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6, 12, 21 for Owen please
Hi š„°š„°
6- Whatās something you have in common with this character?
As much as I love Owen Strand that is a tough one because he has confidence and leadership that I myself do not possess, and my eating habits are more akin to raccoon fishing stuff out of a dumpster lolā¦ but I will say I also know what itās like to have your life changed by divorce (I was the kid not the person getting divorced) but that is a reason I love the Strand family so much in general.
12- Whatās a headcanon you have for this character?
Basically my headcanon is that Owen was not absent for TKās entire childhood after the divorce- I maintain there was a couple of rough years where he wasnāt as present as he should have been but after Gwyn kicked his ass and he made it to TKās holiday concert then he made more of an effort- Iām not saying he never chose work over his kid but he was always in TKās life and saw his son every week otherwise they wouldnāt be as close as they are because even in the pilot itās clear how close they are and who much Owen knows his kid, which I donāt think they would have been if Owen was truly never there
21- if youāre a fic writer and have written for this character, whatās your favorite thing to do when youāre writing for this character? Whatās something you donāt like?
In fact I have- (Will Ferrell Anchorman voice) you can say Iāve written about a quarter million words about this character š„°š„°
And that is because Owen is very fun to write- I love writing dad Owen, writing Owen as a dad taking care of/frantically searching for/patching up his kid(s) is very fun šš
Something I donāt like (but wonāt deny happen- I just felt it didnāt happen to quite the extent others do) is because my long fic starts when TK is five and goes through the years of the divorce it was much less fun to write trying but coming up short Owen but I did- the petty his ex wife is seeing someone new Owen, falling asleep and his kid gets injured when he was supposed to be watching them Owen- not showing up for not just there holiday concert but missing other big things Owen- less fun to write but I definitely have!
Thank you for the ask ššš
#answered asks#owen strand#im the conductor of the owen strand does not deserve the hate he gets train and was very happy to get this one#which something im not brave enough to put not in the tags#but in light of where we are in the rewatch- season 3 is not my favorite season#the tarlos stuff is amazing and i love it but I felt like they chose the tarlos stuff over everything else#and pushed this narrative they never had before of Gwyn is the only parent TK has ever known and Owen has not been there#not once has he been there for TK IN HIS LIFE#like buffoon owen existed before season 3 but there was a balance#season 3 they just decided letās only write buffoon owen and act like he and tk donāt know each other#which i disagree with#sorry rant over lol
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While I understand where they are coming from, I'm getting increasingly more and more annoyed at people who tell me I'm not autistic because I'm a DJ and am able to do gigs with loud music and a lot of people.
Listen. Music is my LIFE. It's one of my biggest hyperfixations / special interests, and nothing brings me more joy than sharing that with other people. Yes, I do get overstimulated sometimes when performing and still need to recharge after, but that doesn't mean it's something that's impossible to work through. Me being autistic just means I find it more difficult than most neurotypical people do.
It's just frustrating to have my efforts constantly invalidated like this, as if it's impossible to do the same things neurotypical people do because of my disability.
#personal#sorry rant over lol#autism#neurodivergence#ableism#šāā¬ļø#im glad you know my experiences better than i and all my other medical professionals do š
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All mediums of art and creativity ought to be taken seriously. Longform prose? Poetry? Music? Art? Movies? Video games? Comics? Fanfiction?
(Video games specifically are like whole museums because they include visual beauty, storytelling, music, and more but I won't get into that here.)
I've been SO impacted by some comics. The medium a story is told in does NOT define whether or not it is a masterpiece. Video game stories have shaped my life. Fanfiction has meant so much to me.
WHEN YOU PUT PASSION AND MEANING AND LIFE INTO ART, IT COMES TO LIFE!! REGARDLESS OF ANYTHING ELSE! Even "quality" is overrated!! Art can be poorly-formatted fanfic! Now it might be hard to communicate if it's poor quality, but it is still ART!
I thinks folks expressing incredulity at the quality of the writing and composition in Calvin and Hobbes are often missing the context that Bill Watterson is arguably the most influential sequential artist of his generation. Like, this is a guy who once told the editors of nationally syndicated newspapers to go fuck themselves when they wanted to mess with his panel layouts, and not only did he keep his job, he got his way. He could have had literally any gig he wanted, and he chose to be the Sunday funnies guy because that's what made him happy. He's basically the Weird Al of sequential art.
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#gravity falls#bill cipher#cartoon me#my art#my gifs#canāt stand his ass lol#tw flashing#donāt know if I should tag it as that but just in case#id in alt text#get rekt ya triangle fuck#itās been low-key kind of bothering me that some are trying to make him sympathetic#probably an unpopular opinion#but he does NOT deserve redemption#let him rot in therapy forever#Iām a firm believer he doesnāt want to be redeemed#and also let villains just be villains#sorry rant over#queue
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transfem wirt truthers wya
#my friend said he loves wirt being so distressed and greg being so chill#me and my friends call her wirtina as a joke but iām starting to do it unironically if i donāt find a better name for her soon#guys does anyone have any ideas of what wirt would call herself#i also like the idea she stays as wirt#or weāve come up with whitney or willow#and in the same breath ranted about chosen names always being similar to their deadname lol#sorry i have so many things to yap about#art#over the garden wall#otgw fanart#otgw#wirt otgw#trans wirt#transfem wirt#greg otgw#sara otgw#poetic bee#if ya squint idk
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Listen to me Suzanne Collins did not have to give Katniss and Peeta a history before the games. She did NOT have to do that. She could have just had their story begin when Peeta's name was called. She could have had them be total strangers until the moment of the reaping.
Like: "And the boy tribute is... Peeta Mellark!" Katniss: Who's that? Or she could have made them vaguely familiar with each other! Peeta's name is called and Katniss just thinks, Oh, I know that name! He's in my class, actually. Poor boy... Anyway!
Either way, SC could have written the rest of the story exactly the same! I think many authors would have done that! Because if Peeta's purpose in the book was to be Gale's competition, to be one of the 3 corners of a love triangle, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE WAY TO DO IT!! But that's NOT how she did it because that's NOT what Peeta is.
And who is he? To Katniss, Peeta's someone who saved her and her family and received nothing in return except a beating. Peeta's someone she has had her eye on but has never worked up the courage to talk to. Peeta's someone she associates with kindness and hope. And all this before the start of the events of the book! Just because WE, the READERS, met Gale before Peeta and immediately felt a connection with him does NOT mean that was Katniss's experience! And that's what SC is trying to tell us!
To dismiss Katniss and Peeta's past as unimportant or inconsequential compared to whatever Katniss and Gale have in the present is to fundamentally misunderstand Katniss as a character and, as a result, condemn oneself to never fully understand the choices she makes in the future.
Suzanne Collins wrote it that way on purpose because she had something to say. And no one will ever be able to convince me that something wasn't "It was always going to be Peeta".
#thg#everlark#peeta mellark#katniss everdeen#the hunger games#sorry i hope this one's not too harsh#i just has to let it out lol#I'm not saying people only like gale because they misunderstand SC's writing#obviously everyone has preferences and that's great snd normal#but SC wrote Katniss to have preferences too?#and those preferences are pretty subtle at times I'll admit#but sometimes they're so glaringly obvious#i struggle to empathize with people who don't understand these books and honestly that's a me problem#but it really is difficult when people seem to hate Katniss because she didn't make THEIR choices#okay rant over
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and they dont have this problem with r/aita posts on reddit
it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even when all of the context clues are screaming the opposite
#sorry but how do so many people understand the nuance of a biased story told on REDDIT more than a novel#or film or any other form of media#no no characters SURELY cannot be as complex as Real Humans are#BRO WHO MADE THE CHARACTERS? exactly.#sorry rant over lol#aita#literature#film#media#characterisation
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I haven't thought much about Jonathan Sims for long enough that I kinda feel like I've started thinking about him a little more divorced of the emotional attachment I might have had once. Because I just saw a post lamenting his slow descent into inhumanity and losing his identity, becoming the archivist rather than Jonathan Sims, losing his friends, his house, everything he loves.
But is that true? That put upon head archivist persona he had in the beginning, was that really him? The way I see it, real life has already leached him of any identity he might have had, he didn't really have friends, Tim and Sasha clearly weren't, as we saw in their season 5 recording. He chose to make them his subordinates over beib friends, pushed away Georgie, he became so desperate for approval that he agreed to take a job he clearly has no idea how to do, let his stress over it isolate him from everyone around him, had a desperate need to assert himself in the beginning of every recording as 'head archivist of the Magnus institute london'. Forget about even having a home, he often slept in his office for heaven's sake.
The way I see it, this story is about him finding himself, finding the perfect place for himself in this already doomed world that was already strangling him and everyone around him. He became the Archivist, no longer needing to connect himself to some godforsaken capitalistic institute to identify himself. found his role, he enjoyed its power, even admitted to it. He found love. He found purpose in trying to save the world. In the end he was surrounded with the friends he made along the way (as friendly as they could be under the circumstances). He was finally allowed to make real choices, have true responsibility over himself and not be some tired corporate worker, part of a tired pointless system. Sure his choices weren't that great, and getting there was through outside manipulation and his own ignorance and he had to suffer immensely and pay an awful price of what we like to call his "humanity" but he Became and found what we all look for - his calling.
"It's still me" he says in the last episode. Because he is. He lost nothing and gained everything. Even dying in his lover's arms.
Forget about being human. In the end Jon achieves apotheosis and truly becomes Jonathan Sims
#i should relisten i feel like im talking out of my ass here lol#tma#the magnus archives#jonathan sims#honestly im happy for jon good for him. i wish i could find apotheosis in my career#i feel in recent months ive become way more sympathetic to selfishness and so called inhumanity than i used to.#this world is leeching the concept of 'good' from me#its such an entitled concept of course you can be 'good' when the world makes it easy for you.#no dilemas or choises. root for the underdog and for so called 'justice'. okay bitch. imma focus on what and who i love now#this world be damned. which it already is whether i try to do better or not.#sorry rant over
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next // previous
september 2, 2021 1:00 a.m. grant's mind
šµ did you learn to dream in the morning? abandon dreams in the afternoon? wait without a hope in the evening? did you stand there in the traces and let them feed you lies? did you trail along behind them wearing blinkers on your eyes? did you kiss the foot that kicked you? did you thank them for their scorn? did you ask for their forgiveness for the act of being born? šµ
#ts4#the sims 4#sims 4#sims 4 story#sims 4 storytelling#simblr#hlcn: everything the stars promised#holocene.docx#holocene.png#hlcn: grant#transition scene!#soooo fun fact i split up this post into two posts because my reshade broke AGAIN#and right in the middle of taking these pictures#i don't even know wtf happened#i was just taking screenshots and all of a sudden my dof turned off and would never start working again#even after rebooting my pc and tweaking everything#so i had to switch over to another dof#and that one only looks good when i force my shitty monitor to run at 4k??? because now edge smoothing no longer works for me#I LOVE (loathe) THE SIMS 4 AND RESHADE#sorry for the rant lol i just had to get that out in a way
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Iām 39 and all the way up to age 34 my ex (who was older than me, mind you) would constantly make fun of me for getting old. It absolutely destroyed my mental health, having someone in my life trying to convince me that my value might is sand in an hourglass and itās slowly running out. It was to the point that I saw no point in living for 3 straight years. Itās honestly a miracle Iām here.
He did eventually leave me for someone 12 years younger than me and blatantly told me it was because she wasnāt āold and boringā like me, but you know what?
Now that heās not part of the picture anymore and contentment is something that is actually within reach without his poisonous influence in my ear, I find myself happier and happier with my aging because it has come with so much wisdom.
I may not actually be what anyone would consider wise, but Iām certainly wiser than I was when I was too young to know better than to tolerate such treatment.
My age has come with new friends, new hobbies, new skills, and new experiences, and I consider all of those things to be exponentially more valuable than youth alone.
the older i get and the closer i am to reaching 30, the more the people around me try to deny me my age. itās a constant āoh youāre just turning 29 again teehee š¤ā or ādont tell your SO that, heāll leave you for a younger model šā and i just???? hate it?????????
i spent my entire teenaged years fighting for my life. i crawled through the deepest pits of my depression to cling to the promise of a life beyond that pain. i was so convinced that i was going to die young, that i would never see the grace of my age starting with a 2, let alone 3.
so im going to turn 30, and thereās not a damn thing anyone can do to stop me from loving it.
#i survived!!!#so many people never got the opportunity to be 30#im gonna enjoy every fucking second of it!#it struck a nerve#sorry rant over lol
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this. this might just be paul and richie to me.
#literally my favorite headcanon#just uncle paul. none of the other jon matteson family tree#like theyre both pathetic and basically only have each other in the beginning????? yes plz????#like paul gets called by cps and theyre like āhey u have a nephew thats getting a sucky home life wanna take him lolā#and richie just. enters his life#plus imagine its how he met pete????#paul used to babysit alice#who says he couldnt have babysat pete too??#and like he wants richie to have friends so ted comes over with pete and bill and alice are there too#and they become buds#like alice dyes richies hair and pete is freaking out about them getting in trouble#GUYS SORRY IM RANTING#anyways. love them š#royall yapper#hatchetfield#starkid#nerdy prudes must die#npmd#richie lipschitz#paul matthews#tgwdlm#the guy who didn't like musicals
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fairly odd parents still infecting my brain have a redraw
og screenshot ^ im already working on stuff with backgrounds i dont need to make even more
#fop#fopanw#dev dimmadome#fairly odd parents#the fairly oddparents#fairly oddparents#development devin dimmadome#fairly oddparents a new wish#fop dev#fop a new wish#fanart#from here on out are my own tags#memo's constellations#ā³ļø#:dev#ahhhh millions of different tags for one thing i did not miss you#I STILL GOT IT THO! it being creating actual full lined pieces#very fun drawing. back to the reference sheet and animation mines for me though#i dont think i said it but i'm actually animating in fopanw reanimated!!#this drawing was just a quick break and also to make a discord icon thats my own art#i havent been so hyperfixated on something since fuck. i dont even know#but this show is taking over my mind dogggg its all i can think about#i keep saying this but#if you told me like a year ago that id be being really ill about doug dimmadome owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome etc's grandson#to the point of adding him to my fucking kinlist which hasnt been updated in fucking months#i would not believe you#but. here we are LOL#if you think im insane. honestly i dont know what to say except watch anw cause Jeeeesus christ dev dimmadome is one fucked up kid#okay sorry for ranting in the tagsss certified memo moment of ranting in the tags. its over now BYE <3
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You know what, fuck it, I have to speak my truth! (this is gonna be a rant, so anyone who actually likes assassin's creed revelations and/or the secret crusade, be warned or maybe don't read this at all)
remember how altaĆÆr talks to king richard at the end of ac1, and richard is like "[humans] come into the world kicking and screaming, violent and unstable. it is what we are. we cannot help ourselves."? and how altaĆÆr answers "no. we are what we choose to be." and how that ACTUALLY has meaning bc he himself was "violent and unstable" at the beginning of the game but he has learned and is now CHOOSING to be a better person who cares about others and humanity at large? remember how his calmness and gentleness was something that he ACQUIRED over the course of the story?
and remember how in revelations they then suddenly had a PRE-AC1 altaĆÆr say about the first of his targets "no man should pass from this world without knowing some kindness." and be all wise and calm and collected during a nice little chat with al mualim, who suddenly acts all fatherly? (like, this is suddenly supposed to be a positive relationship? what??)
also, during the confession the target says to altair: "you put too much faith in the hearts of men, altaĆÆr. [...] humans are weak, base, and petty." and altaĆÆr answers: "no. our creed is evidence to the contrary." KJASJFJDKL???? like, itās almost insulting how close this exchange is to the one with richard. you know, the one that was actually earned after a whole game of character development. like WTF??? cool congrats now that development means nothing. like, apparently that was just altaĆÆr reverting BACK to being the exemplary assassin who understands and believes in the creed that he was apparently just born as. (i also hate how having a young inexperienced altaĆÆr saying this implies that altaĆÆr's faith in humanity is a sign of naivete instead of a sign of the wisdom he has gained after being confronted with counter arguments for a whole game, and also something that distinguishes the assassins from the templars who use humanity's supposed wickedness to justify controlling them like in AC1, but whatever)
altaĆÆrās development in AC1 mattered BECAUSE he is not NATURALLY a good person, it actually said something about humanity's capacity for both bad AND good and how humans don't have to be forced to be good through mind control bc they can by their own free will choose to be better when taught how and when allowed the freedom to grow. but no. apparently altaĆÆr has just always been calm, wise and gentle. and he just sort of forgot about that during AC1 bcā¦. ? bc of adha?? bc of abbas???
oh donāt get me started on the whole abbas thing. (it doesnt even make sense that abbas is so hung up about his father and "his familyās honor", like what about the whole point of al mualim not allowing parents to be close to their children bc it would make them weak? like, my dude, youāre not supposed to HAVE any family aside from the brotherhood)
they used the throwaway character that had like 5 lines and made him into altaĆÆrās main antagonist in revelationsā¦ like, abbas wasnāt supposed to be this ONE dude who had personal beef with altaĆÆr, he was just supposed to show how while altaĆÆrās revered by many, a lot of his brothers also hate him, bc 1) altaĆÆr is a shitty person at this point and 2) bc thereās no real feeling of community and family in this version of the brotherhood, but just a pervasive sense of competition and jealousy ā these assassins donāt care about their goal of safeguarding humanity bc theyāre too hung up on petty squabbles and divided by rivalries (you know, the things that made malik hate altaĆÆr even before solomonās temple and that he overcomes in the end which enables him to forgive and to reconcile with altaĆÆr so they can work together and stop al mualim? (you ever just think about "we are one. as we share the glory of our victories, so too should we share the pain of our defeat. in this way we grow closer. we grow stronger." and cry? bc i do. all the time. malik, the man that you are))
and now abbas is altaĆÆrās childhood best friend turned lifelong enemy?? like, bowden bent over backwards to come up with an explanation for why altaĆÆr is an arrogant ass at the beginning of AC1, when the explanation is right there: he was raised to kill without asking questions and was constantly praised for how good he is at murder, which resulted in him becoming arrogant and disregarding human life. like, it doesnāt have to be some shakespearean family feud type shit. and guess what, this "simple" explanation actually plays into the storyās themes, whoāda thunk!
(like, abbas might not have been a "fleshed out" character in AC1, but he had a specific function and now that function is gone. mr bowden, mr mcdevitt, you know characters are allowed to simply exist to tell us something about their worlds and the systems they live in and sometimes thatās more important and also more interesting than having every single character have a detailed backstory to explain all their behaviors, right?)
with all of this revelations loses all nuance in regards to the levantine brotherhood and also the creed in general. like, altaĆÆr being a master assassin at the beginning despite being a terrible person and not actually understanding the creed is a criticism of the brotherhood and the creed itself. like, it said something about the order that someone like altaĆÆr was able to get that high in rank, simply bc he's good at killing, which also tells us what is considered important in the al mualim era assassin order. when you make altaĆÆrās arrogance the result of his personal conflicts instead of how we was raised by a brotherhood that only valued one's ability to kill, you lose that characterization of the assassin order itself!
and by suddenly making al mualim a semi good "father figure" you also downplay his manipulation of not only altaĆÆr but all those under his care. (altaĆÆr says something about al mualim being "as a father" to him exactly twice in the codex, but he doesnāt mean by that that he WAS a father to him, what he means is that he was the CLOSEST THING he had bc HE DID NOT HAVE PARENTS, not because his mother died in childbirth and his father was executed when he was young btw, BUT BECAUSE IT WASNāT ALLOWED, like his parents actually lived but werenāt allowed to be close to him, he says he came to view al mualimās "weak and dishonest" love as enough and even better BECAUSE HE HAD NOTHING ELSE, BECAUSE AL MUALIM ISOLATED HIS ASSASSINS FROM THEIR FAMILIES. al mualim "loved" him bc he was good at killing people for him! hm, i wonder if this could be trying to say anything about cults and indoctrination and the inherent contradiction in fighting for peace and free will by taking children away from their parents and raising them to become killers?? like, altaĆÆr wasn't ~the special orphan boy~ taken in by al mualim bc his father died a hero's death, it was "the way of the order" to have al mualim be the closest thing to a parental figure for everyone to ensure absolute loyalty! altaĆÆr saying al mualim was like his father is not supposed to make you go "oh, he must have actually been a good guy for altaĆÆr to consider him a father", it should make you go "oh that's kinda fucked up that he considers the dude who made him into a killing machine and who manipulated him a sort of father figure"!)
and then in revelations they suddenly portray that relationship as positive and healthy??? like, it would be one thing to give it some nuance by delving into the psychology behind al mualimās "love" and maybe showing how al mualim did care about altair in a complicated, fraught sort of way (like, you know, thereās a lot of interesting things you could say about al mualim at several points addressing altaĆÆr as "my child" in AC1 and how that parallels Garnier referring to the people he drugged and abused as his "children", and what that says about how the templars view the people who they say they want to save and in whose best interests they supposedly act (in any case, al mualim doesnāt use that phrase because he has any real parental feelings but rather to patronize and to invalidate any objections, like in a "mother knows best" way))
but they even fucking DARE to parallel that relationship with that of altaĆÆr and darim in revelations, by having the reflection in the puddle of darim hugging altaĆÆr showing altaĆÆr hugging al mualimā¦. like their relationship wasnāt inherently abusive but just tragically cut short because al mualim was just "corrupted by the apple"ā¦ like WHAT???? so itās not the very real problems like grooming, manipulation and indoctrination and the hierarchical structure of the brotherhood itself (all of which are antithetical to the assassin ideology), it was just the evil apple all along. great. thatās DEFINITELY a lot more interesting.
god im sorry i really dont want to spread negativity but this is driving me INSANE. like, somebody please tell me im not crazy bc i feel like somehow most of the fandom is in agreement that revelations and the secret crusade have better storytelling and characterization than ac1.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, can we talk about how, even IF we completely ignore AC1 and treat revelations altaĆÆr as his own characterā¦. the narrative still doesnāt really work?
basically, the whole point of his story in rev is that "he gave his whole life to the brotherhood", this obsession led to him not using his time with his family which has him ending up dying alone in a dark library and this in turn makes ezio reevaluate his life choicesā¦. except. he doesnāt? neglect? his family? or whatever? like, his devotion to the assassins is sort of painted as this tragic flaw that leads to a lonely death bc it supposedly comes at the cost of his family, butā¦ his wife has joined the assassins, (at least) one of his sons is in the brotherhood and even when he goes to protect the assassins against the mongols, he takes his family with him (except for the son who stays behind bc he has a family of his own and who, ironically, ends up dying bc of that)ā¦ like, you canāt describe altaĆÆr as a good husband and father in the database and have his son tell him that "everything that is good in me began with you, father" when they say goodbye, and then want to make us believe that he put his family behind the brotherhood and that that is a character flaw that leads to his tragedy.
because you HAVE to have a characterās tragedy be the result of a character flaw. like. that is how tragedies work. otherwise it just becomes tragedy for the sake of tragedy which isā¦ boring bc it has no purpose. and we know it is SUPPOSED to have purpose bc ezIO FUCKING QUITS BEING AN ASSASSIN AFTER WITNESSING IT!
itās like they want to have their cake and eat it, too ā they didnāt want to actually make altaĆÆr a bad husband/father, but still wanted to make his life a tragedy where he loses his family which is why instead they outsource all responsibility to abbas who now has to be the reason for ALL the deaths.
like, they try to make at least mariaās death kind of sort of the result of altaĆÆrās rashness or whatever but likeā¦ these guys KILLED THEIR SON and TOLD HIM THAT ALTAĆR HAD ORDERED HIS DEATH. like, altaĆÆr losing it in response to that is not rash, itās fucking logical and justified! if anything the scene made me angry at maria for trying to stop him. like, GIRL, he was YOUR son too??? but god forbid we give female characters actual real emotions, she has to fill the role of "voice of reason who dies for altaĆÆrās man pain" i fucking guess.
like, itās this weird mix where his tragedy is simultaneously painted as his own fault but also not really bc abbas is the one responsible for all the shit that happens. it justā¦ it just doesnāt really go together.
the only way to make his story make sense narratively and to give it actual purpose is by looking at it in the context of ezioās story, bc the things he sees in altaĆÆrās memories are supposed to be a revelation (ha!) to ezio specifically. and i guess thatās maybe the crux of it all ā altaĆÆrās story in revelations was conceived of first and foremost to support ezioās story and development. which is probably also why many people maybe donāt notice bc, having skipped ac1 and started with ac2, the majority of people mostly care only about ezio and only really appreciate altaĆÆrās story in as far as it serves to push ezio forward. (tho iāve also seen a few people say that ezio is also written kind of weird in rev, but iāve never really been an ezio girly myself so i canāt speak to the truth of that)
like, altaĆÆr dying alone in the library doesnāt really have to make sense for his character, i guess, bc itās only really supposed to be a cautionary tale for ezio.
so, i guess, for once, they actually had a MAN dying for another manās character development, which is pretty woke actually. ubisoft, i take everything back jksdsfjhgdsahfhsdhfghfdsgjhsdgjh
#assassins creed#ac1#altair ibn la'ahad#malik al-sayf#ezio auditore#asscreed#rant#long post#this is killing me#i even started rereading the secret crusade bc i thought maybe i remember it being worse than it is#but honestly its the opposite#even just the fact that in the secret crusade altair always says some last sentence after his targets' confessions#has me so irrationally angry aksjdfh#like over sibrands body he says something like 'may death be merciful' or something#like? did they want that to be like requiescat in pace or something???#like aside from the fact that altair WOULD NOT FUCKING SAY THESE THINGS#it also just destroys the tension built up by the target's last words#like... i do think it was very much on purpose that the target always had the last word in the confessions#sigh whatever its just a stupid video game from over 15 years ago who cares#(me. i care. unfortunately. i wish i didn't. send help please.)#also the fact that bowden just completely fucked up arabic naming conventions with the whole āumar/darim ibn la'ahadā thing#(which is kind of an achievement considering that wasn't too great in ac1 to begin with)#tho bc of that they kind of inadvertantly ended up implying that roshan is altairs ancestor which i actually kind of like lol#anyways sorry for this giant wall of text#this is probably (definitely) the longest post i've ever made lmsadjf#but i do think i've gotten most of it off my chest.... maybe#maybe ill add stuff if i come across something else that makes me angry lol#sorry i know i promised an essay and instead delivered a rant#i just dont think i have the capacity to actually structure my thoughts any better kajdsf
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Outbreak Pt 3 (LU in Healthcare)
(Content warning, this is a plague fic, it will likely hit close to home, and thereās dark humor and character death in this part)
It started off as a whisper, but the whisper became a chatter, a groan, constant and disturbing and growing ever closer.
Cases were on the rise in the city, though the surrounding area seemed unaffected still, for now. City officials were growing concerned, and restrictions were starting to be enacted. People were asked to stay home, if possible. As for the hospital and squadsā¦
Hyrule squinted at his email. "Wait. Didn't... didn't they say we could use alcohol wipes to clean the equipment?"
"Yeah," Mo called from the kitchenette in the station.
"Now it says we can only use bleach wipes."
Mo groaned. "Isn't that like the third policy change this week?"
"I'm still trying to figure out if we're doing a specific isolation truck or not anymore," Aurora mumbled. "Like we just had one truck dedicated to the high risk iso cases, and now we're getting so many calls for it that it's a moot point anyway."
"I think the last email said put plastic over everything for Arfy patients and then wipe everything down that you use," Mo replied.
"Wait, which email?"
Hyrule sighed. This was getting ridiculous. And he was getting just a little nervous. āWhen in doubt, just bleach everything, I guess.ā
Aurora huffed. āDid you see the email about the respirators?ā
āWhich email?ā Mo threw his hands in the air, exasperated. āIāve got twenty new emails!ā
āI suppose that means youāll actually have to read them now,ā Aurora noted with a snort.
āDo you all think itāll get worse before it gets better?ā Dawn asked, wringing her hands worriedly. āThe OMD made it sound like that would be the case.ā
āOur medical director knows more than I do,ā Hyrule shrugged. āIf he says itās going to get worseāā
āNo, he didnāt just say that, he said āitās not a matter of if the wave hits us, but when,āā Aurora quoted, standing. āHe scared the hell out of Dawn.ā
āTheyāre pretty foreboding words,ā Hyrule commented darkly, looking away. It was the main reason he was getting nervous. But he was also steeling himself. If they were in for a fight, he would face it head on.
āOkay, but what does any of this have to do with the email about the respirators?ā Mo asked as he scrolled frantically through his email.
āOh, weāre supposed to wear N95s now,ā Aurora answered with a wave of her hand.
Hyrule blinked. āWait. Arenātāarenāt we supposed to get fit tested for those?ā
āOh, yeah,ā Aurora nodded, rolling her eyes. āHereās your official fit test: pick a mask that fits.ā
āWeāre all going to die, arenāt we?ā Dawn questioned worriedly, hugging herself.
āNobodyās died from Arfy yet, I donāt think,ā Mo noted. āAt least not here.ā
āPeople have died,ā Aurora corrected.
āWell, maybe weāll die, then,ā Mo amended.
Hyrule laughed while Aurora swatted his partner. Wellā¦ at least theyād die fighting. But he really hoped it wouldnāt get to that point.
While the rescue squads struggled to keep up with policies and slapped shoddy safety regulations into place, the hospital clamped down even further. Visitor policies had officially been revoked as of today, and it made all the providers somewhat uneasy.
In some aspects, it was helpful. In others, it made things that much harder.
Arfy patients were medical patients. Which meant the medical floor and ICU was quickly filling up while other parts of the hospital either maintained their quota or decreased as people stayed home. More and more, Four found himself floating to his friendās ICU, and he felt fairly out of his depths about it. The one good thing was that he got to spend time with Dot. But as cases rose, so did the stress, the worry, and the heartache.
The ICU felt less like a unit where critically ill people got better and more like a place to go to die.
Four and Dot had the same patient assignment for four days in a row. It was the same assignment because nothing had changed with the patients. Intubated, sedated, paralyzed, some proned. The amount of sedation required to keep their patients under was far more than Four was used to, and it was insane how little it would take for their oxygen saturation to drop. Any semblance of activity in the body increased oxygen demand, and the instant oxygen demand increased, no amount of intervention from the ventilator seemed to help. ECMO was a word Four had hardly heard in his trauma ICU, but he heard it on a near daily basis now, being considered at rounds, being initiated with someone elseās patient.
Four was exhausted. His face was breaking out from wearing a respirator for twelve hours at a time. His feet and knees and hips hurt from standing in isolation rooms for three to four hours at a time trying to cluster all his care. And now, with the visitor restriction enactedā¦
Visitors were hit or miss, particularly in Fourās world. Trauma precipitated drama, and while family could be infinitely helpful and supportive, heād also seen things go awry, had to deescalate fights or call security. In some aspects, he was thankful there were no visitors while all of this was happening; he was tired of having to explain that yes, you have to wear this gown and gloves and mask, no you canāt kiss your loved one while theyāre intubated and sedated with a contagious diseaseā¦ but still. He couldnāt imagine how hard it was on the family - the patients were sedated to the point that they shouldnāt be aware of anything, but the family had to agonize over the matter at home.
He didnāt like it. He understand the logic. But he didnāt like it.
And so here he sat, holding a patientās hand while they withdrew care. Here he sat, being the only witness to someoneās last breaths while their family mourned from afar.
Four watched the heart rate steadily drop. He watched the oxygen saturation plummet. He muted the red alarms as the monitor screamed that his patient was dying, that something should be done, like an accusation and call to arms when Four knew this particular fight was over.
He wasnāt a particularly religious person, but he said a prayer for the patient and the family either way. He found himself praying a lot these days, honestly.
While the visitor policy took its toll inside the frame of work, the restrictions both inside and outside the hospital were causing further stress on everyone. Warriors had basically banned Wind from seeing him, opting to stay with Time and Malon instead, leaving the kid in the apartment. He brought food deliveries to the door, asked if Wind needed anything, but he always did so when Wind wasnāt awake - the teenager had swore up and down that if anybody got Arfy heād take care of them, and Warriors was terrified of that promise as it was basically a threat. Time agreed that Wind didnāt need to get involved, much to the teenagerās chagrin, and Wind found himself already struggling from the loneliness and the frustration of trying to study for classes online when nobody knew what they were doing or how long this would last.
Meanwhile, Wild sat in his room, fingers aimlessly tracing over each other, the smell of bleach so fresh in his nose from scrubbing everything relentlessly for hours on end that he might as well have inhaled a bottle of it. His chest hurt. Not to mention that new disinfectant they were told to use made him cough a lot.
And he worried. Becauseā¦ it had been a few days since heād seen his father. Legend had given him updates through his sister (and made Wild swear not to tell anyone about her), and it had sounded like he was improving as expected. But now, heā¦ the rest of the familyā¦
It felt like a blessing and a curse. It was a guarantee that Wild couldnāt run into his mother or sister by accident, but it was also a situation that his mind screamed that he address.
He couldnāt justā¦ he couldnāt just leave his father isolated and alone recovering in the hospital in the midst of an outbreak. He couldnāt.
But what if visiting him made things so much worse? What if it stressed his fatherās recovering heart? What if it triggered more traumatic memories for Wild? He was terrified of getting anywhere near the man while he was awake, but his heart screamed that he go to him.
Wild refused to be a coward. And he refused to be heartless, despite how anxious this entire situation made him, despite how his mind screamed he keep away. So that night, when he got on to work, he took a delivery to the cardiovascular ICU and paused in front of a doorway, looking hopefully for a familiar nurse.
āLink? Wild?ā
Jumping, Wild turned around to see the nurse in question, watching him scrutinously. She smiled (or at least, he assumed she did, based on how her eye crinkled above her mask) in recognition. āI thought it was you. You here to see your dad?ā
Wild swallowed and nodded.
āGood, because the drama Iāve been trying to avoid has been driving me insane,ā Legendās sister said lightheartedly, but despite the casualness of her tone, the words sank into Wildās stomach like a stone.
āDrama?ā He questioned quietly.
āNothing likeā¦ bad, I suppose, but still,ā the nurse explained. āIād be in there taking care of him and overhear him talking to his wife and heād mention that he swore he saw you. Iām not entirely sure sheās convinced. She seems hopeful, though. But I figured it was best not to bring it up myself since I, ah, donāt know whatās going on.ā
Wild felt his blood freeze. His father remembered? And heād told his mother?
Great. This wasā¦ this was just great.
āGo see him,ā Legendās sister prompted gently. āI can tell he loves you very much and just wants to know youāre ok.ā
Wildās eyes unexpectedly burned with tears in an instant, and he was grateful he was wearing a mask to hide his expression. He nodded, hesitantly making his way towards the room.
It all seemed so normal, seeing his father sitting in a recliner looking at his phone. Wild wasnāt even entirely sure heād recovered memories of his father like that, but somehow it seemed familiar. Abel hadnāt noticed him yet, engrossed in whatever he was looking at, brow slightly furrowed. That expression drew memories, a familiar scrutiny that he would often give Wild himself or his sister, a quiet concern and sternness that made Wild want to stiffen up and simultaneously run to him.
Damn it all, heād missed him.
Wild swallowed his fears and stepped forward, hoping that this wouldnāt be a disaster. He knocked on the door, initially so quietly that his father didnāt hear him over the chatter of the news on the television. He knocked again.
His father looked up. Stared a moment. Went a shade paler.
Wild hastily stepped forward. āW-wait, donāt get worked upāā
His father stood, seeming mostly steady on his feet, and tried to walk to him, heedless of the cords and oxygen tubing attached, and Wild hastily met him part of the way before he ripped everything out of the wall. Abel immediately pulled him to his chest in the tightest hug Wild had ever felt, andā¦
And Link sank into the embrace, crying.
#writing#If you see any typos no you donāt lol#My iPad keeps editing medical terms without me noticing ugh š©#lu in healthcare#lu hyrule#lu mo#lu dawn#lu aurora#lu four#lu dot#lu wild#Abel#sorry if this isnāt quite up to snuff as usual I donāt even know how much sleep Iāve gotten in the last 48 hours#And I want to bury myself in a hole and never come out lol#Itās been a stupidly long week and the next few months are only going to be longer and Iām already very freaking over it#Anyway thereās my mild rant for the day I guess LOL enjoy the writing
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da for my normcore island petrichorššŖ“
#okay so i toured my own island for this post lol#this is not gonna be a thing i do but!#i was doing my post with link to all my daās#and i noticed that i never saved one for the final version of this island??#bc this was originally a rainy day island!#but bc of the trend at the time i changed it to a normcore island midway#and yea i just wanted a post that matched that to exist on my blog#sorry for the random old island postš
š#i also turned it into a sunset island which is nice but i kinda wish i hadnt?! it should have been a day time island for sure#Idk what i was thinking#rant over#acnh#animal crossing#animal crossing new horizons#new horizons#acnh island#acnh exterior#acnh petrichor#petrichor island#acnh autumn#acnh fall#acnh normcore#acnh community
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I've been seeing some anons lately that have been rubbing me the wrong way (you know who you are...) so I just wanna say; please do not come into writer's asks demanding more fics. we are real people with real lives and can't be writing every second.
we already put SO MUCH pressure on ourselves to get stuff out, so getting an ask saying "not to be annoying but i need more" isn't motivating. It's the opposite. there's a way to say that nicely.
maybe say, "I love your work and can't wait for more!" or "looking forward to whenever you post your next fic" but demanding more stuff when they have JUST posted??? so un-motivating. even if they haven't just posted, that's not nice to hear. if you've read everything someone has written, re-read it!! and then spread your love for it!! that's 1000 times more motivating than begging for more fics.
it can make us feel like machines just pumping words out, and so many of us are violent people pleasers that we will just crumble and write at the cost of our mental health.
this isn't saying don't send asks, please do!! we LOVE them!! just make sure they're encouraging and not demanding more FREE writing.
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