#im sure its fine

[smallmediumproblems]

Okay now I'm curious- I try to recommend fewer shows that I think are pretty well known these days, but I wonder if most of them are as well known as I think. Here's my list and my question, remember it's heard of not even necessarily listened to:

The Magnus Archives, The White Vault, Wooden Overcoats, The Bright Sessions, Welcome to Nightvale, The Black Tapes, Wolf 359, Video Palace, I Am In Eskew, Archive 81, Two Princes, Midnight Burger, Brimstone Valley Mall, Woe.Begone, Malevolent, Ars Paradoxica, Eos 10, King Falls AM, The Adventure Zone

#audio drama #natch put details in the tags :eyes_emoji: #or whatever shows you think are well known that arent on this list #this is a lie i still recommend BVM and wooden overcoats #and i have never recommended Two Princes because i have not actually listened to it lol #im sure its fine

[pond-eringstuff]

Hey does anyone else remember Karna can take the faces of other people? Me neither

#dimension 20 #the ravening war #karna solara #colin provolone #i was scared to post this #im sure its fine #artists on tumblr #pebble #peep the queen pamela cameo 👏👏

[thisaccountisagainstmywill]

A little prequel to a previous post. And a sequel to a previous previous post.

#how dare he wear dragons that don't look like his boyfriend #dont worry about the white paint #im sure its fine #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gortash #durge #enver gortash #lord gortash #bg3 shitpost #dark urge #durgetash #durge x gortash #i was unhappy with the flow last time i posted this #and now i know how to make animations in krita :)

[cuz-reasons]

Summary: Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. Ring. “This is Ingo. Sorry, I can’t answer at the moment. Please leave a message!” Beep. “Why aren’t you picking up? Call me back if you hear this before we see each other again.” Click.

My completed one shots are piling up again, I gotta get something posted

#submas #subway boss emmet #subway boss ingo #i love playing around with formatting #tho i do hope it makes sense here and doesnt like look bad #im sure its fine #ive already done another short fic with the same type format and that looked fine #anyways to no ones shock #i really like this one #anyways #hope you enjoy!

[orbmanson7]

made a digital version of these doodles

#pacific rim #pacrim #newton geiszler #hermann gottlieb #newmann #uhhh what other tags even are there #anyway i didnt put effort in the first one because i liked the second one more haha but oh well #im sure its fine #doodles #orb cant draw

[dazaijustscrollsfic]

ok ok so uhm the the funeral twitter thing said well the fully decoded image said "LIES" so so it points to Fred being alive and the funeral not being true guys guys hear me out

#qsmp #fred #qsmp fred #copium #im sure its fine #everything is fine fred is alive #anyways so excited for the fanfics for the next couple of days

[c-kiddo]

catching up on cr3 and . 😀 the explosion? arcane accident? fantasy chernobyl that corrupted and transformed the savalirwood happened On an apogee solstice with ludinus present . ok. ok ok

#kiddo say #also exact date now so thats cool - 585PD #(maybe that was known before but idk i cant remember) #im sure its fine #cr lb

[not-sure-what-im-feeling]

trying to write but i have been super light headed all day

#like dizzy and faint #whatever #im sure its fine #i'm just sick rn #anyway i need to work on complimentary

[teknikolor-walters]

Local plural man begins to wonder if she might not be completely mentally sound

#not gonna tag this as vent posting #cuz it aint #im really trying to stay light hearted cuz its they day before my birthday #just getting kinda worried over . some stuff #im sure its fine #itll work out

[darubyprincx]

"'are you the real captainsparklez?' nah dude i just stuffed him in a basement and took his face and really studied his speech patterns but he's been stuck in the basement for the past five years" ?(:&(&/&;@-@:&-:&']+[¥~£|€~?{€[:@/@;;@??????

#ray's tag #the keys watch mianitian isles #OK MAN #SURE #THATS. that would have been funny if he hadnt said it so casually and so quickly. now im just lowkey scared #im sure its fine

[calamitys-child]

Whats the normal amount of blood to be coughing up before a shift at work asking for a friend

#im sure its fine #medical tw #seriously im sure its like. just cause im a bit hoarse and sore and rough. i mostly feel better. i just think its very funny #like im a victorian damsel and capitalism has given me tuberculosis

[rawr-sim]

Jasper's first outing to the park went great 🙃

Clearly Mabel and Aaliyah aren't teaching their kids stranger danger, Yeehaw boy was there and scooped him right up, making a sad baby not sad anymore after he saw his funny hat

#i didnt even invite him... #Im sure its fine #sims #sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #sims 4 gameplay #not so berry #sims 4 not so berry #nsb mint #nsb legacy #gen1 #mint generation #Jasper Crayon #Unknown man

[chaotic-on-main]

Not to be super dramatic (except I am and most definitely pmsing) but do any of y'all feel like you're literally clawing your way through writing a chapter and then you finish it and it's like hooray!! except you actually aren't happy with 80% of it.

Y'all what do I do 😭

#i know its the newbie in me #and i know I shouldn't have persisted the way i did #but i really wanted to write!! #its just the ideas couldn't get out in the paper the way i wanted #the urge to just scrap all 11k words #but then its like #i worked so goddamn hard on it and spent so much time #i think id cry if i just restarted #rambles #me #personal #i havent sat down to revise and edit yet #maybe im just having a period meltdown #im sure its fine #right?? #🙃

[doctor-dt]

whoooo do you think you are? you were killin’ bros for a foreign caaaaar

#HAH you thought this was angst?? no you get a dead meme #sans #frisk #undertale #my art #long post #sans undertale #tw blood #tw injury #somehow i think this has already been done 4 years ago #too bad this exists in 2022 now #btw if ur confused thats like the rest of the hit or miss song #it’s... pretty interesting #god do i tag all of the characters in the 3rd pic??? #im sure its fine

[rohirric-hunter]

So here are more of my thoughts on Barad-dur and how I think it should have been handled. (Full disclosure, I have not done Mordath so this is all based off of the assumption that it's probably good, but not like, groundbreaking.)

To be entirely fair, LotRO usually excels at handling things in an unexpected way, so not taking the obvious route isn't a crime in and of itself; it's just a gamble that in this case didn't pay off IMO.

Barad-dur is so hyped up in LotR, in the books and the films and by extension in LotRO. They can't avoid it. They don't get to opt out. It comes with the territory. So it should have been endgame Mordor content. The player should not have been sauntering in the front door five minutes after getting into Mordor proper. (Udun doesn't count; that was just a tutorial for the new mechanics, of which there are many.) And not just, like, able to go there. There are quests sending you there five minutes after you get into Mordor, like it's no big deal. Broken or no, Barad-dur is still the place where Sauron lived. There should be so much residual evil hanging around there that it should be hard to even get close. I think you get, like, an extra +20 Shadow of Mordor there? Only if you're close to Mordath, though, like it's the only evil place in there. I took a level 106 alt there just to see how much of my experience was influenced by being overlevel and -- bearing in mind this character is a storage alt and has exactly zero Light of Earendil buffs -- Meh. It's whatever.

Honestly, in my opinion not having a hard mechanic preventing you from getting anywhere near it before finishing the appropriate story beats a la the Rammas Deluon was an extremely bold choice.

Also isn't Dulgabeth supposed to be holed up in here? Why does he let you just walk in? It makes no sense. Not to mention the Order of the Eye who, while they aren't really particularly intimidating on their own, ought to have mustered a bit more to protect Sauron's home and possessions from invaders.

Also, as far as design goes, it's just extremely small. These are the dungeons of Sauron? Really? Did he ration the number of prisoners he wanted to keep around at a time or something? There aren't even that many places where other locations could have been but are blocked off by the collapse; with the exception of the path to the right immediately after you enter, everything else is pretty much complete, indicating that this was the basic intended design and layout for the place. Sort of paints Sauron as a very non-ambitious individual when it comes to dungeon designs, which is obviously wrong. And to have one of the select few prisoners that Sauron decided to keep close by (because he only built himself like 15 cells) be Some Dwarf -- no shade to Vaskmun and the Stout-axes, but there's no way Sauron thought they were that interesting or important.

Also it should have been involved in the main quest beyond the one instance.

All of these problems are solved by just making Barad-dur bigger, with multiple interiors. There's no way the dungeons of Barad-dur didn't extend for miles under the plains of Gorgoroth, cut into twisting tunnels in the volcanic rock and holding hundreds upon hundreds of poor prisoners of all sorts. And I would say that sounds far too deeply unpleasant to actually build into a video game except clearly it doesn't to them, because they built Naerband, and the dungeons of Dol Guldur. So have the fall of the tower have damaged these tunnels, but not destroyed all of them, and the section of the prisons that Vaskmun was held in had been cut off, and was accessible from the surface through some collapsed passageways. The plot of the Stout-axe questline remains pretty much unchanged. There could also be a handful of other sections of prisons available as public dungeons.

The first time the player accesses Barad-dur proper ought to be sneaking in through the Mordath-pit with Gimli, and after facing the glamour you retreat exactly the way you came in. The way things are written, with the player having been frequenting Barad-dur for funsies for days, Gimli feels a bit fainthearted at his quick retreat, and that of course is a bad portrayal.

Another issue with the Mordor main plot that this would solve is the startling absence of Gothmog. If he's referenced in sidequests I'm not sure, but in the main questline Gothmog beats a hasty retreat off the Pelennor and then is referenced extremely vaguely once by Lhaereth (if I didn't already know things about Minas Morgul I wouldn't even have known who she was talking about) and doesn't come up again until Gandalf finds references to Earnur in the Black Book. That's not really a great Presence for someone who is, arguably, the whole subject of the titular Black Book, and it's not a plausible amount for the PC to be thinking about him.

So just before leaving Mordor, the PC is sent to Barad-dur, perhaps having to find a way to get inside first. Maybe Ugrukhor took over Dol Guldur after Dulgabeth's betrayal and you're sent there to find information about his hunt for Karazgar. And while you're there, you find Gothmog, who was not so lucky as to make it scott free back to Minas Morgul, but was imprisoned by Sauron to be punished for turning tail and running. The punishment, however, was never meted out, given Sauron's quick defeat afterward, and the PC's actions in Barad-dur inadvertently free him, and he flees back to Minas Morgul, where he still has some measure of power. This would satisfy the Barad-dur hype problem, by making it proper endgame content like it should be, the Gothmog problem, by having him be briefly involved earlier than in canon for thematic reasons and to remind the player that he exists, and the dungeon problem, by putting a more important prisoner in the cells closest to Sauron's inner sanctum. (Once again, no shade to the Stout-axes but I don't really feel like 'the dude Saruon took it out on when his dragon thing failed eighty years ago' should be one of like three prisoners in his inner sanctum, especially since he had other dragon projects in the works. It's not like Smaug was his only shot at that.)

Anyway. That's the way I would have written it.

#lotro #mordath could still be attached to barad dur proper but youd have to access it from the pit outside the tower #put a port there #also like i guess i didnt really address mordath like i meant to #im sure its fine #but uhhhhhhhh look #'the raid isnt barad dur the raid is saurons hoarding basement' has big supernatural energy #in like a bad way #'were not fighting the devil anymore were fighting the devils cousin whos more evil' #'its not saurons actual house its saurons hoarding basement which is more evil' #also i feel like they were trying too hard with the high elf thing #its nice when the plot ties into the racial intros but like. big marvel energy #also in a bad way #'wink wink nudge nudge remember that guy from earlier? well hes here now' #im not saying its bad im just saying it shouldnt be as big of a thing as it is

[soggypotatoes]

went to Bunnings to get a recycling bin

came out with 4 cans of spray paint + protective gear + 4 succulents + a lamp + a metal ant

#ed mumbles #im gonna spray paint the bin #do you think ill get yelled at if i do it at the small park across the road #its v small not a park really #just a big grass square #ill put a tarp down ofc #i simply dont have anywhere to do it #im sure its fine