#i get why but it just. it felt wrong.

[spaceshipkat]

the more i think about the spoilers ive heard and also where i clicked “pause” and never clicked “play” again, the less inclined i am to finish Vikings Valhalla season 3 and goddddd that is so depressing because the first two seasons are SO good. far from perfect (i will never be over the audacity of killing both of Leif’s female love interests) but so fucking enjoyable and while season 3 started well, where im at in it and where ive heard it’s going is not making me wanna get to the end. i’d rather pretend it ended at s2.

[nanihirunkits]

WE ARE | EP16

[the-way-astray]

nobody ever talks about the fact that the elves and other species are right about humans. we have destroyed this planet and shannon is right to talk about it. but all anybody talks about is the "the elves hate humans unfairly!!!!" stuff like yeah. but also no. they have pretty valid reasons. imagine if there was some species ruining the ecosystem and your government was doing absolute jackshit about it, like it would be difficult not to feel superior about it

[theswedishpajas]

Based on my favorite gif lately

[anonymouscheeses]

I'm gonna be shitting and screaming and starting fights if Sera becomes a villain. I can't take sibling angst, Sera loves Emily I swear guys believe meeee.

[bluespiritshonour]

I think the real reason Zuko is my favourite is because he started out as an antagonist. And then became a protagonist.

I love the tortured character. And I love the dark and edgy aesthetic—but purely as that, an aesthetic.

The problem, however, is that that aesthetic comes with the brand of male characters that are never narratively challenged. They're the poster children of cishet men with power in real world and they're just uwu wet kittens.

I know certain parts of the fandom treat Zuko like that—but that's not what canon did. The narrative doesn't brush his wrong doings under the rug—which is where we come into the antagonist aspect. It's because he starts out as a bad guy, the narrative never has to defend him—his whole deal is that he was wrong.

I think this whole thing happens because people (writers included) confuse protagonists and heroes. Your protagonist can be a jerk, but you have to narratively hold him accountable for that. Whether you redeem him or not.

But they never do that! Because that would mean your protagonist was never a hero!

Well, you wrote him to be a jerk, of course he ain't a hero. Why are you trying to bend the narrative to accomodate him when you didn't set him up as such?

In Zuko I had all the characteristics I like in that particular genre of character, without undue apologism. He's wrong and the narrative doesn't shy away from it. Eventually he gets better.

Honestly it's refreshing...

I like that we got this character archetype, because let's be honest, Zuko is a character archetype—but we didn't have to see it through a male-gaze. I call it male-gaze because these kind of characters are always men.

[niymue]

i tried so hard to fight it but im just actually so disappointed with veilguard.

as a video game, its fine! the gameplay is fun and it’s visually stunning. but as a dragon age game it’s… not good. even if we somehow ignore all the massive world breaking lore inconsistencies, it’s supposed to be a story heavy RPG. but it’s so shallow, so surface level. there are so many issues with so many of the decisions the devs or ea or whoever made leading to the final state of this game and it’s actually so sad.

I feel like im grieving what could’ve been, making new saves in hopes it’ll somehow be better this time around, and it just isn’t.

[july-19th-club]

i know for a fact i have made this post before but for me it's very important that bbc merlin is a pointless tragedy. it wouldn't be good (it's frequently not good anyway but it would be a lot further away from good) if it wasn't a pointless tragedy! it's simply not arthuriana if it doesn't go past the high point of the heroic/legendary/high medieval romance stuff and end with detailed rundowns of exactly how everybody got betrayed and died like that is what makes it real arthuriana to me and not just a silly show about a wizard

[flying-cat]

People don't want character redemption they want a revenge plot from a story that was never supposed to be about revenge

[aliferousdreamer]

so that's it huh

[ef-1]

🍷<3

[lalalaugenbrot]

i'm so proud of myself bc someone in a class yesterday claimed that the word dämlich changed meaning and used to mean something like damenhaft originally — and i didn't correct them!! bc as we all know people ~in the past~ HATED women so of course they changed it to meaning stupid 😤😤 — which of course is untrue both generally and especially in this case... and it's not like i have to be right about everything all the time but i hate misinformation especially when it assumes that everything in the past has always been done with malicious intent, so i have to let at least you know that:

a) dämlich has the same origin as dumm, deriving from something meaning foggy-brained and very originally deriving from meaning dark (hence also Dämmerung)

b) Dame of course derived from lat. domina, lit. meaning Herrin

[thegreatyin]

this nemesis ambition started out a little slow but I am getting closer to finding that bastard who killed my wife, and I’ll not rest a minute now that im far closer to on his trail

sorry got in character for a second

Anyways fun ambition so far very fucked up though

congratulations on joining the murder club anon!!!! depending on who you ask the name refers to either people who have murdered or people who have witnessed murder. usually both. actually extremely often both. it's a swell time you'll feel right at home (don't mind our collective skyglass knife collection in the back)

[dailykugisaki]

Day 301 | id in alt

I missed them even though I doodled em a day or two ago.

[mike-haters-dni]

with peace and love and all the understanding that this is the least serious shit in the world bro what do you meaaaan mike’s love language isn’t words like brooo that boy is a yapperrr he tries desperately like once a season to tell eleven how he feels and is constantly telling her how amazing and important to him she is like his heart is constantly pouring out of his mouth so bad it’s actually a problem for him. he couldn’t say “I love you” because it was too scary and vulnerable because the words mean so so much to him like. cmon.

[dykedvonte]

Danse has to get homesick In Sanctuary. Like despite being uncertain of how much his past is real including times with the Brotherhood, those memories were home. The Brotherhood was home especially the Prydwen.

No matter all the comfort and the luxuries SoSu could put to make him feel more relaxed or like it’s his space it’s still not home. It’s so unique to him cause everyone else has a home in a sense. A thing or place they can come and go to as they please while Danse doesn’t. He can never go back to the people he considered family and they can never go to him without serious consequences. It doesn’t help that (due to his own faults and beliefs) a good majority of the new people in his life do not exactly like him.

It’s so isolating for him as the wasteland is also a different culture in general. Theres so much he’s not used to vs what he is. But all in all I think that’s a good thing. I feel as if Danse had a better arc in game it would 100% have him learning or developing a sense of home before a sense of self. I think it gets overlooked that Danse is a person that likes or feels like he needs to belong to something. A cause, a philosophy, a mission. He needs a goal. He must learn to live for himself and his purpose but it’s clear he wants to find that through something which is why he latches onto the Sole Survivor after rather than just wander the wastes. He needs something, anything to base a sense of self on at this point in time and who better than the person that opened their home to him in the first place.

He’s a dude that needs a foundation or home to ground himself on or else he doesn’t know what to do with himself or even start.