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[tina-armani]

A conversation with a stranger can turn into dialogue with an intimate friend, if you extend, if you comprehend the endless connection of all organic things. We all want to share, to be shared, to compare ponts of view... hues from a colorful life...

It's simple really, it takes an ear. A willing ear and the lack of fear to learn another's narrative. A story that could dramatically affect our own...

We are not alone... Fellow journeymen are to be found in every situation. Sometimes all it takes is a simple hello...

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These are not my words. These are Walton's words, from his trip to India in Feb/March of 2009. He talked about this trip in many interviews, admitting he was in a painful place when he went. It was a journey of healing, redemption and emotional rebirth.

He took many photos and wrote a diary, which he chose to keep public and share with all of us who cares enough to read. I feel one cannot really know Walton if one hasn't read this. It's pretty unformatted, sometimes words are misspelled, as if he was writing in a hurry, afraid to lose a thought. But it reads like a beautiful flow of pure emotion straight from his soul and I love it. The experience and the feeling behind it.. here's his blog:

Start with Feb 20 and work your way backwards.;))

[petricorah]

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

[kittykyryi]

I was explaining this to someone earlier and I don't think I've seen enough people talk about it, but the kids getting four pearls instead of three was actually a really great writing choice. Did anything change? No. Did we all know one of them was gonna break/get lost? Yes absolutely. However, the fourth pearl wasn't about the story. It was about Poseidon. It was about him also being desperate to save the woman he loves. Watch him and Sally in ep 7 and tell me he wouldn't try his hardest to save her too?? It's such a significant insight into him that paired with the scenes we've gotten this episode, tell us so much about him and his relationship with Sally that we don't get to figure out until later in the books.

[tryingonametaphor]

when they make byler canon i’m so sure that all the duffers are gonna say in an interview is “we’ve been planning this for a while. if you go back and watch the seasons you may pick up on some things you didn’t before” and just move on to the next topic

[the-magpie-collective]

Wyll seems to be the only companion who intentionally and repeatedly uses the mindflayer tadpole to communicate. I did a quick search through the dialogue files and the only other instance I found was at the beginning of Act I, when Lae'zel is captured by the tieflings, she'll use the tadpole to demand you free her.

And yet, Wyll is one of the companions most against using the tadpole's powers. Arguably, I'd say he's more against it than anyone save for Lae'zel. Which is why I find it so interesting that out of all of companions, Wyll is the one to latch onto and make use of this facet of the tadpole's powers.

The first time Wyll can use the tadpole is when Mizora bids him to rescue Zariel's asset. If the Player succeeds on their perception check, they can bargain with Mizora to free Wyll from his pact. Wyll link his mind with the Player's Character in panic, demanding to know "What are you doing?"

Then again when Wyll is finally reunited with his father, he uses the tadpole to show his father why he pacted with Mizora. Instead of explaining in his own words, he shows him the cultists as they attempt to summon Tiamat into Baldur's Gate. He'll do the same for the Player Character if his father isn't saved, even when he is freed from his pact and could say it in his own words. If the PC refuses to let Wyll show them, he will explain it, but clearly prefers to use the tadpole.

Finally, Wyll will also use the tadpole to bid farewell if he has a falling out with the player character, telling the player "Godspeed, and may your journey be true."

For Wyll, who had spent the last seven years under a devil's thumb, this narrative choice to use the tadpoles to communicate is telling. One thing all of these scenes have in common is that they all emotionally charged moments. They are also moments in which, in my opinion, it is very important for Wyll to convey his sincerity. Wyll has spent the last seven years always dancing around the truth and now here comes along a power where not only can he tell the truth, he can show the truth as he sees it, so that there is much less risk of being misunderstood. A power like that has to be irresistible.

Just another thing I wish was explored more in depth in game.

Edit: Thank you to everyone who pointed out instances when other characters also use the tadpoles to communicate <3

Turns out Wyll/Lae'zel's writer is the only one who bothered to use proper tagging in the dialogue system ('MINDMELD' if you're curious). This is why I can never find what I'm looking for in the dialogue files smh

[pilotlala]

A lot has been made of how season 2 suffered from the budget cuts, from not having enough time to fully explore the characters and relationships. But in spite of it all, perhaps the most complicated, interior, and subtle arc of season 2, Ed's exploration of his fractured identities and struggle to integrate the different parts of himself, is crystal clear yet never over-wrought. I am in awe of the skillful writing and Taika's moving, nuanced performance.

[disgruntled-screaming]

Keith being able to reach the spiritual field or whatever it's called should have been something for Lance. I am so tired.

I love Keith, don't get me wrong. But my god the amount of favoritism Keith got by the writers showed.

Lance deserves better.

[thecalminside]

If you wish for insight, go deeper.

If you wish for wisdom, go deeper.

If you wish for peace, go deeper.

If you wish for understanding, forgiveness.

Oneness, and unconditional love.

Go deeper.

Deeper within yourself.

[sparkyblizz]

you know what, I should write a blackbright fic in which when real Bobby wakes up from his coma or whatever (classic) and meets Simon for the first time Simon literally grabs his face and feels it (to make sure it's real but in the moment Bobby is just stunned) and from then on Bobby is into him

this would probably be good for like an emotional? angst? moment later but brief comedic moment at first I love my comedy and my emotional moments—hey I already did something similar in another fic didn't I

my tags are a little bit silly today fair warning

[emmaswanned]

"the writer - maybe he was a victim. the cult using his words. or maybe he was the monster behind it all. either way, alice wake, his ex, knew things."

[per1w1nkl3]

spock's characterization in requiem for methuselah is actually quite interesting. he shows a very good understanding of human emotion, he understands the dudes plan before anyone else, he observes his jealousy (i wonder if it is at all connected to what he himself might (try not to) feel), rayna's love and in the infamous ending scene he understands his captains pain and goes to the extreme to ease it. by his own admittance he himself is 'close to feeling human emotion', that is when he sees the flint's amazing art collection- because oh yes btw he loves (or at least he's very knowledgeable about) music and figurative art. amd then oh god an then the fucking 'you'll never understand love. the broken rules, the glorious victories, the highs and lows of high-school football' bones speech but the thing is. he does. he really does. and he shows it in the most obvious blatant way

[runespoor7]

nothing ever did as much wrong to fight scenes than the writing advice that writers should only write short sentences focusing on the action because (supposedly) that drives home that it's a fast-paced exchange of actions.

and that's how you end with a list of actions that are drier and blander than a script and absolutely no sense of urgency, danger or physicality. Why do I care if the main character is kicked into the chest if the writer doesn't tell me that it cuts off their breath, that pain lances through their arm, that blood splashes across their face when they spear an enemy through, that the warm copper smell fills their nostrils?

[borgialucrezia]

the borgias is my favorite show and i think it's the best show ever made and all. however, there's just this one aspect that is genuinely hilarious to me and i mostly criticize the show for. the writers suddenly trying to make the viewers massively despise juan by turning against him and disingenuously writing him in his final moments so the watchers won't miss him or sympathize with him by making him a walking danger as an excuse to kill him off and prop up cesare's character. they wanted the audience to root for cesare at juan's expense and make his death seem necessary lol. they truly thought they served with this one, like maybe juan's character was shamefully abandoned by the writers (as well as his family except for rodrigo) but david oakes had many people sold with the way he played him to perfection, improvising and making juan remarkable, tremendous, and humane. the show is obviously a classic masterpiece, but in my opinion about the juan part, simply rushing the writing of a tragic dying character on a show for weak reasons is pure disrespect.

[irhen07]

Okay so apparently Dua Lipa recently recommended the book Bad Habit (la mala costumbre) which is a novel written by spanish trans writer Alana S. Portero. It's an incredibly beautiful story about class and trans solidarity that talks about growing up trans in the spanish 80's. I'm not joking when I say that this book quickly jumped to my top 3 favorite books ever. I can't put into words how much the novel moved me. It's so insightful and hopeful, and even when it's hard to read at times the novel manages keeps its tone full of love and optimism. It will warm you inside.

Honestly I can't recommend it enough. I think the book deserves more recognition and I think anyone would enjoy reading it. Idk just read Bad Habit

[daenystheedreamer]

Hiii !

What do you think about lucemond ?

I hate it but I want to know what other people think

i have no hate in my heart (lying) and i understand entirely where it comes from i agree there is like a modicum of juice there toxic yaoi whatever i get it. honestly i dont care i think its funny. BUT. i grimace because A) spite that they beat out every other ship on ao3 (excluding daemyra) (including RHAENICENT!) B) very classic stripping all characterisation and turning a ship into a dynamic that you can project anything onto C) i think they were a bit weird about the underage actor for luke who i believe is 18 now but its feels weird to even make that distinction D) pretending luke is anything other than a nice boy who dies and you feel bad cos hes a nice boy who died and now everyone has to go to war. yes you can have educated headcanons based on extrapolation of the plot/subtext but dont lie to me and tell me luke was a sensual siren or wicked politician or uke ingenue or whatever. E) i think aemond is a bottom and most of them dont agree

[solomonara]

I was looking for a good screenshot of gloom spawn to show a friend who hasn't played totk, and I noticed something I never got close enough to see before (because if there's a gloom spawn I am up a tree a mile away firing bomb arrows before you can say 'complete the compendium')

Spoilers ahead.

This screenshot is from Nintendo via Polygon (source), so I assume it hasn't been edited.

The hands are wearing rings.

The rings look like the rings on Link's borrowed hand. They do NOT look like the rings Ganon is wearing - his are on the index and middle fingers only.

TOTK has a pretty heavy emphasis on hands. There's Rauru's hand, of course, but also the very near miss of Link grabbing for Zelda at the beginning of the game (using his decayed hand specifically), which is finally rectified at the end when he IS able to grab her as she falls.

Consider also the obvious connotations of depression associated with gloom sickness.

I had been assuming that gloom spawn were extensions of Ganon, especially given Phantom Ganon, but this makes me think that perhaps the gloom spawn are supposed to be a representation of Link's fears and general state of mind - of his own hands betraying him when it mattered most.