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ao3-crack · 2 years
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lulu2992 · 6 months
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So Greg Bryk regularly goes live on Instagram to chat with his followers and answer a few questions, and almost every time, someone asks if he’d like to play Joseph Seed again if he had the chance, to which he used to always reply that, yes, he absolutely would. However, in early 2022, he didn’t seem so sure anymore and said it would depend on the script (the question was specifically about a potential Far Cry 5 movie) and the writer(s). Then, a few months later, he implied he didn’t feel like playing the Father ever again because he thought the character’s story was “finished” and that Ubisoft should focus on creating new things instead…
Well, on October 14, 2023, he once again went live on Instagram and, when people mentioned Far Cry 5 in the chat, he revealed that he had reached out to Dan Hay and Drew Holmes, two of the game’s three main writers he’s become friends with, and that they had visited him “on set” (I’m not sure what he was shooting) the day before. In the past, he had already explained several times that he had loved working with them and thought the story they wrote (along with “JS”, Jean-Sébastien Décant, the game’s third main writer) was fantastic. This time, he added that Far Cry 5 was really “special” to him because the writers “cared a lot” about creating something great with amazing characters, and that he thought the whole Seed family was really well-written.
A few minutes later, when he was asked which character he would like to play again if he could, he said it was hard for him to choose because he loves them all, but he eventually picked Jeremy Danvers (Bitten) and Cobbs Pond (Frontier).
Then, surprisingly, he also mentioned Joseph.
I don’t know why he changed his mind again or if the fact he contacted Dan Hay (who doesn’t work for Ubisoft anymore) and Drew Holmes (who recently became the new IP Director for Far Cry) means anything, and I’m not sure I want more Far Cry 5 content to be released anyway (for continuity reasons), but I guess the Seed family’s return, as equally exciting and truly terrifying as this eventuality sounds to me, isn’t completely out of the question anymore in Greg Bryk’s mind!
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androgymagnus · 1 year
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ok but i desperately want jenna and keith to like. they call leverage international, get involved, and eventually meet the og team and jenna goes HEY WHAT THE FUCK
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hollowwhisperings · 11 months
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Jojen is Fine, Actually: "Weirwood Paste" is Weirwood Paste.
CW: humanitarian diets, body horror, general blasphemy, mention of grooming (in the context of creepy tree wizards).
Okay so my being a HUGE Jojen (& House Reed in general) fan gives me an Obvious Bias against the idea of Jojen Dying Offscreen.
My being a huge literary nerd & lore geek, however, informs my Metaphor Senses that Jojen is Fine*, Actually.
The "Weirwood Paste" is Weirwood Paste: made of weirwood seeds, locally sourced. Said "Local Weirwood Tree" being. Y'know. Brynden Rivers.
It's Brynden Paste.
(*Fine: chronically ill, majorly depressed, freezing cold, surrounded by creepy tree people, stuck in a zombie wasteland, if he ever goes home he Dies, repeatedly dreaming of his own death... but, at least, Not Dead nor Being Eaten by the Prince of his Dreams? He's "Fine".)
First and foremost: storytelling conventions, even in a series as "deliberately unconventional" as ASOIAF, tend to tell audiences that NO ONE is genuinely "dead" until you see a body. And personally check its pulse. And test for rigor mortis. And maybe stab them in a lethal place, jusr to be Sure. And then burn the body, scatter its ashes, send couriers off in different directions to hide what remains in Remote Places never to be known of by the other couriers. Maybe Silence the couriers if they come back.
Er, you get the picture.
Most subscribers to "Jojenpaste" are in it for the lolz or assume The Worst due to Jojen's non-presence in the latest Bran chapters (aaand Jojen's being Very Permanently Dead in That Dragon Show). It's also an "easy" assumption that Since GRRM Is GRRM, any & all opportunities for Humanitarianism will be fully utilized.
Except... the weirwood paste is ALREADY "made of people" just because it's Weirwood (specifically, weirwood seeds) and the series has consistently described weirwood trees as "[human]".
Weirwood have "bone white" bark; they have Faces carved into them; they "Watch" and "Listen" and "Witness": this is consistent across POV characters, even before Jojen casually brings up "oh they're what Greenseers Become" or any meetings with a Literal Tree Man.
Weirwoods are described in human terms, doing human things, and at least 1 major character has been directly equivicated with Weirwoods for Plot Purposes: Ghost the Direwolf (and wolves, of course, are consistently used to mean "someone of House Stark" and the Starklings especially).
Then there is The Creepy Tree Man in the room: Brynden Rivers, called "Three-Eyed Raven" by Bran and Jojen (for that was how their Dreams interpreted him) or "The Last Greenseer" by the Singers (...despite BRAN very pointedly Being There To Prove Otherwise).
Brynden is also, as mentioned, a Tree Now.
A Weirwood Tree.
Y'know. Like the ones whose seeds make the Paste Bran's been eating.
So, unless the Singers have been sneaking about in Others' Territory to collect seeds from a different weirwood tree... that Paste is made of BRYNDEN.
Bran being fed "Brynden Paste' while Brynden Indoctrinates Teaches Bran to be a Tree Wizard makes far more sense, logistically & thematically, than Jojen getting shanked offscreen to belatedly be revealed to be "part of Bran all along".
For one thing, Meera would gladly set the Cave & everyone in it on fire if anyone so much as looks at her baby brother suspiciously. For another, Brynden is Right There for the eating & is filled with all sorts of Prophecy Juice: he's a Blackwood, he's a Targaryen, he's a Royal Bastard, he was an Infamous Spymaster with "A thousand eyes and one", he's done weird sacrifice BS before, he's a Greenseer (Jojen "only" has Greensight), he's a Living God (as per Singer & First Men Lore), the Cave Cult is trying to turn Bran INTO him...
There is a lot more "logic" to Bran's Magic Lessons featuring his knowingly (subconsciously, at least) eating Brynden than his secretly eating his friend. Human sacrifice tends to require Knowledge of the cost being paid & being Willing to do it anyway: Bran might be too tripped up on Paste to consciously connect the "Weirwood Paste" he eats with "that Human Weirwood Tree i'm sitting next to" but the Singers explicitly tell Bran the Paste is made from Weirwood Seeds. Bran "knows".
Godeating (metaphoric & literal) is a trope that is most commonly found in JRPGs, nowadays, but it has Precedent throughout western mythology: the Titan Kronus ate each of his children as they were born, Zeus alone escaping, in an effort to Dodge Prophecy; Zeus inherited Said Prophecy and, being his Father's Son, ate his first wife. The details of the Titanomachy (the War against the Titans by their reasonably upset kids) are Lost but Zeus, at least, gained all his Wife's Wisdom (& her pregnancy too) after eating her: Athena may or may not have Taken It Back upon breaking out from her Eaten Mother & Dear Old Dad.
Consuming something in order to "become" what is eaten is Fairly Common, if not with that specific phrasing: vampires seldom explain their reproduction as "eat me to become me", whilst the adorable Nintendo character Kirby & his method of Powering Up via Playing Vacuum, is Rephrased out of Sheer Self-Preservation (no one, not even I, likes to admit that The Cute Pink Blob is an Eldritch Abomination). Many JRPGs & works in eastern media use similar themes of "monster eats monster" and "let's eat god" for the purposes of High Stakes Action. Japan & East Asia has a lot less "baggage" when it comes to utilizing themes from Abrahamic verse, meaning that western works using themes of [consuming the divine] and [apotheosis] use Vampire Methodology. Such is the case in the Dragon Age series & its Order of Grey Wardens (who are, From A Certain POV, dragon god vampires).
Within the ASOIAF series itself, Dany's eating a horse heart (raw) has Humanitarian Themes in service of Prophecy and [Divinity]: the horse heart to the Dothraki, a society of horselords, could be what weirwood seeds are to First Men (especially given Jojen's whole "btw, the trees are gods are former greenseers").
Brynden & the Cave's Singers (whom I dearly hope are some long-exiled Cult & not reflective of Singers as a whole) are not particularly subtle in their Intentions for Bran: he is to be their New "Last" Greenseer. Bran is to Become Brynden or Brynden is to Become Bran: either and possibly both are plausible, though how compliant with the Singers' goals Brynden may be has yet to be revealed.
(the Brynden of F&B and D&E strikes me as someone who would gladly bodysnatch some poor kid for his own Agenda: the Singers seem unlikely to support fire-breathing foreigners, not without a Contingency Plan; somewhat likely to want Bran for the purposes of installing a Tree Hivemind Police State; and maybe, possibly... "just" wanting a Second God for their Cult in Bran, who probably Smells Better).
SUMMARY
Weirwoods are Personified in almost every appearance. Weirwood Trees are considered Gods. Jojen (& some Singers) have stated that the Next Evolutionary Phase of a Greenseer is "Weirwood Tree". Brynden "the Last Greenseer" is part of a Weirwood Tree.
Brynden & the Singers are Turning Bran Into A Weirwood Tree.
Bran's current diet is Tree Paste. His magic teacher, Brynden, is Part-Tree. The Nearest Tree to make Paste from is Brynden. The Paste is made of Brynden.
(Let's NOT think too hard on which parts of Brynden: I've only gotten this far in this Meta by using "Hunanitarian" as a pun.)
Eating Gods to Become A God is an existing Trope. Brynden is a God, by Singer & First Men definitions. Bran is being Groomed to Become Brynden, a God. To Become Brynden, Bran must Eat Brynden.
TL;DR
The Weirwood Paste is Weirwood Paste and Brynden is the Weirwood: the Paste is not "Jojen", it's BRYNDEN.
Jojen is Not Paste: Jojen is Alive but Not Well & Very Depressed.
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transingthoseformers · 6 months
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TFA GrimFire Idea in which young Decepticon Misfire decides to follow his hero Lugnut on the "long shot" grief mission that was the search for Megatron post funeral only he's delayed because he has to escape the rest of the Scavengers wanting him to be reasonable. He crashes and lands on Dinobot Island, meets Grimlock, Swoop, and Snarl, who reacue him from the ocean. Between the three of them, they try to figure out how to prepare Grimlock's "pretty bird" who tells fun stories and has games and Misfire is totally enchanted by these cute little guys. They may be big for Autobots but they are still small to him.
By the time Krok manages to sneak out a ship and track him down with the other Scavengers he's calling him "Grimsy" and Grimlock has declared him Queen of Dinobot Island and has sworn he'd go on a quest to find Misfire's missing Leader to "prove himself" because he asked Prowl and Bulkhead about marriages and things duringbtheir last visit.
Prowl and Bulkhead, meanwhile, are trying to cover up the dino shaped destruction from Grimlock's search for parts to repair Misfire.
Oooo aww yes!
Tfa Misfire would be such a treat because he's a menace but also he's a menace.
Grimlock has become attached, and Misfire has dethroned BA
I say as if BA cares anymore
Sdfg oh Grim. yes. Marriage is your first thought.
And of course a rampage is in order
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reallyghostlypost · 9 months
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Concept: the farmer adopts Morris after Joja gets run out of town
SVE Morris isn't that bad, and if you get his hearts up he starts to understand how bad Joja is (and how much of a dick he was) and even tries to do some things better (like better pay for Claire and Shane). It's kind of a shame that he leaves for good after he starts his character development.
So, what if on his last day in Pelican Town the farmer overheards Morris talking on the phone desperately trying to explain to his boss that he'll be homeless if he gets fired? But at the end of the phone call it's obvious that Joja doesn't care. The farmer feels responsible for Morris's situation and offers him a room in the farmhouse. Maybe eventually Morris will end up with a small cabin somewhere on the farm.
I think Morris as a farmhand would be cute. He'll grumble as he collects eggs, gathers fruits from trees and maybe checks the fish ponds and crab pots. Basically anything that doesn't require any farming knowledge but saves the farmer some time. He'll also argue with Pierre every single time he goes shopping.
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lucent-nargacuga · 3 months
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looks around awkwardly
I know I loathe valentine's day with every fibre of my being, but,,,
read the tags of the original post for context, but only if you're prepared for a shit ton of awkward embarrassment
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age-of-moonknight · 1 year
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“Home Game,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #17.
Writer: Jed MacKay; Artist: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit
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logically-asexual · 1 year
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there. Sanders Sides as the cast of Dracula:
Logan as John (Jack) Seward, M. D. — skeptical man of science who thinks he’s all rational when he actually just has many repressed feelings.
Roman as Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming — he’s rich and perfect and nobility and romantic enough to get the love interest.
Patton as Lucy Westenra — sweet, caring, loved by everyone. idk.
Remus as Quincey P. Morris — listen… i don’t know. i just wanted Remus as the surprising cowboy in the english vampire novel. he likes to shoot things.
Virgil as Jonathan Harker — traumatized man who needs therapy but it’s okay because he has friends that love him. carries a knife everywhere.
Janus as Dracula — hmmm. evil. gaslight gatekeep girlboss. likes scheming even if it takes months or years for his plan to be fulfilled (or fail miserably) Virgil/Jonathan hates him and would stab him given the chance.
Bonus that i would draw if i had the patience:
Joan as Mina Harker — also loved by everyone, the actual braincell, “i am the train fiend” sounds like something joan would say, too.
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rescuefield-arch1 · 28 days
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you know with all the buzz going around it, i know re9 won't be as shitty as the reddit community makes it sound but also i hope in a way it won't be an utter disappointment ( read, a game only about chris & leon ) like... show us the core four, what are they up to these days and how deeper they are in the rabbit hole of all the pawn conspiracies. show us beloved "side characters" that we've been asking about and don't make it lazy by saying they all joined the bsaa - give it some variety, tell us how the outbreaks they were involved in shaped their vision of the world, how they're helping the mains to give it an end. and for the love of god address the ending of rev2 💀
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shiorimakibawrites · 3 months
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I guess Alley Cat has gotten enough hits on A03 to attract things like this, which looks shady to me:
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Even if it isn't a scam . . . it is a pretty disappointing to get a comment on your story that has nothing to do with your story but is soliciting for another website/app.
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inkyweenus · 8 months
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Post 8 edit: This has nothing to do with EP8, but I still stand by it.
I was kinda frustrated at first with how little actual plot information we've been getting each episode, but then I realized that if we got any semblance of a plan from Lu Guang, that would mean that Xiao Li would also probably get that information, and then he'd fuck up everything with sheer incompetence.
I mean... it's pretty much his fault that both of his partners are dead, and if it weren't for Qiao Ling reigning him in, he'd have done a lot more damage already. But she's reigning everyone in this season. Post 8 edit: I stand by this QL statement even more now. Although, because of the shitty subtitles, I'm not 100% sure if Wang Juan is actually dead yet.
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Love that for Qiao Ling. But back to Xiao Li:
I have very little sympathy for him.
As a boss, he never gave his subordinate a day off. Not even to have a proper wedding. Or to care for his pregnant wife and unborn child. And after working Chen Bin several days in a row without even letting the man go home to sleep, XL was too caught up in getting some civilians to do his job that he didn't even notice CB leave the room during a time that he said himself everyone was to be on high alert. And we all know what happened after that.
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And then after seeing his dead partner fall from the sky, XL was knocked out by random extras he knew would probably be afoot, rendering him incapable of doing anything while those civilians and some old people safely (?) apprehended the suspects.
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(Okay, that one isn't fair. He was definitely in shock. But still.)
And then once he was conscious and back to work, he demanded the civilians continue to do his job for him, even though one was literally hooked into a hospital bed, because he's not even competent enough to look into cases that his former colleague-turned-evil and current antagonist was involved with during his downward spiral.
And then, he doesn't even wonder why some random unidentifiable witness only wants to talk to this civilian that shouldn't isn't publicly on the case but is essentially running it. XL just gives said civilian, who minutes before exited the scene of a double homicide while experiencing not only his own emotions but those of the child watching her mother (and almost brother) be beaten to death, a crash course on police interrogation and says, "Go get 'em, Tiger!"
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And then, after losing his first trusted partner to a person who has proved capable of possessing anyone to do anything including kill themself and kill their friends, he established a whole buddy system to avoid people getting possessed and hurt but said his currently assigned partner was fine to go alone because he trusted her and she's "strong." Isn't that even more reason to not want her to potentially get possessed? It literally just happened to a cop you trusted, so it's not like the law makes them immune.
And then when his new partner, this civilian he can't stop traumatizing, and the person that has admitted on mic to be the one possessing people went missing after acting suspicious on camera AND MICROPHONE, he didn't even bother to call and notify the guard posted at the exit, who was also not part of this buddy system apparently. Like... Where did you think they were escaping from, the air vents?! This isn't a spy novel. And you left the one guy who's in charge of people coming in and out of the premise alone and totally out of the loop?? When one of the people involved is a former cop that people around here seem to kinda trust a bit?!
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AND THEN he couldn't even catch the kid he put a tracker on, but this time he didn't even have to ask the civilians to do his job for him. They just heard that CaPtaIn XiAo was on the case and immediately jumped into action--evading police and hijacking vehicles to triangulate their partner's location by land and sea to prevent his capture
(at least for now... things can go south pretty quick and I'm just being dramatic while I wait for this episode to drop) Post 8 edit: Obviously things were going to get worse first. Would love some understandable subtitles to really know how much worse, though.
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Or.
He's actually the bad guy and all of this was on purpose. I think I'd be okay with that.
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hauntingblue · 3 months
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I KNEEEEW THE MINK KNEW ABOUT RAIZOU THERE WAS NO WAAY!!!!
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jennrypan · 1 year
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..Felix could get some random chicks (to him, obvi) amok..but not his cousins.
..But no yeah, Felix def loves and cares about Adrien, sure sure I believe that 🙄
Ima need people to TALK TO ADRIEN FOR ONCE. DAMN.
Felix is just adamantly refusing to just..tell Adrien his moms in the basement, tell him his shitty dad is Monarch and apparently, Marinette, whos suppose to love him and be the love of his life wont even fucking tell him either????
WHO WROTE THIS AND THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD?? STOP MAKING INTERESTING IDEAS AND THEN WRITE STUPID DECISIONS FOR YOUR CHARACTERS.
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lith-myathar · 3 months
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#say what you will about sera dragon age but they really were nailing something#with the ''sometimes we aren't capable of real change until someone loves and accepts us exactly as we are'' thing#if you've gone through life being told there's something wrong with you from every direction and constantly asked to change and improve#that creates both some extreme problems around self worth (feeling inherently damaged and unlovable) and a LOT of anger#anger that's got no real target so everything and everyone becomes something to resent and resist#you are not enough. you will never be enough. even the people who love you are always trying to fix you in the name of helping#and maybe you tried to be different!!! but it didn't work and so you are a constant disappointment#finding somebody who just loves you and sees you amd doesn't demand that you change is.... unthinkable#suspicious. trusting that is not going to come easily#but if it's genuine? that's a place where growth can really start. because it stops being about fighting back and all the resentment#it lets you start believing that maybe change is not synonymous without capitulation or losing this battle you've been fighting#your entire life against the world telling you you aren't good enough#a part of you believed it but another part also knew it wasn't fair and that's the part#that would rather destroy yourself with self destructive behaviors than admit they're right#ahem. i am definitely projecting here but there's a reason i always felt super attached to her!!#and i think i get it now a lot more than i used to
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frog-does-dumb-stuff · 11 months
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hey guys ill get to know if i can start T TOMORROW (in like. 10 hours) so if everyone can just. pray for me or some shit. that would be nice!
I've known that i want this for... 7 years now. so please, send some good vibes my way, please.
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