#this is a fckd up show and its fun

[tiodolma]

Morgana, the War on Camelot and Why They Couldn't Just Negotiate Something Out

ON MORGANA

like really .. you can think of bbc morgana as a political activist that came from the elite. She's the smart, opinionated, confident and politically relevant individual. She used her priviliged voice multiple times against their kingdom's highest authority as a way to represent the marginalized that she also belongs to... only for her to get imprisoned, chained, grounded and constantly lied to. She gets mixed in with the more radical group of people, gets even bolder to the point of staging assassinations and coups. Destiny comes to a head and then she becomes isolated and radicalized straight up to the point that she became a full-on insurrectionist and usurper.

Bottomline was She wanted her home to be a better place for her and for everyone. Yet dspite her doing everything to be honest, to follow the rules, everybody pushed her away in one way or another. Plus her own internal suffering never really stopped. And in the end she just... ran out of options...she kept running out of options.

ON MORGANA BECOMING A USURPER/ INSURGENT/ CONQUEROR AFTER HER COMPLETE RADICALIZATION

If taking up arms (and government destabilization by whatever means) was the only way left, then so be it. Even if it means ridding the city of its current inhabitants. She could always repopulate it with more deserving people anyway.

Cruel but i think there was one ottoman king who said and did this when he besieged a city (prolly constantinople but meh, this was common practice).

Her one-year radicalization has taught her that the none of the citizens except for a very few deserved to be saved. In this type of thinking, as conqueror/warlord, all they need is land/territory anyway coz people will come and want to settle in regardless. It's like "new world order" "utopia" kind of thing. Cleansing the world (or kingdom) completely and building up a new one. Very.. insurrectionist-y (and honestly it is quite christian apocryphon-y... ragnarok-y? you get the gist.)

People get too hung up on "she's a crazy evil witch" that they forget what her political power struggle was initially about. Her lasting solution and the one that Morgause taught her was to create a world where she(and hopefully others) would be free, damn it all, and also damn those who defy her.

ON HER WAR FOR MAGIC.. AND THE STATE OF MAGIC IN THEIR WORLD IN GENERAL

"she didnt really help the magic folk tbh"

oh but i think in a way, she did... she gave the ones, the factions, who have always risen up in arms more hope and more fuel in their hearts. Like some may have not have joined her cause immediately but it emboldened them further because someone else who's powerful, who is an elite, who is nobility, was giving them a voice and banner to run cover AND to destroy and takeover the kingdom and the dynasty that started their oppression. She was helping that faction of the magic folk indeed.

Remember that only a few were part of the prophetic magic sect. Less even knew about the prophecy and if they did then it was a closely guarded secret.

So it should not be surprising that a majority of magicfolk wouldn't want the bigoted Arthur Pendragon as King and some unknown supposedly powerful sorcerer who never shows up would rule them all.

Hell no. and they would fight it. and they are justified to do so. (just as merlin was justified to do what he does)

ON JUSTIFICATION AND ETHICS

Like I said, rebellions and government takeovers are always tricky. Everyone is justified, everyone can resort to cruelty just to get what they want. There is manipulation and betrayal and unethical decisions on all sides.

ON THE POSSIBILITY FOR ACTUAL DIPLOMACY

But they can always negotiate and be diplomatic about it if they wanted to. if they played their cards rights bloodshed could have been averted. But that means both sides must have something to offer.

but in bbc merlin... Camelot fell short of that.

WHAT MORGANA HAD

See, Morgana knew her demands. She knew what she wanted. She knew what she was fighting for. She knew what to leverage. She had the

legitimate claim (being of Uther's direct bloodline, which was apparently already enough to challenge kingdom succession),

the justification (a new camelot that accepts Magic),

the strength (being immortal and a high priestesss),

some nobles (Agravain),

influence (her name is known far and wide),

wealth (presumably Gorlois' land holdings as well as previous territorial gains) and

a strong foreign army (Helios) backing her up.

the (imminent) support of people both magic/nonmagic who want to see the end of the regime.

Moreover Morgana (and others tbh) had been destabilizing the kingdom for years anyway. The weakness, the cracks were already there, waiting to be exploited, always being exploited. Anyone with a mind for it would have found it so so so easy to just... take it.

WHAT ARTHUR HAD (TBH NOT A LOT)

Meanwhile Arthur did not know what he had. He had nothing to bargain because he lacked the information. The only bargaining chip he could have had was just hiding from him in his own goddamn court. Arthur didn't even know about the state secrets of his own kingdom, which by the way, were very important state secrets (that magic had kept the kingdom safe all those years).

Arthur had no leverage other than him being (1)heir-apparent, (2)his skilled but limited retinue and (3)decently fortified castle (4)weakened and easily defeatable ally kingdoms. He doesn't even have a succession plan. Magic isn't accepted in his kingdom in any manner possible (plus he's too deathly afraid of it).

MERLIN'S FAILURE

Merlin/Gaius/Kilgharrah, by hiding Emrys AND THE PROPHECY, deprived Arthur the leverage that they needed diplomatically against the political institution that Morgana already was. Because of his vigilanteism, Merlin was incapacitating Arthur's diplomatic abilities as king. Merlin betrayed Arthur over and over again all because of the same bullsht bad advice that Kilgharrah and Gaius kept drilling into his head for more than half a decade.

Arthur had nothing to offer Morgana in exchange for peace in the bargaining table.

WHEN YOU DONT EVEN START PROPER NEGOTIATIONS, THEN YOU ALREADY FAIL

that's why it's a tragedy. Morgana had more cards than Arthur and nobody wanted to back down. So is it really surprising that they all had no choice but to go to war?

[baelthier]

Ugh I guess im still thankful for gou bc thanks to it higu got revived and there’s so much new beautiful fan content. But gou itself got me like (((((((((( :

[heartsoftruth]

Neymar video translation

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OK, so I’m going to make somewhat of a translation of the video Neymar published on his insta after the accusations he r*ped a girl.

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Like I’ve said earlier in a post I think these messages are going to save him from these allegations, but everyone can have their own opinion about them.

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There’s a few cringeworthy pickup lines that we can read before the meeting happens:

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SHE: “ I dreamt about u all of the sudden I was on my knees. Long story short, I’m a prey looking for a hunter”

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SHE: “Oi, cause of my libido. Was working out”

NEY: “Working out for what?”

SHE: “Get that booty ready for ya”

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*girls send photos*: “Good night, reason of my wet dreams”

NEY: I’m already missing what we haven’t lived yet

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NEY: Happy birthday lots of good shit for ya

SHE: Thanks, I’ve already asked God an entire day to love you

NEY: Come to Paris

SHE: I’m headed to Germany in April, I’ll try to escape to Paris. saving money

NEY: I can help you with that

SHE: I’m kind proud but I wouldn’t oppose to see you

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NEY: “coming with a friend?

SHE: I’m worth four women, all of them wanting to please you

NEY: The question does not give me pleasure/answers me. (…) I just worry about you coming and feeling alone. But it’s already good.

SHE: I’m pretty much solitude chill

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Then Ney sends a sticker (this is already the cause of a lot of memes in Brazil so that’s why I post it), but it hard to translate. “I’m getting asleep but wish I was getting you" Or: It’s kind of a wordplay that doesn’t translate well to english, but “pegando no sono” means “falling asleep”, and “pegando você” translates to “making out with you” or “fkng you”.

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Now that we’ve seen the cheesy pickup lines and Ney also being quite sweet in my eyes still thinking about her not coming alone because otherwise she would be lonely. We move to the f***ing.

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This picture shows Neymar arriving at the hotel (Chegando) then follows with messages after they had s** where she says: you know there’s a come back, right? Ney: no there won’t. They joke a bit and she says: “theres still 3 you should meet. This was the calm one.” then Neymar says “Ofcourse we will have s** again. I hope its today ahahaha”.

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*with “there there’s still 3 you should meet” she means how she earlier said she was worth four women. So he supposedly fckd the first one and she said he would still have to come back to f*** the other 3.

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Then ON THE SAME DAY the s** happened she writes the following:

Neymar: Where are you?

Her: Hotel

Neymar: Im very crazy

Her: Come here ffs

THE NEXT DAY (also seen in the photo above):

Her: You have to come here earlier today because tomorrow we wont be able.

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He ignores her messages. She calls him

Her: are you still drunk?

Neymar: Hey, im working.

Her: I just arrived at the hotel, im going home tomorrow, find 30 minutes for me today. You will just meet the second one, the last 2 (of the aforementioned 4) we save for a later opportunity.

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Her: Bring something for my son, his name is Lucca, his a big fan of yours.

Neymar: I’ll bring something

Neymar: a lot of clothes

Her: Come and take them off.

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This last screenshot she begs for Neymar to come over to her hotel with some wine and a loudspeaker to “finish her off”, just moments before shes off for the airport to return to Brazil. All these messages (with photos) here are AFTER they had s**.

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According to the official document Neymar arrived at 20.00 on the 15th of May and the rape happened around 20:20. Now all scroll back to that first text pic where her ass was posted and see the time? On 16:08 he posted a photo of her butt (after they had s**) and then she asks the whole evening for him to return. According to her statement as well Ney arrived drunk.

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Now luckily Neymar is quite active on social media and so are his friend so this is a video of him during the day. Yes I wish he was drunk hearing how bad he’s singing but (thanks to the close up) you can see he isn’t.

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Besides that he also had a birthday party of Marquinhos to attended on the 15th of May. Where we’ve also seen a TON of videos of Neymar where he appeared happy and fun but not drunk or something. And when you’re already drunk and you drink even more it gets even worse…

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Here Ney was already at the birthday party of Marquinhos (and it was still light. In Europe it’s now almost summer so it’s more light in the evening) and he stayed until the sun went down. The fact that she says it happened at 20:20 can’t be possible since he was at Marquinhos’s house untill it went dark.

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So here’s the end to a VERY long post, but also one that deserves being so long seeing the allegations are so serious. Everyone can decide for their own what they think and how they feel like.

[oswednesday]

its also kinda fckd up that lucio is the “worst” version of himself in the muriel route which, 

like on one hand it Makes sense cause what he and his family do to muriel is like The Worst but its weird to quantify “badness” like that, and its like the problem with the execution of the game, having stuff locked in a single path, its cool theres like the Feeling of branching paths like, muriel is too preoccupied with you so lucio gets the heart of the forest, in other routes muriel isnt distracted and lucio is like completely thrown off task by you coming into the woods with different characters, like with asra he gets Nothing done so he gets eaten by demons, with nadia he must get enough done (gamer theory he doesnt get the heart of the forest for volta so shes not on his side, what allows her to switch sides like that, but he does get the warrior heart and like i cant remember if we see morga in nadias route so he may have gotten that to vlastomil or his alliance is just unmoveable cause he wants to be a worm but i think its only vulgoras stuff he must get cause hes human enough to  be like i want out) with julian he likely has vulerius farther along and has vulgoras an valdemars debt settle but probs not vlastomil or voltas? cause hes a Menace longer in that one even tho they beat him with The Power Of Friendship but omg this is getting long, i like that your actions can be seen effecting how messed up lucio gets but it would be cool if i was just an actual sim and not like an emulation of one cause it would be fun to see how all the ways you could take it, like its some really good subtler writing in the game, like i know a lot of people cite it as proof of poor writing and inconsistencies but i think the intent is to show how invested lucio is in You and how he feels about others characters

like In Conclusion, muriel is both someone hes threatened by but considers him so like outside of himself that he pushes to complete the bargins to gain powers while not being distracted by the fact that you’re with him cause like PFFFT THAT GUY???? BABE WATCH THIS [becomes an abomination] 

like ill be sooo surprised and big pissed if they never do like, aha ditch that guy this body is mine anyway, steals you kinda thing in the upcoming muriel chapters