#wordy rambles

[wordycheeseblob]

Chevalier keeps justifying his reading material with the purpose of learning about the emotion of love so he can control others

He tells himself that

When he has a shrine of books, plays and poetry about love.

Yes, love is a difficult emotion, especially for someone like Chevalier because love operates on a logic Reason knows nothing of

But you'd think ten/twenty books would have been enough to get a grasp on it. It would have for all the other irrational emotions. Learning an emotion such as love through pages is like trying to imagine a colour you've never seen through a description.

So Chevalier absorbs those vast amounts of love prose for enjoyment more than anything else. Even if he wouldn't admit it.

Perhaps deep down, subconsciously, he yearns for it or wants to understand it. Love doesn't make sense at times. Humans don't make sense at times either. It's a very human emotion.

What you read actually decides what kind of person you want to be

So it would make sense for him to want to feel human?

[dustyspines]

best part of final stage editing/rereading is rediscovering lines u forgot u wrote to start with <3

[musashi]

posts about the alt-right pipeline being compassionate towards young men while radical leftists shun and shame them are not fucking saying "the men are becoming violent because feminists are too mean!" and if that is your takeaway you need to get off tumblr until you've better honed your critical thinking skills.

those posts are talking about how effective the language and approach you take in your activism can be. this is literally cult deprogramming 101. if someone is being taken in by a violent or dangerous group, that violent or dangerous group is usually offering them compassion and solace while working hard to convince them everyone else in the world is their enemy. you are under no obligation to coddle or act compassionate toward these men and their violent ideologies, but if you have the means to try, it is something that you can do to make a tangible difference.

radicalized people are often only one loving friend or family member or external voice away from being de-radicalized. of course that is not always the case, but it very often is. a lot of y'all rightfully understand that you do not carry the burden of being that voice, but a lot of y'all also have a lot of internalized ideas about morals and punitive justice and have simply written off these people as deserving of only the worst and not worth saving.

ten years ago, my grandmother was a fox news watching republican who voted red in every election and very well could have fallen down the qanon rabbit hole if not for me and her daughter challenging her compassionately, walking her through hypotheticals that validated her feelings & proving why they were false, & being patient with her despite our extreme division in political ideology. it was frustrating fucking work! but i decided i wanted to do it, because i could see the horizon and i could see me making a difference!

"misogynists have been saying feminists are too mean for years, get new material" that is not the fucking POINT. the point is that you, feminist, can be the compassionate voice that guides your brother, your father, your cousin, your grandfather away from fucking becoming or staying a nazi. you can show them compassion and companionship. you can be the woman they think of when their alt-right bros try to convince them that women are the enemy. and you can choose to crystallize that image of yourself so wholly in their mind's eye as worth protecting that they may very well choose to reject those harmful ideas.

it's not saying you HAVE to do it! it's saying you CAN do it! don't you 'firebomb a walmart' people all love taking change into your own hands? where the fuck is that energy right now, huh?

[creaturefeaster]

doesn't make the most sense to me that there's 1000 of you, but it is exciting nonetheless. I'm wanting to do something for the occasion here soon, & already working on it.

love & appreciate you all 🖤

[a2zillustration]

The desire to draw these two again but without the motivation to make something more than one of these little charts (oops)

Thank you Valc0 for making the sheet!

[wordycheeseblob]

i like to think that the rule of only sleeping one with one woman (outside of "don't form romantic feelings for your coworker" and in general) is to keep track of where the information came from and better filter it

On the other hand with Gil I like the German saying

Kinder und Betrunkene sagen immer die Warheit

Literal translation: Children and drunks always say the truth. (And I'm guessing Gil dislikes drunks?)

The English equivalent would be "children and fools tell the truth"

Nah, I think half the women Jin snogs are actually informants or agents of espionage in his spy network.

I think it's a wonderful complement to Gilbert's spy network of children :')

[lixel-5]

i love the “they’re shipping us” “to where??” thing because for stanarrator i can see it go both ways

“you know, stanley, shipping is a common activity in fandom. in fact, our fans are shipping us.”

[to where]

“i forgot how stupid you tend to be, stanley. i mean that endearingly, but i think going back to high school would do you some good. for your information, fans think we are in a relationship. a romantic relationship, stanley. it feels like an invasion of privacy. i mean, what are they writting about us? i must know, stanley! hm. i supose i could look into it, that’s the only way to truly know!”

(cut to many days later, they have an ao3 tab open. they’re on page 48. they’re reading tons of 1k-5k word one shots and ranking them on how in character they are.)

-

*somehow got ao3 on one of the office computers* [they’re shipping us]

“what? no they aren’t, i appear to be staying in one place, stanley.”

[no. just look]

“….stanley slash the narrator, the stanley parable. what does this mean, stanley? no no, don’t tell me. i’m looking it up. i can’t trust you with anything.”

[fuck off]

“… us? stanley, what in the world makes these people think we have a sexual relationship? stanley, i don’t even have the ability to do that. whatever. close that forsaken tab and get on with the story.”

(they have sexual relations. stanley has so fucking clue what he’s on about. he also never tells him that shipping is more romantic.)

[biblically-accurate-dca]

day 19: dolls/puppets/ect.

it's a puppet themed dca!! or maybe it's actually a dca themed puppet?

[wordycheeseblob]

Isn't it scary the possibility of a writer (someone who doesn't just read but makes a point in analyzing writing for better characterization) might know who you are just because of your turns of phrase in your ask?

Well it's not a disaster because hopefully you're not using anon as a mask in the same way a bandit would, but just... Imagine! Each person has their own unique tendencies and quirks in writing and that's almost imperceptible for some... But just perceptible enough for those who pay attention.

[wordycheeseblob]

Whenever I think of chev I think of the age of enlightenment and Neoclassicism (which is a child of the Age of Reason) and all of the values that they valued and maintained

Whenever I think of Clavis I think of Barroque which countered the austere feeling with contrast, movement, exuberant detail, deep colour, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. Clavis makes me think of impressionism that sprang of the artists that struggled against the conventional art community but sought to break strict classical guidelines in art....

comprensible and reasonably lengthy analysis below (really just ramblings)

Art tends to be a sort of reflection into society and if you take a deep dive into history, each movement went from classical and rational to passionate and zealous, then again to serene and then again to fiery, from Apollonian* to Dyonisian**.

Apollonian: harmonious, measured, ordered, or balanced in character

Dyonisian: wild, irrational and undisciplined

Also slight digression but there is the mythological comparison:

Clavis as Dyonyssus, god of wine, also matches its colour purple and his boundless search for pleasure. His cult is of especial importance to art and literature and has the power to inspire and to create ecstasy.

He is irrationality and chaos, representing passion, emotions and instincts

"One of Dionysos’ major symbol is the grape vine. It symbolically represents his association with life. In terms of humours it is regarded as the hot plant. As the grape vine is a cultivated plant it requires constant maintenance for it to bear fruit"

(I may or may not expand on all the other symbolic elements of and their correlation to clavis later (and Chevy by extension))

And Chevalier as Apollo, colour being yellow, as the Greek god of sun, light, healing, music, poetry, truth, prophecy, rational thinking and order... Lots and lots more well you get the idea, he's talented we get it. He appeals to logic, prudence and purity and stands for reason. was also seen as the most beautiful of gods to top it off.

"He was known as the god of oracles and prophecy, he was believed to play a powerful role in shaping the course of events in ancient Greece."

Interestingly enough

"The ancient Greeks did not consider the two gods to be opposites or rivals, although they were often entwined by nature."

BACK TO THE POINT I like to compare those two mentalities to Clavis and chevalier, those ideals of serene and rational opposed to passionate and innovative that lived through the ages constantly opposing each other, falling but rising yet again, turn by turn one after eachother.

The fact neither fell into obscurity means neither is wrong and both are very necessary for the other to exist just like the two brothers.

Ngl, I always interpreted Chev as being rather unoriginal. Not in the way that he doesn't have imagination, he is canonically good at pretty much everything, but many times innovation comes from mistakes and the ridiculous, even the downright absurd, and Chev is not the type to make mistakes all that often or engage in ridiculous behavior (outrageous? yeah. ridiculous? nah). I think he would be an adept of Aristotle's philosophy of art as imitation and I associate him the most with 19th century french and russian literature (which is awesome btw)

What I am trying to say is that I think Chev would have a hard time creating something truly groundbreaking in the realm of art, be it literature, painting, music or anything else, because he would be too grounded in reality, when fiction is more of a parallel reality (this was actually a common critique brought towards Realism as a movement) and that would stump his potential as a creator

But I don't think that's a bad thing, because Chev was never made out to be a creator, he is a nurturer. He is not interested in creating something new, but in bettering what already exists (Rhodolite). It's an important side of his relationship with Clavis, who is an innovator and a creator, and how neither approach can exist in isolation, it's the classic debate. Innovation can't succeed without a latch back to reality, but if you're too grounded in rationality you will never change anything for the better

[dustyspines]

gang i love you yann fredericks i love you karl jenkins i love you polly chapman i love you cbj i LVOE you i have missed writing these guys sOOOOOoOO much

[musashi]

aai2's english translation has done an amazing thing in furthering franziska's juvenile tendency to address people she's close with like she's a child.

here are some facts about franziska:

she addresses nearly every single person she meets aggressively formally and professionally. firstname lastname. sometimes, mr. or ms. firstname lastname. other characters point this out. it's weird, clunky, and a quirk specific to her.

franziska is obsessed with appearing more grown up and professional than she is.

despite her dedication to this facade, she cannot break the INCREDIBLY JUVENILE habit of calling her murderous, long-dead father "papa."

(it pisses me off when people erase this about her. she only ever calls him "my father," twice in canon. he is almost ALWAYS "papa")

to the contrary, franziska does not seem ashamed/embarrassed about this tendency at all, even though she seems very embarrassed about other childlike things she thinks/feels/does.

until aai2 this was exclusive to manfred... but it is now canon that she does it to anyone she considers family, or close to family.

in the fan translation, blaise teases her about being a little girl and calling him "unky boo boo" once upon a time. in the official translation, franziska still calls him uncle in the present day. her first inclination is to call him uncle winner, wholly informal, absolute (pun) whiplash.

okay, cute, but probably not worth noting... AND THEN SHE'S OUT HERE CALLING HILDA "GRAMMA" AS WELL. one thing about me is that when i was TODAY i learned about her having some optional dialogue that alludes to the two of them knowing each other.

(i could go ON about how manfred must have loved her so much more than we see in canon--how often did she insist upon coming along with hm? how often did he find himself unable to say no to her big sparkling eyes? hilda does not say "that's franziska" hilda says "that's von karma's little girl!" which means hilda knows her through manfred. every single person who spent any amount of time around manfred von karma in his heyday knows franziska, which means that she was following her papa around like a little duckling, and he loved her enough to make space for her at his back)

my fave thing they do with franziska is the little hints that her facade is just that. too many of them spoil the subtlety, of course, but they are there--the flavour text about her shaking and looking scared the two times she's a victim of gun violence and thinks no one's looking. the hints here and there that she has a terrible sweet tooth she's trying to control. the meltdown at the end of JFA. and "papa." these are all little ways that the writing nudges us and says franziska is a professional, but she's also quite young, and never really let herself be a kid. she does a great job at hiding most of it, but these little tendencies leak out here and there.

by giving her two more people in life she does this to, it's no longer just that papa is Special Enough that he gets the same treatment from a 3 year old franziska as a 30 year old franziska. no, she does that to everyone she grew up looking up to, any odd work friend that manfred brought around or let her pester.

adorable. absolutely adorable.

[some-pers0n]

I may not be a person who's exactly talented with a pencil or pen, but I would 100% prefer making small and terrible doodles over going over to an AI image generator and simply getting the results I want. Art at its core is about the process rather than the results. It's about being human, taking a piece of your creativity and putting it into a form of media that can impact others. Drawing, writing, music, photography, what have you.

To have an AI generate an image is soulless. It robs you of that artistic expression. Why would you want to share around an AI-generated image, one that was made by scraping the internet of actual artwork and using an algorithm to piece it together, when you can simply, I dunno, draw?

I find it infinitely more rewarding and satisfying to create the artwork myself than to use AI. Even if the quality is lesser, it means more to me; and at the end of the day, isn't that what art is about? Self-expression? Being alive and sharing a part of your experience on this planet through the lens of artistic media? Being an individual with your own ideas and thoughts? I'd say so.

[foreststarflaime]

Genesis would read all of the Greek epics.

He absolutely would! And he would have extensive Opinions about all of them, I’m sure! Mention anything about greek myth in his presence, and you’ll find he can be just as long-winded as Angeal in lectures, at least if the topic is explaining every last detail of greek culture and how we know about it.

Undoubtedly Homer would be his favorite (and probably the Iliad specifically, with how much time he spends at war seeking heroism)—he would love the storytelling style, love the idea that this originated from people just telling each other stories while their audience listened with rapt attention. He would love that homeric greek is its own little dialect to itself, a mix of every corner of the greek world so that it could serve as a way to tie them all together, to give them stories they could unite behind. He would love the themes and the characterizations, finding himself in both the romanticizing and the criticisms of war and the seeking of glory, finding solace in that it mirrored his own worldview, his firsthand experience of the horrors of war and the fame of being put on a pedestal before the world. He would read himself into his favorite roles, and his friends into the others, and most certainly quote it constantly to make sure everyone was aware of this (in the original greek, of course, translations simply can’t capture the original beauty). With every modern adaptation, he would give lengthy public criticisms about how they were missing the mark on the source material, and how he could have done it so much better.

Hesiod he would probably be more vocally critical of, not being as entranced by the style (although he would love memorizing every single obscure name that appears and showing off his extensive knowledge at any opportunity). He would definitely be in the trenches of the Homer vs Hesiod debate. But the second anyone slanders Hesiod a little too much to be respectful, they would absolutely be getting a lecture from him.

You would also hear him bemoaning the lost Greek epics over and over again over lunch or during leisure hours in the SOLDIER lounge. He would probably be most upset that we’re missing the Little Iliad (an account of the preparations to sack Troy, from the dispute for fallen Achilles’ arms through the construction of the wooden horse).

He turns his nose up at the Latin epics. Copycats. (He has read all of them extensively as well so he can offer proper criticism lol)

[wordycheeseblob]

Leon has a huge secret but other than that, it doesn't make him a liar, only an unwilling actor. (Unless you put forth the argument that an actor is a liar).

Luke is actively worming his way into the court. He doesn't care about anybody and nobody really knows that.

He isn't transparent about his falsehoods like Nokto. I know Nokto isn't the most trustworthy person to say and has his own agenda but as they say "a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for" so if I was tricked by nokto it would be my fault for knowing this and still choosing to participate. The same with clavis who spins a narrative for his own amusement. (But knowing Clavis also makes him somewhat predictable)

But at the same time... Is Luke really the biggest liar? I'm inclined to say yes but then what about Gilbert? Would he like Luke the way he does when he said he hates liars so much?

Well I don't know. Maybe.

But also, not to play devil's advocate, but have you considered Jin? He works behind the scenes doing a lot of work that doesn't surface on the court. I feel like this kind of person has a lot of secrets and a lot of lies to protect them.

Luke might hide his identity, involvement with the enemy and his goal. I feel Jin is the kind of person who actively has to hide a lot of things being the one who does the governments dirty laundry.

Luke, you bold faced liar. Come to think of it, of all the brothers I wonder who tells the most real lies?

Clavis just says the opposite of what you feel, but that isn't lying as much as just... Being contrary and intentionally misdirecting.

Nokto plays games of who can win by saying the least, but other than flattery for manipulation he doesn't seem to lie much. He certainly implies falsehoods, like with the poisoned wine, but he never said it *wasn't* poisoned... He also owns his manipulative behavior and never denies the truth about himself.

Gil never lies (oops he's not a brother).

Yves... Lies about being fine, but never intentionally misleads anyone.

So... Is Luke the biggest liar? He's certainly pretending to be someone he's not... 🤔

[trashcreatyre]

Im both people