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insectgf · 10 months

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what would fit more: rhinedottir coming from a family line of alchemist and having no other choice but to become one herself or her family is low class and she fought tooth and nail to become the royal alchemist

#rhinedottir #genshin impact #hmmmm hoyo always writes woman as Very Hard Wokring Tm so they will probably go that route #but the other one would be sooo interesting and gut wrenching too. like she just wanted to be an artist #and now her country is dead

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genshin-projection · 10 days

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wow wow wow ok ok ok ok

so im partway through the wardance event in HSR 2.5 and my mind is SPINNING

in particular finishing the most recent main quest with the Borisin, then hearing about Igor Haft of Belobog...

it's FASCINATING to me how the civilizations in HSR seem to not only follow a path that they value, but a path that they need and end up getting very little help from

belobog following the preservation because their small, impoverished planet is constantly under threat of death and destruction... such that very little is actually "preserved" with any success

the xianzhou alliance following the hunt to root out and eliminate their enemies without mercy... only for those same enemies to stir up trouble from within their own ranks, with the xianzhou luofu in particular failing to realize until two major disasters had already been set in motion. and even before then, considering everything implied with dan feng, i doubt this is the first time they've faced internal conflict like this

penacony following the harmony to ensure the happiness and unity of their people, only for what little harmony actually exists to simply cover up the turbulence and suffering belying every luxury... such that the order arose in the first place to deal with what the harmony couldn't, a thick undercurrent of inequality and divisiveness that plagued every worker, every poor soul that saw penacony as their safe haven, their last hope

that those desperate for preservation would come out with so little, with so many wounds. that those desperate to hunt down threats would be perpetually plagued by internal betrayals and setups. that those desperate for harmony, peace, and unity would allow its weak to suffer until the only option left is not prosperity but silence and preconceived "happiness"....

it's just fascinating to me how those following a path actually have the least of it. it's fascinating how the pathstriders of the preservation are on the brink of demise, the pathstriders of the hunt are under threat of ambush, the pathstriders of the harmony struggle to remain united and fair to their people.

#hsr spoilers #hsr #hsr 2.5 #im dying. im losing my mind im dying #IVE HAD THIS THOUGHT WITH AVENTURINE SPECIFICALLY BUT. NOW IT'S THE WHOLE COUNTRY (? CITY?) OF BELOBOG #RAAGAGGGHHHHHHHHHH #maybe i shouldn't have said pathstriders but i don't know how to distinguish between individuals vs countries/planets/ships here #anyway whatever im sure it goes for pathstriders too.#WITHIN THIS CONTEXT... the path you follow not being necessarily your determination. but what you want the most #robin following the harmony because of her doubts in her family.. that she wants to CREATE and secure that unity and fairness #aventurine following the preservation because that's all he has left. if he loses anything else he's as good as dead so #all he NEEDS is to hang on to his life. it's all he has it's all he needs. as long as he has that then he can keep moving forward #towards what? who knows. it's one step at a time for him. he's living paycheck to paycheck with his life. he'll figure out why it's #even worth preserving when he gets there.#sampo... wish i knew him better. but for him i think it could be that a certain amount of nihility is necessary to survive his lifestyle #anyway yeah i just. im thinking about it #my post

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waitineedaname · 1 year

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I know I've said Ling and Mei should be horrible besties but tbh I think the funniest option is if she continues to hate his ass but, continuing in her pattern of becoming besties with dangerous morally dubious men, she decides Greed is her favorite brother

#fma #im reading a fic where mei keeps calling greed her brother and it's gonna make me explode #so now it's got me thinking about that potential dynamic #ling was one of her rival heirs and beat her to the throne and is MEAN to her #greed however had nothing to do with her country's politics and also proudly cheers her on whenever she's kicking ass #therefore: favorite brother #this is a new experience for greed. he's never been anyone's favorite brother #all his siblings wanted his ass dead

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evilkitten3 · 10 months

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i know almost nothing about naruto but i love that orochimaru is the most genderfucked out of any fictional character ive ever heard of. what an icon tbh

orochimaru has committed unthinkable atrocities but i simply do not care. in fact i think she should have done some more

#naruto #naruto shippuden #orochimaru #no but fr he's so funny #adopted a kid to steal his body got killed offscreen came back just to get his ass kicked and then got brought back by that kid #just so he could talk to some dead presidents #on the way he saw his ex-son/brother/student/minion/husband had tried to steal his identity #and thought he was so pathetic he fully decided to stop being an antagonist #now he lives in the country he made which has been legitimized and is headed by him with several of his former experiments #who appear to be living their of their own free will #and also he cloned himself at least twice so he's got a couple of sons running around #AND he appears to have successfully attained immortality. and also got even younger and prettier even though he's now in his 60s/70s #throughout the entirety of the naruto manga he did not win a single fight. everyone is scared shitless of him #except one drunk old lady with a gambling problem and also sasuke #ino and hinata consider him a mom friend #he has never had a single normal human interaction ever. at least fifty-nine infants died bc of him. the 60th is now his parole officer #no one did it like her <333333

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kanerallels · 1 month

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One of my favorite platonic dynamics in my book series is "siblings to sworn enemies to the degree that one of them sends people after the other without actually knowing who they are to siblings again"

#it's objectively so funny to me #like. imagine you lose track of your sister for years and there's a chance she's dead #meanwhile you become a pirate/renegade #and the queen ruling your country is doing an abysmal job so you sneak around and break her rules #and then one day you find your sister and it turns out. she's the (now dethroned) queen #and you have some arguments about it but like. you're family you know?#ahhhh it amuses me #land of the tales #hazel rambles about his original writing

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caimitos · 4 months

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saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

#pov u grow up in a 3rd world country(/planet) where healthcare workers are exported by the thousands like cheap produce to richer countries #it's your ticket out of poverty as long as you can deal with the loneliness the separation from everyone you know the discrimination etc #ive never talked about my hc that vespas mother was one of them sending money every month visiting every couple of years until it just stop #like why return to the swamps when youre doing fine working on a richer planet w much better living conditions #cost of living rises every year. sending home a % of your salary used to be enough to support your husband and daughter and then it isnt #you know how it goes #vespa is also dead set on this path until ranga realizes that hemorrhaging healthcare workers leaves them with little to none of their own #students on scholarships or in community/state universities are bound by return service agreements and are forbidden to leave the country #until theyve rendered a few years of work on ranga to pay back their tuition + as a really shitty solution to the brain drain problem #this is real in my country btw but my professors say a lot of ppl do break their rsa's and fucked off to work in other countries LOL #our state unis can barely afford decent facilities they do nottt have the budget to chase down their own alumni in other countries!#but the mental image is a bit funny #vespa ilkays first crime: tinakasan ang rsa #i do also think it lines up with her having a network of med friends everywhere in the galaxy (heart of it all) you kind of go into pre/med #expecting most of your classmates to leave to work in other countries eventually. mine are aiming for the usa / uae / europe / japan etc #anyway whether vespa breaks her rsa or not she leaves ranga asap decides to switch careers and the rest is history #i also deeply love the fact that she's superstitious i'm very sad it wasn't highlighted more (i've only heard s1-3)#as someone who did grow up in a rural area and went to more albularyos/folk healers than doctors in my childhood. (they never failed me)#lots of folk illnesses (ex. balis; pasma) local medical superstitions (dont eat noodles in hospital; youll have a really toxic shift) etcc #theres also a lot of potential in tying her past as a rangian + med student + assassin to me idk how to word this properly #being raised on cautionary tales of not to touch/disturb anything in the swamps then being given free reign to poke & prod at things in her #lab classes (now with the proper ppe)....she was having so much fun with the curemother prime too lmao #years of walking hanging bridges docks boathouses in ranga etc gave her great balance & stealth #cracking open alien shellfish in the swamps to cutting open bodies for studying then for assassination....#I MISS HER SO MUCH BALIK KN SAKEN 😭😭😭😭😭😭#i get why most people + the canon focuses on her being an assassin bc people find that cooler i guess #but vespa being a swamp girl > 3rd world med student > assassin is so personal To Me. the whole pipeline. eugh.#skl.txt

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sieglinde-freud · 4 months

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actually scratch that. i take back what i said about leo mainly bc odin’s goofy little ówò faces ARE adorable in it and made up about 70% of the reason i now consider the fates manga peak content even if it is sadly only 16 chapters </3

yeah honestly like i know leo was the most popular fates character but i j kinda assumed this was written well before that poll came out so i was kinda surprised?? but from what i skimmed through (and i did read a few scenes in full) its actually rly interesting to hear it from his perspective and i think its p cool especially cuz it might build off of the leo centric drama cd (MAYBE. i dont actually know im gonna have to relisten to that and then read this) but hes j a funky guy. though i also appreciate the scenes with more xander focus bc 1) laslow and 2) hes just kinda like. LIKE HES SOOOO “dont say anything bad about king garon even though hes the worst guy in the history of guys and kills—not just kills but MURDERS people” like why are we thinking like this buddy. ur sooo interesting lets talk about that!!

#asks #but yeah i like it so far :)#in general i think both xander and leo needed more focus in fates as a whole #so this is really nice even if i spent most of my time skimming it looking for the awakening trio #SELENA GOT LIKE. ONE PANEL OF HER FUCKING FACE IM SO MAD #but yeah ik fates is dead and gone but more xander would be nice i agree #i used to be a xander hater way back when it was kinda funny #but man. hes just so… like theres so many things in that stupid little head of his hes come around on me and im not even sure when #now i just wish fates did more with him cuz like. his loyalty to his country vs his morals is such a fun conflict for him #and the fact that he often prioritizes that loyalty is sooo… ur soo wrong babe but u look SOOO GOOD lets chat. come on. COME ONN #but also its like leo has mc energy written all over him i get the choice #i think he shouldve been a bigger player in conquest like i think his issues with xander shouldve been a bigger plot point #and not just shoved to the side in supports like its so.#i need to stop before this gets to long (it already is) but man. nohr sibs. love em <3

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opens-up-4-nobody · 7 months

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#its sort of funny. i think my medication is working pretty well. i feel stable in a way i never really have before #is it the dopamine stablizer or is it my ion channels? whos to say. it doesn't matter. but it also doesnt change some things #the ways i think and react negativly to change. but it makes it easier to deal with. i still experience this strange dispaire on the #weekends or anytime im not working. i think the oddest thing is thst i dont think ive ever been this consistenly sad #not in a depressed sort of way. just a passing thoughts make me tear up sort of way. it doesnt feel out of control. it just feels like a #prelude to grief i guess. bc my mum is still in the hospital and its so hard to kno what that means from halfway across the country #my sisters are both home right now. they both live within 3hrs of where we grew up. one sister lives in the city my mom goes to for #treatment. so they have the opportunity to see her more than me. i dunno if they do tho. we dont really talk. i dont kno if they're as sad #as i am. if im overreacting bc i cant physically see what's happening. what the feeling is in the room. not that she would probably complain #shes the suffer in silence type. my dad keeps texting us pics of our shitty lil sunroom that hes redoing #to make my mum a lil sanctuary. he must be sad too. its his wife. hes staying with her in the hospital rn. i dunno its so weird #when i talk to my counselor she assumes i find out info thru calls or talk to my sisters abt it and i gotta b like nah we dont really talk #i get my info thru text. i havent talked to my parents on the phone in like a month. i dunno we just dont talk. so i dont kno how to reach #out and be like yo so whats up? shoulf i plan on coming home this summer for a bit?? like???#this is the disadvantage of leaving thr place where you grew up. probably when i finish my phd i should move closer to home #somewhere in the Appalachian mountains maybe. somewere in the eastern deciduous forrest. somewhere with thunderstorms.#but thats years from now. who knows what ill b doing. for now im just sad and tired and i dont quite kno what to do in the short or long #term bc im feeling the weight of my mental limitations rather intensely. but maybe im just being self limiting #whatever. i dont have a dead mum yet. shes not even on hospice care. things are just uncertain and dont look so hot #i just dont see how it can get better from here when chemo gave her secondary blood cancer and shes still full of tumors #i dont think im being that dramatic. it just objectively seems not great for survival #unrelated

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imaginarianisms · 6 months

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more asoiaf comparisons, parallels & antiparallels to the first dance of the dragons vs the second & final dance of the dragons (& possibly the sixth blackfyre rebellion): the blacks being daenerys i targaryen's supporters, the golds being aegon vi targaryen's supporters, tommen baratheon being a close equivalent to gaemon palehair & his mother essie & sylvenna sand which may be interpreted as a parallel with queen cersei lannister & taena merryweather of myr, trystane truefyre being a close equivalent to aegon/young griff & perkin being jon connington & the shepherd being the new high septon the high sparrow, dalton greyjoy being euron i greyjoy's ancestor & the latter surpassing him, alyn waters later alyn velaryon resembling aurane waters later aurane velaryon & finishing what their ancestors started. history repeats itself.