#lol this was p easy to do

[constantvariations]

A trend in Astarion fics that I find bizarre is the idea that he's never been treated gently during sex. This is difficult to believe for one simple reason: some of Astarion's victims were virgins.

Astarion: You were handsome. Shy. You'd never been kissed. Sebastian: You taught me how. And then you destroyed me.

I get the desire to make his current partner special by having their sex be good and wholesome in comparison to his other trysts, but this is a flawed sentiment. The cutscene of that first night together is incredibly tender from the kiss to laying on the grass - the only outlier being if you offer your neck - and if you sleep with Astarion but keep it at that night, Astarion himself says he will never forget you. Not because the PC was uniquely gentle with him in bed, but because they were the first person he ever slept with of his own free will. It's his choice that makes that night special to him moreso than anything the PC may or may not have done during that time.

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion ancunin #astarion #the only exception i have to this is rimming. im down so bad for him being overwhelmed from being eaten out its not even funny #also the blood drinking since that is canonically new. makes me wonder how not being hungry would specifically affect him during sexy times #it's an eat or be eaten out world #...anyway #other factors can and probably do make their adult fun times special for him. particularly the intricacies of personal dynamics #a night w a pc that listens to him. lets him drink often. and saves the tiefs is def more special than one w a pc who does none of those #i really enjoy the tension between his hating heroic types and them being the most likely to provide the things he needs to survive #oh and smth thats somewhat related to this #i don't think astarion ever let his conquests see his back #in the clearing he's always facing his partner and even the camera doesnt show his back until the dramatic reveal #given that his victims were all one night stands it'd be p easy to convince each of them to do it face to face #leaves plenty of positions and ftf is oft more romantic which could def be an interesting conflict for him and his lover #so many common gestures of affection have been ruined for him. theyre just motions at best now #that makes it easier for their faces to be ingrained in his head so. bonus trauma lol

[mermaidsirennikita]

"he reaches out to protect the heroine..."

:)

"... and the two small children in her care"

:(

#romance novel blogging #lol there are so few authors that do children effectively for me #like... lorraine heath is one #very few others #it's getting to the point where i'm almost just not even trying kid books from my faves #bc there's a strong chance that i just won't enjoy it #even the IAD book with a kid is like my least favorite IAD book #what's funny is that technically the heroine i'm writing is a mom? #but to be fair she isn't one until p late in the book #and babies are easier to keep off-page #and i'm deliberately writing a heroine who LOVES her baby #but does not find motherhood easy or natural #and like takes advantage of the privilege of having nannies #and feels kinda bad about it but is overall like i am a loving mother but being a mom isn't my favorite role #bc idk i think that's important #especially when you're writing a historical wherein motherhood wasn't always something women could opt out of #and especially in this day and age #to have heroines who like do accept motherhood and do love their kids #but aren't like... 'oh this is my favorite thing in the world' #like she's a solid mom and she's a loving mom but would she be a mom TODAY? if she had options? who knows #anyway that's another thing i just really don't often have time for kids and parenting in romance

[dhmis-autism]

my yellow guy playlist is my longest and also best one, and it also CANNOT be on spotify bc its missing half the songs for it! sad!

#still on a playlist/fanfic kick bc theyre fun easy things to do without straining my wrist #literally. ive shared p much all my playlists here yeah? yall know. #i have a post in my drafts abt my fanfic recs actually lol #just stuff i read that i just TOTALLY loved and thought wasnt completely ooc #ANYWAYS. CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE THEY DONT HAVE THE LEMON DEMON EVERYBODY LIKES YOU REMIX ON SPOTIFY? FUCKED UP #anyways. duck only has like 4 songs on his and YG has 12. im NOT joking. #my postings

[orcelito]

hey since i have access to all my phone's photos much more easily, check out my old violin

got it from my great uncle, who said it belonged to His grandpa. so we r looking at like 4 generations up here. he gave it to me in 2010 ish bc im the only person in the family that plays violin lol. & being in middle school, i named it Star :')

it still plays well, too! not my default for when i play bc i use my newer violin for that. but i still value her greatly

#speculation nation #ive posted these pics here but not in a whiiiiiiile. like over 2 years i think #which Oh Yeah i play violin. well. not so much these days. but i used to play for like 8 years #im just bad at sticking to it outside of the structure of being in an orchestra :p #but sometimes i pick it up again. i still can play. im just very out of practice lol #my left wrist has unfortunately lost a lot of its flexibility #cant turn it as far as i need to for easy playing. i need to get back into practice for that skjdflskdj #once upon a time tho i was 4th chair in the advanced orchestra of my high school #so In Theory i was the 4th best violinist out of 3 orchestras in a school of like 2k kids #i used to be Pretty Damn Good honestly. ive got great finger dexterity. unfortunately i mostly use it for video games these days #someday i do wanna join a community orchestra or something. someday... #anywys look at my violin. aint she pretty? i own an electric violin too. 3 violins. they mostly sit in a big chest sldkfjsldfj #safe and sound from the nightmare kitties

[extremelyputridfishbreath]

Jet Black Paradise Attack

one day, a humble janitor is visited by a strange penguin from a better world, claiming that they know him and that where they were from, he was a respected agent.

in an increasingly colder world where the leads and top agents of the EPF have been captured, will he beat the seemingly impossible odds and save the island from herbert in a homage to lime green dojo clean?

read it here!

#club penguin oc #club penguin ocs #club penguin #VERY fun doing this even though i had to keep googling rhymes for some words lol. ok now for further taggies #extremely putrid fanfics #rolly #gambit #herbert p. bear #dot the disguise gal #puffle handler #rookie #aunt arctic #gary the gadget guy #klutzy #<- implied; his name isnt dropped. but i think its easy to tell :)

[coquelicoq]

i completely solved a cryptic crossword for the first time the other day! this is huge for me because i've always been so annoyed by them lol. but i kinda get it now, it is very satisfying to figure them out.

that said, there are several answers where i still do not totally understand the clues. if anyone who is familiar with cryptics (sometimes just called "crosswords" outside of the US) wants to help me out, i'd be very interested to hear your take!

this cryptic was in the 2022 puzzle mania edition of the nyt (released at the very end of the year), so if you are planning to solve it and haven't yet, i guess don't read this? lol. since i waited five months to do it i feel like that will apply to no one, but just in case.

i realized after drafting this post that the answer key is available online (here), but it did not actually answer my questions in every case, so i've kept my original text but added the answer key answer after each one in case it makes more sense to you than it does to me.

13A. Has misgivings about deception to an auditor (4): RUES. so "has misgivings about" is the definition of "rues". but i don't know what "deception to an auditor" is doing. could it have something to do with the fact that "rues" is a homonym and anagram of "ruse", a kind of deception? but i still can't figure out what "to an auditor" is for.

the answer key gives "homophone ruse" for this, so i guess i was right about the deception part, but i still don't get the auditor thing.

14A. A con almost grabs actor's awards left unbalanced (10): ASYMMETRIC. so EMMYS is hidden backwards in "asymmetric", which takes care of "actor's awards" and "left", and "asymmetric" means "unbalanced", i guess. so that leaves "A con almost grabs", along with the A and TRIC of the answer. i can't figure out how to make those relate to each other.

answer key says "a(symmE)trick – k (rev. Emmys)". fuck does that mean?? why are we subtracting the k? and i'm still not really sure what the con is there for?

26A. Concentrate for spare and strike (5): THINK. "concentrate" is the definition of "think". what is the "for spare and strike" doing??

answer key: "thin + K". okay i see how thin = spare but wherefore this K? does K stand for strike in baseball? that sounds vaguely familiar...

28A. African country returned Los Angeles family inheritance (7): SENEGAL. senegal is an african country, and it's also an anagram of angeles. i'm guessing the "returned" is a clue for the anagram? but what is "family inheritance" for? oh wait, senegal backwards is LA genes!! but then is it just a coincidence that "angeles" anagrams to "senegal", or is that indicated in the clue somewhere???

answer key: "rev. L.A. + genes". okay so it does sound like angeles being an anagram of senegal is a coincidence, or at least not covered in the clue?? seems like a missed opportunity but what do i know.

5D. Largely moderate Arizona city (5): TEMPE. tempe is a city in arizona. what's "largely moderate" doing here?

answer key: "temper – r". am i to understand that this is saying moderate = temper and the "largely" part of the clue is telling me to keep most but not all of "temper"?

#the big-ass american crossword was not that interesting i'm sorry to say. the actual solving was too easy and the logistics were #very annoying. it was so huge (four newspaper pages & almost 800 answers) i had to do it on the floor #which was uncomfortable #and looking up each clue in the list took so long because there were so many #i was interested to see how long it would take so i timed myself and it took me 2h04 (though it felt like it took 10 hours #based on how sore my neck and back and legs were lol) #and i could have finished in under 2 hours but i didn't realize that i didn't have to do anything special with the super mega words #in order to solve the crossword. like i figured out what the words were but putting them together according to the instructions #is only necessary for solving the metapuzzle and so could be done separately. so i wasted a few minutes trying to do that #the other puzzles were p cool except the word search bugged me for reasons that were mostly the fault of my own poor planning #but psy is a one-named singer!! so technically there were 8 one-named singers not 7!!! #i actually haven't solved the metapuzzle final answer yet #i have all but one of the letters but then they have to be put in order and i have no ideas for what the order is supposed to be #cruciverbs #my posts #but anyway very exciting that i solved a cryptic for the first time! maybe now i can get past my mental block about them

[snow-and-saltea]

yesterday i spent 45 minutes of my life watching a video essay criticising the use of cheap shock values and crossing of taboos for a video game and i went from "he has a point even if he's explaining it in a really inflammatory way" to "oh umm... i can see how he thinks that way even if i don't agree" to "oh this guy's just straight up using people on tumblr as material for an audience to get mad at like other outdated people on the internet. nvm he's just an asshole"

#yuu rambles #it was about the coffin of andey and leyley btw - i agreed w him on the first half of the video about how it felt rather noncommittal to it #concepts and themes but i recognise its not really *trying* to be serious which means its not a reasonable #framework to judge the intention and execution of its work - an apple pie does use butter in it but just bc it does #doesnt mean you get to compare it to steak; a dish that also uses butter. this is intuitively easy to understand for me #but nonetheless it was like 3 am i had stuff to do so i just put it on my background to listen #he makes a diss at “people on tumblr” early on that i just raised my eyebrow at but shrugged it off bc its such an old joke #its lost its zinger; and im p sure its just confirmation bias from going into the tags of the thing you dont like lol if you use tumblr #normally you wouldn't come across things you dont like bc you'd have blocked them. But Anyways #then at the end he got sooo self righteous about how people on tumblr are insane and weird and showed screencaps about how twisted everyone #who likes the game are. there were some screenshots of people's post that were like “incest is bad and shouldn't be explored in media. #paragraph break‚ me who is an incest survivor and finds it helpful for working through my trauma: lol” #those types of post. but then lmfao he started going out of pocket and just mentioned the lists of other people he doesnt like which are #a screenie of a video essay about how kink is important at pride #and then some other stuff i dont remember anymore w the tumblr screenies #it was very mockingly written and said and at the end of it i felt sad i couldnt #block people on youtube lmao. like its not i dont want this guy to comment on my videos. i dont want to see his channel involuntarily #recommended to me ever again. just resorted to the most base sort of trolling behaviour he accused and judge other game devs for in his #video essay. good fucking god. the psychological projection is unreal #i dont have any strong feelings towards the game at the end of it even though i thought i would be like Eugh at first #but my bleh for any cheap gimmicks is overshadowed by my disdain for this guy's reliance on self righteous rhetoric #i discovered another new channel i really like tho after that vid!! bc i had to watch smth else to cleanse my palate lmao #they're jacob geller and freddydude! ive only seen one vid from freddydude about his essay on #detention‚ the horror game set in taiwan during the era of white terror under new cn leadership after ww2 #im personally quite jumpy so his humour and the way he edits his videos to make it silly even though its Scary #made me like it a lot!! im going through jacob geller's other vids but ive watched three specific types of terror #and the one about pinocchio which made me go :00 wow his scripts are super good! #again everything at your own discretion esp w the whole james somerton shit‚ but i enjoyed what I've seen so far #i just wanted to end this in a somewhat positive note JSHDKSJDJD the ramblings Continue... #theres a pedantic error in one of ky tags but im gonna update it when im on comp bc mobile sucks smh my head

[libras-interactives]

Is there any way in the future for there to be a way to increase the text size or maybe a dark mode? I was reading the IF on my phone and it's kinda hard on the eyes.

Yeah its def doable 🤔 it's a matter of me being able to pull it off LOL. But yeah ill try

#similar to more save slots - its things i put off bc im not good at it LOL #but i looked up some stuff on my break and im p sure this is easy to do #anons !! #libra says

[funeralshawls]

i feel like if u get it u get it but for ME i don’t really use the term non binary 4 myself bc of white ppl lmao

#p #like when all y’all do is boil shit down to ‘amab or afab 😌’ it’s not even worth it half the time #if i Must which i do sometimes i always have to say smth like ‘not in a colonial sense’ or ‘if u must’ lol #like it’s easy to just say 2 spirit but then ppl get That twisted too

[capfalcon]

my desk makes me so happy <3

#in order from left to right: #a little woven tapestry of a joshua tree!!! that i got recently at an art expo in joshua tree #ive been looking for more textural elements #the books are awesome but i do not wanna list them all but 2 of them are from arete so thank uuuu @kryptoknight #the little pot is from JANE! thanks jane! @underoosstark (i think sorry if i spelled it wrong) (it was thrifted in LA it was soooo cute) #the plant is a free plant i got from a nursery named BLVD in like. highland park area #so that guy he was epic #the two pipes <3333333 #theyre weed pipes lol and they're my fav things ever theyre both from etsy and the #one on the left is discontinued (but the seller still has rlly cute ones.) and the turtle is p easy to find if u search #the pilea is from my local shop which i will not name for security reasons lol #the postcard is from...umm this museum/expo thing bookstore near the pizza prince in downtown LA #its a bunch of us airmen cuddling and i thought it was cute #the little ramen magnets r from amazon #the STAGHORN FERN!!!!!!!! is my pride and joy atm #its from folia in glendale/LA #they are so epic and i love them so much #folia collective to be clear. and the little terrarium is just moss and some random plants in a pickle jar #and my laptop case is etsy #BRO i love my desk <3

[bitegore]

i don't know that i'll be sleeping tonight but at least i have good music

#listening to everything run the jewels has ever made. good lord #i knew el-p was good i just didn't know killer mike existed or that they'd done stuff together lol #most of the stuff i've heard that el-p has done is a lot less. Like. How do i put it #it's not easy listening. it rules but it's not something you could go jog down to the 7/11 to #unless your jog to the 7/11 wants to feel vaguely apocalyptic

[sysig]

Okay but what if (Patreon)

#Doodles #TSP #Stanley #Me while reading: Now don't make a papercraft okay? Don't make a papercraft don't make a papercraft don't make a- #Predictably lol #It's the kind of structure that invites speculation! Who would you choose and what would their name be and how would they adapt #And The Stanley Parable wasn't even out at the time!! FJkldsafdf #Me when anything: I want to #Stanley would be so fun to play as ♪ Small but close-knit cast and since it's an institute it should have accommodations for his mutism #And he's no stranger to painful and confusing situations haha #You can see my indecision on which sign language Stanley knows haha #He never speaks so we don't know what accent Stanley would have but we know the Narrator is British! So #But I also don't know any British Sign Language and I know it's different than ASL òuò; #Granted my knowledge of ASL is far far far from fluent but I do know some at least so if /I/ was the one playing as him- #Anyway moot point since languages are directly translated anyway :P Though I wonder about sign language #I assume there were some nonverbal patients I just haven't seen any myself :0 #I have also made a Narrator card to match Stanley 😔 #Actually - hehe - I had a lot of fun picking their ''real'' names ♪ #The Narrator's was pretty easy honestly I knew I had to give him the first name Kevan and then I wanted to keep his last initial #So I went with ''Baker'' since it's a common name :) Very cute! #And then for Stanley since I headcanon him as being Greek/Latino - heavier on the Greek side - I gave him a Greek name! #Again same first initial - couple letters even for that ''St-'' sound :) - and scanned through some Greek last names #And liked the sound of Psomas with Stefano - but ♪ You'll never guess ♫ #It's a similarly common name for a reason - ''Psomas'' translates to ''bread maker'' #Kevan and Stefano Baker they're husbands fr your honour #Hghhghh I just think it's so cute!! And I didn't do it on purpose it was just a happy accident!! I love them <3

[kuiinncedes]

we had a beautiful, magic love there (sad beautiful tragic - taylor swift)

#klaine #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #glee #i continue to do the same shit lol 🤪 #idk how to do anything else soooo #hey why is it so fucking annoying to put these pictures in order lmfaooo thanks tumblr #omfg WHY was that so stupid i'm not asking that much of u i just want the pic i drag over to go after the pics i already have djshgslkglmao #Pretend these r good quality k 😌 #also my crooked ass letters lol #yeah i could've like used a font i just realized that would've been very easy lol but i already had the design :P #i've been posting them in batches of 10 on instagram (so i've only posted one so far lmao) but so far for this group #this one is the only one that's like interesting bc it's different XD #the other ones are so similar in terms of like format lowkey especially my last two for begin again and moment i knew #i was short on ideas lmaoo so at least this one was somewhat creative XD #i feel like i did some different stuff with putting this together too so that was fun lol 🤪 #if only i could do more things that would make it better lmao Anyway #pretend they're actually gifs XD #ignore the absolute shit quality of the youtube screenshots <3 #anywayyyyfdgjkfdl :D #i dont tag my stuff but i've been doing so many of these i rly probably should lmao oh well idk eventually lol

[monsterbisexual]

i dont wanna work -_- anyone wanna play games w me?

#hoping today is easy enough i dont need to recharge in my room aka sit in the dark screaming in my brain #after my shift #cuz ill have to leave for a psych eval thing p quick (ish) n i dont have time for that today lol #also dont wanna be extra brainscrambled for it cuz im already anxious abt it #why do i have to talk abt myself (i assume) -_- cant u just pick up on my vibes or scan me w some star trek lookin instrument #n prescribe me smth based on that #p #wish me luck tho i am anxious abt it 👍👍👍 #idk what kinda games i mean idc tho ^ abt the post #i just imagined her saying smth like 'tell me abt urself :)' n me just sitting there malfunctioning abt it

[vampire6bux]

Maybe if I cry a lot my family will feelbbad and not yell at me about it. Which I am crying aboutj the grades right. Now. Because I wastdd so much money. God fuckin g damn it

#I used most of my savingsto get this one semester of classes #just to fail 2 of them … lol #i meen my family was the one who pressuredme to go to college right away #but stillIdk… why can’t i do my work why can’t i focus why can’t I learnnn anything everyone else gets so easy #why amI so much more stupid than everyone else in the room #I never know what I’m doingim so disgorganized my brain snfmywlrkds and my writing and #and im an awful test taker and #iiii used to be good at this stuff..butmy brain hates me.. my brain has hated me sinceI was 16 #it hated me before that but it hatedme less #am i a gifted kid or am i retarded .. nobody can figure that outlol #sowwy for venting .. im upset at nyself #i shouldb talk to my therapist aboutmu troubles with cla ss but i only seeher once every 2 months now #idk i can’t function onmyown what am i gonna do if I canteven keep a job or pass a class in comunity college .. #i hatemysefff im so fucking stupod and lazy and iseless one gonna gnaw my arm off #vent :P

[captorcorp]

i'm trying to get back into digital art (last time using my tablet was 2 years ago OTL) so i lined/colored/shaded a mago sketch yesterday and then did a sketchpage today to figure out brushes and styles and such... does anyone have any tips/suggestions :0 using firealpaca btw

#kcat talks #i like the fluffy lineless style tbh it's very cute to me but idk how easy it is to do in a larger scale pic #in terms of lineart i like analog i think tbh #but that might be bc that's the only one on the page i did an underlying sketch for first lol #and honestly my current normal pen style is still p fun to me. kinda like cartoony #and then we gotta figure out line weight and outline color and etc etc @_@ art is a fuck #i just learned about increasing bucket tool tolerance today though so w #oh also. i never learned how to do anything with layer multiply/overlay/etc i only ever do clipping #so i want to figure out if i can make shading easier somehow... #my art