Finished 7.4. It’s much better than all of 7.0 and I’m curious about how it’ll expand worldbuilding, esp political upheavals as Source societies encounter shard societies (maybe an invasion? please?). If shardhopping continues to be WoL exclusive then it’ll be hard to care from an RP standpoint.

friday mood

I didn’t finish leveling even one character to 80 in Lemix but I did get all the ponies and raid mogs I wanted so I’ll call that a win

Adding extra frozen veggies to my canned soup like a pill pocket for cooking averse humanoids Monkey body want eat monkey brain no want kitchen mess

#Nightreign #eldenring Duality of Harmonia 救いの旗手

I drop a backstory outline and plot hooks so folks know what the vibe is and the lore that I’m bending/riffing on, and to give them a taste of my writing style. Juicy details are reserved for RP. It also helps me remember shit >>

i think i might be a wifeguy

RP really is the only writing activity that is actively, essentially social that I know of. That makes it impossible to replace and harder to go without when so many of my friendships and creative life are wrapped up in years of stories told with others. “Just write a book” what, alone? :///

Writing: I’m good at poetic flow and waxing philosophical without purpling the prose past aesthetics. I’ve been complimented by folks who lamp on my RP just to watch me write. Professors have praised the cutting humor I brought to academic writing. Drawing: I obsess over details in graphite.

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not beating the vampire allegations

welp. pencil sketch is done, time to paint this, I guess 👀 🫣

desk job brain atrophy is so fucking real 💀

Blaidd the Half-Wolf #EldenRing

Writing another cover letter trying to fit as much ass into my craw as i can without them noticing, and when they do notice, making sure they like it

my most (mild) hot take is that xiv needs to bring back actually scary moments again. like dedicated horror. i want more of what we had in tam tara deepcroft (hard)

My toxic trait is I’ll watch anything with Jon Bernthal in it bc he is wife material but my god writers need to come up with better conflicts than Heteronormative Cis White People Problems

The whole “friendship laser” trope is so irritating bc it’s lazy writing. It’s a metaphor for the strength of your friends helping you do the thing, yes, we get it. So write that. Show us the dynamics SPECIFICALLY so we can relate and see ourselves in the choices.

We deserved a Lute Hazbin Hotel type antag in HW patch content. Every time I hear “Gravity” I imagine a soldier scorned by a thousand years of lies making war on the church alongside the dragons to exact the brand of blood-balanced justice Halone glorified. I wanted to see that cathedral burn.

Allow me to be salty for a moment. I've been starving for this particular flavor of high fantasy in a playerhub/city state/surrounding areas in XIV for years. And since Shadowbringers SE keeps teasing me and adding it ONLY THROUGH INSTANCES and it keeps driving me insane. ⚰️

Your friends will teach you how to experience love and how to recognize the real thing in a romantic +/- sexual partner. We don’t have a society that values friendship on par with partnership, but being a good partner means knowing how to be a good friend first imo.

Yeah sex is great and all but, have you ever

It’s so nice to be interested in the msq again. From Mistwake onward I’ve actually been curious about what happens next, a feeling I’ve dearly missed. The milalla are a delight, I love getting to meet real people (instead of memory fragments) from the 9th. If we have to shardhop this is an ok intro

"My brother will keep his promise. He possesses the wisdom, the allure, of a god - he is the most fearsome Empyrean of all." #eldenring #art

My assignment for Winona Nelson's SmArtschool class: Choose a favorite book and illustrate a cover for it. I picked "The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller, and my goal was to capture a similar bittersweet tone as the novel has.

there is no positive route forward for the United States without mass arrests and trials for DHS employees

the descent into nokron in elden ring is something i wish i could experience for the first time again

too many people have January birthdays and don’t celebrate them by not having parties. i am still recovering from The Holidays please god let me do nothing on the weekends.

lmao they’re scared of the backlash but still wanna tongue the money-hole. they don’t care why this shit is bad, they want us to shut up about it. “higher quality game” categorically, no. not if you use this garbage. pro-slop is still pro slop. fuck larian.

Ishikawa needs to write for msq again bc she has a fujoshi's heart

Bedside bibles for true believers

I am insufferable about story quality because I love good stories the way you love your best friend. I want to feel understood, to find threads and characters to relate to, villain or hero or gradations between. I want a safe place for catharsis. I want to /feel/ something.

How many hard kombucha will it take to get caught up on msq? At least one more

I’ll say something nicer: DT’s gameplay, cutscenes, voice acting and fight design particularly are excellent to the degree that the story is absolute shit. I’m excited for the wonderful game mechanics to cradle a compelling narrative in the future. Break my heart again, SE. I just wanna feel it

Slogging through 7.3 and… we’re really supposed to believe that an entire kingdom was seduced by the “genius” of a ten year old child with a terminal illness smart enough to imagine how to delay death but lacking, fundamentally, the experience to know why it must be. Lmfao okay. Sure why not.

60 degrees F in January is hideous, bring back my Silent Hill fog soup and perpetual rain. I barely got to wear my coat 😭

Can’t wait for this hair to come out I’m slapping it on every character so fast

Catching up to 7.4 msq and reminded of how toothless DT is in a way that feels simply lazy. I know it’s supposed to be about death, I just wish it would use to the fullest what it already has. Regulators were awesome. Copied memories of a dead person downloaded to their revived body? —

Ok I'm going to suggest a goal for everyone to try to accomplish right away: back up all of your files on an external hard drive or thumb drive. NOT the cloud! I mean on something you own not connected to the internet that some other company or person has control over.

...Meanwhile I have to book an MRI for next week, and I'm going to have to pay for this one... so I've kicked prices at the #Ebooks Direct store down to their pre-holiday levels, particularly for the Whole Store ebook package. (ebooks.direct/products/ebo...) Everybody feel free to take advantage! 😀

One of my favorite and formative authors noticed a post I made gushing about her work and helpfully linked to where we could find it (all of it! new goodies! I’m over the moon) and I’m still starstruck, I think. It was a simple and kind gesture, but I’m realizing it means more to me than that.

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

gay fantasy will save you. Gay elves and gay knights and gay ritual sex cults and gay magic will save you

I’ve set a reading goal for the past three years (25 to start and 50 after that) and I’ve hit it every time so far. Setting it lower this year to focus on other goals, but! If you’re thinking about trying to get back into reading again please do. It was such a rewarding thing to do!!!

happy heavensturn — [ #eulogiavessel | #liadon ]

Sick and not able to kiss my gf at midnight, therefore time to take gay little gposes of my biblically accurate femboy to send her If you imagine this like dangling raw steak over a pit bull you are correct

Wishing every Traveler idling naked in the Balmung QS a very fuck off and die so i can transfer my gf to my server thanks

I still haven’t finished Elden Ring, my favorite game ever, bc when i do it will be Done, i will know the things, i will have Discovered, and the lethal delights around every corner will become familiar. I’m not ready to be on the other side of it yet.

I know DT set us up for shardhopping and I don’t want to but if we must, then I hope it comes with deepening the existing lore of locations on the Source so non-WoL RPers can meaningfully engage.