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i truly think chapel blew it the moment she said “it doesn’t make you weak……… it makes you human” girl you should NOT have finished that sentence
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I switched glasses when your back was turned!!
“You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!”
#calligraphy#my calligraphy#hand lettering#the princess bride#you fell victim to one of the classic blunders!#meme
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my professor: so for this assignment that's worth like a quarter of your overall grade you're gonna retell a classic story
me:
my professor: through the eyes of a different character, same scenes, same words, different perspective, it's called focaliz---
me: FANFICTION
#YOU FOOL YOU FELL VICTIM TO ONE OF THE CLASSIC BLUNDERS#the most famous of which is 'never start a land war in asia'#but only slightly less well known is this#NEVER ASK RIVER TO WRITE FANFICTION#SHE WILL BE WAY TOO EXCITED#college#the college transfer saga continues#fanfiction#fanfic writing#focalization
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Chainsaw Man Chapter 137: Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura
Oh what, you thought we were going to be thought provoking and actually dive into Denji's struggle as a character through a normal lens? Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well known is this: "Never expect Fujimoto to be normal".
The whole chapter is expectation subversion, which perfectly captures both Fujimoto's sense of humor, and his absolute desire for b-list and camp. I mean, just look at how we open, Denji giving a surprisingly long winded (for him) monologue about maturing past the point of taking whatever kind of affection he can.... before it's revealed that it's all in his head and he's sucking on a dead devil.
In all honesty though, this is rather unironically an important moment for Denji. Why? Because he knows better. He himself understands the situation that he's in, that he should be better than what he's doing, that he shouldn't be caving to the whims and mockery of a girl offering an empty promise. But he can't stop himself. He's so far below rock bottom in this moment that it doesn't matter if it's a lie, it doesn't matter if she's hazing him. What matters is that she's giving him attention, and a chance to delude himself from his current station in life.
Anyways, the pair go to a karaoke place and the girl gets going on a song, leading to probably one of Fujimoto's best action sequences in all of part 2 now.
And no, it's not the action itself that makes this an incredible moment, it's quite literally everything else. Denji fell for the trap, he took it hook, line, and sinker and is now stuck fighting off a small army of men with baseball bats while the girl sings an absolute rager in the background. The entire setup is just incredible, the sheer thrill that both viewers and Denji alike feel from the moment is impeccable, and it ends the chapter on just the right note.
I mean, look at this, the pile of bodies littering the hallway, the three panel shot of Denji's face, the matchup to end the chapter. Absolutely masterclass Fujimoto work on display.
I'd really like to take a closer look at Denji's reaction (and all the guys with bats too). These three panels give sort of a double meaning to Denji's character, in my opinion. The first, is self-deprecating humor at the fact that he ever thought he might stand a fraction of a snowball's chance in hell for the trap to not be a trap. And the second, well the second is Denji finding that Chainsaw Man spark again. Pure unadulterated violence, the feeling of superiority, of a challenge or uphill fight laid against him. Denji's in his element now, and that's dangerous for our girl here.
Anyways, the guys with bats. Very funny idea considering the girl "gets around", so seeing a lineup of guys appear with bats while Denji and this girl are on a "date" is a pretty good type of humor.
Overall, for how insane this chapter is, it's exactly what Denji needed. He needed to be beat down, he needed to feel that desperation, he needed to remember who he is. That even if he goes to school now, even if he has a little sister and a house and food and all sorts of stuff, that the part of him that became Chainsaw Man is still a part of Denji. That they're two sides of the same coin. That he's still strong and capable and dangerous, and that he can keep chasing all the dreams he could ever want.
#chainsaw man#csm pt 2#chainsaw man manga#csm manga#chainsaw man part two#chainsaw man part 2 spoilers#csm part 2#csm part two#csm spoilers#csm denji#csm yoshida#manga recommendation#manga review#anime and manga#manga
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Why then was this forbid? Why but to keep ye low and ignorant
(If evil, why tasty?)
In the Garden (the one in Eden, not in Tadfield or Berkeley Square), Aziraphale is tasked with protecting the Tree of Knowledge. He is, as he says, "On apple tree duty," that day when Crawly suggests to Eve that the fruit might be extra delicious, and worth a rather significant gamble.
And about that fruit...what was it that was so corrupting to humanity that they had to be cast from paradise after consuming it? Aha! You just fell victim to one of the classic blunders. You thought I was here to argue theology. Even I'm not that much of a masochist. What I will say is this, the fruit gave them knowledge--specifically, the knowledge of Good and Evil--which made them like God. In Paradise Lost, where (let's be honest) Western Christians get most of their context for the Fall of Man, Milton describes humankind's experience prior to that Original Sin as being fully Good. Good (as defined by the Almighty) is available to Adam and Eve from their conception. But Evil can only be known by disobeying God...by eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. And, oh, does does that Wily Old Serpent entice Eve to eat the fruit. The Serpent's temptation is a hefty stanza, but my most particular favorite part is this,
Why then was this forbid? Why but to awe, Why but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers; he knows that in the day Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem so cleere, Yet are but dim, shall perfetly be then Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as Gods, Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
(Milton, Book 9, lines 703-709.)
Ah, Crawly, you did such a good job. "Get up there and make some trouble." And you certainly did.
So knowing, knowledge...theologically these are heavy themes in the Eden narrative. Once Eve and Adam partake of the fruit (oh, spoiler alert...sorry...yah, they eat the apple) their eyes are opened and they realize that they are naked and everything changes. They're exiled from paradise, never to return to the sanctuary of creation's womb.
Remember what Aziraphale was doing that day? Well, what he was supposed to be doing, anyhow... Guarding the Tree, yes? Guardian of the Eastern Gate of Eden, but also Steward of the Tree. Keeper of the Knowledge. Hold that thought; I'm going to need you to come back to it in a bit.
Crawly...well, Crowley and Aziraphale spend the next six millennia on earth addressing the assignments given by their respective Head Offices and eventually forming their Arrangement. And through this time, Crowley introduces Aziraphale to a vast array of different types of knowledge: the knowledge of what food tastes like in the definitely-not-a-temptation form of ox ribs; the knowledge of what wine does to an angel's corporation; the knowledge that he has more free will than he realizes and can lie directly to Heavens' Supreme Archangel; and, perhaps most impactfully, the knowledge that he has a friend hereditary enemy who will keep his secrets safe.
As Aziraphale experiences existence on earth, he accumulates volumes of knowledge that other angels will never have, and even begins to collect this knowledge for himself in the most human way imaginable.
He acquires books. Little storehouses of knowledge in which people express their ideas, ask questions, and perform humanity in a way that is really only possible because Eve took the apple and defied her Maker. If they'd stayed in the Garden, there would be no questions, no new ideas, no sushi restaurants, and no dusty little bookshops where angels keep their precious hoards of human knowledge.
Remember that little thought I asked you to hold onto oh, say two paragraphs ago? Here's where it fits. A.Z. Fell & Co. is the New Eden. It's a safe haven containing a vast store of knowledge guarded by the angel of the Eastern Gate. Even the physical design of the bookshop mimics the walls of the Garden.
Just as in the original Eden, where the angel gave the demon the shelter of his wing, the bookshop provides a true home for Crowley (especially in S2, when we see him consistently remove his sunglasses upon entering the shop as an act of vulnerability.)
And like God in Her Garden, Aziraphale is covetous of his Knowledge, refusing to sell his books just as the Almighty denied the breeding pair of humans access to the fruit.
(Also, I literally asked God, and She said that Aziraphale will get mad if you try to eat his books.)
#good omens#meta monday#go meta#crowley#aziraphale#angel of the eastern gate#anthony janthony crowley
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fighting game player who says "you fool! you fell victim to one of the classic blunders!" every time they land a mixup
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you fell victim to one of history’s classic blunders:
tortoise of slaughter
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The prefectsbride
princes bride but with octavinelle as the 3 guys who kidnap the princess. The banter and the quotes would be so funny!
for example:
Jade leaning over to floyd: That Azul, he can fuss.
Floyd nodding: Fuss, fuss … I think he likes to scream at us.
Jade smirking at Floyd with an amused expression: Probably he means no harm.
Floyd smiling widely: He’s really very short on charm.
Jade: You have a great gift for rhyme.
Floyd nods: Yes, yes, some of the time.
Azul glaring: Enough of that.
Jade, after a minute of silence: Floyd, are there rocks ahead?
Floyd trying not to laugh: If there are, we all will be dead.
Azul annoyed: No more rhymes now, I mean it.
Floyd with a shit-eating grin as he pulls out a peanut: Anybody want a peanut?
... OR
Mc struggling to get past the eelmer: Look, are you just messing around with me or what?
Floyd slapping them back with his tail: I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people to die embarrassed~
... OR
Azul about his contracts: You're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen.
... OR
As Azul is overblotting: You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!— the most famous of which is, “Never get involved in a land war in the Roses” — but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go against a Cecelia when death is on the line”! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I love this movie so much, I could write so many more with other characters if anyone is interested. Just wanted to share this idea that hit me at midnight.
#twst#my stuff#my writing#twst x reader#twst mc#twst crack#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland x reader#octavinelle#the banter is so much fun ok#I quote this movie so much#I could defenelty see the aduce duo as fezzic and inigo once vizinni is dead#roses ramblings#hehe#funny stuff#the prefectsbride
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i was told during the conversation in which i was dumped that i'd never understand how hard it was for my ex that they "weren't able to fix [me]" and at the time i was very busy crying while also being offended and now all i can think is:
you fell victim to one of the classic blunders!
#i know everyone ran quoting that movie into the dirt years ago but#gestures!!!#never enter a relationship hoping to FIX SOMEONE??? that's rule number ONE
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I just fell victim to one of the classic blunders™ for autistics:
I responded to a "Can you [do something]?", which of course was a direct request, and only formulated as a question to be polite, with the information that yes, I'm able to do that. And only that.
Pragmatics an invention from hell 🤦🏻♀️
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I won a game of Battletech today! Inner Sphere vs. Clans, except the Clanners had 4/5 skills instead of 3/4 for long-term balance reasons. It's a campaign setup.
Anyway: I brought the contents of an Inner Sphere Heavy Battle Lance box because I didn't think I'd get a game and threw something together at the last minute.
IS LANCE:
Bushwacker -X1 (standard do-anything skirmisher)
Axman -2N (missile boat with an axe!)
Cataphract -3D (brawler with lots of little guns)
Nightstar -9FC (fast assault mech with halfway decent guns)
My opponent *had* brought something with a plan: light mechs, with a lot of speed and firepower. Strikers galore.
CLAN STAR:
Hermes -1Sb (fast as fuck, boiii)
Locust IIC Standard ("You're too slow!")
Dasher (Fire Moth) Prime (LIVE AND LEARN)
Uller (Kit Fox) A (snoipah tf2)
Puma (Adder) E ("I'm here to ask you one question: EXPLOSIONS!?")
We used the Instant Action rules from @blackboxfaxes, version 3. Mission was selected with a d66 roll instead of by player choice (rerolling 6s of course). We got "Death Before Dishonour" and rolled again to see who would be who after we realised that not choosing it kinda stuffs things up. He got Confront, I got Destroy: he has to escape the map with an objective, I've gotta stop him scoring a try.
1st turn, after the deployment rules were sorted out, I put my Bushwacker and Axman behind the lines because they had the LRMs and let him advance away from me. His Dasher and Hermes moved up the centre as fast as they could, between two groups of woods that'd block line of sight from either side of them. One of them was carrying the objective, it was obvious. Meanwhile the Locust and Uller held the left flank in the exact centre of the map. (Remember that, it'll be important.) The Puma moved up to support them, though not close enough to be in formation.
My mechs followed behind, the Axman jumping from hill to hill while my jetless Bushwacker ran over the shallower hills like hurdles, trying to keep close with MASC-equipped light Clan mechs. After that: "Death Before Dishonour" lets the Destroy player (me) bring on half his units up to halfway along the sides of the map during turn 1. I brought my Cataphract up one side, running as fast as he could to keep the Hermes & Dasher in his sights while on the other side, the Nightstar strutted up directly behind the Locust and Uller, who had fell victim to one of the classic blunders: leaving their rear arcs exposed to a hex right on the edge of the map when an assault mech hasn't deployed yet!
(That Bushwacker is a proxy for the Uller.)
This is when the Confront player is supposed to reveal which of his mechs is holding the objective. It was the Hermes.
The Axman and Bushwacker were out of range of (read: couldn't overcome the movement modifiers of) my real target: the Hermes (see above re: Clan MASC) so they had to settle for the Puma. They didn't do much. In fact, they missed. The Nightstar did a little better: it shot up the Dasher with its LB 10-X's, lazerbeamed the Uller's armour to slag and kicked its leg off so hard it destroyed the side torso, all while soaking up return fire from the Locust & Puma. MVP goes to the Cataphract, though: it shot the Hermes in the back with its lasers and Ultra AC/5, exposing its delicious, vulnerable, crittable, Inner-Sphere-spec XL engine to an LB 10-X cluster round. 3 crit rolls resulted in a 5, a 3 and a 12. All 3 of the crits on the 12 went to the aforementioned engine. Down went the Hermes, and the objective it held.
That's when things started to devolve from a chase to a scrum.
My Cataphract walked out of the woods onto the objective, ready to smash it. My Nightstar moved closer, ready to provide supporting fire. My Axman and Bushwacker jumped and ran as fast as they could, ready to miss every shot because they'd need boxcars to hit. The Clanners all moved to target the Cataphract, including the Locust right in its rear arc, with the exceptions of the Uller and Puma, who decided to lie back, take it easy and poke the Nightstar instead.
All those shots did some work, because that Cataphract fell over. Small lasers *hurt* when there's 8 of them. It didn't lose any limbs, but it did lose its rear armour and its dignity. At least it got to shoot first, and it did manage to do *some* damage, just not enough to repeat the roaring success of the last turn. The lasers & UAC/5 went to internals on the Dasher, but it seemed all our luck with crits had run out after that spectacular turn 1 engine-kill. And I do mean "our" - the other guy got no crits on either the Cataphract or the Nightstar for the rest of the game. (Wait, scratch that, I did break the Dasher's MASC. Not great, but, y'know it's something.) The Nightstar and Bushwacker shot as well, and they... did you know the Locust IIC has *exactly* 10 points of armour on its legs and torsos? -_- I won't even speak of the Axman. 4/6/4 doesn't close the distance with light mechs.
Anyway, with the Cataphract down, the objective was in play again. Mr. Nightstar decided to put a stop to that. The Dasher and Puma responded by sticking to him like barnacles while the Cataphract picked itself up. Meanwhile, the Bushwacker and Axman continued their steady advance, only for that Locust to zip around behind them and into the Axman's rear.
The Dasher and Puma failed to kill the Nightstar, and oh how they tried! They did everything short of kicking it to make it fall over! It helps that the Puma missed with both its ATMs. I guess bank security isn't good enough when mechs are in play, har har. Anyway, my own mechs blasted the Dasher to the shadow realm and my Axman was preparing to show the unfortunate Locust an axcellent time when the other guy called it there on account of not having a way to stop the Nightstar.
That was good fun. I *will* play these mechs again, of that you can be certain.
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What was Erien's reasoning behind giving Laeriel a name that means "fading"? It seems like a strange name to give your granddaughter, especially with Erien seemingly having high hopes in Laeriel/caring about her a lot. (Also, the relationship between the two of them is really interesting! I love the way you write nuance in characters and relationships)
Oh thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying it!
So the theory is that elf moms get a sort of glimpse into their children's future and that's why mother names are Important. Presumably this is affected in some way by their own hopes and/or fears for their children, but that's my own spin. Laeriel's mother, however, faded out and 'died' pretty soon after her daughter's birth and therefore couldn't give her one, which means Erien, extremely proud feanori lady, formerly queen of Thargelion, did I mention feanori, refuses to speak sindarin without an accent despite, as you see, being completely capable of it, and teaching Laeriel Correct Quenya (read: Very Oldskool Extremely Feanori No Serinde Here Quenya) on the sly despite it being illegal, did I mention feanori, is the one to give Laeriel her mother name (and to override, in some sense, Laeriel's father name). Erien doesn't get the same flash of foresight here that she did in naming her own daughter, but she has Opinions about the way things are going, especially during the period in which Laeriel is born and the time after. To Erien, Laeriel IS the time the leaves are falling in autumn: the Noldorin tree, as it were, is losing branches and leaves by the handful. It's more an indication of how Erien thinks things ARE than how she thinks Laeriel's future may go, or maybe more of a reminder to Laeriel herself that in Erien's eyes it is Laeriel's future and/or responsibility to stop what Erien sees as a wrong.
And of course it turns out to be pretty prophetic anyway because this is tolkien fanfic: Laeriel lives through the fading of the elves and assists the fading Erien is specifically worried about by killing more than one of her great-uncles (uh. Spoilers?) amongst other things.
Also, not to toot my own horn TOO MUCH, but you'll note in the hobbit movies that I have to keep in in order for Tauriel to exist that Mirkwood is kept in a perpetual state of autumn? It didn't used to be like that, but guess who is eternally mourning the presumed death of his wife named autumn.
Anyway, Erien did not get the elfmom flash of foresight, but she fell victim to one of the classic blunders in fairytales and folklore, which I think anyone who reads my blog knows I enjoy: naming something/someone helps to form them.
#bright lights cast long shadows#glingaerdir: she shall be named for song (creation in tolkien basically) and summer!#erien: fuck you she's named fading and autumn#spite might have been a small motivation here too
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Hii I wanted to know , did helaena and aemond died on the same day ? I saw many antis on Twitter claiming they don't and helaena die few days later after aemond died. Now antis saying the Rise of dragons books has timeline and they dont die the same day
saying RoTD says aemond and helaena died on different days.They even contacted the mod to edited the wiki page.
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - the most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" - but only slightly less well-known is this: You believed George RR Martin's canon is rock-solid!
In all seriousness.
I've been apart of the ASoIaF fandom for going on thirteen years - before the show. I picked up the books the moment I heard that Lena Headey got cast in some pilot for a new fantasy show project called "Game of Thrones" - being a huge "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" fan I had to check it out.
In all twelve and a half years ... never once has GRRM ever settled on one thing or the other. He has constantly retconned and changed canon to fit whatever gaff or inconsistency he put in the later books. The history of "The Dance of the Dragons" has changed so many fucking times in the last ten years that it'll make your head spin. Rhaenyra went from being an well established tyrant and villain in the ASoIaF Historical canon - written into the fucking books for Twenty Years! - to being a grey character, to now being the protagonist of the story.
Alicent was introduced as a ghost that allegedly haunts the Queen's chambers in Cersei's POV chapters, described by Cersei as a former queen who loved her Kingsguard and leapt off the balcony when he died - Cersei thinks that she could relate. This is followed earlier by Jaime's POV talking about Criston Cole who was loyal to his queen to the very end - a man he admires. You're supposed to but two and two together.
Now, some Black-Stan or Reply Guy will come into this post and go "Na-ugh, asshole! That's not in the books!"
Yeah, not anymore, mother fucker! It was taken out of the book in later printings once GRRM got the development deals with HBO to do "House of the Dragon" and started writing "Fire & Blood" as a pitch bible for his tv show ideas.
Do you know how many times "The Disaster of Summerhall" has been rewritten and changed by GRRM? Do you know that in the original book it is said that Rhaegar was the sole survivor of the fire, saved by Jenny of Oldstones - and that he saw something that night that made him realize the coming of the "Long Night"? Now, GRRM changed it so that Rhaegar was born during the disaster. Once more the new printings of the book changed the text to fit with what was written in "The World of Ice and Fire".
Even the "Fire & Blood" on the shelves right now is not the same book that got released five or six years ago. Whole section are rewritten to gel with "House of the Dragon".
All I can say is welcome to the fold, Nonny. Get used to smug jerk-offs coming into your DMs and Asks claiming that canon which has been established for nearly a decade is now not canon and that you're spreading "Misinformation" or "Fanfiction" when its simply that Evil Santa Clause changed his mind again and they got the new update before you.
#House of the Dragon#Helaena Targaryen#Aemond Targaryen#Helaemond#Alicole#Alicent Hightower#Criston Cole
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"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous of which is, 'never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well-known is this: 'Never go in against Dean Winchester when Sam is on the line!'"
#spn 8x12#utterly unhinged#Dean will throw anyone under the bus to save Sam#dean winchester#sam winchester#henry winchester
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you (i) fell victim to one of the classic blunders (found family trope)!
#i’m watching lockwood & co.#and crying at another show targeted at children#fandom culture#my stuff
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Me: *hand slips, accidentally writes an entire scholarly essay in the tags of a post about literature instead of actually doing my uni literature homework*
My brain: “You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!”
#I’m not European but uni is just so much easier to say#literature memes#english major problems#text post
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