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[tea-cat-arts]

Shen Yuan getting transported into pidw isn't "the system punishing him for being a lazy internet hater," but instead representative of "step 1 of the creative process: getting so mad at something you decide to go write your own fucking book" in this essay I will

[fetidbog]

Obsessive ASOIAF theorizing misses the point of the stories, I think! George's goal is to tell us a sweeping fantasy with heavy romantic elements and really beautiful characterization grappling with themes of redemption, power, agency, identity, love, loss, growth, death, (re)birth, etc etc. He obviously has some big plot points and mysteries, but those serve to reinforce the themes (e.g. Rhaegar and Lyanna are there to talk to us about love and tragedy and cycles and identity). George isn't chucking in a mystery to just have a wild and shocking reveal, he's putting it in to serve a narrative point and when you lose sight of that you are losing the plot, quite literally.

To me, it's much more interesting to see how certain themes develop over time as George sits with them (e.g. Jaime's progression from the outline into his POV character form is a perfect example), historical inspirations (BUT not as a way to crack a code!!!), and literary allusions and references.

[lycandrophile]

at this point i don’t even have any commentary to add to this. i’m just tired.

[whiteboardartstudios]

I SAID I WAS GOING TO DRAW THAT CAR SO HERE WE ARE (I hope you enjoy this is the stupidest thing I've drawn in months /affectionate)

(I put the image descriptions in the Alt text this time because there's so many images. If it doesn't work please tell me and I'll yeet them in the actual post!!)

happy finale of Wild Life everybody! :D

[tinseltownie]

i have a vision.... I don't actually think Lando likes to be casually touched.... someone come discuss with me.....

[mythtakens]

so here's a scenario if a character was, completely random example, shot by a sniper in the street and they had one singular coherent thing they said in between getting hit and waking up in the hospital days later. what do you think is the most absolutely sickening heartwrenching line you could have that character say. like for instance to their closest friend. who is let's say idk covered in the blood that just sprayed out of them straight into said friend's face. a best friend who is actively trying to stop them from continuing to bleed out in that moment because they were just SHOT by a SNIPER and they're DYING. let's chew on this hypothetical situation for a minute or five. what is the most insane yet still fully in character thing a person could use the last of their energy to say in the chaos of everything that's happening before passing out. they're in pain, they're in shock, hell they're not even fully aware at this point right and this is something that could easily easily be the last words they ever speak. what do you think would be the version of those words that would clock me in the face the hardest and why did Eddie Diaz from 9-1-1 say it on network television in 2021

[pseudophan]

they're a little too fixated on gay saunas recently. like do we really need to share this

i think dan's doing that thing he always does where he gets hung up on something really random and keeps bringing it up all the time for seemingly no reason. i don't know if it's the autopilot entertainer brain that just throws out any remotely interesting thing on his mind or what but he does it a lot 😭

[bleue-flora]

Ok, I recently wrote an essay [here] talking about the definition and duties of civil engineering as well as the ethics because of the brain rot @swordfright gave me with calling Dream Sam’s ultimate engineering project. So, because I actually am a civil engineer I took it upon myself to design the title and summary of quantities sheets just like I do at work for roads but with Dream as the project instead. And in honor of angst day sponsored by @sixteenth-day-event, I figured I’d share it because I feel like it kinda works for the prison of the mind prompt.

“Sam’s “ultimate engineering project” he deemed too damaged like a bumpy road or crumbling building that wasn’t worthy of patching and filling in the cracks or reinforcing, that’s too eroded to be fixed and preserved. So, Sam strived to tear him down to the bedrock so he could remake, remold, and reengineer Dream according to his design for the common safety, public health and well-fair.”

{These are very similar to the actual sheets I make day to day, which I shall not share for the sake of doxing my location, but yea pretty much everything has a significance. Some of it doesn’t necessarily make sense but that was because I was more so taking inventory of what we see in lore (so you know I counted ;) lol)}

[rawliverandcigarettes]

honestly, re: my last reblog, but it's so funny to me how unbearably annoying humans in mass effect are, like you guys!!!!! calm down!!! you JUST arrived!!! maybe take in your surroundings for 5 seconds before declaring you should be treated like the most special princesses of all and have all the advantages ever without any drawback and be recognized as the supreme leaders who have all the clarity and drive and righteousness to solve everything and be the victims of everyone's envy and meanness and the ultimate heroes who will save everyone in spite of themselves...... 😔😔😔

[infinitelystrangemachinex]

Veilguard vaguing:

It's not automatically a good thing, actually, that the game de-emphasizes or even outright removes racism against elves, and bigotry against other groups, from the story

[pinkfey]

remember how in dao there were always like multiple flirty options u could just spring on ur love interest and it wasn't something that was brushed past it would stop a conversation dead in its tracks to have a cute secondary flirty offshoot with small variations dependent on the flirty option u initially chose with a unique course correction to get back on topic after...... yeah.

[high-voltage-rat]

Tog morphological biology really is weird. Their mouth, which resembles a crocodilian's, has teeth that imply carnivorous diets. However, where their head is so elongated, their bodies are extremely short and tall in comparison to a crocodilian, which to me suggests that they would have to dedicate significantly more power to holding their head up. Their eyes are positioned in a way that's really only suited to being a prey animal, horse style, unless you're an aquatic hunter. However, togs have the stumpy feet I associate with elephantids or other plains-based ungulates- or hippopotamids. They seem to be perissodactyls in this sense, bearing weight on the front 3 toes. But their shorter bodies paired with these feet would make balancing their heads quite difficult, as they have very little tail to offer a counterbalance, and their feet are stumpy enough to offer very little leverage. On top of that, they're known to be reptilian, but they also exist in cold snowy areas, with adapted colouration even, which suggests they're not cold-blooded. They're overall smooth-skinned (or possibly fuzzy? The striations seem to imply a fuzzy texture but the rest of them doesn't. I hesitate to use the fluffy tog or entagled tog as examples given they're meant to be mutants, but all other entagled creatures' mutations were mostly just exaggerations of pre-exisying traits, so short fuzz -> fluffy isn't that hard to imagine.) but they also seem to have the capacity to grow plated spines, which are modified osseoderms, so they do possess the genetics to grow scales like crocodilians- they just only use it for stegosaurus-style plates on the head and tail. Functionally speaking, these add little value and strike me as either residual anatomy or an in-progress developing adaptation. I lean towards the latter since the plates are a more terrestrial-suited feature.

Basically, lots about their morphology suggests they'd be best suited to aquatic or semiacquatic hunter lifestyles, including the fact that their balance issues wouldn't be as present in the water- except that we only ever see them on land, and their feet would be a nightmare for paddling in water (hippos, who have similar feet and webbing between their toes, are still poor swimmers and just walk along the bottom of water bodies- it's believed the webbing is more for stabilization in bottom walking). So the best explanation is that they were shallow-water hunters who wade, but at some point they became totally land-based, lost some reptilian and aquatic features, started developing spines, and began menacing Lore.

They're just such stupid creatures with stupid nonsense biology. I know this is a land of magic and I have an amulet that channels the power of my love to make my dragon grow gigantic à la Clifford the big red dog, but I draw the line at togs.

[box-dwelling]

With all love in the world to fic writers, and this isn't a set criticism just a trend, being a British person and seeing what colloquialism people have Wyll use will absolutely take me out of a fic at points. Like this is difficult and I'm not gonna hold it against any writer who does this but I very much do notice it. I don't even have advice because so much of it is a weird feel thing of the type of age of the people who use certain slang.

Wyll talks with pretty archaic British slang. It's not too ancient. It's still like stuff you might hear an older guy say, but it gives a certain feel to him speech of it being kinda old fashioned.

But sometimes people either don't get this or, honestly more common in what I see because most of the fics I read are from people who do understand him, people who, fairly because they aren't from here so wouldn't know, use slang that feels a little too modern and it just reads like Astarion just called someone bro.

But I don't know how to explain that lad singular is a word he does use in canon and makes sense, but lads plural feels so fundamentally wrong.

[shadelorde]

"But c.ai is fun for roleplaying with and I'm too shy to talk to other people :((( you should feel bad for m-" DOWNLOAD MIITOPIA AND FUCKING PLAY IT YOU COMPLETE CLOWN

[bluebellwren]

I’m genuinely so terrible at being a human being. Like physically

[pangaeaseas]

ohhhh my god the lily was a bad friend to Snape thing pisses me off so fucking much. just willful misreading and frankly sometimes disturbing blaseness towards what the real problem was (not just the slur! JOINING A FUCKING HATE GROUP! and also slurs are bad--we should be able to understand this, right?) I mean one of the problems with it is that it doesn't fully understand the multiple power dynamics at play--blood status, gender, AND social class are all important in the lily/Snape and Lily/Snape/marauders dynamics. And also? I think Lily is meant to be read as not actually of a significantly higher class than Snape--she's working class but her family is slightly more financially stable and determined to hold themselves above him! So the class dynamics aren't 'rich popular girl Lily and poor bullied Snape' it's 'also poor but slightly less poor Lily'!! AND this interaction cannot be read without Snape's blood status privilege. And. Of course. The fact that him calling her a mudblood in public was a sign of him fully embracing Death Eater ideals and he went on to join the Death Eaters--having already been associating with them for a while. The initial slur isn't even forgiveable but it becomes even more heinous when you remember he was joining a group dedicated to exterminating her because of who she was. Why should she give a shit about who bullied him anymore? When we talk about what Lily and Snape are doing post Snape's Worst Memory, I would say that the fact Snape joins the freaking Death Eaters is a far worse betrayal of their friendship than Lily marrying James (which isn't even a betrayal, exactly, as she is, you know, an autonomous person with her own wants needs and opinions).