#Antagonist song

[ice-phoenix-nerdcore]

Finished writing lyrics to a song… just gotta wait a long time till I have money for new audio equipment and more importantly, a vehicle for existing.

Lyrics are currently as follows until I get my feature in what I imagine is the distant future, and it’s recorded:

Intro/hook:

I am Hell’s Emissary

Crown Prince imaginary

Holy Maiden of the land

The six wings confer command!

Verse:

Sly as a fox, got them under my hex
You're just an ox, lost and perplexed
Flipping the script, I’m taking control
Using you all, to play out a role

Ride or die, I’m taking the high road

Comply this time, or I’m leaving you deposed

Genocide? Those are just my foes

God on my side, on orders of the pope

There’s no end to my reach

Until you’re deceased

But then I’m the god of the dead

So you won’t find no peace

Till you kneel at my feet

You should envy the life that I’ve lead

If you’d admit your loss

I’d forgive the cost

No requiem ever to hear

Should you carry your cross

The Angel does doth

You have chosen your death to be near

Chorus:

There is no escape

Cocooned within this fate

Soon I will placate

Those who oppose my state

There is no escape

Cocooned within this fate

Soon I will placate

Those who oppose my reign

Verse:

When rain does fall

As tears from cheeks

Blood puddles form

Cold corpses leak

And though enthralled

By beauty sleek

Their blood’s the warm

Tribute I seek

This haunting dance,

Where you careen

Is your futile chance

That’s left unseen

Like a ghost

You’ll trace your steps

You’ve outlived most

So face what’s left

Bridge:

As fire surrounds

Embers scorching the ground

Clearly that’s a vision - it’s a lesson in fear

I would call it profound

As it seems to confound

Even though you’ve lost something so dear

As fire surrounds

Embers scorching the ground

Clearly that’s a vision - it’s a lesson in fear

I would call it profound

As it seems to confound

Even though you’ve lost something so dear

hook:

I am Hell’s Emissary

Crown Prince imaginary

Holy Maiden of the land

The six wings confer command!

Verse:

(Feature’s lyrics)

Chorus:

There is no escape

Cocooned within this fate

Soon I will placate

Those who oppose my state

There is no escape

Cocooned within this fate

Soon I will placate

Those who oppose my reign

Outro:

As fire surrounds

Embers scorching the ground

Clearly that’s a vision - it’s a lesson in fear

I would call it profound

As it seems to confound

Even though you’ve lost something so dear

As fire surrounds

Embers scorching the ground

Clearly that’s a vision - it’s a lesson in fear

I would call it profound

As it seems to confound

Even though you’ve lost something so dear

[finisnihil]

I think what’s incredibly funny about the split on Dottore in the Genshin fandom is that both fans and haters agree on one thing, do not redeem him.

Dottore as a character is interesting because he can't be redeemed. I dont really have qualms with him being a quality of sympathetic because ultimately he is human and a villain can be unredeemable despite that. Dottore is a character who was ostracized despite trying so hard to fit in, and for pretty good reason when you look at his lore. He's lonely and feels abandoned by humanity and envies Wanderer because he was an inhuman entity who didn't have to hide who he was to be accepted, meanwhile Dottore was a human entity who did have to hide his more monsterous tendancies to be accepted. It's interesting because instead of devaluing his irredeemablility it actually supports it. He can't be redeemed because he recognizes what parts of him are percieved as wrong but not why they're wrong and while he's long since given up on being accepted by the village and committed to burning it to feel its warmth, he still envies Wanderer for having what he so desperately wants.

The way Dottore can be redeemed is if it's not Prime. His Segments are recreations of eras of his life he likes to keep around for efficiency and because they provide different perspectives on projects and issues. Dottore was not always the way he was and if he is ever to be "redeemed" it would be less Prime being redeemed and more so a younger Segment that can still be nutured to be a better person, to recognize the importance of ethics in science and why Prime's actions are wrong. It would be a fascinating look into nurture v. nature, are monsters created or born?

Dottore's character is too valuable to the narrative to be redeemed or ignored, he is either loved or hated with little lukewarm attention. He is incredibly well written and there's so much potential for his character.

[horrorknife]

babe, this wouldn't be the first time it will not be the last time there's no parasol that could shelter this weather

[ashipiko]

DANCE WITH ME YOU LI-IA-IAR ♡

OVERBLOT ASHI??? ANYBODY??? the ANGST that this baby can store!!! SHEESH!!!!!!! <3 I only have one post dedicated to her and liar dance lyric analysis (the post is kinda outdated in gen) BUT…… I also have an overblot monologue as a treat 🫶 I wanted to better explain her angst and so!!! BABAM!!! enjoy

ASHI’S MONOLOGUE:

Sometimes I wonder why I ended up here.

A place named “Twisted Wonderland”, and at a school named “Night Raven College”.

At first, I figured that I was the odd one out— Y’know, the Ramshackle prefect and everything. The magicless girl at the magical all boys school? Nuts, ain’t it?

I’m known for a lot of things. Things that are different from the others. The fact that I stand out is part of the Ashi charm, something I’m known for.

But… Over time I found myself sorta feeling in place here.

Because as much as I try to believe it, I can’t safely say that I’m better than anyone else here.

I’m a fake. I make conversation and lots of friends, but for what? A backup in case something goes wrong? A sense of protection for my reputation? In what case are any of those friendships something I truly want? In what case are any of these strings more than just a tool instead of a thread made of my real feelings?

Behind this, I’m no different from any other student here. Even through my individuality, my cheerfulness, my endearing oddness… I’m still a horrible person. Using people to get what I want, toying with people and their feelings in order to gain power and gain a spot the top. All to become untouchable. It’s screwed. It’s not right.

My insides are ugly. The truth of me is something I want to keep tucked away deeply, because I don’t want people to see this part of me. A brash, annoying, selfish version of me, everything people hate to see. I don’t want this side of me to be seen because people will run away— people I don’t care much about, sures, but people I love, too. I don’t want to drive them away. So I keep quiet and give them a shallow show.

I give them a source of entertainment that’s controlled by the real me, every calculated movement translating into a marionette-like response. The only show I allow you to see is one that’s so carefully crafted by the chaotic clown backstage. The one that is shunned away from the light, the strings being the only hint of the puppet’s phony existence to the foolish audience.

But suddenly, I feel as if being here has started to let this side of me come crawling back into the spotlight.

It scares me.

It scares me to be vulnerable, let all of my faults lay out on the table like playing cards. To take the risk without the protection, to gamble everything I’ve built up away just like that. But you…

You.

You make me feel safe. You make me feel as if I don’t need to hide anything. I can give you the key to my heart and you would have no malicious intent. You wouldn’t cut out the parts people don’t like. You would enjoy the performance in full, every bit of it.

You make me believe that I’m nothing special, and yet something so valuable at the same time.

It’s silly. You’re silly. And yet that’s something that’s helped me.

It’s helped me realize that that truly is just how people are.

We aren’t villains. We aren’t antagonists. We aren’t monsters.

We are nothing but people, with faults and feelings that should be valued.

I am more than just a jester, a sake of entertainment.

I’m a person who is entirely worthy of love. All of me.

It reminds me that I must’ve came here for a reason.

Because this is where I belong.

[ryuichifoxe]

Slowly co-working and plotting a trans mlm retelling of Swan Lake set during the mid-1920's tentatively titled Swan Song. This is just a handful of the cast so far.

[coolcrazycoffeecat]

Also Hermes, WE went through so much to get this? Surely he is not talking about Ody making a house call to get the bag in the first place. I now want a spin of with Hermes and the winions going on an epic quest to retrieve the wind bag from the bottom of the sea!

[introvertgoat]

no one:

absolutely no one:

vox: [frantically muttering and scribbling] day 1,185 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,186 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,887 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,188 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,189 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,190 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,191 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,192 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,193 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,194 since alastor’s disappearance day 1,195 since alastor’s disappearance—

[ursie]

It’s so?? how weird the Epic fandom is about Eurylochus like. Way to miss the point 😭

[black-queen-rising]

The people taking this dialogue as a legitimate “character flaw” or literally just at face value at all and not as a continuation of the blatant disrespect the writers have not just towards Rhaenyra as the heir of twenty years, but towards anything that could even vaguely be construed as “women’s work”, is the most perfect encapsulation of just how entrenched misogyny is into the very heart of our pop culture and how the popularization of fantasy has managed to worsen our societal view of soft power by painting it as not only weak, but frivolously feminine, unimportant, and a waste of time.

Since the beginning of the show the writers have almost exclusively portrayed Rhaenyra as disinterested if not opposed to her role as heir, as a politician, and a woman in power broadly all against the original canon and all glaringly, not to make her look worse or better or likable or incompetent (they do all those things, almost every episode, with however they need her to affect the plot in that given moment because they’re incapable of having the characters drive it organically) because it’s not truly about her at all. It’s simply because they cannot fathom a story where a woman is politically adept and as a result either 1. evil or 2. boring, and that is fundamentally because once again they are so biased and against portraying anything that could even vaguely be construed as women’s work or at all “feminine-coded” in an even neutral-but-interesting way they do for (stereotypically) masculine-coded activities like sword fighting, horse back riding, dragon riding, hunting, archery, not to mention just the concept of the political conversations that drive these stories, let alone an actually positive way.

They have taken a story that at its core was always an indictment of structural misogyny and how it will literally cause societies to tear themselves apart over nothing. But because they decided at the outset they wouldn’t and couldn’t portray the structural part of said misogyny without scaring away their intended audience, and decided instead to base this all around ultimately meaningless ~team discourse~ (because literally everyone meeting their downfall as a result of the consequences of systemic misogyny is the point) their alternate path has been to over-exaggerate and ultimately turn to spectacle every single woman involved’s individual suffering at the expense of everything else about their characters. It doesn’t matter if that was the intent or not the principle result of this adaptation has been the continual disempowerment and degradation of women and their agency combined with an almost impressively voyeuristic portrayal of their suffering.

The women in this show are not allowed to have interests or hobbies unless it’s to serve to make them seem “bad” in someway, whether that be the discomfort around Helaena’s bugs, the total lack of any positive representation of Alicent’s religiosity, or how the women dragon riders are broadly painted as aggressive, violent, and unnatural. I don’t even have specific examples to list from the other “team” because in order to be portrayed as “likable” to the general audience the women of Team Black are barely allowed to have personalities, let alone distinguishing interests or characterizing hobbies. The agency and autonomy they have been stripped of, collectively, from both historical precedent and actual ASoIaF, is almost entirely in their refusal to allow women’s work to be portrayed positively. There are no balls, no sewing circles, no garden parties, no trappings of power and contests of will in the jewels and gowns Rhaenyra must now loathe to be (their deeply narrow and biased view of) “likable”, there are no female mentorships, and no female friendships, and at every chance they have had to portray these things at both a societal and personal level they have chosen to veer away and instead reinforce their suffering. They have removed women’s avenues and halls of power from this story, while making it very clear there are no others that exist in this world, and they cannot participate in the men’s; if they could this story wouldn’t exist. So we are left with a group of people who are supposedly driving this story, who this story is supposedly about, but they are internally and externally isolated, largely removed from the public eye, angry or distressed to be there on the rare occasions they’re present, disempowered, stripped of personal agency and will, and we’re still told they have power. But if we search for it the only logical conclusion is that any power which does not center on how much suffering they have been through, or how much more they may be dealt, is not only gone, it was never there in the first place.

I don’t enjoy Rhaenyra’s quasi domestic abuse any more than Alicent’s visceral sexual shame and I don’t enjoy the infantilization of Helaena’s character any more than the erasure of Rhaena’s and it is deeply concerning how many people look at these decisions, and nod their heads and say “yes, this is realistic, and not only is it realistic it’s, GOOD, because without horrific psychological and physical abuse and ultimately a complete reduction to every female character as peace loving victims of powerful men’s cruel machinations we could never even SEE how misogyny is so damaging.” And the mindset that drives people to claim that those of us who call out how this is, the definition of benevolent misogyny and say we’re crazy, that we can’t see the complexity, that actually we’re the ones somehow falling back into sexist tropes, or asking for a black and white story when instead the black and white has simply become an insultingly reductive view of evil men versus helpless women and when all else fails, accusing us of wanting a boring story because it’s either not focused on gratuitous individual female suffering, or is focused on the kind of political power every single featured female character on both sides of this conflict wielded in the original book instead of evil man conversations and eviler man dragon-battles, is at its heart why we have come to a place in pop culture where one of its most marquee properties displays and embodies these problems so glaringly in the fucking first place.

[ink-stains-and-constellations]

Rewatched The Hobbit and LOTR and the whole time I was torn between 'heck yeah this is fun' and 'but that didn't happen in the book!'

[raionmimi]

Medb seems like one of those people who wouldn't cut dairy out of her diet even if she actually was lactose intolerant, so I don't think she would say no to the cheesecake that Castoria wanted to make for her in her voiceline

[squidkidcelebi]

We children, we have each other, And each other is all we need.

"Sleep Well" is doing things to my brain /pos

[spectrum-color]

Note: in this case “favorite” means “most interesting/I would like to learn more about” rather than the stan definition where you think they’re personally awesome

[twodoorsnotone]

I've been a lautski STAN ever since the first digital ticket of Abstinence Camp came out and I cannot stress enough how much I am looking forward to NPMD coming out on YouTube so we truly get a whole fandom sweep of lautski appreciation

[pitruli]

I love this Pokemon fangame so much (Didn't expect the cause of pokemon french revolution to be Attack on Titan themed but i'm not complaining)

[b-rainlet]

Ngl, everyday I get a little mad that Spot doesn’t have an introduction song