#havenposting

[havenroze]

Yknow, none of my fandom friends have been remotely surprised that I came out as polyamorous, but it WAS pretty funny when one of them said outright “Yeah, that tracks. You’re a chronic multishipper and ot3/4/more-haver. This was the inevitable next step.”

[sunny-haven]

Hearing how a lot of people are complaining about how hard Silksong is is really funny to me because it just reminds me of everyone complaining about Elden Ring's DLC's difficulty spike because a lot of new players weren't used to Soulsborne game DLC's being a big spike in difficulty.

Hollow Knight is a tough game, and it only got harder with the DLCs that released. The Path of Pain, Nightmare King, hell, the entirety of Godhome was extremely difficult. The Pantheon of Hallownest was one of the hardest things I've ever beaten in a game (something I did over a year of on and off trying) and the fact that you had to add difficulty modifiers on top of that to get lore bits was too much for me. Of course the people who made all of that are going to make the sequel harder.

Actually, maybe it's the influx of new players who didn't play Hollow Knight from all of the hype is why this is a common gripe. That'd make sense.

[kriber]

I got your boy his fainting couch

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I AM MAKING SOME UNGODLY NOISES RIGHT NOW AT THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH

[ei-encora]

James taken out of context pt. 4, feat. Haven: A Story of Christmas in Two Parts

[sunny-haven]

Laika: Aged Through Blood is an immediately harrowing and extremely cool looking game so far (still getting used to how it controls) and looking at all of the cool animal character designs has been very fun. One thing has been on my mind so far though as I'm two hours in:

Where are their tails... it's like nobody has tails... You're saying I play as a coyote riding a motorcycle and I don't get to see Laika's tail fly and whip around from the wind? Or see it unfurl and twitch in a more relaxed area? None of the other animals have a tail either, not even Laika's puppy... I'm hoping that it's explained and it isn't just a massive character design oversight.

[havenroze]

Thinking abt opening commissions soon to help a friend! Art examples below the poll

Want a comm?

Yes absolutely 100%

Maybe, price-dependent

Maybe, other reasons

Nah not this time

Voting ended onOct 8, 2025

A few examples in a few styles! Ballpark prices are waist-up $75/full-body $125/+$100-200 for adding a background/+50% single character cost for each additional character

[havenroze]

My spouse has informed me that as of this weekend, I’ve completed my FTM transition, on account of finally giving up and downloading League of Legends

[havenroze]

I would like to hear more about an izzet rube Goldberg explosion machine mtg deck 👀

Oh god I am so late answering this ask oops my apologies @thewatcherandthewarden

It’s a very silly mid-power commander deck that has a roughly 50/50 rate of a) dying by turn 4 or b) going quietly and calculatedly unnoticed until I have ten mana of any red/blue/colorless combo on the board.

This is the commander:

Many times, when someone sees me put this guy down, they make a point after reading the card of telling me I’ll never see that last sentence do a single thing. Every single time they have been wrong. This is a big mana/X-spells deck where the literal entire point is to slide under the radar while everyone else kills each other until I build up enough mana to start taking wild cannon shots in any direction that a twister spinner sees fit to point me.

It is stacked with big stupid domino-effect antics on top of smaller stupid explosives on top of various distracting tripping hazards. It has one (1) counterspell, and not seeing more counterspells from a blue player makes the whole table more and more nervous as time goes on. It leans heavy on the psychological warfare of me being a pleasant, generally well-meaning, shy tiny trans man, while I load a cardboard-powered sawed-off shotgun under the table. It has maybe a single-digit number of creatures. It has spell-copying Crackle With Power as an obvious possible win condition, and more than one thing that count the mana of instants and sorceries in my grave/exile as even sillier possible win conditions.

It makes my friends genuinely belly laugh when I kill them, which is objectively my favorite part.

This deck has lost comedically fast to lower powered-decks and curbstomped at least one approaching-cEDH deck. I’ve killed multiple people in one turn. I am absolutely zero threat until suddenly I am all the threat and people are bargaining to have me executed. Friends think it’s funny as heck, so they multiple times have offered to trade me cards for it which I will immediately use to turn around and wallop them like a Looney Tunes character. It is my first and favorite commander deck I ever made. I ship of Theseus-ed it out of a Strixhaven precon.

It is extremely stupid and extremely clever and I don’t think I’ve ever made another Izzet deck that feels more to me like an Izzet mage might have actually constructed it, which is further exemplified by the fact that it contains—for no real tactical reasons except to alarm people—every single unique Ral planeswalker card I own.