TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ the vampire diaries edition #10. Damon Salvatore portrayed by Ian Somerhalder

i am SO FUCKING POWERFUL MY EGO IS THROUGH THE ROOF

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while karna's death made me undeniably emotional (being So Tired, living on borrowed time, the rotted food being disposed of first) the visual of chopped, red pepper bits being tossed onto the mini set Did make me bust a gut laughing

It really speaks to the atrocious glicko system when you can lose -70 points in Anarchy Open when fighting 3 Top 500 players on the same team

And then your next win is +0.2 just because one of them ended up on yours

friendly reminder that authors don't owe you anything. if you don't like a writing/plot decision, you're welcome to simply stop reading. there's no need to send the author an essay about how bad their decisions are. trust the process, or stop reading. the choice is yours. you're more than welcome to write your own fics if you need certain plot points to go certain ways.

A lot of people seem to think Frieren is descending into bad shonen tropes, and reading it I'm like "descending into??"

I feel like it starts off as a 2/5 (Okay, maybe 3/5) generic shonen fantasy.

You want a fantasy anime that actually started off really interesting and different before melting into a gloopy puddle of nonsensical shonen cliches, how about Ranking of Kings? What the fuck happened to that show and I assume also manga?

Oh great. Rüstem vs. Barbarossa. Battle of The Worst Men You Know this side of Lütfi and Ibrahim.

It's funny just how awful twitter has gotten lately. It used to be that if some major event was going on I could get pretty varied discussion on the issue if I did a quick search, but now it's cluttered with checkmarks and everything feels fake

THANK YOU for that post regarding Leicester waging war on the Central Church, actually, because I thought something just wasn't clicking for me as I was playing the route. It's like--in order to make waging war make sense, they had to frame the Central Church as unimportant so they wouldn't lose something important when they killed Rhea. But then. If the Central Church is so unimportant, there's no way they're so evil and corrupt and pervasive that they have to be uprooted with violence. I thought my brain was really just turned off but turns out this route was really just written that poorly??dflgkdj

No cuz like that's. The exact problem, you hit the nail on the head.

Claude can't be straight up evil, and thus can't be portrayed as doing something that's actually that bad - it's clear that they're tryin' to portray him as a guy just trying to get by as best he can for his own people. But herein lies the conundrum: if the Central Church is important to the people of Fodlan (both on a personal level and a pragmatic one), and Rhea is the leader of the Central Church and is the one doing all of these good things for everyone, and Claude is trying to get rid of it and kill her, then he's clearly doing something objectively wrong. So it has to be the case that the Church isn't that important to his people then - now he can retain being a good guy trying the best for his people.

But. Then. If it's so unimportant that literally no one gives a shit about taking it down - they're not rioting nor are they rallying, they're legit described as "calm" - then the Central Church is clearly not that impactful to Leicester. The people of which Claude is supposed to be doing all of this for. Their complete nonreaction to the declaration of war - starkly different from the Empire, who needed actual propaganda to even be remotely calmed, and to the Kingdom whose nobility and people place high value in the Central Church's existence - should tell Claude and everyone else that they're barking up the wrong tree.

The game can not decide whether it wants to portray the Church as something bad or not to save its life. Dimitri takes it in only for pragmatic purposes, Claude wants to take it down, Edelgard wants to take it down, all this shit gets flung at it, and then you fuckin' pan the camera over to them and the Church is pickin' daisies and making flower crowns for lil' kids. There is no justification ever given as to why the Church is constantly looked at with a side-eye by literally everyone; 3Hopes doesn't have WC to make Rhea look sus, so why does everyone... act like they've been through WC? 3Hopes wanted to have its cake and eat it too, and it impacted just about every single character.

I'm just confounded that Claude - Mr. Curious, Mr. I-Want-All-The-Answers, someone who is open-minded enough to see the merit of being positively compared to Rhea and who wanted to hear her side of things despite everything - is drowning in evidence that points directly to the Church not being guilty of pretty much everything he accused of it, and he just... well, even saying that he ignores it gives the writing too much credit, at least in this specific instance. These facts are ignored by the narrative itself. No one brings these facts up. No one notices this, even when they're actively talking about it. It's like the writers didn't even notice this when writing it out. The closest this instance gets to being "acknowledged" is in Claude's support with Dimitri (where he does just flat out ignore Dimitri's points, because why write Claude when you can just write EdeIgard instead lmao), and even then it never brings up any of this. Just mind-boggling

yk what having homestuck in the inbox IS warranted after i go to watch a garbo anime after being warned thirty times not to thank you i will continue. to not listen to warnings </3

eugh

random video game list idk. nowhere near comprehensive

hm.

apparently fromsoft nerfed a bunch of bosses in the new patch.

I really would've preferred they just added an easy and a hard mode or difficulty sliders (enemy health, enemy damage, enemy attack speed, boss stagger windows, etc)

(I'm actually not going to blame this entirely on all the people who complained that the game was too hard or unfair or unbalanced (even though they're idiots) and instead blame some of this on all the idiots who kept going on and on about how fromsoft should never put easy modes in their games because it would ruin their games even though an easy mode literally wouldn't affect them because they'd never use it. this is what the alternative is: now everyone has to play the game on a lower difficulty because you didn't want people to have the option to choose)

I S-RANKED ZELKOV LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS WORTH IT

But holy shit is it just me or is the artwork for the S-rank cutscenes just super ugly?? It did my man Zelkov so damn dirty… I dunno, I feel like we’ve fallen far from the S-Rank artwork of Awakening.

Also is it just me or are the English confessions more vague now in terms of confessing their love?

fuck you arena quest 4 lunagaron i hate you so fucking much arena quest 4 lunagaron

getting mad at top 10 lists is stupid but i still will anyway