#salty’s rambles

[kaxtwenty]

I feel like a solid 75% of discourse around the Jedi wouldn’t exist if people just factored in that they’re monks.

It feels like half of y’all don’t consider that maybe being a Jedi really is just incompatible with a lot of things that are a normal part of other people’s lives… Because they are monks.

We had a whole trilogy showing how Anakin wanting to have his cake and eat it too led to disaster and people really came out thinking, “the Jedi should’ve just let Anakin be married,” not, “Anakin was a selfish moron who ruined literally everyone’s lives because he couldn’t accept that he had to make a choice.”

[minecraftbookshelf]

*takes a deep breath*

Cubito!Pearlescentmoon gets pigeon-holed as a “big sister” despite consistently being one of if not the youngest in any given group.

This is most evident in the “sibling edition” settings, where she and Grian and Solidarity are related and she is 9.5 times out of 10 portrayed as older than Jimmy and 7 times out of 10 as older than Grian, despite cc!Pearl being the youngest of the three.

This is symptomatic of the motherization of women in media in general and fandom in particular, and in this case often results in a flanderization of Cubito!Pearl, reducing her to the characteristics deemed more “responsible” and “mature” and preventing her from being portrayed as weird and unhinged and multi-faceted as she actually is.

In this essay I will-

[ventique18]

The way twst intentionally made it a big slap to the face that Idia's and Ortho's mom and dad would go through heaven and hell to save their children, yet Malleus' only living blood relative is completely silent throughout the disaster...

The way the Shrouds would exhaust everything they have just to retrieve their robot son who isn't even alive, yet the remaining Draconia can't even stand up from her throne to check if her grandson is still alive.

My queen, my queen, have you forsaken him?

[joltedfox-06]

Has anyone made this yet?

[yonemurishiroku]

Percy has had his iconic underwater kiss

so I say Solangelo should have a bloody teary desperate kiss while either of them is teetering on the line of life and death, which ends up binding their souls and bringing the dead one back to life

just because I say so.

[ridragon]

saying angel is the wrong kind of traumatized and is too sexual and offensive is a spit in the face of trauma victims who see some of their behaviors reflected in him. Just FYI. your way of dealing with your trauma is not universal and people's hatred of hypersexual trauma victims is fucking disgusting and your purity culture origins are showing. You're apparently only allowed to never want anything to do with sex if you're traumatized by a sexual event. (:

This is like the biggest gotcha point people who rabidly hate the show use and god is it retraumatizing to see how you think of victims who don't behave how you think they should.

[vanmarkus]

some of you might be unhappy to hear this but an interview mentioning that Eddie would want to hang out with his bestie of 7 years and the guy he hung out with at least 3 times a week and who he introduced to his son within weeks of knowing him, when said son no longer lives with (or speaks to) him, especially during a time he isn't dating 2 women simultaneously, being alone bar his coworkers and friends who are clearly very busy with other things...

all of that has nothing to do with one ship or another and maybe for once we could just acknowledge that he is his own character, more than ever before probably and just not act like there is something weird about that or as if it Must Have romantic intentions one way or another

the man is lonely you all, ofc he's gonna lean on the people he's still got left, it's the least surprising thing ever

[dasnercaret]

some misc thoughts on ka bue worldbuilding! specifically relating to expressions

more thoughts under the cut!

my main concept for the Expressions as a whole revolves around names. essentially, an Expression can only exist with a literal expression of their Name somewhere in the world - their name being some sort of singular symbol / kanji / radical that represents their form, function, and essentially being. the first physical form of their name is their anchor (Expressions can change anchors though), and the more permanent the anchor is, the more powerful the Expression is. however, the more offerings - aka, further expressions of their Name an Expression recieves, the more powerful they become on top of their preexisting power from the permanence of their anchor. i imagine there's an entire scholarly split in ka bue revolving around whether One Big Elaborate Naming is more powerful or many smaller repetitive names is. for the most part though they both have about the same effect, which is why you see both shinto-style paper prayers attached to the pillars of the little shrine and a significant amount of more elaborate Offerings piled up around the anchor to the Expression.

- bonus thought here about little kids learning to Craft stone into geometric shapes as being the equivalent of vaugardians learning to craft clay into moving change god figurines! ka bue is pretty clearly Against / neutral to change and movement especially compared to Transgender Heaven Vaugarde, so i thought this was apt - there is also something here about the open-plan nature of the temple (wind can move freely through it, and people can visit and leave as they please) but i don't quite have enough thought here to fulfill it fully in worldbuilding. so i will leave the thought here for someone else to hopefully pick up - similar to shintoism, i imagine there are a lot of expressions dedicated to unique locations and places. for example, there are a lot of local Expressions (this one is one of them) that are specifically tasked with guarding a certain rural village or blessing a certain graveyard. the bigger and more popular expressions (victory, search, protection, luck, etc) are invoked much more often and by extension have far more elaborate temples though, probably located centrally in major cities. - bonus thought that i haven't really explored here about a bunch of the most famous temples being underground caves, due to the gem connections. - these temples would also probably have the expression names carved into them, similar to arabic architecture (see the alhambra's carvings) carving the name of god in stone into their walls. which btw i still think is one of the coolest things humans have done i LOVE spanish and arabian architecture

- some bonus thoughts about gems! i mainly conceptualized them in the doodles as being primarily anchors for expressions (metal and gems are prime expression worship material due to their permanence meaning that you can permanently express the Expression) but i also had a thought while typing up this tumblr post that maybe entire family trees could be represented this way as physical metal-and-gem trees, since odile mentions that people are commonly turned into gems. - bonus thought here regarding odile's "gems alive" swear - if gems are the remains of passed ancestors, not only is she swearing by her / other ancestors (which is very distinctly east asian) but also saying something along the lines of 'the dead are coming back to life because of how insane this is'. which i thought was funny - one final scribble regarding prayer flags! i imagine the paper prayers people write to Expressions as filling a very similar niche as shinto ofuda/shide and buddhist prayer flags, that is small throwaway prayers that gain power when accumulated in large amounts. and more importantly they look cool as hell - i don't know how common prayer trees would be (in my research shintoism commonly worships trees, and china also often venerates especially old trees (there are trees in beijing that are supposedly over 1000 years old, and some that are confirmed over 800 years old) so i think ka bue might do the same? maybe??? trees aren't really permanent though which is kind of more what i was going for in my head regarding their cultural beliefs. you can cut down a tree but you can't easily destroy a gem

[mymainwastoocluttered]

If some other magicless person got stuck in Twisted Wonderland and tried to take my place, I'd simply let them. Yeah, bitch, now you take care of these motherfuckers and deal with Crowley's bullshit, see if I fuckin care. Have fun babysitting a bunch of sunovabitches who barely even remember you exist half the time.

I love the angst of "they pushed the Prefect away and replaced them only to miss them when they finally leave", but, also, if I were Yuu, I'd absolutely just let it happen. Call me a pushover, but I ain't shedding a tear for friends who left for the newest shiny thing. And it would relieve me from all the trouble. Guess who's not fighting Overblots anymore? This bastard, that's who.

[fengchikelp]

back in my women loving era

[allhailnarusama]

"Katara didn't want to be seen as motherly."

You're right! So why in the name of all that is good in this world is that all she is known for (being the Avatar's wife/mother of his children) in LOK??? Besides maybe being the best healer in which we are told that and not shown?? Can you riddle me that??

It was like Katara accomplished her one purpose within the story, getting together with Aang, and that was all they could think to do with her once that was done. Be so fucking for real right now.

[modeus-the-misanthrope]

I wonder for how long, and to what extent the creator of Wapeach kicked himself for cutting that design when this...

Ended up taking the world/internet by storm. Spawning dozens of spin off -ette characters. Becoming so popular that Nintendo had to halfway acknowledge it. All because he felt making Wapeach would "be a Doronjo rip-off", a villianess from a niche anime that aired in 1975.

Cause I am gonna be real, if I made and then scrapped "Evil Peach" and then decades later a different "Evil Peach" became an international sensation, I would cry myself to sleep over it.

[da-shrimping-station]

I saw PrettyBusy's Recent Announcement on their News section and I have some opinions...

1.)

Whomst the fucketh is upset??? About the datamining specifically??? That shit's outta left field cuz what the fuck??? So amongst the sea of emails complaining about the Pancake Shop and consecutive Nightmare Pass and lack of Main Story content, they zeroed in on the datamining 'issue' that's been 'upsetting so many players'. Ayo what??? And that's not including the possible emails about bugs and all that.

2.)

I don't have definite proof of it but my gut feeling says someone's been snitching.

Also notice that they didn't mention Twitter/X. It's possible they consider other social media sites as external communities since they mainly post on Twitter/X. But if this is such a serious and important issue, why haven't they made an official post on it over there??? (as of making this post, they still haven't made an announcement) My theory is that most of their JP and KR players are on Twt/X and they might agitate that fanbase cuz they were also upset about the recent changes to the game.

3.)

Enhancements on the game client, sure. But there's still the storage issue??? I forgot the specific term for that problem im sorry, but like, WHB is 8.48GB on my tablet. Wuthering Waves is 13.08GB. HOW??? And I haven't even updated the game since the Nightmare Pancake update.

I refuse to give two shits about their compensation for this "issue" because that's not what the players have been asking to fix/address.

4.)

I'm sorry but you can shove those thoughts and sincerity up your—

DATAMINING ISN'T WHAT THE PLAYERS ARE TRULY DISTRESSED ABOUT!!!

5.)

B R U H

B R U H

I'm not gonna say anything more cuz the words won't be nice and pretty.

6.)

PrettyBusy is slowly, legitimately turning the game into a hellscape for the players.

Each and every update takes away the joy imo. The simp and thirst is strong towards the characters but that doesn't mean we're gonna take all their bs without complaint.

We've tried to voice our concerns but it looks like they wanna keep shooting themselves in the foot with a shotgun.

Still, please be respectful when emailing them. Let it be as strongly worded as you want but don't send threats.

[mellosdrawings]

WHO THE F*CK KEPT YOU WAITING YOU GODSDAMNED F*CKING A*SHOLE?!!!

I can't tell whether I hate him for always coming at the guaranteed only, or whether I hate myself for being unable to keep myself from pulling everytime he's on a banner.

I was supposed to wait to check what next month's events were gonna be. I could've always pulled for him next year. If I mess up my next pulls I swear-

[putuponpercy]

Model Salty brings me so much joy I mean look at him

[yonemurishiroku]

In House of Hades, Bob came for Percy but not Nico, who's supposed to have befriended him, in person.

Percy mentioned his name - he didn't even call - and Bob came jumping into Tartarus.

But he didn't assist Nico when he was half-dying (or had probably died and just self-resurrected with the DoD's absence) in there.

Why?

I don't think Bob, innocent and simple as he was, would refuse to help his friend.

So it means that Nico didn't call.

Huh. I wonder why.

Did he not call because he had been alone for so long that he'd forgotten? Did he not call because he didn't expect help, nor did he want it? Because he didn't want anyone he held dear to be in there, even when it meant being with him?

Oh. How lonely it must be to feel like that. You would go to the burning Hell for your friend, but you have no one to call when it's you who has fallen into one.

My dandelion, why did you forsake yourself.