#i regret nothing and I think about them a lot in god of war game canon. Aphrodite just loves this red-haired dork

[upn-the-sky]

Ares: *minding his own business Kratos: *dramatically crying for help somewhere on earth Ares: Are you serious? Right in front of my salad? Ares: *throwing away all his business and running to an aid ___

Yes, here is Ares/Aphrodite and eating some sea salted salad, because as Haephestus said in GOW3, Ares is a conquered god of war. And Ares kinda feels absolutely not ashamed of it, you know. But at the same time he has duties in his domain and plan of Olympus's fall.. And he wants to live his life in between. Anyway, the point is that time is running a bit differently for gods and for Olympus, okay? That's why Ares managed everything during the Kratos's prayer and jumped from the sky right in the moment to save his life. A god of good endings!

[theninth09]

What kind of video games I think Thiam likes, a headcanon list

Theo's Favorites

theo loves souls games and hes incredibly good at them. his favorite used to be bloodborne until elden ring came out. he spent days holed up in his apartment playing it until liam dragged him outside for fresh air. liam played elden ring as well, but theo basically carried him the entire time and solo'd malenia for him

liam suggested that theo should play hollow knight and theo was skeptical at first because of the art style, but ended up really liking it

liam knows about theo having been a star wars nerd as a kid, so his first ever gift to him is jedi: fallen order. theo loves it and buys jedi: survivor (the sequel) as soon as it comes out

theo really likes final fantasy and his favorite is ffvii. liam has never played the games, but he thinks that cloud is really hot (iykyk)

Liam's Favorites

liam has always liked the god of war series, because of the references to greek mythology and the playstyle. gow: ragnarök made him extremely emotional and it immediately became his favorite from the entire series

he likes fighting style games, like mortal kombat and super smash bros. he doesnt mention this often, especially not around new people, because hes afraid that people will comment on his choice of game in relation to his IED. he just genuinely likes to play them, it has nothing to do with his disorder. the first time theo plays against him, theo is so normal about it and doesnt make a single mean comment. it helps liam to immediately relax and just have fun without worrying

funnily enough, liam also likes stealth games. especially assassin's creed (he likes the historical aspects of it) and hitman. theo finds this absolutely hilarious as liam kinda sucks at being stealthy in real life and teases him that he finds theo attractive because theo is so good at being stealthy

Games They Both Like

they tried playing outlast together but had to stop pretty quickly because it was too triggering for both of them (theo got triggered worse, but liam wasnt comfortable either)

they like playing two-player games together (eg: bokura, it takes two, unravel two) and while they argue and bicker the entire time, they're also extremely efficient and get through everything quite fast bc they make such a good team

they both like resident evil and compare the monsters in the games to real monsters they've fought before. liams favorite is re3 and his favorite character is jill, while theos favorite is re4 and his favorite character is ada

both like the legend of zelda. liams favorite is twilight princess (he likes that you can pick up the cats & dogs in it, he finds link, zelda & midna hot and you can turn into a wolf in it) while theos favorite is ocarina of time (liam thinks hes basic for that)

since they both like the spider-man movies and comics, they both also enjoy the games

DnD isnt something either of them is usually interested in, but liam buys baldur's gate three because he got curious. liam romances shadowheart on his first playthrough and theo gets interested after liam finishes it. theo ends up romancing wyll and liam teases him the entire time since theo has to play without picking the evil choices because of that

Games They Play with the Puppy Pack

Mario Kart (they all get extremely competitive)

Phasmophobia (liam and alec scream a lot)

Among Us (the entire puppy pack warns alec that this is not a good idea, but alec persists until theo indulges him. as predicted, theo is way too good at being sneaky & lying and gets banned for life from playing)

Games Alec forces Theo to Play

PlateUp! (alec regrets this almost immediately bc theo gets weirdly intense about it and orders him around)

Minecraft (alec just wants to show off all his buildings and the animals he tamed, but theo ends up helping him actually finish the game)

Dress To Impress (theo "secret fashion icon" raeken always gets first place and it really pisses alec off)

Doki Doki Literature Club! (alec has no idea what its actually about and theo is very unimpressed when they start playing it. alec is extremely shocked and has these teary puppy dog eyes upon the twist and theo laughs at him)

part 2 here

[peachyfnaf]

I'm sorry but "MY BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS WITH A DISORDER<3" really made my day and I needed you to know

🤣🤣🤣

I can't believe Nexus is bullying peepaw war criminal.

Do you think Nexus is going to be stopped by big bro Sun or do you think the lil guy is going beyond the point of no return?

(Please talk about baby cringe Lord Nexus, I want to hear about your blorbo 🙏)

That's because Nexus IS my beautiful princess with a disorder, I'll have you know <3 they're diseased but it's okay I can give them their tetanus and flu shots and it'll all be better I GOT THIS

But. ahem, okay, blorbo yapping time. I'm not even gonna say "I'll try to keep this short" because I know it wont end up that way HAHAHAHAHA

"Do you think Nexus is going to be stopped by big bro Sun or do you think the lil guy is going beyond the point of no return?"

I... have absolutely no idea!!!1! (and also it took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to realize peepaw war criminal was Ruin KJDFHSDF)

The most frustrating thing about canon Nexus is how his morals, motivations, and goals seem to see-saw back and forth all the time. at first, he became how he is now due to Solar's death. he spiraled in his grief, identity-issues, and abandonment. but... now his motivation is to become an all powerful god??? while it's most likely that NSP is at play and affecting his thought process, it's... well, it's really hard to take him seriously as a villain because of it, lol. for an audience to enjoy, and even sympathize in some cases, with a villain, their goals and motivations have to be concrete. they have to be relatable, or at least understandable, but Nexus' whole thing is... not, Imho. and I know I'm not the only person who feels this way!!!

I see a lot of people calling Nexus "cringe", and the thing is, when it comes to canon Nexus, they're not really... wrong??? The worst thing Nexus has done so far is make Old Moon see his past victims, which is fucked up of him to do, but.. so far, that's kind of it??? other than that, his "villainy" consists of saying empty threats and cheesy evil one-liners. hell, he was supposed to kidnap Sun yesterday but instead spent the whole episode yapping and venting to him, chasing Sun around in the worlds darkest game of tag before getting some lead right in the face dkfjhsdfsd

Also, notice how he's only targeted Old Moon when it comes to actual physical violence? not Lunar, Earth, Solar, or Sun, but Old Moon? yeah, I did too. we already know that Nexus does everything because he's lashing out, but as of rn the only target he's gotten his hands on physically being O.M...? well. I think it says a lot. cause' yeah, he sure as shit scared the life out of the other Celestials, but he's never put his hands on them!! the only other one of them he harmed physically was Earth- and not only was he not aiming for her, she was just in the way- he felt immediate regret for his actions once in space, and has yet to even see Earth ever since that day.

So, I really have no idea if he's going to be "redeemed" or not. one second he's showing signs he might be, and the next he's falling further down the "pretty badly written villain" rabbit-hole. if he does get something akin to a redemption arc, he'll prolly mostly be accepted in the eyes of the viewers, considering a lot of peeps sympathize or at least understand where he's coming from, but I seriously doubt the other Celestials would take him back. the only one's who might see him as family/a close friend again are Sun and Solar, but even then, nothing would ever be the same.

I hope he gets redeemed, or at least freed from the hold Dark Sun has on him and he's able to live his own life, I really do. at his core, Nexus is a good person. a good person who was crushed under the weight of the shadow of the man he was born under. and we know this because he used to be New Moon. sweet, dorky New Moon.

New Moon, who made inventions like sentient knives and whoopee cushions. New Moon, who had matching My Little Pony stickers with his best friend. New Moon, who bought a whole ass island-luxury-house for Sun because he wanted to make him feel better and give him the proper space to heal. and New Moon- the poor freshly-baked A.I who gave his all to make sure he could do everything that Old Moon could, but it just wasn't enough. he tried and tried and tried, but it wasn't enough.

So yeah, idk if he's getting one in canon, but to me, he more than deserves a good ending, for the life he was given. let him be at peace.

[aikoiya]

LoZ - Hylia as a Character

Honestly, I really like the fact that Zelda/Hylia admits, rather openly, in fact, that what she did was wrong. Then, she owns up to it.

They could've gone the route that "this is destiny, you must" or made it seem like something entirely righteous & that the fact that it saves everyone automatically makes it okay, but the writers didn't.

What happened. What Hylia put into place was a necessary evil, but still wrong by its very nature of being a necessary EVIL. She manipulated Link, not because she wanted to, or because she was a bad person, but because it was the ONLY way that she could see things working out for the benefit of as many people involved as possible.

Still doesn't make it right, but it makes it understandable. Which are 2 very different things. And I've seen a lot of people conflating the 2. For whatever reason not realizing that you can understand why someone did something & that that something can still be wrong or morally questionable. And that these are 2 things that can exist at the same time.

Because Zelda said it best, "it was a war." It wasn't like what SS Link had experienced, where he was fighting most enemies one on one & it was really only himself who was in danger at a given moment. There were battles with armies & even the game says that the demons killed without mercy. In situations like that, you might have to do things that compromise your own morals & I just...

It makes Hylia so much more human in a way. She's not like the 3 golden goddesses who you only really interact with individuals who have their names & who may just be people that resemble them. (Minish Cap, Oracle of Seasons, & Oracle of Ages.) SS Zelda actually remembers being Hylia.

Thus meaning that SS Link's interaction with SS Zelda in that scene before putting herself to sleep, was the closest interaction any Link has ever had with an actual higher deity.

You get her actual opinion. Her regrets, her apologies. Seriously, she apologizes repeatedly. While it may be filtered through Zelda, who obviously cares very deeply about Link (yes, I ship zelink here, what of it), as she said, she was both Hylia & Zelda. Specifically, still Link's Zelda.

And I... I can't hate Hylia as a result.

Which causes me to not really understand the Hylia hate that I've seen here & there.

Like, it isn't Hylia's fault that she, Link, & Ganondorf were cursed. That was all The Bringer of Demise & his toddlerish butthurt over losing to not just a mortal, but a mortal teen. He cursed them, not Hylia. And what exactly do people think Hylia could've done?

What were her other options? She wasn't a goddess anymore at the time! And we dont even know the rules regarding the Hyrulean gods! There could be some sort of rule of non-interference or only indirect interference unless you give up your godhood that we don't know about!

And, if she hadn't done something, then think about what could've happened as a result.

According to the information that we currently have, Demise would've taken over & made a wish that we don't even know. Not only that, but he had apparently been killing so many humans that Hylia felt the need to lift pieces of land into the air via nothing but magic to keep Demise away from them! Like putting a toy up too high for a kid to reach.

This suggests that they nearly went extinct!

Also keep in mind that she literally gave up her godhood to keep everyone safe!! That's... that's huge!

Also, I hate that there are fans out there who blame Sky for them being cursed!

Dude just finished a fight with a Daimaō (yōkai general). A battle that involved a LOT of lightning striking the Master Sword, which is known to cause temporary deafness, disorientation, ect.

He likely wasn't even aware that the Bringer of Demise had cursed him & Zelda both.

The only person anyone should be blaming here is Demise.

Though, that does bring into question why Fi didn't notify Link of this fact.

LoZ Cultural Masterlist

[fanficapologist]

Oof, here we go!! Maera went there!! I couldn’t believe what I just read. I thought I was hallucinating the words.

Oooh the nerve of Aemond, I mean if I were Maera I’d ignore him too. He doesn’t get any sympathy from me. In this universe, even if he’d lain with Alys as a means to an end, and not because he felt something for her, well, we can’t deny the proof of it now can we.

I was also seething at how the people around her - Alicent and even her father fully expect her to turn a blind eye to Aemond’s indiscretion all while she is held up to an impossibly high standard of always doing her best and just accepting it, as if she should be grateful Aemond still returns to her. I know we’re supposed to be judging them based on the standards of that time but it just reminded me that even now, little has changed. Just this afternoon my parents asked when I planned on getting married as I am nearly thirty. And the worst part is how marriage is seen as the solution to everything - because as they put it, what else was I going to do with my life if I didn’t get married? It just drives me mad because it implies that all my accomplishments amount to nothing until I secure a husband, not even that, as if my entire being is worthless until I got married.

Anyway, back to the story, we finally have the confrontation scene!! I had to process my feelings on this because my knee jerk reaction is to feel insulted, how dare Alys act like that as if she was the wife? But then, when I calmed down, I realized, it could also be a projection of my possessiveness to Aemond and to an extent Ewan Mitchell. Fanfiction makes me lose myself in the character so it’s easy to feel as if I’ve been slighted, yes, I’m feeling quite meta today. But in reality, or in canon, Alys isn’t really portrayed heavily enough for us to really get a glimpse of what she was like so it’s easy to paint her as the villain, the seductress who tempted Aemond but let’s not forget- Aemond also chose to lie with Alys. I want to be better and not just lay down the blame on the other woman. For all we know, Alys is amused because she’s past all that and finds the entire thing silly because she doesn’t want to steal Aemond. She already knows his heart belongs to Maera. I feel like she’s like this -taunting because Maera is wary of her. I mean I do want to give her the benefit of the doubt. But I suppose the only way I’ll find out is if I read the next chapter.

When you said drama I didn’t expect it on a Monday hahahahaha but this powered me through the day so thank you so much!! Hope you’re doing well!

I always live for your analysis of the chapters each time I upload 🖤

Aemond is so god damn stupid but think we’ve all gotta remember this boy is about 18/19 in this fic. That is so young! And what man doesn’t make dumb decisions at that age? (I like to think most of the wars in the medieval times are due to young men spitting their dummies out and acting on impulse, only to regret it later)

With Alys, you’re right. In the canon we don’t know an awful lot about her. I’m hoping to give her a bit more depth as a character with more interactions between her and Maera. I’m not sure how some of the audience will react to that. We’re all Aemond girlies and I’m sure there will be plenty of comments like “why doesn’t Maera just stab her ffs.” (Tbf id react the same 🤣) but we can’t just go round stabbing people, can we?

Maera’s got to play the game, and what a long game it will be. She’s going to have to be sneaky, clever and downright badass if she wants to succeed in this world, especially with a war going on.

I have the bulk of the next chapter, just down to editing now. (Spoiler: there will be smut 👀)

[broodwolf221]

act 1 - first, second, and third memories | first major choice cws: death; blight; war; slavery

really just theorizing about why these are solas' regrets. the first feels obvious: the woman who ghilan'nain blighted, and the fact that solas had to kill her. rook & co. see this as cruel, but it's inevitable, isn't it, really? i suppose one read of the situation is that, because we don't see her die, perhaps solas did something worse to her... but i don't really buy into that, myself. he understands the blight, at least the risk it poses, and it wasn't like there was even an option to turn her into a grey warden at that time.

he killed one of his people because she became blighted. she became blighted because she carried out her role in this mission.

a regret.

the second one is different. solas and felassan liberating elves. spoke with a friend about this already (waves at u if ur reading this. hi skip!) and there seem to be many possible reasons this was a regret. i don't think he regretted liberating the slaves, but elgar'nan spoke of a payment to be made, and elgar'nan is brutal and cruel. my best guess is that solas' punishment for this was the death of some - or even many - of the slaves he had freed. obviously i don't know, but it seems like a viable possibility.

the other big possibility, imo, is that the injury solas sustained in that battle was somehow the beginning of the end for him, or for his rebellion. elgar'nan could have taken something from him, could have limited his powers somehow, or he could have simply - "simply" - wounded solas enough that he could no longer be in the midst of things. which, he always seems to be? he's an interesting leader, because he keeps showing up and pushing into danger right alongside those he assigned to the task.

the third is... it hurts. but the regret, in this case, is obvious. he used those spirits. he sacrificed them. it was brutal, and it was tactical, and very possibly it was necessary. but, as felassan said, they're supposed to be better than that. but i don't know that solas had that luxury, really; how do you war with numerous gods, your power not a match to any single one much less multiple of them, and remain ethical? he knows it was a horrible thing to do, but he still cared for those spirits. he used ones who would retain their nature unto their death.

solas is and has always been a tactician. felassan, at least what we see in the game, is much more earnest and idealistic. i'm not saying that's bad! it's not! but i can see some of the roots of solas' unwillingness to trust. because it feels like felassan would have stopped him, if solas had been open about his plan here. and they needed that artifact. it's horrible. but i understand, and i truly wonder if there were any alternatives, any other possible approach.

it also hearkens back to one line in the prologue, one of those lines that seems incredibly brutal upon first hearing, but upon further consideration, begins to make a lot of sense. "people always die. it is what they do."

people always die... because of what solas did. he took elvhen immortality from them - and more than that, he took their magic from them, much of it. he robbed them of the ability to defend themselves. he doesn't only care about elves, not at all, but he feels a great personal responsibility for them, because it was his actions that led to their current status.

but he did what he did to prevent the entire planet from being destroyed. the blight is not a war, seeking to claim a territory or a people; it is a force, a contagion, something that infects everything without hesitance. freed, it will destroy the entire planet. all animals, all plantlife, all people, even minerals and stone. dragons and titans. nothing will be free from its grasp.

and for all that rook & co criticize and condemn him... we're already beginning to do the same thing. choosing between treviso and minrathous. there's no moral option; no matter what you do, you're wrong. but we can only do what we can do, and there are choices that have to be made, and rook made them.

similar to the bad magic future timeline in dai. it feels like the only choice is to eradicate that future, but, as leliana says, all of it was real. it happened. sure, our inky rolled back time and prevented that blighted future. but how many children did our inky prevent being born? how many lovers did we erase? how many families did we prevent ever happening? there is no moral option here. there is only the best of bad choices, of impossible choices that have to be made - that's a cornerstone of the scale of things in da games.

all through dai - and now i'm seeing it in davg - we are slowly but surely following the same route solas did so long ago. starting out with an idealistic goal, and increasingly feeling the reality of impossible choices and constant no-win scenarios closing in on us.

[thelikesoffinn]

Do you play other rpg? It would be cool to read your opinion on cullen from dragon age Inquisition ❤️❤️❤️

Ooooh no, the question I've been afraid of ever since people started asking me stuff! For now I must out myself as someone who usually doesn't really...like classic rpgs?

Now, before we throw stones - let me explain!

I do like gaming and I do that a lot, but those things that are classically recognised as your standard rpg aren't really my cup of tea most of the time because, quite frankly, I. Get. Bored.

Really, I keep trying, but I'm rarely engaged. Like, I played the witcher II and III, oblivion, guild wars 2, teso and, as a wee lass, I played Fable. (And I think I did play Dragon Age Origins and Pathfinder but that was when I was a depressed teen in survival mode, so I'm not counting those for a hot moment because I remember nothing about them 👉🏻👈🏻)

In my experience, there's often a lot of running about and "go collect THIS in THREE VILLAGES AND EIGHT HOURS OF FOREST over and then come back!" and I can't deal with that sort of unnecessary grind that does nothing but make the game longer. (Now, we don't count cozy farming games or pokemon here, aight? Those are a different category in my book.)

Especially in new-ish titles where they, quite blatantly, go "yo okay you can only go HERE if you did all the side quests on that island over there otherwise you're too weak and that little wolf overhere will absolutely decimate you".

It's hard for me to stay engaged and actually finish the game, so they never quite managed to capture my heart, which is why I, at some point, stopped looking into RPGs as a whole.

(A few exceptions that I did enjoy were VTM Bloodlines and, more recently, Hogwarts Legacy.)

I'm more into narrower games that are a bit more story focused - like Stray Gods, omfg that one was so good - and don't let me wander off for 69 hours without to collect buckwheat for the farmers cousin twice removed, hehe.

(Btw, that's also why I'm so mad at the newer assassins creed games - ESPECIALLY Odyssey and Valhalla - because I absolutely love assassins creed as a whole, but I hate that they're so huge and open-worldy these days. Like, what is so wrong about a more story focused game? Let me enjoy this for a few hours and then back tf off please.)

The whole entire reason why I got into bg3 is basically the lovely @harcove because she was sharing a lot of clips and pictures - mostly of Halsin back then, haha - and I thought that game actually looked really fun so I decided to, potentially, throw almost 70€ into the fire and trust the opinion of someone I'd never talked to and here we are I guess 👉🏻👈🏻

(Haven't regretted it. I love bg3 dearly, and it's nice to find a proper rpg I actually do enjoy!)

So, to get back to your question: Unless you want me to tell you that Sebastian Sallow is actually a sweetheart if you look past his desperation or you want me to go on a rant of how amazing Malkavians are - which they ate omfg they so 100% are - or about how Geralt z Rivii is an absolute treat for anyone into the broody type, I don't think I can do a lot of talking about other rpg's, darling, I'm sorry!

[kayjaydee17]

1, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, 12, 17, 18, 22, 24, 25

I'm fully aware this is almost every single question but I am deeply curious; and this doesn't have to be just for the Avatar fandom either! Just whatever you're most passionate about in the violence ask game :)

I may be fighty and this ask game is literally called the choose violence ask game, but I do want to preface this by saying I get rambly about my opinions here and say things that I find annoying, but that doesn't mean there's one right way to engage in fandom! It doesn't mean you have to agree with me! My personal opinions are not things that everyone has to agree with or believe. I want everyone to do fandom however works for them, interpret characters however they want, ship whatever they want, babygirl and woobify and villainise whoever they want!

Also, if I said anything in here and anyone wants to discuss it more, please feel free to message! That includes disagreements or questions or anything.

That said... time to choose violence.

(I'm putting this behind a cut because good fucking god, it got long)

1) the character everyone gets wrong

The "everyone" is tripping me up, because there is nothing that everyone does, but I am so tired of seeing so many people's lack of nuance with Quaritch. Either he's a flat villain who exists only to be a war criminal or he's a soft little kittycat who regrets being Bad and can't wait to be a good father. Let! the man! be a war criminal! who awkwardly tries to bond with his son! (bonus points if he fails miserably in the bonding). I think there's a lot to explore with Quaritch and people falling so firmly on one side of the line or the other just feels so boring.

(I also struggle to find good Lo'ak fics. I can't put my finger on what's off about the characterisation, but when I first started reading Avatar fic, I was craving some Lo'ak hurt/comfort and couldn't find anything that felt true to his character.)

3) screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

Ahahahaha oh my god you're really going for it with this one. There are so many worst takes I've seen.

I think the worst is the idea that writing about underage characters in sexual situations makes you a pedophile. Like, god, every time I think that people out there actually believe that, are actually comparing fictional characters to real children -- god, I can't actually believe it. Like, good fucking god (and also, jesus, how fucking disrespect to actual victims/survivors of child abuse).

And it's always about sex!!! Like, no one's out here accusing Stephen King of actually wanting to murder children, but the moment you add sex, it becomes Big and Scary and Immoral. Like your genitals are somehow an off switch for your actual real-life morality. (and when I'm feeling particularly salty, I imagine these people must have the most fucking bleak sex lives because how??? can you assume??? that the fantasies, fiction, stories, imaginings, thoughts, anything, are the exact same as things you literally actually want to do? Like, goddamn, imagine being the partner of one of these people and wanting to explore a slightly edgy fantasy, good fucking luck)

(shout out to the kink community and their ability to play pretend and realise it's not real; shout out to the darkfic/dead dove fic community and their ability to write dark sexy stories and realise fictional characters are not real people, that what you write does not reflect real-life desires, that fiction serves so many purposes and I-want-this-to-happen-in-real-life fantasies are only one of them)

(this answer stretches across fiction as a whole rather than being fandom specific. For a fandom specific answer: I find the takes that recom Quaritch and human Quaritch are not the same person and that recom Quaritch doesn't have any sort of responsibility for the choices he made as a human absolutely wild. Up until the point he uploaded himself, they're the same person, same brain. Maybe we just have very different theories on the self, but god, that one annoys me.)

(good lord, we're on question two and I've already written so much)

4) what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

I don't actually have many people blocked on Tumblr. I should, but I just don't. I've been lucky, though, and haven't had anyone harassing me; if someone did, that would be a block for sure.

7) what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

I've been going back through all my fandoms over the years and I don't think this has ever actually happened to me! I've had the opposite happen -- didn't really care for a character and then fanfiction made me. (I actually didn't have a whole lot of interest in Spider when I joined the Avatar fandom? And then I found the hurt/comfort post-movie Spider fics, and then the dark monstrous incredible Quaritch/Spider fics, and I was changed, that is my boy.)

But I tend to have a really carefully cultivated Tumblr dash, and it's the only place I engage with fandom, really. I don't have much time for arguing about character interpretations; it's not really how I have fun with fandom? I don't care about how people interpret a character's actions or tend towards fighting about what a character meant. I sort of feel like for me, fandom is just a space to find your people and vibe with them and ignore everyone else.

(am I too chill for the salty ask game?????)

(also, I'm stubborn enough that if people's takes on a character were annoying me, I'd probably just start loving that character and my read on them even harder)

9) worst part of canon

I mean -- the white saviour narrative, especially in the first film, is icky and I wish it had been done differently.

The first thing that popped into my mind, though, was the fucking way Spider and Quaritch's relationship was written. There, I said it. It's badly written.

We're asked to have emotional investment in this relationship; a huge turning point for the future movies, Spider saving Quaritch's life, hinges on this relationship. But we're just given so little. This isn't a CinemaSins-esque critique that absolutely everything needs to be spelled out and stated explicitly for the audience, but goddamn, James, you need to give us more than

Spider being tortured. Being saved by Quaritch. A brief, combative conversation between the two. Spider smiling like absolute fucking sunshine when he realises Quaritch hasn't been killed by the ikran.

It makes no emotional sense. Fandom has done a wonderful job at filling in the gaps, but the movie doesn't give us anything to hold onto in this relationship. We see Spider being kidnapped, being tortured, and then being inexplicably comfortable with his kidnapper. We need something to bridge that gap for this relationship to hold any sort of emotional resonance. It felt so weird to watch for the first time, and Spider saving Quaritch had me throwing up my hands in frustration.

It's fine to let your audience fill in some blanks on their own, but don't make them write the whole goddamn story for you.

10) worst part of fanon

I'm struggling to answer this one! I don't know if there's anything commonly accepted as fanon that annoys me too much. There are certainly some fandom-wide takes that annoy me, but that's more people arguing about fictional characters (and how you're allowed to enjoy them) than actual fanon.

12) the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

Okay, I'm flashing back in time here to my days in the Harry Potter fandom (with the obligatory fuck JKR disclaimer, and if we're choosing violence, I think "you can never read HP fanfiction ever ever again because its creator is a terrible person" is a bad take). There were so many anti-Ron takes, and you know what! Ron Weasley! Is a good egg! He is strong and loyal and hot-tempered and he supports trans rights! We love Ron Weasley in this house.

(Unrelated bit of information: Harry was my first fandom little black dress -- the character I could ship with anyone.)

17) there should be more of this type of fic/art

This is very selfish because it's more "I want to read this" than "I feel this is lacking", but looooooong hurt/comfort fics. Like, god, just give me thousands and thousands of words of a character being hurt and traumatised and ignored and thinking they're not good enough, and make me fucking ache, and make that moment where they finally get a hug so so good because of how much we've been hurting beforehand. I'm such a slut for that.

Actually, you know who I'd really like to see in these kinds of fics? Lo'ak. I've got a few for Spider that I love and there's of course "pretty boy snuff film" for the absolute wrecking and traumatising of Jake Sully, but I haven't been able to find any hurt/comfort Lo'ak fics that really speak to my tastes.

(As for art -- more porn. Always always more porn.)

18) it’s absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on…

All the incredible amazing unhinged possibilities of darkfic. The majority of the Avatar fandom seems more preoccupied with gasping in horror that someone could write non-con than understanding why people might want to write that, the things darkfic can do, and yes, that includes dead dove stories, the ones that want to roll around in all their dark awful sexiness solely for the purpose of getting people off.

(there are of course people doing this! And they're doing amazing things! This is a ramble about fandom as a whole. It feels like everyone always needs to be sweet and wholesome and pure, and even the angst has to be because everyone has the Best Of Intentions at all times. Give me people being messy and making mistakes and fucking up and being selfish and making bad decisions-- whether that turns into dark fic or not)

(this extends to the recoms. I don't really understand recom love (mainly out of it not speaking to me, not in the pearl-clutching "how could you possibly" way) but I especially don't understand it when people make them sweet little kittens. Let the kitties have claws!! Let the monsters be monstrous!) (and, once again, this is just how I enjoy fandom. Not everyone has to enjoy fandom the way I do!)

22) your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

I've sat on this one for a really long time and I just don't know! Nothing had really jumped to mind for me. I mean.... I'm mad at James Cameron for ignoring Neytiri for more than half of the second movie, but that's not a fandom thing. My favourite part of canon that canon just ignores?

24) topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

I've already mentioned it, but the fucking "if you write underage characters in sexual situations, you want to harm actual children". It's just so fucking gross to equate the abuse of real-life children to people writing fiction. What a way to fucking downplay actual harm to real people.

(also, if you think AO3 is full of "literal pedophiles", maybe stop using the fucking site.) (shout-out to the time I saw someone clutching pearls that they saw incest fics on AO3. You know, the archive built on the platform of "maximum inclusiveness")

25) common fandom complaint that you’re sick of hearing

Ahahahahahaha that you mustn't age up teenage characters because it's still somehow harmful to them. (once again, it cannot be stressed enough, they're fictional and you cannot hurt them). I once saw someone say, "Imagine how Neteyam would feel if he saw you writing smutty stories about him" and I did not know what to feel because Neteyam does not get to have an opinion. Neteyam isn't real.

A claim I've seen a lot is that aging up isn't okay because "you still saw a teenager and thought about writing smut about them!!!!" And I mean -- maybe? But it also doesn't matter, because the way you feel about fictional characters does not mean anything in terms of how you treat people in real life. I think seeing someone write smut about 21-year-old Lo'ak and saying, "You want to fuck teenagers!!!!" is absolutely unhinged.

[wurdulac]

i don't necessarily regret having played wh40k: rogue trader bcs i ended up getting a way better grasp on what wh40k is (a cesspit) and i also had fun (though it is a pretty bad game when it comes to plot and general... design of its systems; it's a very confused game), i just kinda uh. wished i didn't pay for it. i liked combat a lot, i liked creating my character as i go, just taking whatever new choices she has made and see what the broader picture of her it creates.. i was surprised to see some nuance in writing present in the romances too. also it's a game with longest ending slides ever, especially for a game with nothing much to say. tbh when i think about their fucked up endings for women who were punished for transgressing the inescapable social order i get mad.

also i guess i sort of knew it's a grimdark setting but i didn't know it takes the state propaganda it created to be the actual truth of the universe. i've been baffled when revisiting older rpgs i'd played and realizing they're libertarian etc. but this one takes the cake of being straightforwardly fascist. maddening given how it has all the telltale signs of being a caricature of the fascist system but then like i said everything it believes abt the world turns out to be true. workers are striking because it's the deamons corrupting them. mutated humans are genetically evil. the perma-war state is necessary actually. the non-human races need to be eradicated and they're also racist towards humans and would strike first anyway. the bloated corpse they worship as a god actually protects the people against the evil without so all those thousands of psykers sacrificed everyday are 100% justified and necessary.

[berrylover0571]

It's very exhausting that people say they hate feminism, when what they really hate is the repackaged pink veneer feminism that is sold to them by capitalism. The repurposed and co-opted version of feminism that lines executive pockets and doesn't actually fix anything is not feminism, it's meant to make you think it is, but if it was feminism, it wouldn't be doing half the shit it's doing.

Nothing has ever made me want to blow my brains out more, truly, then when somebody says they hate feminism, when what they mean is that they hate repackaged capitalistic feminism for neoliberal feminism that rehabilitates war criminals. No you don't hate feminism, there are lots of types of feminism that are antagonistic and generally shitty, but you don't hate feminism, you hate trans exclusionary radical feminism, or sex worker exclusionary radical feminism, or feminist Theory being repurposed by Christian fundamentalists, for neoliberal feminism.

You don't hate feminism that utilizes a Marxist lens, you don't hate intersectional feminism, or black feminism, or feminist liberation, because feminist Liberation is equality.

Do you want to know what's not equality? Egalitarianism. Egalitarianism was invented by a bunch of Libertarians and weirdo YouTubers because they didn't like the ideas of feminism because it actively peeled away at their fucking conceptions of reality and questioned them. Egalitarianism quite literally reinforced the very things it was supposedly trying to critique. Egalitarianism isn't real, it's a manufactured ideology by a bunch of conservatives who are now white nationalists or crazy people. If you say you are an egalitarian with a Capital e, unironically in 20 fucking 23, I have reason to suspect you are either Two Steps From fascism, A terf, someone with a word a day calendar who decided to use the word today, or so out of touch you don't see the social context and connotations of egalitarianism and who created it and why.

And yes, I know the social context and connotation of saying I identify as a feminist, of saying I believe and work with feminist Theory and it's a lot more substantially compelling than egalitarian theory, because egalitarian theory has never been academically published, and anything they critique and say definitely has a paper written on it under feminist Theory, because it's a reactionary movement invented by a bunch of fucking weirdos. A bunch of fucking weirdos mind you who got pissed about video games and now for some reason our pundits on the political stage. Seriously how the fuck did Milo yianopolis get on 24-hour news Cycles?

You want proof that egalitarianism is a lie, and feminism is what you're actually talking about, here's an anecdote for me: I used to identify as an egalitarian in some capacity. I used to be very heavily opposed to feminism. I would regularly share critiques of feminism, many of which I remember to this day because of how deeply I regret them and How Deeply they make me cringe. Ion ironically shared armored skeptic videos, Lauren Southern videos, shoe on head videos before she supposedly went left-wing, amazing atheist, thunderfoot, I was deeply immersed in all of this shit, and I believe that there was a better way than feminism, it was egalitarianism, it made sense. I remember following Sargon for God's sake, listening to bullshit talking points from Paul Joseph Watson, I was neck deep in bullshit and there was no signs of me stopping. The thing that snapped me out of it was actual skepticism that held people accountable and talked through things. The people listed above didn't have that, of the people I listed almost every single one of them have either abandoned egalitarianism in favor of leftism and a form of feminist Theory, they have recanted their statements, they have turned coat on each other, or, my personal favorite because it just shows you how egregiously bullshit it all was, are out and out fascists who have propagated conspiracy theories and utter bullshit like white genocide.

You want to say that you are not a feminist because men have it just as hard as women feminists would fucking agree, at least in some capacities, because the expectations put upon Men by Society are not in fact good and do in fact hurt people. It's no wonder that there is a problem with male suicide rates, it's no wonder that masculinity is for some reason in crisis, there was never a strong Foundation of masculinity under capitalism, there wasn't a strong Foundation of femininity under capitalism, it's all a marketing demographic to fucking sell you shit. That's why now we have a bunch of influencers trying to rebuild masculinity from the ground up like Andrew tate, or Jordan peterson, people telling men to be men, which doesn't mean anything when there's not been a foundation of masculinity and people aren't allowed to explore gender as they're comfortable. You're not pissed that fucking feminism is down playing the suffering of men, feminism isn't doing that, I've read enough papers to tell you that, there are plenty of books, reams and reams of data, countless quotes and people who actively agree that men suffer under current patriarchal standards, because we are reinforcing the ideologies of men who are now dead who believe that women were cows meant to be bred and left to fucking die, taking care of the home as there only responsibility, if that. The beliefs and predictions of a patriarchal society doesn't mean that men are the bad people, it means that a group of men, several hundred years ago, maybe even several decades ago, created standards that we cannot abide by and we cannot atone towards, and invalidate Us in the present. It disallows us from exploring gender and exploring ourselves, being the man or woman we want to be or whatever the fuck we identify with, and deny people the agency to define themselves.

The patriarchy isn't modern men, though certain Modern Men do in fact reciprocate it, because they directly benefit from it, no patriarchy is not just modern men, it isn't modern masculinity, it is the fact that we as a whole society, capitalism and every other system of oppression, reinforce standards of masculinity that we're put in place by people who are now dead and do not matter. The fact that the fucking well of discourse was so thoroughly poisoned by a guy who's Avatar was a PNG of a helmet with a suit under it, some jackass who had a fetish for humiliating a woman who dare to critique video games that absolutely needed to be critiqued because next to no kind of reporting is being critical of video games at the moment and that's fucking concerning, and some jackass who decided a picture of some dude from ancient Persia or mesopotamia, that wasn't even sargon.

Half of these motherfuckers got pissed by a bunch of college students, which is the most inane bullshit I've ever heard. I can't stress enough, I've gotten pissed at video games, I did not get as pissed at video games as these guys got pissed at people who made video games and were parts of the industry. It is astounding how much bullshit propagated because a bunch of guys, who didn't make video games and barely fucking had any sort of experience or know how of the fucking area, decided they knew more about feminist Theory than any fucking person on the planet. None of these dudes could critique feminism, not a single one of them could, if put in a room with an actual academic feminist, which one of them was and was wiped the floor with, if put in a room with an actual academic feminist none of their points hold water because most academic feminists have in fact addressed to the points they're talking about.

I hope every person who fucked over and made it impossible to talk about gender issues, simply because they were pissed about video games, gets a hot iron catheter stuck in their dick hole, just so that you can know the pain and discomfort I fucking feel having to navigate the world right now. You can trace a direct line from some of these motherfuckers to the current debates we're having about transgender issues, quite a number of them made fun of transgender people and emboldened people to do the same, escalating them down a fucking path that led them to nazism, it's no wonder that fucking Sargon was a member of the UK independence party, a nationalist organization with nationalistic ends that hinged on fascism.

It would be fucking comedic if it wasn't so tragic, how the ethics and video game journalism people just happened to ignore the ethical fucking dilemma and conflicts of interests that they had.

I deeply fucking despise every single person involved in this fucking problem, and I hope they fucking work their asses off to fix it or get busy fucking dying, because there's no fucking reason for this shit to be so fucking impossible to navigate.

You got played, you got fucked up, and now we can't use the actual language we need to fucking use to talk about issues that actually do fucking happen. It is astounding how many times fucking people have reinvented terminology that already exists because they can't talk about feminist Theory because, I cannot stress this enough, a bunch of weirdos got pissed about video games and decided to take it out on video game feminist who weren't doing anything in the grand scheme of things. A good part of our fascist backslide has to do with the fact that a bunch of people felt entitled to be jackasses.

[sandwrrm]

from the ask list thing— bo-katan, for whichever ones you want/all:D

Aaaaa thank you! I did almost all of them but left out a few that I couldn't think of anything good for. Without further ado--

— a fun headcanon

She is really good at video games, especially FPS and strategy games (naturally.) She grew up kind of a loner and spent most of her teens holed up in her room not knowing what to do with herself, and this was one of her major pastimes.

— a sad headcanon

The scar on her forehead came from a near-miss of being fatally stabbed during an attack on the palace during the civil war, when she was only about 6-7. Fortunately she managed to dodge just enough for the blade to graze her skin and nothing worse. (I have a lot of uh. much sadder headcanons from this same night/event, but I’m not revealing them yet because I want to turn them into a proper fic >:D )

— a headcanon that canon doesn't disprove (yet lol, this could change in mando s3 now that we’re getting more Bo history)

She joined Death Watch ~4-5 years before TCW canon, but continued to feign a normal life in Sundari and a relationship (albeit a strained and not-very-close one) with Satine while actively double-crossing her and plotting to overthrow her behind her back. Satine didn’t find out any of this until right after the shit went down with Death Watch being exposed in general.

— a headcanon to spite canon, specifically

She is somewhere between 23-26 during TCW. Not 17. Not the same age as Satine. Early to mid 20’s. I will die on this hill.

— a headcanon about their family

Mom Kryze was not born a Mandalorian, she was the eldest daughter of a prominent Kalevalan noble family, and was adopted into the culture when she married Adonai... who was not a Duke until he married into her family, just an influential warlord and the head of clan Kryze.

— a missing scene that definitely happened

Not so much a headcanon but a speculation… something fucking intense must have gone down for her to lose the darksaber to Moff Gideon because?? she’s amazing at weilding it as we now see???

— I recognize canon has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it (+ what should have happened)

This is a bit controversial but in my headcanons, I tend to massively dial down her regret, deradicalization, and general arc towards redemption in favor of keeping her unhinged and villainous, just a bit more subdued with age. She’s just so fun and entertaining to me when she’s terrible….. I am happy with the direction they're taking her in current canon too though!

— something they believe about [other character] that isn't true

I headcanon that she had a lot of irrational, sometimes bordering on delusional, hate for her sister that often wasn’t based on anything true, but was founded on a twisted and dramatized misinterpretation of things she believed to be true about Satine and her actions, intentions, ideology, etc.

— their happiest memory

Having her dad's armor reforged to fit her and putting it on for the first time. I feel like it was kind of a “second birth” moment for her.

— favorite fanon relationship

I fucking live for anyone who writes Death Watch era Bo and Gar Saxon as antagonistic barely-frenemies who constantly give each other hell, I don’t know why it’s so funny and perfect to me but it is

— favorite should have been canon relationship

God. listen. not to get on my bullshit but Bo/Pre Vizsla…. Yes as a romantic ship because I'm trash of them, but I also just think more of their relationship and their past together “should have been canon” in the sense that I wish it was explained and fleshed out more, no matter what the nature of their relationship was. I’m dying to know what their history is, how they met, how Bo joined Death Watch, how she ended up his second-in-command, etc. I’m happy with my headcanons but I want to know what officially went down too!

Ask Meme post for anyone who wants it!

[notthestarwar]

WIP

Posted:

Talking to the dead (tangled au)

Mand’alor the lost

What the living do rewrite

How the living go on living and the dead go on living with them (what the living do sister story)

No children (looper au)

The glass wall

Not posted:

[So these are the ones i’ve actually started writing. i have another list of ideas/disembodied snippets. which is. yeah. there are a lot. oh my god there are so many. why are there so many.]

Amnesiac Fox- fox&maul. Maul finds fox on a distant planet, in a small town (one that bears a striking resemblance to small town americana) unaware of the greater galaxy and pretty convinced that he’s lived in this dead end town all his life. Maul is so utterly baffled by this, that he winds up forgetting that he isnt the type of person who would try and help, and tries very hard to help Fox.

Obi Wan and Jango’s dream(s)-  due to some kind of force event, Obi Wan gets trapped in a repeating cycle where he is living in a fantasy world, with no clue that this isnt his life. Each chapter is a different story cliche, (so theres a coffee shop one, one where he’s a dentist, a professor one, one where he’s an aerobics teacher) and he doesnt remember the last in the next. However, twist! he’s somehow dragged Jango in to this and Jango does remember, and he is not impressed. Jango thought that he died, but now he is not dead and he’s beginning to think he has some regrets actually and if he’s alive, he would quite likely to be back in the real world (which was all going to shit when he ‘died’) however, instead, he’s stuck playing pretend with a Jedi. he’s pretty sure that this is Obi Wan’s fault. he is also pretty sure that the Jedi is only pretending not to remember and that this whole thing is just Obi Wan playing games with him. pretty much wrote this to make myself laugh tbh

Fox gets a job- Post war. Fox is looking for a job but does a terrible job at each interview he gets given (presumably deliberately) and keeps giving overly honest answers to questions (not ideal when you killed your last boss). In the end, he ends up falling in to work as a private investigator, finding people who are victims of underground cloning ops? But he refuses to take any payment and also doesn’t tell anyone he is doing this. It’s a little bit crime noir if you squint. Its’s quin/Fox with background Cody/Obi Wan.

Prime, the worst clone. In which Jango steals Cody’s job after Boba dies on Geonosis and the clones all hate him for it. after a battle, while he’s pretending to be a clone (because he has nothing better to do.he wasnt supposed to be the one that survived) he stumbles upon a cave, empty aside from a furnace and a armorer (unexpected.) before he can say anything, the armourer gives him a prophecy, telling him about the night of 1000 tears and saying that if he lets things continue, all Mandalorians will be dead in a few decades. meanwhile, Cody, away from jango, is not actually that concerned about being usurped, because being forgotten about has actually given him quite a lot of freedom and he’s completely worked it to his advantage.

Undead Fox- Where Palpatine messes with sith ruins he doesnt understand, and accidentally makes an unkillable clone. When Fox returns from the unsurvivable, acting creepy and like a man most likely possessed, Palpatine knows he’s messed up. There is something very wrong with this clone, people are going to notice and they’ll start asking questions he doesn’t want asked, so he kills him. Problem solved. Then, the next morning, Fox reports in to him, like every morning. Palpatine is disturbed, but resolves to do a better job next time, and then, Fox reports in again the next morning. In which, the guard, very loyal to their commander, resolve to look after whatever their commander has now become, and work very hard to cover up his many ‘deaths’ while Palpatine, continuously tries to kill him, before the Jedi trace back the eldritch horror residing in the guard barracks, to him. Palpatine is increasingly unsettled and finds himself too uncomfortable in Fox’s presence, to even consider trying to harness his power/experiment on him. He can’t bear to be in his presence and so rather than just locking him up, keeps trying to kill him in increasingly more inventive ways. Meanwhile, Fox is very strange, seems to be gettting stranger and is decidedly not human anymore, the guard find themselves trying to grieve for a man that can’t die.

Who killed chancellor palpatine-  also wrote this one to make myself laugh tbh. half of it is written on paper? don’t know why i did that because i lost it and now i can’t remember what happens aside from an outline. i’m hoping i’ll find it because i want to read it again as i found it very funny the first time.

so it starts, with the Jedi launching an investigation as chancellor palpatine has been found dead.over the course of the story, literally everyone confesses to this murder, because they all think they are covering for someone, but then the person they are covering for is covering for someone else and so on. it’s in two parts, because when they finally establish that none of these people were involved. and actually rex and ahsoka were covering for each other, so thats the end of that line, it turns out that they don’t even have the right time of death, because palpatine was already dead during his ‘last few days’ and that was also a coverup, starting a whole new chain of people admitting to crimes they didnt comitt.

The unwanted and unintentionally abandoned- Post order 66 Boba and Korkie (Kenobi) team up. Exploration of what it is to be a bad father and how trying, isn’t always enough.

Post order 66, Obi Wan finds Cody. (reverse Cody finds Obi Wan on Tatooine.) Cody is not happy.

Venators are haunted-  This is a long desc. cause i love it very much but don’t have much of it written (apart from the end and the begining).  i want to get a ghost story vibe building throughout. where it goes from ‘obviously it’s not ghosts’ to ‘oh shit it’s ghosts’ and i’ve yet to figure that out lol

Palpatines plans end up falling apart because the Jedi are the only ones that will spend any time on the venators and so he has little to no control over the war as all of the non clone officers quit. The venators all have very bad vibes. cold spots. flickering lights. (initially blamed on the ships themselves) but then, as time goes on things are less easily explained (a childs laughter heard in the corridors, equipment unexpectedly breaking sometimes when they are about to head out in battle on the senates orders) at first the officers just refuse to live on the ships, saying that its too uncomfortable to live there, and then, they find that this stuff happens whenever clones are around and they start to become unsettled by the clones at large. the clones are entirely used to all of this and take it in their stride and the jedi are like. well. odd. but. what can we do about it.

As the war goes on, more strange stuff starts to happen, with fog coming out of nowhere in battle when things are turning bad, saving clones time after time and the other things are happening more and more. then, the fog starts to appear on the ship, and strange things begin to be written in spilt salt, fogged up mirrors, anywhere really. saying things like ‘sith senate’.eventually, the jedi start to pay attention to youngling rumours that the clones are haunted, but they are very nice about it and are like ‘well the ghosts seem to have their best interests at heart and they don’t seem to mind (the clones dont know any better)’.

Nobody can see the ghost/ghosts and there are many theories as to who they are (lost padawans, the clones that didnt make it, including those that died as children. ect) but actually, it’s Arla. in this AU, she does die with Jango’s parents, and when the first clones are born, she makes it her mission to stay with them. she cant really do anything, but over the years she finds more ways to make her presence known, and to influence the living (to try and help the clones). The story ends as a fixit, and when the clones are ‘safe’, the ghost moves on. (theres a bit at the end, where out of the view of the living, ghost arla reunites with jango (now that she’s fixed his fuck up) and they walk on to whatever is next together.

The one where everyone runs away-  technically a sequel to ‘part of me died here so another could go on’ which I did not want to have a sequel. The whole point of it was that nothing changed. But then I started thinking about the idea of his brother being out there just eating Cody alive and began this. Cody has a fuck-it moment and starts sleeping with Obi Wan, but they end up having a full blown secret relationship, and then Cody runs off to find Ponds. Rako Hardeen happens and Obi Wan is like- Cody is going to see that I died! I have to find him and explain. Then Anakin finds out Padme is pregnant and decides that he needs to find Obi Wan. In Anakins absence, Ahsoka and Rex actually investigate the chips. Palpatine is sweating cause he wants to set off order 66 but like, Anakin is off trying to find Obi Wan so he keeps delaying things and then when he can’t delay any longer, he sets off order 66 and it… just doesn’t work. Literally, a chain of familial love just really really fucks up palpatines plans. Cody/obi Wan

Those that are forgotten and those that are just lost-  Jango/Obi Wan. they meet on Mandalore during the civil war and within minutes of meeting, Jango sees a vision of himself killing Obi Wan years in the future. He ends up falling for him anyway.

A violent product of a violent world- Cody/Obi Wan. Chip CC2224 finds himself in competition with the man he once was for Obi Wan’s love. And then Cody starts trying to take over CC2224’s body.

Modern AU- The most convoluted backstory ever. There are Jedi but no force powers. There are no clones but there is a army of ‘brothers’. Palpatine is a billionaire with his hands in way too many pockets and is behind the wars (worldwide) but nobody knows.  Obi Wan leaves the Jedi as he feels he can do more help as a civilian. Plo Koon and Quinlan leave as well and they are running a small civil rights advocacy venture in a tiny office. Obi Wan and Cody are in a long term relationship but Cody is still in the military which Obi Wan isn’t happy about. Jango is tied up in this series of wars but nobody (including him)  knows how, just that his employer sends him on a job and next thing you know, there is a war in that place. Jango leaves a trail of almost identical looking babies behind him over a period of about 30 years, doesn’t acknowledge this until he finally decides that he wants to know who the hell is behind this all and whats actually happening and hands baby Boba to Cody.

The cycle ends with me- in which Luke runs away to tattoine to try and raise Ben Solo’s child and ‘end the cycle.’ Literally takes nothing from canon but names. I can not stress this enough, Rey and Ben Solo are at no point anywhere near being together. Rey is a lesbian and living her best life.

Slavery canon divergence- Jango & Obi Wan were slaves together in the past. Cody ends up driving Anakins redemption?

The dream/the pond- University prof AU in which all is perfect and actually a dream, reality starts creeping in and corrupting the beautiful

End credits- Codywan reverse happy ever after. (post order 66 happily ever after slowly unravels)

Cody tries to find himself by moving in to Rex and Ahsoka’s spaceship roomshare.

Obi wan raises anakin Modern AU- where Qui Gon (irresponsible absent dad) visits (just about) adult Obi Wan, turning up on his doorstep with a child (this is Anakin, your new brother) and then dies in an accident.

Suburban life- post order 66 Anakin and Padme living in perfect suburbia, on some distant planet, nobody knows them. They are desperately trying to make friends but everyone thinks they are utter weirdos. So they plot to bring Cody and Obi Wan to live there, to show everyone how normal they are. Cody and Obi Wan get completely strong-armed in to this (anakin and padme buy them a house without telling them and ask them to come ‘for a visit’). It goes badly, because Cody and Obi Wan are only normal, to Padme and Anakin and are really really strange to anyone else. Nobody in this neighbourhood knows about the war or the Jedi, and it seems very apparent to them that Cody grew up in some kind of cult, and Obi Wan is the kind of rich weirdo that doesnt think twice about marrying a guy born in to a cult. Padme and Anakin decide that the best way to go about things is to pretend they don’t know each other and then, when they’ve got an in, Obi Wan and Cody can spread the good word. It is immediately really obvious they know each other. so the neighbours just view Cody and Obi Wan as like some kind of plant sent to spy on their bbq’s/parties by Padme and Anakin.

Council chambers- Obi Wan walks in to a council chambers type limital space, full of representatives all of a possible future, each of them are terrible

Canon divergence where Obi Wan arrives on Kamino and finds it burnt out.

The Orb- Codywan on tattoine in which Obi Wan tries to tear apart reality to fix the past

The one where Cody’s chip breaks and he sets out as a bounty hunter after a woman hires him to find her husband

Genres.- the OG story (prequels and original trilogy) but each chapter is a different genre.

Anakin dies-. Padme living in the aftermath. Obi Wan can’t stand to see her as she reminds him of Anakin.

Bedtime stories from an alternative universe- A collection of stories from various universes running parallel to the prequels and what comes after. I started this one as a way to write the au’s that never got past the point of being ‘this is what happens’. it’s going to be a collection, of someone telling a kid a bedtime story and those stories, are actually some of my abandoned au’s lol. (believe it or not none of the au’s in this list so far are actually abandoned. these are the ones i’ve started writing (some of them are like. almost finished. thousands of words lol.) and intend to finish (lol). so this collection is the ones that i have truly abandoned.

What the living do sequels-

-And when the time comes to let it go, to let it go (Boba, Rex and Cody in the aftermath)

-Nothing is lost in life or love (Cody and Obi Wan live their best life after the war. Obi Wan hasn’t seen a ghost in years. Anakin is raising the twins by himself and so visits often to make this their problem.)

-You could make this beautiful sequels

-the one where Cody confronts Obi Wan about running

-the one where Luke tries to have a family dinner

The Not tangled au’s associated offshoots including:

-Rex and Ahsoka adventurers

-Boba Fett, criminal little brother

-The faceless warriors- In which Fox and a group of his brothers are a ghost story, but actually they are real.

-Cody the tired innkeeper, pining for the king. (Cody/Obi Wan)

-The sequel in which Luke gets engaged to Din, the prince of Mandalore and the Mandalorian’s tell the royal family where the Jedi went.

[yostresswritinggirl]

@butterfly-mochi​ Rewrote this freaking thing thrice because it keeps getting deleted wth tumblr agjvahkfajkvk- I enjoyed writing it a lot tho and since I’m too weak to the characters I ended up writing for all of them (except for Sucrose, im sorry bb huhu, I ran out of brain power). This is my first time writing for so many of them in one go so please excuse me for any mistakes or blandness ywy thank you for letting me write for my baby Ganyu too hhhhh

Universe Reversal 2

Genshin Impact Character Reader and Modern Players with Zhongli, Childe & Ganyu (how they simp for you) (event masterlist / Part 1 / Part 3)

Zhongli the F2P

The most relatable out of the bunch because this man is still broke and can only rely on the primogems he can farm. And he had a LOT. The one thing he doesn’t have a lot on, however, is his luck.

So how did he manage to pull you?: Well after exhausting all his primogem on your banner with nothing but weapons and other characters, he has lost his resolve. But by some weird luck, there was a character bug that was fixed and in his email was the almighty consolation primogem. Enough for ONE pull. And by the Gods he FINALLY got you.

He’d nonchalantly post his screenshot of pulling you using a single acquaint fate in his friend group without any words and everyone else just loses their shit. “You got them in one pull?!” “Yeah” A riot.

This was partnered with the fact that not only is Zhongli an F2P player, but also barely has any five star characters.

He looks calm and apathetic over the news, but behind the screen he’s exhausted and relieved, silently livid.

He has no primogems left to squeeze for a constellation so you’re instead pampered with the best weapon suitable for you (because that’s all he keeps getting).

Zhongles spends most of his time farming for materials to quickly level you up, unlocking all your stories and voiceline, but he fucked up on your build (his artifacts are messy).

He follows communities, forums and videos regarding your character to know all the things he needs to perfect your build. You can barely make a dent against normal mobs, so he knew he was doing something VERY wrong.

Is the type of person to keep refreshing the page for new content, very updated.

Ask him a question about your character and he’s gonna bring you the word vomit that is his research. He’s not gonna stop- probably accidentally developed a copypasta for you.

Also follows your VA in both Tiktok and Twitter to indulge in every bit of content. He also has that screenshot of his pull saved and locked.

On his birthday, a friend of his gifted him a chibi plushie of you and he has treasured it ever since, treating and handling it like its a figurine.

“It is merely pure luck and grace from the gacha gods that I got this character, and I will make sure that they know I am very grateful for this fortune.”

Favorite Voiceline: Birthday Message

Childe The Whaler

This lucky wealthy bastard with no remorse for his money whales for EVERY character. He’s making a collection, which is to get all the characters, especially the five stars. So when your banner finally popped up, he’s gonna square up and trigger a whole ass meteor shower.

How he pulled you: Money. His luck with this games are actually not the best so he always compensates with money, he got you halfway through the first failed pity, almost giving him a heart attack that he might actually break the bank just to get you.

And then he pulls more to raise your constellation lol.

The first thing he does is look over your character info and read through it all; constellation infos, your base stats, artifact compatibility.

At the end when he’s maximized everything, he would then focus on playing around with your character *coughs climbing noises coughs*

He thought you’d just be another part of his collection but playing with your character was very enjoyable and in-line with his playstyle- oops 100 screenshots with the Kamera-

Any and all merchandise that he fancies would be his, and he’s definitely flexing it to the other sweetie nerds who call themselves simps. He’s fighting for the simping title, and he’s currently neck and neck with this fanartist in Pixiv.

Speaking of that fanartist, he definitely commissioned an expensive and detailed portrait of you, full rights and everything. No one else was allowed to use it but him.

Was also the first one with the audacity to call out your VA to create an account on Tiktok to create more content with your voice. He was successful.

His obssession also comes in the form of self-indulgent contents, and had been keeping track of the ship wars happening. During conventions, he cosplays as the character shipped with you the most (or the character he thinks should end up with you).

Silently scrutinizing those who cosplay you, only ever taking pictures with/of the best looking one, sorry haha

Definitely flaunts that you are his waifu/husbando and will fight for best girl/best boy during debates or polls. Has mobilized the community to vote for you once. He’s very persuasive.

“Hm? Why I’m just the best collector in the game, and I am more than happy to let everyone know that I am their number one fan haha, everyone who claims otherwise is definitely wrong!”

Favorite Voiceline: More About (Y/N) I-IV, (Y/N)’s Hobbies...

Ganyu the Employed

Ganyu, our dearest overworker, is one of the players in the older stage who actually has a job but still plays Genshin for their past times. The gorgeous sceneries and the music is her main focus in playing the game, not much of a try-hard but still decent in the combat mechanics.

How she pulled you: You came home within 50 pulls! And you appeared again after another 10 pull! Ganyu was so SHOOKT and so distressed because oh goodness, what does she do? She doesn’t know anything much about you!

Will rewatch your three trailers to try and understand your skills better, ended up saving the soundtracks from them because that was such a nice trailer music! Tnbee gains a new follower!

Ganyu will take a while before she can properly play or build you up because she’s so busy with work, she only ever plays when she feels fully done with her work.

During her break she plays with your character while multi-tasking on eating, earphones plugged in and sight on the phone as she farms materials and artifacts for you.

The moment she gets more help from her player friends tho, holy shit, you just ended up being so OP. She had so many good artifacts and weapons for you because she didn’t know what they were for before.

She loves how you’re so easy to use and can easily solo the enemies and even the boss fights. A huge breather, because now Ganyu can cheese the battles that takes a while, to give her more time to focus on the storyline and lores.

Since Ganyu plays for the story and aesthetic, she’ll find you almost always in her team. Still very proud of her pull, she makes the best screenshots of your fights or in the best angle through exploration.

Treasures you so much she starts talking to her phone- “Ah, no, please don’t fall.” “There’s violetgrass up there, let’s try and get it”

Blushes everytime you produce a sound when climbing, doesn’t change you anyways tho

Hums to your trailer music while working, and if permitted, would have the song on repeat while she buries herself in work. She finds it really refreshing and the time she spends in work miraculously flies by fast when she gets lost in the sound.

At one point, when she was given a day-off or if the convention was on her free time, she attends to look for cosplayers of you and take a picture. No one rejects her because she’s so adorable and cute when asking shyly.

Had brought a decent amount of merchandise, preferably the functional/practical ones like a phone cover, mug or keychain. Also has an earphones clamp with your little chibi self as the holder.

When asked, she would shyly announce that she likes your character the most.

“Their character theme and music really soothes me during work, it feels nice to have them, and I have not once regretted ever pulling for them. They are the best.”

Favorite Voicelines: Good Night/Afternoon..., About Us, Something To Share..., Interesting Things...

so enjoyable...

@moaa @zelos-simp @legionqueensav @dandelion-dreams @snackgod @rxsalinee

[mt10lt20]

I think I will be back to crack-posting because, to find a mental resolution, I sort-of came up with a HC on how Cipher and Pixy resolved their mutual solo dumping issues & found their wings again... So.. HC-ing away & a make-up sketch (hugs are so hard to draw =(. Also my HC is LOONGG... & inspired by the many awesome fic-writers and other AC HCs that suggest they do meet again: 

- Pixy goes to fight at the border after the events of Zero, and that’s where he found his way to the sky again, back with A World With No Boundaries. Cipher might have crippled them but there is no way AWWNB dies that easily.  

- However, this was not without some convincing as I think Pixy would have gotten more of a nuanced perspective of the war after being rescued by the border inhabitants and living alongside them. So.. AWWNB had to be persuasive and they were, because they also resurrected with a new, charismatic leader (Someone like Proj Wingman’s delusional but cool Crimson 1). He also talks a good game about how they, as a new squadron, will be able to face anything, even the Demon Lord, if he ever appeared again. Pixy’s unsure what to think about Cipher’s disappearance but is a mixed bag of disbelief (Cipher, of all people, gave up?) and regret (realizing they will forever end on a bad note). Unconsciously, Pixy was looking for a decisive flight lead like Cipher, but with more purpose than flying like a god and bounty hunting, but he doesn’t know it yet. 

- Cipher disappears after the events of Zero. Though victorious, the battle/ Pixy’s words impacted him more than he thought and he decided to hang up his wings until he found a real purpose to fly. 

- He’s good at disappearing and, wanting a clean cut from everything, starts again in a small city in Aurelia - far from Ustio, Sapin and Belka. Prob deposited his merc money into 5 bank accounts and 7 Venture funds for war rebuilding (yes, after introspection, he does get haunted by the houses and windmills he mercilessly eradicated) and picks up a very ordinary job that is still connected to flying. Maybe? he became the world’s best delivery pilot (everyone gets their parcels 1 week early unless there are special instructions for birthday/ anniv surprise gifts, and there is an explosion of 5 star reviews). He also picks up friends along the way that makes him realize, there is a lot more to living than just doing a great job, COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT, and that money’s nothing if not shared.

- Pixy and Cipher have a lot of time to think about the future.. Cipher starts to make new friends, realizing how much things could be different if he only knew how to communicate instead of giving solutions. || Pixy realizes his new flight lead does have a purpose to fight but this time it is worse - evolving AWWNB's vision from a rule-by-the-people to dictatorship. He’s brutal and efficiently ends anyone who doesn’t share the same loyalty. As his new leader amasses power in the vacuum the Demon Lord left behind, Pixy realizes he is in too deep. And as he flies formation, carefully towing the line, he realizes perhaps.. he knows someone who broke AWWNB once and who can do it again... 

- Cipher is aware that AWWNB is alive again and more radicalized. While flying he thinks about throwing his name back into the mercenary “deadpool” before they get to Aurelia and blow up nice people, like Jim his “co-pilot” who keeps asking him to “do another of that turn-y things with the plane!”. The sky on his 4 is empty this time, and he really dreads having to fight Pixy again. (He never got rusty.. to Cipher flying a plane is like riding a bicycle, and his employer doesn’t know but if they looked at the delivery plane cockpit cam, they will prob be shocked at the moves he pulls to get those 5 star reviews. Jim is keeping his lips sealed.)

- Pixy on the other hand is picking up every lead to try and find his old flight lead again, realizing the clock is ticking till AWWNB nukes everything for good, but not before abducting a “representative population” for repopulation and subjugation in the new world. 

- They meet again at the half-repaired Valais air base. Cipher had been contract-abiding and after taking proper leave, took to the skies again on short mercenary missions and Pixy, exhausting a lot of blank leads, decided to fly over to the old place where so many memories were made, and victories shared. He’s made some excuse to the AWWNB squadron that he’s there on recon and nearly blanks-out mentally when he sees the Demon Lord again after 5 good years. 

- Cipher’s on to him in an instant, and the familiar dread of missile alert sirens start going off in Pixy’s cockpit. He waits for impact, wondering if it would be better if he didn’t attempt to eject this time.. Cipher was back and surely he would start taking AWWNB apart one by one. But the impact doesn’t come. Cipher on the other hand doesn’t know what to make of Pixy not doing ANY evasive movements at all and holds the shot. And for a minute that feels like hours... he brings his plane level to Pixy’s. 

- Pixy’s mentally kicking himself to move, to do anything, to explain 5 years in 1 minute.. but wait.. Cipher is real... and he’s signaling to him? That snaps him out. It’s so natural to follow his old flight leader’s instructions and Oh.. he forgot to switch to the common comms channel. And as the channel comes to life, he hears “Hey. I’m still alive. Are you?” And Pixy finds his voice “Yo Buddy, go ahead tell me “I told you so”.. I am really not supposed to be here but things have gotten bad.. Can you tell the guys at the base to not shoot me down? I’ll explain when we land. It’s going to take a while.”

- And they talk.. over beer about the impending war, Pixy’s insider information, about purpose, about PJ... about them. At the end Cipher asks Pixy if he would fly with him again, but says “but if this ends with you firing at me without warning again...” and Pixy cuts in “No. It won’t... I’m.. sorry”.

- Galm is reborn the next day. (For the sake of it I am going to call him.. -->) Crimson 1 bears down on them with fire and brimstone. But a Demon is at home in hell, and Cipher takes him on. They fight like they are on another plane of existence. Pixy takes on other targets, reprising his role as Galm 2 as if he never left. He knows them both - brutal till the end.. and as it looks like both will go down in flames, he prays salvation for a Demon, and wishes for a second chance. They had so little time after all..

- Flares and chaff gone. Fuel down to reserves. One missile left and Cipher takes the shot. Crimson goes down in flames, and Cipher goes down without fuel. The last of the fight was at low altitude and one has to catch the right angle for a good bail-out. Pixy sees both blue and red disappear and he feels like he has gone down too.

- Pixy spends the whole night at the Valais air-base bar, unsure what the victory party is celebrating, blindly accepting thanks and congratulating the other fighters and ground crew. Some ask about Cipher and when he says he didn’t see a chute deploy they turn pensive and go “well.. he would get a memorial for sure. But he’d want to see you drink up!”. And Pixy accepts the beer shoved in his hand but doesn’t drink.

- Its 4am and the victory party is about to die down when the door slams open with too much force and people turn around. But it slams shut again too quickly and people hear a “Fuck. My hand’s screwed up too?” Pixy recognizes that voice. When Cipher finally gets the door open he can’t stop himself and embraces his flight leader, as if he wanted to make sure this “apparition” was real.. and he thinks.. men like him do not get second chances often. The gods are finally kind...

- Epilogue: A new team of aces is formed, meant to be a cross-national team comprising the best-of-the-best, to combat huge threats like these and Cipher and Pixy are drafted. Valais will be the temporary base and others.. will join them in time. Cipher’s done with doing things half-legally and puts in his 1 month’s notice at the Delivery company. Jim and the boss are both excited and sad to see him go... but they have a hell of a blast over Cipher’s last month. [Also... some sketches of Pixy and Cipher missing each other... =]

[knightotoc]

So last Wednesday afternoon, I got hit by a car.

I'm ok. Most of my injuries are only skin deep, except a radial head fracture in my left arm. The biggest injury is a 5-centimeter laceration on the back of my head, which got blood all over the street, me, my Totoro t-shirt, and hospital pillows across Orange County. I also got 3 large strategically misplaced abrasions on my limbs and a fucked up right thumb, which makes this a chore to type. But you should have seen the other guy. (I overheard the cop say the car was undamaged.)

The main thing I'm feeling is fear. When I think of the moments before the car hit me, I get so frightened, and when I try to remember the moment it happened (I can't), I start crying. It could have gone better, and it could have gone worse. It's all so stupid and random. So please don't comment anything too scary. And please don't comment anything about God either; I've already heard it, and it's not helpful to me.

Under the fear, I feel shock, anger, and relief. I'm angry at the stupid fuck who crashed her car into me, but not too angry. She did stop and help me. I'm angrier at our car dependent infrastructure with all its dumbass, ugly consequences. Fuck cars. See Who Framed Roger Rabbit for more information.

There is a comforting element of absurdity in this awfulness. It reminds me of how about this time last year, just as I was digging a grave for my dead cat Charlie, I got stung by a bee. Comedy = tragedy + a stupider tragedy. In this case, just as I was entering a small upswing in a lengthy emotional roller coaster -- just as I start to see a path ahead of me and really, actually want it, even without any hope or luck -- just as I go on a half-hearted run for a silly Target purchase -- I get hit by a car.

If you have ever wondered what loot you'd drop if you were a defeated NPC in a video game, getting hit by a car is a great way to find out. Here's mine: a brand new 8-pack of reusable snack bags, a 32-oz quarter-full water bottle in a pretty pink-blue gradient, and a cheap pair of black earbuds with a busted microphone. If anyone finds these things splattered across Placentia Ave, you can have them.

Of course I regret a lot of things. But the one thing I regret more than anything else -- more than my awful timing, my worse reflexes, my leaving the house at all -- is telling the beefcakes in the ambulance that I write Star Wars fanfiction. It should have been a clear sign of brain damage that I completely forgot about Rule #1: Never Talk to 35-to-40 Year-Old Men about Star Wars. Fortunately absolutely nothing happened and my self-sabotaging is completely normal; unfortunately I have to live like this for the rest of my life.

The UCI Trauma Center is a liminal juncture populated by some of the most desperate people I've ever seen receiving care from cartoonishly beautiful, overworked young professionals. I spent most of my time there stranded in a hallway awaiting discharge. Picture this: it's 1 am, and there's me, the platonic ideal of a weepy millenial snowflake with his mommy; one bed up the hall, a cardboard cutout of a TV crook with a chiseled cop who could've been grown in a vat; and one bed up from there, a grizzled rockstar with his perfect girlfriend, 5-inch heels, beat for the gods, the sexiest person in the emergency room. I would have done anything for her. Meanwhile one of my electrodes had gotten stuck in my hair and was just sort of dangling there.

Speaking of electrodes, perhaps the most absurd thing of all happened while I was still hooked up to an EKG machine. I waited in distress for results of my CT scans, but my heart rate then did not cause it to beep. I cried as the doctor stapled my wound up, but my heart rate then did not cause it to beep. But then I talked to my mom about my problems with the 2021 Pixar cartoon Luca, and THAT spike in my heart rate caused the EKG machine to beep. Enrico Casarosa can officially join Julian Fellowes on my list of nemeses. Right below cars, I guess.

[berrylover0571]

It's very exhausting that people say they hate feminism, when what they really hate is the repackaged pink veneer feminism that is sold to them by capitalism. The repurposed and co-opted version of feminism that lines executive pockets and doesn't actually fix anything is not feminism, it's meant to make you think it is, but if it was feminism, it wouldn't be doing half the shit it's doing.

Nothing has ever made me want to blow my brains out more, truly, then when somebody says they hate feminism, when what they mean is that they hate repackaged capitalistic feminism for neoliberal feminism that rehabilitates war criminals. No you don't hate feminism, there are lots of types of feminism that are antagonistic and generally shitty, but you don't hate feminism, you hate trans exclusionary radical feminism, or sex worker exclusionary radical feminism, or feminist Theory being repurposed by Christian fundamentalists, for neoliberal feminism.

You don't hate feminism that utilizes a Marxist lens, you don't hate intersectional feminism, or black feminism, or feminist liberation, because feminist Liberation is equality.

Do you want to know what's not equality? Egalitarianism. Egalitarianism was invented by a bunch of Libertarians and weirdo YouTubers because they didn't like the ideas of feminism because it actively peeled away at their fucking conceptions of reality and questioned them. Egalitarianism quite literally reinforced the very things it was supposedly trying to critique. Egalitarianism isn't real, it's a manufactured ideology by a bunch of conservatives who are now white nationalists or crazy people. If you say you are an egalitarian with a Capital e, unironically in 20 fucking 23, I have reason to suspect you are either Two Steps From fascism, A terf, someone with a word a day calendar who decided to use the word today, or so out of touch you don't see the social context and connotations of egalitarianism and who created it and why.

And yes, I know the social context and connotation of saying I identify as a feminist, of saying I believe and work with feminist Theory and it's a lot more substantially compelling than egalitarian theory, because egalitarian theory has never been academically published, and anything they critique and say definitely has a paper written on it under feminist Theory, because it's a reactionary movement invented by a bunch of fucking weirdos. A bunch of fucking weirdos mind you who got pissed about video games and now for some reason our pundits on the political stage. Seriously how the fuck did Milo yianopolis get on 24-hour news Cycles?

You want proof that egalitarianism is a lie, and feminism is what you're actually talking about, here's an anecdote for me: I used to identify as an egalitarian in some capacity. I used to be very heavily opposed to feminism. I would regularly share critiques of feminism, many of which I remember to this day because of how deeply I regret them and How Deeply they make me cringe. Ion ironically shared armored skeptic videos, Lauren Southern videos, shoe on head videos before she supposedly went left-wing, amazing atheist, thunderfoot, I was deeply immersed in all of this shit, and I believe that there was a better way than feminism, it was egalitarianism, it made sense. I remember following Sargon for God's sake, listening to bullshit talking points from Paul Joseph Watson, I was neck deep in bullshit and there was no signs of me stopping. The thing that snapped me out of it was actual skepticism that held people accountable and talked through things. The people listed above didn't have that, of the people I listed almost every single one of them have either abandoned egalitarianism in favor of leftism and a form of feminist Theory, they have recanted their statements, they have turned coat on each other, or, my personal favorite because it just shows you how egregiously bullshit it all was, are out and out fascists who have propagated conspiracy theories and utter bullshit like white genocide.

You want to say that you are not a feminist because men have it just as hard as women feminists would fucking agree, at least in some capacities, because the expectations put upon Men by Society are not in fact good and do in fact hurt people. It's no wonder that there is a problem with male suicide rates, it's no wonder that masculinity is for some reason in crisis, there was never a strong Foundation of masculinity under capitalism, there wasn't a strong Foundation of femininity under capitalism, it's all a marketing demographic to fucking sell you shit. That's why now we have a bunch of influencers trying to rebuild masculinity from the ground up like Andrew tate, or Jordan peterson, people telling men to be men, which doesn't mean anything when there's not been a foundation of masculinity and people aren't allowed to explore gender as they're comfortable. You're not pissed that fucking feminism is down playing the suffering of men, feminism isn't doing that, I've read enough papers to tell you that, there are plenty of books, reams and reams of data, countless quotes and people who actively agree that men suffer under current patriarchal standards, because we are reinforcing the ideologies of men who are now dead who believe that women were cows meant to be bred and left to fucking die, taking care of the home as there only responsibility, if that. The beliefs and predictions of a patriarchal society doesn't mean that men are the bad people, it means that a group of men, several hundred years ago, maybe even several decades ago, created standards that we cannot abide by and we cannot atone towards, and invalidate Us in the present. It disallows us from exploring gender and exploring ourselves, being the man or woman we want to be or whatever the fuck we identify with, and deny people the agency to define themselves.

The patriarchy isn't modern men, though certain Modern Men do in fact reciprocate it, because they directly benefit from it, no patriarchy is not just modern men, it isn't modern masculinity, it is the fact that we as a whole society, capitalism and every other system of oppression, reinforce standards of masculinity that we're put in place by people who are now dead and do not matter. The fact that the fucking well of discourse was so thoroughly poisoned by a guy who's Avatar was a PNG of a helmet with a suit under it, some jackass who had a fetish for humiliating a woman who dare to critique video games that absolutely needed to be critiqued because next to no kind of reporting is being critical of video games at the moment and that's fucking concerning, and some jackass who decided a picture of some dude from ancient Persia or mesopotamia, that wasn't even sargon.

Half of these motherfuckers got pissed by a bunch of college students, which is the most inane bullshit I've ever heard. I can't stress enough, I've gotten pissed at video games, I did not get as pissed at video games as these guys got pissed at people who made video games and were parts of the industry. It is astounding how much bullshit propagated because a bunch of guys, who didn't make video games and barely fucking had any sort of experience or know how of the fucking area, decided they knew more about feminist Theory than any fucking person on the planet. None of these dudes could critique feminism, not a single one of them could, if put in a room with an actual academic feminist, which one of them was and was wiped the floor with, if put in a room with an actual academic feminist none of their points hold water because most academic feminists have in fact addressed to the points they're talking about.

I hope every person who fucked over and made it impossible to talk about gender issues, simply because they were pissed about video games, gets a hot iron catheter stuck in their dick hole, just so that you can know the pain and discomfort I fucking feel having to navigate the world right now. You can trace a direct line from some of these motherfuckers to the current debates we're having about transgender issues, quite a number of them made fun of transgender people and emboldened people to do the same, escalating them down a fucking path that led them to nazism, it's no wonder that fucking Sargon was a member of the UK independence party, a nationalist organization with nationalistic ends that hinged on fascism.

It would be fucking comedic if it wasn't so tragic, how the ethics and video game journalism people just happened to ignore the ethical fucking dilemma and conflicts of interests that they had.

I deeply fucking despise every single person involved in this fucking problem, and I hope they fucking work their asses off to fix it or get busy fucking dying, because there's no fucking reason for this shit to be so fucking impossible to navigate.

You got played, you got fucked up, and now we can't use the actual language we need to fucking use to talk about issues that actually do fucking happen. It is astounding how many times fucking people have reinvented terminology that already exists because they can't talk about feminist Theory because, I cannot stress this enough, a bunch of weirdos got pissed about video games and decided to take it out on video game feminist who weren't doing anything in the grand scheme of things. A good part of our fascist backslide has to do with the fact that a bunch of people felt entitled to be jackasses.