#they don't mean any of the insults

[freakish11037]

Narlily (narcissa x lily) would be such insane enemies to lovers

They would insult each other's families five generations back, nearly murder each other and then suddenly start making out

Narcissa: I can't fathom how people like you are even accepted at Hogwarts. It's truly disrespectful-

Lily: shut up

Narcissa: make me, Evans

Lily: *kisses her passionately*

[knightofleo]

Angela Orosco Silent Hill 2

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Road To Ruin

start of a postapocalyptic fantasy series set in an Asian-inspired desert world plagued by dangerous storms

follows a courier who transports romantic letters between a prince and princess, who helps the princess escape across the wastes towards the prince’s safe haven

but they’re pursued by bounty hunters, and accidentally uncover some ancient secrets. and also she’s in love with both of them

dinosaurs, magical motorbikes,

bi MC, start of polyam triad

[eve-ate-the-right-fruit]

Reminder that the actual definition of terrorism is a non state actor committing violence against a non military target to achieve a political goal

So yes, shooting the CEO of United Healthcare with bullets engraved "deny" "defend" "depose" fits the definition of a terrorist act

However, calling Luigi Mangione a terrorist presumes he's guilty of said act and that's not how our justice system is supposed to work

[happybunnykat]

I think Jmart would work really well in a Pride and Prejudice au bc I think Jon proposing to Martin while insulting him would be funny.

[kyouka-supremacy]

:/

[cobra-creampuff]

my sister is telling my dad the story of last night and they are hard core both sidesing it. "well, you know, she doesn't take apologies well..." 1. that's her fucking problem not mine. 2. that doesn't have any fucking bearing on the two and a half hours straight of transphobic talk. 3. not taking an apology well is one thing, telling someone they're "lucky" you're not assaulting them when they say they're sorry for being a bit rude is actually a totally different thing LOL!

[lesbianraskolnikov]

im surprised that from the TBK adaptions i see none of them even go past 4 hours. I guess if you really wanted to attempt a longer adaption itd get Quite Long. The longest crime and punishment adaption i know of is 10 hours but also its really really bad. But 2007 was around 8 hours and only missed parts of the end... thats a 600 page book...

[the-crow-binary]

Seeing a post saying people who don't like N!Annette are clowns and racists, having almost thousands notes with everyone agreeing, actually hurts to see. God forbid we want to see characters not completely denatured. God forbid we want to see female characters that are strong in other ways than physical and magical. God forbid not every CV girl has to be strong and magical. God forbid we can dislike a black character for reasons completely unrelated to their skin colour.

God forbid NFCV actually makes changes that align with the games by developping characters and concepts that didn't have the chance to fully shine, instead of destroying everything and re-shaping them completely, shitting on the games' fans in the process.

"the fact that Castlevania purists are crying and shitting their pants because Annette was turned from a dansel in distress to a badass WOC will forever be the biggest clowns in the entire world."

Just because your character isn't a "damsel in distress" anymore but a "badass WOC" doesn't make her automatically better. Especially considering how your "badass WOC" is acting like a bitch for no reason sometimes (and don't get called out for it, like she is in the right. and no, her trauma might EXPLAIN her bitchiness, but it doesn't excuse it.), while the "damsel in distress" was actually kind and courageous and ready to end her own life to go against Dracula's wishes because fuck him.

If wanting NFCV to show respect for the games and it's fans and to stop using the #(magical)girlboss trope for every single important female character of theirs and show a female character being strong in a different way makes me a "purist" and a "clown", then so be it.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Do you think there’s any truth to the Taylor/Charli collab rumors? Seems unlikely to me and mainly seems to be based on the fact that there’s some alleged Taylor references in that recent article. But I have a hard time believing Taylor would ever agree to the bloody hand/bracelet imagery.

So I have been keeping up 0% with the Charli stuff because I, to be frank, do not care whatsoever. I read excerpts of the interview and don't get the big deal.

But no, I don't think they'd collab, for a host of reasons. (Won't care if they do! I just don't think it's likely.)

Also, this is my moment to share that when I first saw the photo of the severed hand I thought it was a play on "biting the hand that feeds you" and thought it was clever commentary on the discourse, until I saw that the internet has taken it as an attack on Taylor, so, apparently I read that wrong lol.

[battlevann]

idk man i don't think i should be treated like im hysterical when I get mad or freaked out after you point a gun directly at my head after cocking it and repeatedly get closer even if its unloaded

[caspersscareschool]

it continues to sincerely thoroughly baffle me that rise was (as far as i know?) the FIRST tmnt generation to canonically establish them as coming from different biological parents, being all different species, and yet not ONCE took advantage of it with a SINGLE yo mama joke among them. not even once. i consider this a major flaw because realistically considering their characters this should happen in every conversation.

[allegorism]

"i want evil women", "i want toxic yuri", rgu gave you takatsuki shiori and you all literally screeched when you saw her being slightly toxic to juri

[loverboybrightsideghost]

you may not have heard of the viola, but have you heard of joe hisaishi? i bet you have! well, guess who just wrote an AWESOME piece for the viola!!

both of these videos are cutoff before the end of the piece, but it's available on spotify and wherever you listen to music :) youtube also has the full recordings, but not with the video.

little more explanation on the viola under the cut :)

if you didn't know, the viola is a four-stringed instrument. it has a lower range than the violin and it has the same strings as the cello (but an octave up). those strings are C, G, D, and A, so the strings are tuned in fifths.

fun fact, the opening of movement 1 of viola saga plays a lot on those open* strings, clearly hisaishi's way of establishing the viola-y nature of the piece. the viola is the only instrument that can play those notes in that range, so unless it was transposed, only a viola could play it! as a violist i really do feel the love for my instrument coming across in this piece :)

*playing "open" strings is when you play the strings as they are, without putting any fingers down on any string to change the pitch

sadly, many people have never heard of the viola and just confuse it for the violin, when really it is its own instrument with its own beautiful role in the orchestra and honestly some pretty sick solo pieces.

the one on top is a violin and the one on the bottom is a viola. as you can see, the size difference is pretty big. every time i pick up my friend's violin, it feels so small in comparison that half the time i feel like i'm going to accidentally crush it with my neck.

this is my baby <333 hope you enjoyed learning about the beautiful awesome badass viola if you did in fact read this far lol

[orchideae]

When I approach Yelan (or anyone else I've written), I don't just look directly at her character, but I also look at her surroundings. Both the ones that she knows by some semblance of necessity, but also those that she chooses. Like here, I talked about the Chasm, and what being 'okay' with existing down there needs to mean for a character, because it's not normal. Someone's surroundings, room, or home say a lot bout who they are and what their mindset, or specifically, their perspective is of the world. And sometimes, I think it says more about people than even the characters realize.

This brings me to the topic of the city of Fontaine. Now, I personally think it's rather obvious that a lot of the nation takes from historical France, and so when looking at it, I think it really adds to remember its monarchy, the view that the 'common folk' had of it, and its inevitable demise to non-existence today in terms of importance as a result. So my first question is, who constructed or decided on its layout? Was it Furina, Neuvillette, Egeria? Whoever it was, there's a lot that can be said about their view of the world and their placement in it when you look at locations of buildings. Look at where Palais Mermonia, its governing body, is located within the city; it sits at a rather astounding elevation in comparison to, well, everything and everyone else in the city. This frequently represents the concept of 'distance' between groups in one way or another, and seeing the consistency in other nations, this is something that is rather intriguing to me, especially keeping Fontaine's characters in mind (and considering this is the nation of 'justice'). Mondstadt has everything almost entirely uniform, with arguably the church on the highest level (but it isn't greatly elevated in comparison to all else), but it's joined with the plaza and statue which are a common gathering site for all people in the city. Liyue had the gods and adepti visibly living among the humans back in the days of the Guili Assembly for reasons of 'integration' (my apologies to numerous from our dear Guizhong!) The fact that numerous adepti now live far outside of the harbor is a different matter entirely, and the one who seems to function within a semblance of separation of sorts is Ningguang with the Jade Chamber (but I'm not one to speak on behalf of her character as I don't bear the knowledge). Inazuma also has the Tenshukaku at a higher elevation in comparison to the rest of Inazuma City. Sumeru is interesting, but ultimately Nahida was kept at the very peak of the city, far out of reach of humanity— but that's exactly the common denominator that has my interest, the distance between the 'governing body' and humanity for one reason or another.

But Fontaine really takes separation to a different level in my opinion (and again, think of this when you think of the person having designed the whole city), not only because of the above which I'll elaborate more on in a moment, but also its separation from the outside world. Now, this is interesting to think about if you keep in mind that it was perhaps done in eventual protection of the city's inhabitants in terms of the prophecy (which means that this would have been constructed anywhere during or after Egeria's reign), but then why is only Palais Mermonia far above the water's reach? If the walls surrounding the city were ever breached during said prophecy, all its inhabitants are pretty much immediately caught in the flood and would drown, which tells me nothing positive of the city's 'architect' or whoever signed off on the designs. But if not done for the prophecy, then why? Stand in the middle of the Court of Fontaine and really look around you, the only sights you really have of the outside world are the sky, and it's obstructed by a fair bit of the waterways and gardens that hang overhead, which you can only properly enjoy when you take the ages long elevator to the upper level where the palace is located (which, credit due, seems freely accessible to everyone in present-time). But if you don't venture up, how much of the outside world do you get to see? It feels very secluded, very much under lock and key. On some level (and this is one of the many reasons why I think that the Meropide is so excessively important in Fontaine and it's likely why we spent so much time there; it's all to show the ever, ever important contrast and nuance between this 'autonomous nation within Fontaine' and, well, 'Fontaine'), it almost feels like a prison, regardless of how pretty it may look or come across (and despite not 'lacking rights'). And considering how people in the Meropide speak of not always wanting to return back to the 'overworld' following their sentence, I think that there's definitely quite a bit of truth in that. But again, stand there and look around for yourself.

Now to return to the original topic, but keeping the last one in mind as well, look at one other thing that I'm unsure how many have really kept an eye on: the massive effect Palais Mermonia's level has on the rest of the area (inside and outside of its walls). Have you ever walked through the city of Fontaine at any given time of day or night, north to south, east to west, clockwise or counter-clockwise circling through it; have you ever seen how it overshadows an immense part of the streets below it either entirely on its own (which to me signifies a very domineering presence), or together with those outer walls that surround the city? I know how I've spoken thoroughly with people before about how much I enjoy Fontaine and how dark it is in its storytelling, but despite how gorgeous this region with its water- and landscapes are; its city bears quite a heavy weight to me. I don't know who designed it, or ordered it to be constructed in this way, but nothing about the city itself truly, rationally, shows a healthy perspective versus its citizens.

Me: /continues on to ramble in tags because I'm me and I'm a nuisance with always more to say than I know how to coherently put into these posts.

[moonfromearth]

- Scary movies are so easy to survive. They never think to just move out or call the cops or something.

Day 4 - The Outcast

"Responsible and level-headed, they're often perceived as a 'Debby Downer.'"

from @windbrook's Slashed Challenge.