#this will certainly be interesting LMAO

[yallstar]

viktor calls a timeout, and jayce is nothing if not accommodating......

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Something I think about a lot in regards to Vax’s deal with the Raven Queen is that Vox Machina could have brought him back from being Disintegrated. They talked about it at length before they went to sleep that night; Scanlan could’ve used Wish to turn a large enough creature (they joked about using Trinket) into enough diamonds for Pike to cast True Resurrection and bring Vax back even though his body had been destroyed. They just couldn’t do it right away. Bringing him back was well within their powers, they just needed time.

But then the Raven Queen swept in and made her offer to Vax; die now or die later to serve as my Champion in exchange for me bringing you back right away.

This isn’t to discount the fact that Vax made his choice when it came to serving the Raven Queen; I wholeheartedly agree that that was his own choice, not a debt like Keyleth believes it to be. But I do wonder, sometimes, if his answer would’ve been different if he knew what his family was planning. And I wonder too if remembering that plan that would’ve worked given time fuels Vex and Keyleth’s bitterness towards the Raven Queen, on top of everything else.



[gingermintpepper]

Why did Apollo favor the trojans in the Illiad?

So, dear Anon, I've been thinking about how to answer this question since I got it a couple days ago and I think I kind of want to make something clear before I get into it.

The Iliad by itself as a poem only covers some of the events that occur in the final year of a long protracted conflict that had been brewing for at least two decades and was an active war for ten. Within the space of the Iliad itself, the motivations and affairs of the major players are often referenced but there are many, many parts of the story that are not there because they belong to a different story cycle that has been since lost or was never recorded with words. In the space of the Iliad Apollo's motivations are questioned a lot - his pride is questioned by Poseidon who thinks Apollo should be just as angry at the Trojans as he considering Apollo was treated equally as poorly by Laomedon while they worked together. His honour is questioned by Hera who chastises him for taking the Trojans' side when he'd proclaimed that Achilles would live a long life and prosper at Thetis and Peleus' wedding. His own sister calls him a coward for refusing to fight when Zeus gives permission for the gods to go wild on the battlefield. For all that there's this image of Apollo in the Iliad as some staunch and unwavering protector of the Trojans, believe it or not, I largely think of Apollo as neutral in the war.

Which, I suppose, comes back to the question - why did Apollo favour the Trojans? The truthful answer is that I don't know. The Iliad and all its connected stories isn't something I've done enough research on to have an answer or a reference to an answer off the top of my head. The reasoning I'm aware of is that Apollo was a Patron God of Troy and really a god doesn't need any reason besides that to protect his people but it's not like Apollo abandoned the Greeks either. Calchas is the biggest example of that I can point to - descended directly from a priest of Apollo and one who attributed his mantic power to the god, Calchas was pivotal in ensuring the Greeks even got to Troy in the first place.

From a personal perspective however, I think Apollo was more dedicated to the house of Priam than he was the city of Troy itself. Apollo's affection for that house and all its members ran deep - from his admiration of Hecuba and Hector to his love and attempted courtship of Cassandra to his blessings given to Helenus, Deiphobos, Cassandra, Troilus and even his partnership with Paris - Apollo loved the house of Priam. When you think about the times Apollo lashes out against the Greeks, it's generally because they've done some nonsense to earn his ire. The plague was caused by Agamemnon disrespecting his priest, his aid in the slaughter of Patroclus was because he didn't respect him, his minor grudge against Diomedes too was because he tried to test Apollo's mettle and well, the less said about Achilles the better. Apart from his obvious favouring of Hector in the skirmishes, Apollo doesn't really oppose the Greeks. He has a ton of reasons to by the time the Iliad rolls around, including avenging the death of two of his sons, but he remains mostly satisfied with conducting his father's business and overseeing the war from a somewhat professional perspective. To me, it's always been less about Apollo caring about the fate of Troy as a city itself and more about him just really wanting to protect the people in the city that he's come to love and respect.

Of course, I encourage you to take my words with a big tablespoon of salt - like I said, I don't really know enough about the facts in particular to give a solid, confident answer but I can give you my interpretation of it. Maybe consult someone like @littlesparklight for a more comprehensive and grounded response 🤔

[myimaginationplain]

do you ever think about how Ohkubo extremely casually dropped the fact that Spirit & Kami were teen parents & then proceeded to never expound upon that fact or bring it up ever again despite it explaining a whole lot about them & Maka

[cutemeat]

Wait tell us about Dennis's ongoing thing for older male doctors

and of course theres the fantasy abt Jackie being his doctor and nursing him back to health after Dennis' default doctor guy steps away, and the implication within Saves the Day that both Dee and Dennis are having their comphet fantasies there but yknow... is all just. an interesting. chain of events. to me...

[freakinator]

whatever happens between mapicc, zam, and derap (and maybe flame??) happens imo, like idc what direction it goes in all i want is for it to be interesting

[vaguely-concerned]

making myself a proper healthy & delicious dinner like 'lucanis dellamorte would be so proud of me. not that he has a fucking leg to stand on because he's almost certainly slept all of 50 minutes in the last 48 hours and is more caffeine than man right now, but still'

[professional-rat-eater]

Coriolanus Snow and Anakin Skywalker are perfect examples of really interesting characters who had every chance to do the right thing but repeatedly chose wrong even though they were surrounded by good people, all because they had one person whispering in their ear and convincing them to be selfish and to hurt people instead. There is no point where they have to do what they do, it’s their choices that make them compelling.

They’re also both incredibly controlling over the women they claim to love but are quick to try and physically harm them when they realise that they’re actually human beings who will not blindly follow them. It’s very clear they were possessive, not actually in love. To sincerely love is to respect someone’s agency and neither of them were capable of that.

Another trait they both share is that, despite being layered and well written but fundamentally flawed characters who turn to evil by their own free will, if you cast an attractive actor to play them, there are always going to be people who blindly ignore the entire plot just to defend them and justify their actions. Being a victim of abuse or oppression does not excuse you from being a perpetrator.

[sansonrio]

saw someone on reddit trying to compare chris (leaving his sister to try to take down a pharmaceutical company creating biological weapons) to william and annette birkin (the folks at said pharmaceutical co. testing viruses on orphans)

lmao

i’ve really seen it all

[divukuri]

i think im cooked....

[nellasbookplanet]

What with c3 not only nearing but IMMINENTLY nearing its end, what if the reason the cast knows for sure there's few enough episodes left for there to be no reason to plan another 4SD is because in the next episode or so bells hells actually go through with releasing Predathos and Matt just goes

Welp. The beast is out. It kills you all. End of campaign.

And then c4 picks up in the early throes of a second calamity having to deal with the fallout of c3.

[saucy-mesothelioma]

So uh

Guess who's gonna be an auncle apparently?

[cowboys-tshot]

would anyone be interested if i just. compiled every piece of rdr2 analysis i could find.

like going through tumblr, tiktok, youtube, wikis, articles, etc and just organizing all of the already existing analysis of arthur morgan (maybe even more of the game as a whole), obviously with credit to whoever said it

but just making it so the other rdr2 fixated people such as myself can just. binge all that sweet sweet analysis without having to scour the internet for it

[mapicccc]

a curiosity question because I've been thinking about it,

[casino-lights]

I've been following you for a while and I was wondering and maybe I missed it but is Lidia also your Rook? Can you tell us more about her in that role?

Thanks for the ask!! Lidia actually is not my Rook - she's from Crow House Valisti originally, and she now accepts contracts on behalf of House Dellamorte after successfully impressing Caterina on a job that I'm definitely still writing about I swear. She currently works closely with Teia and Viago and acts as another point of contact in the Crows for Rook and the Veilguard, but she's otherwise a fairly average member of the guild.

My canon Rook is actually my girlfriend @hausdellamorte's oc Valonia Volkarin, aka Valonia Ingellvar, a Dreamer, a Mourn Watcher, Emmrich's daughter, and Lucanis' future wife. We share a single canon in pretty much every fandom we're mutually interested in, so sometimes we have multiple protagonists and other times we have one oc in the main role and we just kinda share custody.

We have a cast of supporting ocs who show up during side quests and help flesh out the world a little better because god knows Veilguard needs it, and Lidia is one of them! She acts as a supporting character through the Illario/Lucanis conflict and the Treviso missions, especially Jacobus' missions because Lidia has some oddly maternal feelings toward him. I genuinely couldn't imagine her as Rook because she would have immediately launched an arrow at Solas' head at the ritual site regardless of what Varric wanted, so it's a good thing someone a little less impulsive was in charge.

[10yearsofdnp]

February 14, 2015: Phil hosts a liveshow where he discusses his time at Playlist Live, the fun he and Dan and friends had at Universal Orlando, and gushes over Dan's work on the #NicerInternet special! 🥰☀️🎢