#hopefully this makes sense???

[multificimagines]

hi ^ ^ you said that asks are open too to discuss floor 13, so I just wanted to ask some questions if you're alright with it. Did the story's ending feel rushed? Like, the conclusion made sense but it would have been more meaningful if there were more floors to flesh out the characters and story. It was just one revelation after the other, and it was such a huge whiplash. I think it was also a little bit sad we couldn't have had a few floors or books(?) that allowed us to talk to the characters more once it was the aftermath of us coming back from Vega's home, because there were just a lot to unpack and it would have been a nice break from the recent, more action filled floors. but maybe that's more so on me wishing there was more content, so I could be kind of irrational saying this ;_;

but i also wanted to ask if there was anything you liked about floor 13? for me, I liked that pollux was given at least the chance to shine a bit, even with imo, a very abrupt character arc and conclusion.

I hope you have a good day and take care ^ ^

Ah I do actually have opinions about this!! I’ll start with the negative side first. Below the cut because this ended up being kind of long. And of course spoiler warning for floor 13!

So I do agree with it being rushed. Like 100% the last 3 floors were rushed, with floor 13 being the worst so far. I think that maybe the team was told they had a certain number of chapters to wrap up the story, and they focused on answering the questions and actually wrapping up the story rather than on the characters or pacing of the scenes. Which is unfortunate, because the romance doesn’t really feel like it’s started until after the destruction of the first tower. It also contrasts kind of weirdly with the earlier chapters, because in the beginning the build-up to the plot was pretty slow.

I’m also kind of irritated about the stuff we don’t get to see that we should have. There seems to be more that the writers wanted to do with the story, because if you notice there’s a lot of lore that’s never touched on in the story, or that’s only gone into very briefly as to be more confusing than anything. Spica never really gets tied into the main story the way the others do (by which I mean, Alpheratz had a past life that was intertwined with Polaris. Pollux and Arcturus had ties to the void mages. Sirius had both! Even Vega’s story peripherally brushes against the void mage storyline with the rifts, and is otherwise significant because he’s tied into the summoner’s forgotten past). There’s several references to mythical creatures that we never even see, despite it nearly always being referenced alongside Spica and the East. The summoner is extremely disconnected from Polaris, even after they gain access to Polaris’s power, and even for them to be such a small part of Polaris’s being, it doesn’t feel like they’re at all connected aside from the summoner’s inheritance of the pact and Polaris’s power. We never get a proper explanation of Sirrah, or what happened to him that caused him to become Alpheratz. We never get a proper explanation of what that reincarnation means, how common it is, or even really any acknowledgement of it aside from everyone understanding that summoner is Polaris in the same way that Alpheratz is Sirrah—which doesn’t make sense, because summoner is only part of Polaris, and only because Sirius salvaged that part of him. And speaking of Sirius, we never see any meaningful character development for him.

Anyway, I think what bothered me more than the pacing was just the ending? Like, no matter how you spin your interpretation of what happened, that wasn’t really a satisfying ending. More problems were created than were solved, and we have no idea what happened to the sorcerers, the boundary—hell, we don’t even know for sure what happened to the summoner. I get that if this is the ending of the entire game, then the ending was meant to be open to interpretation, but like…We’ve been told that the boundary will be destroyed (via Sirius talking about bringing about the apocalypse), and eventually the summoner will be turned into a monster. What kind of ending is that, when the entire game has been the sorcerers giving everything to protect the summoner? When there was so much emphasis on returning the summoner home safely, and when the sorcerers’ parting words to the summoner were genuinely hopeful for a reunion? Like maybe this was always meant to be a tragedy, and that would be fine, but a good tragedy would need much more build-up than this (which brings us back around to the issues with pacing that you mentioned)

But some things that I liked about floor 13:

•I kind of like what they did with Castor and Pollux, actually, but I think the reveal would have benefited from more foreshadowing within the main story. There are a couple of hints to it in his dialogue, the messages, and some of the hard mode floors’ extra scenes, but I feel like the main storyline should be capable of standing on its own.

•Also about Pollux, I went absolutely insane when I read this:

And I also really like how confused and traumatized Pollux is shown to be by this. We know that Pollux was probably manipulated into this by his brother, but Pollux still has very conflicted emotions about his brother, which he hasn’t been able to properly sort through because his attention has been on the summoner and trying to fix this mess. It also brings about some very interesting context, because if I’m remembering properly, on at least one occasion, Pollux’s brother is described to him as “disgraced”, or something similar. This switch happened very recently, so either Castor wasted no fucking time in causing problems, or the character we know as Pollux wasn’t well liked and was being told to his face that he wasn’t. Either way though…..

Also Pollux’s character being built on the guilt of enjoying being in someone else’s body and perceived as someone else. The imposter syndrome. The implied self-loathing. The fact that he even says he felt terrible because he felt like he was living a lie, but that he was enjoying that lie too much to tell the truth and risk it being taken away…god he’s such a compelling character now that we have the full story

•While I obviously didn’t really like the ending, I do love the way they did it. Ever since we were first told about Vega being separated from the summoner, we’ve heard so much about he and the summoner being told not to look back, and the consequences of that rule being broken. It really brought it full circle to have the ending be the summoner deciding whether or not to look back while trying to return home. (I’m also biased tho because Orpheus and Eurydice is one of my favorite myths ever, and I squealed when the choice was presented)

•I do actually really like the idea of the ending where the sorcerers say the summoner has to go home, and one day they’ll reunite. I think if I had written it, and I wanted to end the story with floor 13, I would have had the summoner return home, and then have the final scene be the beginning of that reunion. Maybe as an epilogue attached to floor 13’s hard mode??

•I love the scene where Alpheratz gets upset on summoner’s behalf when Schedar and Thuban are looking at them and seeing only Polaris. I’ve also kind of been waiting for Alpheratz’s confrontation of Schedar for some time now, because he’s been trying to protect the summoner from him since the beginning and has clearly always been suspicious of his grandfather’s interest in them. I think I would have loved to see more of this—of the love interests or even the summoner themself saying “No, summoner is their own person, and we won’t let you use them like this.”

•Pollux honestly just had some good moments in this floor. Him giving the summoner the cookies/pastries before sending them on their way was so cute, and also him being the one to ask them to consider staying with him….

But overall, I didn’t entirely dislike floor 13. Like I said, I agree that it was rushed, but I think it still touches on the right points to wrap up the story. The problem it suffers from was just that they had way too much to wrap up at once, which meant that it was a endless barrage of information with little room for interaction. Among the things addressed in this floor were the summoner’s (ambiguous) fate, Pollux’s story, the conclusion of the overarching plot, Castor and *gestures vaguely* everything going on there, the resolution to summoner and Vega’s…fight is a strong word, but it’s the only word I can think of? from floor 12, Sirius and his motives and goals, Schedar and his motives and goals. And all of that is just off of the top of my head. I think that the poor pacing also made the climax very um, anti-climactic. The fight with Castor just didn’t last long enough, I think, and wasn’t as challenging for the characters as it should have been.

Anyway, I want to hold out hope for a season 2, because it seems like the intent was to leave room for a continuation of the story. I’m not sure I believe there will be one, but I really want there to be. Guess we’ll just have to see what happens in the next year or so.

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[lautakwah]

where is that quote by arundhati roy about how nonviolence is a spectacle for the oppressor and needs an audience and how people have the right to violence to resist

[mulderscully]

good luck babe.mp3

[verstpn]

like . . .

. . . recognises like.

[mookmayor]

for some reason i haven’t seen a SINGLE person talk about the fact that Daisuke was in Swansea’s bed when he had to kill him. Swansea put the kid somewhere where he thought he’d be comfortable & that he could keep the most convenient watch over him until he had to kill him.

If we want to look into this further, you could also tie it to Swansea’s death and how he effectively severed any form of rest or peace for himself by having Daisuke’s body lay in his own bed, serving as a reminder of what he’s done in possibly the only place he could have gotten rest.

[inkykeiji]

Hi:) I know you’ve said in the past that sex is really important to you in a relationship and I was just wondering why that is? I was talking to my friend and she and her bf don’t have a lot of sex and they’re both fine with it because it’s not that important to them and they don’t have the desire to put their energy into doing the physical act of it and I think it’s so interesting how different couples view sex and how it impacts their relationship

hello!! that’s an interesting question for sure! well, of course as your ask indicates, it’s a highly personal preference and incredibly dependent on the person and the couple/relationship. no two relationships are exactly the same, right! anyway to answer your question, sex and physical intimacy is really important to me because that is how i like to be shown love (as well as how i like to show love in return. like that love language stuff, if you will!). i am an incredibly touchy, clingy person with my boyfriend. i love to be cuddled and kissed and physically appreciated and i love PDA. my best friend, however, is the complete opposite! she does not like to be physically touched and would much rather show her love and appreciation in different ways! so in my opinion it’s just a purely personal preference type thing. it’s not at all surprising to hear that sex isn’t important or a main focus for some couples because they just aren’t into it, just like it isn’t surprising to hear that it’s very important to other couples! everyone is different c:

[angelcake10023]

Being Normal… (End)

Part 3 (Previous)

[plague-parade]

reminder to people that cripplepunk isnt just ‘punk aesthetic but disabled’

cripplepunk is a disability movement

cripplepunk has its own principals and tenets

its more than just patches, pins, and plaid

[mwagneto]

hungarian/nomadic magyar tumblr circa 998AD dashboard simulator

🏞️ vándor-ló-979 Follow

not yall still spreading emese's foundation myth??? she literally claims she fucked a bird????? like either she's lying or she cheated and she's trying to cover it up or well. i dont even want to consider the third option

🪺 magánügyek Follow

tengri forbid women do anything???

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🦅 szél-könnyű-szárnyán-szállj Follow

okay im sick of the discourse let's do this.

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🐎 istván-rovására Follow

that took so long lmao -> !!!!!!!∧◇ᛏ⋈∧

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🐴 csillagösvény Follow

i'm so serious rn if you support """istván""" in any way just unfollow and block me. we do NOT need him or his dumbass god and what he's been doing to our people to spread his religion is shameful.

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

btw we all know your real name is vajk stop larping as a christian it's EMBARRASSINGGGG

✝️ esztergom-örökké Follow

love seeing my mutuals reblogging this /s anyway op has multiple posts on their blog supporting quartering and human sacrifice. in case you were wondering. anyway stand with István

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

1) we dont even do human sacrifices, are you fucking stupid??? show me ONE post where i talk about that. 2) are you seriously forgetting that your bestie istván LITERALLY QUARTERED HIS UNCLE?????

#sorry to put this dumbass on the dash😭 dont even engage just block them #ur not making it up the tree of life lmao #discourse

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🌅 bolygó-kárpáti Follow

friendly reminder that just because you're white passing doesn't mean you're not a real magyar!! people with mixed parents are just as valid <3

🏇 attila-népe Follow

cranky coz ur ancestors decided to mix with the europeans arent you

🧺 lemezelő Follow

isnt your girlfriend literally frankish????

🏇 attila-népe Follow

you had to have done some serious stalking to find that💀 and first of all i didn't have a choice, my parents picked the tribe, and second of all she's not my "girlfriend" i got her via ritual kidnapping (WITH consent. before anyone gets weird)

🌐 a-kiber-kovács Follow

Couldn't you have kidnapped another magyar woman? Or someone from another mongoloid tribe?

🔅 hadúrsimp Follow

ohh sure so now human pet guy is gonna chime in to advocate for the kidnapping of our women while being lowkey racist. what are you even doing on nomadblr????

🌅 bolygó-kárpáti Follow

what the fuck happened to my post

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🪔 rakabonciás Follow

for the nth time, you're only a true shaman if you were born with teeth OR with extra fingers OR in the sac. the rest of you are faking & we can tell.

🦅szél-könnyű-szárnyán-szállj Follow

okay people keep spreading this but this is literally just wrong?? like congrats on the 6 fingers op im glad u and Little Golden Father have a special connection (genuinely) but like. táltos and sámán and mágus and garabonciás and javas etc are all different things with completely different requirements and life paths which you should definitely know if you're claiming to be one?? especially since your post says shaman but you're listing the criteria for a táltos, and your username looks like a play on garabonciás so. which is it🤔 maybe get your facts in order before trying to gatekeep

anyway don't listen to op!! your connection to the Upper World is yours alone and you're the best judge of what the Fathers and Mothers want your path in life to be!!

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🛐 mea-culpa Follow

It breaks my heart that the majority of my people still refuse to see the One True God and insist on sticking to their pagan spirits. I fear that when judgement day comes, we will all be wiped out thanks to their foul godless ways.

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

how tf am i godless when i literally have dozens of gods? little mothers and little fathers are in everything all around us & it must suck ass to live in a world where you're not surrounded by the small gods that inhabit everything. manifesting that the fene and the guta tag team beat your ass tonight

🔅 hadúrsimp Follow

hadúr will literally strike op down personally. he told me himself. whispered it to me sweetly even

🐴 csillagösvény Follow

while i agree with you, i feel like you might also have ulterior motives, nomadblr user hadúrsimp

#but live your truth! doubly so on the posts of these freak repressed bible lovers. meanwhile on the #COOL side of magyarhood we walk around butt ass naked!!! op have fun never experiencing joy ever again tho #discourse

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👑 sanctus-stephanus Follow

posting from an alt so i don't get cancelled but lowkey i'm starting to think koppány was right.... maybe this christianity thing isn't gonna work out after all

👑 sanctus-stephanus Follow

WRONG BLOG

👑 sanctus-stephanus Follow

THIS WAS A JOKE. IGNORE THIS

🪺 magánügyek Follow

ISTVÁN????????????? 💀

[jingerpi]

i think the main character that differs transmisogyny from transphobia + misogyny, is the goal.

trans masculine individuals experience what we'll call "corrective misogyny", where they experience a derision of their chosen gender in an attempt to push them back into the class of [cis]woman this is transphobia + misogyny.

People I think confuse this with transmisogyny because it involves transphobia and misogyny, but transmisogyny is not "corrective". The point of transmisogyny is to push trans feminine individuals out of both the class of man and woman, into a gender underclass, a subaltern as some have called it. There is no premise of "rescuing" trans women. trans men are abused in attempt to bring them back into the protected underclass of women, while trans women are abused in an attempt at the opposite, the intent is explicitly to push us out of all protected classes.

[gossippool]

hi welcome back to leanne rewatches deadpool & wolverine and goes insane about every single detail in this movie. in this edition: how logan's clothes reflect the trajectory of his character

1. the suit—inside

so we start off with the scene in the bar where logan appears to be wearing what we're used to seeing him wear. flannels, leather jackets. his outfit and even the setting is not at all unfamiliar for him. but, as we later find out, he was wearing the suit underneath all those layers the whole time.

during his talk with laura, he reveals that he wears the suit to remember those he'd lost, and as a reminder of what he'd done. he's had the suit on permanently for god knows how long, hidden under his clothes. at this point he bears the suit like a cross, suffering in silence under the guise of normalcy, yet sacrificing what's left of his identity by reducing himself to what the suit represents; by taking all the jabs and nasty looks people throw at him that he thinks he's too deserving of to combat.

2. the suit—outside

after wade pulls him out, he has the suit on display for quite a while. on one hand, it shows the fight that's in him now as a contrast to his passivity in his own world. on the other hand, it's also a sort of vulnerability: what that suit stands for and by extension what he himself is is now laid bare to the world. out in the open for people to question. maybe that fight that's in him now stems precisely from this vulnerability.

this vulnerability is both good and bad for him: it causes him to lash out at the questions from wade that he's not ready to answer. it also leads him to open up to laura and finally speak about what happened—who knows if he's ever said any of it out loud before. fun! even with just the suit, we're already seeing some development.

and THIS is where it gets interesting.

3. the white shirt—his mind

the first time we truly see him without the suit is when cassandra nova looks into his mind. i've been going back and forth on whether this is logan's own manifestation of himself or if it's cassandra's, and i still don't know. i think the distinction does matter, but in the end what it conveys is the same.

firstly, another layer of vulnerability again. he's already on his knees for cassandra, submissive—now in his mind he's also stripped as bare as he can be (i think we all know white shirts can sometimes leave little to the imagination). cassandra looks at him and says "you're hiding ... from all the ones you let down." how interesting is that?? if we go all the way back to the first scene, he hides his suit under normal clothes. and he hides this version of him in his mind even further underneath all of that.

secondly and as an extension of that point, white symbolises purity. cleanliness. even a promise of new beginnings. let's tackle this from the two possible perspectives.

if this is logan's manifestation of himself, it would be so intriguing that this is how he appears. maybe it means that despite it all, there's some good in him. maybe it means that deep, deep down, past all the shame and the guilt and the grief, there's still a part of his mind where he can just be.

on the other hand, the white could also symbolise a second chance—like i said, a promise of new beginnings. i made a post about this scene here, but the basic point is that cassandra is offering him something that no one else may ever be able to offer him. a chance to fully be himself, to silence the voices. the white is such a stunning visual representation of what she is saying logan could be if he stays with her. which makes it even more poignant that he doesn't.

4. the time ripper

after this scene, he's in the suit again, necessarily. but then! BUT THEN!!!!! the time ripper!!! y'all need to understand the significance of this scene in all its nuances FR! here you can look at his abs again:

but the thing is we know by now what the suit represents. all his failures, all his guilt, his inability to let go of his past. it represents him. isn't it just so fitting that it's at this point where he saves the fucking world that the suit breaks away. it breaks away from him. he's free. this not the same as him just taking it off, because with it breaking into pieces he literally cannot wear it anymore. this is not just a hugh jackman body appreciation, this is logan finally moving on. this is him realising that he is not a failure, that he is not his failures, that he has something else to live for.

5. him

and oh my god, we finally make it to the extremely satisfying ending. after all of that, we finally come full circle. he's in his normal clothes again, the wife beater and the flannel, except this time without anything underneath. he's no longer defined by that one incident, defined by his mistakes and the people he let down. he is just him.

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[commander-revan]

There's something so funny, and sad, about Touya, whose thoughts and feelings about things have often been a mystery since we barely ever get his POV and who had done so well at maintaining a pretty stoic, uncaring mask around others that some fans to this day argue about whether or not he actually cared about the League (he does, it's just in his own way and he's in denial) or meant for Twice to die (he didn't), being betrayed by his own fucking heart monitor.

He was keeping up that persona so well, talking shit to Endeavor and not really responding to much, but the second his dad says he wants to continue seeing and talking to him every day, his heart beats faster.

And it happens again when Fuyumi and Rei say they want to do the same thing.

He might stay quiet about his actual feelings about everything for the most part, but he can't keep his heart monitor from going off. And he does eventually open up to Shoto and apologize.

I need 10 more full chapters of just the Todoroki's communicating with Touya, or an entire spinoff, just so they all can have some closure and bond, and Touya can defy the odds yet again and survive.

[lynsstrange]

i think one of the things the pjo show has understood the best so far is specifically the isolation and insecurities that come with being neurodivergent, and how it reflects onto percy. the book touches on it a lot, but i think rick really wanted to push percy's own internal struggles more obviously to the forefront for the show.

Percy references again and again how inattentive and zoned out he is constantly, and how he blames himself for being stuck in his own world. He feels crazy and misjudged by everyone around him just for having what everyone else presumes is a very active imagination, hyperactivity, and a brain that works differently. and when people do acknowledge his differences, even attempting to spin them positively to him, like Sally and "Mr. Brunner," it only makes him feel worse, because again the only thing they can tell him is that he's "special," inherently other, something he's come to associate with being an embarrassing and shameful thing, with Nancy calling him "special" as an insult. I've seen "special" thrown at nd kids as an insult by their peers over and over again since I was little. So Percy can't help but believe it's a negative thing, no matter what the adults that do support him in his life try to tell him, because it's been internalized that he's just different in a way that's bad and inferior, and that that there's a reason he's lonely and troubled and delinquent. Even if it was a positive thing, like Sally and "Mr. Brunner" insist to him, he feels inherently isolated and confused and wrong in the mortal world for being different, and like there's nothing that can change that or make him normal.

We see Percy break down in front of Sally after being expelled about how he's terrified something's irrevocably wrong inside him now. And his immediate reaction of rage and confusion when the only thing she can tell him, once again, is that he's special. And I think that is really going to resonate with a generation of nd people who've experienced these types of scenarios.