#ch-ch-changes

[lukolabrainrot]

What Likely Happened After Sorrento

So I know many people still have questions about why things changed so dramatically after Sorrento, and it's always kind of seemed interesting to me that L just stopped publicly hanging out or being linked to his friends after the Sorrento trip. There have been a lot of rumors/theories thrown around, and I wanted to get some insight from the Wizard. Here's what it said:

[swampstew]

Big News!

I'm switching blogs!!! Don't panic, I am not deleting this one as it is my main - however, I am moving all my writing to a new sideblog to make that the focus of my writing requests, events, and other fun shit. Swampstew will be my interaction blog where I will post merch/pics(?!) and other fun stuff, but it will be more of a blog blog than just focusing on the Kid Pirates and writing.

The change is happening over this weekend!

I do think that I will be removing the bulk of my followers from this blog to build up the following to the sideblog, but I feel like that would be too much work/destroy my follower milestones I worked so hard to reach...tbd tbh.

also, wtf guys almost at 2k?!?!! seriously? bless.

That's my new year update. Well, one of them.

The other stuff? I'll post about in more detail next week. I have been going through a mental health crisis (I'm getting better though), and just have a ton of work to do, AND planning big life changing events for 2025!!! Can't wait to start spilling my tea ;)

[luck-and-larceny]

🌪️ TORNADO - what is the biggest change you've ever made to them? how have they changed from their original version?

Oh! That's a fun question! Malika started as a tabletop character. From first conception, she was always a cowardly and selfish bard/rogue who was obsessed with petty theft. In the tabletop game she started in, there was this iconic figure called The Prince of Shadows who was the most infamous of thieves. Her goal was to steal so many items that were considered 'unstealable' that she'd eventually draw the attention of The Prince of Shadows. Then, I think, she wanted to steal their title and become The Prince of Shadows herself. That game was relatively short-lived, but I really loved the concept and wanted to play her again! I thought it'd be fun to figure out how to make her in FFXIV. Thieves aren't exactly rare in RP spaces and certainly not in Final Fantasy games! I wanted to think of a way to keep her a thief, but in a unique way that other people might have fun interacting with her rather than just being annoyed that she steals all the time. Instead, I thought it'd be fun if her theft were more interactive than that. I wouldn't RP stealing anything from other characters without getting consent from the player first (obviously), but to make it more appealing I thought it could be fun if every time Malika steals something, she leaves something else behind. So every RP where theft happened it wasn't like the character just -lost- something, but that they got a random item in exchange too. I thought that quirk was so much fun that it became central to her personality and to her backstory. Her desire to get the attention and favor of The Prince of Shadows has changed to wanting to draw the attention of Nymeia and to court fate. I really like these changes! And I hope others do too. Thank you so much for the Ask!

[holy-ships-x-red-lips]

In case anybody’s wondering, the quote in my icon is from the show, Yellowstone (which y’all should def watch) and is something romantic Beth says to Rip on the roof.

My tag line quote is from Madam Secretary and is something romantic Elizabeth says to Henry (I think).

Then, in the end, I decided to keep the header the same (for show diversity sake) and it was made by the fabulous @dana-cz .

Note: These gifs weren’t the exact scenes/quotes I was talking about. I just love them and all of these ships so much!

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Tie dye and Daft Punk. 

Don’t know what’s got into him lately, but I am loving every bit of it.

[outonoemflor]

uma arte

A arte de perder não é nenhum mistério tantas coisas contém em si o acidente de perdê-las, que perder não é nada sério. Perca um pouco a cada dia. Aceite austero, a chave perdida, a hora gasta bestamente.

A arte de perder não é nenhum mistério. Depois perca mais rápido, com mais critério: lugares, nomes, a escala subsequente da viagem não feita. Nada disso é sério. Perdi o relógio de mamãe. Ah! E nem quero lembrar a perda de três casas excelentes.

A arte de perder não é nenhum mistério. Perdi duas cidades lindas. Um império que era meu, dois rios, e mais um continente. Tenho saudade deles. Mas não é nada sério. Mesmo perder você (a voz, o ar etéreo, que eu amo) não muda nada. Pois é evidente que a arte de perder não chega a ser um mistério por mais que pareça muito sério.

[coffee-and-vroomvroom]

I’m NOT going to let assholes ruin this for me.

I’ve given them enough power by letting them hurt me. I don’t need to let the poison they left behind ruining the things I love and enjoy.

[statuamsalis]

okay!

Homegirl spent an hour on the phone with (blessedly) out-of-state Matriarch, succeeding in 1.) maintaining a tenuous hologram of peace and 2.) setting up automatic monthly tuition payments (!) with a side of house-hunting that yearned to simmer into discord, but was denied (!!) and constrained to mild tension. I’ve got my new gold ankle boots on, Agnes Baltsa is paying Rossini stunning homage (thanks are ever due to @congregamus, but specifically, here, for including La Baltsa on that gigantic music transfer we decided to do out of nowhere that one cloudy summer day three (?!) years ago), and I feel not completely worthless. 

 I’m just waiting on The Boys, a subset of Ur-Squaf, to come into accord re: where we’ll hike today, as has become an almost-daily ritual. Later, an end-of-year party for the extra-curricular ensemble whose presence in my life has both robbed and bestowed sanity, which for me will be a “bye for now! good luck, alti!” And a subtle middle finger to our director, the other Matriarch in my life, who tried to throw a mini-party for me mid-rehearsal a few weeks back (as if I were flying South the next morning rather than halfway through August). 

My room is a masterwork of disarray, but the kitchen is clean; I haven’t practiced at all this week, but I have done lots of piano touch-ups. Eating has been more a matter of grazing and less a matter of meal-crafting, but the cat hasn’t starved and doesn’t hate me for deviating from his accustomed feeding schedule while I have the house to myself. It’s so hard to see the give-and-take at play when my mind insists on clutching only the failings, but I am looking, and that’s something.