I have the utmost respect for the person at the Glasgow live show that yelled from the back of the orchestra “LEAVE THEIR PIG ALONE” like a Scottish war cry at like 1:43:35.
I swear I could hear the bagpipes.
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buffy knows spike loves her during season five. buffy knows spike loves her when she comes back and seeks comfort/silence in his presence. and as she comes back to herself and tries to make peace with the fact that she’s Here Again, she still knows he loves her. and i think part of the Big Bad Grabbing The Slayer For The Darkness routine they both cling to is that it allows them to pretend this huge thing isn’t between them so they can get what they both want (someone to stay).
and like obviously buffy cannot allow herself to believe that he loves her for many reasons, but she DOES believe it, she can’t make herself unknow it even though she tries so hard. which is partially where the breakdown with tara in 6.13 comes from because the cognitive dissonance of soulless spike loving her as if he has a soul while she is so lost within herself that the only way she can reach for him is to use him (which would be fine if he was the big bad grabbing the slayer for the darkness) which is hurting him! unfathomably! but he’s supposed to be the corruption! how can he??? any of it???
meanwhile spike has watched the woman he loves be brought back as a shell and he wants to see the light in her eyes and he can touch her now and sometimes that’s enough to make her laugh but he can’t linger in those moments or she’ll go away again! so he can play the role he needs to play so she’ll stay, as if he could keep her anywhere she didn’t want to be. as if he wants her to be in the dark instead of bringing him into the light. but how could he ask for anything more when he already got her back and he didn’t even need to kill her afterwards.
and so they hurt each other and he forgets himself and asks her if she even likes him and it’s too honest and he’s asking too much (he asks for nothing) so before she can throw her life away like it’s nothing, he puts the game face on, makes himself a target, and swallows it all. and she can’t unknow. and it would all be fine except he’s a vampire and she’s the slayer and how can he just say it like it’s nothing when she needs to beat his face in just to keep from screaming.
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*sigh* thoughts on Nintendo's botw/totk timeline shenanigans and tomfoolery?
tbh. my maybe-unpopular opinion is that the timeline is only important when a game's place on the timeline seriously informs the way their narrative progresses. the problem is that before botw we almost NEVER got games where it didn't matter. it matters for skyward sword because it's the beginning, and it matters for tp/ww/alttp (and their respective sequels) because the choices the hero of time makes explicitly inform the narrative of those games in one way or another. it matters which timeline we're in for those games because these cycles we're seeing are close enough to oot's cycle that they're still feeling the effects of his choices. botw, however, takes place at minimum 10 thousand years after oot, so its place on the timeline actually functionally means nothing. botw is completely divorced from the hero of time & his story, so what he does is a nonissue in the context of botw link and zelda's story. thus, which timeline botw happens in is a nonissue. honestly I kind of liked the idea that it happened in all of them. i think there's a cool idea of inevitability that can be played with there. but the point is that the timeline exists to enhance and fill in the lore of games that need it, and botw/totk don't really need it because the devs finally realized they could make a game without the hero of time in it.
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My best friend from JHS/HS: I wanna be a girly girl so bad but the bro in me just won't die
Me, clasping her hands tightly and staring: Be both. Embrace the inherent contradictions. The rules of gender are silly. You can do whatever you want forever.
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Op can I have more information about the swap au pleaaaaase ?
I love these fucking guys I want to shake them and eat them and aaaaaaaaaaah
And in your artstyle they are so fucking immaculate hfjgkgkhlhk
Hdudhdhs thank you, im not really that deep into developing it since it came from a random ask but heres some of my thoughts
The swap is only between Wrio and Neuv. Everyone else stays the same.
Neuv being offered the position of Warden/Protector of the Sluice Gate by Focalors that 500 years ago instead of Chief Justice.
Reason being Focalors think that if Sovereigns think if humans are mislead and tainted under the jurisdiction of archons, then a Sovereign would know a more proper way to make them repent.
Furina let the people elect Chief Justice but still seeks Neuvillette's guidance, even prefer it over the current Chief Justice
After all humans would NEVER talk back against an ARCHON right..........?
Wriothesley's entire backstory still happened.
Except the fortress is alot more strict, almost no-tolerance level of strict so while Wrio doesn't have to fight for food or safety, it's not built for redemption.
He focuses more on his engineering machinery side over his boxing side.
Becomes an engineer once he's out then afterwards the newest Chief Justice.
Definitely a more sympathetic kind of Chief Justice, often taking up special interest in cases with no clear black and white judgement.
Idk about how the melusines were in early Fontaine years but i do think it's probably the only time Neuvillette ascended from the fortress to fight for something in 'Focalors domain'
Wrio only got sticker ambushed after Sigewinne noticed that Neuvillette seems to favour the new Chief Justice and proceeded to spread the news amongst her sisters
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