#Sword of Truth

[cherry-vennom]

Artist: Caroline Jamhour

[roseillith]

[destielblamscilesinfinity]

Richlan song of the day.

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Round 1

Propaganda why Rintaro Okabe is insufferable:

"He's sexist: he feels ashamed to be in the same lab as Kurisu, a genius, so he spends his time saying sexual jokes to embarass her. He is super annoying with his complotist larping. Why wouldn't he shut up? (Actually he shuts up at the middle at the story, the point where it becomes good).

Also transphobic stuff (the "but he's a boy" joke... *aaaaaaargh*)."

"Commits insufferably to the bit.Will cut off and correct you if he thinks you're in the wrong.Severe Mary Sue syndrome of sorts but that varies wildly alongside his emotional state.Does not shut up ever.Misgenders and gropes his friend after transing her(It's a whole story but the way they treated them before wasn't ideal either).Technically caused an apocalypse but the rest of the main cast were accomplices in this so it doesn't really count.Creates a time loop so he doesn't have to face his friends's deaths and inevitably goes insane and tries to kill them all.Causes property damage to his landlord's home near daily.Gives his friends false hope that they'll be granted their greatest wish only to go back and say he has to undo them because they caused too much temporal distortion.All of them forget this happened but still.Kills a friend's dad,again technically.Don't think I've said he's obnoxious yet but if I did it bears repeating"

"Listen I love the game with all my heart but this guy is obnoxious.He's LARPING constantly.He always wants to be the smartest in the room.He groped someone to ""see if they're really a girl"" and(spoilers ahead) he grants every friend he has a wish that would be impossible otherwise via time travel then undoes all of that because whoops! Messing with time causes unforeseen consequences such as *checks notes* his friend Mayuri dying.It's been a hot minute since I've played S;G so I might be misremembering some things but good god the whole game we've been going over How Time Travel Is Bad Actually and he STILL went ahead with it!You've been targeted by the FBI and see someone turn into goo because of this!Even if he wanted to be nice because let's be real his friends deserve it after being targeted by the FBI because of him,undoing that because he misses Mayuri is a dick move.I'm not unpacking the emotional baggage he has with her,but objectively what he did was kind of horrible.He also trapped them all in a timeloop that one time."

"A young man who hides his insecurities below an neverending overconfident RP.

Because Kurisu, a scientific genius girl, challenges his authority in his flat, he regularly humiliates her by telling sexual things she finds embarassing.

Plus there is some other sexist and transphobic stuff I don't need to go into.

I know in the second half of the story he loses his mask and actually show his vulnerable and caring side. But gosh, he is so unbearable in the first half!"

"His voice is so grating and is the reason I didn’t want to watch the show."

Propaganda why Richard Rahl is insufferable:

"The character always, always has to be Right and Moral and Good. He always knows more than: his wife, organized religion, any and all government orders that he didn't set up personally. While he starts out reasonable enough in the first few books, he slowly devolves into the author's Ayn Rand-fantasy stand-in. In every book there's always a huge monologue that's secretly about how bad (fantasy) communism is.

Richard is also hypocritical. He will flip flop on issues and change with the whims of the author, but the narrative always portrays him as in the right no matter the context."

"Protagonist of the most idiotic book series ever, literally wins by sheer dumb luck and being too stupid to plan as the world bends around him. His girlfriend keeps getting kidnapped so he can rescue her, despite allegedly being powerful. He’s a fantasy Ayn Rand follower. He inherited a sword and the Most Powerful Magic Combination Ever which he can’t be trained in because he needs to learn by instinct. Every woman ever falls in love with him or is determined to help him by prophecy. He gets captured and tortured by several bdsm women (author fetish, blatantly) and doesn’t even appreciate it. He gradually seizes more and more control over he world than even his evil tyrant dad, then throughs a fit and runs off into the woods to sulk, leaving them to a violent conquest, when people object to this via voting. He’s inexplicably good at death football. I can keep going."

"Literally the oc in the author’s shitty Ayn Rand fantasy novel. All the women want him, he does magic by instinct. He cannot be trained because he has super rare magic that nobody else has had for millenia. His birth has been prophecied for centuries. Every new book features a new problem only he can solve by being too instinctly good at magic and untrained. He comes up with the Wizard’s Rules of Magic by dumb luck.

In one book he defeats communism and hopelessness by crafting the perfect statue of his girlfriend Kahlan, who is a way cooler character but still a Mary Sue & an idiot. The statue is so cool & beautiful & well made for the joy of making (unlike work under communism), that he sparks a riot and toppled the evil empire. By building a statue."

[data-reel]

Legend of the Seeker - S1xE8 - (Denna) ~ Original Air Date: January 10, 2009

[thysia]

People's Palace - Christina Wu

[boooklover]

“In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”

Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

[nikkilbook]

Sometimes, being multi-fandom and having niche inside jokes with your sibling is very frustratinf, because it means that even if I managed to share this with every person in the world, none of you will EVER understand just how utterly hilarious I am being when I say “Wizard Merritt is Akihiko Kaiyaba.”

[dreamywander]

❗AI-art❗Sword of Truth - Richard Cypher🍀

«The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable» ©James A. Garfield

More pictures like this can be found in my profile ✨

[ravenbookslover]

I finished book one of Sword of Truth, Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, yesterday.

First of all, it was the french edition, so around 980 pages, and it tooks me around a month to read it because I was slow and unable to focus. I've mainly read it during my 5 hours long trips, which was not always ideal. But I've finally finish it and it was really good ! I know it's an old series but there is, in this story, so many interesting ideas. The storytelling is great. The characters are enjoyable to follow and I got very attached to Richard and Kahlan. The book is huge but the chapters are shorts which is really great for my unfocused brain, to be honest. Now, it feels like a young adult for a good half of it, but I'll warn you about the many heavy subjects and events when we get closer to the second half and the end so, please, be carefull.

[thelastofthebookworms]

When the other polls will be out, they'll be in my 'fantasy polls' tag.

[cherry-vennom]

Phantom God

Toshiaki Kato

[roseillith]

[destielblamscilesinfinity]

Cara x Kahlan song of the day.

[insufferableprotagonistpoll]

Round 3

Propaganda why Richard Rahl is insufferable:

"The character always, always has to be Right and Moral and Good. He always knows more than: his wife, organized religion, any and all government orders that he didn't set up personally. While he starts out reasonable enough in the first few books, he slowly devolves into the author's Ayn Rand-fantasy stand-in. In every book there's always a huge monologue that's secretly about how bad (fantasy) communism is.

Richard is also hypocritical. He will flip flop on issues and change with the whims of the author, but the narrative always portrays him as in the right no matter the context."

"Protagonist of the most idiotic book series ever, literally wins by sheer dumb luck and being too stupid to plan as the world bends around him. His girlfriend keeps getting kidnapped so he can rescue her, despite allegedly being powerful. He’s a fantasy Ayn Rand follower. He inherited a sword and the Most Powerful Magic Combination Ever which he can’t be trained in because he needs to learn by instinct. Every woman ever falls in love with him or is determined to help him by prophecy. He gets captured and tortured by several bdsm women (author fetish, blatantly) and doesn’t even appreciate it. He gradually seizes more and more control over he world than even his evil tyrant dad, then throughs a fit and runs off into the woods to sulk, leaving them to a violent conquest, when people object to this via voting. He’s inexplicably good at death football. I can keep going."

"Literally the oc in the author’s shitty Ayn Rand fantasy novel. All the women want him, he does magic by instinct. He cannot be trained because he has super rare magic that nobody else has had for millenia. His birth has been prophecied for centuries. Every new book features a new problem only he can solve by being too instinctly good at magic and untrained. He comes up with the Wizard’s Rules of Magic by dumb luck.

In one book he defeats communism and hopelessness by crafting the perfect statue of his girlfriend Kahlan, who is a way cooler character but still a Mary Sue & an idiot. The statue is so cool & beautiful & well made for the joy of making (unlike work under communism), that he sparks a riot and toppled the evil empire. By building a statue."

Propaganda why Harry Potter is insufferable:

"1. the series sucks ass 2. harry will just fucking get away with anything and be an ass to all his friends 3. he owns a slave"

"Even when I was a child I found his origin insufferable. Boohoo he lives under the stairs and his stepparents are meanies."

"Gary Stu who never has to struggle. His parents left him a ton of wealth, he’s a great student and athlete, and of course he’s the chosen one, fighting to preserve the status quo. He sees the injustices of the wizarding world and is like “man, that sucks…oh well!”"

"Absolutely refuses to engage with the world he's in, just completely apathetic to everything around him if it's part of the system."

[data-reel]

Legend of the Seeker - S1xE1 - (Prophecy) ~ Original Air Date: November 1, 2008