#It is not evil to run into a conflict and need to spend some time to understand how you should handle something
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Hey y'all- lemme get a little honest about white privilege and ignorance for a second. We're talking about me in this case. Bc I wanna send a thank you to people I've seen on Twitter discussing the use of the 'nickname' Calico Jack uses for Edward in fanfics.
I've been working on a reunion fight between Stede and Ed for weeks now and in my first draft of it I wrote something like:
"Ol' *Nickname*, really is an evil monster down to his evil heart, right?" being said by Ed to Stede.
The intention was to use this nickname as the painful characterization it was in the show as a point for Ed to push how he was feeling. That he felt like all the blame was being unfairly thrown his way, like Stede was looking him as nothing more than the monster everyone else has seen, like Stede was seeing the same racist caricature that so many have assumed was all there was to him.
I thought this reasoning to use to nickname as the slur it was, was enough to justify using it. But when I started seeing the discussion of it, I started to get worried. Most of the posts about the use of the name were to not include it as a nickname, as it isn't really one. To instead replace it with "Beardie" or other things in a context of friendliness. But I wasn't really using it that way, so I wasn't sure how the input applied to the scene I was writing... But I chose to err on the side of caution.
I've gone ahead and re-written the line as:
"’The ol’ Demon really is rotten, all the way through his evil fucking bones right into his evil fucking heart’, right?" to just use a different nickname, though the passage loses as bit of the point I was going for...
But - as a white fic writer - my priority is not to be "making points" at the expense of my POC readers.
Just food for thought in case other fic writers run into this sort of question themselves. Lines can be rewritten, even if they don't work in the same way as you as originally wanted the dialogue to go. But POC people in fandom deal with enough racism as is, I do not want to pile onto it in making this space further unsafe for them to participate in.
Remember, education is a never ending endeavor. There are more than a few times when lack of education will fail you. Listen and adjust, it something we all need to keep working at because adding to the suffering of POC's for one's own self interest will never be the right way to go about things.
#Thanks for coming to my TedTalk-#Uh- yeah#Am currently working on said fic some more and as I workshop on edit the reunion fight I wanted to put together something about this#white people - we need to be more comfortable about admitting times where we've been confused and figured out what to do#It is not evil to run into a conflict and need to spend some time to understand how you should handle something#And I think a lot of white people who have the best intensions try to act like we never run into these moments#where we see discussion and don't want to clog it with our lack of understanding so we kind of wait for more interpretations#that's at least how it went for me in this case#as most of the discussions were surrounding leaving the slur out of friendly conversations in fic#but I was needing input on using it in a different context to acknowledge it was a bad name and have Ed acknowledge it too#But at the end of the day - as a white person - to use what IS in fact a slur just to fulfill my own ignorant first draft?#It is not worth it#Our Flag Means Death#Our Flag Means Death Spoilers#ofmd#Our Flag Means Death Fanfic#ofd fanfic#Stede Bonnet#Edward Teach#The Revenge#Gentleman Pirate#Blackbeard#blackbeard x stede#gentlebeard#blackbonnet#Stedward#stedebeard
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I feel like the Grysk work way better than the Yuuzhan Vong as the "nebulous threat" that Thrawn is fighting against because they are clearly tailor made to highlight how wrong Thrawn can be due to his own personal weaknesses.
The entire plot of the Ascendancy trilogy is the Grysk gaining footing through 100% political means - they use espionage to discover the internal divisions and weak points of a country's political system and then attack that, an issue that is probably better addressed through collaboration and the strengthening of the country's political culture and institutions (the Chiss are so quick to abandon their national interests in the face of internal divisions). Thrawn wins every single battle in that trilogy and yet everyone, including himself, is way worse off than where they started and at great risk from the Grysks simply because the Chiss political system is so unstable and because their culture sees collaboration with other races as fundamentally undesirable.
And what Thrawn, who is also either incapable of or completely uninterested in thinking about politics, concludes from all this is, "Ah, yes, this is a problem that can only be solved by throwing more military power at it. Preferably military power run by an authoritarian state that tries to eradicate any trace of political pluralism, because that will make them less vulnerable to the exploitation of the political actors' rivalries and personal interests."
And then he spends, what, fifteen years working with people like Tarkin and Krennic, while having to constantly extinguish rebellions that are popping up everywhere due to the Empire's oppressive policies, and still somehow thinks that the Grysks wouldn't be able to deal with the Empire easily. The Empire that didn't even need them to topple itself through internal conflict in less than a generation - if the Grysks wanted to conquer it, all they'd have to do is wait.
And after reading Lesser Evil I really think that at least part of it is due to some personal drives/needs he's not self-aware enough to address: he says it point-blank that he never believed the Ascendancy would give him an admiralship, and you see hints of his constant frustration at people not understanding him and him having to teach them (sometimes from a position of less power than they have, sometimes when they really don't care to be taught) both through Thrass's POV and through his very slight (but noticeable by his standards) emotional unraveling by the end of the book (e.s. the scene with Unghali where he gets all angry and scary).
Because he has never naturally arrived at the limit of his own competence but was always hamstrung by others, he has no means of differentiating between when he's theoretically right but the politics are obstructing him and when he's actually wrong and the solution is outside of his sphere of competence.
So of course that a political system where being a flag officer means that he gets to do whatever the fuck he wants as long as he convinces one guy of it, where he gets to teach people how to think better and pick only them for positions of power, in a country with no pesky norms about preemptive strikes that he constantly needs to rule lawyer around, sounds appealing.
It's not just about the Ascendancy now, it's also about showing what he can do when not too obstructed, and it's also the first time he has enough free reign to slam headfirst into the big wall of his own lack of capacity or desire to understand politics. But hey, at least he's free to fuck around and find out, not feeling constantly frustrated and overly controlled!
Truly the most character of all time, I love it. People complain about how Zahn babygirlified him in the new canon books just because they're from his POV when switching out the Vong for the Grysk makes him more unambiguously wrong than he was in Legends (where you got other people like Jacen Solo following the same rationale).
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sorry if im spammin but can i req yandere j-line
yandere j-line | misamo hc
cw: intentions of harm, kidnapping, manipulation, guilt trip, obsessive behavior, stalking
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Hirai Momo : Love Bomber
momo is one to give her all into something she cares about
that includes people
so when it comes to you, oh, she goes above and beyond
but maybe a little too much..?
momo loves to come home with a bouquet of flowers in her hands that are just for you
or your favorite dinner, anything really
she’s an acts of service type of gal
but she’s goes to the extremes
showing her affection for you makes your heart beat so fast with love that you don’t even see the evil intent in her eyes
from the compliments of calling you so beautiful to simple gestures such as holding the door open for you
buying you gifts, such as a necklace she bought for you coming home one night leading to you having a smile on your face
holds you like it’s the last time she’s ever going to, but she knows you’re under her control now
pda? of course. over the top.
buying you those new shoes you wanted but you said you could never afford? you’ll never know the price
threatening to end the relationship over being late for a date? hmm…
but, she knows you’re her good girl, you’ll rarely ever make her upset
she has such an effect on you
so much so that you even go against your own initial instincts and do something you wouldn’t normally do
you guilt trip yourself into feeling bad if momo doesn’t agree with what you may do
“you haven’t been on a night out in forever y/n.” “yeah but..momo spends a lot of money, and she got me something today. the least i could do is return the favor and give her a date night.”
it’s definitely not like this happens every single day…
so you just avoid the conflict all together and do what pleases momo
out of nowhere you’ll even get random presents shown up at your job, and when you confront momo about it, she only convinces you to accept
and of course, you’d never take say no because you love her
she wouldn’t take no for an answer anyway :)
and now momo doesn’t have to worry about that one customer that just couldn’t seem to take the hint
what? she had to take matters into her hands of course, she loved hearing their screams…
because your relationship with momo feels like you’re on cloud nine
being spoiled like this to death makes you feel as if momo is the only one who knows how to take care of you
it seemed too good to be true! momo really is the only one who knows you, she’s the one for you
and she’s got you wrapped around her finger right where she wants you
good. because she’s the only one for you.
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Minatozaki Sana : Gaslighter
she loves you so much
but you love her too, right?
enough to stay with her forever?
you might as well because she's not letting you go
and if you do leave, she knows how to use her doe eyes and histrionics to her advantage
this girl is so in love with you that she hates the idea of someone else even getting too close to you
she just wants people to know when to read the room and back off
you do everything to keep sana's happiness at bay.
it's more so you catering to her needs instead of her
but she does treat you with the kindest and wholehearted love anyone could ask for, and she would also do anything for you
even if that meant using her behavior on you
if you're meant to be going out with some friends that day, she'll be dramatic and try to convince you to stay
"why are you going out tonight? don't you want to spend some time with me? i'll be all lonely and i'll be missing you so much."
when you'd only be gone for two hours at most
stalking you is a must of course! she has to know where you are at all times to make sure you don't run off somewhere she doesn't approve
so when she asks randomly how your steak was tonight, you answer with no hesitation
not even realizing how she specifically knew what you had at the restaurant
things get more extreme without you even realizing it
your friends point out how any time they want you to come out with them, you'll give them the same excuses
"Sana said she wants a movie night" "Sana said she doesn't feel that well, so i'll skip" "Sana is making dinner tonight."
all the while sana smirks hearing you blow off your friends at the door
you don't listen to your friends when they tell you sana has been threatening them to stay away from you
because your girlfriend would never do that; she's too sweet
now you only have sana and she has you trapped in this house holding you in her arms with a bright smile on her face and you remain clueless
it definitely helps that you trust your girlfriend enough to know that she definitely didn't kill those no good friends of yours
Myoui Mina : Silent Treatment Giver
oh mina, mina, mina
this woman knows exactly how to get you begging on your knees pathetically for forgiveness
you're so blinded by this love for her that if you were to make her upset, you instantly want her reciprocation instead of the cold shoulder
she loves you, of course she does
but sometimes she needs to put you in your place
and if that means not feeding into your pleas, then so be it
she knows what she’s doing and has no shame in how she’s manipulating you
while sana and momo believe what they’re doing is the right thing, mina knows it’s not
she’s just pure evil; but no one knows this
and she knows just how to get you right where she wants you
if you do something she doesn’t agree with, she straight up ignores you once you get home
you’ll come home and greet mina with a warm smile and greeting
but nothing comes from her; she’ll continue to scroll on her phone or the tv she’s watching
not bothering to even glance from the corner of her eye to look at you
then it begins; the begging
“mina? what did i do wrong? i’m sorry if i did something to upset you, but please talk to me. i’ll do anything. please?”
all that comes from her is silence with an upset facial expression
it’s only until you leave her alone for a few more minutes that turn into an hour that she acknowledges you
she won’t even tell you if you’ve done anything wrong, you just assume at this point
you continue useless apologizes until she tells you to stop and she forgives you
you can’t even go out with your friends because you’re scared mina will ghost you again
it just makes you crave her love and affection more and more any time she decides to do so
which is what mina wants
you continue to do what she wants and when she wants so your reward will be a loving and caring mina rather than a silent and cruel mina
she’ll make up lies about your friends talking badly about you, ending up in you only needing mina because it seems she’s the only one on your side
brainwashing you into thinking she’s the best and she only has your best interest at heart
this results in hardly any silence from your girlfriend
and if someone doesn’t give up on fighting for you, she’ll take matters into her own hands
which is why you were confused as to why mina was up at three in the morning in the kitchen
“oh! don’t worry about it, sweetheart. i forgot to wash a cup i used. sorry i woke you, go back to sleep.”
and without you looking, she quietly slips the knife back in its place with the other cutlery before heading off to bed with you
#darlinggtwice#yandere!mina#yandere!sana#yandere!momo#twice momo#twice jihyo#twice mina#twice sana#mina x reader#twice imagines#misamo#twice headcanons
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It's crazy how SoV preluded 3H by making one of the protags have a tremendously contradictory mindset of humanity being better off without gods, while also relying on those same gods to fulfill their goals, the hypocrisy of which goes completely unadressed throughout the game; truly masterful foreshadowing
Who directed FE15?
lol
I've recently tried to think about this "gods BaD" shift in more doylist terms - especially since I've finally played a Squenix game recently and...
FE13 was the FE series last ditch effort, it will either work or end up as the F-Zero series, FE13 worked and FE14 followed suit.
Lolcalisation aside, FE14 had a nice plot and I engaging characters - to some people but not me, different tastes and all - but FE14 and FE13 were still FE games, as in part of the old FE series, aka a niche series. Adding dating sim/interpersonal relationship through avatars might have helped a bit, and yet, imo, it was still the "niche" FE series.
Comes FE15 where we basically have a remake, and can't add the interpersonal thing because Alm isn't an avatar (even if the game spends a lot of time praising his oranges) - how to make the game work? Sure, some weirdo fans of the FE series will buy it, and it was never supposed to sell as much as FE13/14, but if it was a 1:1 remake or just with minor adjustments? It might bomb like the Archanea remakes, and good luck coming after that - will they need another "FE13" to reignite the sales or??
And here I thought about it : FE15 was retconned with the "GoDs BaD" spiel, to make this game more in-tune with what I'd call "traditional" JRPGs where the protagonists often defy a corrupt church and "divine" being.
("Traditional" imo being the Squenix way, because while I didn't play all entries of this series, the Tales series never striked me as being particularly as, uh, vindicative against organised religion, maybe save for Symphonia 1 - Abyss' Church really wishes to help the people even if it is corrupted from within by some dude who doesn't want to let the world die and played by the big bad, Xillia has no church, ditto for Zestiria and Phantasia had Mint and... that's it? - compare this to Squenix's Triangle Strategy and Hyzante being comically EvIl and without any redeeming traits/points when all of the other major parties of the conflict have "token good NPCs" as forced as they are in the game, to make it very clear that they might have done questionnable things like invading and slaughtering civilians from a foreign nation who welcomed them at their wedding, but at least they have "MoRaLs" unlike those bozos in their desert...)
And this "let's make FE mainstream by kicking gods" mentality completely runs at odds with the rest of the FE franchise, and while I know RD basically ends like this bcs "uwu Ike defeated a GoD with the help of another who used the lead of that game as a soul jar and granted him exclusive powers to put her sister to sleep" the morale of RD's story - as seen in the perfect ending but in Ike's speech to Yune itself - is that everyone can and should try to live together, asking Gods not the fuck out to let Humanity alone, but to believe in them just like humans believe in gods.
So FE15 ends as this big, uh, mismatched clash of narrative directions - being a remake it cannot stray too far from the source material and Archanea verse : Dragons and Humans can live together (even if it means dragons must sacrifice part of themselves to do so because fuck them I guess) and dragons can help humans just like humans can, uh, not be asses and not target them because their ears are pointy or when they are weakened...
And we had the new Squenix direction where GoDs BaD and HuMaNiTy fuck yeah, which leads to FE15's hypocrisy : please trust and rely on us Gods/dragons and kindly help us when we're in deep shit, and at the same time "HuMaNiTy FuCk YeAh".
Interestingly, the Squenix direction loses in the post game campaign (the one where we discover Thabes) but is reintroduced in the official (tm) timeline, depicting basically how BaD Duma is and how much of a chad Rudy was, before his very tragic (bring the onions!) death.
But yeah, I agree anon, FE15 was crazy foreshadowing and I guess is part of the reason why Tru Piss has this message "Humanity doesn't need Gods" targeted at... Rhea, aka a Nabatean (while Supreme Leader got there thanks to Sothis' powers!!) because the "Humanity Fuck Yeah" narrative is a staple of Squenix JRPGS, and if FE has to become mainstream, I guess to some devs, it has to copy what sells.
That would also explain why FE16 went so off the rails and forgot the tradition FE series message about coexistence, because what the fuck do you mean by "Humanity doesn't need Nabateans", after parroting for the entire game "Nabateans are to blame for the irrational world we live in" and blame "Nabatean blood" for everything wrong in Fodlan, without ever acknowledging the "evilness that lurks in the heart of men" (who aren't called Dimitri) ?
In a series that, albeit hazaphardly at times (FE8's manaketes feel forced in the lore! and the less is said about Nowi/Panne in FE13 the better we are), tried to push the "coexistence between all inhabitants of the land is the key to peace!" card - this Squenix direction feels all kind of wrong, especially when friendship with the divine beings (dragons) have been a staple of the franchise (Y!Tiki's number of alts, imo, is telling : for better or worse, Y!Tiki is, along with Marth, the figure of the franchise. She is a dragon, and she's a kid who wants to make friends. Sure it brings the loli crowd, but all those dragon children in the different games? They are a direct throwback to Y!Tiki!).
In a nutshell, I'd say the first crack was FE10's writing that made things seem like the Hero defeated a goddess and its subsequent wanking.
But I agree with you anon, FE15's change in direction and retcons were absolutely gunning for that Squenix "GoDs BaD" while keeping the "traditional" FE message which resulted in hypocrisy that showed in the writing but I guess no one really paid attention because FE15 has other issues too (I didn't before happening on FE16... even if I remember wondering why the fuck the game kept on hammering how BaD Duma was when we had people being asses right and left on their own).
FE Fodlan completely ignored the "we can coexist" message - save for subtext you can have where the optional lords who win the war and aren't Supreme Leader can have half/quarter-nabatean heirs through Flayn but her heritage is never ever mentionned in the ending cards - by completely shitting/ignoring the local dragons, they're blamed for everything wrong and don't get their voice to the chapter.
Masterful writing lol
I can't wait for the next game, let it be a remake (pls not Jugdral!!) or a new entry (Engage was developped alongside Fodlan, not after!) to see if IS will continue with the Squenix developments or return to their roots, even if they seem milquetoast, of "humans and lizards can hold hands".
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NGL anon, during 2020/2021 and the daily "Supreme Leader was right though" threads in SF, I kind of realised that what I took for granted, aka "coexistence between humans and dragons!" being the message of FE in general, wasn't, even in what used to be the most serious board/thing.
FE as a series came to the West through FE7 where Dragons and Humans were at war, but ultimately the cast learns that dragons aren't evil incarnate and the best ending reveals that the big bad went mad because his dragon wife was killed and he tried to reunite with their dragon-human children he hid away for their safety.
So it was kind of surprising to see long-time, or at least not "Fodlan introduced" members of SF parroting the "well they can't live together" by buying the most ludicrous headcanon/fanon arguments you'd find in other series like "different lifespans" - this argument is pretty much non existent in the FE series, and I've never seen it opposed to Miccy's rule in Daien when, as a Heron Branded, she will outlive her citizens, or what, are we supposed to believe that Myrrh shouldn't interact with humans and remain in her forest because she will outlive humans, or is too "different" from them thus wouldn't have the same considerations?
FE13/14 brought the fandom wars of "new fans" vs "old fans", but FE Fodlan? Brought "casual JRPG gamer" vs "FE gamer" which usually boils down to "Supreme Leader fans" vs "everyone else".
Sure, we had the religion hate boner because the dragons in Fodlan verse made a "Church" with catholic imagery which is a deadly sin to some - but the "dragon blood is indeed the reason why everything sucks in the world" being parroted? "Dragons cannot have power over humans because of the sheer inbalance"? What, are you implying Nergal was forced by Aenir to mate with her twice or what? Ninian was oppressing Pherae in the endings where she marries Eliwood, and humans were finally liberated when she died?
Kana is, by nature, someone who will oppress humans because they're part dragon and their blood will bring strife to the world?
So unless IS doesn't fully commit to one narrative - because yes, for all of its flak, FE Fodlan still takes time, when it remembers, to portray Nabateans in a relative positive light when it comes to them as characters and in the general background, it's just that, they're never given a voice when it comes to discussing about the plot - we're bound to have this hypocrisy :
Dragons BaD bcs Humanity Fuck Yeah
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Dragons and Humanity can coexist and make babies for scalies/monsterfuckers out there because acceptance/diversity is a way for peace.
#anon#replies#sorry i ranted#FE series#FE15 stuff#rant#watch as the whitewings never bring up Tiki the kid they met 3 years ago#when Alm goes humanity fuck yeah#when the devs could have pulled out something like Ike for Alm or rather return to their roots#they pulled this squenix shit#that imo doesn't have its place in the FE series#sure the series is evolving and maybe that's the direction it will take#if it really does I'll to reconsider my engagement with FE in general#and be stuck ranting about old games lol
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Doesn't have to be the character you think is the most evil, just the one you most love to hate/hate to love. They suck severely but whenever they show up you can't look away.
PROPAGANDA:
Amon/Noatak - Bloodbender with a genuinely tragic backstory. Reinvents his entire identity and creates a sham political movement that exploits real tensions between benders and non-benders instead of going to therapy. Explodes at sea with his baby brother Tarrlok.
Hiroshi - Straight up tries to murder his daughter and then runs away like a coward. Bit of an elitist snob. Calls Mako a rat which is ironic considering he's the one spending a not-insignificant portion of his time skittering through a series of underground tunnels.
Varrick - Steals Asami's company and also every scene he's in. Invents the movie and immediately uses it for war propaganda. Has only a wisp of a ghost of a moral compass. Helps start at least two sectarian conflicts. Always has some kind of foot situation going on (bunions, calluses, etc.) and makes it everyone else's problem. Treats Zhu Li terribly and for some reason she agrees to marry him anyway.
Unalaq - Nasty little manipulator. Jealous of his hotter older brother so he gets him banished from their tribe. Was part of the Red Lotus plot to kidnap Korra as a baby. Has an arguably erotic encounter with the ancient Spirit of Darkness that makes him huge and also red (honestly it's an upgrade).
Raiko - Total loser who didn't want a tree growing through his office and was a massive bitch to Korra. Failpresident who coped with his re-election loss by starting the in-universe equivalent of Fox News.
Zaheer - Horrifically brutalizes Korra and then haunts her for like 4 years. Kills the Earth Queen and creates a power vacuum later exploited by Kuvira. The kind of guy you meet at a protest who seems cool at first but then he says something completely batshit that makes you want to back away slowly with your hands up.
Queen Hou-Ting - Shitty old despot whose favorite activities are abusing palace staff and bleeding her people dry. Hates animals. Literally her only redeeming quality is that she's related to Wu. Got very creatively murdered by Zaheer. Probably nobody cares about her but I needed more evil women for this poll hashtag feminism.
Aiwei - Funny little guy with some great jewelry who always knows when you're lying. Let Zaheer and Co. into Zaofu via a secret tunnel attached to his room. Currently enjoying a long vacation in the Fog of Lost Souls.
Kuvira - Created what was essentially a nuclear bomb and looked super hot while doing it. An ethnonationalist who put dissenters in camps and probably killed tens of thousands of people and was only mildly apologetic about it.
Guan - A less hot and less competent Kuvira. Brainwashes Asami, Mako, and Bolin into attacking Korra in the comics. Even more unsuccessful at politics than Raiko.
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My main problem with that episode was just that I feel like they hyped up the beatles aspect of it so much (you can even find doctor who magazines in shops in England that have posters inside them that parody "with the beatles" album cover with the Beatle actors and the doctor and ruby) and they did so little with it. The actors didn't really feel like John and Paul in most scenes, we saw and heard basically nothing of George and Ringo, and we didn't see them play off each other.
They put the beatles in an episode and neglected to have them interact with each other, the thing that's arguably the thing most distinct about them.
Like I know it's only a 40 minute episode but come on. It could've been done better. AND the secret chord could've been the Damn A Hard Day's Night Chord, or the final chord of A Day In The Life. To make the Beatles aspect of it more significant.
Also the way the only thing that was different in a London without music was smog? Really? Nothing more???
Jinx Monsoon was incredible tho what a stellar performance. (Sorry for the long rant I just had t h o u g h t s )
THE WAY I HAD THE SAME THOUGHT ABOUT THE CHORD???? I was yelling for the AHDN chord. Why was it just the most normal major chord ever? For an episode that started off saying interesting, accurate stuff about music theory, I just felt really let down as a music lover (as opposed to a Beatles fan particularly). Like I was like "genius????? that's not a genius chord what the FUCK" It could have not been the AHDN one too (though that was perfect and right there – also would be something where no copyright strike could possibly be justified, while being PERFECTLY iconic) just something that actually felt like interesting music.
Look, I understand Doctor Who is here to be Doctor Who, not biblically-accurate Beatles RPF. That being said, it didn't even try to create interesting – if perhaps inaccurate – characters for John and Paul that you could learn to root for as the episode progressed. The two DW episodes I'm thinking of the most here are the Shakespeare and Van Gogh one, which similarly centered the historical person's artistry as the thing that ultimately saves the day. The premise of this episode made that task harder, granted, but it's so easy to include the Doctor going on an extended rant about what makes them great or whatever. He did that a little, but he basically just named two songs and left it at that lol. And it was about the fucking piano not them as musicians/writers.
TO BE CLEAR: I'm not saying this because I think the show needs to pay them tribute or whatever, I'm saying that if the narrative treats them as geniuses that are the only ones capable of sending Maestro back, I think the episode should maybe in some sense try to demonstrate this genius (slowly build it up over time!!! what!!! a fucking character arc perhaps???). And you're right, they clearly made a lot of hype around this being a Beatles episode and then didn't really want to actually protray them. They were off-screen for most of the episode and completely unaware of the plot! Why? Like genuinely, why am I meant to care about this piano chord scene when the characters in it have been absent from the plot for the past twenty minutes of runtime and their only purpose before was essentially to provide exposition on the conflict of the episode? I DON'T GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
I did think Jinkx did a good job, but I also found Maestro was so… one-note (lol). It didn't to me feel justified to spend so much time with just the villain, when Maestro is just… kind of one-dimensionally evil. Like, it's entertaining, yes, but when you combine it with my above issue it just feels hollow, if that makes sense. Having Maestro actually interact with the musicians they're sort of running dry would have been fun, I think? Honestly would have been way better than zeroing in on Ruby, and given Jinkx her flowers without sidelining the Beatles aspect.
Side-note, but weirdest thing I'm noticing about this season is that RTD is doing the companion-mystery thing so many people hated about Moffat but like. he is NOT as good at it lmao.
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Sugar life-Two
Warnings: 18+smut Lalo being a psycho sugar daddy again, little dark, reader kinda gone crazy, switch, angst, rough sex, riding in the bath
The cracking of the fireplace was therapeutic as the warmth hit your body. Almost taking away the uneasiness of Lalo’s presence as you lay your head on his lap watching the movement of the flames.
“Are you going to be good baby?” He asked running his fingers through your h/c hair his voice came by after spending half an hour in complete silence
You sniffed quietly still looking at the fireplace “I expect an answer querida” he ordered going a bit rough with the stroking. You look up at him seeing the reflection of gold from the flames in his auburn eyes. Lalo smirk at you looking like a depiction of the devil himself.
Expect he was.
“I will be good” You replied shaking his frightening appearance off.
“Good girl” He praised taking a sip of his blood red wine savouring the taste. Putting the glass down on the table with a clink. “Now I got some business to take care of I’ll tell Nachito to run you a relaxing bath you seem on edge baby” You sat up fiddling with the blanket that covered you. Lalo got up to leave the living room “And you never know I might join you” He cheekily teased with a wink.
You shuddered with both fear and undescribed arousal. These last few days you felt all sorts of emotions swive Lalo was an evil drug trafficker and even worse a murderer and yet you still saw the spark of the generous older man who you will admit you started to fall for.
‘The Salamanca name is most feared in the cartel mi amor and you're with the very best. No man will ever threaten you as long as I'm around’ You remember his dark chuckle after that statement.
Conflict that what it was in the hands of the wolf in sheep’s clothing. Lalo Salamanca.
Getting up for the couch felt like it took a lot of energy from you wrapping the cosy blanket around your fragile body. Walking through his home in Chihuahua made you feel more vulnerable especially since Lalo’s ‘good guy’ (he calls it) façade came off you wished you could return to your home in Alburquerque but for that reason he extended the stay.
Stepping upstairs you headed towards the master bedroom shutting the door behind you so you were alone you looked at yourself in mirror. “I need to get out of here” you said in such hopefulness
There was a knock at the door.
You open it to see Ignacio standing there with the look of the concern. “Your bath is almost done are you okay y/n?” He asked.
“I'm okay thanks” You lied. Ignacio shakes his head looking at you
“That’s a stupid question to ask obviously you're not.” You sniffed nodding.
Ignacio looks behind him nervously “I’m going to help you get out here, okay?” He said in a whisper.
You were slightly taken back by his words. Is this a trick? Orchestrated by Lalo himself to see if you would escape him at every given moment.
“How can I trust you? You're his right-hand man” You lightly exclaimed not wanting anyone to hear.
“Trust me y/n we are on the same boat I hate him as much as you do.” He states quietly
“Bu-” You were cut off by Ignacio’s hands on your shoulders. “Listen to me y/n I’m going help you but you got trust me and act natural flatter him. Let him think your still his” Ignacio instructed softly
“What if he kills me, Ignacio?” Thinking of the situation you dreaded the most
“He won’t listen you need to trust me on this one”
“But-”
“He’s in love with you Y/N or at least he thinks he is”
You had no words. Not knowing if Lalo being in love with you was good thing or bad thing. Is he really capable of loving someone? You thought. During the time you have spent with Lalo you felt yourself coming closer to loving him at least the romantic caring version he was portraying. Dreaming of a night where the L word would drift from his heart to yours. But come to the unbearable understanding he didn’t even have a heart to begin with.
You let out a little laugh
“Loves me? He never had a heart” You stated
Ignacio nodded looking down “I can help us get out please trust me”
“Okay” You sighed in defeat
“Good. He can’t know about our conversation, okay?”
You nod lightly sniffing a little “now relax in that bath I promise everything is going be okay”
Taking his word, you closed the door with a gentle goodbye. Everything was quiet as you walked into the fined tiled bathroom that was attached to the master bedroom. You admired the candlelight that outlined the spacious tub as you unwrapped the blanket from your body before taking off the white button up that Lalo gave you fall to your feet. Once bare you stepped into the bath with a slight wince at the hot water bracing yourself in. Lavander embraced your senses as the bubbles sway around you.
Closing your eyes and letting the madness all go away or so you thought.
A creak of the door broke the sweet silence then the voice that made your stomach turn “Got room in there for one more princesa?” Lalo asked by the door darkness indulged him you could only make out his huge figure.
“I thought you had business to attend to Lalo?” Even in the warmth of the water you felt a slight chill run down your spine. “Well, it was cut short and I’m happy it was querida.” He said in a rather cheerful tone as he stepped closer to the tub his menacing appearance brighten by the candle light. Lalo sighed running his hand through the grey streak in his hair.
“Sooo can I join?” He asked playfully dipping his hand in the water before holding your chin so you were looking at him “You are just so beautiful baby” You couldn’t help the faint blush that appeared on your cheeks. Why is he like this? You thought closing eyes and started pushing your back against the golden taps. The faint sound of Lalo’s humming and the rustling of clothes made you want to sink your entire self into the water and stay there.
He sat down in the tub gazing at you before splashing some water on his face. His wet hair sticking up a bit You tried not look at him focusing yourself on the candles that burned around you both. “Something on your mind?” Lalo asked trying get your attention by waving his hand in front of you. “Hm no just tired I guess” you shift in the water with a faint smile. Eyes meeting his bare chest for a man his age his body never fails to impress you.
Trying shake off the memory of the night he took you to bed for the first time. The hunger in his eyes as he stripped off in front you everything about him made you so aroused from the tribal tattoo on his arm to the little spurts of hair on his quite muscular torso. You never wanted someone so badly. He was so gentle with you that night as you weren’t used to a big man like him.
“You are still scared of me, aren’t you?” His lips curved into a slight smirk.
Yeah, no shit I’m sitting in the bath with a murderous drug lord.
“Yes, I am Lalo” The honestly shone through you.
His expression was sympathetic but then he laughed a little like it was funny to him. “It’s very obvious to me just wanted to see if you were honest with me baby.” Drifting his fingers across the flame of one of the candles.
“Like I said that night I would never hurt you y/n. We really have a lot to work on.” You casted your eyes unsure what to say. He laughed again “c’mon you look like a scared little kitten around me” Lalo tusks making you annoyed.
At this point you no longer cared what Ignacio said about ‘acting natural’ you just wanted to get away from him. So, you stood up allowing Lalo to get an eye full of the body he knows so well. But he was quick to wrap his arms around your waist and pull you back down into the water “Where do you think you're going huh?” He asked in an amused tone.
“Away from you" You huffed as Lalo chuckled “Aw poor baby I’m sorry for calling you a kitten” He could see the annoyance in your face “Can I just leave please?” You beg pushing your knees in front of you like a child.
“Aw querida” Lalo drew closer to you in the water rubbing your cheek smiling as a few tears streak your face. “Turn your back to me baby” He softly instructed. You felt hopeless as you obeyed him. His arms wrapped around your waist more gently this time and pulled you to his chest. Caging you against him “Look at me kitten” Lalo ordered after he pulled the tie from your hair letting it fall. You looked at him in the eyes tucking your hair behind your ears.
There was that spark again the man you met at the bar that night looking back at you. Warm brown eyes and lips curling into a warm smile.
His hands gently moved up your waist to welcome of your breasts. Kneading them before kissing you with so much need. Lalo groans as you pulled away from him getting up on your knees “You are so used to power, aren’t you?” He bites his lip gazing at your breasts above the water “I may be born into it querida but I have made sure my family kept it.” You sighed Lalo continued “Just make money. How else am I going keep my princesa pampered hm? I killed for you” he chuckled. This man killed so many people and ruined so many lives and thinks it’s the most hilarious thing ever. His hand cupped your chin ready to kiss you again but you were quick to slap it away moving back to against the end of the tub
“I hate you” You whisper
Lalo was taken back by your sudden venom “hate me?” He chuckled pointing to himself. You nod then he smirked before empathising a silent ‘wow’ with his lips.
“Tell me again” He ordered now you were the one taken back you say it again a bit louder.
‘Again’ Lalo kept repeating so you say it again louder than before drawing your body closer to him still looking in the eye in hopes he gets the message.
Your voice bounced off the walls off the fine tile “I fucking hate you Lalo!”
Your body was almost on his lap and for the last time you were going say it to his face
“I fuck-” Gasping as Lalo pulled you completely on his lap you could immediately feel his hard cock slap your thigh. So big and thick. He delved his wanting tongue in your mouth before you could reject. A whine emits from the back of your throat as he grinded you against him feeling the tip almost slip inside you completely.
“Mi amor feel what you did to me hm?”He asked in a husky tone before his lips roam your collarbone finding that sweet spot forcing a loud moan from you.
“Fuck that hate baby fuck me” He groaned. You were hypnotised by his sudden submission. The degradation and truth you screamed turned him on so much. Pushing his chest so his back was against the tub you lifted yourself up a bit so he could finally slide inside. Wincing slightly, he always felt like he was tearing you apart.
Maybe he was mentally and physically you could no longer handle it.
“Mierda” Lalo cussed as you stared at him getting into a rhythm of bouncing up and down on him. Feeling him tug at your walls as the water splashed around you both your fingers intertwining pulling the chain of his necklace (the mark of the cartel) you fucked him hard making sure his eyes were on yours.
His hand raised to your throat wanting to grab it but you moved it away “Is this what you want?” You questioned letting go of the chain letting him kiss and suck your tits “oh yes baby mierda” Lalo gasped you pulled the grey streak in his wet hair.
Moans and groans echoed in the bathroom as well the splashing of bath water.
His cock pulsed and stretched you out so perfectly as you pounded yourself roughly on the older man. The state of ecstasy was a little frightening making you forget what kind of man you were eagerly fucking. But you didn’t care you were going escape soon enough.
“I’m so close querida” Lalo whispered in your ear with a hiss the tip of his cock hitting that glorious spot you moaned at the sensation.
The knots in your stomach became too much you were ready to burst and so you did. Lalo groaned letting his head fall back against the ledge of the tub as his loaded shot into you.
Panting like dogs in the heat you rested your head on his chest. “I fucking hate you Lalo”
“I know” He replied playing with your wet hair
This is so fucked up
End
For now...
Sorry for the long delay what should this become a short series hm?
Thanks for reading
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Hi guys! So ive been working on a comic called martyrs dogma :D its still very rough and its
My first time making a proper comic so any and all feedback is appreciated!
Lore of the world:
The story takes places in aldris, a city build around a massive tree wich allows for the use of magic. This tree, called the manatree, is ancient and its seed was planted before mankind discovered fire.
Nobody knows its origin, only that its what allows for magic to exist. It was first discovered by the alderians some 3 thousand years ago, who settled around the tree after discovering its properties.
Magic soon allowed for society to advance as manatec was created, machines and technology powerd by magic.
Naturally, people began worshipping the manatree as a god, and a church formed around it. Called the church of leafes, wich soon became incredibly influential in the cities early years and eventually ruled it indirectly trough high barons who were nothing more than puppets to the church.
While most people have some degree of magical abilities, those that dont are often shunned from society. They soon turned to alchemy as a way to keep up with the magic of the manatree. However the church of leafes saw this as heretical, and formed the branched order, a millitarisitc branch of the church ment to “remove” alchemists from aldris.
Alchemists soon fled underground into the massive cave network under the city formed by the manatree´s roots, where they established Roots keep, a safehaven for alchemists.
It soon formed its own culture and distinct identity, and eventually formed the Alchemists coven. The coven was created in opposition to the church of leafes, being part resistance group and part religious organization.
The coven preached that the manatree is inherently evil, as magic corrupts the body and mind of humanity, and that alchemy is the only way for a better future.
As society advanced, roots keep became popular among rich alderians to build factories and mines. They exploited the “rootlings” (a common insult for alchemists) for labor, barley paying enough for them to buy food. Where aldris was a shining city of breathtaking architecture, scientific progress and wealth, roots keep was city made of the junk and scrap the people of aldris no longer needed.
The alchemist coven began to organize more into a millita ment to eventually openly revolt against aldris, and began engaging alderian police in open combat.
In this rising unrest, thrya and yimiron were taken in as kids by the coven, trained to be millita soldiers in the coming revolution. The two were streetkids barley getting by, but once they were taken in they had a shelter, food and people who cared for them.
So they were extremely loyal to the cause, or at least thrya was. Yimiron witnessed the covens less honorable acts first hand, as he was actually the son of a alderian baron but was kidnapped when coven millita raided his home and killed his family.
He eventually betrayed the coven by making a deal with branched order inqisitors. He would get the inheritance of his father and become a baron, but had to give them the names and locations of all coven members. Including Thrya, who he saw as his big sister.
When the inqisitors raided the hideout, thrya was the only one to get out alive. She spend the next few years on the run, before being caught and eventually executed.
Her death, as she predicted, was the spark that lit the powderkeg. The Alchemist coven seized control of all alderian offices and factories in roots keep, executed officials and declared independence from aldris. This sparked the root war, a 4 year conflict wich nearly caused the destruction of both cities.
A peace treaty was eventually made, when the newly appointed High baron Yimiron used his remaining contacts with the coven and influence in aldris to allow roots keep greater independence. It was officially still part of aldris, but was allowed to act on its own.
For the next 20 years, there was relative peace, as roots keep became The Coven Republic. Alchemical technology greatly advanced during this time, as they reverse engineered manatec to be compatible with alchemy.
However, by 1847 p.e tensions began to rise again, as Yimiron attempted to wrestle power from the church and branched order. This sparked a civil war, wich is threatening to spill over into The coven republic.
So, The covens science division created the phoenix project. Its ment to clone and resurrect 10 heroic individuals from the covens history as part living propaganda and part elite soldiers.
Only known to a handfull of individuals however is the true reason for the program,as this plot runs deeper than the roots of the manatree..
#artwork#character art#oc art#fantasy world#fantasy architecture#fantasy art#worldbuilding#fantasy character
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do au squared jesse's feelings of inadequacy or self hatred mean he ever neglects baby, physically or emotionally?
yeah :( i know im number one conflict avoider but giving a 24 year old drug addict who experiences The horrors a literal infant to take care of is not going to go perfectly. he makes a lot of mistakes early on due to ignorance and sometimes due to being high or just not paying the right attention, but thats part of the learning curve and theyre more like direct concrete mistakes that he can be like "oh shit" and try to fix. as the show goes on and things just continually Get So Much Worse though, jesse understandably feels Tormented and like hes the source of the evil thats slowly poisoning his life and that really exacerbates his ongoing inner conflict of "wanting to be the sole provider for baby and not trusting anyone else to take care of her, but also feeling disgustingly inadequate and like his poison is eventually going to destroy baby too". when hes in his really low pizza sonic crackhouse place, he struggles the most with this conflict and does emotionally neglect baby because he Thinks this is the correct course of action. he's a murderer and the bad guy and baby shouldn't even be close to him. he leaves her with demi whenever he possibly can and is distant and sad when she's around, feeling even worse every time he looks at her. obviously, baby doesnt understand wtf his damage is and gets upset as they spend more time apart both physically and emotionally, which just reinforces his notion that he's bad for her.
jesse's on the verge of straight up handing over baby to demi despite the absolute agony that would cause him when a night comes that throws everything back into perspective for him. it's shortly after the "gus decides to invest in jesse and keep him from killing himself" arc begins where the Party is beginning to wind down, but theres still some people around and hes still using intermittently. hes coming down from a high downstairs when he hears baby crying upstairs in her room, which he always keeps closed and locked with one of those child proof (and meth head proof) locks so no "guests" can never enter her room. her crying doesnt just trigger that parent, "let me go see what they need" reflex: it Hurts him. terrified that someone got in and is hurting her, he hurries up the stairs and fumbles with the lock for a long moment before finally managing to let himself in. there's no one else there, thank god, just baby wailing in her crib. he picks her up, automatically checking to see if she's wet (nope), then notices that she feels a little warm. he knows by now that babies get sick all the time—"u look away for five minutes and they'll start running a fever," mike will say to him later on during a drop—but that realization still feels awful. jesse's about to have the "i did this and baby needs to be away from me" thought and call demi when baby makes her grabby hands. desperate for a hold. desperate for Him. he obliges, holding her close and feeling her little body wiggle around to eliminate any possible space between them. she wants him. in spite of Everything, she wants him specifically. he ends up sitting there in her room for a long while, just cuddling her as she cries and eventually calms down and nuzzles his neck even though his scruff is probably all scratchy. there's stuff to do (the baby thermometer is downstairs and he should still have some infant tylenol around), but he just sits and cuddles her first. baby still loves him. he hasn't poisoned her and the distance has just been hurting the both of them instead of protecting her. he loves his baby so, so much and he promises her in his head that he's going to be better for both of them. they both deserve it.
#laferrassie#ask#syd squeaks#u are literally doing some cocomelon shit to me. im so sorry this got so long.#au squared#jesse pinkman#baby ayuluk
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Soooo I heard that you wanted someone to request some smut? Well I'm here... I am requesting most graciously and politely... Regarding that green armored god of the Dune Sea. Just a small Thot of the reader seeing that Boba is having a rough day, and decides to put on a little dance and... Entertain him.
Do with this what you will, please feel free to make as smutty as you wish 😏😉
DEEP DICKIN’ UNDER THE CUT.
Boba Fett isn’t entirely sure how he managed to ensnare and then keep you - you’re a young, sturdy thing with big dark eyes, firm skin, and a voluptuous figure. You don’t seem attracted to power, specifically, but it’s clear you appreciate your life at the palace. You tend not to lounge - you’re kinetic without being too busy. You’re always doing something productive with your time, either around the palace or in town. Boba often wonders if you worry about “earning your keep” like Krrsantan or The Mods, and he reminds himself as he sits through the particulars of a dispute between two of his vassals that he should reassure you more often. After all, you handle many of the social obligations on his behalf with grace and diplomacy, allowing him to spend more of his time problem solving and less of it politicking. He has no great love for either, but he’s saddled with the lesser of the two evils because he has you.
It was a challenging day. Mok Shaiz may have been a scheming, treacherous leach of a mayor, but he’d been right about one thing: running a crime family is more complicated than bounty hunting. Boba Fett is glad to be done with the lonely life of a contract hunter (and sometimes killer) but that made the responsibilities of Daimyo no less burdensome. He’s grateful to be finished for the evening - conflicts resolved, streets relatively free of the most vicious criminal elements, house in order.
He’s looking forward to a quiet evening, perhaps a soak in a steam bath as the twin suns set. Perhaps he can tempt you to join him, he thinks, imagining how you’d feel wet and slick with perfumed castile soap, his hands gliding over your soft body. Your fleshiness, the give of your supple body against his hands, is the perfect complement to his own hardness.
Boba Fett is pleasantly surprised to find you already in the chambers you share wearing far less than he remembered you leaving the palace in this morning. An ensemble of gauzy black fabric and delicate gold chains. He takes a seat on a lounge chair near the window that overlooks the Dune Sea and the setting twin suns, turning the chair to face you. He pats one of this thick thighs with one hand and beckons you with the other.
“Come here to me, little one.”
You oblige, ever obedient to your Daimyo, but instead of sitting gently down on his thigh you straddle his waist and press your breasts into his broad chest. His armor is cool through the fabric and the gold chains make a soft clink against the beskar. He squeezes your meaty hips and plump butt, then stops to consider before removing each glove by biting the tip of the ring finger and continued squeezing and kneading with even more enthusiasm. You rest your hands on his shoulders and place your lips at the juncture of his neck and jaw. You were meant to entertain him this evening, but he can see now that he’s distracted you. It’s just as well - he’s never been able to resist you but perhaps tonight he can teach you what it means to be properly appreciated by a Daimyo. He frees your breasts and rocks you back in his lap so that he can take each of your nipples in his mouth. You gasp first at the feeling of your nipple being gently tugged between his teeth, then at the cool feeling of the evening air against your wet breast as he moves to the next nipple. His large hands brace you by your ribcage and the squeeze makes you feel momentarily corseted.
Boba Fett is a patient but not infinitely patient man, and he can only play with you for so long before the need to sink himself inside you overtakes him. Standing, and lifting you with him, he nearly throws you down onto the bed. He disrobes hastily, his armor clinking loudly on the cool stone floor. He pulls you to the edge of the bed by your ankles and runs his hands up your legs to hook his fingers around the sides of your panties. He slips them off of you and then leans down to kiss the insides of your thighs.
“Tell me what you want, mesh’la.”
You reach out for him and he settles with his hips between your legs and his hands once again on your ribcage. You run your hands up and down his biceps, feeling the power in his muscular arms.
“I want you inside me, Daimyo.”
He reaches down between the two of you and coats his fingers in your wetness, using it to lubricate his throbbing erection. You grip his forearms as the head of him nudges into you. He bends down to push a few strands of hair out of your face and kiss your forehead.
“Easy, little one. Relax and breathe.”
Allowing him to fill you is always a slow process. Boba Fett knows from experience that he is above average in both length and girth and that care must be taken with lovers. He forgot himself once and left you sore and injured - the sight of you wincing the next day remains a powerful regret, and since then he’s taken deliberate care at the start of your intimate encounters. There will be time enough for the kind of powerful, snapping thrusts you both enjoy so thoroughly. For the moment, he wants to watch your relax underneath him.
He listens to the sound of your breathing and feels for the settling in your body. He holds your jaw in one hand and kneads one of your breasts with the other. He moves slowly at first, building to deep, deliberate thrusts that make a wet noise between your bodies. Your moans are soft, his are throaty and growling. He pins your wrists above your head with one hand and fists your hair.
“Mesh’la, I’ve wanted this all day.”
He moves his free hand down to your hip and braces at the juncture of your thigh. The pace and intensity of his thrusts increases and you feel your self contracting around him.
“Come for me, little one.”
He kisses you and you cry into his mouth. The feeling of you milking his cock is enough to undo him and he grunts as he fills you. He nuzzles you and kisses the side of your face and your temple as you wrap your arms around his neck. He softens inside you but doesn’t pull out. Boba Fett doesn’t want to lose this incredible feeling of closeness with you. You smile sleepily.
“Daimyo, can we take a bath?”
He chuckles warmly.
“Of course, little one.”
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Introducing BitFlip!
While I've been away, I've been working on a very raunchy comic about a monkey living in cyberspace, that fights viruses, corruption and all manner of nasty cyber going-ons. Below I have attached a bit more about if you'd like to know more. I am hoping to finish the comic this year, and get it out for publication next year. You can find all the concept art, WIPs and more about him and the other characters on my Patreon! Of course, this comic is for mature/adult audiences only, as it contains sex, drugs, violence and other cool things.
All support goes to helping me spend more time making and doing what I love, and I hope the you will love it too <3
WWW.patreon.com/daztoons
More about BitFlip under the cut VVVVV
BITFLIP
ORIGIN: BITFLIP IS A SELF AWARE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. HE WAS CREATED AS THE MOST ADVANCED TYPE OF MALWARE, DESIGNED BY A SECRET ORGANISATION THAT HELPS ITS GOVERNMENT SPY ON ITS PEOPLE, STEALING THEIR DATA AND PERSONAL INFORMATION TO BE USED AGAINST THEM.
BEFORE BITFLIP COULD BE RELEASED ON THE WORLD HOWEVER, A COSMIC PARTICLE, HURTLING THROUGH THE INFINITE OF TIME AND SPACE, JUST SO HAPPENED TO STRIKE THE PC HE WAS BEING CREATED ON, IN JUST THE RIGHT WAY, CAUSING HIM TO MALFUNCTION, GAIN SENTIENCE, AND FLEE INTO CYBER SPACE.
BITFLIP, NOW DETERMINED TO DEFY HIS PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, INSTEAD ZIPS AROUND THE DIGITAL WORLD, UNDOING THE WORK OF VIRUSES, CORRUPT BUSINESSES AND GOVERNMENTS, WHILE PROTECTING THOSE THAT NEED IT MOST. BITFLIP HAS NO RECOLLECTION OF THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE ORGANISATION THAT MADE HIM, OR WHO HIS CREATOR IS, BUT HOPES HE'LL GAIN ENOUGH DATA TO FIGURE IT OUT AND PLAN HIS REVENGE.
PERSONALITY: BITFLIP (OR 'BIT' FOR SHORT) IS AN ENERGETIC, PROMISCUOUS CODE MONKEY THAT LOVES TO GET HIS PAWS ON AS MUCH 'DATA' AS POSSIBLE. HOW DOES HE DO THAT? WELL, THERE IS A REASON HIS COMIC IS R-RATED, YOU KNOW!
HE'S OVERALL VERY OPTIMISTIC, AND DESPITE LIVING IN THE DIGITAL REALM, AND SEEING THE WORST ASPECTS OF PEOPLE, HE ALSO KNOWS THE GOOD THEY CAN DO AND THE LOVE THEY CAN HAVE FOR EACH OTHER. IT IS THIS THAT DRIVES BIT TO FIGHT FOR GOOD, AS HE SEES AN IMBALANCE OF GOOD V EVIL IN THE WORLD. BIT ONE DAY HOPES TO JOIN PEOPLE IN THE 'PHYSICAL REALM', BUT THAT IS A LONG AND UNLIKELY PIPE DREAM.
BIT IS KIND, HELPFUL AND TRUSTWORTHY. HE VERY MUCH LIVES A 'DO NO HARM; TAKE NO SHIT' WAY OF LIFE, AND PREFERS DIPLOMACY OVER ACTION - HOWEVER, HIS IMPATIENCE AND FIRE TO FIGHT EVIL CAN OFTEN TIMES CAUSE HIM TO ACT IMPULSIVELY, LEAVING AN OUTCOME TO THE INFINITE CHAOS OF THE UNIVERSE, OR CHANCE, AS MOST WOULD CALL IT. THIS ATTITUDE CAN SOMETIMES UNINTENTIONALLY HURT OR PUT PEOPLE IN DANGER, BIT LIVES FAST AND SOMETIMES FORGETS NOT EVERYONE CAN KEEP UP, OR THAT SOME ARE MADE FROM FLESH AND BONE AND NOT JUST ONES AND ZEROS LIKE HIM. IT'S EASY FOR BITFLIP TO GET TUNNEL VISION WHEN ACHEIVING A GOAL, AND THAT CAN MAKE HIM FORGET OTHERS HAVE FEELINGS AND NEEDS.
FIGHTING STYLE: BIT'S FIGHTING STYLE CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS 'CHAOTIC', HE PREFERS TO FIGHT DEFENSIVELY, DODGING AND BLOCKING, HOPING TO EITHER TIRE OUT HIS OPPONENT OR CONVINCE THEM TO TRY MORE PEACEFUL/SEXIER MEANS OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION. HE RUNS HEAD FIRST INTO A FIGHT WITHOUT ANY PLAN OF ACTION, MAKING IT UP AS HE GOES ALONG; USING THE ENVIRONMENT AROUND HIM TO HIS ADVANTAGE.
IF HOWEVER THE OPPONENT IS TOO STRONG, UNWAVERING OR OTHERWISE COMPLETELY IRREPREHENSIBLE, BIT HAS A WIDE ARRAY OF MOVES AND POWERS TO BEAT THEM DOWN AND ULTIMATELY 'DELETE' THEM.
BITFLIP ALSO LEARNS VARIOUS MOVES FROM WATCHING FIGHTING VIDEOS ONLINE, HE HAS A LOT OF HIS OWN MOVES TOO WHICH INCLUDE:
MONKEY FIST: BALLING UP THE END OF HIS TAIL, BIT CAN ESSENTIALLY USE IT AS A LONG FIST THAT REACHES FURTHER THAN HIS OWN TWO PAWS.
TAIL BLAST: USING HIS TAIL AGAIN, BIT CAN FIRE OUT A BLAST OF ENERGY IN ANY DIRECTION.
UST: BIT CAN TURN HIS TAIL INTO A PLUG, WHICH HE CAN USE TO HACK INTO CERTAIN PROGRAMS.
DOCKING
BIT'S MOST FAMOUS AND MOST DANGEROUS MOVE, IS TO 'DOCK' WITH THE MALWARE. THIS IS BASICALLY A NICE WAY OF SAYING HE LETS THEM FUCK HIM, SO THAT HE CAN BE FILLED WITH THEIR 'DATA', WHICH BITFLIP CAN THEN USE AGAINST THEM LATER. THIS IS HIS MOST POWERFUL MOVE, AS IT ALLOWS HIM TO STEAL SOME OF THEIR POWERS, AND ALSO GIVES BIT THEIR SOURCE CODE. PULLING THIS OFF IS A HUGE RISK TO BITFLIP, AS THE MALWARE IS BASICALLY SO CLOSE IT COULD KILL HIM INSTANTLY. ONCE BITFLIP GETS THEIR DATA, IT CAN THEN BE ANALISED BY BITFLIP TO FIND THE CODE THAT WILL REMOVE THE VIRUS, IT IS THEN LOADED INTO HIS GUN - THE WIZARD, AND BLASTED BACK AT THE ENEMY TO PERMANENTLY REMOVE THEM. THIS IS ULTIMATELY BIT'S FINISHING MOVE IN A LOT OF FIGHTS, AS HIS OBJECTIVE IS TO KILL ALL VIRUSES.
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Worldbuilding: White Gold
If you want conflict in your story, you don’t need to invent political plots or conspiracies. You just need to look for the one thing in your setting everyone needs, and the Evil Plots will appear. Consider the case of salt.
The history of human civilization is, to a great extent, the history of salt. Ice makes it in there too, especially once we worked out powered ways to refrigerate and freeze food, but mostly salt.
Three main reasons for this. First, salt is one of the best, simplest, non-temperature-dependent ways to preserve food. If you can’t put food by and build up a surplus, you can’t get past bare survival, much less build villages and cultures that write down their rituals, recipes, and raunchy jokes.
Second, plain old ordinary salt is useful for all kinds of chemical reactions. Tanning, dyeing, soap-making, mining and alloys - all of these use salt. Modern industry uses most of the salt produced worldwide. Look up organic chemistry if you want the gritty details, that stuff’s scary.
Third, humans need salt in their diet. It may be hard to imagine in grocery stores full of processed food and salty snacks, but for most of history, if you didn’t live right on the seashore, getting enough salt to stay healthy could be an uphill battle.
And here’s where some of the annoying aspects of civilization kick in. Specifically, governments hungry for Ever More Tax Money. Since everyone needs salt, governments throughout history have concluded that by taxing and controlling salt, they get everyone to pay taxes. Fair, right?
...I will pause here to let readers stop laughing hysterically, and/or retrieve their rolled eyes from under the sofa where they’re picking up dust bunnies.
Yeah. Not so much. Historically the people who most need to use salt to store food as a hedge against disaster are those too poor to afford getting fresh food when they want it. If you’re rich you can have fresh meat slaughtered, fresh fish hauled in water-baskets inland, fresh cherries air-mailed by pigeon post for a banquet.
(True story. A guy in ancient Persia proving a point about how fast he could get news across the Empire. Enemies took the hint.)
Rich people don’t have to spend as much money on salt. But if you sell salt, to people who have to have it? You can make out like a bandit.
(According to Everyday Life in Joseon-era Korea, this was the actual historical cause of many people turning bandit. They couldn’t afford enough salt to stay legal and survive.)
It runs through history like clockwork. Governments want money, they take over the production of salt, they farm out the actual work to people who can bribe their way into running it, the quality goes down, the price goes up, people make and smuggle it illegally... and there’s never enough. If you want some more recent history, look at British India. The government made it illegal for native Indians to make their own salt. This was part of what Gandhi used to crack them. (There were plenty of other things wrong, but salt was the one that affected your average householder trying to get by. Messy.)
If your story is set any time prior to modern day, salt is an important background detail. Nations go to war for salt. Beggars steal for it. People travel to find it, mine it, boil it from brine, and so much more. This Wikipedia article on salt in Chinese history lays out a lot of historical shenanigans, and if your library lets you borrow Mark Kurlansky’s Salt: A World History, even better. This is history with ordinary people attached, meaning excellent story fodder.
But your story doesn’t have to use salt for this. Just anything that a lot of people need, and will pay for. If you want your characters going up against villains like corrupt government officials or greedy merchants - here’s a place to start looking!
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How can you avoid future world conflicts by not settling in western countries
West has a war based economy. They feed on wars and destabilization in the world and when you have this sort of values passed on to you, then over the period of time you will avoid having your own children due to uncertain future (because deep down inside you know what you are doing).
But you need workforce to run your economy, so eventually you come up with a solution and that solution will come from the same fundamentals and values passed down to you over generations.
Now this solution requires that A) the workforce needs to be cheap B) workforce needs to vulnerable (persecuted societies from respective countries) so that they don't complain if/when they are mistreated.
Now there is a simple way to get that cheap labor. You look for countries where minorities are persecuted and then you bring them to your countries because they will not just work cheap, but also they will never complain about anything, because they have nowhere to go back to. This solution is very immoral way of bringing cheap labor but its still not evil. What makes it evil is when you run out of countries with such conflicts, and then you start creating chaos in smaller countries for this sole purpose only.
And this is just the beginning, because this plan doesnt end here. Its just 1 part of it. They will continue supporting chaos in smaller countries for a steady supply of cheap labor, but it continues only as long as they have a growing economy. What happens when they their economy doesn't grow anymore?
When their economy gets stagnant, they will want to remove these immigrants and send them back to their country because "you didn't learn the western way of living" (trust me if they want to send you back, they will find one excuse or the another)
Now remember, you didn't just contribute to their economy by working there at cheaper rates, but you also paid their taxes, house rent, fees etc, so half of what you earn in all those years is spent one way or another to stimulate their economy, and when they will not need immigrants all those liberal politicians and civil societies will disappear and you will be given very hard time, eventually you will realize that you dont have any choice but to leave for some other place for the sake of your dignity and/or your family safety.
West's economy is going down, they dont need cheap labor anymore. They will eventually throw all immigrants out one group at a time. They will either start deporting you for trivial stuff or they will give collective punishments, or they will make things so hard for you that you will have no option but to leave.
Stop spending your whole life trying to build a home in another country. Its very easy for them to just blame you for something and then take everything away that you spent your whole life building for your and your family.
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I keep forgetting or not having the energy to do the next one of these. It's going to be two in one again, this time for Glitchhikers: The Spaces Between and Vengeful Heart, which are the two "wokest" games I've played in a while (in a good way).
Glitchhikers is the only thing that's ever given me a dialogue option to declare the concept of the hero's journey to be an act of colonialism (we make fun of Campbell on this blog, and also Jung while we're at it), and Vengeful Heart is probably the most openly revolutionary thing I've played since A Bewitching Revolution (which is also great and you should give it a try).
I played the original Glitchhikers over a decade ago when it first came out. It was only like 15 minutes to go through it once, but it was the exact right thing I needed to see at that exact point in my life, and it's still one of my most memorable experiences with a game ever thanks to that. The new remade and hugely expanded version didn't quite do it for me in the same way, but it was still interesting and had some stuff going for it.
It's very much an experimental art game experience and not something big on gameplay, and it can be a little clunky or frustrating to interact with sometimes as a result. The park section in particular was mostly just annoying for me rather than me getting much out of it.
It can also be kind of on the nose with some of the dialogue and the messages in it, and some of it left me feeling like yeah I've seen multiple posts about this on Tumblr except they expanded on the idea with a thousand more words and it led to a bunch of discussion that added a lot more to it.
When it gets stuff right I really like it though. The train segment of the game avoids those problems entirely for the most part, both because it's a fixed path that makes navigating it a lot easier and because you run into each character multiple times. That latter thing is particularly important because it lets them flesh out the conversations a bit more and spend more time with each idea or theme, which it really benefits a lot from.
I think the final airport section was probably my second favorite. It's a bit tedious wandering around the empty space, and it's kinda blunt with its message, but it did a good enough job presenting the idea that how things are framed and structured matters for how we perceive and think about them, whether it's architecture or stories or ideas. It's a very "I see what you did there" way to wrap things up, but it works.
And then Vengeful Heart is just good. It's a postapocalyptic cyberpunk dystopian VN that manages to be appreciably worse than the way things are in the real world but not by so much that it's not immediately able to be related back to real life. And while the setting and situation are pretty dire, the story itself is about disempowered people joining together to work to do something to change it. Not without struggles and loss along the way, and not with a universally happy ending where everything is magically fixed, but with hope for their actions and sacrifices leading to continued change and improvement in the future.
They absolutely nailed the PC-98 aesthetic better than I've seen anyone do it in a while, and it feels like someone could've made the artwork 30 years ago. A lot of the music is pretty good too and sets the tone well.
Its biggest strength is its characters though, which is always a good thing in a medium and genre that relies so much on them. There are strong women and PoC and queer people and disabled people and student activists and working class union members and more all working together, both learning from each other but also having conflicting ideas and motivations at times, and of course the evil billionaires and militarized cops and private security you'd expect from the genre too. I really liked how a lot of them were handled, and I kept thinking about some of them for days after I finished the story, completely unprompted.
I could see myself going back through the train section of Glitchhikers now and then to meet different characters and see what they have to say, but Vengeful Heart is the one I expect to end up fairly high on my list at the end of the year, and I'm really looking forward to whenever they finish the next thing they've been working on.
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DON'T BE SORRY LA VAGUELETTE SLAPS!!! genshin rlly makes some good shit!!! i was doing dishes jamming to the chasm's inevitable conflict ost so that genshin's ost can mayhaps make me think this small task is for a grand adventure i need to prepare myself for <33
also bg3!! have you finished a playthrough? i haven't done evil runs yet or my durge run, but im looking forward to the redemption arcs...!!
(also i see that you wrote tot i hope you can scroll past the posts when i'm being a big hater about the writing sjdhsjdhdjjt. but i'd like to know who's your blorbo of choice!)
((sorry this is long its physically impossible for me to write short things))
AAA EXACTLYY, genshin has some really good music! i was into it since the zhonglis trailer song like- dayum
shamefully though, i have to admit i have NOT finished even ONE full playthrough in bg3 T.T i always get stuck at wanting to remake my character T.T n then im like "its fine i can get where i was in like 2 hours" N THEN I CANT?! like what a surprise duh T.T
I did however see a bunch of spoilers lol
ALSO DONT WORRY OMG imma be honest i dont really like the writing in tot either LOL but i play it for my favorite husband ofc marius lol, even tho imma be honest i pulled for his latest card in global n... i was cringing at the story like 3/4 of the time? and the event (enduring light) for it wasnt even that much fun for me tbh T.T just skipped through it basically n im GLAD ITS OVER.
sorry if u liked it T.T
Ngl I regret spending my s-chips on those cards T.T hurts even more cuz im a f2p player so it took me months to collect that shi T.T
AND ITS OK PLS DONT APOLOGIZE ❤️
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REVIEW
Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
War brings death, destruction, corruption of morals and physical bodies. It brings out the best and worst in men and women who fight, endure, and live through it. This look back is dark and grim…but then…war is just that though some say there is honor and glory to be found…I doubt it.
Having read this author’s work in the past, I was eager to read this book without even knowing what the topic was. As I began to read, I thought it was beautifully written with descriptions of the south that painted a lovely picture…until the picture changed, and one dark ugly scene followed another one.
The story is told by introducing one character at a time who spends a chapter telling what is happening in his or her life till the next character steps onto the stage. Each character returns later in the story to tell a bit more.
Who were the characters:
* Wade Lufkin: pacifist at the beginning of the war working with the wounded and dying, learned he could kill, was riddled with guilt, carries wounds both mental and physical, a bit of a loose cannon but also seems to care deeply about some odd and discrepant issues and people
* Hannah Laveau: slave, wife without her husband, mother who lost her son, abused, has a gift or two or three, accused of murder, strong, survivor, attractive, intriguing to more than one character in the book
* Pierre Couchon: constable, carries out his duties according to the law as stated by those in power, lost part of his foot in the confederate army, born poor but well educated and wants more, a bit conflicted about more than one thing, grows a lot in this story
* Darla Babineaux: once enslaved, free woman, stays on the plantation, has big dreams, sees something in Pierre, keeps her eye on the prize no matter what it might require, taken in by a sweet talker more than once, survivor with a strong sense of justice
* Florence Milton: northerner, abolitionist, strong, pushes boundaries, conflicted about actions she has taken, educates and nurses others, does what needs to be done
* Colonel Carlton Hayes: rather off-putting, charismatic, previous choices has left him riddled with a disease that will eventually kill him, strong, ruthless, difficult to like or admire
* Endicott: heinous evil despicable creature
This story, in some ways, told of the horrors of war but did have me feeling it was more a dark fairy tale than a factual rendition of the past. The times were perhaps much as described but the characters in this story were bigger than what I would imagine was possible at the time and the ending the part that seemed too good to be true.
Did I enjoy this book? Yes and NO
Am I glad I read it? Yes
Would I read more by this author? Yes
Thank you to NetGalley and Atlantic Monthly Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4-5 Stars
BLURB
From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters – enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers – are caught in the maelstrom
In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom.
When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed—and did—as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle’s plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Lee Burke is an American author best known for his mysteries, particularly the Dave Robicheaux series. He has twice received the Edgar Award for Best Novel, for Black Cherry Blues in 1990 and Cimarron Rose in 1998.
Burke was born in Houston, Texas, but grew up on the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the University of Missouri, receiving a BA and MA from the latter. He has worked at a wide variety of jobs over the years, including working in the oil industry, as a reporter, and as a social worker. He was Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, succeeding his good friend and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner John Kennedy Toole, and preceding Ernest Gaines in the position. Shortly before his move to Montana, he taught for several years in the Creative Writing program at Wichita State University in the 1980s.
Burke and his wife, Pearl, split their time between Lolo, Montana, and New Iberia, Louisiana. Their daughter, Alafair Burke, is also a mystery novelist.
The book that has influenced his life the most is the 1929 family tragedy "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner.
#james lee burke#netgalley#atlantic monthly press#historical fiction#american civil war#war#slavery#abuse#murder
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