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pinnithin · 8 months

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enver gortash fascinates me from the perspective of his relationship with the dark urge because like, as far as i know his alliance with them is one of the very few he didn’t actively despise. the guy was sold into slavery by his own parents (who tried to justify it by saying their child was a hateful monster and anyone would have done the same) and spent his formative years employed by a devil who gets off on gratuitous levels of suffering and manipulation. and then once he's escaped that and built himself up so he can never be used and enslaved again he meets this bhaalspawn who also had to adapt and survive a violent and manipulative environment for years by becoming the monsters who raised them.

gortash sees how the dark urge has risen to command armies and slaughter hundreds in the same way he outfoxed raphael and ruthlessly controls the people in his employ, and after earning and owning his reputation as a tyrant heres another person who might actually have like, a shared lived experience. not exactly a friend, because people like them can't afford to have friends, but someone who at least understands. and he willingly works with them on this plan to enslave the sword coast and agrees to share power with them.

and then orin lobotomizes them, puts a tadpole in their head, and leaves them for dead at moonrise.

like, can you imagine. youre working with the first person you see eye to eye with and prooooobably arent plotting to actively sabotage (or, at least would hesitate to do so) and the rug just gets yanked out from under them by their own sister, and now you're stuck with her because the plan still has to move along. and as the days go by a group of adventurers start to screw up your plot right when baldur's gate is within your grasp, and you learn that among them is your old almost-friend who you actually liked and respected - and they have no memory of you whatsoever. oh, and on top of that they're rolling with people you've actively fucked over and want to kick your ass.

did it hurt for him to learn this? did he ever think about how things could have been different? did he think, you were supposed to be my ally, my friend, someone who actually understands that becoming a monster is the only way to keep yourself safe and in control. we were going to rule together. and now you're ride or die with this squad of people you've only known for a few weeks at best, and you want me dead. you don't even remember me. you don't even remember yourself.

#thinking about it from my durge's perspective hurts kinda #because losing their memory is the only thing that freed them enough to trust the people around them #and after meeting gortash and learning their history - and how they used to be friends #they probably thought a lot about how things could have been different if there wasnt a literal elder brain under his enslavement #like man if you werent actively in the way of saving the literal world maybe we could have talked about this #if i can overcome a lifetime of senseless slaughter and learn to love i wonder if you can too #but we'll never know #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #the dark urge #enver gortash #im sure someone has talked about this already but ive just been thinking about it a lot ig #the what-if-ness of it all #long post #pin talks #bg3 gortash

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bawmbo · 8 months

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inktobertale 23! (day 2)

a little bit late! and i will not be finishing this one, was my warm up of the day and got a little distracted throughout the day (shaking fist in unmedicated adhd) BUT that is cross (from XTale)! with his head shoved into a pumpkin!

#inktobertale #inktobertale2023 #inktobertale day 2 #and hopefully i'll finish today's (day 3) this time #but we'll never know #< you never know when your brain is comprised of several different unknown things #< and not the lumpy beast that is actually supposed to be in your skull

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jackredfieldwasmyjacob · 3 months

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this is my most thinked about 'what if' honestly, my roman empire i fear

#not even in a positive or negative way it's just. i'm genuinely curious of what would've happened if the administrative division was like th #this #probably nothing good given a lot of nations cultures and peoples are mixed #and it would've probably started a civil war #but we'll never know #i'm glad that at least i don't have to say 'yeah i'm from the manzanares prefecture'#cause that's so cringe #i think it's fun that manzanares has two subprefectures. sure let's give alcalá its space

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imakemywings · 1 year

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Any discussion of Elwing’s relationship with the Silmaril is frankly worthless if it doesn’t take into account that she believed it was protecting Earendil on his quest and that the decision not to surrender it to the Feanorians was not made by Elwing alone but by her and the people of the Havens.

#like for sure I think she had personal feelings about it #as it's very easy to see how she might consider it part of her and her family's heritage #even more so after the slaughter of her immediate family and the destruction of her home #and while it's not how I see it you could argue she was influenced by the Silmaril itself #but to me it's deeply disingenuous to pretend those are the only things at play #The people of the Havens believed they had practical reasons not to give up the Silmaril #and it wasn't even a hard stop refusal #but a ''we can't do this while Earendil is away''#maybe that was an excuse and they would have refused even after Earendil returned #but we'll never know #elwing #the silmarillion #tolkien tag #elwing defense #earendil defense

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bitletsanddrabbles · 2 years

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Oh HEY! I Can Share This Now!

So talking about my shitty pest control job in the last post I suddenly realized: I’m no longer employed there and never will be again. I CAN TELL STORIES!

Okay. So. One thing you learn very, very quickly when you answer phones at a pest control service (or are in any job involving people and animals) is that people know nothing about animals.

Seriously. Not a damn thing. I mean, for example, they get the idea of ‘cat’, but the concept that a ragdoll and a bengal have inherently different personalities, grooming needs, space needs, etc. is a completely foreign concept. In pest control this means that people do not understand that there are some basic differences in how roof rats and Norway rats* function and therefore how you got about getting rid of them, while basically the same - exclusion, baiting, trapping - still requires some fine tuning. You are probably not going to trap roof rats by tossing four traps under the house. And your exclusion points are going to be unique to your house.

In short, beware of any company that gives you a treatment and a price over the phone. They are either one size fits none or that price is going to change radically**. I’d even be leery of ‘ballpark figures’. Now, there are different ways to handle pricing that are more ethical - my company did free investigations, another company I know charged for the investigations, but subtracted that from the total if you went with them - there are pros and cons to everything. Just know that if you call in and say ‘I have ants’ and they say ‘That’ll be $50, we’ll be out tomorrow’ you might wanna get a second opinion.

This is especially true of insects, because there are thousands - plural! - of ant species and they do not act the same!

(Okay, this is getting very long for one, short, stupid story, but bear with me. You need to know all of this to feel my pain at the end.)

The chemicals that will quickly get rid of one ant problem will make another ant problem exponentially worse. Now, if you’re a biologist who knows your ants and have nests in areas where you can get to them easily, etc, pretty much any ant can be easy to get rid of. If they’re in your walls, though, you need to at least make sure you have the right damn type of ant! And all ants like sugar, so don’t tell the pest control people you have ‘sugar ants’. That’s not informative at all!

You need your ants (or cockroaches, those are the other biggies) keyed out. The pest control people need to look at the animal, look for species specific traits that frequently require a magnifying glass, and figure out what, exactly, we’re dealing with.

One of the biggest bugbears in that job was people who wanted us to key things out over the phone. I mean, first off, yes, I had a license, but it wasn’t an inspector’s license, it was an operative’s license. Asking me to key crap was like asking an algebra person a question on advanced calculus. And I was the only person in the office who bothered getting a license, so everyone else was even more useless. But above and beyond that, you could not tell me what I needed to know! You couldn’t! Even with Norway vs. roof rats, unless you were very familiar with both species, the identifying traits were so subjective it was insane! Is it larger or smaller? Is the nose pointy or blunt? Are the ears large or small? Are you sure the ‘baby rat’ isn’t a fully grown mouse?

Can’t be done!

But boy howdy, there were people who were determined! They just had to have me try! And the more determined they were, the fewer brain cells they had.

The most memorable one was the lady who had caught a spider. She was concerned it might be a medically important spider and so she wanted it IDed. Now, while there are hundreds of spider species in this state, most of them are not of medical interest. Black Widows. Yellow Sacs. Hobo Spiders, which have actually been taken off the ‘medically important’ list due to lack of evidence. That’s it. But there has been at least one case of a brown recluse being imported and biting someone. I know because it was a relative of mine who caught the spider and took it to the hospital with her! So I could not, in all good consciousness, see if it met the description of a black widow or yellow sac and if not say ‘yeah, don’t worry about it’. I said we’d have to get an inspector out there to properly ID it.

She didn’t want to deal with it. She was concerned, but if it wasn’t dangerous, she didn’t want to take the time. “Look, can I just describe it and see if you can tell me what it is?”

Sometimes you just have to humor people. “Okay, describe it and I’ll let you know if it’s something I recognize.”

“Okay! It’s brown and it has eight long, hairy legs. What is it?”

... ... ...

I think what I actually said was “That’s could be any number of species. I’d have to send an inspector.”

What I wanted to say was “Congratulations ma’am, you have a spider.”

In retrospect, she could have been a prank caller. We certainly had enough of them. But honestly? After over seven years working there, I honestly believe she was just that big an idiot.

*which did not originate in Norway. Sorry, Norway, for whoever stuck your name on these rats.

**If they let you know up front that it might change radically, that’s fine. Ballparks are unreliable, but as long as you’re told it’s a ballpark, I will cast no stones.

#pest control #customer service #stupid customers #more about pests than you probably wanted to know #it was probably a giant house spider #but we'll never know

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decepti-geek · 2 years

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Sort of weird having like, really kinda ideal-looking Child Bearing Hips™️ and knowing that I'm never going to use them

#they're abnormally wide which I think would make things relatively efficient?#in theory #but we'll never know

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tempests-bards-and-birds · 2 years

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my friends were able to convince me that my sleep schedule is more important than watching the episode as it airs. so. i will be watching it tomorrow morning (or as soon as possible) instead. so just wanted to let you guys know that i won't be on tumblr until i've seen the episode just in case!

#hopefully i'll be able to watch it as soon as i wake up #but we'll never know #if not then i'll just stay offline for a bit to avoid spoilers #i know that i can block the spoiler tags but there's always gonna be some idiot who doesn't use the correct tags so #just in case

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cacaitos · 7 months

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i think i cracked why the mc of voyeursinc bothers me so much 1. too confident generally 2. too confident in his masculinity what kind of yamamoto main character are you then. i came to the icecream shop and do not expect to recieve greens instead.

#txt #someone is playing hard to get here and it yamamoto were Real he wouldve dealt him the same treatment than his other characters #that are hard to get #but we'll never know #voieurs

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buggachat · 2 months

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