#sorry for my soap box

[paperclipninja]

I'm gonna sound very old person yells at cloud but I don't care, I feel like I need to say this. We all (well most of us) know that messaging Neil with any headcanons/theories/wishes/hopes/dreams to do with the show is a no-go because it could potentially compromise the story he wants to tell or ends up telling. And yes, he is a grown up who chooses what to respond to etc and I think it's wonderful he engages with fans and answers a lot of lovely and interesting questions about his process, writing and journey etc.

However, there is another reason not to send theories and ideas about how the show should go to the show creator in the hope of a response: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether a theory is correct, or a speculation may or may not play out. That is why fandom exists.

Online fandom is where we all come together to yell and cry and throw around weird-ass ideas and theories and look at art and read fanfic and unite in our love of characters and a show. A huge part of being in fandom, is the way fandom theories become like an understood little bit of fanon lore that some people attach to, others disregard. But it doesn't matter. And part of the fun of fandom, is when a new season or a new episode of the show comes out, you have this collective catalogue of ideas and theories and headcanons and you get to yell and scream, "omg it happened1" or "lol that that thing was ever talked about" or "thank god that theory didn't come to pass".

Wanting to know now (not that we ever will) and not wanting to wait until the next season to find out the answers diminishes the fandom experience. I cannot stress enough how much we are in the absolute peak of the fandom experience right now. The between seasons time is the ultimate time to be a part of a fandom (as I'm sure many people are well aware), knowing there's another season coming energises everyone to create and connect and speculate and it's glorious! I know it feels like it'll be like this forever, but it won't. Next season is the last and yes, there will be a flurry and uptick of all the energy and excitement once again, and I absolutely believe Good Omens fandom will live on and remain active and thrumming. But there won't be theories and what ifs and hunting for clues for the next season, and over time it will dwindle a little and plateau and some people will fall into other fandoms, and while it will probably bubble away, there won't be the anticipation that sits with us now.

My point is, fandom is where we get to throw around ideas and flail and be ridiculous and also serious sometimes, but it's all for us. For the fans. Showing Neil theories or getting in a flap about a particular speculation and asking if x, y, or z might happen isn't just about putting the creator in an awkward spot, it takes away what fandom is about. Just let this time be ours. If you haven't been in fandom before, enjoy it! Don't be in a hurry to seek definitive answers or know things either way.

It doesn't matter if any or none or all of the things that float around end up being correct or incorrect. Fandom isn't about being right. It's about being a part of a community and being able to share ideas and it's about it being FUN.

So TL;DR Stop sending Neil fan ideas because that is for fandom, not for the creator.

[hausofmamadas]

ngl, I normally side eye tf out of personality tests esp MBTI ㋛ bc there’s massive body of evidence revealing PTs are ethnocentrically biased, ineffective at doing what they’re designed to do, and p much a dystopian way of measuring someone’s value based on traditional standards of capitalist productivity much like IQ tests, thereby marginalizing people who already face marginalization like ppl who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, non-white, without a standard education, and ppl with diff mental health profiles and/or neurodivergence ㋛

HOWMEVER I’m powerless to resist a tag game from my dearest of dfs, @drabbles-mc. Plus this is cute and uncharacteristically on the money, like # of times I’ve prob said, ‘might be wrong tho’ this week alone. And yea, the irony not lost on me, ‘walking encyclopedia’ n I just pulled that☝️shit

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TYSM for the tag Ari! @thepetitemandalorian

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[atopvisenyashill]

people will be like “elia isn’t central to the narrative it’s crazy she’s so popular” and meanwhile not only is ned stressing out about her murder and what it means for jon snow every three to four business days, but her daughter’s angry black cat is quite literally haunting the red keep and someone claiming to be her son is about to land on westeros. it’s almost like the ghosts of elia and her children are in fact central to the narrative and she’s popular for a reason.

[leverage-ot3]

time for the obligatory post about what episodes I want to see in the upcoming leverage season(s)

(for reference, I made this similar post in 2020 after the reboot was announced. I'm pasting some from that post bc I still want them to happen lol)

new ideas:

I mentioned a date night episode in the last post (apollo really did bless me with foresight for the date night job on that one) but for considerment: ot3 date night. possibly their first date night after they all get together. breanna and sophie know it's happening (harry is, like, peripherally aware) and some crime hijinks are going down and the three of them are frantically trying to stop bad things from happening that are going to interfere with the date. I want to see them going through it behind the metaphorical curtain. I want to see breanna fighting for her life trying to out-hack the hacker that is going to ruin their ten-part itineraried date. harry has to get in a fistfight and eliot is so proud about it when he finds out after everything is over

tree law episode. harry has been frothing at the mouth about it since it was made. his life has been moving him towards this penultimate moment. breanna thinks it's HILARIOUS and cheers him on 100% of the way. she is VERY enthusiastic about this con

I'm not going to mention certain things because I've seen jrogers posting on bluesky social and I know he might be already writing some of those plots

con that the food trucks have plot-relevance. like, one of his food truck stations is being harassed /victimized by, like, a local gang or something that takes advantage of food truck/cart workers and the team steps in. the actual (veteran) food truck workers get involved in the con. leverage international might just have gained a few retainer members

quinn should come back for an episode. I know the actor is friends with ckane. they should make it happen because it would be iconic and I said so

on a similar note, ckane is friends with jensen ackles and. guys. wouldn't it- wouldn't it be extremely funny if a flame from eliot's past named sean sylvester who is a rugged drifter with a questionable past

episode where tara or maggie (or BOTH, can you imagine how powerful that would be???) come back and there is slight flirting with sophie possibly??? that or very obvious chemistry from a past tryst. sophie has slept with both of them, I know it in my heart of hearts. bonus points if tara and maggie fall in love (I think it would be funny. maggie's taste in men is canonically atrocious, I think she deserves someone like tara at this point)

I just want a lot of side characters to come back, okay? sue me I miss them

gonna put the rest under the cut since this post has become obscenely long

not episode-specific, but I want more mentions of the korean leverage team. and all the other teams too! we know that in canon there is the south korean one, the nigerian one, and one in london (I think that's it for mentions so far, but correct me if I'm wrong!)

episodes addressing issues with american imperialism and its effects on minorities and marginalized communities, specifically within this country (there aren't a lot of episodes where they are actively out of country)

dear fucking god take a more abolitionist stance on policing I'm begging. would it KILL you to not be weird about cops? pls just punch some more cops. take down white supremacist cops, I'm sure you can scrounge something up bffrrn

women's rights episodes. I know it's kind of recent, but episodes about accessibility of stuff like birth control, abortion access, etc. y'all are capable of making excellent episodes on that I know it

more climate crisis-related episodes. god knows you're feeling it in the deep south

taking down a corrupt megachurch pastor (although lbr, there is no ethical megachurch anything and you can fight me on this)

something to do with ace rights bc I think it would be really cool to see the team advocate for that stuff, especially since breanna is canon ace

helping a polycule that is being victimized by X organization/entity (maybe a housing association or medical or something???). breanna is bombastic side-eyeing the ot3 the entire time. it is making hardison sweat. sophie thinks it's hilarious

taking down 'writers' that use ai and self-publish AND/OR people that take original/fan works off of like ao3 and wattpad and publish them for personal profits without the author's consent. breanna would have a field day with this (god herself could try to convince me that girl does not read/write fanfic and I wouldn't believe it)

episode about underfunded public schools. we saw corrupt private schools in the fairy godparents job but I want an episode that would make abbot elementary writers proud

episode addressing native/indigenous. eliot is from oklahoma, I'm sure he is well aware of the health/job/economic/etc disparities on reservations. I will email jrogers about it myself if I have to- it anyone can get people going about native rights through a tv show it would be leverage.

I sent an ask to wil wheaton once asking if he was open to returning to leverage and I think he said he would be down for it. but chaos either has to be a reluctant ally to leverage international and is being handled by quinn as a hitter OR he is just. in jail. bc he sucks.

bpas and/or pfas episode. breanna has mentioned microplastics before but I want more

the team tears the shit out of conversion therapy camp owners and plants the seeds for legislation that will punish parents that try to send their kids to those hellscapes

while we're at it, I'd love to see an ep where they tackle the trans bathroom issue. god knows the news doesn't talk about it nearly enough

something to do with foster care. they end up starting some sort of foster care network that past clients/allies can take part in. maybe a mentorship program for kids that want to do what they do one day (they are very reluctant to encourage kids to participate in crime BUT if that is the avenue that they are going to inevitably go towards, they guide them in the right direction). nana makes an appearance (*insert 'everybody liked that' meme*)

prison industrial complex episode. I KNOW we had the jailhouse job BUT we really need this in our year of 2024

another episode on corrupt influencers. maybe influencer parents? dear god pls take them down a notch

ep where there is an underlying message that tells you how to avoid becoming victim to scams or something, or like is a tutorial for how to identify scams you might fall victim to (sorry, I just have to say this after two separate people tried to pig butcher me in less than two (2) weeks))

not to say I want them to do an ep calling out cop city, but it would feel really good to watch the leverage team rip that concept to SHREDS

the minimum wage job. need I say more? we deserve the catharsis

pls go after goodwill execs, esp the ones in the pnw that have their sector as for-profit and have become millionaires+ because of it while paying their staff (especially disabled staff) fucking pennies

while we're on the topic, pls call out salvation army (the corporation)

I can probably go on for like five hours so I'll stop here

ep that we get to see harry and his daughter bond :)

job where they get to lower the price of insulin (and other drugs)

actually, you know what? an episode where the crew annihilates big pharma and terrible insurance companies

I think that breanna should be able to go off about mass/over consumption as a treat. I 100% believe she has Thoughts about it. like, she will absolutely call out the corporations that are responsible for these trends, but also she should be allowed to mention our tendency for overconsumption as a society. obviously there are a few corporations that are doing most of the world's pollution/ecological damage, but we should be doing our part too and I KNOW it would be in-character for her to go off on it

I bet she has a LOT to say about influencers, tbh. obviously not all influencers are bad, but there are sooooo many problematic ones and problems within the influencer industry

sizing discrimination in the modeling/clothing industry. let eliot talk about how there are no perfect bodies. also while I'm on the subject, can we PLS have more body-diverse background actors on the show? I know this is nitpicky but I'd really love to see some more people that look like me, even if they are just in the background

a thinly veiled writers' rights episode (I'm looking at you media execs and the stupid amount of time it took for you to comply to the WGA demands)

something to do with media companies making entire movies/tv shows and then fucking cancelling them/not releasing them and using them as tax write-offs. every time it happens it baffles me. that is cartoonishly stupid villain shit. I can't imagine lovingly working on a project for a year plus and then the company just going, nah, we aren't going to release it because you suck and it's a good business move

ai art and ai in general. please. let it BURN

okay now I'm done

ideas from the previous post that I still want:

comicon job. I said it before and I will say it again- we deserve it!!! come on, it's the age of the geek after all!!! (in the last post I also said a ren faire ep, but I will let the card game job count for that)

summer camp ep? I saw a tumblr fic about it and I think it could be cute. it could kinda be like the fairy godparents job- eliot in charge of some type of sports (archery, fencing, etc), hardison would be in charge of arts and crafts (this boy might be a genius with tech and in general tbh, but the show did such a good job of showing that he’s also very talented with the arts- sculpting the statue for the miracle job, forging the old diary in the king george job, etc), parker would LOVE to be in charge of a high ropes course. breanna would totally be down for some sort of nerdy kid robotics or simple, traditional camp games (can't go wrong with the classics. everyone loves making bracelets!) I feel like it's too stereotypical to have sophie have kids put on a play but we all know that's exactly what she would do. idk for harry? I think he has the same traditional camp activities vibe as breanna. he's in it for the nostalgia. OR something to do with videogames

please, please, please, please, please make an episode where they take down a cult, im begging. that would be such a good episode. definitely a mindfuck episode like the experimental job (4x11). I’ve seen a few posts about a job dealing with a cult (here’s one) and I think it would be really interesting 

MORE STERLING being DONE with leverage shenanigans!!! give me feral!sterling like in the frame-up job (5x10)!!! give me sterling that protests every step of the way but conveniently looks away and “whoops, the team just disappeared, I have no idea how that happened!!! diddly dang darn it, they got away again!!! sorry guys!!!” bonus points if mcsweeten is there too and also participates in intervening hijinks

the team takes down a circus that is still using and abusing wild animals!!! because first I’d LOVE to see acrobat!parker swinging up in the air like a pro and being in her element, but also because those places are the fucking worst and need to Go Down. give me eliot having to pose as an animal trainer with deep sympathy for the animals being abused, quietly talking soothing words to them when he thinks no one is around (correction: hardison is, in fact, around, and filming his boyfriend’s softness to save for later). give me charismatic hardison playing the role of ringmaster, running and flaunting about and being passive-aggressive to the circus master. give me eliot freeing the animals from their chains when they are finally able to shut the place down and relocate the animals to sanctuaries (his hands shaking just a little as twists the key in the lock, because he too was once an abused, caged animal in his own right and he knows how liberating it is to finally be free). 

[sequesteredbhaalspawn]

Still just thinking about how it makes no sense for Bhaal to want there to be more Bhaalspawn. The existence of Bhaalspwan literally weakens him because they carry paces of his divinity, like in a way that that divinity is now separate from him, he cannot personally use or tap into it for power for himself. That's why all of Bhaalspawn born out of The Time of Troubles had to die (this includes the offspring of Bhaalspawn like Abazigal's son Draconis. Which Abazigal is literally a dragon not a Dragonborn. It would have been funny of Larian to make a Blue Dragon be a merchant. Or at least give him a human form resembling his portrait in Throne of Bhaal- dragons would never take the form of Dragonborns. Dragonborns where their slaves at one point after all. They don't respect them and would not take their form (this is also why it's very fucked up for Lae'zel to imply Dragonborns are inferior to dragons). I digress. That's an issue for another day.)

The last thing he would want, in his weakened state of not being a fully deity, would be more Bhaalspawn living in the world. He wouldn't want Bhaalspawn siring more. Because the children of Bhaalspawn are also Bhaalspawn.

The idea that Bhaal would want Durge to sire an army of Bhaalsapwn is just so wrong. Like why is it written like this? It just makes zero sense. I can only guess that they want to make Bhaal look sexually predatory? 🙄 (the only time it was implied he acted as such was with Gorion Ward's mother, it was not implied to be of SA for any of the other mothers either- from what I remember, but that was proven to be a lie implied by Gorion himself because Gorion's Ward's mother was actually a Bhaalist priestess who had his child willingly. I could go one forever by how none of the weird sex stuff surrounding Bhaal and the Bhaalists in bg3 is not supported by any sources outside of bg3. It's just really weird choices that I can't see as being made as innocent mistakes and not born out a place of ignorance or bigotry. That's just how I feel though.)

I seriously think that Larian doesn't know any lore.

[molinaskies]

Some people playing the DLC rn have never played Eggmanland from Sonic Unleashed and it shows.

To be fair, I ALSO think the DLC is holistically too hard (it’s unforgiving on hard mode and, at some points, even on easy). I was stuck on master king for 9 hours. But I’ve seen people say that the DLC is unrealistic for a child as if Sonic has never been this hard before.

Sonic Unleashed is difficult. Sonic 06 (for a number of reasons) is difficult. Hell, Sonic Adventure 2 is difficult. All of the classic games, to a degree, are difficult. This is also an optional, free story. It can be entirely bypassed, if needed.

Sonic is a franchise that challenges you. It dares you to push past your limits because that’s the whole entire thesis of these stories (quite LITERALLY for Sonic Frontiers).

The beautiful thing about being a child is that you have resilience. You will get up and try again. Something we can learn from children (and this franchise) is that it’s okay to fail. Pace yourself.

It’s okay to struggle and complain about your struggle. That’s a good thing, in fact. But this isn’t new.

[potentialbreakupscng]

i just read a someone saying that tonks forced remus to marry her and then forced him to have a child with her??? i'm sorry. did we forget that remus lupin is his own person and can also make his own decisions? this is based off of...him saying he regretted marrying her? yeah, because he hates himself so much??? like i don't think you can force someone to marry him. i fully believe that tonks may have been pregnant when they got married or it happened shortly after they did. she didn't trap him in a marriage because she was pregnant? they got married because they loved each other. and remus "i love self sabotage because i hate myself" lupin would feel guilty about it. he feels guilty about shit that doesn't even have to do with him. people say the same shit about lily & james. plz stop villainizing women for mlm ships. k thnx bai.

[bulbabutt]

i sure hope as a second mass exodus from twitter occurs (along with the overwhelming conservative nature of the world right now) we dont keep getting more people demanding purity culture. you cant demand every pervert on the internet 'kys' or else there will eventually be no one left on the internet. that window of acceptability will always swing back further and further until the idea of sharing a bed as a married couple is taboo once again.

this is one of the last bastions of peace we have where you can post queer or diverse or maybe just weird art without getting spotted by bigoted grifters trying to make money off outrage culture calling you a pervert or worse. and its entirely imperfect as a website with its own fucking problems, but i really hope the people on it dont start getting worse.

i dont care what you do so long as youre kind to others and respect their rights to exist, and their boundaries. that shouldnt be a controversial statement but i bet i lose followers over it again.

it should also go without question that this does not include people who celebrate fascism. those are the people you need to make clear do not belong in your spaces, people who wilfully wish harm on the more marginalized.

and i understand that i keep bringing this up, that i sound like a broken record and perhaps thats annoying, but im honestly worried about it. i think modern social media and the nature of needing to network to be found by an algorithm that doesnt like anything controversial makes everyone worse. makes you try to be as broadly acceptable as possible. but thats always going to be a losing battle as more and more things become less acceptable.

i think a lot of you just might not have been alive before 2008, but anonymity on the internet is so important. it keeps you safe. we lost that at some point, as the socials with your full name and phone number started forcibly adding your boss to your friends list. made everyone start locking down their shit, as a random meme about 'boss makes a dollar i make a dime' can get you fired.

theres a lot of outing and doxxing culture thats so fucking normalized, and as the world grows more hostile to people who make a stink about things, i hope you dont find any excuse to get them hurt just so you can separate yourselves from them. i want you to think about things like the hayes code, where being gay could get you labelled a pervert. so you might think 'its okay ive never done anything inappropriate on the internet' (which, i dont believe you about) maybe not yet, but as the ideals of whats socially acceptable turn back to the 1950s you will have. keeping at a witch hunt looking for anyone with immoral art is only feeding the fire that will eat you later.

[simpjaes]

no because you saying that just excites me knowing this will be my type of fic. tho honestly i get you, it's frustrating when no one's forcing anyone to read something they're not comfortable with. ily just know there are readers out there that appreciate your time and work 🫶

like i said in the tags. if someone finds my fics, reads the warnings, and clicks that fucking "read more" tab thinking they're not gonna get exactly what i fucking said it would be, that's entirely between them and god.

whether they liked it or not. whether they feel guilty or not.

when you come to my inbox to tell you how bad you feel about being turned on by something i literally wrote, i can't help but question what it is that made you feel the need to send me that as feedback of all things.

i know, i know. i ask for feedback. I want feedback. but do you wanna know what I don't want?

someone's post nut clarity.

on another note, if someone reads my warnings and then clicks in to read just to find things to bother them and disrupt their peace? once again that's between them and god. i write within my own triggers and no one elses. curate your own experience online, because i'm not gonna do it for you. i do my part by warning you.

[takemebacktowheremyheartbelongs]

TakingCharge!Danny in "The Bomber and Mrs Moroney" Season 3 Episode 22

Let me just say this...

I love the scene...

Danny proves what he's capable of (again, but who doesn't love a reminder) He's a good cop, able to handle bad situations. But he also proves that he still follows what Steve told him in Season 1, "...And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin"...he still hates it when someone has to be shot...or might be...the look on his face when the sniper gets Marty (I missed catching that)...he didn't want it to end like that...just like he didn't want Joey's story to end like that either. And you can tell how each and every word he says hurts him when he's trying to get Marty in position.

Sure you can criticize any character and any actor...

But I still say that Danny was a damn good man... And that James portrayed the character and emotion perfectly

These are things you can't replace

[everyoneisgayandtrans]

When you partake in casual misandry online, you're attacking: - Gay men, - Bisexual men, - Pansexual men, - Trans men, - Gender fluid men, - Bigender men, - Asexual men, - Drag queens, - and so on That's not even mentioning the queer people who aren't even men, but were assigned male at birth. Seeing all men as predators is a nice pipeline to believing the fallacy that trans women are predatory men pretending to be women to gain their trust. Just like the patriarchy hurts men too, misandry also hurts women. And that's only one way it hurts women. It also sets feminism backwards. If you tell men that they're automatically predators, then you're going to reinforce that behavior. "If you get treated like a filthy animal long enough, that's what you become." (Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian)

You can hold the patriarchy accountable and point out misogyny without the "kill all men" bullshit.

[atopvisenyashill]

i mean the number one issue with an rr adaption from hbo is they’re gonna make robert and rhaegar main viewpoint characters when that defeats the whole goddamn conceit of the narrative choices in the books and we know i love robert but robert should ONLY be viewed thru the lenses of those that knew him!!

[oncamelliastreet]

i’m out here on my hands and knees BEGGING people on tiktok to find a singular hobby outside of staring at their phone and speculating on whether or not their favorite celebrity couple broke up based on absolutely nothing for no clear reason.

a) these are real people who you don’t know and their romantic lives are NOT anyone’s business but theirs, consume their art and be happy

b) spreading rumors, regardless of what they are about, is harmful and not beneficial to anybody. you don’t even know these people, you are not in a position to begin telling people what’s going on in their lives when it could be very well completely made up and you were gullible enough to believe it

c) there is simply better things to do with your time. go read a book, watch a movie, paint a picture. i used to be one of those people who was obsessed with celebrities personal lives, and after a couple months of stepping back from the internet in general, i realized how much more fulfilled i felt after doing things that have a clear benefit rather than staring at my phone all day speculating about people i don’t know and will maybe meet once, in which meeting they would be probably creeped out to learn that i sit around talking about them and their partners all day with other strangers online

[lowpawly]

I will also say that a lot of the standards people are held to online are TERRIBLE for autistic people because a lot of it depends on picking up on an inherent understanding of what is right or wrong with very severe reprocussions if you mess up or misspeak. a lot of the callouts i see will be screenshots of someone saying something that the author and audience are supposed to know is wrong while also being the first time the subject had even heard that they did something wrong. or like people in discord servers absolutely flipping their shit going full aggro mode over someone saying the wrong thing because "they should have known better". and I guess whether you agree with that sentiment or not its a stressful thing to witness as an autistic person where often times trying to say the right thing in social situations feels like defusing a bomb. I think a lot of the time in the context of callouts people are already going in with the thesis of "this person is irredeemable" and so giving someone any kind of grace is antithetical to that point. so like anything someone says thats wrong or socially inappropriate is damning evidence of their dark soul. anyways I guess what I'm saying is I'm always sweating bullets whenever I'm trying to articulate myself online because I'm imagining every possible scenario where my words could get misinterpreted as an admission of guilt. so if I ever seem really unsure of myself to an exaggerated extent now you know why LOL

[sequesteredbhaalspawn]

I really want to make an all encompassing post at some point on how Larian fails at writing evil (in bg3) and two other all encompassing posts about how they failed at writing Viconia and Sarevok in particular. That isn't what this post is going to be, but I just need to air some things out for myself.

LIKE if you take all of the trauma that the bg3 companions have and combined them into one character, you have Viconia. And if you put in the effort to help her become a better person- becoming true neutral in alignment (the same alignment as Jeheira btw), you really get to see all of that. And yes it takes until the end of Throne of Bhaal to do, and it is actual work. You have to try, and keep at it, and it;s hard. It's not "just say nice things and then good things happen" there are a lot of ups and downs and unlearning of toxic behaviors that Viconia goes through. It takes time. It it's so rewarding to see her reach that.

I've said my piece on Seravok before. BUT I think it's extremely fucked they took such a nuanced antagonist, someone who killed a person your player characters is suppose to love (if you think they see that person as family) and you can still reach out to him, help him. make see how he was wrong and how it hurt him and the people he loved. get his alignment to change from chaotic evil all the way to chaotic good. But then Larian makes a black man who is incestuous and very abusive to his extremely white looking daughter/granddaughter. It's just so awful. I hated seeing it so much. Like seriously- why the fuck did they do that? It makes no sense. And I do think it's important to point out Sarevok being black. Larian treat the black characters in bg3 rather poorly. It's racist. Doesn't matter if they did it intentionally or not. If anyone is a black fan I would love to read any addition you'd want to add to this post.

They also just get so much wrong about this character? He was never a Bhaal worshiper. He wanted to use his situation of being a Bhaalspawn to obtain godhood. And this self distributive path is what causes Tamako to leave him. Because she knew she was going to loose him anyways if he didn't stop. And then he got into a new relationship where his new parent encourage his self destruction and benefited from it. Post series, in the end game slides, regardless if you helped Sarevok change his alignment or not, he personally escorts Tamoko's body back to her homeland, Kara-Tur (if you're interested there is a mod that let's Tamoko live and become a companion of Gorion's Ward. I haven't played with it yet, but I plan on checking it out. There are so many mods that let poc companions with scripted deaths live, it nice to see- even if those deaths could have been not written or at the very least have the abilities to save them should have been there from the beginning.)

Both of these characters are about the cycle of abuse, on rather it gets broken or not. Just like the companions from bg3 are. But Larian says "no they failed and in fact are irredeemable"

It's shocking that games from 1998 and 2001 had a better discussion on restorative justice. And yes it's a fantasy setting where you care suppose to fight people, you're not going to be able to do that with every character. But doing this better than a game in 2024? When we have so much more resources and knowledge about this? It's just disheartening.

That isn't to say that the original games didn't have their flaws, they very much did. The stuff from bg3 is just more raw right now.

[russilton]

I mean Lewis has spoken pretty openly about having ADHD so I don't think he would be the hardest to convince regarding assessment. Many elite sportsmen seem like undiagnosed neurodivergents though.

You’d be seriously shocked how hard it can be to convince people to get tested— ADHD has a lot of social stigma and people with ADHD direly need proper support and help— but to be candid as someone with BOTH ADHD and Autism, ADHD isn’t nearly as heavily ridiculed as autism, despite how HEAVILY co-occurring they are. I’ve met more autistic people with adhd than without.

When ADHD is used as an insult it can be horrible and belittling and that should never be swept under the rug. BUT the tone of most insults about Autism treat us as sub human, diseased, contagious, or idiots. There’s a reason my paid job is to teach doctors to stop killing us by assuming we don’t know anything about our bodies, the statistics are abhorrent.

So yeah I don’t think he would be the hardest in the world to convince to consider an assessment and my joke was mostly teasing his history of being slightly avoidant— but also many people especially his age treat an autism diagnosis like a horrible death sentence. Look how many f1 drivers have used the R slur over recent years, the stigma is still very real