hard fight.
at the end of the fight, the grand demon is still alive either way. in a cutscene, she has her last stand, attacking everyone in the party. the ice queen steps up and says she can do something about it. she can freeze the entire cave, sealing the party and the demons in a deathless sleep until help can arrive. (or maybe a time limit if the spell isn't broken?) the hero says to do it. the guild knows they're in the cave. surely help will come. it's difficult. she needs to be held up by the rogue to finish the spell. but she does it.
ACT 2
some time later, i'm thinking about a century later, the cave is reopened. or maybe not? maybe it's still sealed, and the spell just breaks? either way, the heroes and the demon all wake up in a far future, having never been rescued. the demon realizes what happened first. (somehow? maybe some sort of communication with the demon army is interrupted, maybe she has some way of knowing why? does she have a chatlog of her superiors trying to reach her as well as a current time on her demon iphone? lol) either way, she proposes a truce with the disoriented main party. when they find out how long it's been, the party breaks a few different ways.
the hero is fully despondent. everything he knew, everything he was fighting for, is gone. he becomes jaded and miserable. maybe even nasty. eventually leaves the party. (final boss? not sure yet)
the ice queen feels guilty, and isn't sure what she should do to make up for things. it breaks down her cold exterior, but makes her more erratic. cries a lot. tries to help people to the point of causing problems. class change? maybe doesn't want to keep using her abilities? maybe she gets religious and becomes a cleric? (or is the church evil this time? maybe a cleric of a demonic persuasion?) or maybe finds a wizened witch mentor in the woods to help her control herself, and becomes a more rounded spellcaster? hmmmmm
the cleric becomes more hardened. she lost a lot. but she's resilient. a contrast to the hero. do i go with my dream idea of having her go blind? hmm. either way i think i want to change her to a monk. get her punching.
the rogue, who had the least to lose as an orphan who never fit in and hated society, and who also had tons of debt, kind of feels free. takes on the protagonist mantle. keeps the party together. talks her way through the new world. (convinces the still-going adventurers' guild that their ancient id card is some kind of mistake or bullying attempt? like they printed it on old paper? maybe.) starts becoming more attached to the ice queen.
the demon joins the party?? i'm thinking that the new world is somehow more integrated with demon society. maybe the demon king did take over the country, but it wasn't the end of the world. maybe they're just people. maybe they had a genuine reason to end the country's previous government. maybe this realization is what makes the former hero drop out of the party, too in love with his dream of defeating the demon king to live in this new society. the new demon party member acts as ambassador and lore dumper. maybe takes over the hero's role in battle? maybe a tank? maybe she wore giant badass armor during the act 1 boss battle. oooo
act 2 is spent readjusting to the new society. maybe it has different technology? maybe it's more modern. hero leaves partway through main story quest. honestly, the dream ends about here.
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ACT 3 (?)
maybe the hero has gathered up some kind of army? maybe he stole a powerful artifact in act 2 before he left? idk! all i know is the rogue and the ice queen get together. and maybe the demon and the cleric do too?? maybe it's unrelated to the hero???? maybe there's a complicated political plot in act 2 that leads you to realize that even though integrated demon+human society is good, the demon king is a problem??? down with the monarchy???? in this future maybe the hero comes back at the last minute and fulfills his destiny as the slayer of the demon king????? or maybe he does in his bad arc????????? WHAT IF TWO ENDINGS.............? based on rogue dialogue choices and doing certain sidequests that help the hero understand that demon society is fine actually.............................? who knows!
EPILOGUE
rogue and ice queen elope to a tropical island (?????)
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because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.
you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.
you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.
don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.
if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.
you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:
how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!
aren't you happy yet?
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how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)
there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~
I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant
url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first
url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order
url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes
url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc
url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly
url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant)
the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog!
caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks.
if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else
if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims)
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Bisan is calling for another global strike!
I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.
What a global strike would look like is:
calling in sick to work
purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can
putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!
For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!
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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.
Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!
Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.
You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).
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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.
They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.
Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!
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