fractured; sentimental; incandescent with disaster

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my friend! 🫶 how have you been? it's lovely to hear from you again

sorry for not continuing our chat, but, yeah, i took a break from tumblr. i just couldn't deal with moral purity discourse with fascists knocking at my damn door, if you know what i mean. our presidential elections got postponed until may and, suffice to say, it's not looking good, with trump & putin backing the pro-russian candidate and other useful idiots 🙄

so i'm trying to not read the news as much as possible, spending my days in a calm-before-the-storm mentality. i've finished act ii of bg3 around christmas time. i trusted shadowheart and she spared the nightsong, now she's dyed her hair white and we're besties forever. :)) but i didn't manage to advance very much into act iii, i've only just reached rivington and took a break from the game because my former supervisor asked me to write an article for a journal he's associated with, so i settled on investigating the incompatibility of the weberian state in non-european territories, with the drc as a case study. not thee most complicated methodology but i did what i could in a month lol ☠️

so i spend my january alternating that with various parties as many of my friends have their birthdays in this period, incl my bf, so it was a kind of alcohol-infused pseudo-cerebral time (very dark academia of me 😂). we made olive oil cake on valentine's day and then took a few days off to go to a barbecue (yes, outside) during the first snow of this entire winter (it was cold af but we persevered!)

i really want to get back into the rhythm of reading so i pushed through and read The Winter Prince by Elizabeth Wein, which i noted down as a recommendation from our own mylestoyne here on tumblr (quite liked it!) and the very popular Capitalist Realism, which i hated. reviews are up on my storygraph acct in my bio if anyone is interested. since the start of the new year, i've also watched nosferatu (incredible!! loved it sm), babygirl (really rather meh), the jackal with eddie redmayne (decently suspenseful) and i have one episode left of black doves with keira knightley and ben wishaw (not bad! all the twinks are turning into snipers these days)

yea. that's the problem the show created by trying to make daemyra as uninvolved as possible in laenor's death. they're not legally married and their children are bastards.

even if laenor is dead now, they're STILL not legally married because they only had one ceremony and that ceremony is null and void as a result of laenor's not!dead status

if you take any character and force them to follow plot beats, regardless of their overall logic in the story, they're not going to end up looking good. they'll either come across as inconsistent, illogical or downright dumb

there's a high chance of that happening if you start the story from the ending and work your way backwards

hmmm... i don't remember that being my theory, sorry! but i wouldn't be opposed to it

thank you, friend. 🙏 we're a pretty irreverent and knee-slapper kind of people (romanian memes are first class) so we're mostly coping with that. but we are not psychologically equipped in any way to deal with proper political sabotage & destabilisation. i'm just glad that the manipulated masses who voted for the fascists are inherently lazy and cowardly & that no one is out there in the streets protesting for these morons. for once in my life i am grateful for this nation's fundamental political lethargy

it looks like every new day comes with another plot twist over here 😵‍💫 the authorities apparently apprehended a mercenary group headed for the capital armed to the teeth with guns and various knives... it's hard to stop considering the possibility of terrorist attacks on the subway or various landmarks now, you know, just as a thought exercise 🧍

proof of life

sooooo the constitutional court cancelled the entire presidential elections that were supposed to take place this sunday. idek how to feel. apprehensive? happy? angry it had to get to this point? in any case, it's something.

don't ever take democracy for granted, my little lemon trees. this is why i'm never going to encourage anyone to not vote, no matter how much you may dislike the candidates. we may have just averted a russian coup in our country. it's a very sobering and frightening thought.

oh, bless you, sweetheart! 😘

i'm currently in the tube after having frozen my socks off for 3 hours at a pro-european-union protest 🫡 🪧🫂

i am :( i'd like to say there is only one more week of hell to go through, but who are we kidding? with 30% of parliament going to fascists, it's going to be a long election cycle, if not rest of our lives

anons...............i'm gonna answer but we just had the first round of presidential elections over here and, suffice to say, it's NOT looking good

I'll be honest, anon - I think one of the main problems is that the writers probably think they've done a stellar job portraying the >conflict< between Daemyra and don't really understand the criticism.

Because at the end I think the INTENTION was to show that Rhaenyra isn't completely trusting of Daemon after his stunts, so they're not 100% back to how they were - she has a line akin to "don't ever betray me again" and looks a little apprehensive but is putting on a show for the Harrenhal audience. So, their reasoning was probably that it was enough to portray appropriate "punishment" - a loss of trust.

But this "consequence" seems ridiculous in context, because the greens fall apart much more dramatically and are treated like unfeeling monsters over less egregious shit. So it ends up looking cowardly that they let Daemon get away with the proverbial slap on the wrist.

bg3 anon, you know the drill :)) Part 1 here, Part 2 when I'll get the chance (this got very long, as usual) :))

Anonymous asked:

I haven't done a lot of stuff in the game myself with my Dark Urge bard lately as real life got in the way…

I hear you. I haven’t progressed myself much lately, but the game isn’t going anywhere and, in any case, it’s good to take a break once in a while and do other stuff.

As of last night, I am at the Creche and managed to get Lae’zel out of the zaith'isk. I have to admit I save scummed to get past the guards and to be able to deface Vlaakith’s portrait (because it’s too funny an opportunity to pass on), as the checks were quite difficult and I wanted to keep my 1 inspiration roll for the zaith'isk. Then I allowed her to get in the chair and I got hit with an insane 30 Persuasion check. Fr. Of course I failed the first check, but I rolled again with my sole inspiration point and, to my shock, I got a perfect 20 and with my other bonuses it was enough to hit 30. Phew.

I searched online after my first try because the checks were really difficult to pass and I was sort of underwhelmed to find out that most people chose to get inside the machine themselves, as the checks become easier this way. But for RPG reasons, I really insisted on it being Lae’zel, because she really wanted to and it’s something Mirta would not impose on. But the debuffs she receives if you don’t get her out of the machine are so cruel, I couldn’t go on knowing I’d lobotomized my poor girl. She’s my ride or die – if my companions were in a burning building, I’d save HER. MY CHILD.

hey! 🍁 Peace and love! I'm always here if you want to send a message 🍏 I just feel the need for a break once in a while, nothing too dramatic 🍞👽 i hope you're ok, too 💕