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i think ladyhawke is also about how loneliness dehumanizes us. Like at this point in the curse, Navarre has become such a self reliant loner that he can barely hold a real conversation, all his awareness has been turned inward and his outward presentation suffers for it. It makes him seem wild and feral (especially when he grabs Marquet by the shoulders and, for lack of any WORDS to say about his betrayal and murder of one of Navarre's loyalists, just shakes him like a dog). Meanwhile Isabeau has held onto her socialization skills, but she's lost all of her own drive at the beginning of the film, content to stay on Navarre's arm and follow him for as long as she can, unable to see he's driving them both to suicide. they've both adopted the unthinking traits of their animal forms; respectively, the single-mindedness of the lone wolf and the blind loyalty of a trained bird.

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also true when you're writing it like that. its simple logic

all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.

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I KEEP FORGETTING TO MAKE THIS POST BUT DID YOU KNOW THE TWILI ARTIFACTS WERE BASED ON SHANG DYNASTY BRONZEWORK BECAUSE I ONLY FOUND OUT BY SEEING IT IN PERSON

THIS LAST ONE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE THE DECOR OF ZANT'S THRONE. I'M INSANE NOW

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I for one welcome our new failgirl Grace Ashcroft

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God now that i think about it. The scene where Navarre sees the wolf bites and claw marks on Phillipe's chest is the entire turning point of his character and probably the film as a whole and also proves everyone is bisexual for different reasons than you're thinking. Navarre has just seen Isabeau again, for the first time in perhaps a VERY LONG TIME, only for her to be ripped out of his grasp AGAIN, and this is the morning he's decided to go and kill the bishop and himself in the process, probably hoping the curse on her will be gone once the two of them are eliminated. He's got a whole blaze of glory planned out. And then he can't find the sword of his family line, and he KNOWS those two chuckleheads had something to do with it, and he erupts in complete rage, and then he sees What He Did, as a wolf, to Phillipe, for trying to save him from freezing to death and drowning.

And he has two options. The first, he's literally been training for since day 1 of the curse: march away, kill the bishop like he planned, and resign himself to loneliness for the remaining minutes of his miserable life before the bishop's men slay him in return. But he doesn't do that, because as soon as he sees that he hurt Phillipe, the rage isn't blinding him anymore like it has this entire time. He sees Isabeau in Phillipe. He sees how his actions have the potential to hurt her, too. And he pushes all his pride and his anger and his stubbornness aside, for both of them, and embraces Phillipe.

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I absolutely understand this take but you also have to consider: some people are afraid of being dumb and happy in front of others because that's never been safe. Some people have a deep seated fear of seeking their own pleasure no matter how simple and harmless it would be. Sometimes the parts of themselves they repress aren't what you expect them to be.

I advocate for both, of course, but they're different genres. One is visceral, one is emotional, both will serve plenty of conflict for your werewolf story.

I hate the dog-ification of werewolves >:( I by making them happy dumbos it misses the best part of transformative monstrosity: repression. If you aren't afraid of the beast within what's the fucking point. It's the big bad wolf lurking on moonlit nights it's not your golden retriever in the park at noon. Justice for repression!! Justice for the beast within!! Justice for the fear of who you could be if you really let loose! Is the monster your true self? Does the thrill of the wild outweigh the guilt that comes in the light of day, when there's mud on your feet and blood on your hands? What does it mean that you crave that which disgusts you, that the wolf isn't just something you become, it's something you always were

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playing botw is like Hylia forgive me, I don't remember them.

Playing totk is like Hylia forgive them, they don't remember me

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My RE9 plot prediction is that the entire Raccoon City infection is going to turn out to not be the government's fault at all but instead the behest of one individual, who was simply ~crazy~, but only because they ~lost~ someone

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Doug Dimmadome's sex dimmadungeon, home of the Dimsdale Dimmadominatrixes

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@thebrandywine mentioned in passing that Piers' scarf is actually a sniper's veil and broke my brain. Of course it is. Why would he just be wearing a scarf in the field when the rest of his design is military accurate

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I'M LITERALLY SO PROUD OF THEM

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You draw one canonically dead character for fun and it's over from there. You start thinking about what the scar would look like if they lived. And then if they got older. And then you're seven miles deep in the recovery AUs and making their survival ripple out to affect every other character more than their obliteration ever did

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Paranatural is so good I hope everyone reads it

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It's like really unfortunate how incoherent the story of BotW is and how much it feels like there wasn't any set timeline (beyond "a hundred years ago" and "now") or a space for the individual writers to talk to each other, leading to things like the guys Zelda ordered to take Link to the Shrine just totally giving that duty up to Purah and Robbie, or a the "child" leader of the Gerudo's birth mother having died 100 years ago, necessarily making every single race in Hyrule aside from Hylians themselves extremely long-lived. in Hyrule Castle alone you get these conflicting accounts that imply Zelda began writing her extremely studious journal when she was FIVE. Like the budget very clearly is no longer going into the actual narrative and this carries over into TotK in terms of both the first king AND queen of Hyrule dying long before they could sire the heir who is a canon character you can unlock as a skin.