#It’s cold and unforgiving

[pnuk-r0ck]

war

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

wait, no. i think my ACTUAL hottest aa take is that i don't think klavier is all that nice

[briarrolfe]

Josie our beloved 79 year old next door neighbour is COLD and I am tired of waiting for her kids to do something about it! I am buying her UNIQLO THERMALS

[cherubchoirs]

cold-hearted

[lamuliz]

hearing about the original script makes me hopeful that Narry might revive or similar? I'm just. thinking of the horror of that happening after he's been buried. better outcome- Narry waking up in the couple nights Stanley is staying with his 'body' and they get to have some cuddles. ohhh maybe- Narry wakes up, isn't dead, but needs some recovery time? A reset won't fix him :p and with a wound like that in the gut.... prolly be awhile before he could walk around on his own- *me just coming up with reasons for Stanley to carry him*

I imagine if Narrator were to ever be revived somehow, Stanley would be incredibly apologetic towards Narrator. Like the "I can't bear for you to see my face after all I've done to you" kind of shame.

In the AU Stanley is a really proud, confident man. Despite his unstability he has a very unshakable character and tends to learn from mistakes, instead of taking advice from others. So him confidently coming up with this plan, being incredibly proud of it, executing all of it -almost perfectly- just to realize he was wrong, must take a huge toll on his self-respect.

Narrator, on the other hand is as selfless and forgiving as Stanley isn't. They're polar opposites in that sense.

So if Narrator were to come back, their dynamic would definitely be Stanley being discreetly nice to him and Narrator telling him its "okay" and "in the past now" while Stanley does all the mental gymnastics to not forgive himself as much as he can. I think Stanley would just make him coffee in the morning and leave it at the Narrator's desk, make sure to check on him, carry him to bed/put a blanket over him if he ever fell asleep on his desk/working on his scripts, but blatantly lie about not having done any of that.

Stanley would want to give the world he never had to Narry, over and over again, hoping that one day the amount of crushing guilt he's experiencing will neutralize/balance with the pain he's caused Narry to go through.

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

You’re right, Mahito. I’m you. I wanted to reject you. Convince myself that you were wrong. But that doesn’t matter now. I'M GONNA KILL YOU. EVEN IF YOU COME BACK AS ANOTHER CURSE... I'LL KILL YOU. I’ll KILL YOU AGAIN. Change your form. Change your name. I’ll keep killing curses for as long as I can. That’s my role in all this. I don’t need to find meaning or a reason. Maybe a hundred years after my death, the meaning behind my actions will become apparent. In the grand scheme of things, I’m probably nothing more than a cog.

Yuji Itadori

[alagaesia-headcanons]

Eragon and Nasuada are both well loved characters with a lot of good qualities, but they also have some serious flaws and make some grave mistakes. For example, I feel they're objectionable treatment of Murtagh has been discussed relatively often. However, I think they need Way More criticism for how utterly negligent they were in preparing for the confrontation with Galbatorix. Without the outside benefit of genre awareness, it's so egregious how they almost never even try to come up with a plan to kill him. I feel like it springs from inexperience, being overwhelmed, and arrogance, but it's so severe because the ramifications extend to countless lives beyond their own. And no matter the reasons for it, neither of them ever then acknowledge this failing and amend for its consequences, and that is inexcusable. The fact that the first and only plan they ever had to defeat Galbatorix (which immediately fails btw), Eragon came up with hours before the final battle is honestly sickening. Considering their war is justified by a moral basis, the Varden's ethics, specifically in their leaders are all but non-existent.

Why???!!!! It feels like they take no responsibility for their allies! Their concern for them is vague at best and doesn't inform their actions. It's as if they believe that because these people willingly joined their cause knowing they could die, they as leaders are free of blame for anything that happens to them, which is a naive and indulgent misconception. Their decisions still determine those people's fates! And in regards to the eventual fight against Galbatorix, that potential fate they're taking a chance with should they lose is all their allies being slaughtered, down to the very last man. For a start. But Eragon and Nasuada are too young to shoulder that weight as their stations demand and too arrogant to admit their inability, so they just leave it by the wayside.

[starflungwaddledee]

Ok, for an AU I'm cooking up, what if my OC Periwinkle (who is actually a fragment of Void Termina's power with the full extent of their memories and abilities, though they are nice, until you physically smack/smack talk/hurt the feelings her friends out of malice (she's able to sense emotions), then she will not hesitate to bonk you with a live explosive (expert with the Bomb copy ability) and "give you a proper lesson on not hurting my friends".) met your Galacta Knight? How would the situation play out? (Maybe Galacta comes to her universe then destroys her friend's cooking utensils, and she decides to spare the vandal no chill at all.)

hmmm i'm not suuuper comfortable answering questions like this, sorry! especially with folks who i don't know well... i don't really know your oc and i'm also not comfortable just being like "well he k-words (the oc)" to strangers who might not find that fun, yanno?

i think you'd have to characterise him in a way that suited you and your story/oc/au/needs, and then decide from there! like... what you described with the cooking utensils... no, my version of him wouldn't do anything like that haha. so you'd need to make your own charactisation where something like that worked!

i'd enjoy being That Person With The Evil Galacta Knight Characterisation and i'm happy to answer general questions about my personal hcs of him for sure, but i certainly don't have any sort of monopoly on making him nasty. i feel like there's actually a significant amount of evidence in canon itself for him to be Not Nice! so you can of course characterise your own version of him however you like too!!

the galacta knight that i personally headcanon (who is mostly present in awtdy au) is simultaneously chill and unchill. if someone minds their business and doesn't get in his way or interrupt his plans- which revolve around kirby and meta knight in awtdy au- he doesn't really care about them. this is kind of evident in the way he overlooks bandee's potential entirely.

however if they are a threat to him or his plans, he deals with them. he also sometimes takes a sadistic interest in figures he can project the things he hates onto. in our headcanons in particular he has a specific hatred of dark matter and mages, if that works for you and gives you anything to chew on! fwiw in the star allies arc of awtdy void termina is never released, because galacta knight lays eyes on hyness for 0.2 seconds before fileting him like a fish.

he's just not really a hesitater. and that takes most folks- who want to talk, who want to monologue, who maybe have the hope this can be sorted out- by enough surprise that he generally gets in there first.

[torsamors]

ive seen multiple posts across different social medias abt welcoming the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald fall and you know what. real

[fira54funko]

Life In The Ice Age.

[dragonseeds]

the thing about winter is coming/the north remembers, the magic of it all, and the starks being raised with this sense of duty to protect their people is that thinking of it always makes me think of lyanna and howland reed and the story that started with them at harrenhal and ended in a tower in the red mountains. she protected him—beat a bunch of squires off of him, cleaned his wounds, talked him into feasting with them without thinking for a second that he was beneath her (and she found clothes for him so he wouldn’t be out of place), disguised herself as a knight and risked her life and reputation to enter a tourney (though of course she must have thought it was a laugh since… yeah) to fight and actually beat the knights who taught their squires to behave so dishonorably when he couldn’t do it himself—because aside from being the right thing to do, it was her duty as a stark to do it. (why do the gods make kings and queens, if not to protect the ones who can’t protect themselves? / justice… that’s what kings are for) and it touched him so deeply that he went all the way to dorne for her, lied for her, protected her brother and her son, made her into a story he told his children. he remembers her.

[paisleywraith]

Two very dangerous characters. 

[butmakeitgayblog]

How big is Sal when Clarke meets him? Does he ever, like, plonks his big ol self on someone relaxing on the couch?

He's about 2 years old when they meet so he's full grown, and he is Massive, so on his hind legs he's just a touch taller than she is, on all fours the top of his head comes up to about her hips/lower waist, and stature wise, I mean the dude's a moose 🥴 he's not fat but he's naturally thicc and muscly under all the fur. Like,,, every day Lexa thanks everything above that she got him trained early because he could probably drag her from one end of the block to the other without even breaking into a pant

And yeah, yes. Yes he does. He thinks he belongs in people's laps. That's Lexa's fault because she always let's him sit with her on the couch or in bed so he's used to being cuddled right up against someone. So yeah if he decides he likes you (he likes everyone) he will sloooowly edge his way up next to you, like somehow you don't notice his hefty ass due to his ninja stealth skills, and then promptly flop himself directly across you. Or on top of you if you're laying down. Or plonk himself in between you and his mom. Which ever spot looks coziest.

[lightdancer1]

See the further irony is:

That in using 'Mall Goth Sauron' as the take on Dark Willow over 'misogynist has character randomly killed for LULZ' it also allows for greater accountability on the one hand and for Season 7 to thematically focus on repairing all this damage in the midst of facing an enemy of shadows reliant on lies to further itself. The only way to break the Druj is the absolute Truth in a very Zoroastrian sense. Characters don't get to neatly skip past accountability for their actions, and this would spiral over into further later seasons with the essential reality that in an otherwise lower-level setting this one random girl from California is a Dark Phoenix-tier reality warper and the most powerful person on the planet, or the universe.

And the questions of how that power could and should be employed on the one hand and that Willow is essentially a Doctor Strange type who beats up Gods and Eldritch Abominations for her regular line of work where her counterparts deal with the more 'street level' crises would in turn be the logical conclusion of where the show ends. She doesn't do as much physical fighting for the same reason that Stephen Strange never uses magic to go punch the Hulk in the face, her narrative role is ultimately that of Sorceress Supreme of Earth, with literally nobody in an ancient established war anticipating that this one random ginger from California was and is the new Sorceress Supreme and that if they had had such awareness the realities are that this power would and could have taken worse forms.

Unfortunately for the world, the reality too is that it is a shy computer geek who has a not at all subtle dark side and the usual teenage anxieties and insecurities given the equivalent of being able to reliably actually do things other people might dream of but can never do.

But again as long as Dawn Summers being a good thing is a narrative convention that's established memory magic is a poor choice to show the corrupting effects of reality-warping. It's a case of 'yes as established in canon all of this is true for that one season but then they decided to retcon it, so the fans are not obligated to care about it any more than the canon does about this itself.'

[wifeofspock]

I’m entering the prolonged art burnout stage of not wanting anything to do with art, and it’s breaking my heart a little. I feel no artistic inspiration anymore.

on the plus side, I am making steady progress for the first chapter of my newest Spock/Mikelle fic.

[meatriarch]

yknow, thinking about it, i think literally the only times nancy manifests in life Not as a horrid and vile person is when the dires grow into their domestic routes and even then she isnt really Kind shes just. a grandmother,