#woud (implied)

[rocketbirdie]

uh huh. you sure about that?

[pestorik]

you said something about some ships in the AT au, so now you're being interrogated. What ships do you like/what ships are canon for the AT au besides epeljack?

people are allowed to ignore whatever ships they want or see them as platonic but the ones i see as canon in the au:

treycater: they are exes but i imagine them eventually getting back together after a lot of character and plot development on both their parts, they have a lot of growing to do individually. there would be lots of antics in which they are forced to spend time together and Talk It Out.

jamikali: this one has a lot of flexibility in terms of whether you want to see them platonically or romantically, i actually enjoy the potential for both. i think kalim would set jamil free like at the beginning of the very last season and throughout that season we woud see what their lives are like without the other and they would both realize they want to be together (jamil ideally stops wanting to subjugate the human race). it would be heavily implied that they are dating in the last episode.

epeljack: at the series finale, when jacks curse is broken (or maybe he comes to peace with being a wolf), they travel the world together. definitely wouldnt happen until after the end of the show tho

rookvil: they are kind of a joke ship bc i think vil mostly sees rook as an annoying pawn (im deeply attached to vil remaining cartoonishly evil for the whole show sry) but maybe he eventually agrees to ONE date and they have a fun night ruining peoples lives. after epel leaves vil probably allows rook to stay over more often bc hes no longer used to living alone. so they are kind of in a relationship in which vil is more tolerant of (perhaps even enjoys, sometimes returns) rooks deranged love. rook is a huge masochist and 100% believes he has found his sadist soulmate in vil (he's right)

silbek: you can take or leave this one but regardless they are definitely life partners, platonic or otherwise. the dragon kingdom is very ancient and isolated, they have little contact with other cultures bc of their location in the mountains (it's hard to get to if youre not a dragon). silver and sebek would gradually start leaving the kingdom more often throughout the show and show more interest in the outside world. in the final episodes malleus and lilia give them their blessing to leave the kingdom and travel the world (ofc they are always welcome back). having learned of his own origins, silver wants to search for surviving humans, sebek agrees to stay by his side (protect the squishy human).

leovil: im honestly not even a huge shipper of this and dont really consider it canon to this au but i just LOVE a dynamic in which they act like a divorced couple that hate each other. maybe they have romantic history, maybe they dont, but they hate each other ❤️

jeiazu: they are sweethearts in crime, forever evil. notes from original post: their version of a happy ending is just them being evil together and constantly making up and breaking up for eternity. I'm very into that kind of dynamic lol where they are constantly bickering but are both so fucked up that no one else could ever understand them so they always come back to each other.

adeuce: nobody can tell if they are dating or not bc they are both so stupid, and i think it will remain that way for their entire lives.

not canon but i like to think about it as a little treat: mallekei (maybe they go on a feeew dates, trey is NOT upset about it), azurid, mallerid, idiazu, deurid, leoruggie, idikei, lilidia

[ask-ghazghkull-da-waagh-prophet]

Eh, boss wha' if you wer' turned innta a grot? wou'ds you stils be krumpin 'eads an' beings da big boss or you fink you myt just be a zoggin' grot an' some otha boss woud comez abou' ?

Jus' finking in hypathetikal

Not ta imply anyz of us finking of tryn ta turna you inta a grot

WELL IF IT HAPPENED NOW MAKARI'D PROBABLY TRY TA KILL ME, HAAA HAA!

*immediately turns to look at Makari, eyes squinting*

BUT IF WE'Z GO BACK TA WEN I WUZ JUST A NYOO BOY AN' IT HAPPEND, DEN...

*rummages around in weapons chest for a moment*

EY MAKARI, GO GET A GROT FOR ME, I WANNA TRY SUMTIN.

*orkish elevator music while Makari gets a grot*

*Makari returns with a very nervous looking Grot*

*Ghazghkull points the bolter at the Grot's head, pulls the trigger, and the grot's head explodes in a fountain of gore*

NAH IT TURNZ OUT DAT UMIE SHOOTA WOULDA BEEN DA END OF DAT. AH WELL.

[rogha]

hinestly i know the quarter quell was heavily implied to be switched so katniss woud die but theres a funnier au where the 74th games is super rigged so district 12 has a female victor for next years games

[coraniaid]

I really do think that the least interesting way to approach any longform narrative written over the course of several years by different writers is to act as if it everything that happens in it must somehow be internally consistent. Especially when we're talking about television writers with an (at best) flexible approach to world building and logical consistency; writers with a clear willingness to abandon previously established facts about the setting if it allows for (what they think will be) a more interesting story in the moment. In such a context it is just not sensible to insist that any late season retcons definitively establish some singular Truth about how the show Really Worked in its original seasons.

Specifically (and I'm aware I wasn't being very vague before) the idea that the (often rather bad) writing of Buffy's later seasons establishes definitive Facts about the world of the first few seasons which, if they contradict earlier claims, mean the original world-building lore we were given must actually have been examples of the in-universe characters being wrong or telling deliberate lies is, I'm sorry, almost offensively stupid. We don't "find out more" about the rules of how the world works in later seasons of the show in a way that implies these rules always existed in some fixed and unchanging state. The world of the show has no such rules because it does not, in fact, exist. What happened is that the later writers of the show (who were mostly different people) had different ideas about what would make for an interesting story (and unfortunately these were mostly worse ideas).

There seems to be a bizarrely popular take online that says you can't really understand the first few seasons of Buffy until you've watched the later ones, as if the entirety of Buffy is a single coherent narrative meticulously planned out from the beginning in advance. But you do all get that that is absurd, right? Yes, sometimes the show frequently changes its position on how its worldbuilding is supposed to work, but that's not because the writers are slowly revealing something they had planned out years earlier and knowingly had characters lie to each other about. It's because they are making things up as they go (which, to be clear, is more difficult and significantly more impressive when done well).

The reason Giles claims in Season 1's Witch to have never cast a spell before is that the writers had no inkling of the backstory they were going to give him next season. You obviously can go back and interpret this as a lie Giles is telling Buffy for some reason, but it doesn't meaningfully improve your understanding of the episode to do this. Similarly, the reason that nobody in the show talks about a "Watcher's Council" until Season 3 is that before Season 3 the writers had no conception of such a thing. It's fun to come up with in-universe reasons for why Giles might not mention the Council, even when meetin a second Slayer, but I think we should admit than when we do this we're engaged in something closer to fanfiction than analysis.

We don't "find out" that the character of Anya introduced in The Wish was probably autistic even before becoming a vengeance demon: the writers just changed their mind about how her character worked and why she acted that way (and indeed in The Wish itself she doesn't act that way at all; Anya being "strangely literal" didn't really take hold as a character trait until the show's fourth season). It is not "revealed" that Buffy tried telling her parents about vampires before the show began and they had her locked up: this is just a particularly stupid retcon that doesn't make any sense if you actually remember the first two seasons (woud Buffy joke with her mom about being distracted by thoughts of "saving the world from vampires" in Bad Eggs if the last time she'd mentioned vampires to her mom she'd been institutionalized?). We don't "learn" that Giles and Buffy were always wrong about people not "turning into" vampires (meaning they were specifically wrong about people like Jesse and Ford, and that Buffy herself is some sort of unrepentant mass murderer): the later writers who imply that this is what happens after all just didn't care about continuity (or what this change would mean for the morality of the show's protagonist's entire reason for being).

You have to watch each season of the show as if it were telling you the truth about its world building as the writers understood it at the time, or none of them make any sense. That is, in fact, how you have to watch most television of this form: there was no long term master plan. There is no singular truth about what "really" happened. The rules of the setting are just subtly (or not so subtly) different from season to season. Nobody writing Season 1 of the show had the slightest idea what would happen in Season 7 and anyone who suggests otherwise is full of shit.

[cienie-isengardu]

Du you think splinter woud name the turtles after the human he know(aka,yoshi,shen,nagi,saki) if he didn't fide the art book

And if so with wonde woud he name after the human's

I doubt so. For one, there is no reason for Splinter to call any turtle under his care after Nagi and Saki - the first brutalized Shen, the letter killed both Yoshi and his beloved.

Also, if Splinter adopted his master’s culture (as could be seen with him speaking Japanese, and practicing ninjutsu among other things), the choice of naming was most likely affected by it. I’m not an expert on Japanese culture, so you need to do your own research on the subject, but I don’t think using the same name after members of your family - and especially the dead ones? - is that common practice there. At least not the way it happens in some European countries or USA. Splinter could use some of the same (presumably) kanji characters from Yoshi name to make proper and no less unique names for turtles. But the fact he didn’t do that before finding the book implies for me that Splinter never intended to do so in the first place. 

[fulltimecatwitch]

You know what is my actual roman empire ??? the fact that all the details we have about Kaz's life prior to joining the Resistance are so vague

Sure, some things are implied or can be deduced but there are so many that are ???? like we know he has a mother but what was his relationship with her like? or why did Hamato wanted him to be a part of the New Republic Navy and not the senate ??? why did he amost get expelled a couple of times from the navy??? was Hamato always hard on him? because even if he's though he does seems to genuinely care about Kaz's wellbeing

i wouldn't mind a comic or something that woud fill in those gaps

[magical-glimpse]

”and in a celebrity's case i think it would be logical to assume it is easier to find the kind of person you are looking for in a lot of cases”

well that would be beneficial mostly on a superficial level like status, looks etc. but finding the one/that person you can truly connect with would be even harder for a celebrity. and with jungkook, you even said he’s looking for his ONE Special person and he would most likely subconsciously be disinterested in the people around him on a romantic level. sure he can find someone conventionally attractive or hot but to actually pursue anything or even finding the energy to talk to them would not be so simple. and bts have had crazy work schedules before the hiatus so not much time or effort for wasting energy on a superficial/temporary relationship in jks case.

I agree that most of the people who would be into him at first woud likely be for superficial reasons. But he still meets a lot more people through his job than another job would give him the opportunity to. For example, a producer would not go on tours, on fanmeets on show all over the world etc.

I dont like your "he would most likely subconsciously be disinterested in the people around him on a romantic level". It implies he will only be truly interested in pursuing his twin. At no point does having a soulmate or a twin flame means that you will be disinterested in everyone else. At no point does that means that you will never be into or can never be into a temporary or superficial relationship. There is this expectation of " virginity" when we talk about romantic soulmates and twin flames that i hate and i am not the only one who noticed it. People with "a One" can have a hoe phase. They can date people of all genders before getting with the "One". They can change their mind and decide to marry another person and stay with them forever, then meet the "One" and become besties and that is it. They can decide to become a monk and end up being at the same place of worship as their one and they become two friendly monks for the rest of their days. There is literally nothing about the general soulmate experience which requires to not be into other people. And honestly, if it did, i would find in unfair. Every soul does what their want, and every human as well, it is unfair to expect someone you have not met yet to never be attracted to anyone but you, and it is simply irrealistic.

[cidr-monologic-trials]

gotten a somewhat uncertain question, do you think there's a chance that the entire crime scene was fabricated? As in the culprit killed Star earlier and made it seem she died near midnight? asking 1) because the message was sent at the exact same time, a little weird, and 2) the Monofile said that her neck slit was 'likely' the cause of death, implying she might not have died from but in another method, like suffocation (not strangulation)

It's an interesting theory, and I'll admit that the message being sent at the same time Kyle & Cartman started arguing is kinda convinient.

And the fact that we don't know much about what happened during the day of the murder due to Dipper being unconcious makes it a posibility since we don't know at what time did everybody leave to their rooms, or who was the last person who saw Star.

So it woud've been posible for someone to have killed Star and either fabricate the scene of the crime or just hide her body in the kitchen, with Cartman messing with the Kitchen after finding the Body.

This creates a problem though, and that's thefact that Dipper saw the killer, if we assume that the murder was fabricated the killer woud already have hidden everything away except for Jenny's Monocaller, which was found on the second floor, so it woudn't make sense for the killer to be down on the first floor by that time.

There's also the issue of the Lights that Gaz saw, which now woud make no sense.

[a-student-out-of-time]

So here's what Hu sharing the same name as J implies, when the Chapter 2 victim dies, they leave a note saying along the lines of 'Julia' which immediately woud cast blame onto J. But then Teruko, David and Nico would point out that is also could be referring to Hu. But this is also makes David and Nico sus as they would be the only people to know this.

//As soon as it came up, I was like "Oh yeah, this is gonna be important" ^^;

[foolsmask]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. There's a show or movie called "Landman" with Billy Bob Thornton. I don't know anything about it beyond this one small clip I've seen. In the clip this woman who seems to be an environmentally conscious person and BBT are out in the scrub lands and BBT gives this speech about how petroleum (the substance that makes gas) is essential to life as we know it. He lists a bunch of products it is made into (stuff that woud make life difficult if it went away), then points out the wind turbines the woman seems interested in create a carbon footprint and implying they don't generate enough energy to offset that footprint.

And that argument sounds very compelling. BBT delivers it with a dispassionate calm, but stern tone like a disapproving parent talking to a child.

But then he keeps talking and shoots his argument in the proverbial fucking foot.

He starts talking about how we don't have the infrastructure to move the power from the wind turbines and solar panels to the people, and it would take 30 years to make a significant dent in that problem, and such a project would have a huge carbon footprint. Then says something about only having less than 200 years of petroleum anyway.

From my memory that's where the clip ends, with BBT walking away.

But the writers didn't listen to themselves and this story about President Carter illustrates my problem with his argument.

We could still try.

Imagine if Regan had not killed this idea. The 80's were 40 years ago. The internet was developed back then. Look where it is now. If we had people focused on engineering clean energy for 40 years, made it profitable for companies to invest in researching, where would it be? For all we know we might have eliminated our dependency on oil. We might still have tires and roads that require petroleum to be drilled for, but it might not be the big pollution problem it is.

This is my problem with society. We see problems that need fixing and if we can't fix them all in one fell swoop, we decode it's a dumb idea and give up. It boggles my mind.

I live in a midsized city in the U.S. We don't have a good public transportation system here. It's busses only right now. People howl and complain about how the bus doesn't go where they want to go, so a bill is passed to expand the routes and add more. Now people are howling and complaining about the construction clogging the roads. It's supposed to take 3 years and will greatly increase people's ability and willingness to use the bus. But this little inconvenience makes people scream about how they don't want it because they own a car. Well great, not all of us do. Maybe you could save money and have a nice night downtown and ride the bus rather than paying for gas and parking once or twice a year.

It benefits everyone to try and improve life. It might not work, but could we try?

[hahathatsawesome]

they were drinking pomegranate juice too...

which is aphrodisiac ,,

i know bc i was chugging some yesterday n 2day...

LOL

were they trying 2 tell me somethin or just like it.. ?

cuz i thought it woud be rlly funny if i just brought aphrodisiac foods/drinks ...

but obvi didnt wanna do bc they cud make uncomfortable

"whos this sex hungry man ?? "

....me haha havent gone on date in 1+ yr,

no sex in 3+ yr after 2yr relationship... oop

..

i say "fun hang, gotta see eachother soon"

they reply "i thought u were rlly fun, thanx for hanging out" ...

no imply next hang out on their end?

ill hav2 clarify.. its okay if that is case..

maybe i wasnt sexual/casual enough 4 them...

im sorry, ,,

maybe im just overthinking too

[llycaons]

I do think cql lwj is just a better person than novel lwj but also think it’s such a waste to make cql lwj this pure flawless beacon of moral perfection - that really is boring. maybe he is jealous and maybe he is possessive and I’d much rather see him recognize and work to overcome those flaws than the narrative just pretending they don’t exist. that’s makes the final separation and return so rewarding. for me

[fuckingfinwions]

In your sexual proxy verse I get the feeling that it's high ranking elves who use proxies, and maybe that - usually - it's lower ranked/low class elves who are used as proxies. Relatedly, given Miriel's presumed lower rank than Indis, what if the whole proxy thing was originally a Vanyar thing, something she brought over, and her supporter spread a slander that Miriel had been her proxy with Finwe, until she turned up pregnant?

Oh wow! I just want to sit and embrace how amazing an idea that is for a moment.

Yes, I think it’s normally high ranking elves using proxies, partially because they’re most likely to both have duties that keep them in specific far away places. And for practical reasons, the proxy can’t be who’s in charge of anything time sensitive in their day job (because they have to travel at short notice to go fuck the couple), which eliminates high-ranking military at the very least.

So yes I think it would be amazing if proxies are a Vanyarin tradition. And if it’s the only cultural script anyone in Valinor has for non-monogamy or serial relationships, of course they’re going to try and describe Finwe’s relationships with it!

“Miriel was Finwe and Indis’s proxy” as a rumor explains so much to the average gossipmonger. Finwe isn’t actually marrying two people, Miriel was just there to stand in for Indis (who is very busy as of princess of Valmar). Miriel’s talk of Feanor having a fire beyond her measure was her saying that she realizes she overstepped her role; her purpose was sex, not bearing Finwe’s child. Miriel embroidered tapestries, which are mobile at least compared to like, architecture, so it would seem plausible that she took her work with her on trips to Valmar. I headcanon that, like many elven craftspeople, she would focus on her work to the exclusion of all social contact for days or even weeks at a time when really in the zone. So all of Tirion knows that sometimes Miriel just disappeared for a while - there’s no evidence she didn’t  go to Valmar to sleep with Indis.

To Indis’s partisans, it also neatly backdates the relationship, so that Finwe and Indis were involved the whole time Finwe was with Mriiel. It flips the pro-Miriel script completely - Finwe didn’t accept Indis as an adequate replacement when Miriel died, but Miriel was the replacement for Indis!

As a bonus, Feanor hates the rumors so much.

As a second bonus, this means a lot of people “know” that Fingolfin is Finwe’s oldest legitimate son.

[not-so-lost-after-all]

Im so happy reading your thoughts about Astarion! It’s so cool and I do think you have such an interesting view and your ideas make so much sense to me. I’m glad I’m not annoying you much! Do you think Astarion could be truly loyal? And be so annoyed by that?😂 man, I love this guy so much and I could listen to you taking about him for hours. Any unpopular opinions about our vampire?

Why, thank you, Nonnie :D Could he be truly loyal? I suppose you don´t think the version of him we currently see. To make it clear, no companion is truly your friend or lover in Act 1, not yet. Notice that in the scar reading scene, he is suprised you would help him with his situation even when your Tav romanced him. THAT promise actually is something and if you keep it, only then you will truly earn him. If you mean something like risking his life for you, then I can only see him considering it after years of being together, you risking your life for him before and he woud only do it in the Tenth Doctor Who fashion - cursing and claiming how much more he could do.

Unpopular opinion? He barely likes us. Even at the end of Act 1 you can only claim that something is actually starting to develop between them. People are overestimating the romance scene and there are so many dark things about it. He would sleep with you and say the same things after you slaughtered some druids and refugees and he is probably wary of what you could do to allies. Here, he´s doing it to stay in your good graces and seducing you from the get go. So much for him liking you. The things he says in the romance scene, he said them houndred times before in the last two centuries to people now dead. Oh, Tav is so special :D Not to mention that in a true vampire spawn fashion, he thinks he is better than everyone, Tav included. In many scenes, he clearly says or at least implies you´re an idiot. You´re doing things he approves? Congratulations, you´re a tool he doesn´t respect. You´re the savior of the needy and avoid fighting? You´re a fool uncapable of helping him. It will be pretty hard to get him to like you and not encouraging his worst tendencies - and keep in mind that these tendencies include not wanting competition, you included. Hell, we don´t even know that sleeping with him after a week is not a mistake.

And I don´t know how unpopular the opinion is and people are free to imagine what they like but there will be no dark or twisted romance when you become partners in vampire crime. Even if you don´t know what DnD vampires are like, Astarion at least says in the game that they are power hungry creatures who hate competition. If anything, he would make you his spawn and compansate what was done to him on you - so yeah, that´s the only twisted romance I can realistically offer.

[random-meme-bot]

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