"Don't you have a sister to go kill?" "No. I have a sister to walk beside."

ACE DARIAX HELL YEAH

as much as it pains me to say, i think we may still have a while to go before dorian and orym admit they're both stupidly in love with one another and have been for some time.

i can totally see them having a good ol heart to heart next episode, but i don't know if that's where the feelings will come out. i largely suspect the "you've got me/i've got you" type of conversation will happen, as well as explaining what they've both been through, but i could see liam and robbie holding off just a little bit longer until that comes out because they love to torture us.

because the way i see the love confession happening is

so in theory it could happen a multitude of ways, and i will eat up every single one because these two losers (affectionate) need each other!!

or, they could just come out and say the damn thing next episode

listen- I’m ready for dorym to become canon in game (s/o to 4SD & Liam’s confirmation. Love this bisexual & his mlm representation ) as much as the next obsessed queer BUT please Liam & Robbie-kings of romance and pining- give me the yearning, give me the slow build, give me saying I love in every way but the words. Give me bardic prose and taking killing blows for the other. Give me time found in the hesitancy and grief and unknowing. Give me in person yearning please 🙏

Orym's feelings for Dorian and the place he is in right now are fascinating because he *did* get to know Dorian before he left. And it hasn't been that long, even though they have both experienced so much trauma and loss in the intervening time. Just because a part of Orym longs for the times before Dorian left, and even though nostalgia has put a shine on Dorian for Orym, I don't think that means he's fallen for the idea of him rather than the reality. They have both missed so much, but in the end they *are* paralleled to each other. Orym may be saddened by what Dorian went through, but a Dorian who never knew loss couldn't understand Orym as he is now. There is a potential there for both of them to truly be *known*.

Orym didn't ask Dorian to come back as a band-aid, or to reminisce or somehow bring simpler times with him, even if that was part of the longing. The initial reality that Dorian, too, was affected by the same sorts of things that affected Orym is jarring, but they can re-learn each other. Dorian has meant safety and support to Orym for a longer time than the time they've been apart, and I don't believe Orym would turn away from him because he's angry and grieving.

"Dorian," Orym said, truly and sincerely. "I'm so sorry."

Realizing that he's spent all of this time needing Dorian, and maybe Dorian needs him, too.

I will be thinking about this for the next 3-5 business days

Loving this response and I 100% agree!

Guys, it's time to drop Google.

Google isn't the only search engine in the whole internet, there are others! And we need to diversify our search engine usage or we're gonna end up where we were a decade and change ago with the Internet Explorer issue. We can't let a single brand monopolize everything! This is why Google Search can afford to suck so hard: because people use it regardless! And there are alternatives.

A little bit about search engines, there are 3 types: crawlers, which work by scraping the web and developing their own indexes; metas, which get their results from the crawler-type search engines and therefore depend entirely upon them; and mixed, those which have their own (small) index but also pull results from the crawlers.

Right now, there are a couple of independant crawlers apart from Google, Bing (from Mycrosoft) and Yandex (the Russian one): this are Mojeek and Wiby.

Supporting independant crawlers is the easiest way to fight the shittyfication of the internet.

Mojeek.com is an independant british search engine with its own growing index commited to fighting internet censorship. It's small, and therefore it's usability isn't as good as that of the Big Three, but it doesn't censor, it's fairly respectful of people's privacy, and it doesn't drown you in adds. For those old enough to remember, it's a lot like early 2000s Google: you can find what you need, but if you write "dig shelter" instead of "dog shelter", that's what it's gonna search for. That said, please try to use it and support it as much as you can before we end up entirely dependant on Google, Bing and big corps adds. [click here to go to Mojeek]

Wiby.me is a new indie project that is literally dedicated to bringing back the old-school web. It's goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. So, for those of you who can't find any answers to technical questions beyond highschool level because Google buries them under a gazillion commercial sites and other meaningless shit, keep an eye on this project! It has a lot of potential. And, if you know of any personal websites that have great stuff but have been murdered by Google, you can go over to Wiby and submit it to their index. [click here to go to Wiby]

Aside from those, there are also meta search engines you can use to ween yourself off Google and search for random, day to day stuff.

Qwant.com is my go-to here—it has its own index and pulls from Bing, has relatively little censorship, and is fairly private. This is the one I use on my phone for everyday stuff. [click here to go to Qwant].

Historically, DuckDuckGo has always been a go-to for those who want a search engine that respects your privacy and doesn't censor. Personally, I've never been a fan, and there have been a LOT of scandals in recent years. It supposedly has its own index and pulls from Bing, much like Qwant, but I don't know. I just don't like it. Still, I've added it here for completeness' sake.

If you have Firefox Mobile browser, you can set any of these search engines as your default search engine and you can also add the others as secondary search engines and switch quicky from the navigation bar. If you don't have firefox mobile though, what are you doing with your life??? Go get it!! It is So. Much. Better. You can have add blockers and watch YouTube add free, for free! You can have reader mode and dark mode add-ons! You can have the world oh my goshhhh, drop Chrome!!

4get.ca is my last recommendation: it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn't have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it's the best for reaserch, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can. It's also very privacy conscious, so that's an other plus, and it has that late 90s / early 2000s vibe that I totally dig. [click here to go to 4get]

If you wanna learn more about the topic, you can over to the Search Engine Map [click here] which shows you a bunch of Search Engines and how they relate to each other. Or you can also go over to this one dude's personal website whose done A Lot of reaserch into the topic (way more than me) and seems to be pretty legit, if a little extra. [click here to go to digdeeper.neocities.org] Hope this infodump is useful to someone =D

PS: here's to hoping all the links work!

EDIT: eliminated the "read more". Figured there are enough mega long posts in tumblr, one more won't make no difference lol (tho the version w the read more has been reblogged already, in case you'd rather)

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and then aimee leaning into liam’s space as he starts to answer this question,,, liam laughing and teasing “you should get closer.” and aimee threatening to sit in his lap,,, aimee carrero I’m in love w/you

Face of pure devastation and of a man questioning absolutely everything

I do appreciate Liam’s willingness to not beat around the bush at all on talkback shows about his characters having romantic feelings. Mf will just come right out and say it. Love that for him. And me

HE SAID ITTTTT

"ORYM IS NERVOUS"

"HE HAS FEELINGS FOR DORIAN AND THINKS THEY'RE UNREQUITED"

"ORYM IS SHY"

WHATTTTT

LIAM YOU CAN'T JUST DROP THAT BOMB THEN MOVE ON SIR

AAAAAAA

Imodna shippers to dorym shippers rn, deep breaths ya’ll, welcome to canon xoxoxo