#last one yup

[gcdeater]

𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅? 𝒂) 𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃) 𝒓𝒐𝒕

bill skarsgard . cis man . he/him ➶ I RECOGNISE THAT FACE ! that’s PRIAM PLINTH , the THIRTY-ONE year old EXECUTIVE PRODUCER from THE CAPITOL . they’ve been in the capitol HIS ENTIRE LIFE , long enough to gain a reputation for being so AMBITIOUS & IRRESOLUTE . they’re so lucky getting to live in the tribute center for the duration of the games! ( character ISN’T part of the uprising ) 

STATS

name: priam plinth birthday: october 4th zodiac: libra sun, aries moon, capricorn rising gender: cis-man pronouns: he/him orientation: bisexual biromantic occupation: executive producer district: capitol family: livinia crane (wife), erasmus plinth (father), zenaida plinth (mother), chiron plinth (older brother) faceclaim: bill skarsgard

PERSONALITY

positive traits: ambitious, perceptive, patient, devoted, negative traits: self-serving, insecure, indecisive, fickle, calculating, irresolute moral alignment: lawful neutral mbti: istj-t— the logistician enneagram: type 4— the achiever temperament: melancholic deadly sin: greed heavenly virtue: patience parallels: ken (barbie), macbeth (macbeth), aaron burr (hamilton), emilio barzini, sr. (the godfather)

BACKGROUND

when the second plinth child enters the world, he’s given the name priam. it’s a peculiar name and he’s never quite sure what to make of being named after a fallen king. he’s long decided it’s less of a namesake and more of a condemnation. he’s anointed with the name of the last king of troy— a vaguely threatening gesture on his parents' part.

vaguely threatening is the perfect phrasing to encapsulate the relationship he has with his parents. his older brother is everything they ever dreamed of. he fulfilled all the duties of an heir, there’s little else for priam to dedicate his efforts to outside of making the most of his second son eligibility. there existed some bargaining power in being second, and it’s how he winds up in a marriage with a crane woman, long before they’re ever given the opportunity to understand the weight of what was being done. it's a knowing that could only accompany age, something the young twenty-somethings were lacking.

he excels in school, and his accolades are airtight on paper, but within priam is something fundamentally lacking. he’s missing that aptitude for politics that seemed innate to the rest of his family. instead, he does his best to remain as interconnected as possible. he’s an arsenal of information that his family saw no real threat in him having. he’ll become something similar to the cranes. and perhaps one day, what he knows will finally amount to something— to some course of action long overdue.

and besides, gall is not something to be taught. it’s not something learned— it’s either there or it’s not. priam’s long abandoned those futile attempts to mold himself into someone he isn’t. someone gutsy and calculating. someone capable of converting untapped potential into tangible results.

this, of course, is where livinia comes in. he’s handed everything and she’s handed him in tandem. who more brilliant than the daughter of an emperor long denied the rights of an empire she earned through merit ten times over? with priam as a vessel, they could move mountains. he’s content with seeing through livinia’s ambitions if unable to rise to the occasion of his own.if only this was enough to quiet the bitterness accumulating in his core. there’s something distantly resentful in the acceptance of his circumstances. accepting his circumstances equates to admittance. it means acknowledging despite possessing every tool at his disposal, despite the fates carving out his path long before he’s born, priam is not nearly half the person he should be. not when doubt finds a way of obscuring each and every one of his endeavors.

even in what he believes was a short-term love, perhaps infatuation (does it really matter in the end?) did doubt dampen all else. priam already offered himself on a proverbial platter. why further ensnare himself to the crane woman by an emotion as binding as love? (the fact of such is not nearly enough to quiet the fluttering of his heart. he knows, despite it all, they’d never be enough for each other. never meant for each other in the most conventional sense.)

they just needed to appear as a unified front to the right people— behind closed doors, the power imbalances are starker than ever. livinia’s brilliant— he’s… well, he’s a plinth. and perhaps his job should count for something. he only needs to breathe life into such designations, to give them meaning beyond the realm of the symbolic alone.

FUN FACTS

A proud malewife in a secret failmarriage (it being a failure is the secret… or so Priam believes.) Hopes to one day be the father of some failchildren. Was once a proud groomzilla.

Has a deep Cain complex as a result of perpetually being in his brother’s shower.

Is quite consumed by his appearance. He gets haircuts and manicures biweekly.

Currently the owner of a Sphinx cat that he took custody of recently. He was never certain of her name prior to adopting to her and became unofficially known as Princess.

Follows the same routine daily. Begins the day with a jog and ends it with a light stretch.

PLOT HOOKS

people who grew up in the same capitolite circles (friends, frenemies, enemies) / that one person priam hooked up with (and was pathetic about it) after his marriage was opened / people who think he’s stupid and hate him / you think he’ll be useful because of his job / maybe one actual true friend / priam fucked you over and now you want vengeance

[irishyuri]

clary, magnus and tarot cards from the court de gébelin deck 🕺🕺

[rwrbmovie]

@rwrbmovie & @rwrbsource’s rwrbweek: day #6 | kiss ↳ kisses by trees

[screwpinecaprice]

[taruruchi]

Have I ever posted this old drawing of mine (Like... It says I lasted edited it on March 2024 so I'm assuming that's when I finished it)

This drawing is what prompted me to make this "part 2" actually

[moeblob]

It's been stormy all day and we lost power and I have no energy take OCs I've been thinking about recently after ignoring them for a long time.

Tremaine (left) and his wonderful and amazing and superb big brother Germaine (right) while Tremaine talks about his brother's best friend because best friends like each other which is a good topic to talk about with the person you admire most! (Germaine then goes to find Motka and accuse him of trying to win over his sweet little brother's heart and how that's really mean to do how dare you betray him like this. Motka just sighs bc it's only the millionth time it's happened)

They're just part of a group based on the layers of hell and hoo boy they are just ... the most codependent siblings to ever sibling probably. It's pretty bad.

[th3b33skn33s]

Darling Dolorosa Homestucktober 2023, Day Seven: Ancestor

[go-learn-esperanto]

Random screenshots I have on my phone

I keep saving an ungodly amount of screenshots so I'm just gonna leave some of them here without any content. Some are MCYT related.

[marymekpop]

you and I, the intersection & union of two universes  

[hungnitan]

HSR x Fate UBW coming in Q3 2025 !

(I write these in mind for anyone doesn't know Fate series at all)

For now it's unknown will it come with stories or just skin or full pack with playable UBW character

Not long ago HSR had interview with FGO team, the magazine only release their Q&A but considering both side love each other project, these collab shouldn't really suprising. If there's suprising fact is why only UBW not FGO directly ? Since there is no info about collab details, let's make some analysis for now :

FGO especially Fate series is really big world ! If you need comparasion, it's not only Honkai Impact world but all Hoyoverse become one and you need to know at least a bit of each title to make sense about Fate series !

Continuing point above, which is the reason they gave us years for this collab ! Their developer consider years should be enough for player to quick read most Fate series franchise (lol)

Fate as whole already into their 20 years old now so it's kinda impossible for anyone to learn that series from start (even I only know fifty percent of it). So to make it simple, they just pick their well known franchise but not making players too confused about their world building which is Fate Stay Night. UBW is decent choice considering what's happened with other two.

If anyone need comparasion, UBW kinda like GGZ in term of popularity and reminiscing (lol) while FGO kinda like former Genshin in term of popularity.

I kinda saw FGO pretty desperate nowdays or maybe they're already out of idea to promote Fate series onward. For anyone doesn't know, FGO was the king of mobile gacha games but after Genshin release their revenue drop sharply and with more Chinese gacha games out lately, you can say now it's their lowest situations so to be honest Fate series feels like gonna dying sooner or later which is this collab came.

I can say for sure that this collab came from HSR side since those otaku ops growth like now while watching/reading Fate series (lol) so I think there's no way HSR or even Fate team will slack off especially for storytelling since it's Fate main selling (if there's one for collab later lol)

Onto collab prediction since it's specifically UBW, means the main character is either Rin or/and Emiya. Maybe anyone still not read questionable leaks but there's info this collab need two version to finish means there's at least four and max six new character avaliable later. Considering UBW stories, I can think of Saber and Gilgamesh or maybe Kirei can join the roaster too.

Now for everyone who doesn't know Fate series and need pointer for later collab, first please watch Fate Stay Night, it have three titles with same story premise but different PoV with different ending (Fate Stay Night 24 episode -> Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works 1 movie -> Fate Stay Night Heaven's Feel 3 parts movie). Next it's Fate Stay Night prologue, Fate Zero 24 episode and you're good to breakthrough the collab only.

Sounds simple right, which is the reason they choose Unlimited Blade Works for collab. If FGO, you could swarm yourself with 9 years FGO lore materials + other works with and without "Fate" titles on it (lol)

[tenebrius-excellium]

I don’t know how this narrative principle is properly called in English but today I finished reading an academic paper on “backend vs. frontend motivation” in stories and I am nerding off big-time.

One of the most important elements of modern media to me, especially in film, is for it to be motivated from the ‘front’, that means from the beginning. You gotta have a starting conflict so well fleshed out that it justifies all which comes next in a domino chain of such bulletproof logical consequence that it cannot be questioned until it inevitably culminates in the grand, satisfying finish. Only then is an ending good and only then can it be truly enjoyable.

The best example of which that remains to this day is How To Train Your Dragon.

In my opinion this movie leaves no room for a different ending. Were it to be replayed thousands and thousands of times, it would always unfold the same way. It’s that solid. Solid in its core conflict, in its character designs, in its stakes. It would choose to happen the exact same way again every time. Everything is in-universe consistent and character-consistent to a T. I believe luck, or chance, played a role in the creation of this movie because humanity is just not able to think up something as perfect as this on purpose.

While the sequels are - generally speaking - good, the failure to recreate the artistic mastery of the first movie can be seen in them. Glimpses of the original magic do appear more often than I had feared, which pleasantly surprised me for both the second and the third movie. However, both sequels have obvious weak points. The first movie has none. None. It’s somehow flawless.

I attribute its success to strong frontend motivation. There is an age-old war yet it threatens the current generation’s survival as acutely as it did on the first day. The People are tired and it’s either the annihilation of the enemy or resigning themselves to poverty and death. Berk is backed into a strategic corner and while Stoick is far from giving up, he doesn’t know where to take fresh ideas from. The absurd third possibility of talking peace with the dragons comes from the innocence of a child human and a child dragon. The grown-ups couldn’t have done it, yet so unexpectedly balance is achieved. It’s brilliant.

Httyd1: Shitty war -> needs to end (peacefully if possible, because the vikings are not bad people...but Stoick doesn’t see hope). + DRAGONS.

Httyd2: Hiccup Will Be Chief, therefore let’s throw some growth at him and kill off Stoick so that the two won’t fight about how to run the village later (because that would be in their characters).

Httyd3: The Dragons Will Leave, therefore let’s create an artificial villain, and a convenient dragon girlfriend, and make Toothless ooc to achieve it.

See, Httyd gradually declines into using backend motivation and that’s why the third movie works even less than the second. At least Httyd2 had a strong middle, that is, from Flying With Mother til Hiccup starts talking to Drago. Don’t make the mistake of buying into the rest: Nowhere was the topic of Hiccup becoming Chief even a thing before Httyd2. Also, Hiccup behaved ooc with his sole focus on dragons (at the so-uncaring-that-it-must-be-intentional expense of humans) and the no-kill rule. And Stoick died not from a plasma blast, but for plot convenience.

The third movie, in turn, gave Hiccup his original character back and bestowed a glow-up onto him and Astrid and their relationship, but at the cost of Toothless’ personality and backstory... and the general in-universe logic, such as Grimmel’s hollow arc (stressing his intelligence when he’s clearly NOT). You see, both movies have their strengths, but it just doesn’t work when the creators think up the ending first and are willing to bend everything else, however painfully, to achieve exactly that desired ending.

The newest marvel of frontend motivation done right is of course Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The reason why it’s just so good is because the arc of Puss eventually losing his lives was not a forced narrative, simply conjured up to Have Puss Do More Jiggling On Screen. It was an innate part of his self, already there in his character from the start, and was inevitably going to become a problem some day. The creators made the most of it by dealing with it not after 8 more daring adventures that were clearly fabricated to generate money in theaters (what a nightmare to think about), but by insinuating that Puss has already lived some of those lives, giving him depth. Because we have not seen all of them, yet our famed hero has been shaped by them.

One could argue that the quest for the Wishing Star was a little too cheap of a narrative. But Puss has been a serious character stuck in a world full of dumb magical creatures and artefacts before. That’s literally the universe he lives in. So it works. And ohh, how magnificently it works.

So anyway. Front-end motivation, people. Has usually better characters too because the plot is tied to their consistency. It makes the ending of their story depend on themselves, not on ex-universe tinkering or budgets. Use it more, please and thank you.

[yxstxrdrxxm]

A small reminder as Valentine's is coming up to let me know if you plan on renting them :) I will ignore any asks when you send them of the day because that's when the queued fics will go off. Thank you.

[sysig]

Sorry, I can’t, I’m just too cute today 💕 (Patreon)

[briefle]

listen.

im not saying "hey let's all instantly throw jimmy to the wolves. again." BUT it is very funny that he was 2nd yellow 2nd red and 2nd out.

[visualtaehyun]

While we're all still ruminating on episode 11 of Last Twilight, I was debating if I should compile my language notes for ep. 9 onwards or not because the subs in ep. 11 especially are excellent already. But I thought I might as well share! Since I was home sick with little energy the past few days, then had to discover that my computer's psu is dead and posting from mobile is apparently limited to 10 pictures per post 🙂🔫 this is gonna be part 1 of 2.

I shall be color-coding how characters are addressed again for ease of understanding - Day, Night, the dad, Aon (there's no rhyme or reason to these colors btw, mobile limits my choices anyway)

Disclaimer: not a native Thai speaker, still learning 🙏

Feeling sorry

The word Sorry comes up several times in this episode and though they're all subbed the same, there is a difference in Thai. Directing a wink and finger guns at @lurkingteapot here 👉👉

พี่ขอโทษนะ พี่ไม่น่าถามเลยว่ะ

/phi khaaw thoht na. phi mai naa thaam loei wa/

ขอโทษ /khaaw thoht/ is arguably the simplest of them. It encompasses apologizing, excusing oneself, expressing one's guilt or taking blame, asking for pardon. The word โทษ /thoht/ in there can range from blame to punishment to mistake etc. and it's also in ยกโทษ(ให้) /yohk thoht (hai)/ = to forgive, or more literally to absolve from blame/of a mistake:

มันไม่สำคัญหรอกลูก ว่าเดย์จะอภัยให้ไอ้ไนท์มันหรือเปล่า แต่ไอ้ไนท์อะ มันไม่มีวันยกโทษให้ตัวเองแน่นอน

/man mai sam khan raawk luuk waa Day ja a phai hai ai Night man reuu bplaao. dtaae ai Night a- man mai mee wan yohk thoht hai dtuua ehng naae naawn/

-> ลูก /luuk/ = son, child (in the sense of offspring); อภัยให้... /a phai hai.../ = forgive, excuse, pardon sb.

Then we've got รู้สึกผิด /ruu seuk phit/ = feel guilty/bad/remorseful, or more literally to feel one's wrongdoing/fault:

พ่อรู้ได้ยังไง ว่าไอ้ไนท์มันรู้สึกผิด

/por ruu dai yang ngai waa ai Night man ruu seuk phit/

-> พ่อ /por/ = father, dad

And lastly เสียใจ /siia jai/ - it's made up of ใจ /jai/, which is used in conjunction with states of mind and emotion, and เสีย /siia/, which can mean to worsen, break, lose etc. เสียใจ is- closer to sorrow? than regret, blame, or guilt, I'd say? It can be used to express condolences or sympathy too (เสียใจด้วย /siia jai duuay/).

แต่ไอ้ไนท์มันเสียใจมากนะลูก

/dtaae ai Night man siia jai maak na luuk/

-> But Night feels deeply sorry [because of it], son.

แต่พอมาวันนี้แม่งบอกว่าแม่งเสียใจ คนที่ต้องเสียใจ คือผมเว้ย

/dtaae phaaw maa wan nee maaeng baawk waa maaeng siia jai. khohn thee dtaawng siia jai kheuu pom woei/

-> But then today he fucking says he fucking feels bad. The one who should be sad is me!

Onto more light-hearted things!

คนเนี่ยะ น้องเดย์ก็หวงเว้ย

/khohn niia nong Day gaaw huuang woei/

-> Nong Day is possessive of this one!

แล้วก็อย่าลืมทำการบ้านด้วยอ่ะ

/laaeo gaaw yaa leuum tham gaan baan duuay a/

-> การบ้าน /gaan baan/ = lit. domestic tasks, usually refers to homework but can also refer to conjugal duties lol

Apparently, I had no notes for ep. 10 so the follow-up to this post will be caught up to the current episode - that is, if I get to it before Friday djshshjs