#EOS-log-book

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The first of our Community Creations for the rewatch is:

EOS has been studying the idiosyncrasies of human language in an effort to work out which combinations of words make the humans laugh / cry / facepalm / react with horror and why this differs depending on who is saying it.

For each episode please submit your favourite (short) quotes. They could be funny, surprising, reassuringly typical for the character… whatever you like!

We’ll compile lists as we go and perhaps have some polls further down the line as to which we love the best.

Use the standard tags (#Thunderversary #Thunderversary-Rewatch #name-of-episode) and also #character-name and #EOS-log-book and don’t forget to @thunderversary-rewatch-party so we can add them to the list!

[little-vulpecula]

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EOS Quote Book: Runaway

"Aaarrghhhhhhh" - Brains

"Aaaarrrrgghhhhhhh" - Brains

"Aaaaaaarrrrggggghhhhhhhh Aaaaarrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" - Also Brains

[coco9728]

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Finally got the chance to watch Fireflash!

Here are some quotes for the Eos Log Book.😁

“He doesn’t actually expect us to just wait here does he?”

-Virgil

“So…where is the saboteur trying to sabotage my sabotage?!”

-The Hood

[princesskayjay]

Alan: Alright! I'll just carefully fly towards the floating bomb!

Alan: The nuke's on my tail again! Lu~cky~ me~!

Alan's a funny kid and I love him. That is all.

Also the delivery on the second line does me a giggle every time

[idontknowreallywhy]

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Fave Quotations for EOS for ROF1:

Virgil:

“Did you have to make it look so easy?”

“I’ve got you”

“It’s 2060. That’s not the kind of world we live in.”

Scott:

“That hangar’s about to get toasty!”

“Can’t rush a genius.”

Alan:

“And that, Kayo, is how it’s done”

Gordon:

“I need our London Agent to do some agenting!”

Parker:

“… so I’m told.”

What did I miss?

[kaijuboarcreations]

EOS Log book for EOS

Yet another great collection of quotes @thunderversary-rewatch-party

Alan: "He'd tell us if there was a cat stuck in a tree in..... Antarctica!"

Brains: "There are no trees in Antarctica."

Alan: "That's what they want you to think!"

***

Lady P: "Did you really have to dump the punch bowl on the ambassador's lap, Parker?"

Parker: "He insulted your father! And besides, my Lady, that punch was terrible!"

***

Lady P: "Haha, just John sending me a selfie!"

......

John: "Ah, Lady Penelope, great!.... What? She sent a selfie??"

***

Lady P: "Perhaps isolation has driven John a bit-"

Parker: "Space bonkers? Hoho, I've seen this sort of thing before you know. But, it was deep sea bonkers.... It was with Gordon.... And he was on dry land come to think of it. "

[muffinrecord]

I'm gonna be lazy and copy+paste my comment on youtube onto here too...

Making this video was like book ends for me. I became interested in Magia Record because of online magical girl transformation compilation videos.

I was a day one player for the North American server-- I became really obsessed with the quotes the girls would say, so I started my first youtube channel and uploaded clips of what they were for anyone else who was curious. This grew into recording Magical Girl Stories, Events, and Log-in stories, but it was a slow process.

When the NA EOS was announced, I dealt with my sadness by recording as much content as possible. I actually damaged my eyes by focusing on screens too much. I became acquainted with the Magia Union Translations server and started recording videos for Antimony and friends.

Then a bunch of copyright claims started to go out, targeting the music used in the videos. At this point I started hosting and paying for a google drive to upload everything to just as a backup. We were able to get videos back up by filing disputes but we were all really nervous for a few months on what to do. Additionally, since a bunch of channels were now no longer hosting magia record recorded game content, I decided to make this second channel and host those too.

And at the end of JP EOS, I've gone full circle. I started by being interested in this game because of the cool transformation video compilations, and now I've made one of my own. It's a weird sense of closure.

<3 Love you all, enjoy.

[thosia]

ok i finished reading everything and i'm extremely fascinated. i have some questions if that's ok

i want to know more about the aeternum... literally anything... theyre so fascinating. they may look like freaks but theyre cutie pies to me

tangentially related zhentaer seems sooo cool and sexy can we know more about that. must be freaky for outsiders to see infrastructure based on/around infuser power

if most of this is just prequel lore then wtf is the actual plot 😭 there are at least 5 books in the insane worldbuilding you have (compliment). i'm guessing it has something to do w overthrowing astir and bringing actual justice to semmet but that's just a guess. who's the protag?

how's the rest of the world doing... what about that democracy u mentioned... the other 2 continents intrigue me... are there even more continents beyond that?

did neryla ever regret what she started or was she just like 🙄 well wtv

uhhh i think that's it this is really cool 👍🏽

HELLOOOOO picture me rocking back and forth !!! questions absolutely always okay <33

aeternums my angelsssss writhing on the floor i get so upset about them. need to make a proper intro post for elura at some point bc i love herrrr. my silly girl who knows every inch of the doom waiting for them and cant do a thing about it. anyway. i like to think bc the aeternums cant meet eo, but they can leave things behind for their successor to see, theyll basically start chatting to them like theyre recording video logs or something😭😭 'hey! me again! just letting u know i think ur the bees knees😍'. rest of semmet convinced theyre these mysterious allknowing gods meanwhile theyre all cringe allknowing losers!!!

ZHENTAER!! fascinating to me actually. bc the capital is SO old and the azhants dont decimate much when they become the high lords there, but they do add to it. so the ancient stuff is all still there, and its just. this insane mix of stuff, some of which is over a thousand years old, standing near as strong as the day it was made, and then also the newer stuff, which for all that it abandons typical northern style, isss still pretty to look at. their cathedral is sooo cool trust. all that domed glass in infusion heated glowing frames to keep the snow off. a lot of the infusion stuff is very minor, but in ways that can make a lot of stuff wayyy easier to do. building high structures is more plausible when you can temporarily make a ton of rock weigh as much as a bag of apples, carving stone is a lot easier when you can change its consistency, building beneath ground is a lot easier when you can easily ensure the ceiling wont fall in, etcetcetc. just these endless possible but vastly improbable feats everywhere all around the entire province. the goal of all the prequel era natural and architectural wonder is to make it as otherworldly beautiful as i reasonably can, because its part of the horror going between that and main era bc sooo much of it is gone by then. so all of semmet during prequel era was gorg, but zhentaer in particularrrr 💞💞💞 its fairly famous in world actually. draws visitors from all over to see hemal seva, and the cathedral in the capital, and the man made caverns and tunnel system beneath the capital etcetc and everywhere has architecture thats insane to look at, as is the nature of people, and especially people with crazy magical powers but. ouaghhh zhentaer was so pretty it was KNOWN for being so pretty😓😓😓😓

GIGGLING. erm i never talk abt my main era because it scares me but i wrote the full first book for that when i was like 17/18?? and decided it needed A Lot Of Work. and i have barely touched it since. but yeah, astirs line lasts for somewhere between 100-250 yrs (i keeeeep back and forthing on timeline) before theres a magical rebellion against them and the last of the kitsarras break the cycle and accept that whether or not theyre favoured by the gods, they are just as human as anyone else🙏. whole idea was just that fantasy media loves 'perfect monarch fixes things and the problems were because of Bad Monarch' but i think we need more stories abt regicide and dissolution of monarchies bc there is no one that can shoulder a nation alone, and anyone that tries will inevitably fail. the main for that is my girl azure kitsarra who kind of sucks real bad. but its fine she learns she abandons that fuckass crown. eventually. but yeah. point and laugh i spend all my time thinking about prequels instead🙁 theres just something so easy abt the cycle repeating tragedy of a prequel😔😔. i try not to think abt the amount of books that are gonna come out of this world bc every time i do it expands, but the original plan was 3 for mainverse and 1 for the prequel. the prequel is now at LEAST two books long, and probably more. im trying not to restrain myself much so i can just write whatever feels needed. main era i need to restructure a Lot so honestly i have no idea what that will end up as. but i like hanging out in here so ill be tolkien style writing shit abt this world forever even if its random side stories that are barely related to anything else

the rest of the world varies immenselyyyy. the main continents are prythos (where semmet is), othros (to the south), and avrashi (to the east). i have quite a bit of fairly shallow lore for a lot of it, bc Most of the outside stuff is just me using foreign political drama to foreshadow or influence plot happenings in semmet. like yeah history is a circle and everyone is always repeating mistakes that have been made before, but also it makes it super easy to have characters drop info from abroad and be like wow how crazy, good thing thats not happening here😍(its about to happen there). ANYWAY south dumeria! first democracy in prythos!!! yeah after they separate from the north, the general who helped them win the war is like ☝️i do not want to be in charge i beg☝️so theres a council which is elected by representatives of each given area of the country. early democracies are never gonna be perfect but theyre tryinggggg its developing theyre doing wonders. and they are actually doing well like beginning to roll out state education, some of the best irrigation in prythos, revolutionising sewer building, etc. keep slaying south dumeria🙏 there WERE actually originally more continents when i started making this fuckass world like 4 years ago, but i like the containment of just the three. whatever else there is is far enough away that gods be good the tricontinent will just leave them tf alone😭

ohhhh neryla <\3 i think shes just so deeply angry all the time that she refuses to entertain the idea that its her fault. its interesting bc shes the closest any ythaera gets to a decent childhood (at least. in a longgggg time). raised in peacetime with her father alive and an actual second parent in the picture. anyway something about that, the ease of it, makes the separation between ythaeras and the rest of semmet soooo stark that neryla really genuinely does consider herself a god among men. fully detached from everyone around her. and the other ythaeras do this too, but even myella has genuine connections with people beneath her and views them as worthy of attention because shes been living at war all her life and is lonely enough to have grown up depending on company from non-family. neryla sees herself as separate, and equates humanity to something like vermin which is why she doesnt really gaf that addin is obviously a nonmagicker, because the distinction to her is inconsequential. AUGHH SHES SO ODDDD. my awful awful girl

[lovepmd]

I’m in the mood to wax nostalgic.

So like, this commercial for Explorers of Sky: https://youtu.be/0AGMgFPRxiQ?si=Cwa7klXbgUkJLLvI

It was my first ever exposure to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon.

I really, really wanted the game, but my mom bought the game for my older brother and I remember her sounding annoyed when she said “Fine, you two get the same game,” which discouraged me from getting it. (Now, as an adult, I get it. Don’t want to pay full price twice for the same product.)

My first experience actually playing PMD was with the demo dungeons you could get from Explorers of Sky with DS download play. I… wasn’t very good at it. See, I thought that I could close the message log by pressing A. I didn’t look at the controls on the top screen, so I just sat there mashing A, spamming the regular attack and getting beaten up by Snorlax. I even wrote about the experience like it was an excerpt from a book, with a drawing meant to be an illustration that had… more Snorlax than I actually encountered.

Another memory I have was absorbing bits and pieces of the story from what my older brother told me and drawing completely different conclusions. For example, when he told me “Grovyle is stealing Time Gears!” I got this idea in my head somehow that Grovyle was stealing them on behalf of some mysterious employer, and they were going to use them to take over the world. I even drew up a wanted poster for Grovyle of him holding a glowing, shapeless blob because I didn’t know what the Time Gears looked like. (I hadn’t even internalized “Time Gears” and called them “time things.” Which… yeah, I’d call what I drew a “thing.”) Man, if I still had them…

Being eight years old was a wild time.

Eventually, I think I was somewhere around ten or eleven, I discovered Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team, and it became the first PMD game I actually played and finished. (Since I don’t know if I should count Sky as the first PMD game I played since I only played that demo.)

And the rest is history.

Oh, and the story about Explorers of Sky does have a happy ending: My older brother decided years down the line that he didn’t want it anymore and gave it to me for free! Thank God, because hunting down a physical copy nowadays is… a terrifying prospect. My first time playing EoS, he was around to hear me blab about things he already knew.

i don't think i've seen that/a commercial before for the series, not that i remember at least

that sounds like something i would do lol, just come to my own conclusions from the bits and pieces i heard

that is adorable though!

bit of my own here; while i did play some super smash bros and yoshi story and some other n64 games, blue rescue team was different cuz i played it 100% on my own, without my brother beating the game first or my brother playing along with me

i even tried to get him to help with me with it cuz it was too hard for my small brain to handle, but he didn't want to, and then i managed to eventually beat it

it was years and YEARS later that i even learned about all the post game stuff and the whole thing with gengar

[despair-ninja-everything-agency]

05-LOG-RN-375-615

A quickie FFXIV fanfic very loosely inspired by FFXIVWrite2023's 21st prompt Grave as well as based on Iron Lung's The Quiet Rupture event.

Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV

Word count: 1126

It’s been 375 days since the Quiet Rapture.

175 days since I found out it took Eitherys with it, along with her Moon and Shards.

Water was on perpetual availability thanks to Black Magic, yet foods are getting scarce. Ultima Thule could only provide so much in its current state before it too would run out of resources.

There’s still some fuel left in the RN-05, thankfully. There should be spare fuels in Ostrakon Deka-hexi as well. Though I’m not holding on much hope it’d last long enough until I could find the next resourceful Star. Or any celestial bodies, really.

The damn crystal still wouldn’t work. No matter how hard I tried to think of my friends, my allies, my loved ones, my enemies, those who were long deceased, those who came from different Shards, different Stars. Anyone I could think of. Yet it doesn’t react at all. Not anymore.

I wonder if it sensed the Quiet Rapture. The end of a time. The futility of finding companions in the vast unknown while the strange phenomenon took any habitable Stars and celestial bodies away, along with their living creatures. Along with whatever their metaphysical forces that kept themselves existing.

It's a miracle Ultima Thule persists. I wouldn’t call it ‘habitable’ anymore, but I can still breathe and gather something edible around here. At least, as long as it is able to. The simulacrum of previous civilizations had long since vanished. The Dragons, The Eas, The Omicrons. They’re all gone, leaving only their near lifeless floating environments for me to explore. Alone. Gravity had become a mere concept at this point. The only time I could safely plant my feet on a solid surface is when I’m inside RN-05. On the bright side, it makes navigating around Thule much easier.

Thinking about Ultima Thule, my mind frequently wandered to Meteion. What is she doing right now? Did she survive the Quiet Rapture, still singing her song of hope out there? Was she unfortunate enough to land in a habitable place, taken from the mortal world by that infernal event?

If she did survive, I certainly couldn’t hear her song of hope. Or her cries of despair.

Just the deafening silence of the universe and beyond.

I miss my friends. I miss Thancred and his shitty flirty attitude. I miss G’raha and his pluckiness, always eager to be by my side. I miss the Twins, always bickering over minor disagreements. I miss Urianger and his stupid Shakespearean way of talking (bless Jacques for introducing me to that term). I miss Y’shtola and her sass. I miss Tataru and her cunningness in business endeavors, the way her eyes lit up when she found any opportunities to strike. I miss Ange, probably writing her latest children's book to cheer up every child in the World. I miss the Chocobros, going around the streets of Eos and her lands while camping around, feasting on Ignis’ homemade cooking. I miss the New Mexico Mercenaries, their zaniness, and their refusal to die even after their bodies blown up to smithereens.

I miss everyone.

I'm not exactly a religious person but if there’s a God out there - a Higher Entity and actual Creator of this universe, unlike the ones I know and personally took care of - then I pray and hope He/She/They/Whatever’ll listen to my prayer. I pray that I could see them once more, hale and whole, wherever they are now. Smiling as they welcome me into their open arms.

Day 615 after the Quiet Rapture.

Ultima Thule has been depleted of its remaining resources.

820 canisters of unidentified substance obtained from Ostrakon Deka-hexi. Experience tells me these were used to 'feed' the simulacrum of the Omicrons when they were still roaming around. Chemical scan revealed it to be compatible with RN-05's ceruleum-based engine.

Should be good for a few years or so. I'm grateful they let the refill to be done from within the ship. I'm starting to get sick of floating in nothingness.

Edible alien lifeforms are stored in the ship's cramped storeroom. If nothing's busted, I should be able to manipulate the storage's temperature. Thank God there's automatic kitchen utilities or else I'll die from food poisoning before anything else gets me first.

All parts and engines are in order. Internal systems are up to date. Automatic 'household' contraptions are running smoothly, keeping the interior tidy and ready for whatever I need. Navigation screens show the ship's current position, in the middle of nowhere facing unknown direction. Air filter still converting the vacuum cosmos into breathable oxygen. Gravity machine keeps me grounded on the ship's gridded floor.

It's time for me to leave this Godforsaken land. I don't know how long am I able to move forward or if I'll find another living being. But I'm willing to hope that I'll find someone to talk to, someday. Maybe there are other creatures roaming around the vacant space. Maybe I'll come across Meteion, chatting with each other for old times sake and comforting our loneliness.

Staring outside the cockpit's window, my eyes are lost to the inky blackness. Twinkling of ghostlights teases their existence, taunting me to guess if the Star it corresponds to is still there or has long since vanished. Being out here was once my dream. Now it's just a bitter reminder of my desolate existence. Soft lights of the cockpit's screens and many buttons illuminated my face, its reflection on the window's surface gazing back amongst the ghostlights. I guess I'm not entirely alone. Quite literally, I still have myself to keep company.

I don't know where to go from here. Following the faint twinkling lights is my only option, even if it would be met with disappointment. Amongst the barely visible Stars, one shines the brightest. A promise for a brighter future or a malevolent trick to crush one's hope eventually.

Operating the cockpit has become a second nature to me since acquiring the RN-05. Press this button, touch this part of the screen, pull this lever to bring out the thrusters, spin this rod to rotate the x coordinate, lock on the next target, confirm target destination's position.

Estimated distance: 21.5 billion light years

My heart sinks as I see the numbers plastered on the screen. 'Twould be an eternity before I'm able to reach that, even with RN-05's top speed and hyper thrust. Yet it's the only thing that keeps me going. Determined, I brace for my longest journey yet as I seal my fate with a push of a button. Thrusters blare to life, ready to take me through the vast unknown. Towards the brightest non-existent Star in the universe.

Tonight’s dinner will be fried dragon egg.

[diodellet]

finally got to finish book 2 gonna read and compile my reax here😇😇

"friendly fox" ernesto imma need you to be more than a friend to me 🥴🥴 like super super close yanno likeeeee [redacted for obscenity]

NOT EVERYONE SHRUGGIN WHEN ASKED ABT WHAT A CONSCIENCE IS😭😭 GET YUU OUTTA NRC!!!!

cant believe ace has 3 other third yrs to chaperone him 😭 do they rlly have so little trust in him

WHALE ESCAPE 😭😭 (thalassophobia rearing its head once more)

a... what tail?? to hang around your... where???? (ernesto babygirl u can hang ur tail on me litrally anywhere hahaha one chance please i beg)

"perfect chance for us to get to know you better" says lilia,,, all while flashing bedroom eyes at ernesto,,,,like sure flirt louder in the ferris wheel too while ur at it 🙄

i would fuckin piss myself. if i had to go through a giant sea creature's mouth. never mind working up the mental strength to get onna giant rollercoaster, reckoning with my past lives' trauma is HELLISH

"id never cough somethin i swallowed back up" EXQUEEZE ME??? WHAT ABT BOOK 6??? (/j im jus being dramatic)

ITS ALSO LIKE A LOG RIDE FUCK THIS WHALE (/not srs)

lmao grim talkin abt flying outta his seat—WAIT SHOULDNT THERE BE A HEIGHT REQUIREMENT??? how in the hell was it ok for ernesto to bump up the nrc guys to the front of the line with a SMOL CREATURE😭😭

AND HE WAS RIDING IN THE BACK WITH LILIA. TWO SHORT PEEPS BEARING THE BRUNT OF THE EXTRA FORCE. i feel my hairs turning gray

NOT CATER AND ACE TIMING A HEART POSE 😭😭 rest in pieces lilia for ur lost opportunity

THEY HAVE A FUCKIN RAGE HOUSE????? jesUS CHRIST????

oh char, theyre using slingshots (girlie is having war flashbacks to that slingshot minigame in stardew)

does it count as pool experience if im solely watching the players "get their angle"🥴🥴

POP OFFFFFF ORTHO 🤧🤧 i wonder what its like,,, having a brain that works mathematically

nakakabwiset tong si jade ah tong si "apple CORE" edi ok 🙄

NO BUT THOSE CLOCKS ARE SO ADORBS 🥺🥺

"its just so darn wholesome" the only wholesome thing in that line is gino's face (i want to grab ernesto by the front of his fit and make out wid him sloppy style. he cant keep setting me off like this 🤧)

lmao rest in pieces vil, no matter how cheesy the sitch is, he'll always manage to serve (delulu)

"waving game" kalim u absolute pEOPLE PLEASER

huh donkey!pinocchio au worldbuilding is not the direction i expected this interpretation to go in

DID LEONA JUST CALL KALIM LUTANG—🗿🗿🗿

goodbye more underwater moments 😇😇 seahorse? more like sea donkey (binaril)

ernesto pls stop glazing kalim, it is very much crinj (ngl that carousel pic is also super cute,,, would ride again and again)

BWISET AHAHAHAHA twst ily and ur visual novel format limitations 🤧🤧 ARE GINO AND ERNESTO HOLDING THEIR PHONES?? BFFR—

WOI JAMIL SCRAPS—(sobbing crying kicking my feet) BABYGIRL WHY ARE U LIKE THIS

(squinting) "rugged visitors".... the primal insect part of my brain is suddenly remembering smth... fairy gala theme?...hm perhaps it was a synapse misfire...anyway

nOT KALIM JOININ IN ON JACK AND LEONA SHADING EO (u sweet summer child, thats so crinj, im sick)

overall i love the shenanigans and seeing these charas interact w each other, im a sucker for amusement parks (i havent been to one in like years, thanks covid /derogatory) so this event has been a suitable placebo for me

OH I FORGOR PLAYFUL LAND WAS DROPPIN TODAY,,,, HEEEYYYY PAPI ERNESTO (tucks hair between ears) I'M RIGHT HEEEREEEE

[little-vulpecula]

EOS' log book

"I am EOS. I am the dawn. I will not be stopped"

Honestly, it's such a great quote and super iconic. It's probably one of my favourite lines from the show.

[coco9728]

@thunderversary-rewatch-party

Didn’t get much for the bingo card when watching Unplugged.

But the episode did have some of my favourite quotes throughout the entire series.

“It’s not the gear in there that rescues people, it’s the Tracy.”

-Grandma

“No no no no no no no no no no no, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”

-The Hood

[lowetyde]

Alana turns to the merman, ocean-blue eyes sparkling with excitement. "Do you think we could take a couple of these books back with us?" she asks. The ship must have sunken pretty recently; the spines hadn't disintegrated yet. The books are still recognizable and distinct enough to tell them apart, at least.

*PROMPT : i actually can't remember . . .

the pungent musk of rotting decay assailed him, marlowe's nose wrinkling in distaste as he trailed after alana. he let her take the lead, swimming behind at a lackadaisical speed that transparently revealed the lack of delight he possessed in her whimsical antics. the wreckage displayed before them was not entirely without interest, though. the mermaid was right in believing the forgotten remnants of this skeleton ship were not as archaic as the forceful tides of their sea had eroded it to appear.

airily, he spun through the musty waters, poking and prodding at soft wood with feigned charm, desperately searching for anything to captivate his attention whilst alana paddled around in search of hidden treasures. marlowe's innate paranoia had been piqued by the ginger-haired folk, his eyebrows knitting together and skin prickling whenever she began to weave her silver-tongued words on this thing and that thing ( a hullabaloo of excuses, he'd always thought to himself ). the fellow had taken it upon himself to keep a watchful eye on her, as ianthe was much too busy to be bothered by his unfounded cynicism.

blonde curls danced with the bubbles around them as he floated down to the ship's floor, picking through bones and torn cloth for something shiny to grow his own collection of knick-knacks. marlowe's head tilted upwards at her cheery tone, arctic eyes shooting between her proud expression and the pile of water-logged manuscripts clutched tight. " hoping to teach the fish how to read ? " , he scoffed, turning his head away dismissively. still, he would not deny her such a simple pleasure.

marlowe pushed against the old floor planks, propelling himself upwards. the creature conceded with a passive sigh and shrug of his shoulders. " bring whatever you can carry, but expect no help from me. if you so desperately desire those worthless books, you can lug them back on your own. "

with a flick of his tail, the merman glided outside the sad remains of what appeared to have once been a mighty vessel. curiosity took hold, forcing him to glance back a last time before beckoning to alana. t e ri h eo s h py could barely be made out along the rear. his lips twisted downward. " how did you say you'd come to find this place, beauty ? luck, was it ? "

[bookofmirth]

It still baffles me that there are full adults with working lives that send hate online to other users because they don’t like the same fictional character or they don’t like the same fictional couple. It’s almost like a mark of maturity rather than just logic if a person just does not engage someone with opposing opinions. Which, to me, is unusual because should it not already be the standard to simply ignore that which enrages/bothers you? (Actually if you’re enraged by fictional characters, you’ve got another issue altogether lol)

I’m in multiple fandoms some of which have children or teenagers. And there’s random strife like any other fandom. However, many of these anon haters are often kids. But in the ACOTAR fandom/universe (the Maas Multiverse, maybe?) most readers are older. And they engage in sending online hate. It’s just unimaginable how telling someone to fuck off or writing 20+ reasons why they’re wrong gives any sense of satisfaction. Is it not more satisfying to cultivate an atmosphere of peace by surrounding your online self with content you ACTUALLY enjoy seeing? This applies to any social media realm honestly. People just be crazy man smh

(This is promoted just by seeing a post you made about blocking in the fandom. And I agree, it’s satisfying to know you’ve made someone so irate that they stalk you even though you’ve blocked them lol)

I'd be lying if I said I didn't understand it, because I do. Not the sending people hate thing, but the obsession with being right and having the last word. Totally get it. I do. Especially when you're in it up to the eyeballs and someone is saying things that are flagrantly untrue, it's really hard to just walk away, especially when things start to get personal. Especially when you have proof that the person is full of shit because screenshots of Discord conversations exist. And ya know. Canon exists too. 😌

But also - why are we here? Just speaking for myself, I'm not in this fandom to get into fights with people. I joined because I really enjoyed ToG, I was waiting for EoS, and I wanted more rowaelin. I wanted fan art, I wanted to read fanfic because the books weren't enough, and I wanted to find people who had the same feelings I did! I wanted people to scream happily with! That's why I joined, and that's why I'm still here. It wasn't like this pre-acosf, and I am just waiting for the next book to be announced because all of this seems oddly more related to being right than actually... liking the thing they supposedly like (although I do lowkey worry that the fandom culture has irrevocably changed.) So once people find out how wrong or right they were, hopefully there will be a huge shift and people will realize that ultimately, SJM is going to do what the fuck she wants to do, and fandom exists for us to do what we want to do.

It’s almost like a mark of maturity rather than just logic if a person just does not engage someone with opposing opinions.

This is an interesting point. It should be logic. It should be just completely normal to back away from things we don't like and move on with our lives, but at this point it is also, to me, a huge sign of how mature someone is.

In no way does it make sense to me to keep consuming media either 1) that I dislike, or 2) in a way that bothers me. That's partly why I dislike anti culture, but it's like that mindset has infiltrated the regular fandom, too.

That's why I said last week that people are slamming their thumbs with hammers and looking up with tears in their eyes trying to get sympathy. You searched those tags, logged out to find those blogs you hate who have you blocked, and went into the toxic communities, bestie. No one made you consume that. You did it. You saw it, maybe unintentionally the first time, but at this point it's been 15 months since acosf came out so I can only assume you're choosing to see it and stare at it, and now you want sympathy? lol, no.

So yeah, what does it mean that people keep repeatedly, intentionally, knowingly engaging with content they hate and then cry about it as a way to gain sympathy and clout? It's neither mature, nor logical.

(This is why I hate vaguing, too. Even if it's about an idea, and not the person who had the idea, maybe either engage with that person directly, or stfu. I make a comment about Elain being kind and then someone makes a post two seconds later about how people who think Elain is kind are idiots? Dumb fucker 🤣 it's so transparent.)

I do love knowing that people I've had blocked for months just can't stop checking my blog, though. Every time I find out it's happened, I get this grin and I start laughing like a Disney villain. It's hilarious. I live in their minds rent free, and meanwhile idek who they are.

[kaijuboarcreations]

EOS log book for Tunnels of Time

@thunderversary-rewatch-party

Between Penny and Gordon acting like an old married couple and the quips from Parker, there was so much good banter in this episode

Parker: ".....Then YOU arrived. There was a five in six chance of it being one of the others"

Gordon: There's only five of us"

Parker: "I was including your gran"

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Lady P: Pyramid!

Gordon: I know where we are!

Lady P: No! Human pyramid!

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Professor Harold: Stay there!

Parker: Where does he think we'd go?

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Lady P: Are you serious? We're being poisoned and your scoring points?

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Lady P:" Wasn't sure there was going to be enough room in the tunnel for us.... and your big head."

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Gordon: I'm sure this tunnels different.

*triggers booby trap*

Gordon: See this one has a big wall in it.

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Lady P: Sounds like the laughing king is on his way

Parker: I'm not laughing

Gordon (balling fists): I'll tell him a knock knock joke

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Gordon: Nice moves!

Lady P: Best hopscotch player in my school

Parker: Your father must be so proud m' Lady