invisiblespork:#wei wuxian’s thousand yard stare

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#wei wuxian’s thousand yard stare is visible through his mask #bonus points for lan wangji’s refusal to make eye contact with jiang cheng or otherwise acknowledge his existence #genuinely delightful to me that jiang cheng sees the lans sneaking his ressurected brother into the Jin hosted cultivation conference #wanders up to them #and bald facedly demands an introduction of the no doubt very important cultivator they’ve decided to bring to this very important event #sometimes you can tell he’s spent the last sixteen years parenting #i also think there’s a chance than lwj and wwx just did not mention to xichen that jiang cheng knows so xichen is just standing there like #fuck fuck fuck #is our cover story jiang cheng proof #Jiang Cheng just wants everyone involved to know that their plan is stupid and they should feel stupid #you get a ressurected and what do you do #put on a dumb little mask that doesn’t even hide your whole face and walk yourself through the doors of carp tower to crash one of jiggy’s #terrible parties #what a good use of time that could never backfire in any way (via winepresswrath)

winepresswrath:

I love how you can clearly see:

a) The exact moment Jiang Cheng decides to make this excruciating for everyone

b) Wei Wuxian’s realization that Jiang Cheng has committed to the bit and is fully prepared to just stand there and demand that they lie to his face.

c) Xichen bluescreening as he tries to figure out the odds that Jiang Cheng knows Xichen knows and whether or not he can play this off like oh, no … This is a different guy in a mask who follows my brother around everywhere and dresses exactly like the yiling patriarch… it’s the latest thing this season… you should try it out it’s very fashionable and great for your skin

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Last night’s Witchering session got off to a late start and then just… kept going until way after my bedtime, and I actually stood up to leave and go to bed and wound up standing there like the kids do in the middle of the floor far too close to the TV staring at it. You can see a lot more detail on this TV from close up, I think they’re right that the plasma screen is going a bit. Also I need new glasses. Anyway… 

The main thing of note is that DF decided we needed some new fast travel points so he ran all around the map to expand what was on it, and that included going to Oxenfurt, and all he wanted in Oxenfurt, the entirety of what he wanted to do there, was to go to the barber shop.

oh yeah there’s an image behind the cut. Noooooo. DF literally cackled as he made his selections, and this is what we’re going with now, and it’s terrible.

He looks like… he’s got Lemmy’s facial hair (y’know, dude from Mötorhead, RIP, deaf forever 💔) but the hair, I don’t even know what that mullet is. It’s awful. It’s definitely not decent, IDK what that barber was thinking but I do commend him on his great sense in insisting Geralt be apparently nude for this process. 

Anyway. 

The first thing we did was deal with the botchling, and there was no doubt but that we were gonna make the Baron carry that thing the whole distance. The first attempt went badly, as we were taken off guard by the appearance of A ShitTon Of Wraiths, so we regrouped after getting destroyed and tried again, and I Googled it. “This guy says it took him ten tries on Death March,” I offered. And then I rattled off enough different One True Strategies to make it clear that there were any number of potential strategies. 

And so DF managed it on the second try, having equipped a couple of tricks and been forewarned of what was going to go on. No particular strategy, per se, but remembering not to get too far away, and being quick with the Axii on the botchling. Success! 

So we got the thing buried safely and then meditated a while, and then it showed up as a glowing thing and started to show us where to go. It moved at a hell of a clip and so Geralt had to sprint through the rather NPC-crowded settlement. “Can those people see that thing?” I asked, and literally as I spoke an NPC shrieked “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT” so there was my answer.

The rest of the quest proceeded largely uneventfully, with a mild hiccup when DF forgot that rotfiends explode. A reload, and we were on our way. 

Next bit of the quest complete, DF decided it was time to just… Run Around The Map a bit. So we set off to go back to the Riordan Manor for the chest of treasure we are assured was really there, and… went entirely the wrong way and spent forever running away from enemies only to see Kiera the sorceress standing, arms akimbo, next to the cave entrance. “Hi,” she said. “Bye,” we said, and high-tailed it back to the other end of the peninsula where sure enough, Riordan Manor was actually labeled the whole time. Listen.

Richer, and with some XP, we ran around a bunch more. Saved a woman from a burning building, and from the bandits besieging her, we looted a super-sweet pair of boots, which are bright gold metal to the knee. What the heck. Why not. Swiggity-swag.

We went to Oxenfurt, to see if we could. Once there, DF could not rest until he found the entrance to the scissors icon on the map. He has a deep sense of style, see, and was feeling schlubby. Geralt’s schlubby green gambeson had finally actually fallen apart in the midst of the lubberkin thing and he’d been forced to equip a somehow even less attractive schlubby gambeson. Of course he chose the WORST combination of hair and beard, and then put on the Fancy clothes from the Imperial audience and ran around like that, running into peasants and picking up fast travel markers and pulling every quest off the noticeboard.

Oh yeah. We made it to level 6 somewhere along there– I think it was actually one of the tiny quests, maybe rescuing the woman in the burning building or something– and, well. level 6 still isn’t very much when most of the quests you’re seeing are like, Recommended Level 22 or whatever. 

So there’s a lot of leveling-up that has to happen. But, we did meet up with the Baron’s daughter, and were like, no gurl, you’re right, he’s a dick, don’t ever go back to him, I just need to tell him where you are so he’ll tell me where my daughter is. I have a feeling that her identifying the doll the Baron gave Geralt to give to her as Clara is going to be important to the dialogue, right? Like, that was clearly a test. If upon his return Geralt knows the doll is named Clara then obviously he met the girl. 

Anyway– after that the only really amusing thing that happened is that we cleared out a harpy nest from an abandoned fortress. Which went just fine, but one of the loot items the harpies dropped was Raw Meat. Presumably that’s harpy meat?? WTF. Anyway, DF has set it up so he can use food to regain vitality, and he always uses whatever Raw Meat he has first, and he’d been complaining that he was low and was going to have to finally eat that baked apple the woman with the pan had given him as a quest reward. (But it’s fresh! It’s so fresh, how could I eat it? She had it under her skirts or something in the pouring rain and now we’ve been carrying it in inventory for like two weeks of game time.) 

In exploring, he climbed a ladder to the roof, and then decided there was nothing up there. Finding the ladder back down was annoying, so he eyeballed it, and just jumped. Lost about half his health on the landing, but then– yes. Ate the raw meat he’d just taken off the harpy to regen.

So I got to have the vivid image of Geralt eating fresh raw bloody harpy meat basically straight from the carcass, and getting his horrifying muttonchop facial hair all full of gore and blood. Grosssssss. Gloriously gross, really.

Anyway somewhere Geralt looted himself a new gambeson that’s black with red accents and looks sort of, well. I mean. With the Motorhead hairdo and the shiny gold boots, it’s a Fashion Lewk, to be sure. 

The end of the evening was spent running around Novigrod, simply because we found a way in. Picked up more quests, got some of the lay of the land, went up and found the Place of Power up top. 

DF saved the game, looked around another moment, and then had Geralt fling himself off the cliff before quitting, because, well, why not. 

We’re having the kind of Monday where Girl is having a half-hour meltdown over having refused to pick a movie and then not liking the movie we picked for break time, so that’s fucking fantastic. 

ok either tumblr’s glitching or y’all

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ok either tumblr’s glitching or y’all are just reblogging all the same shit over and over again? my dashboard is basically one hundred percent posts I just fucking saw, it’s like yesterday on replay with nothing new at all. what is happen. i can’t postblock every single thing i see more than four times but some day i must just fucking do that.

ugh i am extra-frustrated because of Kid Meltdown and it’s a fine needle to thread for me, between interfering in MM’s parenting and also reminding her I am here to help, since she was pretty intensely conditioned in childhood never to ask for help to the point that she’ll forget I’m standing right there and would happily do something. but like. i’m by nature a nosy interferer, and it’s super hard for me to tell when i should butt in and when i should butt the fuck out, so. there’s that. i’m currently trying to be butted out but idk if that’s right. 

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Terribly Unfashionable Dad Flings Self From Cliff

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fabledshadow replied to your post“ok either tumblr’s glitching or y’all are just reblogging all the same…”

When I like these posts I am sending good vibes and positive thoughts your way ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you, dear. <3

astroloquaciousreplied to your post“mutton chops”

Nooo if you’re going to change Geralt’s hair, he should at least get to wear the Designated Queer Undercut! (Made famous in my household during my partner’s play-through because they started a later quest where you have to talk to several of Dandelion’s girlfriends, and stopped in the middle SPECIFICALLY TO GO GET THE UNDERCUT because, and I quote, “I need them [the NPCs] to know I can’t take this much heterosexual nonsense seriously.”)

HA I absolutely think this is right and true.

UNFORCH, Dr. Friend is A STRAIGHT MAN. This is inescapable. He’s the kind of straight man who finds it enjoyable to flirt with other men, and is so great at parties he often gets invites to events where he winds up being the only straight guy (there’s a running joke that one of the anaesthesia nurses, a gay man, is his Emotional Support Nurse, and they’re super tight, so I’m not just saying that DF is Cool With The Gays in a general Some Of My Best Friends Etc kind of way, I literally mean that he is actually specifically Cool With A Bunch Of Specific Gays and has consistently been so over the decades I’ve known him), but despite all that, he is a straight man, and sometimes, boy can you tell. 

 bittylildragon replied to your post“mutton chops”

Oh my GOD that hair and beard combo, I wasn’t even aware he COULD look that bad. Geralt baby, what have they done to you

RIGHT

I mean, DF is just trolling, but. Still. 

 mikkeneko replied to your post“mutton chops”

i had NO IDEA you could change geralt’s hairstyle i thought he just LOOKED LIKE THAT

No! it turns out there’s One Good Look, and then the default look is Okayish and you see that one sometimes, and then for some reason they offer other options and they’re All Super Bad and why do they offer them?? I don’t know!!! So that terrible trolls like DF can troll us all!!

akilah12902 replied to your post “mutton chops”

you CAN get stuff repaired, at any armorer or blacksmith, or via repair kits. just. it’s an option!

Oh yes, we’re aware– he actually had opted to repair it right before accidentally dying one time, and on the reload was like no, fuck this gambeson, I am not wasting a repair kit on this piece of shit, I’m just going to equip something else as soon as I can because it sucks.

grrlcookery replied to your post“ok either tumblr’s glitching or y’all are just reblogging all the same…”

Oh man I hate when my emotional bruises and my friends’ emotional bruises step on each other

I would like to be a more patient person than I am but I am only one person and I only do so well. It’s okay and I’m over it, I’m just maybe taking a lil Tumblr break and opting to believe it was just a glitch, and talking myself down from unfollowing half my mutuals because I can’t deal. This is not a productive impulse and probably won’t help at all.

 bittylildragon replied to your post“Princess the Goat”

There IS actually hidden treasure in the Riordan Manor, she is not scamming you, but it’s SUPER well-hidden. Also, I see you chose to have Geralt say he killed Letho in the previous games. That’s a pity, Letho in this game is Grade A Witcher Beef and is a great character.

We found the Riordan Manor treasure eventually! Yes thank you.

We did not make any choices about the game, we just declined to load a saved state, and so they decide whatever for us. Alas, no Letho, but as we didn’t know who the fuck he was to start with, we had no idea how to choose whether to manifest him or not. It is weird, what they automatically decide for you though if you don’t tell them otherwise. Like… why.

nogling replied to your post“mutton chops”

Terribly Unfashionable Dad Flings Himself from Highest Point of City in Order to End His Hair Suffering.

I moved this reply to the end because this is the most succinct and correct possible reply to this entire situation YES