#but ya just gotta accept that

[moonlarked]

opinions on the council, especially the no-family rule because it pisses me off (for the rant thing)

ok!! Well, I already talked about how I thought the Council is a pretty messed up form of leadership in my other post, but I mostly talked about how unfair the election system was. I’ll summarize the main points here.

It’s never clarified who gets to vote, but the Banished definitely don’t, and I’m not sure if the Talentless do either.

There are no term limits, so the Councillors could rule for thousands of years.

The Council decides literally everything about society.

Only Nobility are allowed to be Councillors.

So, therefore, the most vulnerable members of society are NEVER allowed to have their voices heard or have a say in the way their world works.

There is also no version of Congress or Parliament or any sort of court of the people. The Council makes all the decisions. They create the treaties, hold the verdict in Tribunals, keep all the secrets. The only way somebody could make their voice heard is if an Emissary or somebody of status brought an issue directly to the Council, and even then, they don’t get any deciding vote on the issue.

There’s also the cache system. It’s been brought up many times in the books why this system sucks, and for good reason. Sure, guilt is shattering. But wasn’t there a better way of dealing with the LITERAL HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION than hiding it from the world and making everyone think the humans were nothing more than power-hungry monsters? Hiding the fact that they started a revolution for good reason?

The no-family rule!! Yeah, this never really made sense to me. I guess it’s to make decisions “impartial” or whatever they said but idk. I feel like there could’ve been a better way to do it. Sorry for not saying much on it but I never really thought about it that much beyond the fact that I just don’t get it.

Finally, let’s talk about the actual Councillors. There’s only a few that get any actual characterization - Alina, Bronte, Kenric, Oralie, Terik, Fintan, and to a lesser extent Emery.

Alina’s sorta just an asshole. There’s no other way to put it. She’s portrayed as someone who perfectly fits within the system and sees no problem with it because it never hurt her. She cares about Sophie and co. only when they still abided with the society. Once they started to rebel, she immediately turned on them.

Bronte’s seen as a jerk in the beginning, but he gets better throughout the series. You can see that he mourns the humans and disagrees with many of the Council’s decisions. He turns into a great ally for Sophie. However, he’s an Ancient Councillor and who knows how many of their war crimes he was a part of.

Kenric is the “good guy” Councillor, but in the later books it’s been revealed that he had a lot of secrets and was involved in a lot of shady stuff. He saw the first signs of the gnomish plague, I’m pretty sure, in that one Forgotten Secret.

Oralie’s another one of the “good guys” who has a lot more going on. Sophie’s rightfully pissed at her once it’s revealed that Oralie’s her mother and never once acted like one or gave her more help than she could without endangering her status. She works with the Black Swan, but she also abides by the Council’s rules and doesn’t want to give up her position.

Terik helps Sophie quite a bit, even staying in touch with her when she runs away, but again, he’s still a Councillor. When he hears about the state of Exillium, he, along with Oralie, only make the establishment more livable instead of abolishing it.

Emery is the spokesperson of the Council and therefore abides by the law more than anyone. He seems like an ally to Sophie in the beginning, but he advocating for putting a literal torture device on her.

Seeing a pattern? ‘Cause I am. These people only care about helping Sophie and her friends when they abide by the law or when it doesn’t hurt their position. They put on a good guy facade but hold a lot of shady secrets.

The only person on this list who doesn’t fit this is Fintan, and he’s a straight up villain. He was fine with the Council’s rulings until they affected him, and even then he still believes in elven supremacy.

Overall? The Council just sucks.

[pespillo]

sha´s silly rabbit

[secretmellowblog]

No offense, but the people asking for a Les Mis 2012 Extended Director’s cut with bonus extra scenes that somehow magically makes the movie better and retroactively fixes its problems, remind me of those people who were asking for the Secret Good Fourth Sherlock Episode…..

As a fan of the weird wonky mess that is Les Mis 2012, I feel like you kinda just gotta take it for what it is. XD

And I also don’t think you can expect a “remastered” version to fix anything, because almost all “remasters” are basically just minor visual tweaks that give film companies an excuse to charge you for the same product again.

[giantkillerjack]

Ya know. I spent most of my life with horrible painful soul-crushing social anxiety.

And after about 25 years of continuous hard work, suddenly, people started pointing out - to my utter bafflement - that I had, in fact, achieved my lifelong dream of being charismatic. I'm 29 now; I feel comfortable in most social situations, and it is a very rare person whom I cannot make laugh.

I am, undoubtedly, finally, charismatic.

But do you know what I found?

I found that now that I have an understanding of which social rules serve which functions -- Now that I have an understanding of just how much damage my awkwardness was doing to people, well,

I found that, actually, my awkwardness never really hurt anyone at all. People were just judgmental dicks to me about it.

Now that I have the skill-level to (most of the time) creatively vocalize what is in my head as soon as I think it and without fear, I can confirm once and for all what I had always suspected:

I was worth talking to when I was quiet.

I was worth talking to when I was awkward, and when the words in my head took time and patience to hear, and when most of my jokes didn't land. I was worth talking to the whole time.

So I just... I hope that if you've ever wondered whether you are worth communicating with, the answer is yes. Absolutely yes. Each of us has a soul worth sharing - and if you and I were talking, I would happily wait for you to speak (or communicate in other ways) without condescending, and I would never shame you for that harmless awkwardness that so many people feel the need to violently stomp out.

You are worth talking to. You just are. And you deserve people who will speak to you with kindness, with patience, and with the basic immutable respect owed to all people.

(I talk about this with some frequency, both on tumblr and in real life. At some point, maybe I'll gather all my thoughts on the matter into one post. At some point, I wrote about my personal experience trying to build my social skill. But I felt the need to say at least a little bit tonight after seeing this other lovely post, and I'm glad I did. It will happen again.)

[jaythelay]

Saying you believe israel has the right to exist is alot like saying all lives matter.

Has that same ignorant charm to it aswell where it exists solely as a distraction piece where existence and non-existance are the only options, and yet, that's actually never going to be the case.

What needs to be done is punishments, reparations, and treat them like the threat they are. No one is discussing wiping them out. No one does for Russia or China. We want to dethrone the corrupt or at the least not send our tax dollars and soldiers to them for aid. Simple as.

If america was genociding canada, you wouldn't say "America has the right to exist" implying the only solution to ending the genocide is more genocide, is in fact, intellectually dishonest and overwhelmingly telling of your moral character and experiences shared and had.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[agayconcept]

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[aether-link]

They have Zuko use his rainbow fire bending in the comic smoke and shadow. Yet never ever in animation. Crimes more crimes added to my list. 😤

[dan-crimes]

Mfs can't understand a blunt mf they always gotta try and read between the lines or straight up deny the words you're saying and deny how you feel

[generationlosscorkboard]

CHRONICLE ZERO, 30/7 - 6/8

(if any of the IRL dates are wrong by a day, blame it on my timezone being very different)

Okay! So! I'm just going to keep somewhat up to date by doing these in chunks! Yeah! Most of these are just initial thoughts and commentary, but that's to be expected. Anyways-

(long post, you know the deal) (isn't Tumblr supposed to shrink long posts anyways?) (I've seen it on other posts but not mine)(weird)

Dated July 30th 19XX

I've previously covered this, so here's a link to that.

Although as an add-on to it, I should mention that I am leaning away from the tape idea now (as cool as it was,) as some of the posts were a bit- too visual? Such as using arrows, the misspellings, and crossing out words. I've heard from people that it could be a journal, a typewriter, a pink pricess digital diary-

All of which would make 100% sense, absolutely.

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The Poll (same day)

The poll! This will be another interactive, it seems. The options were just saying Hello in various ways. Didn't seem to affect or interact with the next batch of writing so likely it's one of those "keep trying, at some point it will work and get through!" features. (Ask blog Chronos go!!)

"Hello?" won, if anyone's interested-

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August 4th (irl date, assuming it matches)

So, it's een eight months since some kind of event. (It was December 4th if so). It's hard to forget aforementioned event, although they wish "they could stop keeping time as much as they do." It's interesting phrasing for sure.

"been through hell and back since then" (awww Chronos....)

'yoXX you'd think I would get used to the looks, the glaXX (glances?), The phrXX (uh.. phrases?) the REMARKS, the notes. But they don't understand. "

Show them? Make them understand? Make them think about how their actions affecting Chronos and family? Who is them? By itself I was thinking that "they" are the GIC's, hense the inability to communicate. But with the stuff from before it could also just be the general populace being all "ooh something happened to those guys let's all STARE AT THEM AND WHISPER." Which isn't great either, or easily stoppable. Small town vibes too.

Then the list of good things, like "my family" and "my dog", including an individual named Jay (likely the "she' mentioned before) and another entry that is crossed out. (Also I'm worried that uh, everyone on this list isnt going to get out this well-)

Bad things: Unforgettable. But not a lot of information given to us just yet-

Chronos is also coming around to how useful/helpful the Chronicles are

And if anyone's curious, this is what was notable on December 4th last year:

(Photo sourced from @generationlossupdates with the following Id: [Id- a tweet from Generation Loss, it says "2" with a image attached to the tweet, the image is the logo, looks hand painted and bloody. - end id] )

I'm currently under the assumption it's just coincidence, but I'll give it to you all anyway.

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Second Poll, Same Day:

Another poll, also with a just question mark for the text. The options are "Who?" And "What?". I think it's asking what we want to know more about in the Chronicles, the characters? Or the world? (Well idk for What, what can mean a lot of things)

These polls feel eerily similar to the early gamey interactions in TSE, with the first one being a little bit of a dud and not wholly consequential, whilst the second leads to more more information about the area, and kinda controls what the character says and does. (In this case, what they write about next for our information)

Choose your own adventure book style, ya know

"Who?" won, so let's see if this is backed up in the next lot.

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August 5th

J (presumably, Jay) suggested Chronos log their "Wild dreams" the past few days. there's another X cross out in the word "another" (anohtX) but this time, only one. The first one is misspelt so could be simply just crossing out (quite literally) the misspelling.

(Damn Chronos just like me fr fr)

So... Kinda info about the characters??? In terms of the Who/What from before? It's not as strong of a link as I would like it to be but it's all good-

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D1: (Same Day)

(a dream discription, one of a number to come)

Standing in field of an unidentified plant, under a red sky. Weird terrain, felt like the ssky was curving upward. The sun was gone. (gnX)

Walking, trying to find something, not presently remembered. Then they started to sink, and they fell into a Chasm, a created, almost geometric yet unstable cave. Smooth white rock or concrete walls. Shifted and changed as they went deeper, until they saw "it". (Whatever it is, they didn't want to see it.) Dream be forcing them to see it though.

Then they're back in the field.

Stay tuned for Zero looks up Dream Interpretation and pretends to know what they're doing! (Cause I'm 100% sure it will be a long one, so different post)

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August 6th

(aka the funny post that made GLRanboo jokingly ask if I was Chronos/Chronicle, bc of the screaming about work thing-)

Damn guys I think they don't like their work or their manager. One could interpret the million years old thing as just another word for "old geezer" but wouldn't it be funny if he actually was a million years old-

Anyways, I'm going to hazard a guess that what they sell is something technology related. Anyways, we don't like the manager here, how dare they not give any respect to Chronos.

XX update: another two XX's on the word making (he's maXX), and then another four at the end of a lot of exclamation marks.

Moving on, Chronos showed their dream to Jay, who suggested that's to do with a cycle and being forced to relive stuff (RELIVE THINGS YOU SAY-)

As for the snacking comment- I have no idea if that actually has anyy correlation to what you dream. More J lore about liking the crazy and supernatural, but what I find interesting is the three different ratios Chronos gives. Like, yeah okay man we get it you wanna be right, I'm sure you are I'm sure-

50/50, 60/40, 70/30. Just constantly increasing your chances at winning, I see u-

So, we have got a little bit of lore building! Real cool real cool.

(I feel it in my bones that MatPat would mention all over the rewriting and changing and the three different ratios, but in that case he'd be absolutely horrified if he saw my old school books-)

[izzy-b-hands]

my body needs to get its shit together lmao

[steampoweredskeleton]

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[lastoneout]

Used to work at a theater and one of my jobs was going in to the auditoriums and forcing dipshits to get off their phones and/or kick them out if they wont and lemme tell ya, I could always figure out exactly who was on their phone IMMEDIATELY because it's that bright. Big fucking spotlight on your face telling me who I needed to go threaten.

Also you will eventually get kicked out if you do this and refuse to stop. We are under no obligation to make space for you, and if it's a choice between kicking one or two guests out and having a whole theater full of pissed off people who want refunds we are going to pick kicking you out. If you legit cannot sit through a 2 hour film without getting on your phone I won't judge you, I get it I have ADHD, but you need to find a different way to watch movies that allows for your fidgeting without compromising the enjoyment of a hundred other people. This is not a difficult concept. Sometimes you just can't do things. It sucks, but it's just how life works.

ppl are rlly trying to defend being on your phone during a movie in the theater what is going on

[grossillygirl]

I feel like he should’ve known better the first time tbh. It kind of feels like he went the “better to ask forgiveness than permission” route because he knew you wouldn’t be okay with it 😅

If i dont feel like he did that, why do you feel like that for me? You dont need to feel like that, and this way of thinking is super unproductive, especially when it's kind of unprompted. It would be a different story if this thought wasn't unprompted, but it is in my opinion

[jaythelay]

I'm just saying, I've been on the internet nearly 2 decades and the truth has always been this:

No company has ever suffered a single iota from any fanworks. Not a single pornographic image. Not one Fan-game.

Not one fan has ever tried to steal IP, not one fan has ever gone to court to challenge ownership of IP.

I've yet to see a Let's Play harm a single video game, I've yet to see a single mod worth taking down from corporate perspective, I've never once seen a company lose a single cent because of something you or I ever did as fans.

I've yet to see Piracy in any way have ever affected a company, nor entity, nor singular artist. It. Has. Not. Happened. The longest lasting meme from my childhood when Minecraft .jar Modding got popular, was that Winrar was cool for putting a 5 second pause before you can use the fuckin' thing, when 7-zip was free. Literally a company still around today and for no reason there's a 5 second pause before you're allowed to do anything. Cmon. Cmon ya'll. They can survive with that, a company can survive a sex mod for their game. Show. Me. An. Example. Otherwise.

It's been 2 decades.

We don't need to pretend shit about shit anymore. You should be allowed to make fan-games and put them online. You should be allowed to put tits on Geodude. You should be allowed to upload music, Roms, and TV shows online. There has never, been a point, where it Hurt These Record Setting, Streak, Setting, Record Setting Profit Companies. Who mind you, got half our dwindling wealth in under 2 years during covid. They're. Fucking. Fine. Every god damned time.

I can list, hundreds, thousands, of times where a company got an entire channel taken down with bogus copyright claims. I can find already compiled lists of these companies taking down reviews, I can show the myriad of sex abuse scandals at every god damn one of these companies.

I can't name a single fan that killed a company. I can name a shit ton of companies that Killed Their Employees however.

Quit taking their fucking side dipshit they aren't gonna fuck you bro.

[bunnys-kisses]

i got a fever and the only cure is more john price!!

he fucks nasty, you thought that age would slow him down. but, no. you are worn out before he even breaks a sweat. years of training to his body has given him stamina like a bull. and he had the breeding balls to prove it!

you didn't mean to sleep with your captain, but now that he had you in his grasp. he wasn't loosening his grip, not until that belly got round and those tits got fat.

"was a big baby." he said, his voice tense as he pressing his cock down into you. he had you pinned under his hefty, hairy wait as his impressive (huge) cock battered your insides. prepping you to accept his thick cum. he had his bicep around your head and kept you pinned.

it wasn't even a full doggy style anymore, he just laid on top of you with his cock plugging your sweet pussy. your moans were pathetic, you were powerless to him.

"price's are grown quite big, big head and wide shoulders. but don't worry, i'll be there the whole time. makin' sure my woman is taken care of. carry them at your hip while i got ya pregnant with another." his licked his lips like a hungry dog at the thought of it all.

you thought it was just sick dirty talk by the way it made you pussy slicker. but price was laying it out as it was. he was going to breed you, you were going to have his children.

he is egged on by your moans. he had convinced himself that you were his wife, even though you had never even gone on a date before. you thought this was simple, on-base, casual sex. meanwhile price was trying to very blatantly baby trap you.

he chalked up your ignorance to you having better maternal instincts than actual smarts. but, that was alright, you were meant to be a mother anyway! don't worry, price will make it all better for his precious wife.

price wanted to see and document all the changes to your pregnant body, he wanted to see his child grow inside of you. proof that he had laid claim to him. then he'll set you up in a sleepy town in northern england and you can be his little wife.

you, him and the kids. maybe a guard dog or two to protect the property. gotta keep the family safe!

the sick, pervert thoughts overcame him like a wave as he drilled his cock into you. a promise that he was going to finish very soon. even if you wanted to escape, the weight on top of you and the blissed out mess in your mind prevented you from getting too far.

not until he got you pregnant.

when he creams inside of you. it's game over (sorry)! you thought that due to age and his lifestyle that his swimmers were next to nothing. but he'd been saving up. a long time without a hole to fuck had made his biology desperate to pass his genes along.

so when he got you in a headlock while he rocked up into you, spearing your pretty pussy open, get ready for motherhood (yay)! because even trying to sneak off to get plan b will do nothing. you waited too long or the pills were ineffective.

as he rubbed your swollen middle on the couch of the sweet little home you (he) owned, his face brushed up against your side. his facial hair tickled your bare arms. he'd tell you that it was a miracle before he kissed your swollen mound.

"you are a better mother than you ever were a private." he cooed at you as he invaded your space once more, "good mothers make strong babies and i'm aimin' for the 99th percentile" <3