Me? ADHD? Nah, that's the misbehaving hyperactive sporty kid thing. I prefer staying at home and researching the history of calendars. Did you know that the ancient Egyptian calendar year started when Sirius rose at dawn? It signified the start of the flood season. Speaking of stars, I think Venus is visible in the early evening right now. Hang on, I have an app for this. I think it's in the folder called "lunch time".
In your post about the Darkling where you listed your opinions of him (first impression, impression now, favorite vs least favorite thing, etc) you said how if you had to choose a least favorite quality it would be his grumpiness (especially in RoW). Since I refuse to touch that cursed duology if it’s okay, may you explain what you mean? I know we get some of the Darkling’s POV but that’s pretty much all I know. Could this entire trait of his be a product of Bardugo’s retconning habit or is it something more?
Aha. I see you're practicing self-care too, dear anon. 😌
Here are some examples:
From his POVs we can see that Aleksander is very pragmatic but also bad-tempered and bitter but that's completely understandable.
He has just been resurrected and:
1) Encountered a Saint that he detests.
2) Found his country to be in the worst state possible. Flanked by enemies and ready to attack.
3) Oh and let's not forget that devastating blight! ☝️
4) His captors have treated him like shit and put him under inhuman conditions.
5) Saw the woman he loved live a life that she doesn't deserve, being a shell of her former self and married to a man that he hates and considers worthless.
6) He's all alone. No Baghra, no Alina, no allies, no soldiers. He has to start from all over and has found himself surrounded by idiots (but even so he feels the need to protect them).
The fact that I find his grumpiness kinda annoying is because I as a person have been surrounded by grumpy people all my life so I can't help but find it unattractive and bothersome.
But then again, Aleksander has a really valid reason for being this way. It's very possible that he took this sarcastic attitude from his mother. After all, they had spent so many years together that Aleksander really adopted most of her traits, unwillingly or not. But I also believe he's that way because he has lived for too long.
He's immortal. He has done everything and seen everything, has seen people being kind and cruel, predictable or unpredictable. His experiences have only made him more bitter but that's also because he hasn't seen any positive changes or results from his constant battle against the persecution or how Ravka and the Grisha have no regard for him or don't notice his efforts at all.
Anyway, he's bitter about many things. In RoW he's that way for the reasons I explained in the beginning but, as a whole, he's resentful for a bunch of reasons that include his immortality and its consequences, the loss of people he loved, his strive to be seen and appreciated and the horrors he has witnessed.
A tribute to Blueshift, the ttrpg campaign I've been playing with my roommates the entire time we've lived together. I'm moving, we ended the game last week, and I keep crying about it!! Love you guys
Why can't we have a batman is the spirit of Gotham au?
He already is, in meta, in character, in theming. Him and the joker. He is so very built upon what Gotham is made of, and Gotham builds from what he needs in turn, the setting of his story.
What if that is the reason he can take damage that would permanently ruin a physical career and come back? What if that's how he's managed to maintain his no-kill streak to such an extent? What if that's how he manages to maintain such high maintenance and all consuming identities?
For the heart and soul of a city containing all extremes, the richest nobility and the lowest of the poor, the cruellest villains and the most compassionate heroes, orphaned children and ancient lineages, a city rooted in fear and madness and grit-teeth determination and hard won kindness, what better choice could you find than Bruce Wayne?
But what if he wasn't alone in that? What if Gotham has sunk to such a low because its spirit is damaged and corrupted?
For the heart and soul of the cruellest city in the dc universe, the most unrelenting and uncaring, the one that practically laughs at your pain and suffering as you try to make it through another day, what better choice than the Joker?
Wanted to mention the lyrics to the BSD 5 opening and their significance to a specific scene
「立ち止まる事でしか見えない場所が」
A place that can only be seen by stopping [movement]
「行けない場所がある」
There are places you can't go.
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So when showing the rift between Atsushi and Akutagawa (life and death), the lyrics mention the afterlife. A place only Akutagawa can see, after death. Then, "there are places you can't go."
From Akutagawa's perspective, it would be "I am in a place only seen after death. You can't come to this place; you can't follow me."
From Atsushi's perspective, this would be "You are somewhere that I can't see, that I can't reach. You can't go there [you can't leave me]."
I feel like we don't talk enough about "Isn't it weird to think if your hand was inside of a dragon, and your mind was still in control of it, you could've killed the dragon from the inside by crushing it's heart or something"
all the continued little jokes about how 'armand is presenting a fake version of his history where lestat was suuuper into him teehee what liar.' lestat literally said he any attraction he felt for anyone before armand was a fleeting shadow compared to what he felt for him and he only understood desire after they met. but ok. 'armand is the only person in the universe lestat doesn't want to fuck.' lestat choses not to be with armand because of being violated and betrayed, but he rejects armand - by which i mean, doesn't just tell him no, but tells him he's disgusting and that he could never love him - specifically as a way to hurt armand and get back at him. because lestat is spiteful and does not care if it makes him miserable to send armand away (and it does), so long as he can even the score and regain the upper hand. but yeah armand is just pathetic and making up a kiss because lestat thinks he's gross.