Apparently this is a hot take now but I don’t believe Buck and Eddie are supposed to be the same age, I think the writers didn’t think it through when they chucked a year on Sharon’s gravestone. Wouldn’t be the only thing they didn’t think through…

The funny thing about playing botw and Totk is I don’t hate or scorn the Yiga at all. I actually think they’re so well within their rights to be super bitter and angry bc of what the king of Hyrule did to the Sheikah over 10k years ago. I need Kohga to know I am also anti monarchy and we should talk to Zelda about establishing a democracy or at least not giving absolute rule to the Hylian monarch. We should also let the yiga be members of society again and not continue to outcast them when they were actually again SO RIGHT to oppose the crown and refuse to be subdued and have their culture and technology destroyed

Ocarina of Time made me such a Hylian Royal Family and Royal Knights of Hyrule hater hjdgnlsdjnfjlsd

Is being critical of Sabine’s force sensitivity ‘gatekeeping’ the force or it is about how it undermines the established magic system and was not well written?

I’ll give you a clue it’s the second one.

things i’m going crazay about today: the illustrations in the he who drowned the world illumicrate cover

(artist is glassbearer on ig)

people will be like "a little life is so fucking cruel and unrealistic and manipulative" and then start describing the concept of a tragedy to you

I finished What Moves the Dead. It was a bit curious because the narrative was so compelling and I was engaged and entertained the whole time and then I finished the book and thought Hmm! That’s enough of that!

Honestly Ben 10 is probably one of the most based science fiction series out there by sheer virtue of it having the balls to showcase any alien concept it wanted to no matter how ridiculous, and whenever someone is like “there’s no way in Hell that could ever be scientifically feasible”, it dared to look them in the eyes and go “Yeah, well, this is a world where magic and superpowered mutants also exist. What are you gonna do? Cry about it? You grown ass adult who’s expecting scientific feasibility out of a cartoon meant to sell toys to preteen boys that has lore so inconsistent it’s almost impossible to tell what’s canon and what’s non-canon? LMAO loser.”

I mean OS had it all- obviously aliens but not only that, at minimum 10 of them; mutants in daily life across at least America, no doubt in other places too; magic, albeit one without a system beyond ‘there’s a spellbook and some charms’. The shift to purely alien in AF makes the wonderful nonsense sci-fi stuff into frustrating logic trees of ‘how does xenobiology get this powerful’ which I had definitely fallen into. Ben 10 is unabashedly science fantasy, so why not go the full fantasy and bring back mutants and magic, haha!

Admittedly a good implementation of magic in a series tends to follow a magic system, which I’m not especially great at coming up with, especially in comparison to speculative biology which come with pre-established rules. But hey, I don’t exactly expect it to be fleshed out, at least not as well as the alien aspect of Ben 10; even then, there’s only so much fleshed out, it’s to tease us into making lore for it lmao-

To be fair though, Ben 10 itself had to whack itself on the cheek in order to be reminded of its magic and especially mutant parts, which unfortunately in the latter case was central to major retcons so…

I love him….

And sometimes I feel bad for liking him (because he’s a priest, of course)

But sometimes I think, people hate me or think I’m a weirdo for liking Anderson

And because I don’t like the same thing as others

But then I remember….I have friends and mutuals who like him two! And then I don’t feel as weird because I’m not alone! Others like him and it makes me happy :>

Because I’m not alone, I have friends/mutuals and stuff who thirst for the man , some who make up ocs for him! And stuff, it makes me not worry about being a weirdo to others

(I probably am but that’s okie, everyone’s different and no ones perfect)

I know I shouldn’t care what others think but I still do, I’m just a very shy and insecure person, stuff

Sorry I just wanted to vent and share 👉👈

2024 reads / storygraph

Song of the Huntress

historical fantasy set in 8th century Britain

follows three characters:

a woman who has spent centuries leading the wild hunt & reaping souls after being tricked into it, who disguises herself as a human to enter the kingdom

the queen of Wessex who never lives up to the demands of the court, despite leading their people in battle - and after a battlefield defeat they turn against her

and her husband, the king, deals with magic and political upheaval as his brother tries to usurp him and conflict arises between new and old religions

bi woman MC, lesbian MC, ace man MC

they/themavos real

Re: "Is ORT actually a Grand, or "As strong as a Grand"?" When Servant ORT gets summoned, Trismegistus just gives an automatic announcement and in plain Engrish states: "Grand Servant: Class Foreigner". It does not elaborate on this, nor does anyone else question this. But it doesn't hack the Throne but instead "generates a virtual spiritual body, using a mirror copy of 300 million years of pan-human history", whatever that means in practice. Again, Trismegistus doesn't elaborate or cite sources.

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me: telling myself for the hundredth time that it’s my writing and i don’t have to change it to appease others

finding a character’s death unsatisfying or frustrating or disappointing or upsetting are all understandable responses but that doesn’t make it some kind of moral failing on the part of the writer(s)

really irks me that ppl call those who indulge in alador blight’s character “alador apologists” (excluding those who do it jokingly). we aren’t excusing what he’s done, nor are we saying amity and the twins’ abuse is out of the picture all of a sudden because “he feels remorseful, and is trying to mend things”. alador making a conscious effort to atone for what he’s done is great (even if it’s the bare minimum), and it serves as a foundation for what can eventually become of his relationship w/ his kids. amity clearly sees his efforts as a good thing from what the last few eps of s2 have shown us, and i think his decision to stay behind in the season finale solidified the fact that he’s sticking to what’s best for his kids.

what i ultimately mean is that atonement does not equal “happily ever after”, because that isn’t realistic, and nobody is saying things will just patch themselves up. alador’s redemption has been set up, but it looks like the series won’t continue long enough to let us see the full extent of it, so seriously quit bugging people who r making fanart/fanfic involving alador being a better parent/trying to rekindle the relationship he once had w/ his kids, it’s regressive—not to mention unnecessary.

the thing is. yeah kendall feels like his whole life now is worth nothing. the one thing he was always meant to do, since he was seven years old he now cannot do. he will never get to do it. so he might as well die, right? he might as well end it all but the thing is life is never that kind nor generous. so i think kendall will try and fail. and he’ll try again and again but the world will keep its grip on him and eventually he’ll just stop trying. and yeah maybe he’ll never be a whole person (we’re nothing) maybe he’ll take logan’s advice and collect sports cars or write a book or start a new company but either way he’ll be forced to start anew. kendall logan roy died it’s just kendall now. and this outcome in itself is generous in a way because circumstances out of his control have kind of forced him to hold some accountability for his own life finally instead of counting on broken promises his father made him at 7 years old. he’s actually being forced to Be instead of just living up to someone else’s name. and he actually has people around him who still undoubtedly care. he’s sick and horrible and twisted but he is still ultimately lovable. he is still a human being weeping on the dirty ground even though he has spent so long trying not to be. even though he recanted the very thing that made him Real. the world will simply not relinquish its hold on him! tragic but somewhat hopeful in a way

I know I said like a billion times that I would stop beating this dead horse but hear me out did you ever notice how when Ben first met Herve he didn’t make any assumptions about who he was? Like, he did ask who the guy was, but he didn’t jump to conclusions, is what I’m saying.

Am I pointing this out because Julie tends to make assumptions about any girls hanging around Ben? Or rather, “how many girls are in his life,” regardless of the reasons why? Yes. Yes I am.