#biichama

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

I know you believe firmly that Jaime is the Valonqar but how is he supposed to strangle anyone without a hand? The golden one isn't jointed afaik.

Tyrion slid a hand under his father's chain, and twisted. The links tightened, digging into her neck. "For hands of gold are always cold, but a woman's hands are warm," he said. He gave cold hands another twist as the warm ones beat away his tears.

(I've said this before, I'm afraid.)

[utilitycaster]

Laudna for the ask meme?

Answering what’s in my inbox, not taking new questions:

First impression: cool aesthetic and an intriguing personality choice to go with but I was publicly pretty :/ about the hanged on the sun tree concept

Impression now: the Team Issylra arc has done wonders. Still really feel Delilah was not the best patron choice but she's got a plot going, mask is cracked, let's go.

Favorite moment: I actually really loved her being furious in Hearthdell about how petty everything seemed to her; it was a fascinating choice and felt very real.

Idea for a story: edited: forgot a story idea here too. honestly i'm not sure. i think it's probably fleshing out the favorite headcanon tbh.

Unpopular opinion: I still think, from time to time, of the person who said it was so reductive for me to compare Laudna to Fjord they couldn't even deal with it (this means they had no good reason why) but I maintain that that anon and anyone who agrees with them would be ecstatic were Laudna to have a roughly parallel Fjord arc re: breaking her pact of her own accord and finding and embracing something new. Also I still think she should have focused on warlock from the start both because there's already a sorcerer in the party and because warlock is simply a superior class in every way.

Favorite relationship: unsurprisingly for those who follow this blog, Ashton.

Favorite headcanon: I may have said this before but I think the situation with the girl she was friends with was that everyone thought the little girl just had a really active imagination re: a witch in the woods, and it was only after someone (parent, older sibling, other friend) followed that girl to Laudna's hut and realized it was true that things went bad; I also think that this colored Laudna's experience and she largely assumed she'd have similar times in other towns even though that wasn't necessarily the case.

[anghraine]

Speaking of your Darcy/Other People poll, I've actually seen Darcy/Emma done as a side pairing. It was in a crossover with Temeraire and Elizabeth was busy being a dragon captain (as per Naomi Novik) and pretending not to be one whenever she visited home. Some of the naval characters in Mansfield Park and Persuasion were in the aerial corps instead. Anyway, Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam get together after a bunch of Napoleonic war adventures and Darcy ends up meeting Emma and marrying her offscreen. It seemed to work pretty well for them, honestly.

Hmm, interesting! Probably not for me, since Elizabeth/Colonel Fitzwilliam by itself is a hard NOTP for me, but glad to know Darcy/Emma is out there, lol.

[amarguerite]

The Time Traveler Mr Bennet fic looks glorious.

Thank you! :D I have no idea if it managed to fulfill its early promise, and have a vague apprehension that it hasn’t, but I have at last finished it and put it up here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12287814 

[utilitycaster]

I feel like I should apologize for that reblog of your Drizzt post I just did, all things considered, since I just read in your last ask that there's a reason you don't use the fandom tag for it. Sorry! I was following your blog for your mechanics posts and critrole content and didn't know!

Thanks, I appreciate it. With that said it led to an unfortunate chain reaction, so I have made the post nonrebloggable and will be doing so for all Drizz't posting for the forseeable future, and I'm taking this opportunity to outline my reasons. I do want to say that it's mostly because people were, as you saw, already being really fucking weird about these posts.

The first is actually on my mind because someone mentioned the Belgariad in the tags, before I locked down that post. The Belgariad was, for what it's worth, my personal Late 20th Century Epic Fantasy Series With Ehhhhh Gender Politics. My mother handed me Pawn of Prophecy when I was was in my early teens and in the precise state of the minor illness process when one has no actual fever, severe cabin fever, and the exact incorrect amount of energy to do anything to alleviate this. And so, finding myself in that same precise state, I have done as my mother once did, except the book I have handed myself is Homeland by R.A. Salvatore. Which is to set the following scene, namely, I am not at the moment feeling great, and, also at this moment, I am all of 97 pages into the ebook copy of Homeland by R.A. Salvatore. I have otherwise never read an R.A. Salvatore book nor a Forgotten Realms book nor any D&D novelization in my entire life. Outside this and the two pages of the Forgotten Realms wiki I skimmed a month ago, I have no idea what or who anyone else is talking about.

The other is that, with all due respect, as someone who came to D&D in 2016 by way of 5e and the actual play boom and who has no reverence for the Forgotten Realms, Forgotten Realms fans on Tumblr are. Hmmm. I think the best way to put it is that their understanding of Tumblr etiquette is very unique, very different from mine, and seems to inherit a lot from that of a web forum circa, perhaps, 2005.

[bramblepatch]

steven universe (dude, you knew i'd ask)

Yeah, figured you would.

otp3: any and all shipping permutations of Buck, Sour Cream, and Jenny are good, but the three of them as a trio is Ideal.

favourite canon pairing: pretty sure I’m contractually obligated to say Garnet

worst pairing ever: I can’t say I’ve actually seen it, but it just occurred to me that someone somewhere probably ships Steven/Onion and my soul died a little

guilty pleasure pairing: I honestly can’t think of any ships I would consider a guilty pleasure for this show.

a pairing you want to see more: Ok hear me out: Peridot and Sadie get coffee, commiserate over bullshit coworkers, make out on the beach.

that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no”: I’m not saying I’m anti Jasper/Lapis, I’m just pro Lapis living happily ever after and never having to acknowledge Jasper’s existence again.

favorite non-romantic pair: Steven and Amethyst’s sibling relationship is very important to me, to the point that I spontaneously frown a little when she gets lumped in with his mom-figures.

[bramblepatch]

Steven Universe!!!

haha again in no real order:

Peridot has really grown on me? Like I wasn’t sure about her at first but I’m really getting the impression at this point that she has no idea what her superiors have gotten her involved in. I hope Canada is a positive experience for her.

Greg tries so hard and I love him so much.

I already thought Amethyst was flawless and then I watched On the Run. Don’t look at me I just have backstory in my eyes.

Someone needs to give Sadie a raise, probably.

Gunga Pizza is an adorable old lady and probably the most competent person in Beach City

[bramblepatch]

SO I have a million self-indulgent AUs but the "Gamma Trolls" one with the Actual Descendants of the canon trolls living under Feferi's reformed Alternian Empire isn't entirely my fault, Nai is equally responsible and then we dragged a bunch of other people into it with us because we have no shame.

Anyway! Chynos Nitram is my representative of his group, he is kind of a smug pain in the ass and really into the whole "descended from a couple of major revolutionary heroes" thing; Bii's Loptra Serket adds "pervy shut-in misanthrope gamer" to the lineup of kinds of horrible represented by the Scorpio Trolls. They are the Actual Worst Moirails because what is a healthy relationship and why would you expect a Serket and a Nitram to be in one.