#nevertheless-moving

[whetstonefires]

Hello! For the reverse tropes writing prompts (if this catches your fancy) — murderbot diaries with fake amnesia and Really nice guy who hates only you

this is really not in the spirit of that second inverse trope, but for mb this was the only thing i could think of, and it was very funny.

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"Gurathin," said Gurathin. "SecUnit, you know it's me."

"I don't think I know that," it said, pleasantly, in an okay but not excellent imitation of its creepy canned dialogue options. "Please present some identification, and we'll see."

Gurathin didn't bother sending his data over the feed again. Murderbot walked away, but left a drone eyeballing him. He resisted the urge to flip the drone off. "Come on," he told it, knowing SecUnit was paying attention. "Let me in."

He watched the SecUnit bend forward slightly to show two of Mensah's kids that it was paying attention to whatever they were saying, and then bend over further to help the toddler up onto a chair. It was just fucking with him now. On the other hand, if the prickly bastard started letting children hug it just to piss off Gurathin, who was the real loser?

It finished spoiling the children and moved over to smoothly de-escalate a brewing disagreement over the punch bowl. Gurathin tried to catch Pin-Lee's eye; she did not cooperate. Gurathin tried to walk through the open door; the hovering security drone took a potshot at him.

SecUnit got roped into conversation with Bharadwaj and her media colleagues. It said something that made everyone laugh. It wasn't scowling. It was faking looking people in the face pretty well; that was just creepy.

It went on like that; Gurathin had never seen it go this long interacting without pissing someone off. Presumably it was venting all of that impulse on him. Ratthi introduced it to his favorite cousin; zi was visibly charmed.

Gurathin goaded the drone into firing two more warning shots before the SecUnit circulated back over to him.

"SecUnit. Come on. You have known me for actual years. I helped you rob a place once."

"I don't recall."

"We met on that planetary survey mission, don't tell me you don't remember that one, it's the reason you're even here." That came out maybe a little harsh, but everyone was letting the SecUnit abuse the power of being entrusted with party security to bully him, he was allowed to be annoyed.

"Oh, were you there? That data must have been lost in a corrupted filetree," it said, with incredibly cutting blandness.

Gurathin groaned. "Okay! Okay. I'm sorry."

It technically counted as a reward when SecUnit stopped giving him the customer service face and switched to the hairy eyeball, which just showed how stupid this whole situation was. It was clearly not satisfied with just that.

"I'm sorry for using your personal name without permission. I wasn't trying to weaponize it or anything, it just slipped out, but I know that's not an excuse and it was a really inappropriate disrespect for your boundaries."

SecUnit kept looking at him. Gurathin knew two other SecUnits now, neither of whom was as supremely weird as this one; that was why he'd started mentally tagging it with its personal name, just to keep things tidy. Of course, if anyone else had done that and made the resulting mistake, SecUnit probably wouldn't have been half so mad.

Gurathin sagged.

"I'm sorry for going through your personal files and using your name against you back during the survey," he mumbled, wishing he kept drones around to control with his brain so he could watch SecUnit's extremely expressive face without having to look at it. "That was really shitty. Rim paranoia isn't a good enough excuse for refusing to see you as anything but a tool of the Company. Okay?"

SecUnit was looking as pained as though Gurathin had stripped naked in its presence. "Yes, fine, you can come to the party just stop having feelings," it said, in its normal voice.

"Great!" said Gurathin. "The spinach puffs had better not be all gone."

"I don't pay any attention to the things humans consume," it said, moving out of his way and taking its drone with it.

"I know," Gurathin acknowledged, rolling his eyes and trooping after it. Ratthi waved enthusiastically at him and Pin-Lee raised her cup in a welcoming toast. Apparently SecUnit's relenting returned him to the ranks of people who existed again. "Believe me, I remember this about you."

[wanderershu]

My boy dan heng was in his room all depressed after finding out about a part of the high cloud quintet's past while also coming to terms with the fact that blade is his ex husband only to come out of his room to a majestically beautiful red haired man making a mess out of the things in the parlor and blowing things up. He cannot catch a break.

[sage-nebula]

PSA: Zelda was the light dragon for way longer than 10,000 years.

The event that takes place 10,000 years prior to BotW was the first recorded Calamity. The first recorded Calamity is not what we see in the TotK flashbacks, with Rauru and Sonia and all that. The first recorded Calamity took place AFTER Ganondorf was sealed, when his malice escaped confinement. This is the event the Guardians and Divine Beasts were built for. The Guardians and Divine Beasts were used successfully, the Sheikah were banished by the mad king of Hyrule and the Yiga Clan formed as a result, and Zelda was the light dragon for all of it.

So to summarize, the timeline is:

A really long time ago, probably the Era of Myth noted in Creating a Champion: Sonia and Rauru found Hyrule 3.0, Ganondorf starts a war and is sealed, Zelda turns herself into a dragon

A long time after that - 10,000 years pre BotW: First recorded Calamity, Sheikah tech helps avert it, Sheikah are subsequently banished & Yiga form, dragon Zelda chills in clouds

9,900 years later - 100 years pre BotW: Next Calamity happens, Divine Beasts and Guardians are corrupted, Champions are killed and Zelda (human) restrains Ganon in the castle while Zelda (light dragon) flies around

100 years later - BotW: Link wakes up, helps Zelda (human) seal Ganon again, while Zelda (dragon) hangs out in the sky

5 or 6 years later - TotK: Zelda (human) gets yeeted to the Era of Myth, beginning the time loop, while Link works to beat Ganondorf and eventually transform dragon Zelda back into a human

Some have speculated that the "10,000" number used for the first recorded Calamity is meant as a generalization or something similar, because how can history be recorded so far back? But regardless, these are the numbers we are given. Since the first recorded Calamity was stated to have been 10,000 years ago, and the Sonia and Rauru stuff would have to have happened before that, we can surmise that Zelda was a dragon for way longer than just 10,000 years. Thank you for coming to my LOZ Talk.

Bonus: the beginning of the timeline outlined in Creating a Champion as receipts:

[winepresswrath]

I recently learned that my beloved's seemingly very normal feelings about the beatles are comprised not of general fondness for penny lane but of a deep affection for paul mccartney that is nevertheless completely overshadowed by a how much she fucking hates john lennon. what a beautiful world we live in where we can turn a corner and see brand new facets of the people we love best. she wants that man deader.

[leiththebard]

been relistening to WoK and its got me thinking..

what if kals family traveled to kharbranth together like Lirin mentioned considering in WoK Ch 37?

no tien death, no kal soldiering, no bridge crew, but a happy family.

kal learning surgery there, and once we get back to regular canon timeline he is a liscencdd surgeon who wants to help the mentally ill. after looking into it he slowly understands what is wrong with the devotary of mercy and begins doing therapy. maybe legal fight with the hospital/ardentia to trigger him swearing an oath? cause in this au he swears an oath to be a edgedancer. he wants to look out for those disenfranchised by society, like help the mentally ill or permanently disabled.

He has a lot of motivation in the flashbacks for wanting to help those hurt by superiors bc of Roshone and his melancholy (depression) helping the mentally ill is definitely people who have been forgotten ie 2nd ideal) not exactly sure when he would swear the first idea but maybe he mutters it while in surgery trying to save a life which allows him to use regrowth, saving that life and then many others.

He also gets abrasion which allows him to zoom places which isn't windrunning but is zoomie movement.

Then i feel Kal would discover taravangian's bleeding of people for death rattles. He obviously being horrified by that swears the 3rd ideal to listen to those being ignored, because OBVIOUSLY these folks are ignored!! The coppermind literally says the patients are "the terminally ill, the lowly, and the forgotten" and dismantles the system in kharbranth (maybe locking up Joshor and giving him to Dalinar if this occurs in OB because i dont think this Kal would kill if its not absolutely necessary)

mostly i want kal to be happy and tien to have lived and been a silly lightweaver with his truthwatcher brother and them sharing the surge of illumination is just so awesome

obviously theres gaps in this au (what happens to bridge four, who saves dalinar, etc, and anyone that has ideas i invite to add onto this, but mostly this has been rotting in my brain the past couple days

[mrsmiroir]

the setup (lots to unpack here)

[ceriseo]

^funniest possible thing u could say about a dragon that killed up to hundreds of smallfolk not two weeks ago.

[raceweek]

As an alexnation mutual I think I can ask for one silly alex existing picture too 🥺👉👈

MAL DOUBLE COMBO SLAM PICTURES EIGHT AND NINE

[whisper-and-tangle]

"Don't keep me waiting too long."

I fucking loved this line. Absolutely heartbreaking-

Look at Tangle's face here. Her eyes are closed, and tears are slowly breaking through-

She's visibly shaking, and clearly terrified-

This is one of her first few real adventures,

and the world is ending right before her eyes,

as her heroes die and lose the little hope they had left.

And she's smiling.

Look at that smile- it's a shaky line, because she is so not fucking okay. She is not alright with this, and she shouldn't be-

But she's not going to let it get to her.

She never does.

Because Tangle, the 15 year old lemur from Spiral Hill village, who just started her adventures and had to watch the world end in front of her very eyes-

Is one of the bravest sonic characters out there.

She reassured Sonic, her hero, when he was losing faith in himself-

And now she's alone, with no one to help her.

She knows she's going to lose her battle.

But she's going to try anyway-

She's going to go down fighting, because,

deep down,

she knows,

that her heroes'll never fail.

Her friends'll never fail.

She just hopes they won't keep her waiting for too long.

[pleasedontcareaboutme]

Yes my yapper me came out after listening to the new single and honestly. I don't care about my opinion. I'm just glad the guys are still here. And that's it.

[gillianthecat]

Love a power outage the afternoon I finally start doing all those chores I've been putting off.

[cuteniaarts]

What a shame… you always had such beautiful hair

[technicallypalewombat]

I loved the film monster 2023 so much. I've been thinking about it the entire day. Before I make any efforts to move on i want to leave my take on the ending here. After watching the movie twice and the final scenes more times than I can count I've come to the following conclusions. Either:

1. Minato and Yori are dead and the final scene could be purely imaginary. I've read numerous analysis and although many have spoken/written about the director mentioning that they are both alive this assumption still stands considering the ambiguity of the ending.

2. The two boys have entered a non-metaphorical, literal realm separate from their real world (emphasis on the non-metaphorical) - in this case the assumption that the characters are alive and didn't die, as most of us would like to believe, is a possibility. Given, the realm in question does exist. Although this would shift the movie from a realistic to a fantasy coded film and I'm not sure that's something the director was going for.

3. Afterlife - the boys are dead and the final scene takes place in afterlife where the gate previously present no longer exists depicting freedom.

Now I know and as most people would like to point out that Yori asks if they had been reborn to which Minato states that they were still the same meaning their bodies were still the same as before i.e they are still humans with the same features from before . Nothing had changed atleast not physically. This is a reference to multiple scenes in the movie where the characters particularly the boys talk of rebirth and that once you die you are not longer you. A cat once dead is no longer a cat and one could be reborn but as a different creature which, for instance, in case of minato's father : a stinkbug/giraffe/horse or whatever creature sans human (in relation to a conversation between Minato and his mom). Atleast that's what the kids believe (and that is the only thing that matters in this scenario). Therefore in their terms, Not losing their physical body=They haven't been reborn=They aren't dead. So yes, maybe they had died. Because not being reborn i.e retaining their physical bodies doesn't necessarily mean they're alive. Or maybe not. Maybe they hadn't died. Whatever the reality of the end is maybe we'll never really know. Maybe the genuine happiness and delight on their faces at the end as they ran.. maybe that's all that matters.

[puppybearuniverse]

its been said a million times in a million ways. but u really dont realize ur making memories until the time has passed.

[gideonisms]

Okay okay final degree paperwork finalized I THINK and I THINK I get to just move downstairs for $50 cheaper. So now I just need to focus on jobs & getting this place spotless

[tarrarre]

I won my first campaign hehe :3 I own most of the Kingdom of England now :3