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I feel like there is so much potential for a The Magicians au for DBDA. Like, tell me you can't see the vision, the shows have such a similar vibe to me.

#I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this but I'll share mine in the tags #Gonna ramble a bit now so quick warning for some big Magicians spoilers (at least for season 1)#First of all it's all gonna take place in collage so that's gonna affect stuff. But also you know I'm renaming Brakebills to St Hilarions #And while when I first thought of this I was thinking of Edwin or Charles as like Quentin or just the character you follow in the beginning #I kinda think it could be interesting to do Niko here. MC obsessed with fantasy books from childhood that turn out to be true-#sounds right up her ally (Also something about volunteer tomatos and whatnot)#Maybe her mother sent her off to some college in the US and she became friends with Crystal.#Then they both go to take the brakebills exam and Niko gets in but Crystal doesn't (like Julia.)#Also fair warning it has been a while since I've watched this show #But then Crystal meets a guy who introduces her to the whole hedge witch scene and eventually things get out of hand and he ends up-#getting possesed by a trickster god aka David #And things go sorta like Crystal's cannon backstory from there maybe. With a few differences and whatnot.#Also I was thinking that Edwin could easily be Alice but I think it could be interesting to play around with the fact that he's from-#an earlier time #I've got two different ideas for what to do with his character here so:#1. He's a part of the missing 3rd year class and was one that escaped alive and has been surviving in Fillory ever since #2. He's Jane from Niko's Fillory books. He's been stuck resetting the timeline over and over trying to stop the beast since 1916 #Also maybe Charles as a traveller. I couldn't really think of what to do for his role but I feel like it could work in a sort of way #Charles who's been trapped in one place his whole life is finally free and now can go anywhere to any world #but he's also got the beast's voice in his head who's been helping him out his whole life and now he realizes it's actually the Beast #not good for Charle's fear that he's a bad person I'll just say that. Actually that feels a little mean but it's just an idea #Also Monty would work well as Kady. Stuck working for bad people because of his mother and all that.#And you cannot tell me that The Cat King doesn't a least give off Elliot vibes even a little bit #Okay wait I almost forgot my most perfect thought for this: The dandelion sprites are Ember and Umber.#Anyway god that is way too many tags but ya know what I'm keeping them. Maybe I'll just reblog this with a screenshot of them later #If you made it to the end congatulations #Once again I would love to hear if anyone has any other ideas as this is just my rambling nonsense #dbda #dead boy detectives #dead boy detectives agency

7am, eating cold leftover teriyaki stir-fry for breakfast and crying over blorbos

#normal Saturday morning behavior #redacted spoilers #redacted audio #redacted sam #Seven.txt #rp audio stuff #well. crying over one singular blorbo in particular. Sam's still got me in an emotional chokehold #and i'm too sad to even make a stupid little joke abt how i wouldn't mind if it was a physical one too. ayeee *insert sad eyebrow wiggle*#no but seriously. i have so many feelings abt him and i can't even say it all bc some of it isn't public info yet #eh fuck it i'll just draft this until the audio goes public and then i'll post it once it's no longer Exclusive Info #bc i dont wanna leak Early Access stuff but i have to get this out of my system rn and the new audio is part of what sparked these thoughts #which is funny bc i. literally haven't even listened to it yet. i'm not Ready 😭#where's that tiktok screenshot that's like. 'hyperfixation so bad that i can't even engage with the source material' bc that's me rn #like bro Sam only won the poll like. 2 or 3 days ago and Eric is Already dropping a new Sam audio?? hello? Mr. Redacted i wasn't prepared #anyways i was spoiling myself by perusing the comments last night trying to get a feel for if it's gonna be more angst or comfort #and i saw a comment that absolutely shattered me. and it reignited all my sad thoughts about Sam's eventual. uh. y'know. death.#apparently they plant a tree together or smthn in the new audio (which already has me & my beloved 10y/o orange tree feeling some kinda way #but to the individual in the comments who brought to all our minds the image of Sam sitting beneath that tree in 30 or so years time #when he's decided that he's ready to die and sits out there waiting for the sun to rise..................... 🥲#i'm gonna need u to compensate me for all of that unexpected emotional damage /j /nm #i'm Still not over what he told Darlin' while they had their talk about the future up on his roof together. that audio killed me #then yesterday i was listening to my Sam & Darlin' playlist while cleaning. and Malibu Nights by LANY came on. which i always skip bc Sad #but i let it play and just started crying. standing in the middle of the room all disheveled and holding a broom. as one does.#iirc that song is one that Eric himself said is applicable to Sam which is why/how i found it and put it on the playlist. and god. g o d #hm. i hope that wasn't Patreon exclusive info. i can't remember if it was a public post where he said that or not. hope it's okay to share #but if we can take that song as like. unofficial canon for Sam then that also confirms my idea that he used to drink to cope #which makes the opening lines of Fix What You Didn't Break by Nate Smith even more applicable. i should go edit that post actually #anyways i'm just. feeling a lot. and i love Sam very much and i don't want him to die. but i want him to do what he wants at the same time #Alexis took so fucking much from him. he deserves to live - and end - his life on his own terms. ... i think i need to go write something #*casually fishes this post out of the drafts 3 and a half days later* hi so uh. i wrote a 4k oneshot :) and will hopefully post it tomorrow

recently i've been making an effort to go through and play a lot of the games that have been languishing in my steam library (for many years, at this point...) here are my brief thoughts on a few so far:

gone home - this was constantly recommended on my old post about haunted house games. i actually bought this back around when it was first published, 2015/2016. and i think if i had played it at that time, it would have really hit for me. i've discussed birdland here previously and 2015 is around the time i played that game, too (probably my first exposure to interactive text games) and it had a profound impact on me as a younger lesbian who hadn't quite come to terms with my identity yet. all that to say, i recommend this if you're looking for a short, atmospheric experience (i played with headphones and definitely got creeped out a few times) but prepare for a bit of a dated narrative. some of the art was done by E.M. Carroll, a name you might recognize from their viral comics.

TACOMA - this game came out back in 2017, and it's another walking sim similar to gone home and from the same developers, though it has a bit more interaction, namely a mechanic where you "reconstruct" scenes and play through them to extract data. but this one definitely felt dated. not entirely, to be fair, some parts did still feel evergreen, specifically around the discussion of AI and human labor rights... but TACOMA chooses to focus more on "AI rights" in the end, which feels a little silly in this day and age, and in general it's a sci-fi game, so it's a bit more fantastical than what we're seeing now in real time. also there was a magazine i found that had an article referring to "president musk of south africa" which induced a full body cringe from me. E.M. Carroll appears here again and is credited with the character concepts, i really enjoyed their designs of the crew & the crew themselves as we slowly learned more about them and their relationships while moving through the station. it's a little longer than gone home but still pretty short, and i did enjoy it, so i recommend it if you can get over the dated AI depiction. i really liked the reconstruction mechanic, and following the "ghosts" around the station. (if you can't tell, i enjoy games where i get to be nosy and go through people's stuff)

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk - so i made the mistake of playing this without realizing it was the sequel rather than the first... i don't think it impacted too much but i would probably recommend to play it in order, so play Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk first (unfortunately i don't have this one myself). i find this game kinda hard to review, but i really liked the way the player served as the mc's internal voice, and how the game & its mechanics are utilized and contextualized within the narrative as a way for us, "The Voice," to make choices for her, if that makes sense (there's some fourth wall breaking too, which is always fun; she refers to herself as a VN character at one point). i liked all of this, the art and the writing & the animations, though all in all i'm not quite sure how much of it i fully understood, and this could also be because i played it out of order (or it could just be abstract on purpose). i did also only playthrough once, but i believe there are a lot of possible variations, and it takes a lot of trial and error to see everything. i tried my best to be kind to her and help her out :( however i did like how there wasn't always a "nice" option, just like a real internal voice would work; you aren't always kind to yourself even when you should be...

the next few i hope to get through are Mundaun, Saint Maker, and Sub-Verge :3

#the amount of unread VNs i have in my steam library is Criminal. tbh. and dont even look at my itch.io library LOL #also i have to admit the end of tacoma did kinda have me making a face but it's not their fault. they didn't know. lmao #i think it's hard to look at some AI centered narratives w/o being overly critical in general now so theyre not unique in that regard #and i did still find the commentary on the human labor rights to be compelling at least. funny to have musk mentioned even in just #a little throwaway line considering the themes of the game lol. i mean it makes sense even in 2017 but it's more ironic now #but i would love another game like that tbh. maybe something that leans more into the horror of exploring an abandoned space station #[avoids making eye contact with my IF wip that is literally exactly that with an AI and everything]#look sometimes i want to Play it. not write it... but i'll still write it eventually. probably #anyways. all of these are pretty short w/ the last one being the shortest #if you like walking sims you'll definitely like the first two. tho i feel like everyone has already played gone home but me lmao #if anyone has similar walking sim recommendations..... 👀#i do want to get to edith finch also im just waiting for it to go on sale lmaoooo #also i always recommend birdland if you've never played it. very fun game #games

Guys I am so sorry for dropping off the face of the earth, it will happen again

#uhhhhhh nothing to interesting happening rn just waiting for college to start next week #been trying to figure out what kind of art program I should use (Procreate or Clip Art Studio (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)#Skye I am so sorry for just dropping out I read the rest of the wip so I'll get to you about that......... eventually #uhhh what else #oh uh. legally allowed to drive now #been thinking about researching ADHD still no idea where to start #been trying to draw but uh everytime I open it my brain pfffttttttssssss #I would have loved to say I was taking an internet detox but uh no I was mindlessly scrolling reddit while logged out #I am. just here I guess #feel like somewhere along the summer my... I guess everything mentally started drifting off to the side #really mellow and kinda bored #cannot wait for college to start I need a routine I need something to do

New gith who dis?

Saving her for patch 7 since I'm finally going to run Durge. Haven't settled on a name yet but I'm very into this look.

#sorry body type 1 gith one day I will play you #my issue with the body type 1 heads is every single one including the meager few modded ones that don't alter the noses #have the same pointy chin round face. I'm very faceblind as a person and for the most part I cannot tell them apart #please give me some variety #let my girls have strong jaws and blocky faces #anyway. she/they body type 2 ranger who hails from xa'rok's creche in the tundra #I'll figure out the timeline later but I like my cool tones and if I'm also making her a ranger well. common thread #it would be funny if they were hatch mates just because Xa'rok was a durge once (originally)#bhaal said no wait wrong egg. not THAT one #I think her name is going to be An'zzuk or An's'zuk or something with that letter combination #she feels like a Az/Anz #she was going to be bald but then I discovered the joy of the tail of that braid curling around her shoulder when she spun really fast #RIP the w'war'gaz looking fella I tabled for her #you'll get your time eventually #this gith is definitely bloodthirsty though #also probably going to be ranger/rogue. not me learning how to finally play rogue. UGH #my tavs #technically durge but for consistency #githyanki #also might mess around with the spot patterns but I'm not sure if modded heads support that or if that's a separate thing

I was just ambushed within the turbulent halls of my own mind by some headcanons about rye ingellvar's childhood that did 15000000 points of psychic damage to me and my heart personally and also made me almost sure of how I want to play it all at the end (very very differently from how I imagined going in!). some 'oh holy fuck this changes everything' rocking my own world bullshit going on in my neurons right now I'm reeling

#I'm sorry to say that despite what I expected I think the dread wolf might be going down violently on my first run???#not because *I* love solas any less but because of who rye is and some of the twists I know happen down the line #which does make for a neat thing b/c I meant to play the crow I'm going with second as initially incredibly hostile #and then growing to feel for him and redeeming him at the end.#so if rye starts out very reasonable and sympathetic and then is brought to 'haha. no. fuck you forever for that in particular' at the end #...a pleasing cosmic symmetry in it I must admit. perfect and also makes me feel a bit sick #I'll try to put together something coherent eventually but for now #it's sort of a 'my name is ellaryen ingellvar you killed the guy #that my brain went 'close enough welcome back beloved and much missed deceased father figure' over. prepare to despair and die'#I think just the killing part might not have done it but everything that comes after? rye is a chill guy until he finally decides #that enough is fucking *enough*. and that was the most enough of all time for them #it also explains rye's accent (one of his primary caregivers growing up was a dwarf)! so many birds with one stone here #also I am so fucking sad now and I did it entirely to myself. I love fiction I love games (embarassingly genuine)#dragon age #dragon age: the veilguard #dragon age: the veilguard spoilers #dragon age spoilers #oc: ellaryen ingellvar #thank god that the romanced solas playthrough is the second one tho that does make things less dire haha #adaar would have given it the good old college try to get solas to change his mind right to the end I think #but even his capable hands and politician's mind could not hold back the sheer beware the fury of a patient man storm #that is about to hit solas for the shit he just pulled. I think rye and solas are -- as it turns out -- TOO alike in many ways #...solas buddy I'm so sorry I'll come back for you on the second playthrough and make it right I swear fhsak #it's just that a second dead dwarf dad has joined the chat to haunt the narrative (and this time it's fucking personal frfr)#it's almost scary how quick I've gotten attached to my rook tho. I've waited A DECADE to save this bald elf man from himself #and then rye shows up with steel in his normally kind eyes going 'no. I want that fucker *dead*'. and I just go anything for you babyboy #I'll see what we can do. unspeakable stuff

Sparkstember Day 25: Hippopotamus (What The Hell Is It This Time?)

My Hippopotamus rant is here. I love Hippo and I think this was one of the best examples of how putting something off for later can be a very good idea sometimes. So I didn't hear most of it until this summer, and hearing the whole album then was one of the biggest highlights of that time. Thank you modern era Sparks for always bringing us the awesomest music ever.