#but it also wasn't really bad either

[miraculousagentsofkrypton]

/Not once did Seyka put the responsibility of saving her sister on Aloy's shoulders. They helped each other, but it was mutual. / like every other single character? we could had an amazing love story and slow burn but no, all rushed with a random she just met and forcing it down the players' throats. but we are accepting this mediocrity, yay, really scared for horizon 3

I'm of the opinion that the ending with Seyka would have been best with a mixture of all three replies because they don't know each other very well, and Aloy is still working through things. I can see where people come from with the it feels a little rushed complaint, but it's also not the build up to some deeply committed relationship. So far, it's just a crush for both of them. Those dont need to have a drawn out build up. (Not to mention, picking a new character is actually less controversial than forcing one among the many choices people feel deeply about.)

Im fairly certain the writers are setting up the idea of romance choices for horizon 3. You likely won't be forced to romance her if you don't want to.

As for Seyka herself's dynamic with Aloy, yes, it is different from most of the other romantic possibilities in the game, aside from Talanah. All of them have points and interesting dynamics to explore in a ship, but there is some awe from all. Katallo views her as an admirable commander. Erend did rely heavily on her for solving his sister's disappearance, and felt like he owed her a debt. Alva had to get over her ancestor worship, etc. None of these things take away from their relationship potential with Aloy, but they did bother her a little.

They all learn to become real friends with her given time, but Seyka never needed that time. She framed asking for Aloy's help as helping each other, not as a plea. She took Aloy's immense capability as a challenge for herself. She pushed back against Aloy at every opportunity, but not in a way that hindered, in a way that forced Aloy out of her "Im responsible for everyone" shtick. She actively and consistently put herself in an equal and supportive role to Aloy, wanting to bear just as much weight. She was unwilling to just follow her lead (not in a bad way).

Her differing views on family and community were good changes from Aloy. To answer the other ask in the same answer, they aren't carbon copies. Aloy needs someone who can keep up with her intellectually and physically. She has a habit of not respecting people who bow down to tradition when it hinders them, so Seyka couldn't be that person. Those are the only things that we know Seyka really shares with her, but they are things Aloy finds appealing and would desire in a partner. They are necessary connections. We don't know much about Seyka yet, but we know enough to know they aren't the same person.

[missholoska]

day 7 of Soriel Week year 8: free day 💛💙

outfit swap with Alphyne ✨

and of course, I couldn't leave out the girls themselves:

[gay-jesus-probably]

Fantastic news everybody: Zuko/Sokka is only about 600 fics away from overtaking Zutara as the most popular ATLA ship tag on AO3. Finally, nature is healing.

[crownrots]

🍇 PRINCESS RAENESSA TARGARYEN (75 AC - 133 AC) (template by @kanos)

↳ Raenessa Targaryen was born in 75 AC to Prince Aemon Targaryen and his wife, Jocelyn Baratheon. She is the older twin sister of Princess Rhaela Targaryen, and younger sibling to Princess Rhaenys Targaryen.

Meek and emotional, she was oft called The Weeping Dragon behind her back. Ever compared to her two sisters, she lingered in their shadow for most of her life, trailing behind them and cleaning up their messes or sifting though the scraps they left behind.

Her cradle egg, as green as Wildfire, hatched shortly after her birth and finally in 91 AC at the age of sixteen, the timid Targaryen finally took the beast to mount. The Green Jewel of Dragonstone, Vysera, as she named her, seemed to be just as timid as her rider, but was fiercely protective of the young woman. While barely ridden due to Raenessa's distrustful nature, the dragon and rider shared a bond that was as close and unique as any other.

In 94 AC, at the age of nineteen, she wed Donnal Redwyne. The two struggled for years to have a viable pregnancy, and after many failed attempts, their prayers were finally answered when she gave birth to a girl in 113 AC, whom they named Daenys.

Unfortunately, their new found bliss was cut short as a fever took Donnal Redwyne's life mere weeks after Raenessa had given birth. The now widowed mother was never quite the same after that and as years passed she rarely let her daughter out of her sight. Months following the tragic loss, Queen Alicent extended an invitation towards her and the still young child, offering them a residence in the capitol should they want it. Raenessa graciously accepted and the mother and child lived in relative happiness and great comfort for many years.

When the Targaryen civil war commenced in 132 AC, Raenessa declared her support for King Aegon II Targaryen and The Greens, though, suffers a great loss at many turns.

In the days following the slaying of her older sister and her dragon at the Battle of Rooks Rest, Raenessa used the exodus of small folk from King’s Landing to flee the capitol. Amid orders from the Prince Regent, Aemond Targaryen, to seal the city, she managed to slip through undetected. Still reeling in shock and grief, she declared for her cousin, Rhaenyra Targaryen, but subsequently found herself locked in the cells beneath Dragonstone for a time, her untimely and sudden arrival sending ripples of confusion though the Queen’s small council.

Back in King’s Landing, Raenessa was branded a traitor and in retaliation Criston Cole suggests her dragon, Vysera, be slain and her remains fed to King Aegon's mount, Sunfyre, for her treachery.

In 133 AC, after failing to be reunited with her daughter, Daenys, until Queen Rhaenyra takes King's Landing, she suffers another great loss; one that will prove her last. During the riots lead by The Shepherd, Daenys would retreat to the Dragonpit to ensure the safety of her own dragon, Duskwing. Her demise was said to be particularly gruesome, the young woman and her unborn child crushed underfoot by her frightened dragon in its panic as the mob descended upon the chained beasts.

Overcome with grief, Raenessa Targaryen ended her own life just days later, through means of poison, succumbing to the deadly concoction nestled among her daughter's belongings.

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[guinevereslancelot]

eye doctor was trying not to scare me today bc i have a sight threatening condition 🥲 it's probably treatable but i need to go to a specialist

[monstermoviedean]

at the end of my fucking rope with "conversations" about k12 chronic absenteeism.

[bookwyrminspiration]

you’re reading fourth wing . . . oh my goodness good luck soldier i hope you’ll be able to get though it with your sanity intact . . . let’s hope you still like dragons after this

Everyone keeps saying "goodluck" or "godspeed." have faith, soldier, in my love for the trenches.

i've braved dastardly pits before and I'll brave them again 🫡

[eddiemunsonsmum]

Just saw this comment on a story posted a month ago.

*cries in Eddie Munson Solo Series no one wanted to read, interact with or request for*

No shade to the person that commented this on their own fic if you recognize it. It's not their fault. I'm not mad at them. More crying in the tags.

[crabs-brencil]

yk i probably should have gotten my stomach pumped a few(?) hours ago but i passed out instead and now im making myself chicken nuggets and if that's not a sign that god is playing me like a kazoo then idk what is

[autumnoakes]

man... rhoam's "redemption" in aoc really sucked, huh?

like botw SHOWED us, several times, how much pressure rhoam put on zelda to unlock her powers, despite her telling him, several times, that it wasn't working. he got angry and banned her from doing not only something she saw as useful, but something that she was clearly very interested in and passionate about because she "wasn't dedicating enough time to her prayers." yes, his diary expresses regret for it, but at the end of the day, if zelda saw that it wouldn't mean much to her. the actions rhoam took, and the way zelda grew up under so much pressure that she nearly died as a child in one of the springs (this is in urbosa's diary, iirc) mean so much more than his regrets and his intentions. it took him nearly 10 years to realize that he fucked up, and by that point it was too late. the calamity had returned, and rhoam had lost any chance he had at making things right with zelda.

meanwhile, in aoc, all that's there is some half-hearted scene in the temple of time that's supposed to make everything better? yes, aoc had a very different and arguably better outcome than the calamity that led to botw, but the damage was still done by rhoam. it's still the same hurts and abuse and trauma that he put his daughter through all because of the prophesized calamity.

[sciderman]

i relate to peter parker because i’ve had six crushes this year alone

damn son save some for the rest of us!!

[medicinemane]

Should make a pain killer that actually kills (or even touches) pain

[front-facing-pokemon]

[helladventurers]

(gonna keep my personal opinion separated from the previous post to keep it unbiased and so people can post their opinion unbothered)

Imo, I do think that the series was starting to show some fatigue by the time nexus rolled out, but while I do have mixed feelings on 5, it did show us that the series' gameplay had legs to stand on and even if you do a somewhat drastic change to the way the classes and exploration works, the core design of the series is so strong that it still manages to carry it even through the more mediocre games

It is a bit unfortunate that we won't really ever know if 5 was a more experimental title or how the series would have been from now on from that point onward, but honestly, as long as they eventually improved on the writing of the series (because imo between the untolds, 5 and nexus, the writing of the series did take a sharp decline), and they did the minimum to keep the gameplay fresh and giving us new classes and ways to explore the core gameplay of the series, I would've likely been perfectly fine with them sticking with the core gameplay of the series and not changing it

[madegeeky]

Hannibal (the TV series) seasons in one sentence:

Season 1: The least amount of police procedural you will ever see in a police procedural.

Season 2: Reins are off now, fuckers, let's do some goddamn character work!

Season 3: Wherein the first half is Hannibal writing fanfiction and the second half has completely new main characters.

[seaofreverie]

So busy with Sparkstember that I almost forgot that I go back to school on tuesday