#WhAt AbOuT aLl ThE aTrOcItIeS

[transformersbrainrot]

Me when I encounter Prowl discourse

[drowningparty]

I just think the polite, well-behaved young man who secretly enjoys murdering people with his bare hands and gouging their eyes out and the blood-splattered god who delights in carnage and gleefully exploding people with his mind should, hand in unloveable hand, embrace their primal rage, become avatars of the slaughter together, and be deliriously happy for all of 2 seconds before one of them invariably kills the other. and it would be a real coin toss who dies first

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[colorful-bees]

Something that's been on my brain for a while is that AZ's Floette wanted him to forgive himself. From what AZ tells us in XY, Floette left because she somehow knew what had been taken in order to bring her back. She's, understandably, horrified. But if we look back at the scene where Floette returns, it's just after AZ has made peace with his past actions. And surely, she most know AZ is sorry to her? I imagine she's checked in on him over the past 3,000 years; how else would she just happen to show up at the exact moment she did? I would infer she knows how he feels, she's seen so much of it.

All that to say, it makes me think that Floette was not only concerned with the atrocities committed with the Ultimate Weapon but was also concerned with what doing that action did to AZ himself; he's not the same person anymore. Doing what he did changes a someone. She doesn't come back to an apology to her, she comes back when AZ has forgiven himself for what he did. An apology to her doesn't bring her friend back from the person he became. She doesn't want an apology; she wants her old friend back and she only gets that when AZ can let go of his past actions.

[fusionfanatic]

Research for an au fic I’m working on: how would Azula act and behave in a modern setting? And I don’t mean re-imagine her character within a modern context and stories. This isn’t Azula, but she’s an overachieving American high schooler with strict and overbearing parents, or Azula, but she’s the soon-to-be CEO of her father’s multinational conglomerate based in Japan or something. No, I mean how would Azula as she is in canon, Fire nation princess and all, act and behave if you simply just took her from her world and plopped her into [insert current year you’re reading this]?

[oreolesbian]

the absolute lack of media literacy from people who haven’t even seen oppenheimer is making my head spin but whatever

[sunlight-shunlight]

pondering that falon'din is associated with an owl, and those are also messengers of andruil. and he's referred to as "winged death" which is also mentioned to be something that elgar'nan deploys against enemies. and both falon'din and andruil are referred to as venturing into dark places, where no one else can survive/wanted to go.

and ghilan'nain was not initially an evanuris, but was antagonistic towards them and making a bunch of weird creatures. she was given the offer to join them in return for getting rid of the creatures, and accepted. but with "pride stopping her hand" from destroying a few. and when asked about trusting people to share power, solas says "I know that mistake well enough to carve the angles of her face from memory."

solas also has nothing good at all to say about falon'din, mostly calling him a bloodthirsty tyrant who went so far in encroaching onto other evanuris territory that mythal had to besiege his temple and beat him up to stop him.

but he says nothing about dirthamen at all.

dirthamen is described as having gone missing unexpectedly, scaring all his followers, because they were now unprotected. and caught between their own high priest wanting to lock them into the temple forever like a cask of amontillado, and other forces outside that wanted to take their secrets by force. there is one note that a dirthamen follower defied the evanuris and took on a forbidden (probably a dragon) type of form, and was judged by elgar'nan harshly. he apparently also invented the varterral to protect his town from a high dragon? wack, but also could indicate that he had worked with ghilan'nain on making it, since she's the only one who's otherwise mentioned to be bioengineering stuff.

dirthamen has very very few surviving statues or depictions, and is more associated with falon'din than as his own independent figure in the dalish myths. even his own temple includes mosaics of falon'din. there's a few statues that are probably dirthamen, but the most striking is in mythal's section of the fade behind the eluvian, which is a statue of a hooded figure, doubled over with a giant sword sticking out of his back.

[dreadeves]

decided to bring hatred into the fandom today. thinking about kit thinking somethings wrong with him/that he doesn’t truly care about people as much as others because he couldn’t imagine doing something like necromancy to bring any of his losses back

[ink-blot-thoughts]

Okay for a while my genshin bio was "Arlecchino simp, Childe stan, Dottore apologist" and while that was my bio, someone joined my world and asked me why I liked Dottore? At the time I just said heeheehoohoo man funny cause that's true but thinking about it, I've realised why I like Dottore.

So, picture this. I joined genshin in around 3.2ish. I didn't do any events that I hadn't unlocked the story for and I wasn't really in the fandom. So lil old me was just playing through the story, and having the time of my life in Sumeru cause it was so fucking weird.

Then. You defeat the big boss. You cry about Rukkhadevata. Nahida is gonna give us some lore now, right?? Nope get fucking flashbanged.

So this was already shocking enough then out walks Mr Doctor, who had seemingly left Sumeru in a boat. Okay weird, guess he came back. WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE HAS CLONES?!?! And then his clones get merked the second I find out about them?!!?!?

So I'm reeling from that when he promises knowledge not even the god of wisdom knows. And I perk up cause lore!!! I like lore!!! Then. Then the motherfucker. He says "Sky's fake."

Remember, I knew none of this. Bitch just dropped sky's fake on my head out of nowhere. And while I was going "THE SKY IS FUCKING WHAT?!?!!?" Man just casually faded to black. Like he hadn't dropped the most batshit insane lore possible.

Now if you're normal and you knew the background genshin lore, that would make sense. You already know about the fake sky and Dottore's segments and all, so the casual delivery totally tracks.

But I didn't. So to me this man walked up, drugged us, revealed he had clones, murdered said clones, then dropped one of genshins biggest lore bombs before fucking off. In the space of one conversation. Fucking iconic.

So that's why I like Dottore :)

[ivi-prism]

No longer religious but still even if 'only' agnostic in this day and age I was still raised catholic and live in a catholic culture and whoaaa the church fucking sucks in many ways but if they elect a new pope from a more conservative denomination and belief I will be soooo pissed

Come on... come on we just had the most liberal pope we could have.... if they now elect a Tedesco ass facist... I swear

[clonerightsagenda]

*pointing at the single woman reign of terror who destroyed an entire military base and forced a bunch of women to mutilate themselves to exorcise her mommy issues* babygirl

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

Imagine reading a new manga and joking about it being homoerotic and then it gets explicitly stated that one of the protags is gay

If I don't see any weird romance blossom between those two istg-

[tarraxahum]

Okay now that I'm caught up (anime only) I can say with full understanding that I don't get the Toshiro(Shuro) hate. Like come on, the guy is flawed in his own (totally rooted in his culture and upbringing) way, just like literally every other character here. What.

[halffootguildofficial]

I heard you referring to kids, do you have children? What’re they up to?

"Ah. Kids. Yeah. I have them. Three of them, actually, but they're all grown up now. There's not much to say about them."

"My oldest by a day is Meijack, and she's most like me. Currently she works doing odd jobs on the first and second floor. She's the one who visits her old man the most. She's dedicated and reliable with a good head on her shoulders, I think. She takes it all as seriously as I do, which is a good thing. She knows exactly what she's getting into."

"My Flertom's young, but she's talented, personable. She found a party that's doing her right and she's been sticking with it for the past two years. Last she told me, they've managed to get to the fourth floor and are looking to get to the fifth this next dungeon run. She's just like her mother."

"And Puckpatti... She's... Well. If you meet her, you'll realise how special she is. She managed to find a group of gnomes who wanted to do a research project on basilisks on the second floor. Apparently they're trying to learn more about their natural behaviour without human interference, their territories, their hunting patterns... the works. She's supposed to trap them, they apply some magic tracking spell, and then they release them and use the spell to collect data on them. If they're lucky, apparently they can start making basilisk venom antidotes using some of the poison they can collect from them."

"It all flies over my head, of course, but she seemed real excited about it when she was telling me about it. If they're successful, her name gets put on some research paper. Weirdest contract Dandan's ever had to negotiate, he told me. Problem is, it's a long term project. She's supposed to be down there for two months. My other two have been doing this for a few years now, but Puck... this is her first expedition, and she's my youngest.. It's only natural that I worry about her."

[winepresswrath]

i am going to wind up on team #justiceforarmand but it's going to be so situational. justice for armand specifically during the period of time louis is all "oooh who needs labels." a very different kind of justice for armand on matters pertaining to claudia.

[agapestricken]