#thedeafprophet

[cymatile]

*guy who believes the final chapters are going to bring a hurricane watching the natural disaster and wayne talk* haha yes

also plops these lyrics from Neko Case's "This Tornado Loves You" like a cat bringing a leaf to the door

Final chapters for the MC going like: +1 The Gods of the Holler: Entity's Curse (A curse lies on you: the curse of the nameless god of high places and anger.)

Also those lyrics... aeeeoogh

[thenugking]

LITERARLY I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS ON THE WASTED OPPORTUNITY. you're telling me we come back to Baldur's Gate with the now-disposed-of Duke's son and an evil Tyrant who's taken power but has control of the social minds of the people, and we DON'T have more social quests????

Act 3 is where all the social space of Baldur's Gate should have mattered, and Wyll is the only companion whose entire identity is embedded in that architecture!!!!!

Having Wyll at your side for this would have been so good and such a fascinating tactical exploration - and an exploration of his character and the role he hasn't been involved in or played for many years, but still knows all the pieces. It would lead into the other end of him becoming duke after with far more of a natural segway if we see him actually managing politics.

HONESTLY. honestlyyyyyy. I am so happy to hear any more thoughts you have because godddddd. This game is so full of potential for Wyll and larian ignored All of it.

I remember a post from a while ago talking about how Gortash should have been in the ducal palace, rather than hanging out in Wyrm's Rock fucking miles away from the main city, and also getting to explore the ducal palace would let us visit Wyll's old room. (I know Ulder wasn't grand duke for very long before Wyll was exiled but still!! I don't think he's going to be throwing out all his kid's stuff).

And then Mizora can disgusing herself as a noble and trying to sew discord (or supporting Wyll, if he takes her deal to remain in a contract with her) can actually be a Thing, and it won't come out of fucking nowhere when Florrick turns up going, "Lady Mizora says Wyll's evil, and obviously I'm going to trust that unquestioningly unless you pass a persuasian check, at which point I'll remember that what kind of guy Wyll actually is." Give us some actual political manouvering pleaseee!! Have it actually make a difference whether Wyll is devilled or not!!! Have people in the city recognise the son of the grand duke who is also a folk hero!!!

Also there is soooo much fun potential for Wyll and Gortash interactions and that is fucking slept on.

[arsenicviric]

pops in. so what do YOU think Clarabelles favourite types of operas to perform in are vs what do you think she likes to watch

SUCH A GOOD QUESTION, thank you for asking! But oh nooo, I’m gonna be outed as a fraud… I know music history and I know theatre history, but when it comes to opera unfortunately I’ve got v little 😭 sorry Clara! This is what I do have. (She’s ‘eccentric’ per her in-game epithet, so I’m taking inspiration from that. My sources are that I am also an eccentric actress and singer :) )

This is a really interesting time period for the performing arts. We’re seeing the beginnings of a major move away from demonstrative, showy styles, stuff we’d consider cartoonish now, and towards more stripped-back, natural, realistic portrayals. In opera, my personal best frenemy Richard Wagner is doing a lot of that work. Gesamtkunstwerk, and I’m not checking to see if I’ve spelled that correctly, gives us a lot of wonderful and historically significant opera around this time.

I think Clara loves the direction her art is moving in, she finds it meaningful and important, and genuinely really enjoys the more complicated, naturalistic stuff… but her guilty pleasure is older bel canto style operas and oratorios because she finds them super super fun to sing. And I have to give her that because I think the name Clarabelle itself might be a reference to bel canto💕🎶🔔

(Did you know that Vivaldi wrote one singular oratorio, Juditha Triumphans? Please listen to this, it goes so hard and it’s so so good)

My Clara is definitely a modernist, as well as a decadent and a symbolist with a love of the gothic. She’s a gentle, soft-hearted, soft-spoken soul and so everyone is always caught off guard when they find out she enjoys really dark and morbid topics in her art. She’s fascinated with the grotesque, artificial, obscene, distorted, and outré (even more so after everything that happened to her….we all cope in different ways) Give Her Fucked Up Stories

Additionally, in regards to what she likes working on, I think she really enjoys the more technical aspects of her craft and has a brilliant mind for music theory, which lends itself well to: weird, atonal shit!! Work that experiments with theory in composition. As I said, she LOVES the modernists—and if she’s still around by that point, she’ll love the postmodernists too, but for now, think Weber and Schoenberg.

I’ve already talked about how I think she would love Pierrot Lunaire the poems*, so I think in a couple years when she hears the Schoenberg setting for the first time she’s going to be over the moon, pun intended if you want it to be. Girl is chomping at the bit to perform this thing

*I like the idea of her acting training/background being mostly commedia. It gives her a reason to have the relationship that my Clara does with those archetypes, esp Pierrot, though I think when she was doing it she was younger and kept getting cast as the inamorata or Columbina and it got a little frustrating after a while. That’s when she started putting more passion into studying music and singing.

This time period is honestly my favorite to study wrt theatre and music. The stuff that was happening was just so exciting!!! (Extremely niche overlap of interests here so I’m probably asking this question to no one, but who do we think of the early theatre naturalists packs up and move to the Neath at some point? I think Meisner, Meyerhold, maybe Ibsen. Anton Chekhov beats a quiet but heartfelt retreat there after opening night of The Seagull at the Alexandrinsky (which was apparently an absolute disaster) but Stanislavski and Danchenko coax him back out a few years later to put it on at the MAT (which goes, to put it mildly, a whole lot better). Also Brecht, eventually)

Here’s a fun fact: ever since the hybrid’s birth, Clara has been going mildly mad trying to transcribe the Song of Birthing from memory. With any normal song this would be a piece of cake for her, but this thing resists her understanding of music theory at every turn. She might need to get an understanding of Rubbery language and the Correspondence in order to even get a start on it, maybe the Red Science as well… that’ll be an interesting new artistic movement for sure

[tweetsongs]

hiiiiii rainny hows it going, is your day good?

MWAH hello prophet my dear friend!! it is reading week so my day is good lol, and it's lantern festival today so we made peanut and chocolate tangyuan (sweet mochi balls in clear sweet broth) and it was a lot of fun!!

[tweetsongs]

🎉 ~ what's your favorite holiday? :O

cheesy answer but halloween!!! i haven't had the time/money to dress up lately, but i love seeing cool outfits and making themed dinners and watching spooky stories <3 close second is lunar ny because FOOD.

silly billy ask game

[tweetsongs]

i love that we engage with media in entierly different tones and genres and yet can still have an overlap in tagging character thoughts in posts <3

MWAH yay! we are parallel playing with our blorbos using the same themes and tropes that tickle our minds and is that not what friendship is ❤️

[thenugking]

🐌 What is one of your smallest writing goals? :3c

Write more Orin femmeslash <3

There are a Lot of options and opportunities for it and at least a couple are gonna end up happening.

[capn-twitchery]

oh gd Grace and Lewis were coworkers. this is horrifying. this has also input the hilarious idea in my head that long before grace ever met alex, the first thing he could have heard about was lewis raving about this thief he was unable to catch ahdfkfkgkhkj

GDHFJFJDK grace meeting alex and having flashbacks to the absurdly large case file he kept having to organise 100 times for this one thief that his boss was obsessed with-

what's Also killing me is i always had it down that grace did Not like his coworkers whatsoever. which is stupidly difficult to achieve for mr "absurdly polite & tries to excuse Everyone" grace. does he just really dislike lewis in particular because that's So funny

. wait did lewis ban grace from concord square-