#Which is a fair difference

[bananonbinary]

theres a certain youtuber that i like and every once in a while i see some bullshit drama starting video about them and i'll start it like "oh no did they do something really bad" and every time its always "idk they just strike me as really creepy" about extremely normal social anxiety/awkward behaviors.

anyway some of yall are extremely not okay about very minor "not fitting in" behavior and it's really really cruel. stop being fucking mean girls.

[idolomantises]

me: you know some of the comments about sera and prince not being able to sexualize them anymore were weird, but im sure that'll be the end of bad faith criticisms

instagram comments: (yelling at me over domino's redesign because they think its "twink death")

me:

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[lithosaurus]

Not to vague at anyone but I've been seeing a lot of posts responding to Veilguard criticism that entirely miss the point of those criticisms.

No, my frustration with Rook's characterization isn't that there are limitations to a video games PC. It's that there are scant options to RP in the RPG and fewer options to make choices beyond 'do you want to do this quest y/n?' in a game series which previously bent over backwards to explore the idea of how far is too far for the greater good.

No, my frustration with the way the world seems to have changed is not that the there is a change or even that those changes are underexplained. It's that those changes feel more like reboots that don't want to continue the narrative of the previous games. Sure, the differences in the Crows could be chocked up to a differences in the Houses, or the change in how Circles are described could be because how the Mage-Templar war ended but A) that's never actually addressed or even lamp shaded B) the worldstate removal means that the changes can't be a consequence for past actions because it happened regardless of whatever occurred in the last three games!

No, the number of times the word 'okay' is used doesn't inherently make the game poorly written. The change in the writing voice, anachronist word choices, and flattening of characters into marvel quip speak is just best quantified by word choice.

Perhaps most frustratingly, No, my trans ass isn't somehow scandalized by the mere existence of a nonbinary person. There is plenty of transphobic bs being flung at the game, at Taash, and at the devs but acting like being critical of how Taash is written is exclusively due to transphobia just isn't true and it does boil my blood just a little when I see a post claiming that everyone critical of Taash's character is antitrans.

[shaykai]

Thinking about the fun fun juxtaposition that comes from putting Durge, someone who gives their entirety to their god and actively seeks forgiveness when they stray, next to Gortash, who’s main schtick is taking and doing what HE wants, and Ketheric, who has on more than one occasion forsook a god because they didn’t help HIM the way HE wanted

Anyways it’s giving A+ student just found out you can skip class sometimes actually

[uncharted-constellations]

Four swords adventure gang

This link has one of the bigger depatures from both sprite and game art, but i'll explain in the tags

Also no funny page but cooler pose so~

[fisheito]

this also happened. by the way

[keferon]

If you're thinking about decepticon prowl, I just GOTTA reccomend Turning Points by Alathea2 if you've never read it.

That fic sits rent free in my head forever

Yeah I tried to read it and the writing style was really enjoyable but they lost me after Autobots decided that giving a small child to the freshly defected Decepticon high command is something they can allow. Just. I don’t know. That really takes me out of the story. That and the fact that Prowl only spends five minutes being an actual Decepticon

Although. If there’s more screen time dedicated to him being a Con somewhere later in the fic feel free to correct me. I would love to be wrong

[purpleleavesday]

BY THE WAY this is what gumshoe says if you present him mia's profile in stolen turnabout

IT MADE ME GO SO INSANE. AAAAAAGHHHH I LOVE THIS GAME

[firestorm09890]

Penny stardewvalley makes me so sad because she's SO sensitive to, like, basically everything you tell her (telling her that you can't stand children while two children are nearby is a pretty lousy move but -1500 friendship?? being a jerk to other characters' faces typically loses you about 50 points, and if you choose the option labeled "creepy" and ask Leah for a kiss in her 2 heart event she physically hits you and kicks you out of her house but that's only -100 friendship…) and so if you want to befriend her it's a whole lot of lying and tiptoeing around her feelings (2 hearts: George was right but saying that makes her feel bad. 6 hearts: her food sucks but even if you try to be polite about it she feels like a failure; only a bald-faced lie pleases her. 8 hearts: saying you don't want to be tied down with a family loses you a little bit of friendship and she's only happy if you say you want kids) and I can't help but think she's a product of her environment. She lives in a trailer with only her mother, who gets drunk every night and has something of a temper. Penny's like a skittish rescue animal who won’t even come out from hiding under something unless you leave her lots of treats

[disastergenius]

My bold take is that R.F. Kuang and Suzanne Collins are actually doing very similar things with their books/writing and both are doing it very well (but notably only one is getting criticized for it, for which there are many reasons, some fair and most not).

They are both making very specific and strategic points about the way that class, class consciousness and allyship, exploitative systems, propaganda, and rebellions work, just to name a few themes. And it’s far more interesting to examine their respective fictional worlds, both of which are heavily influenced by real-world events and history and hold it as a parallel to our own.

[It is also far more interesting to not boil their work down to shipping, “capitalism is the bad guy,” and oppression olympics for fictional characters with far too much projection into the real world.]

[elodieunderglass]

Killie, Derek, Charlie and partners + the nibling gang have a meetup when they realise theres a jackdaw in the chimney that needs saving. What happens next?

Man of the house (gender neutral): adult you can shove to the front when you don't wanna / person who hasn’t emptied dishwasher in a while

[funky-vg-beats]

second dark matter battle super mystery dungeon ost

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Essay timeee! (For vibes more than anything else, I’m bored.) Celegorm wanted Luthien’s hand but would never have assaulted her, and the reason is in why he wanted to Marry Luthien at all. Lemme explain.

(I will get to the ‘Celegorm was enamoured by her’ section later on. But this will explain my thoughts behind that part.)

Key:

Yellow - Luthien specific

Pink - C+C’s goals

When we look at this part, we have to consider what Celegorm and Curufin’s goals were. Sure, Luthien was beautiful, but the intention behind the marriage was entirely power based. Marriage as a form of alliance, as was historically common across the world. So why is that?

Celegorm and Curufin wanted the Silmarils. But they knew to get anywhere near Morgoth they’d need the full might of the elves behind them. Marrying Luthien would have given them control over the Sindar’s armies - especially bearing in mind they were the probably the largest or next largest group after the Noldor.

But even before this, let’s look at what prompts this thinking at all.

This seems to be a direct result of Finrod’s perceived failure. Say what you will, I’m sure there was some closeness between Finrod, Celegorm, and Curufin for him to so willingly let them into his city. Even aside from a good heart, I take it to mean they were friends. A friendship that somewhat persisted into the First Age.

Finrod goes to get a silmaril with Beren. Pretty much a suicide run to begin with, but more to the point, they *know* what Morgoth can do. They’ve seen Maedhros’ scars. The long term impacts of his torture. Know they were lucky Maedhros was intentionally kept alive.

Morgoth has no reason to keep Finrod alive as far as they know. So even if he got past the mass of orcs and other creatures, the moment he came across Morgoth, and Morgoth found out he wanted a Silmaril, he’d be dead. (Hopefully. The alternative is so much worse.) If he wasn’t already.

Essentially, C+C have no reason to believe in his success.

So what do we do. We have an oath (whether you believe it’s self imposed or not, they certainly believed in it.) We have a dead cousin. We have Morgoth’s biggest victory yet that just decimated the Noldor.

Then Luthien arrives and their political brains start turning. Because say what you will, both of these brothers are clearly smart when they want to be, and definitely politically ambitious.

…and now we have a way to potentially take down Morgoth.

Luthien’s hand in marriage is a rudimentary version of Maedhros’ Alliance in the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, but in a way that would make it very difficult for the Sindar to stay out of it entirely. Especially if their princess is living with a Noldor prince in the line of fire.

They don’t want to start a war with Thingol, that would immediately weaken their standing across the Noldor and take away their claim to the Sindar’s armies. Thingol would put all his resources into saving his daughter from the Noldor, very much not what they want. They need his power as leverage over the other Noldor Princes - even as far as Maedhros and Fingon - for total compliance from all the Elven factions.

If they were going to harm Luthien physically to threaten his compliance, they’d have done so already. And more to the point, they know it wouldn’t work. Everyone knows Thingol loves his daughter. Hurting her or threatening to do so won’t force his hand to compliance, rather the opposite. So they need another way.

And I think their idea was physical separation of father and daughter. Like. “Accept me as Luthien’s husband and I’ll let you see your daughter again.” Kind of thing.

Hence locking up Luthien serving a double purpose. Keeping her nearby for if Thingol agrees. And using her as a political prisoner so to speak. “We already have her locked away here. Don’t think this is an idle threat. If you don’t agree, she’ll stay a prisoner. If you agree, at least you’re ensuring she gets a good life as a princess and you can see her too… if you comply.”

No where in this passage do we see any physical threat towards Luthien from the men. The focus is always on how to convince Thingol to agree, not on traditional Elven marriage. Because nothing about this is traditional. It’s entirely a power grab, no matter the reasons, and a first look at elves potentially doing what would become common human practice. Marriage for alliance.

Now I’m not defending C+C’s actions here, you don’t go locking up women and marrying them via a father’s agreement against their will. And I think if they’d explained their plan to Luthien, or at least their problems, we could have gotten something from that, even if not exactly what they wanted.

Some of you might be thinking ‘Sakura. You’ve completely ignored the earlier section about Celegorm and Luthien’s meeting.’

Not at all. Let me explain.

There’s no doubt Celegorm did find her beautiful, but based on his actions in the following paragraph and that her beauty is never mentioned regarding his intentions behind the marriage, I don’t think she was in any danger.

Or there would have been some indication or reference to allure or beauty on Celegorm’s part. But after this one line, we don’t see any reference to it again, even as Luthien escapes.

I’m not saying beauty didn’t play a part at all. But I am saying his ‘enamour’ with her didn’t turn him into a predator. Celegorm is many things, but this isn’t one of them.

[notbecauseofvictories]

very strongly feel that moist/adora is the only actual romantic relationship terry pratchett ever wrote.

[buttercupshands]

*looking at isat ss discord* my power of being silly got out of control

or how I tried understanding rpg maker basics by literally trying to do one (1) thing I really wanted to see ever since seeing Loop unused sprites lying on wiki months ago

the reason I mentioned isat ss discord was simply bc guys were the first people who saw me trying to draw close to pixel sprite face sprite for Loop to,,, do something at some point just to see how it works

and nope I'm not making this into anything, but I really like the fact that I managed to do this

(now with video post edited into this sentence!)