#koben

[gardenevergreen]

a small and impressionable Kobold that he is, Kubal got coaxed into trying on this outfit, he was told Marchi would find it cute. (She did)

This was a Stream Sketch Reward for Oakin64

[scrumpledorph]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60856531/chapters/158246374 It occurred to me a while ago that, by using sublimation of personal identity via military service as an allegory for transmisogynistic degendering, I wrote a narrative framework wherein Koben never gets her comeuppance for anything she's done because the narrative is about personal healing and receiving the love she deserves. Consider this chapter an addressing of her past.

[08cjvvman1]

[myee2022]

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[mysticalsharkherocowboy-new]

Bubblebutt stud, fine ass, Koben Moore…

[organizationhimself]

why bero isn't important

i have to talk about this

spoilers for the entire green bone saga you have been warned

so i fucking hate bero. he's a selfish, conniving, misogynistic shithead who has never seen a single person outside of himself as a real human deserving of respect and care, and while i wouldn't say he exactly escapes the consequences of his actions he absolutely does not get caught at the worst of his bullshit.

but i love, love love, the fucking narrative genius of bero. he is nothing. he spends the entire series trying to make something out of the nothing in his soul, but it was always a useless act because he lacks even the basic fundamentals of a self. bero has no ambitions. bero has no family. bero has no name. bero has no loyalties, not even to himself. he feels entitled to power and influence and women and love and attention, sure, but he makes no real effort to achieve these things on his own behalf; he expects them to fall into his lap after enough pawing at the lever in the skinner box of whatever he's currently obsessed with. he chases jade like a dog chasing a car because it will give him that elusive, poorly defined notion of "power," but he has absolutely no aims for what he'll do when he actually gets that power other than to continue his somnolent hedonism. there are no people or ideals or even physical objects or places he's looking to protect with jade. there is nothing specific he's trying to win with jade. the only thing he can be said to desperately want is the same thing he can never, ever have: significance.

and it's because of who bero is as a person. he lives in a culture defined by loyalty. the entire series loyalties are bought and sold and won and lost and twisted and defied and broken and restored and surrendered at last and never, never surrendered, not even once. but bero lacks any capability for loyalty, and the opportunities fall at him like fucking rain; he is shunted to and fro between opposing factions of endlessly complex loyalties where every single fragmented side lives and dies by their ideals or their connections or their beliefs. every interaction he has with the kauls is absolutely wild because they always assume he is like them. lan looks at him and sees someone who needs another chance to find his place. hilo repays him for his assistance with the understanding that bero may act on gratitude or expectation of reward later. even niko first meets him for an exchange (in which bero is not the only target of the investigation or the only person with this information), and even if any of them openly or privately accuse him of not having any real allegiances, they have absolutely no concept of the black hole of empty desire that lurks behind that crooked face.

and it is because of this that bero lacks all significance. he isn't loyal to mudt, who has an ambition to avenge a fallen loyalty; instead, mudt dies the horrific death of lan's killer and experiences all the significance that will ever have. he isn't loyal to the cause of the clanless resistance; instead, hilo gets a warning that ultimately saves his life and the actually dedicated ygutanian insurrectionist is questioned (torturously) and credited (anonymously). hell, he doesn't even pursue the clan war after ru by pointing the finger at the kobens (which was a big surprise to me), and his testimony is just an add-on to the story from the person who had a real connection to ru. at no point does bero ever sit down and say "these people are my people" or even "this is the thing i want to do with my life." at no point does he earn a specific consequence as reward or retribution for an action that can be attributed to him alone.

and bero IS all the things he claims he is! he is the poisoned dart aimed at the kaul family that takes out lan and ru (ultimately accidents both), that saves hilo and woon, that bolsters and undercuts no peak's fight with the mountain at equal and opposite turns. but he never commits. so when he finally faces down niko, the person who has the right to hate him the most in the world, he can't even have the satisfaction of niko's hatred or the glory of a vengeful death at the hands of people in whose lives he was ever even once, truly, significant.

he doesn't have strange luck. his problem isn't that his fate shifts up and down. it's that he doesn't believe in anything, not even himself, so he never ends up doing anything that matters to anyone else.

bero is never the focus of anyone's strong emotion in his entire unimportant, purposeless life and i think that's beautiful.

[szlerpy]

koben

[doldrum]

Tjejer vill inte ha killar tjejer vill ha träskor och nötter och långfil och koben och sågspån och müsli. Och en kratta.

[gardenevergreen]

Kubal and Marchi are used to the occasional battle, practicing their best moves on each other just comes naturally to them. Fighting game mock-ups of them performing their "Snapdragon-punch" and "Rising Galactica Upper" specials! 623P and 623K

[swimmingwizardfun]

[scrumpledorph]

Speaking of that last post, forgot to post the newest chapter here.

[08cjvvman1]

[cryptoto]

Rangers could land a dream signing of Hagi for an 'impressive' star.

Philip ClementGlasgow Rangers They are yet to make their first signing of the January transfer window after it opened for business in the middle of last week. The Light Blues boss was in charge of last year's January transfer window and worked with Nils Koben to bring three new players to Ibrox to strengthen the squad. Fabio Silva, Mohamed Diomandi and Oscar Cortés all arrived on short-term…

[myee2022]

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[hamsdd]

Rangers could land a dream signing of Hagi for an 'impressive' star.

Philip ClementGlasgow Rangers They are yet to make their first signing of the January transfer window after it opened for business in the middle of last week. The Light Blues boss was in charge of last year's January transfer window and worked with Nils Koben to bring three new players to Ibrox to strengthen the squad. Fabio Silva, Mohamed Diomandi and Oscar Cortés all arrived on short-term…

[rakkauspaita]

Tony Allen, Koben sydämen paras puolustaja, on jättänyt pelipaidan eläkkeelle

Legendaarinen tähti Kobe Bryant kunnioitti kerran suuresti Tony Allenia, kutsuen häntä "parhaaksi puolustavaksi pelaajaksi" ja ylisti hänen asennettaan, ettei hän koskaan peräänny kentällä, vaikka kohtaisi haasteita ja painosti jatkuvasti. Kun Kobe jäi eläkkeelle, hän kirjoitti Allenin lenkkariin "paras puolustava pelaaja, jonka olen koskaan tavannut", mikä osoitti hänen suuren tunnustuksensa hänestä. Nyt Allenin loistavat saavutukset on palkittu. Grizzlies ilmoitti äskettäin, että he luopuvat hänen numero 9 -Koripallo Pelipaidat vuonna 2025, mikä tekee hänestä joukkueen historian kolmannen pelaajan, joka on saanut tämän kunnian. Sen jälkeen kun Celtics valitsi hänet 25. valinnalla ensimmäisellä kierroksella vuonna 2004, Tony Allen on vähitellen kasvanut huippupuolustajaksi Bostonin kuuden kauden aikana. Hän on voittanut vuoden 2008 mestaruuden Celticsin kanssa ja hankkinut jatkuvasti kokemusta kolmen suuren joukon rinnalla. Vuonna 2010 Allen toi kykynsä Grizzliesiin. Niiden seitsemän vuoden aikana, jotka käyttivät Memphis Grizzlies Pelipaita, Allen auttoi joukkuetta pääsemään pudotuspeleihin seitsemänä peräkkäisenä vuonna erinomaisella puolustuskyvyllään. Hän ei ole vain säännöllinen pelaaja liigan parhaassa puolustavassa joukkueessa, vaan hänet valittiin myös parhaaksi ensimmäisen joukkueen puolustajaksi kaudella 2011-12, 2012-13 ja 2014-15. Hänen keskimääräiset syöttönsä per peli ei koskaan laskenut alle 1,5:n ja korkein oli jopa 2, mikä osoitti hänen dominanssiaan puolustuspäässä. Tony Allen ei vain saanut paljon kunnioitusta lahjakkuudellaan ja kovalla työllään, vaan hänestä tuli myös yksi Grizzliesin historian rakastetuimmista pelaajista pelottomalla hengellä ja lujalla ammattiasenteella. Hänen omistautumisensa on tehnyt Grizzliesistä valtavan puolustavan joukkueen liigassa.