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[siphisket]

Get Spr(ule)onkd

[big-ass-magnet]

If Zeetha and Gil are siblings, Zeetha is the oldest. If they are twins, she was born first. Evidence:

I rest my case, your honor.

[mollysunder]

Renni's attack on the memorial ceremony didn't need to be a part of some larger plot orchestrated by Ambessa. One of the reoccurring ideas in season 1 was that Piltover constantly underestimated and dehumanized their counterparts in Zaun. It was so second nature to the Piltovan cast that they couldn't see the direct line of their actions and consequences that lead to their situation.

Renni's attack is just another one of those consequences, because Jayce killed her son, didn't try to save him, walked away from his body, and didn't even offer Renni an apology. Of course Renni was going to try to kill him, she's a dangerous chembaron who's lost her factory and her child. It's genuinely insane to think no one thought this was a possibility, but it perfectly tracks with Piltover. The Piltovan cast constantly centers their own feelings and perspectives over their counterparts in Zaun.

"How could they do this at a memoria?!?", because Zaunites like Renni are grieving too. Her son didn't get any dignity when he died (and neither did Silco), so why should Piltover? Throwing Ambessa in as the secret puppet master just flattens the whole conflict because suddenly this natural progression in hostilities and critical failures in understanding are sidestepped by an outside party.

[theladyofbloodshed]

Nesta being treated like a feral, uncontrollable thing when:

a) Azriel attacks Eris at the high lord meeting and tortures people for a living

b) Feyre attacks Beron and - inadvertently - the lady of autumn at the meeting

c) Cassian is banned from a whole court and slaughtered a whole village when he was angry

d) Rhys worked with a tyrant for 50 years

e) Mor and Amren had a fight that destroyed a mountain

[dirt-str1der]

Knives when he sees vash

[camelots-daffodil]

I’m in my hating Uther era (read:forever) REMEMBER WHEN HE HIT GWEN???

I’m actually ready to fight right now just thinking about it that was so??

[phoenixinthefiles]

I got teased a LOT in school (esp middle school) for being a Christian and the number 1 joke was:

"Ight now she gon hit you with a Bible"

And you know what? I should have. I shoulda found a Bible and WHACKED whoever said that

Like you laughing now, but i bet you won't be laughing when I come across yo head with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

I am NOT a Pacifist

ofc I never did that, i very much WANTED to, but I was always to scared of getting in trouble or hurting somebody feelings to stand up for myself😭😭😭

[lightwise]

2 and 12 for the ask game please

Since you had to share one question I’ll answer an extra one here as well for you 😉 also wow these got really long and a little more intense than I expected. Hoping to not incite any violence with these answers but I did get pretty heartfelt here.

12. Name a common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing.

Since @heyclickadee covered some of the opinions I have about pro-Jedi vs Jedi-critical perspectives, I’m going to go with a Bad Batch peeve I have. Honestly, it extends to more of a general media critique and concern as well.

I get really sad when I see people choosing one of these three stances:

1. Hating Crosshair for what he’s done/claim he needs to spend the rest of his life making amends and that he deserves everything that’s happened to him,

2. Hating the rest of the Batch (and Hunter specifically) claiming that they didn’t do enough, that they abandoned Crosshair, that they are horrible people who left their brother behind with no remorse and that they deserve everything that’s happened to them,

3. Hating Omega and considering her a dumb little kid who took Crosshair’s place with his brothers, ruined the show, and is otherwise just a stupid girl character that they don’t want to take seriously.

Now, of course it’s everyone’s right to like or dislike any character(s) or parts of a story that they want to. But one thing that is always really beautiful about TCW and TBB especially is the amount of nuance they strive to convey through their characterizations and plot lines. Very few people in these shows are all good or all bad, and even if they fall squarely on the side of evil vs good, we’re often given reasonings as to why they’ve chosen the paths and beliefs they have.

In addition—family is complicated. The close relationships that are portrayed between the Batch members, the addition of the chip’s influence and circumstances outside of their control, and the twisted difficulties that can come when the people closest to us hurt us, is something that is not one sided and requires a lot of nuance to navigate. Everyone and no one can be to blame in a situation, everything can have gone horribly wrong and yet people can still be sorry over it and seek reconciliation, and people can seek to repair the mistakes they’ve made and it will never erase or make up for the harm that has been done.

All of those contradictions exist in real people, in real life, and I believe that these shows want to portray that as best they can. Broken people who care and who are doing the best they can with the information they have and the motivations that they carry, in a world that they did not create and don’t fully have control over. I think this makes good storytelling (even if the story itself doesn’t always go the way I expected or wanted), and I think it’s good to have compassion for fictional characters just as much as real people. That’s how I hope to approach stories that I love, at least.

Also, sorry, but I have to throw in this classic. Stop blaming Kathleen Kennedy for everything. Like seriously people. I am neither for nor against her, I really don’t have strong opinions one way or the other. But I do know how corporate structures work, and I do know that she may be atop the structure and therefore the most visible for disgruntled fans to throw their ire at, but in all seriousness, she does not know the details of every single tiny aspect of what gets put out there, and she is not the only person making decisions on everything. She either directly or indirectly brought us Rogue One as well as the Kenobi show as well as Andor as well as Mando and TBoBF. In other words, there have been critically acclaimed and fan loved content under her leadership, as well as fan hated and critically meh projects. She’s not (always) the problem that fan bros like to claim she is. Lots and lots of people work on these projects. She’s just doing her job as well as anyone in that position likely would.

3. What is the worst part of canon?

I’m going to go with something that I figured out today as I’ve been rewatching both the Sequels and the OT—I started with The Force Awakens and was trying to decide why some parts of this movie are so freaking great and others fall just completely flat, especially compared to the original it’s styling itself after, A New Hope. There are lots of points I could make here especially related to Kylo Ren and Finn, but I had this revelation today for something that bothers me.

In TFA, and other modern Star Wars projects, there’s so much exposition where a character is essentially explaining themselves to the audience via a monologue to another character, but the topic isn’t necessary to their interaction or the scene. Whether it’s bringing in “fan service” moments or trying to explain 20 years of backstory that we’re never going to be shown on screen, too many things are just spouted off and/or overexplained for the audience’s benefit.

Whereas in ANH, everything we learn about the Force, Anakin, Luke, Han, Han’s debts, who Jabba is….it all comes from natural conversations between two characters. It doesn’t just feel like it’s for our benefit, it feels natural for both characters to be adding in these details or talking about certain things. And if it’s not something that these characters would need to say to each other in a particular scene, we don’t find out more details until we need to know.

I wish that modern script writing took into account that audiences are intelligent, we can have patience, and we can watch a story unfold without knowing everything up front. (I know, I know, Star Wars Twitter would beg to disagree with me). I just want to watch a story unfold, not be lectured at or be patted on the head through a screen. The good old adage “show, don’t tell.”

[genkishoujo]

"gifted" courses that aren't college credit are just grooming you to be a soulless middle manager who doesnt care about anything but number go up and spending as much of your life at work (school) as possible, then shaming others for not meeting unrealistic standards because *well i did it just fine*. it doesnt surprise me so many "gifted" kids on here have issues with entitlement with how much special treatment "gifted" kids got, and it was evident to EVERYONE in the student body that they were elevated above the "level" kids for like... doing math better. lol. you got special treatment from all the adults in your life, and even if you got in trouble those same adults were quick to wipe it away because you were "different". i knew so many horrible racist kids in my AP classes who never got punished for any of their bullshit by adults, and they never stopped being horrible until i stood up in class one day and threatened them with physical violence. and the only reason I didn't get in trouble was because there were no teachers there!!!!

[tanjir0se]

We’ve gotten to the patch each other up after the battle section of the fic, girls. welcome to DEFCON 1

[the-nameless-nerd]

I have never, and will never, understand why some people will see another person clearly expressing a love for something, or a passion, or an interest, and decide to start shit-talking that thing.

Don't do that.

Whether it's an everyday thing or a fandom thing, that's just not okay.

[costanzian]

so tired of everything.

[icedsodapop]

Imagine telling someone who is expressing anger at the violence her community has went through at the hands of British colonizers that she should resign. I dont know who Peter Dutton is, but he sounds like a twat.

"looking out for justice, not re-election". Banger quote.

October 21, 2024 - Lidia Thorpe, an aboriginal member of Australia's parliament told King Charles some truths as he was giving a speech in Canberra. [video]

[blackvahana]

Hmm. Yeah. Didn't consider the fact that they were going to attempt (and did) to kill Grey and Black in my lifetime. so then M absolutely could've just taken my body, killed my physical family like he kept trying to do, and either offed me or kept - I mean. yeah. kept my body and made it an incarnation of him. Ahhh I love our family

[tardis--dreams]

My gynecologist confusing me completely by not using raw violence this time, being overall quite nice, and first and foremost asking me to undressed from my waist Up?? Wtf?

[miraruinada]

interesting that for many, a character who is cruel, brutal, and remorseless for their status or their greed, and written about as people who vie for power to become tyrants, or because they're sticking to a rigid moral code and that makes them believe that killing 'the evil' as paragons of good and honor is justified, it's good shit to explore.

but the moment i introduced a character who is cruel, brutal, and remorseless, but this time fighting for 'the wretched of the earth', for something that he doesn't place morality on, (honor is nothing, love without justice is anemic, my motive is power, i did not come with a flower but with a sword, etc.), and to actualize high ideal standings like justice etc. without simply being placeholders, i got anon hate on some snark ass 'don't put politics into this hobby'.