#I am not that smart sometimes

[louwhose]

what's your favorite fictional setting (in terms of a world itself, or a city, or something like that)?

hmmm. hmmm. HMMM. great question because I absolutely LOVE fantasy and there's a lot to choose from...

well first of all gonna just say I am assuming you mean a specific place and I am going to exclude my own made up worlds that are for very much unpublished stories. and so then I am going to think about it for a couple of minutes and...

Komashi. final answer, and since you're probably not familiar with where that is yet, that's the name of Yumi's world. (I know you're reading the book and not sure how far you are and this should be stuff that's covered in like. chapter 2 but if you haven't read it slight spoilers) Like I know it's super hot and stuff but dang it I thrive in the heat and it just seems like a neat place to live

[faelenasleep]

Link would be the type of chess player that has a hard time concentrating on the strategy of the whole board and can only concentrate on a piece at a time. He loses most games, but his strategy is nonexistent, making him extremely unpredictable. Revali is a master strategist, (which we can see in his dialogue in Age of Calamity), so Link's blockheaded, rock-eating playing style is infuriating.

[elumish]

One day I will write a post on how management and leadership are different things, and also how the characters you're writing are often both bad managers and bad leaders (aka why do you think this micromanager who yells at his employees and has no respect for their time is a good manaager or a good leader just because he remembers his employees' birthdays).

[utilitycaster]

The thing about Ludinus is that yes, he does have a very high INT score but he is in fact stupid. He is a particular brand of stupid that I like to call Wizard Stupid, which is related to but not identical to Wizard Hubris. Wizard Hubris is the vision; Wizard Stupid is the realization.

Wizard Hubris is excessive confidence that is derived from the fact that one is a wizard, and therefore obviously knows everything, probably even more than the gods. Wizard Stupid is then carrying out the plans derived from Wizard Hubris without any kind of safety net. Where Wizard Hubris says "There is nothing beyond my capabilities"; Wizard Stupid says "No consequences can touch me." Wizard Hubris is building the Tower of Babel; Wizard Stupid is leaning one ladder on top of another ladder to do so. Wizard Hubris is the belief that you can, and indeed, are entitled, to fuck around. Wizard Stupid is the unshakeable belief that you will not be subjected to finding out.

So: let's look at Caleb. Caleb is FULL of Wizard Hubris for most of Campaign 2, given that he desires to reconfigure the time-space continuum, but except for a few relatively rare occasions, he is not terribly Wizard Stupid. He actually tends to be extremely cautious, and the cases in which he indulges the Wizard Stupidity are relatively self-contained (eg: the emerald).

Yussa, meanwhile, has few grand designs and mostly wants to hang out and fuck with the gentrification and political cronyism of Nicodranas, and honestly, good for him, seems totally reasonable. However, he does think that the Archmage's Bane is not referring to him (archmage) and that Astral Projection, a totally standard high level wizard's spell well within his abilities without any need for hubris, will carry no risk if he then decides to check out a little place called Cognouza.

Of course, many wizards have both. It's actually pretty rare to be mostly one or the other (which is why Caleb and Yussa are used for illustrative purposes). It's also pretty rare to have neither; Allura is the closest, and even she has her moments. Some degree of Wizard Hubris and Stupid do come packaged with the act of being a wizard.

Ludinus, obviously has both; he is, basically, building the Tower of Babel and he is, canonically, violating a list of safety protocols that rivals the length of a CVS receipt. And so: the hubris is "I can, should, must, and will blow up the moon that imprisons a god-eating abomination"; the stupid is sticking his fucking arm in the machine to power it.

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[the-voldsoy]

oh my GOD I must be the last person to realise this but in HNOC -- "The Tower" specifically -- they take the role of sheriff from someone called Lavinia Stone. She says (paraphrased) "If you can pull this star from my stone cold hands, you are the rightful sheriff of this town".

And what makes Arthur Pendragon in the myths the rightful King? Pulling a sword from a stone.

And! His ancient 10-caliber railgun (Excalibur) was taken from a bandit in the flooded sector -- the Lady of the Lake.

[nadiajustbe]

A small headcanon that despite his forced courtship of Lettie, Howl had no idea how people around him characterized the Hatter sisters, and so when someone said something about "the pretty sister" he was CERTAIN they were talking about Sophie

[theflopwonder]

Me, naively: Omg haha what if I wrote a fic abt the party at the fortress of solitude in superman/batman 26 as an excuse to do some Tim & Kon character study?

Me, after reading 4 separate comic runs from 4 different editorial teams who were OBVIOUSLY not talking to each other AT ALL to try and figure out the timeline & other logistics of this party: WHO THE FUCK FUCKED UP THIS HOUSE LIKE THIS GOOD GOD??????????

[peskyvinot]

the s2 episode 8 of Hannibal Lector I'm watching right now is beyond me. the ending-literal chills. first time Hannibal alluded to admiting to the things he did to Will, while holding his head (the same way he held him when Will came to him in a state of feverish nothing-and-too-much-of-everything burger with Gideon huh?) while also. OK. it's not me imagining it right Hannibal is looking at him with hearts in his eyes and a hypothetical boner purely because Will is so broken he was ready to shoot a man ne never even directly talked to (the man was covered in horse blood) (yes. if you haven't watched Hannibal. it's hypothetically normal but also thus feels fucking different)

I think im starting to understand the homierotism of it all finally. shame I haven't watched these series earlier

[chalkrub]

ended up cleaning up one of the mendel sketches!

[dusty-fat-boy]

>:)

Guess what I just learned>:))))))))

TRANSPERENT BUNY!!!!

When I learn to edit, it's over for you bitches

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[rauchendesgnu]

...I don't think you understand what I mean when I say I need Jon to have more eyes. I mean. I mean more. More. It's never enough eyes. If that man still has a face, it needs to go. More eyes! Is there a bit of skin on his palm that is smooth? Not anymore, there's an eye now. You say no more space on his eye-filled body? Make 'em floating spectral eyes, I don't care.

[splickedylit]

I know most of my new followers are for Homestuck but I just reread the entirety of Eyeshield 21 and: football manga good. So you'll have to forgive a brief interlude of "Splickedy's favorite minor character (and guests)" haha. Anyway do you think any of the gangsters Agon canonically cuckolded ever mistook Unsui for his twin brother and beat the shit out of him?? Ignore me.

...also tho relatedly I made a post about college Hiruma/Unsui in January and now I'm 26,000 words in, because,,, idk I've lost control of my life? Because "I realized in college that I'm queer and I have a million tons of repressed emotions behind a very cracked dam" is a big mood and maps onto Unsui too easily for me to resist? Because I'm still incredibly amused by the thought of how pissed off Agon would be if his brother started dating Hiruma? All of those things, lmao.

[emcapi-gaming]

IT'S A GIRL!

After many, many, many, many FATEs... Ardwin finally has her amaro hatchling!!!!!!!

The Ards named her Skoenbyrt, which translates to "shining axe." "Scone" for short. She's also Seto's descendant :)

[mattastr0phic]

Somehow did not piece together for several years that demisexual fell under the ace spectrum oops