~*~ Eight of Spades ~*~

Tbh? I don't like Paul. I don't want Paul. I understand that Paul serves an important narrative function and that Paul is the best possible ending for Camilla and Palamedes given their situation, personalities, and relationship. However what I really want is for Camilla and Palamedes to attend the ATN wedding as two individual humans and for Pal to be a lightweight who loses his tie in the garden fountain after three drinks and for Camilla to do exactly one shot with the group, keep Gideon from ripping the sleeves off her dress shirt, and absolutely kill it at lawn games during cocktail hour. Since this scenario is a wild tonal mismatch for the series and also Palamedes was already dead, this was unlikely to ever happen. However Paul is the final nail in the coffin for the theoretical existence of this scene and I can't help but resent them for that

ok actually i'm putting this back in my queue with my original tags:

Fully agree that Paul is written as and meant to be read as a tragedy. I don't think it's a coincidence that the main opinions we get on what Pal and Cam were up to were from Pyrrha, who was already grieving them even before they did the deed because she saw the writing on the wall. It's meant to be another side of the coin of lyctorhood, the way they were both so sure was the correct lyctorhood, that is still as horrifying and sad in its own way.

That said I am also very confident in Tamsyn's ability to make any character she devotes time into interesting, so I don't think Paul will be simply boringly competent and flat. They will be a new and exciting brand of messed up and I can't wait to find out the flavor.

I feel like porn RPGs where there's an explicit in-character reason why making your NPCs fuck gives them bonuses in combat are being more honest about their game-mechanical premise than mainstream RPGs where making your NPCs fuck just happens to be a required step in a side quest which results in them receiving combat bonuses for ostensibly unrelated reasons.

And Mass Effect, and BG3, etc...

Mainstream game devs aren't about to let their NPCs be DTF just from the get go. A major allied character? Like some kind of slut? So the fucking is part of a relationship quest, in which the NPC gets character development. But then we can't let such a quest end without a mechanical reward, so there's combat bonuses for the NPC.

I wonder if there's any games where the reward for the Quest To Fuck is alternate outfits.

Game where the reward for having sex is unlocking the other character's outfit for the main character and vice versa.

#anyway harem% run solely to have the entire party be wearing identical outfits in the final battle

I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.

A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.

Kenya

Salad Fingers, episode 2

End of Ze World

Schfifty Five

The Hamster Dance

Badgers

"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt

Charlie the Unicorn

The Llama Song

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

there's sound

saw someone say that they block "ageless blogs" and for a moment i imagined, like, cthulhu having a tumblr

DNI if you have lain for aeons, deathless and half-sleeping, watching the stars churn and roil overhead as their short lives flicker against the canvas of night, or if you watch st*ven un*verse

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even DNI

Zukka is a ship that I'm ultimately indifferent to but its existence gives me more glee than any other ship. As someone who obnoxiously spent the majority of my pre-teen years going to forum war for Kataang against Zutara, and watching as that war went on strong for years after I'd left my station, the rise of Zukka basically felt like this

"After ten long years the fight shows no sign of stopping. Kataang is once again bringing its ultimate attack of canon-compliance, while Zutara has released another essay on how it better suits the show's themes of balance- wait. What's this? Why it's-it's- IT'S ZUKKA WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!!"

Genuinely 90% of historical fiction would be so much better if more writers could get more comfortable with the fact that to create a good story set in a different time period you do actually have to give the characters beliefs & values which reflect that time period

shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool

[id: Meme saying "Sometimes... things that are edgy.... are cool" with edgy and cool both edited in. end id]

i need her so bad

Global 4th anniversary artbook previews

01 / 02 / 03 / 04

arknights "meta" discussion will call units niche and with this mean that they're not worth investing in, conveniently forgetting that every single event and chapter in this game introduces a new gameplay mechanic and with it new niches to exploit

Here's a few personal favourites:

The Bookmarks - Even though Mark eats off silver spoons and Marquelle is more used to plastic, the two are best friends. This improvised comedy series explores the bond of two friends who start a book podcast on their way to their shared goal of writing TheNextGreatAmericanNovel(TM).

Small Victories - A recently recovered drug addict tries to start her new lease on life, too bad life has it out for her.  This dramatic comedy follows Marisol through the ups and downs of her life.

Vega - In a fantasy futuristic world, Vega Rex is employed by her government to kill off the world's worst criminals. She's never met a criminal she couldn't catch…until now. Join Vega as she journeys through a world of bumbling apprentices, powerful technogods, and her biggest challenge yet. Hosted by Ivuoma Hall.

Temujin - A Webby-nominated audio drama on the rise of Genghis Khan—and the fall of his closest friend.

Caravan - (I think) a weird–west audio adventure about going through hell with the people you love

Unwell - Lillian Harper moves to the small town of Mt. Absalom, Ohio, to care for her estranged mother Dorothy after an injury. Living in the town's boarding house which has been run by her family for generations, she discovers conspiracies, ghosts, and a new family in the house's strange assortment of residents.

I'm not entirely sure because the parameters for whiteness have shifted (gotten less stringent in order to keep the majority) since I was a kid (idk what's going on with latino/hispanic like... official classifications right now?? Now there are like 2 boxes?? I'm not sure how the writer self id's either).

Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magic Services - After a controversial fallout with her coven, Kalila Stormfire must juggle complex clients and an anonymous critic hellbent on besmirching her new business. The decaying urban block where Kal operates appreciates her affordable experience in a broad range of supernatural ailments and remedies. Still, Kal is not sure if her talent is enough to stop whoever has been posting bad reviews and persuading customers to cancel appointments.

The Ortiz Twins are coming home - After a face-to-face with an ancient pitáo (an ancient god) who has forgotten his name, the twins are sent on an adventure through the Underworld and face restless spirits, as well as their long lost parents. A new fantasy audio drama about twins on the border reconnecting with their indigenous roots and their family’s forgotten history.

monarchy has no real purpose and should be abolished irl but im a slut for royal families in fiction. the politics. the intrigue. families divided by the eyes of a nation. the pressure of children told from birth that they are born to rule, born for only one purpose. the stifling of empathy and real bonds and love. the loneliness when all eyes are on you. it’s so inherently tragic and yet everyone involved is terrible because that’s all they can be. gimme.

Other town building achievements in this week's Flood Campaign involve building a school! Which goes very slowly both because the town is actively losing money from all the trade disruption and because the town's children are actively sabotaging it so that they don't get stuck in classrooms all day.

In the meantime Cillian, our paladin, and Corric, our definitely-a-wizard-and-not-a-warlock, moonlight as teachers in the half-finished space. Cillian gathers the younger kids for storytelling that is very entertaining and engaging and has absolutely no educational value whatsoever! Corric meanwhile has acquired preschool materials about making friends and conflict resolution and is learning a lot! But unfortunately is also trying to teach these things to 6th graders.

The entire thing eventually devolves into a very large game of tag, which Corric is determined to win.

Meanwhile Korel the sahuagin completely normal sea elf sorcerer is giving the halfling militia completely normal and reasonable lectures on how normal, non-LE-shark-people military discipline is definitely supposed to work.

Sedge, the fighter/druid who actively hates the fact that she's a druid multiclass, has declared Korel her blood-brother and the only person who understands her. Every day, she agrees more wholeheartedly with his carefully unspoken opinion that sometimes the only solution to a bad soldier is to simply eat them.