#Dissonance in My Head

[aingeal98]

Young Cass adjusting to life with a warm bed and food whenever she wants it after years of uncertainty on the street. Bruce catches her hiding peanut butter and crackers behind a cupboard in the cave and he has to take ten minutes to stare into space because he once caught Jason trying to hide food in that exact same space.

[benevolenterrancy]

May your hardened heart be woken By the soft and distant song Of all you left here unspoken All the shards we keep stepping on - Take this body home Take this body home Call the wind, and let her know Take this life outgrown Take this broken soul Call the stars, call them all And take it high, take it far, take it home

[stlamb]

they did a study and the average shein consumer is 35 years old, makes 65k a year on average, and spends $100 on average a month ($1,200 a year - 60% more than the average US woman)

also - ???

[severalrodentsdrinkingtea]

The worst people you can imagine to enter and desecrate an ancient sacred forest :)

[magpie-come-east]

like I really really don’t want to give the impression that I think D is evil or a bad character. I’m just generally frustrated with how uncritical people are of his actions when he represents a microcosm of the Golden Order’s faults.

Fia’s ending and Dung Eater’s endings parallel each other in an interesting way! I genuinely see them as attempts to ‘correct’ the iniquity of the Golden Order but in wildly imperfect ways (the FF is the same tbh). The Golden Order denies the personhood of Omen and TWLID- brand them as aberrations of Order. That Dung Eater murders and defiles people to inflict the Omen curse upon their souls does not mean the persecution of Omen is justified. So why is Fia crazy and/or wrong for championing TWLID? Why are they an acceptable target for ‘total eradication’ (a la D’s words) even if turning everyone into TWLID is not an acceptable way to stop their persecution?

I think I’m just tired and confused by the insistence that TWLID are ‘just’ monsters when Elden Ring insists we see the humanity in the creatures we fight. Demihumans, Omen, Misbegotten all attack and kill people. TWLID are not unique in that regard but they are discounted as mindless monsters better off dead. The fact that D straight up calls for their extermination outright doesn’t raise any red flags? Fia as a character doesn’t make anyone curious? The Ancestor Spirit lore about life and death once comingling doesn’t strike anybody as interesting? Goldmask himself decrying the hunters of the dead isn’t worthy of note??

[leejeann]

(I have been sitting here with a virtual piano website open for like, 30 minutes trying to plunk out the notes to make sure I'm even hearing this correctly and I'm still only like 70% sure BUT-)

Man, I love the fact that iirc throughout Epic Penelope's little leitmotif always ends on a note that's fully just like, not in the chord. Or at the very least it's a weird note for the chord under it. Her leitmotif caught my ear immediately on my first listen of Epic for that exact reason. It never quite fit the chord. It always felt a little out of place and was definitely a deliberate musical choice to sound that way that I couldn't quite pinpoint but you know, trust the process.

Then we get to WYFILWMA, and Penelope gets MAD that Odysseus would ever doubt her love for him. Because of COURSE he's still her husband. And she's been waiting, waiting, waiting. And Odysseus sings her leitmotif and the landing doesn't fit the chord whatsoever. It's still entirely out of place, not quite reaching home. Then he sings it again, transposed up a little bit, and oh shit it's would you look at that?

(I've always had trouble matching notes across octaves by ear, but I THINK in the last note for that instance of her leitmotif ends on the same note as the bass note in the chord (E) and I ~THINK~ Penelope's note is a 5th above his (B), which if I'm hearing that right very nice, give the newly reunited couple a Perfect 5th harmony, 10/10 and if I'm hearing that wrong then please, uh, disregard all that lmao)

[serialsunset]

Does anybody else hc Juste’s dad as just the fucking worst for no reason

I mean we literally know nothing about him whatsoever but like, idk being the son of THE Belmont the one that everyone gives a shit about, and then having a son who is extremely powerful and can do magic (first in the family to do so) plus regular old generational trauma that comes baked in with being a Belmont, I think there’s a fair chance that created some negative feelings that could be projected onto your child.

Or maybe he was fine, idk there is literally zero information on him

[aq2003]

honestly why Did i doubt myself when i said this, i've eaten the text NOW and this is quite literally the point .of the play,

[petrichorium]

The disrespect I keep seeing for authors in general rn is just so insane to me, but specifically in that it’s from other authors. There’s genuinely so many ppl on this site who write fic and don’t think an author can pick out plagiarism and I can’t quite wrap my head around it. How do you, yourself, write and not understand that your fingerprints are embedded into every word so deeply you can see them clearly when someone steals them?

You’ve poured your heart and soul into something, breathed life into the clay shell that you molded so carefully and meticulously with your bare hands. Now you stare at the soulless hollow of a poor imitation, these bulging attempts at replicating the slope of the neck and the meat of the calf with unskilled hands—a mockery of your art, so twisted you can hardly recognize it, yet you can see the bones they lifted. Someone has put on your face and your own smile is grinning back at you, and you feel insane and you think nobody will listen, and if you do gather the courage to say it… a whole crowd of people rises up to say you’re wrong, you’re blind, you’re a bully, you don’t own smiles.

Yeah, you don’t. But you do own that one. You made it. It’s yours. What right do they have to wear it? What pride could they muster from such a thing?

[pendulouspuppyudders]

there is something to be said abt being born in america and knowing your existence and life is propped up by horrors committed by men you've never met hurting people around the world but then that life being that of poverty and marginalization so you don't even get the chance to do anything about it but flee the country and that's if you're lucky

[aeris-blue]

OC week day 1 belongs to @flargablargaart’s Byrd! He’s just a silly little guy I’m sure!

For OC week I wanted to surprise folks with art of their kiddos but if you would like me to take down your character feel free to let me know

[snarfrans]

kuromyu got some bangers ngl

[teh-nos]

loki/william rufus fic, where bill explains that as the second son he has inherited england while big brother bob only got the duchy of normandy, ha ha ha.

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

i must know about Give That Man Alters

Okay so the premise of that one is ‘what if I gave the doctor regenerative dissonance’. It’s inspired by the fact that I don’t like the eleven and how regenerative dissonance is portrayed, it’s an eight and Liv fic because I love those two so why not

[rivilu]

In ferelden they used to execute people for desertion..

[rimatsu]

that rachel interview was a slap in the face lmao i forgot who we were dealing with. tim writes nonsensical shit with no rhyme or reason and we should all temper down expectations lest we end up with another confessions situation

oh i know that section of the interview may come across as discouraging when the show seems like it intentionally set the groundwork for a reconciliation yet the actor keeps insisting he has no idea where any of it is going, but we've been saying we should let the episodes speak for themselves all season and i stand by that sentiment. deliberate writing choices were made and they should theoretically pay off. watch and see for yourself and keep in mind that interview was conducted before tim officially revealed tommy would be back for the two-parter, whatever that's worth. it would be wise to embrace some measure of caution again, though. i'll admit that i'm suddenly feeling less emotionally invested in 8b for some obscure, totally unrelated reason 🤷‍♀️