#And not like a waste of resources

[rw-ascension-au]

More survivor stuff

[galedekarios]

a bioware game tradition datv def carries on for me personally is that i just don't vibe with any of the comp/comp or comp/npc ship they cooked up.

[saturnniidae]

I love the idea of Berk being the closest inhabited island to Helheim's Gate/Dragon Island. Like while other islands in the archipelago certainly had their issues with dragon attacks, Berk got the absolute worst of it. Idk I was just thinking about when Hiccup says to Ryker in rtte: "if you leave now, you and your men won't have to learn what burning flesh smells like." And while I'm sure he does know, you couldn't really work in dragon hunting without witnessing casualties, he didn't grow up surrounded by the kind of constant violence the kids on Berk did.

The way it's implied they get such frequent raids I'm sure they've seen so many people they know die and had to wake up everyday knowing that it could be their last if there was even one slip up in their routines during the raids

Like the raids were so consistent and eventually predictable they must have some kind of routine for handling them but of course, human error, especially when it comes to literal kids being involved.

[fromtheseventhhell]

I can tell I'm Arya-pilled to the max because I'll see other Arya stans talking about the questionable morality of her executing Daeron and I'm just like "That was so Lady of Winterfell-coded"

[spicyraeman]

Thank god finally someone else who also doesn't like Halsin. "Forest daddy" just didn't do anything for me. How come you dislike him, if I may ask/if you're comfortable answering

He's incredibly boring to me, they tried to do too much with too little and big and buff really doesn't do it for me. He's the perfect representation of larians fandom pandering and their inability to allocate resources where they're really needed

Also the fact that he often gets added to group fanart while minthara and fucking Wyll get chucked into the void really gets my blood boiling

[amygdalae]

I know I have plenty of time to grow as a person but i still sometimes want to scream at the top of my lungs over how bad covid fucked me up mentally at a very inopportune time in my life

[fuckinart]

(they'll never understand) How could I ever understand? No, I don't have to understand. I don't wanna understand. So I will never understand. (we could have everything)

[yoihino]

Kim Dokja is so real. I, too, would give my life over and over again to save my loved ones if I was depressed and thought that the only reason I was still alive is because my death would cause my loved ones suffering

[cleromancy]

while i do believe jason is fussy about, even at times crossing into precious about, wasting food, i absolutely dont believe jason actually refrains from just like. throwing money around. the guy went from having nothing but a lighter, a tire iron, and a saucy little vest to being bruce waynes son. at no point in jasons formative years was money a resource he had access to for longer than the time it took to sell hawked car parts and immediately buy whatever he needed. after he came back from the dead and had talia as a patron that was all expenses funded but even without that one of the first things we see jason even do in utrh is steal metric fuckton of kryptonite and while hes lying to sionis that he did that for the money. That is truly worth so much fucking money. not to mention the "what, like its hard?"ism of becoming a major drug lord in gotham city at 18 just as an inconsequential stepping stone towards his actual goal. Money is absolutely not real to him, personally. if he runs out he will simply go get more.

[lizasweetling]

that's a throwback! and somewhat explains why they would only care about Gil!

if the black squad has been trapped in the space between time for this whole time, they've only met Zeetha, and that extremely briefly.

They would know who Bang is but also probably not want to mess with her (also know she probably couldn't help them with the whole stuck-out-of-time thing)

[wellthatsclever]

When you find out the seed oils stay lodged in your fat so even when you DO lose weight, you will feel shitty while burning it off because it's basically dirty fuel

[beansnpeets]

It's so deeply frustrating to watch rescues on social media dumping so much money into horribly chronically ill animals that end up dying anyway after prolonged suffering when all that money could have been better spent saving several other animals instead. Rescues' resources are so slim as it is. I get that people want to preserve life as much as possible and if there is a terribly sickly kitten they want to hero complex it better, but so many just die anyway after hundreds or thousands of dollars have already been dumped into their care. How many other not doomed cats could have been saved instead? Or rescues that use up kennel space on an aggressive dog they refuse to euth, but can't adopt out because of its issues and a shelter environment isn't exactly luxury and is often too stressful for these dogs.

[fromtheseventhhell]

"Sansa = Ned 2.0 and Arya = Catelyn 2.0" is one of those takes where you can just tell people are more attached to the aesthetic than anything. "The Stark girls are most like the parent they look least like" sounds good on paper and people run with the idea, regardless of how it actually fits into the story. A majority of the justification relies on misinterpreting all of their characters + a healthy dose of fanon. What gets me is that this is the same fandom that insists that Lyanna, only compared to Arya in the text, is equal parts Arya and Sansa but Ned and Catelyn, two fully fleshed-out and complex characters, have to be more like one girl or the other? There's just nothing in the story to justify being so adamant about these comparisons. Arya and Sansa have parallels with both of their parents but at the end of the day, they are unique characters with their own stories. I'll never understand why people want to flatten these complex characters down to their most basic tropes and fit them into restrictive boxes just for a "poetical~" comparison.

[brick-van-dyke]

If there's one thing I've respectively noticed from Zionists and defenders of Israeli war crimes, it's that every source, argument and potential avenue to explore each explanation is riddled with cherry picking, moving the goalposts and mental gymnastics to explain why their conclusions, which typically are barely even related to the sources they use, somehow overshadow literal reality and what we see with our own eyes.

While scrolling, one example I came across was the repetitive misrepresentation of BLM, antifa and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr, as well as statistics, scholarly journal articles and government website information. These are all good sources, yet every single time they're mangled completely until the only possible "interpretation" of any of them is "well Israel is right to defend itself after shorting rockets beforehand because the retaliation was brutal and all Arabs are bad by default therefore". As if any of these sources are even about individual exceptions of Israel versus hatred towards Arabs.

I think what I find most absurd, as someone in the middle of their own studies, is how every bit of critical thinking and logic goes out the window as they do every single thing possible to do what professors worldwide say NOT to do when evaluating sources. It's like watching a race to see who can tangle and misconstrue scientific information to fit their world view the fastest. Then said people say "um actually I studied at university before so it's actually not wrong that I'm doing this exact this everyone is warned not to do because I have a permit". Ignorance I can forgive, but willful and arrogant manipulation? That's another thing entirely.

[spotsupstuff]

If five pebbles was ever built for zephyr the same way he was built for moon, would he ever see her as a mentor?

i imagine that he'd!!! be more open with her than he is with Moon, because their personalities match better. Zephyr isn't really the doting, overprotective kind. She didn't have the chance to learn how to be affectionate and warm even though she wishes she could be and she needs to watch her own systems like a hawk 24/7 so she ain't got the attention to spare to nag at him even if she wanted to. they'd end up bonding over their anger at the injustice of the Iterators' fate, though

Pebs would probably take someone else as Mentor™ (she wouldn't be capable of fullfilling the expectations of that role), but he'd probably still look up to her a lot. she'd be like. a not-the-title mentor in the specific field of being angry at their situation and doing Something about it

[e-louise-bates]

I will admit that it never occurred to me that I would need to check the history book that claimed to be scholarly to see if it used references and footnotes, because how could a book be a scholarly work on history without such things, BUT NOW I KNOW BETTER.