#maybe im overthinking it

[uglygaldumdum]

The way Lemony Snicket sat down cracked his knuckles and wrote the most trying, frantically frustrating , anxiety riddled novels back to back coming to ruin my 5th grade recess completely unbothered baffles me to this day.

[maidenofcrows]

I feel like we don’t really talk about David threatening to kill someone for Genya enough. I mean, yes, it’s recognized as one of his peak moments, but I mean beyond “Aw, that’s so sweet of him.”

This is David Kostyk. He’s an inventor. His whole thing is to make new things. To create. He helped fight the epitome of destruction, so what’s the point of causing more destruction by taking someone’s life? It’s not antithetical to his character, but it’s also not the first thing I would ordinarily expect from him.

But then… we do know that David is extraordinarily blunt. We know that Baghra didn’t want to teach him out of fear of what he could become. And his friends don’t even seem all that surprised when he delivered the threat (they were all fairly aggravated; I digress).

This man absolutely meant what he said, and I firmly believe that if Yuri had offended Genya one more time, they would have found the body in 78 different strategically chosen locations

[averageyinyulover]

I feel like the TGCF fandom talks about how Xie Lian roasted Yin Yu hard but I think we forget about how the only reason hes so plain and forgettable is because he lost the spark in his eye.

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING BEYOND THIS

Yin Yu is only so forgettable because of the actions that occurred during the brocade immortal incident - he lost that spark in his eyes and self respect that made him so memorable and impressive.

I think a lot of people just forget this if that makes sense. And he wasn't plain forever- in book 7 when he sacrificed himself Xie Lian states

Which is implying that he sees him as impressive at this moment as he called the youthful Yin Yu impressive and bright. The only reason YY is so plain to him is because he's not as confident as he used to be - he's not impressive anymore because he doesn't have the confidence nor happiness he once had as a young man.

ALSO - a lot of people think XL is calling YY ugly but he just called him plain. Some people misinterpret or are just doing it for the memes(im not saying they arent funny i usually laugh) but this is a reminder that canonically he IS attractive.

These are two quotes I will elaborate on using.

The yellow - he's canonically attractive, a 7/10 to Xie Lian who grew up in literally the most gorgeous place ever.

The teal - he just doesn't have personality to his face like he USED TO. He gets that personality back before he dies.

Idk, im probably just reading too much into it - i just wanted to post something about Yin Yu. So whenever someone thinks pookie is ugly canonically he just doesn't have personality to his face - he's attractive and the fans aren't pretending he is lol. Im probably reading too much into this, i just wanted to talk about him.

IM NOT TRYING TO START ARGUMENTS OR ANYTHING GUYS I JUST SEE A LOT OF POSTS LIKE "Yin Yu fans pretending he isn't canonically ugly" AND IM LIKE???

I just love him lots. And i read on my phone so i dont have page number but these quotes are from books 5 and 7.

[mimisainznorris]

Ghost in my room looking at me crying and shit about Carlos and his racing career's future as if i have no life:

[reveriebythesea]

how did he know this? like you could say it's because he's smart and that he figured it out on his own off screen, but even then it doesn't explain how he got the real name

[crimsonmoon777]

So I recently started analyzing some stuff in lmk (I haven't gotten super far as I haven't gotten around to making time to do so)

And I sat down to do said analysis and had a thought. I'm not sure how to feel about it so throwing it out there pls give any thoughts/additions

What if the reason that Wukong is so distant and not super keen on helping MK in fights even at the beginning when MK shouldn't really be able to win fights (like seriously how did he win against dbk in the pilot but fail miserably to Red Son in ep 1) and yes he claims that it's because he's retired that's bs and I'll get to that in a moment.

But what if the reason for this is that he is worried if he's too overbearing he'll push MK away the same way he did with Macaque

Cause in the past Wukong said that he was getting stronger so that the two of them would never have to worry about anything. He wanted to be strong enough to protect Macaque, and we all know how that ended.

Back to the retirement thing. In MKs first fight he's watching but does not interfere (even tho MK really shouldn't be able to defeat dbk) and in ep one, he appears the second MK losses to Red Son, was he watching that fight too?

If he was retired why even watch (yes its bc he cares but once again he could help) and even his help is limited to advice and reluctantly limiting MKs powers.

So yeah idk if I got my thoughts across perfectly but I don't really have a complety coherent though and need to get this out there LOL

[infinifi]

I dunno I just kinda think some (emphasis on some) of yall take this bad omens fan thing too far.

Using a very real person's very real best friends very real death as a plot point in ya fan fics is a bit weird, no?

[sinclairstarz]

i’ll say it. im not convinced mike cutting his hair and going back to s1/2 fashion is a good thing. eddie dies and shit goes down and he gets el back and hes back to wearing ‘whatever his mommy bought him from the goddamn GAP’?? when his long hair was obvi meant to emulate eddie and represent freedom/non-conformity… my son isnt doing well methinks

[walrus150915]

Getting into the reboot of Fairly Oddparents

Is it just me or is "28 puddings later" a metaphor for capitalism

[causeofchernobyl]

Derek Landy definitely watched Supernatural before writing Skullduggery Pleasant

like seriously, the parallels between them are so there, well it’s either that or I’m crazy and making connections myself

[moonixneedstherapy]

wait...

yall notice how he started from the waist then up...

[uglygaldumdum]

[chronicsyd]

yk, the only reason why I'm speculating Vi being the one leaving Caitlyn is if that fight scene with Jinx happens in episode 3 (ending act 1 of the season) and goes about as badly as I think it's going to, it would perfectly mirror Vi leaving Powder after the fight with Silco that went horribly wrong back in season 1. It would also make perfect sense for Caitlyn to be alone and make... some pretty poor decisions as a result of this (which happens to Powder as well if you think about it...)

And I would Usually say that I'm probably digging too deep into this but these Are the Arcane writers we're talking about sooooo.....

[kiwibirbkat]

I just watched a trans tiktok compilation and I'm not even sure I'm trans anymore???

Because while I am a guy and prefer masculine terms like boy and handsome and hate looking even remotely feminine

I use any pronouns and don't get dysphoric about it?? And can't get misgendered? And also use both my birth name and chosen name?

So like

Am I really trans?????

I can't relate to like any of these experiences and it's making me question myself

[whispersleo]

Can't sleep so of course I started thinking about Spite

I was mulling over the spanish translation of his name and although there are a LOT of things that get lost in the translation, jokes and puns that can't be passed from one language to the other while preserving their original meaning, I'm talking about the name of the demon in specific.

His name is translated as Rencor (Rancor / Grudge / Resentment); when I first met him, I liked this name a lot more than "Spite" because I am an extremely resentful person, and felt that the translation had much more strength and hatred in it, so I thought it would be a much better fit for a "demon". Then I actually got to know more about the demon and Lucanis in the game, and Spite couldn't have any better name than Spite.

Spirit of Determination? I'm so sorry that's his deadname and we won't be using it in this home thank u

Rencor is a big and special word for me. I keep it close to my heart all the time. In my long understanding living with this feeling (resentment), it deeply hurts because whatever caused it mattered to you, one way or another. I hold resentment towards so many things in my life, to memories that, when replayed in my head, makes my blood boil. My throat goes dry and my chest sinks, my head hurts. It's painful, bitter, but more than anything, it is this mix of anger and a little sadness for something that happened, that I did to myself or that I allowed to be done to me.

Resentment can be “overcome” with forgiveness, but that’s where Spite comes in.

You see, Spite happens when you decide NOT to forgive, nor forget the harm they did to you, the pain you went through, your suffering. Why would you forgive? People often tell me over and over again to forgive, that it will make me feel better. But why? Why should I be the "bigger" person?

Why am I the one who is wrong for feeling resentful, and not them for hurting me?

I decide not to forgive, and to live in spite of it. Living despite the harm they did to me. It is such a wonderful word, which translates most directly in spanish as Despecho. And THAT is another big, special word, that fills your mouth when you pronounce it, as much as Rencor, but with the same different meanings.

When people gossip about someone "lo hizo por despecho" (they did it out of spite), we immediately think -okay, someone hurt them and whatever they did was their vengeance-, as a first point. It is a feeling of revenge, of hatred, of pain but above all, rage and anger. Doing something por Despecho or being despechado are words saved for situations where Rencor falls too short. Despecho - Spite is the desire to do harm, while one can drown in the bitter pain of Rencor - Resentment and do nothing.

And I just find the such beautiful nature of the word Spite lost in translation, because he (the demon) is not Rencor.

Rencor is Lucanis. He, in fact, drowns in resentment, and I love him for it. It makes me wish the game was well written and explored in deep the narrative of all the abuse he suffered from his grandmother, and the complex feelings of being betrayed by his brother. I mean, it's all complex feelings with Lucanis, but let's imagine for a moment that the game isn't written like shit. Let's imagine that we can get to understand him as a character through this immense pain of loving two people who have done him so much harm, and they are all he has in this world. All he's ever had, in Lucanis' own words. Resenting the people you love hurts so much that it closes up your throat and prevents you from breathing. He can't help it, because he is unable to kill Illario after all the betrayals; he loves him and cannot be forced to do real harm to him, the same type of harm Illario has already done to Lucanis without any problem (apparently).

It's SPITE who actually pushes him to, lmao, live??? And I love that and this is my specific problem with the translation in particular. Is not resentment, is the wanting-to-hurt-something demon, who tries hard to talk to Rook to seek help for Lucanis, who drives him to continue inciting plans for revenge, and wishes for them to be free and live in spite of everything that was done to them. Every torture, every pain, every betrayal. The spirit (now demon) does not kill Lucanis out of SPITE, because he refuses to do what his torturers want.

Rencor es un dolor, un sentimiento amargo en la boca que se queda ahí. ¿Pero Despecho? Es tomar todo lo que te hicieron y decir que se jodan, joderlos, joder a todo el mundo, que sepan que sufriste y aún así sigues viviendo, lleno de rabia y adolorido, pero vivo, respirando, lidiando con ello.

That last part is also what I love about the name "Spite". You have to live to be able to experience spite, you have to suffer the consequences of what they did to you, breathe with that pain, and somehow keep walking, keep smiling, keep suffering, keep going... Just keep swimming, just keep going. No matter what. That is Spite.

[ganondoodle]

so its part of a way longer post i made some days ago but i want to highlight this part of it:

"i cant stop thinking about the devs saying sth like "after botw zelda wondered if the kingdom of hyrule needed to keep existing the way it had been before the calamity, but then totk happens" bc it just feels like they realized too late that botw naturally led into questioning the status quo and they scrambled to fit it back into a flat and boring road we have seen so many times before (or even worse really) with totk zeldas character naturally leads into her questioning and reexamine their history and set of rules? we gotta teach her a lesson of why she is importante god given monarchy girl that has to keep it bc what if evil brown man shows up again for no reason maybe im grasping at straws here but looking at it this way the sonau .. make more "sense"; the shiekah were a group that was under the rule of the royal family, and misstreated before (oh no look soemthing interesting) so they dont lend themselves well to be used for teaching zelda that lesson- the sonau however are tailored really to be just that; they are a supposedly godly race from the literal sky that founded this version of hyrule, that had tech even more advanced and better than the shiekah, she gets put in the past to meet the perfect god king of goodness personally, also his very fridgy wifey that zelda later replaces in a way, shes put there and treated like family and then gets to see just how evil that evil big man from the desert is, sonia is falcon-punched to death solely so zelda can feel obligated to take over her role, have her new, better 'family' hurt by gan; similarly so raurus sacrifice, look what a noble and good king he is, he payed the ultimate price to lock that evil man away, now zelda you cannot let their sacrifice go to waste, rebuild that divinely good kingdom like it was!!"

bc it feels like i finally "cracked the code" of why the sonau feel both like a reskinned version of the shikeah .. while also not at all to me, so shoved into every single corner of the game and its history (not even the forgotten temple being safe from them sure is .... also something, like them being spread all over hyrule, not just the undergound, but the surface AND sky as well isnt weird enough, the shiekah at least were integrated into the world and by far not as idolized as the sonau)

seeing the sonau like this ""better"" and more """perfect"" version of the shiekah bc they are untainted by any possible complicated relationships with especially the royal family (the sonau ARE the prefect, idyllic royal family of the past after all) makes them make so much more "sense" to me, they are a bad mix of OOTs and botws structure, sure, but the way they were done in the game i cannot for the life of me see it as that being their sole problem

(also looking at how shiekah tech was downgraded to some side gimick of purah ... idk if they ever even call it shiekah at all anymore, and if "all sheikah tech just vanished" like the devs said then ... how does any of that still exist huh? it doesnt add up at all except if you see it as the sonau being the ""better"" version of the shiekah with none of the "problematic" parts or history or conenctions (which would be .. interesting) bc they are supposed to represent that idyllic past zelda should feel obligated to recreate now, to uphold that sweet status quo ..

sidenote: someone on the post i talked about his before said its also dumbo that there is supposedly no connection at all between the shiekah and sonau, and yes! that was something i ranted about while i was still playing the game back in may even (most of my later gameplay at some point devolves into a rant about how stupid it is that there is no connection and instead its all just ... gone) bc its just ... so dumb

its also how i chose to integrate the sonau better into the world in my totk rewrite stuff, that they were once there aand had high tech but its by now only crumbs left with nothing funtcioning anymore but you discover that at the time of the ancient shiekah finding it it was still researchable and they build their tech based on the sonau ruins even if the sonau stuff is nothing but dust anymore- which i find a super ... obvious way to give the sonau a better connection to the existing world, keep the shiekah, expand upon their mystery while also still keepign them as such-

.... anyway, there beign no connection at all somehow also fits even more into my theory of the sonau, again, being there solely to represent the idyllic, perfect past zelda needs to feel obligated to rebuild while the shiekah are nothign but a funney gimick of purah now while everything else "just vanished" somehow bc we dont wanna deal with the shiekahs imperfect past so they really should be just a a helpful helper of the rocals (and the yiga a side note as a little threat to be different from the usual monsters but thats all that there is :)))) -

this is getting too long again .. feel free to add your two cents on it and if seeign the sonau like this makes them make more 'sense' to you too