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underprivilegedcactus · 9 months ago

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Something has been niggling at the back of my mind about Gale and his falling out with Mystra for a while now.

Before we begin, I feel the need to put a disclaimer here and say that I love Gale to pieces and even if this thing I've been thinking about turned out to be canon, I still want to drop kick Mystra. But like I said, a though occured to me about the circumstances of their break up.

In short, what if their breakup wasn't because Gale didn't listen to Mystra when she told him to not go after the piece of the weave he thought was hers? What if, instead, it was the final straw after a long history of Gale going after sources of power that Mystra repeatedly told him to leave alone?

Ignoring the fact that wizards are pushed to always aim higher anyways, we know that Gale is someone who has always sought out more power, opinions of (most) others and consequences be damned. How many terrifyingly powerful objects ended up in his tower because Mystra mentioned them and he decided to collect them? How many did she emphatically tell him to leave alone because they were too dangerous? How many times did he nearly cause a disaster because he assumed that because he was the mighty Gale of Waterdeep, it wouldn't go wrong? How many times did Mystra or Elminster have to save his ass?

To be clear, even if this is the truth it still doesn't justify her treatment of him, but to me it would make a bit more sense as to why she ghosted him after he absorbed the orb. It's still on brand for her to do that after one big disaster, but cutting off all contact is frankly a bit extreme for a first offense, regardless of the magnitude of the failure. But if the orb came after a series of situations where she told him to leave stuff be or to be more patient and he repeatedly refused to listen to her, I think even I would be pissed off enough to not want to talk to him either, at least not for a while.

No one appreciates having their knowledge and advice repeatedly ignored, especially if you are literally the primary source on all things magic. The literal Goddess of Magic told him this was neither something she wanted nor was it something that Gale was equipped to handle, and Gale thought he knew better anyways. And I know there's a million fair reasons as to why Gale is the way he is, the least of which is from going through the Gifted Person (TM) experience where you're told all your life that you're special and head and shoulders above your peers. It's still harmful to believe you know better than people objectively more qualified.

Unfortunately, this can be hard to see under how vile Mystra is to him. I'll probably write about that soon in another novel of a post, but I just wanted to throw out a potential angle that some people might have missed when it comes to Mystra and Gale's breakup. Again, it's not canon, and it's not even my own personal headcanon or anything, but it is something that's come to mind when thinking about their relationship and how it ended. I still love Gale, and if anything this just adds a really interesting potential layer to his backstory.

P.S.: It has also occured to me that Gale was extraordinarily lucky that whatever magical seal he broke when he opened the book didn't just immediately cause the Karsus weave to detonate right then and there and kill thousands of people in Waterdeep. Gale's mistake was honest, but it was an extremely foolish one and entirely preventable.

P.P.S: Editing some typos and also wholeheartedly agreeing that Gale wasn't only looking for raw power, but knowledge and pushing the boundaries of the weave! ☺️

#gale dekarios #bg3 #bg3 gale #gale of waterdeep #gale x tav

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puzzled-pegasus · 2 months ago

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So I've mentioned Guilty as Sin? As a song for Jercy but I really want to explain it

I'm going to start this by saying that I mostly mean it PLATONICALLY so I just wanna explain why the vibes of this song match the vibes of their relationship cus I don't think anyone sees my vision lol

So I'm gonna dissect the lyrics. Hopefully it makes sense.

Drowning in the Blue Nile

He sent me 'Downtown Lights'

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This makes me think of Jason at one of the camps talking to Percy and picturing him as he's in the mortal world in NYC

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I hadn't heard it in a while

My boredom's bone deep

This cage was once just fine

Am I allowed to cry?

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"This cage was once just fine/am I allowed to cry?" I think the "cage" refers to his predetermined destiny and the eyes of everyone at CJ. "Am I allowed to cry?" Refers to both his taught habit of keeping his emotions shut away and his being taught to follow orders and ask permission for anything he needs.

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I dream of cracking locks

Throwing my life to the wolves

Or the ocean rocks

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"Throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks" makes me think of his indecision of whether he belongs with the Romans or at Camp Half Blood by the coast (and ocean rocks also alludes to Percy as the ocean boy, of course)

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Crashing into him tonight

He's a paradox

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Percy as a paradox/character foil to Jason. Also something about how Jason can't read Percy very well sometimes and Percy bewilders him

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I'm seeing visions, am I bad?

Or mad? Or wise?

What if he's written 'mine' on my upper thigh

Only in my mind?

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I do think the idea of Jason having catholic guilt for wanting affection from his friend is both sad, hilarious, and weirdly in character. This guy is laying awake at night thinking about how he wants to go to percys house and make cookies with him lmaoo hes like "...w-what if we sat together and played video games at ur apartment 😳😨🥺 and then we 😖 slept next to each other on the floor 😳😖 and stayed up talking in the dark for 3 hours 🥺🥺💕"

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One slip and falling back into the hedge maze

Oh what a way to die

I keep recalling things we never did

Messy top lip kiss

How I long for our trysts

Without ever touching his skin

How can I be guilty as sin?

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Jason feeling guilty as sin can be a lot of things, which is why I love this song for him. His friendship/bromance/relationship with Percy breaks several rules. Their fathers are rivals. Their camps have battled each other. Jason has always been seen as the son of Jupiter and never been allowed to explore his mortal half, and Percy gives him the ability to learn more about what life is like in a mortal household.

Also the "touching his skin" part means that jason is super touch starved and thinks about hugging his friends 24/7 and this does not exclude Percy by any means lol

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I keep these longings locked

In lowercase inside a vault

Someone told me

There's no such thing as bad thoughts

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Jason feels so much love for his bro and wants to spend so much time with him but his Issues(TM) prevent him from conveying that because he's never really had anyone stick around or be loyal to him like Percy does. While thinking about Percy, he also thinks about how another of his friends (probably Piper or Annabeth) told him there's no such thing as thought crime and it's not wrong to think or feel things. He's at war with his past and having been taught that he must block out and hide his wants and feelings because they're dangerous and no one wants to hear them anyway.

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Only your actions talk

These fatal fantasies

Giving way to labored breath

Taking all of me

We've already done it in my head

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Uh....I don't really have a platonic explanation for this part. Lol

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If it's make believe

Why does it feel like a vow

We'll both uphold somehow?

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Jason's doubt and hope are fighting each other. He wants Percy to be friends with him and stick around forever, but it's difficult for him to believe that their friendship/bromance/relationship is serious and Percy will stick around until one of them is in the ground (which NEITHER OF THEM CURRENTLY ARE >:[)

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What if he's written 'mine' on my upper thigh

Only in my mind?

One slip and falling back into the hedge maze

Oh what a way to die

My bedsheets are ablaze

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Okay this is really funny because it randomly conjures Leo up for no reason. Someone use "My bedsheets are ablaze" as a title for a valgrace fic please

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I've screamed his name

Building up like waves

Crashing over my grave

Without ever touching his skin

How can I be guilty as sin?

What if I roll the stone away?

They're gonna crucify me anyway

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CJ and Jason's father especially is never going to love Jason or see him as the perfect son of Jupiter. They will always judge him, especially since he's indecisive about what camp he belongs in. If he spends time in his mortal side with Percy, it's a much needed break from trying to be Camp Jupiter's prettiest weapon or Camp Half Blood's weird Roman freak who was raised by wolves.

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What if the way you hold me

Is actually what's holy?

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The gods don't care, Camp Jupiter doesn't care or want what's best for me. You do, Percy. With you, as your friend, I feel more powerful and important than I ever have as my father's son.

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If long suffering propriety

Is what they want from me

They don't know how you've haunted me

So stunningly

I choose you and me

... Religiously

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I hope you can see my vision by now because I don't know if I can even articulate my feelings about all six of these lines AGGHHHAHHHGHH

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What if he's written 'mine' on my upper thigh

Only in my mind?

One slip and falling back into the hedge maze

Oh what a way to die

I keep recalling things we never did

Messy top lip kiss

How I long for our trysts

Without ever touching his skin

How can I be guilty as sin?

He sent me 'Downtown Lights'

I hadn't heard it in a while

Am I allowed to cry?

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Do you see it now?? My vision?? I hope I didn't waste my frickin time

#heroes of olympus #hoo #jason grace #percy jackson #jercy #jercy bromance #platonic jercy #platonic shipping #guilty as sin?#taylor swift songs #hoo headcanon

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goddessofroyalty · 1 month ago

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Fandom: Arcane

Verse: Zaun Family

Pairing: pre-Caitlyn/Vi

I’m working on a prompt fill but have been meaning to write the slight changes to the Episode One heist in this verse for a while and thought with the Season One rewatch fresh on my brain it was a good time to do it.

This is one of those ones where you realise this verse very much could exist without me adding my Usual Bullshit(TM) onto it and it wouldn't change anything. This is a young girl completely changing the course of events through a single lie.

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“Tell us what you saw Miss Kiramman,” Dean Heimerdinger says to her, the closed ceiling Council Chamber casting a shadow over him and the other Councilor sitting circled around her staring down at her. Her own mother watching with a carefully blank expression. Jayce not meeting her eyes where he stands to the side with Enforcers flanking him, hands clasped in front of him and head bowed in guilt.

Caitlyn reminds herself it is not her on trial.

Footsteps thunder down the hall before she can give her testimony. The Zaun Representative suddenly filling the doorway, his scared, red eye glowing in the dim light of the Council Chamber in trial as he catches his breathe enough to yell that it is unjust for him not to even be informed such a trial is happening. Caitlyn had never seen the level of rage on a person before. His chipped teeth bared like the dogs some keep to prevent people from breaking into their properties. Looking every bit the demon she had sometimes heard people refer to him as in hissed angry tones.

“We are still determining if there was Undercity involvement,” Councilor Bolbok says. “We can hardly let their representative be involved lest you try and hide your people’s crimes.”

“Get him out of here!” Councilor Hoskel orders with a dismissive nod to the Enforcers.

“Don’t you fucking touch me,” the Zaun Representative snarls as they near him. Standing tall as he fixes his vest and shirt from where they had wrinkled in his haste. “I have as much of a right to watch as anyone here.”

Looks are exchanged between the Councilors before finally Councilor Medarda speaks up.

“You may stay so long as you do not disrupt the proceedings.”

“I wouldn’t dare,” the Zaun Representative replies with a dry tone and forced smile. Glancing at the Enforcers who step back from him before walking to the gathered audience. He finds the shadows of the room where his eye seems to glow out of it. Caitlyn unable to block its gaze from the corner of her eye. Cannot ignore the feeling that it is watching her and her alone.

Caitlyn reminds herself she is not the one on trial.

“Well, now that that’s settled. Miss Kiramman,” Dean Heimerdinger says, bringing everyone else’s attention onto her as well, “what do you remember seeing?”

What did you see? Sheriff Grayson had asked her. Hands tight on Caitlyn’s shoulders as the explosion still rings through her ears and the smell of fire and ozone fills her lungs.

“I-”

“Spit it out already!” Councilor Salo says.

“Give her a minute. She has been through a traumatic event!”

“It was traumatic for all of us. An attack on our city! In broad daylight!”

“Unprecedented!”

“That is enough!” Dean Heimerdinger says, looking frazzled at the situation. His eyes kind as he looks at her. “I know this is likely overwhelming for you but it is important we get to the truth at the bottom of this whole mess. So please, to the best of your ability, tell us what you remember of the incident.”

All the eyes in the room look at her to tell them what she saw. An almost bored expectation in some, waiting for her to confirm what they believed happened so they can send the Enforcers out to hunt down those involved. Curiosity and sympathy in others for her, the young girl standing in front of a crowd to testify about an event that she isn’t to blame for. Cold judgement from the glowing eye in the corner.

They will believe you over everyone else who was here. Think carefully about what to tell them young Kiramman.

She had thought carefully.

And, so, she doesn’t tell them that she remembers a pink-haired girl yelling at her to get down! Just as she doesn’t tell them how warm her body felt lying over Caitlyn’s, the weird excitement of her scent as she asked are you okay? Nor the callouses on her fingers that brushed the hair that had fallen over Caitlyn’s face before the weight suddenly came off Caitlyn. The sound of yelling and footsteps fading into the distance until suddenly Caitlyn had been pulled to her feet by Sheriff Grayson.

Instead she tells them:

“Jayce told me that the crystals were dangerous and I shouldn’t touch them. But I had never seen anything like them before and I thought so long as I was careful. I dropped one, I think. I didn’t mean for it to happen.”

“No, that’s not right, there were other people there,” Jayce says, suddenly looking up and around the room with scared desperate eyes. And Caitlyn does feel terrible because he is right, there had been others. But there feels like there is something more to this. One of the games adults play that she is too young to understand. And when she looks at the Sheriff watching the trial there is something like pride in her expression. “There had been a girl – she had blue hair.”

Caitlyn feels the eyes of everyone in the room settled on her and her blue hair.

She is sorry.

“Thank you Miss Kiramman,” Dean Heimerdinger says with a kind, reassuring smile. Because he knows it must be hard to betray her friend and tutor like that even if he thinks it is only because she is telling the truth despite how it will harm Jayce. “You can be excused. I doubt we will need anything more from you.”

“Thank you.”

As Caitlyn makes her way out of the Council Chamber, she dares a glance at the Zaun Representative only to find his gaze assessing. And Caitlyn can only hurry from the room in response.

#Arcane #Zaun Family #caitlyn kiramman #Silco Arcane #I accidently a ficlet #Ramblings of the Goddess #Violyn #vi x caitlyn

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ilikekidsshows · 6 months ago

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Retooled Marinette makes me feel ashamed that I ever believed in her to grow out of her flaws and I hate that. Doesn't the show say that people refusing to change for the better when given the chance makes them bad people and deserving of the worst? Not that I agree with that line of thinking, but when Chloé got written off in s3 despite the slow but noticeable progress she made then the same should apply to Marinette now in season 5, right?

She was given a second chance by Cat Noir at the end of season 4 and Marinette refused to take it for more than self-validation. She straight up left when she wasn't rewarded for season 4 with Cat sticking his tongue down her throat for real, but sure, tell me about her having "learned and feeling sorry". She STILL didn't ask for his feelings and needs even ONCE in season 5. Or at least, I can't remember anything. Just Marinette still only doing with Cat whatever SHE wants and then getting pissed when she was told no. Which Adrien then was blamed for cause Marinette can't life without being pampered.

By the show's own logic, season 5 should have been the one having doomed Marinette as irredeemable in her "partnership" with Cat Noir because her inaction and unwillingness to face her real flaws in Ladynoir and work on it because it makes her uncomfortable to hear even a single not-validating word lead to Cat Noir not making it to the end battle, and instead he resigned to his lonely doom locked up in a cell with nightmares in a different country after having lost his private life, because he was forbidden to ask for even the tiniest thing in this "partnership".

Sure, she didn't actively sacrifice him, but she did less than nothing to ever help him or allow him to think that he has worth beyond what use and relief she gets outta him. She demanded that he can't make decisions for his own sake cause that stresses (tm) her and he must wait for however long until she finally may be able to spare some time to remember him in any of this. If he asks for anything, he's abusive scum that's horrifically suffocating her and must learn to know his place at her feet and servitude or else she'll probably start crying again that she's so pure-hearted and faultless in Cat's irrational neediness to be viewed as human being with worth. She'll just wobble with her lips and that's it. She never did more anyway. No wonder Catrien was left with nothing and didn't make it. Being stuck with Ladynette basically means you've got nothin on your side, but still have to prey and be grateful that shes even giving you "that much"

Everything can only ever happen on HER terms and whenever SHE deems it necessary to happen. And yet she never EVER did a single thing to prevent the finale situation from happening. 5 full seasons and Cat Noir still had NOTHING but she sure is still screaming for more.

It was more important to her that SHE gets to do and have whatever she needs than making sure Cat has ANYTHING or any kind of way to ask for help when he needs it. That's supposed to be her pure love? No thought ever spared for him besides what SHE wants from him? Heaven have mercy on Adrien...

Hawkmoth is gone now, the mission is over. Nothing will undo the fact that Marinette wholeheartedly risked Cat Noir's well-being and safety to a lonely doom with a smile on her face because she apparently needed to be pampered and been given everything first before she could ever even start humoring the idea of giving a damn about Cat as a person who doesn't deserve a helpless and lonely doom.

How unfortunate that Marinette in Canon doesn't agree with me on that. She DOES apparently think Cat deserves to meet his end all alone and without anything to help himself as long as he mets his end outside her view so she can make further excuses for herself and why she's the bigger victim actually. That's all she ever cared about, what's supposed to change now?

I once thought Marinette was supposed to CARE for Cat Noir and not just for what consequences she'll face for his horrible treatment and end. I have never seen a protagonist be this rewarded and excused for being self-centered and willfully ignorant to outright toxic degrees. That girl is almost PROUD of her negligence and toxicity and only cares about not being viewed as bad for it. Cause she had her chance in season 5 and quickly proved that her understanding of making up for her flaws is "I'll allow you to dedicate yourself to my care and comfort even more. Your welcome 😊". Is that supposed to be effort? A caring display of partnership? Shes literally just letting herself get pampered but gives nothing of substance back.

Good for Adrien for leaving in Kwamis Choice. I hope he'll dump Ladynette's ass again in both identities in season 6 cause no way is that girl not gonna horribly neglect Adrien now in and outside the mask again. Season 4 Ladynoir is just gonna repeat itself now cause Marinette learn SHIT and she'll be too busy (tm) again with everything else to be there for her boyfriend who just became an orphan.

I wouldn't be surprised if we get another original Glaciator-like situation, with Adrien waiting for hours for Marinette in his garden with the picnic he prepared for their date, but Marinette forgot about it cause she's busy as Ladybug with her army of unnecessary heros no one fucking needs.

She'll of course only make excuses and not actually try and improve my. The orphan will just need to learn and not "mistreat" his girlfriend by being "needy" and "unreasonably controlling" by wanting her to there for him.

I have no hope that Marinette is not gonna neglect the hell outta Adrien now, I honestly fell so stupid and betrayed now after almost a decade of emotional investment that I once had so much hope in her character and the show killed all of it. I hope at least Lila gets her fun outta this cause Marinette is the rotten link in the love square, not Adrien. The love square always goes to shit the second Adrien needs something and Marinette never learns ANYTHING besides crying harder to still get her way.

I shouldn't want for Lila to wreck shit, but ngl I honestly do. Let her be the one to tell Adrien of the secrets, ironically I could actually TRUST in that to be honest and not Marinette-biased.

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I’ve grieved over the loss of a character I enjoyed. Because that’s what it is: a loss. I recently went back and watched some season one episodes and those are still good. Marinette is a fun, empowering protagonist you can root for and Adrien is allowed to be intelligent and helpful. It feels like the writers actually had faith in Marinette as a character, that they didn’t need to make everyone else look like stooges for her to look good. Adrien was allowed to have feelings and thoughts separate from what Marinette wants, but I do remember the fandom hating him for this, so I bet those people consider the remote control RealDoll that's been abused into submission an improvement.

I also went through a phase of thinking: “was I wrong to think this show that showed its protagonist’s failures to communicate as a bad thing was going to have her grown out of it?” but then I realized that, actually, no other kids’ superhero show with this setup would NOT develop its protagonist into a more understanding and considerate version of themselves. They would know better than to have the hero’s final confrontation with their main (only) villain be caused by them actively ignoring said villain’s schemes and getting jumped. This has been Superhero Writing 101 since Spider-Man. The crew behind Miraculous are just either staggeringly bad at understanding basic storytelling, or they think they’re making a show for syndication, which commonly aren’t allowed to have shifts in status quo in order to allow the showing of episodes in any order. They have said that the show is fully serialized now, so you know which one I think it is.

It really makes me wonder. Astruc insists he has enough story ideas that he’s only used 5% of them, and, like, the show is so repetitive it better be only 5% of any epic storyline. Although, I have no faith in Astruc’s creativity or ability to come up with stories or characters that aren’t copied from better writers, so undoubtedly the 95% percent to go is just more of the same. But, Marinette already won her RealDoll prize and committed felonies to humiliate her school nemeses, so what is there left for her to forsake her morals for in the future 7 seasons of 12 total? Is someone else gonna swoop in to keep Adrien away from Marinette just so that Marinette can start up with her harebrained schemes again?

I have no doubt Marinette is going to be doing weird shit to keep Adrien in the dark about the various things she’s keeping from him, having to rush over to a date she forgot all about because she was too busy with herself again, or stalking Adrien any time he hangs out with people other than her. And through all of this the writers will expect us to side with Marinette and root for her because she has “good intentions”, she’s stressed out or she’s insecure about Adrien’s love for her. I have no faith in Marinette’s ability to be a good girlfriend because of the writers’ inability to write her as someone I’d trust around someone she has feelings for.

As for rooting for the villain, a lot of people are pointing out how Lila is the most likely person to tell Adrien the truth at this point, because doing so is “bad” because it will make Marinette look bad. When the “bad” thing to do is to respect Adrien’s right to know about his dad being a villain and he himself being a remote control robot anyone can easily control or destroy, yeah, I’m gonna be rooting for the bad guy. Never mind with how the “perfect” world Marinette is enjoying was created by her conceding victory to the previous main villain, you bet I view it as something that should be undone.

#ml salt #ml critical #ml writers salt

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ultfan · 8 months ago

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HYPER-SEXUALITY AND THE TRAGEDY.

it's sinday and that means i finally can talk about one of my favorite headcanons about komaeda in the tragedy. strap in folks — and hold your judgement because i know it sounds really fucking funny at first (and it is) but i promise i have deep thoughts about this.

as i've mentioned before, i do believe that komaeda would be hyper-sexual. and i do mean hyper-sexual — not that he has a high sex drive — but rather the fact it is an issue that plagues him and inconveniences him. this, rather than being a proper addiction or even a trauma response, is instead due to his ftd. meaning that this isn't really something he can work on/fix with therapy or most typical ways of treatment. however, hyper-sexuality is one of the handful of ftd symptoms that can be dealt with via medication. and i do believe that komaeda is medicated for his health issues.

however... once the tragedy hits i do not believe that he would be able to keep getting his prescriptions. and even if he could, i don't know if he would. be it the ultimate despair mindset or simply because he has bigger fish to fry. and so, it becomes something at the forefront of his mind again.

now, i have often seen the fandom depict komaeda in the tragedy as a sexual deviant. depravity is welcome in the tragedy and thus he is able to fuck freely. thanks to the existence of the servant persona, some people even go the extra mile with that... (personally, i don't think that "servant" existed prior to udg — but that's another thing for another time). however, despite everything i've said: i think komaeda was the least sexually active member of ultimate despair during their time of operation.

lerf — i hear you cry — how can this be?! well, let's talk about how ultimate despair is:

often it is easy to forget that ultimate despair isn't extremely hedonistic in their actions. they too despair — they may revel in it, but they do cause pain to themselves as they cause pain onto others. they'll kill and torture, but they'll also destroy their own families and bodies. ultimate despair is not indiscriminate in spreading despair. there is suffering on the part of everyone involved. be it via mutilating themselves, starving themselves, or something else.

and so i bring you the thing i have been alluding to for fucking weeks (maybe months???) on this blog at this point: the cage(tm).

aka: the komaeda chastity cage era.

okay, okay, get the giggles out because this is serious business (yes it's also really funny conceptually but stick with me). komaeda's hyper-sexuality is something that is gonna unfortunately plague his mind with constant sexual thoughts and desires. he literally cannot help it. and to prevent him fro alleviating these desires someone (likely junko <3 thanks queen) could lock him up in a chastity cage. which would not only make it fucking worse, but also completely stop him from getting any real satisfaction/gratification even if he did have a sexual encounter. in essence: he is fucking suffering ladies, gentleman, and everything in between.

it is a special brand of torment just for him. it's not a kink thing or anything like that — it's not fun for him at all. it's distracting, it's annoying, it's stressful, and it is a constant source of frustration. and before you comment, yeah this is logistically sound — he can pee, and depending on the type he can probably clean it pretty well if need be. i did my fucking research (i'm committed you guys).

anyway if junko doesn't keep the key i do think the idea of ultimate despair fucking trading it around is super fucking funny. taunt him, bully him, whatever. this is me fighting against overly sexualized version of tragedy komaeda. what if he was sopping wet and pathetic guys? have we considered this? well, now you have.

#FINALLY THE CAGE LORE DROPS #nsft tw #♡₊˚ 🍀・₊✧ » ic : study ─ 𝘏𝘖𝘗𝘌 𝘚𝘗𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎𝘚 𝘌𝘛𝘌𝘙𝘕𝘈𝘓 𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘏𝘜𝘔𝘈𝘕 𝘉𝘌𝘈𝘚𝘛. ❞

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microwaving-tesilid-argente · 1 year ago

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Theory on the timelines in S-Class Heroine

Disclaimer: These are speculations based on the 152 chapters that I’ve read so far.

If you’re a webnovel reader who's read spoilers past Ch152, please don’t confirm or deny anything in this post, thank you <3

If you're a webcomic reader, obviously do not click read more if you haven't read until around chapter 140. I'm so serious it will ruin your reading experience.

Establishing some essentially-confirmed facts/assumptions

Although Ailette hasn't realised it yet, it's already been confirmed by the TM gods that she's not in the 17th timeline. I'm pretty sure she's on the 101st-cum-100th timeline. The 101st Tesilid is the one she saved and is journeying with, while the 100th Tesilid is Reed.

I think what happened when the 101st lived as Reed is that he got sealed by Cardinal Cartelyana and the other 4 heroes into a dungeon. The very same dungeon that Ailette got the save point from; the one with a prisoner that Ailette thought was the boss but which the 3rd person narration confirmed was the prisoner. Ailette closes the dungeon, killing the prisoner and causing her sin counter to become "1". (Although to be fair that 1 might be referring to another incident, since sin can include things other than causing someone's death.)

Tesilid being the dungeon's prisoner explains why he has such a paralyzing fear of the dark and silence - because that's what he dealt with for an unknown length of time. There must've been some kind of mechanism that prevented him from killing himself, because that would have caused him to regress and therefore cut his punishment short.

I think the dungeon must've been one where the flow of time in the dungeon was many times faster than that of the real world. So Tesilid could have spent a million years undying in there, but the world would have progressed by only one second and therefore it has not reached the point of them where Tesilid's death and regression was necessary for it to continue existing.

Exploring Reed’s POV

I used to think it was also possible that the 101st Tesilid we know now had never met Ailette during his run as Reed. This is simply because I was coping (lol) and hoping that Tesilid would never have turned Ailette down the way Reed does in around chapter 136. But I’m pretty sure I’m just being delusional here and that Tesilid as Reed would have in fact been hell-bent on destroying the world even if Ailette was in it, since even Ailette herself doesn't believe that her presence is enough to change Reed's mind. But for this point I’m also mindful that Ailette might be an unreliable narrator who is underestimating how important she is to Tesilid - especially since, on the romance side of things, that’s the dynamic that we’re led to believe is happening. Ailette could also be misreading current timeline Reed because she has only ever known Novel Reed, but having Ailette exist in his memories may have made him different from Novel Reed.

But anyway, I think it's possible to explain why Reed may have turned Ailette down despite having waited so long to meet her and despite (presumably) later clinging to her as 101st Tesilid: the corruption by the Chaos and Evil.

Maybe when Reed died and regressed, he got a new body so the corrupting effect was removed. It seems pretty plausible to me since his appearance is back to normal. But since his powers including his Stigma carried over, the ban on his divine powers as a result of committing countless sins also carried over.

So these are the conclusions/assumptions I've made:

Our Tesilid is the 101st Tesilid. As 100th Tesilid/Reed, he was trapped in the abyss dungeon by Cardinal Cartelyana and others until Ailette stole the save point and killed him, therefore causing him to regress into the 101st timeline.

101st Tesilid experienced everything that 100th Tesilid (Reed) has before, including turning Ailette down.

Therefore timeline 100 and 101 are actually the same timeline where Ailette exists. The 100th and 101st timelines are just Tesilid experiencing them from 2 different points of view.

Don't ask me what happened to 17th Tesilid. Maybe he lived because Reed went to the 101st instead. Probably nothing important happened, although he definitely got traumatized in some way or form as is usual for him.

In that case, I think this what eventually happens in the 101st/100th timeline:

Ailette fails to save Reed, but not for lack of trying. Or maybe she simply didn’t have a direct hand in Reed’s downfall. This makes 101st Tesilid more trusting of her.

Cardinal Cartelyana and others still manage to seal Reed in the dungeon with the save point.

100th Tesilid only regresses and becomes “Ailette’s Tesilid” when his version of Ailette closes the dungeon he is in. Death is the only salvation for current version Reed, since it puts him on the path where he can be with Ailette as his uncorrupted self.

Tesilid of all timelines finally finds eternal rest in the 101st timeline where Ailette lives. (Or he uses the save point and finds a way for Ailette to also live/regress forever with him. Which sounds horrible I’ll be honest. A merry bad ending.)

But I really hope Reed doesn’t get offed like this, because it seems like an awfully terrible and unsatisfying ending for him. (And for me!!!! I am a Reed liker!!!!) Since we don't really know if Ailette will show up for him, when the TM gods have already established that there's only one of her.

I also can’t see Ailette consenting to Reed being put in the dungeon. Especially if she discovers that Tesilid has such a paralysing fear of the dark and silence because of that experience. She was so happy to screw up the tutorial period for him and to step in during the 300th dungeon to ensure he was really okay, I don’t think she’ll let this happen willingly.

So maybe Reed just gets instant death instead, but I dunno what that’ll mean for the next round’s Ailette. What if he wakes up without having the time to reflect on himself and to decide to ‘live a good life this time’. Like I know that I said he was probably this homicidal because of corruption, but what if he just decides to destroy the world more thoroughly instead. Ailette’s presence has proven not to be an effective deterrent.

…so maybe Ailette AND uncorrupted Tesilid would consent to Reed being imprisoned. If only to give him and future Ailette a better chance of following the path they took. I think Tesilid’s word would count for more than Ailette’s too, since Reed is. well. his past self. He’d know him best.

Exploring Tesilid’s POV

Another reason why I thought that maybe current timeline Tesilid hadn’t experienced things from current timeline Reed's POV was because there are lots of times when Tesilid seems uncertain about how Reed and Ailette will interact. Which doesn’t make sense if he had already seen everything happen before through Reed’s eyes.

E.g. when Ailette was going to meet Reed in the Vatican, and he says, "nothing will happen… I think."

And when he's pretty upset at Ailette for using Divine Advent when fighting against Reed at the Magic Republic. He didn't really seem to be taking pre-emptive steps during that fight, which makes me think that he didn't experience this fight before from Reed's POV. Or maybe Reed or Ailette or both did something different this time.

And the fact that Tesilid spends a long time not being sure if he can trust Ailette, but ultimately still choosing to do so. If he were also the Reed we see now, I think he would’ve trusted her because he would've known that Ailette would risk the penalty of a heavenly leak in hopes of steering him, who had already become a mass murderer, down the right path.

But I can also think of other reasons why Tesilid might be hesitant to trust Ailette but still ultimately do so though:

Tesilid-as-Reed did get sealed by the world’s heroes, but he did not know whether Ailette was still on the uncorrupted Tesilid’s side. So he thinks that he can probably trust her now that he’s uncorrupted and she thinks he's the 17th round Tesilid, but he does not have proof.

Maybe 101st Tesilid has changed this timeline so much that a lot of things are progressing differently from what it had during his POV as Reed. As the person with the most information, 101st Tesilid is unexpectedly actually the person most in control of the current time loop. If he had already seen everything Ailette and Reed would have done, he is free to choose whether to follow in the footsteps of the "Ailette's Tesilid" that he fought while living as Reed.

Maybe he decided not to do things the same way as the ‘future Tesilid’ he saw did, so to him ‘the plot he is familiar with has changed’ ((Tesilid is so regressed FML vibes… even his propensity to be the damsel in distress who needs constant rescuing)). Since Tesilid is someone who is accustomed to trying different things in every time loop, I don’t imagine that he’ll stop experimenting in this round - especially if he had experienced a future where Ailette is in danger. Or if uncorrupted Tesilid actually died in his timeline as Reed. Or something equally horrible like that.

So in conclusion, my predictions are:

Ailette fails to save Reed, but not for lack of trying. Or maybe she simply didn’t have a direct hand in Reed’s downfall. This makes 101st Tesilid more trusting of her.

Cardinal Cartelyana and others still manage to seal Reed in the dungeon with the save point. Maybe Ailette and uncorrupted Tesilid agree because it’s timeout for Reed so he can calm down before he meets Ailette again.

Tesilid of all timelines finally finds eternal rest in the 101st timeline where Ailette lives.

In the previous timeline that current timeline Tesilid was in (the one where he was Reed), some bad things probably happen to Ailette and other people he cares about. Tesilid is probably taking steps right now to ensure things don’t turn out the same way, and he is already seeing the butterfly effects as of the Magic Republic dungeon burst arc.

Anyway I think it is so funny if Ailette actually does appear in both Tesilid’s 100th and 101st timelines. It’s almost like SHE is the character who has a fixed setting in every timeline, and Tesilid is the MC being isekai’d with knowledge of how the future could unfold. They’re so crazy for this if this really happens. I really love how both Tesilid and Ailette are main characters with so much agency.

But anyway if this doesn’t happen I will be pretty sad lol and please feel free to write fics or something based on this.

#s-class heroine #a transmigrator's privilege #s-class heroine spoilers #mash potato #the perks of being an s class heroine #theory #speculation #roast potato

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sybaritick · 1 year ago

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thinking again about my resplendently bad resist!Durge/Gortash modern AU concept i thought up a month back

resist!durge is still an amnesiac without memories of his past life and gets a shit job at an amazon warehouse or smth (meeting the others in the gang especially astarion and wyll who would absolutely be a side couple in this). wyll is a leftist organizer leading a unionization effort there but they have to keep it on the dl to avoid retaliation and durge starts helping out with it more and more, volunteering his time, helping organize, becoming friends with wyll (and astarion, who has reluctantly been dragged into this too at the promise of better pay and better hours but also because he's a little into wyll.)

gortash is, obviously, the big boss (tm) who they all absolutely hate and i'm sure manages multiple locations and therefore barely even shows up to this one. but then at some point, months into this, he sees durge. and he's like. oh my god. it's you. we thought you were dead!!... you dont remember everything? down to when we were roommates back in business school a decade ago... how we had the same management consulting internship back then too! anyway youve dropped off the face of the earth for 6 months but if you come back to mckinsey there will be a job for you i swear it.

durge, as well as wyll and astarion, who are all finding this out about his past for the first time: 👁️ 👁️

gortash invites durge on a date, of course, all "remember we dated before 🥺 anyway i will help you remember everything."

and durge decides... fuck this guy, but i think i can this can be a way to get some Information that would help wyll and astarion. perhaps even gain leverage over him in some way.

so of course durge pretends to be glad to be back and gortash is so obviously trying to win him over w money and power. take him out on a very nice dinner date to Help Him Remember and confirms yes. they dated before. they were *together* before durge's tragic disappearance. this makes durge So Uncomfortable. THIS guy? and his job was like THAT?

but then like, on the date, as gortash explains what they were... he totally starts to realize why. he was *good* at this! perhaps, as said in that meme, he worked on the AI for the robots that beat the workers when they faint or what have you. but like. he realized he loved it. he loved understanding how neural networks function... he loved training the models and coming back in the morning to see the improvements... loved the underlying math, more than anything. he was a statistical analysis geek. dude was a *savant*!!! and he used those powers for *tremendous evil!* AI to learn the optimal schedule of wins and losses for each individual to keep them spending money they don't have at casinos! helping security cams automatically identify people the police wanted to arrest! and, of course, whatever he did at this evil corporation to preempt and prevent unionization. the exact plan that he is now trying to foil. his doing all along. :)

gortash shows him some very basics of the things he did like [shows gradient descent formulas] is this your card? and durge is like. eyes tracing the bullshit little greek letters for partial derivatives from the multivar class he took at age 17 and hes like. oh. i might not remember what i did with it. but god i remember this like i remember how to speak.

#cal txt #bg3 #fandom #durgetash

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uboat53 · 1 year ago

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Recently I wrote up a thing about how the right's elevation of property rights prevents them from ever being able to adjust issues of human rights. I think it's pretty good, you can find it here if you're interested.

One thought that came out of a discussion about it, though, was an interesting one and I need to do another LONG RANT (TM) to work through it.

INTRODUCTION

So a friend of mine took the concept of rent seeking and brought it up in the context of economies based on resource extraction. These are, in many ways, the ultimate example of rent seeking economies and the situation in which they dominate an economy is known as the "resource curse".

Here's the Wikipedia article on this concept if you're interested.

And that's when the thought hit me, are we living in a resource cursed economy? Is that resource capital and did we create this resource curse ourselves?

THE RESOURCE CURSE

Basically the resource curse goes like this:

You live in a place that has a resource. This resource is very easy to gather in proportion to its value, making it hugely profitable, much more profitable than just about anything else you can do. Every dollar you invest in that resource returns more money than a dollar invested in anything else.

Even worse, the export of that resource drives up the value of your currency, making all of your other exports less competitive in the international market. This further makes that resource a better investment by driving down the value of any other investment.

What this does to your economy is simple. Why would you invest in education when you can simply put more money into the resource and it'll give you higher profits? Why would you invest in health-care when you can simply put more money into the resource and it'll give you higher profits? Why would you invest in manufacturing or agriculture when you can simply put more money into the resource and it'll give you higher profits?

Meanwhile, your society stratifies. Those who own the resource get rich (for example, a Saudi who owns land with oil or a southern plantation owner who owns the rich land good for cotton) while everyone else gets poor. Eventually all you have left is a population in poverty and an otherwise stagnant economy that is entirely dependent on that one resource.

WHAT ABOUT US?

Well, we have a resource called capital. Effectively, this is stuff like land, buildings, machinery, and intellectual property like patents and trademarks. Even something like stock in a corporation basically boils down to the value of the things the corporation owns. Capital is property, whether physical or intellectual.

Because of the way our tax code is structured, there will literally never be a case where a dollar earned in labor will be worth more than a dollar earned from capital. Additionally, over the last two decades, wages have generally increased between 2% and 4% per year. Data on capital is a bit harder to find, but California real estate prices have increased an average of 4% per year and the DOW Jones Industrial Average (a measure of stock prices) has increased an average of more than 6% per year over that same time.

In other words, not only is a dollar earned from capital more advantageous in tax terms than a dollar earned from labor, a dollar invested in capital is likely to make a greater return than a dollar invested in labor.

THE RESOURCE CURSE

That's where I think we have a version of the resource curse. When ownership of resources like land, buildings, machinery, and intellectual property consistently returns a greater reward than any form of labor, then most of the resources of an economy will flow toward those resources. In the case of limited capital, such as land in a desirable area or stock in a hot company, this will push up the price of that asset, leading to an even greater return and pushing the cycle even further.

This type of capital in particular largely delivers rent seeking as opposed to productive returns. Owning a building in downtown Manhattan, provides a return whether or not you invest in something that increases the productivity of that building. In fact, there may be nothing you can do to improve its productivity and it will increase in value regardless.

The more this happens, the more it siphons resources that could otherwise increase the productivity of the economy, exactly like a resource curse.

UNCERTAINTY

This is something that just occurred to me, so I definitely haven't thought through the ramifications and possible issues with it. This is also something that occurred to me incidentally, so I haven't read anyone else's ideas on the topic for another perspective.

I'm curious how my conception of capital as a resource in the sense of a resource curse holds up. I also don't know that it maps to the failure of investment in productivity and labor in the way that natural resources do in a resource curse.

If anyone has any thoughts, even simple ones, I'd be very interested for another set of eyes on my little idea here.

CONCLUSION

I think there's a reasonable case to be made that we've artificially created a situation where our economy has become resource cursed with capital. It's still a fairly rough idea, but it seems to fit with what I know so far.

If this is true, the solution would be to somehow make capital investments less advantageous in relation to labor. This won't be easy because, of course, it sounds a bit perverse toward the goal of growing the economy, but also because it would require us to lower the level of respect we have given to property rights over the last several decades; a particular ideological point of the right-wing of American politics.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this or at least found it interesting. If you have any thoughts, I'd love to hear them.

#economics #capitalism #resource curse

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sunset-bridge · 1 year ago

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P3 THOUGHTS NOW

THANK. sorry it took me a bit i was in the Horrors BUT IM JOE BACK..

OK SO . just. collection of thoughts i had these last days about p3. also sorry for being an ocd haver . evrything is about anxiety to me but i think im not misinterpreting things

my thoughts with some p3 spoilers under cut (I MEAN IT OK dont read if . spoilers)

The evoker:

it makes sense cuz its like staring death (fear) in the face every day to live (use your persona) it forces the user to face their fear in a way that seems very Real to their brain but . it wont actually Kill you it never does even if it feels like it Will . like. controlled shock of Dread to call your little guy out and its probably needed actually like the. fear. if u didnt feel fear while using the evoker ur persona probably wouldnt come out at all Something about being alive.

Fear(the dread):

how fear shows that ur Alive. and thats like the main thing. we all know dread of death in specific is the theme in p3. but its also about how to deal with the Dread (dread about. anything in general) Like in burn my dread, how it says that the daily dance of fighting with the shadows (shadows being your. fears and unconscious) reminds you that you still live. And how aigis first real Human Emotion was fear and Dread. Something about how only things that are alive and have a soul can feel fear and bleed. Etc etc

also noting how everyone (yuka, junpei, akihiko, mitsuru, ken, shinji, koro, fuuka...literally everyone) faces their fear of death or their own type of dread at some point. and they all react differently. because everyones different. but they are all alive. and thats wonderful.

Tartarus and shadows :

ok hear me out. this may be more specific to ocd havers BUT ALSO. ocd its doubting anxiety disorder. i definetely feel dread about stuff and . the fear of death in particular is like a Theme you can have in ocd. so. to me! tartarus... its life. life arena. as i said. like in burn my dread. the daily dance with your anxiety and fears. YOU HAVE to confront them if you want to keep living . BUUUUT I REALIZED! i understand! you know how SEES at first fought and tried to defeat the big shadows, and they thought this could end the whole thing? but it turned out thats exactly what nyx and ikutsuki wanted to happen? THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. trying to fight and "defeat" and antagonize your dread to try to "get rid of it forever". it does not work. not like that. in fact, arguing with it Fighting with it. it only wears you down and makes your Dread stronger. exactly what happened. the team tried to combat and "erase" the fears, but they only made them unite and become stronger in the process.

so then what? just ignore them..? NOPE

the real way (real)(the real)(not the ideal):

As a verified ocd and Dread(tm) haver. You have to acknowledge the thought. dont cover ur ears and pretend its not there. BUT ALSO dont argue with it. dont try to combat it; it only wears you down and makes the fear stronger next time. Acknowledge it exists. And move on with your life without interacting further with it. Dont obsess over it. Wayyyy easier said than done, but . This is where the burning the dread comes in. Burn your fucking dread and keep walking even if you're so scared.You WILL BE so scared but you have to keep running. If you want to see light again you cant just sit there. keep moving keep living keep running. with the dread? yes do things scared but DO THEM! Your fears cant get the best of you, they cannot prevent you from living in the first place!

With death in particular, its a bit tricky, because this is one fear that is True and Inevitable. You will die. BUT the dread shouldnt paralyze you into not living at all in the first place! Again way easier said than done when you have a death anxiety and obsession. But the process is the same. acknowledge. move on. keep living. the dread will come . Burn it. keep walking and walking and walking and lose yourself in the present and keep running and never stop moving.

burn my dread final battle (i love the song):

ok it gets its own section.. I LOVE THIS DAMN THING...i also love normal burn my dread tons but like. this one ooooooh boy.

its no mans land. (the dread) if you conquer this you will be king cuz no ones ever been here like you been here before. its daunting but you can do it. invisible hands (your friends) are always behind you.

the "race against rage" SO TRUE race against trying to "fight" the thoughts the fears.

what sees did fighting the shadows WAS in vain as we have seen. but this show isnt over yet. and it does feel like ur being chased by something beyond you. (the dread) (you gotta live it persecuted by heaven)

the anxiety. it comes from nowhere at any time (comes from the direction no indication). but as mr lotus juice says. let it move first. let it out let it loose. just . let it do its thing dont even argue with it. let the dread wash over you. drop the hammer. dont fight remember? dont argue.

get scared. then lets get it up! keep living. the best thing you can do to put your methaphorical middle finger to the dread is to . keep living . enjoying things. it feels so straining at times BUT it will get better . you are all beaten up but you're not gone yet no. not done here. get up and at em boy!

pride of the living :

id like to close my thoughts with the idea once more of. fear reminds us we are alive. it sucks ass but its a part of living and personally i. never felt more alive as when i realized i feel fear because I AM human and I AM alive. dead things dont feel fear. objects dont feel fear. its such an. alive creature thing. of course you feel fear. dont be tough on yourself. but again. regardless. you cant let it paralyze you into not living at all. keep running !

#GOD IM SO SANE about this game i hope this reflects that...#i love this game so bad. its so fucking real to me #persona 3 #p3 #BURN THAT FUCKING DREAD RRRRRAAAA #I have had death obsession ocd thing fear dread and . gaaah its one of the most. paralyzing types. fucker #ask #cuervo caws too much #bottle anon #tuhtea

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marzipanandminutiae · 2 years ago

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so, let's talk about this. because it's not quite true

Barbie was not the only fashion doll on the market (much less the only one to ever exist, a worrying claim from the first Barbie movie trailer). Dolls like Madame Alexander's Cissy, Ideal's Miss Revlon, and Uneeda's Dollikin were all available before Barbie's 1959 release

While Mattel would love for you to believe that Barbie was the first, Cissy- released in 1955 -would like a word.

Ruth Handler might well have SAID that she "noticed the only dolls on the market were babies," but she and her husband ran an existing toy company; Barbie was not Mattel's first project. She 100% would have been aware of the other fashion dolls available. In short: if she said that, she was...almost certainly stretching the truth.

There was indeed pushback against fashion dolls from cultural commentators who thought little girls should only play with baby dolls, to encourage Maternal Instincts(TM)...but that dates at least back to the French fashion dolls of the 1860s-1890s, which were accused of making little girls "worldly" in magazines of the day. It wasn't a new idea developed especially in response to Barbie.

What set Barbie apart from other fashion dolls was twofold:

She was smaller and cheaper. Cissy retailed for like $13 in just her lingerie, which was quite pricey for a doll at the time (Barbie cost $3 originally), and stood 20" tall. Miss Revlon was similarly large and unwieldy for a child to carry around. As I understand it, Handler noticed her daughter's fondness for movie star paper dolls and sought to create a 3-dimensional version.

She had an adult face. As you can see above, Cissy may have had breasts, but she was also quite baby-faced. Barbie, with her arched brows and narrow cheeks, looked more like an adult woman in her facial proportions.

Still unusual! Just not unique

But I'm not really here to split hairs about which was the actual first 1950s fashion doll. My main thesis is this: Barbie was NOT originally meant to be empowering.

...or disempowering. Or anything but a fashion doll for which a businesswoman trying to make money felt there was a niche.

Yes, she had a career at the beginning- as a fashion model. Hardly a job many men were trying to keep women out of. The first non-modeling careers she had were ballerina, flight attendant, and registered nurse, female-dominated fields that nobody was challenging women's right to pursue.

(Original Barbie box. If you can't read the text, it says "Barbie(T.M.) Teen Age Fashion Model.")

That's not to say that Handler was completely without deeper thoughts on Barbie's place in the world. She was adamant that, while Barbie might model a bridal gown, she would never actually marry Ken to prevent her from being tied down as a wife and mother. And certainly later in her life, she got onboard with the "girls can do anything!" messaging of later Barbie generations.

But to say that Barbie was intended to be #empowering or make a statement from the beginning is just revisionist history that's bound to leave people disappointed. I mean, what's Twitter OP going to think when they discover that an early Barbie babysitting set came with a little book called "How to Lose Weight" that simply said "Don't eat!" on the back? Handler was still president of the company at the time- how does that fit with this starry-eyed vision of her creating an empowering doll for little girls?

Putting Barbie on a pedestal is going to lead to just as rude an awakening as casting her in the "worthless bimbo doll" role.

#long post #history #doll history #barbie #disordered eating #dolls #vintage dolls #nuance people!

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malviral · 1 month ago

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𝚆𝙴𝚂𝙺𝙴𝚁'𝚂 𝙴𝚈𝙴𝚂 / 𝙱𝙸𝙾𝙻𝚄𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 ::

ANON ASKED: sheer crack, but important: wesker’s got the cat eyes thing goin’ on, so…does he do the giant pupils thing when he’s excited?

Actually, its not even entirely crack because it would actually make perfect sense that Wesker’s eyes would function similar to a cat, or other predatory animals who possess similar vertical pupils like vipers and crocodiles. The vertical slits signify the predatory nature of the owner, allowing for more adapt vision;

‘Vertical pupils give highly focused vision and provide accurate distance vision to help the predator know exactly when to strike its prey. These types of predatory animals also usually hunt at night which means they have evolved an extra set of muscles to pull the pupil into a narrow slit shape during the day. This is to prevent the eye from being damaged or overcome by bright light, preserving vision and protecting the eye. Predatory animals with vertical slit pupils, like cats and many snakes, can maintain sharp focus across the horizontal field of view and more accurately judge distance to their prey. ”

So yeah, it would make sense if Wesker’s eyes are also capable of contracting and expanding. But I wouldn’t say they’re exactly like a cats eyes outside of the visual similarity as I don’t think Wesker’s eyes ever dilate enough to appear human again from what we’ve observed of him / his eyes in canon. His eyes seem to be more focused on keeping out light, I think ? I have a lot of thoughts on this.

What Wesker’s eyes do do that is super unique is maintain a steady glow. They’re highly bioluminescent and this appears to be linked to his emotions in some way. When experiencing a particularly strong emotion his eyes tend to literally light up with a temporary bright / burning sensation. Its less clear why this is a thing, I mean it looks extremely cool and more accurately terrifying from an in universe POV but there def has to be a more “zoological” reason they do this beyond Aesthetic TM.

Wesker’s entire body has been transformed on a cellular level by the virus to make him an adapt killing machine so here are my ideas/thoughts surrounding whats with his eyes / why they glow. ━ For a start, its possible this is a warning to other predators to back off, similar with how some poisonous animals are brightly coloured as a warning to fuck around and find out. and I do personally headcanon that most other infected creatures avoid Wesker because They Know.

We know infected creatures actively prey on each other, so yeah, anything with the animalistic intelligence a lot of the infected animals have can determine that Wesker is too much to handle. The exceptions would be creatures who are particularly programmed for certain tasks / externally controlled or extensively brain damaged (like common T infected zombies)

It could also have a kind of “hypnotic gaze” effect per se, giving him the ability to temporarily stun / paralyse prey, because again, from an in universe POV Wesker’s eyes are terrifying, if you got caught in his sight you’d be shook, and thats not even with witnessing his, y’know, crazy super-human strength/speed on top of it. I actually just think he exerts an aura of danger / dread that most members of the “animal kingdom” pick up pretty fast and if you don’t get it on vibes alone his eyes serve as a more explicit signal. I know in like, RE0 for whatever reason Wesker can shoot lasers out of his eyes which I kind of interpreted as a kind of “physical” representation of this kind of concept.

Personally, I think most of all the glow / light up has to do with sharping vision. You turn up the brightness of your phone/screen when you want to see more, its possible the “natural light” of Wesker’s eyes has a similar purpose which comes back to the cat idea– rather than completely dilating and becoming visibly huge to collect light and heighten vision, Wesker’s eyes simply glow / exert their own light to increase / sharpen his vision. This is also another explanation for why Wesker’s eye glow seems to be related to his emotions. Naturally if he’s “focusing” on something his emotions will react accordingly, so therefor the glow.

And to add to all that the continuous glow of Wesker’s eyes may also be a reason why his pupils remain in the vertical slit-like state as oppose to ever dilating to an extreme, again having to do with filtering light and his eyes are literally producing their own light. Whatever the case may be the Virus has sharpened Wesker’s vision extensively and I mentioned before via my own personal HC that the reason his eyes are the one part of his body to actually show outward mutation was because of his impaired eyesight / mild photophobia/sensitivity previous to infection.

SO BASCIALLY while I don’t personally HC his eyes to dilate, they do GLOW and thats my Logic for why thats a thing. Fully support Albert Kitty-Eyes Wesker tho.

Oh ALSO while I’m on this topic the glow of Wesker’s eyes is also directly connected to the virus in his system. Suppressing the virus dulls his eye glow so it can also be used to measure Wesker’s “strength” in a way.

Theres an implication of Wesker’s vision and the virus being connected beyond just the “aesthetic” of his eyes looking like that. When Chris and Sheva “poison” him in 5 we get a moment where we see through Wesker’s eyes and his vision is fuzzing out related to the virus in his system reacting to the suppressant. I ALSO think its interesting to note that based on this he SEEMS to see in a different like, ‘colour’ pallet to normal people as well. The world through “Wesker Vision” seems like it has a yellowish/greenish tint to it.

#🕶️ 𝑻𝒂𝒈 ↝ out of character #🕶️ 𝑻𝒂𝒈 ↝ headcanons

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nerdyenby · 8 months ago

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Let’s talk about the Golden Weapons

Because I totally thought they were a massive plot hole and they still kinda are, but it’s not as bad as I thought

We’re going through their history over the course of the show but I’m going off of memory (I’m up to season 2 in my rewatch)

The pilots

They’re hidden away and guarded by dragons

Garmadon is after them, so the ninja set out to get them first and ultimately succeed

Season one

They’re being used by the ninja until they hand the weapons to Garmadon to defeat the Great Devourer

Garmadon then runs off with them because duh

Season two

Garmadon combines the weapons, creating the Megaweapon, which can be used to create anything it’s user imagines (but it saps their energy significantly and only Garmadon can wield it without exploding)

Garmadon uses the megaweapon to cause problems on purpose, highlights include bringing a pirate crew back from the dead and resurrecting a dinosaur (which leads to Lloyd being aged up via Tomorrow’s Tea)

Garmadon also uses it to travel back to the pilots to try to prevent the ninja from coming together. He’s kind of succeeding until the ninja realize this timeline isn’t salvageable and use the Golden Weapons from that point in time (the pilots) to destroy the Megaweapon, and they’re shot into space. This makes it so that the Golden Weapons never existed past this point in time and thus the Megaweapon was never formed and they never traveled back in time, so the ninja just snap back to their present

Everything seems normal when the ninja return, including Lloyd still being aged up (which doesn’t make sense), but he’s never heard of the Megaweapon

Minor detail, but Skales mentions the Megaweapon a couple episodes later, Garmadon probably just told him, but it’s also possible that Skales remembers too

Season three

The Overlord needs Golden Power for his plan and tries to get that from Lloyd but his plan gets foiled (I think, I don’t remember what happens when lol)

So Evil Personified (tm) falls back on plan b: inventing space travel

The overlord commissions a spaceship and sends his minions to get the combined Golden Weapons from a meteorite or something

That works somehow, and the Overlord has them melted down and formed into armor

During the season finale, Zane latches onto the armor, powering himself up before ultimately exploding himself and the Overlord

Um, I don’t think we see them again until March of the Oni???

Season 10

Oni are invading, and the solution the gang comes up with is to reforge the Golden Weapons

Lloyd and Garmadon break into Borg Tower to retrieve the Golden Armor from the vault. It is effective against the Oni but doesn’t seem harmful to humans (which is stupid and ridiculous considering the Megaweapon (which is literally the exact same thing) vaporized a handful of people just because they touched it and the armor literally killed Zane (who is functionally immortal))

Kai uses the armor to recreate the Golden Weapons, the ninja use them to ward off the Oni for a bit before getting overwhelmed and using the Tornado of Creation instead

Do we see them between MotO and Crystalized???

Season fifteen

They’re there for some reason but don’t have any power anymore

The bad guys get them and cover them in crystal which gives them some sort of power back for some reason

The ninja get them back and undo whatever was done to them and then destroy them or something, idk

I think that’s it?? Probably??? Anyway, the main plotholes:

How the events of season one and the first handful of season two episodes play out without the Golden Weapons, the most pressing of which being how Lloyd gets aged up if not as a consequence of fighting a dinosaur and how the hell Soto and crew are around if not for the Megaweapon

Why space travel was introduced to the canon for a singular episode in season two and never mentioned again (not relevant, but it bothers me)

How Lloyd and Kai are able to handle the Golden Armor without exploding (I could buy Lloyd, but Kai???)

Why the Golden Weapons lost their power after s10 (I looked it up and the wiki says it was because of the Tornado of Creation but that sounds fake and/or stupid imo)

Why the Overlord needed them in Crystallized if they were powerless and how Aspheera was just able to give them entirely different powers (I’ve only seen Crystallized twice and it’s been a bit so apologies if this is a stupid question lol)

#one of my favorite things about ninjago is how everything is circular if you think about it enough #but I then proceed to think about it too much and lose my mind #it’s a bit of an issue #lego ninjago #nerdy’s ninjago rambles #the golden weapons ninjago #the weapons of spinjitzu #the megaweapon

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psychologeek · 10 months ago

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Well.

I just realised I never explained it.

Well then.

(tw: mention of cancer. Bruce has Google-like medical knowledge. Lmk if need to add)

The Fears of a Father

Batman isn't worried.

Never.

He is the dark knight of Gotham.

He is The Night.

He is Vengeance.

Batman is superior to mortal concepts of fear, or worrying, or anything but the cold dedication of his mission. Not even pain could stop him.

But Bruce is human.

Bruce is human, even if he questioned it multiple times. Even as he uses the ways he is different, the ways he's always been different, to make people think he isn't human.

(Just like he used to think, before he found The Planet and the bunch of weirdos and a name, for once, and not feeling so alone so wrong anymore.)

Bruce is human, even if he struggles with the way others seems to think. Just because he can't name it, doesn't mean he is never consumed by the overwhelming FEELINGS, like a caged wolf. Just because his brain doesn't process pain properly, doesn't mean he isn't hurt.

And when he gets the phone call from his son kid, his little boy, it feels like he never left the abyss.

"B," the child on the phone panic. "B, am I going to die?"

No, screams the eight years old inside. No, not again.

And he's holding three pearls in his palm and he's covered in a heavy blanket cape and he keep his voice calm as he asks the dear child to describe everything that happend before he looked down and saw blood in the toilet.

"It's going to be okay, chum," he says calmly. "I promise."

(He never said this to the people he saved. He never make promises he can't fulfil himself. But this is a promise he'll keep. Come hell or high water, he'll make Constantine take him fight heaven and hell if that what it would take.)

"Did you get hurt today? Maybe something hit your kidney?" He questions the kid. "I won't be mad if you got into a fight, chum. But I need to know if we should call Leslie or an ambulance."

"Ambulance? I don't want ambulance!" The kid is now crying. "I thought it's just something that happens when you grow. What is it?"

"The medical term is Hematuria," Bruce fills him up as he think out loud. "Possible reasons are problem in your kidneys or other parts of the urinary tract, like injuries, infection, blood clot, glomerulonephritis, cancer—"

"NO! YOU TAKE THAT BACK! I DON'T WANT TO HAVE CANCER," Dickie cries on the phone. "I can't kill Tony Zucco if I have cancer."

"You can't keep kill Zucco," Bruce tries.

"Nuh-uh!" Sick stops crying. "I have cancer! You need to be nice to me because I'm going to die. And I get a wish because I have cancer. So I want to be Robin and kill Zucco and you can't tell me no!"

Bruce is pretty sure this isn't how it works.

But Dick stopped crying. So he let it be.

"I'm going to draw my costume so when you come back we can make it," the kid says and hang up on him.

But he has a kid to save.

How do one even starts looking for it?

If only there was a reliable person he can ask about raising a child. And maybe get some advices about how to prevent him from being a teen vigilante...

Someone with experience of raising a kid with unique talent, that can get out of the house no matter what...

Right.

And so the dark knight disappeared into the shadows, tracking down Superman in order to get any information contact ot the only person that could help him now:

Ma Kent.

In which we have autistic Battinson (but that's cannon), Dick is a drama queen, Alfred is not here TM

and asking Bruce about medical information is like asking Google (don't do that).

I don't know if you have/know toddlers, but where I grew up every year some parents got freaked out at their baby's first week in daycare, when they changed the diaper and saw blood in it.

Spoiler: bitterroot can make urine red/purple. (And so do some other things.)

Beware!

As a new parent, I decided B has to go through this jump scare.

Just as a treat 😄

I see many people spreading the "Battinson is our little meow meow we must protect" all over the Tumblr. But they focus on Bruce.

Because when it comes to Battinson's Batman- this man made goons sleep with lights on. He yoinked so many bones he could make two skeletons and put them in Gotham Academy for biology lessons.

He doesn't spread fear. He is fear.

Justice League would look upon him and be like "I'm so glad this man is on our side". Pure respect for his persona. Even slight fear. Until...

Batman: It took me half a night but I solved this case.

Justice League *in awe*: Right.

Batman: I have analysed the threat, discovered their real identities and estimated where they will next strike.

Justice League: Nice.

Emergency phone: *ringing*

Batman: Excuse me.

Batman: What's wrong, chum?

Batman: what do you mean batcave is on fire

Batman: but i left u food

Batman: you ate a full bowl of blueberries??

Batman: wdym Alf isn't home. where would he go?

Batman: Alfred will kill me :(

Batman: ... how 'bout Mr. Freeze gun. you can use it, right?

Batman: ... Alright, chum. Text me if it worked. I gotta go.

Batman *back to his Batman voice*: So. As I was saying. Their next target will be-

Justice League: ...????

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malviralarchive · 1 year ago

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Wesker's eyes / bioluminescence.

ANON ASKED: sheer crack, but important: wesker’s got the cat eyes thing goin’ on, so…does he do the giant pupils thing when he’s excited?

SO BASCIALLY while I don’t personally HC his eyes to dilate, they do GLOW and thats my Logic for why thats a thing. Fully support Albert Kitty-Eyes Wesker tho.

#⊰ ° ‧: ｡* ∞ 🕶️ ━◞ From The Mun ⊱#⊰ ° ‧: ｡* ∞ 🕶️ ━◞ Headcanons ⊱#Headcanons

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thecraftymagician · 3 years ago

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Julian as a parent plss

Thank you so much! *cracks knuckles* I have THOUGHTS..

Julian as a Parent:

If he's a parent the old fashioned way, he is petrified when he finds out MC is pregnant. Of course he's simultaneously over the moon but he will be very worried about being good enough or doing the right things. He doesn't want to mess up or have the little one end up hating him.

Whatever the means he is very prepared medically for a child and so will fret over them like a mother hen. He doesn't want anything bad to happen that he knows he can fix or prevent.

"Ilya.. are you taking their temperature again? That's 3 times today." "They sniffled a little earlier and I just want to be sure!"

Gradually he'll grow out of it to a point.

Because of the insomnia, he'll hold the little bean while he works or just be close by in case they need anything.

You'll find him cuddling the little bundle in bed or sitting up in a chair in the morning half the time. (Just Dad Things TM)

When they're old enough he'll take them out on the town with him to do errands. Probably wears a baby swaddle harness. Will show off his pride and joy to anyone he can but is protective.

It takes a while before he's comfortable letting anyone else hold the bean, even Mazelinka and Portia but eventually gives in after Portia gives basically a TED Talk on how she holds Pepi for example.

He doesn't baby talk. He'll carry on full conversations with the Incoherent babbles and sputters.

"Oh yes I know, the peas are not nearly as good as the carrots!"

He is so damn proud. Rolling over to crawling to bouncing to almost saying a real word? Spectacular, amazing, never been seen before-

When bean says they're first words, walks, potties, etc. he'll cry he's so amazed and happy.

When bean is a bit older and they're going out, Julian keeps him on his shoulders. They get a kick out of being so tall and no worries about them running off. It's a win win!

Bed. Time. Stories. He'll tell kid friendly versions of his travels, read books, or even make up his own.

He sobs the first time the little one tells him "I love you!"

He is so damn happy everyday, even on the rougher days. He's not one for punishment but it's a push over. Most of his parenting skills come from Mazelinka.

Loves taking the little one on little rides with Mazelinka in the harbor.

That being said he'll make sure anything he wants to do is alright with you/if you want to come with.

Loves playing oh my gosh. Tea parties, pirates, hide and seek- okay maybe not that last one. After about 10 minutes he gets scared. Once you had to use a locator spell to find them in the back of a closet. But he does take notes of all their favorite hiding spots.

As they grow up he teaches them more and more. First Aid, adventuring, sailing, singing, acting, intruments, etc. If they aren't really into that he'll find something they can do together.

Is so supportive of anything they want to do but he gives them space to do it and be themselves. He very rarely puts any pressure on them and teaches them not to put too much pressure on themselves. They in turn catch him when he's being hippocritical on occasion which makes him spiral in the best possible way. He was doing enough after all, just look at this adorable child who is so kind and wise beyond their years.

Alright, I think I'll leave it there since I'm not sure how old you wanted it to go haha I can continue but I hope that was thorough enough! I've mostly seen others just talk about having a baby or getting pregnant so I tried to do a bit more than that but still vague enough that the kiddo can be however you want. While I'm uncomfortable with having kids myself right now and I don't know a whole lot about kids much less parenting, I tried haha but yes Julian would be a great dad, if a bit overprotective at times.

#the arcana #thearcanagame #julian devorak #julian the arcana #headcannons #ilya devorak

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