Ineffable plan this and ineffable husbands that. Doesn't it all just mean fate? And what about being able to choose your own fate huh?

If none or something else, feel free to expand! I wasn't able to do more options.

I would love to hear your opinions on this topic whether you were able to choose one of the actual options or not, so feel free to share!

Could Johnnyboy fans tell me about the ship’s appeal (apart from they’re besties and cute together) because I really want get into the ship but it just doesn’t click for me

obsessed w characters who believe deeply in their chest that they are monsters before they even become it

It's funny how people once pointed out how Edelgard would say to Byleth that she didn't think that they belonged on the path that put them on her side - that Byleth wasn't meant to be here - to show off why CF was like. Not good. Because even the lord of the route is trying to tell the player that uhhh Byleth doesn't belong here, they're supposed to be on the other routes. Which checks with how the devs said that SS is the route the world-building is based on, and how within the game itself CF directly goes against SS' world-building.

It's like. It's like a pretty clear wink wink nudge nudge that the player Dun Goofed and was on the Bad Route with the Red Emperor who mows down any in her way. And which is further backed up by all the the bad implications in CF endings... and its mural... and throughout the story... and the explore dialogues... and Byleth's (and other characters') visible character regression...

But Edelstans have looked at that clear-as-day red flag through some damn fine rose-tinted glasses, and have completely turned that intent around. Nooo, we've got it all wrong, that wasn't any sort of nudge to the player that they're on the wrong path - that's Byleth defying their fate! That's them challenging what was meant for them to go down, and them forging their own path forward through the choices they made!

...Ignore how, if CF is an available route to go down, that would intrinsically make SS a choice as well. Because it is no longer the default in that scenario; one has to make the active choice to still side with the Church over Edelgard. Meaning, like. There is no fate to defy here.

...And ignore how this makes it sound as though this is the only choice Byleth makes about something in the game at that point. There's, well, AM and VW to consider, but even being a saint and ignoring the biggest flaw in this argument, there's still like. The Sealed Forest. You know, that moment when Byleth, not the player, chose to do something, of their own volition, and even against the wants of Rhea (the stand-in for fate, according to Edelstans)? Real funny how that never seems to ever be a factor in Edelstans' arguments about why Byleth needs Edelgard to learn how to make choices - they can do it just fine.

Just like they, Byleth, and not the player, chooses to side with Rhea and not Edelgard as the "default."

Like they NEVER seem to see that as a possibility! That Byleth CHOSE to side with Rhea! They say that's Byleth *~submitting to the whims of fate~* instead of giving Byleth any agency, because that would mean that Byleth would by default choose to defy Edelgard.

But you know what character does attribute Byleth's choosing Rhea as a result of their willful choices and agency?

I refer to an old screenshot:

The game is the one that is saying that Byleth actively and deliberately chose to go onto SS. Not only does nothing in the game support the idea that choosing Rhea/SS is something outside of Byleth's control/a result of strictly fate and nothing else, it literally says the complete opposite. But Edelstans are so hard-set on believing that Byleth can't be anything without Edelgard that they, ironically enough, force them to be by her side and deny any agency Byleth may have that takes them away from her. It's just... a sight to behold really lmao

lazy scribbling of my baldur's gate 3 characters

Ngl seeing y'all's renegade interceptor ocs kinda makes me wanna create one of my own...

The Road Not Taken 

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

remind me to draw Mika art at some point before she leaves,, thank you

no one look at me i'm thinking about the parallels between camp half-blood having very few campers who are adults bc most demigods don't make it that long vs. the only non-higher up sorcerers in jjk being younger than thirty bc most sorcerers don't make it that long--

let me have two seconds to rant about akechi. for one, his living circumstance was not great. shido in no way supported him, or his mother, thus she was alone in raising him and supporting him. this, was the initial moment of realising his father was absent in his life.

when his mother died he was passed around the foster system, which means each experience he had with a family would have been transitory, nothing ever lasted, if it was by his fault or another fact idk but there was no space for even a semblance of healing from his grief or an opportunity to form an attachment to anyone else. his father views him as nothing, an inconvenience, a useless piece of refuse that he didn't want anything to do with and this has been instilled him in since the day he was able to form a thought about his father. he has worked tirelessly, endlessly to prove that he's worthy of love from someone. his foster families, his father. anyone. | the way he envies joker and the others is because he could never have that. he doesn't even have an identity of his own. the sole thing that kept him clawing his way up the ranks and towards his father was hatred. it's all he's ever known. the festering hatred for his father was the impelling force that kept him going, the only thing that was keeping him upright. if he hadn't harboured that hatred, hadn't let it be his driving force he probably wouldn't have made it as far as he had. he cannot form meaningful bonds because he doesn't have anything other than his hatred. he spent so much of his life in the depths of despair that he possibly didn't even have respite or indulgence in the way of hanging out and having fun with others until he spent time with joker and the others so.

something abt realizing you're listening to someone sing for the last time really hits in an awful way

the fire emblem franchise makes it so hard for me to convince people fire emblem games are good and worth playing. i promise. i promise theres good ones. theres so many good ones. please ignore the toothpaste person. please ignore the babyrealms. please.

     THEODORE seems to have dozed off in his chair. He looks like he’s about to topple over about any moment.

oh i also talked a lot about fire emblem today. specifically whether i was planning to buy Engage or not. verdict is: Probably, considering reviews say the tactics gameplay is really rich & that's like 80% of why i enjoy playing fire emblem. so yes i am not a fan of the character designs. but i will probably buy it. at some point.

i went to gamestop after work to see if i could find it but didnt see it and INSTEAD i saw 2 games for relatively cheap. so i got those instead.

cont here! x @silver-strings-of-fate

She adjusts her glasses, god it's been awhile since she's worn them but quite frankly? She hadn't felt like putting them in today, so she opted for her simple glasses instead.

" It accomplished KEEPING you from dying did it not? That's another accomplishment. And besides, you all worked through it in the end right? So I don't see the big deal. I'll do as I please thank you, if I want you to not die? Then I'll save you, simple as that."

Besides, even I'm not entirely sure I died.

But she wasn't going to tell him that, no. She's not cruel enough to get his or anyone else's hopes up, for even she isn't sure on her status of life in their true reality. And that was the cruelest thing she could do to him she's certain.

A scoff leaves her mouth at his words, he doesn't have the right to dictate whether or not he's worth her time or life, that's her choice and her choice alone. And she's chosen to believe that he's highly worthy or her life, more than he likely thinks. In fact if he knew? He'd wonder if she'd finally gone crazy.

" I care because you mean a lot to me whether you like it or not. I don't truly owe you an explanation beyond that. "