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bonefall · 23 days
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heyyyy bonefallll!!! So uhm. Wind released. And if you read it, what do you think of it?
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I started ASC off with a lot of excitement. I had known to not get my hopes up, but for the first time in a long time, I felt like they actually had something meaningful to say about the problems in Clan society. For once, it felt fresh.
A conflict based on a murder mystery and a power struggle, political radicalization within another Clan with anti-Clanswapper bigotry turning violent, and the reluctant heir of a legacy sprawling several generations. Like a dark echo of TPB, implying the root issues had never been truly addressed by Darkest Hour. The Clans still have a terrible ruling system. The culture is still bigoted. Firestar failed to destroy the obsession with legacy-- he just founded a new bloodline.
And even if it wasn't THAT deep, it was at least a grounded plot that was based in the characters more than faith in StarClan. If Nightheart's arc about legacy fell apart, I'd still enjoy watching him struggle, lose people, grow, and find his purpose. Or seeing Splashtail juggle the power he'd managed to snatch and was just not smart enough to hold onto. Or the cool fights that would surely result from an invasion of RiverClan.
Wind tossed it. It was already having a downturn in the previous book, but this is a book that seems so afraid of having interesting conflict that it spends 75% of its time debating if something interesting should happen, and 25% of its time barking, "EVIL HEATHENS WHO HATE GOD WILL DESTROY OUR SOCIETY!!"
I can't get over how awful Splashtail's "descent" is. He's having a dumbass atheist stoner debate with Podlight when they go to the Moonpool, musing that maybe you have to eat 9 mice to get 9 lives, and then 2 appearances later he's foaming at the mouth with a dictator speech and kills harelight no miss.
They even seem to have tried to replicate Stonefur's execution but badly. It's jarring. Splashtail had a big dictator speech, killed the beloved deputy suddenly, and the whole camp looks Super Scared and Upset so that you know it's the Evil Leader and not a systemic problem.
His "TALENT FOR MANIPULATION" is saying he heard Curlfeather murmur evil plans in her sleep and (apropos of nothing) accusing her teenage daughter of "getting the wrong idea" about his adult romantic interest in her. I keep coming back to this because the ENTIRE book's plot is based on this successfully smearing Frostpaw's reputation.
you may be tired of hearing it, but I'm definitely more tired than you because I had to read and analyze an ENTIRE BOOK founded on it.
The plot is endlessly arguing over if they can trust Frostpaw or not, gathering "evidence" to this end, while Sunbeam and Nightheart's POVs uselessly languish in ThunderClan doing mentoring stuff.
Im SO sick of being forced to sit in thunderclan while more interesting things happen offscreen. stop adding MORE cats to ThunderClan, you already have Stormcloud and you do NOTHING with him why are they also getting WAFFLEPAW
Everyone's praising the fact that the book can remember previous entries, but actually, I'm going to drop a hot take; It's actually bad if they CAN obviously reference old material, and then it doesn't influence the actions the characters take. They namedrop Nightstar several times and then come up with excuses for why they still need to sit around and do nothing!!
THAT'S WORSE, ACTUALLY.
SCALDING TAKE, I'd RATHER see the cats have the memories of goldfish if the alternative is "We remember Nightstar! We're simply going to purposefully disregard Nightstar, because the plot needs to happen"
They also muse that maybe Splashtail's evilness is making all the RiverClan cats act evil, and they'll go back to normal once he's removed. This has been implied before, but never so blatantly stated.
But most of all, I can't stop going back to "Godless Heathen Bloodlust." What a fucking joke. For a shining minute it looked like we were going to have interesting villains, but no, they really are just coming out and saying that lacking faith is an indicator of a moral failing. What makes Splashtail so uniquely bad and scary is that he "disrespects the ancestors" (hey podlight. what if eating 9 magic mice gives you 9 lives? woah dude look at this. the bugle chips look like claws. lol haha) and hates love and peace and won't even let Jesus guide him.
The scenes with Frostpaw and her allies are the only parts of this book worth reading. Shadowsight, tigerHeartstar. Clinging to Whistlepaw like she's a life preserver. save me windclan
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hzdtrees · 7 months
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Face-Off
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roley-poley-foley · 9 months
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god FUCKING damn it
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helveticaoftheyears · 2 years
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chimerahyperfix · 6 months
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assorted bomberman headcanons
This got rather long so to not clog the tag, ermmmm
When trying to stay awake [desperate times call for desperate measures-type deals] Blue will blast loud music directly into his ears. Think things like Enter Sandman by Metallica.
Plasma's scarf is, in fact, part of him. It follows his emotions-- if he's mad it'll spike up and will shock you, and if he's calm it'll be more of a quiet rumble, like an old CRT tv's screen static. It buzzes all the time.
Plasma can also control where his scarf moves. He usually uses it to gesture at things. This also means he can push you around or flip you off with it. Massive W.
Yellow and Aqua are twins. I will die on this hill.
The Bomberman Bros all had [keyword; had] color-coded blankets. This fell apart when Yellow traded with Aqua over textures. Now everyone has a swath of different colors. It's comforting in its own way. Pretty tried this when it was just her, White, Black and Pink-- that fell apart when she died and they split her belongings. The blankets White and Black got eventually ended up in storage, but the one Pink has is hung up on her bedroom wall.
The Dastardly Bombers all live in the same house at the moment [it is Phantom's]. It's kind of like a frathouse.
Magnet's favorite kind of music is Techno. He often plays it at max volume.
Red and Blue often get into arguments about wether checkers or chess is better.
The only game Green is bad at is Spoons. He can't react fast enough to win.
Blue collects dice sets. His favorite dice are D4. Great for laying out as weapons. His favorite set look like prisms.
Red can breathe fire. It's very system-intensive, so it's a last-ditch-effort attack.
Black likes writing. Yellow has convinced him to write small plots for him to make comic books with.
Golem names all of his birds. Phantom's house is surrounded by birdhouses.
Blue has narcolepsy. Honestly I'm pretty sure this is canon?
White can't sleep without some kind of noise. He has at least three fans, one heater, a radio and four white noise machines he cycles through.
Blue and Phantom are rivals. They often try to hack eachothers computers to put silly images onto them. Neither have ever succeeded.
White is always the last to go to bed. Yellow is almost always the first to wake up. The only exception to this is Blue, who can be up whenever.
Pink has a collection of plastic weapons. Think big battle axes, scythes, etc.
Blue always has bags of pretzels in his room. They are his favorite. No one else likes pretzels.
The Bomberman bros all have little glow-in-the-dark stars glued to the roofs of their rooms. White never got around to removing his. Black has painted a moon on his roof to go along with them. Pink counts them to sleep. Blue's room aesthetic is very star-themed, so he got even MORE stars. Red, Yellow, Aqua and Green all wanted them.
Pink consumes the most horror content out of anyone.
Aqua has a very extensive enamel pin collection and participates in pin trading. She has like. 3 corkboards full of pins.
White likes to collect reusable, recycled material bags.
Green's room is full of stuff. He says it's all put in specific places-- organized chaos-- but he puts it all in stacks. White tells him to clean his room a lot. The stacks just move around. It's a constant back and forth between them.
Aqua has drank hot sauce before. Like a drink.
Magnet is covered in scuff marks from his powers activating and pulling him against things.
Red occasionally does woodcarving.
Pretty is bad at letting go of items that can be even vaugely sentimental. She's kept almost everything she's ever been given, even if it's broken.
When he was younger, Black broke multiple handheld game consoles from overuse.
White is surprisingly good at fighting games. He mostly plays puzzle games.
Yellow likes to bake. He can make cookies, and that's it.
Golem often picks up the other Dastardly Bombers and carries them around. He often throws them over his shoulder.
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guildpostings · 5 months
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Sorry I'm not Guildposting like I used to, friends. Autism said no.
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atlas-the-bastard · 1 year
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my hand slipped....,,,.,..,
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THATS TWO DIFFERENT SEASONS???
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shmorp-mcdurgen · 2 years
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Your AU Cesar is so,,, blorbo. Love him. Alt-Alt Cesar though, guy needs to watch out for them glass doors man
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HOLY SHIT
ITS HIM, ITS THE BLORBO
He looks so good in your art style
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gla55t33th · 2 years
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Parromantic: The desire for a close relationship that may mirror a conventionally romantic relationship, and feeling an attraction towards such, but with little care, or little understanding, as to what romance is.
Neurodivergency may affect someones ability to understand romance, and what romance is, which would be a use of this label.
(“Par” stemming from a latin word for “companion”)
Pink: Experiencing a form of desire for being in a close relationship
Peach: Attraction of any kind; romantic, queerplatonic, alterous, platonic, aesthetic, and others that may factor into the desire for such a relationship
Lime: Being arospec
Green: Aromanticism
Black: Confusion and/or rejection towards the concept of romance
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hidinginawell · 9 months
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Im probably being irrational but im v concerned about this spot on my inner lip that I figured was just an ulcer but uh. Week or so later it's still here and the skin around it is black. Which still I would manage to not gaf about but this coincides with me smoking a cig again last night after having not for a couple weeks
Ik I have followers who smoke pls tell me this is a normal thing and that I havent given myself mouth cancer
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bear-cubs-art-things · 3 months
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so apparently we made slime in chemistry today.
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The 4th grader inside me is winning
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ghostlygravekeeper · 4 months
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Well. I'm still alive.
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snowydoesthings · 4 months
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hear me out
na'vi vampires
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gnzma · 11 months
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🙃
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