#Teaching Techniques

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[rhiangalaxy]

Shang Qinghua has been teaching Binghe how to flirt, it's...surprisingly effective???

[ID: A Scum Villain Comic. The first image depicts Luo Binghe with a finger gun held up to cup his chin, winking and saying "Can I try rizzing you up?". The next image depicts Shen Qingqiu with a red fan help up, covering his chin with an amused and questioning expression, replying "Sure?". The last image depicts them in a chibi style. LBH is kneeling and clinging to SQQ's robes, crying with the word "PLEASE" written over and over. SQQ is patting his head with one hand and clenching a closed fan in the other, with a very confused and flustered expression. A thought bubble above him states "Why is this working??" End ID]

[undercoverossifrage]

I love the little group of misfits we got to see at the beginning of book ten!

[itsapmseymour]

You put in a lot of emotion in your characters and as an amateur voice actor myself I want to know how you bring so much out of them?

By mentally going back to a time where I didn’t care how loud or unhinged my voice was.

The playground.

[saltpepperbeard]

Yeah, it's a piece of twine. For @blakbonnet 🎉💖. Happy Birthday to my dearest, sweetest clown! Babe, if I could gift you the renewal announcement, I would. Really quite whack that they haven't yet, because you assuredly deserve that on your special day. You deserve the world, really. Thank you for making the fandom space that much more special, and thank you for always enabling me <3 SJDKSSD. Idc what anyone says; we're in it for the long run, babe. We'll CLOWN FOREVERMORE. Love you so much, and hope you have a wonderful day <333

[river-of-wine]

I’m a lot of things. I’m not quite a fool

[fluffytheocelot]

honestly homophobic of netflix to remove the interactive with the julethief canon events in it

AND ON THE DAY CARMEN ESCAPES VILE NO LESS 😒

rip To Steal or Not To Steal. you had the entire fandom in a chokehold over that ending <3

[cameronqx]

he's so stupid

[thegoldenhoof]

After reading multiple metas on all sides, I think the biggest problem with OFMD, specially Season 2 is that it is almost entirely built on tell don't show. Worse sometimes it is hint, don't tell or show. This is not great writing in itself but it is made worse when the POV characters are all shown to have a rather unstable relationship with reality and memory.

Stede is self-centered enough to just not acknowledge or even notice things around him that don't actively interact with his focus which is mostly just Ed. He is self-centered to the point of being delusional about other people and reality of circumstances. Season 2 sees him doing better and his rescue of the crew is his highest point. But we see this even through Season 2 in his interactions with Lucius and during Ed's apology his interactions with Zheng Yi Sao.. Basically anyone not Ed.

Ed is shown to have a negotiable understanding of truth - seen with his Ed/Blackbears/Kraken split, his "I didn't kill them, the fire killed them" dissociation with his own actions, his rewriting of the context of his own memories (Knife parade) or just straight up forgetting shit (Talent show). And yes all of these are trauma responses but that does not dismiss the fact that his perception is far from objective.

Izzy is straight up shown to be lying in his first interaction with Ed regarding Stede. He is aware of his surroundings better than Stede and Ed but he is also supremely blind to himself and his interpersonal relationships. Where Stede is delusional about the world he can be interpreted as delusional about himself.

We as the audience ofcourse can put context to their words from their actions and this worked ok in season 1 (not always but mostly and that becomes important later) But Season 2 leans much more heavily on tell without show. (Yes yes budget cuts...but that doesn't change the final product).

Where season 1 added some flavour of back story with tell dont show, Season 2 expects dialogue to do all the heavy lifting (none more than Izzy's death speech) without this dialogue being backed up by action. Worse (or better) this dialogue isn't exposition which makes the scene better but which also means more often then not it is merely hinting at a meaning.

So we have half explained dialogues, sometimes with dubious context, used as a substitute for action given to us by characters with established unreliable perspectives. The heavy lifting of understanding the meaning of these dialogues, their significance and weigtt, has then been shifted to the audience interpretation. This interpretation is of course done per individual interest and bias. This is not bad in itself but remember this has been happening since season 1. Which means the new interpretations are being built on older interpretations. Those little flavour back story hints have now become the lens through which the entire season 2 is meant to be understood.

We are all watching a different show in a sense and that us not a failure of the audience. It is, rather, an accidental byproduct (and a failure) of the show's design because of the combination of all the above factors which was (made worse by the budget cuts leaving less time/space for action)

The show then unfortunately comes down to whose POV are you accepting (and certain fans have turned this into an exercise of moralizing self righteousness.) and to what extant.

A true understanding, imo, can only be by accepting that none of their perspectives are absolutely true and trying to center the objective narrative between all of them in a way that best fits all their perspectives AND accounts for all their blind spots, rather than lift any one POV as the absolute uncritical truth. (And fans on all sides have been guilty of this)

(P.S. I think this may also have worked positively towards making this show so huge is season one because it left enough ambiguity for us all to project on it multiple complex and sometimes contradicting interpretations creating an Illusion of much greater complexity that was more in our collective heads than in the actual show.)

[andtheywerefootballers]

So they talked about coming from playing basketball together here and deadass my ass was hoping that the DFB would release a video on it BUT NO!! I NEED GAY BASKETBALL PLAYING GOD DAMN IT!

[julykings]

this week eek eek

[floydleart]

love dwarves. gotta be my favorite gender

[sweetchcolate]

Frieren only teaching Fern basic offensive and defensive spells because she deems it enough to deal with modern-day mages really sells how weak those mages must be compared to the ones Frieren must have crossed path with.

I also enjoy the idea of Frieren preferring the mastery of a few basic spell to perfection rather than learning a bunch of flashy/complicated ones because it fits with her philosophy/vibe of taking things easy (but taking them nonetheless, as the meme goes): it's much easier and effective to execute a simple spell well than to risk the mana/time required to cast a more intricate spell that might not land.

There's also an element in versatility to this, since you can use basic spells to build up all kinds of strategies, a bit like building a tower. It reminds me of when Frieren taught Fern to use the defensive spells in select locations instead of casting it widely in episode 3, and fits with Frieren's resourcefulness.

Finally, it's a good way to destabilise one's opponent by making them underestimate her (after all, who would expect a first tier mage to use basic spells in battle?), much like Frieren did to bewilder Aura and other demons by suppressing her mana and appearing 'weaker'.

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Ok but wouldn’t it be funny if

Arwen, newly arrived in Valinor after faking her and Aragorn’s death and squirreling themselves away on a ship: of course i have proof i am who i say i am! I know the family technique.

Arwen, making the rivers jump to her command via a Song of Power: see? I am clearly Elrond Peredhel’s daughter and of Luthien’s line.

Arafinwe, who damn well knows Maglor used that technique against rebellious baby cousins and various unfortunate Silmaril-thieving kin: oh you are definitely Elrond’s

[cyborgcourt]

This wildest crossover ever would be between TLC and ATLA. Imagine Cinder as the avatar. She would definitely kick some ass