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More on the re-listen/read.
The second Jun Wu gets back he starts chipping away at Xie Lian's support base.
First with Feng Xin by telling Xie Lian about him forgiving the debt and helping him out. Which on the surface would seem nice of him, to let Xie Lian know that his old friends might still care about him. But he already knows that due to their very poorly disguised selves helping him out. What this is doing, however, is making Xie Lian complicit in Jun Wu breaking their secrecy. He was specifically told not to reveal this information to Xie Lian. So now there is no way for Xie Lian to acknowledge their good deeds naturally, without revealing how he found out.
And surely, if he's been told this secret, what other things are being said about the two of them behind their backs between Jun Wu and Xie Lian? It's not that big of a thing, but it doesn't have to be. The gap between the three old friends is already large enough that Jun Wu widening it ever little bits at a time won't be noticed.
Secondly, of course, he tries to drive a wedge between Hua Cheng and Xie Lian. The support of a ghost king is no joke, and I think by this point he has already started to make assumptions about their relationship. Same as the rest of the heavens honestly lol.
But either way he sends him to investigate Hua Cheng specifically because he knows it will fuck Xie Lian up to have to investigate someone who's being nice to him, and even if he can't make him distrust Hua Cheng with all the bits he's been dropping about how evil he is, then the least he can do is make Xie Lian feel so guilty that their friendship withers because of that.
And Xie Lian is torn up about it! Hua Cheng is being a wonderful host and friend to him, and he's snooping through his stuff! The wind master is like, 100% you should not have accepted this mission, ghost king or no, even if Jun Wu himself told you too. Because he obviously considers you his friend. But Xie Lian still sees Jun Wu as a trusted mentor figure, even if he doesn't always agree with him, so he reasons that of course Jun Wu knew this would be awkward for him. So he must have thought that Xie Lian was the only person who could do this task right.
And I mean, to be fair, not entirely inaccurate, if by do this right, you mean not jump to the immediate conclusion that Hua Cheng is in the wrong. As well as subtlety. Of which Lan Qianqiu has none lol.
So on the guilt end he is very much succeeding, which like, no surprise.
Xie Lian is the champion of feeling guilty about things. But on the trust end? Ghost city arc is so important for establishing a foundation for their relationship.
Jokes on Jun Wu, because his sending Xie Lian on this mission very firmly sets into his mind that Jun Wu and the other heavenly officials are all just talking bullshit when it comes to Hua Cheng.
Oh he can't be trusted! And yet he keeps his promises.
Oh he lives in a den of depravity and is cruel! But he obviously has a handle on things, and is very well respected, not just feared.
Oh his scimitar is super cursed! And yet it does Xie Lian no harm, and acts like an eager puppy.
Xie Lian's been on the wrong side of the rumor mill for a long time, he knows how this shit goes.
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Alright, you all know me by now, I gotta do Stalks-In-Shadows and SkullFace, my Skyrim self-insert Dark Brotherhood OC, and my Warrior Cats self insert OC respectively. Stalks is going first again!
Lunar: She doesn't get lost in thought very often, but if she does, it's because she's stressed about something. VERY stressed about something.
Celestial: Several, all of which are proven to exist. She believes in Hircine, the Daedric Lord of The Hunt- also known as the creator of werebeasts- she believes in Sithis, the Dread Lord. He is the reason for the Dark Brotherhood's existence, and the reason for her role as a Shadowscale. Akatosh, the father of dragons, and the reason she gained wings in a fight to save the Dawnstar Sanctuary from Wolfsbane, a pure-blood werebeast hunter. And of course, The Hist, the Argonian's belief of reincarnation after death...all of these have a different place to go after death...her future after death is uncertain.
Nova: Her relationship is great! They are former Shadowscales as well, and are the reason for her lycanthropy. That sounds like sarcasm, but it's actually not. They set her up for the best life unintentionally, and one day met her again, as purified werebeasts. Now? She can see them if she so wishes now that she knows where to look.
Moonlight: Stalks...actually has none. Not kidding. Even as an assassin, she has morals. If she is given a contract she believes is innocent, she won't do it, and will appeal to the Night Mother to spare the target. As the Listener, she has more sway in the matter.
Orion: Veezara. And cuddles.
Twilight: Losing her Family. Her children, her mate, her brothers and sisters of the Brotherhood and her parents...she would have nothing.
Stellar: She does have good self-esteem, despite her occupation as an assassin.
Jupiter: Half and half on that one.
Empyrean: Her Family. Fighting for them. Fighting for the people who have been done wrong and have prayed to the Night Mother for aid. And aiding those who are not guilty of anything.
Dusk: Easily messing with her Family, picking on others who have done nothing and cannot defend themselves- HURTING HER CHILDREN(This did happen to her adopted children, Aventus and Sajjah when they went to a festival in Dawnstar, some thugs saw them counting their coins(the septims they had been GIVEN to buy stuff at the festival without fighting over what they wanted- they were given a 100 septims each. After the contract on the emperor, money really isn't much of an issue anymore. The Brotherhood is basically set up for life, and that's further solidified by the fact that they're gaining a steady income from new contracts now.)and thought they had stolen from one of them, seeing as one of them had been pickpocketed...and with Sajjah being a Khajiit, they saw it as enough of a reason to grab her by the scruff- AND BREAK AVENTUS' RIBS- when he tried to defend his sister with a dagger he bought. Needless to say, those 3 men? Only ONE of them made it out alive that night, because he did not partake in the assault. The other 2? Mutilated by the ENTIRE FAMILY.
Dawn: Supernatural? No. Well, unless you count her lycanthropy. Other than that? The rest of her abilities are evolutionary advantages, or old genes resurfacing in her. For one, as a Shadowscale, she can turn invisible at will. Some Argonian's also have the ability to spit acid, and while it's become less prominent in recent generations, Stalks does have acid glands, and she can use them. She also has a unique foot structure- that of a raptor's, toe claw's included.
Vega: Hidden? No. Out in the open? Many.
SkullFace is next!
OC ASK GAME
Night Sky Addition
LUNAR - How often do they get lost in thougt?
CELESTIAL - Do they believe in any higher being?
NOVA - How is their relationship with their parents?
MOONLIGHT - What is their biggest personality flaw?
ORION - Who/what do they go for comfort?
TWILIGHT - What would put them past their breaking point?
STELLAR - Do they have good or bad self esteem?
JUPITER - Do they believe everything happens for a reason?
EMPYREAN - Where do they find their inner strength from?
DUSK - What is something that prokes their anger?
DAWN - Do they have any magical/super normal capabilities?
VEGA - Do they have any hidden talents?
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Trying to see what our little Fukumaru would look like in real life
#there won't be 100% likeness but it's good enough#these are just images i googled#there was the live action but the puppet cat looks a bit uncanny to me#plus the real cat is adorable#fukumaru#ojisama to neko#a man and his cat#manga#exotic shorthair
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[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]
Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?
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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.
Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!
Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.
* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.
#Pactw#QSMP#Pac#March 18 2024#As much as I love keeping people updated about Pac / the other Portuguese-speaking creators#I think I might not make as many transcribed posts for their clips anymore#I just don't think I'm qualified enough to be transcribing things for a language I don't know#like yeah we have the Qlobal Translator and Aypierre's translators to rely on#And I'm always upfront when I'm not 100% sure about a translation#but I've been thinking about it a lot and it kinda makes me feel a bit icky. Idk.#I might be overthinking this but I just I don't want to spread around translations I'm not super confident about#esp. since I know a lot of people cite my clips in analysis posts or link them to other people as resources#and 90% of the time I'm like ''Hell yeah I love seeing people getting a lot of use out of the archive''#but sometimes I get a bit anxious like ''Did I do a good enough job translating this''#''Am I ruining someone's entire perception of a conversation or character because I left one word out or mistranslated something?''#And like I said that's normally not a HUGE concern since if I'm not certain about a translation I just won't post a clip. but you know#idk it might just be the anxiety talking but I really really don't want to spread bad info#Happy to hear other folks' perspective#I'm really grateful for people like Bell and Pix and others who translate clips and I always try to reblog those#but we don't have a ton of people posting clips & translating things on Tumblr since we're so English-centric#which is part of the reason WHY I like sharing clips of the non-English-speaking CCs#but at the same time I want to do an accurate job representing what they're saying#Maybe I'll just start posting things and give a TLDR context of what they're talking about but not a transcript#that way native-speakers can hop in and add translations if that's something they're comfortable doing#and if not then well. at least I'm not sharing something that isn't super accurate#idk I'm just thinking out loud a bit in the tags#But I'm open to hearing other people's thoughts on the matter#Anyways giant rant aside. q!Pac is NOT doing ok rn
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Once again frustrated by how Difficult it is to do very basic tasks
#this is not even about executive dysfunction today#today i'm annoyed my phone simply won't make calls and every pharmacy i have contacted charges $100 for the covid vaccine#they're paying these kids $13 an hour obviously they haven't heard about the cdc program#they don't like train you on that stuff i get it#it's just. i would like a vaccine to put off getting covid again thus putting off the disability i'll eventually get from it#given enough times it's bound to fuck me up for good i'm just trying to make money until then#but it's just hard. everything is hard for no reason#i could just pay the $100 i guess it's doable it's just a bummer#i'm trying to save up to get out of this state give me a break i am very tired
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marionette building
#gravity falls#Ford pines#stanford pines#wood carving#I'm making progress!!!!#he won't be DONE done by Thursday but he will be put together enough to bring to the con#as long as his clay head doesn't fall off we are alllll good#his head will be wood eventually but that's gonna be an 'after my wrists heal' project#tomorrow I gotta carve his other hand along with his forearms#and start constructing my bill costume#well my sister's bill costume#mostly I just have to cut out about 100 felt hands#oh god I forgot that I also have to SEW those hundred hands. jesus.#my wrists are going to fall off? my wrists are going to fall off. I know this.#I wish I could outsource like any of this but. I can't. so.#it's all on me baby#fluffle art#I like including little headless prototype foam ford in pics#he's my pal
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FUCK YOU SUBARU
#enstars#snail is enstarsposting again#I FUCKING W O N#AND I WON'T BE WINNING AGAIN ANYTIME SOON#AND THANKFULLY IT IS NOT NEEDED TO DO IT MORE THAN ONCE#THIS MOTHERFUCKER IS NOT WORTH 100 GEMS#I WAS BEATING HIM BY ACTUAL LIKE#0.02 SECONDS#THIS IS SO UNFAIR#i mean i admit i put myself at a disadvantage by. never ever reading the story#and therefore not knowing what half the cast sounds like when not singing.#BUT STILL#why is subaru so good at karuta#i am willing to accept the headcanon that he just has this hidden talent for it#and that he stomps trickstar in karuta every new year#also anzu as a sore loser who challenges him over and over again#that'd be funny#he loves her but does he love her enough to let her win? that's the real question.
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I can't sleep again.
#100% секретный дневник левы НЕ ЧИТАЙ#лёва паспрабуе АДК#it's not about that. i'm just tired.#(stayed up too late for the first time in a while)#well... it compounded the issues.#i look like some guy with my blurry vision and yet its not enough and i dont know WHY#i do know why. have you ever not been seen?#flipped the coin from independence within my grasp to nothing is ever going to get me out of here#not even 'getting out of there' got me out#i can't wait for guard season again but i'm worried it's only going to put me right back into the depression mines#... seasonal depression notwithstanding#i need to make a choice at auditions and its whether i will be out; as me - and hopefully have a better season because of it#or just... stay like this. forever.#... my consult is right before second auditions pretty much. schedule that month is looking full..#anyways its not fair of me to expect anyone to check in on me#especially when one of my housemates seems to ... Also be going through it#and i can tell you now which of us is actually likely to talk about it and its NOT me#i'm not built for this idk. i never should have taken her up on that job offer.#...... i'm thinking about relapsing again. more seriously considering it.#i KNOW it's not good i KNOW it won't help but i dont know what fucking else will!!!!#remember when it felt like i was getting hobbies again?? so much for that..#.. i need to pull life into my *own* control but i need help to get there#and i can't even imagine being fully independent#... even if i'm taking all the right steps to get there#the MOST annoying revelation was that i could Maybe Actually benefit from therapy and the second most was that if i tell her this there is#almost no way any therapist she finds will be queer friendly#going to dig myself out of it. as always. mostly just not pushing myself right now but GOD does it suck.
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Mara said Nezarec is out of the picture so does that mean it's over? That was all there was for Nezarec :(
Pretty much yeah! We might get some extra info on his role in the Collapse, but he is not going to be an active character in the future. Link to the video where she says it.
And he never was an active character! This is something that I actually wanted to touch on because I've seen way too many comments and sentiments about Nezarec that are incredibly incorrect. A lot of it is on Bungie's handling of this lore, which I and others have spoken about at length before; the introduction was clumsy and disjointed and left a lot of people wondering about how relevant he is.
But also a lot of it is on the fandom mystification of random story elements and characters, as well as the fandom's inability to distinguish between important topics and curiosities that exist to spice up the setting. This is a problem in general with media, not just Destiny. Fandoms tend to not have a filter when it comes to things mentioned in the story and the setting. The truth is that some things that are mentioned are simply not important or are less important and will never be brought up again.
Long post below where I go into details about this trend in the community and specifically about Nezarec, tangentially related to the ask:
A really good example for this is Suraya Hawthorne. I know. I want more about her too. She was a really cool character and I love getting updates about her. But is she relevant and important enough to have more special storylines dedicated to her? Not really. A part of it is on the fact that she has fulfilled her character arc back in vanilla. She served as the human element to the Red War and was a face for the civilians impacted by the invasion. She served as someone who survived due to her exceptional skill and reluctance to join the rest of us in the City; she was not there when the attack happened, which saved her. Her survival skills in the wild helped her survive while on the run and allowed her to save others, including us! She fought alongside everybody to retake the City, a place she shunned but nonetheless felt connected to.
It ended with her accepting her role as an exceptional human that can help the City grow; she accepted that her potential is fulfilled when she joins everyone else in the City and helps humanity, instead of pretending that everyone should live on their own in the wilds. Destiny is inherently about people coming together against insurmountable odds and Suraya's story showcases that and ends with her understanding that message. Her story is over. There is nothing more to be said. Outside of small lore snippets that are really nice to see (Suraya playing Guardian Games, Suraya visiting her dads often), there is nothing to add to Suraya's story and theme. Sometimes we have to understand when a character arc ends. It's a good thing. The story has been told in a cohesive way and it ended.
There's also meta reasons such as VA availability. Amanda fills almost the same niche as Suraya and her VA is available since she also voices Caiatl so Amanda featured more often than Suraya. This also doesn't mean that no story can ever be made involving this character; just that expecting her to be a part of some big ongoing plot is not reasonable. Getting minor updates is fine.
There's a lot of this in Destiny. The game has A LOT of characters. There are plenty of others that fit the same issue as Suraya; their stories have concluded or they weren't as important as people thought in the first place. We always want more about our blorbos, no matter how niche they are. Sometimes, the more niche they are, the more attractive they are. The element of mystery often makes the interest skyrocket.
This is where Nezarec comes in. I want people to fully understand that Nezarec was just a name mentioned twice. He was never a character. It's highly unlikely that he was created with the idea of him being a disciple in mind; he was created as a mystery. It's a cool sounding name on a cool looking exotic with a mysterious lore tab. This immediately sparks people's curiosity. Nezarec's Sin was literally the only information about this character we had.
I've seen a lot of people claiming that Nezarec was a huge thing being set up for 5 years; this is simply incorrect. He is definitely a concept that was of personal interest to people who like digging and imagining solutions to mysteries, but he was never "set up." It was a cool name. The fandom created and enhanced the mystery around it, trying to "solve" who that was for years. The game did nothing to encourage this until Season of the Haunted.
There was a brief mention in Y2 where Drifter mentions that he's been to the "Fourth Tomb of Nezarec." Or rather, Shin mentions that Drifter mentioned it. This was meant to sound cool. That's all. You can tell because Shin mentions other mysterious things that Drifter claimed he's seen, none of which have ever been given the same scrutiny because people understand that they are supposed to be cool names;
"He says he's seen the deep side of Jupiter. Been to the Core Mines of Saturn. Name drops old myths no one's heard—the Luvial Crux, the Shift Chasms Below Elios, the Fourth Tomb of Nezarec. Goes on about the Idols of Lower Sul, the Treasure of Exodus Prime, the Solar Engine of Dead Star-Six.
Every single one of these is a "cool name" concept that you can speculate about for a thousand years. They don't mean anything, or at least they didn't in 2018. Nezarec only popped out because the exotic exists and people started imagining, again, that this is some incredible set up for epic reveals in the future about a character that will become super important and relevant and be the raid boss or whatever.
In a lot of writing, especially big ongoing MMO games and projects that last for years, things will be mentioned to spice up the setting and its mystery and size without the writers actually knowing or even planning to ever know what those things are. But then later, if they ever need to use something, they can look at those unexplained mysteries and pick one and use it to explain current content. It's easier than coming up with something brand new AND it gives you credit with the diehard fans who will see their niche blorbo being explained.
I can't confirm this obviously because I don't work for Bungie, but this is most likely what happened to Nezarec. He was never planned as a disciple, he was never planned as a big player or a huge character or a huge reveal. It was a mystery to make the setting exciting.
When they needed mysterious cursed artifacts for the pirate season AND they needed to tie that in with the current big story (Witness and its disciples) AND they needed to tie it with a location they can use AND that location has to be something known to people and mysterious in of itself AND they need a reason to talk about a very important historical event that shaped the world (the Collapse) which was also reframed in the current expansion by Savathun telling us we don't know anything about it = "revealing" that Nezarec was a disciple tied to the Lunar Pyramid whose body is used as evil artifacts is the perfect solution. Why invent a new character when you can name drop people's niche blorbo?
I'm mentioning this because people still insist that Nezarec was some huge mystery planned for years that kept us teased and primed for the eventual huge reveal. In reality, it really wasn't. That's personal bias talking, which I am also a subject to because I was obsessing about a name mentioned in two lore tabs as well. But it's important to recognise when the game is actually setting up an important plot point and when it's not.
All that said, you'd think that it doesn't really matter HOW it came to this. It only matters that now, Nezarec is no longer just a niche lore tab; he is a character! Which is true, to a certain extent. Once again, people tend to overblow the importance of something that is perceived as a big reveal.
Nezarec is certainly a character, but he is not an active one. He has been established as dead and gone ever since he was first mentioned. There have been vague hints about how he persists after death and how "he shall rise again." Persisting after death is not uncommon in the Destiny universe (Ahamkara are the most notable example), but it doesn't mean the character is active. Hints about him wanting to return are there, but don't necessarily signify that the character WILL return. Just that he wants to, as our villains tend to want. It's not exactly something to write home about? Taniks came back like 8 times and he's not even a disciple of the Witness (that we know of...............).
In Plunder, it was definitively established that Nezarec is dead and has been dead for a millennium. It was established that his body parts still have residual energy that whispers and influences people, but that keeping them apart effectively nullifies it. It was also established that these things can be cleansed and used for good, effectively ending Nezarec's influence and ambitions to return. Which is what happened and was always going to happen.
He is a character from our past who was always meant to be a mystery. Any further extrapolation of what that means is purely fandom speculation and fandom overhype of a name. He doesn't have a personality, he doesn't have a character arc, he doesn't have a story, he doesn't have relationships. Some of these might be explored in the context of the Collapse if they're relevant. He is part of our history and always was. Whatever the fans decided to overthink about him is on the fans.
And that's fun! I still like overthinking about him and speculating. Enrichment! The problem is when Bungie eventually says "there is nothing more to this" and people get disappointed and angry because of ideas they themselves conjured out of thin air. Bungie never gave us any reason to think that Nezarec is the next big villain that we will talk to and fight in the game. No more than they are implying that any of those mysteries mentioned by Shin are going to be new in-game locations or raid bosses.
Again, a lot of this is obviously on the storytelling itself. While there are obvious markers of stuff that's just here to enrich the setting and make players think and speculate and imagine, sometimes these markers aren't clear or they don't land well. I think with Nezarec a lot of this has to do with the additional hype created by the relase of Nezarec's Whisper glaive in Haunted that casually dropped flavour text about him being a disciple after not having heard of this niche mystery for 5 years. People lost their minds (me included) because that was an obvious hint that he is no longer purely a mystery.
And then we had to wait three more months in which people speculated to hell and back and conjured a story about how he MUST be an incoming next big bad disciple for us to fight. Only to be told, in Plunder, that he's a corpse. People's instinct is to say "No WAY they brought this guy back after 5 years just to have him be body parts." But there was never anything to "bring back." He was a name. Plunder gave information about that name. It's not like there was a treasure trove of information before or a promise that this specific concept will be the next villain.
Much like Destiny community insisting there's a secret mission when there isn't one, they're like that with this type of lore as well. Parsing through the overwhelming amount of information to figure out which bits and pieces are relevant and which are flavour for the setting is difficult, but it's something that has to be done. Every character is the most important character to someone in the community, every niche concept mentioned once is the most important next big hint to someone. And sometimes they will be correct! But in most cases they will not. And instead of sighing and moving on, a lot of it turns into "the writers are bad" spiel.
And sure. Everyone makes a bad storytelling decision sometimes. But that includes the fans as well. We can all be exceptionally bad at recognising and distinguishing between intended important events, plots and themes and those that are background information meant to enrich the setting.
Personal example would be the Aphelion. I desperately want to know more. I want an entire expansion about this. I think this is one of the most fascinating things in the entire setting. But that's just my personal preference. Bungie never explicitly stated that the Aphelion is some incredibly important concept that will be explored in the future. It's a flavour. It's meant to be mysterious. It's meant to be a cool scifi concept. I would love to see more, but if I never do, I will understand why that is. Bungie can obviously flip the switch and actually turn this into a big plot if they want to at any point in time, but we can't be angry with them if they don't.
This was not entirely related to the ask, but I had the need to write something about this anyway and it sort of fits. I've seen a lot of this recently especially with Nezarec. People have been claiming that Bungie "wasted" the potential of a super important character like Nezarec to end with him being turned into soup. They also tend to insist that it's impossible that his story is over and that he will still be some big villain or that it will turn out that he is possessing Osiris or something. The latter of which makes zero sense since Osiris had a storyline akin to this already. He will not have it again. I hope we can put that to rest. Osiris is Osiris and he will remain Osiris.
And the truth is that Nezarec was never an important character. He was never set up for anything extraordinary in the future. He is a curiosity from our past that has ties to the Collapse. He certainly WAS important in-setting for whatever happened back then, but he is now dead. Bungie didn't "waste" anything; whatever importance the fans projected onto Nezarec was the fans' own invention.
Remember back in Splicer when a completely new dialogue dropped where Mithrax mentioned the old Eliksni legend about "Skira the Watcher" and how it terrorised the Eliksni for a long time? And how it sparked about 7 billion posts and videos and theories about who this is and how this is hinting to the next big bad and how it has ties to everyone and everything and how this is obviously the next raid boss or whatever? Yeah. Does anyone remember now? Not really. It wasn't a hint for the next big bad. It was what it said on the tin; an old Eliksni legend.
Furthermore, Mithrax explained how it was defeated before the Eliksni had the Traveler and they did so by staying silent about it. I don't think that really spells "raid boss" or "big bad." Whatever it was, pre-Golden Age Eliksni were able to deal with it. It's probably not the Witness' next greatest agent.
Curiously, the new dungeon is called "Spire of the Watcher." I could make a clickbait video about this. Is there a connection for real though? Unlikely. And Bungie will not have "wasted the potential" of it to be, because it's not supposed to be. There's a difference between something being possible and something being probable. It's always possible because Bungie controls the setting, but it's not very probable.
You can genuinely make any connection to anything and blow a single mention of some lore thing out of proportion. And sometimes you'll be correct! A single lore mention of something called "Nefele Stronghold" led me, and others, to the conclusion that Rasputin has to be involved somehow with the story of Neomuna before Lightfall and that Rasputin needs to be brough up as a season this year. And we were correct!
To an extent, we were also correct that Nezarec was more than a flavour text on an exotic helmet. But that doesn't necessarily mean that he's the next big thing. Sometimes things are mildly important, or just temporarily important or important just for specific context. Just because something exists in the setting or was important in the setting once before, doesn't mean that it will remain important forever or that its narrative arc can't end.
#destiny 2#nezarec#long post#lore vibing#ask#this has been on my mind for a while now and this was a good opportunity to touch on it#we all love our blorbos but we have to be able to understand that not all of them are important enough to be a persistent plot#some things are just cool. some things have been dealt with. some things are both (siva...)#there are characters we like and want the game to be dedicated just to them but they've really wrapped up the extent of their story#i don't think we'll get any significant mentions of shiro-4 again for example. would i like it? yes! is it likely? not really#most of the time our blorbo mind overstates the actual plot and setting relevance of a character#and of course. bungie can literally change that at any moment#but for most of the stuff they won't#we have to be able to recognise when to stop expecting it and name calling writers because they haven't picked up on ...#... a plotline about our faves that are objectively not crucially important characters#and ofc it's okay to be sad about it!#if it were up to the fans then every single little detail would have 100 hours of gameplay dedicated to it
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Raquel and Alicia would be in the berlin spin off? What do you think of that? What possible plot line that could have fit in with them?
This simultaneously came as the biggest surprise related to the spin-off possible and also completely unsurprising LMFAO. A few weeks ago, @roccinan and I were joking about this exact same thing and went if 'what if instead of everyone else, Alex Pina gets Itizar to play Raquel in the spin-off, wouldn't that be insane?' And as always, the conversation took so many different turns and twists and we joked about everything but I think we both concluded that it actually wouldn't be that insane and that it's HIGHLY plausible if he did want to do it. Because Raquel is a major policewoman/detective in Madrid and it would actually be very interesting if we watched her rise as a policewoman in parallel to Andrés rise as a thief; they are both young and still haven't made that formidable name but they are incredible at what they do and show this potential and as a viewer knowing how they end up it would be very cool. And the other thing we talked about would if basically Raquel is just running around the city always constantly 'nearly' catching Andrés but he always slips out of her finger at the last moment and maybe she doesn't know 'who' exactly she's looking for, and maybe she does.
What I want to say is, they are many scenarios they could fit in because it's not at all weird that a major policeman like Raquel would be working on a major heist case in Madrid. And putting Alicia in too, makes a lot of sense because they graduated together and it's very likely they worked together on some cases, and also very cool because their dynamic obviously have a lot of fans. And it's basically two spin-offs in one: one based on Berlin and his rise, and one based on Raquel's younger years in the force.
That's on one hand, on the other, it was a genius marketing trick by Pina because he's basically ensuring at least 80% of the original audience will watch the spin-off now. Either because they genuienly just love Raquel (which most general audience and also fandom do), or now they will be waiting for any 'prequel' thoughts on serquel (and the serquel fandom is hugel), or for Alicia, the s3 villain that gained a huge amount of fans.
Bottomline is, I think it's something that is making me way more excited for the show (and I already was) and will have the same effect on many other people. And I think it promises that the show will be pretty fun, playful, and paying homage to the original show. So overall, a good move (they obviously can ruin it in the show itself, but until now, it seems very promising to me); I can imagine a lot of storylines that can organically involve Raquel and Alicia, and on a marketing level, I think it's genius to ensure the show is watched by enough people to get a second season, which I believe what Pina wants and is planing for.
#I also think it's cool in other dynamic introductions#like Alberto when he was maybe still a good boyfriend but with red signs that the viewer see how it'll end up#(there is something always insanely cool to me about a viewer knowing the character's future that they don't know themselves)#we can actually have German as a character which could be very fun to see the man that a woman like Alicia loved that much#and maybe (PLEASE GOD PLEASE) we can get my dude my man my icon Tamayo#and also Prieto because I actually find him fun#the only downside to this is the expected annoyance from certain parts of the larger fandom who won't shut up about rapist berlin and how#they cannot stand him even though they are willingly watching a show that's named after him#and who will be loudly complaining about the lack of serquel because they would be 100% expecting it to be a serquel spin-off now#and/or complaining about why the romance between Raquel and Alicia isn't the central thesis of the berlin show#but also that would be enough talking about the show to convince netflix that it's popular enough to be granted a second season lol#but fingers crossed that we all enjoy it and that it's genuinely just a fun good show that adds to lcdp rather than takes from it#(and that we get an answer to 'you didn’t even tell the truth to your own brother son of a bitch' lik#lcdp#Berlin netflix
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god im so excited guys aaaaaah! I have work on monday. living in a society where I have to work to survive sucks but oh boy is my sense of self worth tied to whether or not I can contribute financially to my family. yikes
#like yeah having money to buy like. games or crochet supplies or cake or whatever is nice#but if I don't help my parents pay for rent and water and all the necessities I feel like I deserve to die and it's. not great#but literally just working 2 days a week is enough for me to feel like a good person#is this healthy? fuck no! probably I should address this shit in therapy. however. it is also my reality#ALSO.#why can I not be my own household for food stamps until I'm 22. what's that about#like. I promise nothing is going to change between now and february like. wtf just let me apply man#can't apply now bc I count as just part of my parents' household even though if I was 22 I could be my own household instead#and my parents haven't been on foodstamps in years bc they hate having to do the paperwork#literally my dad got a job after being unemployed for years bc my mom told him he could handle the paperwork that year lmao#so trying to get them to do it now would just be. no#but I know I would be fine to do it for myself and I probably will end up doing it as soon as I turn 21#22*#but for now I guess I just have to deal with $600/month or less :/#which is literally like. well $400 of that goes to my parents. I'd like to save at least $100#so less than $100 for personal expenses. like food and entertainment. ugh#which like. that budget has been $0 for the last couple months so I know I CAN do it if I have to but it just sucks#with my last job I spent more like $100/week on food and entertainment#but alas#I won't be going out to eat much. maybe twice a month if I'm frugal or get extra hours#ugh it'll be tight. but I'll make it work
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I hate the whole thing but I especially hate how disregarded young people are in the conversations about mandatory military service. "It's good if young people have to go, they need discipline" "It's good if it happens to young people but it's unfair for those who already have a life. A job. A family" "I agree with it but only for kids who are graduating now"
No shut up. You only "support" it because it doesn't affect you. You conveniently endorse it as long as your life isn't being disrupted, because you do understand that it's an unnecessary and unfair intrusion into personal autonomy but you enjoy the idea of it happening to solely someone else. "Young people have no respect" For who? Hypocrites like you? You don't have basic human respect for them, you literally don't value their lives as much as your own. "But their life is just starting" Fucking no? 18 yos have lives, dreams, plans, ideas, values, beliefs, personal style, ambitions, and most importantly, autonomy. They're not a blank slate with "nothing to lose". Also it's hilarious that you suddenly think it's so important they're "war-ready" but you're perfectly okay with you not being war-ready. You're the one with a family to protect. You go.
#i hate the military#like#If not enough people are volunteering to serve maybe the country isn't worth serving#What are these young people supposed to be protecting? The country that does nothing for them#Nothing changes for these kids if this fucking country is literally obliterated#also#If you're 18+ and you literally want to be lazy disrespectful and undisciplined that's 100% your choice#A country that calls itself a democracy has no right to say it doesn't like the way the citizens are today. They're allowed to choose#And the LIES#“kids don't know how to clean so they should GO JOIN THE MILITARY” don't make me laugh#“this isn't about any war we're not preparing for war at all lol relax” then fuck off#“kids are disrespectful” YOU'RE LITERALLY LYING ON PUBLIC BROADCASTS#“this isn't about a war” good :) so if I can make a bed I get to stay home <3#The crucial life skills like cleaning and shooting guns 💀#Boohoo people aren't sheep anymore :((( bring back blind obedience#“boys can't do basic tasks so they need to enlist” but if a man cooks and watches his kids he's a woman#The literal argument of “kids use phones and sleep in too much” I CAN'T BREATHE BE REAL#“kids won't offer me their seat on an empty bus and me no likey :///”
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the chapter ACCOMPLISHMENTS from THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESS Florence Hartley lists several skills and interests becoming for a young lady who is already well-educated. these accomplishments serve to impress others and delight oneself. she suggests to strive for the following ✧ conversing well, which is aided by a deep knowledge of literature ✧ music, played on an instrument and accompanied by singing (she explicitly recommends easier pieces for the less experienced in the company of others) ✧ drawing, sculpture and similar arts ✧ riding elegantly ✧ speaking french, german, and italian, as well as spanish ✧ dancing all fashionable dances ✧ reading out loud and reciting well ✧ arranging tableaux vivants ✧ crochet, knitting, tapestry work, embroidery, bead work, and many more
#nowadays a good movie could teach one to converse well too#and a good song selection when playing music from a phone or stereo is our selection of sheet music on the piano#she recommends books in foreign languages too - i'll compile them later#this chapter made me realise that i don't even know which dances are popular nowadays. i have to do some research#there's this suggestion to throw a dramatic literature reading party that sounds super fun#okay#i desperately need to learn to converse well#i play the clarinet and learning a few songs my friends and family should like will be fun and not too difficult#i also draw but not well or often enough. need to incorporate it into my weeks#and i know how to ride as well. seems like i have good chances to become a lady#my french is good but i'm not yet a big reader of french literature#however my german is native#i won't learn italian but i have been toying with the idea of learning latin so i'll pursue that in italian's stead#don't even ask about my dancing skills they're so bad. i'll see if any fashionable dance interests me or go to a club or something to figur#out if i'll even attempt dancing#i'll 100% improve my reading and reciting because it's so much fun to read out loud with friends#however i won't get into tableaux vivants and knitting will stay a winter hobby#that was the most interesting chapter so far!#accomplishment
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The other thing Tim would want to know is just - for those who are alive anyway from the experiments.
Will those Alchemists who took part in / helped with the human Chimera experiments be held accountable. Will they be punished for the down right Torture the did to him and countless others dead and alive.
He will also fully stand up and call out the raid on the Devil's Nest as well.
Sure okay most of the people there weren't what one called 'innocent' a lot of them probably had committed some for of crime at one time or another but nothing he could see as being reason to be killed.
The only reason they were killed was because of what they were. Because they were seen as disposable and a risk to the military should any one find out about their existence.
After all the only reason that Heinkle/Darius/Jerso/Zampano are alive is because they were seen as a success, because THEY decided to stay working with the military instead of running away. They didn't try to fight back against the military.
(They seem to be doing alright post canon but gdi after what he's seen Tim would want justice for those who weren't so lucky. Dead or Alive)
#out of the nest; mun#I mean Tim won't defend Greed's shit in uh sorta kidnapping Al however he will defend that technicaly#(as far as he's aware) Al was fine and Ed attacked first (though over all things could have been handled better on both sides but he doesn'#doesn't know the details#like 100% if they'd stayed I fully believe at the very least Roa Martel and Dol would have been seen as good enough for military use you kn
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okay it's looking like next tuesday? for sharing my hux skin. the hardest parts are done, but I still have some stuff left to do, as lining alone took roughly 13 hours OTL. it's very clean, though. I know it doesn't have to be, but if I'm going to draw a cool skin for my favourite killer, I want it to show just how much I love him.
I also finally got a call from the damn dentist and wow. yeah. practically the worst case scenario. which...isn't great, but it is exactly what I expected. not sure how the hell I'm going to pay all that off.
#dbd#thoughts about media#I basically just need to clarify textures on the skin and then all that's left is organising it into a presentable format.#irl friend said it looks cool so I hope other people will like it too.#I would lie and say it's been fun working on it but it's genuinely been gruelling to work on because of how neat and detailed it is.#as for the incredibly ironic subject of teeth...#yeah. not good.#it's wild to me that I can (eventually) get top surgery covered by the government#but not this.#not that I'm complaining about not paying for top surgery.#but that won't KILL me if I don't have it. this fucking could.#I know I said I'd do commissions but I genuinely don't even think that amount of work is realistic.#not when I have a job that eats up time.#and I don't have nearly enough people interested in commissions to make a good dent in that price tag.#idk. I'll have to sit down and figure some shit out.#I am 100% going to sell most of my pkmn cards. hopefully I can make a couple hundred off of that.
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Monster boyfriend whose semen is mildly dangerous for humans so he 100% absolutely can not cum inside of you when he fucks you.
Even as he fucks you, his precum is enough to make your body tingle. he means to pull out, he has to. But your sweet cunt is just so tight, milking his shaft so hard he can't help it. Your dirty pussy needs his cum.
At first, he worries that he accidentally poisoned you because his pull-out game is weak but it turns out that when people say "mildly dangerous to humans" they mean "one hell of an aphrodisiac".
You spend the rest of the night grinding against him, whimpering like a bitch in heat begging him to fuck you good and hard. He knows you won't calm down until he can keep himself from unloading in your cum coated pussy, but how can he say no when you and your cunt are both begging for him? Eventually one of you will pass out, that's the only way it stops.
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