Writing Ryebread

Scott/Rye, ESTJ, Screaming into the void as I try to write. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Scotsomighty

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[katestewartt]

"Try our new AI tool", "Use ChatGPT", "Our AI assistant can help"

[gattobamboom]

[lavenderpanic]

all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved

[notbuckybarnes]

AIDAN TURNER Rivals 2.05

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[knave3]

No I didn't do a whole design just to make the Weavechair pun. That was coincidence.

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[nariarts]

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

[freakasaurus-rex]

"google ai" "spotify ai dj" "ai assistant" "enhanced by ai" what if i just start beating people over the head with a rock

[toastystars]

gale dekarios. thats it. post.

[idrawtoomuch]

It is past 2am here's some ossuary/freshly freed Lucanis because this is just a Lucanis Dellamorte fanblog at this point. I need sleep.

(Also further adjusting colours bit by bit as I go)

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[starlightweave]

Who would think talking to the Ornate Mirror would go SO hard and distill Gale's entire story down into 2 dialogue options

I love how his strongest desires are 2 completely opposing things: love and power. He is pulled towards love somewhat easily in act 2, and yet once he catches sight of that crown, he is so very easily pulled back towards power (clearly having learned nothing after the orb lol). You really have to work kind of hard to pull him back towards love!

Imo his act 3 friend route gives a much better glimpse than the romance route of pre-orb Gale: a wizard who believes he deserves godly power, is willing to do very dangerous things to get it, and who has serious issues with being content (so serious that if he doesn't resolve them he becomes the god of "its never enough" aka ambition)

He makes known his anger at Mystra for worshipping her loyally for years, and only being granted "a barest sliver of the power I was ready to wield." That "barest sliver" was being an archmage and her chosen, but that STILL wasn't good enough for him. The he goes on to call himself Karsus' successor!! He then shows bluntly that he truly considers being mortal and having to exist in this plane as punishment with the line: "Why wallow in the dirt when we could reach for the stars?" (which you can call him out for, and I think humbles him, as that pushes down his crown score)

It's such whiplash coming from Act 2, where you see Gale does indeed desire to love and care for someone, and be loved and cared for in return. Because now you see when power is within his grasp, his ambition kicks into overdrive, and obtaining that power is all he can see. He can't see what chasing power will cost him, and how it might hurt others, even after everything he suffered from the orb. His issues with being content, which first show themselves when he reveals the story of the orb in act 1, now rear their ugly head again.

Ofc all these themes do come up in his act 3 romance scene, but he is not so angry and thus he's not so blunt about it. Some lines that best illustrate that theme of his inability to be content, or as I call it, his "wallowing in the dirt" theme: "have the best possible version of me" and "you would really prefer me as I am?" He could be a god, why in the world would Tav not want that? Especially since life on this mortal plane is an indignity he (and Tav) is being forced to suffer through when he deserves to be in Elysium. He is shocked — and I think humbled too — that Tav is content with their life here, and doesn't need nor want to chase power with him. Tav says they have everything they need right in that boat: each other 🥺

His alternate scene, where if you go to Mystra's shrine first, more bluntly illustrates the issues with contentment / "wallowing in the dirt" theme: "easier to pretend my destiny lay among such stars than work to salvage a life on solid ground." & "You see me as I am, and do not find me wanting. With these stars as my witness, I swear you will always be enough for me."

An archmage who pursued the power of the gods and then godhood itself tells Tav "you will always be enough for me." Pulled between love and power, he chose love, he chose Tav 🥺 LIKE 😭 I CANNOT bro, Gale's story is so beautiful and powerful 😭

[mirufiyu]

Por la sangre del Hacedor. 🚫 Please ask before reposting!

[knave3]

purple chronically ill wizard i have some thoughts about you

[rookanisstuff]

What do u think ur Rook and Lucanis bonded over?? I’m not talking about the heavy stuff I mean like the random stuff hobbies/books/interests etc

[scotsomighty]

I think it started in the shared experience of being in places one shouldn't. A thief and an assassin, both in someones home. One with light fingers pulling jewels out of locked boxes, the other light fingers holding a blade upon a sleeping throat. Its such an intimate business, or at least that's how Rook teases him about it.