@maud-lin Inspired Me With This Post So Im Gonna List Some Bg3 Creators You Absolutely Need To Check

silver and gold, blood and tolls

women w/ questionable morals my beloved

My personal favorite example: Opal-crowned Manakin :D (photo by Luis Morais on eBird)

The feathers on its head are among the most reflective substances found in nature. Their reflective index is higher than artificial mirrors. It looks white on most photos because cameras can't even capture how brilliantly iridescent they look in person.

birds have truly mastered feathers like what do you Mean they can be shiny. how fucking cool is that

Post your WIP titles!

tagged by @docholligay

Rules:

in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell us about it.

(So many cover letter wips lately ahaha, but we're not here to talk about that shit! non-exhaustive list, but covers a good bit esp since I started keeping track better in one place. I also forgot about some of these for real for real, so this was fun for me)

tagging a few people off the top of my head, but open to everyone! @kassiaetou @explodingquails @sunflowers-on-fire

Leona/Diana League of Legends

Boozy Nightless Eve

Sunforger's Holiday (technically WIP, still in progress)

sunforger's dump edit doc

Our Hymn of the Dawn

Burn the witch

Leodi drabble challenges

Leodia midnight drabbles

V-day song fic Diana

dump doc of deleted lines - leodia

1234 I declare a prank war

Misc Fandoms

Revue Starlight - Missing Moments

Steph - Life is Strange - Crossroads

Little Witch Academia

Catra Diaries

HaruMichi 50 First Dates

Minako Aino's Midnight Ride

Reinako Drabbles

Dva burnout vacation

DVa angst

OC / Original fiction / poetry

Doodles and nuggets

Alex drabbles and Rp stuff

Alex-Jinn RP Doc

Anechoic - spooky haunted house

Raw me but poetically

Drunk Southern Love Song

In Like a Lion

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

MAJOR Hades 2 spoilers under the cut!

I am so unwell about this... the way their bodies are arranged in a circle made me think they were cornered and making a last stand back-to-back when Chronos got them.

Also the fact that Nyx was frozen away from the rest implies either: 1) Chronos attacked her first to get her out of the picture; 2) She was the last one left and faced Chronos in the hallway leading to Hades' room to buy Melinoë and Hekate time to escape

In case the pic is too low quality those are the Chronos victims clockwise from the top: Achilles, Zagreus, Megaera, Dusa, Persephone, Thanatos :((

Jumping on the crow Miranda bandwagon. Can't get this image out of my head after reading @lepusrufus's posts.

The curious dance moves of the Striped Cuckoo.

Hades II Theory Regarding Chronos

I have been playing a ton of Hades after the Hades II trailer got me hooked. Currently about 80 hours in, and I noticed something that made me speculate on the Chronos storyline.

Basically I think the Satyr Cultists that Zagreus encounters in the Temple of Styx are actually worshippers of Chronos, and their activity is directly linked to the titan's escape from imprisonment in the sequel.

This is the Codex entry for Satyr Cultists taken from the wiki:

When I first read it, I found it strange that Hades, the immensely powerful God of the Dead, would be worried about some goat-people freeloading in a temple so far above his residing domain in Tartarus. Also why is the satyrs' hatred for Hades so pronounced? This feels like one of the unresolved plot points in the first game that is more than likely to be expanded in the sequel.

Achilles's Codex entry calls satyrs "vermin-worshippers". I first assumed this to mean the satyrs worship the rats they share the temple with, but that just felt odd. Then during my runs passing through the Temple of Styx, I noticed that there are statues of vipers/snakes everywhere.

There is also the hostile Snakestone mob that sometimes can be found in the same room as Satyr Cultists. According to Achilles's Codex:

"..the boorish satyrs despoiling the surface seem to take up residence in the same spaces, and may well be to blame for these nuisances, as they are for many others."

So it is implied that the satyrs built the Snakestones, and by extension I suspect that the snake, and not the rats, is the actual subject of worship for this "cult".

And in Greek mythology, the snake is, interestingly, a symbol of Cronus, the King of the Titans.

Here is an article I found that mentions the relationship between Cronus/Chronos (Hades II is conflating these two figures it looks like) the snake, particularly in Orphic poetry. Apparently in some versions, Cronus has the lower half body of a snake.

The game tells us that the satyrs are openly antagonistic towards the House of Hades. Maybe their hatred comes from Chronos being defeated and eventually held hostage in Hades's domain?

Also worth mentioning that while the origin of the word "satyr" is unclear, it has been speculated that the name is related to the root "sat-", which means "to sow". Remarkably, it is also the root of Saturn, a.k.a. the Roman equivalent of Cronus.

TLDR: The satyrs cult Zagreus fights in the Temple of Styx may in fact be worshippers of Chronos, as evidenced by the abundance of snake motifs and artifacts in their lair. The satyrs may have a role in Chronos escaping imprisonment in Tartarus, leading to the events of Hades II.

Starting to think the Superman/Clark Kent thing has some merit because I just went to a party wearing contacts and goth makeup and not a single one of my friends recognized me - including people I've known since freshman year

Black-capped Chickadee - ML435205, Eric Liner via Macaulay Library