im now on dreamwidth as aurumbones!!

Well shit...
I'm on bluesky under the same username. my nsfw page has been moved there as well, it's in my main page's bio. I really don't want to go back to tumblr, but just in case, I'm there as well, same username again.

My ao3 is aurumbones, but don't expect much to happen there, I'm shy about my writing + almost always in the grip of severe artblock lately. however, i am gonna be archiving my "seven days until shadow of the erdtree" ficlet series there!

update: i'm now on dreamwidth as aurumbones as well
update2: i miiiight attempt to set up a neocities

i've gotta remake my sidereal character list here oops

im thinking about shadow of the erdtree again and just reflecting in awe about how soulsborne + elden ring actually makes an effort to humanize the enemies you fight, especially in elden ring. marika, a dictator-like god-empress who has committed multiple genocides, is humanized by portraying the torment she and her people went through. the hornsent in turn are humanized by showing the grief and pain marika and messmer's genocide has inflicted on the survivors. messmer is humanized by showing his mixed devotion and resentment of his mother.

even the beasts in bloodborne are humanized. in the hunter's nightmare the game makes a point to show them cowering away from you in fear. djura straight up tells you, point blank, that these are people you're slaughtering.

idk i've just always seen video games throwing faceless unpersons at you, even dragon age despite its constant scrambling for justifications for everyone. soulsborne + elden ring doesn't really try to justify anyone's actions, they're still despicable and deeply damaging to the world, it's just more willing to show you that these people exist and are human without then shying away and saying "but not THESE ones" and pointing towards some ultraviolent subfaction of dehumanized cannon fodder (coughs. the subsets of the mage and templar rebellion that didn't pull back and stop fighting in dragon age: inquisition)