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It makes sense why she didn't maybe but Chani might have saved billions of people including her own by simply knifing Jessica for compelling her, or knifing Paul after he went off the deep end or knifing Stilgar in the assembly. Which would even have been acceptable and traditional! But I guess it's an example of feeling like you're helpless in the face of history.
#my stuff#dune#vidi#why the fuck would they leave a spy after evacuating and why was it her friend who she might have talked about things with#anyway but she WASNT helpless#they took her voice#i wish theyd let her articulate that he was betraying them#like...more explicitly#wish she could have thrown it all in his face?? 'arent you freemen'? 'didnt you promise me?“#'didnt you say the prophecy was a lie?' 'didnt you say you would HELP us free OURSELVES' 'now you're duke of 'arrakis' again?'#well anyway.#i feel like with the whole marrying the emperors daughter they misdirected a lot of audience to think she was upset about getting dumped or#whatever#couldnt she have told him: and? afterwards? who will be leader of this planet?#you?#we get the emperor and then what?#she could have said: well fuck off then ill rule dune from now on
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sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go
#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#john gaius#harrow the ninth#this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL#this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships#(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think#the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real#but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed)#there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone?#yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't)#the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god#when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care#(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution)#and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on#it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there#while john is -- well he sure is being john huh#this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end#(with john slam dunked right into hell that is)#it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up#john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too
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hello, the band au will live forever. (it's also most definitely not for research)
#the radiant emperor#she who became the sun#he who drowned the world#general ouyang#xu da#zhu yuanzhang#my art#hey listen this is a lazy ass sketch but we get what we get#the point is them. comfortable and safe and happy#ouyang unironically but secretly cries to bring me to life that's my meta hot take for today#i've solved the complex question. zhu and ouyang's dynamic is actually just#ouyang wailing amy lee's parts while zhu does the crappy nu metal rap bits
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not spop-related but i can't post this on my main blog so.
i do find it funny how most of the fan depictions of belos were far more interesting and detailed than s3 belos. i've seen fanart and fanfics of him where he's a complex villain struggling with religious guilt and then the canon is just like.. lmao yeah he's pure evil. kill him.
#i feel like belos is the opposite of catra#a potentially sympathetic villain who is reduced to Evil Man Who Deserves Death™#don't get me wrong i'm not saying he should have been forgiven or anything#he didn't deserve forgiveness#and he didnt really need a redemption arc#but did they have to throw away all of his complexity just to appease the anti steven universe community?#that's what it felt like#fun fact: you can write a sympathetic/complex villain and not redeem them#it's perfectly doable#but oh well#toh critical#toh salt#toh criticism#anti toh#toh discourse#belos#emperor belos#philip wittebane#bad writing#i was so excited for his character at first#especially around hollow mind era because the layers were peeling back#and we were seeing a really interesting and intimidating villain in the making#sigh#my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
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Okay so have you'll considered that the reason Grumbot isn't clingy towards Grian in the way he is to Mumbo is because no Grumbot ever existed in a world were Grian is not nearby?
Every single time, Grian is always the first person Grumbot sees when he gets online, so he has never missed him, because he's always there. There was never a moment in any of Grumbots' lives where he could not call out to one of his dads
#Grian#mumbo jumbo#grumbot#hermitcraft#i mean emperor grumbot could probably hear grian calling out to him on his final moments#he knew that his dad didn't abandon him#that he came back for him#that he tried to save him#also#grumbot misses mumbo we all know that#he wants his other dad back#but can you imagine what would happen if something happened to grian?#if the person who was always always there suddenly wasn't#THEN grumbot would go completely off the rails to get him back#grumbot my beloved
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I still can't believe Critical Role in the span of 2 weeks went 'hey remember that ship you like? Well we have this whole episode endorsing it which is awesome' just to suck me in and then this week go 'now that we got the table invested, Taliesin will now whiplash everyone like Imodna did with the sisterzoning but also maybe denial or gauging reactions' and then leave us on that FOR THREE WEEKS
#yes I like critical role I have other hobbies than pokemon wrestling and one piece#though it is fairly new I was like toe dipping with TLOVM then just kinda got swallowed into the void and now hey look they're LOTR chars!#callowmoore#fearne calloway#ashton greymoore#rockwild#fearne x ashton#ashton x fearne#taliesin jaffe#ashley johnson#critical role#bells hells#Taliesin you know what you're doing but that is just mean#I get too invested in ships I like so I crave romantic payoff with the pickpocket love language emperor/empress duo#'let's just get the fans to stew on that while we do Mighty Nein reunion and Candela Obscura and then MAYBE we'll track back to it' like fr#in front of my salad? in front of an invested and encouraging Laura Bailey? the nerve the gumption the audacity!
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I was rewatching s2 last night, and ohhh man mk looks over mei so much it's not even funny. times mei has been ignored:
maybe you need to really listen! (during the blindfold ep)
mk just? grabs stuff she's using out of her hands all the time? (video game ep)
maybe you shouldn't skip the tutorials? (video game ep again)
the way he addresses her in dumpling destruction and then immediately pushes her aside for tang
i honestly remember it lowkey kinda bothering me on first watch but now it's REALLY egregious on rewatch. are you scared? I'm so scared. do you WANT to end up like shadowpeach MK
2x03 is so rude because the whole fucking episode they're like "MK you don't listen" and it's so true. He doesn't. Pigsy literally points it out again at the end of 4x14 with the whole sun screen bit:
Pigsy: "Tch, don't bother, I've been telling him that for years but he LITERALLY never listens."
Sun Wukong: "Yep! That's how we role."
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THEY'RE SO FUCKING RUDE. "That's how we role." We. We????? Wukong and MK???? Like WHATEVER. FINE. (("I told you going against the Jade Emperor was a bad idea, but no. Wukong doesn't listen to ANYONE! He just does whatever he wants" Like shut up. Shut up!))
MK gets so stuck in his own head ("You're all stuck up in your own head! None of this is your fault!" +1 to the MK ignoring Mei counter from 4x08) and I think that really contributes to his s2 scramble to get more powerful.
LIKE:
MK: "Stop? Now? Never! I just have to try harder. It's just like the Monkey King said! *laughs manically* I just need to get stronger!"
(2x06 Game On)
VS
MK: "Why didn't he just stop, right here? He was already so much stronger than anyone ever needed to be!"
Macaque: "Wukong didn't think so, he always felt he had to be stronger—more immortal."
(4x11 A Lifetime of Mistakes)
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(Bonus thing between eps 2x03 and 2x06, look at 0:42 in this video for MK hearing Mei but not listening to her. Because of course that's what he would do. *head in my hands .png*)
The terrible s2 choices both Wukong and MK make in relation to their friends is just absolutely delicious after 4x11. Like, OH. This has been a lifelong pattern of Wukong's—paranoia is one of his fatal flaws (paired with his terrible communication and self-sacrificial nature), and while he had the power to stop LBD before he still feel's the need to go after the Samadhi Fire to stop her now, and to protect MK.
Hold on look at this parallel that I don't know what to do with:
MK: "Ugh, I can't do it!"
Mei: "It's alright MK—you did it before, you'll do it again!"
Sandy: "Yeah! Maybe it's like Monkey King said: the power will come when you need it most!"
(3x04 The Winning Side)
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MK: "What! But you said the Samadhi fire was the only thing that could stop her!"
Sun Wukong: "I KNOW WHAT I SAID! But I've beaten her before I'll- I'll do it again! Mei was right—I need to stop dragging you into my fights, all of you."
(3x10 The Samadhi Fire)
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Wukong and MK's reach for power inspires a lot of fear in me! It does! Because, well, MK's current reach for power is going to lead him to his Monkey Form, and uh:
Like I'm scared. I'm scared!
"All doomed to play a role in tearing this world apart!" ; "This is Azure's utopia, and this barren wasteland is the price he paid to build it." ; "I'd do anything for my friends! But at the cost of the world?" "I'm sorry pal, ain't NOTHIN' worth that price!"
#I've said it once and I'll say it again: 2x06 is one of the MOST retroactively mean episodes#Game motif. The callback that 4x10 does. Whatever the fuck is going on with the MK and SWK parallels in that ep#I hate lmk's exchange theme I hate it. Like FUCK#Anyways#asks#wlw-wukong#lmk#lego monkie kid#lmk MK#lmk SWK#lmk Sun Wukong#lmk analysis#lmk theme: exchange#fuckasdfoqweg#Sandy saying ''Helping my friends is more important than anything in the world!'' in 2x08 vs#''I get it! I'd do anything to help my friends! But at the cost of the world?'' in 4x13 is SICK. SICK IT'S SICK#Sometimes it's like. Hmmm. ''If you aren't doing everything in your power to help your friends you are nothing!''#''I'd watch my sword shatter 1000 times so long as I used it to protect the ones I care about''#I'm telling you Mei would choose MK over the world. I'M TELLING YOU#MK'S ALREADY CHOSEN MEI OVER THE WORLD (thank you 3x10) AND PIGSY/TANG/SANDY OVER THE WORLD (4x02)#MK really went: ''Oh releasing this curse could end the world? Well I'll risk it for my friends!'' and I went ''ohhhh nooooooooo''#WE ARE IN SOME DEEP SHIT IN S5#And Wukong? Lol of course he's choosing the people he cares about over the world. No surprise there.#He's like ''yeah I'll go fight the jade emperor to finally be strong enough''. If eamk theory proves true he like#Chose MK over the world initially#And he was totalllyyy willing to sacrifice LBD's child host to protect his friends (MK)/the world#I'm. AUGHGHG.#''It's what he would do if he had to. That's the hard part of being a hero!'' OKAY BUT MEI WOULD YOU DO THAT SO EASILY IF IT WERE MK#ME THINKS NO#ME THINKS YOU WOULD NOT
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damn not anime making me cry again
This scene
IS SO FUCKING INTAMATE IM!!!!
LOOK AT HOW SOFT THEY ARE IM CRYING FULL ON SOBBING OVER THEM THEY BEAT THE FUCKING STSTEM GOOD FOR THEM
#The anime is#the apothecary diaries#It's so fucking good go watch it people#Anyways context for this is that the woman is a concubine#And she's being sold off to a military officer (the guy) For his amazing war feats#But they actually planed it#The woman avoided the Emperor by making herself as unassuming as possible and batching her dance performance for him#And the guy did his best to become good enough to get her back#Also she faked being crazy by sleepwalking to keep the Emperor away till the very end#And they're also childhood friends#I'm sorry I just can't get over how soft they look at each other#Yeah we only see them for one episode#But I wish them complete happiness#The played the system and got what they wanted
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People keep trying to come up with "gotchas" to make us stop loving the Emperor.
Gurl (GN), we know the character better than you and guess what, we still love Emps, so just stop.
#bg3 emperor#bg3#baldurs gate#the emperor#We know what we're getting into there is no wool pulled over our eyes lmfao
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johanson pilate...that's the post
#jesus christ superstar#jcs 2000#love a pilate who is just completely shit scared.#partial to the second-to-last gif. it's fucked up from compression BUT i had to keep it that long for his face journey#he is seeing the future.#my gifs#ALSO. i would argue that making him a freak who sleeps beside his armor is in keeping w/ what little we know abt the historical pilate#ie a descendant of a people recently absorbed (by sustained force) into the empire;#whose family was recently raised to eques (knight) rank from the lower class#who groveled and brownnosed for the emperor his entire adult life to get his posting#and who remained insecure and deeply (painfully) loyal to the empire into his stint as governor#so. i'd buy that he sleeps with his stupid chestplate and laurels yeah. especially given imperial paraphernalia/images of the emperor#were to some degree sacred.#i don't think the directors did that for that reason...i suspect they were more about the spectacle than the history. but it's a fun touch.#anyways. i'm normal as you can tell
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the more mediocre period television i watch the clearer it becomes that the master and commander style initial title card is the only elegant way to do historical exposition. gold standard. just tell me where we are and what year it is so we dont have to waste the pilot watching characters explain war to each other like they all suffered severe head injuries before walking into the scene
#this is about the 2010 hbo program the pacific#which despite the promise of foxholes yaoi i could not get through the first 15 minutes#when all the marines sat around explaining to each other what a soldier was#‘yall ever hear of this emperor hirohito character? seems like a tough customer’#‘but we’ll sure lick him when we achieve our strategic objectives on the island of guadalcanal!’#and then they hold up an annotated map and a newspaper with the days date#god bless.#histfic
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Hi, I was talking with some friends, and wanted some help double checking some 3H shenanigans and figured you'd be the best to ask. Do you know when in the game Ionius's whole wives situation got mentioned and what he did that got all the nobles to depose him? I remember something about concubines, but don't know where exactly in the game it was talked about to check and cite. Thank you very much if you're able to help!
I hope I can help then!
In Hubert and Hanneman's C support, it's more or less explained, by Hanneman that Ionius wanted to concentrate power on himself :
In your father's defense, the emperor was attempting to take power from the Seven Houses.
The emperor's reform was an attempt to concentrate power in the hands of the throne.
While Hubert presents it the other way :
He conspired with the ministers to usurp power from the emperor. And Lady Edelgard...
But both he and Hanneman later agree, in their B support, that Hubert is aware he is not very objective.
The Jp version gives a bit more insight on Hanneman's explanations, that were removed from the localised version for... well, I suppose, some reasons I still can't understand?
当時の陛下は、“七貴族”と呼ばれる 大貴族や外戚の特権を徐々に廃止し…
There's a mention of the consort kin, that is absent in the localised version.
This translation translated it as :
At that time, His Majesty was gradually abolishing the privileges of the consort kin and the ones referred to as “The Seven Aristocrats” – the great noble [families]
Ionius was thus trying to centralise power on himself, remove privileges and powers of the 7 and the consort kin.
Now, unlike some other settings, Ionius having consorts isn't that developped in Fodlan, so we don't have any clues, in canon, about what those privileges are. We can only surmise things here'n'there based on rl, I guess, as long as it doesn't contradict canon.
So, what could have been those consort kin privileges?
Let's take the Arundel example.
Anselma is wooed by Ionius, bears him a daughter, but doesn't become his official/legal/legitimate wife. She becomes his consort wife.
What is she going to do? She cannot marry someone else, Papa Arundel "lost" his daughter and cannot secure a good wedding for her (as is apparently the fate of Adrestian noblewomen?) because she's already one of Ionius's consort. Hell, given how their daughter isn't the next in line for the Imperial succession, Anselma's role is very shaky -
In Fates, we have the background concubine wars, where the goal was to have their kid become the heir (iirc?) so they would have a place by the King's side, or at least not be demoted as "extras" when the kid from another mother will become, well, king.
In Fodlan, from this line, we know the "kin" of the Imperial consorts had some "privileges" - a sort of crass way to say the Emperor gives them "stuff" so they will shut up if he "wooes" a daughter, relegates her as a baby maker and doesn't marry her, thus her "market value" drops and the resulting child is only an extra?
From the Libary, it's confirmed that :
House Arundel
Formerly a minor noble house of the Empire. As head of the house,
when Volkhard's younger sister became betrothed to Emperor Ionius IX,
Volkhard was granted the title of Lord Arundel. Having worked closely
with House Aegir, House Arundel is seen as one of the chief instigators
of the Insurrection of the Seven.
House Arundel became "important" when Anselma was wooed by Ionius and became his wife (consort wife though!).
So when Ionius wants to remove the consort kin privileges, aka giving some importance to the families of the women he "wooes", Arundel isn't super happy and spearheads the insurrection.
Now, why was that system created? Was it a way to prevent the Emperor from, say, having their cake and eating it, aka, seducing women, giving them kids and then throwing them (both?) away without strings attached? Or to make sure consort wife #7 will have a role somewhere, and her family will get a "compensation" for her loss?
Or worse, the "consort kin" privileges maybe also applied to the children of the consorts - they would have a lower rank compared to the children of the legitimate wife - but still be worth something?
The Adrestian Imperial family is sadly under utilised, so we don't a thing about what was the status of the consorts or their children (they just poof away in the game events, we never hear anything about Ionius's surviving consorts or his legitimate wife!) - but we know there used to be some sort of compensation (super dowry?) Ionius/the Emperor had to give to families of the women he screwed -
And from what the JP version of Hubert and Hanneman's support says, Ionius wanted to get rid of that.
#holdharmonysacred#sorry for the late reply#FE16#adrestia stuff#we don't even know what happened to Ionius's legitimate wife#the non consort one#was she 'died of natural causes' off screen?#was she still around by the time Edel went to the academy?#what were their relationship?#if Emperors have a consort kin system and the Vestra were supposed to look after the consorts for ages#why was this system put in place? Is it from the Willy era?#compare with Faerghus and Lambert's dad getting two sons while Lambert only had one#why the difference?#also you can't make me believe Edel doesn't have 150 cousins and 22 uncles#if Ionius had at least 10 kids maybe he too is a brother of 9 siblings?
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replaying bg3 and,,.... i am not immune to the emperor
#bg3 spoilers#obviously#but. i want to free orpheus this time but oughhhh emperor is making me emotional again#and i KNOW hes evil in some runs. but he means so much to me you dont understand#he may be a monster. he may not be able to empathise as humans do and has to calculate every move including what he says and why he says it#but he genuinely tries to help us!!! he's sentimental over his things!!! and we KNOW mindflayers arent all fans of the grand design bullshi#i Get him okay. hes just like me fr he experiences emotions differently and hes calculating by nature#and he wants to be free!!! just like we all do#i am a good emperor truther and i will not take any criticism. thank you for coming to my ted talk
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don’t leave me. please.
edit: as @justahumblesideblog said before , i think belos/philip’s feelings towards his brother stem from a feeling of betrayal and abandonment of him, and his inner child just wanted his brother back. but i just wanted to make it clear that i don’t condone his actions in any way even if he could have been at least somewhat innocent as a child. anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk have a nice day/night byeee
#the owl house#kid belos#philip wittebane#emperor belos#digital art#my art lol#toh belos#toh fanart#i wanted him to be more sympathetic.#but what did we get instead?#we. got a monster#heavy sigh#oh well at least there’s always AUs#more tags#baby belos#toh philip wittebane#the owl house belos#belos toh#illustration
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Halsin's romance scene wont trigger, so I went with the next best thing
#Halsin babe im giving you ALL the signals#but you are too concerned with how fuck awful city society is to get in on this dragussy#but ya know who wasnt?#the “soulless” squid man#and what a wet dream THAT was#smelled like vanilla and garlic as described by the other voice in our heads we dont acknowledge#idk if thats a good smell#but fuck it we ball#bg3#bg3 emperor#bg3 halsin
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I want to believe this is how they found Hunter
#the owl house#toh#labyrinth runners#toh 2b#the owl house spoilers#SJHDHHS I’m sorry but the fact that it cuts to hunter waking up after being rescued is so funny to me#like ‘hey you. youre finally awake’#idk what else to add. very sweet that they got the E.E. to advocate for him :) like ‘mom come pick me up I’m scared’ energy#someone pointed out that bump looked in willows direction when saying the E.E was responsible for getting hunter and guessed willow might#have been the one to bring it up. which makes sense bc she’s the captain and I assume she and hunter kept talking on pensta after asias#very cute :’) we were also right abt hunter continuing to call willow ‘captain’.. altho for me I thought it was along the lines of being#raised in the emperors coven. so he’s addressing her as his superior but like we also know he kind of has a crush on her? this kid has so#many issues to work out. please let him be ok by the end of the show omg#AND SOMEONE POINTED OUT HE GETS QUIET AS OPPOSED TO HOW MUCH HE TALKS IN ANY OTHER SETTING. THATS SO CUTE I-#god I fucking love this episode. love all these kids and my boy BUMP IM SO HAPPY TO SEE HIM LETS GOOOO#my art#myart#toh spoilers#the owl house season 2#labyrinth runners spoilers#toh skara#toh viney#toh hunter#toh fanart#the owl house fanart#fanart#comic
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