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Introduction of the Other
s12e3 ""fake agents" scene. "This is my partner"
S13e6 "fake agents" scene. "Here is my associate"
#small but telling difference#between the two relationships#look at how Crowley reacted to the intro#vs how Cas reacted to the intro#castiel#crowley spn#dean winchester being an asshole#light version but still#and the last panel#Cas just defeated an ancient ominpotent entity to be released back to life#but here he realized that nothing had changed#he was still subjugated#imprisoned by his love and his guilt and his sense of duty#still just an associate#still just someone that “helps” the big heros
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Wait!
Fuck!
How did it take me this long to realise the significance of Hickey tossing Thomas Johnson's severed arm at Crozier's feet?!
Thomas Johnson - Boatswain's Mate, Antarctic veteran and, most importantly, the man who whipped Hickey to a bloody pulp on Crozier's orders!
How did I fail to appreciate the raw fucking power of hacking off the very arm that hacked at you first?
Of taking the very hand used as a tool to oppress and do violence to you, stripping it of its power, and leaving it, raw and bleeding, right on your perceived-oppressor's doorstep?
#Like I'm sure Mr Johnson was a perfectly pleasant person#Even if he was used as a tool for violence and subjugation he still didn't deserve the fate that Hickey gave him#But with all that said...#GOOD CHRIST does the symbolism of it all not just fuck severely!?!?#I'll be thinking about it for days!#The Terror#The Terror AMC#Cornelius Hickey#Thomas Johnson#Francis Crozier
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Torturing myself with thoughts of Durge potentially having a very unintended experience the first time she goes on that little weave date with Gale.
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What if she intends to kiss him in the weave, but her fractured mind conjures up the image of Gortash instead after she pulls away.
It's who she really wants, she just doesn't remember.
Gale is none the wiser, until the weave slips away to reveal a panicked Durge...
Trying to explain what she saw?
Trying to brush it off?
Who is that man burned into what's left of her brain matter? Who was he to her that the weave would pull him forth when she made the decision to pursue Gale?
And laying eyes on him again for real, at Moonrise...
Maybe she finds the Prayer for Forgiveness, and her hands are shaking as she reads, knowing that she penned this.
To her father.
Her God.
To Bhaal.
Scelaritas's words suddenly make sense.
"He would forget his god for you, but you won't for him. Of that I know."
She did forget her god once, it seems.
For Gortash.
After that, she goes to Wyrm's Rock to meet him alone, because she has one burning, inescapable question.
"Who are you to me?"
#durgetash#GOREtash#The Dark Urge#DurgeGale#Good GOD I am in deep#My fully Evil Durge run is with Ascended Astarion - tragic romance#E!Durge realizing her lover no longer sees her as an equal...but GORTASH on the other hand...#E!Durge ascended Astarion because she gave zero shits about 7000 souls and felt that Astarion deserved to have that power#When he actually EXERTED that power over HER she was quite taken aback#Somewhere inside she remembered the height of her power and someone to share godhood with; she was blindsided by Astarion#But she made her bed. She still cared for him; so she chose to lie in that bed#But Gortash still had a hold over her now-undead heart#Astarion is callous about it when Gortash meets his unceremonious end by the Brain and E!Durge (Hiraeth) takes this personally#She reclaims her power by taking dominion for Bhaal; subjugating everyone - Astarion included - to bring about her father's dead world.#Because really; the only thing that ever held her back from fulfilling her purpose was her admiration for Gortash.#RESISTENT DURGE ON THE OTHER HAND is romancing Gale lol#AND THE WHOLE 'HE WOULD FORGET HIS GOD FOR YOU' LINE REALLY STRUCK A CHORD WITH THE PRAYER FOR FORGIVENESS
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having completely normal thoughts (gortash wotr au)
#yeah. it’s bad. not thinking about inserting zeke but GORTASH#he’d start out as aeon for sure#his opinions on companions are so fucking awful#not nearly as awful as the kingmaker au ofc. he’d call reg a sick dog that needs to be put down because his incompetent owner failed him#anyways. this is a deranged wotr post.#of course there’s no one among the companions fit to be his/equal status#but i’d say he’d have the most positive opinions of regill and greybor. as positive as a guy thinking of them as his tools can get.#towards greybor it’s like. ok you don’t see yourself as more than a weapon and neither do i. you do your job as long you get paid i can wor#with that.#meanwhile regill he’d love to have as a knight devoted to him instead of him being a hell knight#this of course never fucking works gortash’s weird manipulation would not pull through with regill in this matter#no romance of course. except for manipulative sex with wenduag probably.#he really wants that mongrel army! will pop a fantasy viagra if wenduag needs to be ‘roughly subdued to calm down.’#he’d be a little more into it than usual because he doesn’t need to hold back with her but it’s still not a true subjugation in the end.#until later he’s like ok. i lied i don’t like sex get on the vivisection table#(aro + fucked version of grayace gortash truther if you didn’t know)#tries to refine her and the poison#he’d be awful to her in general. sees a weapon to be refined. she recognizes him as master now but her loyalty is fickle.#he’d earn all the respect flags#but still would punish her greatly for the first sign of betrayal in the abyss#oh and before this gets too long: one more for cam obviously.#sadly i don’t see a world in which he doesn’t immediately see through the mireya story and kill her in act 3#but if he didn’t. it’d be so juicy. him in act 5 learning the full story. how her father talks about her.#just stands there frozen for 10 seconds with a thousand yard stare#<- to then go no i don’t think you should kill him you should [REDACTED GRUESOME TORTURE METHOD THAT KEEPS ONE ALIVE & AWAKETHE ENTIRE TIME#in the end he’d execute her anyways but. hm. he’d get triggered for sure#i have more thoughts but i’m gonna shut up now lmao
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im so fuckhigng mad dude why do i keep revisiting the scene in terminalmon.tage's animation of arce.us where vol.o monologues euehggdgdgfggshegdg
#alright ill remove my tsundere ass for a quick moment#i started liking vo.lo because of how he acted in that animation#the voice acting was too good it got me genuinely especially when he monologued about using subjugating arceu.s's power or something#it did something to my head and i couldn't stop checking it since then#and well the overall vibe of the animation is just so fun and addicting to watch#this was during my work immersion time where i worked as a teacher with my first grader students 😭#and because of that i started getting curious of his design. i knew he was bad apples but i didnt know how or why#until i was curious enough to see other gamers reactions to vol.o's theme slowly incorporating Cynthia#and thats where i read the lore text boxes n shit and aagauahsgahdh#before i was like “dont worry jil i will forget these and my gameplay will be super blind 😋” WRONG#I KEEP GRAVITATING TOWARDS VO.LO AND I BASICALLY HAVE THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS MEMORIZED BECAUSE HES THE WALKING SPOILERS#AJDJDJDBJDJDJSJS#STILL IM TRYING MY BEST NOT TO LOOK AT THE GAMEPLAY AND HIS DIALOGUE TO AT LEAST SAVE WHAT I HAVENT SEEN BUT UGHHHH#blaming him for ruining my spoiler free experience 🙄🙄🙄🙄 ALSLFMDMDAHWHDVDVDB
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i think it’s hilarious chuuoku developed this hypnosis canceller when the mics already had a kill switch built into them lmao
#this is vee speaking#it’s a reason i think there may be a third factor rio and co are going to have to tackle#but i’ll be tucking this thought away after this lol since it might be too early to assume#like i’m sure rei knows chuuoku was trying to develop other stuff on the side#which might be why rei’s trying to direct ichiro to focusing on the true hypnosis mic instead of his mom maybe#like presumably the real true hypnosis mics will stay offline because of rei’s intervention#but this mysterious third factor is a hurdle because it was developed for otome’s complete subjugation of humanity#it hasn’t quite worked out well as evidenced by iojaku’s mental state as he was the test guinea pig for development#and idk maybe that mental discord will attract honobono into using it#since it brings people into that state of discord and anguish and that’s what she wants lol#iojaku even gained some of his mental facilities back after reuniting with both rio and kubiki showing bonds still temper the effects#(and they’re a trio interestingly enough lol like the way the true hypnosis mic takes three to wield)#but again it’s too early to tell so i’m shelving this one lol
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in the expanded DS9 universe in my head, Tora Ziyal kept in touch with the Bajorans and Cardassians she was enslaved with on that desert planet
#star trek#idk i just think that living with fewer than 20 other people for 6 years would just form some unbreakable bonds#i wonder how that all worked anyway#the cardassian guards-turned-slaves right next to the bajoran prisoners they had been guarding and subjugating?#i mean we saw that there were cardassians who were ALSO prisoners there#so it's not like the Bajorans outnumbered and killed them all#but when Dukat takes off his helmet that Bajoran guy is like 'he's a cardassian!' as if he doesn't see the same 5-10 cardassians every day#are they no longer 'cardassian assholes' to him and now they're just 'guys i'm prisoners with on friggin tatooine' ???#what a trip that would be for both those Bajorans/Cardassians when they got back to their respective planets#the war is over and there's a peace treaty in place#do they still have the 'i hate those guys' mentality? or is it 'i hate all cardassians except the 7 guys i was in prison with' ??#'i'd kill any cardassian i see except Jonesy cuz he's my pal i debate cooking techniques with' ???#anyway i like to think that when Ziyal goes off to Cardassian Art School that she can at least hang out with some Cardassians#who know and love her. cuz i imagine she was extremely lonely on Cardassia :(
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Too tired to write but also can't stop The Scenes™ from playing out in my mind.
#bits about Arvel's healing magic and also the man in the bar healing Kahn's broken bones#i mean it's not perfect and it's painful for both the man and Kahn for different reasons but it does work in the end#also just sort of trying to flesh out the healing magic in my head. for most people who have it (mostly loethan) it's close#range or on touch. depending on the person it might hurt or drain the caster too and they might have to be able to see#the specific injury or at least where it is (such as when the man in the bar has to cut into Kahn's leg and arm to see his bones)#it almost never works on nerve damage. never on organs except maybe internal bleeding or injuries so severe the organs are#exposed. (basically just trying to say it won't heal organ failure). so it's pretty much best for broken bones and cuts. works better the#more recent the injury was. technically has the ability to regrow limbs but that's most likely never shown. (torn between whether#or not veren gets his arm regrown or a prosthetic. probably prosthetic since he lost it years ago)#doesn't work on illnesses or poisoning or stuff like that. that's still the domain of alchemists. also since on the areas it shuts#does. I'm not retyping that. on the areas it does heal its just rapid cell regrowth which most of the time is fine. but then there's#Arvel. who can do it both on touch and at range and uses the whole rapid cell growth thing as a method of torture. add the whole#light minions thing and the fact that his abilities include a rapid healing factor on himself (and that unlike a lot of people#his abilities work rapidly on others and he can easily get over any drain it has on him)#and yeah it's understandable why Len loses the first fight and why a lot of people don't stand up to him much. even his wife who doesn't#have powers at all ends up progressively more afraid of him. like the only way to possibly wound him in a meaningful way is to get the#drop on him and find some way to inflict severe damage on a vital spot and keep whatever you used to do that inside of him long enough#for him to eventually not be able to heal around it anymore. i don't know just thinking about how he's such a twisting of typically 'good#guy' powers. like his main things are light and healing he should be the hero or like high up supporting cast but nope he's just#trying to subjugate everyone and rule the whole damn continent because of a might makes right ethos and the fact that he does#certainly have might on his side#maggot original
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hm. something slightly uncomfortable about totk's hyrule origin story huh.
#'hyrule was founded by a benevolent race who were in possession of a GOD-LIKE POWER that they only used to protect the people who were#obviously inferior to them (also these people werent native to the land. just a little note there) and kept them safe provided they#SWORE FEALTY to their new benevolent masters- i mean allies and everyone did except the EVIL GERUDO who found their GOD-LIKE BENEVOLENCE#QUESTIONABLE and REFUSED TO SWEAR FEALTY and also they were so evil that their king's evilness was visible to the eye and turns out it#was because he coveted their GODLIKE POWER for EVIL and not because he wanted to use it to help his people who were suddenly being#pressured into subjugation or anything like that dont worry it was purely Evil Purposes because he turned on his own people right after he#got it 👍'#me SEAn: ..................... huh. interesting.#WHKSHDSKBS it's just a little. you know. it's a little. nvm.#freya talks loz#so it kind of is confirmed that at least at the beginning the other races were sort of below hyrule in a sense. they werent allies as much#as vassal states. i only know zelda's side of the story rn havent reached what's going on with link yet so maybe that gets covered. whether#they're still under hyrule or not in the present i mean#im also listening to a guy recap it rather than go through all the cutscenes and playthroughs myself so it could just be how hes explaining#things but. it is a little weird right. am i the only one who finds it weird.#also plot peeve but why did ganon not just kill zelda when he did sonia. she had a stone too. he could have had two stones. he just laughed#like sir.
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Oh No! by Marina is an Aki Hayakawa song. I will not be taking questions at this time.
#meposting#my thoughts#I know I already listed oh no! on my big csm character song list but. i still think it’s funny/fitting#Aki to me is like. a mix of metal and sad bubblegum pop.#Denji is alt rock. lots of electric guitar.#Power is hyperpop. real scratchy shit.#csm#my csm thoughts#chainsaw man#csm aki#aki hayakawa#music#music genres#‘don’t do love’ - he’s aromantic#‘don’t do friends’ - see him saying ‘I’m not here to make friends.’ emotionally repressed sadguy#etc etc#grind culture. grew up too fast.#maintains distance from others/himself in order to function and maintain the status quo (subjugation of Fiends)#also it’s just fun as hell to associate him with the song#I feel like the CSM anime has such an infatuation with Aki that it tends to try to make him as serious and poised and sexy as possible#but like. at the end of the day he’s a fucked up 19 year old. I want him to be allowed to be a loser and be silly.#reclaimation of childhood (innocence/joy) and family/community is. to me. such a big part of csm (part 1)#Denji had to survive on his own in spite of extreme poverty/exploitation. financial anxiety under the threat of death? he’s like. 7. son.#Aki had to ‘be mature for his age’ (aka sacrifice his life/wellbeing for Public Safety and the goal of revenge) after losing his family.#and he had to live with the guilt of knowing that. if he hadn’t voiced his wants/needs to his brother that day (hands being cold).#his brother might still be alive.#how do we live with guilt?#Power is defiantly childish and self-absorbed. possibly in part to resist the dehumanization that humans have forced upon fiends.#Angel’s similar in that he refuses to do any more than the bare minimum that he’s forced to do (under threat of death).#using the little agency he does have in his situation/cage
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the huge tone shift when we get to niamos is so GOOD. cassian has settled his debts, has all the money he could ever need, and has gone to a place as different from ferrix and aldhani as possible. Hanging out at a bright beachy resort like "im done with all this empire and rebellion shit" but the empire is everywhere, even and especially in these rich tourist spots, and he can never escape it because it just grows and expands
#andor#its fucking good#the switch between extremely dark subject matter to wow its so bright! shoretroopers with accent colours! there is no conflict here!#and it doesnt matter he still gets caught for doing nothing wrong because it serves the purposes of empire#to oppress and subjugate and terrify everyone it touches
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Staying out of tales of arise Anything bc I think I do want to experience this game organically bc those plot twists hit me like a fucking TRUCK.
I did look up an estimate for how long the game is tho. I'm at like 30 ish hours and if you focus on plot alone it's like some 40 hours. But I have been doing side quests lol so it probably isn't even 10 hours remaining.
A Little scared of how things will be after this point tho. The Vibes will definitely have changed. And oh God I just want to hold Alphen so tightly. He doesn't deserve this.
#speculation nation#tfw ur amnesia was a blessing but now you remember and suddenly you have to deal with Extreme Trauma#and he was already traumatized!!!! he was already traumatized and now hes even more traumatized!!!!!!#but let's be real this group is made entirely up of very traumatized people lol. such is the way of this world.#this game is so fucking brutal tho. like im used to tales games hitting much harder than you expect#but they went out of their WAY to make this one really fuck you up#im absolutely in love with this game. but WOW it is not for the faint of heart lmfao#which sure is something to say about a very anime looking game where you can go to the Owl World and the Owl King will give you outfits#and you can wear ridiculous accessories even during serious cutscenes (a tales game Classic)#and also you own a ranch.#i still cant wrap my head around that one hfkshfj like what do you MEAN i own a ranch?!?! and then i just Kill the animals?!?!?#like ya food meats but i thought raising chickens would give me eggs. me cooing at my grown chickens then going into the menu#and it's like 'your chickens have reached maturity! items received: Chicken Meat" and i was just like. 'O-oh.'#and then the chickens were GOOOONE but at least the cats and dogs stay around without me EATING them#i. prefer to not visit my ranch. i dont want to be reminded that all these animals are gonna die.#hfkshfjd and YEA ALL THIS alongside some stunning displays of moral ambiguity#& the utter horror and injustice of 300 years of subjugation#perfectly captured right down to the erasure of culture. these people having to look to ruins to get in touch with their culture#bc it was Taken from them.#just. it's a ridiculously over the top anime game just like any tales game but wow. wowowowwow#and im saying this after playing tales of xillia 2. aka still the only game that made me cry Twice.#arise is truly an astounding game. it's very definitely in the running for my favorite tales game.#we'll see how the ending goes lol but given everything ive seen so far. it is Likely to be just as stunning hdkshfj#raving about this game when i should be going to sleep. man . man. ..
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FFXIV be like, “So, let’s see, the totally not Japanese prince is going to lead the totally not Mongolians against the Imperials via winning one of their culturally significant contests, then we’re going to conflate culture with nations in some MSQ dialogue, and y’know, let’s not consider these dynamics in our oppressor v oppresed storyline..”
Me: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So we’re NOT going to address how absolutely fucked and hypocritical this plan is? Or demand control be ceded to the Mol’s? And uh, sure hope Lyse learns the difference between a nation and culture...
#ffxiv stormblood#HOO BOY YEAH THE WRITING CAME BACK FOR A BIT THEN WENT RIGHT BACK OUT THE WINDOW#fyi i still think hien is a great character#and i do know that he isn't going to subjugate the xaela#but uh#hi imperialism how is it going#seeing hints of you in this writing#also i get what they were TRYING to do with that convo about nations#a sort of lyse rediscovering who she is thing#but it falls flat when she's poorly explaining some pretty important concepts to children#it would have been better if the children yammered about their CULTURE and lyse remembered parts of her CULTURE from her childhood#but i suppose that would involve fleshing out ala mhigo which i get a weird feeling doesn't happen
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For all that I rag on Hizdahr for, I don't actually think he is the main conspirator behind the Harpies. I think it's Galazza, and Hizdahr and Reznak are just her main pawns. It's obvious what Hizdahr gets from it; he is named king of Meereen, and he's content with the prestige that brings to his name and how it elevates his family again in a world of uprisings that were ready to (metaphorically) cannibalize them and everyone else of that status. To him, he has played a part in saving his city and his family and stopped his entire culture and way of life from being completely uprooted. But ultimately, he is Galazza's puppet, and he knows that. I think becoming king emboldens him to question it more, to want to carry his own influence and break away from her control, but also, he knows that losing Galazza's favor means death.
I don't even think he is the main conspirator or perpetrator in trying to assassinate Daenerys; I think that was orchestrated in a way that very much makes him the fall man for it. Mind you, he was still aware of it and actively participated in it by trying to poison her, but I don't think that was *his* plan, I think it was something he was simply commanded to do with the promise of kingship hanging over his head and a threat of death on the other side. And as for Reznak, I think he is Galazza's true inside man and his purpose now is mostly to keep Hizdahr in line. That is why prophecies potentially warned Daenerys about Reznak (or Varys, or that one ship, but probably Reznak). Hizdahr and Reznak are both snakes in Dany's court, but Reznak is truly the snake with teeth.
#᯽ ooc. ⊱ ── ❝ 𝘖𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪. ❞#like he is definitely involved that's 100% certain but I don't think he is THE leader of the harpies#I think he is a red herring in that way and I think Galazza is the most likely suspect to be the true mastermind behind the harpies#we forget that she is also one of the great powers in the city being challenged by daenerys' overthrow of meereen's power structure#even if the temple of the graces is service oriented not profit oriented#this is still an affront to her entire way of life built upon slavery and subjugation#but she is a woman. an old woman who has raised and trained girls for all her life.#and so she immediately recognizes the kind of person daenerys is and how she needs to manipulate her#she positions herself as her friend and someone that is rooting for her#a comforting maternal figure she can depend upon for advice#and it works bc dany is desperate for that#meanwhile all of galazza's political moves are made through hizdahr and reznak#when she gives dany advice she ALWAYS pushes her (firmly but gently) towards making decisions that would benefit the masters#she encourages her to marry hizdahr (to position hizdahr as a puppet for when she is ready to be rid of daenerys)#she encourages daenerys to put aside her own individuality to assimilate into the culture in a way to appease *the masters*#and make her more palatable to them while trying to position the queen against her freedman#I think the most damning thing is how she deals with parlay with yunkai/astapor/qarth#immediately pushing to accept their turns and push out the remnants of daenerys' power as if she is dead#and advocating to kill her dragons#these were not hizdahr's ideas. hizdahr is floundering as a king without daenerys there.#he is focused on building gilded thrones and presentation#because he himself is only a front. he is not the true power here but he wants to do everything to convince people that he is.#he *needs* to be king. he cannot bear the thought of being a shadow.#but when it is up to him to do anything in terms of rulership? he is at a loss. he cant handle the threats of the enemies outside his walls#and I think more and more as time goes on he will lose his usefulness to galazza and become more of a liability#because he is not the quiet puppet she thought he would be#especially now that barristan has taken him into custody. it's only a matter of time before he tells *too much*
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so, now that I can type without getting super dizzy, can we talk about Hachiware turning into a monster
#the whole country went like 'YOOOOOOOO' when it happened dear god#Hachiware STILL isn't facing himself. he wanted to ask Chiikawa something serious but just pretended it was nothing#I think this really is a look into his endgame#he can't keep denying his true feelings#and who's to say that it's bad to become a monster? we still don't know the nature of the lil critter's subjugation#IS HACHIWARE NOT BREAKING HIS CHAINS BY REALISING HE HAS THE WILL TO KILL TO GET WHAT HE WANTS? WHAT HE DESERVES?#he's so poor and has been keeping his chin up this whole time but. it's not fun to be poor#god. CHIIKAWA!!!
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when ppl talk abt zuko i kind of losem y mind...why r u all wrong.
#guys...hes still a prince....for a significant portion of the story he actively supports imperialism. his dad is abusive. but zuko still#benefits from his heritage in various ways. it doesnt rly matter how frequently he fails. he participates in subjugation and he suffers for#it but. i acutallyt cant think hard enoguh for this. but it rubs me the wrong way like. hm one post i saw talking abt song having privilege#of hiding her scars and her+jet being portrayed wrong for judging him as like them based off his appearance which is like. yes...but like.#ure not quite there yet....
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