#you can't catch her now!

[chippy-fresh]

In times of trouble remember Lucy Gray Baird

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes spoilers #tbosas #tbosas spoilers #inky art #lucy gray baird #you can't catch her now!

[poorlittleyaoyao]

An Exhaustive Explanation For Why Qin Su Took Her Life Of Her Own Volition

(Or: For God's Sake, Please Just Let Her Have This One Thing)

Okay, so let's leave aside the fact that Wei Wuxian is an unreliable narrator. At the point in the novel at which he insists that Jin Guangyao must have forced Qin Su to kill herself somehow, Wei Wuxian has also insisted that Lan Wangji would totally hate it if he knew they'd made out while drunk. Let's also leave aside that Wei Wuxian himself will reassess his opinion of Qin Su's death later on, and IIRC says nothing about it either way in the drama, because the people who insist that JGY Definitely Killed Made Her Do That sure do. A narrator being unreliable doesn't mean we can't trust anything they tell us, after all; it just means we need to compare their views to outside evidence, the way you would with a primary source document.

AND WHEN YOU DO THAT

IT STILL MAKES ZERO SENSE

Picture all this from Jin Guangyao's standpoint. Let's assume for funsies that you don't care about your wife who is also your half-sister, and have no compunctions about killing her to keep the incest secret. Wouldn't you just... do that? Wouldn't you kill her the second that little paperman flies away and you hear the alarm?

"He obviously couldn't do that! The paperman saw her alive so it'd be weird if she suddenly was gone!" Yeah, and everyone at the cultivation conference saw her alive when they came into the treasure-and-torture room, and it would be even weirder if she suddenly stabbed herself to death in front of them.

"Ah, but he needed to know who sent her the letter! He can't afford to kill her!" Wow, hey, that's right! You, Evil Jin Guangyao, have just spent the preceding scene wheedling and then threatening Qin Su so she'll tell you who send the letter, and she stood firm the whole time! So forcing her to kill herself in front of everyone when she still hasn't told you that important piece of information would be PRETTY DUMB, wouldn't it? (Almost as dumb as giving her the opportunity to interact with all the people you're trying to keep the secret from, but hey, maybe it took you longer to hide da-ge's head than anticipated.)

"Maybe he'd given up on getting her to tell him anything so her killing herself was to divert suspicion away from him!" Okay, first of all, how is "your wife (whom nobody but you has seen recently) kills herself with no warning" going to make things look LESS suspicious? Second of all, things were going JUST FINE. You hid da-ge's head. People were buying your "this cursed cabinet is where I keep my former boss's soul-stealing knife" story. You haven't even subtly brought up Suibian to change the subject. The narrative misogyny means that nobody has directly talked to Qin Su and "of course my wife also hangs out in our house, lol" is flying just fine as an explanation. You had almost put out this fire! Why would you throw gasoline on it by making Qin Su kill herself?

Honestly, the smartest thing for you to do in this situation would be to knock your wife unconscious and move her to her sleeping chambers or a couch or something in the main part of the palace. That gets her out of sight and renders her unable to talk in a way that won't raise suspicions, and gives you the option of going "omg guyyys my wife is sleeping :( this totally unwarranted search of our home is gonna wake her up :(" to make people leave!

But, okay. Let's shift our perspectives here. Jin Guangyao has a history of making deranged choices when he's in Panic Mode. Maybe his brain short-circuited and, somehow, he decided that MAKE QIN SU KILL HERSELF IN PUBLIC was the best course of action. Wei Wuxian himself tells us that she wasn't under the influence of talismans or anything, so somehow Jin Guangyao convinced her to do this with his words. Never mind that we just saw Jin Guangyao deploy an ungodly combination of feigned ignorance, gaslighting, actual sincerity, veiled threats, and manipulation with zero impact. Somehow, he used his words successfully.

What could he possibly say?

Picture all this, now, from Qin Su's standpoint. Your entire world has been shattered. Your husband who is also your half-brother has been lying to you for your entire marriage, has done nothing to reassure you that he didn't murder your son, and has sealed your meridians to prevent you from fleeing. He then brought you into a secret room in your home that you didn't know existed and which, you discover, houses his sworn brother's severed head. All you know is that you cannot tell Jin Guangyao who gave you the letter because you're certain that he will have her killed. Shit's real fucked and you have nobody to help you.

Now every sect leader in the jianghu--including your husband's remaining sworn brother, your young nephew, and your nephew's maternal uncle--has shown up to search your husband's home. His top priority in this moment is quashing their suspicions so they leave him alone enough to regroup.

One of three things must be true for you.

1.) Your top priority is survival. You don't want to die. If you care about your reputation, you know that you're as screwed as he is if word of this gets out, and unfortunately the only way to survive is to play along with your husband's weird shit, at least for now. In that case, the best way to assure him that you're on his team is to help him assure the other sect leaders that Everything Is Normal And Fine. If you don't want to die, then you're not going to be susceptible to any insistence that you kill yourself.

2.) You're so furious that you don't care what happens to you or your reputation as long as you take Jin Guangyao down with you. In that case, you'd tell him whatever he wanted to hear and then IMMEDIATELY scream to the other sect leaders where Nie Mingjue's head is currently located, or you'd drop the incest bomb yourself hoping that the paperman is somewhere in that room and can back you up, or you'd grab that dagger and stab your husband, or some combination of all three! You're not going to quietly kill yourself at his request, because you've suffered enough for his bullshit!

"Well, maybe he didn't threaten her. She's going to be worried about Bicao and her father. Maybe he threatened one of them!" Yeah, maybe, but that's a threat to get someone to cooperate. You can't make sure they're still alive if you're dead! And if you're convinced that this guy has lied to you constantly for the past 10+ years, you're not going to believe him when he says"kill yourself and I'll be niceys to them." There is nothing at all that he could say to make her harm herself if she hadn’t been so inclined.

And that leaves

3.) You're in such despair that you actively want to die. You can never trust your husband again. You can never trust anyone again, honestly, because he wasn't the only person you loved who kept this secret from you. You don't trust that the other sect leaders will do anything to help you, just as your mother didn't trust that anyone would do anything to help her all those years ago. (When they barge into the palace and walk straight past you as though you were a piece of furniture, your distrust is confirmed.) Maybe, despite everything, you still love your husband too much to kill him. Maybe you fear that, without evidence, he will be seen as an innocent victim and you will be seen as his mad, murderous wife. Maybe you don't care what happens to anyone else, but you know that you don't want to deal with this anymore, and you are the only one you trust to help yourself escape it.

The tragedy of Qin Su is that she is never permitted to make a fully informed decision about her life. At least let her final action be something she knowingly chooses.

#qin su #jin guangyao #should be obvious but this is about novel and drama canons #in this house we do not acknowledge the donghua #mannn what if I made something with that one cassius quote. what then. #that said an IDEAL outcome would be her haunting the shit out of him and then out of everyone else bc THEY CONTRIBUTED #she's not trapped in a dagger she's having a Lucy Gray Baird moment ALEXA PLAY 'YOU CAN'T CATCH ME NOW' BY OLIVIA RODRIGO

[sukibenders]

I get the appeal for Cregan and Jace, but I'm already nervous about how the fandom will treat Baela and her relationship with Jace as a result. Could both ships coexist? Yes, but this fandom has proven many times over that whenever a black person, specifically a black woman, is involved said ship is often overlooked or dismissed. This can be said for many of the ships in the show, which I've talked about, and Baela's treatment even outside of mentions of Cregan (I love Heleana, but it is not lost on me how some Jace/Hel shippers dismiss Baela). Like, this isn't the case for everyone, but enough for it to be very apparent. All in all, I just want the best for my girl Baela Targaryen.

#house of the dragon #hotd #baela targaryen #jacaerys velaryon #cregan stark #heleana targaryen #like idk the ship name for jace x baela but there's already one for hel and jace? hmm #and im not saying that you can't ship these characters with others but its very important to keep in mind how some #fandoms actions (whether purposely or not) often leave their black characters in the trenches (sometimes even villainizing or denying them #worth of love from said yte love interest) #hotd has this problem as can be seen with the ships (and fans) of daemyra & rhaenicent toward laena even if i ship the latter #u won't catch me ignoring how some fans treat laena so disrespectfully (and now her daughters) #keep it cute in the comments #there's a lot of antiblackness in fandom sadly 😔

[friskarm]

this is something that had been really evident in previous episodes, but miorine is really unaware of herself, isn’t she?

i made a joke to some friends about how mio is really putting her whole pussy into looking after suletta, but she really really is! and this episode really put a lampshade on just how unaware mio is of how her actions look to others. suletta might be gullible enough to believe that miorine is only looking out for herself, but nika isn’t! shaddiq certainly knows exactly what’s going on.

you can argue (and on god, mio Would) til the cows on earth come home about how she’s just doing this to put herself in a favourable position to escape to earth. if she’s unattainable to the three houses by virtue of having an unstoppable pilot (and machine), she’s no longer useful to them, and thus she can fade away into the background and better escape. this is true.

you could argue that yeah, of course it’s in miorine’s best interest to keep suletta happy. to help her pass her exams. to stand up for her when she’s being bullied. to make friends with her friends and help them out - even offer to lend them dresses! to chaperone her to stupid parties so she can see if that boy she likes happens to be there!

but it has never been exclusively about that, not for a second. because miorine’s life has been characterised by having nobody to stand up for her. the reason she’s so damn prickly and standoffish and combative is for her own survival! there’s no way she could have made it through life in the position she has, as delling’s daughter, with nobody to look out for her without it.

and yet, the very first thing this strange, cringeworthily anxious girl from mercury did is stand up for her, in the one place it mattered to her -- her greenhouse. miorine protested at the time that suletta was making decisions for her, but baked into that was the assumption that suletta would lose. her entire demeanour changes the moment she sees suletta shift from pathetic to confident, and she lets suletta take control -- “you can win?” -- and suletta wins.

suletta says that the way people treat miorine is wrong, and then puts her money where her mouth is in the only way that matters in asticassia.

no wonder miorine is willing to go so hard and so far for suletta! i’m sure it’s been a long, long time since miorine’s had anyone in her corner.

#gwitch spoilers #gwitch #witch from mercury #gundam #miorine rembran #and now the stakes keep rising higher and higher #miorine is putting pretty much everything she has on the line for suletta now! #pulling a company together out of nothing #riding on a small act of mercy from her otherwise dickhead father #you can't run away #the gundam's curse is heavier than you think #miorine is sooooo smart #i can only hope suletta is ready to catch her when she inevitably falls

[seagullcharmer]

i don't think this applies to any mutuals but i've been stewing vaguely over tp fans who think link only fell for midna when he saw her true form. like. we did Not play the same game apparently

#libra.txt #i don't even ship midlink that hard but people who make link sooo shallow #and say he could only have fallen for her when he saw her true form just. ugh i can't stand it #like. they have such an interesting dynamic + relationship #starting out from 'begrudging coworkers' to 'maaaybe friends......?' to 'yeah we vibin' to 'Oh.' #and for awhile i didn't really see midlink as a very romantic dynamic #but then. idk. getting to the desert the first time. and midna shares a secret. the way she presses close to link #and not in a flirty way or trying to get on his nerves but as. 'hey. this is really important to me and i'm actually kind of scared but #i Trust you. i believe in you. we can do this together' #/that's/ when i said 'Oh.' #and now i'm almost done with the game. i've beaten zant and i've headed to the castle #(sidenote: love the freaky spider form midna has with the fused shadows. need to do more with that) #and the way link catches her!!!!! the way they smile at each other!!!!! #they care about each other!!!! they're fond!!!!!! #need to actually finish the game but. maybe i like midlink more than i think. hmm! #i'm just sick of people who only use midna as a reason to give link manpain. or make link shallow etc etc #midna is an interesting character on her own!!!!!!! so is link!!!!!! #they just so happen to work well together too!!!!!!!!!!!! #and don't get me started on midzelink okay

[sovonight]

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#still thinking abt that scene in the underdark where xan is (force) propositioned by that drow lady #and while his first response is shock/apprehension ('*me*??') #radri loses regulation over the volume of her voice going 'what?! no!!' louder than anyone's ever really heard her before #when challenged though she can't come up with a drow-valid reason why hunrae *can't* just take xan #(yes i just now remembered her name lmao) #the thoughts 'bc consent??' 'he'd hate that' '*he's mine he promised*' keep getting translated into an ineffective verbal 'you just cant' #so xan saves himself and falls into a worse mood after it and radri falls into an equally poor mood at how she couldnt do anything/she can #never really do anything can she #oh but there's a kind of equivalent/reversal moment when radri's offered a 'night with one of with phaere's males' as a reward #and xan is just silently panicking/trying to reassure himself with 'she wouldn't' 'she'd hate that' 'she loves me... right?' #radri honestly has an easier time with the excuse this time bc she's not feeling as much panic/pressure as earlier #but the excuse that comes out is along the lines of 'uh monogamy is custom in my city and i already have a male--' #'NO no not one of these guys in my party!! (don't look too closely at them!)' #'i prefer not to travel with him! to make the reunions sweeter...??' #xan's mind catches on 'i prefer not to travel with him' and he gets in a bitter mood bc that might as well be true-- #bc really what use is he when he can't even do anything to help/save/protect her despite being right by her side #the underdark has them both on an internal monologue of 'i hate this' but while xan's is mainly towards their surroundings #radri's is almost entirely inward & so isnt eased the moment they reach the surface like xan's is

[manderleyfire]

hey, ali! i feel your pain about the tbosas adaptation! i cried so much during the movie but not because i felt emotional, seeing MY book comes alive on screen but because we were robbbbbbbbbbed and shot 😞😞😞😞😞😞 anyways, what's your opinion on the music tho? fav/least fav song? (my is the oldtherebefore and least fav the 0livia r0drigo's one)

hey, lollis!

‘robbed and shot’, exactly. i couldn’t have said it better myself because unfortunately, that’s spot on 🥲

I LOVED THE MUSIC! a dystopian reflection of our reality through intentional use of folk/bluegrass music is something that resonates strongly with me. i mean, they knew how to strike the right chord in the hearts of book readers for sure! *the only other thing i wish was different about the music it's the variety of tempo and rhythm because as much as i LOVED the unified sound of LG's songs, i would prefer each song to have its own individual tune and ~aura)

my absolute favourite adaptation that they did was 'nothing you can take from me' (boot-stompin’ version); i am utterly in awe of the powerful passionate energy that they gave to this song?? also i loveeed the similarity of rhythm and tone between 'nothing you can take from me' and a traditional american folk song 'man of constant sorrow', i kinda feel it was a deliberate parallel which worked just great. (also i’m glad they added maude ivory’s 'keep on the sunny side'!)

my least favourite is perhaps 'the ballad of lucy gray baird'?.. and though i did enjoy rachel’s rendition (she copies a young dolly parton in such a warm-hearted respectful manner!), and the respect for traditional appalachian music, she sang it in a cheerful 'to hell with you!' manner which is less intense and intimate that i remember it from the book to be? to quote tbosas here: 'the haunting melody set the tone, and her words did the rest as she began to sing in a voice husky from smoke and sadness' – the movie version really failed to capture both the haunting tune (their version doesn't really tell the story musically because of a major key) and the lucy gray's vulnerability here for me. in the book she did what carrie fisher told us all to do: 'take your broken heart and turn it into art' while in the movie she isn't even angry at billy taupe?? like his betrayal (and her place in the games) is not a big deal? she's openly rebellious and sassy with out of place 'i need no man' attitude and that simply didn't work for me personally.

it took some time for 'pure as the driven snow' to grow on me (i expected it to be more of a waltz-like, similar to maiah wynne's cover), but i'm coming around to it. yet… i wish it was STAGED differently??? they had to combine certain scenes and songs in the film but it was such a SURREAL idea to meld PATDS with 'sell you for a song' setting? and it took away so much from that moment of love and connection and unconditional acceptance, where lucy gray is finally ready to be emotionally unshielded in front of her lover (maybe for the first time ever)?? it was a PIVOTAL snowbaird moment but they needed to blend two songs together because obviously PATDS can't be love confession in form of a song because it should be taken as an ominous warning instead (duh!). 'bitch you better not turn out to be a bad guy even tho i knew you were a villain all along' :??? and it could've worked in its own angst-y way, if there had been any development in snowbaird love story?? but since movie!they are full on survival the whole time (there's no canonical teetering on the edge of an actual fondness/love and survival instinct), PATDS makes no sense at all. so… i extremely frustrated by the use of PATDS on screen but at the same time i love the sound of the full version on the soundtrack album.

annnd i'm actually IN PAIN because they had the audacity to leave so many songs out?? especially given their ties to the original trilogy?? 'deep in the meadow' aka rue's song???? 'the valley song' aka the one peeta mentioned seeing katniss sing at school when they were children????  the festive 'crawling to you' ('that thing i love with') likely performed at finnick’s wedding?? idk maybe it's a musical nerd who is speaking in me but i wish they could have included more of the book songs at least on the album, if not in the actual movie (even tho i'm still sure, it would've been possible to present the whole complexity of this book AND its poetic side too, if they decided to split the film in two).

[the score album wasn't much to talk about but 'snow lands on top' piece tho… vivid, striking, remarkable]

#wifeofthewolves #ask #my ramblings #dolly sorry it's a bit longer and more spiteful than i expected it to be #i have to agree with you 'the old therefore' is mesmerizing and breathtaking + rachel's vocals are phenomenal there #i'm not a fan of how aggressive her portrayal of lucy gray generally was #but that raw anger in 'the old therefore' felt so right it reminded me of eva noblezada's eurydice even #btw rachel's first line from 'the reaping song' sounds so similiar to samantha's eponine #actually first time i heard it i was so shocked i stopped the song to immediately rewind it back to the beginning lol #and i'm glad i listened to the album before i watched the movie #because welllllllll the music is better #i wish we could've replaced 'can't catch me now' with any canon song tho because i really don't care about miss rodrigo #also also the movie’s musical arrangement of the wordsworth song is kind of boring sorry #anywayssssss tell me more what do you think

[lemonhemlock]

it's so frustrating dealing with a friend that seems set on finding imaginary slights against their person and seethes in silence waiting for you to figure out what you did 'wrong' this time 🤦‍♀️

#this is the fifth time since october i've invited her somewhere to catch up and she said no #always with some excuse #which. sure. i can't verify #maybe the 8th time in the last year she refused for some reason or another #but there's only so many times you can give someone the benefit of the doubt #when she never initiates anything and just waits for us to ask her out #and if you don't happen to do that within the secret interval of time she is available and which she never discloses #she registers it as a slight #i'm so tired of these stupid mind games how old are you/?? #also she is SO hard to get hold of. never answers anything on any messaging app for days on end including the weekends #even if the proposal is time sensitive #girl you are NOT that busy bffr #i remember we invited her to see barbieheimer and she did not freaking answer on time. as usual. #and we had to get tickets without her bc the time slots quickly sold out #and ofc she was pissed at us bc she's can't be bothered to reply 🤦‍♀️ #she always is pissed even when it's clearly her fault #when she clearly sees the message bc she DOES check the apps whaddyaknow #and the one time we did manage to see each other she had the gall to propose that we go out more often!!! #and then never initiates anything and refuses everything #ik if i were to recount this to a third person they would tell me she already checked out of this friendship #it's so stupid #having to walk on these eggshells #bc we didn't even have a falling out she's just finding pretexts to become offended #that was been her modus operandi since the freaking pandemic #good lord the stories i have #lemonposting #anyway i'm bummed out now

[deva-arts]

☆ Nathaniel Wilson ☆

I Really Like Nathaniel because the guy embodies Hope and Positivity without forcing it down the gullets of everyone around him.

He looks like he'd be a pleasant individual to actually be around at 7 am. Even before his coffee. [ Sera should be too, she doesn't seem like an unbearable person to be around in La Matinée ( the Morning ) . But still, she is alot grumpier than her other half. ]

With that said. Insert Happy music here. Nujabes or Smth.

Submitted by @mettamorphoses!

Love the way you drew Nate here! such a clean style and serious face :> He's my favorite little quadfocal guy... friendly, polite, and a good conversationalist! You're absolutely right, he's one of the easiest people to get along with. It's almost like he knows exactly what to say to people.

Sera isn't grumpy so much as she is disinterested and dismissive. She heads to work without bothering to make small talk besides a basic "Hello." if she passes you by. Not the worst outcome, really, if silence doesn't bother you.

#submission #yeah. i'm in Tags too. wassup witchu #Aight but seriously i wonder how literally anyone would be like at 7 am. #Deva's tags start here => #If he's home for the day he will always be a good conversationalist and offer breakfast or coffee on a morning #This is literally so cool #queued post #As for people at 7 am... #Sera is up by 4 AM unless Nate doesn't have work. By 7 she has already had breakfast and gotten ready to work on her projects. #If you catch her it is likely after she returns from a morning flight. She'll be civil but it can easily come off the wrong way. aw. #Nate takes a lot of long shifts that stretch into the night. Due to this he and Sera have very contrasting schedules. #If you see him in the morning it is usually only because of the weekend or whatever other days he takes off. He is a very tired guy #Vincent has a very erratic schedule and he is always out and about doing things that fancy him #He is also a HEAVY sleeper. Nothing can really wake him except for a very specific noise #Said sound makes him wake up in a horrendous mood. Most mornings are thankfully safe from this sort of temper. #It is hard to say what new bizarre thing he will get himself into next. Like doomcrying while hidden on the roof of a religious congregatio #Sonia is not up by 7 AM without a good reason to be. She is down at the kitchen in a bathrobe by 9 to eat some breakfast. #Which made her the unknowing first victim of Vincent's newly founded pyramid scheme #Amon is a late riser since he is still used to his old schedule from his time at the Ricciardi mafia. Sleeps late? wakes late! #If it's a weekday he will always be up at 6 AM regardless of the amount he slept to take Adra to school. #Eric tends to wake up early but often gets caught up in personal projects. He loves music and editing his tracks but it really eats his tim #So Eric will be going to sleep at 4 and see Sera making herself coffee whilst Nate is also coming home from work and crashing on the couch. #Not even Amon heads in that late. Maybe Vincent does though. If he's “Traversing the night.” Like he says he does. #Vince can't see very well at night anymore. And the sun is almost blinding now. But it's nothing to an immortal like him! ha! bow before hi

[hopelesslovebug]

Uh hi, could you draw Giorno and Fugo in masquerade style?

sorry anon it's not colored but when you said masquerade my three braincells heat up at the spot

#also i'm tired #i like the designs and the idea i thought of..i will start working on it in the morning.i will also work on simplifying giorno's mask 'cuz #i made it way too complicated for noo reason at all. i also thought of like a quick plot #ok there is this masquerade (of course). i want you to imagine a fancier version of the mafia. the don invented almost all the mafia #into this masquerade with the promise that the one that would know his true identity will be the next don #but the catch that anyone getting way too close is probably going to be killed #weather diavolo doing it for shits and giggles or he is showing that he is truly worthy of the title don #is still up in debate in my mind. buccigang goes just because it's a fancy party (also because there is free food but shhhhhh) #giorno still didn't meet the buccigang yet in this au and he WILL become the new don #trish also still didn't meat the buccigang yet. she would go to one group to another dropping hints about her father identity #she really just wants him dead #she can't say his true identity out right or else she would be killed #and yeah #you know the most cliché murder mystery #it's just kyaaaaaa~ i love this plot since i was 6.i love it soo much. it makes me sad people don't do that often anymore #also put my fav kind of fugio. i mean yeah fugo fell but holy giorno is in a well #*fugo says the most strategic plan you could think of* gio:wow you're so smart darling can i kiss you now? #←didn't understand a single word from fugo #also i didn't say this but it's a masquerade no ones knows about the characters real identity #so they just go with there stands name.ok this is enough my mind is shutting down now #jjba #vento aureo #jjba part 5 #pannacotta fugo #giorno giovanna #fugio #mine #my art #pt5

[eidrefangel09]

My twst oc getting real spooky!! Now with in-game accurate costume🎃

I dunno how she got all that hair in ther but it ain't my problem B>

#tw scopophobia #tw eye contact #my art #twisted wonderland #twst #twst oc #twisted wonderland oc #she used to have just a bumpkin mask because it made sense with her lots of hair but fuck it wii ball #she also recently just gave her mask to a bastard for a prank and now she can't get it back so I decided is time for a change #and by that I mean I've been having a blast on the twisted wonderland roleplay verse on twitter #ten outta ten would recommend if ya got time on your hands and you aren't deathly afraid of twitter #it's chill there👌 #boutta wreak havoc on there with my friends soon catch the magift game #scopophobia #eye contact

[echthr0s]

miscellaneous Nuadhas, horny edition, part 2. featuring being confronted with Halsin's un-bear-able lust, squiddie snuggles, and... oh goddamn it, it's Haarlep again

#(for the uninitiated: an incubus yoinked my shape and now every time he fucks someone as me i get phantom sensations #including in the middle of the goddamn town square as shown above) #(ok but also the way jaheira was like ''well. hope you can't catch anything that way 😐'' alkdjflkajfld i love her) #act 3 wild af. who let them do this #.nuadha #general oc tag #ok i think that's all the best shots from yesterday. there were. a lot #baldur's gate

[von-karmas-a-bitch]

something you have to know about me is that i am obsessed with the unexplored dynamic between franziska and sebastian after the events of investigations 2. another thing you have to know about me is that sometimes i write ace attorney scripts in my notes app for funsies. and yet another thing you must know about me is that i am a trans sebastian truther first and a human being second

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#obsessed with the idea of franziska learning the hard way what patience and kindness is required to be an older sibling #and thus becoming more (silently) apprecative of what miles has done for her #and also learning things about herself via sebastian asking her when no one else will bc they're scared of her #bc sebastian is kinda clueless and very curious and he looks up to her a lot and he just has so!! many!!! questions!!!! #btdubs if someone wants to draw this and @ me i would love that. bc i do not have the energy to draw this whole exchange #ace attorney #my scripts #aai2 #sebastian debeste #franziska von karma #oh btw fun fact that drawing i did with sebastian saying ''the prostitution is ready your honour'' was originally gonna also have franziska #i didn't have the energy to draw anymore but she was gonna be behind the prosecutor's bench with him with her head buried in her hands #and it was gonna be a short comic where when informed of their mistake sebastian was gonna start freaking out #internally being like ''oh jeez i messed up already...... maybe i can't do this...........'' and franziska was gonna Notice That #and be like ''you only made one little mistake sebastian debeste it's not the end of the world now present your argument'' #and then she catches herself saying that and starts having her own existential crisis #bc she just admitted to herself that it's ok to not be perfect #and sebastian's like ''ohhhh you're right i can DO this!!'' #and franziska realises that she's become the kind of mentor she needed as a kid and she has broken the cycle of abuse #and she watches sebastian absolutely SLAY in the courtroom (malapropisms notwithstanding) #so yea that drawing is actually also part of this concept where franziska becomes a mentor to sebastian #edit: oh god tumblr really fucked up the quality on this one sorry #maybe use the alt text if you're struggling to read

[sorceresslodge]

anyway all that being said: here's saera's playlist.

#cytherea.txt #oc: saera #it's weird but i actually am really proud of the fantasy instrumental to the bidding opening up with this choral part before becoming poppy #so my personal annotations are: the bidding is kalen's theme and when he comes into her life #labour and EVIL are about her breakup with lolth #the sweet escape is obvious lol but it's about escaping the underdark and that theme of “you made me a bitch so put up with it” #and cult of dionysus is about her finding eilistraee #nobody is about her sort of her isolation and it's not the WORST her life has been but also... my god i'm so lonely #relay and can't catch me now are her escaped the cycle of violence songs (haha... unless..?)

[bambinification]

I hate to say this, but my pain meds have literally made waking up in the morning so much easier for me. I physically can't go back to sleep after my alarm, and I Want to get up, because the sooner I get up, the sooner I get to take my nice pills. Like, my brain now thinks of getting out of bed and it's like "oh, a little treaty for me? A little bit of brain melty for me? Oh, the joys of disconnecting from all of reality and floating through the day for Me??"

#it's pain meds. they're prescribed. I'm supposed to take them all day every day. I'm taking them as prescribed. #but i never thought this was a good idea and i'm like. not comfortable with the majority of my life being 'get high. stay home.' #i tried telling my doc and she was just like 'bentyl can't make you high :) it's not a narcotic :)" and at first i was angry but now im lik #she's lying. she lied on paper so the court or the medical board wouldn't catch her out prescribing a BS regimen just to make me more comfy #it worked!! I am in way less pain and i'm way more comfortable. #but this is--at it's very core--a cocaine prescription for an unrelated and untreatable illness. unfortunately. #medication #drugs tw #chronic pain

[vvanessaives]

work one month as a service worker and see how they don't even want to pay you for your work

#rena.txt #LITERALLY GOING CRAZY WHERE TF ARE MY MONEY!!!!!!!!!! #it's not even a problem of the owner. the girl that acts as a boss literally told me she forgot about having to tell the owner to pay me 💀 #and i had to text her about this on monday and she said yea sorry i will let you know when you can come asap AND SHE STILL DIDN'T TELL ME #ANYTHING. like i was already supposed to get paid at the end of july and now we will reach mid august..bro ://///// #like i don't want to think ill of this girl but. IT'S TWO TIMES ALREADY THAT U FORGOT NOW. i even told her give me the number of the owner #and i'll ask him myself and she ignored that. girl if your memory is so shitty let me handle it #i'll have to show up to the place when he's around but it's nearly impossible to catch this guy at the bar. I'M LOSING MY MIND #i can't wait to find him and make him and this girl look like 2 fucking clowns bc i KNOW the guy is a bonaccione. the problem is that woman. #this shit can't be real why me fr