You know, this might sound silly, but...I just realized that I can, in fact, write quick little one-shots with my ocs if I get stuck on their main storylines.
They're my stories, and I can write them how I want.
[ 🛸prev 🛸] The Doctor discovers a fursuit. Elisa is secretly a furry and has a couple of furry OCs, one of which she's made a fursuit head for. She would rather die than open up about her interests though so she'd rather keep everyone as far away as possible from her suit head.
I have over 200 hours in Baldur's Gate 3 and I'm just now learning VOLO ISN'T A BARD.
THIS VOLO RIGHT HERE
YES THIS DUDE WHO SHOWS UP IN YOUR CAMP AFTER YOU RESCUE HIM *TWO* DIFFERENT TIMES BECAUSE HE'S OFF GALIVANTING AND EMBELLISHING STORIES AND GETTING IN TROUBLE WITH THE LOCALS IS *NOT* A BARD.
things that happened so far in my first bg3 playthrough ever that I found so funny that I put them in my notes (now proper spoilers below)
defeated Ketheric Thorm in no less than 4 attempts
freed Mizora from one of the mindflayer pods, regretted it immediately because I hate the woman
got annoyed at missing so much companion banter, caved and got the companion limit begone mod
am now running around with all the origin companions, left the druids at camp to not be toooo overpowered (luckily I'm so bad at the game that it doesn't make a huge difference anyway)
there is someone named Orpheus and eithin seconds I had the Wedding Song from Hadestown stuck in my head
reached Baldur's Gate! my 200€ pc is Suffering
slept with the emperor to get the 'Mind Blown' achievement only for my mum to walk in in the middle of it to ask me for a hairclip
needless to say she was concerned and I had to explain myself (she stayed concerned but also found it funny)
snuck into Cazadors home and met someone named Sebastian, bawled my eyes out at his and Astarion's conversation
killed Cazador!! (fuck that guy)
went through the entirety of the sewers to find Minsc because what Jaheira says is law and the quest markers in my game are buggy as hell
on a sidenote, I godamn LOVE Minsc and Jaheira as a duo they are the best
recruited Minsc obviously, also took me two attempts because just knocking him out while he was under a 'Hold Person' spell counted as killing to Jaheira :(
met Dammon again! Karlach was thrilled and so was I
talked to Gortash (he's meh) and he told me to kill Orin
talked to Orin (I hate her with all I have and more) and she told me to kill Gortash
OH I ALMOST FORGOT
Remember how I left the druids at camp? Orin snuck in and took Halsin, pretended to be him and had me almost crying
but rage prevailed, so I went around the city for about 19 years to figure out how to get into Baahls temple (I had only knocked out someone instead of killing them, making the amulet you need for it not spawn in their inventory)
finally figured it out, went in, and immediately found a clowns head from about 20 hours playtime ago
killed Orin (and got the achievement), it was great fun bc as mentioned before, I despise her
Halsin was so thankful I'd saved him that he immediately went "haha tysm for not leaving me, wanna fuck?"
so I left Wyll for him (with lots of pain in my heart, the things we do for the plot istg)
have not played since, but my most recent savefile is called "the wicked bitch is dead, long live the druids"
Fans of carcinization should know: there is no such thing as a "tree", at least in terms of inheritance. You see, completely unrelated plants just keep deciding they want to go... up. Some have changed their mind, gone back to being low and soft, then gone back to being "trees" again, with distinct branches and leaves and trunks and bark.
Except that means wood just happens to all look similar, at least to us humans. It's really just a bunch of different plants' ideas of something strong to hold themselves up closer to the sun while transporting nutrients and water up from the ground. Why does it tend to have rings? I don't know why so many species do that, I'm not a biologist. It is mostly made of the same stuff across species, just in different ratios. Next time you're near a palm stump, though, go take a look- it's full of fibers and can have visible tubes for moving water around (and is clearly something "other" when you're used to normal trees).
I've seen the tendency to turn into trees called "dendronization" , and apparently the number of times "trees" (tall woody long lived things with leaves) have evolved independently is just ridiculous. It's probably way in excess of the number of species that have been crabs.
This is seriously the most interesting thing I know.
In summary, maybe if you try hard enough, you can grow a daisy tree.
...am I the only person who didn't notice until RIGHT NOW that Phil-the-Storyteller from the full-color prologue page...
...is actually telling this story IN THE BACKGROUND of the first greyscale page?
Zooming in...
They're even the SAME KIDS. Kid with hat, girl with braids, moppet with short hair, the umbrella blocks the rest of them. Kaja with a pillow for her elbow (yay for comfort!) in both. And Storyteller Phil has a bandage on his hand in both pages (I wonder what happened?)
...what the actual hell. How did I never see that before?
Transcribed from the tweet: It's been suspected that Mabel didn't trust Stan until he said "Please" and as we and Mabel learned in S1E13, "Boss Mabel" Stan has trouble saying"Please". That's how she knew he was serious, what this meant to him. Such a great callback.
A few months ago, I heard that Blaze and the Monster Machines was supposed to air back in 2012, first full episode being a pilot. So far, the only thing that resurfaced were three different screenshots.
At first, I thought it might have been fake. (mostly judging the third screenshot)
But today, Oh-ho-ho! Today, I found the trailer!
I'm not joking!
I was literally scrolling through Vimeo site to see demo reels, when I stumbled upon a trailer for the show and - holy shit it was not fake!
Extra: Apparently, Gabby was originally named Maddie.