#IM FALLIBLE !!

[rukafais]

Underrated part of the newer Drizzt books is introducing a bunch of new drow groups and going "yeah everyone mass migrated and went underground because Something Really Horrible Happened!" and a trilogy before that it was like "we all went underground originally because Something Really Horrible Happened!" and they dont like super elaborate on it

but if you know like, anything about the Crown Wars youre just kinda like. Oh yeah, that time like all the elves started beating the piss out of each other and caused a concerning amount of destruction and a massive rift that never healed and it's vaguely talked around as this GIGANTIC cultural shame. Yeah I can see why you guys were all like GOODBYE WE ARE GOING DEEPER IN AND WILL NEVER COME OUT AGAIN

[arainaizevran]

there's way more layers to "wyll cannot be morally corrupted" and i love the drama of wyll turning his back on a dark urge lover (and on certain routes, trying to kill them) because they accepted bhaal etc.

but im also a believer that if you told him the right lies in the right way, he would believe it. at first. not in a naive sort of way but in a "i know you're a good person and this is for a good cause and i know the cost of sacrifice for the greater good etc" way. do you get it

however! he will not believe that lie forever. his moral principles will always win out. the longer he believes your lie/manipulation, the more righteously furious he'll get when he eventually comes to his senses. and i think that's beautiful

[gir-posting]

i still can't believe someone put "steven universe is fash apology because steven didn't violently overthrow the diamonds" on my dash in 2024

[nartml]

Genuinely can't wrap my head around any anti gaang takes, they all sound absolutely insane to me 😭

[lord-squiggletits]

A tangent from the tags of my previous Pharma post (and I just thought about this so bear w/ me if it's hastily reasoned) is that the Autobots being generally sanctimonious is actually sort of a reason why I find a lot of IDW Optimus interpretations to miss the mark, specifically the accusations of calling him stuff like self-righteous, caring more about principles than people, etc. And I know that sounds really ironic, but out of every Autobot (and almost every character period), Optimus is one of the few people who has a very forgiving/humanistic perspective on life or at least has a political approach of "if we don't stop fucking fighting we're going to be at war forever and eventually just kill ourselves."

He very explicitly wanted a diplomatic end to the war and not a military victory/conquest. He extended multiple offers to Megatron personally to work together and end the war (Autocracy trilogy, which was pre/early war, and Chaos Theory, which was late/end war, so from this we can assume Optimus' stance was consistent the whole time). When ppl hated him so bad they rioted he removed himself from the planet rather than argue or fight to justify why his actions were the best he could do. Sandstorm starts murdering Decepticons and Optimus solves the murders and then throws Sandstorm in prison bc sparing one of his Autobots the consequences of his actions is less important to Optimus than keeping the peace and making sure anyone who threatens to ignite wartime hostilities is punished for it. There are multiple characters throughout the series that other people give up on as too far gone or too cowardly/evil/damaged to be worth helping where Optimus alone is the person who says "I think they can get better/they did bad things but they're still people" such as the Dynobots, Blurr, Prowl (despite how OP's patience with him hung by a thread by the end of it), Shockwave, and, yknow, fucking Megatron of all people.

And on top of that Optimus' internal thoughts most of the time revolve around feelings of guilt, responsibility, anger, hopelessness/barely hanging on to his ideals, and so on. Bro regularly has thoughts about how the entire Autobot-Decepticon war was his fault and is depressed to the point the thought of dying/martyring himself makes him feel relieved. So like. Idk guys I don't think those are the personality traits/actions of a self-righteous person who thinks he's correct about everything and everyone who opposes him or fails his moral standards is just evil or whatever.

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

was rewatching RoR and giggling over the fact that sasha's space/science hyperfixation was so strong to the point that he was ignoring everything else in this life-or-death situation just to get the record back. then i realised oh god maybe part of the reason he cared so strongly about keeping the record was in order to cling onto the memory of his mother he associated with the song . because it seems as though he doesn't have many memories of her (beyond the mindreading incident) so the fear of losing that one happy connection blindsided his normally fairly rational decisionmaking oh what if i cried . sashaaa ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[lemongogo]

me admitting that i dont hate ast*rion after all .

[redstrewn]

I want leander to shock us simps so bad. Like jaw drop. Like baffle us with a complete 180 on his outward personality to his inward one. A total fucking asswipe bitch. Just fucken floor us. I think it would be amazing. Just have us levitating only to crash us onto the ground like a bad trip. I think it would be fun.

[wildevenusian]

i just don’t understand. why say ur ready to talk if you aren’t?

can u believe this post is what got me to reach tag limit

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

I do see that the series takes some of the themes from Ovid's work and as much as I do have a mixed opinion on it since his work wasn't necessarily supposed to be an official roman version of things but political criticism of the government as well as a way to trash the greeks, it does work well with the overall theme and narrative that Percy Jackson has built up with how gods are fallible and in fact had done a lot of wrong and them ignoring their kids is an awful thing and they should be better parents.

Like, yeah, I do have my own gripes with the usage of Ovid's Medusa rather than the original Greek one in the story, but it does work with the larger narrative of the series so it's not that big of a deal for me.

[broodwolf221]

i love solas so much

mr. i know everything....... but didn't even vet corypheus properly

[britneyshakespeare]

The gaslighting Duke of Vienna

[powderedshards]

//Just an idea I’m going with here so don’t mind this. Rejuvenators seem to have been retired very early on before or during the beginning of Era 2 (since Peridot didn’t know what it was) but something had to be there to serve as a solution outside of poofing and bubbling disobedient Gems. Hence the creation of the entire Black Star Diopside line.

They’re literally walking, talking rejuvenators.

[lime-bloods]

Hussie is not an infallible genius, and Act Six in particular is FULL of continuity errors. For example: Vriska mind controlling two Cronuses when her powers were established as only being able to control lowbloods back in Hivebent. I say this as someone who generally likes Act Six, by the way. It's absolutely possible that Hussie, who was very burnt out at the time, forgot some of the minutia of his own lore. (3/3)

you don't deserve the time of day for me to respond to all of this because you're taking a stupid wiki argument to my blog when i told you quite plainly to discuss it on the wiki talk page... but i am gonna say if you're going to bring your annoying agenda all the way to tumblr you should at least have your facts straight: it is actually expressly "difficult to manipulate the mind of the psychically gifted" for Vriska, which excludes more lowbloods than it excludes highbloods; she outright cannot control Aradia, the lowest, and can only control Sollux "about half the time". it is true that Mindfang revels in being able to control the cohort of peasants watching over her execution, but only because they're "impressiona8le spect8ors" with "weak wills"; when Vriska is able to control Tavros, it's only because of his "simple, mallea8le 8rain", and Vriska's own description of her limits is that she "can't control just any8ody. They've got to 8e impressssssssiona8le" - like the consorts whose minds she read. while it is true that members of lower castes are more "psychically susceptible" to psychic attacks like gl'bgolyb's, this has never meant higher castes were totally immune: in fact the only reason Vriska doesn't fuck with Equius more is because he has her robot arm as leverage.

[shivasdarknight]

Putting this over here to isolate this point: the OTW Volunteers did a lot of work to get AO3 back up and running after the DDoS. The OTW Board didn't do shit.

Your donations to AO3 go into OTW's financial reserve, and an estimate of how much they have is around $2.5 million (thread that breaks this down). They can maintain the platform for five years with what they have stored, and that number may be a low estimate.

OTW doesn't need your money. OTW's volunteers deserve financial compensation for all they've been subjected to, but none will see a penny from your donations.

Support the volunteers all you like, but know that your donations do nothing for them nor improve their working conditions.

Also stop being islamophobic assholes, the people who did this called themselves Sudanese just to get this kind of response. Grow up, learn to spot a troll, and go educate yourselves instead of constantly spewing racist shit.

[n0phis]

Wait -is it ok to kind of think of you like an older sibling, or brother? Like dadza, how phil is ok with that, but not trauma dumping. I really still look up to you since you’re my favourite artist! I get if its weird, though, cause you’re a smaller creator.

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(PS. I still really like your art! It makes me so excited, when I see notifications from your account. Even if you’re not okay with being a roll model you will always be my favourite!)

ive been toying with this one for a while because truly i don't feel like offering up much more on this topic but

so. the crux of it is that i cannot control your side of the equation- and no, it doesn't really bother me (none of this has, it's mostly just baffling and i want to make sure to nip some things in the bud for other artists' sake) but my side of the equation will remain entirely blank. my personal feelings will not reflect that, it is not a two-way transaction, and i don't want anyone to feel too close to me and come into my inbox with that vibe. i think jokes about this sort of thing are fine (the server- who do know me as an acquaintence rather than a stranger- do occasionally call me a neglectful father which is funny as hell) but i really am trying to be careful here as to dissuade anyone who may take it a step further from taking this as an invite to be wild in my inbox.

tldr sure! i can't control your feelings, and it doesn't upset me, but im trusting people not to take it too far. and going forward im just not gonna answer asks about stuff that makes me go Hm in the least, however funny LMAO

i WILL say thank you for asking, and long winded explanation aside your appreciation for my art means a lot m8!