#//AND APPARENTLY HE GETS EVEN WORSE

[troublcmakcrs]

//OH THIS SEASON IS ALREADY FUCKING ROUGH DUDE, IT'S FUCKING ROUGH

[ganondoodle]

me: finally im able to cope with how much i hate totk and can fuel that energy into other things :)

nintendy: the shiekah tech just dissappeared and no one knows why or cares enough to investigate it lol. lmao. its gone bc the calamity is gone or something even tho it literally isnt bc ganondorf is right there haha lol, stop asking, why do you care. just forget it existed and look at that sexy goatman and glue instead!! glue! isnt that wild?? also its totally a direct, 100% same universe and exact same characters, despite them act totally out of character, sequel to botw-

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

and if i said suguru’s relationship with weakness (’the preciousness of the weak, the ugliness of the weak’) was born out of his feelings towards his mother …

[ninkaku]

strange behaviour from the arcane fandom when a woman that has relations with another woman goes down a darker path and people condemn her whereas if she was a man in love with another man this would be lapppped up as “toxic yaoi”. please get a grip

[celestialrealms]

some of us are suffering barbussy drought and they dont even care smh

[waspgrave]

now there was no reason for lucanis to be given purple johnny silverhand as a plot point and then never have the purple johnny silverhand utilized except for maybe 3 or 4 times in the game (if you saved Treviso, otherwise it's twice) and dialogue. Dialogue where he pretty much just says weird and funny things and occasionally gets scolded like a dog which is entertaining sure but there is Literally A Demon In One Of The Companions Why Is This Not A Bigger Deal

[fascinationstreetmp3]

putting this all under a readmore and not tagging i just wanted to put my thoughts down somewhere .. talking about marius and his fans & tw for mentioning csa / sa

personally. i understand that the marius/armand relationship has been a popular part of the book series for decades and it's fictional and yes i get it. but. i dont understand those fans who encounter people who find it purely horrifying or upsetting and then get mad at them for it. just because of how it's framed in the books as a beautiful gothic love story (filtered through both the author's intention & the skewed perspectives of the two characters involved in it) doesn't mean EVERYONE has to romanticise it and it's only babies or idiots or show only fans who "can't handle gothic fiction".

and then the people who try to convince everyone marius is armand's saviour who only ever treated him with love and kindness really confuse me. like, is it a wholesome relationship built on mutual love? or is it abusive and awful AND loving and caring at the same time? aren't the people who deny marius did anything wrong to armand really the ones who can't stomach enjoying gothic romances and have to twist it into something else?

it's a story of a fully grown man, a millenia old vampire, rescuing a teenager from sex slavery by purchasing him for himself, renaming him, showering him with affection, sexually abusing him, genuinely loving him, treating him like a child and an adult and student and son and lover all at the same time, making his entire world revolve around his master, punishing him emotionally and eventually physically whenever he gets too clingy or aggressive. and it's all done, not under just the 'guise' of love, but from a place of genuine love, and that's how both characters see it. it's entirely damaging and fucked up and the aftereffects of it on armand's mind and sense of self are present for centuries, compounded by everything else he went through. he still draws both comfort and pain from thinking about his past now and even tries to partially recreate the dynamic with someone else both in the book (with daniel, armand taking the role of the master; and keeping young 'mortal slaves' for a time) and in the show (with louis, armand taking the role of the slave)

it is a super fucked up relationship & i'm not one of those people who thinks you shouldn't be allowed to enjoy those in fiction. there's a lot of them that appeal to me obviously, and of course everyone has their own boundaries when it comes to that too. AND i know it's not all marius fans or even all marius/armand fans. i literally don't care what people like in fiction and i think we should all just mind our own business honestly

but it's the people who act like they're the only ones who get that it's just a tragic beautiful romance, that nobody else can read apparently, that 'marius haters' are just looking for things to be mad at that make me go ???????

[vaguely-concerned]

just going about my day idly contemplating how some of the ways hawke can interact with a romanced anders are not at all unlike how they interact with leandra (and a bit of carver too, especially with a purple hawke), and then thought about my hawke in the timeline where he romances anders and was hit straight in the face with 'was he ever actually in love, or was he just desperately trying to renegotiate with his mother's ghost in any way he could' and now i need to lie down. this is the power of dragon age 2

[thanatologie]

anyone that says emmrich never actually faces his fear isn't actually paying attention. hear me out, okay, i've talked before (so many times) about how i think for emmrich his fear of death is less actual thanaphobia and more...his fear of being alone. of living alone, of spending eternity alone - especially in a culture and a society that places emphasis on lovers being buried together; he's terrified of it. and a romanced emmrich is so terrified of his relationship with rook - and how he feels - that he's willing to try to end it on the eve of a battle one or both of them might not come back from, because he's worried it might not be the big damn love story he's been aching for his whole goddamn life.

and guess what! rook doesn't come back.

he spends almost a month making that damn dagger - and like the rest of the crew - trying to find rook to pull them out of the fade prison because he's lost them. he's lost them right after realizing his fear's gotten the better of him and he's staring down the barrel of eternity without them. he was already trying to backpedal the whole thing before solas pulled his switcheroo and you know rook telling him they'll talk about it at home was like...a constant refrain in his head that whole almost month they were lost.

(which raises a good point with the mortal vs lich path in this respect, because a mortal emmrich was ready to tear open the fade to get rook back, imagine how many lines a lich emmrich might cross, especially given his line about never letting them be parted in this or any other world again. i have thoughts about how emmrich doesn't come back wrong from that, no, but he definitely comes back changed, he's...off. i've seen speculation that lich emmrich isn't emmrich - which i don't buy - or isn't entirely emmrich - which is a little more interesting and there may be some truth to the latter, or it could be he thinks he's indestructible at that point and gets really reckless and less measured but that is another argument for another time.)

and basically the point i'm leading up to here is...you can complain all you want that he never uses the l word before the final battle, but even with harding pointing out he's gotten a little spacey and distracted and mopey with a relationship on the burner, and all the other pet names he uses so damn liberally (dearest, darling, flame of my heart), he's still holding a lot of stuff back. he's still holding himself back, quite a bit, until that moment when he finally (finally) tells rook he loves them. he never calls rook my love until after the fade prison in the mortal path, and it's just the once, as far as i can actually remember. and it's because of all of that shit above.

(lich emmrich does it earlier, because that this may be my last chance to say it comes a hell of a lot sooner, and he uses my love liberally after that point.)

this is intentional on his part. this man has skirted around using the word love so much ("very fond of you" my ass) that rook totally has the option to call him out on it and it's like a record scratch.

he's, i think, terrified of loving something that can die? and he's terrified of being alone. and ultimately a romanced mortal emmrich has to face both of those things, one after the other, between manfred and the fade prison. and i think, going forward, it's not going to be completely gone - in fact for a hot minute after everything it's probably exacerbated to a large degree and he's probably extra...like that for a while - but it makes him confront those things head on in...very blunt ways. here's a reminder of what losing someone you love deeply to death feels like. here's what losing someone you've given your heart to for safekeeping feels like. it's kind of disingenuous to claim his fears are left untouched, when he's given a one-two knock out punch and is left having to deal with the fallout of that.

eta: and none of this actually touches on the fact that it's him that tells rook to grab the dagger before they go poof, so he's siting with that constant weight on his chest, too, but we'll dig into that at a later time because it's cold and my fingers are starting to get stiff.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Vent in the tags....

[constantvariations]

K so, Semblances are connected to Aura which is a manifestation of the soul yeah?

In Before the Dawn, the father of the villains confirms that one of twin's semblance was active in the womb throughout a good portion of the pregnancy

Meaning, in Remnant, fetuses have souls. Wonder how legal abortions are

Edit: just remembered Pyrrha had to unlock Jaune's Aura in V1, so does that mean someone cracked open a fetus's Aura inside the womb? Was Gillian strong enough as a cluster of cells to unlock it herself?? Wtf is this origin story???

[trashogram]

am i the only one who wants to see alastor get smited next season like…. he needs to be dealt with

*Holds your hand while I tell you this*

Baby, he’s gonna be the center of everything next season. Vivienne Medrano confirmed it.

I’m so sorry.

[maybeicanbesaved]

got into yet another fight with my mom, again about voting/the election, she said that she’s only voted once in her life and never cares to again because she ‘doesn’t care about politics’, saying that shit almost proudly?? and it set me off for obvious reasons, then she got mad at me for saying it’s because she’s privileged and ‘most’ shit doesn’t affect her directly so she can afford ‘not to care’

[earl-grey-crow]

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[sukibenders]

A yte character: *is cunning and has ambition*

Some in the fandom: Oh, I like them, they're so fabulous. I wonder what they're plans are? They obviously have a reason for doing this, no matter the actions.

A poc character: *is cunning and has ambition*

Some in the fandom: Oh so they're the villain? I mean, it's obvious by the way they act. They only care about themselves. Other characters have been hurt and you don't see them acting this way---

[the-journey-was-the-point]

Gonna start off with an art explanation!

I tend to associate Linnéa with a dark reddish brown-- I think it just suits her in that brown is a neutral down-to-earth color, but the reddish hue hints at a stronger nature. I think it really matches how lowkey she is as a person to the point that it's too easy to underestimate how cunning she can really be.

But my latest art has her in straight-up red. This is her as a prominent underworld figure, her at her peak. She's gone all-out, no more holding back.

Backstory below the cut!

The Gist

Still gonna have to flesh out details but the gist is that Calarphain dies and Linnéa finds out that she can't in fact sail to Valinor (it was always a longshot) and she's stuck in Middle Earth and then the group splits.

Separated from her friends, she ends up getting recruited (captured??) by some servants of Sauron (Angmarim?), likely to fill in Laerlas's spot (she helped take him down). There she gets a dark mentor, does some terrible things while working for them, and really earns her stripes.

And then she escapes, I think. In my mind is a scene where she runs through the wraith-infested Fields of Fornost and manages to enter Evendim where the threats are more.... alive (namely, thieves). And while there, she decides that all this time she's been a helpless pawn at the mercy of others, whose life is dependent on their word, and getting looked down on and demeaned. But no more. If she's gonna be stuck here, she's gonna be stuck safe and on top where no one can reach her, even if she has to carve out a place for herself with a butter knife. So she establishes her dominion...

So, why Evendim?

I think it's really cool how in LOTRO, Evendim is portrayed as a formerly great fallen kingdom that is now inhabited by graverobbers trying to make a buck, Angmarim serving Sauron, and Rangers trying to preserve their history and keep everything together.

Arnor fell long ago, and now much of Eriador is a deserted wilderness with orcs and bandits roaming the land. No one is actually in charge and the Rangers are stretched thin and I like to think there's ordinary folk who think Bree is getting a little too crowded so let's branch out... oops this place is infested with orcs and wights!

In other words, for Linnéa, it's free real estate!

So she gets involved in the criminal underworld then climbs up the ranks and goes on the aggressive and deals with anyone who tries to undermine her (I imagine it gets bloody). She also garners the genuine support of some ordinary folk by giving them protection from orcs and the like when they branch out to other lands. (I imagine her base/starting point is in Evendim, but her influence stretches out).

Once she's on top, the situation stabilizes and she becomes a Big Neutral figure with her own territories and henchmen. She has dealings of both a shady (spies, assassins, hired swords) and legitimate (shops, agriculture, town patron) nature, and everything in-between. She owns at least one tavern that's considered a "neutral zone" where brigand groups, Angmarim, and Rangers can parlay if so desired (no fighting allowed or else).

Both the Rangers and Angmarim are a little miffed that she took over but can't really move to take her down, mostly because she's way too useful (for both sides), and cus she's powerful enough that taking her down will leave a power vacuum. It goes for the other big underworld players too, there's a very delicate balance that needs to be maintained.

She's not ideal for the Rangers but she's also the most reasonable option. Better than an outright servant of Sauron or a power-hungry warlord. She's not actively trying to hurt people, and she sometimes even helps them out.

The War of the Ring

During the War of the Ring, her conscience is once again put to the test. She gets pressured to either side with the Dúnedain, or side with Sauron, or stay neutral as a third option. She takes a gamble and sides with the Dúnedain, feeling it's the right thing to do. She convinces some other underworld players to do the same, on account of "if Sauron wins, we all lose", which shifts the balance.

Problem is, the good guys won, and now that Aragorn is on the throne, her empire is on thin ice since now that Gondor and Arnor are reunited, he'll certainly wanna clean up. Some of her people suggest they... take care of Aragorn , but then Linnéa wonders if that's a good idea or if she still wants to do this. It's a new Age, after all.

And I guess it's all about how she tried so hard to make a place for herself where she'd be protected and respected only to willingly risk it because it was the right thing to do!

That's all I have for now but yeah that's the gist, sorry for the long post ^^"