I was rewatching the adventuring academy episode with Connie Chang.

Y'all know that moment where they say

"You can fireball the skelleton king away, but you can't fireball you daddy issues my beloved ❤"

WELL ACTUALLY

You can't

BUT

You can fireball your dad.

And if that's not beautiful I don't know what is.

FIREBALL GAL!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

(and then a version with her original colours)

you’ve heard of Ancano, now get ready for

ancanito :)

Bunch of skrunkle's ✨

I've seen people criticise triangle strategy's golden route as too convenient, too naïve, and one time as "the centrist choice", and I couldn't disagree more.

sure, it's annoying that you can only get the perfect option if you make some very specific choices earlier, some of which really don't fit together (I can't imagine why someone who would otherwise so consistently choose the (feasible) moral option would so easily choose to help smuggle salt with no knowledge of who's buying it or why). and it's extra annoying that roland's and benedict's absolutely disgusting takes are just swept under the rug like that.

but the fact that serenoa refuses to pick one of three questionable options because they're the ones presented to him, comes up with a way to deal with every issue at hand, and then convinces everyone else it can't not be attempted simply because it seems hard? I really, really loved that. I don't think there's anything centrist about it, I don't think it's so convenient if feels like a reach, and I don't think it's too naïve for a video game. maybe things would never work out like that in reality, but I don't subscribe to the idea that stories have to be as bleak as reality is or might seem, and if anything I think it's better when they aren't.

TLDR my smart kind and brave video game blorbo isn't a dirty centrist and there's nothing wrong with a happy ending 😤

SAW AN OPINION ON TWITTY A FEW DAYS AGO AND WOKE UP TODAY MMMMAD AS FUCK ABOUT IT. I UNDERSTAND GILLION TIDESTRIDER MORE THAN YOU AND I WWWWWIILLLL PROVE THAT IN THE RING OF HONOR. COME HERE. COME OVER HERE.

Spice Cabinet is going to die and I could not be more excited.

Okay, so: the boss got delayed because of the weather (Jimmy tried to tell him, I guess, but whatever) but Spice Cabinet did eventually see him. Apparently thought it was Batman at first, which, honestly, is the Knight's own fault there. But he did see him.

-Antoine

okay but I am still just delighted at how the Rosebird date night flashback recontextualizes just about every Raven scene in V5

like for instance, it makes very clear that her conversation with Leo is saying a lot more about her than it is about him, even outside of “You did what you had to do to survive, there’s no shame in that”:

(sure, Raven)

But as we saw at the beginning of the volume, Salem doesn’t actually have anything on Leo, he’s just scared of her; if she were blackmailing him she would have mentioned that too:

It’s Raven she actually has something on, because they’ve met before and it went horrifically. Remember how Salem words her instructions to Cinder before dispatching her to Mistral:

Sending her followers right to Raven’s doorstep is basically telling her, “Knock, knock, asshole, remember what you let me do to your wife? Want to see me do it again?”

Raven does Not want to see her do it again, and so she attempts to Xanatos Speed Chess her way out of it

unfortunately she sucks at all kinds of chess

Listener: What's wrong?? I heard screaming

Alphonse: Seth got hurt and we didn't have rubbing alcohol

Seth: He used whiskey to clean it

Alphonse: Fireball, to be specific

Whenev I get the “burning fingertip” symptom, I should be allowed to cast Fireball at will

Point and OBLITERATE

playing around with the idea of nature vs nurture but for magic classes.

My at home covid remedy? One of these at 10:35 am but I left it in the freezer for a while so it has the consistency of a slushy

me after buying whisky simply because it was on sale (<- cannot resist a sale) even though i know i don't like most whisky: I don't like this :(

SASHA if you recommended me one film ..thats not twilight. what would it be

VISI luv hi!!!! i'm the worst person to ask sorry bc before castaigne hacked my new years resolutions 2023 i was living like a nun literally the only movie i watched in the past like 7yrs was call me by your name.....

Hi :) do you like or listen to fiction podcasts?

i don’t know if this counts as fiction but i listen to quite a few d&d podcasts. on account of my sophistication 😌

my favourites are Flintlocks and Fireballs (regency-adjacent fantasy world. amazing characters) and the Aerois campaign by High Rollers (also check out their Curse of Strahd one. their DM is rlly cool)

in terms of actual fiction i recently started The Silt Verses which is genuinely the most caspercore thing of all time. it’s horrific and profound and wet with blood & seawater. 10/10

aside from that though i’m a podcast barbarian (as the british would say)

if you have any recs though i would love to hear them! 😁

Just took the most needed shower on earth…