Pov: Sticking Your Finger In Your Cat's Mouth When He Yawns

Big fan of characters realizing they don't get to die. They have to live. And grow. And be a person. And deal with shit they thought they'd never have to. And be fucked up about it. I would like more of this. Enough dying for honor or as redemption. It ain't. You're just a corpse. There is no moral value in dirt time.

I ❤️ self-loathing characters, characters who struggle with monstrosity (either fearing or embracing it), characters who are so lonely, who have a gaping hole in their chest, who bottle up & repress their feelings, who claw their way up & have ambitions, who fall down & lose everything, who search for identity & purpose yet can’t see themselves outside of what others want from or expect of them, who are hurt & hurt others, who long & grieve, who lie & pretend. characters who are messy & flawed & human

[about my own oc, who i created] in theory its possible she would say that, but we just dont know for sure

beastie boys music is funny as hell one of them will say a line and then the other two will say a completely unrelated line

Obsessed with the trope of when the Heroic Sacrifice does not work.

When the character fails to heroically sacrifice themself and now has to face all the loved ones they were about to leave.

Or even worse, the character does sacrifice themself, but it doesn't fix the situation. So those left behind have to face not only the grief of losing them, but also knowing that it was in vain.

Finally got this bit of banter in BG3, and the fact that it occurred in the Act 2 Shadowlands had me rolling:

*The companions surrounded by the constant oppressive sadness of the Shadowlands, grimly making their way through Moonrise towers*

No one:

Literally no one at all:

Gale: WIZARDS GET FREAKY ALL THE TIME, WYLL

baldur's gate 3 + text posts → 2/?

Chapter 16!!!! - The Bloodbath

Here I go getting into a writing frenzy for the exciting climatic boss fight chapter - and AO3 starts lagging just as I go to post it!

Teaches me for thinking I could get a chapter out so early and have everything go smoothly, I suppose. Ah well, I hope everyone enjoys it at least - when they get the chance to read it, that is!

And we’re off! Next story is up on AO3, and updates should come at least once every ten days as with previous (I just realised I’m working off a tenday-based schedule, this was not intentional), and I will try to post here in case of a delay.

I see a man (fictional), I am generally like "okay". I see the same man (fictional) being put in a situation, covered in dirt and blood, perhaps soaking wet, actively sobbing and shaking like a chihuahua, and I am saying "yay" and "yippee" and things of this nature

I was typing the word Australia earlier but halfway through my mind shut off and I realised I'd typed Austarion.

The brain worms are real.