#choose violence ask

[frankenjoly]

For the choose violence ask game: 6, 7, 12 with bsd?

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

The most popular ship in every fandom always has the biggest number of fans acting like jerks bcs, y’know, more ppl always means more chances, plain statistics... And we all know what ship it is here cjfjfjfj (I do like it, but y'know)

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

Didn't really get to fully hate him and and moved past it, but I had a phase of being so mad at Fukuchi bcs of 1) chapter 88 and 2) a certain group of twt ppl insisting he was better than Mori in terms of morals when they're basically doing similar things 😭

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

I have a few but gonna go with Naomi bcs she's so underrated. Like, she's very smart and bold, and not enough ppl acknowledge her

[isabellehemlock]

🔥 ask game: 4, 8, 16

Hi Sindi! Thanks for sending me an ask 😎

Since you're all things TOG I hope it's alright to assume these questions for that fandom, so that's through the lens I'll be answering with 🤗

4. What was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

I have "I block liberally" in my bio for a reason lol.

I mean, I strive not to label anyone by adjectives as if that's all they are - and lol, plenty of people find me annoying, too! - but looking at my blocked list, the majority overall theme (keeping in mind there's individual circumstances too, so not a general commentary on every single person blocked) but yeah, the majority? People who stalk and harass people across platforms - over nothing more than what they ship, kinks, etc.

Like I'm not talking about someone who sends their friend a post and wants to discuss to process or something - but like coordinated campaigns, spite events, efforts of several people across platforms, not only against one person but anyone associates with them, and/or telling people what public spaces they're allowed to be in, what ship positions they should or should not write, events they engage in, who to talk to, etc etc.

It's one thing to write on your own personal blog what you're into, and would love to see more of (I do that, too!) - but once it slides into one on one hounding, name calling, harassment, yeah, bye.

8. Common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Okrrr I'm hesitant to call it "wrong" because well, in life there's always exceptions, so maybe uh, let's reframe as ill-informed? And really, this isn't fandom's fault when the one effin piece of marketing Netflix did was string together a few random bullet points of "facts" for our Immortal Family and then a chunk of people have been dissecting the conflicting comic, movie, and now blink-and-you'll-miss-it marketing of said movie ever since (including, but certainly not limited to: where is Joe from, and why was he in Jerusalem?)

But as someone who's background and studies involve Church history, I'll admit I've been a bit 🫠 at some of the things stated as "facts" in regard to Nicky’s background. I'm not suggesting that someone should have to study up on any given subject in order to write fic (like, it's free fic, not a thesis), but I'm surprised how prevalent it is?

Just this narrative that Nicky *had* to be of noble birth, *and* automatically be more learned than Joe, *and* was a virgin *and* essentially wore his cassock right under the armor onto the battlefield (I'm having a little fun with that last one to lighten the mood lol).

Since I know I like to be informed when someone presents historical facts - I'll link a few articles and links below:

@qqueenofhades wrote an excellent post about the why a priest would not be wielding a weapon - and here's a book about how the Church forbade it, though (ironically, out of the Crusades) thoughts shifted about the Church being actively involved in the sense of authorizing and even directing military campaigns - but again, the average priest maybe had a weapon in the 1200s, and solely for the sake of self protection while traveling. But no, your average parish priest wasn't swinging a long sword onto the battlefield in his cassock.

Here's some information about how non nobles could become priests, or heck, even illegitimate children of priests could become priests.

And yes, 100% there was a social hierarchy within the Church and often to climb it you were likely educated and noble etc etc etc - and yet our Church history does include having illiterate popes, too (and really, just because someone is illiterate doesn't mean they are unlearned or stupid or incapable of learning it at any time. It doesn't have to be an either/or).

And though of course celibacy was encouraged from the beginning, the Church did not make an official decree about it until the 1100s. Priests had families and children - though not often - and yes, there were definitely clergy and religious who were not interested in making, much less, upholding vows of chastity around Nicky’s mortal timeline.

All that to say, that though it's not impossible that a random priest (perhaps a military chaplain ministering to soldiers?) found himself needing to grab a sword on the battlefield in the chaos around him (because perhaps he had a few years of training with a sword as a kid before being sent to a monastary?) - I don't think it was the given I've seen some people declare it as?

But here's the sad truth: Nicky is just a fictional character with conflicting canon sources. So, there will always be discourse. Sigh.

However, for anyone reading along and looking for more resources for their Crusades fic, I've written one up here, and linked not only other sources, but from @actualmermaid resource post as well as the old guard hub resource doc.

16. You can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Hmmmm I'm not sure if I'm like deeply offended by any particular tropes/canon as much as I filter out certain tags due to personal reasons, etc - I mean even the whole Nicky priest discourse is (for some) potentially rooted in priest kink love lol, so I mean, to each his own?

I definitely filter out the noncon that has happened between Joe and Nicky, but again, that has more to do with personal reasons vs say, a judgment on content (though please pleaseeeee tag it properly).

If you've made it down to here, bless ~ I know this was potentially a heavier reply than what the game was looking for 👀

[thegeekyartist]

1, 12, and 21 for the 💥violence ask💥

(all with the fandom(s) of your choice)

Thank you for the ask!!!! <3 <3 Let's keep the wwdits opinions GOING.

1.the character everyone gets wrong

NADJA. She is not this heartless, selfish character (which is something that's irking me about her arc so far this season). She cares SO MUCH for the other vampires - she adores her husband and has the hugest soft spot for Nandor (often giving in the second he bats his eyelashes, not to mention her actual reason for disliking Gail being that she always breaks Nandor's heart). Even in s3 she admitted to having some affection for Guillermo, which might seem out of character for vampires in general, but definitely not for her!

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

DEREK! I don't think he's unpopular anymore, but I've loved him since "MY MAN!" Absolute king, he's so funny.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

I already talked about my big one in another ask (rip Jackie Daytona enjoyers), but another one is Sean. Don't get me wrong, I think he's hilarious, he's got some great lines. I'm not desperate for him to become a larger character, though.

I DO hope he finds out about the vampires this season. That would be a great direction for the character, if they do plan on bringing him around more often.

[chimchiri]

9 and 15 for the ask challenge??

9. worst part of canon

Fucking... Scotaloo's parents... They should not be there. I have no idea why it happened like that. Did they want to make something with Rainbow? But it was too mature? Or did they just.. forget to include Scoots' parents until Season 9?? Either way. I'm angry. I don't accept it. That part of canon is burned from my mind.

15. that one thing you see in fanart all the time

I actually can't think of something tbh. There are a lot of cute humanizations and pony variations. Not all are for me but the quality of most is insane. Maybe that's what I see most of the time? The general quality and creativity for original designs.

[yekokataa]

🔥 choose violence ask game 🔥

the character everyone gets wrong

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

worst discord server and why

which ship fans are the most annoying?

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

worst part of canon

worst part of fanon

number of fandom-related words you've filtered

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

worst blorboficiation

that one thing you see in fics all the time

that one thing you see in fanart all the time

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

there should be more of this type of fic/art

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...

part of canon you found tedious or boring

part of canon you think is overhyped

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

ship you've unwillingly come around to

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

[pretty-weird-ideas]

Episode Seven and White Tears

The trial's allegory is not just a lynching, it is a lynching for a Black person entering a relationship with a respected White man, and proceeding to leave him. It's not a murder case, as seen through the show, there's actually very little emphasis on the murder in the episode in regards to Louis. The emphasis is on his "seduction", his "ungiving nature", and "refusing to give his body". It is a public humiliation and lynching for turning a respected white man down. The crime isn't hurting Lestat, it's hurting his feelings.

Lestat doesn't speak to the audience about the pain of his throat being slit. He speaks of loneliness, the audience chants and jeers about how cheating was justified if Louis isn't putting out. Santiago isn't talking about the murder, he's talking about how much of a sexual deviant Louis is the second he is introduced. The show is telling us what's important to the case, and what language hurt and stuck out to Louis the most. The deciding factor in the eyes of the audience, the story that Sam and Santiago are trying to tell, is that the crime is heinous because Louis turned down Lestat.

The audience isn't mad about the murder, they're mad about Lestat's emotions, they're mad about the betrayal, and they are mad that Louis and Claudia didn't put up with things. The case built against the two of them isn't based on violence, it's based on white tears. Louis isn't called a monster for slitting Lestat's throat, the audience member calls him a monster for turning down Lestat's advances.

The show is clear that the trial isn't really about the murder, it is about Louis not "giving enough" for Lestat. It's about Louis asking Lestat to turn Claudia and literally bargaining his happiness where he literally gets on his knees and says "I'll be happy for you, I will never leave you if you do this for me". It's never been about the murder, it's quite literally just shaming Louis for not "loving a good man who might be abusive".

At the end of the day, the trial as framed and written by Sam is building a case off of Lestat's tears, not actual physical harm.

Like my skin is crawling but also the show is so chilling with how it portrayed the "He's a good man so hold your tongue and endure! Lest you read as ungrateful".

Anyways someone take the laptop from me before this becomes my life.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

what if the animorphs got the death note?

Cassie: Would burn the thing. Doesn't care if she dies in the process. It's worth it, to get it out of the world's hands.

Marco: Would go on a fact-finding spree to figure out the names of as many yeerks as he possibly can. Would figure out that some stems (e.g. Iniss) are followed by multiple sets of numbers, and would give himself carpal tunnel writing Iniss 0000 - Iniss 9999 in the notebook. Would claim to his friends that he also doesn't know why a mysterious disease has killed so many yeerks lately.

Jake: Would ask the group what they should do with it. Whether Rachel and Marco would succeed in arguing for it before Cassie and Ax succeeded in arguing against it is anyone's guess.

Ax: Would never use it. Would probably also give it back to the group. Controversial opinion, I know, but he cares deeply about fighting fair and with honor. If he could figure out a way to use it to save his friends he might, but he'd probably vote to bury it in the woods if forced to cast a vote.

Rachel: Would use it. And then stop using it. She fights those who are stronger than her, and spares those who are weaker. Any time she can use it against a yeerk with an involuntary host she will... but those names are hard to find, and she's not going to stop mid-battle to pull out a pen. She'd conclude it's no good as a weapon, but if Marco asked she'd announce she got rid of it because it takes all the excitement out of the war.

Tobias: Even more controversial take, but. If anyone would go full Light Yagami, I think it's him. He's the one pushing to use the Time Matrix to "fix" history in MM3. He's the one who kills Hitler after learning this is just a jeep driver, because he's Hitler. He argues with the Ellimist, and thinks he could do better. He sees the world as injust, and he's angry about it. He would argue it's immoral not to use the Death Note. I could see Tobias writing down every Visser's name... and then Pol Pot's... and then Charles Manson's... and then Taylor's... and going from there.

[allastoredeer]

Lmao, you know Alastor 1000% used malicious compliance when he was alive, but this is probably one of the few times he's had to use it since dying and becoming a terrifying eldritch tentacle deerman. Think Alastor normally noms his own sheddings, or was that purely out of spite towards Carmilla?

Malicious compliance king <3

He could've explained his situation to Carmilla but he really went hmmm, no. I'm going to make everyone uncomfortable instead.

Alastor does nom his sheddings (its very tasty) but doing it in front of Carmilla while making full eye contact was 100% out of spite.

[kesia-stupid-arts]

17 please

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

I wish we had more fan works revolving around Wendy and Webber and their parents, especially Wendy and Jack Carter have so much angst and fluff potential, but everyone seems to ignore the existence of their parents because they want Wilson to be their parent instead 😞

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Okay but if mbj can't see beneath the baps how does he look at sqh?

He is Hoisted. Held in one hand, as he should be.

[pearlsoceanworld]

It's too peaceful around here. I wanna see u guys suffer :3

(basically, one of them will seize to exist , and u gotta choose one that will live)

Pearl's notes: do you guys want me to do a ratio and alhaitham version?

[silverskye13]

found this on pintrest

Tanguish to Welsknight

Yes

Exactly

That's Tanguish's entire hermit vs helsmet struggle in a nutshell, actually.

[chimchiri]

7 for the ask game!!

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

That used to be the case for Trixie before I finished all seasons actually. I only knew one or two episodes with her and was pretty indifferent. But I kept seeing supposedly humorous art with her as a stoner or failwoman or gamer or whatever and that humor is just not for me. It really turned me off her. I started to love her though when she became friends with Starlight in the show and I saw more of her.

Other than that I have to admit it's trans Big Mac atm. When I first saw him as trans I thought it was cute. Sure, why not. Not my hc but I don't mind. And the art was pretty sweet. But the way that hc was/is handled and appeared just nonstop really turned me off. I wish it didn't but I can't really help it. I don't like a hc taking over like that without seeing any variaton. It's pretty common for me to get annoyed.

[anneapocalypse]

6 and 8 for Dragon Age! Choose violence!!!!

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6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

I'm gonna be perfectly honest: I have drawn my little circle of Dragon Age fandom such that I really don't find any shippers annoying. I also basically like all of the canon romances I've played on some level and there are none that I have a visceral Nope about, and as far as non-canon romances I cannot find it in myself to get bent out of shape about rare pairs, which is what most non-canon ships end up as, realistically.

My hot take is that in this fandom, anyone who leads with "X shippers are the WORST EVER--" is about to be far more annoying than any of the shippers I know.

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Wicked Eyes and Wicked Hearts is a good quest.

In many ways, I think it's actually comparable to playing A Paragon of Her Kind as a non-dwarf. In both quests, people often complain about not having access to all the information about the candidates, by which they mean that the game does not hand them a piece of paper explaining to them why one candidate is the Good One and the other Bad, what's that noise oh it's me banging trash can lids together in your backyard and hollering THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BENEVOLENT MONARCHY, THERE IS NO GOOD MONARCH, POWER THAT CONCENTRATED CAN ONLY BE SUSTAINED WITH BLOOD, ALL YOU CAN DO IS DECIDE WHICH ONE IS GOING TO DO THE LEAST HARM AND/OR IS MOST EASILY MANIPULATED BY PARTIES YOU WISH TO SUPPORT.

Coughs. What I mean is, the frustrating lack of information given to you, an outsider, is kind of the point. No matter who you play as the Inquisitor, you are canonically not Orlesian and you do not know the Imperial Court intimately no matter how politically savvy your character may be. You are an outsider, and to many people a dangerous one. You are here as a guest; you were not invited with the intent of letting you choose the ruler of a sovereign nation, and people are not simply going to hand you information to that end. Even some of your advisors may have personal motivations for withholding information that you would have liked to know, perhaps because of their own involvement or complicity in certain events. You know. Perhaps.

So you have to do your own digging. You have to climb trellises and sneak into locked rooms. You might get lucky opening the right doors and finding something really useful, or you might not. You might say the right thing to the right person and get a valuable lead, or you might fumble it never knowing what you could have had.

We love to poke fun at the RPG tropes of every NPC immediately giving you their life story and asking you to solve all their problems. Isn't it kind of interesting when a game doesn't do that--when you have to take your own initiative if you want a specific outcome, when other characters aren't just dumping information on you and assuming that you'll act on it in a specific way?

I think one of the most interesting aspects of WEWH is that you can in fact choose to do nothing. Yes, you have to follow the basic outline of the quest, but at the critical moment you can just not intervene and allow Florianne to stab Celene and Gaspard to take the throne--effectively, letting things play out as they would have had the Inquisition done nothing. Gaspard of course winks and treats you as an ally because you assumes you're complicit, but you could in fact just have been indifferent. Game mechanics make it obvious you're making a choice, but in-universe it's simply that you have chosen not to act.

And if you do choose to act, you do not get a guaranteed Good Option. No, you don't get to flip the tables and completely overturn the social order of a sovereign nation of which, again, you are not even a citizen. You have to work with the situation you're in, and try to bend it to whatever advantage you see fit. You get no guarantees.

Sure, there a few places where I think WEWH fumbles the ball, but on the whole I think it's a brilliant union of storytelling and creative game mechanics.

[bucksboobs]

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Okay so headcanoning Eddie as gay doesn’t take away from how he loves Shannon. The show has already gone through great lengths with Michael’s early arc to show how love can exist between a gay man and his comphet wife. If the show ever did confirm that Eddie loves Shannon but wasn’t attracted to her I think it could be compelling even if it’s a slight retread of earlier stories because religion never really factored into Michael’s coming out. Exploring how religion made Eddie hate himself so much that he buried his own sexuality and forced himself into three relationship different dysfunctional relationships with women despite it all can be told without disrespecting Shannon because Eddie’s grief for her is still central to his entire character.

[starrysnowdrop]

the character everyone gets wrong (I didn’t know what a lot of the other questions meant sorry!)

Ummmm… well, if you know what my other ship for my other WoL is, then you’ll know who I’m about to say…

((To my fellow Zenos enjoyers, I love you all and I give you all headpats!))

I swear, I think the vast majority of players just don’t get Zenos. I have seen such bad takes over the years that it really gets to me. It’s probably why I didn’t consider shipping with him for such a long time, because so many people just… don’t understand him.

Now I’m not here to say that you MUST like him as a character. I absolutely understand if you just don’t like him and/or you don’t really care about him either way. Zenos has plenty of enjoyers out there so I’m not here to sway you over enjoyment of his character.

HOWEVER… what I will say is that I have pondered this question many times before:

“How many people say they either don’t care or outright hate Zenos because they don’t understand his character?”

Before this turns into a full blown essay, because really I could write one, all I’ll say is this:

If you think he’s a one dimensional character that didn’t have a character arc, then I’m here to say that you misunderstood Zenos. Simple as that.

Anyways, I’ll shut up for now before that essay starts to write itself. Thank you so much for the ask @mimble-sparklepudding!! 💖

I’ll just link Yume’s side blog here for reasons: @firelightmuse