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(one of those too-long posts I might delete later)
What fascinates me about Childe is how he's an embodiment of Nietzsche's Amor fati, 'love for one's fate'.
Seeing everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary. Accepting the world as some kind of perfect poetry. Celebrating the chaos of what is.
(Nietzsche considered it to be "the formula for greatness in a human being")
...and, just as it was easy to twist Nietzschean ideas into Nazi propaganda (despite him being strongly against everything Nazis ever stood for), it was easy to turn our precious boy to something just as sick.
I'm almost sure Mihoyo writers *know* the concept and nazi references are intentional.
His Golden House speech is pure perfection in term of references, really.
(a link to a great discussion about links between amor fati and fascism)
#his story is also such a wonderful (and likely unintended) commentary on the modern notion of 'living your dream life'#and 'taking responsibility'#he invented his calling#and followed it#and got good at it#and he's good at everything he does#and believes in himself#and sees poetry in the world#and practices radical acceptance#and he does take responsibility for his life#authorship of his own story#all those things positive psychology tells us to do#this is as badass as it gets#the result?#the result is war crimes#but maybe it will all work out in the end#it must#right?#it's ironic in a way#a normal *human* reaction to some things is grief and despair#and being broken#and needing help from others#being a champ about certain things might lead you to breaking geneva conventions#although in teyvat those are more of geneva suggestions anyway#childe#tartaglia#genshin impact#fatui
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Me: [sees everyone talking about how Assad Zaman was "literally" coming up with RPF about himself and Eric Bogosian in an interview]
Me: ah, fandom's doing its little "interpret an innocent comment in Some Kind Of Way" thing again, let's go find the video and do our own critical thinking about what was actually said here--
Assad: What would happen if I said-- [words that cannot be interpreted as anything but RPF fanfic]
Me:
Me: ok fandom gets a pass on this one actually
#interview with the vampire#devil's minion#assad zaman#he's just hit that level of devil's minion brainrot#i've seen it a thousand times#this cast is fully unhinged and I ADORE them#the chaos energy is off the charts#eric out here setting a bad example with his “did u know u can say anything u want in interviews actually :)))” energy#assad seems one step away from getting Marxist about it like#“if rolin doesn't let me kiss daniel in s3 we must Seize The Means Of Production”#baby boy listen... be the change you want to see in the world#if u wanna write ur own devil's minion fanfic and film it on ur iphone i support u 100% and i will get u in contact with the OTW's lawyers#who ironically were invented partially BECAUSE of people getting in trouble for writing Anne Rice fanfic#this is what we call Plot Structure#real life does not usually have such a satisfying Plot Structure but it could in this case if assad reaches level 100 in Unhingery#and tbh i truly don't know that I would put it past him at this point#iwtv
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codtwt is going off on brainwashed!soap bc of his new warzone skin and it’s making me think of ghost deliberately getting himself captured by makarov bc he knows he’ll be given to his dog to try and break him; knows he won’t be able to resist the irony, the cruelty of being tortured by the teammate he lost
he doesn’t fight; welcomes the chains around his wrists and ankles, welcomes the hands stripping him of his weapons and gear until he's defenceless
he wouldn't use them anyway
when he stalks into the room, the muzzle, the scars, not even the blank hatred or lack of recognition could make him mistake his eyes
that's his johnny
he doesn't flinch as he digs knives into his skin; would never shy away from his kiss even if it's tinged with rusted steel. doesn't swallow his screams; not when he always loved hearing him, when he spent so long coaxing his voice from the grave
frustration joins the anger in johnny's eyes the longer he goes without giving up information
just jokes; dark and puns alike
just advice when he can't get the jumper cables to spark right
ghost's not trying to escape; not trying to barter his return to the 141
he's right where he wants to be
#ghost letting him be tortured indefinitely if it means being with johnny i am going to eat glass#he doesnt even care if he never gets him back. if the brainwashing is permanent#he still treats him the same. gives him openings to meet a punchline or rib him for something#no matter how long he goes without responding. without giving him any hope of becoming the man he knew#if pain is all he’ll ever get from johnny again he’ll welcome it gratefully with open arms#he got his share of kindness. more than he ever thought he deserved. if pain has to balance it out then so be it#so long as johnny is the one giving it to him#meanwhile soap gets more and more frustrated that he cant break this soldier#that when he becomes more inventive he just meets him with a story about people he doest know but acts like he should#that every day when his master calls him away he leaves with a soft - /loving/ - see you tomorrow johnny echoing in his ears#he doesnt understand#and it just makes him more vicious#but the soldier doesnt care#he still smiles in the face of pain#still calls him johnny#coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt#we’re a team. ghost team#soapghost#ghostsoap#ghoap#ghost cod#simon ghost riley#soap cod#john soap mactavish#ghost x soap#save post
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In a modern au Wei Wuxian would invent the nuclear bomb
#he invented the yin tiger tally single-handedly#he could definitely invent the nuclear bomb#both are weapons of mass destruction that pose a threat#and also he would have to live with the guilt or knowing he is responsible for the sought out weapon#it fits absolutely perfectly#and it is well within his capabilities#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#wei wuxian#wei ying#yin tiger tally#stygian tiger seal#(I think that’s what they call it in cql)#cql#the untamed#fafa says
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I'm just sayin. Rose knew exactly what the fuck she was doing when she guilted Jack into joining that dinner. She fucking knew what she was doing
#jack and joker#jack and joker u steal my heart#jack and joker the series#jack and joker series#rose likes the version of jack she invented in her head#she likes the jack that needs her to save him the way he saved her#she doesn't actually like jack#because if she did then instead of making that horrendously manipulative call#she would have cancelled her dinner secretly and let jack have dinner with his friends and family#she doesn't even have the excuse of not knowing because jack fucking told her#i am just so tired of rose#like cmon girl. i don't want your fake savior bullshit#that being said i think rose is a great character. i wish she was the representation of the class divide#instead of all of the incredibly on the nose classism commentary scenes#but that's all i'll say about that#because i am enjoying the show a whole bunch#but rose? yeah she can fuck off now. because seriously. what did jack do that ever made her think he liked her?#show up when he's called? like girl. you know damn well jack was the price paid for the necklace. he HAS to show up when you call#i need to stop rambling now
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[After Mav's gotten injured while doing something stupid, and Ice has to be called back from the conference tour he was on]
Mav: I can't believe Ice is coming home after all this time.
Mav: You know what I'm getting tonight.
Slider: You don't seriously thi-
Mav: Yelled at, Slider. I'm getting yelled at.
#responsible admiral ice touring the world#until his chaotic gremlin husband decided to try and invent a new manoeuvre in the f-18#and ended up ejecting and injuring himself#fly-boys drew straws to see who had to call ice and tell him#(wolf lost)#mav is definitely in trouble#incorrect quotes#top gun#icemav#tom iceman kazansky#pete maverick mitchell#ron slider kerner#slider is also in trouble#he was supposed to be watching over mav#not encouraging his schemes
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Another Cosmere Inktober sketch finished. Ignore the fact it's now April and my last one was December and the sketch was done in October. Just look at my take on Cyberpunk Mistborn Hoid.
Day 23 Pitch
#Not pictured: he's wearing a faded anime T shirt#cosmere#cfsbf#mistborn#cosmere inktober#brandon sanderson#hoid#arts arcanum#art#artists on tumblr#illustration#my art#krita#digital art#It's not super Cyber^tm I was going to make the back of his jacket more intricate but as you can tell it's now April#$10 to whoever can identify Hoid's tattoo#uinferno art#uinferno#my players never actually met Hoid they missed him while they were investigating a casino#my players invented an in world tv show called Captain Chromium and the Cosmic Crusaders (aka C4)#And it's like a weird almagamation of JJBA and Star Trek#It was made by the grandson of a worldhopper who misinterpreted the stories and so now the story is an incorrect take on the greater cosmer#like a singer is a guy in a lobster costume#i was going to link a friends drawing of a poster but Apparently she didn't post it#anyways that's his shirt
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the other wish fulfillment in gravity falls is what if your republican/centrist brother admitted he was wrong
#if anyone gets mad at me for calling Ford a republican he literally invented a mind control device to get Reagan elected#he’s either a republican or the worst kind of centrist#he’s one of the few characters with explicitly stated political allegiances#and he believes in exceptionalism so hard that it’s his entire personality
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rick rounds autistic and gets away with no one ever picking up on it via pretending all of the autism traits are 1) him being rude on purpose and 2) him just being a REALLY dedicated and stoic leader.
he never makes eye contact with anyone and seems to ignore to half of the things you say when talking to him? yeah he’s locked into that sigma grindset bro he doesnt have time for your bullshit. he refuses to let anyone touch him? oh is he also gonna cry and tell you about his feelings while you’re hugging 🥺🥺🥺? he barely makes any facial expressions, his voice is always monotone and he won’t react at all if you break down crying in front of him? yeah hes hardcore man completely unreadable. he gets really loud and angry and unpredictable when theres a lot of people and noise and lights? yeah hes a fucking wildcard bro you dont wanna mess around near him trust me. we need real men like this leading America forward thank god men are finally being masculine again 🙏🙏🙏 (/s)
#rick rounds#hfth#thank you for coming to my ted talk sorry for calling rick rounds a sigma#shout out to that time he walked outside and it was kinda bright so he screamed in agony threw an axe at someone and collapsed#just like me fr fr#jupiter talks#this isnt even every reason i think hes autistic btw i have so much evidence#guy is a walking raads-r test it just gets missed by most ppl bc hes also a tough as nails big scary military guy with a deep voice#whos main interests seem to be ‘weapons + combat’ and ‘survival top tips’#special interests in the grind and killing people to death 😔 /hj#<- not a slight against anyone to be clear. he has that effect on purpose the carefully constructed persona he invented#to keep himself safe is what his whole storyline is about
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one of the joys of having a mother who is a bit older and..sillier. than average is the memory of my brother trying to explain the concept of a snapchat streak to her. only she could not wrap her brain around the fact that it had nothing to do with streaking as in running around naked. and she just wouldnt drop how horrified she was that her kids would do such a thing. no matter how hard my brother tried to get her to understand she would just say “well……i cant believe you’re doing that😔..…”
#its not even like snapchat invented the concept of a streak!!!!!!!!!!!#this same woman called me after id moved out and was like ‘i need to speak to you!!! your brother is acting very strange!!!!!’#and i was like okay what else is new. tell me what he’s doing tho.#and she said ‘he goes on his laptop and he..well i dont even know..he watches videos of OTHER people PLAYING VIDEO GAMES????’#he was watching twitch streams#so i had to explain to her how normal that is#this was in like 2022 it wasnt even new#it didnt work and she stayed bewildered but hopefully she stopped making my brother feel like an alien about it
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Cyrus and Milton go on a date and Pixal offers to babysit. Unagami has been instructed not to call his dad unless there's a serious emergency but his abandonment issues are not happy about it so Pixal ends up spending the entire evening trying to reassure him that his dad is coming back.
#listen that tablet he invented so he could call his dad from anywhere is an important character detail to me#he has SEVERE abandonment issues for sure#ninjago#pixal#unagami#cyrus borg#milton dyer
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I think it would be rly sick if you went to go build a crow rook and the surname was Arainai
like…. just another little compradi trying to bring glory back to your house - rinnala and taliesin are dead by the house’s hand, zevran failed and deserted, guili murdered in the night, all semblance of power lost once again. the house is trying to claw its way back up, futile as it seems. that’s the way of house arainai, isn’t it? talon to knife to talon to knife to nothing, same as it’s been since the house first lost power in the early dragon age. but you, bright-eyed little crow, you’ll break the cycle, won’t you? for the family?
after all, caterina’s prized heir is right there - the demon of vyrantium, the infamous mage killer, sleeping just down the hall. you can be quiet, can’t you? all those means at your disposal, and all the opportunities you could want. you could find a way in under that armor, get to something soft and bruisable and make it bleed. he’s far from home, isn’t he? without a friend? confidantes are few and far between - even a demon must get lonely.
maybe he’d even trust you. you’re a clever little bird, right? you can find something to exploit. after all, what does a would-be talon do except claw, except maim? what else would you be good for? there is no gentleness to crows - you are here to deliver a message: run, little demon, quick as you like.
house arainai will make carrion of you yet.
#there is no world in which I think this would happen BUT I think it would be fun#house arainai doesn’t even have beef like this I’m just making it up for sport#just a cute little assassination attempt to enemies to lovers arc for the nerves#I also 1) don’t imagine caterina is dead (but maybe over the course of the game) and 2) I think other succession plans would be followed#but what if someone put a contract out for Lucanis and he realizes that caterina was the one who would’ve had to approve it?#and there’s any number of people who would call in a contract like that in exchange for power#but what is gained in taking one man out from a line of succession? who benefits from his death enough to pay for it?#and then he realizes (whether it’s true or not) that the person who stands to gain the most with such a contract#is illario (who would finally be clear in his path to first talon)?? what then???#ohohoho they didn’t tell me what betrayal Lucanis is coming back from so in my mind I am giving him them all#I know the betrayal will (presumably) be related to the [redacted] thing but I am inventing new problems for fun#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: tevinter nights#lucanis dellamorte#also I wrote this as a little brainworm treat but now I’m like ‘am I……… playing a crow rook??’#(not until I finish my beloved depressed orlesian girlboss warden rook#but maybe someday)#idk man my brain is so rotted from rotating this game and this character around in my mind like a gas station hot dog#went directly from ‘I should write a baseless and unfounded account of this guy whackin’ it’ to ‘and also I want to end his bloodline’#the blorbo dichotomy………….#also ALSO I think it would be even funnier if every faction had to kill their double#mourn watch rook smothering peepaw with a pillow for the grave crime of uhhhhh kidnapping manfred from the necropolis#SOMEONE PUT THAT OLD MAN DOWN HE’S TEACHING THE SKELETON THE FOUND FAMILY TROPE#da thoughts
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casey also talks about sepang 2015 what do you think of that
oh in that podcast? uh... lemme listen again...
yeah idk it's not really anything new I'd say? he's said basically all the same stuff in more interesting and extensive ways elsewhere. I think casey inevitably has a very 'well feuding is bad and helps nobody' point of view, has expressed that before in the past, does it here again, and he's also drawn a parallel between himself and marc on several occasions. which... well, of course there's similarities in terms of public discourse or whatever, but the parallel really falls apart whenever casey argues the feuds cost valentino. like, I do think it's sometimes important to just. keep in mind. it's interesting that casey draws this comparison in his mind but that doesn't necessarily means he's right about this. I'm not sure how you'd argue that starting a feud with casey cost valentino anything competitively? you can argue it didn't help him I guess, and then we can have a debate about the ins and outs of the 2008 season. we can also have an argument that in a hypothetical world where casey isn't ill in 2009, valentino doesn't break his leg and casey isn't on a piece of junk in 2010, and valentino isn't on a piece of junk in 2011-12, then actually maybe valentino sparking open animosity with casey COULD have cost him. but we don't know that! didn't happen! I wish we could have found out, but we never got the chance! as it stands, the tally on this is pretty straightforward: casey won the title when things were reasonably civil between them in 2007, and valentino took control of the following season at the exact moment he worsened the relationship between the pair of them in 2008. obviously, it's all more complicated than that and casey would of course argue laguna didn't negatively affect his subsequent performances... but it certainly didn't help them. like, at the very worst valentino escalating tensions in 2008 is a complete net neutral. after 2009, them being bitchy to each other every other tuesday was completely competitively irrelevant beyond maybe affecting how they approached occasionally fighting for a podium position. hey, maybe casey used that feud to fire himself up through sheer spite throughout the later stages of his career, but that doesn't actually support his anti-feud stance - it's basically the exact same thing as what valentino does. they're both quite similar in that regard! always so hungry to prove a point, to show how someone else is wrong. kinda half the point with this feuding business is to get yourself going, get yourself motivated, yeah. he straight up openly admits to using yamaha's repeat rejection of him as a way of giving himself motivation, and at the end of the day that's really not all that different?
anyway, what else does casey say... oh yeah, that him and the other aliens were already kinda prepared for this and had learned vale's tricks. that valentino had only been able to get into the minds of the previous generation. welllllll *wiggles hand* sure, I mean, he did clearly have to change his approach... he couldn't just use the exact same playbook to get to them, either on-track or off-track. but that's why he did change up the playbook... again, whether you want to believe valentino won his final two titles 'in the head' rather than just through pure pace kinda depends on how you assess the evidence, but it is at the very least a debate. and, y'know, it's always worth remembering that valentino's most important mind games with casey didn't happen in a press conference... it was on the track. and the on-track stuff really is just embedded in how valentino approaches winning. speaking of aliens, this is what dani and jorge have said:
like, valentino's entire approach to his riding, even to the way he's setting his bike up, is deliberately about directly fucking with you... he's not actually always trying to be faster than you as much as he's trying to give himself the tools to make your life miserable, to pressure you into mistakes, etc etc... and again, especially with casey (if anything because he was so mentally sturdy), the off-track stuff was really just window dressing. (I know they bicker a lot after 2009 but it's just so fundamentally irrelevant to actual on-track competition.) so you can be aware of those tricks, but it also doesn't necessarily help you when someone's being nasty to you on-track in a way you just fully do not enjoy. which is what it was like for casey! for casey, a lot of this comes back to the truly unpleasant context of how he was perceived by the public, how he was treated as mentally weak or 'broken' or whatever partly because he had the misfortune of coming up against a bloke who had the reputation for breaking rivals. I think it's quite natural to end up with a bit of a hardliner 'actually I've never been mentally affected by a result in my life' stance - and of course casey is a lot tougher than a lot of people give him credit for. that being said. sometimes your rivals affect you, shit happens, it's part of the game. it's fundamentally a nice idea to think that valentino's tactics weren't just morally wrong but also ineffective, which is kind of the appeal of this narrative, right? you want to believe you're above that, you want to believe you were adequately prepared and wise to valentino's tactic. it's unsurprising and understandable that casey does tend to tell the story that way, but again it's *wiggles hand* also hard to describe it as completely factual
uh. what else. oh I'm thrilled casey does canonically know valentino and marc were friends, he has said he wasn't following motogp too much during that time period so you couldn't be sure of that. does this mean anything? does it tell you anything? well, no, but it's just a pleasing thought to me. I like that. oh also 'provoking particularly aggressive riders isn't a good idea' is kinda a funny take from casey? like, he of all people would hate the idea of being cowed by someone's reputation like that... casey's right that provoking fast riders can potentially be dangerous, but y'know I do think that's probably not news to anyone almost nine years later. um. that's all I've got I think
#i will say idm getting asks like this AT ALL but i do hope that's not like. the only bit of the podcast people are paying attention to#my thing with sepang 2015 takes is that like... when's the last time anyone has said anything genuinely interesting about that event#which yes big words from the feud blogger... but in fairness a lot of the sepang 2015 stuff is from old notes. that's my excuse idc#but that's kinda the thing... i feel like i haven't really had a new original thought about the whole drama for three plus years#u do kinda run out. basically the takes say more about the person saying them than about the actual event at this point#which. yeah. casey's comments on sepang '15 are primarily interesting in what they tell you about how he feels towards valentino#mind u he's actually quite nice about valentino in this one? casey call him let's finally organise that dinner#heretic tag#//#brr brr#batsplat responds#oh casey does go on another spiel against riders who win at all costs. ships that passed in the night of feuds i always say#also he gets the age he enters the premier class at wrong. i held myself back in the last post from pointing this out for tonal reasons#but if people want my podcast hot takes. i do simply have to mention it. just to set the record straight here#'they battle for podium places after 2009' genuinely. twice. like the alien era giveth but a lot of the time it really does just taketh#somewhat ironically casey wins the duel when he's on the shitty ducati and vale wins the duel when he's on the even shittier ducati#whatever that tells you idk#casey was always promising the laguna rematch would've gone differently and I love that conceptually but also we just don't know#he was like next time I WON'T play nice and it's like?? omg what does that look like. casey what were you cooking#for ethical reasons it's probably fine but for character arc reasons it's objectively ass that casey ended up being able to do all his -#- racing in a way he was entirely comfortable with for his second title in 2011. like it's just a complete waste of a year#you have this whole thing building for four years and then 2010 comes along and it's like. well that's enough narrative intrigue now! <3#also casey/jorge are fundamentally too interesting as individuals to have had such an obscenely boring on-track rivalry and yet here we are#it KILLS me because if you rearranged it and made valentino's dogshit ducati years like. 2009 or something#and do a straight title fight between jorge and casey THEN I genuinely think it would've been way more interesting#the problem with valentino is that he is fundamentally the WORST imaginable character you could invent to be casey's foil#literally everything about valentino could have been designed to be a casey-specific nightmare#but unfortunately that also makes him objectively the most interesting rival casey could have gotten#like morally it's on the edge. but narratively? literally could not have gotten a better villain in casey's story#constantly dancing on this faustian line of having to imitate valentino to beat him while trying not to lose yourself... juicy
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an artist
#he calls himself crap at making things a lot but i think he's genuinely very very smart and very creative and i love his arts & graphs#and the fact that he's even able to draw his hypothetical & sometimes legitimately complicated inventions and like put them on paper#is impressive as fuck to me honestly. RESPECT!!!!! nice work on the penis prison art too#ididathing#alex apollonov#he even went to the trouble of making an actual paper cutout of the 50 cal pool stick diagram#so he could properly demonstrate how he imagines it all working.......hes sooooo cutes#there definitely are more images than this this is just my selection smiles
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i love watching this stump guy perform he is so dramatic. boy how are you playing guitar and striking little poses like that.
#the so called shy guy??? who puts all his pussy in every performance??#give this guy a cap and he starts performing like he invented music like hell yes#fall out boy#fob#patrick stump#what even are my thoughts its sl late JAJEHWK#what am i cooking
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HIS NAME IS SEBASTIAN!!! HIS NAME!!! IS!!! SEBASTIAN!!!
#my new headcanon is that blaise calls him eustace because he’s invented a ‘better’ son in his head. this is not his real name#however he is. too scared to say so#moony speaks
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