just came across your old “season 3 rayllum wishlist” and let me just say as someone who joined the fandom/the rayllum ship sometime after season 3 came out, I am so happy for all you people who were there since the beginning 🫡👏👏

(we still need those cheek kisses tho)

oh literally, like the immediate post-s1 stuff was all “rayllum being willing to die for each other maybe,” “we want hugs and callum to get over claudia,” “rayla wearing callum’s scarf,” and “callum drawing her” and then s2 went “oh, like it’s hard?” and it just continued and grew from there!!

like literally all we need now is a cheek kiss, another “i love you” exchange maybe, and callum touching her face and i think we’ll be incredibly satisfied

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

Me after watching the FNAF Movie: Haha wow William is kinda hot haha. But I'm only attracted to movie William.

One month later: Okay maybe some fan interpretations of William are hot. But that's it!

Two months later: Why Dave Miller kinda...

Three months later: I think I get why people wanna fuck Springtrap now.

an old face reemerges. (he/they)

wow i really forgot how much the save as draft button meant to me

finally stepped foot on the sacred grounds of miraculous ladybug

Sort of a distant tangent off my post about Ashton, but I'm growing more and more suspicious of the fandom claim that there's no time for small RP moments in Campaign 3. I do think that it's been challenging to get deeper party bonding or serious conversations that aren't about the big philosophical questions they're facing, since those do take much more time; but then I think about Calamity, or Candela Obscura. I can genuinely give you at least a couple paragraphs about pretty much every relationship in the two Circles, or in the Ring of Brass. I can also point to no shortage of small moments between characters in the Mighty Nein Aeor or Vox Machina Vecna endgame episodes, which were all extremely plot-heavy and fast-paced, and D20 consistently nails character relationships in a fraction of the time.

I think it really does come down to, as Brennan Lee Mulligan always says, the character creation phase. Laying down a solid groundwork in which everyone has a detailed, rich backstory and sense of personality and relationship history (in the case of characters who knew each other prior to the start of the series) is absolutely crucial, and even in the case of characters who don't know each other before going in, a good amount of time spent in character creation ensures that it's easier for them to develop those interpersonal relationships on the fly. I know in actual play there's some degree of finding the character as you play, but there are games for which there is a very short runway, and I don't think it ever hurts to do more extensive character prep than the bare minimum. And if there are gaps, I think it also helps to go back and fill those in mid-way, away from the table - Travis clarifying Chetney's backstory being a great example that allowed the history of Chetney and Deanna to feel realized and full, despite only a few episodes.

I'll also be blunt: most of the time when people complain that there aren't moments because the plot keeps moving...they're mad about shipping. Which has always rung hollow to me. It was a common complaint in C2, that no time was taken for character relationships, despite them taking an entire half of an episode for the Beauyasha date and despite no shortage of moments for all three of the other couples (and plenty of platonic moments between friends). The issue was never a lack of time; it was that the characters they wanted to talk to each other didn't actually have the relationship in canon that the fans had dreamed up, and so, when the chips were down, they went to other people.

It takes two seconds to say something like "I hold their hand", even in the middle of plot-heavy adventuring. If someone doesn't say it, it's rarely the GM rushing them; it's the player either choosing not to do so, or not remembering to do so, and either of those is quite revealing regarding how the player feels about that relationship and where it stands in their priorities.

My apologies for the relative lack of share-worthy art lately. Hopefully you will appreciate some living art?

This fabulous large man has been with me for all of 4 days and I love him to death. Please don’t break my heart big guy!

He’s a giant plakat betta with koi/marble/multicolored genetics of some sort. I know these are a huge risk for many reasons, but I found him in my neighborhood, and it turns out I’m a fool after all. I’m looking forward to all the color changing shenanigans. In the meantime, he watches me cook and do dishes.

Please excuse the state of this tank. It’s been through some hard times.

wangxian+fan, I miss youuuuu

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #12

He's Coming to Me ep 8:

Theory of Love ep 9:

Vice Versa ep 8:

for @waitmyturtles 💙

Well friends, here we are! 

As they’ve done last year and the year before, The Drake Family wishes you and yours a very Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!

2021 Drake Christmas Card

2020 Drake Christmas Card

Bonus (lmfao)

So, posts will slow down in the coming days because we’re about to get a blizzard and also gifts.  Hope you all have a safe, healthy and happy holiday season.  You made it this far and that’s the best gift there is!

it's 3am and i still can't sleep so have a cute fact about my partner

we sleep in the same bed, and i tend to get up anywhere from 1-5 times during the night to use the bathroom or get a drink or whatever and any time i come back to bed he's fully stretched out on my side with his arms off the bed like he's looking for me and when i crawl back into bed he makes the softest most content sound and cuddles right up to me and it happens almost every single night and it still makes me teary eyed and emotional

Happy New Year all and hello 2024 ✨

This'll be my first year full-time gamedev + the start of my 30s - looking forward to a new chapter 💜

Here's some lil sketches of the things I'll be working on in the year ahead, namely:

APICO's final update

Mudborne

Something new...