#but if that really is you Celticpyro

[kob131]

I no longer forgive Type-Moon on Tumblr

You wanna talk shit about me, I will respond. Regardless of being blocked or not.

A character being more than initial appearances and having more to them than just being an asshole is not “bad writing.” Merlin *is* a sleazy douchebag that people barely tolerate, but he also has a heart underneath it all. That’s called showing and not just telling.

Except that no one ever acknowledges that heart, instead they just treat him as a dick. They keep showing one thing but say another, that's my fucking problem here.

But here’s the thing: The fact that Merlin feels guilty about his past actions does not automatically make him a good person, and so by extension Proto Merlin not showing guilt does not make her a bad person. They are both trickster type characters who cannot always be trusted, who’ve both caused their share of good and bad in Camelot and both are handling it differently. But a lot of fans seemed to jump to conclusions that because Protolin isn’t secretly stricken with Catholic Guilt she must be “evil,” which I think is pretty unfair.

But it...kind of does. It shows that he understands that what he did was bad and even the OP admits that his motivation for being trapped in Avalon is in part because he's punishing himself for interferring in Arturia's life. And even then, considering that the World literally could not afford any other outcome besides the one Merlin helped cause- I actually have to question if it was even amoral in the first place.

And while this would normally lead me to say Proto Merlin is the one who is badly written- She's actually the one where people's treatment of her makes the most sense. She's actually the nominal hero that the writing keeps trying to say Merlin is. So...The original kind of has to be badly written. As paradoxical as it sounds.

I admit though that I don’t know a lot about Protolin and haven’t read Fragments, so I’m trying my best to hold off judgement. I don’t expect or want her to be an exact clone of Merlin, because that would be kind of boring and superfluous. FGO kind of dropped the ball on her by making her a Pretender and then not giving a good reason beyond “Oh she’s pretending to be Merlin’s sister!” but they do set up hints that there’s more to it than that. Hopefully we’ll get to see more of her there.

And yet you're about to do said judgements in the tags. So much for that eh?

At no point did I say that I wanted her to be a copy of mainline Merlin. If anything, it would make more sense to infer that I would want the original to be more like Proto. That's stupid but it at least follows some kind of logic from what I said.

#merlin: *is given more characterization than just being a shady asshole everyone hates*#kob: this is bad writing!#''i like mainline merlin'' you sure don't sound likeit

Really? What part of what I said indicates this? In fact, the point of my reblog is that Merlin DOESN'T have that characterization of being a shady asshole despite the writing repeatedly claiming that it does. That Merlin's negative qualities are either so downplayed they barely exist or that they straight up aren't shown. He's not a shady asshole- he's just a goofball. No matter how much the writing tries to scream that at me.

But that's probably too many words for you so let me simplify it in a way I know you understand-

Just because Merlin is likeable doesn't make him well written.

Just because Proto Merlin is unlikeable doesn't make her badly written.

Not like my opinion on a character in FGO has changed *cough* Morgan *cough*.

P.S. And-...

.....Wait.

...Oh. It's you.

Hi Celtic, still salty that I called out your bullshit eh?

[incorrect-saiyuki-quotes]

Genjo, about tumblr: every time i open this app i read some dumb ass shit

Gojyo: And every time we kiss I swear I can fly

[hasspartacusdoneanythingwrong]

lol im really curious now. how about Ashwatthama, Medusa and Cu Chulainn (any)?

Ashwatthama:

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

...Look, I'm just... really looking forward to this lostbelt.

Medusa

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

Every Medusa has a smile that deserves protection, you cannot change my mind.

Cu Chulainn:

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

We started playing FGO because Celticpyro would not stop talking about Cu. So you see, that's where the trouble began. That smile. That damned smile.

Cu Alter

Not My Type | Alright | Cute | Adorable | Pretty | Gorgeous | LORD MERCY

I may have a problem.

[akiragatr]

Some people really need to get over their hate-boner for celticpyro like holy shit.

You guys really just make hating someone to be your entire personality, huh?

[intersex-ionality]

Has the discourse about celticpyro made it to your dash?

Is this about that dumb, "only catholics can like stained glass" post?

I don't think that justifies discourse. It's just a weird and kind of crap idea.

Why anyone would feel the need to go on a week's long tangent about how Anime Blog #673 must be destroyed because they don't like people making fun fo their religion is... Beyond me.

If there's some other kind of thing going down, let me know I guess. But my hot take re "appropriation of catholic anesthetics" is that catholicism is the exact opposite of a closed religion, and you can't appropriate something that was freely given or violently forced upon you. That's not how it works.

Of course, this does ignore the peculiar and pervasive US issue of our Christian overlords being protestants who say things like, "catholics drown their children as a sacrifice to God," while still being, you know. Evangelicals.

But like, the really niche problem of anti catholic propaganda in the US isn't actually that relevant to a discussion about whether anyone but catholics can have stained glass windows.

It's a time waster all around.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

You complain about centrists but still associate with celticpyro who's too friendly with trad and pro life people. Why don't you take her to task like takashi0

I don’t “associate” with them, I reblog posts from them. I don’t know them. And frankly I have yet to see any majorly sus content so I really wish people would stop trying to get me to pick fights. I’m not really on this site to drag people and argue.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

celticpyro replied to your post “speaking of my irish class, i really enjoy that my teacher: (a) has...”

I've seen "Is [x] é" read as gender-neutral but then again it was on Duolingo, which I know isn't always accurate but are you saying Irish basically applies the same logic of "singular 'they'" as English?

“é” can be used neutrally in that it can mean “it”, but I think it would always come across as “he” for a person. As far as I’m aware, Irish doesn’t (yet) have neutral neopronouns (equivalents for ‘xe’, ‘ze’ etc), but uses ‘they’ in the same way that English does. My Irish teacher’s response when I told her my pronouns are they/them:

“as far as I know, the pronoun for nonbinary would be siad / iad.  The latter is used with the Copula and as object pronoun.  There would also be plural forms for all of the prepositional pronouns.”

so if you were trying to say “they are a teacher”, it would be “is múinteoir iad”

[frankendykes-monster]

The situation with Celticpyro really shows how far behind the curve most people are in terms of like. Being able to identify when someone is a shitshow. This post isnt an "I told you so" or a "Im smarter than you" on my part, I don't want it to come across that way, but like I correctly pinned them as a crypto-fascist in Spring of this year and thats only NOW becoming common knowledge.

[joutacujo]

Help us escape an abusive relationship

As I spoke about yesterday, my mom and I have had to dealt with a messy split with her partner. Her partner has been emotionally, physically and verbally abusing us for years now. She frequently insults us, spits, slaps, hits, threatens and tried to stab my mother a few times. She’s threatened to throw my animals out of the house and kick us out. She’s abusive to her own children as well, hitting them, threatening to walk out on them and verbally abusing them. 

Two days ago a massive fight started in which I told her how I felt about the whole situation and she screamed at me and slapped me. My mom jumped in and dragged her off me which lead to a physical fight. She ended up with a black eye and my mom’s head was split open (lots of blood but otherwise she’s fine). I got slapped again after trying to get her to stop. 

We briefly stayed at a neighbour’s place while she left for her parents’ with her kids. We’ve got a police record against her and a green paper (DVO I believe?) saying she can’t harm us in any way. Unfortunately this doesn’t stop her from taking the house from us. She’s kicking my mother out of the house and honestly I really don’t know what to do. I can’t stay in the house with this woman because I’m scared of her, but I can’t leave because my animals are here as well as valuables. I’ve had my stuff stolen before and only now have replaced them all. She’s a destructive, vile woman who’s destroyed our property before and wrecked the house. 

We have a court case on monday discussing the conditions of the split I believe. My mom’s going to try and get the house from her, but that’s still days away. 

I have 2 cats and 3 rats. There’s also another cat, a dog and fish at the house. My mom is an elderly lady with physical disabilities and I have my own mental health and physical health issues (depression, possible ADHD, a chest deformation). 

I’m really scared. I don’t want to be separated from my mom and pets. The police are on our side but they can’t stop her from getting my mom removed from the household due to the conditions of the lease. 

I just want this to be over. 

I’m asking for donations and I have commissions open. The money will be used for survival and possibly finding us a new place to live if we can’t get the house. My mom will be staying at the friends’ house, but I can’t leave my animals. They’re in danger if I go. 

my paypal is blizzardtail14@gmail.com

my deviantARTs are Peccary-Pinata and FanguoftheFlowers

I’m sorry to bother you as I know you probably get a lot of people tagging for help, but could you help spread this please?

@celticpyro @trash-bot @takashi0 @porko-rosso @chefpyro @olliemander @pixelclaws

I dunno who else to tag. I don’t know many people here.  

[novelelitist]

Going through the Salem chapter and what really stands out to me is the way values dissonance is handled. You're forced to be a bystander who doesn't cause a fuss and your mission DEPENDS on you being a neutral agent, so the child abuse, slavery, racism, sexism, poor treatment of prisoners etc. is much more obvious to you and you can't distance yourself from it by having your character say "No, this is wrong!" or actively opposing someone. It's some good stuff.

(Oh goddammit why didn’t it save my response. Oh well, I’m back on a computer now, so I’ll put what I have to say. Sorry about that @celticpyro.)

I love Heretical Salem. Totally not biased after living near Boston and Salem for a number of years and totally not biased for having a huge interest in weird parts of US history. 100% biased toward the exceptional writing quality. 

You get questioned for acting in a way the locals deem abnormal. You get punished for talking out of turn and acting out of line. You hit obstacles at every turn and can’t solve them with brutality.

Consider: Throughout FGO the only problem we solved with diplomacy first and foremost was... Nothing. Violence has been our answer for everything, in every Singularity and Remnant. The closest experiences we have to diplomacy are Babylonia (appeasing Gilgamesh, bringing goddesses to our side, etc) and Agartha (following the rules of each land until we get caught annaoop now we’re fighting for our lives and not our end goal again sksksks). 

I think it’s really worth looking into what the assimilation the Chaldea squad has to do in Salem really means.

[fuwafuwamedb]

Have you ever seen a picture of celticpyro? She's really pretty

I mean... Celty is a really nice person in general so it would make sense that she’s really super pretty. Yeah...

I hope she sees your kind words and feels even prettier on the inside. 

[norbah]

Heyo! I've been a follower for a little bit, and I just had a question about FTGO - I've gotten interested because of your content, and I'm wondering: Is there any particularly good place to get into the series as a whole? I know it's got a mobile game and an anime (both of which I'm considering) but I wanted to know if you thought there was a particularly good place to start? Thank you!

Oh! Well, that's actually an interesting question! So right off the bat: if you wanna get into Fate as a whole, it's either the visual novel, the prequel anime Fate/Zero, or the anime adaptation of the second route, Unlimited Blade Works. If you just wanna know about FGO, then the game itself is good, or the recent Babylonia anime works wonders. I go into more detail now but honestly, I ramble and repeat myself a lot, so...

It's a huge franchise, so there's different ways to get in. FGO is really just a spinoff from another story. Better informed people than me have answered this question (hasmashdoneanythingwrong, shuttershocky, celticpyro too, I think. Seriously, they do better than this whole spiel), but if you want my opinion? For getting into Fate as a whole, there's really two options I'd recommend above all else. The first is watching Fate/Zero. It's the prequel to Fate Stay/Night, really well made and fast paced BUT it does have a few spoilers about what goes on later, and can get unreasonably dark at times, being written by Gen Urobuchi, the sadist behind Madoka. The other is checking out either the Unlimited Blade Works anime (UBW being the decond route in the visual novel), or the visual novel itself (the preferred option, speaking personally, but it's time consuming and a bit of a pain to obtain). The easiest option would be watching the anime adaptation of the first route, Fate Stay/Night full stop, but if I'm being honest, it... kinda sucks. A shame, because that could have been the easiest entry point for many.

But if what really catches your eye is FGO itself, then there's no pressing need to check the original source material; the game's story is a spinoff. There's more than a few references to the original story thrown in, and I WOULD recommend checking it out at some point, but for the most part you can shrug it off. The game itself does a good job telling the story, thankfully.

There's currently the anime for the Babylonia singularity (REALLY well made, it does its best to explain the bare bones of the setting to the viewer), and a movie for the very first singularity (also very good, but the entire first singularity is a reference to the original vn and so might be a bit confusing).

I guess overall my recommendation would be, in order:

1. Fate Stay/Night visual novel (best entry point, but can be a bit plodding and extremely time consuming)

2. Fate/Zero (good characters, good story, good action, but it can get really dark and spoils some important stuff from later)

3. Unlimited Blade Works anime (pretty hot on 2's heels imo, does an excellent job explaining the basics)

If you just wanna have a look at FGO, I'd recommend the game itself, or the Babylonia anime.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Yo, so I really like celticpyro, I find the more you talk to her the more you find out what a total sweety she is. That doesn't mean I never disagree with her, just I know she means well. So what I'm trying to say is thanks for being one of the few people who disagrees with her publicly without starting in with name calling and stuff. You kept it classy. I mean, I actually agree more with you on this than her, but I get her stance. Sometimes I disagree with you too. Anyway, thanks for manners

Just how I was raised, I guess.

[atombombbaby]

@darkacademiakid mentioned you in a post: “celticpyro: celticpyro: mindfulwrath: panic really does turn you...”:

@atombombbaby you commited a crime please tell me it was on purpose or at least autocorrect

autocorrect (aka autocorrupt) is the bane of my existence lol

[peachypoops]

6 Question Challenge thing?

Tagged by @adelha-mathilde and @fuwafuwamedb, thanks you cuties ^^

Answer 6 questions to then tag 9 people you want to know better.

#1 Relashionship Status:

in a relationship c:

#2 Favorite Color:

uhh.. peachy shades? mint and teal? i dunno, i really like seeing a variety of colour (yes, i spell colour with a U)

#3 Top 3 Ships:

i’m a stupid self-shipper so right now me + Cu/Josuke/Jotaro are my top but i feel like they dont count so i guess - Jotaro & Kakyoin? - Cu Chulainn & Emiya? - Neopolitan and Yang? i dunno tbh because i pref my favourite dudes with me lol (cringey i know.)

#4 Lipstick or Chapstick

tinted chapstick most days

#5 Last Song Listened To:

Great Days UNITS ver. - JO☆UNITED break down, break down!

#6 Last Movie Watched:

the Heaven’s Feel movie 

Tagging: i’m just gonna try to tag a few ppl and try not to annoy them @curiooftheheart @dailyprillyancer @celticpyro @celtsoffate @unlimited-nobu-works @otaku-tactician @raspberryusagi @zoroark18  please dont hate me :c

[siverfanweedo]

You, Celticpyro, Sardomists, Shuttershocky, Hasmashdoneanythingwrong and Xenodile are THE premiere examples of "total unapologetic memelords who also have amazing in depth analysis of fate lore" and I'm a HUGE fan of that. Keep on rocking!

thank you very much XD!!! it makes me happy to see especially since over all i know very little of deep fate lore FGO is probably what i know the most about so i keep my stuff to that and getting the ideas of the characters and such from there really would love to see some of the other stuff but it’s hard finding the visual novels and my focus sucks when it comes to watching let plays of the other stuff  def should read the mangos esp the foxtail one