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archgabrielangel · 6 months

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I wish the metaphor of will and nicos strings being unraveled as they told more stories was something that rick used more in the sun and the star. bc they really did treat each story like it was a thread that they weaved into this beautiful tapestry, but as they looked over it they realized it had several mistakes so they had to unbraid parts and work out the kinks. and I just thought that was kinda beautiful😭

uhh anyways 7.5/10 I really liked it the second time around

#Nico worried Gorgyra would keep demanding stories #pulling on string after string #until their whole lives were unraveled at their feet.#"Tell me #“ Gorgyra said. moving closer to Nico and Will. ”Tell me one more story.“#And Nico felt another string start to unravel.#like that's hauntingly beautiful???#I try to ignore the fact that this was my second time reading tsats in like #3 months maybe?#just speaking to the void here #will solace #nico di angelo #solangelo #tsats #the sun and the star #pjo #percy jackson

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solargeist · 13 days

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as soon as the watchers decided they wanted Grian on their side, that was done, it was always going to happen and they were always going to make it happen.

No matter what Grian said or did, he was still firmly on that path without his knowledge.

The Watchers are the most annoying GPS on the planet

#recalculating after every decision and move #you WILL get to your destination !!!!!#it’s a watcher ramble evening 😤😤😤😤#evoAU #thinking abt how many strings the watchers pulled. taurtis was practically just their puppet

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hajihiko · 1 year

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How do you think Junko manipulated the other sdr2 survivors besides Hiko? Kazu, Sonia and Akane?

Kazuichi: lots of praise and conditional affection (now that you're addicted to being my favourite little puppy, sure would be sad if you did something to make me and my friends mad and not like you anymore. Because I could make sure no one ever wants to be around you again :( build me a death machine pretty please?)

Sonia: aren't you tired of being nice? Dont you want to go apeshit? (aren't you tired of doing only what other people expect of you? You're barely your own person. Go on, try being a little bad for once! A little bad escalates into being immensely selfish, and eventually it's too late to go back)

Akane: a little harder, but she's very gullible and easy to trick into doing things, and has a LOT of trauma to tap into (maybe something along the lines of, "the world is a shitty place and no one ever helped you when you needed it, right? Only way to be safe from that is to be not only strong, but scary. Show them they can't mess with you! KILL")

#Not an art #Talky talky #That said I think they all affected each other too. Kaz wanted to be near sonia and Junko helped him achieve that #Nekomaru wanted to keep an eye on Akane after learning all the things that happened to her and she felt like she needed to prove herself-#-to him since he's stronger than her so she kept trying harder #Peko is self explanatory and Fuyuhiko felt more able to go off the deep end knowing he had unconditional support in her #Etc etc. It was a group effort Junko just pulled some strings and kicked stuff into motion

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chicademartinica · 5 months

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phaya's hand around tharn's throat in that dream though. tharn is not beating the "wants to be dommed" allegations

Tharn standing firmly in both the Verse agenda and the twist my arm/choke me unconscious side of things makes him so so dear to my heart fam.

#the sign the series #the sign #phayatharn #billybabe #THE VERSE agenda #trust you me they did not name that man after one of the most famous semes in Thai bl for nothing #they be flipping and reversing the tropes #Imma tag Saint because our boy is pulling the best strings #saint suppapong #heteronormativity I don’t know her #Billy’s characters are always on the verse agenda

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volivolition · 23 days

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suggestion do you have... any wants? like obviously you do but like? suggestion my guy my ourple boy. both the easiest and hardest to write. you need a skill to say something to move conversation along but it doesn't fit any skill in particular? about 80% of the time you can have suggestion say it and it will make sense. but like actually characterizing him... how do i define you dude... what makes your character tick... urgh. i dont get you yet. im trying to understand but you are difficult.

#chemi chats #there are some skills that i just dont understand yet and that just means i have to work on their character study chapter #im reading his bio and i think suggestion is a good manipulator and it's instinctive and he tries not to feel bad about it?#he's clever!! charming!! friends with savvy and drama. planting seeds in the mind and coaxing them to grow towards him like he's the sun.#a crude oil reservoir lying beneath a carefully laid flower bed. taps into the roots. the plants don't know any better than to drink.#he's great at sensing what makes people tick and uses that to his advantage. he needs goals to look forward to so he knows how to best #pull the strings to get them there. otherwise he's a bit aimless. he likes being useful. and since influencing others is helpful #he just keeps doing it? because it's what he's good at. and he tries to convince himself its fun and cool and just cuz hes charming and #it's his role as a skill and manipulation isnt thaaaat bad because it's helpful to them after all... but he does feel bad sometimes.#oh im listening to his voice lines and i just got to ''brother you should have put me in front of a firing squad'' and im sad about him now #but what do you want for short term little guy?? probably for people to like him. he likes chatting with people. i bet he'd like genuine #conversations with no strings attached but there's always some part of him filing information and tidbits away that he can't turn off #subconsciously figuring out things he can hold over them or how he can nudge them into thinking someth-/wait.../ no. no he's just talking.#he's /supposed/ to just be talking stop analyzing them stop falling back into that just have a normal conversation!! but he can't help it..#hm. this is all really helpful for his chapter. he and empathy are very alike but also different. very interesting...#task: swept up #okay good talk everyone i think i understand him a little better now lmao?? still gotta figure him out some more hes not fully there but ye #also i think he goes by whatever pronoun you think he'd use. just ''oh what do /you/ think i am hm?? what /would/ i use; do you think?? :)'#funny fella. i love you.

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streaminn · 6 months

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She’s the man au

after highschool how does everything go?

Also SUP DUDE HOW YOU DOING

Spoilers

Nah jk, I had this whole plot thing where weems, absolutely charmed by enid's tomfoolery by the end of the sem goes

"It seems like I've misplaced some files because we never had an Edwin Sinclair in nevermore." the principal is smiling as she opens up a Manila folder before turning it over and sliding it towards the nervous Enid.

"Only an Enid Sinclair. "

ALSO I'M DOING GREAT!! JUST TWO TO THREE MORE WEEKS OF AGONY TILL FREEDOM

I GET TO CUT MY HAIR AND I GET TO REST, DECEMBER IS TRULY THE BEST MONTH

#She's the man au #And like #Maybe Wednesday pulled some strings #She is lowkey the it girl of nevermore after all #Taser dude

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shadow0-1 · 1 year

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Date night

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spidermanifested · 3 months

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has anybody thought about an au where martel bleeding all over als blood seal ties her soul to the armor too and now theres 2 people in there. and the next time theyre alone al has to physically stop her from strangling ed like homer simpson

#youd have to pull enough strings that al and ling actually interact after greed happens #because a) the angst and b) ling going 'hey get this theres another person in my body' and al going. YEAH?#fullmetal alchemist (fullmetal alchemist)

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ow1et · 4 days

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one day i'll finish my hour by hour account of the first two days that athene is in the labyrinth (which are a continuous 48 hours btw) because i want to elaborate on just how warped her perception of reality is afterward and the lasting effects it's had on her mentally and physically.

#i think it's the one time the court has looked at her like yikes we fucked that one up gang #because she is soooo out of it for weeks afterward #and she's literally a freshman in college??#so they have to pull some strings to keep her enrolled after she basically falls off the map #but yeah i think This contributes to her scrambling for control over every aspect of herself and her life #because the things someone sees in the labyrinth are traumatic but also feel so so Real #and so i think athene has issues with trusting her perspective of reality #in like a 'let me touch you so i know you're real' kind of way #especially in emotional situations or times when she feels that control slipping away from her #because it just takes her straight back to the labyrinth #but anyway consider that relationships or situations that are overly positive also just throw up her red flags of 'this is not real'#because that seems so Impossible to her that... this has to be a trick?? did they ever actually let her out of the labyrinth??

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vi-sqrd · 1 month

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my friend cat n i have been doing multiplayer and i had to make a profile for my guy peepaw cuz he is just iconic here is the template i used.

#also i now realize that its bud LIGHT not lite #he was originally w haley but after the horrors of squidfest he was a changed man and couldnt be with her anymore #and she was apparently gonna dump peepaw ANYWAY so whatever now he's with her sister which is WILD peepaw is crazy #i say this as if im not the one pulling the strings pffffff #peepaw has a mind of his own guys i swear #my post #sdv 1.6 #sdv farmer #sdv #stardew valley update #stardew valley #stardew valley 1.6 #stardew

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kaitobromota · 3 months

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whenever i see the most common critique of thh chapter 4 be “um actually hina’s plan was dumb because she said everyone wanted sakura dead but that includes makoto and kyoko who clearly didn’t” it’s like. girl just found out her best friend committed suicide i do NOT think she was thinking logically in the slightest…

#also the fact that byakuya fell hook like and sinker for her obviously fake evidence is still SOOOO #incredible how hard she pulled him by the strings and she wasn’t even trying that hard #honestly i understand the interpretation that she never actually forgives byakuya for what he said and did #but i personally just like to think after the emotional crash she thought back to how bad he embarrassed himself #and is like ‘lmao okay we can be chill now’#this was not meant to be a post about hina byakuya friendship oops #danganronpa #aoi asahina #dr1 #trigger happy havoc

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smute · 2 months

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my parence got a new fiber internet connection "for free" and although they're quite tech savvy they're also at an age now where people think they can take advantage of them 😤 so after the phone company installed the access point in the basement "for free", they then wanted to charge them 200€ for the in-house hookup (i.e. to run a cable from the basement to the terminal upstairs 👹)

so in my youthful hubris i instead decided to buy a 20m cable and do it myself, and it only took me *checks time* six hours and an insane amount of macgyvering to feed that delicate little thang through the old phone line hole in the ceiling

tbh there was a point in the afternoon when i was ripping apart my mom's floorboards where i would have been more than happy to give someone 200€ just to put me out of my misery... but in the end it all worked out. sometimes even simple tasks take time

#the problem was just that #optical fibers cant be bent #and all i had to work with #was a hole in the basement ceiling #through 30 cm of solid conked creat #because german houses are built like mayan temples for some reason #but no smooth cable tunnel to feed it through #so i had to come up with a way to pull it out the other side #without pulling on the cable itself #i finally ended up with a sort of 3 stage mechanism that consisted of a cable tunnel made of plastic straws (to remain in the hole)#a string on which to pull the cable into the tunnel after it had been placed #and a kind of outer shell that connected everything #and that part took me an entire afternoon #it was fun though ngl #i channelled my inner margo madison #lmaoooo #maybe i should have been an engineer #&#this actually happened last weekend #i just forgot it in my drafts

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dootznbootz · 4 months

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opinions on helen of sparta being compared to prey animals? blink blink

*blink blinks back* Then immediately sits like this because of the question.

It's a good question that I'm happy to answer! It just makes me mad.... I sincerely hate the wording of "prey" being used to describe her.

SHE IS A VICTIM! THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS "PREY"!

I can...see how people in ancient times may have used that word and still meant it in how she is a victim... but modern-day English-speaking people calling her that??? (considering how in different languages the word "prey" could have different meanings.) I'll just say that as someone who has been "prey" herself at one point, I REALLY hate that word as a descriptor. Just say victim or survivor. 👍

Honestly to call ANY victim "prey" is so fucked up. "Prey" to me, feels like "it's meant to happen." "Prey" are part of the food chain and so that's what happens. And to compare that to abduction and SA? Almost as if "that's our place"? It also kind of implies something being "eaten" or killed... Helen SURVIVES. She's traumatized and definitely needs healing and support but it's not like she can't find joy or peace ever again. Prey just feels so fucking gross.

Also, if someone calls victims "prey", I hope they know that Moose, Elk, Boars, Bovine, ZEBRAS, etc. are technically "prey". And these are VERY aggressive animals while still being "prey" for some other animals. And also that doesn't mean that "Oh, they're powerful! Clearly they should've been able to stop it." That's victim blaming :P

She is a clever, determined, caring woman who was ripped from her home for YEARS because Paris was a dipshit who decided he needed the prettiest woman in the world despite already having a wife. He didn't care about the fact that Helen didn't want to be there and was already married. He is so selfish that he will not let her go back even when THOUSANDS have died in the war! EVEN HIS BROTHER HECTOR AND PRIAM DO NOT BLAME HER! Granted, we do not know if Aphrodite would have let him undo their deal of "I want the prettiest woman" if he DID end up feeling bad for Helen and he wished to let her go home (I doubt it based on his personality though).

"Oh, if she is so independent/strong, then why didn't she just kill Paris and leave?"

AGAIN! Victim blaming!!! First thing, people who ask that have media literacy that is piss on the poor. You also have no idea about the political implications that would have happened if she DID kill Paris. She literally cries about staying there and argues with Aphrodite about seeing Paris, only to get strongarmed by Aphrodite as, guess what? A GODDESS WILL ALWAYS OVERPOWER A DEMIGOD. (This isn't Percy Jackson where he "killed" Ares as a 12 year old (Percy, you were my childhood, but that's bullshit.))

Even confined in Troy, she ARGUED with APHRODITE about going to see Paris! She is not some meek woman who just does as she's told with no pushback! She argued with a GODDESSS! Very few survive doing that!!!

She's not "Prey to fate", she's a "VICTIM of Fate".

#Thank you for the ask anon!!! :D It's a very fun question! I just really don't like the word of 'prey' being used to describe her.#...#Yes. there's poetic shit with writing. but if I heard someone say 'Helen is prey to Paris' I would be miffed and think that person's stupid #Prey just feels like 'one and done. You'll be a victim from now on and nothing else. You have no life after this.'#I mean you can probably say that if you simply mean that Paris is an abuser I guess. but...idk homies. I just really hate Helen being calle #that you know?#as if she could never be anything but prey in a way. as if she herself has never been the one pulling the strings or the trickster #Helen isn't a rabbit in an eagle's talons about to be eaten. She was a PRISONER. Who still lives and thrives afterward.#idk I'm probably looking too far into the word 'prey' and what it means to ME as an animal lover and survivor but it just feels #really bad to me. like wrinkling my nose and thinking 'out of all the words out there. that's the one you use?'#*sighs*#probably got quite fired up about this :P #ask #anon #yes I plan to write Helen as a big buff cheeto puff but again. she could never fight a goddess no matter how strong!! she's Mortal!#end of story!! I just want to write her that way as A.) it's fun. B.) Sparta upbringing.#(I got SUPER into ancient athletes stuff. (look up Pankration. it's so cool) and since I really love writing women. I just...like it :D #And no. everybody is strong in their own way even if they don't physically fight. I have plenty of women who are not fighters #but still have their own strengths and personalities and silliness #Leda actually doesn't like the 'exercising lifestyle of Sparta'. Ctimine loves running but that's it. Anticlea is the one who taught #Odysseus how to carve wood and is a 'trickster' but she's not really into athletic stuff. (she actually has a heart condition later on)#there's more too it but...tags are already long as hell #Mad rambles #shot by odysseus #my headcanons #kind of #If Helen is prey then she is “prey” like those clever mother birds who pretend to be injured to get predators away from their nest.#*shrieks into a pillow* I'm fine now :D

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human-leather-hat-appreciator · 10 months

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God, I love having long hair but sometimes it feels like I've suddenly become a clown, pulling out an impossibly long string of hair out of somewhere it doesn't belong

#personal #shoutout to me pulling a foot long string out of my underwear this morning after brushing my hair

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enriquemzn262 · 1 year

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I’m rewatching Kill la Kill for the sixth time now, and I still love how unhinged the first three episodes are, luring you in with the bombastic yet raw action and over the top characters, and forcing you to stick around with the lewdness.

All to trick you into believing it’s nothing more than tits and ass mixed with blood, like a crude 80’s horror film, and the BAM, the weirdly consistent plot of sentient parasitic alien clothing begins to unravel, and you begin to discover that, holy shit, you actually want to find out what’s going on, and said T&A just fade into the back of your mind, to the point when nudity becomes a plot point you don’t even question it anymore, because you understand why they’re naked, you just want to see what’s going to happen next.

#and yeah I cried for senketsu #sue me #that show has no right of pulling on my strings that way #right after the sonic adventure 2 fight

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maestro-of-clockwork · 6 months

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Darkness was the first thing they registered when they awoke from their heavy, heavy slumber. Neither of them could remember what happened, but despite not being able to see where they were, they immediately felt the oppressive air of somewhere they weren't supposed to be.

Remembering wasn't at all as much as a priority than figuring out what was going on. It didn't help matters that they seemed to be chained down to chairs at a table...

"H-hello?" Sketchbook hesitantly whispered out.

"Sketch?" came another voice from right beside her.

"Larry!" Sketchbook called out his name in a relieved sigh, but it was soon overshadowed by the unmistakable tremble of fear. "Wh-...where do you suppose we are...?"

"I don't know," he replied, "but I have a damn good feeling of who brought us here."

To their surprise, another voice shortly cut in:

"You're so smart, Leonard."

At the utterance of that last syllable, the lights came to life, revealing both the room and the gravity of their situation.

The room was big, and not unlike a basement built from concrete. The chairs and the table they sat in were steel, just as the chains that bound them. However, nothing about this was more horrifying than what was in the center of the room.

Strapped tightly to a metal platform that was adjusted vertically...was Colin. He looked unconscious, so he must have been given heavy sedatives...both Sketchbook and Larry were mortified into silence until Antonio strode in from behind the mechanism that held their best friend.

"You fucking bastard!" Larry yelled, "Let Colin and Sketchbook go! They didn't do shit to you!"

"Larry, no!" Sketchbook plead, terror in her eyes as she snapped her head to Larry's. "No! I'll stay here, you can't put yourself in danger-"

"Oh, now, now, children, quit your bickering..."

Antonio strode towards them, mania in his eyes and teeth on full display in a grotesque grin.

"None of you are going anywhere! Not any time soon..."

As soon as Sketchbook's eyes locked onto him, she fell into a dead silence, stuck in a thousand-yard stare.

Sensing Sketchbook was too afraid of Antonio to speak, Larry didn't hesitate to interrogate the man in her stead. "What do you want from us this time, you fucking freak?!"

"Oh," the word was drawn out in an excited shudder, "we're all going to play a very special game this time!"

Antonio gave no room for a response, continuing on, "I want to see just how strong that bond of yours to each other truly is! I want to see how far you would go!"

"I want to see if you would rip each other's eyes out and claw your own organs out just to keep Colin safe!" The frantic joy tightly held their tormentor's voice in a chokehold as his body visibly shook with near-madness.

"But first," Antonio stopped in front of the table before his gloved hands abruptly crashed down onto the metal table as he loomed over them. He smiled wider when they jumped. "First, I'm going to tell you the rules!"

Larry bared his teeth in a snarl, "No. We're n-"

"LET. ME. SPEAK."

Antonio's sudden and demented aggression immediately wiped the scowl off of Larry's face. He quickly realized that the blight upon his friends' lives was much more erratic and dangerous than usual. He'd have to force his rebellion aside and tread carefully this time.

"Your friend over there is completely unconscious, and will be for a while! I found a way to shut off his mechanical brain entirely. But," Antonio interjected, "I ensured that I did no harm to any of his memory, drives, motherboards or processors..."

"Now, what I want you two to do, is follow a series of little challenges I've made for you! You have a time limit to complete them...and every time you run out of time or refuse to play along..."

He leaned in closer, "...I'll corrode a bit of his brain. Once it is fully corroded, your poor cyborg friend will die...and I won't revive him."

Sketchbook broke into heavy sobs and Larry actually found himself shaking in disgust and terror at the prospect.

"You're fucking sick!" he screamed, the fear and panic on full display as tears welled up in his eyes.

"Oh, shh-shh-shh-shh..." Antonio gave a sickening chuckle, "That's only if you misbehave, my darling! If you play my game all the way through and correctly...I will let all three of you leave."

Larry's soul ached with agony as he heard Sketchbook weeping during the half-minute of silence that followed...so, he continued to speak when she wasn't able.

"How-...how many challenges do we have to do...?"

It twisted Larry's stomach to see Antonio's expression gain a hint of hedonistic satisfaction.

"However many I decide. Am I understood~?"

Larry looked towards Sketchbook, who tearfully nodded, still hiccuping through her crying. Larry looked back to Antonio and nodded shakily, his agreement tumbling out, "Okay...fine. Anything for him..."

Antonio stood upwards, "A wise decision, dear friends!"

"Ah, one more thing," he added. "We will also have an audience...would that be alright with you~...?"

Antonio didn't wait long enough for a response before he let an unhinged laugh escape him, turning his back to them and starting to walk away.

"I'm only asking to be polite, of course. I don't care if it's alright with the both of you or not~..."

Sketchbook was trying her best to quit the tears and patch up her resolve while Larry did his best to emotionally support her in his sympathetic silence.

"I'll give you a day's grace period before we start," Antonio chimed in again, opening the exit to that hellish chamber.

"Savor it while you can."

The heavy door shut and a sturdy deadbolt locked it in place.

As soon as he was gone, Larry leaned on Sketchbook's shoulder.

"It'll be okay, Sketch. The three of us have survived him for this long...who's to say we can't survive this...?"

Despite Larry's encouragement, he sounded unsure of himself, but Sketchbook appreciated the gesture nonetheless.

"You're right. I-...I just hope we satisfy him enough for him to let us out...all we can do is try," Sketchbook replied feebly.

Although they were terrified out of their minds, all Sketchbook and Larry could do was hope for the best...and their care and trust for one another was already deep enough for them to know that they'd do anything it took to save Colin.

#[[ ooc ]]#event: pulling the strings #from the typewriter. {{ t e x t }}#tw gore mention #tw death mention #[[ so idk if i'm gonna feel terrible or not tomorrow so let's just pretend whenever the next post is is the day after in canon ]]

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