#and don't bring hate to actual people

[warper-in-training]

okay? I hate some cards too??? wlat's with the attack anyway??

BUT DON'T PUT IT IN THE FUCKING TAGS?? OR TAG IT AS SUCH?? People in the aren't looking for personal attacks hope that fucking helps <3

[asavt]

[ Reflection ] About yourself.

Was listening to Shunkan Sentimental by SCANDAL at like 10 p.m. and stayed up until 4 a.m. to work on this. I didn't finish it right away tho, I still had to sleep.

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[loganswdc]

david coulthard they could never make me like you . i swear to god this man finds every opportunity to hate on logan , even coming up with absolute bull claims just to humiliate him on live tv . like how this past weekend he showed a white car , claimed it to be logan's , and said he's still "making contact without even being on track" and then laughing about it . and guess what ? that car wasn't even logan's !! it was his teammate's , alex albon's car !!!!!!!

this guy genuinely seems to hold so much hatred in his heart for logan considering how often he says shit about him and it absolutely infuriates me . and the fact he went so far as to humiliate him on live tv by saying something like that with the car is so messed up in my eyes ? i swear he pulls what he says about logan out of his ass and it's getting on my nerves .

i know and understand that its commentators' job to , well , commentate -- but they often say things about some drivers that exerts such hatred towards them . and in my opinion , that is not a sign of good commentating: it shows lack of morals , insecurity , and indicates a person who is unable to come up with comments about an athlete that criticize them fairly yet kindly . david coulthard has not done any of the sort to logan . he has consistently showed him hate , saying he doesn't belong in f1 , humiliating him on live tv with clips like this , amongst other things .

as a commentator and former formula 1 driver with a lot of influence , he should use his experience and prominence in motorsport to provide logan with constructive criticism . he should give him advice about what he thinks logan could do to improve even if he's in a bad car rather than consistently spread hate and talk crap about him . david coulthard is meant to be a role model figure in motorsports . instead , he acts like a bully towards a driver who is clearly struggling and needs to be shown a helping , guiding hand to learn about what he can do to improve his odds .

it's frustrating how often people in positions of power and who are highly respected in motorsports because of their career use their popularity and position of power to spread hate . i understand , this is a sport ! there will always be individuals who are assholes towards athletes , whether they are former athletes themselves or people sitting behind a screen who have nothing better to do and are upset about the trajectory of their own lives . the difference here , however , is that people who sit behind the screen often do not hold much power , while someone like david coulthard has hundreds of thousands , if not millions , of people listening to what he says and agreeing with him .

the car parking debacle may not seem like a huge problem , but when it is used as ammunition by haters to be rude to logan because a respected individual in motorsports spat on him too , then it is a problem . hate in general is a problem . it may have seemed like a simple joke , something to laugh at and giggle about . when you take into consideration how logan has been treated since he joined f1 , though , it's not a funny thing . it's just sad .

and the thing is that even though we now know it wasn't logan's car , people will still use it to hate on him . they'll ignore that fact . they'll pretend like it's still his car that was parked that way and they'll continue to joke and laugh and taunt logan . because that's just how haters are . it's a "harmless joke" in the moment , but in the long run it can be insanely damaging in numerous ways . that goes not just for jokes about logan , but about all the drivers , about all motorsports athletes , and about all people .

here's a video confirming it was NOT logan's car that was parked in a way that it was hitting the pole !

via kym illman on youtube

[beanghostprincess]

"The only ones in need of love are those who don’t receive enough. So evil ones should get a little more" - Laplace's Angel (Hurt people? Hurt people!)

Gifting this edit to my wonderful and beloved mootie (and favorite artist, but don't tell them I said that) @the-orion-inexpirience 🩷

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

with a few minutes' reflection and a second conversation with my parents I have realized that I may have overblown things and overreacted a bit and also in some ways they're correct even if I think they're also harsh about it

[bitchthefuck1]

you know what, I actually will talk about this because it's bothering me. The issue with focussing so heavily on syd and carmy's potential for a romantic relationship isn't that there's something inherently unintellectual about romance or whatever, it's that a lot of people seem incapable of doing that without immediately flattening the story and ignoring or intentionally misreading any and all nuance for the sake of that romance. Every scene suddenly becomes about how it impacts their relationship, every analysis is done through a romantic lens, every frame or line of dialogue becomes about finding some easter egg or hint that "proves" these people should start dating. Their dynamic is absolutely a fundamental part of this show, but if you can only see it as a will-they-won't-they, you miss so much of what the story is actually trying to say with these two.

There are good versions of this story where their relationship is romantic and there are good versions of this story where it isn't, but as soon as you decide them being together is "the point," you lose the ability to actually judge the story for what it is, not what you want it to be.

[randomnameless]

Artbook stuff !

Albion people under the cut ft Baltro !

Given how Albion received less development and screentime than the other regions because of, I suppose, issues that had VW speed the release date, the characters from that place are memorable, even if they have, as said above, less screentime, and less rapport convos.

Raenys, despite sharing her name with what characters from a certain verse, is one of the feathered people, a captain of Albion's guard (or a soldier?) and she's introduced as someone who's leading a resistance force against Zenoira, but she's overnumbered, and the church (BaD) where her allies are recovering is under assault.

I can't say anything about her looking like a "mansion maid" or a "widow", but it sure makes her different and stand out from the other feathered.

Kuddos for Raenys to cheer up Sanation in their rapport convo, as in, she's one who tells him that despite the people of Albion hating him and thinking he colluded willfully with Zenoira, he actually had his hands tied : she understands it and tells him that in that situation, whatever he did had been for the best.

As a unit...

Feathered units can't kill things on their own (save with specific builds) but they are top tier support units and damn nuisances to fight against - Feather bows, like Raenys, can put a "blind" status on foes to make them miss their next strike, even if it was supposed to be a true strike. And given how that "blind status" is an AoE move, basically, if you don't have anti-blindness stuff slapped on your units, it's basically one free turn for them when your units are sitting ducks.

Ummels!

She's the same class as Ochlys, the feathered sword we got way back in Cornia.

I get the devs gave her "droopy" eyes and a rounder hairstyle to differentiate her from Ochlys, but imo that design was translated in the writing about this character : Ummels's droppy eyes can mean that she's looking down/is upset/depressed because, in the game, she fights for Zenoira since they took her younger brother hostage! And the "round" and soft hairstyle could serve as a contrast with how she used to be Scarlett's best friend back when they were kids and, in general, a soft/kind person (which makes Scarlett notice something's wrong with her supposed allegeance to Zenoira).

Unit wise, Feather Swords are less impressive than the other Feathered units, but they're the only ones who can reliably dish out damage, based on the number of bonuses they have.

Being a winged units means they have an advantage against ponies, and when they use their shields to parry, they don't die to the first truestrike arrow thrown in their direction.

Speaking about shields...

Feathershields!

We only have one playable and named unit in this class (but we can recruit generics!) and... I understand why lol.

They are basically a res tank who can deflect magic to return it against the casters (especially funny against witches who have their 'quick cast + blizzard' combo that is supposed to freeze your party at the start of battle), they have more def than other flying units, they can recover their passive points very easily and can even deflect status!

Thing is, they can't attack for shit, unlike the werebears.

I'd say the human version of the "shield unit", the Hoplite can protect a row of allies, is unkillable by physical units (save for breakers!) and can't kill anyone even if they try - the bestral version trades some defence and "protect allies" against reasonable (and ridiculous) damage - the feathered version, unlike the other two, laughs at magic and magic users, can protect allies (but not entire rows!) and has reasonable def, but much like the Hoplite, they can't kill anything.

As for Fodoquir (Fodoquia?) as an unit...

With the limited screentime he got, we learn, mostly in his paralogue, that he didn't accept the Zenoiran conquest and led his city in a resistance movement... only for his own people to be fed up with the fighting, because food shortages and, well, there was no end in sight, so to "convince" him to surrender, they "offered" Fodoquia's own son to the Zenoirans, and to kill his spirit, they were the ones who ultimately killed him.

As expected, Fodoquia abandonned the fight, and took his resentment on his people, basically telling Alain, who comes with his army in tow to "liberate" the city from Zenoira, that the people here don't want to be liberated - when we know it's not true anymore since, surprisingly, after killing a kid, Zenoirans still invaded the city and treated its people like shit.

Fodoquia wants to die to join his son wherever he is, but ultimately accepts to go on living again, and to help the Liberation Army.

As for the dev notes... I couldn't understand a thing lol, save for the fact they tried to make him different from the other male characters from the cast, but given how the feathershields are shaped (inverted triangles) I'd say that even with a less square face, Fodoquir'd still be unique enough.

Jerome is a knight, aka the same class as Clive, Renault and Adel.

Interestingly, he is the only named non Cornian knight we can recruit, and is apparently in charge of a city.

The devs designed him as a "what should I do, join the LA or continue siding with Zenoira, what about the people, maybe I should bake a pie" character which can look frivolous - and was mostly designed as such, to bring some comic relief to the otherwise heavy Albion arc.

However, given how the pies are baked for his people, who love him for this, maybe I'm pulling strings but Jerome's basically wondering what he should do, and settles on "doing things for my people/helping them", ultimately accepting his execution at Alain's hands... until one of his subordinates (Lotti iirc!) and the town's people he cares so much about, tell the LA that while Jerome has accepted the Zenoiran conquest, he did it quite fast, so Zenoira would have had no reason to bring the fight to the city/target the city and its people.

It's the... complete inverse of the situation Fodoquia was in, and I miss the lack of rapport convo between the two, or a convo between him and Clive.

His rapport convos have him be quite cautious, and in the Alain one, he basically keeps on worrying about his city.

Nigel and his dong armor!

(don't mind the flash)

Apparently the devs are happy to have designed his armor with fake pectoral muscles, and the armor was actually something Arant took from the Sanctuary and gave him when Zenoira invaded?

The timeline/actions of what happened in Albion is a bit muddy though, but at least it means Arant didn't gave up as I first thought and wanted to fight against Zenoira, before realising that he was going to lose (then he had Nigel in his black armor take Scarlett away?).

I've already wrote a bit about the Albion plot and the role both Nigel and Sanation play which feels, uh, really convoluted, especially regarding Scarlett's involvment, to make the party fight in Albion - but bar that, Nigel's mostly a serious knight who wants to protect the Orthodoxy, who's popular with the people of Albion (both knights and randoms).

Unlike Hermann who has the same play time as he does, Nigel, despite being a NPC, is inserted in the artbook with the playable characters, even if he doesn't have any rapport conversation.

Unit wise, Nigel's dark marquess' variant uses a lot of fire and inflicts burns as a status, but unlike Eligor, when he protects his allies, he doesn't penalise them, instead, he gets another free action.

Sanatio is the boss of the Albion arc, thanks to, again, what I feel is the most convoluted story arc written to "have a boss".

His class, feather staff, cannot resurrect people unlike human clerics, but he can heal a lot of HP and even "overheal", aka give more HP than an unit's HP bar. There are also fun stuff like "preventive healing", aka healing an unit before it takes any damage, but given how late he joins, I didn't have a lot of occasions to use him.

As a character, he wants to apologise and atone for having been deceived by Baltro and turned against Scarlett (even if, again, that plot was... something) and basically becomes the unit to reveal that Alain's the saviour (of Albion or of Fevrith?) which, again, brought the "chosen one" plot to a table that definitely didn't need it.

Lack of diversity in his rapport convos hurt him a lot, save for the Ochlys one where it basically becomes a "childish" contest and the random Melisandre one, it's often centered of him feeling like shit after the Albion arc, and wanting to atone.

Maybe because his most important relationship is with Nigel, who cannot have any rapports? IDK.

FWIW though, I really wanted to like using him, but poor character availability and too few interesting rapport convos at first made me meh, until I noticed some part of the fandom's vitriol against the guy which made me laugh a bit.

Baltro is UO's version of FE's "Gharnef archetype", aka an evil sorcerer who plots behind the "Red Emperor's" back to fulfill his own goals, even if, according to the devs, Baltro's movitations are "for the lols" + "for science" + "why not".

His role as a necromancer is only put to the forefront in the Elheim arc when he revives elves to have them fight for him, but imo, it was teased in the Cornian/Drakengard ones with the "mysterious plagues" he brought there.

(maybe they are the ones protecting him or attacking in his animations?)

I guess the reveal that he was going to betray Zenoira/Galvius was foreshadowed in Elheim when we first fight him, because he doesn't have Zenoira's banner! Much like Alcina, Baltro's in this situation for his own goals, he doesn't have any allegeance to Zenoira himself.

Design wise, I like how eery he feels compared to the other characters, even his animations feel "odd", but I'm glad I noticed in my first playthrough how his "dying" animation is actually his lantern's glow growing more and more dim, until it's finally gone.

[tinyfantasminha]

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[bongosinferno]

I'm on episode 5 of the Fallout show; NO WHAT THE HELL I LITERALLY THOUGHT TO MYSELF "MAN I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE THIS SHOW" AND THEN THEY JUST REMOVE THE NCR FROM CANNON. WHY. THAT'S SUCH A FRUSTRATING CHOICE

also STOP PLAYING ON THE NOSE MUSIC I CAN UNDERSTAND THE PLOT WE DON'T NEED CONSTANT 50S MUSIC

[philtatosbuck]

some scream thoughts from a discussion i was having

mindy, chad, tara, amber, liv, wes, ethan, anika and quinn had the potential to be my favorite group of bastards in existence but they separated them and made some of them murderers.

i know richie is also a murderer but idc i think he was so fun. he and sam should've been a murder couple that richie/amber shit was WEIRD

danny should've been their oblivious arm candy bf because that man is pretty jesus

i physically needed to see ethan and wes being soooo fucking annoying to chad 🙏

[lagosbratzdoll]

I feel like I've said this before but I am not a fan of Rhaegar but the way antis talk about him in this fandom is so frustrating. It makes it so difficult to have a nuanced discussion about the man and his failings.

[strunmah-mah]

Saw someone HC that post flashpoint Babs (especially Burnside era) isn't actually Babs but Charlie Gage-Radcliffe with memory issue from the reboot

I'm in love with the idea, make it canon DC. It's wouldn't be the first tome she's been mistaken for Babs girl. Do it!

[lyricailove]

These Roman and Cody takes are funny. Cause the two of them never hated each other or had actual beef. It was all made up by fans on both sides who hate the other. Becky said they hugged each other after Mania. There's been mutual respect the whole time.

[here-there-were-dragons]

i have to wonder what super hardcore militant vegans think should be done about obligate carnivore animals, because in all my painfully-rapidly-approaching-30-years i've literally never actually seen anyone give a clear consistent much less halfway feasible answer on that

[giantkillerjack]

Favorite part about Death Note is that Light gets the Note and IMMEDIATELY becomes a serial killer fascist with a god complex.

No build-up, no Fall From Grace, no slow corruption of a good boy gradually becoming a monster. Just-- SPEED RUN STRATS. And I love that for him.

Tbh, I think there are a lot of folks (especially boys) from my high school days who would have immediately become monsters if given the power of life and death over every person around them.

It's kind of like how when people have apparently casual ableist beliefs, and you push them to elaborate on that just a little bit, they'll often end up openly saying stuff like "well, some people are just too disabled to be worth the resources it takes to support them." - Which is... eugenics. It's just eugenics, justified by the myth of scarcity. Now these folks almost certainly won't call it eugenics, or even think of it that way. But that doesn't make it NOT a core belief of the Nazis.

In a similar way, Light seems like a nice and well-adjusted boy with strong beliefs. No harm in that.

But to paraphrase Lindsay Ellis in her analysis of the Game of Thrones ending, "Power doesn't necessarily corrupt. Power reveals." [I think she was quoting someone else when she said this. It was someone who wrote a biography on LBJ. Whatever. Lindsay said it and she's smart as hell and I recommend her videos.]

And 15 minutes into the Death Note musical, I'm already thinking about how so many beliefs "casually" held by well-adjusted, nice people immediately reveal their monstrousness when talked through to their natural conclusion.

And I wonder how many of those people, given the power of life and death over everyone around them - the power to take their ideas to their natural conclusions - would also immediately reveal how their lack of self-reflection has laid the groundwork for them to become monsters.

[lovesitcomsandgaystuffs]

Since every day yohaji's anime is getting closer and closer this is a reminder that harassing real people about something fictional is not right and that if you see something you don't like the option to block is your best friend.