princess tutu au with akechi as rue. no really it just works....... ravens and crows, the raven's blood, doing your father's bidding, desperately clawing for your own agency, struggling against the narrative that wants to doom you............

tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

true detective (2014) / disco elysium (2019)

Look, you gotta appreciate the timing I got for these kinda quests

have you ever thought about making a cicadas skirt?

LITERALLY THAT IS SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABT!!!!!

I watched Avengers: Age of Ultron (apart from I skipped some overly long action sequences) and I am not sure so can someone tell me whether or not Tony Stark was the baddy in that film? Because about halfway through I was sure he was but then it was maybe just an evil robot after all and I am confused because either this film was surprisingly subversive or it was about robots hitting each other.

ogfoofodoxx thinking about how the most defining character trait of haymitch is how protective he is. not in the sense it's the most obvious, but how all of his actions are fueled by this desire to protect. how hard he works at keeping katniss alive in the first games, him fighting to keep them from augmenting katniss's body, him yelling at plutarch to keep finnick from having to share his trauma, him being so involved in peeta's recovery and being the one to bring katniss home. him holding mayslee's hand as she died, fighting for plutarch to stay and rescue peeta, being the one to find katniss and finnick when johanna had an episode, begging coin to believe peeta's warning. it being heavily implied or either outright stated that he was one of the people who fought to protect effie.

makes me physically ill because no one does that for him. everyone who would of, died.

If I die within the next week know it wasnt an accident

im sorry im rewatching Dominion and its so fucking funny. they really brought dimetrodon & lystrosaurus' Permian Asses into it

ive been gone so long! What happened to TRT??!

YOU'RE BACK, YESSSS, OH MY GOD, I'd wondered where you'd gone but didn't know how to check! I'm happy to see you again!

Nothing's happened to TRT, fortunately! It's still going, and we're up to Chapter 156 at present. I'm also 50k words away from that special shiny 1 mill wordcount! If I had to separate it all, I'd say it's about 5 books long now.

Got Charlie to hold the other end of a red thread at a con this summer for our photo! It is now proudly framed on my wall!

I threw a couple funny TRT-related buttons and stickers up on Redbubble for a few who requested them.

There WAS a large delay in posting just after I met Charlie in June, since I wound up getting covid which took me out for a few months chronic illnesses are lovely. Still recovering and my heart's fucked up, so updating is a bit slower, but it's still happening! Latest chapters posted about a week and a half ago. <3

Meanwhile in the past year, I: lived through the worst blizzard in my city's history and got stuck in my house for about 5 days, got covid from removing my mask for a photo with Charlie at a con, wound up sick with it for a couple months which led to some long covid symptoms and my heart being fucked up - that second one prompting an ER visit and a scheduled visit to a cardiologist in a week, discovered my elderly cat has cancer and is also some sort of mutant with unidentifiable cells that the doctors want to study after his eventual death, had a massive leak in my dining room ceiling that turned into a huge hole because apparently there was a pipe no one ever bothered to replace in the years this house has had plumbing cause that thing was ANCIENT, but I got to meet Charlie and my friends at the con in June, so I got that going for me, which is nice!

One of these days they’ll make an update where it gives you a feedback pop up when u try to unfollow someone

on the topic of… controversial max ships. 4433 is one of the better max ships idgaf!!!

Sméagol and the Gift

'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.

'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'

Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.

When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.

It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.

Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.

If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.

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Philippus? Wym philippus this is a wholeass other woman?????? She's white?????? Guys come on now

ALSO cursed white Euboea in this same sequence.... homeboy she's Asian please stop

Joe Phillips I'm sorry but this is some shitty ass guest pencilling how can you not know anything abt what these people look like thats literally your job... you also just needed to read the issue before this to know?

Editors should have caught this one these are major Amazon characters