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izzy @isobel.top · 7h

he's just mocking us

'One of these days, Edgewalker, I will figure out who and what you are, I swear it?
'Have you?'
'What?'
'Sworn it?
'All right. Yes, I just did.!
'It is good to have purpose in life.
I assume. Having neither purpose nor life!
'Goodbye, Edgewalker'
'Fare thee well!'
Hasten opened a portal and stepped through without a glance back.

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izzy @isobel.top · 12h

fortune's weave dot png

that drawing of a horse where one end is super detailed and realistic, the middle less so, and the other end is just a doodle

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izzy @isobel.top · 15h

i looked up mike flanagan because i wasn't sure if i knew him from anything, and wow this is the most mike flanagan-looking person to ever do it

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izzy @isobel.top · 09/10/2026

me 15 minutes into a social event

fortune's weave dialog box: Isobel vanished into thin air.

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izzy @isobel.top · 08/10/2026

BOOK FOUR TURGID POTSHERDS

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izzy @isobel.top · 08/10/2026

this is like the third or fourth conversation now that is definitely just Erikson arguing with a stand-in for common reader complaints about his writing style

Dully pointed. 'See those low walls?
Worn down to stubs. But you can just make out the layout. This was a fort once!
'A thousand years ago, Kesp said, shrugging. 'What do I care?'
'Well, the road was once a military road. Only look at it now.
Thousand years? More like ten thousand!'
'And?'
Dully pulled off his too-small leather cap and it was like - for just an instant - the head it had been covering popped out to its normal

size. 'Nothing, I guess. Just ... inter-esting!
Utterly uninteresting, marine.
Why aren't you thinking about useful things? Instead of wasting all that energy thinking about pointless details and meaningless obser-vations? You know, just get on with it!'
'With what?'
'With the story, damn you!'
'What story?'
'Our lives, of course! Your life.
Mine. Everyone here!'
Dully blinked, somewhat owl-
ishly. 'Those ain't stories, sir'
'What?'
'They ain't stories. Oh, maybe in your head they are, but if they are

- in your head, I mean - well, just look at them! Anything more bor-ing? No! The point is, sir, a life story is soul-crushingly dull, and pointless besides. Pointless. You want that story up front and centre, sir?
You're welcome to it? He pointed back at the ruins below. 'But you see? There's a mystery down there, in those rotten walls of a fort.
And these cairns. Even the road that's just bones now. Who built it? People with their own stories, right?'
"This is what happens when you take that cap off? Your brain just starts babbling nonsense? Put it back on, marine. That's an order.'

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izzy @isobel.top · 07/10/2026

also, i immediately loved the Mandrabaladrogans

[drawing of a vaguely Neanderthal-looking hominid]

Steven Erikson - Author
Jan 11, 2022
In answer to reader frustration regarding ridiculous names, five new recruits have joined the Malazan Army, from a tribe that calls itself the Mandrabaladrogan. Their names are Mugrudullab Ur, Hibribulallab Ud, Gardarulallab Ug, Brabarulallab Un, and Iderbulallab Ub. Were one to speak to you in their native language, they might say something like
"ly'ruh'gatal'jubrik'ala'thrib'in" which means ... well, I don't know what it means, but I'll figure it out eventually.

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izzy @isobel.top · 07/10/2026

oh this one immediately claimed a spot on my Favorite Epigraphs list

What is with this obsession with answers? Very well, allow me to satisfy you. It begins with—

Last words in The Scroll of Truth

Anonymous

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izzy @isobel.top · 06/10/2026

haven't actually started Legacies of Betrayal yet, but i took a quick look at the dramatis personae and these are some of the most Character In A Malazan Book names i've ever read

High Priestess Lathora Lanquas
Attanaft

Wagoneer Butterow
Wagoneer Lillypad
Wagoneer Kneelock

Innkeeper Skree
Phragg (her husband)

MANDRABALADROGAN
RECRUITS

Hibribulallab Ud
Brabarulallab Un
Irderbulallab Ub
Gardarulallab Ug
Mugrudulallab Ur

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izzy @isobel.top · 05/10/2026

this guy's obviously got a team on it

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izzy @isobel.top · 04/10/2026

girl it is objectively, numerically not

"looks like my strength's improving."
- noctula fortune's weave, leveling a bunch of stats other than strength

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izzy @isobel.top · 01/10/2026

i'm not even exaggerating here

Dietrich
Beautiful, ugly... The surface is not all there is of beauty, you know.

Dietrich
The things I esteem are strength and purity.
Nothing else.

Dietrich
What form they take is irrelevant. Man or woman...it is the same to me.

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izzy @isobel.top · 30/09/2026

holy fuck dietrich, calm down

fortune's weave screenshot of dietrich leveling up +1 in every single stat

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izzy @isobel.top · 28/09/2026

[pats roof of Peppe] this bad boy can fit so many 2x0 turns

Stats View your allies' stats and information.

Rogue
HP
31/31
Lv 29
Mov 5
Next: 100
Bld 2

Growth Rate
HP 40
Str 30
Def 30
Mag 25
Res 35
Spd 75
Lck 50
Dex 55
Cha 30

Basic Stats
Rating 123

Str 12
Def 11
Mag 10
Res 12
Spd 29
Lck 19
Dex 21
Cha 9

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izzy @isobel.top · 28/09/2026

cower before my unbeatable "yo Guzran, head over there and kill anything that looks at you funny" strategy

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izzy @isobel.top · 27/09/2026

i was briefly worried that i just got extra lucky with Guzran on my first run and that he wouldn't turn out quite as godlike on Cai's route, but lol. lmao.

guzran rolling a +1 in every single stat

AGAIN

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izzy @isobel.top · 25/09/2026

we've hit three digits 🥳

fortune's weave screenshot of God's Favorite Himbo Guzran critting a hologram pegasus knight with an iron bow+2 for 165 damage

the thing only had 38 max hp [insert that "stop he's already dead" simpsons gif here]

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izzy @isobel.top · 24/09/2026

i don't know if i've ever hated a fire emblem unit more than catania "this must be a mistake!" no my dear, the mistake was me thinking i could fix you

catania getting something like her fifth consecutive worthless level, and (i shit you not) the third straight +1 Lck/Cha

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izzy @isobel.top · 23/09/2026

[bangs clipboard] MURDER CHILD! MURDER CHILD! MURDER CHILD!

Fortune's Weave screenshot of Mu The Murder Child leveling up

LEVEL UP
16
Mu
Gladiator

HP 33 +1

Str 20 +1
Mag 3 (who cares lmao)
Spd 16 +1
Dex 13

Def 11 +1
Res 8
Lck 13 +1
Cha 9

Mu: "Maybe I'm having a growth spurt?"

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izzy @isobel.top · 21/09/2026

god forbid a woman have hobbies 🙄

fortune's weave screenshot:

Sirocco
That list... She's crossing off the names of the people she's killed...with their own blood.

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izzy @isobel.top · 19/09/2026

fixed v2 (final) (1).png

the same as above but the ring is still gold important detail, can't believe i missed that)

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izzy @isobel.top · 19/09/2026

ff14 has some great boss arenas

Mt. Gulg final boss arena, but the giant marble curtains are being stretched open by goatse hands

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izzy @isobel.top · 15/09/2026

short for "involuntary cenobite"

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izzy @isobel.top · 13/09/2026

every lesbian reading this chapter:

pale sweaty chibi caricature of kumugi going "um?" with a ?! over her head

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izzy @isobel.top · 13/09/2026

incoherent stammeringly normal things going on this week

ichi the witch screenshot of amadoro cutting her thumb and telling kumugi "taste it, if you please" and then making eye contact and placing her thumb on her lips while kumugi closes her eyes and JESUS FUCK they knew exactly what they were doing here

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izzy @isobel.top · 12/09/2026

oh well, i got good value out of it while i could

New Adventurer

WAR 71 DRK 80 GNB 61
WHM 41 SCH 40 AST 88
DRG 62 SAM 90 RPR 70 BST 42 PUG 15 ROG 27
MCH 60 DNC 97 ARC 7
RDM 89 THM 9

CRP 71 BSM 80 ARM 75 GSM 66 LTW 50 WVR 63 ALC 36 CUL 17
MIN 73 BTN 73 FSH 46

Search Comment
if you see me playing healer, i'm trying and i'm sorry <3

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izzy @isobel.top · 12/09/2026

for me it's the beige and white mom dragging her beige and white kid in a beige and white wagon across a beige and white play mat in their beige and white room