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Another thought I’ve been having relates back to The Scorching, the history behind it, and how much of a good twist it was to throw out. I don’t know if it was planned or a convenient retcon, but it works on so many levels thanks to the themes already present. It also leads to some interesting theories.
Burn could never have been queen. The first action we see her do in the books is destroy an egg due to hatch within the next few nights. It’s cruel, and most of all, it sealed her fate. The kingdoms were founded on the blood and tears of furious mothers, broken hearted from losing their eggs and determined to keep their broods safe. Burn couldn’t have been queen, because that is not what a queen should be. Thorn takes the throne because she took over a city, created an army, and fought tooth and claw to find and save her lost dragonet, despite the odds.
Glory takes the throne because she is the dragonet who should have been cared for. She should have been seen, noticed, and saved. She wants to be queen not to have the nicest things, but because someone should care when a dragonet disappears. The first dragon she rescues is a dragonet. She is worthy because Grandeur gave up on her dragonets and her tribe, but Glory refused to give up.
Coral isn’t a good dragon; her abuses and her absolute classist nature are abhorrent. However, she is marked by her craze as she watched as so many of her daughters were crushed in their eggs. The horror of losing a child is what marks a queen, in some shape or form. Orca was not worthy of the throne, because before she even challenged her mother, she devised a way to kill every dragonet that could challenge her before they so much as crawled out of their egg.
What one truly has to wonder is when the rules changed. When did it become a rule that to become queen, there had to be a fight to the death? When did mothers find themselves pitted against daughters, sisters, nieces, all for the power of the throne she has? Who came up with the deadly challenge?
One can only wonder.
#sunnymoon's rambles#wings of fire#wof burn#wof thorn#wof coral#wof orca#actually I wonder if the challenge to the death for the throne was something that happened after beetlewing and leafwing migration#because they show no indication that there’s a history of challenges to the death for the throne from any pantalan tribe#though that could be because idk sequoia and hazel get along and book of clearsight involvement#but it does seem to indicate that there may be no such thing as a royal challenge there#I am so glad to finally be able to write out my thoughts on this#been listening to the audiobook again#they’re very good very recommended
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“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”
#Frankenstein#frankensteins monster#victor frankenstein#mary shelley#gothic lit#gothic art#goth artist#sooo the creature is pretty fuckin terrifying and I don’t think I’ve conveyed that much in my art yet#if you haven’t watched the royal ballet I highly recommend you do#I may post some clips bc I haven’t seen anyone else do that?#but ur better watching the whole thing#and the national theatre play#they’re both just Very good adaptations and the monster is terrifying in them 😭#my art#this is very much inspired by/based on a statue by Jean-Baptiste carpaeux#‘ugolino and his sons’#and the carvings of Satan by Gustave Dore
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okay so:
the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.
and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.
about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:
"mumbo, is the moon... big?"
suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.
this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.
and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?
the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.
and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.
but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.
(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)
(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)
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holy shit
#ok ok let me see if i have the timeline correctly:#1) s8 begins in June and so does the new update announcement#2) months go by with no issue (that they’re aware of)#3) it’s in November when they realize the moon has been growing#4) does the moon crash in January???#but gawddam#that is one apocalypse story if I’ve heard of one#also fitting bc i think it was 2021 where we were getting a LOT of asteroid/moon fall movies#idk what was in the air (possibly the pandemic that led to unforced isolation & ppl coped with apocalypse stories)#and somehow that bled through to a Minecraft server???? somehow?????#wild#this also reminds me of an apocalypse movie i watched with a friend called ‘3 Días’#very good movie btw#highly recommend (it is a Spanish only film which i don’t think will be an issue bc subtitles)#anyway#asks#smp 101 with gumy#hermitcraft edition!
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MGSV sketch dump. The brainrot is thriving
#mgs#metal gear solid#mgsv#mgs5#mgsvtpp#I’ve let the brainrot simmer for a couple of days and dare I say I think I love this game#I mean there are things I hated but overall an absolute banger#I’ll definitely be replaying it#one thing I think the game would’ve benefitted from is taking more time for the ending#it was too abrupt#the additional higher difficulty missions could’ve been a mode#and those episodes could’ve been used to pace the ending#I also hesitate to recommend the game cuz it really benefits from the context of previous games#and that’s a lot of game#mgs5 also covers some very heavy topics#that hit very close to reality#I might have gotten more squeamish with time but some of those things were very difficult to process#one thing I think mgs does very well is it never settles for one side or one person being the absolute hero#in this plot they may be a relatively good person#but in the next they’re the villain#but it’s never static#and it u can’t get cozy with tropes#it’s not even grey morality it’s just human nature
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banging my head against the wall every time I see someone reblogging a post of mine with tags mentioning the ‘unrequited confession’. we have been OVER this it is NOT a case of unrequited romantic love it is completely canonically up in the air as a possibility. listen to jayden revri himself and be enlightened i am begging you
#rambling#payneland#also getting recommended posts with this rhetoric fhdhfjdhd it’s just annoying cause it’s like. misinformation#if that scene was actually a rejection I’d feel a lot worse about this show as a whole like really it Matters that it’s not#do you really think Superhell 2: Escape From Superhell would be a good idea. because I feel like they’re actively trying to counter those#kinds of damaging or at least exhausting and overdone queer tropes#tragic unrequited gay boy hopelessly in love with his best friend suffering forever because he’s gay#is. exactly the kind of exhausting overdone queer trope that almost unequivocally makes me lose a lot of respect for a show#so it is very very very important to me that this is. not that. and the actors have cemented that fact openly#please………..please just listen to the words being said………don’t conflate uncertainty with rejection……..take my hand#that’s not to say edwin didn’t TAKE it as a rejection. because based on what he says to niko he absolutely did#which will make it all the more juicy when what he thinks is impossible starts to become real and within reach. eventually. hopefully#also- less explicit- but Charles’ hand-on-heart thing after their last hug… like you really don’t have to be a film major#(saying this as a film major) to deduce what that means and what its calling back to. it’s pretty easy to put 2+2 together there#but anyway. I digress
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2024 reads / storygraph
Walking Practice
weird scifi horror novella
follows an alien who crash-landed on earth years ago, and spends their days hooking up with people to then eat them & gain enough strength to make it through the day
explores existing outside of the binary norm and being seen as other, deep loneliness, and desire for connection
meandering narration, interesting formatting, illustrations
#walking practice#dolki min#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#Ohh this was really good! funny and gross and visceral.#interesting exploration of queer/trans existence and loneliness through an alien perspective#and the ridiculousness of human gender roles and being othered by society#It made me laugh a lot. the rambling kind of narration goes from funny to sad to existential and back#talking directly to the reader.#I love how they talk about objects like they’re sentient. and also getting hairballs from eating people.#The formatting vs audiobook narration choices are interesting - I read both together on recommendation.#The narration is very expressive and the print book has illustrations and sections of just random symbols#(me; queuing at the warehouse listening to a weird mangle of sounds for a full minute wondering if the audiobook file is corrupted.#no; it's meant to be like that) The translator’s note at the end is interesting too.
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I can feel kh on the horizon somewhere (is it because of the incoming missing link release) maybe. I just feel her presence
#kipspeak#she’s coming closer…..#also maybe because im Relistening to kingdom smarts khux episodes. Again#they’re a gem even if u do not care for the rest of the podcast (it is the nature of podcasters to have opinions)#I would HIGHLY recommend finding the khux episodes. Jake’s reactions r very good#I can feel Shannon doing this :D the whole time
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#so anyway i’m on a train and this is my quick recap#of what i’ve been up to the last year#firstly i found out i have adhd because i was so burnt out and anxious i was sent to the hospital with a suspected heart attack lol#which they’re currently looking into to see if i have any heart problems or just anxiety 24/7 🙃#either way it’s been a great explanation for why i find everything so difficult everyday when i didn’t even know i was finding it hard 😐#my mum also almost died which was very much not fun and a little traumatising#i also can’t remember if i mentioned this before i disappeared (i must have) but i bought my own flat here in london which was my lifes goal#and i’ve spent the last like 8 months renovating to my own taste#it’s been a crazy and overwhelming experience doing all#of this by myself#but nether the less she persisted !!!!#and i’m finally in!!!#living alone? would highly recommend#and lastly this genocide has broken my heart completely and disrupted my ability to enjoy a lot of things and was why i wouldn’t bring#myself to come on here and talk about things that really didn’t matter in comparison#i have a friend directly effected and i feel v personally effected as someone who is west asian/muslim#so yeah it’s been difficult#and then the liam news hit me like a truck#it’s just been a Time#and the months slipped away from me like water#the only good thing that’s happened i guess is that i discovered sleep token this year and they immediately became my favourite band#i’m seeing them next month and have had them on repeat non stop#so apologies in advance for turning into a sleep token blog lol
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I went to the Jewish bookstore today. Here are some titles I didn’t buy, but if you’ve read them, I’d like to know whether you recommend them or not.
In Forest Fields: a unique guide to personal prayer
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale
On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom by Arthur Kurzweil
Stop Look Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens by Nehemia Polen
On Being Free by Adin Steinsaltz
My Grandmother’s Candlesticks: Judaism and Feminism, A Multigenerational Memoir by Diane Schulder Abrams
Festivals of Faith: CONNECT and GROW with the JEWISH YEAR by DISCOVERING Is ESSENCE by Rabbi Moshe Wolfson
Why We Tremble
Inside Teshuvah by Miriam Millhauser Castle
Opening the Gates of Teshuva: A Contemporary Commentary on Rabbeinu Yonah’s Shaarei Teshuva by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit
Knocking on the Gates of Teshuvah: Comments and Insights Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah by Rabbi A. Levin
Life After Teshuvah: Five, Ten, and Twenty Years Later
Vegetarianism, Ecology, and Business Ethics: Three Essays of Judaic Insights into Contemporary Concerns by Daniel Sperber
#I tried asking the woman at the register if she recommends any books she’s read recently#and she said something about being in the middle of 5 books#which very me#but then she didn’t say what books!#instead she started grabbing new arrivals and stacking them in my hands besides never having read them nor knowing if they’re good#like maam#I’ve been around this highlight section for elul and high holidays multiple times and I need one single recommendation#jumblr#jewish books
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I should probably reread the Tiffany Aching books now that I’m doing witchcraft.
#also because they’re very good#if discworld is too intimidating this might be a good entry point#I first read them in middle school#and I’m sure I didn’t even realize just how good they were at the time#book recommendations#witchy shit#witchcraft#I stand by a good pair of boots being one of a witch’s greatest tools#but mostly I’m thinking about the i shall wear midnight scene#where she takes away someone’s pain or illness#and it hovers over her right shoulder and slowly seeps into her instead#sounds like legit magic to me
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When your favorite animal doesn’t have a dnd race and all the homebrews you can find aren’t quite right and cause you know way to much about the animal in question you make a scientifically accurate homebrew 👍
#it’s bats if you’re wondering#fucking love bats#they’re just silly little guys#I have so many facts that make good DnD traits#I even built them a culture and naming system#I’m very autistic about this#highly recommend though#it’s been really fun#I got to use the stuff I knew AND learn more stuff#which is always fun#dnd#dnd homebrew#dungeons and dragons#homebrew race#bats#my dnd
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I know I’ve made other posts talking about or alluding to this but like. obviously there are like the old hollywood movies in the sort of dyke subtext canon (all about eve, rebecca, johnny guitar, etc) but like. there are so many movies that like 10 people have seen but I have such a clear gay vision or interpretation for it. most of them aren’t even GOOD. and yet!!
like the great lie is the one that haunts me the most (or the women but I think that one is kind of different for me perhaps bc I’ve already talked about it here a lot or perhaps bc I think of it as being more well known and watched than I think it actually is? actually it’s probably that I think it is an overall good and well executed and entertaining movie which isn’t really true of most of these tbh). but I also think a lot about like when ladies meet, or old acquaintance, or sadie mckee, or the shining hour, or the model and the marriage broker, or a woman’s secret, or the bigamist, or craig’s wife, or born to be bad, or separate tables, or even dark victory to a degree. others too certainly those are just the ones that come to mind. for half of these it’s not even like oh these women are gay together it’s just like hey I think she’s a lesbian. and I’m right. but my genius will never be fully appreciated in my day unfortunately.
#a woman’s secret has kind of been haunting me since I watched it like a week or so ago in that it’s literally got so many interesting#pieces and facets and I find so much of it very interesting but they just like really don’t dig in or come together so it’s enough that#I think about it and not remotely satisfying which I’m beginning to think is just how I feel about nicholas ray’s stuff. I don’t really#have a large sample but like born to be bad is not a movie that I think is good but it has like infected me somehow. which i did and still#do largely attribute to joantaine. but like idk. and also I wanted to like Johnny guitar and obviously there’s a lot of interesting stuff#in there to dissect it just… feels unsatisfying/like it doesn’t come together. idk what it is.#also like it is fully sampling bias that across the three I listed as noted subtext and then all the others I listed#there’s uh. 4 joan crawford movies 4 bette davis movies 3 joan fontaine movies#but it’s still really funny to me lmao… I will say how did I not list ANY babs movies… that can’t be right… I mean like night nurse#and ladies they talk about def have some gay moments and like. walk on the wild side exists lmao#but I wouldn’t really consider any of those to be consistent with the thing I’m trying to describe here lol#anyways. I think that’s enough rambling for now.#old hollywood#my post#also I would happily expand on my vision for any of these lmao. it’s just that I think it generally requires a certain familiarity with the#movie itself and. a lot of these I wouldn’t necessarily recommend? not that they’re all bad just like. not incredible idk#which kind of hinders this a bit. and now like I could give background provide clips etc but then that’s requiring a level of effort#that I’m not gonna spontaneously exert while sitting in bed Thinking. which is what this post is lmao. (‘that’s enough rambling for now’#I said several tags ago… a fact which I could easily change but shan’t.)#(edit of prior tags to say that I wrote the tags before mentioning the women in this post bc idk for a moment I lived in a world in which#everyone knew the women was about dykes. so anyways it’s now 5 joan movies 4 joantaine movies#which is neat. the sampling bias is also fun bc like yes 5 joan movies is a lot to mention but I’ve seen like 30 joan movies so.#of course there are other movies of hers where I would be calling her gay but like im less invested. joantaine is a lot funnier to me bc#I’ve only actually seen 7 joantaine movies. and like ok including the bigamist is admittedly wild given that my queer interpretation of it#is like. her and ida lupino who do not so much as meet in the film. but the extent to which I wish they did fuels me)
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How do you handle all the toxic players on TCM? I wanna play but I’ve heard my friends getting some nasty comments from players :(
i would recommend the following strats:
ask them if they want to kiss repeatedly until they shut up. this may disarm them and make them seethe and mald, which is funny
mute all in voice chat and just communicate important callouts through text chat to your team if needed
play with your friends and repeat step 2! then you can’t hear the stupid stuff the enemy team might say in lobby or post-game (:
gg them first. sometimes this also will disarm a pissed off gamer
all else fails or they call you a hurtful slur just tell them to kys (keep yourself safe, in minecraft)
BONUS (thanks rae + renee): have your whole gang start meowing, effectively drowning out the person trying to flame
#asking someone if they want to kiss when they’re trying to flame me has worked or at least been funny like 9/10 times#in all seriousness anon i’m sorry that’s what you’ve heard! honestly like… yeah there’s always gonna be toxic ppl in games like this#but i recommend just having fun with it. turn the tables on the people trying to ruin your good time#but if you don’t want that kind of thing just play with your friends and mute all the other players in lobby. very peaceful#i haven’t run into THAT many people like that but i don’t personally solo queue too often so the chance is less
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working retail truly is just about making dumb jokes, half my job is being like “that’s why they hired me” about being the only one on staff tall enough to take stock off the top rails without the hook + swimwear retail specifically the other half is just me making jokes about being very flat chested to either gas up or commiserate with customers
#lots of ‘god didn’t give with both hands’ and ‘i’m an a and a half on a good day’#or like ‘unfortunately not a problem i have but based on feedback can recommend this one’#and then it’s like. did i even work a shift if someone doesn’t mention my height#and it’s not like 5’10 is even that tall it’s just that it seems that way when everyone else is 5’2#it’s always just very amusing to be watching a customer go to reach for something and then cut in like ‘hey did you want me to get that?’#and they’re like oh cool gigantor will get it#personal
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If you followed me for hxh i DO highly recommend checking out tower of god. It’s its own story obviously & there’s nothing on the level of the chimera ant arc writing-wise yet but it scratches a lot of the same itches that hxh does (i.e. expansive intricate worldbuilding, good character writing, interesting power system etc). it’s fucking long (although so is hxh ig) but it’s a very fun read :)
#first season of the anime is good and the soundtrack rules so i would recommend it :)#unfortunately they changed studios for the second one and they’re making changes that detract from the story so I’d recommend reading the#manhwa alongside it at the very least#now that i think about it though most people follow me for dungeon meshi. well you might like it too :)
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Shoutout to the many Neko Atsume books that never got localized 😔
Some of these are packed with lore you’d never know otherwise… and these aren’t even all the Neko Atsume books in existence!
#neko atsume#at least we got where am I meow and the haiku book… but that’s still only 2 and they were localized YEARS ago#they’re both very good and cute books though I highly recommend them :) they have at least some lore too#but the 1st 2nd and 4th books in this post are absolute lore GOLDMINES that I so badly wish we had gotten overseas :(#two guidebooks and a storybook… you have no idea how bad I want them XD#the fifth one is a storybook too I believe- less lore than the first but still very good and cute#also fun fact the pose snowball is doing on the cloud is from a goodie you can no longer obtain- a robot called pepper#ok but the sticker book would be SO easy to localize it’s just stickers!!! why did we never get it!!!#at least most of the content from the third row has been archived on the wiki cuz it’s from a free web comic#but I’m pretty sure there’s still some book exclusive stuff in there… 😔#the last book is a ‘psych test’ book with lots of quizzes… sounds interesting XD#anyway that’s my neko atsume brainrot for the day lol :p#heres to hoping neko atsume 2 is so successful that we finally get some of these localized XD a girl can dream…
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