Knowing your chaotic dumbass friends so well that you feel confident in ordering a special vulture dimension set and custom graphic for an episode that has exactly zero to do with vultures is a love language unto itself.
was rewatching fabian’s baron moment on account of it being the most delicious piece of pvp in my recent memory and ally beardsley’s growth as a player just shone through so brightly and with such clarity. after dusting off their shock they immediately asked about the nemesis ward, had enough knowledge about fellow pcs stocked to remember adaine’s ac with such like frustrated confidence and certainty, suggested to siobhan to dimension door out of adaine’s room, like. they came into this making a character with 4 dex. and now the dice deity offered to roll a check to sense if adaine was in danger. making decisions, asking questions, getting invested in the story, trying so hard with the tools they have to save characters from danger; ally beardsley is an incredible d&d player.
One of my favorite things about the game's writing of Alhaitham and Kaveh:
The basic game text goes out of its way to convince us that the house is Alhaitham's--it is literally called "Alhaitham's Home" even during Kaveh's hangout.
But in-universe, we never see Alhaitham in his house unless Kaveh is there.
Throughout Sumeru's archon quests, we run into Alhaitham practically everywhere: in Port Ormos, in Aaru Village, in the Akademiya, at the Grand Bazaar. But never, despite the fact that the story wants to sell him as a homebody, in his own home. In fact, the only references we have to Alhaitham's house at all throughout the entire lead up of the archon quests are mentions of Kaveh.
Alhaitham doesn't suggest going there, doesn't ever go home himself (at least that we're explicitly told about) until the end of the archon quests, and has no cutscenes in his own house until Kaveh returns from the desert.
Then, all the sudden, Alhaitham literally can't wait to go home and walks off in the middle of a conversation.
From that point on, every time we're permitted to enter Alhaitham's house, in story quests, the hangout, and the event, it's either when he and Kaveh are together or with Kaveh alone.
Even during Alhaitham's birthday skit of all things, they went out of their way to tell us that Alhaitham's home, so of course Kaveh is there:
The map tag tells us the building is Alhaitham's Home, but the story reinforces a different idea:
i'm not trying to start anything, but i just saw a post criticizing misha collins for not choosing to quit spn when the network was homophobic and he was "profiting from homophobia" and i just think it's kind of... wild? that young people think that a person could just. decide to not work for a prejudiced corporation when they have a family to provide for?
i don't know, i don't even really want to debate or go into it more, but it's just kind of surreal to see opinions from people who weren't there in 2013 when misha collins was literally the only person willing to support not just destiel shippers but actual queer and trans and ace fans. i have no doubt that he saved lives through the care he showed to vulnerable young people who desperately needed to see someone give a damn about them. he's significantly flawed in many ways, but he will always be a saint in my eyes for how much he cared.
like i just don't think that people accustomed to this modern era where hardly anyone blinks over two men kissing on tv can understand what it was like when we were mocked and silenced, when we weren't allowed to breathe the word 'destiel' without getting booed, and misha was the only damn person who spoke up for us. the only one. who was probably risking his job in saying the things he did.
things have changed. that's wonderful. don't judge people surviving previous eras by the standards of today.
thinking about the way ghost doesn't hesitate to start killing shadows when graves betrays them but soap only takes one hostage
you can almost hear the voice in his head telling him it doesn't have to be this way; they can still talk it out
"i'm calling shepherd"
his first instinct when confronted with betrayal is to play it by the books; to go up the chain and sort it out democratically. that goes against everything we've seen him do; he’s quick to drop his enemies and bucks authority at every chance except for the one time he's confronted with the barrels of his allies' guns
he wants a peaceful resolution; for the first time we've ever seen, he doesn't want violence to be the answer
there has to be another fix, a solution that doesn't end with him killing the same men he's been working with; his friends
nothing's happened yet
it doesn't have to go this way
but ghost has been betrayed before. he knows the way this ends; either with him six feet under or his enemy
he doesn't hesitate
it's only when they knock alejandro out that soap shoots; when they spill the first blood and cross a line they can never come back from
only when ghost orders him to run and he has to cover his retreat
and somewhere along the line, between civilians’ screams and taunting voices, between his shaking breath and ghost steady in his ear, that naivety is stripped away; his trust turned to teeth that he uses to sink into throats of men he'd have given his life for
"be careful who you trust, sergeant; people you know can hurt you the most"
he's learned the price of trust
just like ghost did
but unlike ghost, he has someone to guide him through the aftermath
Trigun characters react to you coming out as trans:
"That's SO COOL !!!!!🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯💯 ME TOO 🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯‼️‼️‼️‼️I'm so glad you felt comfortable enough to share that with me...I PROMISE I WILL DO ALL I CAN TO SPREAD LOVE AND PEACE ACROSS ALL OF GUNSMOKE !!‼️‼️‼️!!!‼️!!‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🗣️💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹✨✨✨✨✨💪💪💪💪💪"
".........cock or pussy?"
"I don't know what that means."
"I don't know what that means!"
"So?"
"your feeble concept of "gender" will have no meaning once Lord Knives' plan is finally complete. You will all meet the same fate. He will finally rid the world of such a horrific virus. Your pathetic attempts at self actualizations are simply pitiful."
Hey happy for you but: do you ask people if they're ok with you calling them "dude" before doing it? Or do people have to ask you to not call them "dude"?
Because every single person I've seen with this mentality falls in the latter category.
sometimes I think about how Brennan brought up the Harvestmen, making them a militant hyper-religious apocalyptic cult that was a sect of Helio. and then Ally Beardsley, the amazing person that they are, went ":) oh ok so Kristen has definitely gone to these meetings before."
I'm chewing on Kristen. Everyone leave I need a moment alone.
Who taught her the handshake, did she get those two hours of sleep or did she have to clean, were her friends at church members of the Harvestmen, how many times did she go, did bucky and bricker and cork ever go, how close was she to getting a scarecrow mask of her own, did she feel like she belonged or did she feel alone, was she treated differently because she was the chosen one of Helio or did they take painstaking measures to treat her normal so she didn't find out anything they didn't want her to, did her parents bend the rules for her (just a little, just the handshake.)
i worked a double at the bar today (not scheduled, other bartenders were out of town and the scheduled person was. in the hospital. he's okay dw) and since it was super bowl sunday that's how i mainly centered my small talk w guests. anyways i had a guy sitting at the empty bar around shift change and we started talking about the taylor swift vs. pissy nfl fans dramatics and he told me how him and a few other dad friends were actually really happy taylor started dating an nfl player. at first i was like ??? but he went on to say it got their 10 year old daughters to watch games with them for the first time. they were just pretty stoked to be able to spend some more time with them, teaching em about how football works. i see a lot of "swifties ruin everything we cant even have football now!!" bs and i used to just ignore it bc people will ridicule a woman for any and everything but damn. now whenever i see t swift and travis kelce trending all i'll be able to think about are the dads and daughters having fun together. the dude got 2 stellas btw
Bruh just realized that literally every fan that creates content for buddy daddies ships kazurei or at least sees them to be in a QPR... Lets go gays lets gooo