kami: an archive

kami • she • intj an archive blog for @kamibanani, back when i had two blogs to separate work / personal. no new posts will be made to this account.

[kamibanani-archive]

Going Back to the OG

Since I'm no longer using tumblr as my source of income / job, I've decided to go back to my original tumblr as your one-stop-shop for all things kami. URL shifts are as follows:

kamidoodles > kamibanani

kamibanani > kamibanani-archive

the original kamidoodles URL will just have a placeholder / redirect.

i don't want to delete this side blog because there's several years of posts here that i don't want to lose, but i won't be posting on it anymore. find me over at @kamibanani: art, fandom, fics, personal shit, the works.

thanks!

[demiboydemon]

[tahthetrickster]

im fucking sobbing why did they kill him twice in a row in the community notes

[prokopetz]

Honestly, a not-insignificant contributing factor to my mid-20s gender crisis is that I used to think I was viscerally repulsed by playing as male characters in video games, but eventually I realised it was literally just playing as smarmy brown-haired thirtysomething dudes with an emotional range running the gamut from dull surprise to generic rage that put me off, and basically every other sort of male player character was fine. It's just that this happened to be when the Uncharted series was really taking off, so a solid 50% of all male video game protagonist fit that mould! Nathan Drake sucks so much that he made me question my gender, is what I mean to say.

[ruckuscauser]

[kamibanani]

since i'm no longer professionally art-ing i was thinking of moving away from using @kamibanani as my personal blog and just go back to using this one full time...

what do you guys think, should i keep this for art only or make it a combo again (and i won't delete the kamibanani one just put a redirect pin or swap URLs or smth)?

[kamibanani-archive]

i just really like her face?

bonus: power couple of the year

bonus bonus: nathiri skrunkle face

[kamibanani]

she's so pretty

edit;; posted to the wrong blog but oh well you can just feast your eyes on nathiri aren't you lucky

[kamibanani-archive]

rb to the correct blog lmao

[kamibanani]

doodled some eyes to practice... my tablet is currently out of commission but the love of drawing is starting to come back? maybe?

[kamibanani]

i'm so bad with traditional media i miss ctrl z. but anyway nathiri with her hair down. astarion is somewhere off camera having A Moment

[kamibanani]

it's been a minute... have a doodle of my tav, nathiri de villiers, miss goody two shoes and somehow astarion simp extraordinaire.

work's been crazy so haven't had time to do much of anything other than work for months now and my nights are spent playing bg3. full brain rot and i'm not even sorry. doodled this in the 7 min i had to breathe between meetings.

[kamibanani-archive]

in case you were wondering where i've been

[babbhad]

Me checking the tracking waiting for my books to be delivered

[andremichaux]

PSYCH | 7.14, "No Trout About It"

[wetsocksinbed]

Baldurs Gate 3 is so wild when you realise how vastly different the game is depending on if you choose Tav or Dark Urge

Dark Urge Playthrough: you’re the child of Bhaal, but unlike the Bhaalspawn, you are created solely by Bhaal himself. The first true child of Bhaal. The daughter of one of your father’s previous Bhaalspawn turns on you, attacks you and tries to kill you. In your dying state, she infects you with a parasite so that you’ll die an incredibly humiliating death, and become her slave.

By some miracle you end up on the same nautiloud ship as a Sharron Cleric who happens to to be carrying a gith artefact that contains Baldur himself. Baldur, who was made a mind flayer and is now calling himself the Emperor, realises there’s an incredibly powerful Bhaalspawn on the ship, and that he can use them to his advantage. The power you have will help him destroy Gortash. Of course he picks you, it makes so much sense.

On your way to Baldurs Gate you find out through an unsent letter that you used to be into Gortash. When you get to Baldurs Gate, the man you used to fuck turns out to be an absolute loser and with horror you realise he is still into you. It’s okay though, he’s very easy to kill.

You end up facing off against Orin, your niece, and kill her. Your father appears to you and offers you the chance to become his Slayer. On the high chance you turn him down, he murders you in front of your loved ones, and leaves you to rot.

Then Jergal, the actual Lord of the End of Everything, the original God of Death, who was the very being that turned you father into a God all that time ago, who’s been in your camp for weeks pretending to be this undead scribe called Withers, appears next to your corpse and brings you back to life, basically adopts you, states that he will protect you from Bhaal, and announces that as long as he lives, you will never die. You’re essentially immortal.

Tav Playthrough: you’re a random nobody that was unlucky enough to get kidnapped by Mind Flayers. The Emperor must pick one of the many idiots on the ship to be his pawn. He sees Tav and thinks “ugh, yeah this one will do”.

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Neil Gaiman Offers To Step Back From ‘Good Omens’ Season 3

Neil Gaiman has offered to step back on 'Good Omens' Season 3 for the final series of the Amazon Prime Video fantasy drama starring Michael

Neil Gaiman is understood to have offered to step back from the third and final season of Amazon Prime Video‘s fantasy drama Good Omens.

Deadline revealed on Monday that pre-production had paused on the BBC Studios-produced show in the wake of allegations made by four women against Gaiman, which he denies. This came after Disney’s planned feature adaptation of Gaiman’s 2008 YA title The Graveyard Book was also put on pause.

Now, we understand that Gaiman has made an offer to Amazon and producers to take a back seat on the latest season so that it can continue amid crisis talks over the Terry Pratchett adaptation’s future.

Amazon is understood to be considering Gaiman’s offer and no final decisions have been made. Good Omens S3 is currently in the early stages of pre-production. Gaiman has previously said the show, which is made in Scotland, will shoot from January 2025. Amazon declined comment.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

[auroranibley]

It gets better.

Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.

[cryptid-deity]

[Image 1: a photo of Eyem’s abbey and graveyard.]

[Image 2: a photo of a stone basin.]

[goldeneyesblind]

That really is how being in your 30s is like 😭

[kamibanani-archive]

i've been absolutely deepest depths feral about astarion for weeks and its making me miss being active on tumblr

but also i have absolutely no desire to share these particular fics because i do not want to be perceived at fucking all lmaaaoooooooooooooo