we’re losers, baby.

chetney, I appreciate the effort, but I think you're just describing arson

[justynarerak]

[S]

[ataraxy-arts]

“I am Ashton Greymoore of Bassuras and I am nobody's child. Not the gods, not anybody.”

[colealexart]

they're best friends now because i said so

[ludinusdaleth]

-Bells Hells & the Maelstrom Kingdom

[fear-ne]

coming back from the dead to say if you’re an enjoyer of bells bells bimbo nation you will love the live show

[marvelous-belladonna]

Just all three of Marisha’s campaign romances thinking she adorable

[dailyimodna]

[elissastillstands]

You need me, sweet girl.

I wrote a fic about Opal and the Crown Keepers in Zephrah, the ghosts they all must chase, and the future which awaits them. Read The Wake of Impossible Things HERE.

[dailyimodna]

[cpprcoyote]

going thru my old art and forgot about this one. i wasnt happy with it at the time but i think its decent now. i dont have the old file anymore but i have this version i posted on twitter

[transhuman-priestess]

All these industries with shortages of workers and they can’t figure out why.

Im proposing the hypothesis that the reason we don’t have enough doctors/pilots/bus drivers/etc is that maybe, just maybe, having your entire industry function as a lifelong hazing ritual isn’t the best recruiting strategy.

[transhuman-priestess]

Doctors are subject to 8 years of post-secondary education and are forced to work 48 hour shifts.

Pilots and other transportation workers have absurd hours of service requirements that start your rest period as “the moment you shut the vehicle down” and can be as short as 9 hours in some cases.

Railroad workers have to be available on-call 6 days a week and be ready within two hours notice. They don’t get sick time.

Retail workers have to keep a veneer of politeness against any and all abuse or they can be fired.

Truck drivers get paid by mileage and rarely see pay for shipper or receiver delays.

Work should not be designed to make you a miserable burnout and yet here we are.

[griffonatrix]

Airline cabin crew members basically only get paid when the plane is in the air.

Lots of transit operators are extra-board, which has almost all the unpredictability of being on-call but without the added pay.

Retail and front-line service workers are also frequently subject to irregular schedules with short-notice changes.

The more "essential" your job is, the more it's exempt from labor laws like minimum wage, overtime, and collective bargaining. And just to add insult to injury, they're the jobs that most frequently subject you to invasive surveillance and drug testing, because god forbid anyone spend ten hours in a warehouse where they aren't allowed to wear ear protection around screaming loud machinery and smoke a joint after they go home to try and dull the ringing in their ears.

[sqwamps]

Imogen Temult had none HP, beef with every baddie, a big mouth, no game, rage issues, and got knocked out every other combat and STILL didn't die. That's talent. That's some big brass ones right there.

[wildshaper]

Seekers table + text posts (more CR)

[elliesgaymachete]

The more hate i see for bells hells the more i aggressively love them even more

[sqwamps]

Ashton's beautiful, sure, but Fearne isn't into them for the jade skin or the wondrous skull or twinned titan lifeforce. She's fetishized his 6 charisma. She lives with E.T. Baba Yaga & an evil sun bear & she's still never met anyone this unintentionally off-putting before. When she walks into the room, you can actually see him get stupider. It's fascinating.

[crackskunk]

“You rolled a 20 to save the pantheon,” YES SHE DID.

[rachandroll]

One of the reasons I'm so pleased about Imogen, specifically, being the one to come up with the third path of releasing Predathos but saving the gods by way of mortality first is that it is SUCH an excellent beat of character growth. One of Imogen's biggest flaws is the way she tries so hard to sort people into binary categories of "good" and "bad," despite the fact that her own moral instinct is much more gray and nuanced. There is a sort of desperate, exhausted hope that things could just be simple for once that I think is very familiar and relatable but also very poisonous to action.

It's a big ingredient in her shifts back and forth on the gods and her mother, in why she refuses to believe that Ludinus could be a true believer in his cause rather than just ambitious, in her anxiety about being made to choose, and in her sometimes-impulsivity at the moment of choice. Underneath it all, she has a strong instinct towards wanting to help and choosing kindness, and a deep understanding that things perceived to be monstrous often aren't, but she doesn't trust herself. The arc of the story and of her growth are both very much about coming to understand the complexity of morality in relation to motivation and power and intention and results; it's about rejecting the illusion of an easier, perfect answer.

So for her to be the one to reject the binary options presented to her, to choose an option that necessitates reckoning with all of that complexity within a new status quo? It becomes not just a moment of cleverness but a culmination of that campaign-long struggle Imogen has had between two oversimplifications, an acceptance that sorting everything into absolute good and evil is destructive.