#A Single Word of Truth

[zukkaoru]

hilarious that people think fyodor is going to tell atsushi something true about himself/his past/his ability/etc. every word that has ever come out of that man’s mouth has been a lie; why do you think he would suddenly give atsushi true backstory information?

[presumeddeaddie]

since we’re adjacent talking about it and i need to rehash this, “because, evan” is still the single most important utterance of buck’s given name to this date. yes, sure, he was trying to grab buck’s attention. eddie knew that it would ensure that buck heard his next words loud and clear since he doesn’t ever call him evan. he needed buck to listen. IN ADDITION, we have to remember the turmoil that buck went through with his parents and maddie earlier in the season. he found out about daniel and he found out that his parents conceived him to save daniel, but it didn’t work. he voiced to the team his belief that he was defective parts, and he felt as if wasn’t wanted or mattered to his parents especially after not having served his “purpose”. he even felt like maddie saw him as a burden and a disappointment. the person who knows what buck is feeling better than anyone else during this? eddie. he has watched his best friend losing himself over his past, feeling unworthy and like a disappointment over something that he couldn’t even control. when buck feels insecure and out of control, he becomes even more impulsive and reckless because he needs to feel anything other than helplessness. anything other than useless. EVEN if that means he gets harmed or is in danger in the process, because hey, he’s at least worth something now, right?

them being blood hounds about each other in every sense, eddie understands this about buck. he’s certainly aware of where it stems from - buck’s childhood where he never felt like he was enough or that he mattered. even as “buck”, arguably more cherished and accepted for who he is, there is still the problem where he doesn’t feel like he matters. it was never resolved. so he can’t just stress his important point to buck; he has to stress it to EVAN too. he has to stress it to evan who, despite maddie’s best efforts, never truly felt supported and loved unconditionally. that was never a job for her, a child herself going through the same shitty parenting, but for their parents who failed them and traumatized him to the point where, 29 years later, he STILL doesn’t feel like he’s enough. evan and buck, for all that they’re different from each other, are the exact same at the core. eddie needed buck to know that he was never expendable. not now. not when the bone grafts transplanted from his infant body didn’t work. he doesn’t need to be anything or anybody but himself to matter, and who he is is somebody that eddie loves so much that he had to declare it to buck and evan through a will reveal, making it clear that eddie trusts all of him with his heart.

[bigmfrat]

how funny would it be if The Emperor made up the whole Stelmane thing just to scare you because you called him a freak and her stroke had nothing to do with him, it was just a regular mundane stroke. This is my truth.

[mewtwo24]

Something about Hua Cheng's expression here is killing me--I know this is supposed to be a delicate moment of reassurance but the pure hater energy radiating off of him is just immaculate

[zareleonis]

“There is no way that I, Focalors, otherwise known as Furina de Fontaine, a member of The Seven, and the Regina of All Waters, Kindreds, Peoples and Laws of Fontaine, could be anything other than your true Archon.”

[lesbianralzarek]

why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?

[jt1674]

[bloodenjoyer]

id probably make a better janitor than cashier though

[magpie-trinkets]

[slavonicrhapsody]

Okay but thats adds another layer to the sweetings because you'd think it's Rennala's attempt to JUST bring Ranni back from the "dead" through reincarnation but with all the evidential sorceries, it almost seemed like she was trying to reincarnate all of her kids??

which is like... I wonder if Rennala was present and well aware of all of her children's fate. Ranni's death of course, but she maybe knew or heard word of Radahn's plight with scarlet rot and Rykard feeding himself to the serpent. Like along with the Academy taking over and Radagon leaving, no wonder it broke her entirely, she lost literally everything but the egg.

ok I had a good long think about this and an enlightening discussion with my sister and I’m gonna say something that might sound weird: It’s possible that Rennala doesn’t actually know what happened to Ranni… and not just Rennala, but almost everyone in the Lands Between. Rogier and Gideon Ofnir refer to Ranni as disappeared, not dead, and according to Rogier she hasn’t been seen at all since before the Shattering… so if people had thought she was killed in the Night of the Black Knives, then why would these people assume she was alive now? Ranni killed her empyrean flesh atop the divine tower of Liurnia, which can only be entered using the inverted statue in the Carian Study hall, which Ranni keeps in her possession… so no one would have actually seen her corpse to confirm her death, except the black knife assassin/s involved. (side note: that’s another compelling reason for why Ranni had Alecto imprisoned in an evergaol!!)

Anyway, regarding how much Rennala knows of her children’s fates, it’s unclear if she was even lucid enough to process what was happening to them. If she wasn’t, I’d guess that she might feel that her children are lost to her just because they’ve been gone for so many years… or she might have some vague sense that something horrible happened to them.

Regarding their specific fates, I’m pretty confident that Rennala does not know what happened to Rykard — it doesn’t seem to be common knowledge outside of Rykard’s household and army that he’s fed himself to a serpent, just perhaps that his army ended up deserting him... but people would at least know that the Leyndell army has him cornered on Mt. Gelmir. Everybody knows what happened with Radahn and Malenia though, so it’s possible Rennala would’ve heard. Lastly, I can see a scenario where Ranni comes to visit her mother before the Night of the Black Knives to say goodbye. Again, all of these scenarios kinda depend on if Rennala was sane enough to process the news.

None of this disproves the idea that Rennala could be trying to rebirth her children though; no matter if she knows what has actually happened to the kids or not, Rennala in her bewitched state could still consider them lost to her.

[linabirb]

finally done with writing all the linagram 2 t1 voice dramas down. closing the tab felt like getting out of an asylum god those people are scary <- literally created them and gave them all a part of himself

[news4dzhozhar]

[obstinatecondolement]

My sister was saying "You should write that idea for a novel about [REDACTED] that you had a while ago for NaNo. I think that could be really fun" and I was like oh yeah! I remember we got a kick out of that one. And then, after a pause, had be like... could you remind me what the plot was again? Because litearlly all I could remember was that it had been funny At The Time and involved [REDACTED].

It was like when my mum reads a book and strongly recommends it to me the day after she finishes it, but can't remember any of the characters names or what happened, but it was definitely very good and I should read it so we can talk about it!

Except this was a story I made up myself and devoted not an insignificant amount of thought to, and then never committed any of what I came up with to the page because it was still early stages and I would "remember" what my initial ideas were 🙄

[natureselements]

May any person never have to experience a lack of compassion and inhumanity for their own children brought on by another person who ‘loved’ them.

When the facade fades and all you’re left with is the mere bones of one’s foundation, only then can you truly see what makes up a persons character.

[mikesbasementbeets]

real vs fake, part 2 (season 2)

[bylertruther]

so crazy to think there was a time in this fandom where saying "idk guys i think the character that gets called multiple gay slurs, bullied specifically for that reason, and whose own mother suggests he's gay, and who other people say his disappearance was also for that reason might, like... idk... actually be gay :/" would get you ridiculed and talked down at and now we're here talking about how will is in love with another male main character, his bestest friend and scene partner that he's now spent two entire seasons with, and had multiple mike-will specific subplots with, and who he's literally in a love triangle with, and whose art for him is real actual merch that you can buy in 39483 different formats. like. 😳 fucking FINALLY