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easterbonnet · 30 days ago

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I don’t know how long ago you posted about sending a hot take about Harry Potter but here is mine. Tonks and Remus shouldn’t have married the way they did and at the rate they did. Also, how the fuck has no one created a cure for werewolfism, if they have then I’m wrong

hey, it wasn't that long ago and you’re the only one to send something in so thanks... may have got a bit carried away with this one lol

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Now when it comes to lycanthrope, I don't think a cure has been created as far as I'm aware. there could be multiple reasons for this, but here are my thoughts

The majority of people who need/want the cure are the ones that don't have the means to make one. It's common that werewolves are unemployed, poor and in bad living conditions, this in conjunction with the toll the transformation takes on them, it's near impossible to even attain the wolfsbane potion never mind figure out a cure. They simply wouldn't have the time, money or amenities to do it themselves

Of course there are non-werewolves that may be able to find a cure, however it's well known that there is heavy prejudice towards this kind in the wizarding world. From what I know it took a long time for wolfsbane to be created, Lupin didn't even have it when he attended Hogwarts as a child, hence the shrieking shack. Madame Pomfrey used to escort him to the whomping willow every time, from the books we know that she is talented and caring, but even she couldn't cure lupin of his lycanthrope

For a cure to be created it would take a lot of time and dedication for the cause, which for non-werewolves, this may be seen as a ridiculous way to spend their time. It's generally believed that werewolves are barely human and the lowest of the low, so why would they want to waste anytime on them? Even Lupins own father had an automatically discriminative opinion of the kind, describing them as "soulless, evil, deserving of nothing but death", which of course resulted in Lupin getting bitten. This goes to show how without a second thought, society assumes negatively of lycanthrope

Not everyone is against it, many being uneducated, even Ron when he finds out about Lupin's true identity say, "get away from me werewolf". It would take a whole movement of awareness for lycanthrope sufferers to be taken seriously and not looked down upon, that must happen before a cure can be made

It is mentioned on pottermore that some would rather face death than their fate as a werewolf, now surely if after all that someone did want to help these people and create a cure, they would need to at least be near a werewolf for their studies and to work with one of them. Ignoring the fact that most people do not want to be this close to a werewolf, the major problem here is that there is such self-shame that most werewolves don't want to out themselves as such, even leaving their job before they get recognised or keeping it a secret from their closest friends, so its doubtful they would to reveal their secret, its just not worth it.

Conclusively, its easier for the rest of society to ignore the problem and trust that those with lycanthrope will keep to themselves and go into hiding on a full moon, which most do, if not for the safety of others then for discretion. Obviously that’s just an idea and the real reason there isn’t a cure is because then Lupin would have no backstory or storyline lol but in the hp universe that’s what I’d theorise.

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jaynovz · 1 year ago

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Is it time for me to foam at the mouth about one of Silver's most batshit insane decisions in the entire show?

(So the ramble underneath this is literally 2k, so like, make good choices I guess. also pls imagine me as Pepe Silvia meme the entire time)

So I see people talking a lot about how Silver is fucking deranged bonkers banana cakes he has 10,000 snakes in his head instead of a brain and of course I agree this is just Canon.

However, the moments that we focus on are like 3.3, doldrums talking to Billy about Flint controlling reality when he's starving and dehydrated or like what he says in response in 3.10 when Flint tells him his story, about Thomas.

Both of those are very very good moments for Silver being fucking crazy and saying things out loud with his human mouth that no regular unfucked human being would come up with, he set new RECORDS for it, agreed.

TODAY I want to talk about a different moment, what I think is the most egregious example of Derangement. It's in the Silver-Flint gold conversation in 2.7.

Quick context-- Before Silver meets back up with Flint in 2.7 he was sent after a VERYYYY dissatisfying conversation (aka "the gold is still a priority" where Silver challenges Flint on the Vane and the fort and Abigail Ashe plan and Flint lies to his face) to go influence the men to vote for Flint's side of things over Hornigold's. After dealing with the Logan situation in the middle of that (which I don't actually think Flint ever finds out about Silver helping to cover that shit up, but that's not the point right now) he shows back up right in the middle of Hornigold addressing the pirate council and accusing Flint of a bunch of crimes (most of which are accurate lol) and Flint is Angy about "where the fuck has you [Silver] been?" and Silver tells him (loud enough for the entire council to hear mmhmm) that the gold is gone.

Now the order of the scenes, the timeline, means The Reveal about the gold is with Max later, (right, that later is the point it becomes real for us because we're finding out the same as Max's that Silver has made the gold disappear) and so it's hard to keep in mind until a second watch how the entire time there in the tent and Silver is putting on this performance, such a good show about it the whole time and then he goes and talks and gives the speech to the whole fucking combined crew and that entire time we don't know yet.

But Silver knows. He has already engineered a situation where he has convinced to the scouts that they're going to sell the location of the gold to another crew!! He has already removed the Urca gold from right under Flint's nose!! (Which is like the thing that Flint has been working towards for an unknown amount of years since he found out about it right? This thing, this sort of mythical amount of money, which is going to solve problems and effect change and build a future and fulfill Thomas ideals.)

And while he's talking he has already waved his hand and made it disappear in the narrative and he did it so skillfully that we don't even suspect that this is happening until the reveal and so sometimes it's hard to go back and think about the 2.7 tent conversation.

Potentially it doesn't quite HIT on the first watch. Maybe not even the second.

But yeah what I want to draw attention to is that... this ENTIRE TIME, from the moment Silver shows back up, he is putting on the performance of his fucking life. He's ALREADY met the scouts Vincent and Nicholas on the jetty, he's ALREADY convinced them ON THE FLY ON A WHIM to lie to Captain Flint. He's ALREADY coached them through exactly what to say to sell it, to lie to Captain James Flint's fucking face. right??? and THEN only after that does he goes to meet Flint.

And the very specific thing I am focusing on isn't even THAT gamble, which is fucking SCARY CRAZY ALREADY. But the WAY this boy pulls the bluff out, the lengths he goes to during the next convo in the tent about "there is no we. the gold was the inducement" and all that. You know the scene.

I wanna underline how Silver decides midstream, midargument to... FLIP IT AROUND and accuse Flint of making the gold disappear.... when Silver literally just made the gold disappear.

Silver: I believe I've been clear about the nature of my investment here. The gold was the inducement. Now no gold… Flint: It's an unfortunate development that we have to adapt, and quickly. Silver: Adapt? I've had about my fill of adapting lately. Doing your bidding, keeping the crew in line for you. Flint: I wasn't the only one to benefit from that. Silver: It certainly seemed that way. Even now you're the only one benefitting from it. Flint: What are you saying, that I'm benefitting from the gold having disappeared? Silver: It certainly solved a number of problems for you, didn't it? I have half a mind to wonder if you didn't orchestrate this whole thing to your advantage.

So yeah I'm uh, I'm literally foaming im frothing im cappucino right now. I want to put this UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AND STUDY HIM. what in the FUCK. Silver knows the entire time, this ENTIRE EXCHANGE, that not only is the gold still on the beach but that he is gonna fucking SELL THE LOCATION to Max and Rackham. And then sits there cool as a fucking cucumber with his mask of irritability...(because of course if he had nothing to do with it!!) Like of course he would be mad that the gold is gone, because the gold was the inducement RIGHT.

All of the rest of that is a foundation for like the craziest part isn't necessarily that he's putting on the act That's in keeping with him, we've seen that, we saw that he was getting more and more frustrated and that part doesn't surprise us that like he would... I mean we saw him steal the page and we saw him burn the page and we have seen him make these types of kind of batshit decisions so we're like "okay this this checks out."

But the truly deranged part where it goes beyond like it just like they're like literally... he. he. HE ACCUSES FLINT OF THE THING HE JUST DID. There was no reason for you to say that and at this point it's like he is SEEING how CLOSE he can get to the fire, he is seeing how much RISK can be pulled off. He's getting off on poking and sleeping dragon in the eye when he knows very well the entire time that he stole the fucking dragon's gold.

"I have half a mind to wonder if you didn't orchestrate this whole thing to your advantage."

I--

it's... it's some reverse psychology bluffing gamble, it's "let me say what has happened, let me literally ADMIT WHAT I JUST DID but no YOU did it, I projected it onto YOU. hope that you don't think about that too hard. let me hope that this works out"

There was... THERE WAS JUST NO REASON FOR IT. He was already pulling it off, the conversation was. "There is no we" and "I was clear about the nature of my investment" THAT'S ENOUGH. STOP.

there's just no reason for him to have done that but it's because he's fucking crazy he's a crazy person

The way his brain works just does not follow lines of logic like a sane human being!!

FURTHER POINT--

this is how we also get to the point where he convinces himself to go to Charles Town (because we see him go to Charlestown!! we see him on the ship the next time!! in 2.8!!)

and he says to the scouts that, yknow, paraphrasing "we came on this endeavor in order to allay suspicion about the fact that we have all double crossed this crew that we are sailing with right now including Flint"

now the thing about that is that and I think I've mentioned this before, but I don't know if I've said it in a formal post that so many people had defected/deserted because the gold was gone and they had no appetite for storming the fort after that. And then Silver went and convinced to the rest of the crew remaining to go to Charlestown to seek the pardons right and that's what Flint wanted him to do. So if Silver then defected because the gold was indeed the inducement and there was no gold then I don't think Flint would have fucking batted an eye!!!

And neither would anyone else!! because even though Silver is very useful to Flint as a tool right now, Flint was very mission-focused, very Miranda-focused very pardons-focused, very "let's fulfill Thomas's dream"-focused. So even though he does and has needed Silver a lot recently to influence the crew, I don't think he was really thinking about him basically for two-three episodes after that basically. Cuz they don't talk again, right, and they are just not in each other's orbit for 2.8, 2.9, 2.10.

So what that tells me is that Silver goes to Charlestown and he just... really didn't have to he could have stayed in Nassau and assisted Max or just laid low until the gold got retrieved and then potentially taking his share and left before Flint crew got back!!

I've talked about this specific part before where Silver says that their safety is contingent upon whether Flint is successful in his endeavor or not. Like he says that out loud to Vincent (which is the most bat ship banana cakes bonkers thing ever) about it because he's basically hitched his horse to the outcome of this pardon situation when he absolutely didn't have to do that to get the goal he and the scouts could have all just deserted and no one would have been the wiser because so many crew had, including Dufresne, because of the gold situation!!

Now there's some arguments here about well.... one of our main characters cannot just leave.

But because the writers have created a party member who wants to leave the party what they then keep having to do is invent more and more convoluted mental gymnastics to himself to continue staying and following Flint which is why at the end of the day I sort of can't really see a situation where the Silverflint thing is not like the main thing because they're both obsessed with each other in different ways (and Silver is obsessed first because he doesn't fucking leave and there's a bunch of reasons he should and there's a bunch of chances for him to do so) and so it all starts to look real fucking gay

But yes uh circling back... Silver lies to Flint's fucking face about the gold, going so far as to ACCUSE HIM of making it disappear, then goes on an extremely dangerous errand trapped on a ship full of people who he double crossed with two scouts with loose lips... when, in order to guarantee his future, if we're looking at actual real logic and actual real pragmatism and survival instincts and not just "oh I have to follow Flint because ummmm -dial up sounds-",

Then he should have stayed in Nassau.

#black sails #black sails meta #john silver #long post #disclaimer that I basically just sat in the bed last night and did speech to text ramble to my phone for an hour #and this is what we came out with #please imagine in all ways but physical me sitting next to you on a comfy couch with two fingers of rum #furiously ranting and gesturing about him with a roller coaster amount of volume variation #and you would be accurate as to the mood this post is supposed to convey #thoughts #like I cannot stress how long of a post this is I am not sorry but also buckle up buttercakes #i ahve been waiting for nearly a month to fully articulate this and I still dunno if I managed it #okay I've been waiting three years #i think i repeat myself oops #Charles town au

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hollowsart · 4 days ago

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template??? nooo. there's picrews (character creators. the site is called picrew) for both ENA and Spidersonas (the BIG one for spidersonas was created last year? year before?, well after the "across the spiderverse" movie came out)

But even then, people just do it themselves and draw up and design their own sonas (basically self-inserts of them if they were in that franchise. some use the '-sona' tag as a placement for their oc's tho, which is okay!)

Like me! I intended to make mine around the time of the first movie (2018?), but couldn't come up with any good ideas or designs.. a few years later in 2022 after I started doodling Doc Ock.. I finally decided to try again and had the idea of going with a sloth theme instead of a spider theme for my spidersona. No templates were used at all, I just drew it myself. full design and everything.

(cutting for length, my bad!!!)

Some people who can't draw like others can are more than welcome to use those picrews or even bases to help them design up some concepts for their own spidersonas or other franchise -sonas. However, picrews are very limited in what they can provide for the character creation. (they take time to create (and I don't mean using it) so it's a lot of work to draw up each hairstyle and outfit and feature and accessories and patterns, etc etc etc, so they end up a bit limited even if they do show off a lot of stuff already.)

unrelated side note, but a downside to the picrews being used, it leads to a lack of creativity and a burst of very similar looking designs. For example, a lot of ENAsonas end up looking like a rip on ENA themself (which is fair, given that apparently ENA is a species), however.. there's a ton of creativity and variety in the appearance of the characters within the world of ENA as seen both in the youtube shorts, and especially the newly released game. A lot of the NPC's that ENA speaks to in both are excellent examples.

I also designed my ENAsona to be based on my own regular sona. (I do that a lot) Just with some creative liberties that differentiate me from ENA, yet still having elements that match within the world itself. (I could've just left my sona the way she is cuz the design itself is already pretty flexible and could work as it, but I decided to have a bit of fun)

#ghostie mumbles #//long post #sorry I love character design and had to talk about that. also ended up ''ranting'' oops

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lylahammar · 1 year ago

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yknow something that's kinda interesting to me Trolls band together gave us villains that perfectly hit on a few different trendy topics of conversation completely by accident.

first of all they have such appealing designs, super cunty and classically evil in the way everyone has been saying they miss in animated villains. They also have an INCREDIBLE villain song. Perfect contrast to people's disappointment with the villain in Disney's Wish.

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But on top of that. THEIR WHOLE THING IS THAT THEY'RE PLAGIARISTS who literally steal other people's talent to get famous and claim that they're working hard for it. This came out a little less than 3 weeks before hbomberguy posted his plagiarism video and turned the current topic of conversation to calling out plagiarism.

IT'S JUST LIKE COMPLETELY ACCIDENTALLY PERFECT TIMING but no one even realizes it bc ppl assume the trolls movies are bad without ever actually having seen them (they're not they're really good give them a chance)

#sorry not to rant n rave about trolls 3 on everyone's dash but I actually am not sorry bc they're good movies damn it #yall are just too embarrassed/insecure to be seen enjoying media u view as childish oops 😗#(urkel voice) did I say thaaat #anyways I love velvet and veneer they're such charming characters #long post #trolls band together #trolls dreamworks #lyla's talking again #Youtube

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itshobogizmo · 2 months ago

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I love the premise of my story but there’s an unfortunate problem I gave myself. It’s the one I gave to Cross. Small spoilers under you’ve been warned.

I have to do so much research on how big a room is, what could reasonably fit in it, and consider what things are made of. All because he has to count everything.

Like the chocolate chips, 874 isn’t just some random number, I had to look up the average amount of chocolate chips in a bag and make an estimated number. In the bag that size it averaged 800-900 depending on the brand, so I went higher.

I do a lot of math, trying to figure out how far Cross travels and how many steps he takes, based on his stride and the pace he goes. That’s why the main lighting system is candles in the halls, because 20 candles equals a single hallway.

It’s also why Nightmares castle is so weird as is, it physically prevents both Cross and I from having to figure out how many fucking bricks would make up the entire castle-

It’s why the floor of the shopping center was solid marble, and the walls concrete too, it prevents the need for him to count it in the situation. Also it fits really well for the underground, I had to make sure marble was something that could be obtained underground too, which it is! in real life it’s in specific areas underground, the biggest one in Italy.

Anyway, I do way to much math for this story but damn it I’m sticking to it-

#cross my soul and hope to die #undertale #cross sans #undertale au #fanfic #nightmare sans #utmv #mathematics #math #god I do so much math #do you know how long it took me to figure out the bathroom dimensions #xtale cross #sans au #ao3 fanfic #fan fic writing #research for fanfic is not easy #I actually actively use a room builder website with dimensions to help me lay it all out-#oops went on a mini rant about marble

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televisionlassie · 10 months ago

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The reason I find Jason to be boring is because people are so scared to hold him accountable. You can’t claim to like anti-hero’s or claim that Jason is an anti-hero if you’re going to excuse everything that makes him an ANTI-hero.

There is no doubt in my mind that I would like him a whole lot more if people accepted him as a character that does bad things. I understand he has trauma and his own reasons but trauma is only an explanation, not an excuse. While I like consuming content of the batfamily being a family, when it’s not based in pretty much an entirely different universe it doesn’t make any sense.

Pretty much all of the batfamily (except Bruce because he’s can actually be pretty awful to Jason) has reasons to hate or be mad at Jason.

Jason went out in a Nightwing outfit and killed people to try and ruin Dick’s image, and all the shit he’s done to Dicks other siblings. You really think Dick would just be cool with the fact that Jason beat one of his little brothers and shot another one?

Cass has a moral code probably stricter than Batman, she would HATE Jason for killing. And again same thing with the siblings.

Tim I just don’t understand why he would ever forgive Jason. Jason beat the absolute shit out of him, plus you gotta admit that guy is too much of a cocky bitch to ever just forgive and forget

Unfortunately I can’t say much about Steph as I can’t think of a single time where they actually interacted in canon. But I don’t think she would be too fond of the guy who beat up her best friend and shot Damian.

Duke I think has had one personal interaction with Jason and while it wasn’t too friendly I don’t think he would hold that big of a grudge.

Damian I think would be more understanding but it’s hard to forget how he was shot by Jason and had to have his SPINE replaced because of Jason.

I’m not trying to hate on Jason, he honestly makes me sad because he is filled with wasted potential. It’s not even that they never make him do bad things, it’s that there’s never any lasting consequences.

Many times when I see people who hate on Jason they bring in the death penalty argument, which as much as I hate and believe is stupid, still has some tiny bit of validity. The reason it sucks is because the world of DC comics is not even remotely similar to our real life. Criminals in real life don’t have plant powers or convoluted plans to distribute their weird ass poisonous gas. If they did, they wouldn’t even spend a night in jail because they would be shot on the spot. If Jason did just kill these types of criminals, then he would not be considered an anti-hero, just a hero. But that’s the thing, Jason doesn’t just kill the Joker, or the Riddler or any of the Rogues, he kills the type of criminals we would see in our real lives. THAT is where the validity lies in that argument, it’s not just that Jason is killing supervillains but that he is killing the type of people that we are fighting against the death penalty for. Obviously this argument means nothing to you if you are pro-death penalty but I just wanted to explain.

Jason would be so interesting if he was treated like the character he is supposed to be. A young traumatized person who does bad things for the right reasons but still has to face the consequences.

And if people really want to give him a character arc where he eventually stops killing, it shouldn’t just be he gets tried of killing or tired of arguing with Bruce, but that he sees how his way of crime-fighting can do more harm than good.

It’s just so frustrating to see how people just act accept anti-heros for what they are. It like people are so scared of making or admitting a character to be immoral, that they just erase the consequences of their bad actions to make it excusable.

Anyways, thank you for coming to my rant, Jason Todd fans this wasn’t me hating on your babygirl, I’m trying to help you.

#rant post #like really long #jason todd #anti hero #this isn’t a hate post #I’m really just trying to fight for you Jason fans #please don’t doxx me #dc comics #batfam #sorta clickbaity start I just realized #oops sorry #also I understand that you can like bad characters #you just gotta admit that they’re bad then #justice for Jason Todd #get him new writers and new fans

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rrredgi · 1 year ago

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Sanji and Nami both have stomach problems because of their childhood.

They've taken different things from it: for Nami, malnutrition was always connected to being poor. Should her family have money, she wouldn't have been eating tangerines for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For Sanji, all the riches in the world didn't matter because he did have gold and jewelry back on the lone rock in the sea where he'd been deserted for days, but one cannot eat gold.

(DISCLAIMER: please note that I only did a personal superficial research of some articles and studies and have no medical education whatsoever, so correct if wrong. also I'm not talking about his childhood before meeting zeff bc I'm not caught up with the manga)

Obviously his digestive system is fucked up, but when one is starved for days (especially a child!) it can cause waaay more trouble. Specifically, while having little/no food a person becomes very irritable (check) probably due to hunger and low blood sugar (unverified), when their body doesn't receive the required fuel it starts to consume its own resources, hence the reduction of the body mass (he looks pretty slim in the beginning), anemia can develop and cause hair loss and nails breaking. Poor blood circulation due to low energy, some organs like lungs and heart can be decreased in size (add his smoking habits in the future to the list), and body temperature falls. Not even mentioning drowsiness, bad skin condition due to harsh weather and overall anxiety! And this guy is working in CATERING after all this shit (which is extremely exhausting and nerve-wracking, ask your waiter or cook friend).

Dang, he probably got some bad habits after this too, like never throwing away food even if it's moldy and eating it, getting even worse stomach problems from that!! Hopefully Zeff stops him from it.

No fucking wonder Sanji's love language is food. He's always ready to feed the hungry. He's going to learn all his crew members' allergies and preferences and cater to their needs. He creates a dietary plan for everyone to keep their bodies healthy and kicking and happy.

#one piece #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #I love my baby boy immensely #I've been wondering why I have such a soft spot for this silly guy #that's it: our appreciation of food (and stomach issues)#also was thinking of my grandparents who were malnourished in the war and the habits it triggered #oops the rant got long

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