#overlordskelly

[tainbocuailnge]

Question because I feel like you know the answer and I feel like I either missed something in the anime or its better explained in the VN (which I need to just sit down and read already...) But in Artoria's fight with Cu in the beginning of UBW how does Gae Bolg MISS her heart? Is it just Nasu plot armor? Or did I massively overlook something?

it’s basically just nasu plot armour. the combination of saber’s luck and instinct ranks allowed her to divert the blow exactly enough to make it barely miss her heart (described as “enough luck to alter fate”), but while she’s able to close the skin and repair her armour she keeps that injury until cu’s death in every route. the anime did its best to represent that visually but it doesn’t really explain what actually happened

[spared-sans]

Holy heckie friend styles are hard and fun

Did a challenge I found on youtube where you try and draw in the style of friends. 

In order: Mine, @ketchupguzzler @doragon-san @nya-random-nya  @mischief-rei @overlordskelly @isometimesrp @sweetsaltysimper @underfellfellasblog @pacifistanomaly

[dualorangepapyri-blog]

👒- If your muse were to take someone on a first date, where would they go and how would they behave? (for the OTPs ewe)

So many questions~

PyrFor a first date, he'd try to be as romantic as possible. A nice cafe or bakery (somewhere that wouldn't be completely strange to order way too many sweets). As far as eating goes, he'd be nice and polite. He'd dress fairly fancy too (at least compared to normal). The downside would be that he'd flirt with anyone and everyone that catches his eye. He would try to tone it down in front of his date, but it would still happen.

RypHe would be more the kind that would take someone on a nice long walk through pretty scenery, pointing out different things and how they can be used in survival situations. There's a good chance he wouldn't even realize it's a date until someone brings it up. Then he'd be a big pile of flustered bones, trying to figure out how dates work to make it the best date possible.

[tainbocuailnge]

i'm so glad someone else 100'd cascu. it's what he deserves.

I haven’t actually used him in 500 years bc his gameplay SUCKS but it’s not about the power it’s about the statement. he was my first bond 10 servant actually since he was in the first set of bond level expansions

[gayestcuchulainnfan]

Good luck, fam. You deserve better than this. You'll always have a place here if ya come back

thanks skelly!

[d3dans]

same on the artfight thing. been trying to post an attack w/ no luck for 3 days now. i don't remember it bein this bad last year???

someone told me it’s best to just wait until ppl give up so that’s my plan

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

i started binge-reading your college fic and i really really love it! : o

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that is excellent to know

I need to write more bc it was just getting plotty and knotty and then I stopped for like three weeks oops

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

hey i hope its ok to say i originally found your blog because of the fate series. i've gradually been picking up the original lore and text as i've gotten interested and reading through your blog has really motivated me to pick up those books i got years ago! but just wanted to say i really enjoy reading your thoughts and your blog! (and honestly i'd think it'd be 'cool' story-wise if cú was lug's incarnation, i think its even more interesting how lit can change from errors like you described)

aww thank you! I am always happy to know I got people interested in the medieval lit behind their pop culture interests tbh. everyone I know in celtic studies/academia had their own route into it... for me it was children's fantasy novels, for another friend it was roleplaying games, so I try and be open-minded about what those routes into medieval lit actually are and also where they end up! (because I'm not suggesting everyone has to go full academia, the field would be crowded if they did, haha)

reading lit on its own terms can be super rewarding. I started from a very mythological/folkloric perspective but I've really enjoyed coming to see it as literature and there's so much you can do with it and so much you can learn historically from what people choose to develop or emphasise during different periods and how certain aspects and ideas enter the tradition... understanding the historical, literary, and manuscript context for stories is like unlocking the secret bonus layer of story on top of what you see at surface level. knowing that they put a text next to another text in the same manuscript, or knowing that it's being written while X church reform is going on, or knowing that it's part of a wider tradition of certain kinds of stories ... it's all fascinating

I also feel a lot of popular approaches to Irish lit seriously tone down the weirdness, which is TRAGIC, because that's the best bit. like it's interesting, what people say happens in the stories, but the actual stories are EVEN BETTER!