#i refuse to check the wiki to see if one of the things i need the bribe for is even. even the thing i'm trying to get.

[sparingiscaring]

I need Comprehensive Bribes for 3~ things I'm trying to complete in FL right now, and all I'm thinking about is how annoyed Leigh must be about having to go to Polythreme.

[ecoterrorist-katara]

Katara would’ve been such a good diplomat (it’s canon)

everyone rightfully hates on the ATLA comics because the politics are baffling and the characterization is even more so…but if there’s one thing we can take away from the dumpster fire that is The Promise, it’s that Katara was BORN to be a diplomat and an international force for peace, okay? Especially since her besties, the Avatar and the Fire Lord, aren’t actually very good at this.

If you haven’t read The Promise, the Wikipedia summary is pretty good. The TL;DR is that Zuko and Kuei agree that the Fire Nation colonies need to be returned to the Earth Kingdom. The colony of Yu Dao is not happy about this because the people of the Fire Nation and the Earth Kingdom have been mixing together (under inequitable conditions) for more than a hundred years and “just kick out the Fire Nation” is not as straightforward as it seems, since there are blended families now. Zuko refuses to kick out the Fire Nation people from Yu Dao, Kuei wants to play hardball, and they almost launch another war. Oh and there’s a weird plot about Aang debating whether to put Zuko down like a rabid dog

For all that the Wiki page does a good job of summarizing the events, it forgets some key facts: 

It’s Katara who first starts thinking about new solutions after witnessing the situation on the ground, and then comes up with the idea that Zuko and Kuei should meet and talk about the colonies:

It’s Katara who tells Kuei that Zuko has legitimate concerns (without saying that Zuko is right), when Aang tries to hedge and sugarcoat the truth: 

And it’s Katara who says to Kuei, wait, what the hell do you mean that you have no idea what your people want, that Yu Dao is just a dot on the map for you? We’re getting you out of this stupid blimp and you’re gonna talk to people before you make a decision that affects their lives, you coward

To recap, Katara demonstrates some pretty freaking key political skills, like: 

finding out what people want before making a decision for them 

seeing people as people first and foremost, not as fire nation or earth kingdom 

encouraging her loved ones, the Avatar and the Fire Lord, to resolve a conflict by beginning negotiations instead of brawling like a couple of drunks at a bar / kids on the playground (both analogies fit btw, 13-17 is a weird combination of ages)  

realistically reporting tricky disagreements without sweeping them under the rug

kidnapping a king to the middle of a battlefield to give him a reality check about listening to the people he’s trying to rule

Anyway, Katara is hyper competent at both war AND peace! We see this in the show, with her compassion for the prisoners of the Earth Kingdom (by inciting a prison riot) and the suffering people of the Fire Nation (by committing ecoterrorism), only now that compassion is backed up not only by her fighting prowess and speeches about hope, but actual ability to manipulate the levers of power. 

And have I mentioned that she has the ears of both the Avatar and the Fire Lord and her dad is Chief of the Southern Water Tribe? Even if Katara didn’t get a diplomat position based on her skills, or her status as a war hero, she could nepo baby her way in. The fact that she does not pick up a career in international diplomacy is a crime & a colossal oversight from the creators. At minimum you know Katara would’ve established Healers Without Borders or something. She deserves to be yelling at people at ATLA UN and then drafting world-changing resolutions. 

And as a bonus, Katara demonstrates her gift for diplomacy by not smacking Zuko up the head for attempting to legitimize colonization through the argument of economic progress…

…and by not smacking Aang up the head for seriously considering anti-miscegenation as a viable political solution: 

This patience is a new development because show!Katara did not have this in her, but maybe this is what growing up is all about and not just yet another strike on the “comics are wildly OOC” tally

TL;DR: ATLA boys lost their brain cells post-canon. All hail Katara, Sugar Queen of international diplomacy. 

[elizabethrobertajones]

so after taking like half a year to watch the second doctor, I burned through Pertwee Doctor in what felt like a week. I was fully ready to formally induct him to the hall of favourites somewhere around the top, pending the wikipedia search to check he such wasn't a terrible guy IRL it made it into the personal life section as per the last 2, and -

[refuses to be in a film when a producer won't hire a gay friend]

good start, good start (already liked everything else I read but this is an incredible character merit mark for a guy in the 50s)

[the doctor is literally just him being himself on camera]

Oh, so I just want him to be my friend, I see

[he said the catalyst for leaving was the death of Roger Delgado among other changes in the last year]

Wait WHAT - is that why there was no more Master later on -

[Delgado died on location filming in Turkey, his own wiki page repeats that this was why Pertwee wanted out]

NO NO NO NO NNOOOO

HOW IS THIS HUGE BIT OF DOCTOR WHO HISTORY SOMETHING I NEVER HEARD ABOUT? I GREW UP IN SCI FI CONVENTION SPACES BUT EVERYONE JUST TALKS ABOUT TOM BAKER LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED BEFORE?

WHAT THE FUCK.

I am DISTRAUGHT, the Doctor/Master stuff from the first few seasons of the 3rd Doctor was absolutely INCREDIBLE television. I'd been assuming Delgado maybe had somewhere else to be. Heartily recommend watching that entire run of the show if you don't want to start any earlier.

Well, anyway. :(

I know people don't like the weird James Bond swing it all took with him but the show had been getting more action-y anyway under the 2nd doctor and then a guy who had literally been in the inner circle with all the WWII creatives like Ian Fleming and probably helped INSPIRE James Bond gets the role, I'm feeling like we're blessed and privileged from this perspective of getting to watch it as a historical artefact. I'm assuming based on the vague things I know about the 4th Doctor, the first I'm meeting with any preconceptions, that he's obviously not capable of bringing THAT to the table because that was no ordinary skillset, Pertwee was clearly a top 0.00001% of actors and Guys Who Had Lived A Life, who happened to be doing a silly BBC sci fi show. I'm expecting it to tone back on all these things.

And then in hindsight from the Doctor Who revival era, all the nonsense he brought, aside from the Venusian Karate and flying car and a few other extreme eccentricities, end up being stuff that feels much more modern and like the kind of antics the Doctor gets involved in. Like, he took the sonic screwdriver from being a couple of times joke into a multi-tool with the first joke about it not working on wood after he uses it through many episodes to escape or explode things, all of which is so common nature to the Doctor nowadays.

He also had far more of the casual behaviours we think of as The Doctor now, especially way less circumspect name dropping of historical people and a sense of having lived all around time and space, sometimes for extensive periods of time (he clearly like. LIVED on Venus to pick up all the various throwaway jokes about Venusian culture to explain things he does lmao). Weirdly, despite knowing he was a timetraveller from the jump, the previous two doctors were quite close-lipped about who they knew and had met, and rarely namedropped.

In any case, carrying on into 4th doctor era cautiously because I am 1: sad and 2: deeply let down by my perception of Whovian culture as I've been exposed to it, which sets a ridiculously high bar for Baker as the high watermark of Who and meanwhile I have just bid farewell to watching one of the most electric actors I've ever seen in anything ever while feeling wildly upset on his behalf that there isn't a bonkers appreciative fan culture for everything he did and he's written off as one of the quirky weird early doctors you don't need to bother with.

(AND THERE WAS WRITTEN QUEER DOCTOR MOMENTS. AT LEAST 2-3 OF THEM, GENDER AND SEXUALITY-WISE. HE GOT TALKED TO IN POLARI. ON TV IN 1972. THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT.)

[delurkr]

Table of Locked Traits

Mainly for quick reference so I can see what traits are shared by different characters.

Checkmarks indicate default locked traits. I was going to mark pairs of traits that the wiki suggests are mutually exclusive (where a character can't earn both in the same run), but I checked some gameplays and I saw one of those pairs in the same playthrough, so I left the whole thing out because obviously there's more opportunities to earn the traits than the wiki has noted.

Some interesting things:

I'll do the counting for you. Andrew has 5, Angela has 6, Daniel has 7, Taylor has 8, and John has 9. (The mutually exclusive thing would be relevant to how many they can have at once. I'm fairly confident I've seen John rack up 8 by the end of more than one playthrough though.)

Andrew is the only one incapable of being aggressive 💙

Angela can clearly make fearful choices in the game like the others, but the universe doesn't punish her for it. The double standard is real.

They all have at least one unique trait, but Taylor's is just her default trait (Deceitful) and unlike the others she doesn't have any unique choice-based ones. (Girl, have some originality. Look at Daniel, out here plumbing the uncharted depths of utter cluelessness to earn his Baffled).

Also, I'm still waiting for Taylor to unleash that rumored deceitfulness upon us. Pics or it didn't happen.

Andrew's Resolute is just funny out of context. Like woah, Andrew has an opinion?? nah fam, can't be having that ❌❌ (He literally can't win because Uncertain is right there as another of his locked traits lol.)

But it's even goofier in context because not only is Resolute positive when John refuses the drink, I'm pretty sure John's normal Resolute trait can also increase if he does the same thing that gets Andrew the locked Resolute, which is just them each generally saying that Mary needs to be stopped. The double standard be doubling.

Similarly, there's the way Irritable is one of John's normal traits from the get-go, while Angela and Taylor get cancelled for earning it. The universe is just too used to him being cranky to make an issue out of it (see above statements about double standards lol).

Angela and Taylor are also the only ones who can have Resentful. Like mother, like daughter x2 💞

Shoutout to Daniel's Baffled once again, it'll never stop being funny to me 😂

[the-emeralds-incorrect]

modern au emeralds playing stardew valley (I’m playing sv i love this game I’m almost on year two of my new save that I made after 1.6 came out)

[creative liberties are maybe taken. I’ve never played multiplayer (btw if someone wants to play w me hit me up) so I don’t know what’s different. I’m relying on google searches]

They do the community center, obviously. Fuck Morris and Joja Corp.

Dorcas and Pandora were the first ones to find the game like, a year before 1.6. They have a few saves together, but mainly play on the hilltop farm on one that is in sixth year currently. It’s beautifully decorated, mainly by Dorcas. Dorcas first married Leah, and Pandora first Penny (for the decor, she chose strawberry but heavily debated the forest and moon one as well) and Hazel, before finally they got their shit together and confessing irl and immediately marrying each other.

Dorcas loves fishing and it’s always her first skill mastered fully. She always does that part of community center insanely fast. She also knows all the secret fishing spots that give you presents with decorations for the house.

Pandora’s favourite part is maxing out friendship with everyone, she likes doing tasks. She also loves collecting artifacts. She made the mistake of giving up their first prismatic shard to Gunther before they knew about the desert sword thingy. Dorcas likes both farming and animals, Pandora fucking loves the latter.

When 1.6 comes out and multiplayer up to eight people becomes awailable, they nag Evan, Barty, and Regulus to buy the game and start playing. They choose the meadowlands farm, ofc (“No, we’re not getting wilderness, Barty, Pandora wants chickens from day one!”).

Barty is actually the only one of the boys to have any knowledge how to play beforehand. He spent like a week straight watching YouTubers so he has a decent grasp on the basics of the game. He did not get to the Ginger Island part.

Regulus has the wiki open for the entire time. He also buys the book that shows you prices of things the first time bookseller comes (he saw the event on the calendar, checked what it means, and saved some gold up). He finds out on a solo save that he loves cooking, so they update the house as quickly as possible.

Evan’s very much winging it. He gives random gifts to NPCs and refuses to check wiki to see what they like, just relying on their reaction to see which ones he shouldn’t give them. He remembers Pandora rant about a few of them and makes a point of giving Louis, Pierre, and Clint gifts they hate. His sister finds that hilarious. He’s also the one doing the farming; he doesn’t focus on how much money it will give them, but what Regulus needs in the kitchen.

Evan is also insanely good at Journey of the Praire King. “What the fuck how did you beat it second try.” “What, like it’s hard?” (The only hard/annoying part were the hoards of ogres from stage 1, after he beat that, it was easy. He doesn’t even play these types of games often.)

Barty absolutely loves the Mines and Skull Cavern and is in charge of everything fighting-related. He makes sure they always have enough coal.

I don’t see any of them being interested in minmaxxing it. Weirdly enough, maybe Barty, on like one solo save, but it’s not a priority whatsoever. They’re just here to have fun

[queer-ragnelle]

Hello, I was wondering if you could please clear up some confusion I had about Hector's love life? Both Nightbringer and Wikipedia claim his first love was Perse of the Narrow March and then he loved the niece of the dwarf Groadain and eventually went back to Perse. But Vulgate Lancelot has the niece be his love before he's at Narrow March and also he never seems to even be in love with Perse when he meets her? I'm so confused, are these sites wrong or am I missing something?

Hi anon!

I’m gonna be honest with you, I don’t know much about Hector’s love life off the top of my head lol but as a general rule, while wikis can be a useful starting point, they should never be taken as a source or authority on anything. Better to read the Vulgate itself and draw conclusions from there. Medieval literature can be confusing enough on its own without a game of telephone mucking it up even more. A secondary option can be finding the information in guidebooks, as those will source their claims, and are therefore more trustworthy than an online wiki which anyone can edit. But all secondary sources are secondary. They will never be as good as locating the information from the text itself, as you'll see.

I'll walk you through the process to corroborate information so you can research these things yourself next time! All the books I reference are available as PDFs on my blog and I’ll link them right here for you.

First thing I did was open The Arthurian Name Dictionary by Christopher W. Bruce and key-word search for "Perse". She first pops up in relation to [H]Ector, where she's listed as his amie, the French word for ladylove or sweetheart.

She also has her very own listing in the dictionary! At the end of each character in the dictionary, the information is sourced to the text it originates from. [VulgLanc] refers to the Vulgate, specifically the Lancelot books. So we’ll look for her there next.

Groadain's niece is first mentioned Lancelot Part II, Chapter 56. The Story of Hector; Segurade and the Lady of Roestoc. This can be verified with a word search, like so.

Now the tricky thing here is, Maiden Narrow March is unnamed in the Vulgate. I don't see where the name "Perse" comes from, nor her intended's name "Zelotes". Neither are listed in the final book of the Vulgate which tracks that information. Neither pop up anywhere in the Vulgate, I checked. But Maiden Narrow March can be found by searching "Narrow March" and is first mentioned in chapter 61. Hector's Adventures During His Quest for Gawain. Oddly enough, this chapter opens with Hector distracted in thought by "the one he loves most in the world," which I take to mean Groadain's niece. Anyway, here Lord Narrow March explains the customs of Castle Narrow March and mentions his unwed daughter. Hector has to help liberate the lord and castle from a custom imposed on him by an enemy lord. So Hector fights the seneschal to King of a Hundred Knights, named Marganor, and defeats him. That done, all the prisoners are freed, the lord is happy blah blah, and the lord's daughter, Maiden Narrow March, kisses Hector.

After this Hector refuses her marriage proposal lol but he does ultimately promise he won't marry anyone else and accepts a ring from her.

Now here's the thing. I just reread this section. I don't see where Maiden Narrow March was ever betrothed to anyone else. Her father makes a point of saying she could have had three children by her age had she married sooner, but he was waiting for the best knight. Before Hector met the people at Narrow March, he had a few other adventures rescuing women, namely one lady whom needed to be avenged on Guinas of Blakestan. Then he went to Narrow March and was afterwards imprisoned elsewhere.

Some chapters focused on other characters happen, then in 65. Hector Rescues Elaine the Peerless From Her Imprisonment, Hector is still imprisoned by the Lord of the Fens, and things get confusing.

Maiden Narrow March learns of his imprisonment and implores her father send men to rescue him, which is done, but likewise the lady whom Hector avenged on Guinas of Blakestan is the daughter of the Lord of the Fens. AND THEN they introduce another maiden who is the niece of the Lord of the Fens. This maiden, apparently, has a crush on Hector and asks for "custody" of him from her uncle (her words, not mine), which is granted.

The chapter continues on as Maiden Fens talks about her sister, Elaine the Peerless, who was forced into a marriage she didn't want, and imprisoned for speaking against her husband (footnotes draw a direct comparison to Erec/Enid), and then Hector goes on to rescue Elaine, as the chapter title indicates.

Hector does say to Maiden Fens, unnamed sister of Elaine the Peerless, that he loves Maiden Narrow March, so as to that part of your ask, we do have confirmation there that Hector views her romantically!

In conclusion, the text specifies "maiden" when the woman is unwed and "lady" when she is married, but other than that, it's so confusing to separate them based on male relation that I can't really give you a complete answer. Nightbringer claims that Perse is given to a knight she didn't want while her father was on his deathbed and that's the point at which Hector liberates her. But "Narrow March" is never mentioned again in the entirety of the Vulgate after Hector sends that last greeting. Nor does a search of "amie" refer to any woman attached to Hector. The footnotes talk about other character's ladyloves, even Agravaine's amie, the Maiden of the Chair, but not Hector's Maiden Narrow March.

I even looked through the summaries of Vulgate chapters (located in the last book of the Vulgate along with the lists of names) and don't see where Hector rescues Maiden Narrow March. Nightbringer claims Vulgate, as does the Name Dictionary, but then on Nightbringer when you go to the page for "Narrow Borderland," it lists a bunch of other sources. I checked as well in Le Morte d'Arthur [Part I] and [Part II], there's a Duke of South Marches that Marhaus fights, and a Pedivere of Straight Marches that Bors defeats, but no clarification on Perse Narrow Marches or Hector's involvement there that I could find.

I'm sorry I couldn't give you a complete answer! It's possible I overlooked something, but this at least illustrates the importance of primary sources. Even The Name Dictionary seems to have its "facts" wrong! Then again, I could be missing an obvious answer here. Happy to be corrected if anyone knows more about Miss Perse.

Anyway, have a good day, anon. :^)

[rainbowrocketquotes]

📱 Cyrus? :)

let's play my favourite game: han is running out of things to put on top of the readmores!

Apps are alphabetized, not color coded. He has 7 folders, each with 4 corresponding letters, ad well as the first one being Numbers & Symbols in addition to A & B. It continues from there. (CDEF , GHIJ , etc.) The folders are in a "T" shape and nobody knows why, not even Cyrus. His only reasoning is "easier for when I'm using my non dominant hand" (and then he refuses to elaborate on which hand is his non dominant hand)

He has 43 chrome tabs open. 28 of them are video game wikis and walkthroughs, one of them is a link to a self help page he never uses, 7 are dnd spell descriptions, 3 are different "people search" websites, and the other 4 are random words/phrases he needed to google and then promptly forgot about closing.

Uses Spotify because he likes listenting to such classic playlists as "i should go to therapy" and "POV: the dark queen has just been crowned and everyone fears her". His personal playlist is called "top ten reasons i should see a therapist ft guzma" (ft guzma because guzma keeps taking his phone and adding music to it without his permission to get him to actually listen to it.

The only games on his phone are the color sorting games, sudoku, and solitaire. Used to play Minecraft Pocket Edition with Guzma during team meetings, then Guzma started raging at him mid meeting and he was so embarrassed that he uninstalled it and now only plays java.

Doesn't read his emails, has the app muted so that the notification bubbles don't show up and stress him out. If you need him, you'll call him. But, if you do call him, you better already be in his phone, or he's not picking up....... Or you could could just text him.

His contact name for almost everyone is "Delete This Contact (emoji)" with an emoji that popped up when he looked up their names in the emoji search tab thing. The only exceptions are Cynthia, who is " " and Guzma, who is "you know who it is you don't need to check the contact name" (both of which fit in my phone's contact menu, so I guarantee you it works)

He only has tumblr for social media. Lysandre tried to get him into Pinterest but he got banned

His phone background is a photo of the Pillars of Creation. He made it that the day he got it and he hasn't changed it since he got the phone. (like 5 years)

[horizon-verizon]

Do you think that rhaenyra is pretty hated in this fandom ? I know her book! personality might be difficult to like at first, but i feel she was more complex than her show version

What's not to like about Book!Rhaenyra?!

Nah, I'm playing. I myself didn't know what to make of Rhaenyra when I first got to know her through the official Wiki and even after reading Fire and Blood for the very first time. Her need for love and prior self restraint weren’t emphasized enough and I wanted to read through because I tend to rush before I really spend to much time on one page in the first read. Breaking out of a bad habit. 

By canon, Rhaenyra is both simpler and more full of potential (therefore “complex”) --i.e., better than the show version. Check out this POST by alinhahams (below is an excerpt):

But instead of wilting, she fights. Refuses to give up. She’s stubborn, not just by her nature but because she has to be. She has to be strong. She won’t let Alicent and her family take away her birthright or her father (she is as much his priority and more so as his heir than Alicent). She won’t let Alicent’s (and this is very much Alicent’s doing, not Otto’s) rumour mongering spoil her dreams of a happy marriage and family (she is said to express her desire to marry Daemon whom she chose and loved), she won’t let King Viserys’ foolishness/hypocrisy rob her of the chance to love (Daemon and Harwin), she won’t take abuse against her and her children lying down (Daemon is hers, ofc she can command him to fight on her behalf), she won’t forgive the wrongs done to her (she hadn’t done anything to deserve not getting the chance to mourn her father, to lose her only daughter so tragically, to lose her son so violently, to be usurped on account of something she just CAN’T control) and in all these moments, we see her pride and stubbornness. They aren’t necessarily the best character traits but they help her stay strong and keep fighting.

It’s both a flaw in some instances and a greatly admirable trait in other. That’s how character writing works. They have a set of characteristics that is unique to them, that becomes their undoing but is also their inner strength. For Rhaenyra, it’s her heart and her desire to love freely and be loved.

Imagine Young Rhaenyra but not as dampened as when she gets older, very feminine, wears a lot of rich colors and rings on her fingers that she twirls around when nervous, and more expressive in the face and you have canon Rhaenyra. Like Cersei, she wanted power for herself that is being denied to her, and that actually makes her rather complex because we anticipate what one would do for that denied power, by narrative principle. 

I don’t know if she’s commonly hated in the fandom, but look. This fandom is very...unknowledgeable of many things they need to know to even understand how these feudal people think. Many don’t even care to know because they think that their own headcanons are indistutably canon. It’s best to take what people say with a grain of salt. I had to be recently reminded of it HERE.

[thelazyhermits]

hey! i'm the one who asked about the length of the halloween fic, and i decided to start twst! it'll be a lower-priority game, but i wanted to let you know bc on the tutorial 10 roll i ended up going with (after way too long of rerolling bc i kept getting dupes when i got my preferred ssr), i got all of diasomnia in a row, and then ace and deuce back to back, which i thought was really funny and coincidental. guess i know what dorm the game wants me to favor!

Oh hey!! That's awesome! I hope you come to enjoy Twst as much as I have!! ^^

I actually can't remember all the SRs I saw when I was doing that first free 10 pull. I rerolled so many times because I refused to proceed with the game until I got my best boy, Jack, whom I eventually pulled after getting pretty much every other available SSR in my previous pulls, some of which I got multiple times lol I didn't care what the game said. I wanted my boy, and I made sure I got him 😂

Right off the bat, I'd recommend checking out this. It's the pinned post for an account that I often see get a lot of questions about the game, and they have masterlists that should be really helpful to you.

As far as the content gap is concerned, at this point, there really isn't a large gap between the JPN & ENG server cause ENG has been doling out new events like crazy to catch up 😂 However, there are a few events that we haven't gotten in the ENG server, and we're only getting the first part of Book 7 of the main story at the end of Nov while JPN has like 5 parts out so far for Book 7.

Anyway, you can click here to find the wiki page that shows all the Twst events for ENG & JPN. Unfortunately, by this point, ENG has pretty much already done reruns for all the events, and you can only read the stories for the events in the game if you were playing the game when those events came out, so if there was a certain event you were hoping to see, like the first Halloween one, you'll likely have to look for it on Youtube since the chances are low that it'll get another rerun in the game, although I won't say it's impossible since you really never know lol

As far as advice is concerned, I'd say save your gems for event banners, ergo the cards that are only available for a limited time while an event is ongoing. The dorm uniform SSRs will always be available in the standard showcase and in every event banner. The only banners they don't appear in are the birthday banners, which is a good thing since that means any SSR you get in the birthday banner is the one you're aiming for haha

I'd also recommend against spending your gems on LP since the 10 you get regenerates after 2.5 hours. It's better to just wait and take your time as you're progressing through the main story which will likely take a while for you since we currently have Books 1-6 and Book 7 Part 1 is coming.

Book 6 is especially brutal cause of the battles , so by the time you get there, make sure you have strong cards for Riddle/Azul/Leona/Jamil/Vil/Epel/Rook. You're gonna need them lol 😂

I can't think of anything else right off the top of my head that might be helpful, but feel free to send me another ask if you have any specific questions. I'll be happy to help! 😊

[retired-for-now]

What kind of flowers are those on Nightmare (if you have anything in mind)

and why are they there? :<D

Actually I thought about this for a while. And the answer is that they are Azaleas (huge nerding about flower symbolism incoming)

https://www.flowermeaning.com/azalea-flower-meaning/

[Here's the link to where I'm getting all this from btw]

Looking at their symbolism it says that Azaleas represent remembering ones home with fondness - Insomniac (Omniverse Nm) wishes to return back to the days of what I'm calling FlowerDream for now (but unfortunately he knows that is impossible)

They also represent taking care of oneself and family (Insomniac and his gang found family = true)

Then they represent Temperance and emotional evenness because Insomniac is a more balanced character who is trying to keep the Positivity-Negativity balance in check while "Rem...?" (Rem is Ov Dream) tries to eradicate those who they think wil cause negativity (think Swapdream but a manipulative asshole with shapeshifting and mind control and also technically every power ever. Not fun right?)

Then theres Passion, hes just very dedicated to stuff (especially finding his missing friend. His only friend back in FD).

Elegance and wealth are obvious enough but we also have Femininity which is hard to explain in my own words so I'll show you the behavior listed in the Wiki

These are all things Insomniac (or at least Insomnia - which is what I call Passive Insomniac) used to do.

Btw I might also get this out of the way: the relationship between Insomnia and Insomniac. They are the same person (and they behave quite similarly. Insomniac is just more closed-off and violent). And if you get to the part where I explain why they are there you'll see that it's because there is no corruption (... only deadly flower poison)

Getting back on track, Abundance (especially of beauty and intelligence) he's pretty smart (he still reads books here, but not as much because he is busy training or hanging out with his friend most of the time - which reminds me, Insomnia is around 13 when he first meets his friend, who was 14 at the time. He gets "corrupted" when he becomes around 17) and for the beauty part... well, hes beautiful to his friend (who I wont name yet I think)

The last thing on the list is that they are a death threat, but only if sent in a black vase.

I wanted to reflect on this by making it so his skull turns black after the "corruption" (why does this feel wrong to say?)

Oh and they are there because the local village bullies beat the life out of 'Friend' and they basically 'died' (but not really. They just needed a while for their amalgam-goop to get back together. They told Insomnia too and that made him less distraught after losing his best friend. Still traumatized, but he wants to live so that he can go back to them).

So then the bullying got worse and worse until the bullies forced Insomnia to eat the Flowers of Negativity which - you guessed it- are Azaleas, but what you didn't guess is that they are full of toxins and can cause death if ingested in large qualities (they are mostly harmless to humans due to getting broken down in the digestive tract but Insomnia is a Skeleton monster and those do not have a digestive tract to break down azaleas with. The food just kinda gets absorbed like that)

Anyways Insomnia pukes a fuckton, his friend's ghost is fucking traumatized and his skull changes color

So obviosly Insomnia starts puking and then dies but he doesn't. See while he considered just giving up he realized that His Friend was probably going to be looking for him. So he just refused to die (hey man hes the guardian of negativity of course he can do that)

So hes alive, covered on half his skull by thick vines and Azaleas, but alive.

This is where my writing gets messy

And also hes pissed off. First they come for his friend, now they make him suffer a painful death? (Keep in mind that it only took him around 30 mins to think about whether or not to die - all that time he was suffering on the ground - which means that the bullies were still there)

Insomnia was full of rage and without thinking he "activated" his powers and vines sprouted from the ground and impaled the bullies

[Basically Nightmare but Tendrils instead of Tentacles]

And as he gained more and more Lv from slaughtering the villagers of that nowhere town he comes to his senses and realizes that he has gone too far and he decides to make amends by swearing to protect the balance (wow hes really speedrunning character development isn't he? And who woulda thought that it only took 2 hours of looking for and slaughtering the people who either treated you like shit or did nothing about you being treated like shit).

Meanwhile Rem and his close friend (gf???) Mercy (who has a Copy soul- which I'll explain when I get the time because I'd have to get in depth about BTs and DTD and none of you even know what that stands for) escaped to Rem and Insom's pocket dimention (because we all just have one of those) - the Dreamscape.

However Mercy does a Murder (not literally, this is just in reference to These Two being the names that result in the "on the nose" comment when you name the fallen human) and seals Rem in the Dreamscape and shapeshifts into a more "regal and smarter version of him", as she puts it [and before you ask me how - Copy Soul Logic]

Anyways the story then follows as Insomniac and "Friend" dance around in circles while looking for eachother and also "Friend" found Rem and is trying to help him escape and put an end to all of this.

Hope this helps!

[sugar-omi]

hi! I keep seeing stuff about mechats (online, ads, etc) but I have no idea what it is and im kinda scared but mostly intrigued??

LOL I GET IT!!! if it helps, its literally like a dating app. although no one is creepy (to an extent. there are some INTERESTING characters)

n no one can really reject you? like, you may not match once. but you may match again? or you can force it by hitting the "crown" icon and force a match with whoever you see is getting a game update or is new. or you can change your likes!

because like i said, its like a dating app. so if you say pick everything but "spicy" you may not match with characters whose storyline, like glenn, is reallyyyy sexual. but if you do pick it, you'll most likely/definitely will match with them!

again, you can always keep swiping right on em, n you'll match eventually so you don't have to be all sneaky abt choosing preferences n blah blah blah. but yeah, that's how the matching system works to my understanding. but don't quote me!!🙅🙅 bc i'd hate to be wrong n get flack 💀

eta, i'm looking at the wiki n apparently there are some you can't match with??? i've never seen that before. but it says something about how the game hasn't uploaded storylines for them yet. so. just in case you run into them, there's that info apparently.

OH AND THERE'S A WIKI!! IF YOU WANNA SEE WHATSUP W THE CHARACTERS

they have counterparts n stuff, so if someone isn't your type.. see if they have a counterpart. most of them do. the storyline is the same though! can even switch em half way through...

IF YOU DO PLAY. I HIGHLYYY RECCOMMEND ZAOS VALCAN. (/lewis hill /dejerius lane)

he's so sweet. so cute. amazing... it starts off very cute, n youre friends for a bit. you meet on a video game n a lot of his pictures n dates are fantasy like, n he's so romantic n he's just a amazing... i need him to get an update QUICKLY. I MISS MY POOKIE <///3

or if you're a freak, i highly rec glenn hobbs (/niles robinson) for all your freaky, and non-committal (eventually committal) needs

OR IF YOU'RE A REALLL FREAK. AND A DOM. I REC ARCHIBALD (/ravi /thiago) i refuse to elaborate. just know... that's where the master/servant cake is. and i fucking love it.

oh n i think at the beginning, when signing up, you can filter out the 18+ storylines?? so you won't get NSFW? it's been a long time, but i'm looking at the wiki n it just reminded me.

but there's a whole bunch of characters!!! you can check the "matches > storyline" part of the wiki, to see whats up, see what troupes there are that you might like.

i've browsed the mechat reddit sub briefly for information on different things, so idk how it is over there. but that's a thing too..

i swear its a fun app, had me kicking my feet n squealing n blushing n shit. its so cute n so fun n so good ok trust me

ANYWAY IM RAMBLING. I FEEL A BIT CRAZY W ALL THIS YAPPING ABT A FICTIONAL DATING APP... BUT.... ANYWAY. IF I GOT U EXCITED ABT IT, YOURE WELCOME. HAVE FUN.

OR IF YOU, OR ANYONE, HAS ANY MORE QUESTIONS.. IM HAPPY TO ANSWER.

[devil1205]

TAX IMPORTANCE

The Tax system in our Nation has been since long. During School times i remember studying about Jaziya A religious tax imposed on Hindus for pilgrimage. But that tax was collected only to benefit some sections not all. This tax was laid by Emperor Qutb-ud-Din Aibak.

This was past history Now we are in 2oth century and things have changed. With ongoing changes even Tax system has gone through massive changes. Long back there were different taxes but now under Modi Government Goods and Service tax(GST) has been introduced. Sounds very beneficial as it has become only one big tax to pay. There might be smaller ones also.

How Many taxes were there earlier or are there now is not the topic of this blog post.My main objective to write is to educate everyone the importance of taxation in our country. Tax is government’s income for running of the country. Just like we earn and make money to run our families in the same way our Government needs income to run the Nation.

Recently a video I had seen on social media that in Restaurants it is not necessary to pay GST tax and if Restaurants are charging you tax then you can refuse them. But to be honest it is important to pay taxes and those who are spreading wrong information are running a parallel economy which will never benefit anyone but few. The Restaurants also have to pay GST tax which they have to show in Audit.Not only Restaurants many big business or service establishments have to show in the Audit the amount of Tax they Pay.

USE OF OUR MONEY

Generally after paying tax or anytime many of us wonder how does our paying tax benefit us or the government. The Answer is whatever development we are seeing like new highways or any sort of development.It is all done by our taxes.Not only development but the salaries of our Soldiers guarding the country or the police force working tirelessly their salaries are from our taxes. Often we have wondered how is all this development or anything possible??it is all due to our taxes we are able to see all this. Even if we do not see the development at least see that our taxes are helping the Defence Unit of this Nation. The Soldiers because of whom we sleep peacefully also need money to feed their families. So we can be proud that our Tax paying is contributing to the soldiers

RTI (Right to information Act)

If it is important to pay taxes for development of our country likewise it is important to know whether our Money which we are paying in forms of Taxes is used properly or no. Hence Right To information plays a vital role in getting information from Authorities about our Money and government has to answer it. We pay our taxes dutifully but many times it happens if government has not done their work accurately .

To check whether our money is used correctly Right to information Act plays a crucial role and it brings transparency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scandals_in_India

It is quite true that sometimes our money has been misused and above is a list of scams or say scandals that have happened in our Nation. In 2008 post Attacks on Mumbai in November 26th 2008 when Kasab was caught. Most of our Money we paid to congress they used it for Kasab’s security and food. This created a big uproar and questioned credibility of Government that time. There was huge public outcry as to why a pest like Kasab is being fed on our tax money which was true. Hence Right to Information plays a pivotal Role.

So finally remember that in the end that it is our duty to pay Taxes and contribute to the growth of the Nation. If you do not pay the taxes think about the ways you are cheating the government and not only the government but imagine the Defence unit of the country and the soldiers who protect us. In case you feel you can not trust the government with your taxes Use Right to Information Act and bring Government on the front but do pay taxes.

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[rottingpulse-art]

i have nothing better to do, so here’s nearly every instance dean knows a suspicious amount of information on drugs

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2.04 Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

"Are you high?" Sam asks Dean, and Dean takes a moment to seriously consider the possibility before Sam moves on.

2.10 Hunted

Laughing, Sam asks where he and Dean are headed next. Dean jokingly suggests Amsterdam, and when Sam objects, Dean responds, "Come on, man! I hear the coffee shops don’t even serve coffee." The coffee shops in Amsteradam do, of course, serve coffee. They also legally serve cannabis.

3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

Because of the use of African Dream Root in this episode, there are frequent references to drugs and stoner culture, including Dean agreeing to know what a bad acid trip is like (and then denying it when he remembers he's pretending to be FBI), and the header quote on this page in which Dean references The Dark Side of the Rainbow, typically experienced while high.

4.07 It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

When Sam and Dean go to interview  Don Harding, Dean sees a student named Justin putting a large bong-shaped clay piece into a kiln. "Now that brings back memories," Dean remarks.

6.14 Mannequin 3: The Reckoning

After Sam suffers through resurfacing memories of Hell, Dean offers him food, caffeine... and a bottle of prescription pills that Dean refuses to identify. Sam declines.

7.03 The Girl Next Door

Dean spends time in Sioux Falls general hospital after Edgar breaks his leg. He is given "a lot" of morphine. Later in the episode, he drops Sam off at a motel, holds up a pill bottle and says "Hey, why don't, uh – why don't you check us in? I got to hit the candy store"

8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin

Dean angrily rebukes Sam with a drug-laden non sequitur, "The rules are simple, Sam. You don’t take a joint from a guy named Don, and there’s no dogs in the car!"

9.13 The Purge

Dean is drugged to unconsciousness after eating salted-caramel pudding laced with "supplements." Dean looks at the pills labelled as supplements and identifies them as roofies, leading Sam to question, "How do you know what roofies look like?" Dean combats, "How do you not know?"

11.07 Plush

A jailed killer is wearing a mascot head that can't come off, and he won't speak. Disguised as an FBI agent, Dean tries to coax the suspect into talking by baiting him. "So what happened, pal? Hmm? What, you drop too much molly, superglue your mask to your head, get paranoid, stab a guy? I've been there."

11.11 Into the Mystic

While investigating a nursing home for a case, Sam and Dean discover that one of the residents has been stealing Viagra from his neighbors. "A real dick move, huh?" Dean says, before pocketing the bottle for himself.

15.05 Proverbs 17:3

Ashley Monroe says that the lorazepam the doctors gave her really work. Dean looks at the prescription label and recognizes it as "the good stuff."

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In summary, dean has done far too many drugs to be good for him. but hey, you go girl.

(also, all my sources are from this spn wiki that i’ve double checked, but if any of this is wrong then it’s whatever)

i saw someone on twitter saying that dean shouldve smoked weed and like. i mean he did. dean mentions smoking weed multiple times in the show and also i think he said he took acid once??? but stoner dean is literally canon

[anuspastor]

It is the little things about the Dead Money DLC that compels me. And it is the little things that make me want to replay the whole of FNV just so I can get enough strength to enter it.

Things that are so obvious that they can fly over your head and make you despise the DLC. Things like the difficulty of the enemies, the weight of the gold bars and your vulnerability that drive people to unite into poisonous clumps. Though, as long as such people don’t come charging at you with their nasty remarks, to each their own.

Greed. It is all about greed. From the moment you enter the villa (adventure), the moment you meet your companions (getting to your objectives), the moment you run to the casino’s gates through the fire and chaos (safety), the moment you hungrily stuff your pockets with gold until you are rooted to the spot (money). The DLC revolves around greed, it sews it into every fiber with careful focus, turning it into a throttling cloud.

"Getting to it. That's not the hard part. It's letting go."

You are forced to let go of the (sexy ghoul man) greed that brought you here; the heavy gold being the quite literal example. Do you run for your life? Do you remain to take revenge? Do you put all your points into STRENGTH, yet only manage to carry five shiny bars to the surface? Or do you change an ingrown part of yourself and survive?

And then there are the enemies. They are complex to sneak around and even more complex to kill once you get close enough to them. They can murder you in a few shots and render you into a perpetual loop of reloading the same safe. And this is where the glory of the Dead Money’s companions comes in. They bring in not only their strengths, unique abilities and fantastic perks, but also their banter, their backstories and… the coolest introductions.

Dog/God

“You can’t have been an idiot to figure out how to release me from my cage. Or perhaps you are, with that leash on your arm and the one around your neck… with our collars and manacles, why, we may as well be kin.”

You see Dog rocking in a cage, a single light over his head, almost mocking his panicked rocking, his eerily sorrowful mumbling; turning your blood to stone. You follow the voice in the basement, activate God and that small crumb of naivete you might have had upon first hearing his intelligent voice is slit clean the moment he refuses to cooperate.

Dean Domino

“Get up without my permission, I’ll blast your ass so far through your head, it will turn the moon cherry-pie-red.”

Somehow… you pick up his arrogant speech through your PIP-boy and follow it up to his dwelling. He invites you to sit down, you do so warily after your experience with Dog/God and experience the most intriguing conversation in the DLC. You need to cater to him. For the first time in the game, you are not the sun, but the mud. And you need to play your role well unless you wish to make a powerful foe off someone who can give you a lot of insight into what this place is and how to get out of here.

Yes, you might have been like me, clicking blindly through all the Speech checks and then spending half an hour scouring the Fallout Wiki upon meeting him at the back of the casino’s stage. And yes, it can be infuriating, but oh, how insightful it can be.

Christine

“...”

Dread. Spikes along your spine. The thumping. The Autodoc’s whirring. Her forced silence. You come face to face with a woman who cannot communicate with you, but the moment she sees you, you are once again under scrutiny. She owns your success. If you do not win her trust, you cannot complete your goal. Her power bleeds into the room even through her silence.

Of course, I can continue on and on about these characters—hell, there are players out there way more eloquent that will and might already have constructed god tier analyses about them! And yet, I still wanted to highlight some of my favorite aspects. It is because of these characters that I managed to get through this DLC. And it is these characters, these forced companions that turn Dead Money into a fresh breath of air.

You are no longer a hero. No longer a villain. You are equal.

You need to choose carefully and think your choices through, for any detail, even a small one, hell, even a perk as minor as the Confirmed Bachelor can bring a complete change to how you view them and how they view you.

I love this DLC. Is it my favorite? Maybe. I love both Lonesome Road and Old World Blues, too. However, it is Dead Money that really compels me and really makes me take a second glance at how this game can play out.

Also Dean is so goddamn hot.

[nataliaphantomhivesblog]

Newsflash: Dazai cares for Chuuya

Before reading any further, I will be talking about stormbringer, so spoilers ahead!! Translation credits go out to: @popopretty on tumblr, make sure to give this kind human some love and appreciation<3

Also if you want to read the first few chapters of stormbringer: @buraihatranslations is currently translating it, give them much love and appreciation as well, they deserve it!!

Honestly, I have been so obsessed with Soukoku lately and I think the reason behind this is because when it comes to Soukoku, their feelings for each other are not as easy to grasp as love or hate, it is much more profound than that. There is care, hurt, trust, resentment, companionship, bitterness, and consideration...And ironically enough, thats just the tip of the iceberg.

If we break down their individual feelings towards each other, it will be easier to understand their bond.

On Chuuya's end, his feelings are much more clear due to his expressive personality. He wears his emotions on his sleeves, he can try and hide what he feels towards Dazai but his true feelings tend to unravel easily.

He sometimes tries to mask his feelings towards Dazai by throwing insults, but his facial expressions are enough to contradict what he is saying.

Chuuya's feelings towards Dazai can be easier to comprehend. He obviously feels this certain betrayal due to the fact Dazai left the Port Mafia. Not to mention, he and Dazai have always had a rivalry relationship.

In the Soukoku wiki page, it is stated that Chuuya is aware of Dazai not experiencing a proper childhood, therefore allows him to act as childish as he can and lets him tease him relentlessly. I don't know how reliable this source is, but either way I think its worthy enough to add.

In the Dragon head conflict when Dazai was out of sight, Chuuya told Mori to forget about Dazai. That was until Hirotsu mentioned a microscope, Chuuya quickly realizes it was code language because he remembered a previous conversation where Dazai says he needs a microscope to be able to see Chuuya properly.

The moment he figured out it was a tracker, Chuuya did not hesitate to jump in and rescue Dazai. But here is the catch: No one but Chuuya knew about the microscope, if Chuuya really didn't care for Dazai he wouldn't have mentioned the microscope and kept all this under wraps, leaving Dazai in a mess.

Chuuya trusts Dazai with his life. He never hesitates to leave his life on Dazai's hands when it has to come to it. Chuuya and Dazai have known each other for years, for Chuuya to be able to trust Dazai that much is because Dazai also cares for him too, right?

The answer here is yes, Dazai cares for Chuuya. In a superficial level, it doesn't seem like Dazai truly cares, but I can assure you that he does care for him. Weather you like to think of his care in a platonic or romantic manner, the care Dazai has for Chuuya is undeniable and extremely significant for Dazai's character.

I think that stormbringer establishes this idea even further. There is one specific moment in this light novel that shows his genuine concern towards Chuuya's well being:

"There is one problem." Dazai cut off his sentence hesitantly. "It has nothing to do with the sucess rate of the plan. It is a matter we have to overcome in the end but... It may require some time to decide."

"What's with you?" Chuuya raised his eyebrows at Dazai. "Stop dramatizing it. Just hurry up and say it."

"I said earlier about this control spell to open the 'gate' that is used to reset the command inside Chuuya, right?" Dazai spoke with a strangely restrained voice. "If we use that, the logs of the command formula that were written in the past will be erased. That means...even if the memory erasure was used on Chuuya in the past, the traces of that will be erased as well."

"What?"

"I told you before right, the memory erasure command. The only way we can confirm if Chuuya is human or not is to check the history to see if the memory erasure command was ever used. It means..." Dazai looked at Chuuya with eyes that he had never looked at him before. Those eyes were serious. "If we use that control spell, the method to confirm if Chuuya is an artificial personality created by a string of code, or just a normal human being, will be lost. For good."

The time had stopped.

Chuuya opened his eyes and looked towards Dazai but his eyes were not seeing anything. The wind blew between the two of them. Even so, Chuuya did not blink.

"Verlaine became like that because he was tormented by the curse that he was not human. That only is enough of a big problem. The matter of being human or not." Dazai looked at his pocket watch, gave it a glance and continued. "I can delay the time until the plan starts for about two minutes. I will send an order for my men to wait... You can think about it alone for a while. Cuz I guess its hard for you to collect your thoughts with me around."

Having said so, Dazai turned away and walked down the stairs, leaving Chuuya alone.

Dazai fixated in his pocket watch. Two more minutes. Too short for a life decision. But he couldn't afford more than that.

Inside Dazai's head, he was planning a procedure to swith to an alternative plan in case Chuuya refused, at a tremendous speed.

This section in stormbringer is personally one of my favorites, this is a very rare moment between both of them, but especially for Dazai. Like I stated earlier Chuuya wears his emotions on his sleeves, therefore even if he tries to mask his care with insults, its still painfully noticable that he genuienly looks after Dazai. Chuuya also sometimes show a vulnerable side of himself to Dazai, especially after using corruption.

Dazai on the other hand is extremely unreadable. Its hard to understand his true intentions and if he really cares for people or only sees them as a pawn. In this moment though, Dazai was being painfully genuine. Dazai literally prioritized Chuuya over the mission. He was already thinking of coming up with an alternative plan just in case Chuuya refused, obviously the sucess rate of the alternative plan would be lesser than the actual plan Dazai had in mind, he choose Chuuya's wellbeing over a mission.

In this section, Dazai wasn't throwing jokes or witty remarks, he was being serious. Because Dazai knows how desperately Chuuya wants to be human. He knows how important being human is to Chuuya.

Dazai wasn't manipulating Chuuya by giving him the chance to decide, we can see that Dazai was literally showing a lot of hesitation when mentioning this to him, we also get to see what Dazai was thinking, and we can tell he wasn't thinking about manipulative his movements in any way. All of this wasn't coming out of manipulation, it was coming out of pure care.

After six steps, Dazai reached the stair. He stepped on the stair and started walking down. Three steps down the stair, he heard a *clang*, a cool sound of metal echoing behind him. It sounded like the metal was kicked by the sole of someones shoes. The moment Dazai realized what the sound was, Dazai turned around in surprise.

There was already no one at the top.

Dazai was dazed for a moment, then he loosened his lips and laughed.

"Trying to act cool, huh?" Dazai smiled, both annoyed and relieved. Then he turned on his radio and sent out his order. "Chuuya has sallied, everyone get ready for battle."

I personally love this part so much, relief washed over Dazai the moment he noticed that Chuuya was going to go through with the first plan, which proves my point that he wasn't manipulating him and how Dazai was under a lot of stress because he wasn't sure if the alternative plan would be as effective as his original one.

Yet he still was willing to go through the alternative plan if Chuuya refused, because Dazai values him and regards his wellbeing.

Dazai was being surprisingly gentle in this section, he was being honest. There was no ulterior motive behind his actions here, just a boy looking after his partner.

"So i'm going to send an order to my men to prepare for action... Is that okay?"

"Of course it's okay." Chuuya turned to Dazai. "Why are you asking me such a thing?"

Dazai didn't answer right away.

That was an unusual expression. It's like he was trying to say something, but he had to arrange the words in his head to decide where he should start. An expression he rarely shows.

This was right before Dazai drops the bomb to Chuuya about the memory erasure command. He was even asking for Chuuya's opinion on sending his men to get ready, this was the first time Dazai ever showed actual concern without masking it with witty remarks. You can tell that Chuuya isn't used to this.

And when you think about it, when Dazai and Chuuya have missions together, Dazai always uses corruption as a last resort and he always allows Chuuya to make the decision if they will be using it or not.

I personally belive that the main reason Chuuya trusts Dazai with using corruption is because The Sheep used to exploit his powers too much, but Dazai leaves the decision to use corruption up to Chuuya. Dazai understands the physical and mental toll corruption takes on Chuuya and therefore leaves the choice up to him.

Theres another section in stormbringer that I really enjoy, it doesn't necessairly show solicitude but I still think this should still be taken into consideration:

"You seem pretty confident that Chuuya is human, don't you?"

"I am," Dazai laughed with a sigh. "There is no way a man-made code could create such a personality that I detest so much."

Throughout the whole story, Dazai is more than determined that Chuuya is human. The main reason Dazai finds Chuuya so intresting is because of how frighteningly human Chuuya can be, because of the fact that he always wears his emotions on his sleeves, something Dazai rarely does himself. Thats personally a nice sentiment from Dazai's end, even when Chuuya struggles completely when it comes to believing in his own humanity, Dazai still can't help but see him as a human being.

Also I am aware that Dazai literally said he detests Chuuya here but he also sighed and laughed while stating this, showing us that he isn't being serious about hating him.

And its not only in stormbringer were he shows his concern towards Chuuya. In fact, in this following manga pannel Dazai is telling Chuuya that if he is willing to listen him, he will stage his own escape so that Chuuya doesn't get punnished.

Honestly, if Dazai didn't care enough for Chuuya, he wouldn't have mentioned this to him. Chuuya didn't care enough to realize that he literally unwillingly freed Dazai which would get the pm mad at him, so the fact that Dazai is literally helping him out is no doubt out of care for him. If Dazai didn't have any regard for Chuuya he would've not staged his escape or mentioned anything to Chuuya, eventually incriminating him.

There are many misconceptions when it comes to Dazai's feelings towards Chuuya, people think that he doesn't care for him due to the fact that he left the Port Mafia, leaving Chuuya behind. But heres the thing: Dazai's intentions had nothing to do with Chuuya. He left the organization for his own good, he left it to fullfill Oda's wish.

"If Dazai cared for Chuuya then why didn't he take Chuuya with him?" the reason is simple, he knows how much the PM means to Chuuya. In stormbringer it is shown that Chuuya feels as if his humanity is attached to the people he is loyal to, in this case its the port mafia. Verlaine wanted to get rid of the pm because he believed that the pm is what kept Chuuya's humanity, eventually making Chuuya believe that he is only human if he stays loyal to the pm. Dazai knows this. Thats exactly why he didn't take Chuuya with him or even explains to Chuuya why he left, he knows it would be selfish to basically rip Chuuya's sense of humanity apart.

I have a feeling that if Dazai told Chuuya about the real reason he left the Port Mafia, Chuuya will not only feel conflicted about being in the pm, but he would also have an inner conflict with himself as a human.

People also think Dazai may not really care for him because of the fact that after the fight against Lovecraft he actualy deserted him, maybe that part was truly just supposed to be seen as simple humor, but either way I want to talk about it. Chuuya's only request to Dazai was to take him back to base safe, so why did Dazai leave Chuuya behind?

I mean he has carried Chuuya back to saftey before with no problem, for example in stormbringer when Chuuya uses corruption for the first time Dazai carries him back to the billiards bar and not to the mafia’s base so that he could say goodbye to his passing friends.

The reson behind this is because Mori needs to know that unlike Dazai, Chuuya is absolutely loyal to him. Leaving Chuuya the way he did will make Mori believe that these two really are at each others throats and that Dazai is insignificant to Chuuya. Making it seem that for Chuuya, the mafia comes first before anything else.

Therefore Dazai established Chuuya's saftey within the mafia since not only does Mori want these two to be hostile with each other, he doesn't want Chuuya to eventually turn against him if he truly found out more about Dazai's true reason of departure. Then again, this isn't canon but it is a logical assumption.

Not to mention that although Dazai did leave him behind, he folded Chuuya's coat and hat before taking his leave. There is also an an extra chapter where Ozaki Kouyou was talking with Chuuya but when he left he forgot his coat, which made Kouyou came across the coat; where she noticed a badge sewed inside saying "Name: Hatrack", she smiled fondly thinking to herself that some things just never change, in this case, Dazai and Chuuya's bond.

Dazai literally took his time to sew this into his coat just to tease him, it was a simple gesture but it shows us how their dynamic will never change. No matter what these two go through, they will always share a bond that consists on teasing, trust and underlying care.

All of this actually makes that theory of Dazai planting a bomb under Chuuya's car for the sole reason that the PM doesn't find Chuuya as an acomplice who aided Dazai on his escape much more feasable.

For Dazai to just plant a bomb under Chuuya's car with no motive makes no sense because if Dazai's true intentions were to simply mess with Chuuya, he would've most likely made it clear at that time. Dazai always has an underlying motive behind his actions, and in this case it is very likely that he did that for Chuuya's sake.

Don't get me wrong, I am aware that the bomb incident could've just been a comedic moment and I shouldn't look too much into it, but there is still a posibility, right?

These two hold so much trust and care for one another, yet they also hold a lot of bitterness and resentment. In the end the good aspects of their dynamic outweighs the bad.

Either you see these two in a platonic or romantic way, you can't tell me that their bond isn't significant.

Thank you so much for reading!! I wanted to talk about this for a while because I feel like people misinterpret Dazai's feelings towards Chuuya a lot so I hope this clears up things a bit<3

[acepalindrome]

I’ve spent much of 2021 thus far playing Stardew Valley in the hopes of distracting myself from the horrors of reality, and I keep meaning to make a list of mods I recommend! Because I am running a truly embarrassing number of mods and there are some really great ones that really improve the gameplay or add fun content or just make everything look really pretty! So without further ado, here are some of my favorite mods:

- Lookup Anything: This is probably my favorite mod. It basically eliminates the need to have to keep consulting the Stardew Valley wiki while you play. The title says it all: this mod lets you look up anything. Need to know what’s a good present for Shane? You can pull up a list of all his loved and liked gifts, with items you have on hand highlighted for ease, plus his birthday, how many hearts he has with you and how many points you need to get to the next heart. Need to know if you should hoard that pine sap or sell it? You can pull up all the uses for it, items that can be crafted with it, anyone who might like it, community center bundles it’s used for, and how much you make by selling. How many days until your melons are ready to harvest? What items can drop from that stone in the mines? What are all the items you can make with the furnace? It’s such a fantastically handy mod and I refuse to play without it!

- NPC Map Locations: One of the most frustrating things in the game is trying to remember everyone’s schedule and then not being able to find someone to give them a birthday present or turn in a quest item. This mod shows exactly where everyone is on your map and solves that problem for good!

- Automate: This mod automatically pulls items from nearby chests into machines, so you don’t have to keep running back and forth to your furnace to pick up the finished metal bars and toss more ore in there...it just spits the finished item back into the nearby chest, pulls in whatever available items you’ve got in the chest and starts running again without you having to do a thing! Just be careful of where you place your chests and machines or you might end up processing items you didn’t want to. Luckily, you can set individual chests to not have items pulled from them.

- Fishing Made Easy Suite: I suck at fishing. I almost never bother with fishing if I don’t have a mod to make it bearable. I like this one because it has different levels of easy-ness, so you can make fishing just 25% easier, or 50%, or 75%, or 99%! And there are some other fun perks too. You want to catch all fish regardless of weather or season? Want to catch legendary fish multiple times? Want to catch prismatic shards? Go nuts.

- Stardew Valley Expanded: This mod is absurdly huge and adds SO MUCH CONTENT. New areas! New characters! New events! I was a little hesitant to start it just because I knew there was so much to the mod and was a little concerned of how well it would mesh with the rest of the game, but the characters and story and style fit in perfectly with the vanilla content. I could almost forget Andy and Sophia weren’t there all along! The purpose of the mod was to make the game feel fresh and new for people who had already played the game and that’s exactly what it does. I love it.

- Artisan Valley/Project Populate JsonAssets/Starbrew Valley: I’m lumping these together but this is a collection of mods that add a TON of new items, crops, trees, flowers, machines and recipes to the game. You don’t have to download them all! You can pick and choose the ones you want, or download the PPJA content pack to get the bulk of these mods all in one go! I personally really love Artisan Valley because it lets me make floral candles and soaps. And an espresso machine so I can make fancy coffee. And Starbrew Valley so there’s actually a fun variety of alcohol in the game.

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- Chests Anywhere: Lets you access all of your chests from the menu! You can add some limitations, like only being able to access chests in the same location you’re in, but I’m dumb and constantly forget that I was supposed to bring a present for a villager with me today, or that I wanted to upgrade one of my tools but left all my metal bars at home. So instead of having to run all the way back to my farm, I can just open my menu and switch through the chests until I find the item I need! Labeling the chests also makes this a lot easier for organization.

- Seasonal Villager Outfits: Finally, the villagers have more than one set of clothes! This mod gives them different outfits in different seasons, different weather and special outfits for holidays! It’s cute and really improves the immersion to see the villagers wearing tshirts in the summer and bundling up in the winter, and dressing up for special events! Some characters will change their hairstyle too, which I love.

- Canon-Friendly Dialogue Expansion: Gives all characters more stuff to say so they won’t just repeat the same lines over and over! Also gives them varied dialogue for festivals starting in year 2, so they don’t say the same thing every year at the Egg Festival or Spirit’s Eve.

- Immersive Elliott: Add more dialogue! Lots more dialogue! I downloaded the Elliott version of this mod because that’s who I plan to marry but I recommend looking up dialogue mods for whoever your favorite characters are (I think there’s one for almost all the marriageable candidates.) You’ll probably be chatting a lot with whoever you’re trying to woo and it’s nice to get lots of new lines!

- Stardew Foliage Redone: There are tons of mods that change the colors and style of trees and buildings and stuff but this one is my favorite. It’s very soft and earthy and pretty without being overkill.

- The Love of Cooking: Actually makes cooking fun in Stardew Valley! It adds a cooking skill, an upgradable cooking tool that lets you cook with more ingredients (at the start you can only make one ingredient dishes), a cooking community center bundle, star levels to cooked items, an animation when you cook...cooking was very bland in the base game, and this mod really spruces the whole system up.

- Medieval Buildings/Medieval craftables: Again, there are so many mods that change up the look of your farm buildings and stuff but these are really pretty and cool and absolutely my style. There’s a mod to make all the town buildings have this style too, but I kind of like keeping the town normal and just living on my mysterious and beautiful farm apart from the rest of the world. My sprinklers are magic moss covered rocks now!

- Elle’s Dog/Cat/Horse/Barn/Coop/etc animals: Super cute animal skins. They look so huggable and soft. Also one of the dog options looks like my real life dog and that’s very important to me.

- Adopt ‘n’ Skin: Pairs well with the mods above, this mod lets you have multiple dogs/cats/horses and lets you use as many different skins as you like. I’ve got four cows and they’ve all got different patterns and colors. I love it. Also Marnie starts taking in stray animals and you can adopt them from her, which is a really cute way of letting you have more pets.

- Seasonal Garden Farmhouse: Its a pinch overkill especially in the early game, but I really like this farmhouse layout. It gives you a small kitchen from the start, a bathroom you can use to restore stamina, big open windows that change with the seasons and time of day...it’s a luxury house and it’s very nice to live in!

- Industrial Kitchen and Interior/Industrial Furniture/Rustic Country Town Interiors: These mods give the interiors and furniture a more rustic style, and the last one changes the town interiors to match. There are many furniture/interior mods, so if this style doesn’t do it for you, check out some of the others! There are lots of very pretty mods!

And I’m going to stop there but that’s only the tip of the iceberg and I highly recommend looking around NexusMods or ModDrop and seeing what kind of stuff is available!