Back on my bullshit

Yeah imported tobacco is cured, it's p much impossible to transport uncured bc it rots. If it's 1600-1700s, that's also when tobacco was widely cultivated in the former Ottoman Empire as well, but still, transport issues.

 

anyway now I'm on a russian folklore bender, thanks witcher

 

found noon/nightwraiths lmao

 

on the one hand, I am unsurprised that Russia too had the ableist "physical disability/malformity = witch" thing (as well as the whole Witch Knowingly Studies Devilcraft), but also: kinda eue at netflix!yen being given scoliosis for her shiny new backstory as a sorceress

 

unrelated
did I fuck up my band measurement or am I simply so unused to wearing a bra that any rib bands at all feel constricting: A Novel

 

>absently pet own hair, as you do
>finger gets stuck on a mask loop
>"huh, I don't remember putting any hair jewelry in today"
. . .

 

verdict: after 4 hours, probably an even mix of option #2 and Fresh Elastic Stiffness; breathing and moving fine, no more pain than I would expect from any other 4hr shift
more wiggle than I really want, but better than nothing and this is still a sports bra and not a binder, its not gonna work miracles

 

back to the mythology bender: apparently at least one permutation of the Witches' Ointment is made from "infants' blood, dogs' bones and cats' brains", which as interesting departure from the usual herbal concoctions

 

I don't wanna go to work, I wanna play witcherrrr

 

Ah. Plot-dictated romance. Dislike.

 

When you get killed and the last time you saved was before a lengthy cutscene

 

Spoiler: witcher 1 typically-iffy writing; dubcon

okay technically it's not plot-necessary like the weird thing with triss, but also: strongly dislike that your only options for resolving this side quest are "fuck the vampires" and "kill the vampires" unless you want some random Missing Person quest stuck in your log for the entire game, since there's no Abandon button either
and also it is not at all signposted that you will be forced to either fuck or murder your way out until the very last stage of the quest, where the neutral dialogue option just circles back around to Fuck Or Kill and then vanishes
yes, okay, the chapter arc is "neutrality can't last forever, pick a side" but also: let me accept payment for walking away that isn't a goddamn foursome
I accept that this questline mostly takes place in a brothel. I can accept that Geralt occasionally Fucks, and do actually like that casual sex is an option for players who want to play that way, and the only person denigrating sex work (that I've met so far) is an asshole in general. I can accept that Geralt would Fuck on a job wherein he needs to find a very specific scar hidden by everyday clothes on a sex worker.
Do not make my only options in a conversation where a character-- yes, a vampire, but a higher vampire who Geralt was friends with, who was romantically involved with one of their mutual dead friends, who (says she) only feeds from those already paying to be in her bed and doesn't kill them (because higher vampires don't need blood to live and can afford to leave their marks alive)-- begs for her and her daughters' lives by offering the only sort of payment she has "sign me up for the foursome" or "you die now". Let me spare her for free-- for a different favor, even, if life debts are a thing in this particular universe. This just feels... really fucking gross.

 

Game keeps calling this dude King even though I know for a fact his title was Duke in the books and I'm just
:T
sulks in nerd

 

what is eso but a fancy dollmaker

 

Spoiler: many image, S H E

@Shelobah

 

oh no she's cute

 

:3c ty

I remain eternally salty that eso won't let you give femme characters no tiddy, bethesda acknowledge trans people challenge

 

finished bo's run, which means.... it's time for bad decisions inquisitor.........

 

hang on I just found out there's a text-based rpg in dakeep
gotta play that first
gotta get all the lore
gotta get those skyhold customization rewards

(carver is here.......)

 

My Boy............