#collaborative hating

[lovepoison9]

The 5 love languages

[bacony-cakes]

op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it

[menlove]

I somehow went this entire time never hearing that paul quote where the interviewer asks if he thinks john loved him and he says "I don't think it was- I don't think he did actually" and I do genuinely need to be shot like that's about the best solution for me. at this point

[ahappydnp]

is now the time i reveal i was a big ed sheeran fan when he was still unsigned and just on youtube circa 2010 and then i met him and had a chat after a gig he did in 2011 where he said he liked my name when he signed his EP i bought from him. and i had his other EPs that you could only buy off his mum on ebay because he had no merch shop. anyway then he blew up and i lost interest/left the fandom in like 2013 but then he became part of the dnp cinematic universe. what a time

[ollierachnid]

This shot Has to be my favourite in the entire episode fr. Dug his own grave.. and then refused to lie in it. Too much of a coward to settle in, standing there instead, half-commitment. The dramatic irony - staring directly at the audience because we know what he did and are the only "people" who know that he can't prevent from seeing the information he's hiding, who he can't get to. The graves of the children in the foreground, staunch reminder. grrrr

[basket-of-radiants]

I'm not sure I've seen you talk about the Szeth flashbacks much. Did you like them at all? It was probably one of the only parts of the book I liked personally

True, I have not discussed them much. I can do that! I liked them well enough! They were cute! Also they contained Szeth, and Szeth is always great, as a character he is above criticism, even if he's in a scene where stupid stuff is happening.

Prior to W&T, I think there was already a lot we knew about him, at least from context clues. We knew he was a kind and good person in the past (he sincerely abhored violence and cruelty). We knew he had a genuine love of motion (just LOOK at his chapters, if Szeth wasn't somehow a dancer in his past, I would have called bullshit). We knew that he loved his family, and that he missed his home, and that he was ridiculously clever and skilled at basically everything, and that he'd trained with all the honorblades, and that he'd heard voices which guided him as a child. And we knew he had a massive complex around truth. He'd claimed the radiants and voidbringers had returned, and he'd been told that was a lie so grave that he deserved to live as a Truthless for the rest of his life. I didn't know the exact details, but I had an idea of the shape of his past.

So going into his backstory, my main question was "what is this guy's deal, why does he behave like this". I was undeniably curious as well, to the causal events that led him from being a shepherd's son to being the coolest smartest deadliest badass on the planet, but really that could have been anything. (Oh I also wanted to know how he learned literally every single language ever, I assume the rest of you were clamoring for that as well.)

Szeth is a very strange person. For the first couple books, I think we'd be excused for thinking "huh I guess he's from a culture with really strict notions of honor and really anti-consequentialist notions of justice, the Shin people sure have some unique values and norms, interesting worldbuilding." But by Oathbringer you're probably getting the inkling that even compared with the rest of his people, Szeth is probably a little Extra. One of my big questions for this book on the whole was "what the fuck is up with Shinovar, do they really all act this way????" The answer is no they do not. It was very funny to finally see his backstory, and everyone else is a normal person, and Szeth is Just Like That.

Except he's not Just Like That, not really? He was predisposed to take instructions too literally, but I don't think that was his entire personality, mostly he just wanted to be a good boy. He probably could have grown out of that mentality on his own, at least somewhat, as he grew and learned to see the world as a complicated place. But not so long as he had a Voice in his head at all times, telling him exactly what to do at every turn. His entire life he's been fed orders to obey, he's never been permitted to make choices of his own, he's never been allowed to learn and grow from his mistakes. Szeth is responsible for all of his decisions, in that he has always been the one physically taking the actions, but also the decisions themselves have never been his. Ishar was in Szeth's very thoughts, grooming him into the perfect, obedient soldier. Even when Szeth did do things of his own volition, it always seemed to serve the Voice's agendas, leaving it unclear if he was ever in control of his actions. In the end Ishar wasn't especially bothered by what course Szeth took, so long as it left him colder, harder, and more useful. (Which is why as much as people make fun of this scene, Szeth saying "I am the law" and then throwing it all away in front of Ishar's face was something he probably had to do, to thematically bring that all to a close.)

Anyway, none of that is the answer to "what is Szeth's deal?" It's the answer I'd thought I wanted but it's not the important thing about him. No, the most important, the most in-your-face-from-his-first-words-of-introducton, the most fundamental piece of Szeth-son-son-Vallano turned out to be something else entirely. When he fought Kaladin, it was very clear that he knew some dark truth, but that he would prefer kill and then to die and then to suffer eternal torment rather than acknowledge it. We were lead to believe it was the returning of the desolations, but that was just a part of it. The real truth he was repressing was that his father was wrong. At the end of everything, Szeth was just a kid who loved his dad.

Meaning I think I got what I was hoping to get from his backstory. They were a fairly good time. His family was pretty sweet. And I liked how the flashback chapters weren't written with the same tongue-in-cheek prose that eventually wore very thin with the main story. I also enjoyed seeing some of Shinovar and it's culture. Honestly, I could have used a lot more of that in the main plot as well. (Please show me real interactions with locals, give us more of a before and after here, I don't think everyone in the entire country is in some depressive fugue state.)

Unfortunately there was no on-screen scene wherein Szeth was sat down to be taught every single language on planet, so at the end of the day I have to call these chapters a 0/10.

[dystopiandramaqueen]

He was planning to ask June to run away before he knew Wharton would be home. That's why he wanted to talk to her alone.

That is the most tragic part.

He'd already gathered the documents, that takes time. He'd been readying their escape for... days? Weeks?

Killing Toby weighed on him, and he didn't want to be that person anymore.

He was finally ready to leave. To commit. To abandon Gilead for June.

[serene-sky-kid]

a quick reference of this character, I have already presented it before. But I bring info that nobody asked for because I came back to think about my ocs after a few weeks of drought.

There is no loss in her character, she is very square, organized and not very expressive, when it comes to work she has no sense of humor.

I always draw her with Altair because they know each other, they have worked together a few times, probably their relationship will become closer with time. I like to imagine that she insults him unintentionally, she tells him what she thinks about what he does or the decisions he will make tactlessly and he just laughs at that, her honesty is very funny to him and she doesn't understand what he is laughing at, if she is not joking.

oh well, I must do more sketches but first I'll do the Reah reference I've already taken too long

[azatas]

someone who gets really salty and passive-aggressive about how unpopular their blorbo is and how no one ever makes content for them but they also do not make any content for them is like... top 5 most annoying type of guy to me

[rawliverandgoronspice]

anyway to end the series on ganondorf tp's writing, my take (which isn't canon but arguable as a valid "death of the author" read imo) is that he is at his most iredeemable AND that's because he has zero things left to lose and no community left and his goal doesn't even make sense anymore he is parasitic and a ghost and pathologically obsessed by his own godlike legitimacy because that is the only thing he still has and it has prolonged his life in a horrible diminished state in a nightmare dimension so SURELY it must mean something right right RIGHT

[notbecauseofvictories]

a wild moment at work today, when my boss (at the end of quite a long speech about why I should track my work better) essentially said, "but you're not getting any credit for your accomplishments!" and I realized I genuinely didn't care.

[dafry-shenanigans]

THIS MIGHT BE THE BEST MAP I'VE EVER SEEN- so many goated artist it feels like a crime to watch it for free...

SO GO WATCH IT!!!!

[Spoiler warning though don't watch if ya haven't played the entirety]

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

so i do honestly genuinely like odo. odo is the funky self-hating autistic coded alien of ds9. why was odo forgiven like instantly after collaborating with the dominion? not just by kira but by everyone? especially after it is implied that odo like mostly stopped because he loved nerys? if your main reason to oppose mass genocide and fascism is that you don't want your crush to die, maybe reevaluate your entire personality. also acab

[osiiiris]

What I truly don’t get of all this is how people are ok with treating Ghost like a mere “cover band” lately.

The fact that to describe their style now you have to name 4-5 other artists is not exactly a good sign, considering how unique their identity was.

[mobsplainer]

who wants to hear how i think characters in mob psycho and gravity falls would interact

[iwatcheditbegin]

Propaganda I’m never falling for is Jack Antonoff hate