#that was their downfall i believe

[hannibard]

Thanks for coming to my ted talk

[yudol-skorbi]

worst tv marathon ever

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded mfer happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

[floweroflaurelin]

METEOR SWARM!!!!

[gorgynei]

post asmodeus betrayal went like this

[echoes-of-courage]

I finally get to add A Link Between Worlds to my list of completed Zelda games! My playthrough gave me so many thoughts, so I had to doodle some of them :))

Anyway, I love Gulley dearly. If he has no fans in this world, then I am dead. The blacksmith’s wife in Lorule says that Link was muttering Gulley’s name in his sleep when she found him unconscious in the middle of the road 😭 and this is right after he sees Gulley’s portrait for the first time.

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[ride-thedragon]

I love it when husbands and wives match.

[yunmeng-jiang]

every day i wish there had been a better solution for the qin su marriage problem.

in my fix-it fics i either have some other sect leader claim that he was actually madly in love with her this whole time and sweep her away for jgy's sake, have her mom confess earlier, make jgy decide to tell her for her own good and have them work together, or not give them a chance to meet and fall in love in the first place (i guess i could also make qin su have a miscarriage, but that's really sad and awful and not my preferred option at all), but all of those require tweaks to the circumstances, sometimes early on so they don't meet or jgy feels safe enough to talk with her or another confidant, or sometimes later like madam qin finding out they're pregnant before the marriage prep is too far along and telling one or both of them right away so they can make other arrangements.

with the situation being what it was, jgy didn't find out soon enough to do anything that wouldn't involve either marrying her anyway (and he didn't think telling her about it would do anything except make her upset and depressed) or leaving her essentially a ruined woman with no prospects and an illegitimate child who would inevitably grow up fatherless, which is pretty much exactly what his dad did to meng shi. this would be a crueler option than pretty much anything else, and given that he clearly still cares about her, he couldn't do that in good conscience. jgy tries his best to protect the people he loves, unless there is literally no other way for him to survive.

it's one more example of jgy being faced with a situation where the only choices are bad ones, and making the decision that he thinks will hurt the fewest number of people. metatextually, it's one more example of women in fiction being shoved aside and not given agency in their own lives, and getting killed off instead of surviving and growing as people like the male characters are allowed to do. it's just a tragic situation all around and i wish there had been something they could have done.

[zethdoesart]

“If it’s an end you seek, I can make that happen, I have ways, that’s my purpose. But I didn’t work an entire lifetime to have it end before I experienced the Infinite.”

[aalexan]

if I see any more americans saying they’re going to not vote for the only candidate who has hope of restoring roe v wade because because she’s not perfect (like every other goddamn politician) i am going to explode

[boxheadpaint]

so is twitter being purposefully run into the ground at this point

[dent-de-leon]

TALIESIN TALKING ABOUT HIS DECISION TO PLAY THE WILDMOTHER AND SAYING ORIGINALLY HE WANTED A BETRAYER GOD BUT ALSO, “I had a Moonweaver idea—I had a great Moonweaver idea, I’m saving it for later—”

SO THERE’S A CHANCE?? WE’LL GET TO SEE TALIESIN PLAY MOLLY’s MOONWEAVER ONE DAY?? 👀👀

[elijasz]

Oh my gods, Trists family members are potentially the ancestors of the Clay family. Which is why the Clays are descendents of champions of the matron of ravens. Purvan trained Trists children because Emhira asked him to bring them to safety. (Or they dedicated themselves to the Raven Queen because Emhira was the one to make sure they're safe or something)

Also Caduceus being a cleric of the wildmother is VERY meta in this instance. Like imagine playing the Cleric AND the deity while also being an elder god or something in the real world. Taliesin really does it all.

Like holy shit Trists children are the ancestors of the Clay bloodline. The Clay family now has connections to the Wildmother, Archeart, Matron of Ravens and Everlight. What else will there be in the future?

[alikandhoney]

Ok so

trist = Sarenrae

Ayden = Pelor

Emhira = my love the RQ

Asha = Melora

SILAHA = Corelleon

The emissary = Stand in for Erathis

This is an inside job— I said it to my partner before I started to be obvious but !!!!!! UGH I’m so excited — Aoer is about to be 1984 in this bitch and they’re about to heist it into the ground

Melora truly going to POUT at the reveal that her wife isn’t here is HILAROUS I’m OBSESSED Talisen playing a lesbian has me gagged I’m so hype

[wardensantoineandevka]

Downfall teaser like, "Mad fucked up of you to make a flying city and not put in any windows."

[kaleidoscopicbullettrain]

theres something incredible in terms of symbiotic symbolism for the betrayer gods and the primes. notably between asmodeus and serenrae is like. "your existence fuels mine. without you there is no meaningful victory for my domain."

in the face of despair, hope must be the strongest its ever been

the stronger the hope, the harder the betrayal sticks the landing