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In honor of Tears of the Kingdom coming out tonight, here is by far the greatest video I ever took during my Breath of the Wild playthrough:
#the ending was completely unintentional btw#but the perfect pacing#the timing#the storyline told#perfection#video#breath of the wild#botw#nintendo switch#tears of the kingdom#totk#totk countdown#the legend of Zelda#tloz#loz#legend of Zelda
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In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.
He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!
You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).
Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!
But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!
#this is a really long winded way to say i really really really really hate new horizon's storyline and player role#i really hate that not only your house but the entire TOWN. the whole COMMUNITY you're a part of is owed to tom nook's business#i really hate the “vacation getaway package” angle because it shows just how commercialized the entire premise of nh is#and how lost the game is in its original core concept#animal crossing is about the experience of moving to a new town and becoming a part of that community#just to compare: all past ac games have a similar opening#you're on a bus or train or taxi to someplace new. a stranger strikes up a conversation and you get to know them before arriving#new horizons opens with you at customer service desk filling out an client application before a flight.#in prev games working for nook in the tutorial is meant to be demeaning. you want it to be over with so you can actually start living life#but in new horizons working for tom nook IS your life. and it's so rewarding! don't you feel rewarded?#you aren't a person. you aren't a new neighbor. you're tom nook's client. and then his unpaid employee. and the game insists it's fun to be#that's how void the game is#because it's bad enough that a rpg life sim got turned into a sandbox game where you have to build the town yourself#but the only reason why you're building it is because the landlord who you're in debt to TOLD you to build it.#everything is a rewards program! everything is a tour service! be sure to do your daily tasks to earn nook bucks to spend on nook merch!#that really sucks imo.#i mean. the entire game is based around the vacationing industry. of course it all feels fake and temporary. it's only a vacation.#long post#rant#not art#god the fact that your starter villagers can't even decide where to live you have to decide for them#i've never played a game that does the opposite of handholding#where instead it's the PLAYER who has to handhold the npcs through everything. and newsflash!! it's really exhausting and boring
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asking in a very neutral, gen way: what talia ever did in the comics to manage to gain fans/defenders? because everything i read just paints her as a villain and a bad mother, so...
#like she cloned her son#and she stole dna from bruce in a not very consensual way#she also told him her baby was dead and later had damian and waited a fucking lot to tell him#and she brainwashed and traumatized her very young kid#she is also an assassin#and her characterization as a mid-eastern woman is bad and stereotyped and misogynistic#but we don't have any redeeming qualities for her#from where did fandom pull any of her maternal qualities and that she's “like a mother” to jason#i'm not even going to touch on the jason storyline it makes me mad#where where did any of it come from who is this talia#anti talia al ghul#batman#bruce wayne#damian wayne#damian al ghul#ra's al ghul#dc#batfamily#jason todd
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cannot explain but
did anyone else get super “just make sure that you’re following your heart, not christopher’s okay?” vibes
…from maddie’s “and if there is something you need to tell eddie.. you will. just, in your own time” ?????
because they hold the same amount of weight for entirely different reasons, yet they both talk about the confusion of feelings…
#evan buckley#eddie diaz#carla price#maddie han#buddie#LIKE#DO YOU GET WHAT I MEAN GUYS#carla talking about how eddie is in a relationship simply for chris’ feelings and how he is possibly confusing those two#maddie outright TOLD buck that she believes he is confused about his feelings#and deliberately brought up needing to tell eddie something..#she knows buck is confusing platonic with romantic#carla knew eddie was trying to fill a space where shannon used to belong in chris’ life#which ALSO was confirmed!!!#it is just all so insane#and i am very convinced s8 will be eddie’s gay breakdown era#whether its s8a to put it in motion#or s8b to parallel his ptsd storyline idk!#but god i am losing it#sept 26th hurry up!!#buddie speculation
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UMMMM, 🤨 OF COURSE RANDY ORTON PICKED CODY RHODES OVER YOU.. THAT’S LITERALLY HIS WIFE FOR LIFE, HIS ETERNAL BRIDE, HIS DARLING ANGEL & SECRET LOVER
..no offense KO but.. 😏😏😏😏
They’ve BEEN eternally committed. You can’t win this one 😭:
#randy orton#cody rhodes#candy#the greatest love story never told#wwe#wwe smackdown#smackdown#they’re in love your honor#i love them your honor#this storyline is cooking#everything is romantic#everything is love#everything is scary#kevin owens
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Back at it again with another theory: What if Lucanis’ betrayal wasn’t a betrayal at all?
(obviously, spoilers below the cut)
During The Wigmaker Job, we have some dialogue between Illario and Lucanis about their position within both the Crows and the Dellamorte family. Illario wants Caterina to step down so he can take the coveted First Talon spot. Lucanis reassures him that his time is coming, to which Illario makes a snide comment about whether his cousin would ever go against their grandmother’s wishes. When they continue the conversation after the job, Illario states that Lucanis is the potential heir, that he’s her favorite, and that he’s unlikely to say no to her. Lucanis doesn’t argue, only insists that he doesn’t want to be First Talon, and that he hopes she’ll see reason before that. It’s mentioned again in Eight Little Talons - Caterina favors Lucanis. It’s well-known enough among the Crows that Viago and Teia discuss it in front of her (not on purpose, but she doesn’t deny it). He’s her prodigy through and through.
In the opening scene for the Lucanis quest in Veilguard, Caterina is poised, as you’d expect of the First Talon. She’s certain that the body they buried wasn’t her grandson, that it had been altered with blood magic. She doesn’t pose it as a theory, though: she poses it as a fact. It could, of course, merely be her confidence, but there’s another very unusual aspect to the scene – everyone else discusses how Lucanis was clearly betrayed, that someone must have sold him out in order for the Venatori to capture him. Caterina is the only one in that room who never speaks on it. She doesn’t ask for justice, doesn’t mention vengeance, never acknowledges that her grandson was sold out by someone he trusted – perhaps because he wasn’t.
What if, when Caterina comes to him with a plan, with an impossible request, he’s still her favorite prodigal grandchild, and he still does whatever she asks? She’s had him tortured before as a child, has tortured and starved and beaten him herself before, because it makes him stronger and more resistant to it in the future. He says in The Wigmaker Job that he used to hate her for it, but now he understands. He justifies it. All Crows justify it, because they have to - if they don’t, then the cruelty wasn’t for survival’s sake, and their suffering meant nothing. Perhaps he doesn’t even question it. When Caterina tells him that she has a job for him, he takes it.
What if the contract has a caveat? Sure, Calivan must die by his hand by the end of it, a little treat for a job well done, but what if his primary mission is reconnaissance, is discovery? The Venatori are using blood magic to torture and corrupt prisoners. It would behoove the Crows to find out what it entails and how to resist it, before it’s turned back on them. It would have to be someone so deeply, unabashedly loyal to her that when she asked them to infiltrate a Venatori prison, expecting torture at best, their own death at worst, they’d take the job anyway, no questions asked - someone Caterina can trust, certainly, but also someone who has never once said no to her.
And Lucanis has always been a loyal grandson.
#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age: the veilguard#datv#datv spoilers#veilguard spoilers#da posting#maybe it’s also just because she thinks it would make him stronger and that’s how she always justifies it to herself because she’s evil!!!!#she’s MICRODOSING her GRANDSON with BLOOD TORTURE and DEMONS to fashion him into A BETTER WEAPON#I keep hearing people be like ‘oh there’s a moment in the lucanis storyline where I GASPED’#and other than like ‘he was dead the entire time’ I’m like…… what would be that shocking#and you know what would be that shocking??#if he put himself through it on purpose#envisioning a line where he’s like ‘when Caterina told me to go I didn’t ask questions because I’m a good crow!!!!!’#(also I think that would REALLY give a good bite to his demon being SPITE of all things)#also also I still think that Illario kills caterina (if she’s actually dead) but y’know what?#if he does GOOD FOR HIM#also lucanis just happening to be bursting out of his cell when you get there…. SUSPECT#was he just ready to break out at any time? if so why did he stay and get tortured for a YEAR?#why were the guards so afraid of him?? what was he capable of???#‘you’re a crow’ or ‘but you’re not a crow’ ohhhh so you were expecting a rescue?#oh I am CONNECTING the DOTS (I haven’t connected shit) I’VE CONNECTED THEM#voelene#your caterina + illario post started these wheels turning and I am eternally grateful#also tho did update this slightly because I forgot about their conversation at the end of TWJ#also got so wrapped up in my hatred of caterina that I failed to consider another emotionally devastating option:#that lucanis was the one who wanted to go and caterina covered for him#now THAT’S got some bite to it too#and maybe Lucanis volunteering to take on a demon is why it doesn’t possess him fully#it’s like a wynne/anders thing it’s symbiotic
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good morning. if anyone was wondering, i am still thinking about cletho, thanks for asking,
#i have settled a LITTLE into thinking about literally anyone else#like i think i have a scar ficlet idea#and i am looking at pearl's tragedy with#well it's a tragedy.#but mostly i'm going WAHHHHH CLEO AND ETHO internally#as is my right i guess.#god i threatened to become like an annoying dsrt duo guy and i HAVE. I AM BLATANTLY IGNORING EVERY OTHER STORYLINE FOR MY GUYS.#'hey did you know scar won' 'yeah scar won good for him CLEO TOLD ETHO HE WAS THEIR FAVORITE. DID YOU SEE THAT.'#so you know. SORRY ABOUT THAT EVERYONE I DID WARN YOU.#so how about that cletho huh.
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had a thought this morning that Eddie could’ve broken up with Marisol in 7x05 and his 7b storyline would’ve still been the exact same 💀
#Eddie still could’ve lied about who he was seeing and where he was going#bc he knew he was walking down a dangerous path and knew what Buck’s reaction would’ve been if he told him#buck or Carla could’ve walked in on him with Chris#and everything would’ve still happened the same way#bc it wasn’t even about her in the end!!!!#their breakup happened off screen!!!!#it was about christopher and this impacted *him*#*and how#we don’t get to see marisol’s reaction or Eddie’s parents’ reaction to Marisol#her involvement doesn’t actually play any role!!!!!#tbh he could’ve broken her off screen pre s7 and all they would’ve had to change was his 7x05 storyline#911 related#anyway I just feel like it would’ve taken away some of the mess from the storyline y’know!!!!!#even though it’s still messy lol
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I'm really genuinely so confused as to why I keep getting asks from people telling me that they hope Tommy dumps or even kills Lucy and ends up with Lizzie instead. I've gotten multiple variations at this point of "Lucy deserves to be raped/killed/otherwise hurt because how dare she get in the way of Tommy and Lizzie's happiness." I've just been deleting and ignoring them, but it's gotten to the point where there've been so many that I legitimately do not understand what is happening or what I did to cause this kind of reaction.
Like, I get it. A lot of you love Lizzie and ship her with Tommy. I have never had any problem with that. But if that's the type of story you're after, GO READ SOME FUCKING LIZZIE X TOMMY FICS AND LEAVE ME ALONE.
This series has never been marked as a Lizzie x Tommy story. I'm so confused as to why so many seem to expect that relationship to be the endgame of the series, and not the one that the series is actually tagged with and written around. I'm really starting to question my own writing abilities at this point. Has my depiction of Tommy and Lucy's relationship actually been that off-putting? Is Lucy really that unlikable that everyone hopes she ends up alone and miserable for the rest of her life, or even fucking dead?
I just don't understand. Someone please explain it to me.
#might delete this later idk i'm just tired and frustrated and ranting right now because what the fuck#as a side note i don't EVER want to hear anything about lizzie fans being nicer/better than grace ones ever again#i've gotten hate and harassment from both at this point and i can say that each camp is truly AWFUL in their own right#though at least grace fans have never openly told me that they hope my oc gets violently raped and murdered#so they've got that going for them for now i guess#i always figured lucy wasn't really all that well liked and that this storyline would be controversial#but damn i never could have expected this kind of reaction#and no before some of you get all bent out of shape i'm obviously not talking about all lizzie and grace fans#you know the type of fans i'm talking about#lily babbles
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ngl if they end the season with the battle of the gullet after wasting harry collet's time and talent by completely cutting out jacaerys' storyline and having him do nothing the entire season i'm gonna lose my mind i think
#the writers hate him lowkey like#they completely cut his plot with cregan and the north#and have relegated him to the background ever since#like it'd be a complete waste to kill him off at the end of the season after refusing to do anything with him as a character#we get to watch criston and gwayne do shit that isnt entertaining and doesnt do anything for them as characters#meanwhile main characters baela and jace get 2min of screentime per episode no character arc no storyline#they led the council in rhaenyra's absence and we were TOLD we didn't even get to see it#everything abt team black that isnt abt rhaenyra or daemon has to happen off screen#but we need another alicent/criston sex scene. criston and gwayne marching through the forest. gwayne talking. aemond in the brothel again#i am clawing at the walls give jace and baela SOMETHING give them a valyrian wedding i beg. jace is politically savvy have him do SOMETHING#jacaerys velaryon#hotd#house of the dragon#harry collett#the writing choices have been truly baffling like. go off i guess#this show is like a really expensive fanfic that hates the source material. kinda like got
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Doing this to you and then running away hehehe >:3
Bonk! Hehehe, that's such a cute gif, we should be cats together, no responsibilities for you. You'd be a ginger car. Cause you're Irish. And I'm stereotyping you.
Also! Idk how I even got this fucked up but I just woke up at one AM with the light still on and one shoe on in my bed.
I've just spent like 5minyes explaining my dream in the tags and I replaced 'where' with 'were' two times so if you're going to read the novel I wrote be wary of that. Loll this post is a mess, goodnight Charlie!! I love you!
#I'd been having the same dream over and over too#like seeing the same events#It was a stranger things dream#were like we (me and somebody I don't know but at some point it was wybie from Coraline) were tearing through a fabric wall with chainsaws#and a demogorgon- like creature ended up cut apart because of it#and the reveal of the creature being split from both sides was one thing that kept repeating#just at some points in the dream I came back to the image of it without the fabric wall#just falling after it's died#also there was another part#were at first (this one detail happened only once compared to the other times that it repeated and it wasn't on the first repeat but it's#CHRONOLOGICALLLY the first thing)#there was this sort of enigma?#and the clock showed two specific hours#the riddle thing didn't make sense but like we solved it even though I can't remember specifics#and it was to save a guy#and there was my brother at that point and some lady told him 'oh but you like this kind of roleplaying thing' and he got mad cause#like we were trying to stop some guy from being killed#and the part of the dream that repeated was this thing were like this door thing? or I guess it was just a wooden slate would push me#or somebody else on its own#like it'd press against you to push you towards the bad stuff ™#there was a moment where I put rocks in my bag? to avoid it being flung and moved the same way as the door#bc yeah it was some creature moving the stuff though we never saw it like telepathically#but it didn't really work because the creature wasn't aware of the rocks? and apparently it needed to be aware there were rocks in the bag#also at some point there was one girl in the house we were in (this was during one of the repeats of the dream's storyline)#and she was being voodoo'd around bc the creature was telepathically moving a coraline doll and it would shove her around#and that's all I can really remember#sorry I just woke up from it so it might not make sense#you don't have to read all dat#answered asks
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Athena's Minions Family
#ROH#ROHedit#Athena#Lexy Nair#Billie Starkz#Athena Palmer#my gifs#LOOK AT EM!!!#I've been meaning to do this set for a while but i never had the time#but i've loved this storyline a lot mostly cause it's like.#the most cohesive story being told in roh so#but anyways give it up for athena and her minions!!!#also lexy nair killing it in this role love this for her we need more of her always
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It's been a while since I've last checked in on these two BUT Aura & Moe are Engaged & Expecting their first child (a baby girl).
She's in her 2nd trimester and apparently they both didn't want a child right now because their schedules are busier than ever. She's making waves with her PR Firm, Allure Media Management. Meanwhile, He's being pulled in several directions with his own business ventures (Investor, Property Manager, and whatever else serial entrepreneurs do). All while wedding planning and trying to figure out their living arrangement (They both have their own places in Uptown and neither one of them wants to give them up. They'll eventually end up renting one out but they've had SEVERAL debates on who is giving up what).
On the bright side, her and Monet are pregnant at the same time so their little ones will grow up together! If her and Monet are god sisters, does that make the babies..."god cousins"?...🤔
Now ya'll know my game never lets me have nice things, so I just feel some mess brewing because. . .
💗 More about their relationship here
#oc: aura matthews#oc: ramone sollitto#I forgot he had those wicked attributes#and the single and lovin' it lifestyle...#Oooouuuu their storyline is a bit juicyyyy#and hella messy!#told ya'll i can never have nice things
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Thuis - 2023-12-22
#thuisedit#thuis#thilly van santen#christine leysen#lauren muller#daphne paelinck#thuis 20231222#christine x thilly#femslash related stuff#hehehe#so the arc starts in earnest (hopefully)#I'm so glad my friend told me about it BEFORE this ep aired#so I got to participate in the hope for canon before it *became* canon#y'all know how much I like that#anyway obviously it's not yet a requited thing or even a Thing just yet but clearly there is movement#and also lol at the ring so prominent#I have to confess as my friend was describing the story to me I absolutely was like kana 2.0 let's goooo#man I miss kana....soap storylines hit like nothing else#though fair warning: my friend thinks this will not be done especially well
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Thinking about Thomas and O'Brien's relationship with the perspective of Tom's "real love means giving someone the power to hurt you" and going c r a z y
#downton abbey#tom branson#thomas barrow#sarah o'brien#also thinking about the fact that Thomas literally never told anyone about O'Brien's secret#and she used his against him at several points in the storyline#but how there was a silent truce the second she left#and they both dropped it and never used them again
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#idk if this is an unpopular opinion but i genuinely operate on the assumption that the writers never think of the storylines#(and the indications of their writing choices in the broader frame) as much as the fans do#not in the way that im criticizing their intelligence or anything like that i just dont think this is the type of show written like that#like idt when they were writing the sperm donor storyline they were considering buck's broader storyline re being conceived as spare parts#or that what name the characters call buck has that much of a deep meaning like yes i have my own headcanons about tommy calling buck evan#but idt it was a direction given to lou because tommy is meant to be seen as special/different from other LIs/characters#i dont even think they considered the moment buck told his parents not to call him that#not saying nothing has staying consequences in the show obv but it's like whatever the character has to get from it happens in that arc and#then we move on#there are some defining traumas that come back like bobby's family madney and doug and eddie losing shannon#but i usually watch the storylines contained to that arc#not as a part of the lore that the writers will always be vigilant of as they keep building on these characters#at least not to the degree a fandom does#this is why i never speculate based on previous storylines l#not beyond “this would have a lot of potential if they went that route”#no one in that writers room thinks about character lore and the nuances of characterization as obsessed fans is what ill say#does*
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