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It’s even funnier when you consider Tozer essentially just walked up to the captain he’s planning to mutiny against and read out a list of all his co conspirators. Like alright Machiavelli

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Francis Crozier for the wonderful @so-i-did-this-thing

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THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c

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Edward. That's your name, isn't it? Edward? ↳ 1/∞ character dynamics: Little and Tozer

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Not saying anything nobody's said before, but the way Fallout is a foundationally anti-capitalist story that got turned into funkopop sci-fi pastiche slop for morons is painful to the point of brilliance. Makes its points about greed and power that much more salient.

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THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c

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they’re the same size i’m losing my mind

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I know Westeros is very different from irl but it’s so fucking funny listening to cats inner monologue judging Lysa about “babying” her epileptic 6 year old

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"Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious." ― Michel de Montaigne

or

13 times the hands made the tongue envious in The Terror for @vvanessaives

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disco elysium like game where you're jaime in the riverlands

BRIENNE, MAID OF TARTH- Ser Jaime?

EMPATHY [challenging: success]- She trusts you. Enough to call you Jaime. When was the last time someone called you by your name?

ESPRIT DES CHEVALIERS [medium: success]- SER Jaime. Can you be more than the Kingslayer?

BRIENNE, THE MAID OF TARTH: Ser?

EMPATHY [trivial: failure]- Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, she looks more like a man in a gown than a proper woman.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [trivial: success]- WHAT DOES THAT MATTER?? YOU WANTED HER, YOU WENT AND GOT HER, BABY!!!! YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!

DRAMA [legendary:failure]- Are you into that sort of thing, sire? What would your sister think?

BRIENNE, THE MAID OF TARTH: I am grateful, but…

EMPATHY [formidable: success]- She hesitates. She is not used to kindness.

VOLITION [formidable: failure]- The world isn’t kind. She ought not get used to kindness.

DAMAGED MORALE -1

BRIENNE, THE MAID OF TARTH: You were well away. Why come back?

SHIVERS [godly: success] EVERYTHING COMES BACK TO HARRENHAL. YOU ARE NO DIFFERENT.

EMPATHY: [medium: success]- How could you not?

ESPRIT DES CHEVALIERS [legendary: success]- You saw her, standing against the darkness with a flaming sword, and called her a fellow knight.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [trivial: failure]- SHE WAS NAKED IN THE DREAM!

COMPOSURE: [trivial: failure]- Which could mean nothing. Don’t worry about it.

DRAMA: [medium: success]- Sire, you cannot let her know you care about her. At all. Lord Tywin’s son and heir does not jump into bear pits out of sentimentality.

1. Ransom money is always a worthwhile hustle.

2. [Esprit Des Chevaliers- Medium 8] Knights rescue maidens.

3. For the glory of House Lannister, of course.

4. I am in love with you because you are my narrative foil and we are going to restore knighthood to glory with our matching oathkeeper swords.

5. [Drama- Trivial 3]- Come up with the perfect insult to remind her that the world is as unkind as you are and belief otherwise is simply naive.

HIGH- 83%

+1 Internalized Lannister Ideology.

+1 It’s what she expects from you.

-1 Told her about Aerys.

-1 Bi-Sexual Underground.

-1 You dreamed of her.

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CHECK FAILURE

YOU- A dozen quips come to mind, each crueler than the last, but nothing comes out.

COMPOSURE [godlike: failure] You can only shrug at the other knight.

YOU- I dreamed of you.

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i think one of the things that immensely increases my goodwill toward firefly wedding (in the sense that i normally run from yandere characters like i'm running from the plague) is that shinpei's behavior is both clearly shown to be a product of his childishness and lack of understanding of what actual love (in any of its forms, be it familial or romantic) looks and feels like AND portrayed as deeply upsetting and destructive.

i keep thinking back to his and satoko's conversation about what love is/entails on chapter 19 and how it ends with satoko telling him he "doesn't get it at all" and it ends on a comic and light-hearted note but i still find it immensely revealing when it comes to shinpei's mindset. because it's true, he doesn't get it. love for him is a person never leaving, never establishing a boundary, and it's wrong and sickening and twisted but your heart breaks for him a little because he so clearly holds those same beliefs about himself. there is nothing he won't do, no sacrifice he won't make to keep satoko by his side. to remain beneath the light of her love.

but the understanding and empathy the narrative makes you have towards him doesn't blunt the genuine danger he poses to other characters and even satoko herself at times, and i think that's so important, especially because it makes other characters' negative reactions to him all the more plausible. like yeah, he IS scary!!

long story short firefly wedding has given me brainworms

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i am thinking. about firefly wedding and being a tool v a person. rambling abt satoko and shinpei and throwing ideas at the wall. (some chapter 28 spoilers btw)

they are all tools to something. satoko being a tool to her family and shinpei and kotaro being a tool to her(albeit in slightly different ways).

initially satoko uses shinpei as a means to leave the island and shinpei uses her as a way to feel needed. this ofc changes over the course of the manga and theres alr this post abt how shinpei doesnt see satoko as an object considering the different reactions to her scar i think more obviously is the talk he has with her on the boat as they are leaving the island in chap 16 where he says i want to know more abt what kind of girl you are.

he wants to get to know her more as a person. understand her better. know why she is like this. what kind of girl is she. her likes?dislikes? and its mutual in chap 28

ever since chap 24 there is this explicit mutual commitment because this relationship isnt a short time thing on the island anymore. they’re stuck together now and its ok to have this mutual curiosity abt one another and they’re both able take the time to know more abt each other now. they’re not tools to each other anymore but somebody to have a long term relationship with

which makes me think abt kotaro. kotaro who brings satokos medicine and brings her favourite sweet. he learns these things abt her and obviously sees her as a person but encourages satoko being a tool to her family. its not his fault because its what satoko herself thinks she wants. i wonder if satoko knows kotaros likes and dislikes too. satokos whole dilemma of marriage for her family or for herself. does she want to be the tool or her own person. i think this is something shinpei(and kotaro) have to address in the future too since shinpei thinks of himself as a tool and it hasnt been addressed yet. lots of things to think abt and see what happens this year

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Firefly Wedding - Chapter 26

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 Hotaru no Yomeiri | Firefly Wedding by Oreco Tachibana – Chapter 13