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glowingplant · 2 years ago

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I kept trying to add these as tags and wondering what went wrong! The issue is that I'm too rambly and it was too many tags, so I'm adding it (now edited for readability) as a readmore instead!

This is lore I've kind of kept close to my chest, but it's borne from the fact that for my lore and my commander, just saying Trahearne lived and doesn't die doesn't fit the understanding of my commander, that I'd had for literally years.

I did still hit a point where ultimately I did want him to be alive again though, so short version: necromancy and special circumstances regarding Caladbolg, that occur waaay later. like post-EOD-later.

The long version with lots of rambling about my commander and his relationship to Trahearne is down there. It is WAY too long and no one has to read it.

So as I said, Trahearne's death is very important to Rhydenach and the lore! I can't just extricate the fact Trahearne died- it's kind of EXTREMELY important to him as a character, and the grief of Trahearne's death can't just be like.. purged from his narrative.

For starters, yes they were in smoochies together, and hey this is a readmore now so I can add a picture:

So okay, I swear this is going somewhere but I have to set the scene for Rhydenach becoming a necromancer as it's all important to me, and his journey to actually reviving Trahearne. So Rhydenach is initially a berserker warrior he's big and strong and dumb? He's a hotheaded himbo, and doesn't really get necromancy, he admires Trahearne for being smart but that is not him!!! Rhydenach can a) pick heavy thing up b) smash heavy thing into enemies. He's actually a very skilled fighter and his strength and combat skills are admirable but he's certainly not booksmart.

After Trahearne dies, he for a long time, filters his grief into his anger, and his hotheadedness, it alll feels very fitting with his berserker-ness! He's angry and grieving and it's all resurfacing as rage. He's in a very bad place mentally. He does have Caladbolg, and reforges it, and he ends up keeping a lot of Trahearne's old books about all sorts of things, but some of those are necromancy books (and a lot are Trahearne's own necromancy research.) And he just stashes them all away somewhere safe where they can be pristine and untouched. I think he almost feels he doesn't deserve these things? Of course, Trahearne would want him to have them but as I said, Rhydenach is in a bad place mentally.

Aurene is a spot of light in a very grim time in his life, and being able to parent a dragon is something that alleviates his pain and stops him from completely falling apart, but for the most part, he's very sad. He's making no effort to do anything other than distract himself, from his grief and is sort of destroying himself in the process.

BUT! during LWS4 he finally sort of has a breakthrough? A few things contribute... part of it is having died in POF, and this new lease on life and the process of regaining his memories and all begins it. He's still quite sour and prickly but I think it opens him up to healing in a way. His friendships with Caithe and Braham, also help. He's friends with most NPCs you're 'meant' to be friends with but these two probably are the closest? And they definitely help him the most in this phase of his life, especially with Caithe's reemergence. That's his friend who he platonically co-raised a child with.

LWS4 is honestly pretty harrowing in its own way and I think all the terrible stuff happening and then how when you hit Dragonfall suddenly Aurene is back and everything is working out and it all seems fine!!! I think just kickstarts his brain into being in a better place. Additionally, in Jahai Bluffs there's the poem fragment that was Trahearne's favourite, and despite suppressing his grief all this time, he finally instead starts to take comfort in Trahearne's memory, and actually feel his grief instead of trying his hardest to push it away.

So now, despite not being booksmart, or getting it very well, he's reading Trahearne's old necromancy research (it's a lot), and he finally entertains the idea of using reforged Caladbolg, instead of keeping it all pristine and shut away. He's not using it as his actual weapon at that point, but he finally sort feels okay using it, as he starts to practice and try out necromancy things he's learning. He starts to sort of get necromancy? He's not as magically inclined so he more infuses it into his normal fighting style. In-game up to this point, he's a physical skill hammer/greatsword berserker, which is very very him and so he's infusing necromancy into this sort of fighting style.

Then, at the end of LWS4, after the delight of Aurene being alive again, and this insurmountable enemy being dealt with, Aurene ascends to being an elder dragon! At this point in my lore, Rhydenach in the same moment, gets Aurene-branded like Caithe did, but prismatic-style (rather than the original purple/blue Aurene). So at that point because it's sort of a symbolic new Rhydenach, but also because he changes colour and stuff, I made a second Rhydenach alt to represent his visual changes, because there was no way I was making over original Rhydenach. (He's called 'Commander Rhydenach' in game, rather than just Rhydenach, and now he's a necromancer!!! But I'm actually not done with his look so you can't see him I'm sorry.)

So now, officially, he's a Reaper in-game, which I feel is fitting fighting style-wise as an extension of rhydenach's previous berserker-ness, but filtered through a necromantic lens. So his berserker mode is like. reaper shroud, the slamming of the scythe is like his old fighting style of slamming the hammer. He still uses a greatsword but finally, he's actually picked up Caladbolg, and takes it as his main weapon, and is fighting with it and using necromancy regularly. He doesn't fully get the magic from a scholarly standpoint, and he does use it in a brute-force sort of way way but he's definitely getting it more!

Now the weird thing is, when he was Aurene-branded, she shared with him some of the Joko magic she absorbed, which manifests as weird inherent necromancy knowledge that he doesn't fully get, when he thinks too hard, but it is just there now. It sort of plants a seed and he comes to start to wonder if he could revive Trahearne. Holding Caladbolg and learning necromancy and having some inherent knowledge implanted in his brain sends him down this little path where he's secretly thinking about this, from post LWS4 onwards, as a secret background goal, whirring away behind the scenes in his mind.

Moving forward, Icebrood is very rough for him but he's feeling better now! He's stronger and he holds out against it despite losing Almora, who is admires and respects a lot. He also partly remains strong, as he does back to talk to his old Pact friends, Faeilaeth and Dionaeri (two other ocs of mine, they're gfs!) who he'd been neglecting and they sort of stopped reaching out because they'd been trying so hard to help and support him and he'd just been determined to destroy himself regardless, and was pushing them away. SO, they help and support him a bit in his flimsy moments, and are happy he's actually accepting their support again.

So! EOD is sort of his last rodeo as Commander! After it, he's like 'Nah. I'm good! The dragon cycle is done! I'm checking out!' This is something I knew I wanted for him before even deciding about Trahearne revival, but it also works with that. (Do not ask me who my new commander is this is STILL a problem I haven't solved in my lore for an entire year at this point.)

And now, it gets wishy-washy, as this is still quite new lore for me, but the general idea is that because Rhydenach is appropriately ushered out of the story so I don't have to deal with the lore ramifications, of reviving Trahearne, he, through the weird circumstances of his necro magic absorption and using Caladbolg all the time, and post-EOD, maybe some weirdness with the dragon magic (Mordremoth in particular), he finds a way!

I believe it's mostly that he needs to craft a new sylvari body through necromancy (both learned and the stuff he absorbed) and plant magic and stuff, and stick Trahearne's soul back in it, but this requires Caladbolg and all to do it, and maybe he has to do it in the Heart of Maguuma where he originally died? Either way, something about the process necessitates Caladbolg, as this is something he can only really do with Trahearne specifically (he'd be reviving many more people otherwise and I don't want that all over my lore, I like this as a very significant one-time thing.) Well two-time thing but that happens with two completely separate characters who aren't at all attached to any of this, I'm only allowing Rhydenach to do this one time.

I also want to add I just think it's very romantic to literally know your lover so well you can perfectly craft their body as it once was. And I like this as actually, Rhydenach DOES get to be happy! He doesn't have to sit with his grief, after all he's done, he gets the person he misses more than anything back. Even if it's many many years after the fact. Maybe that seems a bit silly, that he worked through his grief and his ending wasn't that he was content with it now, but that he gets his lover back after all? But I like it better this way actually.

As I said, I haven't fully firmed up the details of the revival, like it's ??? still, but it's going to happen., just offscreen while my new commander who I do not know yet is running around. When I finally figure them out, it will be that they've been learning from by Rhydenach's side for a little while, and were inducted into their order via one of the orders Rhydenach didn't join through (Rhydenach is Vigil), and still lost their mentor at Claw Island, just, they did some other stuff for a while before ending up in the midst of Dragon's Watch, so they can still fit with the newer stuff that's happening, since Rhydenach quit lol.

I think Trahearne's revival will sort of be a half-secret? Like close friends will know, and maybe it's a rumour throughout Tyria, but they're not making an announcement to the world, and most people probably scoff and think it's ridiculous. I think the two of them will prefer that.

If you did read all of this I give you a medal and my many many thanks lol.

Hey question for the Trahearne lovers here

For those of you that have a Trahearne lives AU, how do you go about it? How does he not die? Feel free to ramble about it :)

#prev! yours i feel has simialr vibes to mine in the sense of like..#trahearne's death isnt something that can be erased from happening #and it's important it STILL happened in our lore even if he's revived later #it doesn't erase what happened.#like genuinely. mine is ALSO post EOD? such similarities!!!#which is something I tried to add in my original tags but they got too long oops.#um no one has to read this it's like. REALLY long i added even more than the oriignal tags because I had room to I'm sorry.#sorry op this is. A Lot. and i could have said it very simply #but i wanted to ramble i guess #rhydenach #rhydenach words #tree husbands #trahearne

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pigidin · 1 month ago

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UMM?? GUYS??

Alt coz ik the quality is bad::

[The mind Bill knows best. Pure ego. Putty in Bill's hands. Bill will also reveal that, while he was possessing Ford in the 80's, he ripped out a number of pages from Ford's journal and erased his memory of them. Bill will show the LOST PAGES from JOURNAL 3 that have never before been seen]

DOES ANYONE WANNA TALK ABOUT THE MEMORY ERASE THINGY COZ IM GOING PRETTY MUCH INSANE OVER THIS INFO. WHAT.

#ok but imagine if this is really what coulda happened. that bill suddenly realised that ford is the only one he's been THAT vulnerable with #and that he might or might not have fallen for him in the process #and in the pure NEED to avoid any sentimentality he doesn't only DENIES all that happened between them but also erases the memories of ford #like?? the first and only relationship he ever felt safe in enough to be honest about the reality of what happened to euclydia??#or the fact that it might or might not has been the only relationship in which he let himself be intimate with sb??#and this relationship CRUMBLING COMPLETELY #bill fumbling SO BAD that he wants to deny that any of that happened in the first place??#it kinda eliminates his manipulation of “hey look so we've been close w each other once so why not get back to that for old time's sake!”#but GOOD GOLLY this guy sucksss at manipulations anyway but is like an expert in the art of denies #it just adds such a huge ass layer to him as a character #this is prolly non canon btw but STILL #gravity falls #bill cipher #stanford pines #billford #book of bill #alex hirsch

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kelocitta · 2 months ago

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The last thing I'll say, and I'm saying it because it applies broadly- is that there is very rarely a perfect victim OR evil mastermind and everyone needs to get better at recognizing and responding to that fact. Victims of legitimate crimes or horrible acts can be aggressive, or bitter, or biased or a dozen things that make them 'unappealing' to listen too. They can have willfully exposed themselves to content or been in circles they really shouldn't have. They could have been given warning signs that they missed or outright ignored. They might exaggerate or misremember their claims. That does not mean they are no longer victims. If you completely missed the red flags and were taken advantage of- you were still taken advantage of. If you exposed yourself to harmful content that was upsetting or distressing, you were ultimately still exposed to harmful content. Maybe it is "your fault" for being there, but you were still there and it still happened. Especially in terms of online, its just shockingly very easy to end up in places where you are in danger of harm- and its shockingly easy to not notice that you may have put yourself in that position until its too late. If you want to be supportive of victims, you need to recognize that very often victims did things that were inappropriate themselves, put themselves in harmful situations, didn't back out when they should have, missed "obvious" signs... and are still a victim in the end. Likewise, abuse ranges from the intentional to the neglectful. Sometimes an abuser can even do both at once. People do harmful things completely on accident- even repeatedly. It can be mental illness or stress, it can be a dozen things- but yes sometimes people have patterns of behavior that are harmful and destructive that they either aren't aware of, in denial of, or don't get how bad they are about it. That does not erase the harm those behaviors cause. If you handle a situation poorly, it could just be that you handled it poorly- you didn't think through your actions or their implications. But from the receiving end, it doesn't matter how accidental it was, its going to often read as intentional, or a pattern, or whatever. And ultimately the harm is still done regardless of what it was. There is a world of difference between harm done intentionally and harm done through stupidity, neglect, or plain old mistake- but it not always easy to identify which is which- and harm is still done in the end. Sometimes people are harmed because someone saw an opportunity to do so, and sometimes they're harmed because no one stopped to question if it was even a risk. Both of those still ultimately result in someone getting hurt. The point of this is that if you are ever going to analyze situations critically you can not be looking for just "the good one" and "the bad one". You can't just weigh initial impressions on a scale and hope one side tips further and call it a day. Believing victims doesn't mean you need to throw caution to the wind, but likewise bad actors or misinformation doesn't mean your reaction should be that there couldn't possibly be victims. Be very mindful of how you interact in situations where someone was potentially hurt. Being 'critical' can easily boil over into disregard for harm- both the harm the involved might have done to each other and the harm you yourself do in how you respond to it.

#t.extpost #drama #i guess.#sorry i dont really want to talk to much about drama but #it was rubbing on me to see people act like whichever side they decided was in the right meant nothing bad ever happened to the other #sometimes everyone fucks up and everyone gets hurt in different ways!#even in situations where there IS a victim and clear undeniable abuser there is sometimes going to be victims who just look like the asshol #and theyre still going to have been the one hurt #and actual real abusers will use that to their advantage by going hey look at what an ass they are #othertimes people will be manipulative and awful and its mental illness and not evil. it doesn't erase the harm they cause through their #manipulation or by how they act but it does mean they didnt have a four year plan on how to ruin someones life #and probably shouldnt be treated or assumed as such. even if never forgiven for how they acted #looking only for evil masterminds also gives people an outlet to brush off the real issues with their behaviors #tdlr theres no easy answers to how to deal with these kind of things but we also cant pretend like the only thing we can do #is to pretend like theres never problematic people who are actively dangerous in their communities

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dootznbootz · 9 months ago

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I think some folks MAY have gotten the wrong idea about how I feel about Circe with some of my posts. So, to clear the air...

Homies, I love that fucked up sorceress.

I love how we're never given a reason why she turns people into animals. That's so funny and so awful. And another potion-making magic gal?!?! I love that she's just basically vibing on an island doing whatever she wants. I even love the fact that she scares Odysseus shitless! She's morally gray and that's why she's FUN.

I just sincerely hate when people try to girlboss her or have her be a victim of SA when she never was Looking at you, Miller. Especially when she was actually the one who coerced Odysseus in exchange for his men being transformed back into humans. And even then, while he was clearly afraid of her, (it's in the language of the Odyssey) she likely meant him no harm after a certain point. He just didn't know that.

Why does she need a reason to do awful things? Why can't she just be a goddess who does whatever she wants? That's the reason why I love her!!! She's fucked up!!! :D

I hate what the Telegony did to her as well! >:( You're telling me, this sorceress goddess, who makes potions (!!!) wouldn't have magic contraceptives??? Would WANT CHILDREN?!?! WITH THE PATHETIC WIFEMAN?! No. Fuck no. Eugammon of Cyrene, I have beef with you 🤬

Anyways!!! Understand all the "#anti circe" I have is simply Anti "Girlboss Circe" or the book. I genuinely think she's neat af as her morally gray, fucked up sorceress self and just get frustrated with...everything :'D

#I have these same feelings with Medea and Medusa and so many others. Penelope too. Let them do something fucked up just to be fucked up #I'm a “god forbid women do anything” in the sense of 'she did a fucked up thing. That's why she's fascinating. Don't take her awfulness #away from her!!! please! I wanna study her under a microscope!'😭#PLEASE #...I actually kind of don't like the idea of her actually caring about her nymphs :P maybe she “protects them” but like...#I see her as a “Why are all of you dancing? Oh. it's a birthday? hm okay. Just make sure your duties are done.” while not caring #whose birthday it is. She's not really shown to be close to them during the Odyssey and idk just seems in character for her to not give af #save me morally gray circe #<-making that a tag now because...yeah. She absolutely wouldn't save me though.#Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #anti madeline miller #anti circe #<-THE BOOK! I HATE THE BOOK! LET HER BE AWFUL YOU COWARDS #Why do women need to be SA'ed to be strong Miller?! >:(#...Ima say it. The pathetic wifeman is more relatable to me than Hot Snake Monster Lady when it comes to this stuff.😤#I just sincerely hate the fact that people erase what happened to him you know? It's silly but it means a lot to me.#Also I think she got bored of him immediately and simply let him chill at her place.#She's a goddess. She's got better things to do and she absolutely doesn't love him and he absolutely doesn't want her.#I don't have with Eugammon btw. He's dead and I'm exaggerating but I STILL hate the Telegony >:(#tw sa #kind of??? idk #barely mentioned but yeah #Calypso though?? Yeah. I hate her in practically everything except Pirates of the Caribbean because that's not Odyssey Calypso

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wonder-worker · 4 months ago

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Is it true that Elizabeth of York birth celebrated like she was a son? I have seen some historians say this.

Hi! Yes, Edward IV did celebrate his daughter’s birth as though she was a male heir (“a prince”), iirc as per the Great Chronicle.

While we have no contemporary reports at the time of Elizabeth of York's birth, we know that Luchino Dallaghiexia reported that the birth of Edward and Elizabeth's third child, Cecily of York, "rejoiced the king and all the nobles exceedingly*, though they would have preferred a son'. Wanting a son (ie: an heir) was typical for their time period, likely enhanced by Edward and Elizabeth's unprecedentedly controversial marriage, her very unsuitable origins and his own status as a usurper. The fact that he was described as being "exceedingly" delighted at the birth of his third daughter in a row regardless does support the claim that he would have gone over-the-top to celebrate the birth of his first legitimate** child.

Hope this helps!

*Bizarrely, I have seen several historians and blogs using Dallaghiexia's letter to claim that he was bitterly disappointed at Cecily of York's birth. I don't understand how historical reading comprehension can be so poor that "rejoiced the king exceedingly" has somehow been rewritten as the...exact opposite of that. With no self-awareness whatsoever. **His illegitimate daughter Margaret (known as Elizabeth for some reason) was almost definitely born before his marriage. We don't know the birth dates of his other two illegitimate children: I think the likeliest conception date for Arthur was in early 1470, but it's unverified; and we know nothing about Grace (which was in fact her surname, not her name) other than the fact that Elizabeth Woodville seems to have been very attached to her.

#ask #elizabeth of york #edward iv #queue #speaking of which #did I mention how much I dislike historians who state that one of Elizabeth Woodville's 'advantages' was that 'she was fertile'#and just leave it at that?#or dumbfuck Anne Boleyn stans who argue Elizabeth was 'safe' because she had a son (she was literally deposed twice but okay)#That is simply incorrect and a complete erasure of her actual - presumably difficult - experiences #Elizabeth literally 'failed' (so to speak) to have a son throughout her first queenship #She had three daughters back-to-back #Her first son with Edward IV was in fact born seven years into her marriage after her husband had already been deposed and in exile #It does her an incredibly disservice to rewrite her very complicated situation according to your own whims and fancies #Particularly considering the very unusual nature of her marriage and rise to queen (+Edward's own status as an usurper)#which meant that Elizabeth - like H8's wives after her - was in a far more precarious position than sonless foreign royal queens before her #And while the lack of a son clearly didn't affect her personal marriage (her husband celebrated their eldest daughter's birth #as though she was a male heir and was described as exceedingly happy at the time of their third daughter's birth;#they decided to go on a pilgrimage - presumably to ask for a son - *together*; etc)#That doesn't change the fact that they were in a very very difficult situation that having a son could have resolved/legitimized #Worries that may have intensified even more after 1469 when George of Clarence (second York brother) rebelled against Edward #I also suspect their lack of a son affected the nature of Warwick's propaganda against them during his rebellions #but that's a whole other topic of discussion #Either way: What we should never do is erase and rewrite Elizabeth's (and Edward's) very complex situation in the 1460s #in favor of an inaccurate but more 'convenient' alternate history #It's a little odd tbh because I HAVE seen such discussions for Anne of Bohemia; MoA; and Henry VIII's wives #who all struggled to have male heirs #But for some reason Elizabeth's situation is not even acknowledged - let alone discussed #funny how that happens #anyway #ik I went VERY off track I'm sorry about that

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brick-van-dyke · 15 days ago

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If there's one thing I've respectively noticed from Zionists and defenders of Israeli war crimes, it's that every source, argument and potential avenue to explore each explanation is riddled with cherry picking, moving the goalposts and mental gymnastics to explain why their conclusions, which typically are barely even related to the sources they use, somehow overshadow literal reality and what we see with our own eyes.

While scrolling, one example I came across was the repetitive misrepresentation of BLM, antifa and quotes from Martin Luther King Jr, as well as statistics, scholarly journal articles and government website information. These are all good sources, yet every single time they're mangled completely until the only possible "interpretation" of any of them is "well Israel is right to defend itself after shorting rockets beforehand because the retaliation was brutal and all Arabs are bad by default therefore". As if any of these sources are even about individual exceptions of Israel versus hatred towards Arabs.

I think what I find most absurd, as someone in the middle of their own studies, is how every bit of critical thinking and logic goes out the window as they do every single thing possible to do what professors worldwide say NOT to do when evaluating sources. It's like watching a race to see who can tangle and misconstrue scientific information to fit their world view the fastest. Then said people say "um actually I studied at university before so it's actually not wrong that I'm doing this exact this everyone is warned not to do because I have a permit". Ignorance I can forgive, but willful and arrogant manipulation? That's another thing entirely.

#zionism #my gods y'all need to get a grip and start remembering that confirmation bias exists #and y'all use sources continually in this way while just generally having so much bs of presenting How To Not Use My Own Sources #or actually to be more correct you clearly do know you just choose not to because you'd rather be justified in resource theft and profit #Like the while tome it's been about either material gain or feeling good about yourself while you shit on strangers #and then I also see y'all make other accounts ro harass random Arabs for fun and random queers who aren't even related like #the fuck is wrong with y'all go sit down and think about why you all do this pointless bs #it's such a waste of your own life spending it looking for fights to help with your bottomless insecurities #Israel #fuck israel #long live palestine #like you can say hamas was bad all you like it doesn't actually change the situation and what y'all have been doing for 76 years #and actually longer but y'all arent ready for that conversation and how Zionists butchered Jews and helped Nazi Germany historically #like sorry that Was a thing that happened and if you want to label yourselves as The Sacred Protectors of Jews then you have to face that #Pretending history didn't happen isn't helpful to anyone including yourselves y'all just making Zionism look even worse and like idiocy #I mean it is but you all aren't helping yourselves by being literal holocaust deniers #and being like “but Zionists saved Jews afterwards” as if that somehow erases the fact they ALSO helped the Nazis #like history is full of contradictory bullshit so when you say “but what about this” you know that doesn't erase the other things right??#“That's worse. You DO see how that's worse right?”#I'm shaking you all and yelling this like it is WORSE that they killed Jews and then started playing the saviour and fellow victims #You do see how that is really bad for Jews today to be in a place created for political power plays and material gain through any means #like you see how that could be REALLY dangerous for Jews if they're that expendable to Zionist entities and the government #and you do realise that is literally what we are seeing from the actions of said government #and how they acting sadly very predictablely when you consider the historical contexts for its existence?#People who research this shit aren't surprised because it happens every single year and has been happening for centuries -#- before Israel the holocaust etc. It's been like this for as long as political Zionism and the French Revolution #It's been going on since pre Marxism and pre a lot of differing things but y'all pretend Zionists haven't ever harmed Jews ever when -#- there's a long history of internal conflict and in fighting that formed modern Zionism and plenty of internalised antisemetism within it #Yeah there's a genuine desire for return to the land (Not Own It just return and live peacefully)#but that is very very different to Political Zionism that formed as a socialist nationalist movement

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dreamingaboutsakuratrees · 7 months ago

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Dear God how I fucking hate when people dismiss s character's traits because "that's just a facade! you as the reader have to see underneath it!!" like yeah no fucking shit Sherlock, a well written character has more than one (1) defining trait but that doesn't mean their most prominent one or the one most recognized by fandom ISN'T there

yes this is about people thinking dick grayson isn't actually a ray of sunshine, that it's just a mask. he's much more than the happy one, of fucking course, all batfam members (when written well) are, but that doesn't mean that being happy and bright is not a crucial part of his personality. he brings light to people's lives, he's a beacon of hope, that's what Robin was born for, as a light to Batman's darkness. That's what Nightwing is. He can be serious, sure. He's smart, an amazing strategist, incredibly good at fighting, he can be manipulative and morally gray and sometimes an objectively bad person. But he's ALSO funny and quippy and bright and sunshine. BECAUSE HE'S WELL WRITTEN.

Like Jesus stop making him so sad and wrong all the time just because you want so bad to go against "fanon". It's not fanon if it's literally his core trait. It's not fanon if it's what the character was BORN AS. God.

#I'm not sure if this even makes sense #it's almost 6am I haven't slept and I just saw someone say he's a manipulative bitch and to stop writing him as a ray of sunshine #and now I'm mad #because this parson had this lukewarm takes with most of the batkids #like yeah I get a lot of damian's traits and back story are deeply rooted in racism #but like he did try to kill tim. and he killed a bunch of people when he first got to Gotham. that's a thing that happened.#and no matter how racist the reason behind that plot line might have been #it's something that happened and choosing to believe it didn't happen because it doesn't fit your preconceived ideas of how #a character should or should not be is just plain stupid #you can explore the character and change their personality and play with them in fanfic sure that's what we all do #but don't pretend that canon doesn't exist. you can choose to utilize it or not but acknowledge it even if it's just to spit in it's face #damian's not tame he's not more chill than his brothers he's not misunderstood #he's a child who had a horribly traumatic childhood and reacts with violence because that's all he knows #Jason's angry and he has every right to be and to say he isn't is to erase an incredibly important part of his character #you don't get to tell a victim how to be a good victim. Jason's a victim.#dc #batman #rambles #batfam #batfamily #dc universe #dc comics #batman and robin #dick grayson #Jason Todd #Damian Wayne #nightwing #red hood #oh look I made a post about dc that is NOT about Tim #wild huh

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spiritcc · 3 months ago

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at this point I don't even know if tag fragmentation in the general russian holmes space is worth addressing. a few years ago I successfully kept the ancient customs intact because I wrote a post so deranged and pretentious it displeased people into doing what I wanted but nowadays what's the point in making a grand return of being terminally online if yall kinda right

#history: in the ice age the soviet series were exclusively russian sherlock holmes #the 2013 show is about to appear under a surprisingly generic title of Sherlock Holmes that is also russian #the contemporaries can't come up with anything better than naming it the new russian holmes #it is a decade later #soon it will be 11 years of nrh being *new*#and russian sh keeps dying out in favour of soviet sh #tag fragmentation occurs where the historic russian sh name with almost 15 years of tumblr history gets shafted in favour of soviet sh #a relatively new tag nowhere near of the russian sh legacy #as someone who actually scrolled it all the way back to the very beginning and yes to the first posts of circa 2010/2011 #you can guess why I felt strongly about it since you are just creating an issue that never was and also making a false impression #of how sparsely populated soviet sh is while all this time it was just a secondary but also straight up unused tag #the same thing having two tags with totally different content bc of tag fragmentation is quite annoying #but it is now the modern age and idk if you can even go that deep into any tag anymore with how the search function doesn't work #and who could be wrong. russian sh Is soviet. nrh Is new. and nrh will never change and mix with the russian sh search forever.#plus what is the issue. russian sh gets one post a week and nrh gets one every half a year. the annoyance exists to me only.#do we assemble a council and grant both shows new unique tags and resolve the mistakes of our ancestors #while erasing 10+ years of history behind their current tags in the process thus basically wiping the fandom clean #or do we just live with it while occasionally shrugging at how this all happened #I thought and fought to keep it the way it was because adding to a search that goes back to 2010 is what it's all about o7 #but nowadays truly. everyone else is technically right. what's the point

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laugtherhyena · 3 months ago

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CHERRY🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒🍒

#spoilers for csm chapter 174 #I'M GOING INSANE #I'M ACTUALLY CRAZY #you know out of all my csm ocs i didn't expect him to the one whose fear could be shown in canon csm #i always thought that if that were to happen it probably would be Mayura since wolves are so popular #and also prominent in media #but haha no. the aging devil is real #MY BOY IS REAL (not really. but you get what i mean)#such a weird feeling #i thought that if this ever happenrd If feel kinda mad? sad maybe?#but that's not really the case. at most I'm like WOAHHHHHHH and in awe almost?#like. from the little we heard of the aging devil the way i was portraying Cherry is surprisingly accurate to the canon??#because he doesn't care about life and death both to others and to him. it's just part of life much like aging itself #and seeing as the aging devil in canon is willing to be eaten and erased by chainsaw man #(which i could tie into Cherry and how he is a csm fan haha)#+ having an amicable relationship w public safety #how fun #tho seeing as aging is a primal fear there (i feel dumb for not realizing that it would be one lmao)#I'll probably turn Cherry into a fiend or something similar #what a fun chapter!!#csm #csm spoilers #csm part 2 #csm oc #Cherry #hyena ramblings

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randomnameless · 2 months ago

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15 days ago :

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Two weeks is "long" enough not to be called soon, right??

So in that run, Alain repaired a bridge and crossed it, under his advisor's stern and despaired glare, and we saw a horrible cutscene with evil!Scarlett now going on by the name of Norbelle.

But since I couldn't be assed to grind to, well, play the final map, I just unlocked the cutscene and then went on my way to rescue Scarlett before she turns "evil".

@megafan1993 : iirc you theorised in a comment that maybe angel people can't be Zenoira'd like the bestrals because we don't see any zenoira'd angel in Albion? Given how Scarlett's line is basically an "angel experiment" that went right (like she got magic mc guffin powers instead of sprouting wings) Norbelle's here to tell us that she could be hijacked... even if I checked on YT videos and apparently it's bit more weird, like Norbelle says she was channeled in this body when Scarlett's soul left, but when we defeat Norbelle Scarlett's still here somehow asking Alain to live?

Anyways, wanting to continue on my "get cutscenes I didn't get in the first round", but being too much of a chicken to execute then Cornian recruits (:'( ) I decided to have Alain talk to Gilbert from the South in the final Drakengard map - and now instead of having them talk, Gilbert apparently remembers having talked to us?

Virginia being all "maybe you should talk to Aramis and ask him to reassure his brother about his role and status as the King", well, nope. Just like she told Alain, when we first met Berengaria, that their family matter was something between them and not for us to intervene, Alain went with something like "it's not for us to intervene in Drakengard's royal affairs" or something.

Which had her be a bit pissed, but she ultimately gives up because that's Alain's decision, and he is the leader of the army. So instead of talking to his brother, Gilbert faces his father's throne with doubts and his armored adviser (Hermann) tells him not to worry, and how everyone supports him even if his brother - who hasn't been confirmed to be dead yet - has a better claim to the throne.

However, given how he still has doubts and voices them to the Cornians - after Virginia asked him to "speak his mind" or something - and says he would rather join the Liberation Army, but defuses the situation by pretending it's a joke... well, let's say this plot point is left in the air.

(but it could make for a nice plotbunny in a fic : what if Gilbert later learns that his brother is still with the LA and how Alain and Virginia both kept that info for him? Marriage or not, I doubt he's going to be chummy with the Cornian royals, especially if he believes they kept that info from him to have some sort of leverage against his crown/rule by threatening him to reveal Ludwig's existence to the world and thus directly challenge his legitimacy... - what a clusterfuck this decision of "letting them deal with their family matters on their own" would create lol)

But he swore he will be assisting us in the last battle!

I don't think there are any other "meaningful choices" after Drakengard, maybe I'll kill Bertrand (:'() in Bastorias to get that entry on the archive ?

#unicorn overlord stuff #tfw no self restraint #damn i should have killed Aramis too for the archive completion :(#And Jerry and Mordon and all of the pals :(#maybe in another run? lol #watch as I have fic ideas I'll never write #like the one where Ilenia post possession wakes up and realises what the fuck happened in 10 years and feels like it's her fault #Josef'n'pals try to assure her it's not but it doesn't work #dealing with the aftermath of the war and the people legit wondering where the fuck was she #+ cleaning house with the people who sided with Zenoira bcs even if Alain wants to pardon them he's king now #++ being extra upset at having to erase Virginia from the royal line to make sure no Drakengard king could have a claim on Cornia's throne #oh well it's just AU thoughts now #I'll try to play one chapter per day to avoid storming and burning out before the artbookis delivered lol

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pochapal · 1 year ago

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So, putting aside any feelings about the work itself or potential direction changes, what is your opinion on the idea of Homestuck^2 being back, with a new team, and nothing from the old team, when the idea was that the old team was still working on it behind the scenes?

given the way things ended in 2020 i was under no illusion that anyone was still working on hs^2 - the "we're still working behind the scenes" thing was basically a lie since by that time literally nearly all of the team had either jumped ship or was pushed out by a hostile fandom - so it is sincerely a surprise that a) people are working on it again and b) we're actually getting new content for it. i would have put hard money on homestuck^2 being forever dead and even said as much several times this year alone (i still stand by a lot of what i wrote in this post on the matter) so i was completely and totally unprepared for a version of this thing to crop up from the grave.

the fact that it's a wholly new unconnected team is absolutely the only reason that hs^2 is back. everything that happened with/to the old team was a bridge that can't be unburned. i worked through my feelings about what happened to the original hs^2 crew some time ago so i'll be brief: i was absolutely in love with the new, interesting, and challenging direction that team was taking not only hs^2, but homestuck canon in its entirety, and i will always be deeply saddened that their vision was killed before its time and will never be able to be visualised.

the story we will be getting both is and isn't homestuck^2. it will naturally be building off the same frameworks and ideas of the epilogues and what came before it, but it will not end up in the same place. this new team is working under a different outline towards a different goal and i will try to appreciate this new hs^2 for what it is (albeit with a very very veeeery cautious optimism) but the hs^2 i fell in love with died in 2020. the story i am writing about and responding to died in 2020. i am sure this will be a fun ride but i can't help but be wistful about what could have been, and i am unable to ignore the specter of the cruelty done towards its predecessor that hangs over this project. i wish them the best and i am looking forward to it but it isn't the same and it won't be the same and i wouldn't want it to be the same anyway. that moment in time and that creative vision is in the ground and to pretend otherwise would be playing with ghosts. i am interested in seeing something alive.

i really and truly hope things work out better for this new team and they learned from what killed the last attempt at this. more than anything else i would hate for history to repeat.

#alpha-garden #homestuck^2 #my relationship with the hs fandom is permanently ruptured after what happened in 2019/2020 to the postcanon team #so i am approaching this new venture from a wholly different place #sincerely i hope it goes well for them!#and while none of this is what came before it also doesn't erase what came before either #while i will enjoy this project i will always be thinking about what could have been instead had things not gone the way that they did #at least no matter what i have my fic and godfeels and similar things to keep that specific thread alive in spite of whatever happens #homestuck^2 is dead long live homestuck^2

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wallyslinda · 10 months ago

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i'm anti several popular (fanon mostly) ships that my favorites are part of... this is just me keeping track

#anti wallytemis #idk what's their ship name #the young justice #the audacity of this cartoon replacing a canon korean female character love interest (linda park) to a white female character is so :/#anti jayroy #the whole reducing roy age doesn't make sense #(not to mention the absolute hatred their canon female character of color love interests (which are as powerful as them btw) are getting...#rose wilson i will protect you #jade nguyen i will protect you #back to roy. the way he's actually dick's age #now i'm not dickroy anti but #i prefer dick to be with her tamaranean love interest koriand'r #like stop erasing female character of color for white (fanon) love interests i beg #at some degree fanon ships that aren't weird like incest or age gap etc are acceptable #again for example dickroy #but it's frustrating when seeing their female character of color love interests being sidelined or even demonized #how many fics of roy with some rando white male character which have lian but completely erase jade's existence? too many to count #i am afraid about what will happen in maws when br*ce is formally introduced #it's good that maws clois is a strong fandom #wallyslinda rants

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midnanoire · 7 months ago

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all non participating countries have their flags banned at eurovision

I'm well aware. I wrote that in the translation.

#Sorry if this comes across as rude I do not mean it to be #I just wanted to actually check that I wrote it in and then took a screenshot so that you wouldn't have to look for the post again #I am still allowed to be unhappy about this tho #Yes I am aware that they are not participating #but I believe that people who are going to Eurovision should still be allowed to show their support #What is happening in Palestine right now is horrible and people should be allowed to show their support for the people #And Eurovision would be a good place to show it #It is a big thing and people from all over the world watch it #If the terrible happens and Israel get away with the genocide then the history books will be written from their point of view #They have been actively destroying landmarks so them trying to erase Palestine from history doesn't seem farfetched to me #Having people show support for Palestine in Eurovision would work against that #Because people in the future will look back at Eurovision from this year and would see the flag #I am probably overreacting but I wanted to get my feelings out #Eurovision #Palestine

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hyacinthsdiamonds · 1 month ago

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I wasn't sure if I was going to write anything about this or not, and the fact that it even has to be said is so sickening, but anyway:

Fuck anyone who is sharing those images of Liam. Fuck the people who took those photos, and sold them. May you also burn in hell alongside those who are sharing them.

Fuck TMZ but let's be real it's not new behaviour from them. Just the lastest in a long list of sins (leaking Cameron Boyce's death certificate, everything in the aftermath of both Matthew Perry and Naya Rivera's passing, & many more i have no way to describe other than evil actions), may they rot in the deepest pits of hell.

Leave his family and the boys alone. Full stop.

Leave Maya Henry the fuck alone. Full stop. After my initial shock wore off, my immediate thought was that that poor woman was never going to know peace again, and so many of you proved me immediately right. She is not to blame for what happened.

The boys are not to blame for what happened. Niall is not to blame for what happened simply because he was the last of the lads to see him. I get wanting someone to blame because it makes it easier to make sense of, but there's no sense in death. It simply is, and it's shit. It that doesn't fucking mean you get to harass, write vile things, or blame people who ACTUALLY knew him. You do not get to tell them what they should be feeling right now.

Like many people, I have complicated feelings regarding Liam. I'm not going to get on my soapbox and preach because I don't have any answers. I wish we were able to have more nuanced conversations. That multiple things can be true at once because they usually are. Are we going to have those conversations? Probably not, but I think we should. I'm not going to write much more than that. Enough people have already said what I've tried to far more eloquently that I could ever manage to.

One thing I do want to say is that no one should have things like this done to them after their death. No one. His son is seven. Fucking seven. No child should ever see that. No child should ever have to live with the knowledge that those photos are out there or that someone used and exploited their parent to make a quick buck MINUTES after their passing or that people gleefully shared it online. That's who we should be remembering through all of this, that seven year old boy.

#liam payne #i will probably delete this later #but i felt i had to write something #not absolving him because what's happened doesn't erase what he did but mourning the person he was and who he might've become #from what i saw from maya all she wanted was him to give her peace and for him to get the help he needed #now neither of that will ever happen #i remember being bear's age and i was around his age when i began getting curious about my dad #very different situations and i am not trying to compare the two #but my heart aches for the little boy who not only has to go through what i went through but has to do so in front of millions of people #and thats gutwrenching #the media will move onto another story they always do but this is the rest of his life

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