#I made that clear at the beginning

[honeyyglaze]

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[hulloitsdani]

What do u think Kiran is

How do u think the order sees kiran

*slowly sits up in my chair*

I think Kiran is a very normal person. This is someone you and I have met before. Be that from the other side of grocery store cashier, waiting in the same elevator, or walking by on a crosswalk. Kiran is a civilian from our world trying to roll with the punches of being warped somewhere completely alien. And you can see it in how they conduct themselves.

I always have a lot of fun writing Kiran’s dialogue because their casual modern speech almost feels like a dialect in comparison to the more formal fantasy tone everyone else speaks with. An “ain’t” will never exit Alfonse’s mouth, you know? And there’s a difference in “Do you have gold?” vs “You got gold?” To me, this gives Kiran an air of unfamiliarity to anyone they interact with. Let’s use Grima as an example, because it doesn’t sound like this grammatical change would make much of difference until Kiran has the audacity to hit Grima with a bro mid sentence. But that’s just how they talk. And as sweet and friendly as they are, there’s always moments like that to remind that no one has the cultural context to fully understand Kiran. Except for the audience, who can realize that Kiran let the customer service voice drop to talk to Grima like he’s an actual person.

And that’s just about how they talk! This view is only emphasized by every other thing about them! They’re a lovable goof, which is normal chill person behavior in the audience’s eyes but feels REALLY ODD to the characters of FE’s medieval fantasy war setting. There is this air of unknown about them that the more socially perceptive will pick up on and will try to come to a conclusion about. Example, I imagine Soren would interpret a lot of this as a dangerous and deeply annoying lack of intelligence from someone he has the displeasure of sharing a tactics table with. Or looping back to the Grima example, he would totally think Kiran has greedy ulterior motives behind that pleasant facade. It takes a lot of work for those types to realize that the discrepancy present isn’t really any of those things. But I also wouldn’t be too surprised if Kiran doesn’t try to directly prove any of those assumptions wrong unless they have to.

Why? Well now it’s time for the implications! Oh how we love the implications.

Because the Summoner is a different story. No one has any fucking clue what that is.

I can tell you what Kiran has pieced together so far. Summoning people from across time and space is apparently not easy. It’s not some school of magical study that some mage could pull off with enough time and research. Trust, Eitri tried. It’s a lot of complex moving parts. For example, the contracts. The contracts Kiran automatically binds their summoned to don’t even compare to the ones Veronica used in book 1. They are far more intense and infinitely harder to break. The only way out of them is if Kiran wills it so. Not even death is an option, because Kiran can come in for the revive. If they had to guess, it’s an older, more completed version of the art. Something lost to time. But no matter the case, Kiran has the ability to take full control of whoever they manage to summon. From a lowly farmer to the divine. And their power only grows.

In a similar vein, if there was any character to canonically see the hud, I think it would be Kiran. It’s genuinely part of their power set. I have previously described Kiran as the party mage until Veronica shows up to be the actual mage, but it would be way more accurate to call them a mystic/seer. They see the map, everyone’s stats, and is doing a fast amount of math to give the combat forecast. Then, upon processing all this information their enemies couldn’t dream of having at their disposal, Kiran can telepathically communicate any change in plans to anyone under contract. Kiran is not inherently some great tactician the moment they touch ground in Askr; they simply can do things no one else can. They’re learning the actual tactics part on the fly. This makes them simultaneously the largest ace up the Order’s sleeve and potentially its biggest liability. If they fall, it could cause a whole system cascade. By that same token, some of the biggest threats the Order has faced are the ones who do their research and rightfully target Kiran.

Now. Thinking critically about all that. That’s downright terrifying. A ridiculous amount of power has been dropped callously into Kiran’s lap and they have to work extremely hard to be moral with it. It’s terrifyingly easy not to be. It would actively take less effort to ‘take the reins’ as it were. But in order to be able to sleep at night ever again, they go the extra mile to not invalidate the will of their summoned. To take over like that. To make a colony of worker bees out of people. Because oh dear god they just summoned a child and the fact that they could easily force them to fight and die for them, only to be revived and do it all over again, is HAUNTING. No. No the Order has an in house orphanage now. This kid is getting adopted and cared for god damnit or Kiran might just pop a blood vessel. And sure that child is going to be a child and there will never be a world where they get along with everyone else, but that’s just going to need be a problem they address when they get there and not an excuse to use Hubris; the power set. Now replace the word child with everyone they ever summoned and you have the wider philosophy they apply to the entire Order.

They’re hyper aware of the power imbalance. They hate it with every bone in their body. They work really hard to correct it in whatever way they can.

So Kiran might not jump on the opportunity to correct those who think lesser of them. It’s… oddly comforting to know someone is keeping a critical eye on them. Holding them accountable. Especially since so much of the order just thinks of them as this quirky yet well meaning host. And, really, what can they even do about that? They have gone over the contract with every hero they summon and despite that they still choose to stay. So, what, do they try to inspire more mistrust? The problem with that they would have to actually do acts that intentionally inspire mistrust. And even if that was successful they can’t just waste the extra man power because every other month there’s some new divine asshole who wants them all dead. And if they fail that means they have to start their life from square one and god they can’t do that again so—

Just breathe Kiran.

It’s fine. You’re fine. Just breathe.

You have work to do.

[hazel2468]

Okay no I need to ask. Jews who throw their lot in with blatant bigots and antisemitic racists-

Do you think it will save you?

Do you think that when they scream for "Zio" blood, they do not mean you? Do you think that when they cheer the rape and kidnapping and murder of Israelis, they do not mean you? Do you think when they come into the inboxes and DMs of random Jews to tell them that they "deserve it" and that the world would be better without Jews in it, they do not mean you? Do you think that when they assault and beat and stab and kill Jews in the name of their so-called "activism", they do not mean you?

They DO mean you. You are not exempt. You will not escape this. No matter how much you throw your own tribe under the bus. No matter how much you swear you are not like those other Jews, the Bad Jews, the Zionists, the Yids, the kikes. No matter how much you get up on stage and disavow your Jewishness to them, no matter how much you wail that you're on their side.

No matter how much you betray your own people. No matter how much of your sibling's blood you have on your hands.

When the time comes. When the people you have been working so hard to please file into that meeting room to discuss their triumph, to sing praises of Jewish blood in the streets.

You will find a hand on your shoulder and a voice saying "Now, hold on a minute, Jew."

[fear-no-mort]

thinkign about how alone and unloved morty was for all his life and rick was the first time anyobdy ever put such an amount of intense attention and dependency onto him . and rick had a whole new family and losing them made him stop seeing the value in other people as a whole and morty was the one and first thing that woke him up

[motherforthefamicom]

happy 35th anniversary mother 1!!!!!! love this game 2 death <3

[aromacaque]

you want to analyze a cartoon that is something children can watch? ok here's the first and most important lesson ever.

have you ever heard of "suspension of disbelief?"

ok. next step. do you know what an unreliable narrator is and can you separate the character's perspective and opinions from the writers? because i promise you that the beliefs of the main character do not always reflect the writers and the point of analyzing media is to dissect that.

[shima-draws]

I have a lot of thoughts about this arc (that I haven’t properly been able to share bc I’ve been watching with my roommate and I’m not gonna pause every 10 minutes to write a post and make him wait for me lmao) but first let me fucking start with Garp because BRO……..that trope of being torn between duty and family was played up SO well and the reason that Garp pushed both Ace and Luffy to become marines was so he could avoid this EXACT situation. Because he wanted them to be SAFE and not on the opposite side of such a long lasting war. And him knowing even from that long ago that if he let them become pirates they’d eventually have to face off and he’d be forced to hurt them, his FAMILY, because he’d dedicated his life to the marines. FUCK. I started bawling when he sat on the platform with Ace. Just. The frustration and him knowing he can’t do anything to save his family even though they’re right there within reach. All the memories he had surrounding Ace’s birth and Roger asking him to take care of his son and Garp caring for Ace and for Luffy so so much. AND AFTER ACE DIED……Garp literally asking Sengoku to restrain him bc if he didn’t he was 100% going to kill Akainu for killing Ace. I’m FINE. This is FINE. I’m NORMAL

[13eyond13]

Hmhmhmhn ok so I got to Griffith's "a friend is an equal" speech again in my Berserk reread, and I'm updating my headcanon to Grifffith definitely DIDN'T know that Guts and Casca were standing there at the time, because the art doesn't really indicate him taking any notice of them there. But I'd say he's also definitely thinking about them both in some way when he's talking about that stuff... how could he not be? Especially Guts, though I am still also not sure if he genuinely groups (or has always grouped) Guts in with those he sees as inferior for their lack of dreams/ambition and obedience, or if that's just how Guts himself is interpreting things. Like, Griffith definitely orders Guts to do things for him often and speaks to him as if he is his property, but maybe in some way that's because he knows that Guts is skittish about intimacy and inexperienced with having any close relationships, and maybe after their initial awkward conversation before the swordfight he intuits that being treated as Griffith's subordinate is probably kinda what Guts is most comfortable with starting out? Because Griffith still also treats Guts differently in a way that everybody notices, where they see that he is his "favourite," and he also tries to relate to him on a more intimate level and give him more choice in some of these matters than anybody else. The best example of this to me being in the library when he asks Guts to be his assassin, and Guts is kinda like "this isn't like you, just give me an order like you usually do"... perhaps Griffith had been trying to progress their relationship there to one that felt less like a leader and a follower because he had sensed the potential in Guts to provide him the equal relationship that he was craving, in the way that the other band members said "there are some things that only Griffith sees" when it came to his immediate belief and trust in Guts.... but then Guts's reaction to this moment confirmed to Griffith that Guts still wasn't really ready or willing to see himself as an equal or meet him on a more level playing field like that just yet. As much as Griffith does set himself above the others and willingly take the lead and have a hard time giving up that position or not viewing others as pawns in his game, I feel like he on some level also did think he wanted Guts to set himself apart from that subordinate role and be creating his own destiny and following his own dream (but certainly not in the way it ended up happening, haha). I feel like it definitely makes the most sense that Griffith's trying to convince himself of something during the friend speech, or perhaps articulate to himself what maybe has frustrated or disappointed him about some of these interactions that they've had. I really like the theory I reblogged a little while ago about how perhaps he is trying to distance himself emotionally from Guts and the rest of his followers there because he knows he will have to distance himself from them anyway to successfully achieve his dream, and to reaffirm to himself that trying to win his own kingdom at any cost is definitely the best choice. But I still need to reread the rest of the Golden Age again and everything that happens after that too before I can fully formulate my thoughts...

[shoechoe]

People made such a big deal of the early shots of Diavolo/The Boss being a more generic "intimidating mobster in a fancy suit" guy (which of course turned out to be jarringly different to what he actually looks like) but tbh i think the most sensical explanation for it is that this is just how the characters imagined him to look like since they've never seen anything about him or his appearance. Like of course, for most of the story all they have to go off of is "Mafia Boss" so they'd fill in a mental image with whatever the generic idea of a "mafia boss" is.

[nightswatchdisbandmentera]

I think something that often gets overlooked when we talk about what Jon would've done had Ned disclosed RLJ before he joined the Night's Watch is that Jon isn't going to the Wall solely because he's Ned Stark's bastard. He's going to the wall because he's Ned Stark's bastard who has no prospects, or so he thinks.

“I forget nothing,” Jon boasted. The wine was making him bold. He tried to sit very straight, to make himself seem taller. “I want to serve in the Night’s Watch, Uncle.” He had thought on it long and hard, lying abed at night while his brothers slept around him. Robb would someday inherit Winterfell, would command great armies as the Warden of the North. Bran and Rickon would be Robb’s bannermen and rule holdfasts in his name. His sisters Arya and Sansa would marry the heirs of other great houses and go south as mistress of castles of their own. But what place could a bastard hope to earn?

(Jon I, AGOT)

As far as he knew, all his siblings had a future. But not him.

Knowing of his parentage doesn't really change much. Think about it. It's not like he can take to King's Landing, show up in front of Robert and be like, "hey that's my chair you're sitting on!" He'd need to actually press his claim and that's a whole new can of worms: who would believe him? Who would even want to fight for him? Can he even make it? Plus it definitely seems that those involved in the whole ToJ fiasco were determined to keep him and his claim under wraps so Ned is for sure not going to want another war.

The biggest factor that contributes to Jon going to the Wall is that Ned never bothered to let him know that he had options, and that he would be provided a future that was most fitting for his skills and status. It's understandable that Ned's trauma prevented him from speaking too much about Jon's situation, but he also needed to approach the problem more delicately and with a lot more foresight. Ned needed to sit down and actually talk to Jon because his situation out of all the Stark kids' needed the most attention. But he never did. And so Jon had to grow up quick and make the fateful decision on his own.

[majouartings]

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[solar-halos]

might just have to open odesta week (aka modern au monday) w johanna and annie making out after a concert. it’s gonna be soooo after midnight coded by chappell roan

[rollercoasterwords]

writing a scene from sirius's pov + he's just like omg we're flirting hehe 🥰😝🤭😉😘 and then going back + writing the same scene from remus's pov and he's like christ what the fuck does this cunt want can i not smoke a cigarette in peace and. well to me this is romantic

[bookwyrminspiration]

Hi (just finished the sky on fire)

!!! How you feeling? What'd you think?

Personally, I enjoyed the worldbuilding (especially the details about the social and garden rings) and the theme of stories--how they change and take on lives of their own. Anahrod the Wicked exists in the social conscious but is not Anahrod Amnead, Zavad exists but is not Pelaron.

I do think there are elements that would've been stronger if given more time. For example, I had a hard time following Ris and Sicaryon's corner of the triangle since we didn't see them much. It's possible that'll be rectified on a reread, but at least first pass I was like. Wait. Where did that come from.

Same with Viridhaven being real--I don't think it hit super hard for me because Ris straight up said so a few times before we got there, and we didn't really know about it and its disappearance before that.

I did love Pelaron and Ris' relationship though, I may or may not interpret it through a qpr lens. The power of exchanging bodies instead of Pelaron forcing into Ris' was a classic, nice touch. I'd have liked to see what Ivarion and Anahrod's relationship looks like and how all that factors in--I feel the ending was a little abrupt/fast, but I also felt like that about discord of gods until I reread it and was like okay not as bad as I first thought

Essentially, my general thoughts are: fun! I'll need a reread to fully understand how certain things were seeded, and there's a few things I think would've been stronger if this had been like a duology instead of a standalone, but still!!

[shima-draws]

Hi all just a friendly reminder taps the description please don’t trace/copy my art! It’s totally fine if you wanna use it as a loose reference for anatomy or color or whatever else as like a general study, but straight up ripping off my art style is not cool :’)