Al Diel Shala

[joestarlight]

ginny’s bad luck from the last month

- work bullshit that resulted in a union call - plate in my bro’s leg got infected - bro’s infection dr is an asshole - bro needs more surgery - grandmother died - family drama - DID I MENTION FAMILY DRAMA - someone at work saying behind my back that i FAKED my grandmother’s death to get bereavement time. yeeeeeaaaaah….

HOWEVER. STARTING FROM THIS NIGHT FORTH, THERE WILL ONLY BE GOOD LUCK. ONLY BE GOOD LUCK. BAD LUCK, YOU ARE FOREVER BANISHED! I am on spring break now and hell bent on enjoying it. I’m playing FF14 and catching up on the main storyline, I’m playing games on my ipad, I’m sewing and starting a cosplay project, I’m catching up on Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife, I’m walking my dog like cause she is AWESOME, and I am spending time with friends and family. Shit’s gonna get better or I will kick shit’s ass.

[aldielshala]

In case anyone was wondering....yeah my IRL hasn’t gotten much better. I AM FUCKING MAKING IT BETTER NOW. On the WoW RP front, RP dried up, and I haven’t much felt like trying my hand at rolling a new toon or trying to find new partners with all the drama floating about. BUT. If you are reading this, you probably know me! If you know me, and want me to log into wow, or want to RP via skype, all you gotta do is ask! I got other fun things keeping me busy - because I really kinda NEED them right now. That doesn’t mean I don’t love and adore Arainea, though, and I want to keep playing her with people I trust. I’m gonna see about making a post about where she stands soon and see where it goes from there (and omfg chimerafood I SO WANT TO FINISH THAT SCENE IF YOU ARE UP FOR IT) I’m just going with the flow and doing what I have fun with~! For the record my skype is setainred. Feel free to hit me up on there any time!

[booshmasta]

Being all piratey with marky-marxist

[marky-marxist-deactivated201904]

YOU SNEAKY, CRAFTY, KRAKEN PUNCHING, FLAME AND THUNDER BELCHING, GENITAL HEADBUTTING CREEPER!

…Dat Cho-Cho-Sama grin tho.

[aldielshala]

YOU GUYS WERE PIRATE SHENANIGANING WITHOUT ME?! GAAASP

Seriously though. I will log if I am promised pirate shenanigans. Poke me on skype!

[adhelin]

Oh hells yeah.

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[joestarlight]

Katsu was in general a stressful con for me due to IRL stuff, but I grateful to Monty and Emilia for doing these self indulgent blood elf photos with me! They made my weekend!

[aldielshala]

SO UH HERE I AM COSPLAYING ARA AND MY BOY IS COSPLAYING LOCK.

It finally happened, I've lost control of my life, making my husband wear elf ears to satisfy my need for self indulgent cosplay based on a World of Warcraft RP on Moon Guard.

WHAT IS MY LIFE

....that being said I think we're kinda cute though...

[toastyhat-deactivated20180203]

PLEASE WATCH THE CREDITS FOR EXTRA INFORMATION!!

I’ve been working on this since March of 2013, so it’s been a long time coming! You can see more about it by browsing the posts here.

This is an animated music video for the Alternian ancestors—characters in the webcomic Homestuck whose epic story is only ever relayed via exposition. This gave me plenty of leeway for creativity, but I did my best to stay as true to what we’re told as possible and I hope you enjoy it!

Song: Protectors of the Earth by Two Steps from Hell Programs Used: Toon Boom Studio 4.5, Adobe Photoshop CS6, iMovie My tablet is a Wacom Cintiq

[joestarlight]

………………………………………………………………………holy fuck. CUE DRAMATIC CELINE DION MUSIC

So. Everything I have EVER loved and EVER cared about with Homestuck….THAT IS THIS VIDEO, This video reminds me of why I am still dangling onto threads of this fandom even after all these years and after the current comic lost my interest, THIS is what a care about - the ancestors and dancestors and everything around them.

SO. MANY. FUCKING. FEELS, OH MY GOD. ARA CRO KANKRI SIGNLESS MINDFANG DUUUUUUUUUAAAAAALSCAAAAAAAAR ;_;

[aldielshala]

I am sorry, this doesn’t totally belong here BUT….my baby Arainea is based on the girl at the beginning and end with the blue lips and white cat eye glasses, as well on the badass pirate figure in black and blue through parts of the rest of the video. My hunter is based off the one with the cig at the beginning, as well as the one with the scars on his face, Current Homestuck updates have lost my interest but these characters NEVER will. This video reminds me of why.

[aldielshala]

You are leaving for ffxiv :(

ARGH. I'll be honest anon, shit like this annoys me because I've already said on numerous occasions that wow is my first priority RP wise. I had not wished to bring this up, but here you go - I have been suffering from some bone crushing depression recently and in the last week, especially the last few days, it's been BAD. It's actually been hindering me IRL, and I have been finding starting new RP difficult. I HAVE been on FF14 as well as GW2, but except for the wedding I attended last night in game I've been mindlessly leveling and using that to distract myself from some really bad shit brought on by the depression.

Also of late, many of Ara's storylines are on hold as other players have not been around. Because of my depression, I have not really been up to starting new storylines. In the coming days, I'm hoping to be back in game more. But to be honest, from what I'm hearing, in game has been dramariffic, which is the OPPOSITE of what I need right now. My belf Arainea is my fucking baby and want nothing more than to RP her and have fun, but please keep in mind that I have to do what is best for my mental state, and respect that.

[aldielshala]

so I just saw a wedding on final fantasy 14

much sparkle. very flamboyant. wow.

...the fangirl in me fucking loved it though, and capt-harlock and I are contemplating making Ara and Lock over there JUST SO THEY CAN FUCKING HAVE A SPARKLY ASS GROW WINGS AND FLOAT AND KISS WITH MOOGLES AND CHOCOBO RIDING INTO THE SUNSET WEDDING. Don't worry folks, WOW is now and forever my home. ...buuuuuut I gotta get my dose of shoujo sparkles somewhere.

[aldielshala]

I want to see what NSFW headcanons you have for my character. Go on anon if you’d like. Be as graphic or as vague as you want. If I like it, I’ll accept it.

Oh why not.

[moonguardsecrets]

Am I the only one who thinks that someone killing their character off after a "heartbreak" or bad fight is manipulative at best? In most cases it wont guilt that person into wanting to continue the relationship and rewriting every time is stupid. Give your character some depth , let it endure the hurt and make that character better because of it.

😯

[aldielshala]

You need to look at things from another perspective - we are all rping for fun. And some of us are rping to escape other problems. There was a period last year when my character was going through some tough shit that lasted for a while, rp became really draining. It was only when things started to pick up again for her that I remembered "oh yes!!! THIS is why I RP!!" If a person doesn't want to rp their character being miserable from a break up, they shouldn't have to. And to be perfectly honest, if that happened to my character, considering my current state IRL, I wouldn't want to either!

But that being said, i don't really dig the whole killing them off thing. I don't think I'd ever do that. Why not just put them on ice? Focus on another toon for a while? Maybe go back to it when you're in a better emotional place and write a little piece summarizing how they reacted and moved on?

Just my own two cents!

[vaportea]

AKA step in Silvermoon and win instantly.

[bramble-star]

My only token is the surname “Dawn______” for my character. Idk, for other people, maybe I’m just not looking hard enough?

[steppesthetic]

Can we have a bingo sheet for bad RPers that includes such gems as “unrequested observations,” “aggressively wrong about lore” and “shitty bingo memes”?

[bramble-star]

Yes. Half of these squares just are people who are roleplaying what they want.

[colorfulcryptid]

why cant belfs have blue eyes lol?

While it was once believed that blood elves and high elves were exactly the same biological race, separated more by cultural differences than physiological ones, it has since been determined that they are, in fact, beginning to evolve into a separate race, due largely to their consumption of mana from primarily fel sources. This reliance on fel magic causes the eyes of blood elves to glow green with demonic fire. This readily available source of energy also tends to give blood elves a ruddier or paler look compared to their quel’dorei cousins.

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A Blood Elf cannot have blue eyes because they are surrounded by fel.

But my blood elf has never been around fel!!!

A “Blood Elf” or “Sin’dorei” that HAS NOT been around fel magic is impossible. If they haven’t been around fel magic, that would make them a High Elf, or a Quel’dorei. A High Elf WOULD NOT BE IN SILVERMOON and WOULD BE KILLED ON SIGHT BY ANY HORDE MEMBERS. It’s rare enough that a half elf ( the son\daughter of either a belf or helf with a human ) is seen in the horde, let alone the Alliance sworn, blue wearing, cousins of the Blood Elves. That’s a big gigantic phat no.

But my Blood Elf isn’t ever ever in Silvermoon and doesn’t like draining magic!

To simply put this, your blood elf would be looking pretty dead and weak if they never drained magic at all. Remember the Sunwell? Blood Elves lived off of it and it’s magic, and you wanna know what happened with Mister Derpa Herp Arthas came with an army of undead and slaughtered thousands upon thousands of blood elves and used the Sunwell to resurrect Kel’Thuzad? Blood Elves grew weaker and had to find another source of magic to sustain themselves. We’re literally talking about an entire civilization of magic junkies that survived a zombie apocalypse by the skin of their teeth. Thus came the Burning Crusade where goodie-two-shoes-Kael’Thas struck a deal with moon eyed “omg tyrande is so hawt” Illidan and so Fel Magic was born, the Blood Knights were created by draining a naaru, and every single blood elf’s eyes turned green from the draining of fel crystals. Why the hell do you think we have them everywhere in Silvermoon? We eat that shit like rock candy meth.

But my blood elf was born after that and never drained!

Let’s bring the orcs into this, Metzen’s favorite race. Where’s the expansion “9000 orc dicks in my mouth”? Anyways, the orcs drank the blood of the demon, Mannoroth, and became crazy serial killers with green skin. Now every baby that pops out of an orc is green, why? Because it’s pretty damn likely that his great pappy drank some demon blood and they were influenced by it and so on and so forth. So. You bring a Blood Elf (again a zombie survivalist with a magic addiction) into the world and what color eyes do they have? Green. Why? Because mommy and daddy did some nasty business with some fel crystals.

Now let’s go on to the elves that don’t control their magical addiction and don’t drain magic. Listen really close kids, you don’t wanna miss this part, because we’re going to talk about the Wretched.

What’s an elf that doesn’t drain and doesn’t control their magical addiction? A wretched. This goes for both High Elves and Blood Elves, so don’t start feeling all special about your damn little pointy eared derpadin having purple eyes or some shit, because it’s not possible.

The Wretched were once blood elves, but they failed to control their magical addiction. The Wretched are thin elves with a large, bony forehead, claw-like fingers and toes, blue eyes and strange growths on their backs that glow with an eerie blue light.

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So to sum this all up …

BLOOD ELVES WILL ALWAYS HAVE GREEN EYES.

HIGH ELVES WILL ALWAYS HAVE BLUE EYES.

NO YOUR ELF CAN’T HAVE FUCKING GOLDEN EYES BECAUSE THE SUNWELL. NO YOUR PALADIN, PRIEST, OR WHATEVER LIGHT WORSHIPPING PIOUS LITTLE SHIT CANNOT HAVE GOLD EYES BECAUSE OF THEIR INFLUENCE WITH THE LIGHT.

IT. WILL. ALWAYS. BE. GREEN.

GOGGLE “SHADES OF GREEN” PICK A COLOR YOU LIKE AND ROLL WITH IT. DON’T BE A LITTLE SHITHEAD WITH PURPLE EYES OR BLACK EYES TRYING TO BE MYSTERIOUS WITH SHARPENED TEETH IN MURDER ROW AT MIDNIGHT TRYING TO GET YOUR ROCKS OFF WITH SOME LADY THAT IS PROBABLY A DUDE.

UNLESS YOUR CHARACTER IS BLIND AND HAS ARTIFICIAL, DIFFERENT COLORED EYEBALLS THEY WONT HAVE ANY OTHER COLOR BUT GREEN, PERIOD. IF THEY DON’T HAVE GREEN THEY’RE A HIGH ELF, IF THEY DON’T DRAIN MAGIC FOR SOME ODD REASON THEY’RE GOING TO BECOME GIANT CRACKHEADS LIKE YOU SEE IN THE BELF STARTER ZONE.

please roleplay responsibly

i included night elf eye colors because im nice

[hmpreusse-deactivated20160705]

High Elves don’t have a mandated eye color.

[starcunning]

shout out to the blue-eyed high elf warlock in dalaran

[frostysparrow]

who the fuck is this nerd and why are they so upset about the eye colors that people choose to have for their characters

arkaluu has teal eyes

does this enrage u frend 

[moongoonking-deactivated2015090]

I was wondering why this person was so adamant on defending the idea of Blood Elves having different colored eyes. Especially when this person began to say “Well, the Orcs turn out green, so the Elves gotta be green too.”

Then I looked up what server the OP played on and it made way more sense.

[raserus]

My Shalenor has teal eyes, and Raserus fluctuates between peridot and gold depending on how much(or little) holy magic he used on a given day. Fuck people who police rp.

[frostysparrow]

Arks eyes tend to glow gold when he’s casting large bursts of holy magic

We’re the pally special snowflake squad.

[indirispeaks]

So we’ve always had the lore police and the lolurdoinitrong squad, now we have the ‘because I said so’ execution squad roaming the streets of Silvermoon with an eye-chart?  You know, there are gamers starving in the streets of America from having no fucks left in the world to give about stupid, inconsequential shit like this that is rightfully none of their goddamn business and you, sir, clearly have far too many.  

[mercilessmime]

Wait. In the first post. Who in the fuck told him the Elves were evolving to biologically different races? I’ve yet to ever see anything saying that Quel’dorei and Sin’dorei have any biological differences. Some just had a period where they ran on Fel, and others didn’t. Where’s a biological difference? These people are just tripping.

[thegoddamnhawkman]

well he also thinks that wretched are elves that ‘didn’t drain’ or whatever when the actual lore has them as elves that sucked up too much fel (hence the “couldn’t control their addiction”), so if he can’t be bothered to get one of his own core points right while he’s lore-policing why should anything else he says make sense

[mercilessmime]

True enough.

[aldielshala]

So I have been on wow for a year and change, and I have had various people explain lore to me in that time. One of my biggest questions was always "how long ago did the Sin'dorei become Sin'dorei?" The answer I always get is around ~9 years. Which for an elf, is not even as long as it is for us. And that isn't THAT long in the scheme of things.

You do not start to evolve in 9 years. And anti-high elf activity is still a relatively new phenomena to Sin'dorei because not long ago they WERE high elves. This isn't some hundred or thousand year old split.

[5x5slayer]

Finding an RP partner who runs with your batshit crazy ideas is like finding the holy grail.

[willowblackthorn]

[vintar]

i’ve found my new favourite author

[roachpatrol]

SPACE RAPTOR BUTT INVASION

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

this is some of the finest literature ever written in the english language

[morebarkthanbite]

FUCK THIS IS AN ACTUAL BOOK I JUST LOOKED IT UP IT’S 3 FUCKING DOLLARS ON AMAZON.COM I THOUGHT THIS WAS A PHOTOSHOPPED JOKE BUT IT IS LEGIT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

http://www.amazon.com/Billionaire-Triceratops-Craves-Gay-Ass-ebook/dp/B00QTTIJVI

I NEED 3 DOLLARS TO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW

[aldielshala]

Pretty much every man Ara knows should be glad that she is not trying to write these novels. You know how she likes to write from life...I'd hate to see  her try to set up Space Butt Raptor Invasion....

[literatureandfairytales]

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (via literatureandfairytales)

[staypozitive]

[starsworn]

Legit Employment? Yeah Right...

It was almost midnight by the time the wyvern landed on the roof of the inn and Lark slid wearily off its back and trudged down the stairs to the room he and Eurynine stayed in together (to save gold, of course). He knocked gently rather than walk straight in, though he hoped the priest was asleep already.

“Lark?”

“Yeah, it’s me,” he said quietly.

“It’s unlocked.”

As he pushed the door open and slipped inside, Lark saw the faintest hint of purple slide off Eury’s fingertips as he picked back up the notebook he’d set in his lap. “You were gonna blast the hell out of anyone who just waltzed right in here, weren’t you?” The dark-haired elf locked the door behind him.

“Of course,” Eury replied archly.

Lark shot a lopsided grin of approval at the priest as he crossed the room to the lone wooden chair in the small, goblin-built inn. Thank the Sun they’d made things sized for orc and tauren clients instead of teeny goblin-sized chairs and beds. He set the small wooden box he was carrying in his lap and bent to pull off his boots. “I’m sorry I’m so late. I didn’t mean to be. I ran into that Arainea woman on the way back from the delivery.” He’d been hired by Mazk Snipeshot down at the Old Port Authority for the rush delivery of a canister of volatile ether to the northern end of the continent.

The albino elf set aside the notes he’d been making on the early development of a sunburn cream and focused his bright fel-green gaze on Lark.

“Mentioned to her that I was making a courier delivery and it turns out she needs a courier for her shop. So…” He let the last vowel trail off as he set his boots down next to the chair and reached for his pack, rummaging for his sleep pants.

“So you’ve got an employer.”

“That’s about the sum of it, yeah. She’ll pay travel expenses and two gold or five percent of the sale – whichever’s greater – per delivery. And she understands that getting the boat down here on the water is a priority for me. Harlock’s going to cut me a deal on pitch to seal the hull too.”

Eury pressed his pale lips together and slowly raised both well-groomed eyebrows. “I might forgive you for the late night…”

Setting his pack aside and draping his sleep pants over the arm of the chair, Lark stood up and padded over to the side of the bed where the priest reclined under a light wool blanket. For the first time in his short, avarice-filled life, he held out his pay to another person. “Here. Since you’ve been covering so much of our expenses.” Even more than just the twelve gold he’d made for the delivery, he’d slipped six more coins into the box from the stash hidden inside his pack while he was getting his pants.

“I thought we weren’t keeping a tally anymore.”

The courier – and often smuggler – grinned and pushed the little wooden box at Eury. “We aren’t. I just want you to help me spend this. What do you think about fixing up the captain’s cabin of that boat first?”

(( aldielshala, capt-harlock ))

[aldielshala]

((Ara is very excited to have Lark working with her, and I am very excited to get to RP with you more! <3))

[joestarlight]

LILLY JUST BOUGHT ME THE GREATEST PRESENT EVER! It will have rum in it by Katsucon.

[aldielshala]

This flask is so Ara it HURTS.