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I started watching Kingdom-legendary war, yes i know i am years late to the party, but thats not the point. The point is pHOW COULD ANYONE CHOOSE BETWEEN THESE GROUPS
#its literal impossible#they ALL have a special place in my heart 😭#i was so heartbroken for iKon on the first episode#i know all these shows are rigged but still#pitting internationally well loved 4th gen with barely active 3rd gen#when you place such a heavy voting power on international fans#is just plain cruel#kingdom
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Hibrides and Brakul having the world’s saddest booze-fueled girl’s night, probably a few months before the start of the story.
Anyway here's an extensive rundown of their shared history.
Hibrides Uryashta was the eldest daughter of a chancellor of the imperial city-state of Erubinnos (his lordship Erub Uryashta). She was brought up with great privilege and security, but (like most daughters of noblemen) was destined to be used as a bargaining chip in a political marriage arrangement. She was taken from her friends and family and moved to the city of Wardin at the age of 16 to complete her pledged marriage with Janeys Haidamane, the failson of the trade magnate Haidamane family. Janeys spent about a week poorly attempting to behave like a husband, and then took the first excuse to flee and engage in a petty military campaign against raiders on the Yellowtail trade route. She found herself left alone in his villa for three years with only hired servants for company. She made a few attempts to break into the city's elite social scene, but was quite shy and failed to make any headway.
Brakul had just spent a year and a half in a bit of a whirlwind. He was brought into a skirmish at the behest of an allied clan, who had been raiding the Yellowtail route and now was under attack by combined forces of an enemy clan and Imperial Wardi mercenaries. He killed one of the mercenary commanders and was captured as a prisoner of war, but was spared at Janeys' behest (who fucking hated that guy thought it was awesome that he got killed with a rock) and was ultimately recruited into the group. He had a chance to go back home, but actively chose to deadbeat dad out on his wife and child to be with his newfound lovequest, Janeys. He spent a year and a half as a mercenary, bonded closely with Janeys and swore brotherhood with him, and was eventually brought home to the city of Wardin with him. He found himself in the odd position of being simultaneously scorned as a foreigner and 'heathen', and the legal kin of one of the richest families in the city (and effectively the secret male concubine of their only male heir).
It was in this context that the two of them met, with Hibrides now being 19 and Brakul turning 27.
The two were initially wary of each other (Hibrides was particularly put off by his 'heathen' status) but bonded very quickly, partly due to their mutual states of being unmoored from their old lives, but in large part being just a natural chemistry. They had a lot of common interests and enjoyed learning from each other. Hibrides introduced him to traditional verse poetry (of which she was very fond). Brakul taught her how to ride khait, and even gave her a gelding from his own collection as a gift. They became very close friends over the next couple of years and spent much of their free time together.
A big part of the dynamic was that both of them are gay in a cultural context where there is no concept of Being gay, marriages are usually arranged and always between a man and a woman, and having children is a societal expectation. Each of them began to see the other as an ideal husband/wife, ie "if I had to marry why couldn't it have been him/her?". For Hibrides' part, Brakul had all the traits she would want in a husband: he was a pretty good friend and easy to get along with, he seemed like he'd do an excellent job of fulfilling expected roles as a husband and father (she didn't know about the wife and kid for a while), he treated her as an equal, and, most of all, had no interest whatsoever in fucking her. They were both in a sort of platonic emotional affair, and grew to love each other deeply.
Hibrides was pretty quick to catch on that something was going on between Brakul and Janeys, and found it strange and offputting but ultimately none of her concern. Her husband only being interested in his sworn brother and leaving her to her own devices suited Hibrides just fine, and Brakul always just kinda being There meant she was living with what had become her closest friend.
The stable state of this Feelings Triangle began to change in the wake of the brilliant plan to get Janeys (gay) (probably infertile) children he could pass off as legitimate via a Brakul/Hibrides pregnancy. It was something all three agreed to as a necessity; it was already drawing scrutiny that Janeys and Hibrides had been married for several years without a pregnancy, and producing heirs is a societal expectation and a central point of an arranged marriage between wealthy elites.
It was especially critical in this case, given Janeys was his family's only male child and only hope of continuing the family line, given both his golden-child sister Faiza and black sheep half sister Couya were Odonii, and thus sworn virgins and would never marry. (There's also a level to this that Janeys was regarded as a complete disappointment by his parents, and his mother made damn sure he knew that his only value at this point was to produce a better male heir to inherit the business. So this was a big fucking deal to him, and to Brakul by extension).
This was also not a route any of them wanted to take on any personal level, least of all Hibrides. She consented to the pregnancy and everything it entailed, but it was inevitably a painful and distressing experience all around. She had never wanted to be a mother to begin with (though had long accepted it as an inevitability), and now found herself with an infant daughter, which only meant it would have to happen again (they needed a male heir after all). And it would be utter social suicide and a profound shame upon her if the child's illegitimacy was discovered, which only added to the stress.
To make things worse, her first pregnancy shifted the entire dynamic with her husband and brother-in-law/best friend. Janeys changed from completely indifferent to actively spiteful and hostile towards her, and things had become extremely uncomfortable between Hibrides and Brakul. It only got worse with Brakul (the only one of them who actually WANTS kids) (kind of haunted by skipping out on his first child) finding it unbearable to be so close to HIS daughter and having to keep up an act that she was not his own, having no direct role in the kids life. He desperately wanted to be a father.
Hibrides, who was going through a fucking lot, started to become vindictive towards him for his role in things. She resented him more than Janeys, because Brakul insisted he cared about her and would desperately try to pretend things were normal, while consistently siding with Janeys against her wishes, including in preventing her from getting a divorce. (His excuse is that the children's legitimacy would be interrogated in a legal setting, which Is likely and Would be absolute social suicide with very real consequences. But the real reason on his part is that if she got out of the marriage, he might never see her or the children again). Hibrides began to do everything in her power to prevent him from having any relationship with his bastard children, even in secret or under the guise of a relative. Sort of an “if I have to suffer to keep up this facade so should you” thing.
They had two children in a span of three years, two girls (ruh roh!) named Erubi and Livya. By this point, Hibrides and Brakul were both experiencing what we would now call Clinical Depression and Alcohol Use Disorder (especially in the latter's case). Hibrides started to have affairs with both men and women, which she was sure to be very obvious about to insult Janeys and Brakul, but was mostly out of loneliness. Brakul turned his complete focus to Janeys and started avoiding Hibrides entirely, in hopes that she would become desperate enough to be willing to make amends (shockingly, this did not happen, and the rift only deepened).
In the present, their relationship status is: fucked. Both of them do still love each other on some level, but this is probably beyond repair. What little time they've spent with each other in the past year is sitting around being miserable and getting plastered. And now Hibrides, Janeys, and Brakul are all forced into the public eye on the pilgrimage together, and with a third child on the way. So that's probably going to be everyone's problem.
#Their relationship is probably my favorite one in this story but there is literally so much going on. Hard to introduce it properly#This doesn't even get into all of it#Do want to make it clear that Brakul is like. Nice on an interpersonal level but he fucking sucks and is not the victim in this dynamic#He's very selfish. He builds his life around having his cake and eating it too and then moping and being sad and etc when he can't#escape the consequences of hurting people around him#I don't like writing dynamics where one person is like the absolute perfect innocent victim like. Hibrides does some just plain#cruel shit to him. But she's REALLY going through it. She's isolated and lonely and the only person in her life who has loved#her in the past decade won't put his own personal interests aside to actually Help Her. And then has the audacity to mope to her about#how sad that makes him.#He at least has a (fucked up and messy but) devoted partnership with a guy who ADORES him and perpetually enables him#While Hibrides is very shy and finds it hard to break out of isolation. She doesn't really have anyone to rely on.#She does have other people in her life in general though. Faiza has always been pretty kind to her and was a major support in#helping her manage her children's affairs and being provided for. But they aren't really friends it's kind of a familial obligation#Couya had been an enigma to her and rarely present (because she hates Janeys) but she's forced to be around him more#towards the start of the story and thus has started to actually interact with Hibrides. They befriend each other and have stuff going#on during the story#hibrides uryashta#brakul red dog#Anyway extreme side note I did warn that there would be like a dozen characters with Erub_ names as well as two major cities and a river#It gets like that with legendary founder figures
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someone once said modern targs would be trailer park kings and queens, and the idea of redneck ass targs hasn't left my head since. Thus, save a horse, ride a Maegor?
#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf#asoiaf fanart#maegor targaryen#maegor the cruel#also if anyone takes this as me being a maegor wife I will kill myself#my source for the fit: literal older cowboy I saw pumping diesel into his fuck all huge dually this morning#and the bg is free use plains bg#if I really wanted to commit to the bit I'd just walk into my back pasture. take a pic. then slap gaussian blur on it like I did this one#img.exe
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idk it's such a very small thing but "maybe you killed her with renju." "don't be ridiculous!" is very cool very epic i think. credit to both voice actors bc i believe that, their whole past and future entanglements aside, hitomi just fucking despised date for a second there to be honest
#like typed out in plain text its there but its kind of whatever its an interrogation sequence but when ur there everything really sells it#date has a level of empathy that allows him to be very sensitive and kind and intuit what people need from him emotionally.#naturally. on the other hand it gives him an ability to be uniquely aggressive and cruel. sometimes he's just nasty and awful.#similar vibes to him getting up and circling 'iris' like a vulture to intimidate her in that sequence when he's not getting what he wants#Woof creeps me out#im just delighted at hitomi snapping back at him spit in that mans face#im gonna Get You#aitsf#ai the somnium files#aitsf spoilers#hitomi sagan#kaname date#part of the duality with aiba (in ai1 anyway) is she can be inadvertently unkind due to inherent gaps in her logic and reliance on data#date is very good at empathising and guessing at vibes reading cues without even thinking to do it. but he's cruel on purpose
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Mu, deeply traumatized by the Mafia so much she can barely tell right from wrong:
Mafia Boss: I didn't teach her that!
#a hat in time#a hat in time meme#a hat in time mustache girl#a hat in time mafia#Seriously dude why the Mafia didn't get any real consequence for their actions#Mu might have gone overboard but what they did was just plain cruel#ahit#ahit mustache girl#ahit mafia boss#ahit meme
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A really sinister aspect into how people view children and parents is the idea of children being a replaceable commodity.
I've seen this in the way people talk about parents who have lost children but have surviving children... "Oh, at least you have other children," as though a child is just an interchangeable tool, a machine that dispenses what you want from it without it being sentient, whole, and feeling. The fact that people say that in order to comfort somebody shows, to me, how deep this mindset is engraved in people's brains: children are interchangeable items, and they do not fundamentally matter.
#youth rights#child death tw#child death mention tw#grief tw#death tw#death mention tw#ask to tag (genuine)#i won't get into specifics but it's been a huge problem and something you notice if you've gone through it/have a loved one going through i#and it's insulting to the child's memory but also to their siblings...#...because you are treating them like the back-up child. the spare tire. the third wheel. the one who is only cherished when they are Of Us#no longer are they a person. no longer are any of those children actual humans. they're just Things To Be Toyed With#how could that not make you sick to your stomach to even *think* about saying to the bereaved?#i don't think this is just a one-off statement but rather is indicative of a larger problem#because there is a Reason people think it comforting to say 'oh but you have OTHER children; chin up! 😊'#it honestly makes me sick to have even written this post because of how horrific the subject is#but it's still... we need to change this shit. this is plain cruelty. plain and simple. thoughtless and distant cruelty#and yes: people say this to be compassionate and are almost never cruel in their reasoning for saying this...#...that is the PROBLEM though. the problem is that it's seen as OKAY to say this to people whose lives have been destroyed in one fell swoop#the problem's that it's seen as OK to turn children into collectible objects that you can 'get over' like you get over losing a broken glass
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y'all get that screenshotting fic to publicly make fun of it is straight up bully behavior, right? like. it doesn't matter if you redact the author's name. this is no different to a kid taking someone else's art off the wall in a classroom, walking out into the playground, and holding it up to say "haha look how shit this is"
#accidentally opened the explore tab#and immediately saw a post going around that consisted of an ao3 screenshot and several thousand people talking shit about it#and all i can think is that the person who wrote that fic is engaged in fandom#likely the same fandom as the person who screenshotted it#so the probability of this needlessly cruel post finding its way onto the author's dashboard is pretty damn high#and i can't imagine how crushing that would be#especially for a young or inexperienced writer#who is probably not yet used to taking constructive criticism they've asked for let alone flat out mockery from strangers#taking criticism is a SKILL and if you don't have thick skin or a lot of confidence it can be debilitating as a creative person#and even if you DO have thick skin and ARE used to dealing with criticism#this sort of thing is just plain cruel and not remotely constructive#and nobody should have to worry that it will happen to them when they share their writing with fellow fans for fun and for free#anyway people stop thoughtlessly jumping onto bullying bandwagons 2k24#fandom problems#wank adjacent
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Ppl don't understand how Toichiro is so interesting how he doesn't gaf if anything legitimately harmful happens to Shou ( due to Shou's own actions or even by Toichiro's own hands at the point of wda ) but the second anyone else is like ?? literally after his son's life ?? good old oyaji goes bonkers
#ppl dont understand that toichiro's complicated fucked up way of loving his family is the reason why shou is the way he is#by ppl ofc i mean the fans who r out there reducing him to plain abusive father trope which yeah he is BUT NOT THAT WAY#it wouldn't be complicated for shou or anyone really if it was just that#and it's not human if it's not complicated tbh but ppl are cowards!!!!#i love Toichiro sm he's fucked up so bad then showed this raw bright potential to change#but u can see how he has this tunnel vision where hurting others ( besides his loved one ) IS STILL ACCEPTABLE regardless of anything#he just has better goals in the long end besides ruling the world#and that's soooooo delicious r u kidding me#shocking!!!!!! man actually does something wrong and is given the chance to change thru forgiveness!!!!#man wants to change and make it up for his family but its a little tricky cuz he's literally in jail lmao#btw the part where he beat the shit out of other prisoners was so hot#i said what i said!!!!!!!!!!#adhdfgsdfgdgbf wtf sm toichiro feelings#ショウ ; what a cruel adolescence. / study.
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so im curious, is ashfur in the dark forest (pre-the broken code)? does he still have the weird little control-possession powers over df cats? is he still possessing bramble, doing wacky shit in thunderclan?
also mildly unrelated. but what does mapleshade think of ashfur
Ashfur is no longer in the Dark Forest! But... I had to get rid of something that I love a lot to justify it; he no longer plots with Hawkfrost to kill Firestar. As a Hawkash lover it pained me but, it was for the best.
Ashfur is still a jealous, possessive ball of spite like in canon, but significantly more honorable. Enough to legitimately trick StarClan. Gooood-BYE "He Only Loved Too Much," you are NOT missed.
Bonefall Po3 (Specifically Cruel Season)
At the end of Bonefall Po3, he attacks the Three half out of jealousy, and half out of fear. He catches wind of the two prophecies; Fire and Tiger from TNP, and Kin of your Kin revealed near the end of Po3. He attacks Squirrelflight, telling her that if they had been his, they wouldn't have to die now.
She reveals the secret to throw him off guard; That her kittens with Brambleclaw are already dead (miscarriage) and the three are not his.
Also then she kicks him into the tree and knocks it over so the Three can escape the fire because it's my rewrite and I get to decide the anime battle choreography bullshit
Hollyleaf then kills him later, having already lost her mentor Brackenfur to the Eclipse battle and abandoning peace as an option. If she had not killed him, he would have been exiled for his attempted murder. Or, he may even still end up being exiled, and Hollyleaf does not think it's punishment enough. Still undecided.
Either way, this marks the beginning of the end of Bonefall Po3, which was relaxed and slice-of-life before this point. In my head I'm calling this "Plot Thickening" period 'Cruel Season', the name for the last book of canon Po3 that was cut by the publisher.
Bonefall TBC
Yep, he is still the Impostor... and he is brutal. Worse than canon. He actually cares about both possessing Squirrelflight AND legitimately enforcing the code.
Bristlefrost dies twice in this redux. Once during a horrific public execution to kick the arc off in earnest, and again to kill him for good. I initially planned for her to drown in a similar way to canon, but then I had a really cool idea that instead of drowning, this time she body checks him out of heaven.
So she burns up with him like a shooting star. Idk wouldn't it be fucking awesome if like once a year you could see Bristlefrost's Comet, or there was actually an impact crater somewhere on the map from this point on?
But anyway. Ashfur will have some control over ghosts, but I'm hoping to make it less than canon. I don't like how he was able to conjure up nameless rogues so you don't feel bad about the Warriors murdering random people :/
He won't be able to manipulate feelings that aren't already there. Hidden resentment, anger, despair, so on. Love being the antidote in ALITM was excellent you will pry Love and Friendship from my cold dead hands
Though I am also unironically considering giving Ashfur a Boss Form. I know it is silly. But multi-eyed, winged angel Ashfur would be cool man idk i like it when i get to smash my action figures against big monster
#Ashfur#Bonefall Rewrite#Bonefall Po3#Bonefall Cruel Season#Bonefall OotS#i just think it's cool#I simply think it would be more fun if Ashfur like broke the bridge between the Dark Forest and StarClan#Like there was once a Place Where Stars Die or some sort of purgatory area but it's now a big floating shattered plain#With only Ashfur's Tunnel connecting the Dark Forest and StarClan#Like a suspension bridge of sorts. A woven bramble tunnel.#I am TORN and TORMENTED by things I think would be neat#Also instead of the rising black water in the Dark Forest it would be neat if like Ashfur was absorbing unfortunate victims#Like slurping their essence into him or something
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i have a very peculiar life where i've often, due to chronic illness and the resulting reclusive tendencies from said illness, just plain not associated with people of my own age on a regular basis for months or years at a time. but when i do go out, i'm, like, not an unattractive or socially unsuccessful person. well i'm not necessarily socially successful but i'm not unattractive. and i'll look back on like a certain period sometimes and realize that i had a lot of people trying to pursue me romantically, and i'm like "hey what happened to that? its been such a long while since anybody asked me out........."
"oh yeah i dont leave the house"
#at my work i am the kid between kids#i am DEFINITELY too young to be considered to strike up a workplace tryst with lol. at least relative to my coworkers#most of my coworkers are women anyway#im one of the only 20-somethings who works in the entire district too.#tales from diana#not necessarily to say that i desire to be asked out in fact im very uncomfortable w it naturally. as an aroace person#who only ever has the pleasure of letting people down.#when i was a teenager though (especially before i realized i was aroace) no one ever asked me out#i felt very undesirable/unnoticed bc of it. in retrospect ppl did find me cute they just didnt talk to me.#i was kind of unapproachable. if i want to be really cruel to my teenage self then i could call her a pariah.#whatever ppl thought of me... nobody talked to me. and i never talked. plain and simple#then i entered the young adult world and it felt like everywhere i went there would be some man i hardly knew#asking me out when he had just learned my name. very strange to me!#im like why should you do that? i realize it's bc these men want a girlfriend#& they see me & i seem pretty & nice enough. theyre just like 'she will do'#no i wont! lol#sometimes i think like 'have i changed? that hasnt happened in quite awhile'#yes that kind of thing has ceased to happen since ive ceased to hang out w new ppl.#in the past year especially ive made more deliberate attempts to extricate myself from various social spheres#and i dont see really anyone socially except for some friends ive had for years.#if one of them were to suddenly express romantic interest in me. well. boy would that shake things up! lol#they know me though. they know i dont love.
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Love Destroyed Me
#ffxiv aura#ffxiv xaela#ffxiv gpose#ffxiv#ffxiv screenshots#this was my Ariya#before and after a person she deeply liked and trusted had broken her#some people in this world are just plain awful#cruel world
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to be fair it's not like you can get heavy opiates over the counter in msia either but you can get some low dose narcotics without a prescription and doctors will prescribe pain medication more easily here than in canada, generally speaking. which isn't hard to say because trying to get any kind of opiate in canada is nearly impossible, or at least it feels that way lol
#lots 2 be said on this topic n im not educated enough to say any of it#except that if people are in pain it is just plain cruel not to provide them a genuine recourse for relief
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#the fic i'm writing in my head rn is so awful and just plain cruel that i'm not even gonna write about it publicly for a number of reasons#but /damn/ i'm having so much fun imagining all these gloomy scenarios by myself 🖤#the aesthetics are gorgeous too i mean... dark and rainy helsinki/espoo ✅ everyone dressed up in their sunday best ✅#person A having no reason to be as miserable as he is. yet he can't stop wishing person B was there with him (instead of...) ✅#(i told you it's awful 😶 more info via dms if anyone cares)
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Nothing quite like walking past your childhood playground and seeing it ringed with fences, all the structures torn down, not a single woodchuck to be found. The plaque is still up. The garden has thankfully been spared. It's going to be another year minimum until they finish. For all of that time, our town has been deprived of an area that matters a lot to the community. It's where we hold events, where kids play when they get out of the school right across the street, where parents take their littlest ones, the ones who aren't old enough for school yet, and take them to play on the swings and slides and just have fun.
#at least they didnt close down the field this winter. that would have been just plain cruel#parks#playgrounds
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omfgggg one of the girls who terrorized me and drove me to near suisoide in Paris lives in the same building as me
#Txt#omggggggggggg#she was so evil to me I didn’t even do anything to her lol and she’s always talking about how she’s bi or whatever but I’m so sure she was#Evil to be cuz I actually love women she was being so homophobic to me and just plain cruel I hope I don’t see her ever ewww
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One of the worst things people decided to do is act as if lesbians simply describing the experience of not being attracted to men is something bad, something mean, exclusionary, or negative, that should be hidden away and not talked about.
Comments like “why would you define yourself around who you don’t love instead of who you do that’s so miserable”. Simply stating that lesbians aren’t attracted to men is not definining ourselves around that, it’s just acknowledging that this is a part of our experiences. It’s a simple, factual description. We don’t experience attraction to men, which affects & is relevant to our experience of identity, attraction, sexuality, our lives, and is therefore worth talking about. Stop assigning moral judgement and criticism to what is simply a factual description of something we experience.
You must realise that acting like lesbians not being attracted to men is bad and something we should not talk about or mention is literally just plain old homophobia/lesbophobia, right? surely?
Are aroace people not experiencing attraction bad or exclusionary for “defining themselves around who they aren’t attracted to”? No. It’s literally just a factual description of themselves and their experience with attraction (or lackthereof, it’s all relevant, that’s the point). It’s not negative, it’s not bad. It is what it is. And the exact same goes for lesbians saying we are not attracted to men.
We’re allowed to talk about that aspect of our lives and attraction the same as everyone else is.
#text#lesbophobia//#sorry if this is rambly i just wanted to get it off my chest#bc that whole argument of 'why would u define urself around who u DON'T like instead of who u do' is one of the worst out there imo#it's just... so reductive and vile and making lesbians feel bad for. being lesbians. framing us talking about our experiences as a negative#and it literally just circles back to plain old homophobia/lesbophobia from bigots. ur just dressing it in more progressive language#like it's just such a ... cruel nasty and meanspirited argument to make
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