#because this is not kindness

[captain-lonagan]

MCD Rewatch S1 Ep29: Sasha of Meteli

Do you need to watch this? 8%

Is it fun to watch? 8%

Plot Summary: Aphmau returns to Meteli, learns some more about Sasha’s history there, then fuckin dips. She just leaves. Goes “I don’t know magic, have fun with being a chicken I guess” and hits the bricks. Okay.

Personal Notes:

nearly looks enderman in the eye

LAURANCE

SMOOTH

Aphmau and Laurance aren’t going to tell Hayden and Kenmur about Cadenza being a chicken because then CS would absolutely get killed

Laurance and CS are old friends, I want to know that story

at 3:26: “Even though I tend to be a little bit...forward sometimes. I truly care about what I do and those I protect. Even if they’ve gone off and made a small chicken village of their own.”

guard calls Aphmau out for stealing Hayden’s sword GOOD

sword returned GOOD

SASHA AND KENMUR WERE ROMANTICALLY INVOLVED??

Kenmur’s childhood town and family burned to the ground, rip. came to Meteli with a guard and has been there ever since

Sasha and Kenmur were in love, and Sasha had a noble heart. Then Sasha went to the nether to rescue the Lord and never returned.

“brief” (too long) return to CS house for inventory clearing and picking up some stuff left behind on accident last episode. CS not around, left a note saying he’s “out on business” thank god

the chickens talk btw. forgot to mention that

Aphmau simply leaving the town since she doesn’t know shit about magic to help Cadenza

going back to help cat lady

Aphmau REFUSING to connect the dots on the nether King corrupting guards, Sasha being a noble guard, Sasha going to the nether and disappearing, and Sasha being a liar who GIVES HER POISON. its frustrating. you cannot play a character this dumb. you’d need -2 intelligence, -2 wisdom, -2 charisma, hell i’d say -2 on ALL stats because to not make the connections happening here you must not have enough dexterity, strength, or constitution to support your brain

Aphmau gifted 4 more dogs by the plot

these animals will be neglected

[flame-shadow]

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[paintedcrows]

Nooo little Stanley watch out! Your striped shirt, bandage, and sad backstory are too Fallen Human Coded!! The Undertale narrative is going to get you!!!

[asweetprologue]

this is so devastating. laois should have just shot him with a gun

[redysetdare]

Sometimes...characters being in a romantic relationship is worse.

[blackbatest]

my most controversial batman opinion to date

[canisalbus]

✦ Freshly ordained ✦

[spiribia]

once you hit adulthood a day will come when you’re suddenly like VEGETABLES 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 and it never goes away

[thedupshadove]

Inspired by some other polls that have been going around lately, I'm trying to see something:

[catmask]

actually, i did want to ask you all - a commonly shared sentiment about character creators in games or dressup games online is there's very frequently a lack of black hairstyles.

so it made me curious - what are some black hairstyles you wish would be included more in character creators/dressup games? or ones you get really happy to see are included?

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.

[egophiliac]

bring back zooterkins, the best 17th-century swear word

I don't normally do Just Characters Swearing, but. ...this kind of wrote itself and then wouldn't leave my head. it comes from both a piece of character-writing advice that has always stuck with me, and also my conviction that Leona is 1000% funnier as a character if his dialogue has to stay G-rated. let Kalim say fuck, but don't let Leona say bastard.

(I'm sorry)

[morganbritton132]

No Capes Batman AU where Jason is just like, ‘I’m meant to be a middle child. I’ve got middle child energy’ and then steals the neighbor kid. Not like they were using him anyways.

[elucubrare]

i firmly hold that it's my duty as a reader to believe it when an author tells me at the beginning of the series that the dragons are gone forever and never coming back. but god it's a struggle sometimes.