#Echo 2017

[kirshd]

Recently got to turn up the quality settings for Echo (2017) and holy damnit! Not only did I finally hear the fans spin up on the friend provided gaming box, but I could see RTX level clarity without needing to RTX. When Steam resyncs the Win3 handheld I have, it's going to want a word with me as it's fan spins up fast enough to fly.

-The win3 starts attacking like an angry electric bird- Ow ow ow! -Zapped- Oooh tingly! Oh.. uh... OW!

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

Twilight of the Gods // Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (2017)

[feelingsofaithless]

I-Days Milano (Monza, 2017) » Lost in the Echo In these promises broken Deep below Each word gets lost in the echo So one last lie I can see through This time I finally let you Go

[blorbosdoingdrugs]

[vg-music-i-like]

Brother and Sister // Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

[velvet-vox]

Oropo; the ideology of power behind being god: Part 2

One of the things that frustrates me the most about Wakfu (or Tot to be more specific) is his shameless, unconsidered, unprofessional misuse of pantsie writing. Now, don't get me wrong, pantsie writing isn't inherently bad, on the contrary: not only is it less taxing than a planned out story since it allows you to not waste your mental health on every single detail of your plot, but it also allows you to surprise the audience much more easily since you can just make up things on the fly; some of the greatest stories ever told (Avatar: the last airbender; Breaking Bad) are the results of on the fly decision making; but that's not to say that it's perfect, it actually has as many drawbacks as preplanned writing if not even more. (Cue FNAF)

You might have just ended a story arc or a season, and now you are tasked to follow up on your work, but haven't thought of anything ahead of time, so now you have to make stuff up or go back and look at any possible bit of potential and expand on that.

The biggest challenge here is of course, not contradicting your previous work; but let's say you don't wanna do that, let's say you get an idea that you consider so good that you can't just give it up but it requires you to do a little bit of a retcon: cue Oropo.

And although when stuff like this happens I always get so incredibly infuriated, I, for this particular fictional character, get so much more animated due the fact that the idea and the elements itself in how they were distributed are so unbelievably good that had the actual writing been more competent it would have created, in my honest opinion, the most unique and dynamic fictional antagonist of all time.

Let's go through all of the traits of Oropo in order of appearance to see what I am talking about:

Oropo isn't directly introduced from the jump at the start of his arc, instead, we're first introduced to some of the members of his brotherhood, highlighting the main difference between him and the previous foes: Oropo is a mastermind type of villain (cue Slade from Teen Titans) of the secret variety (cue Bradford Buzzard from DuckTales 2017) as we later learn that he already influenced past events in the show (we'll come back to this); already, this is one of my favourite villain archetypes and it's not even the end.

Then, Lady Echo comes to Adamai and tells him that the purpose of the Brotherhood is to protect the world. Interesting motive, but I feel like it's incredibly easy to mess up depending on how much evil you want your villain to be; for example, Emperor Belos from The Owl House works because his solution to keep the world safe is to annihilate all witches and he only kills Caleb and Luz because he views them as corrupt and unreademable due to his Christian indoctrination; Oropo... it doesn't because it was all fake.

And then, we finally get to the third season, where we get introduced to the big man himself, and his huge ass tower that he challenges the heroes to climb. Some red flags are already present in the way the previous two episodes played out, but so far, he gives off the sense that everything has already been planned out beforehand and the heroes are just mere pawns in his master plan, not even a real threat.

And now that we finally meet him, we are quickly introduced to many other interesting traits: he's a philosopher, an idealist, he has a charming voice and personality that transpires into the uncanny valley due to it feeling like a robot, his followers look at him like a saint, even Adamai has his trust while he tells him his plan to overthrow the gods.

Speaking of which, as stated previously, his plan is so unique in the grand scheme of things since he doesn't just seek power for the sake of power and to become god because, rather he wants to instaurate a sort of "republic" of the gods with his cult, he has ordered the levels of his tower in a specific way to showcase his priorities, and, before he becomes mentally unstable at the end of the season, treated his followers kindly.

And then, the final reveal, foreshadowed in the Iop level of the tower, Oropo is actually Yugo's one thousand year old copy that was sent part of a race sent back in time by their creator on accident and had to hide their existence to avoid messing up the timeline and the whole "replace the gods" was a metaphor for replacing Yugo, Oropo's personal god.

.....

SO GOOD

At this point a part 3 is warranted, but in the meantime I'll join the rest of the fandom in their dissatisfaction and keep ranting about Oropo being, in my humble opinion, without a shadow of a doubt, the greatest missed potential villain of all time.

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[rawliverandcigarettes]

Ok gang!!!

It's been a while, and I think it's time to come clear about a plan I used to have, and how I am very unsure about whether or not it's worth doing.

I technically have the first chapter of The Empire of Preys ready to go. I have basically only that. I did plan to release it on the birthday of Halfway Home's last released chapter, but the truth is: it's happening smack in the middle of an incredibly busy time for me, so I have basically nothing ready as far as promotional material goes.

Also, and it was my plan for a little while, I don't think I can sustain the one chapter per week release schedule I once had with Halfway Home --and I had to come to terms with the fact that I do not have it in me to polish that story nearly as much as I did Halfway Home. I still love it, I still want it out... but I think I'll take it much slower and at a more regular "fanfic" pace for me than what I did with HH. The story of TEoP is not completed yet. I am not completely sure on how to go about certain PoV characters. But, I feel like I can't wait for a "perfect" version like I did with HH, or I will never release this story.

So, while I'm not sure whether or not I'll actually post the first chapter on the 20th of April, I will try to begin posting it relatively soon, and make no promises on when the next one will come out.

I have, however, character portraits in the work! It's coming!! At some point!! Maybe this week if I can finish my work by then!!

Anyway, I hope you are all doing fine, and stuff is doing good, and all of the things. <3

[rabbitcruiser]

Five hundred Mormons left Iowa City for the Mormon Trail on June 9, 1856.

[totally-correct-ducktales]

"Lady luck smiles on me. ...Thanks, lady!"

—Louie Duck

[cameoappearance]

They're turning 46, probably (it's kind of hard to calculate with what the Traitor Empress did to the calendar, but they've been in the Neath for 12 years and they were 34 when they got there).

[thewildbelladonna]

“She asked me to re-sing something and, like, I got on the microphone in this booth that I'm not usually in, 'cause I usually just sing in the middle of the room, but I was trying to, like, be professional and do it in the iso booth, and um, yeah, she just wanted me to do my oohs and ahhs over and my first ahh was like, “ahh” (quietly). It was horrific and she didn't even say anything, and I had said something stupid like, “Oh god, that sounds so small next to your ahh”, and she's like, “That’s okay, you can be my little echo.” —Lana Del Rey on working with Stevie Nicks

[phantomrose96]

Every time I read ABOT I keep finding something new that I missed before, which is always fun and generally has me staring off into the distance while one and occasionally two of my trains of thought is going at breakneck speeds ❤️

(ABoT)

Ahh!! ❤️(❁´◡`❁)

I do really love when people re-read ABoT! There's a lot of continuity, callbacks, echoes of previous lines and sentiments baked in and just. detail. And understandably if I'm calling back to something from a chapter written in like. 2017. then it might go unnoticed. Re-readers are the backbone of my "wasn't that a sick callback" industry.

[oktaviaslabyrinth]

What Lies at the End // Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (2017)

[feelingsofaithless]

Maximus Festival (Buenos Aires, 2017) » Lost in the Echo I can't fall back, I came too far Hold myself up and love my scars Let the bells ring wherever they are

[lucaonthropy]

Huh. Rewatching Ducktales 2017 and getting massive low empathy nd vibes from Louie tbh

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With Pride In Your Heart // Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia