#forgotten saga

[90sfantasyanimestuff]

Forgotten Saga

[steamclouds]

Neverwinter Saga is the best

[morganbritton132]

Eddie’s live-streaming in his studio when Steve comes into the room like, “Did you hear about Lydia Martinez?”

Eddie: Who?

Steve: Lydia… Dude, she sat behind you in Click’s class

Eddie: ????

Steve: Tuesday/Thursdays?? 1985????

Steve: Big Farrah Fawcett hair. Green eyes. Great… *gestures* boobies. She was sweet! Really cute. Let you copy her homework. You know.

Eddie:

Eddie: Yesterday, you forgot what the password on your phone was but you remember a random person we went to high school with?

Steve, rolling his eyes: You know her though, right?

Eddie: Clearly not!

Steve: Well, she died. Heart attack.

[dreamerslovechaos]

*wakes up in a cold sweat* the reason the black rose arc had to be forgotten by everyone is because its foundational tenet operated on giving the Brides agency to protest against their role in the dueling system and seek to leave it, further exemplified by its final shot being that of anthy's complicitness in the dueling game. the black rose arc gives a 'voice to the voiceless' and exploits their rage against their lives into rage against the Bride - which though it furthers ohtori's system of oppression (the dueling game is built upon exploiting the internal conflicts of the duelists after all), the methodology of giving 'voices' to the Brides by allowing them to Speak Their Mind within the framework of 'self improvement' via seeking out therapy is shown to be antithetical to ohtori academy as a whole because true self actualization of the bride will mean the end of ohtori academy as a system. in this essay i will

[duskyourlocalowl]

Forgotten Athena au 👀👀👀 ?

Ok

Basically the reason she had to leave Lake Trinton was because of killing Pallas, what if that never happened? Basically Zeus after a while forgot he sent a kid to Lake Trinton, which led her to stay there.

She still has all her titles, just she's one of the more unknown goddesses. This leads to when she makes the boar, wanting to have a way to get more recognition by having a champion, Odysseus doesn't know who she is.

He's like "You're a goddess of War, Wisdom, and Crafts and I've NEVER HEARD OF YOU?!" And she's used to this and thinks 'of course...'

However in this only Hera and Aphrodite wanted the apple because she's like "I only care about Pallas's opinion I don't care about their opinions." This also leads to her not being a traditional goddess, she grew up around nymphs, chaotic one sto be exact, so she is more involved in Odysseus's way home.

She specifically helps him by pretending to be mortal and one of his men, and work on the ship and give him counsel. He's the only one who knows this crew member is a goddess, so when they reach the lotus eaters island he asks her to come instead. When they see the cave she recognizes Polyphemus as Poseidon's son, her growing up with a bunch of his kids. She helps him instead get food another way to avoid angering Poseidon.

This leads to Odysseus seeing Telemachus for the first time when he's around 11 years old. Basically, Ody gets to have a happier life.

However, how good of a strategist/warrior Athena was in the Trojan war does pull the attention of Ares. He later confronts her in his version of Quick Thought, and they end up finding they are more similar than they think. He basically ends up being the only Olympian to know, acknowledge, her existence basically.

anyways thanks for letting me yap :3

[odysseus-of-lthaca]

so, do you think odysseus is gonna see all 108 suitors fighting for penelope's hand and be like 'babe, i'm not like other suitors. i have angered and befriended gods in ways they can't even think of ' and try to re-rizz his wife?

[chasedeys]

New to Joemarr and I have a question: Did we ever figure out if Ja'marr actually buy clothes for Joe? Like was that confirmed after he retracted that statement?

LMAOOOOO god i wish. i could experience finding out the entire clothes saga again like. ja'marr chase what the fuck is the matter with you. and how like. to this fucking dayyyy we STILL don't actually have confirmation from joe on like. does ja'marr chase dress you. but all his weapons have literally joked around the thing so many times it's hilarious 😭 tee tb teased the everliving shittt out of ja'marr on official interviews it's so cute. we will never know the actual truth i fear.

no but really i think this is like the closest thing we got to actual confirmation that ja'marr does buy him clothes? never mind how like. the gq magazine where he said he bought joe clothes was what 2022?

oh my god rereading these articles still gives me such a fucking whiplash just. oh my god 😭 i was going to type out some sentences out of it as like. a what the fuck were they ON but then i typed out the entire paragraph lmao okay then (perfect complement....coaxed out of bed....legendary connection....sartorial guiding light...). but anyways the gq was 2022 and the us weekly was this year. doesn't add up no 😭

he said shoes toooo btw so like here's a little bit i did on the matching shoes they wore for the commanders game but like. who knows really what they've bought for each other. also like the recent bottega bag (yes i've made it into a tag 😔) speculation i can't help but mention lmao if only because of how hilarious we've gotten the entire thing to be with the stef stuff. also this official bengals tweet godddd they think they're so fucking funnyyy 😭 like. 11 days after the article dropped. ja'marr must be so fucking DONE with the entire thing im cryinggg.

but basically to answer your question. no. or well. sort of. based on that last us weekly article. we await joe's statement. which is. never going to happen.

[kai-ice]

I miss then fighting one and other but damn if I don't think then fighting side by side is cool!

[shannonsketches]

Why is the anime so weird, it's not even the same series dude?? It's like,

Anime:

GOKU: I have a great idea to bring peace to the universe, and my leadership and compassion alone will unite us all. I have No Flaws and am A True Relatable Everyman :)

VEGETA: NO! I AM THE BEST AND I WILL CAUSE PROBLEMS UNTIL I AM RECOGNIZED AS SUCH!!!!

Manga:

GOKU: Vegeta what's cornmeal made of? I know it's what the corn eats, but what's it made of? VEGETA: Hey Kakarot let's play the quiet game until one of us dies.

[internerdionality]

“Failure, failure was grown familiar to me. Comfortable, almost, when I stopped struggling against it. I did not know achievement `was so devastating.”

“Huh.” He was leaning back, now, his reader forgotten on his lap, regarding her with his entire attention. "Yes . . . vertigo at apogee, eh? And the reward for a job well done is another job, and what have you done for us lately, and is that all, Lieutenant Vorkosigan, and . . . yes. Achievement is devastating, or at least disorienting, and they don't warn you in advance. It's the sudden change of momentum and direction, I think.”

She blinked. "How very strange. I expected you to tell me I was being foolish.”

“Deny your perfectly correct perception? Why should you expect that?”

“Habit . . . I suppose.”

“Mm. You can learn to enjoy the sensation of winning, you know, once you get over the initial queasiness. It's an acquired taste.”

“How long did it take you to acquire it?”

He smiled slowly. “Once.”

“That's not a taste, that's an addiction.”

“It's one that would look well on you.”

—Komarr, by Lois McMaster Bujold

[piiinkfreak]

We should bring magical girl tanya back

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[steamclouds]

Top moment of Neverwinter to me, I've been waiting for these two to meet again for so long

[wildfairies]

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hiiiii 👉👈 i got a tumblr community approved without a plan... but i want it to be for interactive fiction fans !!

most discords are if-specific, so i think it'd be fun to have a place on tumblr to discuss all our favorite ifs! a cozy spot for casual posting, theories, mc development, and random thoughts <3

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[princefleabitten]

Drizzt goes unhinged part 1 (sketches of Legend of Drizzt: Gauntlgrym)

[embroideredequations]

"We can't just sit and stare at our wounds forever..."

Marya Week Day 1: Post-war

[hanzajesthanza]

i feel like i just got so used to ciri and how natural ciri and geralt’s relationship left, via being introduced to the witcher via witcher 3, and then reading the middle of the saga before i finished the short stories…

that i never really innately picked up on the fact that ciri turning out to be geralt’s daughter and not his son was… uhm, part of the entire surprise, let’s put it that way :’)

geralt and ciri are just soooo natural as a father and daughter duo that i can’t imagine it any other way, if ciri had been a boy this would have been way less remarkable as a series, there would be no witcher series as we know it. so to me ciri being a girl was the normal and default, expected way things were supposed to go.

even when i read a question of price-sword of destiny-something more for the first times, i was like “ok” when ciri being a girl was a switch of expectations: geralt (and, supposedly, the reader) having expected pavetta to have a son. like… “alright, it’s a girl, so what.”

i had to be informed about how this was an intentional shock… not only because i’m not a parent, but i mean, well, ultrasounds get mixed up all the time, right… it’s not so uncommon to have a kid and be surprised by the gender…

and because of this, i was more inclined to eyeroll at blood of elves being preachy with going over ciri’s biological sex what seemed like ten million times in chapters two and three… what with the whole “daughter has her first period” subplot, ciri upset over her lack of potential strongmanship, and the witchers mostly relying on triss for guidance in raising a girl. the moral being both “just raise her like any other child” and “be sensitive to her needs that you’re blind to…”

although i still think these segments have visibly aged and date the series (not inherently a bad thing, just a quality of it)… they do make more sense when i try to empathize more with the perspective of a new father… who didn’t know he was receiving a girl… who thought she died… who only got her back through a miracle… and having to raise a girl… that’s not a young child anymore, not yet a teen, but is very shortly going to start going through puberty?! it’s like growing up in the desert, just learning what water is, and then getting thrown into the ocean.

because “having to raise a girl” still doesn’t seem that strange to me, but then i remember geralt didn’t see a woman and only had heard about them as a concept until he was an adult (because “warrior-monk” realness), he grew up with a hole in his heart that his absent mother bore, he lives in a highly gendered society, he experiences hostility from everybody of course but especially from women and girls, who take fright at him for… specific reasons explained by the old women in edge of the world…

no, geralt’s not helpless, but i forget, because he acts normal, but… (i mean, although he has issues, he could have really gone off his rocker with regards to women, a little sacrifice confirms this and vilgefortz embodies this) i forget that geralt’s inexperience with women… mostly manifesting in anxiety and both uncertain and impulsive behavior… like ghosting with a nosegay of flowers, the “dear friend” and all… would affect his view of the gender as a whole, including how he sees ciri. and it does.

in his situation, yes, having to raise a girl does intensify the element of “what the fuck am i doing”. especially as a single dad.

and although i do like it when the pov shifts from geralt in the saga but just to another person in the room, for how he becomes more of a distant and enigmatic figure, seeing him through others’ eyes always makes fills me with this uncertainty. buuuut, i would fucking adore blood of elves chapters two and three through geralt’s eyes just for how much of an emotional wreck he must have been… and trying not to show it to her :(