#this fucking lute i stg

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Lust Love in the Desert, ep 9 liveblogging

Yunpei Lord, on his lil podium in the lantern show & mumbling to himself & captive Rong Huo: "When one is powerful enough, everything in this world will surrender at his feet."

me & Rong Huo:

ML has infiltrated the festival as... a performing dance trope. Ok?

To distract us all from the twirling, FL brings out a full ass tea set to the stage

lmaoooooooo both ML and SML have teams on the ground cued to an 'action whistle' and they're canceling each other out 😂😭

Now random concubine is trying to show up the FL with her own tea and actually doing her a favor by causing more distraction

ML drawing a bit of not silvia recommended attention by asking for tea served by the princess as a reward.

"The tea is cold." "But my heart is hot." ok, SMOOTH. and he passed her a lil note thing.

still dumb, sorry

General Wu proposes a tea(?) battle between FL and the other concubine, to get her tribe some oasis. I'm guessing this was already planned by the Lord.

Ah the note has "I miss you", damn ML has romancing skills

Yunpei Lord made a big deal at the festival about exempting his residents from taxes but now he's underlining to the general that this money better be re-couped from the weaker tribes. I'm making like the nanny in Are You The One, 'what a sin, what a sin..'

This Lord is just so in love with himself. Like he's clever but so up his own ass that eventually that'll be his downfall.

Ruo Ren and the Desert CIA have now both figured out they're both in the city and plotting shit.

Ruo Wen also finally notices he misplaced his non-girlfriend last night but whatever, moving on lol

His first priority right now is meeting with Team ML to stir up some shit together

ML is supportive of Ruo Wen's Yunpei conquering plan and is gonna hook him up w a weapons connection.

Oh did 2ML not actually forget her and is asking for help from Desert CIA? tbh it's a bit confusing because he flashes a piece of paper and it's the same portrait paper he had with FL's picture before. But it wouldn't make sense that he doesn't know where FL is. He just saw her last night on stage. So it must be a new pic of Princess 2.

Princess 2 was kidnapped by a brothel and her rich girl temper tantrums are not gonna cut it. She needs to pick up some of her non-boyfriend's famed martial arts.

ML just walking into the Lord's home to seduce his woman some more. This time it's some mutual lute playing.

This man has the worst security I stg.

EVeryThiNG in tHis WOrld wiLL sUrrENder aT HiS feET. 🤡

Faux-enunch at the door to be impotently suspicious and also inform us it will be a needlework competition among ladies. ok.

Where's Wei Yingluo when you need her

Our ML still creeping around the house, watching his crush embroider, sneaking a baked good she left out for him. This relationship is so weird, I kinda love it.

Yunpei Lord comes back to try to intimidate a reclining Rong Huo yet again, then very poorly lies that he just wants to find his brother to share the city with him

Rong Huo: didn't u kill him as a kid 😏

Lord: I'm not gonna give up 😤

Rong Ruo: k have fun with that 😝

The missing kid of the former lord is very obviously our birthmarked 2ML

oh noooo someone stole the needlework threads from FL's competition (obviously the rival concubine)(or just the Lord fucking with her)

But why do we care?

[starvels]

Cw: Fatphobia, body shaming, disordered eating, suicidal ideation

We talking about that “””banter””” in Marvel’s Avengers when the team bullied Tony about his weight and he talks about being on a juice cleanse?? Because I hate that so, so much. Like. Tony was depressed! and isolated for 5 years!!! And like, Not Doing Ok!

@blossomsinthemist was talking about it and like :(((((( https://www.tumblr.com/blossomsinthemist/721606463816105984/nat-may-claim-she-never-broke-cover-to-help

Plus the fact that it’s heavily implied Nat, that takes part in the bullying, KNOWS Tony was depressed and suicidal https://www.tumblr.com/blossomsinthemist/721588267817025536/i-need-more-fics-out-squareenixs-steve-coming-to

And like you said, he is still thin in the game, but like, so what if he wasn’t? Tony can be any shape and he wouldn’t deserve that! He could still be any shape and still kick ass in a literal power suit. Like. :(

(I kinda liked how I’m the game Tony seemed to have a bit of a hunch to him, man’s a workaholic that is either typing or leaned over a work table and I liked seeing that in a character design (tho it might just be a bad rig and all the characters have it, it’s just hidden under their costumes), but -11000099999 points for the ““banter””. EG Thor all over again)

yeah! that is what i was referring to in this post. as i'm watching playthroughs to make MA content for STG, i found this scene so off-putting and it reminded me of a lot of other ones i've seen in comics. & feeling just the general vibe reading a comic that i am never gonna get to see fat people be heroic. especially not at least, without emphasizing that they're a fat person sure, but they are still heroic, don't worry!

fat heroes' heroism always comes as a caveat to their body shape and weight.

nasty!!!!

but yes blossoms' point here abt tony and perception of self and internalizing a lot of judgement values about his appearance and how fun it is to explore that are so apt!

blossoms always handles tony's relationship with his own body in such compelling and intricate ways that are very tender and vulnerable. and i agree! i also like exploring these themes and playing with how tony relates to being a public figure, as well as how he relates to himself and the ways in which he feels pleasure or contentment or beauty or pride.

to blossoms+anons second point, abt nat knowing, yeah. if you read it just in-text, it can be really complicated by their own individual and combined relationships to trauma and processing and how much info they are sharing between them. that's always very interesting to eke out of interactions w the two of them -- two people who can guard their hearts and heads so intensely.

but taking a meta-textual approach to it, i flat out think when people ascribe their own -isms to characters, they are not thinking about how it fits a character's personality or interpersonal relationships.

we, as the fans, do the labor of asking how it can be internally consistent for a character that grew up without bodily autonomy, that knows intimately how loss and trauma affect your bodily functions, who knows exactly how tony fights and what it takes to do that, who knows that bodies are only one tool in a whole box -- makes fun of someone who trusts her, on her team, for potentially gaining weight. we hypothesis and convolute the relationship and infer from the absences of a canon text. the writers don't have to do any of that work. and that more than anything generally proves to me how shoehorned in all the -isms people apply to characters are.

they're not thinking three levels deep. and to be honest, i like our collective 3 level thoughts better than there, so ! phooey on them!! they don't get a seat at our table.

it literally doesn't matter what your body looks like if you're designing a metal suit to go around it that is based on non-physical input to function. and tony's found family should abso-fucking-lutely not be (even jokingly) shaming him for disordered eating and suicidal ideation, esp not during a battle lol. but yes, tony should have a hunch and neck problems and whine and use a heating pad and tiger balm too much <3 beloved greasemonkey sun.

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1- abso-fucking-lutely wonderful writing (which is why I followed you)

2- I abso-fucking-lutely love you bff

3- serotonin from you anytime

🥺😭🥺😭 thank you bb

I stg I love you

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Guillaume Tell [in 1776] (Southern Illinois Music Festival, 2016): Reactions, Part I

Do I need sleep? Maybe. Do I need French opera? Of course. Do I need French opera directed by one of the wittiest directors out there right now and updated to the American Revolution? ABSO-FREAKIN’-LUTELY.

a very interesting vibe

how can you NOT bop out to this overture???

welcome to MURICA

Rossini: “you get a high C! and you get a high C! EVERYONE gets a high C!”

the poor tenor playing Ruodi at the premiere: “you want me to sing an aria with two high Cs FIVE MINUTES into the opera???”

also: sir, please look directly behind you because your appraisal of the weather is not entirely accurate

Area Baritone Is Contemplating

yes, because ‘Melchtal’ isn’t American enough

also I stg that EVERY time I type that name I have to Google how it should be spelled and half the time I STILL get it wrong

Arnold: ‘excuse me I need to get drunk in order to get through this’

yay for weddings!!!

adorable people being adorable :)

we are apparently having an extended set change in the middle of the act

because you are a tenor

teeny-tiny telescope

this duet bops and both singers are excellent

tfw you’re in love with the tyrant’s sister

are the dancers getting paid per number

however, I would like to applaud the team behind this production for not scrapping the ballets wholesale

so are they just going to Americanize every name in the libretto

whoever’s running subs needs to stop changing them too early

such a great family man

Rossini just slaps, man.

you people are douchebags

that’s a great idea

feisty little child

FIRE!!!!

oh shit noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

NOT COOL also rip

most of the dueling choruses that open the act were cut :(

MATHILDE IS HERE

I love this aria so much and this Mathilde is GOOD

it do be like that sometimes

I hard ship them (seriously, one of the few completely healthy canonical operatic romantic relationships)

...and then you two are going to fuck because that is ABSOLUTELY the subtext here

protect them

hahahaha

:( :( :(

this trio bops

so we are in Pennsylvania and this is the crossing of the Delaware. okay. got it.

“for our COUNTY” ajakfjdgskldhfdjgal

(subtitles are low-hanging fruit for humor)

awwwwwww

but I LIKE the different canton entrances :(

also that has got to be the smallest 3-militia combo ever

“with silence” and yet you sing about it #justoperathings

this finale is so badass

not to be a translation stickler (TM) but this line actually translates to “and may the earth refuse them a grave”, which is the exact opposite

small but impressively mighty group of voices

LET’S GO START A REVOLUTION

‘MURICA EVERYONE

[charred-angelwings]

NO NOT THAT SCRUFF WITH THOSE LIPS

[i-write-stories-not-sins-bitch]

Ok breaks over.

Omg they found the leshy

Why the leshy kinda???

I fucking love Geralt little run.

FHAT THE FUCK IS THAT UNHOLY ABOMINATION ITS A CENTIPEDE THING THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT THING JASKIER SAW ON THE MOUNTAIN THAT GAVE THE KNIGHT DIHAREA

RUN BITCH RUUUUUN

She so smol she hide under rock tiny ciri

Don’t do it

FOR FUCK SAKE CIRI DO AS YOUR DAD TELLS YOU

You couldn’t have just hidden. Now you’re trapped. Stupid girl. Scream, we know you can

Scream

Oh

Oh no

It wasn’t bad

It went evil was it.

It stopped and then Geralt killed it

I feel like we’re gonna see a whole mother side of monsters now and Geralt’s gonna get ‘told off’ by ciri

Less than perfect means death

Uh, okay. Tell that to me and the millions of other imperfect people

—

Okay Yen are you really gonna kill Carin? (Is that his name?)

Oo sacrifice sacrifice sacrifice

Head chop board

Head gonna roll

Would you look at that, a bunch of bigoted royals and high ups.

Triss has been summoned away??

Tissaia is listing out the mages killed at the battle of sodden and it’s upsetting me

FOLTEST IS HERE OMG EWW INCEST MAN

Bord man gon die

Wonder if he squeaks in death as he does in life

Idk but when they talked of a prisoner I thought of Jask straight away. Was disappointed. He still ain’t here.

Yen are you really gonna do it? I don’t think you will

What words, Old lady?

Yen serving looks as always

Simple yet gorgeous

Bird man dead? Bird man live? Idk it’s taking ages

Yen are you?

SHE FREED HIM?!?

GOOD GIRL YEN

Man don’t do it

OO she’s letting him go with her?

She’s gonna be soooo in trouble

End of ep 3

And still no Jaskier ffs

———

Episode 4

We best have Jaskier in this one I

stg

Ok so Ciri is running through the woods. Is this a cat and mouse game to see if she can hide well?

Well she fucking failed

OH MY GOD TRISS AAA BABY HI

Awh baby

Triss healing Ciri’s cut awhh

TRISS IS ADORABLE SHE JUST PICKED A FLOWER FOR CIRI

Geralt is here AND HE HAS A BOAR HE LOOKS SMEXY

Italian Vesemir hi

Ugh I love triss

She’s adorable

How do triss and Geralt know eachother? Through incest of course

What else?

Wait why are they trapping elves!!

Okay man needs a piss

WAHT

Awh no

That’s not even

What the fuck tou sick twisted man

Just made a man piss himself cause he couldn’t hold it and he was an elf .

Omg Yennefer is on a wanted poster

Man sort your hood out you ain’t fooling anyone

Damn they’re about as good at covering their faces as Thor is. And it ain’t even cute on them

——

Omg this Redanian royal is SO gay

Is that Hedwig??

Man tryna poison the gay king 👑

King is so over it

Is this man okay to trust? The king doesn’t seem bad

Oh damn okay fuck this man

Hedwig listening in lol

wAIT THE OWL IS ACTUALLY SOMEONE???

T R A N S F I G U R A T I O N, P O T T E R

I’m confused on this herbs or mushrooms shit? In December? Eh? I’m so confused what was the point of that conversation?

Talk of the striga

Ciri and Triss being adorable that is so cute

Italian Vesemir strikes again

Oo Triss is gonna be Ciri’s advisor?

Coën is adorable as all fuck

——

Yen and bird guy again.

People beating the shit out of an elf

A knight found them

AHAHAHA YEN COMING IN CLUTCH WITH A FUCKING LUTE TO THE HEAD

Ewww the sewers. That place is probably teeming with shit

Awhhh a deaf boy that’s actually so cute

Or mute? He can hear ?

Oh wait Yen knows Sign Language?

OXUNFURT AGAIN

Wait what if Jask is in Oxenfurt?

This boy is so cute

Awhhh he has a crush on yen awhh

He just signed “you’re very pretty” he’s so adorable and shy I REALLY HOPE HE DOESNT TURN OUT TO BE EVIL

There’s a massive monster in the shit swamp sewers

——

So ciri has chaos but not chaos

She sees things.

So the centipede thing is unknown to them. They both wanted ciri

Triss and Geralt have such a cute relationship. I don’t think it’d be a romantic one like they had in the books and games but I feel like they’re good old friends who’ve been through shit together

People want ciri and we STILL DONT KNOW WHY.

Fuck off Geralt you’ll live forever if I say so

Triss having PTSD just hurts

I live Triss but her eyebrows don’t match her hair color and it’s activating my picky nature

I’m scared they gonna kiss rn and I don’t want that

She hold his hand dont

Don’t

Do NOT stay with her tonight Geralt

YES BITCH I LOVE TRISS BUT NO

Triss is only trying to push away thoughts, would basically be using Geralt so.

——

Sewers again. Back then would they even have had sewers?

The deaf boy is an elf! I didn’t even realise! His ears have been cut, gods sake

So he learned sign language in a week? Or maybe he was dead beforehand.

Boy is thinking of a whole life with yen Awh

NO THE MONSTER GOT HIM

NO YOU ASSHOLE TOU LEFT HIM

YEN WAIT WHY GO AFTER HIM YOU DONT HAVE M A G I C

OH SHE GOT CAUFHT??

Awh god yen I’m so sorry she’s been through so much

YES BITCH TELL HER HOW AMAZING SHE IS

Oh shit yeah the fire took her magic

Oh shît everything’s coming out now

God I find bird man so fucking attractive

TWAT ELF IS BACK AND HE JUST SAID SHE WOULDVE DONE THE SAME FUCK THAT

OH MY GOD IS THAT JASKIERS VOICE

IT IS I OH MG HES SINGING THE HEARTBREAK SOMG OMG HE CALLED GERALT THE BUTCHER AAA

YEN SMILED WHEN SHE HEARD HIS VOICW AANDQJJ

I CANT EVEN TYPE

JASKIER IS HELPING ELVES OMG

THIS SONG OMG ITS ABOUT YEARNING AND OMg

I can’t even

He’s so

I love him

THERE IS SO MICH LOVE AND ADMIRATION M

Oh god

He’s got so much PTSD

He stopped and he got lost

Jaskier is broken

Oh god

He just stopped for a second and he got so lost

“Watch me burn all the memories of you” this is so raw Jaskier I can’t even I need to hug him he shouldn’t go through this after 2 fucking decades of trying his best for Geralt and never even getting a single thank you. Being told to leave him constantly. And he finally did and it’s broken him.

Uh god

dARA

It’s fucking DARA

——

Nice ciri, a dress now.

Oh wait dm it’s just a pretty top

Lambert, COËN, what the fuck why are you being mean to her she just wanted to be pretty for a bit

She had a flower in her hair and they made fun of her

Triss do it! Fucking rip em a new one! She mentioned periods too!! And the fact that ciri might loose that kind of thing if they don’t be careful with what they feed her

Okay let’s see

No alchemy in the centipede thing

A MONOLITH

OH MY GOD ITS YENNIFERS EX BOYFRIEND

Irteed itreed? I don’t remember his name ffs

BUT ITS HIM

Oops this is long

SEASON 2 AAAAAAAA

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