#i dont ask for exceptions i ask for understanding

[pieflavorpie]

My unpopular opinion is that i dont enjoy bards Lament. At all. It is objectively good, well performed with appropriate buildup. However, I am a child with an absentee father, and i have had similar thoughts to him before, and i used to have a friend that went down his path. I have seen and experienced every point of view. And what that was isnt justice. Its not calling people out, or making them realise how they have hurt him.

Its a very broken, depressed man who finally snaps and burns down the bridges with his friends. No, VM never asked for Scanlan's mum's name because that's not something they do. If you can list me 5 times where the team ask questions about peoples backstory [before Bards Lament] BEFORE it became relevant, then you have successfully proved me wrong. Anything revealed is either probed out of them as part of recon, or willfully offered as a piece of friendship.

[E.g: Keyleth talking about her aramente, Pike's history with Grog vs Percy's backstory being revealed after they get invited to dinner with the Briarwoods and Grog talking about his pack when its revealed his uncle has the vestige.]

And he never offered any of this information. There have been several times where VM have shown concern and actively asked how hes doing just for him to lie and shrug them off. They prank him while he was asleep because they think hes a fairly centred person who will enjoy an attempt to bring things back to normal and they were drunk.

And yes, they are mean to him sometimes, because they are a group of assholes. They never disguise themselves as anything else. Vax and Percy's friendship post-briarwoods for a good while is based in distrust and self loathing, respectively. Everyone has moments where they say mean shit to Grog [except Pike] because he cant understand it.

And the "without his songs hes just a guy" comment or however it was phrased was a tactical comment. Because he would be. He doesn't have any sort of weapon beyond Mythcarver which he refuses to use, and he doesn't have anything else he can use to support or fight. The same applies to Keyleth without her nature magic, it applies to Percy without his guns, it applies to Grog when people are out of range.

And no, I don't blame him for snapping when he woke up. I doubt taking a -4 to any rolls made would translate to a Happy Peachy character in-story. And all of his internalised misery finally coalesces in his tiredness. But what happens isn't good. It isn't progress. It is showing everyone a wound that has been tearing open over months, and then promptly storming out.

And his whole "I didn't want my daughter to see me like this." Isn't some Grand Show of how much he cares, it shows him as fucking selfish. My dad being weak is what drove him away, his insecurity stopping him from getting help from my family. That line of thinking is what makes him a sad, lonely man rotting in a flat after abandoning many families like my own.

That man in real life was strong, a brilliant teacher of martial arts. A true marvel to see and train with. He had a certain charisma to him, but he had his shortcomings. And when his partner got too close to them, he'd hold them tight to his chest and scurry away, only coming back for the drunk sex and eventually leaving entirely. Having enough distrust in his heart to claim any unwanted children to be illegitimate.

Now, Scanlan is nowhere near as bad as him, but there are similarities. And enough that I feel my word has weight when I say, if I were Kaylie, I would not want to travel with him. If he truly wanted to be closer to her and do good for her, he'd get better first. And to get better, you need people. Plural. You cannot depend on one person. And that person can absolutely not be your own fucking child. I'm not saying he should've stayed with vox machina, but he should've stayed with a group. A group of adults that could support him. And honestly I feel like so far from my watching of CR, his epilogue with kaylie is the most unrealistic character development possible. I know she's supposed to be rough and hardy, but I refuse to believe that girl would not be breaking under her father's bleeding desperation for validation. And I definitely refuse to believe that she could actually help him to the point he'd gladly leave her on another continent while he talked to the people he'd snapped at.

Anyway, fuck dickhead dads who don't get actual help. Especially fuck them when they start depending on their children for them to be a good person.

For those who do not know. Scanlan's departure from the party in the stream wasn't as... friendly. It was kind of an ugly break-up. It came from Sam wanting to do some unexpected twist with Scanlan's character and it led to a very emotional moment. That he did not feel validated, that he did not feel appreciated and that he was considered a joke by the group.

And it came down to one phrase from Scanlan to the group: "What is my mother's name?" and when nobody was able to answer the question. Scanlan left.

However, interesting little tid-bit that might help understand this change. which comes from one of the Q&A. which is no longer up because... uhm... a whole other Drama I am not here to explain.

And what Sam said in that Q&A is that there WAS one way in which Scanlan would have stayed.

And it was Pike. who wasn't there at the time (technically was as an NPC, but since Ashley wasn't there, it's the same thing), but which Sam said was the only person who could change his decision.

And what has Pike done the entire season? BE that person who supported Scanlan in his darkest moment, and who deflated the situation probably without meaning to. And so he is able to leave the party in much better terms.

A shame because the emotional rollercoaster that it involved will be missed, but hey, it's cool to see what Sam meant by saying Pike was the one person who could stop Scanlan walking out of the party like he did

[sibylsleaves]

Its kind of interesting, because I dont think buck was necessarily investing too much in the relationship until the josh speech. Its like he knows he wants exactly what josh described but fails to recognize he does not have that with tommy (the anniversary thing, the reaction to being asked if he was in love) and instead tries to imprint that on his relationship with tommy when its not there. And the josh speech actually teed up buck analyzing his relationship with tommy correctly, but also on some level I think buck cannot learn how to properly analyze his personal relationships without restructuring everything he knows about eddie in his mind and having a feelings realization, and I dont think the narrative is ready for that just yet which is why the tommy break up works to me. Especially if they want buck to go on a solo journey of learning what he wants from himself and from his partner in a relationship arc throughout the season. Imo let buck fuck and then let buck figure out his feelings about people and relationships

it's literally about the fact that buck could not say he was in love with tommy and yet asked him to move in. like his problem is always that he is on some level incapable of fully interrogating his actual feelings. particularly his actual feelings about his partners/potential partners. it's a blind spot for him because it's something he wants so badly and something he still to some extent bases his self-worth on. if things SEEM like they are going well on the surface well he is not going to question that because at the end of the day he wants a partner, he wants someone to be with, and whether or not he's ACTUALLY in love with them does not matter--in a way it's not unlike eddie and his relationships, except buck is more willfully oblivious to what he is doing. tommy was smart to leave when he did because i do think buck would have ultimately sabotaged the relationship the way he did with taylor (not saying he would have cheated necessarily--just sabotaged in some way. i think there's an argument to be made he was ALREADY doing that).

which is why i would love an arc of buck dating around and going through that rush of new relationships and actually doing the work to understand, deep down, the reality of what he is feeling and what he wants

[bonetrousledbones]

fuck it since my birthday is in like one day i'm gonna use my birthday wish to tell y'all to look at the shit going on in southern Appalachia right now after Hurricane Helene. look at it and talk about it and spread resources about it like wildfire because nobody else fucking is and it feels like we're on our own out here.

there are people who are stranded in hazardous areas that are still safer than trying to leave by driving on the increasingly hazardous roads. i'm personally going into my third day without electricity at this point, and haven't been able to get any gas for a generator to even keep our fridge working. there are very few places with power or running water, and cell service has just barely been restored in the last hour. ground crews are working hard to repair things, but there are many, many areas that are entirely inaccessible that may not receive these fixes for several more days if not weeks. i'm afraid my own neighborhood might become one of those areas if repairs don't get to us soon, and since we're much more rural i have a difficult time trying to be optimistic about it.

we're very far inland. i guarantee you damn near everybody here was expecting a little more rain and wind like we usually get during hurricane season, if they even heard about the hurricane beforehand in the first place since most people only got about a twelve hour notice before landfall- after several major areas had already been flooded. our terrain protects us from most major weather events- most locals have never encountered a single tornado or legitimate tornado warning in our entire lives. nobody i've talked to or heard from about it seems to have had any idea that it would be this bad. everybody's wishing that they took it more seriously, but we've never, ever had to before. i've seen people comparing it to Hurricane Katrina and honestly i'm not sure if that's all too inaccurate. today while looking for a single working gas station i drove by a military helicopter parked in front of the elementary school i went to when i was little.

please for the love of god, talk about us. talk about the good memories you had here or the beauty of our mountains, and talk about how devastated we are as we watch historic structures, buildings, and entire towns get wiped from the face of the earth like they were never even there. stop dismissing us as uneducated hicks and rednecks and hilllbillies and fucking help us.

r/Asheville resource/updates megathread (Asheville is the largest city in western North Carolina)

How to set up disaster roaming for cell service

WLOS Live updates

Duke Energy power outage map

WNC Landslide Map

Hotels accepting locals

Emergency shelter locations

I live in western North Carolina so all of my own resources are centered around that. If anybody from the other impacted areas has additional sources they'd like to add, please don't hesitate to do so.

[aroaceleovaldez]

full on feel like pjo tv s2 is not gonna hold up so they need to drag as much attention to the series as they can by using nico as a sock puppet w tsats2

im fully expecting the show to go the way of the movies. it doesnt help Sea of Monsters is almost unanimously the least favorite book of the first series. People frequently forget it even exists or what happens in it, especially more casual fans.

Heck, just look at how little fanfare the second season has gotten so far as compared to the build up to s1. I wouldn't be surprised if s2 totally flops. It would be a little funny.

[handledwithgloves]

so sorry to my followers for doing this again its just happened to pop up on my dash and i had to say something. its all in good fun!

i wanted to debunk some of these dots!

- neville’s boggart

this one tends to be many people’s qualms about snape. while i admit that snape was never kind to neville or any of his students i will say that it doesnt mean snape is neville’s boggart for that reason. and as for bella, well, neville’s never met her so of course hes not afraid of her, hes only ever heard stories and she’s locked away at this point. i think his whole thing is that he’s afraid of people he likes or authority figures being disappointed in him. its his fear and that makes him brave because he’s around them all the time. when remus asks neville what he thinks his boggart would be he said his nan. i think out of all his teachers hes most fearful of failing snape. that’s what makes sense to me so i dont think it really has anything to do with snape but more about neville himself.

- trevor

snape fed trevor the potion knowing that hermione helped. and as for threatening that’s a very strong word. i could just as well say he suggested neville try the potion on his pet to see if it works. snape knows that if neville were to ever make a shrinking potion and administer it to someone it had the potential to be poisonous. as do most potions. potions needs to be taken seriously and can be useful in many situations given the right ingredients. though he definitely went about it in a very mean way. his teaching methods are quite unfavorable for sure. but that’s it. he’s just mean. no animal cruelty here.

- harry

yeah i have nothing to say about this except that although he didn’t favor harry he did keep him alive all the years he was at hogwarts. no matter how many times harry got himself in trouble severus was there keeping him, well, alive.

- death eaters and lily

ive said it before on my posts. it only makes sense to me that he aligns himself with the death eaters because not only did he agree with them politically but they were also winning the war. he hated muggles after being abused by them his whole life and then some more the more he spent time with his slytherin housemates. and even if he started to realize, like draco, that this wasnt what he wanted, he couldn’t back out now could he? couldn’t rescue any muggles or muggleborns if he wanted to or else he’d be killed. lily was his breaking point. obviously. for him she’s always the exception. he risks his life asking voldemort to spare her in a way he hoped would make voldemort see reason and when that fails he risks his life and dignity again when he seeks dumbledore for help. since lily’s death he’s reformed. made up for his wrong for the rest of his life.

- sectumsempra

well, considering that severus was rather infatuated with the dark arts its not a surprise that he would create a curse like this. i’d say cruel is a touch too much though. he clearly made it for self defense: for enemies. not for fun. lets also remember that no one else knows this spell aside from him and harry and snape had never even used the spell on its intended, the marauders.

so yes snape was not by any means a good or kind person but he was certainly complex and self-serving (a rather common slytherin trait). i think hes so interesting a character but i dont think hes a horrible person (he certainly did horrible things or had horrible ideologies though), so yeah i guess youre right.

i just don't get snape defenders... like do they know you can have a fav character and still acknowledge that they were a horrible person????

[justaz]

thinkinnn bout arthur pendragon. my baby boy. he's such a bitch but also such a baby girl.

he never felt the love of a mother and relied on his father for all of the love and validation he needed growing up but uther never gave it to him unless he succeeded in battle - probably against druids/sorcerers. arthur never feeling like he was enough, that he was never worthy of love unless he did something for them or won a battle because that was the only time his father looked at him with a modicum of warmth.

being a prince raised to one day be king and being taught to never trust anyone, that as king he can only trust himself, and then watching his father fuck over the people of camelot and going "a king must make hard choices" but arthur never agrees with any of that!! he puts on the aloof asshole act to keep people away so he doesn't get hurt but baby boy wears his damn heart on his sleeve. he cares. SO much. he trusts everyone, no matter how many times he's been betrayed. he does everything he can for his people

he strives for their love and pride because he never got it growing up. he works his ass off to be the best king for his people that he can be, so he can be the best heir for his father that he can be, so he can be the best son for his mother that he can be - all so he can prove that he's good enough and worthy enough of love. yet time and time again, he's betrayed by those he has done nothing but be there for. time and time again, the people he's loved and trusted most have betrayed him and left him like he was nothing. proving to him time and time again that he wasn't enough, that he'll never be enough for their love or loyalty.

[scourge-sympathiser]

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[cara-mel5]

i need other motorsports explained to me in f1 terms

[the-gayest-tree-you-ever-did-see]

finally caved and started reading all for the game. two chapters into the foxhole court and what kind of gay fucking shit is this! also did not know there were sports in here

[3416]

william nylander fanboys have to be the most annoying leaf fans that exist and it's not close actually

[lotus-pear]

favorite genre of lotus is her just calling art thieves gormless mingers and proceeding to curse their existence in the funniest way possible

i should go into standup comedy i tjink

[veveisveryuncool]

lo and behold, the easiest character to draw and the hardest character to draw having a nice ol conversation

[tamagotchikgs]

i wish talking wasnt the hardest thing in the world

[wildflowerteas]

extremely embarrassed I am once again coming to you with 3 asks😔😔😔 elli read chapter 4

OH GOD. here we go. i panicked thinking this was about chapter 5 because of the mid-chapter 4 line but from the skim i just did i think I'm going to have to steel my heart or risk cardiac arrest from your reactions to the smut ( which, by the way, was the first smut I've ever written so please go easyonme ). Chapter 4, however, was incredibly fun to write so I'm excited to read through this. ( Sweet Dreams is playing too--i've had the tsp sskk playlist on loop to get in the mindset for part III )

Yes!!!! the PM is also in the tags! i couldn't make a murder mystery AU set in Los Angeles of all places and not have corporations with dirty hands and deep-pocketed old-money types floating around their establishments. Los Angeles doesn't and didn't have a main crime family with a lot of Aura, so inserting the PM without feeling like I was replacing a very real crime syndicate ( like I would if this was NY or Chicago ) was quite nice.

Yeah . . . TSP Atsushi is a whole different thing, on the surface at least. He's older, more experienced ( Yeah. ), and honestly, has bigger problems to deal with than the budding realization that he might like men so he just waltzes into flirtation with Akutagawa like it's nothing. If I were Ryuu I'd have pushed him down the stairwell by now, but he's too smitten for that.

I need to draw Mori in that shirt ( he did step up, after all. The Tsushimas weren't great, even if Dazai thinks of them with that wistfulness seen in Chapter 2 ).

OMG I CANNOT TELL WHATS BEEN BLACKED OUT IN THESE SCREENSHOTS SO I JUST FREAK OUT WHENEVER THERE'S A MASSIVE SPOILER QUOTE TT_TT. My blood goes cold. Poor Elli I bet there are entire conversations that are just a wall of grey rectangles to them.

I'd LOVE to write a bsd au set in a neo-futuristic AU!!!!!! honestly, that would go crazy, I can imagine it already.

I think Dazai is most attractive when he's shutting the fuck up unfortunately

Oh wow I feel like I'm watching a downward spiral into hornyposting in real-time surely this isn't going to go anywhere.

[puppyeared]

man ok so you know the spiciness scale on menus that show you how spicy a dish is so you can order based on your tolerance. can we have that for sauces too please

[hiemaldesirae]

ur so real for rbing that intracommunity issues post re: the shit radiostatic shippers get when it's two sided and not the overused "Vox lasts after Alastor because God forbid the ace spectrum isn't black and white... what's demisexual/demiromantic again?" Or some annoying 'and this was written by Vox' joke or smth. I swear it's like... we aren't acting like it's gonna be a thing in the show it's just fun to have our own fanon :/ this happens with other Alastor ships too but I see this so much in the radiostatic tag I have to mute one way broadcast nowadays jdjfjfjf

oh my god yeah this is so fucking true 😭😭😭 i got a rb that was like "did vox write this" on one of my posts and i had to take a 20minute walk outside to calm myself down . i dont understand what they think theyre doing policing others enjoyment of the fandom. like if people were mistagging in radiosilence tag then sure, by all means get pissed by that . but right now whats happening is mistagging and passive aggressiveness directed towards any and all alastor ships if not their tendency to make vox out to be the butt of the joke and its just so frustrating to see