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fever-dreamer97 · 2 years

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Me: I wanna see Bakugo’s guns.

Me: NO HIS GUNS

Me: YEEEEEEE

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hellishfig · 2 months

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my dm is a cruel, cruel man

#rude as hell #personal #pointless posting #friend stuff #dnd #dnd classes #pun #imessage #no image id #no image description

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khaleesiofalicante · 5 months

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One day when I go to hell it won’t be because I’m gay or because I once put sand in the breakfast of a girl I didn’t like in primary school. It will be because of these cringey titles for all the reports I write 😔😔

#I can’t resist a pun it’s my bisexual right byeeeee #also big headache over omg #I haven’t slept in 84 years 😭😭😭#pointless post

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folkfreaks · 2 years

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hii whats kickin im still alive

@getaway--driver -> @flatwhitegrrl

#its time for the trimonthly url change #yes this is a pun. oat milk flat white best drink though #also the way i disappeared for a month bcs all the shittiness + discourse + unprompted opinions + pointless arguments were getting me down #only to find the latest note on my post about gender @ my side blog was by a TERF being condescending + shitty.....#yeah i hate this place

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ineffable-suffering · 7 months

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Demonic Mental Health Awareness Post

i'm not sure if occult beings are technically capable of suffering from mental illnesses but, watching S2 for the nth time now, i'm pretty sure that ever since Armageddon didn't happen, crowley has simply been a little, well ... depressed.

(just in case, a mild TW: depression, trauma, mental illness)

like, one of the firsts things we hear him say (to shax, out of all people) is: "do you ever think: what's the point of it all? heaven, hell, angels, demons, it's all ... pointless." which– whoof, that's heavy. i mean, fair enough, he's got a point, but it's still one hell (pun intended) of a statement to chuck out as one of the first things he says this season.

i think the way that crowley and aziraphale processed Armageddon is .. very different. we see aziraphale at the beginning of S2:

happy as always in his surroundings

chatting to the people in his whickber street community

buying music

humming along to it in his bookshop

and just frolicking, as he always does

crowley, however, is:

sitting alone on The park bench

questioning the meaning of existence

while also technically being homeless

and living in his car

for ... no apparent reason other than not being bothered to miracle himself up a new flat

of course, crowley's always been a bit of a grumpy goth boyfriend. but it doesn't take a licensed therapist to figure out that he's clearly Going Through something. and it makes sense, if you think about it. surely, Armageddon was traumatic for both of them. but i think aziraphale does have a bit more of a safety net to fall back on. he's got his shop, his books, his music and some of his neighbours he seems to like and know. and, of course, he has crowley. who's always just a phone call away and who he, as we are told, calls when pretty much anything does or doesn't happen.

crowley's main hobby and somewhat safe space used to be his plants and his flat, but those are kinda gone too now/crammed into the bentley and he clearly hasn't been able to move on yet since he a) hasn't bothered to get a new flat and (what i think is an even bigger indicator of him not being okay) b) hasn't told aziraphale yet. ("we talk all the time!" yup, but clearly not about the things that matter, hm?)

it's been four years. four years in which, seemingly, aziraphale had few issues with falling back into his old flow, picking up his hobbies again and even making more friends around Soho. and four years in which crowley lost his flat, most of his plants and apparently his will to change anything about it or share it with aziraphale.

having been through major depressive episodes myself, this does *david tennant voice* bingle-bongle-dingle-dangle all my alarm bells.

because people cope with trauma in different ways. some better than others. and crowley, having Major Unresolved Trauma from his Fall, always having been rather unhappy with the work he'd been doing for hell (aka only getting credit for things he didn't do and sort of messing up things he did do) and also having to face the fact that the angel he was head over heels in love with kept turning him down over and over again for reasons he didn't understand ... well, it didn't set him up for a great post-not-so-much-the-end-of-the-world start.

and sometimes, being forced to keep running under kinda shitty conditions (such as a crappy job or trying to chase after the love of your life) still keeps you running. but once that all stopped, once aziraphale and crowley were (at least for the time being) free of heaven and hell and could finally just live their lives, crowley seems to just have retreated further back into himself. questioning the whole meaning of existence and not really talking about it to the one person he'd always wanted to be with. which makes sense because more than anything, crowley wants to protect aziraphale. and he‘s definitely the type of demon person to think that sharing your struggles means burdening someone else with them. oh crowley, you and me would have so much to talk about, babe.

so yeah. the world almost ended. and then it just went back to normal. and i think crowley is still stuck somewhere between thinking he'd lost his best friend and love of his life in a fire, almost being anihilated by his satanic boss and then everything simply snapping back into the way it always was – within the span of a day. no wonder he's finding it a little hard to move on.

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(addendum: there's a great piece of fanfiction called "Demonology and the Tri-Phasic Model of Trauma: An Integrative Approach" that deals exactly with that trauma, in which crowley goes to see a therapist. incredible character study and brilliant writing.)

#crowley #good omens season 2 #go2 #good omens 2 #gos2 #ineffable husbands #trauma #its ok to be overwhelmed crowley babe #he's Been Through It #give my man a break #and a therapist

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thank-heaven-you-asked · 3 months

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Subs Over Dubs, Except... Huhh

I've watched Stampede subbed a number of times that I have enough dignity not to specify, and I've never consciously had any issue with its translation or localization -- not knowing Japanese, I can only complain about a translation when it can't be understood, so I guess this is more about localization. So I've been fussing with my Hulu account this week and I ended up putting Stampede on in English because why not. You guys... is it just me, or is the dub better?

This is pretty specific -- I don't mean the performances are better. They are very good! It's 2024, most dubs with a budget behind them are good these days. And I have a bias in that I'm extremely familiar with the Japanese performances, so my frowning at lines with different inflections is not a criticism, it's just my face doing a thing. And again, I can't speak to the translation at all (I've read within the last few days that there is some debate over which translation is more accurate vs which is is more palatable -- because, yeah, Knives 's whole... thing is toned down a lot in the dub -- but to this English-speaker they are mostly the same in way of communicating meaning. mostly) I mean that the dub script is considerably better. Easier to follow, the jokes land better, and yeah, it's occasionally translated or least wrestled into understandable English better. I have never encountered this with a dub versus its sub before!

I should have examples. This post is pointless without examples. Um. I've been awake for 25 hours and didn't retain much of what I noticed. I'll follow this up with more, but one example that stood out was Wolfwood's half-improvised prayer over the graves in episode 4. Lemme just pull those up...

Here is the sub's version:

"Okay... O father in heaven... forgive us our sins as we forgive our neighbors. May you accept our fallen brethren and welcome the departed to your... What is it? Welcome them to your... dinner? No, that's a meal. Deliver them unto your... design? No, nobody's talking about fashion. Uh, give us a drive... He's not your chauffer, you idiot."

Meryl interjects with, "Are you really a priest?" Wolfwood says, "I'm no priest. Just an undertaker. Now back off, you're ruining it."

So it's mildly inexplicable that Wolfwood is speaking actual nonsense here, but I've been taking it as a semi-accurate translation of plays on words/puns/cultural jokes about Christianity that Westerners wouldn't be in on -- you know, typical translation nightmares. Not a big deal. And as Westerners, we're more familiar with Christianity, and I kind of figured the joke wouldn't land anyway.

And here's the dub's version:

"And... there! Uh... Heavenly father, who art in heaven... Forgive us our sins, Oh Lord, as we forgive those who sin against us. Please welcome their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed into your, into your.. What is it? Welcome them into your humble abode? Into your pearly gates? Nah, that sounds off. Deliver unto them deliverance? Not quite, but I'm getting there. Um, make sure there's some empty chairs. They're 'kingdom come'-ing, so..."

Now Meryl interrupts with, "That's enough. You're not really a priest, huh?" Wolfwood says, "No, I'm not. I'm an undertaker. Scram, will ya? You're messing with my mojo."

Side by side, you can see that these are recognizably translations of the same lines. The dub isn't really taking a ton of liberties; "give us a drive" is clearly at least in the same ballpark as "they're 'kingdom come'-ing." It's just that one is cleverly worded in English and therefore funny, while the other makes no sense. And the one that doesn't make sense is the sub, where you'd expect more breathing room with word choice and comic timing.

I kept noticing this -- again, I'll follow this up with lines that made enough sense in the sub that the dub went as far as to change my understanding of the exchanges they're in. And in those cases, the localization is clearly what's making the difference. I don't know which is more accurate, just which are more understandable and just better written. In my opinion!!! Obviously a lot of this is subjective. I just... again, I have never really seen this role reversal before. There have absolutely been dubs I liked better their corresponding subs, but never due to the dub being more fun and making more sense. Usually in those cases I just like the VAs' performances better. And yeah, you can't do a lot better than Johnny Yong Bosch, even if some of us are going to hear that voice and feel an inexplicable urge to call the police.

#trigun #trigun stampede #tristamp #it is not JYB's fault #he is an excellent actor and sometimes he plays villains #he's just really really good at it and it has been alarming to me in the past

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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 8 months

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I am very curios, do you have any ideas for Disney songs as themes for the Cullens/Volturi?

I mean, I hadn't thought of it before this ask, no, but we'll see what we can come up with.

I'll just do the Cullens so this post doesn't become unwieldly.

Alice

I almost went with My Strongest Suit from Aida. However, that's about the singer's insecurity and hiding this with fashion (believing she has nothing else to offer) and that's not really Alice.

I don't have anything for Alice as she's a very strange character at the end of the day and not one I can see a parallel to in Disney which means there's no song that suits her that well.

Bella

Belle from Beauty and the Beast or Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid. The first is that Bella is in this small provincial town that she feels better than and falls in love with an isolated creature she's not supposed to. Bella undoubtedly feels a lot of kinship with Belle. The second is how Bella views vampirism, the grass is always greener relationship where she earnestly wants to become something she doesn't fully understand with a teenage optimism.

Carlisle

I'm going to cheat a bit here and pull out The Rainbow Connection from The Muppets Movie as DIsney currently owns the Muppets. There's a lot of Carlisle in Kermit, I personally think, and he's in his own way one of those stubborn head in the clouds optimists that the song describes.

Otherwise, slightly less cheating but perhaps still cheating, I'll pull Someday from The Hunchback of Notre Dame post-credits song. It's the Somewhere of the Disney repertoire in the hope that, someday, people will be better than they are now.

Edward

You can't spell Edward without Hellfire from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Nothing is closer out of the Disney repertoire to Edward's self-loathing, temptation, and guilt.

Emmett

You can't spell Emmett without bear puns, and there's no song more laid back and bear filled in the Disney repertoire than The Bare Necessities. Brings to mind, for me at least, Emmett's laidback personality and approach to life.

Esme

Esme's not really exacting enough to be Mary Poppins (practically perfect in every way) but I'll pull out A Spoonful of Sugar anyway as it seems like the kind of advice Esme adheres to. Namely, that all you need to approach tasks you dislike are to make some element of fun to them.

Jasper

The closest I can think of is Rest and Recreation from the stage adaptation of Hunchback of Notre Dame. It's not right in that Jasper's reaction to fleeing the battlefield is not to become a partier (as Phoebus is portrayed here) but it does at least address the pointless bloodshed of war that Phoebus is desperately fleeing from by any means he can.

Renesmee

Out There from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Obviously, this is very headcanon land of where I think the Renesmee story's going but I feel like hers will be a story of longing for the outside world that's slightly more desperate/marred than A Part of Your World (in that Renesmee can never truly belong among humans due to vampirsm).

There's also What's This? from Nightmare Before Christmas (the film was produced by Disney along with Tim Burton) In that I imagine the human world is so new and exciting to Renesmee and unfamiliar to her with no idea what anything is.

Rosalie

I really wracked my brains, but I couldn't come up with anything. The thing about Rosalie is, for obvious reasons, nothing really like her story happens in the Disney films. So, we don't get a character song that really emphasizes who she is, what she went through, and how she recovers.

As much as I stretch the other ones, I really have nothing for her.

#twilight #twilight meta #twilight headcanon #twilight renaissance #disney #the cullens #alice cullen #carlisle cullen #bella swan #edward cullen #emmett cullen #esme cullen #rosalie hale #jasper whitlock #renesmee cullen #meta #headcanon #opinion

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lawyernovelistpersonal · 2 years

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Some talk of medical malpractice and surgery.

I saw a post recently asking why "Seward apologists" keep asking how his treatment of Renfield would have been viewed by contemporary readers and sharing information on contemporary psychiatric care. They said that that's irrelevant, what matters is how good it is that we've moved past that.

Well, leaving aside my instinctive disagreement with a claim that it's pointless to want to learn about history and historical attitudes, it's actually very important to know about the environment in which Stoker was writing Seward because otherwise it's impossible to understand why he's written the way he is.

Imagine someone wrote a book this year with a major character who's a surgeon. We'll call her Jill. And she's a really good surgeon who loves her job, stays up to date on all the latest techniques, and is keen to take the best possible care of her patients. A major plot point in the story involves her having to do some major surgery on a secondary character, her hospital is a key location, and generally she's important to events.

The book becomes a classic and a hundred years later a huge number of people are reading and discussing it. Now, a hundred years on medical science has advanced and they have that Star Trek technology where you can perform medical treatment by just holding a device to someone's skin and it emits electromagnetic waves at just the right frequency to cure whatever's wrong with them in ten minutes or something. There are still medical professionals who are a little too keen on invasive procedures, but the rest of the field has moved on and in most cases actually cutting people open or jabbing them with needles or other such procedures are considered outdated at best and malpractice at worst.

And a huge number of people reading this hypothetical book hear that Jill's a surgeon and immediately declare that that means she's a serial killer whose main hobby is cutting people open and looking at their insides. The situation only gets worse when they see her at work and the headcanons are flying thick and fast about her deliberate cruelty and how she's the actual villain of the story and anyone who wants to take a step back and consider that at the time the book was written what she's doing was cutting-edge (no pun intended) is clearly in favour of the aforementioned doctors who commit malpractice by insisting on unnecessary invasive procedures.

That sounds absurd, right? It's a complete misreading of Jill's character based on expectations that neither she nor her author could possibly meet. Interpreting her based on what was expected from a doctor in 2022 does not invalidate abuse inflicted on the victims of medical malpractice in 2122 when scalpels are no longer commonly used. It does not mean that there are no doctors in 2022 who are abusive. It means that it's important to remember when judging whether Jill is committing medical abuse or malpractice or is a bad person that she exists in a time period and is bound by the constraints of medical knowledge in that time period.

And that's why it's important to know what the state of psychiatric care was when Dracula was written before you judge Seward. It doesn't mean that psychiatrists then or now cannot be abusive. It doesn't mean that someone acting like him in 2022 is doing a good job. It doesn't mean you have to like him or can't feel uncomfortable when reading about his behaviour. It means that Dr Jack Seward exists in a time period and is bound by the constraints of medical knowledge in that time period.

#dracula daily #dr seward

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goferwashere · 1 month

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Don Flamenco & Great Tiger Meet (Punch-Out!! Monster Hunter AU)

Posting this one on Tumblr bc it’s not long lol

Title says it all, enjoy :3

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Don Flamenco was standing in front of his mirror, examining his gills. He only had them on the side he was looking at, with the other side being smooth. The small filaments flittering when he ran a finger over them, grimacing at the sensation.

He’d been swimming for about an hour, but was now painstakingly trying to reach into his gills to get… something out.

He wasn’t sure what exactly, but he could feel it when he was breathing. It was pissing him off. It was flimsy, and kept moving with the air going in and out of his lungs.

He grunted as he pulled his hand back again, sucking in a breath through his teeth. He felt it again as his gills took in air as well.

“This is pointless!” He threw his hands up. Forgetting his makeup bag the one day he needed it. Great.

“I may be able to help.”

Don whipped around at the sound of a foreign voice. A man stood behind him, he wore a turban, tiger-print pants and a lovely moustache.

He cupped a hand over his shoulder, a muffled prickling sound coming from under it. Tiger raised an eyebrow, but Don pulled his hand away and his gills had vanished. He clasped his hands together cheerily and asked, “Pardon me! I didn’t hear you come in. Do you need something?”

The other man simply extended a hand to him in greeting. “I am Great Tiger. I will be your opponent later this week.”

‘Oh, right.’ Don thought, looking him up and down. He didn’t take Tiger’s hand.

“Well, as you can see I’m busy. I’d like some privacy. While you’re at it, go ahead and forget that you saw me.”

Tiger felt the words swim through his ears, warming his whole body from the inside. Luckily, he’d come prepared. He didn’t budge.

Don waited expectantly, but when Tiger didn’t move his expression soured. He raised his voice.

“Are you deaf? Get out of this room. Now.”

Tiger chuckled, manifesting a pair of headphones made of smoke to emphasize his point. He pointed to them with a grin.

“I came prepared my friend. I know all about you and your tricks.” He crossed his arms. Don’s face contorted, and a flash of panic overwhelmed his face before he turned away from him. He folded up his pocket mirror and shoved it into his gym bag before slicking his hair and turning back around to him with a smile on his face.

“Apologies my friend. Don Flamenco, charmed.”

Tiger’s grin didn’t fade as he took his hand and shook it firmly. He nodded curtly before pointing to Don’s neck.

“Now, how about you show me those gills? I can help you with whatever problem you might have.”

Don instinctively put his hand to where he was pointing, but upon feeling smooth skin he let out a small sigh.

“What kind of monster are you?” He said, ignoring Tiger’s offer.

“I am no monster, my friend. Merely an observer.” He bowed his head slightly. “But I believe that you and I will get along… swimmingly.” He raised his eyebrows, looking to Don’s face.

Don’s eye twitched. “Not if you keep making puns.” Tiger laughed at his own joke before continuing.

“You and I can learn a lot from each other.” He began to float, sitting in a chair that Don couldn’t see. “We both have our ways of gathering information. So I say we exchange.”

Don had an odd feeling in his stomach. He pushed it down and continued.

“What’s your goal here?” He asked, raising his arms in a shrug with a look of annoyance. Tiger vanished, before reappearing over by Bear Hugger’s locker.

“This one, right here. He’s very private, isn’t he? Why don’t you tell me what he is?”

“And what makes you think I’m going to tell you anything at all?”

Tiger teleported in front of him, still floating a few feet of the ground. He made a motion with his two fingers, and Don’s toupee flew right off his head.

“You don’t have to, but I think the other boxers would get a kick out of your receding hairline.”

Don could only stare at the man floating above him. His pupils turned to slits and his gills came out, vibrating slightly as a growl left his throat. His teeth were sharpening and he was ready to kill.

Until Don felt something fly out of his gills. It was as though he had cleared something out of his throat, and the sensation knocked him to his knees as he choked. His gills closed up immediately and he felt his breath return to normal. He saw a small wet object on the floor, but he turned to face Tiger first.

He snapped and Don felt his fake hair return to its rightful place. He went to say something, but Tiger had already vanished, his laughter echoing through the room.

He slowly got up off the floor, and upon scanning the room and finding no trace of Tiger, he walked over to the thing that had clogged his gills.

It was a bandaid with a small dot of blood in the middle. Don picked it up gingerly by the edge. He sniffed it and immediately knew who the blood belonged to.

“Joe.” He spat, throwing it to the floor. Sometimes he wondered if keeping him around was even worth it.

But his attention eventually wandered back to the events that had transpired in the locker room. He felt a rage grip his soul that he hadn’t felt in a long time.

Don vowed to never let Tiger play him for a fool again.

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I HOPE YOU ENJOYEDD GUYS I BREWED THIS UP IN LIKE AN HOUR SO I HOPE THERES NO CRAZY BAD SPELLING MUSTAKES OR ANYTHING

also obligatory @oohbuggypie tag bc I know you love seeing Don be the worst 😋

#oh what good friends they are ahaha *lying*#I really need to start writing about the other boxers like I sweat this isn’t on purpose 💀#but ANYWAY #tiger is everyone’s best frenemy #Don gets dunked on #punch out #punch out!!#punch out monster hunter au #don flamenco #great tiger #punch out wii #my writing

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not-souleaterpost · 6 months

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Ever wished that a trailer DOES lie?

Didn't come up with some clever pun or whatever to express what I want so I'll put it bluntly: Does anyone agree that new Napoleon movie looks kinda lame from the trailers?

Like the first one was like the two types of cliche trailers one after the other - with all the "boom" sounds and mach cuts, while then doing the whole "eq-so-it-sounds-distant childlike song" thing. But what I found worse is turning Napoleon into Thanos (havent seen a Marvel movie after Iron Man 3, so I might be wrong) - but all the stoic cool guy one liners and weird self-agrandising cliche uterances - only to end with putting on the Crown on himself as if it was that stupid plastic gem-gauntlet... Should just have snapped and said "France Won" and go all the way while showing the Austo-Hungary disolve.

The second trailer seems to be more of the same, with even having the Black Sabbat song to make it artsy but not to artsy. Idk maybe I'm being to harsh and hypocritical, but aften then having the love interst say "look down at my crotch - I control you with it" - I just cant take it seriously - gives me flashbacks to being a kid and seeing my dad watch game of thrones and realises that half the charachters are screwing their sister and brothers cause thats the only way to make something "Mature"...

But why am I writting a whinning post? Don't I try to make some contrived point in these? Yeah, at first I didint even want to post this, so I dont be one of these cynical movie guys, feel bad for these who now seemingly in nearly their fifties just whine about how bad hollywood is and how superheros suck while only reviewing them while their is a great new Scorsesse movie which they ignore- And instead of continuing this passive agressive attack on RLM, I better segway into my whole point: "The Killers of the Flower Moon" - A movie I recently saw and enjoyed quite a lot - surprisingly because I thought from the trailers "Yeah, Scorsee got old and is phoning it in" - cause from the trailers it just seemed like a generic by the numbers exploitation film, where victims kill their oppressors with the whole "happy ending" being both overly sweet and bitter - because how unrealistic yet saddistic it would be, even as a fantasy only leaving the reality of resentment and bloody revenge.

But thankfully, it was nothing like that - so the trailer lied, and I was happy - or more happy that even when it lied I thought "well going to the cinema with friends is more important, and why not see a scorsse movie on the big screen, if he dies, or I, soon, I'll regret it, even if it was a piece of shit..."

So maybe that's the point I'm making - maybe a very weird and pointless one - but yeah, maybe Napoleon won't be as bad as I think? Even if it is a far-cry from the Napoleon Kubric would have made, Ridley Scott is still a director with a certain esteem, and who the hell didn't like Gladiator? Even still have an old VHS with a cutot of a tv-magazine of it that my father used to tape over to just pirate the movie old schoo way lol. Still, I'm not saying to mindlessly buy and watch everything - but to just think - maybe even a disapointing movie is worth the human connection one will make (cause who goes to the movies alone?) - so if somebody says "hey lets watch it, its like if the Joker was French" - why not, maybe even it will turn out to be:

#napoleon #ridley scott #napoleon 2023 #joaquin phoenix #killers of the flower moon #martin scorsese #trailer #unpopular opinion #marvel #pandering #also why I didnt watch Oppenheimer but I kinda got tired of Nolan movies in general think they are irnoically to childish past 16 #I remember as a kid finding RLM and thinking their movie review show was just some stop gap for some bigger thing to come #only for it to happen or be bad on purpose #idk think its a bad place to get stuck #not financially but you know what I mean #dont have your soul eaten

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acradaunt · 2 months

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Acra's EO Guild Card Megapost

Guild Cards are a neat thing in the most of the Etrian Odyssey games. Sometimes, they're pretty pointless, but in some, they actually do some neat stuff. I… have a tendency to do multiple playthroughs, to try different team compositions (as seeing how different a game can feel based on your builds is one of my favourite things ever, and I also like abandon them before the big fights, on the hypothetical urge I want to re-fight a boss at an appropriate level an infinite number of times), so I've amassed a fair few of my own.

Why am I uploading these now? Apparently the Nexus database got borked a couple days ago, so this is the perfect time for me to get a few feet in the door. I also swear this is the last time I'll ever post about these, seriously.

EO Nexus -A total of 100 Guild Cards are needed to unlock the Vampire pseudo-class. Obviously, 100 is a lot, so they obviously expected the community, paltry it may be, to come together to make a database. And they did. And then they locked it the second they got 108. And then it died. So now I finally get a second chance to contribute.

Galeforce

-My first (main) playthrough. I actually uploaded a card weekly to help out, but I think only the first one made it on in time. It's not Heroic because it's like a NG+++++ file. This is the final card, but for the weekly set of them, um, here:

Week 0 || Week 1 || Week 2 || Week 3 || Week 4 || Week 5 || Week 6 || Week 7

Stardust

-Filled with all my C-listers that couldn't fit into Galeforce. I ran them as two separate teams; the Boss Killers (shown here), who fought the FOEs/Bosses, and Team Midriff, who did all the exploration.

Sunstorm

-A Guild consisting of classes I mostly avoid using, and portraits I hadn't (as of its conception) used before. As always, there's like another three members that get used that aren't here, including a Survivalist, Nightseeker, and an Arcanist.

Maelstrom

-An attempt at a Nuzlocke-esque run, and also an 'evil' party. Characters stopped being used if they died, but only until the end of the stratum, to not make it overbearing. Being an evil party lacking in support and healing, this was an absolute slog that I considered a total failure by the Jungle.

Brilliant

-An idea for a mage-guild that kinda went askew. Starting as a Sovereign, three Zodiacs, and a Farmer, I ultimately turned this into three single-element teams; Each consisting of a unique Sovereign, a unique Zodiac, two other characters that get earlygame elemental skills (Survivalist's Flame Arrow, Landsknecht, etc.), but the same Farmer (Hazel) across all three. Didn't take it all that far, but worked kinda well!

EOV -Definitely where Guild Cards are seen the most. About 2-4 times every floor, there'll be an event that'll use you GC database to have another guild interact with you in the labyrinth. If you have none, you'll be introduced to memelord Conrad of the Freeblade Guild about 110 times in your course of a playthrough. In stark contrast, Nexus only has GC events maybe a dozen times across the whole game.

Starlight

-Main guild. Not a lot to say. It's a Chain-oriented party, because I love Fencers/Landsknechts.

Bundt

-Cake pun. See, bundt is a type of cake, and the guild is filled with Brouni. As in Brownies, the fairy/pixie/sprite, but I'm punning off the--- ANYWAY. Horrific offense, but don't die easily. Kinda miserable against a few specific enemies like the coffin jerks on 15F, but otherwise worked astonishingly better than you'd expect. Which is; not GOOD, but totally serviceable.

Necrocosm

-My original 'evil' guild, featuring two Necromancers, and edge as far as the eye can see. Two Necros work pretty well together; typically Velvet summoned them and Rue made them explode. The fact Necros heal and have evil vibes let them succeed where Maelstrom would totally fail. I also didn't bench anyone for dying, so that probably helped too.

Firebird

-This playthrough is only saved at Amalgolem and took like a single weekend to get there, so I didn't remember squat about it. Amalgolem is like my single fave boss in the whole series, so I just had to leave a file there. It's heavily skewed towards non-humans, and the bottom deck of the guild is just full of nigh-on unusable cross-classed horrors, like a Celestrian Pugilist and Therian Warlock.

EO2U -Probably where Guild Cards are the most functionally useful. Lets you get the Grimoire Stones the attached character has on hand as many times as you can afford. Pretty nifty, as Grimoires are semi-random in spawning.

Skyquake

-So I didn't actually buy EO2U when it came out for a variety of factors, not least being unaware how different it was from the original EOII, my first EO game. So I've only started this and Untold I fairly recently.

Ironroot

-Holy Gift gives you extra experience, but each level costs twice as much to trade as the previous. That is, you need two level 3 Grimoires to get a level 4. Or 128 level 3s for a single level 10. So having a Guild Card with lowish level Holy Gift is actually pretty dang useful to have.

Untold

-Story Guild. Haven't… uh, haven't exactly been Motivated to do Story mode in Untold 2. On paper, I really dislike the team composition. In practice, hasn't been so bad, but still not enough to make me play them more than necessary.

Fellbloom

-Now legally required Evil Guild. Probably won't ever get past Chimaera.

EOU -Unlike the sequel, Guild Cards don't let you choose what to get from the friend's Guild Card. You just get given a random Grimoire Stone once per playthrough per Guild Card. Kinda lame.

Untold -Unlike later games, only one save file here, and the game nigh-on requires you to play through the Story Mode before doing Classic in NG+, so, that's where we sit.

EOIV -First game to use QR codes. III had Guild Cards, but I don't know how you'd trade them. They do serve a purpose here; each Card gets given a random treasure, and having a Card lets you find that treasure in the overworld. Most are crap, but some are circumstantially useful, and some are permanent stat-boosts, IIRC. I don't think mine was very good…?

Zephyr

-Uh, EOIV had a glitch where your Ventured Days would go up dramatically every time you paused. I think it comes into affect if you ever do NG+. So I haven't actually played for 48 in-game years. Truth be told, now knowing of a way to back up save files, I am admittedly tempted to make a new EOIV playthrough, since it's been like a decade, but for my own sanity, I really probably shouldn't.

#etrian odyssey #guild card #etrian odyssey nexus #eon

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cosmerelists · 8 months

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Scadrial Characters Try to Guess the Meaning of English Idioms

This list is entirely inspired by @cosmereplay using this tag:

#that would be fun#I'd love to see Kelsier go ham (haha)

(The tag was on this post by @libralita - be warned; it includes major spoilers if you’re not caught up on ROW!)

My brain went, “Ha, ha, ‘Go ham’ WOULD seem like a pun on Scadrial!" and the next second, I was googling for a list of English idioms. The result is this.

1. “Go ham!”

Dockson: Presumably, this refers to turning every single thing into a pointless philosophical debate.

Vin: Either that or smashing things up with your Pewter-ed arms!

2. “Bite the bullet”

Wax: I assume this refers to keeping your bullets in your mouth so that Lurchers and Coinshots can’t use them against you?

Wayne: Either that or someone who tries to eat bullets to get some metal to burn!

3. “Break a leg.”

MeLaan: Hmmm...I’m guessing that this refers to an inconvenience that’s, like, not too bad but still annoying.

4. “Through thick and thin”

Kelsier: This one has GOT to refer to the mists--whether they’re thick or they’re thin, it’s always good to be out in them.

Wax: 100% agree.

5. “Under the weather”

Steris: I assume this refers to those who are unable to fly like Coinshots or those carried by them--people who remain below the clouds (colloquially, the “weather”) and don’t see the clear, starry skies above.

6. “Go down in flames.”

Marasi: I think I can guess this one! To “go down in flames” (I assume it’s followed by “and rise up again”) is to be like the Lord Mistborn--he who was once reborn by the flames!

7. “Call it a day.”

Vin: Near the end, the ash would get so thick that you could barely tell night from day. I suppose in that situation, you’d just have to shrug and “call it a day” regardless.

8. “Cry wolf.”

Wax: Heh, sounds like Max when he was desperate for a Soonie Pup.

9. “Long in the tooth”

MeLaan: Ah yes, when a new Kandra hasn’t quite figured out how to look like a human yet.

MeLaan: If you don’t put those teeth in deep enough into the gums, they’ll look too long, and then humans tend to get kinda freaked out.

10. “Spitting image”

Wayne: Yeah, I use those!

Wayne: It’s when you gots a picture of someone who deserves to be spat on, so when you need to spit, that’s where it lands.

11. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

Vin: Koloss.

Elend: Definitely.

12. “You are what you eat.”

MeLaan: ...

TenSoon: ...

VenDell: ...

MeLaan: Man, there are SO MANY idioms about kandra!

#cosmerelists #cosmere #Dockson #Vin #Wax #Wayne #MeLaan #Kelsier #Steris #Marasi #Elend #TenSoon #VenDell

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I enjoyed that latest Taskmaster episode a lot. I don’t know why I’ve hardly written any posts about this season since it started, as it’s been really good. Here’s a brief summary of my updates opinions four episodes in:

- The main thing I wanted for Nick was a chance to show off his magician-related skills. He got that chance in the tension task… it did not go as I’d predicted. However, he has made up for breaking my predictions by turning out to be the sweetest person in the world. It’s been a while since we’ve had a proper cinnamon roll on Taskmaster. I think his gentle banter with Greg continues to be the funniest thing he brings, it’s delightful every time.

- Steve Pemberton won me over in the first couple of episodes, but then lost me pretty hard by admitting he broke that egg on purpose, I must admit I am now pretty focused on hoping he loses specifically as punishment for that. I got mad at him then for sacrificing the task in order to play to the TV edit/try too hard to be funny – he’s done similar things several times since, like imposing extra rules in the Mr. Blobby task and writing puns in the hand task. It is not in the spirit of Taskmaster! He’s probably basically fine but I want him to lose so that future Taskmaster contestants understand you do not come here to perform, you come here to play. I don’t even just hold that belief because of how competitive I am, I also think it’s much funnier if you let you and throw yourself right into the game, which he’s not quite doing, and it disproportionately annoys me.

- I find Sophie Willan’s unpredictability entertaining. Usually she’s shit at the tasks, and every once in a while she’ll be great. She has no idea what’s going on almost ever but apparently has a good eye for art. She talks to horses. She nearly drowns in a river that only goes up to her waist. She demonstrates sexy dances that literally no one asked her to do? She has never seen this show before. You never know what she’s going to bring to the table next.

- All right, Joanne McNally’s won me around. She went in with a significant deficit in my opinion of her because I say some quite shitty things on a different TV show once, but four episodes in, she’s been entertaining enough for me to forgive it (I mean… I don’t actually forgive the sentiment expressed, but I can decide I like her enough to choose to assume it was just a misguided attempt to be funny). She’s breathing life into tense situations and tension into situations where the task explicitly requests it. She’s also never seen the show before but she’s throwing herself all the way into it. She’s consistently funny. She’s sharp and knows what’s going on, task-wise, almost all the time, while making it look fairly effortless. She didn’t do the prep work but I respect that she still showed up to play.

- Well, we haven’t had the full-on meltdowns from Robins, but I kind of knew that would happen, as they caught him just as he was moving into his “sober and more enlightened” era. It will always be a loss that Taskmaster never cast Farthinggate-era Robins when they had the chance, but I’m actually surprised at how much I’m enjoying “on his best behaviour Robins”. Mainly because it is visibly incredibly difficult for him to not have competitive meltdowns and to play it as chill as he is (which still isn’t very chill, it’s just chill compared to what he used to be), and the tension of that difficulty can be very funny. Maybe it’s like how people trying to avoid swearing on the radio is funnier than just hearing them swear. I’ve heard John Robins have plenty of proper competitive meltdowns – it is a new and uniquely entertaining thing to watch him sit there and try to physically force every nerve in his body to not do that. A whole new level of the pointless intensity. Those team tasks especially have potential for it. Also, they’ve used the same joke several times now, but I don’t mind at all. They could keep implying that John’s fucked up a task and giving him time to panic before saying it’s fine – that might get old after 100 or so episodes, but 10 episodes wouldn’t be nearly enough for that to stop being funny. I’d be fine if they keep it up all season. I desperately hope he wins but I also hope they torture him.

I have to admit I may have got too into the competition too early in this season, because normally it isn’t until the last few episodes, if the scores are tight, when I start to get really concerned about whether it’ll end up going my way. But yesterday, while watching episode four, I found myself genuinely stressed during every task because of how much I want John Robins to beat Steve Pemberton. I mean, I want him to win, but I specifically want him to beat Steve Pemberton, because I do not want someone to get away with being smugly too good to throw himself entirely into Taskmaster. I’m too invested. I knew John had gone in one point ahead of both Steve and Joanne, and I was keeping score in my head throughout the episode, of how far each score led him to extend his lead over both of them. I don’t usually count points as the episode goes along until episodes 9 or 10.

Most tasks I’m less interested in John’s total score and more interested in his score relative to Steve. I realize Joanne is also competitive and a threat to win and I want him to beat her too, but I don’t think she’s as likely to win overall, she’s not as competitive in general and the only reason she’s so close to the top right now is she got a lucky 5-0 that’s not likely to repeat itself. Also, if she wins I’ll be disappointed, but not nearly as disappointed as I’ll be if Steve does.

Anyway, I thought episode 4 was great fun. It does feel a bit more “simmering” than some other Taskmaster seasons – I almost wrote “gentle” but I don’t think that’s quite true, because there seems to be a lot going on. It’s just not all being shouted the way it is in some seasons. I like it, I enjoy the unpredictable mystery of Sophie Willan and the incomprehensible charm of Nick Mohammed and the understated arrogance of Steve Pemberton (in a “fuck this guy but he makes a good villain” way) and the simmering anger of John Robins. Also Joanne McNally is there, cheerfully shouting whatever thoughts occur to her, and they’re almost always funny.

One note I do have to mention in writing a post about Taskmaster s17e04 – if you have a good friend who’s recently quit drinking due to quite a severe and life-ruining alcohol addiction, with rum as his drink of choice for a number of years, you should maybe not trick him into drinking rum on national television even if it’s non-alcoholic? Ed Gamble said on the podcast that he thinks the rest of them got regular rum and only John got special non-alcoholic rum, and I think/hope Ed was wrong about that, because you really shouldn’t trick people into drinking hard liquor at work even if they’re not alcoholics in recovery. Especially since any of those people could have gone all in and drank the whole glove for a laugh. Going out of their way to procure special non-alcoholic rum is a pretty weird thing to do when Ribena has been used on the show before and has to be cheaper/easier to find/avoids the thorny issue of alcohol altogether. I found it funny that they threw pickled onions in there, because anyone who’s listened to John Robins on the radio will know he’s obsessed with pickled onions; I figured Alex added that as a sort of in-joke with his friend, to the point where it’s almost unfair that by being friends with Alex, John gets an item on the task tailored to things he’s most likely to recognize. But Alex will also know that rum was John Robins’ drink of choice for a long time (I mean, I know it, so I'm pretty sure his real-life drinking buddy Alex Horne does), which sort of makes putting rum in the task look like an incredibly twisted and fucked up version of that joke. I'm sure it was just an oversight, but still, pretty big oversight. Even if they didn’t have an alcoholic in the cast, why bring alcohol into it at all when you could just use some other drink that starts with R?

Having said that, does anyone know if non-alcoholic whiskey can replicate the burning sensation of the real thing, or does it just try for the taste? Asking for a friend who's trying to give up whiskey but really misses it and specifically misses its burning qualities and that friend is me. I actually hadn't thought about non-alcoholic hard liquor until Alex mentioned it on the show, I just knew about non-alcoholic beer and wine. I might look into that. But anyway, they probably shouldn't feed it to people who are at work without warning.

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With this crap happening on a public discord server and how nobody there is giving a crap unless it makes them look bad, I'd say the FE fandom has gone overboard, well at least the Edelfandom has. When we're getting to the point where people are spewing out death threats and no one in their camp is batting an eye or nipping the bud immediately, then that's crimson (pun intended) flag that something has gone horribly wrong.

The thing though is that this really isn't a recent phenomenon. It seems that way because many of us have now publicly decided to share the evidence of how we're talked about on this server, but many of these screenshots go back quite a way. I've found instances of the server linking my posts and videos going all the way back to 2019 - and I haven't even been their primary target!

Raxis did recently call out Diaphin on Tumblr...but given that he only cares because it's "setting back" his years-long harassment campaign against Nilsh it's safe to say that none of us are buying it.

I agree with Ezralahm that this flare-up seems to be at least in part a scrambling for continued relevance, in the face of time and the fandom moving away from Three Houses since there just isn't all that much to say about it any more that hasn't been said in the last several years. People move on to other games and other interests, and when they do still want to talk about Three Houses/Hopes there's no reason to entertain the wankier elements of fandom - not just in this server, but in general.

I had my fun with the Ferdibert musicals project in April, and depending on what my video schedule looks like I may have occasion to make one on the Fódlan games in the future, but none of that will involve engaging with these sorts of people. I simply couldn't fathom spending this much time and energy defending any fictional character, even those I really like and those I particularly identify with (few if any of which come from video games, by the way). It's just so...pointless.

#Fandom discourse

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sometimes it feels like the bg3 fandom is a popularity contest in general. you can ramble about your OCs all day, but it feels like unless you're popular with a lot of friends to reblog your stuff, or know how to make gifs or pay for the camera tools to get those high quality screenshots, no one gives a shit. I had a male!tav/gale romance, and i posted about it for a while, but at most i got 5 notes on my stuff, so i just stopped because it felt pointless to scream into the void. went back to talking about it with my friends on discord because it was less disappointing. i've made a whole bunch of tavs. males, females, trans characters, enbies, and it's always been the same lack of engagement. so there's probably people out there who want to talk about it or share their stuff, but feel like it's a waste of time when the fandom is the way it is right now.

Oh 100% anon! I'm sure my followers are so tired of hearing me ramble about this but it needs to be brought to light! After the ordeal I went through last week and the thing I just ranted about... this feels apparent. I continue to scream into the void because I'm insane :) (jokes obviously) but I continue to do it because bitch I got things to SAY! I could care less about my tavs/OCs being "popular" in the fandom and more so that I'm having fun talking about them because they're mine and I worked my ASS off on them. Unfortunately it also comes down to who SEES the post... I'm glad I'm not the only who feels this way so I feel a little less crazy.

My friend @tavsboots here on tumblr used to be THE guy to share people's OCs and I think I want to FILL those boots since he went on a hiatus... bad pun. Because yes, tavs that look a certain way are shared less and I can't not say it! There needs to be a voice in the fandom that points this stuff out! I won't be scared into sitting back and letting it go unnoticed! Look, I love every tav I see because I know the user put a lot of love into them, but it IS discouraging when people kind of... glance over your tav or pairing because they look a certain way or ARE in a queer pairing. I also share my tavs and ships MORE in my discord server with a whole bunch of lovely people and its so satisfying. I'm sooooo sorry you got so discouraged like that anon. No one deserves to feel that way in a fandom space. Thank you for entrusting me to share this! I agree with your points 100% and thank you for being here. I'm sure your tavs are lovely ❤️

#re: ask

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carica-ficus · 5 months

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Review: Lapvona

Author: Ottessa Moshfegh

Date: 20/11/2013

Ocjena: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

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My expectations for the national book fair were quite low. Truthfully, the prices had been way too high in the recent years to be considered fair (feel free to chuckle at my bad pun), so I thought I wouldn't be able to find anything worth spending money on. But then I came across "Lapvona", a novel I've heard good things about and which seemed to be right up my alley. I presumed none of our publishers had it in store, so I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed it on one of the stalls and decided to purchase it immediately.

This text of this post turned out to be quite extensive and is more of an analysis, than a review, so I apologize if it doesn't turn out to be what you're looking for. I also do have to to warn that I mention a few spoilers, and a major one at that (regarding Agata's backstory), so I advise you skip this post in case you're not comfortable reading through them. And now, without further ado, my opinion on this novel:

"Lapvona" is a relatively short historical fiction novel which could loosely fit under the definition of folk horror. It features a story about a crippled boy, Marek, and his father, Jude, who live as shepherds in a village called Lapvona. Their life is hard and merciless, but they revel in their pain in order to please God, hoping that their suffering would earn them a place in heaven. Above Lapvona, in a big, beautiful mansion, lives their lord, Viliam, who spends his days engulfed in luxury, toying around with Father Barnabas, the local priest. In a long chain of events, Viliam adopts Marek as a replacement for his dead son, so the poor shepherd boy is suddenly thrown into the life of royalty.

The whole plot is a lot more convoluted, including a number of other important characters and themes, but it mostly revolves around the roles of family, community, survival, and women through the eyes of religion. "Lapvona" is, in its core, a genius and raw commentary on the interpretation of religious beliefs by people of different backgrounds. While it focuses on Christianity, it only uses it as a means to illustrate the many flaws religious worshiping ensues when it is enforced by people who use it to justify their flaws and sins. It is not religion itself that is evil, it is the person that abuses its beliefs.

Marek is an interesting choice as a main character, demonstrating a person, a believer, who fears God only because that is what he was taught to do while growing up. He sees his father as an icon of greatness, thinking of him as highly as he does God himself, but in truth, Marek holds little regard for religion. He punishes himself, makes himself small, and takes on a very pathetic personality because he thinks this is what an obedient Christian does. This in turn makes his motivation flawed, and, therefore, his actions crude and pointless. His true colors became apparent only when he starts living with Viliam, hoping that others will take pity on him and award him with their attention. He becomes angry when he doesn't achieve what he wants, slowly leaving his false persona and allowing the reader to finally see him as he truly is.

Moshfegh hides his demeanor very subtly, revealing it slowly later on throughout the book. This deceitful approach is quite cunning because it perfectly illustrates how difficult it is to see through Marek's lies, to himself and to others. It is his selfishness which betrays him. He is a motherless child who has never been loved and who constantly asks for attention of men, and for affection of women. While his needs seem to appear reasonable, he acts upon them with intense greed. He thinks of himself as deserving because he has obediently followed the rules of God and suffered like a true believer. He endures pain in order to receive a reward for it.

On the other hand, Marek is only human. He is a child who has never known love and searches for it in every person he encounters. This begs the question - who are we, a simple reader, to judge him? And why do we still do it throughout the novel? Moshfegh mentions multiple times that God truly doesn't care about the events in Lapvona, otherwise he would intervene with His divine power when people ask Him for help. The Christian God in the novel is portrayed as passive, a simple symbol of worship humans pray to. All the religious instructions come from false prophets who claim to know the word of God, like Father Barnabas who is portrayed as a fraud. He is a man who never truly listened to his lessons in theology. He takes advantage of the fearful peasants in order to turn a profit and to keep a high position in society, but other than that, he doesn't know much about the religion he preaches. Father Barnabas is, in fact, a metaphor for each person that dares to inflict judgment onto religious worshipers even though they themselves do not necessarily understand the very core of their religion's beliefs. Therefore, just like Father Barnabas, the reader truly has no right to judge Marek, for it is not up to them to do it.

Another theme very prevalent throughout the novel is the position of women in religion. Agata, Marek's mother, is portrayed as a girl who has been molested throughout her whole life - forced to mother a child born from incest, enslaved by Jude as his wife, then abused in the nunnery to which she escapes after giving birth. Her tongue has been cut of, so she doesn't even have the chance to speak up for herself. The lack of the ability to speak functions as a metaphor for the inability to fight against her oppressors. She is younger and weaker than her abusers, so her voice could have been the only weapon she could've successfully used against them, but it has been taken away by force. Agata has no power against what other people throw at her. Men constantly use her for her body, for their gain, so much so that she has simply accepted this as her reality.

The crimes of her abusers are rationalized through their religion. Jude molests her because he believes it is his right to do so. He thinks of himself as a good Christian man who deserves a wife because he follows the rules of the Bible, so he takes Agata when he pleases, justifying his devious behavior as the will of God. When Agata gives birth to Marek and runs off to the nunnery, the nuns assume she left her newborn because it was conceived under, to them, unacceptable circumstances. Agata is unable to tell them what really happened, but even if she could, would it even matter to them? Agata had been sexually involved with her brother and had laid with a man before marriage. The nuns see her as a sinner, regardless of her lack of consent during the act. Therefore, Agata has spent all her life learning that none of her desires, wishes, or opinions matter in the eye of God. In the end, her inability to speak doesn't even matter because others wouldn't even have the will to listen to her.

My only issue with the novel was that it lacks any real plot. The story consists of piled up of continuous situations stacked after one another, and the only real plot points are Marek's violent outburst against Viliam's son and Agata's escape from the nunnery. On the other hand, this is what makes the novel so realistic - life is, at the end of the day, mostly just an endless chain of monotonous events, so I do understand why it was necessary to write it as such for the purpose of its message.

"Lapvona" is a cruel, but superb commentary on religion and its exploitation for the purpose of controlling society. Moshfegh doesn't hold back in disgusting imagery of violence and has a distinct ability to masterfully portray the worst humanity has to offer. This novel is heavy and disgusting, in the best sense of these words. I wouldn't recommend it to people with a weak stomach, but I do recommend it to those in search for a future classic.

#lapvona #ottessa moshfegh #historical fiction #religion #reading #book #knjiga #recenzija #moja recenzija #čitanje #book review #rc2023 #2023

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