#but I think tdp is an exception by miles

[luniviravosshipper]

So what if I said season 1 and season 7 of TDP are my favorites. Can you blame me?

And I'm tired of having to pretend those are some of the worst seasons of their retrospective arcs.

[aspoonofsugar]

Hello! Other than Anime and Rwby, What are some of your favorite animated series? And why?

Hello anon!

I have mentioned some of my favourite series here and there on this blog. I advise you to check my #chain of faves tag to see more :)

That said, when it comes to animated series I like, I can mention some in no particular order!

1) Atla

No idea if you consider it an anime or not, but I love it! I have written some metas on some of the characters (Azula, Zuko, Katara, Sokka and Toph).

Even after years it is still a gem of animation imo! I love how much care has been put into the worldbuilding and characters. It is amazing! And once you rewatch it you realize how they managed to combine an episodic structure with a larger story.

Like, when you watch season 1 you think the series is mostly a bunch of self-concluding episodes with the plot mostly progressing in a couple of episodes towards the end... except that is not the case.

As the series go on you realize how many characters and things introduced in individual episodes in season 1 are actually important later on and this trend keeps going for the whole series.

Other than that, the characters are all great! Zuko, Azula, Katara, Toph, Sokka and Aang are all amazing and have great arcs!

2) TdP

I like The Dragon Prince, but I do not think it is very well written as a whole tbh :P

I mostly like the ideas and designs and the worldbuilding has potential as some characters (like Rayla).

That said, the true reasons why I am so invested in the story are honestly Viren and his two kids.

Viren, Claudia and Soren are imo the three best written characters in the series by a mile. Their story is so far tightly written, gray and tragic. Honestly, I would even say that as far as inner conflict and importance for the overall plot... Viren has been so far a villain protagonist.

Soren and Claudia are both faves and I love the nuance the authors used for their characters and how they made them opposite, but similar. Claudia is in particular an amazing female villain whose main flaw is usually what is considered a protagonist’s strength (she is literally dark Katara). I can’t wait to see more of her!

3) She-Ra

I really liked She-Ra!

I loved all the characters, especially Catra and Entrapta!

I appreciated how they managed to deal with Catra’s arc and how in the end it naturally tied into Adora’s. The writers explore the girls’ relationship and their opposite flaws in a beautiful and natural way.

Another moment that gave me chills is Mara’s story and the revelation that Madame Razz is living in two different timelines at the same time. It was a very interesting twist on time travel and I really liked it.

Finally, I love Shadow Weaver’s death. How it manages to be redemptive, but not to be at the same time and how it honestly leaves SW’s relationship with her two adopted daughters unsolved and unpacked. It manages to be contradictive and complex until the end.

4) Xiaolin Showdown

Honestly, this is a series I used to love as a child, so there is a lot of nostalgia here.

That said, I liked the characters a lot and many ideas behind the magical objects and the showdowns were hilarious, as were the villains!

I especially loved Raimundo’s arc and how the one who initially fails and betrays the others turns out to be a great leader and friend by the end.

In general, I really liked that Omi does not become the leader at the very end because it would not have fit his character arc, which is literally to learn he is not always right and that he needs to learn from others.

In general Omi and Raimundo are clearly foils and the two characters that got more focus and I enjoyed their parallel journeys.

I also love Himiko and that she is a fashion victim and a tech expert. Her changing outfit in every episode is a nice touch!

5) Teen Titans

I remember loving the series!

I liked the art and the characters, especially the ladies! Raven (my fave), Starfire and Terra were all amazing!

Terra is especially a tragic character and I remember her arc as one of the most beautiful and sad. I also love Raven’s season and overall inner conflict.

Ah, I also like Jinx’s mini arc and her becoming a hero by the end!

6) Carmen Sandiego (Netflix)

I really like the series and how it is used to teach about geography in a fun way. That said, the very clear didascalic intent does not go in the way of a well written story with complex characters, interesting motifs and deep character arcs.

Carmen herself, Shadowsan and Gray are especially the three characters that manage to shine because of their stories and it is poignant they are the three protagonists of the final climax.

I was especially surprised by how well written Gray turns out to be as a character tbh and his arc is one of the reasons why I enjoyed the ending so much. He seems as barely more than a mook and an initial antagonist in the beginning. However, he turns out to be a deep character with one of the most complex bonds with Carmen.

7) The Tales of Arcadia

I love all three series (Trollhunters, 3Below and Wizards) and I have written meras on all three installments.

I have yet to watch the movie, but hopefully I will soon.

I especially like Claire, Krel and Aja and I must say that 3Below especially has a place in my heart for how it mixes sci-fic with fantasy.

All in all, it is a great series which is way more complex than what it seems and it is highly well written and poignant thematically!

I am sure I am forgetting many series I love, but here are some that comes to mind as for now!

Thank you for the ask and have a good day!

[beautifulterriblequeen]

If your Runaan is King theory is true, do you think there might be any parallels between Runaan and Lain friendship and Harrow and Viren friendship (before Viren was taken over by dark magic)? And if Harrow died before he and Viren drew apart, would he have asked Viren to take care of his kids (same way Lain did with Runaan)?

Oh man, this is such a fun question! Gosh gosh gosh. I think there should be parallels there, yes! Lain is Runaan’s BFF, and Viren was Harrow’s. Like, that parallel is already there. The BFFs have/had a wife, and the leaders have had spouses too. There’s a group of four for each of them, two couples, with these pairs of men as the closest friends. 

Both sets of relationships are complicated, and though we know a bunch of the issues Viren and Harrow have dealt with, we really don’t know much about Lain and Runaan’s friendship or how it’s affected their friend group and marriages, aside from two things: Lain got Ruthari together by encouraging Runaan to tell Ethari how he felt, and Laindrin trusted Ruthari with Rayla’s upbringing. That’s kind of all we got so far.

But I would love to see a handful more really key mirrors and parallels in place. Some things that are the same, and some that are different. That’s really how this show’s characterization works, so I’m practically expecting it.

Viren and Lissa divorced because Viren was creeping her out with his dark magic, apparently. Lain and Tiadrin are still together, and they fight as a dedicated battle couple. But that doesn’t mean they didn’t face some kind of crisis moment too, where maybe Lain had a hard choice to make and Tiadrin decided to support him instead of pull away--or maybe Tiadrin was the one making the choice. 

Maybe it involved having Rayla? Or joining the Dragonguard? If Lain was the one invited, and he really wanted to go, Tiadrin would have to choose between staying with Rayla or staying with Lain. That’s a big echo of Claudia’s “Don’t make me choose!” right there, so maybe there’s something to that? (I have an angsty hc that Runaan, as the assassin leader, sent them both to the Storm Spire for many reasons. If one of them was to prevent Tiadrin having to choose, and if he chose to suffer the loss of both so they could remain together, gosh...) If they struggled with a decision and then left together, then Runaan and Ethari would have to support their friends’ departure while trusting that they’d be stronger together. Oh man, the feels.

Harrow and Viren are both men who will do things on their own if they must. We saw Sarai as more of a “I can go with you or leave you to your folly but clearly you need my help” kind of person when it came to the Magma Titan mission. And iirc there’s a tweet out there saying that Tiadrin and Sarai would be great friends if they met under peaceful circumstances. 

So maybe Tiadrin, with her tactical mind, has the same approach as Sarai, and Lain is more of a “Dude, bro, dude, let’s just do the thing, bro my dude my guy, I gotchu.” He’s very supportive, but that can also become enabling if it goes a little too far, so maybe Lain has gotten Runaan into some tight spots, or at least not talked him out of said spots, over the course of their friendship? And it was Tiadrin who saved their butts, which she does not let them forget. I can see Sarai teasing her boys about their follies and her needing to save the day, too, gosh I love that.

We don’t know what kind of societal role Lissa had. I’ve been assuming she didn’t fight like Sarai did, but I could be super wrong on that. If she isn’t a combatant, then she actually kinda parallels Ethari. Three fighters and someone who doesn’t fight, but with the pairings are swapped. That just adds more possibility to the paralleling options, though. 

And I’m wondering, maybe Runaan and Ethari had a moment like Lissa and Viren, where Ethari might’ve had to choose whether to stay with this stabby idiot after he saw something very unpleasant. Perhaps it was Runaan getting his scars? Viren sacrificed someone (presumably) to save Soren’s life. Perhaps Runaan nearly sacrificed his own on a mission. There’s a really dark parallel with these two about how little they value life--extra ironic and complicated for Runaan as a Moonshadow--and I can totally see a big scary moment happening where their spouses realize exactly how different their loved one’s philosophy is from their own. Except that Ethari stayed and Lissa left. and now Runaan has gone but Viren remains, aaaaa

I wonder how the other couples might’ve played out, there. When Viren and Lissa split, how did Harrow and Sarai handle it? What did Harrow try to do for his friend? Did they try to reconcile the couple? Probably. That could’ve felt like political pressure to Lissa. And I wonder if Harrow even knew what Viren had done to save Soren’s life, that he killed someone. I bet Viren wouldn’t tell him that part. Maybe he even lied, because his need to be Harrow’s friend, to be close to power and allowed to practice his magic, was so strong.

Lain and Tiadrin would’ve tried to talk to Runaan and Ethari too, I’m sure. They’re both assassins, just like Runaan, so they’d see his side, and Ethari might’ve felt very pressured as well, to just submit and go along. Not just as a freaked out spouse, but as the craftsman who made weapons for the assassin leader and for others, keeping them safe. If he left... who would keep Runaan safe? That’s kinda sus, bro. But I can see the Moonshadow logic in it.

Viren has attached himself to Harrow as friend and protector, and he’s dedicated years of his life to helping Harrow protect their people. Possibly Lain had the same motivation? “This guy’s important, so I wanna be his friend and help him out with that.” That’s not a bad thing at all. Viren’s motives were a little tainted by dark magic. Maybe Lain’s a stand-up guy. But maybe he also has some kind of self-interest involved in being Runaan’s best friend, too. Moonshadows be complicated.

tl;dr: Yes anon I am very here for an interwoven, complicated friendship between Lain and Runaan that involves spouses and plenty of good and bad history, similar to the long and complex relationship between Harrow and Viren. I am jonesing for more moonfam backstory so bad.

As to your other question, I do think that Harrow would’ve wanted to entrust his children to Viren before he and the dark mage drew apart. The question that arises for me is: when did that begin? 

I think it began with Sarai’s death. Harrow had his own plan, but he trusted Viren and did it his way, and he lost his wife in the process. Fifty thousand lives is a lot more than one life. But that one life was the most precious one to Harrow, and it made the sacrifice personal in a way that losing fifty thousand citizens never would be. 

Harrow might still have given his kids to Viren. But Amaya was also a choice. The general or the mage? Neither are super safe for a childhood environment.

Interestingly, in this parallel, Amaya is a lot more like Runaan: the fighter, who would’ve trained Callum and Ezran to fight because they grew up in such a dangerous environment. I wonder if there was another option for Laindrin to give Rayla to, one that was more magical, or more dubious? Lujanne comes to mind! Hah, can you imagine? Crikey!

I think that if Harrow and Sarai needed to give their boys to someone, Sarai would advocate for Amaya and win: “With troops like Gren and Corvus and the whole Standing Battalion to protect and raise them, there’s no safer place in all of Katolis!” It sounds like something Tiadrin would say about leaving Rayla with Runaan and Ethari, amidst the assassin corps. It’s not ideal by miles, but I can see why she, as a warrior herself, would see safety and a like-minded community as the strongest benefits.

If it was only Harrow, after Sarai died, it might still be Amaya, because his trust in Viren had begun to fracture, but it’s hard to say. I get the feeling that Harrow has never really seen Viren as dad material, even though he has kids. That hug thing in the S1 novelization was really weird, and I will never unsee Viren saying “familial clasp.” Viren, why are you like this. Anyway, Harrow might just decide that leaving his kids with a guy who literally doesn’t know what a hug is, might not be the best move for their emotional development.

He’s a good dad, an angry widower, an iffy king, a great jokester, a loving husband, and a loyal friend. He’s as complicated as Runaan is, kings or no. But I hope that he and Viren had many years of true friendship, just like I suspect Runaan and Lain have had. Positive, healthy relationships are good for everyone.

Please though, TDP, moonfam friendship stuff. This parallel is begging to happen and things don’t feel balanced without it. What’s that, there’s not enough time? 

*magically sprinkles five extra minutes onto each episode* Reality schmeality.

[imadethiswhileonzoom]

Tag Guide

😗 So this is the tags I use. Hope they’re not too confusing lmao

the pretty self explanatory ones:

😗 #art seems pretty self explanatory BUT it’s basically if a post includes art. and i honestly mean any type of art

😗 #unrelated is really just any post that i cant seem to put in any type of category honestly. whether it’s a shitpost or something random

😗 #gif set also pretty self explanatory. it’s any post including a gif set. which in my definition is 2 or more gifs

😗 #cosplay dont think i have much under this tag but it exists so. it’s just anything cosplay (not mine tho)

😗 #lgbt+ shit is a tag for anything lgbt+ related

😗 #math literally just how much i hate math lmao

😗 #take care of yourself is basically me saying this to you. has posts about menatl health and self care

😗 #lil tips is just that. little tips to help you and me

😗 #blm always have always will honey i shouldn’t have to explain that one

tags you might want to blacklist/filter:

blacklisting/filtering is when you specify a specific tag on tumblr so that you can't see posts tagged as such. a basic way to prevent content that you don't like or might trigger you

😗 #r*wling she has probably hurt a lot of people including me. so if you don’t want to see any posts pertaining to her. please blacklist this tag.

😗 #tr*mp honey i’m very anti-tr*mp and i understand if his name might be triggering. if you don’t want to see any posts pertaining to him. please blacklist this tag

😗  i might also have a tag for c*vid and so, please look out for any tags such as #c*vid bc i honestly dont know if i’ve ever tagged it

😗 #politics anything political should be on this tag.

😗 #one note a day post (these are posts are where someone has agreed to a compromise where for each note the post gets is equal to one more day they go without s*lf h*rm or one more day they don’t commit s***ide) these types of posts can be extremely triggering. so if you don’t want to see posts pertaining to this, please blacklist this tag.

😗 additionally! i have started putting the actual trigger with a tw in front of it so if you already have a specific trigger than don't worry. of course i won't have everything covered so:

if you want something to be tagged please tell me. if a post should BE tagged but isn't please tell me 

fandom tags! this is very long btw

😗 side note: So with ships I tend to just flat out put the ship name regardless of how I tage the individual characters. Ex. #Wrightworth and #Lumity

😗 #among us this are posts about a game that i am utterly in love with.

😗 #mcyt which stands for minecraft youtube! i also will put the content creator's name UNLESS there are too many. i also have #dream smp for purely dream smp related content

😗 #ducktales darling i love this show

😗 #unus annus memento mori

😗 #bnha this is also any post involving my hero academia/ boku no hero academia content (when it comes to the individual characters i usually tag them like this: #bnha midoriya. i’ll put bnha and then their last name.)

😗 #spy kids literally only one post about it lol

😗 #otgw is basically about the show over the garden wall. 

😗 #the witcher anything about this it honestly

😗 #the owl house is everything pertaining to the show. how i tag the characters are tricky so just look through the tag i guess and figure it out bc i’m unorganized

😗 #marvel this is EVERYTHING involving marvel. comics, fancontent, movies, etc. [when it comes to individual characters i’ll put in their FULL name like this: #tony stark. (though, loki and thor are COMPLETE exceptions as their tags are #loki and #thor)] oops and i just saw but i have black widow under #black widow along with black panther being tagged as #black panther. also #spider man is a tag

😗 #dc again this is EVERYTHING involving dc. comics, fancontent, movies, etc. (i dont really tag individual characters so i’ll just put #batman or something vague. but manily i just tag it as dc and that’s it lol)

😗 #mcu now this gets into specifics as this is ONLY content pertaining to canon mcu (marvel cinematic universe). (again,  [when it comes to individual characters i’ll put in their FULL name like this: #tony stark. (though, loki and thor are COMPLETE exceptions as their tags are #loki and #thor)] 

😗 #hp is anything hp related. (for individual characters i just put their full name like #hermione granger or #harry potter)

😗 #the onceler sadly this tag DOES exist but i promise there isn’t much there. so yeah the oncler from the lorax is an actual tag on this blog. sadly.

😗 #ace attorney so these are posts that is central to the videogame series ace attorney. (so with individual characters i’ll do it like so: #aa miles edgeworth. so i’ll just put the initials of ace attorney and then the character’s full name)

😗 #musical these are ANY posts pertaining to ANYTHING musical related. (how i tag specific musicals is pretty forward: #dear evan hansen, #hadestown)

😗 #she ra literally anything she ra related. sorry i’m tired of typing this ALL out lmao

😗 #undertale don’t have much under this tag but it’s still there. basically anything about this iconic game

😗 #moana and #mulan are independent and as i look back on it i probably should’ve just tagged them all as disney but i didnt and i’m lazy. if i ever end up tagging it correctly i’ll definitely update this.

😗 #picrew not exactly a fandom but thought i’d include it

😗 #puppet history this is a series from the channel the watcher which should also be a tag i think. anyways this is just anything about puppet history

😗 #tdp is any post about the netflix show the dragon prince (which i love and adore) just like dc i probably wont tag individual characters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

😗 #atla is avatar: the last airbender content. (individual characters are done such as: #atls zuko. i’ll put atla and then their first name.)

😗 #voltron bruh i’m not even in this fandom anymore (still love the show tho) but yea theres that. i probably also won’t tag individual characters.

[bladesandstars]

100 Ways to Say "I Love You" - Multifandom Style

I've been wanting to take prompts again, and this prompt list seemed like a great way to do that! The list is below - just send me an Ask with a number and pairing of your choice and I'll write you a drabble!

The list of fandoms and pairings I'm willing to write for is... let's just say it's growing by the day! Also below, and I've listed a few pairings/characters I'd love to get, but feel free to branch out - I'm open to most anything! SFW/N/SFW, AUs, crossovers - just looking to have fun! 

Info under the cut.

Rules:

If you specifically want romance or platonic for a pairing, let me know, otherwise I'll just pick based on what strikes me.  I will DM you if I don't think I can do your pairing justice, and let you pick another!

If you want N/SFW (or want to give me the option), you must be 18+, and let me know that too. 

Please feel free to suggest any of my AUs that you’ve seen or a new one.

As these get claimed, I’ll strike out the ones that are taken and list the fandom/pairing next to it, and reblog this every so often in updated status. I’ll also link to the prompt fills once they’re done.

Please feel free to suggest characters and pairings other than what I've listed below, as long as they’re in these fandoms. Crossovers within the specified fandoms are fine. Go wild. I cannot stress this enough. Looking to stretch myself with these!

Fandoms:

FFXV - for sure. I ship MANY things here, including quite a few OT3s and our classic OT4. This page lists a bunch of faves if you want inspiration. (NOTE: I WILL TAKE SOME prompts for the uber-popular pairings in XV (you know who you are), but this is an exercise to stretch myself and try new things, so I’ll limit those. Please have another pairing in mind in case somebody has beaten you to it!)

The Arcana - I love everyone and have played everything that’s out except for Nadia’s and Asra’s reversed endings. I'll write your apprentice if you want, just give me a little about their personality.

The Dragon Prince - Viren is my BOY and I'm also real excited about Harrow and Sarai and Amaya. And also Runaan. Ok you get the picture. I love the whole cast. No NSFW with kid characters, shippy/crushy stuff with them is fine. I've seen all available episodes.

Doctor Who/Torchwood - Doctors 9-12 (I haven't watched 13th yet); Jack Harkness is bae.

Game of Thrones/ASOIAF: Brienne, Sansa, Arya, Tyrion, and Petyr are big favorites. Also Jaime and Tormund.

Letterkenny - That’s a Texas-sized 10-4 on me being actually serious here.

OMGCP/Check, Please! - Been wanting to write for this wonderful hockey webcomic since forever, no time like the present. Shardo (Shitty/Lardo) and Zimbits (Jack/Bitty) are my OTPs but I’m open to lots!

Marvel -  I have an entire Deadpool sideblog, so yeah. Burrito Peter (Peter B), Jessica Jones, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Natasha Romanoff, Miles Morales, Negasonic and Yukio, Carol Danvers (Carolmaria is SO Good), Gambit - this 'verse is huge but those are a few loves. I’m new here so no worries about popular pairings.

OCs -  I have several original characters who - I guess I just decided - I’m posting their profiles here later so I can write them!  If one or more strike your fancy (or if you are one of the poor unfortunate souls I scream at about my babies on the regular, in which case I am so sorry), feel free to prompt them!

FFXIII - I’m about halfway through Lightning's first game, and given my levels of Aranea stanning, I love Lightning about as much as you’d expect. I would die for Fang. Sazh’s deep sighs speak to my tired heart, and Vanille is precious.

Prompts:

1.    “Pull over.  Let me drive for awhile.” Promnis (Prompto Argentum/Ignis Scientia) - FFXV

2.    “It reminded me of you.”  Shardo (Shitty Knight/Larissa Duan) - OMGCP

3.    “No, no, it’s my treat.”

4.    “Come here.  Let me fix it.”

5.    “I’ll walk you home.”

6.    “Have a good day at work.”

7.    “I dreamt about you last night.” Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau - Marvel

8.    “Take my seat.”

9.    “I saved a piece for you.”

10.  “I’m sorry for your loss.”

11.  “You can have half.”

12.  “Take my jacket, it’s cold outside.”

13.  “Sorry I’m late.” Tony Stark/Jack Harkness (Starkness?) - MCU/TW crossover

14.  “Can I have this dance?” Prompto Argentum/Lunafreya Nox Fleuret/Noctis Lucis Caelum or Noctis/Prompto/Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia (OT4) or OT4+Luna - FFXV

15.  “I made your favourite.”

16.  “It’s okay.  I couldn’t sleep anyway.”

17.  “Watch your step.”

18.  “Here, drink this.  You’ll feel better.” Ignyx (Ignis Scientia/Nyx Ulric) - FFXV

19.  “Can I hold your hand?”

20.  “You can borrow mine.”

21.  “You might like this.”

22.  “It’s not heavy.  I’m stronger than I look.” Ravdyn (Ravus Nox Fleuret/Ardyn Izunia) - FFXV

23.  “I’ll wait.”

24.  “Just because.” Gladnyx (Gladiolus Amicitia/Nyx Ulric) - FFXV

25.  “Look both ways.”

26.  “I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to.” Cindy Aurum/Aranea Highwind - FFXV

27.  “Try some.” Promptis (Prompto Argentum/Noctis Lucis Caelum) - FFXV

28.  “Drive safely.”

29.  “Well, what do you want to do?”

30.  “One more chapter.”

31.  “Don’t worry about me.”

32.  “It looks good on you.”

33.  “Close your eyes and hold out your hands.” Fleurentia (Ravus Nox Fleuret/Ignis Scientia) - FFXV

34.  “That’s okay, I bought two.” Viren/Harrow/Sarai - TDP

35.  “After you.”

36.  “We’ll figure it out.” GladIgNyx (Gladio/Ignis/Nyx) - FFXV

37.  “Can I kiss you?”

38.  “I like your laugh.” Nahara/MC or Nahara/Portia -The Arcana

39.  “Don’t cry.”

40.  “I made this for you.”

41.  “Go back to sleep.”

42.  “Is this okay?” Aranea Highwind/Crowe Altius- FFXV (Lucis Military Academy AU)

43.  “I picked these for you.”

44.  “I’ll drive you to the hospital.”

45.  “What do you want to watch?”

46.  “You can go first.”

47.  “Did you get my letter?”

48.  “I’ll do it for you.” Lukas Oliver/ Étienne Amisu - Original Work

49.  “Call me when you get home.”

50.  “I think you’re beautiful.”  WinterShieldShock, AKA Steve/Bucky/Darcy Lewis - Marvel (MCU)

51.  “Are you sure?”

52.  “Have fun.”

53.  “Sit down, I’ll get it.” Ignyx or Promnis - FFXV

54.  “I made reservations.”

55.  “I don’t mind.”

56.  “It brings out your eyes.” Nadia Satrinava/Portia Devorak - The Arcana

57.  “There is enough room for both of us.” Jack Harkness/Toshiko Sato/Ianto Jones - Torchwood

58.  “You don’t have to say anything.” Nyxnoct (Nyx Ulric/Noctis Lucis Caelum) - FFXV

59.  “Wow.”

60.  “Happy birthday.”

61.  “I’ll pick it up after work.”

62.  “It can wait until tomorrow.”

63.  “Cross my heart and hope to die.”

64.  “It’s two sugars, right?”

65.  “I’ll help you study.”  Natasha Romanoff & Peter Parker (Platonic) (MCU/Homecoming)

66.  “Stay over.” Ignis Scientia/Cor Leonis - FFXV

67.  “I did the dishes.”

68.  “You didn’t have to ask.”

69.  “I bought you a ticket.”

70.  “You’re warm.” Jaime Lannister /Brienne of Tarth - GoT

71.  “No reason.”

72.  “I’ll meet you halfway.” Gladnis (Gladiolus Amicitia/Ignis Scientia) - FFXV

73.  “Take mine.”

74.  “We can share.”

75.  “I was just thinking about you.”

76.  “I want you to have this.”

77.  “Call me if you need anything.”

78.  “Do you want to come too?” Cor/Ignis/Aranea - FFXV

79.  “I’ll still be here when you’re ready.”

80.  “Is your seatbelt on?”

81.  “Sweet dreams.”

82.  “I was in the neighbourhood.” Jessica Jones/Wade Wilson - Marvel

83.  “Stay there.  I’m coming to get you.” Gladnoct (Gladiolus Amicitia/Noctis Lucis Caelum) - FFXV

84.  “The key is under the mat.”

85.  “It doesn’t bother me.”

86.  “You’re important too.” Taryn Phillips/Vasilla Levant - Original Work

87.  “I saved you a seat.”

88.  “I’ll see you later.”

89.  “I noticed.” Julian Devorak/Verstael Besithia - The Arcana/FFXV crossover

90.  “You can tell me anything.” Carol Danvers/Maria Rambeau - Marvel

91.  “I hope you like it.”

92.  “I want you to be happy.” Tormund Giantsbane/Brienne of Tarth - GoT

93.  “I believe in you.” Cor Leonis/Loqi Tummelt - FFXV

94.  “You can do it.”

95.  “Good luck.”

96.  “I brought you an umbrella.”

97.  “I’ll pick you up at the airport.”

98.  “Take a deep breath.”

99.  “Be careful.”

100. “I love you.”

[nettechpress-blog]

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti survey: The quickest representation card, once more In case you're keen on feasible 4K gaming, then open up your wallet and purchase one.

I think that its odd that a room brimming with generally apparently typical people (press rejected) would cheer at being charged £700/$700 for the GTX 1080 Ti, regardless of the possibility that it claims to be the speediest gaming design card cash can purchase.

All things considered, that £700 could somehow or another be spent on a whole gaming PC, the most recent iPhone, an arrival flight from London to Los Angeles, or 139 containers of the finest Scottish specialty brew. Additionally, most likely those Americans in participation at Nvidia's terrific GTX 1080 Ti uncover in San Francisco had all the more squeezing things to stress over? Life isn't all representation cards and iPhones when your wellbeing is hanging in the balance.

Still, Nvidia was consistent with its statement: the GTX 1080 Ti is surely the quickest gaming design card cash can purchase—considerably speedier than the £1,100/$1,200 e-peen augmentation that is the Titan X Pascal. It's one serious part speedier than the GTX 1080 as well—which now sits in a "less expensive" value section of £500/$500—by as much as 30 percent. It's the main representation card since the Titan XP that can play many recreations in 4K at 60FPS without fiddling with settings—you simply whack everything on ultra and begin playing. In addition it's a peaceful illustrations card, in its Founders Edition frame in any event, on account of the changes Nvidia has made to its notable all-metal cover.

Be that as it may, for the greater part of Nvidia's rant, it's hard not to be only a small piece frustrated. In everything except memory limit, which sits at an odd 11GB, the GTX 1080 Ti is a duplicate of the Titan XP with a marginally higher clock speed. The probability of getting a completely opened GP102 GPU with every one of its centers empowered (a procedure brought with 780 Ti) appears to be thin. What's more, with rivalry at this end of the market a few months away—AMD has penciled in a Q2 2017 discharge for Vega—there's little to stop Nvidia keeping on charging a premium for its top-of-the-range representation cards, regardless of the possibility that it's not the most costly the organization has discharged.

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Those with sufficiently profound pockets can get a Founders Edition GTX 1080 Ti straightforwardly from Nvidia on March 9, with accomplice cards landing in the next weeks. Both are valued at the same £700/$700, which rolls out a decent improvement from the premium Nvidia used to charge for the Founders Edition. All things considered, Nvidia lacks best reputation with getting illustrations cards into shops on discharge day, so expect swelled costs until accessibility levels out.

In Founders Edition shape, the GTX 1080 Ti comes wrapped in Nvidia's smooth, multifaceted cooling cover—a blower-style configuration made of kick the bucket cast aluminum finish with a position of safety backplate and copper vapor chamber. Not everybody is an enthusiast of the shard-like stylish (by and by, I think it looks awesome), yet there's no denying that it's an effective marking exercise—you can recognize a Nvidia card a mile off. Inside, Nvidia has made a couple changes, beginning with the expulsion of the DVI port. Those with more established, yet consummately usable 30-inch double connection DVI screens may regret its expulsion, however most by far of present day screens interface through HDMI or DisplayPort, with the GTX 1080 Ti donning one of the previous and three of the latter.Nvidia claims that by evacuating the DVI port, it's ready to twofold the wind stream contrasted with the GTX 1080 because of the bigger fumes range. Multiplying wind stream is a driven claim, however in a subjective listening test in any event, the GTX 1080 Ti is apparently calmer than its forerunners under load. It's not a sensational change, and you'll unquestionably still hear the card if your PC isn't in a pantry or under a work area, yet any change to clamor levels is welcome. The evacuation of the DVI port likewise means it's conceivable to make a solitary opening water-cooled variant of the GTX 1080 Ti without hacking the port off or desolder it. Score one for the modders.

Inside there's an enhanced seven-stage 2x double FET control outline for cleaner control with less warmth, which makes a decent showing with regards to of sustaining the GTX 1080 Ti's 250W TDP by means of its 8-stick and 6-stick PCIe control connectors. At the heart of the GTX 1080 Ti is a similar Pascal engineering GP102 GPU utilized as a part of the Titan XP. There are a similar 28 SMs and 3,584 CUDA centers out of a conceivable 3,840, which means the GTX 1080 Ti still doesn't utilize a completely empowered GPU. On the off chance that you need the full 3,840 you'll need to get the Quadro P6000, which costs about a bajillion pounds.

Try not to stress, however: the 1080 Ti has a lot of execution on tap. Nvidia's new design card has some uncommon GDDR5X memory chips that can be pushed to a noteworthy 11GHz. Combined with a 352-piece memory interface, the GTX 1080 Ti has a memory data transmission of 484GB/s, which is a small piece higher than the Titan XP's 480GB/s and miles in front of the GTX 1080's 320GB/s.That's not far-removed the 512GB/s of transfer speed pushed by AMD's Fury illustrations cards, which are furnished with stacked High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Its up and coming Vega extend, which will be outfitted with HBM2, ought to push well past that, however.

Such high transmission capacity memory does ponders for recreations running at 4K or more, where high-determination surfaces should be pushed into memory, yet there is a little trade off for GTX 1080 Ti purchasers: you just get 11GB of memory rather than 12GB. Nvidia has just evacuated one of the 12 VRAM chips encompassing the GPU, bringing about the odd 352-piece memory interface and 88 ROPs. That is a justifiable purpose of separation from a business point of view: if Nvidia selected to strap 12GB of RAM to the 1080 Ti it would have a huge 528GB/s of transfer speed, totally destroying the Titan XP.

Still, for by far most of individuals, especially gamers, that missing 1GB of memory will have little effect to execution. Indeed, even those making utilization of the Titan X's model FP16 execution in science applications could remain to make a huge sparing by purchasing GTX 1080 Tis rather than Titan Xs. I have it on great specialist, in any case, that the Titan X remains a convincing choice, if just for those attempting to pack however much illustrations memory as could be expected into the constrained space of a science server rack.Alongside the GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia is dropping a couple of enhancements to its drivers, and additionally new elements for engineers. Most prominent for purchasers is further enhanced execution under DirectX 12. Nvidia endured the briefest of execution deficiencies in key DX12 titles at the dispatch of the GTX 1080, and certain recreations keep on performing better under one illustrations card merchant than alternate on account of promoting sponsorships and the way that the low level APIs of DX12 require more designer improvement. Yet, generally any glaring execution issues have been leveled out or significantly improved.There's likewise another variant of ShadowPlay called ShadowPlay Highlights that consequently catches clasps and screenshots of noteworthy gameplay—say, a 10-man slaughter streak—however it requires amusement bolster. So far just the up and coming shooter Lawbreakers has been affirmed to bolster ShadowPlay Highlights. In-amusement photography apparatus Ansel ought to admission better on account of the arrival of an open SDK for various diversion motors. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the most recent diversion to bolster the apparatus, with support for Amazon's free Lumberyard amusement motor arriving soon after.

[otter-and-terrier]

honestly for me, i'd say s2 and s6, because s2 viren and aaravos was really interesting, as well as callum doing dark magic and learning primal magic, i just think it's cool

but for arc 2, i'd go with s6. look, episode 1 was just pure perfection, especially claudia's scene at the start (the voice acting has me in tears 😭). the whole thing with the starscraper was really cool, we found out about leola AND VIREN'S DEATH SCENE. DO NOT GET ME STARTED ON THAT SCENE, IT WAS (imo) SUCH A FITTING ENDING FOR HIS ARC- aaaand i'm going to stop it there before this gets too long

but yeah, i see what you mean! i love season 1 and season 7 was awesome (broyals, rayllum, karim being squashed, etc, etc.)

So what if I said season 1 and season 7 of TDP are my favorites. Can you blame me?

And I'm tired of having to pretend those are some of the worst seasons of their retrospective arcs.