romancing gale as astarion origin is SO fun bc gale is SO into the blood and murder. starts off being like "you remind me of my cat bc you have sharp teeth" and then in act 2 he's all "uh is it normal to get uh really horny after battle" and now astarion just ascended and this man was like "you seem sharper, hungrier. i quite like it" yeah i bet you do you battle horny freak (affectionate).
That's what I plan to do too. And then another Astarion evil run with only Shadowheart, Lae'Zel and Minthara, Astarion's angels. XD
romancing gale as astarion origin is SO fun bc gale is SO into the blood and murder. starts off being like "you remind me of my cat bc you have sharp teeth" and then in act 2 he's all "uh is it normal to get uh really horny after battle" and now astarion just ascended and this man was like "you seem sharper, hungrier. i quite like it" yeah i bet you do you battle horny freak (affectionate).
Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"
And I'm like...
A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?
B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.
C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.
i feel like the boeing whistleblower case should radicalize more people. a major airline company is producing planes with less and less regard for safety and it's starting to get noticeable. man takes them to court, which would reduce profit at the cost of public safety. he fucking dies the night that boeings legal team asks him to stay an extra day. if nothing happens about this, i hope it gets through to people that america would literally kill you for a few extra cents
“But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.”
— Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (via becoming-vverevvolf)