Leaving my shadow still to be with you

Late 30's | Of the Fairer Sex | Writer | Anything and Everything of Interest | Grishaverse Sideblog: @sherbornbear | Final Fantasy XIV Sideblog: @hengest-horsa | Black Sails Sideblog: @brigantinebear | AO3: BearFromThere 

[worldformula]

commission for a friend

[awesomebutunpractical]

"He wouldn't say that" has a beautiful cousin, and her name is "That's Not What This Story is About".

[bearfromthere]

And this can lead to some very odd framing in media discussions. "I know this is not the story the author chose to tell, but here is what I would have done with this setting..." is very different from "This media is terrible because the author did not address this..."

So many heated fan discussions could be cooled by shifting the conversation from seemingly misunderstanding the media-in-question's themes/audience/genre to look at all the neat things we could build with these lego blocks if The Story Had Been About That.

[bearfromthere]

Tumblr requires me to burn through my social spell slots like a mage who suddenly finds herself at the top of the enmity list with no choice but to pop every cooldown at once.

[gennsoup]

"How wearisome Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate."

John Milton, Paradise Lost

[bearfromthere]

Rejoice. I have made a FFXIV sideblog so that no one needs hear me lose my mind over the MSQ once again. All of that will now be contained to @hengest-horsa hopefully a bit better than the Ancients contained their research subjects.

[bearfromthere]

I decided to relaunch my FFXIV journey on a male hyur (as god intended), and I am loving every minute of A Realm Reborn.

I remember my utter bewilderment that last time I ran through ARR as I was thrown into the deep end of lore I could barely understand.

This time O Mournful Voice of Creation nearly broke me.

Meanwhile Yototo can live out her best life as a Disciple of the Hand and spend all her scrip on parasols in the Firmament.

[pydiyudie]

[renrenkaaa]

Emet-Selch's first day at work

And his two bozos

[poetdept]

In "Less Than Zero," Robert Downey Jr. and I both decided that our two guys had been lovers at one point. It wasn't referred to at all, but that was the one choice made in that film that I ended up being pleased with, because it informed everything that happened. There's a certain understanding between two people who've been lovers, that's not there in two people who haven't.

[bearfromthere]

Now don't come closer

Stand still

Don't interfere

Don't move or things go wrong

We're trapped in twilight

Trapped in the mind of a sacrificial king

And the sun won't shine here anymore

I curse the Crow

Dear old friend

And when the time is right for changes

We will salute you

And a new age may begin

But still they don't know

They're just caught in distant memories

Then these fools will fade away

When all the magic is gone

No need to carry it along

Whatever the cost

It will not be redeemed

And whatever may come

It will not bring, relief

In the mirror

They may fail to see

What is real behind

There it ends

And there is no return

They will go down

They all will have to drown

Out of the dark

Into the grey

These fools will fade away

No matter what

I've come to say

These fools will fade away

[bearfromthere]

Their stars won't shine here anymore

Their savior won't even try

He can't remember the truth

They may follow a plan they once had

(Deeply sad)

They have chosen the wrong side and tried to resist

All their visions and music no longer exist

Will it be me they blame?

See, it's a whole world that I've once condemned

And I shattered it all with a thought as it seems

[hiiragimare]

🥺

[nipuni]

A parting gift

A step by step process of this will be available at my Patreon on sept 1st!

[nipuni]

Did you call, Hero?

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on february 1st 😊

[bearfromthere]

He recounted anecdotes from the last war which were all to the honour of the Prussian warriors. He was very keen that the king become bored with the peace. 'It is time to have a fight, he said, 'our soldiers have worn out their sides lying down; we need exercise, exercise!' My peace-loving heart was wounded. I armed myself against war with all my rhetorical powers and represented its horrors: the moaning and cries of the unfortunate victims, the bloody river of those carried off into the next world; the devastation of the land, the anguish of fathers and mothers, wives and children, friends and relations; the orphaning of the Muses who hide away in the gloom like the poor robins and tits that hide during a storm, etc. The pitiless captain laughed and shouted: 'We need exercise, exercise!' Finally, I concluded that I had undertaken the work of the Danaids; I kept silent and turned all my attention to the pleasant surroundings of the road. - Letters of a Russian Traveller, No. 9

[bearfromthere]

The forever temptation to reactivate my account. I blame it on playing FFXVI, which is triggering all of my nostalgia, while conveniently forgetting the immense downsides to MMOs.

Also, I miss Masayoshi Soken's music.

[kumokumoriri]