Be a moon unto yourself

[galesilkleaf]

I am taking what may be a several month break from social media/the Internet as I complete the process of Moving Countries Whilst Disabled.

I may update the Bone Spindle, I may not. If I don't, it will start updating in August fairly weekly as it normally did.

However! Please Please Please keep TAGGING ME in your fic updates, meta, art, games, thought you would like this, interested on my thoughts etc

it will be a LOVELY thing to get to catch up on loads of fic and art when I recover from the flight/ begin the fight of changing over my care.

My queue will still run, and I may stick may head in every now and then to refill it or respond when I do so.

[galesilkleaf]

now i have been out of the country for some time, but has Keir Starmer still not realized that people didn't vote for HIM, they voted for Not Tory?

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[bananiii-0]

[hiragiwaterford]

could put a few more stitches in to neaten her up, and probably will before I re-attach her later, but for now - complete!

not as orange as it looks, it's actually mainly brown and pink

[defira85]

FRIENDS

I am running on about two hours of sleep and the lady at the drivethru window when I picked up my coffee said I looked SO cute so I'm a bit tired and manic right now BUT!!!! I have a wildly insane headcanon idea

So Ulder Ravengard was first introduced as a part of the Murder in Baldur's Gate adventure, which established the return of Bhaal with the death of Abdel Adrian on Returning Day. He was potentially one of three people who could be Chosen by Bhaal in the coming days, depending on the actions of the players in the adventure, becoming more ruthless with the direction of the Flaming Fist, more paranoid, more bloodthirsty, until eventually the spirit of Bhaal took him and he could become the final boss of the module

(the other two potential Chosen being Rilsa Rael who I always mistake for Nine Fingers Keene (!!) and Lord Torlin Silvershield, the latter being who WotC canon deemed to be the real Chosen)

And I always thought that was a fascinating choice, for Larian to continue on with Ulder and introduce Wyll, who is so good and driven and earnest; I think having that context for Ulder explains a lot about the state of the Flaming Fist as we see them in BG3, because a man that capable of zealotry that he finds common ground with Bhaal would overlook a lot of the bigotry and brutality that's rampant amongst the Fist. That culture of cruelty and violence didn't just spring up in the five minutes since Gortash took over

But I got to thinking. How did Ulder end up like that when he was serving under Abdel Adrian for years? Abdel, who in WotC canon remained good and true and just, who was awkward about his public image, but fundamentally a good man and good leader?

(bear with me, I'm connecting dots again)

Well. Bhaalspawn are naturally drawn to one another, aren't they? What if Ulder isn't just an appealing option for Bhaal - what if he's the unknown descendent of another famous Bhaalspawn from Baldur's Gate, perhaps THE most famous Bhaalspawn...

What I'm saying is, what if Sarevok had a kid he never knew about (Ulder comes from a family of blacksmiths? When Sarevok is famously connected to the Iron Throne and the iron crisis? ) and eventually through three or four generations, we end up with Ulder and Wyll, who retain just a sliver of that potential within them, enough that Ulder can hear the call of Bhaal during the Returning Day crisis

I'M JUST SAYING. It has potential. It could be a fun headcanon to explore...

[lady-sapphyre]

[hiragiwaterford]

Tips for reading Western/English haiku

Haiku written in other languages do not have to follow the 5–7–5 rule.

This rule developed to retain the importance of the rhythm of Japanese mora, the intrinsict sound of Japanese. What, then, is left when we read haiku in other languages?

In the post, I explore kigo, ways to cut a poem, and how haiku poets juxtapose ideas to create tension.

Link to medium here

[blignick]

[beardedmrbean]

[hallwaysss]

Genuinely I think this might be the most important scene in the book

[hallwaysss]

this is the moment he becomes her second in command by the way. not the coma resistance gene. not some insane feat of scientific discovery above the rest. ryland grace looks the most powerful woman in the world in the eye and demands to take part in the project. because he looked in those children's faces and saw death. just like stratt did. and that's what dooms him. she saw the good man underneath the coward and she will kill the coward to let the good man breathe. phm

@carlyraejepsans how does it feel to be the most correct person ever. You're so right

[macawthief]

really progressive for 2002

[rosenfey]

⊱ Faerene has always found solace in the family tombs, ever since she was a little girl. While other children chased the sun to play, she sought the comforting shade of the catacombs. Perhaps not so unusual for someone coming from a family of necromancers; however, her drive to sometimes spend days amongst the engraved sarcophagi of her forebears was a behaviour considered odd even by her closest family members. Her father, especially, wished for his daughter to spend more time with the living. “The dead have much to teach us,” he used to say, “most importantly that we have to keep on living.” What he didn’t understand was the real reason behind Faerene’s forays to the family catacombs. Between her struggles to communicate with her peers and the overwhelming, inexplicable feeling of otherness, the young girl lacked compassionate and understanding company. The spirits seldom judge, especially those so lovingly cared for as the ones dwelling in the Rosenhall tombs. And above all, in the turbulent world of never-ending change, the dead are, as much as Death itself, quite comfortably unchangeable. [ a reshoot of this post ]

[galesilkleaf]

tysm @gloura for the tag <3

people I'd like to get to know better

last song: Monolith - Henge

favourite colour: mint or lilac

currently watching: Project Hail Mary shorts because if the theatrical release ever reached my island, I missed it

currently reading: The Way Spring Arrives, an anthology of women and non-binary Chinese speculative authors

current obsession: PHM fanfiction, honestly

last google search: Kigo dictionary

currently working on: how to read western haiku for Medium, and a quilted set of wheelchair accessories

no pressure tags for @beiju @tociminna @dr4gonwriter @jbenn656

[fageleh]

hobbies should not take up this much space. there ought to be a hobby pocket dimension, where I am able to store everything I need in a breadbox that weighs no more than my cat.

[galemancer]

here's the full video of gale falling from this post btw, tell me why he looks like a wet fuckin dog when he's standing up lmfao

[galesilkleaf]

really grateful for the two real people who commented on the Bone Spindle last night to make up for the bots

grift spoils everything it touches, but community heals it :)

[normal-thoughts-official]

on the flip side of the last post, i also got the scene where durge tries to kill lae'zel the very next night after lae'zel first asked for a soft touch. and now I can't stop thinking about it. specifically, an au where the urge doesn't pass

lae'zel says she would kill durge without hesitation. that isn't precisely true, because she doesn't, even as they try to kill her. but if the urge didn't pass come morning? or the next day, or the next? lae'zel would have no choice. and if anything, it would be merciful - better than wandering the rest of their life blindly, pissing themself, a slave to their urges forever

but what about after?

the one person lae'zel allowed herself to imagine being soft with and kind to, she had to kill

he one person she had dared ask to touch her with kindness, with softness, with love, died trying to kill her

she scoffed at love her whole life, only to find it. and then she lost it

is this proof that she was right all along? that love is a weakness, a distraction, that it makes her muscles soft like the cattle that's meant for slaughter, that she should leave it behind if she ever wants to be anything?

or is it punishment? for not seeing it sooner, for doing vlaakith's wicked will this whole time, for scoffing at what she needed most? did she miss her chance, too busy refusing it at every turn? is she cursed to never be anything but a weapon, even as she fights for freedom? is all her choice reduced to whom she gets to point her weapon body at, never what she gets to do with it? to be?

just... lae'zel having to deal with the fact that she dared to ask for love and softness and ended up with bloodshed anyway