liv(e), die and know

I’ll settle for ambiguity or like a ‘love is for children, I owe her a debt’ type thing but like I really really need this to live up to what I’ve hyped up as the world’s sole derekcalia warrior…

the need to see derekcalia in the next wow novel vs the fear that they won’t interact the way I decided they would five years ago so they feel ooc even though they’ve had like four scenes canonically

ms golden… christie please… please…

the way I’ve had a shit week for various reasons and my fragile mental health is resting on a derek proudmoore cameo in the next wow novel

I like how the title wasn’t ragebaity enough so they just added a random incendiary sentence in brackets afterwards lmao

I’ve tried nelf, belf, nightborne, but if I commit to making her a haranir I can get a pseudo elf hidden underground worshipping a stolen goddess and following a song she can’t quite name from deep within the earth (that probably sounds suspiciously like answers piano version)…

a hero who should be there (with the rest of her full party well established bc they were made first lmao) serving as a presence haunting the narrative

I struggle a little with putting triss in absolute everything bc she doesn’t quite fit in eg azeroth but characterising her by her absence and masks is what I’m going with bc by god I’m going to try

the way this is the quintessential triss image like sure this line is actually about the guardian but you really do have to pass a perception check to know anything abt triss this is so real

"why are games so expensive"
"why are mass layoffs happening"
"why are games getting cancelled"
"why did that popular studio close"

it's capitalism. capitalism is why all of this is happening. the rampant prioritizing of profit over the all else, from price and quality to dev health and well being.

An commissioned illustration of a blood elf from World of Warcraft for @ratkaiju.bsky.social. He is leaning forward, holding his bleeding injured side. He is wearing a full set of blood knight esque armour with a red cloak, gripping his sword. The background is a deep purple Netherstorm sky, with white lightning bolts casting across it.

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I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

also the toxic codependency of being the only one the other feels they can rely on anymore speaks to me obviously but

I enjoy making fun of them for it but noblesse oblige runs strong in their veins (even when nothing runs in their veins anymore) so I like to think this is the reason for the vibe mismatch

this is said with great affection and love like don’t get it twisted, it’s just that every noble in warcraft is raised with a sort of insufferable paternalistic liberalism that I don’t think death would force them to unlearn lol

likely thing for you to think

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

This is what pivoting right to "win" always accomplishes.

derek and calia abt why the forsaken don’t like them fr

the way this is just trisselle

I’m just glad they killed off all his stupidly overpowered gary stu ocs lol like I don’t want to hear shit abt calia being a creator’s pet when I had to read abt rhonin’s bullshit for multiple novels like there is form for this

it was a pet ship that knaak books had and was like a minor bit of characterisation that persisted throughout that shandris had a precocious crush on jarod and after the wife knaak also gave him (!) died it might progress, but it went the way of every minor knaak subplot and vanished years ago lol

A picture of He-Man

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

but please ma’am I want to see how they’re doing I’m so desperate like derek hasn’t had lines in four years please please please

the way I’ve accidentally gaslit myself into thinking christie golden will be giving me derekcalia in this new book by way of random interludes in a book stated to be about arator, turalyon and alleria…

in other news remix is extremely fun

keep seeing oomf on remix like I’m spotting a celebrity like omg hi sir and terim how have you been… ms allisha I’ve heard so much abt ur work…

found a theme for visager… also back on my visager bullshit lmao

found my new fave picture of them also like he’s got no lines here and click on quotes that were irrelevant three expansions ago but he’s here in the heritage quest to say nothing but literally stand with his cancelled wife ❤️

calia on the midnight alpha and ppl are already bitching… I just want derek to show up in any capacity but particularly with updated click quotes… a cameo in a book… anything…