#path of glory

[ladyxdelamain]

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[baublekute]

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[joasnebe]

Rules & directions how to watch flowers #2197:

Path of glory.

[kyoreiohara]

Ye gods, where have I been?

I mean, a better question might be if anyone cared? Anyone who's likely to actually read this silly thing, knows me outside of Tumblr.

Heh, honestly, I'm surprised this thing is still even alive, at the end of the day.

Well, for all...[checks notes] two? Two mutuals? Or so? Who still look when they get notifications? I spend a lot of my time and creativity, anymore, with a pile of tabletop RPGs.

I also started taking up writing, a bit more than I had, previously. If anyone remembers those posts about "Unmarketable Movies I'd Actually See" and "Unmarketable Fantastic Four"...

I kept going with that for a bit. Star Trek taking a dive into "grimderp and painfully hamfisted and counterproductive soap-boxing" spurred me to write three seasons and three movies of intentionally horrible ideas...that eventually formed a lot of the framework of my trying out Modiphius' Star Trek Adventures...and making me fall in love with Trek all over again. May it last forever.

Star Wars becoming a systemic murder of everything I loved and a guilt-trip for having ever loved it in the first place, I wrote what *I* would have created, instead. After all, if you reach the point of "I'm an IDIOT and I could have a better story concept"...well, get going with that typewriter, and try to make Hamlet, I guess. I had a Chiss girl as the Jedi, and she managed to SAVE her "Kylo Vader", thankyouverymuch.

Then I had an idea of, "I'm sick of everyone cranking it to human misery in Gundam...what if I wrote an Arthurian Hope-Punk Gundam?". Not as fleshed out as my other ideas, but the lingua franca in Space was Esperanto, so that made me chortle.

Summarizing all of this in an FAQ doc, I explained that a huge reason none of the above would ever fly in today's markets, is that the entertainment industry would only appreciate another "Castle of Sister-Fuckers: the Stabbening", until someone figures out how to independently push "Rainbow Hug Warrior" into a "surprise" commercial success.

Naturally, I had to come up with a few episodes of that, where a Power-Ranger Space-Jesus comes down on his rainbow rocket skateboard, and fixes the world through empathy, reason, and cosmic hugs.

It was after writing all that, I finally realized common running threads on my work. A THESIS of sorts started coming together, a message:

"Camelot is still out there, waiting...even if the Knights forgot it, we can still reach for it and make the world better".

So, at the insistence of some new friends on a Discord chat, I decided to try summarizing the stories that had been brewing in my head since middle school. I'm 42. That is a lot of brewing.

I abridged it as much as I could, but still wound up with a novel. No, seriously, I had to publish the damn thing through Barnes and Noble, because it was easier than sending a Google Docs link, anymore.

The basic concept of the webcomic I wanted to do, and Red Sky, just to sum up my main characters for some friends. It wound up some 390 pages in hard-cover.

By accident.

[sillysymbol]

is this the only path of glory?

[rad-roche]

he's never come up but it is with a heavy heart i say this. dogmeat never factors into gloria's story at all because she hates dogs. plus on the walk to diamond city she's got other things on her mind. nuclear future half her face falling off sepsis and a bad case of dead husband. she'd see that gentle fellow and be like oh not today of all days

[cosmonautroger]

Paths Of Glory, Stanley Kubrick, 1957

[archivedotorgfan]

on the set of stanley kubrick's 'paths of glory,' 1957.

[maastrichtiana]

teen girl betting it all on forbidden star crossed romance with a white haired brooding bishonen prince is THE generic YA romantasy, he’s emo, he’s got dark dark secrets, he’s got daddy issues

Lyanna just didn’t know what series she was in

[jonsnowunemploymentera]

As far as character progression goes, I'd argue that the most important aspect of the RLJ reveal isn't just Jon learning that he isn't Ned's son. The most important part is him learning that he isn't Ned Stark's bastard son. He's spent all his life chasing after Ned's shadow, trying to prove to himself and to the world that he is worthy of being Ned Stark's son, "let them say that Eddard Stark had fathered four sons not three", “he was not a Stark but he could die like one” and all that. He's internalized the shame of being the one stain on honorable Ned Starks' reputation

“But it’s a lie,” Jon insisted. How could they think his father was a traitor, had they all gone mad? Lord Eddard Stark would never dishonor himself … would he? He fathered a bastard, a small voice whispered inside him. Where was the honor in that? And your mother, what of her? He will not even speak her name.

So it's important for him to finally stop chasing after that elusive shadow. It's important for him to understand that Ned's dishonor was a deliberate choice that he made by himself, and it's thus no fault of his own. Once Jon internalizes that, then he can finally move on and ask himself, who am I? What do I want for myself? What can I be in this world, just as I am? So far, he's been unable to do that successfully because he still has an incomplete (and false) understanding of who he is.

[team5ds]

the worst part is i can't even say he's wrong. they certainly did figure out how to contribute the city by joining the wrgp. but like. this is one of those things where it literally does not make sense. this is insane levels of logic. "we're not sure how to contribute to the city. we think entering a magic the gathering tournament will help." like. imagine saying that fr when your parents ask what you're going to do after you graduate college. "idk. thought i'd play card games and figure it out, man"

[haharuspex]

my firey guy got turned into a human after refusing to follow his fire goddess, so. um. new look :)

[joasnebe]

Rules & directions how to watch flowers #2160:

The path of glory #2

[shiveringsoldier]

all right, let’s see what all the fuss is about

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