#that’s just more where it began

[saetoru]

genuinely asking but why do you think riko’s death messed them up so bad? they only knew her for about 3 days but it was depicted like they knew her their entire lives. my reasoning is bc she was a kid who got murdered to be a vessel, which i understand 100%, but it still gets me scratching my head when everybody including gege makes it this huge thing in their history that literally turned geto evil. just wondering your thoughts.

it’s a lot more complex than just riko dying. it’s the trauma of watching her die when he’d just promised he’d ensure her future bc he and satoru are the strongest, and find out his best friend is “dead” and almost die himself and realize he’s not part of the strongest like he thought he was, that he can’t even ensure one kids future. and then he goes off to find a group of non sorcerers clap and celebrate over said kids death. so then ofc he starts to wonder why he risks his life, and swallows and exorcises curses, and watches the people he cares for (like haibara) die as they protect people like that. and the conversation with yuki didn’t help bc it pushed him to decide that killing non sorcerers would get rid of cursed energy that creates curses in the first place. then he watches the twins, two little kids, get abused by non sorcerers when all they were trying to do was save their town. so yeah in the end he didn’t understand the purpose of protecting the weak when they could be so ugly—and that doesn’t justify the extremes he took, ofc, but the reason he turned out the way he did was a snowball of multiple things, not just riko dying—that was more the catalyst

[laddertek]

etho said actually you _don't_ understand the intricacies of how tango is my boyfriend and bdubs is my ex

(and how tango and bdubs kiss too)

Scar: We went on that little adventure, you know! Etho: Yeah, yeah, we had our adventure, that's true, that's true. Scar: You disparaged your teammates. That's it, all right, no more spoilers. Etho: (laughs) Our team has -- our team has some weird dynamics this -- this season. Cleo: (overlapping) Really, Etho? Is there trouble in paradise? (pause) Who's third-wheeling with you, again? I can't remember. Etho: (laughs) Uhh. The -- Cleo: Genuinely can't remember. I know it's you and Bdubs. And...Tango? Tango. Tango. Etho: (loudly) Why -- Why is Tango the third wheel? Why -- why isn't Bdubs the third wheel? Cleo: Because it's you and Bdubs. I'm sorry. I understand how that relationship goes. Etho: (dissatisfied) Hmm.

[wombrion]

i was first introduced to fallin as a character through your drawings so when she wasnt a big fat girl the same height or even taller than laios i was. so incredibly mad you have. no idea.

i totally get it.. ever since the anime got out the falin cameos are like a jumpscare to me. what do you mean i created this image of her in my mind.......

[huginsmemory]

Reading journal 3 again is a reminder that... Well Ford is kinda an asshole towards Fiddleford. It's not just Stan. Like he's so focused on himself and his project and his ambition that anyone/thing else blurs out (him disregarding Fiddleford's nervousness around the gremloblin because he wants to sketch it, and when it goes sideways, him talking about the safety of the project parts BEFORE how Fiddleford was doing in his journal, multiple times. Priorities much?) and he's demeaning towards Fiddleford's own project (which ends up being wayyyy more important then Ford's discoveries)... Like damn Fiddleford, u left ur wife and young son for this guy?

[vaguely-concerned]

I think veilguard might be the one game with an unlimited sprint button that I've nevertheless spent the most time gently jogging and walking through. just to like... look at things. hang out. vibe. the environments in this game are so fucking good

[bonefall]

one of the most frustrating things to me with the mapleshade/birchfall situation is its like. the only time since into the wild where the books acknowledge queens don't have to reveal the fathers of their litters. when mapleshade tells beetail (? the deputy whats-his-face) shell be raising the kittens alone, he accepts it without question. this implies her lying about birchface being the father was unnecessary, but in Bluestar’s prophecy everybody immediately assumes thrushpelt is the father the minute bluefur is known to be pregnant, and bluefur not correcting this is treated as a reasonable decision despite it being the SAME situation! it's just the authors want mapleshade to be unreasonable so this time it's bad actually.

The in-universe Queen's Rights are so poorly defined and utilized that the BB!Queen's Rights are essentially an entirely original framework. They sometimes exist in the books and sometimes don't, depending on if the writer remembers them or not.

They actually seem to not be a thing in Bluestar's Prophecy, from what I remember. Thrushpelt offers to be the pretend-father as a result.

It seems to have protected Fallowtail though, until Reedfeather decided to kidnap his kids.

Featherstorm's first litter, Raggedpelt and Scorchwind, are bullied for being fatherless and face constant speculation.

Same with Flintfang, Blackstar, and Fernshade. They're not even actually halfclan, Blackpaw holds his tongue and refuses to reveal the truth to stop bullies.

Brokenstar faces open bullying from his adopted siblings for not knowing who his mother is (but also he stops Yellowfang from telling Lizardstripe about it because he overheard a conversation where she told her friend she feels like the baby is stealing milk)

StarClan pushed for Squilf to lie to Brambleclaw for this reason, because they assumed (correctly) that having HalfClan suspicion would make it harder for The Three to be accepted into ThunderClan

So if a queen has "a right" to not reveal parents, it's not very protective. Your kids are going to face bullying and discrimination regardless of how loyal you actually are, or who the dad is.

But yeah suuuure Mapleshade was evil and horrible for not correcting Frecklewish. I can totally accept that in this completely arbitrary situation that somehow it would have turned out better if she told her No and left the whole Clan speculating.

[kingofanemptyworld]

KING KING KING UNDEAD UNLUCK UPDATED HAVE YOU READ IT YET PLS TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS

HI HELLO YES I DID READ THE LATEST CHAPTER OF UU

that two week wait killed me man I missed my weekly anfuu fix so bad

that being said… I don’t think I’m the only person who’s been kinda. underwhelmed with the last couple chapters? ngl I was looking forward to a more open ending where it was clear andy was going to win Fuuko over a second time even without her memories. they set it up like that when using the Heart meant such a huge sacrifice, Fuuko losing the love she had for andy as well as the rest of the union members, and then it was just. undone. with a snap of soul’s fingers. soul’s another can of worms (along with ruin tbh) but my biggest gripe is anfuu, shockingly.

that’s not to say I’m not happy for them! I did almost tear up with fuuko’s last line of the chapter! I just. was expecting more, I think. and it kinda cements my thought that tozuka didn’t finish uu exactly the way he wanted to.

but ultimately this is still one of my favorite series, and I’m genuinely glad to see my beloved MC get her happy ending with andy and the union, even if they’ve all scattered back to their homes now. I’m in no way trying to dampen anyone’s enthusiasm about this chapter or the series as whole, just. y’know. that’s my two cents on all this.

[ozzyfromthecafeteria]

if another random stranger touches me i think i may start killing

[stardustedknuckles]

Oh wow. It's wild how things come full circle. When I was about ten, I somehow ended up with the second book in a trilogy. Never the first, not for another 15 years at least, but it was dense and it was thick and it came from the dollar tree.

I don't know that I would have called it good, at ten, but I remember I was determined to read it through. I have memories of reading it while following my mom through Kroger while she shopped, as I very early mastered reading and walking at the same time. Crucially, it was one of my first exposures to largely Irish but broadly northern folklore. It's where I first learned of the fey (that I recall) and the tricksy logic they employ. In many ways, this random book shaped my view of storytelling in a way I wouldn't see again for another decade when my friend left her copy of gaiman's "Stardust" at work and I read it before giving it back to her the next day.

The book was The Lady of the Sorrows, the second in the Bitterbynde trilogy by Cecilia Dart-Thornton, and a few years ago I bought the series on my Kindle and managed to read the first book for the first time. Again, I don't know if I would have called it good, but there were nuggets - sections of prose that lifted from the page, an overall sense of wildness and charm that kept me going through subjects and meandering scenes pages long that would've lost me in pretty much any other book.

I started reading it again a few nights ago, determined to see it through and finally read all three. It IS good, actually, at least to my tastes, but then I've had years and years to marinate and be oddly shaped by it in a way that leads to me feeling so at home with it now. It's a kind of high fantasy that usually puts me right to sleep. Yes it's impressive that you're telling me the dimensions of this castle and where the bricks came from, but did it have to take ten pages before the characters took another step - usually right into another broad description?

Anyway I just got to the second book and read the foreword, which starts with a quote by Tanith Lee... Tanith Lee, where had I heard that name? And recently? I had a hunch and a search confirmed it - she was one of the biggest writers Gaiman ripped off without saying a word.

So at ten years old I had my world crucially shaped in some way by a random book from the dollar store, about ten years later I read my first Gaiman book and spent years enamored with the way he told stories and personified concepts as people/demigods, and then so soon after needing to put some distance between myself and "his" works I came to realize that some of my very first memories of big, epic books came from another author enamored with Tanith Lee but who had actually deigned to mention her in her works.

Wild. I'm definitely going to read Tanith Lee next, whenever I finish the 20-year task of reading this series. I just never thought that random book I was so enamored with despite its density, with all of its lore and study of the fey and its arched manner of speech, would have ripples from ripples years and years later even beyond the lifelong affinity for the fair folk and their legends. I've played so many video games and loved objectively underwhelming media because it was rooted in this familiar kind of lore. In school I created OCs with ties to the fey, and the same in later years playing dnd. My current character is from the feywild, and it all leads back to here. In a roundabout way, this woman I had never heard of has been the source of so much of the stories I have found to be great and lasting.

[whitegownsandflowercrowns]

I do think all of the adults had some part to play in creating the Dance but if I had to break it down to who had the most power to prevent it it would be Jaehaerys up to and including the Great Council, Viserys up until the moment Aegon is born and Otto from then on.

[inkyminx]

Never thought I’d dream about the ninja going on a heist with me tagging along somehow, just minding my own business.

WHY WAS I THERE? I CANT MAKE THIS UP.

Like seriously, it started like a movie where all the cast are introduced in the smash bros way and I guess fighting some normal villains. Say a line mid-fight and BOOM name and intro.

THEN apparently there was a timeskip where all things were well, nothing happening with me and Kai hanging out in a coffee shop UNTIL HE GETS K!DNAPPED?

I rushed to I think the monastery to tell Lloyd about it and we all get ready to take on who tf k!dnapped fireboy in the first place. Nya, Zane and Sora were talking a lot of smack. Mostly just roasting the hell out of her brother.

And I call it a heist more than a kidnapping cause IT FELT LIKE A HEIST AND NONE OF THE USUAL K!DNAPPING SH!T EVEN HAPPENED. AND WHY AT W MUSEUM-LIKE PLACE???

Then I woke up when Cole, Lloyd and I were just about to enter the building.

What fvcking cliffhanger did I just witness?

[saltynsassy31]

Frye Fest - Final Countdown

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Splatfest World Premier 27-08-2022

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[evilsartcorner]

[pestercide]

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[twelve-kinds-of-trouble]

and if I said that heimerdinger’s absolute tune from episode 7 was one of the best tracks from season 2. what then ?

[dennisboobs]

most annoying thing about being me is that i cannot engage with like. any fanon shit about dennis because i'm constantly on some advanced derangement and the stuff i thought two years ago when i was first getting comfy in the fandom is still the way everyone else looks at dennis but i'm like. yes but its Worse than this. you're like a quarter of the way there. this isn't the interesting bit, this is a symptom of it, keep going.