#ye of little faith

[wardensantoineandevka]

"there can't be a Bolo cameo in Downfall because it's set a hundred years into the Calamity, she seemed human so she's certainly dead by now" icb you doubt the power of the great Bolo Maximus 🙄

[valyrfia]

speaking my truth with regards to many anons currently in my askbox but how are you going to say that charles’s performance has been unacceptable when he’s had seven front row starts in a row and hasn’t finished outside the top 5 since suzuka last year bffr. if charles had pushed back against team orders and fought and overtaken carlos would’ve gotten p3 due to cooking tyres trying to defend and ferrari would’ve lost three points in the constructors. charles drove flawlessly in the race, he just didn’t pull it together in quali ONE time out of eight due to engineers reworking the car not to his liking - something not entirely in his control.

[irishhorse-blog]

the fandom really goes up and down like a 🎢 from JKs bed live and then today — imissed his live today so I’m not really sure why the sudden change in feelings?? Also tae going to JKs performance doesn’t change anything ? Suga and jhope went to Jimins, jk didn’t got to Jimins.

And still people are trying to ignore their nyc trip!

This fandom is making me insane. I don't understand this at all. They're being reactionary 13-year-olds emotionally if not in reality. Why is it problematic for a man to have friends outside his romantic relationship? Tae and JK are FRIENDS. They're BROTHERS. They're some of the closest people in each other's lives and they love each other. And that has NOTHING to do with Jikook and whether or not they're real.

Touch grass and grow up, children. Seriously. Mama and Daddy need to take the internet away until you're mature enough to use it.

[daemon-404]

No but are you actually suggesting doing cringetober ? Because I had a moment of golden retriever excitement

(Holding ur eye demon guy like in the are you /j or /srs meme)

DUDE OFC I WAS BEING SERIOUS IT LOOKS FUN,,, SFGJJ

[anliafail]

The team investigates the murder of flight attendant Natasha Thibert who was found dead in her hotel room, apparently poisoned. She had been out by the pool with other members of the crew but retired around midnight. 

Death in Paradise | 3.04: Ye of Little Faith

[onenakedfarmer]

[naivety]

girls supporting girls!!!!!!!

[fumifooms]

Fujimoto dropping the reason for it to be Chainsaw Man in chapter 184, iconic. Life’s like a chain on a blade turning round and round again and again, with its bumps and lows but it keeps going. It’s always the same chain spinning on the same blade but somehow you can still seize your fate and choose who you want to be.

Being fine with your family being killed isn’t exactly what I was thinking of when I theorized here last time but ok. Just a less delicate way of phrasing it lmao. Well played

[matoitech]

haters said it couldn’t be done but look at me now . mission SUCCESS

[valyrfia]

i've seen a lot of people saying that charles isn't as adaptable as he should be, and that's what caused the difficulties this weekend. it seems like he really needs things to be perfect to be successful over a full weekend. idk, it was disappointing to see him lose so much time to lando, and i know everyone is celebrating his save, but it was a really poor mistake to make in the first place. i'm just worried that next year with lewis there, these mistakes will be more pronounced. he seems like he's not ready for a full wdc fight and he doesn't have much time to get there

No driver is prepared for the WDC until they win it. That has always been the reality of the sport.

Re: adaptability claims. Charles had about half a free practice vs. everyone's else's full allotment of FP time this week, I'm unsurprised he hasn't had time to adjust to the Mexico set up. Generally though, I disagree that he isn't adaptable. He spoke last year about adjusting his driving style to fit the SF-23 and immediately became the most consistent driver in the latter third of the 2023 season because of it. You don't get the type of consistency he's showed last/this year if you aren't adaptable.

[aropride]

i cannot even describe how sure i am that there will be another mcr concert someday . Like ive been known to falter in my mcr5truthing (in the same way as peter when he tried walking on water & jesus reached out a hand to save him) but truly genuinely from the bottom of my heart those bitches will be back i know they will be

[peccatulum-b-gone]

Fishing with dynamite it is then.

Current Events:

After I payed off my debt to Y Corp, I suddenly got a prescript addressed to me to go to a J Corp casino and deposit my luck. I then did that, and the messenger that gave me that prescript was basically like: yo I got a mission to get you to K Corp or something along the lines of that. I then met up with SnakeHead, had some food and drink. Then after some asking on SnakeHead’s part, Dusty (who is the messenger) basically revealed that the reason why I needed to deposit my luck is because they wanted to lure out this guy that’s a part of the Technology Liberation Alliance (people making a mess at K Corp) and misfortune basically lures them out, and they need them so that they can lead them to the Alliance.

So, that’s basically all I have to report. I think that’s all anyways.

[tojiscrack]

to my all little liars!! (edit: wtf happened to my english? 😭)

we’re at 24.6k words rn 😟 if you plan on reading it next week, i recommend you read it on the weekends when there’s no school or work for you waiting in the morning 😀

calling in the troops rn ‘cause there’s still one final scene i have to write and it’s gonna be LONG (this isn’t including the bonus scene btw) but it’s extremely important for the story to continue, and without it, the rest of the story literally cannot go on 😭

we’re locking in guys. it’s 100% gonna border 30k words for sureee. sm has happened in that ONE chapter and i literally cannot wait to release it for all of you, you have no ideaaa

gonna go to bed and then wake up, study, break, write for the fic, repeat. had to randomly drop an update here cuz i’ve been edging you guys for so long i’m sorryyy, but it really is nearly here <333

edit: fck it guys i’m writing it rn (the immediate comments got me motivated)

[be-right-bach]

can't believe an anime called buddy daddies did not end up being, in fact, just a silly little comedy of two hitmen raising a child together but instead an actual heartwarming, well written show about (re)learning to love and to be loved, about how the meaning of family goes way beyond blood and no matter how unconventional it may be, it's still as perfect and valid because it's yours and you wouldn't trade it for anything else

[front-facing-pokemon]

[orchid-n-petals]

So I've already shared parts of this on a discord server, but I have to scream about Ketheric Thorm on here as well. Obviously spoilers about the character under the cut! It's a long one.

The entirety of act 2 is about him, right? Jaheira, Shadowheart and numerous other NPCs shit on him for his fickle faith. First Selune, then Shar, then, as we meet him, Myrkul. You hear about his changes of faith on a whim, you hear that he's the person responsible for the shadow curse, he is painted as a villain, plain and simple.

You can figure it out pretty early on that Isobel was resurrected and that she is his daughter; the detail as well that he wants Isobel alive is so on the nose, it gives him away completely but there are still a few questions that remain unanswered, mainly about his faith.

And then you get to the mausoleum and the picture assembles; this entire tragedy, the death of hundreds if not thousands and the complete ruination of a landscape was all, ALL because you had this absolutely wrenched, heartbroken father who had lost everything and nobody answered his grief. He was left woefully alone, the Goddess whose daughter his daughter was involved with did nothing to save Isobel.

Imagine outliving your wife and your daughter. Imagine dedicating your life to fight the Lady of Loss, your Lady of Silver's enemy, and then be left so completely alone and in silence with your grief, with your loss. It's so, so poetic how and why he turned from Selune, and it's so understandable as well; he broke. His spirit completely broke. He couldn't deal with that void of having lost the only two important people in his life, seemingly undeservedly so. He was going mad with this and a lot of his ire was likely targeted at Aylin who, in his eye, represented Selune; she's literally her daughter, after all, and it was implied that even before the deaths of his family, he sort of saw Aylin courting Isobel as Selune taking his daughter from him, despite his service. This relationship was clearly not seen by him as a boon of "giving his daughter to the Moon-maiden".

His ways in the past clearly didn't spare him from tragedy and having to cope with it (which he clearly didn't, he snapped under the weight of his grief). He was clearly angry and unable to do anything, furious and helpless, which is a dangerous combination. A good part of his first change of heart must have been fuelled by a sense of revenge.

But then Shar didn't provide any balm to his aching heart either. If you read his letters in Grymforge and in act 2, he is so focused on enacting the will of Shar because he believes that healing lies in oblivion. Everything would be easier if he could just forget, if the damn world could just forget, if nothing was remembered because without Melodia and Isobel, nothing was worth remembering.

Then came Myrkul. Literally the only god who was not only able, but WILLING to give back his daughter to him. Imagine spending your all, EVERYTHING you have to serve two gods who would not give a single shit about the greatest suffering in your life. You were basically nothing, your loyalty didn't matter for shit, everything that was taken from you amounted to no recognition whatsoever: you should simply cope and seethe. Your grief will not simply go unanswered (which is not inherently antagonising) but ignored.

And then comes this supposedly evil entity who can alleviate your pain just like that, snap of a finger and it's a done deal.

I am so serious when I say that I believe Ketheric's main incentive was to extend Aylin's immortality to Isobel as well. You can read in her diary that she feels a taint after having came back, and there are things not even Selune can cleanse, but at this point, Ketheric doesn't care about Selune, vengeance is secondary if not tertiary, he's done that war during his Shar years and what did it give him? Literally nothing.

He doesn't even care about the fact that Isobel is still her cleric. He cares about the single most important fact: Isobel is back. Life is worth living again, there is something for him, and it was not Selune or Shar who gave it to him but Myrkul, and for this singular gift, he would raze the world for the Lord of Bones. Like people can clown on him for being disloyal but the man has the loyalty of a dog bonded to its owner.

He is powerful and is willing to go to insane lengths for crumbs. What is raising a single life for a god? Nothing. It has happened and it will happen again. But Ketheric will go to the ends of the earth to serve the single god who actually listened to him. The one god who didn't ignore him.

He knows that what he does is not the morally upright thing! He is so insanely self-aware that allying with Orin and Gortash and doing this entire plot with them only to then betray them is morally reprehensible at the best of times, he knows that people hate him, etc-etc. He was a Selunite at one point and he's not stupid. He just doesn't care; it could be literal Asmodeus and he wouldn't care as long as he got what he wanted, no matter the price.

He is probably the only one from the three of the chosen who has complete clarity over his situation, he almost sways (if you pass the check during his confrontation), he is not an inherently evil man blinded by power.

But he is inherently loyal to those deserving, and as of the story's standing, completely broken by his grief. In his eyes, at this point, the only one deserving loyalty is the one who actually listened to him. Isobel lives. It doesn't matter that she hates him, that his entire life has fallen apart, that literally nothing else that is good has come of it, because Isobel lives.

I don't think he regrets a single thing. His consciousness might tear at him at the end, but I believe he would do everything over again, exactly as he did, because in the end, his daughter was brought back. Because what would a grieving, broken parent give to bring back their child? Everything. Absolutely everything. And it's such a simply given answer, no second thoughts, no doubts.

Nobody can tell me that this man is fickle. Nobody. This man was willing to burn the world to the ground, create a Boudica destruction layer all by himself for the one single thing he wanted. For any God that would listen.

I don't know, I just have a lot of thoughts about his character.