#angstmongertina

So when I posted this "Under The Sea" prompt list, two separate people requested narwhal *without specifying a fandom or pairing* which is fine but does mean I sometimes stare at it longer than usual going 'huh, idk'

IN THIS CASE: Narwhal - Keep coming back to the same place.

#1 is about Esther before the first TUC campaign as she's learning about magic and her curse and keeps going back to Tompkins Park to... maybe not visit her Furies, but to make sure she knows them.

Just in case.

Furies punish betrayal, and while at five she'd certainly been sad that her mother was gone, by the time she was old enough to feel betrayed, she was old enough to feel angry instead of sad, and side-step her own potential fall into The Curse.

It was a narrow line, and it got harder to balance on the older she got.

But she'd expected that.

Too smart not to see it coming.

Too smart not to know she'd fall, eventually.

Too fucking pissed about it all to stop trying.

all right, this is Lore that belongs to the Chicago Cubs (*spits*) so details are fuzzy and I am too lazy to check wikipedia, but:

there was legitimately a billy goat, and there was legitimately a dude who owned that billy goat, and this happened in 194...5? 1945.

so a dude by the name of William Sianis (who also owned the Billy Goat Tavern) goes to a Cubs game (I think a World Series game?) with his pet goat. his goat is disruptive to other fans and at some point he's asked to leave. Sianis in a fit of pique yells, "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more!"

and they don't.

they can't even make it to the World Series.

Sianis was A REAL DUDE. Sianis well and truly brought his pet goat to Wrigley and was asked to leave and said that line. there is no "alleged," it happened. Sianis legitimately tried to break the curse. his nephew tried to break the curse. nothing.

the Cubs would not EVEN GO TO another World Series until 2016. they clinched their first National League title since 1945 ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF BILL SIANIS'S DEATH.

and then they won the World Series that year.

in conclusion, the Curse of the Billy Goat:

"No matter what the challenge may be, I will face it with you."

Artem Wing and Rosa/MC from Tears of Themis. Gift art for the lovely @angstmongertina.

You should definitely read them. They're really good, and if you do not have Beauty and the beast on DVD, send me a PM, and I can give you a link :) Also, at this point somebody might have uploaded the actual TV series to the archive but I have to check when I get home.

I have read the first one already and it's great! The second one will probably happen while sitting at the dr's office next week 🤣 (And I think I know someone with the DVDs, but if not, I will let you know when we get to the end of the current Colombo season. <3)

Also thanks for the tag on the updated post, that was very helpful.

@thievinghippo replied to your post “Seriously y'all I have never played a BG game and...”:

Join us! It's been so fun to geek out about a game again

​That is definitely a kind of fun I miss, so this is very compelling 😆🤣😅

@msviolacea replied to your post “Seriously y'all I have never played a BG game and...”:

I haven't played any of the others either, and it's fine. This game is a giant combination of Dragon Age and D&D and Divinity Original Sin, and so if you like any one of those things it's absolutely worth it.

I have not played Divinity, though I've seen it when Thing 1 checked it out and it seemed quite good, and I do like TTRPG's and have a passing familiarity with other people playing D&D specifically? And we both know I love DA so... ALSO A COMPELLING ARGUMENT!

@pameluke replied to your post “Seriously y'all I have never played a BG game and...”:

Meme has been having a lot of fun with it AND I WANT TO JOIN THE FUN, but I've never played this kind of RPG game before and historically I have been Bad At Figuring Out Problems (looking at you Lara Croft) but on the other hand i love DnD so....

I'll admit that the mechanics of the original BG is mostly why I never played it; too many dice rolls behind the scenes. Like, I love TTRPG's but I've never been good at keeping track of the actual rules I just bullshit with people I like a lot? Randomness/dice karma is fun when it's people, I find it less fun in CRPG's... I like to know WHY I failed or succeeded at things in computer games and what in theory is possible if I played differently.

@angstmongertina replied to your post “Seriously y'all I have never played a BG game and...”:

It looks pretty and fun but I’m very bad at that kind of game so I may just sit and enjoy everyone else’s enjoyment of it lol.

Fair! If I do break down and get it I will probably also break down and find some mods to figure out some of the mechanics for me for much the same reason :D

@shadoedseptmbr replied to your post “Seriously y'all I have never played a BG game and...”:

i loved the old baldur's gate games with a love vying my love for DA but i'm hesitating on this one and i don't know why

ALSO FAIR. I have done that with many things that sounded like stuff I would like or were related to things I knew I liked, so.

#mood

By the way, what extension are you using that lets you reply to replies like this?

@shadesofmauve replied to your post “So I can't make a poll for this, as the point is...”:

Dragon's Milk was one for me that I don't see folks talk about. I'm sure there are others.

I LOVED THAT BOOK SO MUCH

I don't recall any of Fletcher's other books hit quite so hard, but it's been a lot of years

@lynne-monstr replied to your post “simple and/or jewel for the wip meme?”:

👀👀👀👀👀 ahhh do i see mermaid fic!!! 👀👀

​YOU DO! (There is so much mermaid!fic, but it's all in bits and pieces and snippets and snarls... too much! It's all too much! Some day it may actually be a story!)

@lynne-monstr replied to your post “for the word game: sure”:

I did it i found the secret fic! those all sound very intriguing!!

​more like you found my abominably abused weasel-word that sneaks its way into everything I write, but tomato tomahto 🤣🤣🤣

(There were at least half-a-dozen Shadowhunters WIPs with it too, I just didn't want to copypasta that much.)

@jadesabre301 replied to your post “for the word game: sure”:

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THEM

There are like six thems in that post, jade. Or three different pairs, anyway. WHICH DO YOU MEAN? (I am obviously assuming you mean Shepard/Kaidan because they're the ones you usually yell at me about, so….)

THANK YOOOOOOOU, SO DO I 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

@see-starling replied to your post “you ever mean to read a book but don't get around…”:

I very much do get a kick out of it!!!

GOOD. (I'm glad I eventually managed to flail somewhere you'd see it 😅😅😅)

@angstmongertina replied to your post “for the word game: sure”:

Oooooh, that sounds VERY interesting.