#basically in this house there's just one rule

[irunaki]

You mentioned gods when you showed us the OC map, may we see some?

YIPIII!!!!!!

So: I still need to organise things but here's the rough idea

There are 2 main religions around the islands and then there's like 30 more little ones that for now I don't think I'll develop much cuz I'm lazy

All the Gods from all the religions live together in the first sun (there's 2 sun's in case u didn't read the first oc thing)

Humans are the only ones whose Gods were denied bc since they fight too much abt it Gods decided they didn't deserve to have their help (whomp whomp)

But there's some Gods that are commun in every religion, just changing some small things

So the principal is the 1st sun God, cuz its the most important sun

Then some religions have all the suns in one god and all the moons in one god and other have a different god for each sun and each moon

Then theres like gods for everything

So the gods ill show here i didnt decide what religion they are specifically but they are from one of the 2 principal ones

(This drawong its old thos sucks)

Soo this is Aik he is one of the love Gods

He is the God of romantic love, he has a sister that is of family love and a brother that is of carnal love aka lust his father is of kindness/affection yk those types of things and his mother is of of birth and children and all that

I have the designs for his siblings and I should start making the ones for his parents soo ya

Bad English but ya

Look at the boy :3 he's like a big brother for all the other Gods, specially for the sun and moon ones but he isn't like the one who rules it all arl this is not like Zeus also he asks consent

Ok so thus is the lover it talked on the page above (his design inst finished yet)

then we have these two cuties

So the first one is the God of chaos, confusion, pretty much anything that doesn't make sense (they actually go down to the mortal World just to mess with things like randomly giving someone wings or turning your house upside down xd) I haven't decide their name yet cuz they go by too many names

Hes not a bad guy btw hes just silly like think of Discord from mlp when fluttershy alr made him good.

the second one is Afhria, and she's basically the opposite of them, Goddess of organisation, preparations also associated with luck, prosperity and education

ok so this one is Rokha and hes the "auxiliar " God like he is the one to be called when its going on like a ritual or a sacrifice or smr like that hes the one here tp help it go well and assure it gets to the God the mortals are trying to comunicate with (he's a sweetheart)

Hes also associates with things going well and luck

this is the early concept for Womm, the God of the starts but it's not finished so his design will probably change a lot yet

Heres a Aik paper doll I made btw

And here's some other concepts

1- Aik and his brother

2-Surya and two of his brothers but I didn't finish their design

3-Afhria and the Chaos :3

TYSM FOR THE ASK!!!!! ill try to develop the other gods cuz I have a looot of concepts but never actually continued them

[accio-victuuri]

read a book for me. 📚

inspired by people who were curious about the books featured in xz’s video, let’s take a look at what they are. i’d like to think these were pre approved by XZ and are related to his interests. i’m not removing tge possibility that one of these were chosen by someone from xzs or the director himself. i’m tagging this as cpn because there will be some cpn. if you don’t wanna go that route and just enjoy learning about the titles featured, then go ahead. 😉

1. Restoration House by Kennesha Bucks

You don't have to live in your dream house to make your living spaces feel more like home. Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul. In Restoration House, author and designer Kennesha Buycks will encourage you to embrace your home and your story so you can create mindful spaces that give life to you, your loved ones, and all who enter.

2. LORI WILDE

that red book just says the author’s name and no actual title but if you look her up, she’s all about that romance novel. here is her website if you wanna know what i mean. if you move a bit, the spine of it says “boy” so i think it maybe one of those books that has the cowboys in it!

3. Next is LIT UP, which is a black book. I’m not so sure if it’s a real book and when you search it, there are a couple of contenders. Tho i personally gravitate towards p2 since it’s black and the plot of the story is something i think XZ will enjoy!

it says out of the cubicle and into the real world, it’s like him getting out of his work cubicle years ago and discovering the world.

book overview:

Eddy Gilmore found himself on society’s fringe after being exiled from Corporate America. Despite years of higher education and exemplary service inside a cubicle’s pixelated world, he had no tangible or transferable skills to offer his community. Amazingly, failure was the door into tapping dreams and gifts that had long been ignored as impractical.

This true to life adventure is a pilgrimage into the real world, a place where neighbors make and produce things that sustain life and bring joy. When their eyes were opened to the talents all around them, Eddy and his wife discovered how to produce value themselves, and sank roots into the community. By working together, they are building a life they might never need to retire from.

4. The Interior Design Handbook

Frida Ramstedt believes in thinking about how we decorate, rather than focusing on what we decorate with. We know more today than ever before about design trends, furniture, and knickknacks, and now Frida familiarizes readers with the basic principles behind interior and styling—what looks good and, most of all, why it looks good.

The Interior Design Handbook teaches you general rules of thumb—like what the golden ratio and the golden spiral are, the proper size for a coffee table in relation to your sofa, the optimal height to hang lighting fixtures, and the best ways to use a mood board—complete with helpful illustrations. Use The Interior Design Handbook to achieve a balanced, beautiful home no matter where you live or what your style is.

5. Limits of the Known

A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present.

David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity’s—and his own—relationship to extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many have committed their lives to the desperate pursuit of adventure.

In the wake of his diagnosis with throat cancer, Roberts seeks answers with sharp new urgency. He explores his own lifelong commitment to adventuring, as well as the cultural contributions of explorers throughout history: What specific forms of courage and commitment did it take for Fridtjof Nansen to survive an eighteen-month journey from a record "farthest north" with no supplies and a single rifle during his polar expedition of 1893–96? What compelled Eric Shipton to return, five times, to the ridges of Mt. Everest, plotting the mountain’s most treacherous territory years before Hillary and Tenzing’s famous ascent? What drove Bill Stone to dive 3,000 feet underground into North America’s deepest cave?

What motivates the explorers we most admire, who are willing to embark on perilous journeys and push the limits of the human body? And what is the future of adventure in a world we have mapped and trodden from end to end?

6. Eat, Drink, Nap: Bringing the House Home

The quintessential style, cooking, and home interior book from Soho House, the world's leading members' club.

Since the first Soho House opened its doors over 25 years ago, we've learnt a bit about what works. Contemporary, global yet with something quintessentially English and homely at its heart, this is Soho House style explained by its experts:

- From planning a room to vintage finds: bringing the Soho House look home.

- Our House curator's advice on how to buy, collect and hang art.

- The art of a great night's sleep: how to design the perfect bedroom.

- No-fuss recipes and chef's tips: here's how to make your favourite House dishes.

- Inside Babington: our take on country-house living. Wellies optional.

- Flip-flop glamour and poolside style from Soho House Miami Beach.

- All the secrets of cocktail hour: House tonics and barman's tips.

- Spa treatment at home, DIY facials and chocolate brownies.

Eat Drink Nap, a 300-page highly illustrated book, with a foreword from founder Nick Jones, and photography from leading food and interiors photographers Mark Seelen and Jean Cazals, shares the Soho House blueprint for stylish, modern living, the Soho House way.

7. Styled

It’s easy to find your own style confidence once you know this secret: While decorating can take months and tons of money, styling often takes just minutes. Even a few little tweaks can transform the way your room feels.

At the heart of Styled are Emily Henderson’s ten easy steps to styling any space. From editing out what you don’t love to repurposing what you can’t live without to arranging the most eye-catching vignettes on any surface, you’ll learn how to make your own style magic.

With Emily’s style diagnostic, insider tips, and more than 1,000 unique ideas from 75 envy-inducing rooms, you’ll soon be styling like you were born to do it.

8. The other book i’m seeing is WINTER TID then it cuts off so again it’s tricky to confirm what it is! My best guess is WINTER TIDE but if you google that — i can’t connect how XZ will read that lol.

EDIT: adding this one seen from the alternate MV,

The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice

is a vampire novel by American writer Anne Rice, the fourth in her The Vampire Chronicles series, following The Queen of the Damned (1988). Published in 1992, it continues the adventures of Lestat, specifically his efforts to regain his lost humanity during the late 20th century.

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now let’s look at the CPN.

i see fans saying the style related books could be because of his work before. but he is more of a digital and design artist right? he does logos and stuff that can help their brand identity. i don’t remember him being an interior designer. there is also the eat, drink, nap which has topics on cooking and being a good host. these books are making me clown so hard! my head canon is xz is keeping himself busy ( as if he is not busy enough already ) with designing their home. his and wyb’s — if that wasn’t clear enough, that’s what i’m insinuating. if he isn’t traveling, i would imagine he is the type who just wants to spend time at home in between jobs. it is their home. their sanctuary. so xz would make sure that it is according to what they both want and that it’s stylish.

and when he is at home sipping wine, while waiting for Bobo, is he reading a LORI WILDE BOOK? lol. sexy millionaire cowboy you say? 👀👀👀👀

😂😂😂😂😂

or reading something like the LIT UP book which is more up his alley ( but again i’m not sure if this is the exact title )

what is out of place is limits of the known. out of place compared to the theme of the other books, but xz is someone who is into nature and climbing of sorts. but i haven’t seen him climb the way yibo did in ETU. the most popular cpn is that this is yibo’s contribution to the selection. or maybe he read it after yibo and liked it. OR he is also becoming interested in rock climbing — which is not a far off possibility.

-END.

[lilithofpenandbook]

To add to the whole "Oh, Sirius knew better and he grew up with blood purists", did he though?

Did he actually know better? Because look at his actions: he, for seven years straight, abused another child who was 1) poorer than poor 2) in a different House and 3) a half-blood who's basically a muggleborn. If you didn't know Sirius and what he said, if you only knew him in Hogwarts, you'd see no difference in him and the rest of his family because his target is exactly the sort of person blood purists would target. And the reason I say Snape's as good a muggleborn as Lily is because he clearly did not grow up in a magic household despite his mother being a witch; the house was clearly ruled by his magic-hating muggle father, and he grew up in the very muggle town of Cokeworth. He didn't grow up with magic, just stories of it from his mum at best. The only advantage he had over Lily was that he knew about the magical world, but he was never part of it until adulthood either. Would a rich pure-blood ever bother about the technical detail that his mother was a witch (and even there we don't know what her blood status was- for all we know she was a muggleborn or the child of muggleborns, hence the marriage to a muggle, and Severus is called a half-blood because he's got one magic and one non-magic parent)? Nope, he's just as much of a mudblood as the others. Worse, he's poor. The Weasleys got looked down for despite their blood purity due to their poverty, and he was poorer than them.

And so Sirius targeting Snape makes him look exactly like the rest of his family, or at the very least no better. All talk, no substance.

And here's another reason Sirius can never really be compared to Snape: Sirius isn't a victim of abuse the same way Severus is.

Of course he ended up being disowned. Of course his mother's portrait verbally abuses him. But he's the one who ran away, prompting being disowned. And he had a place to go, he always did: James Potter. Who was equally rich. Sirius, due to his wealth and blood status, had options even if he had been kicked out. Even at eleven, he would have probably been taken in by the Potters. And being at home for less than two months at any time means the abuse he did face at home would end. Also, magic. He could still use magic at home if needed. And I don't think it was ever confirmed that his parents physically abused him. Just that they disapproved of him.

Severus? First he was poor, traumatic in and of itself with that sheer level of poverty, having absolutely nothing. Then he had a neglectful and abused mother, and an abusive father. And then in Hogwarts he had the abuse from the other boys. And no name, no money, nothing, along with the stigma of Slytherin. He really had nothing and no where to go.

And here's the other thing. The people on the "good" side were his primary abusers. You think he's really going to decide what's wrong and right from that perspective? In his experience, muggles were bad. In his experience, the people who openly supported muggleborns were bad. In what universe is he still going to join that side?

The death eaters gave him something. Shelter, food, work. It was probably the best he could have had. And that's taking aside the pressure, grooming, and persuasion his peers would have given him.

Trauma aside, Severus was of the lowest class. Sirius was of the highest. Severus would never have the opportunities Sirius would. He's always been at a disadvantage. Sirius did have the position to choose. Severus did not.

What would have happened if Severus said no, he wasn't going to do it? He'd probably have been abused in the Slytherin house. And after Hogwarts where would he go? Back to Cokeworth? Or on the streets of the wizarding world?

When you actually take both of their situations into account, you realise that you cannot compare the two. Sirius, despite the abuse, has advantages Severus, despite the abuse, will never have. No amount of parental love and support would have given Severus any place in either the wizarding or the muggle world- he might have actually joined the DE hoping to find a way to provide for his parents in that scenario. And we can't forget the influence of Slytherin house and the stigma people had against it. Had Snape been placed in either Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff, he may have had a bit more of an advantage and a bit more of a support system that could prevent his going down the death eater path, but when it comes down to it, Sirius had the advantage Severus did not.

As for the Nazi comparison, first of all you could compare ANY evil group to the Nazis in some way or form. Secondly, the Death Eaters actually have a point in a way. Their desire for blood protection makes sense when you see how muggles historically treated magical people, especially children. Oh, sure, adult witches and wizards would be safe, but what about children? Or sick people? Or fools who leave their wands on the couch? They'd be in danger. The death eaters aren't the Nazis. They're more like the anti-nazis, if anything, that have gone so far extreme that they've almost circled right back to Nazism. Almost. But ultimately, the Death Eaters firstly aren't even blood supremacists, they're Voldemort's cult, and he built it using their fears of muggles, a very founded fear.

You can even argue that disliking muggleborn witches and wizards is actually founded in logic too- a muggleborn witch/wizard means there's a magical person among muggles, in a muggle family, a potential for their kind to be exposed to the wrong people. By the time Harry Potter is fighting Voldemort, the original fears are twisted very far into a point of supremacy, and Voldemort has twisted their original meaning into a cult. That's why Regulus betrayed him: not because he stopped believing in blood purity, but because Voldemort was entirely self serving and didn't give a crap about the cause he was leading.

I do not know a lot about Nazism, beyond what I studied for GCSE history. And yeah, the very basic concept is similar (the superiority of a certain people), it's really not the same thing. Firstly because skin colour is a stupid thing to base any sort of supremacy on (the whole concept of racism is stupid, fym some people are better than others based on what you look like?), and secondly the whole blood-purity thing genuinely makes me think more of upper classes in bygone times (maybe still today too) who desperately wanted to keep their blood "pure" (hence marrying into the same families, something pure-bloods do) instead of mixing with the "common folk". Classism has always been a thing here in the UK, and it goes so ridiculously far (grammar rules/spelling rules/"correct" accents/etiquette? Yeah, some of it was made specifically so that "common" folk couldn't blend with the upper classes) too. If anything, the blood purists are extremely classist (in my opinion anyway, I don't know if I have enough knowledge on the subject to be correct). And Voldemort used said classism to his advantage.

And even if I'm wrong and they are Nazis, so what? Does Snape being part of that cult for three years at the most mean that he's forever a nazi? Does the fact that he betrayed Voldemort for someone he loved take away from the fact that he changed? His past is not the present of the story. The present has him having done a complete redemption from it! Sometimes I think people confuse a healing arc for a redemption arc- Snape redeemed himself but without healing himself, he was angry and bitter while still good because while his morality was changed and "fixed", the trauma that broke it in the first place was still there. Plus, like many have said he is not a "perfect" victim (something Harry also gets punished for by fandom, look how they call him annoying in one of the books, I think it's ootp, because in that book he was angry and traumatised, like Snape).

Calling Death Eaters Nazis is stupid. Saying people getting DE tattoos and saying said tattoos is a sign of Nazism is stupid. It is fictional, and a lot of people enjoy villains. Saying Snape is STILL a Nazi, even after it's explicitly written that he's changed, is stupid.

One thing I can't stand is how Marauders fans always bring up that Severus was a Death Eater and call him a Nazi. Like, he wasn't a Nazi! He spent years saving people and regretted it almost immediately! They made me so mad grrr

I think the problem with this fandom is that most people in it are very young, sometimes even teenagers, who don’t have a broad perspective on life or the world in general, and they tend to see everything in black and white. Of course, joining the Death Eaters was wrong, but many young people (especially vulnerable ones like Severus) fall into extremist groups or associate with terrible people at an early age.

One of my best friends today was part of a far-right political group when I first met her at 18. Today, she’s a social worker, and her ideas couldn’t be more opposite to what they were back then. But she came from a family that was literally part of a religious cult, and it was what she thought she was supposed to do. Then she went to university, broadened her perspective, cut ties with that nonsense, and now she dedicates her life to helping vulnerable youth.

I’m a criminal defense lawyer and work with an organization that helps people reintegrate into society after serving time in prison. I’ve heard all kinds of stories. And when I say all kinds, I’m not talking about people who just shoplifted once; I mean people who’ve lived incredibly messed-up lives and made terrible decisions. But the thing is, I’ve met people whose histories are absolutely horrendous, yet today they’re as harmless as teddy bears. People can change, especially young people who didn’t have good role models, emotional support, or resources.

Young people, particularly those abandoned by adults or left to fend for themselves, are especially vulnerable to going down the wrong path. You have to understand the context, see beyond the tree and look at the whole forest. That’s something Marauders fans refuse to do, because if they did, they’d have to admit that, yes, Severus was incredibly vulnerable, that he didn’t have resources or support, and that the rich kids who had everything chose to torment him to the point where his only escape was to align himself with the only people who accepted him and made him feel safe. Unfortunately, those people turned out to be a bunch of extremists with horrible ideas. But that doesn’t fit their narrative—or maybe they just can’t grasp it yet because they’ve still got a lot of growing up to do.

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

I hate the fandom notion that Martin chose Dany as one of his main heroes to make her stand out among the supposed vile Targaryens and that she'll break the wheel of her again supposed tyrannical ancestors.

Martin has dedicated a lot of time fleshing out the Targaryens with all his side book projects featuring them and they in these projects they aren't portrayed as evil caricatures. Some of them are bad people, some are good, some are efficient leaders with good morals, some while being good at ruling are bad in their personal relationships etc. Basically, they are complex human beings just like all the characters Martin writes.

And House Targaryen as a whole isn't more "evil" than House Lannister or House Stark or any other House of nobles in this series.

Again, it's the fans who project their negative feelings towards the Targs and believe that since they don't like them and find them "a rotten family" so does the author. But that is not supported by canon.

[meimi-haneoka]

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Hello and welcome to my main blog, my little home where I share my love for Cardcaptor Sakura and CLAMP works to the world! ✨

I'm Cinzia, she/her, Italian. Aged in a barrel of hyperfixations and daydreams. You might wonder, why this blog url if this is mainly a CCS blog? Well, when I opened this blog more than 10 years ago I was heavily focused on Kaitou Saint Tail, but when I started posting more and more about CCS, at some point I realized it was too late to change url or all the links to the posts I had shared around would become broken.

Regardless! I have closely followed the serialization of Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card ever since it began and my monthly commentary became something more when I realized the official English translation wasn't doing justice (to use an euphemism) to the original Japanese version. My friends and other fans in general were left confused and misguided by the countless translation mistakes (some to the point of changing the plot), so I started pointing them out in my monthly posts.

I also post other kind of stuff, like reports of CLAMP Spaces when they talk about CCS, or long time ago I posted summaries of interviews with the staff of the Clear Card anime. I plan to eventually translate those fully, considering my skills with Japanese language improved since then. But please remember that "English is not my first language" etc etc., so if some sentences sound weird, you already know why. Now that the manga is over, I post with irregular schedule some in-depth analysis and trivia about the story, examining one topic at a time. Despite being a CLAMP fan and loving other stories as well, I chose to focus on and dedicate myself to CCS in particular, due to time and limited mental resources. Thinking about following me? That's great, thank you! ✨ But if there's an idiom I love, it's "good fences make good neighbours", so please make sure to understand what kind of blog you're about to follow. I consider this my fandom home so additionally to those posts I mentioned above, I also unapologetically post about the ships I love. I love to analyze, I like to theorize. I don't disguise, I don't tiptoe.

I am a CCS fan born in SyaoSaku, and reborn with YunaAki, with currently a preference for the latter ones. If you're curious to know what my POV on this pairing is, you can get a very clear idea looking at my #yunaaki and #cosmos & crystals hashtags . If for any reason that's not ok with you, you're absolutely free to unfollow or even block me. In fact, I encourage you to do so. I'm here on this site to enjoy what I like, not to make anyone miserable. Unkind asks will be ignored; attempts to "lecture me" about what is acceptable and what not, what I can like and what not will probably be laughed at (I'm old for this stuff, it doesn't work with me). On the contrary, if you like YunaAki too, you'll be more than welcome here! Send me a message to share our headcanons! ✨

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Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card: commentary + translation differences

(started at chapter 41 because that's when I got access to ENG scans) Collected under the hashtag #translation differences . The first posts might be a bit overzealous, as I was getting the hang of it. TBA: I have a bigger project for this in the works, an easier way to browse through all the relevant translation differences, divided by chapters and volumes, starting by chapter 1 (even marked by severity).

41 || 42 || 43 || 44 || 45 || 46 || 47 || 48 || 49 || 50 || 51 || 52 || 53 || 54 || 55 || 56 || 57 || 58 || 59 || 60 || 61 || 62 || 63 || 64 || 65 || 66 || 67 || 68 || 69 || 70 || 71 || 72 || 73 || 74 || 75 || 76 || 77 || 78 || 79 || 80 || Epilogue || Short stories 01 || 02 || 03 || 04 || 05 ||

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Trivia series

All about Clear Card, from the most mundane trivia to the deepest thematics presented in it. Collected under the hashtag #clear card trivia .

Clear Card Trivia 1 ~ Literary and musical references/mentions in Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card

Clear Card Trivia 2 ~ Alice in Clockland and its meaning in Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card

Clear Card Trivia 3 ~ Sakura's journey of growth and self-understanding throughout Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card

Clear Card Trivia 4 ~ The most ancient Magicians of Europe, the Magic Association and their role in Clear Card

Clear Card Trivia 5 ~ Real life models of buildings featured in Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card 🆕

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Timeline

An easy-to-read timeline of the events and facts depicted in Clear Card, placed correctly in chronological order inside the bigger Cardcaptor Sakura story.

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Timeline

English translations of short stories and Drama CDs

Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card BD vol. 8 one shot

Card Captor Sakura Clear Card Arc - Drama CD part 1

Card Captor Sakura Clear Card Arc - Drama CD part 2

Clear Card manga volume 10 Special Edition bonus - Mini Book

Sakura & Syaoran parallels in CCS and TRC

Discontinued, even though I know there are more. Who knows, maybe one day I'll continue it! Collected under the hashtag #syaosaku parallels .

1 ~Hands~ || 2 ~Pinky Promises~ || 3 ~Hugs~ || 4 ~”Tell me”~ || 5 ~Desperate hug~ || 6 ~Scream and shout~

CLAMP Space reports

Reports and in some cases translation of entire chunks of conversation from CLAMP Spaces on Twitter. These are all the bits relative to CCS/Clear Card and there's lots of insights/production process tidbits on Clear Card.

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Interviews with the Clear Card anime staff and cast

Highlights and recaps of the interviews released during the period of broadcasting of the Clear Card anime. If you want to know what kind of feelings and ideas Clear Card was made with, as well as the origin of the 25th anniversary project (which turned into Clear Card), check these out. I plan to translate these entirely, so this list is only temporary, waiting for the complete interviews.

Interview with CCS Clear Card producer Chiyo Kawazoe in Animage 12/2017

Morio Asaka x Sakura Tange interview in Newtype 05/2018

Highlights of Morio Asaka’s interview in the Starter Book

Interview with Yukana (Meiling’s VA) in Animage 06/2018

Interview with Sakura Tange and Motoko Kumai in Animage 07/2018

Interview with Sho Saito (Nakayoshi editor) and Nozomi Matsuura (CCS copyrights manager) in Animedia 07/2023 (full interview)

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[prideprejudce]

AU Reds Poster: Alicent joins Rhaenrya as her advisor and wife after escaping her father's influence.

She escapes Kings Landing with Helaena and her grandchildren just in time. Unfortunately, her father has already sunk his teeth into her two sons who are ready to fight for their right to the iron throne. How will Alicent choose between her family and her beloved Rhaenyra when the time comes?

[wingedshadowfan]

and this isn't to say that caitlyn never wanted to become commander, that she didn't have a choice in it or that she was always planning to turn on ambessa. and I'll look into those points separately because they don't undermine her decision in that moment.

1) caitlyn wanted to become a commander bcuz she didn't know what it'd mean and what it'd be like. she probably arrogantly thought she had more control over the situation and more independence from ambessa (her little house kiramman guide she opened with the key she inherited), that she could easily and quickly catch jinx and send her to stillwater or kill her and "any still loyal to silco" without stirring anything in zaun. she didn't expect that nobody in the undercity would know where tf jinx is (stuck in a cave taking care of isha), and that she'd become a symbol of the resistance in the meantime so people would... resist. caitlyn didn't want to hurt innocents but her hands were tied if she wanted to catch this incredibly unstable, violent and dangerous individual who'd attempted to blow her up twice, kidnapped her and asked vi to kill her (we still don't know what happened to caitlyn before vi got there but she hasn't been the same when it came to jinx since), she blew up her mother and half the council and presumably also ruined the statue ceremony and rallied the undercity against piltover. so don't hit me with the "why did she want to kill jinx" or say she was in the wrong for it.

2) there are always choices.

but this was admittedly a hard one and no one seems to have sensed the implications of ambessa taking the rains - her being the person on the inside for the zaunites who ruined the statue ceremony, salo wrapped around her finger calling up the most influential families in piltover, and her, counselor mel's literal warmonger mother (the epitome of authority) who gave her piltover to rule over, holding a speech that basically said "you will declare martial law against zaun rn bcuz i say they're threatening you. you will employ one of yours as a commander (and i'll choose who it is) and i'll generously lend them the resource of my army (making them dependant on me, directly controlling and green-lighting their every decision and breathing down their neck) to fight this war" and then everybody starts beating their chests, including caitlyn's own people. picture it: you've just lost your mother and had her statue ceremony turned into a massacre, your gf chose the incredibly destructive psycho killer who killed your mother and almost killed her and you a few times (after offering to kill jinx herself and telling you to "take the shot"), and this incredibly destructive psycho killer? very much still on the loose. what do you do? everyone's watching. waiting on you to be "a pillar of your community", "decorated officer, leader of house kiramman", the daughter of a deceased counselor. what do you do?

3) she always wanted to turn on ambessa

i think 1) sums up why i don't think she had that intention since the start + the fact that ambessa isn't a random person, she's an incredibly powerful fighter, influential in politics, tactical in war among other things and caitlyn probably thought highly of her and wanted to learn from her (them sparring) before having to work with her up close where she had the chance to see ambessa was unnecessarily brutal and ruthless, had a general disregard for the law when pursuing her goals, was sneaky and manipulative (this even maddie seems to sense because she kept reminding caitlyn it's her call, which, in a vacuum, would've been true). it's literally an idealist cop and a pragmatic warmonger, of course they wouldn't work well together. this tension betw the two of them has been building up for however long the time skip was. because caitlyn is the other face of ambessa's coin in some ways - she's also tactical, knowledgeable, but she's lawful, merciful, has a strong moral compass, etc

⚠️arcane s2 act ii spoilers⚠️

"caitlyn switching sides immediately when vi calls her cupcake again" "caitlyn double crossing her mentor ambessa out of the blue" "caitlyn and vi haven't talked or seen each other in months" "caitlyn randomly changing her mind" SHUT UP

if singed didn't manage to get warwick out his way (which would've still likely made warwick go berserk causing casualties and/or even losing the remainder of vander), ambessa's army of trained warriors, because notice there weren't any enforcers w/ them, would've raided a village of pacifists who don't have a single weapon, in order to catch and tame a monster that can and has turned a dozen people to bacon in minutes undoubtedly to employ it against other innocents (which caitlyn never wanted happening btw, even in her pursuit of jinx and her personal revenge, she thought it was taking too long and being too violent and destructive, which we saw caused tension betw her and ambessa), not to mention caitlyn called singed a monster and we don't quite see her changing her mind after seeing the dead daughter he does animal testing in order to immortalize, she'd alr confronted ambessa for her and her himbo's methods (warmongers not following the lawful procedures, who's surprised), and if in the midst of me potentially spying on ambessa and her people vi of all ppl falls from the sky to say this "monster" is her dad (considering caitlyn is still deeply grieving her mother and has been under the impression vi's dad is dead) and that the village prophet will turn him to a man again (effectively neutralizing a potentially uncontrollable and very severe threat) like i'm sorry but if i was caitlyn and had to act immediately under a time crunch, i'd also go straight to "here's where the guards are placed, i'll walk you in as a hostage" it was the perfect moment to betray ambessa to diverge attention (and it would've worked if jayce hadn't blown a hole through viktor's chest, which i'm actually not exactly blaming him for doing to a eugenics enthusiast) - w/ the help of vi and in the urgency of needing to figure out how to save all those people by herself (and in the undercity too bcuz it's a relatively neutral ground and caitlyn can't go quite back home after this unless she kills ambessa or smth) and why couldn't she have done it before? the stakes weren't as high before and she also couldn't do much against ambessa in piltover without a single capable counselor left (despite everyone telling her "it's your call" it's never that simple in politics)

and even if you took the complete opposite stance and argued that caitlyn doesn't love vi anymore/never truly did bcuz she hurt her, pushed her away, got a rebound and became authoritarian (which isn't a hill you can easily die on if you consider literally any other outside influences on the situations and relationships in arcane imo) guess what? none of these things matter for the decision caitlyn had to make (and vi likely didn't tell her jinx was in the village too)

[envolvenuances]

and I think child modelling should be illegal I'm not even joking

[vi-visected]

i see you as Liquid cat

very accurate considering the one time i’ve ever played uno i accidentally cheated my way to victory

[bright-and-burning]

EYE do not want to have kids . i have NEVER wanted to have kids (source: three year old me who lived thru my mom's very unpleasant experience having my twin siblings and literally made up deep lore for every doll i ever had to ensure that everyone knew they were adopted and did NOT come from my tummy (the tummy thing is also a direct quote)). HOWEVERRRRRR. when people are good w kids i turn into a fucking puddle of goo.

[cauchesque]

it started out innocently. one of the very few interesting results of the rules of the game is that you need a monopoly to improve properties. but at the beginning of the game, before you really have a sense where things are going, you'll pick up properties at random. so at first, you start solving this with very lucrative exchanges- the final property in your monopoly for the final property in theirs. but this is clunky- what if one property is obviously much better than another? we would solve this by trading more than one, or by having some cash alongside, but eventually i was having a hard time arranging such a trade with one of the other players, and it hit me that we could just trade properties, but swap the rents. so you'd both have a monopoly, but you could keep the same effective rent composition

once you have the idea there are lots of places to take it. it effectively totally decouples portfolios from monopolies- with the suitable agreements (tracked in a notebook, by convention, by the banker) it becomes possible to effectively own individual properties without the rest of their monopolies. this is especially helpful when falling like vultures on a nearly fallen player. rather than allowing them to fall to 0 and get their properties auctioned off, possibly breaking valuable monopolies, they can just conduct the auction while still in the game, except handing out rent rights rather than the properties themselves

but now you often wind up in a situation where a player is still "in the game" but owns effectively 0 properties. this is an undesirable state to be in, but to me a wonderful state for my fellow players to be in, because i love playing the heel. so id do this for it's own sake, paying premiums to buy the rent rights off everyone else to completely monopolize a player. we quickly started trading fractional rent rights (often in exchange for giving up house rights) and i enjoyed trying to get a web of contracts with everyone such that all of someones rent would go to me, but from as many sources as possible. basically just to maximize how difficult it was to figure out that something like 80% of all the rent was going to me. i achieved this once, with 4 rent payments in a row getting split and passed around various ways before eventually winding up entirely in my pocket, before they stopped playing monopoly with me. which, fair

my friends don't play monopoly with me anymore because i invented swaps and used them to technically keep people in the game as long as possible while i effectively owned all their properties

[fingertipsmp3]

I love the sims 2 because it will completely wreck your shit right when you’re least expecting it

[crossdressingdeath]

One of the reasons why I'm so excited to see the Crows in DAV is because they've definitely been retconned since the last time we got any sort of inside look at them. I mean, Zevran didn't tell us much to begin with but his talk about cells and the royal family inheriting control of individual Crow cells and the way contracts seem to be taken up by individual Crows rather than the organization as a whole or the houses (see how the contract on the Warden is taken up by Zevran and Taliesen specifically, with Ignacio explaining that while the Warden will have to deal with Taliesen sooner or later they can make sure no one helps him or picks up the contract if he fails by endearing themselves to other Crows) doesn't fit all that well with the houses we see in TN and DAV. So this will in a way be our first look at what the Crows are really like, both because our first glimpse wasn't exactly unbiased (although Zevran does acknowledge that the Crows weren't bad for everyone and could be a very good life for some people, he just couldn't stay after what happened with Rinna) and because the information we got from him probably isn't accurate anymore.

[slippery-minghus]

honestly. it's so fucking frustrating and disheartening. that the only thing making me hesitant to cleanly cut contact with my mom, the thing that still looms after cutting away from my dad........ is that when they both finally bite it, that's two houses to sell. that's money that may mean *i* get to have my own house someday.

the key to the security my parents failed to give me from the moment i was born lies in their deaths. the least they can do. the very fucking *least* is to leave me the means to build that security on my own. they owe me so much more than that, but realistically? that small act of restitution is all i can and will ask for.

until then? i want nothing to do with them.

[what-even-is-sleep]

Can’t wait for my drivers license to arrive so I can be driving legally again for the first time in 1.5 years!

[hyah-lian]

I forgot theres like 3 schools that all let out where I had to go lol getting a forced break/snack time until all the busses and cars from them are gone lol