what gets me about the way most gale girlies seem to interpret gale vs the way larian seems to have wanted his arc to be interpreted is that all of the other core 6 tadpoles have arcs about overcoming an abuser, someone who manipulated them or took advantage of them. they get to find their own agency and make their own choices about what that freedom means to them. but apparently gale's arc is one of fuck-around-and-find-out wizard hubris for which he needs to redeem himself and be humbled? and then larian is surprised that people have a hard time reading it that way? that they don't see him making the ultimate sacrifice at the end of the game to be a good ending for him at all actually?
like i personally like to be exploring nuance and so forth so i do think some of the gale girlies do over-correct on gale and mystra a little too much but i fully understand why they would want to do that and feel protective of him. why wouldn't gale's arc have the same overall themes as the other origin characters? it's just a really strange choice writing wise. larian clearly keeps trying to correct course with patches to make gale's arc look more like what they intended and it just pisses his fans off more.
one of the biggest complaints people have about his act 3 quests is how much the game pushes seeking mystra's forgiveness as the "right" and "good" path. no other character has to do that and larian puts no effort into explaining why mystra should be any different. and they could! they could have gale explain more about their relationship and about how mystra treated him and what agency gale really had with her. the way he talks about her is really only about himself and how bad he feels about it all. there's some brief mentions of him realizing that he was only ever a momentary amusement to her and there really should be more of that! let him unpack it! that would actually be a really cool angle for him because all of the origin characters (other than shadowheart) come in to the story knowing how much they were mistreated and react accordingly. i'd love to see an arc for gale where he slowly (with the pc's help) unpacks how mystra did him dirty and his human ending is about him getting closure rather than redemption.
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100 races and 0 wins. are you ready to admit he is a fraud yet?
he is a fraud TO YOU! to me he is, as ive pointed out time and time before, too fast for his own good, too funny for everyone to understand and too pretty for the world to handle<3
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Max Verstappen:
Charles Leclerc:
These two are absolute kings. 🥰 I admire their talent, but I admire their honesty and mentality even more.
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Perfect opportunity then for me to share my top 5 favorite prem works sorry not sorry about it!!!!!
but, at least
The GOAT. The OG. One of if not the best fic I’ve ever read. Argue with your mother.
a haunted house (with a picket fence)
Maxine Gwendolyne Stacy being raised by uncle Peter and aunt MJ I’m sorry I am obsessed I’ve reread this fic so many times I have it memorized I could write fic about this fic MAYBE I WILL HUH WHAT THEN
Available Light
Can’t hear you over my screams this fic has EVERYTHING it is teacher Peter and parent PeterMJ and found fucking family and spider-man and trauma oh I’m on the floor
this is a gift (it comes with the price)
The best vampire MJ fic AND immortal Peter fic to exist argue with the wall!!!!! Taste!!! Talent!!!!! Also have this memorized!!!!!!!
rarely pure and never simple
This fic healed me cleansed me saved me raised me I am in love with this fic because it is so important to ME
@promiseofthepremise is the single best writer in this fandom and if you don’t agree you’re wrong actually name me another person who has CONSISTENTLY written complex plot with pitch perfect characterization HIT AFTER HIT AFTER HIT SHE HAS NEVER MISSED
And I DIDNT EVEN MENTION SUPERCUT
Prem is the goat why lie
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Demi Lovato has an issue of trying to explore certain genres like punk, r&b, or dance but never do it the proper justice the genre demands and the product is just very bland. The production on her tracks also never fully utilize her voice in a way that works consistently. I hope she sticks with punk but tries to be less Machine Gun Kelly and more Nine Inch Nails. But we're 15 years into her career and she's still trying to find her sound, which is concerning.
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i feel a little disappointed that the reason victoria hated rachel was that she was jealous. imo if there's a character who everyone in-universe loves and is fascinated by, there should be someone who doesn't like them. someone who either thinks they're an awful person or someone just who just doesn't buy into their charms and doesn't see why anyone else would. to have it all explained away as jealousy (which is almost another form of admiration in itself) isn't as compelling to me
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i feel like kpop casting as a whole always interests me because it always sounds so....scammy for lack of better word. Like I know it's a fairly established practice and that obvi idols aren't telling us the full story but something about street casting stories always leave me with the thought of "oh my god I can't believe this wasn't a scam"
no literally, the funny thing is there are so many idols who literally said they thought they were being scammed 😭 iirc seungkwan said he was contacted by a big company to audition but he didn't go bc he thought it was a scam (probably sm or jyp, but i don't think he specified) and i know I've heard stories from idols in other groups who thought they were being scammed at first by the company they ended up in. actually i think a few of the SVT members said they wondered if the pledis casting managers were scamming them too lol
it's kind of funny bc we know things turned out ok in the end but honestly it does feel kind of weird and predatory 🥲 i feel like there's not as many stories from 4th gen about being street cast though so hopefully it's not as common anymore? i don't keep up with any 4th gen groups too closely though so idk if that's actually true
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something to unpack about her not minding silk but being mad abt the groupies hmmm 👁️
THINKING LONG AND THINKING HARD ABOUT THIS....
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Once again wishing I could reblog a post only to be blocked by op because they’re friends with dumbasses who lied about me
Like I respect your right to your own space but I KNOWWWW you blocked me because of whatever bullshit lie someone said about me not even anything I did and i shouldn’t care about what you create because of it but I KNOWWW it’s just bullshit like babe pls let me offend you personally and THEN block me and until then let me scream about what you create!
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