#but we were given an opportunity

[praesparo]

just like @excalibiur said, photos of our unexpected but very much welcomed addition to our family. Meet Daisy 🌼❤️

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

End of Empathy (time for violence)

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[svtskneecaps]

friends i just desperately need to remind everyone that in the quest to save bobby the conditions were that his parents stay alive during it and ROIER DIED. i need you all to remember that THEY FAILED. roier did not just go DOWN did not pop a TOTEM he DIED and he RESPAWNED. they FAILED. bobby stayed dead because they said KEEP ROIER AND JAIDEN SAFE and ROIER DIED. not downed, not bleeding, DIED.

rip rip potato chip MUERTO MURIÓ DIED

this post has been in my brain for literal months btw i just went over the edge and posted today lmao. anyway, excited for the trial

[wonder-worker]

"It is too easy to dismiss [Leonor of Navarre] as an overambitious schemer who would do anything to obtain a crown, shedding the blood of her own siblings and her subjects in order to attain the throne. However, a deeper investigation of her long lieutenancy and ephemeral reign shows a woman who fought tenaciously to preserve her place but also worked tirelessly to administer a realm which was crippled by internal conflict and the center of the political schemes of France, Aragon, and Castile. She tried to broker peace, fight off those who opposed her, repair the wounds caused by conflict, protect the sovereignty of the realm, and keep the wheels of governance turning. Leonor was not always successful in achieving all of these aims but given the background of conflict and the lack of cooperation she received from all of her family members, bar her loyal husband, it is a huge achievement that she survived to wear the crown at all. Many writers have argued that Leonor deserved the troubled lieutenancy, personal tragedies, an ephemeral reign, and a blackened reputation, basing their assumption that she committed a crime that cannot be [conclusively] proven. However, a more fitting description of her would be that of a resolute ruler who successfully overcame a multitude of challenges in order to survive in a difficult political landscape and gain a hard-fought throne.”

-Elena Woodacre, "Leonor of Navarre: The Price of Ambition", Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060-1600 (Edited by Zita Eva Rohr and Lisa Benz)

[starliteonearth]

Hands down the biggest fumble of What If season 2 was not letting it be Wanda who teamed with Kahhori to fight Supreme Strange instead. Not only would it have been a cool twisted reversal of Multiverse of Madness, we could've also gotten the magic showdown of the century between two of the most powerful beings in the multiverse. Like they would've ate so bad.

[crackers4jenn]

I was NOT expecting to hear the dulcet sounds of Rhys Darby on Rhett and Link's first episode of Wonderhole, but I was braced for how homoerotic it would of course be.

[zerofoursix]

used aggie for the first time to draw some fanart for andou while he was at a con! uhhhh paintchat-alikes sure have added a ton of tools in the past decade huh??? ;;;

[akkivee]

another rio and dice plot parallel i like is that they both had mics before chuuoku chose to redistribute them

[kinnoth]

If I see ONE MORE FUCKING PERSON be like "well I played and finished the dlc, but I'll wait to draw my conclusions about the lore until after the vaati video comes out"

FUCKING WHAT. It's not vaati's fucking lore! That man is just another fan, just like you! He is not your authority!!! Fucking dig up your own lore! All the information you need is there! Walk around the fucking game, open your eyeballs, and draw your own fucking conclusions!!!!!

I swear to fucking God you are all such cowards about "getting it wrong" that you are denying yourself half the fucking experience of the game by refusing to engage with the lore until someone tells you what to think about it.

Get your heads out of your asses!!!!!

[mayybirds]

Important question, do more of the RE8 villagers survive in this version?

Yes, very much yes. I can't, at this time, guarantee any specific characters other than Elena (definitely) and Luiza (probably), and an undetermined number of unnamed villagers, but I definitely plan for some of the villagers to survive.

While the total wipe-out of the Village in RE8 is a lot more believable than other "total wipes" like Raccoon City or the Pueblo in RE4, as it seems significantly smaller than both RC or the Pueblo, and has a more intelligent breed of bioweapon under specific instruction to exterminate the Village, Resident Evil has a weird and kind of uncomfortable history with complete massacres over its long history that I'm always inclined to push against. It's lazy, uninteresting writing to me when it's a trope recycled so frequently... especially given it's very clearly mostly used to provide clean narrative "closure" between each game by eliminating any other survivors other than the main protagonists (and Wesker lol). Like... RE4, for example, functions as a contained narrative because the Pueblo dies at its end. Its function is over in the continued story of "Resident Evil"... it only matters going forth in the context of Leon, Ashley, and Ada as characters. But as a writer, I'm much more intrigued by a version of that story that involves other survivors. What would it mean to live through something like that, not as the hero outsider protagonist, but as a civilian? How do you even recover? Who would you be after?

The weight of the horror of the complete destruction of a place that's isolated to a single game becomes faded when it's the same shit in every game. I'm sick of it, and bored of it. It would hit harder if it wasn't every damn game... better to take it apart and try something new with its empty box.

[mastersoftheair]

Sorry but am I the only one that thought that episode…sucked? Like it was straight up bad. Horrible pacing, no wrap up of all the random characters and plot lines they’ve thrown around all season (the tuskegee airmen, Westgates spying, literally all the guys beside like the main 4). (Seriously it makes me so mad that the three redtails got all of 5 seconds of screen time, almost no lines. Literally what was the point of introducing them other than to pretend the show was iNcLuSiVe) Even at the end of BoB and the Pacific you get a much better idea of what happened to all the remaining guys. In this they’re like what happened to DeMarco or Hambone or Brady or (insert character here) we don’t know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The concentration camp scene felt shoehorned in compared to how it was done in BoB. Unless that actually happened to Rosie (which i haven’t heard anything about) but it was just like.. ok? It all felt so rushed and emotionless to me. Maybe I’ve just fallen out of love with MoTA but it’s been downhill for me since episode 6 or so.

i already made a little (read: long) post-finale write-up here, where i talk about the use of the tuskegee airmen, l'sandra, and overall editing/pacing issues i felt the show had. but i don't agree with the notion that adding the redtails was in any way insincere or trying to halfass being "iNcLuSiVe", i just think they suffer from this show's obvious time constraints. and to summarize what i wrote in my linked post, there's a limit to what white writers/directors/producers can do when creating a story about black people. there are some stories i'd feel uncomfortable with them telling on their own, truth be told. dee rees wasn't the sole nonwhite director, but she Was the only black one. i think she did her job well given the limitations and i appreciate that they let her direct those episodes, rather than leaving it up to a team of white people trying their best to tell a black story.

the worst i can say about the finale is that it didn't feel like That strong of finale, tho i wouldn't go as far to say it "sucked" or call it "straight up bad". i liked it plenty, it's just the weakest of the hbo war finales imo.

as for the concentration camp scene, artistic license was taken with both shows. unlike what's seen in the BoB, easy company wasn't the first to arrive at kaufering, and there's 0 mention of the all-japanese american 552nd who helped them liberate it). similarly, rosie rosenthal did assist in liberating those camps, though it would've been after the events shown this episode. idk if he saw one in that up-close way seen in this episode, but he could've (i should research this when i have time). plus, it would've felt weird Not having him acknowledge them at all. "shoe-horned" is an odd term to use here imo, as both scenes more-or-less center a jewish character (BoB's liebgott and MotA's rosie). the former show has survivors the characters can help, the latter shows no one left to help. the former has all of easy company there, the latter has rosie there all alone. rosie's scene felt deeply personal in that way. at the end of the day, both scenes are communicating different things. that doesn't make one better than the other when they aren't trying to be identical. (disclaimer, i'm not jewish, so i'd be interesting hearing from the perspective of someone who wrt whether or not they felt it was "shoe-horned")

i can understand if you've disliked the show post-episode 6 (and episode 6 was a very strong episode i'm ngl). eps 7 and 8 were weaker in many ways, even to me, so i get it. everyone's entitled to their own opinion (i'd be a hypocrite saying otherwise). just understand that this blog is run by someone who overall enjoys this show despite its flaws! basically, i encourage you to take this energy and make your own posts.

[randomnameless]

@megafan1993

Not to downplay Gary's shittiness lol, but I see what line you're talking about!

Gary's jelly of Alain because he's the son of the man Ilenia loved and that man wasn't him :'(

But I don't remember him wanting to kill Alain only because he wasn't his son?

On that level, Alcina "wins" the comparison because she accepted to help Ilenia once even if she was Gerard's daughter and not hers lol, but given what she plans to do with the rest of Gerard's fam (and if she had her suspicions about Ilenia being turned in a soul jar too)...

He gives so much "nice guy" vibes lol, and yet even if the "at least I fought for her until her end" plays in the "nice guy" vibes, given how he directs those words at Joseph who also feels like trash for having failed and let her die (his feelings post Virginia's paralogue!) it's more pathetic than anything else, as in pathos wise for both he and Joseph, as he claims Joseph has no right to "judge him".

He could have had more lines with Hodrick though, who also was on Ilenia's team during the paralogue, but was later used as a soul jar and did things against his will, as opposed to him helping Zenoira of his own volition.

Granted, when Ilenia was still alive, he wasn't revealed to be that scummy because while he sure fired Berenice for hitting some people - something she did to cover him who was going to do the very same! - despite bragging about being an aristocrat or coming from a rich and noble family, he still took her under his command and they apparently had a good relation, even if Berenice is poor/from a lower class than he is.

But given how he turned his coat the second Ilenia died and was basically only faithful/in luf with, as you said, his idea of her, Gary's scuminess only needed an Ilenia "push" to come out lol.

Gary's pathetic and as I noted before, basically the Unicorn Overlord version of FE8's Carlyle but without the supposed care he has for Joshua lol, but bar that? Just a minor character who at least gives a last "fuck you" to the cast and dies without regreting his actions.

However, the comparison with Alcina - whom the game and the characters wants you to feel bad for - really stings when their character arcs are really similar.

[akashis-waifu]

I'm still bothered by the fact that Aizen is smug in BBS (and even in the anime opening and ending) but has flat affect in TYBW.

[novahazard24]

Finally some good fucking recommendations

[theatrebooknerd56]

You guys want to know why Methodists baptize people when their babies?

It's because (and this is almost verbatim what I was told at 8 years old) we are sunnders from when we are born, babies sin because they deceive their parents for attention by crying which is a lie and sinful

I was told this as a CHILD

[jvpiterstears]

vent-ish.. content warnings: system dormancy / trauma talk / tacomic & paco (mentioned)

note to self. apparently, alters can and will force themselves into dormancy if/when they feel too stressed about things. including alters who have important roles.

including the host.

i’m sorry, taco. i’m sorry you felt so unwanted by the world. that you felt like no one would ever accept you… you deserved to feel safe and comfortable. you shouldn’t have had to force yourself into dormancy because of what people have said about your source self— you aren’t her, even if you’re still source attached.

i know it was stressful to hear so many horrible things about you. to hear people call you an abuser, say you deserve to die, saying you shouldn’t be allowed to live a normal life, so much hate and pressure was pushed onto you… i know you were hurting. i know what terrifying things you remembered happening in your childhood and i feel so terrible for you. no child should ever be put through so much just to get blamed for their natural response to the trauma… you weren’t even 13 when your family was doing horrible horrible things to you. physically and mentally, it’s not a surprise you turned out how you did.

and i know you loved pickle. you loved mic, too. and you thought you could never find anyone who would accept you for that, but trust when i say there are so many people out there who support who you were.

you were from a world where everyone hated you and even in this world had to feel like that was the case… i know i’m saying this a lot but i really am sorry. i’m so, so, so sorry and i hope you come back soon.

because we’re falling apart without you in charge.

-marshmallow(⚪️)