#infallible in fact

[whumpitisthen]

I am not really big on intimate whumpers but I can make an exception if they’re hot enough ( vampires are always hot enough)

Vampires are always hot enough

You 🤝 Me

[front-facing-pokemon]

[aspiring-god]

[sskk-manifesto]

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[cookie-run-haven]

And yes I'm going to complain about the chapters when I feel better and I'm on the computer

[valentinesparda]

i will not do selfship stuff with my kh insert!!

*looming sense of dread hangs over me like jean jacket in nope*

[getyinyusedtoit]

imagine 16 year old feng xin learning about xie lian getting that nail lodged in his foot despite having his shoes on, it would blow his mind.

[reloaderror]

“what’s your favourite —“ i dont know myself that well.

[lightdancer1]

See the further irony is:

That in using 'Mall Goth Sauron' as the take on Dark Willow over 'misogynist has character randomly killed for LULZ' it also allows for greater accountability on the one hand and for Season 7 to thematically focus on repairing all this damage in the midst of facing an enemy of shadows reliant on lies to further itself. The only way to break the Druj is the absolute Truth in a very Zoroastrian sense. Characters don't get to neatly skip past accountability for their actions, and this would spiral over into further later seasons with the essential reality that in an otherwise lower-level setting this one random girl from California is a Dark Phoenix-tier reality warper and the most powerful person on the planet, or the universe.

And the questions of how that power could and should be employed on the one hand and that Willow is essentially a Doctor Strange type who beats up Gods and Eldritch Abominations for her regular line of work where her counterparts deal with the more 'street level' crises would in turn be the logical conclusion of where the show ends. She doesn't do as much physical fighting for the same reason that Stephen Strange never uses magic to go punch the Hulk in the face, her narrative role is ultimately that of Sorceress Supreme of Earth, with literally nobody in an ancient established war anticipating that this one random ginger from California was and is the new Sorceress Supreme and that if they had had such awareness the realities are that this power would and could have taken worse forms.

Unfortunately for the world, the reality too is that it is a shy computer geek who has a not at all subtle dark side and the usual teenage anxieties and insecurities given the equivalent of being able to reliably actually do things other people might dream of but can never do.

But again as long as Dawn Summers being a good thing is a narrative convention that's established memory magic is a poor choice to show the corrupting effects of reality-warping. It's a case of 'yes as established in canon all of this is true for that one season but then they decided to retcon it, so the fans are not obligated to care about it any more than the canon does about this itself.'

[maintitle]

gang i'm gonna be honest, rook obviously fucked up but I have never and likely will never think Solas knows exactly what he's doing at any given time. This is an insanely intelligent man that bats like 800. he has a really high volume of success but his fuckups are craaaazy fuck-ups, and they tend to happen when he does the biggest shit possible. I don't buy that that ritual was gonna go off without a hitch.

[draco-renn]

Man. All I do these days is fail to meet expectations and then get upset at myself for failing to meet those expectations. This sucks.

[lime-bloods]

Hussie is not an infallible genius, and Act Six in particular is FULL of continuity errors. For example: Vriska mind controlling two Cronuses when her powers were established as only being able to control lowbloods back in Hivebent. I say this as someone who generally likes Act Six, by the way. It's absolutely possible that Hussie, who was very burnt out at the time, forgot some of the minutia of his own lore. (3/3)

you don't deserve the time of day for me to respond to all of this because you're taking a stupid wiki argument to my blog when i told you quite plainly to discuss it on the wiki talk page... but i am gonna say if you're going to bring your annoying agenda all the way to tumblr you should at least have your facts straight: it is actually expressly "difficult to manipulate the mind of the psychically gifted" for Vriska, which excludes more lowbloods than it excludes highbloods; she outright cannot control Aradia, the lowest, and can only control Sollux "about half the time". it is true that Mindfang revels in being able to control the cohort of peasants watching over her execution, but only because they're "impressiona8le spect8ors" with "weak wills"; when Vriska is able to control Tavros, it's only because of his "simple, mallea8le 8rain", and Vriska's own description of her limits is that she "can't control just any8ody. They've got to 8e impressssssssiona8le" - like the consorts whose minds she read. while it is true that members of lower castes are more "psychically susceptible" to psychic attacks like gl'bgolyb's, this has never meant higher castes were totally immune: in fact the only reason Vriska doesn't fuck with Equius more is because he has her robot arm as leverage.

[avephelis]

sorry for going mad i just get really passionate about the nuanced depiction of parental characters in animated media

[gaypirate]

something about statistical literacy that i've never really seen talked about is that "there's no scientific evidence for this" as a statement on its own is completely useless

that can mean "this has been researched for decades and thoroughly debunked"

but it can also mean "this has never been studied at all"

and there's a very wide gulf between those statements and bad actors WILL try to trick you with it

[runesinthenight]

Ok. I am a writer, geologist, and a fan of Tolkien so let's do this.

In some fantasy settings, some things that do not make geological sense can be explained with magic. Ered Lithui and Ephel Duath, the mountain ranges that surround Mordor on three sides, came about as part of the aftermath of the War of Wrath. This War had several Maiar and Valar, including Morgoth (also known at Melkor) and Eonwe.

Both the Maiar and Valar are powerful beings. Valar, such as Morgoth, helped in the shaping of the world with Morgoth actually being the root cause of basically all the problems in Middle Earth because he's a rebellious little shit. The Maiar were created to help the Valar and, while not as powerful as the Valar, are very powerful in their own right. (For example, Gandalf, Sauron, and Sauromon are all Maiar)

Because the War of Wrath involved such powerful beings, it shaped the land around them dramatically. The Blue Mountains in the west were almost entirely sunken beneath the sea and Ered Lithui and Ephel Duath were raised. Mount Doom is also a result of Melkor's work as he created the volcano in the First Age. He did this a few times, forming 3 volcanos in the Iron Mountains as chimneys for his forges.

Does it make geological or geographical sense? No. But does it make canonical sense? Yeah kinda. I'm probably missing a few details, but sometimes, as much as we might like it to be otherwise. the answer simply is 'magic bullshit'.

Now, the Misty Mountains rain shadow.

I'll be honest when I say I don't know as much about rain shadows. But I can do math so let's see how this shakes out.

First, the Misty Mountains are about 1,280 km long. Taking this number and measuring how long and wide the Misty Mountains are on a map (which I got as 6.75 and .5 inches respectively) we can calculate for the approximate width of the Misty Mountains. Which comes out to about 95 km or 59 miles wide. Does this number help? I'm not really sure. But let's compare it to the Rockies.

The Rocky Mountains are about 3,000 miles (~4,8000 km) long. Along with other ranges like the Sierra Nevadas, they basically make the majority of the west coast of North America mountains. This is because of the Laramide orogeny causing uplift much farther inland than a normal orogenic event due to the subducting plate leveling out before subducting again further inland. The Rockies are a huge mountain range, being hundreds of miles wide in some places. They are much larger than the Misty Mountains and cast a much larger rain shadow.

The Appalachian Mountains are smaller and have a very small rain shadow. This is predominantly because they're ancient mountains and have been largely weathered away. The Misty Mountains are likely taller than the Appalachians. But these do have deciduous forests basically covering and surrounding them.

The last mountain range I'll draw for comparison is the Andes Mountains. The Andes range from 200 to 400 km wide. Their average height is around 4,000 meters, about twice the average height of the Rockies. And their rain shadow is much smaller than the Rockies. Forests butt right up to the Andes in some places. The Amazon is just east of part of the Andes.

All of these things taken into consideration, I don't think that Mirkwood being where it is is super unrealistic. Mirkwood doesn't but right up against the foot of the Misty Mountains. There isn't much description of the land between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood in The Hobbit, but what description we are given is of rolling grasslands with some trees along the River Anduin which flows through it.

Now, I could be wrong about the rain shadow and Mirkwood as I am a geologist and this is not my area of expertise. But those are my thoughts. Hopefully, they make at least some sense.

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

[infernalhomo]

ily duck eggs superior egg of all eggs in every conceivable way except perhaps cholesterol content but who gaf about any of that honestly when you can instead enjoy duck eggs