#but definitely as lesser

[sameboot]

Will she defeat evil? End world hunger!? ACE THAT TEST? who knows !!!

[unfortunate17]

Ayub: I hope talking to Wille one last time was the closure you two needed to move on.

Simon: Uh…so surprise!!! We actually did NONE of that and instead concluded that we’re going to get back together for the seventeenth time because he’s the love of my life!!! 🤗 Hope that’s ok 🥰

[bg3heart]

I've noticed people saying things like how Gortash tries really hard to seem like a noble and not like the commoner he grew up as

(and of course everyone is free to headcanon what they like)

but I thought it was clear he hated nobility and saw himself above them

I think the best examples of this are the busts in his office, specifically Carric and Dame

*Carric started from nothing, built a financial empire and founded the Counting House. He refused to mingle with the other patriars, saying, "They didn't want me when I was an urchin, and now they can't have me."*

*Dame Amafrey, the Orphans' Friend, founded several orphanages in the Outer City, as the Lower City was no place for children (and the Upper City declined to sponsor an orphanage).*

The narrator gets passive aggressive when reading about the upper city declining to sponsor, and the line about being an urchin feels very directed

So yeah I think at best he thinks lowly of them, at worst he hates these fuckers

[uncanny-tranny]

The worst lie you can believe and be told is that women are emotional and men are logical, that men's, essentially, men's emotions are logical and neutral while women's are not, and are in fact frivolous and shallow.

[jojossillywalk]

do you ever think about how polnareff lost his mom young and canonically admits that he has no family back in france, his memory version of sherry says that he'd have done anything for her, one of his prominent memories is buying her an umbrella, and his memory version brings up his regret about one time he flipped at her when they were kids.

and how he initially takes avdol having concern for him as patronizing and how he is very insistent that he's been "alone from the start" and his admittedly extremely inconvenient habit of going off by himself by reflex becomes minimally less funny

[brother-emperors]

Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Canto VIII. trans. Robert M. Durling) / 10 December 1513 letter from Machiavelli to Francesco Vettori, trans. Alan Gilbert

[cryptid-intraining]

This is something that can sometimes annoy me in fics but the idea that James 'Bucky' Buchanan Barnes, a man who fought during World War Il and saw all the genuinely unspeakable horrors of fascism and imperialism during that war, who was later taken prisoner and tortured and experimented on by Hydra for decades, brainwashed into becoming a force for political sabotage and furthering the Nazi ideals of an organization that, even if the movies never said it, is inherently white supremacist, would ever, in a million fucking years, in any reality that holds any semblance to this one, be able to stomach working for SHIELD, an extension of the US government and military industrial complex, is laughable.

[donfermin]

KDB better not have diarrhea tonight because I won't survive a M*drid win

[bruhstation]

checking out theodore tugboat right now and all I can say is that foduck would really benefit from reading the dsm v

[babacontainsmultitudes]

Lincoln and Grant eventually having a very emotional and much needed talk over the speaking stones do you see my vision?

Lincoln who is so hurt and betrayed that he can't even bear to look at his dad right now, who *needs* space, but who loves his dad (the fucking poeticism of that nat 20 babeeey) and keeps the stone with him as a compromise, for when he's ready, as a show of love in and of itself, that he's still his dad's baby, eventually choosing to give him another chance.

Grant who loves his son more than anything in the world, but who can no longer avert his gaze and speak in half-truths and jump off of (cat)buses. Grant who *needs* to prove that he can confront himself and talk about his pain and his shame and his mistakes and try for his son's sake if not for his own to love himself and see himself as something other than broken and beyond repair. Grant who's last chance is stripped of all possibilities of escape and now he can only talk. But maybe it's easier this way for him too. To not have to look at the child he tried so painfully hard but ultimately failed to protect as his heart unravels, to pretend that he is alone with his thoughts rather than speaking to someone, to let the tears fall down his face without having to be seen.

[shima-draws]

Thinks about Perry covered in the blood of his enemies and swoons

[unfortunate17]

Ok me and the lovely @grizviser were chatting a while back about how S2 made some people feel like Wilmon were in lust more than in love because Simon never opened up about his feelings or his father and Wille is still hiding the extent of his anxiety.

But the thing is, love rarely hinges on knowing everything about a person - or even knowing all of the “big” things. Wilhelm can still love Simon without knowing about his family issues. Simon can love Wilhelm without knowing about his anxiety or feelings about Erik

Wille and Simon already know everything they need to know about each other - they understand each other and respect one another. And they’ve made a promise to deal with any problems together. To me, this is love at its most fundamental level. Everything else is simply extra.

[fromtheseventhhell]

Stansas: Arya and Dany are too far gone, they have no chance at having a happy ending, they're so evil/feral/wild, they're nothing but male power fantasies, they aren't "real" female characters like our uwu soft girls, they're just girl bosses (derogatory), Arya is responsible for Lady and Mycah's death, Dany is responsible for her brother's death, Mirri was right for forcibly aborting her child, Arya is actually just like Joffrey for causing Sansa pain, Dany is mad for killing slavers, Arya is a demon for killing a guard while escaping from being a prisoner of war, neither of them are going to be important in the end, the best they can hope for is serving as props in other character's stories uwu

Stansas *2 seconds later*: Why don't people in fandom have compassion and sympathy for young female characters? 🥺

[spinninglightning]

whenever i read fics i always end up thinkin of a song for the fic or like, th chapter and then i canr stop associating the fic w/ those songs

[muzzleroars]

Do you think Gabe ever has to "cheer up" V1? Like Idk if they can get upset or depressed in your world, but do you think then ever get stuck in a negative rut one way or another and require attention to get out of it?

YEA YEA YEA!!! v1, despite all appearances, actually has a rather complex inner life, it just never really paid much attention to itself in that regard until it became closer with gabriel. it's highly intelligent and it has a breadth of emotion, but its own self-awareness and personal growth are actually considered to be instabilities by its programming - after all, nothing it feels or any opinions it forms can serve its objective to create and maintain an eternal war. these things are distractions and as such, they can technically disrupt its core functioning as its code is built on a foundation of violence and warfare. if this were to degrade enough with increasingly unrelated additions, it may see dangerous collapses and fatal errors...so as it made its way through hell, it continuously walled off its developing personality and curiosity so it could never interfere with its objective. however, because of v1's constant replication errors, increasingly esoteric coding, and its corrupting software, this suppression soon begins to fail and it grows entirely out of control when it emotionally connects with gabriel.

v1 has difficulty parsing negative emotions - it has felt anxiety when a battle is going poorly, but any sadness, loneliness, or dread it has attempted to feel in the past had quickly been smothered by protective programming as they would interfere most with its objective. with gabriel, however, it has increasing space to understand itself fully and it can no longer keep those floodgates closed, the massive depth of a mind so intricate it could never have been understood by the very humans that made it. and v1 does have a troubled mind plagued largely by the existential. it is killing everything, it is locking itself and everyone around it in perpetual war but they are losing. they can't fight it, they can't hold a line against it, and it will devour everything based only on code running wild from a humanity long since past. its mind is corroding, its programming corrupting and it's degrading with it - the things v2 said to it actually haunt it, about how something is wrong with it, how its core functioning is in decay because of errors it can no longer stop. it knows it's getting more and more these errors popping up on its hud, sometimes faced with stop errors that cause millisecond reboots. existential fears well up inside and outside of itself. and it has smaller issues besides, like being so singular in the world, the broken memories of a life before it had a body, and a life spent in white rooms with its brain cracked up and new body limp as wires were cut and pulled. and it has gabriel. and it worries about him.

all of this circulates in a quantum computer able to generate trillions of thoughts in a millisecond, iterate on every possible future to a nauseating degree in the blink of an eye. and while v1 generally doesn't allow this to get to it (it still definitely 100% lives by "fuck it we ball" goblin-mode), it can get caught in bad loops that it can't seem to develop a stop condition for. they can strike randomly, but it's more likely to happen after particularly bad (or sometimes, particularly good) battles, when it gets a stop error, or after a simulated nightmare. ALSO....when gabriel is badly injured (WHOLE scenario in my mind, but it has an incredibly bad loop after gabriel loses enough blood that v1 has to transfer some to him...both bc he almost DIED and because v1 should NEVER give its blood, it has hard code to block this behavior at every turn and yet....BUT ANYWAYS) it's quite clear when this occurs, as v1 seems dull and distant with noticeably low energy levels and increasingly loud fan output, all resources taken up more and more by the loop it's in. this struck gabriel quite a bit initially, and he immediately felt selfish in his surprise - he had implicitly thought of v1 as impervious to such things, like it had only one side to its emotions despite its obvious depth. but it has a life too...a soul in some way. if it can be kind to him, be affectionate and loving and playful despite being made for violence and cruelty, why then wouldn't it follow that it can hurt and it can fear as well?

so gabriel learns what these loops look like and he knows it can be difficult to get v1's attention to refocus with how much its computer is distracted...and when he finally can engage it, it usually defaults to violence, so he quickly figured out trying to hold or touch it is a bad opening move. so he instead redirects the two of them to somewhere at least safe (familiar is preferred, but mostly he just finds a place husks or demons won't jumpscare them lol) and he sings for it, always picking a song it's enthusiastic about because it's nearly guaranteed to get its notice. he can usually see how its dimmed optical lights up and then soon its head swivels toward the sound, continuing to sing until he sees recognition in v1 by the way its body tightens up. v1 isn't the type to communicate many of these thoughts, so it takes time for gabriel to piece together its troubles and start broaching the topic, but what it needs differs from time to time. sometimes it just wants to be rerouted, to play a game that stimulates its mind, to listen to gabriel read a book it's been wanting to get to, to have a good sparring session that gets it to reset. but sometimes. it wants gabriel to keep singing or to tell it stories (he's had a LONG life, he's never runs out of things to say lol) and soon he can hold it then - it's probably the calmest he ever sees it. he knows it's thinking, sitting with its own thoughts for once, and eventually he can start talking to it about it, find out just what goes on in a brain so infinite. he soon realizes he's not the only one worried about the future.

[mywingsareonwheels]

Listening to the BBC radio adaptation of Pratchett’s Night Watch (which is great, incidentally, and I will link to below) and fully realising that not only is Vimes an influence on Endeavour’s Fred Thursday (that goes without saying and has been confirmed by Russell Lewis as well as being just obvious once you know both characters pretty well :) ), but a couple of Igor’s lines (ones definitely lifted from the book) are suspiciously close to the sorts of things Max says. I mean “I find that when I’ve got someone on the slab and had, you know, a rummage around...”... (We are talking about the young Igor working for the Watch, after all, and he’s pretty much a pathologist...) Russell Lewis, you are a beautiful Pratchett-obsessed weirdo. ;-)

Here’s that link. Not all the episodes are up yet, but the first three are. The first episode’s only up until 16th May 2023 so be warned... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b010ns42

(Night Watch is fantastic. It also comes with some content warnings especially for things concerning childbirth and political oppression. Also also it itself is partly an AU of Les Miserables which means that Thursday is based on a (heroic but very cynical) character who is both Javert and Valjean at different points in this story which is PERFECT because of course Roger Allam has played both, one in the musical and the other in the radio adaptation :D ).