#i at least have a chance of improving

[hollyslangblr]

something i like about learning languages is i feel it allows me to better express myself, even if i’m only writing for me. if i’m writing a song and i feel like i’m laying myself too bare it helps me to switch language even just for a line or two cos it gives me a degree of separation and helps me stop judging myself so harshly

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Queued Hot Take from the blinding migraine cave:

I’m hate New Moon’s new behavior vastly more than I ever hated Old Moon’s behavior.

[b4kuch1n]

I'm not really any manner of orator, and I average out at the amount of knowledge that passes my feed. I just... you know, recognize that. the US authorities and the bulk of celebrities who played into it to keep their job did those same things to us in the 60s and 70s. it's the same playbook, it's the same colonialism, it's the same human toll.

[timelessbian]

*said with clenched fists, through gritted teeth* cringing at something i wrote nearly a decade ago is actually a good thing and i am being so strong and brave by reading it without clawing my eyes out

[thedeadflag]

I've rewatched WoT S02E06 three times now, and once again I find myself hoping beyond hope that we get a better ending with the Seanchan at the end of the show than what RJ/BS managed with the books.

Like, I get the "little in life is black or white, we exist in the greys" bit that's routinely pushed, and the narrative exploration of the politics of privilege and how the majority of a society can grow to tolerate and appreciate the subjugation of others and the horrors their government inflict if it means their own lives benefit. I get the spotlighting themes of Law vs Justice and Order vs Peace they bring out. I get that. I do think both authors really had a tendency to stumble when writing towards those aims, and it often came across as minimizing the evil of the Seanchan. There are things in life worse than death, and I never did see the Seanchan as any better (and often saw them as worse) than the Dark One's forces. By the end of the series, the dark one's imprisoned again, and the Seanchan are reasonably well equipped to eventually conquer the world within a few generations (and iirc we do get glimpses of that future through Aviendha). The only other alternative would be if Shara only let a trickle of their forces to the final battle, and had enough of a channeler army to pose a threat, and they honestly wouldn't be any better. Shit's seriously fucked.

And I have little doubt that not too long after that conquering (or perhaps in the later stages of it), some desperate people will bore into the Dark One's prison again and release him in exchange for the power to defeat the Seanchan. And I honestly wouldn't blame them (and the Dark One probably worked to build that force over the centuries as a plan B if all else fails), and it may just be the right thing so that the Seanchan society can die off, and hopefully when the Dark is defeated once again, there won't be the threat of a looming incomprehensibly evil society ready to take over.

Like, I don't need a kittens and rainbows happy ending in the show, it wouldn't fit the series, but I do want one where the threat of the Seanchan is seriously considered and where there's some glimmer of hope for a better turning of the wheel. Throughout the series, I always considered them on par with the Dark One as the "big bad", if not the sneakily primary one, since they're more 'digestible' as the more human face of evil, but still no less evil than the Dark One and its forces. And it's a big reason why Sanderson's books kind of fell flat for me and often undermined the tension they tried to build in sections related to them, because the threat of the Seanchan really wasn't addressed well, at least not IMO.

It's probably because RJ planned another book series featuring Mat that would potentially explore the deconstruction of Seanchan society and the political intrigue and philosophical issues involved with changing the core principles of a society and the elements of imperialism/colonialism involved in that, but we're never getting that story, so can we please just ensure the show ends with a decisive L for the Seanchan? Please let them reap the consequences of their own actions for goddamned once, at least to some extent to where there's meaningful hope for a better future.

Or maybe just have Semirhage completely eliminate all Seanchan leadership and capability to enslave channelers during her time in the Seanchan mainland, and publicly collars a few sul'dam before killing them to break public faith in that whole system. Like, screw the civil war nonsense, just cast them into utter chaos, left to question everything they believed in. That way, by the end of the show, there may be less narrative impact to the truce, but it'd make for a more hopeful ending given the slim likelihood of the Seanchan culture and principles lasting long after the end.

Like, I don't care all that much how it happens, only that it does happen. The writers have a chance to make their own mark in a good way, and if the series lasts that long, I hope that they take it. (And also maybe just omit the Shaido abduction arc entirely, it doesn't need to happen and they wouldn't have the runtime on screen to justify that conclusion.)

[entropyvoid]

Zagreus and Melinoë

I have never jumped on a chance to do fanart so quickly after a game’s announcement, I cannot WAIT for Hades II!

[robotsprinkles]

okay so I know that at this point expecting the mandalorian to be good is maybe a bit much, but even still

what happened to the mandalorians using grenades and jetpack missiles and whistling birds?

also. you'd really expect that a people who've been practicing the art of war for thousands of years would know not to just charge bullheaded after a retreating enemy. that's like. the most basic tactic to get an enemy force to overextend and get themselves killed.

(I'm also questioning why grogu didn't even try to use the force on the imperial knockoff mandalorians or the doors. I'd be okay if he tried and failed but he didn't even do that)

(I don't consider this the type of criticism where someone goes "hey why wouldn't/didn't [character who doesn't know information the audience does] [act in way that would be intelligent if they knew said information]" because, again, "don't just mindlessly charge after a retreating enemy force" should be one of the first lessons they get taught when they're learning how to fight as part of a unit)

also why didn't bo try to darksaber the door until gideon asked for it

(and I'm going to say it again. why the hell were none of them carrying grenades. or using their jetpack missiles. what.)

[rinhaler]

I’m soooo excited to finish writing toxic!megumi btw 🤤

[kordbot]

as the weather gets colder and the seasonal depression kicks in I learn that the depression I had throughout summer was not summer seasonal depression but in fact just regular depression

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i have a Lot of thoughts and feelings in me about the reading of adam as a deeply unreliable narrator, and how it makes him and the stories/character dynamics/worldbuilding he's involved in so much more nuanced and interesting, and how it could have given us so much opportunity for messy-but-trying character growth on his part, and how instead pretty much the extent we got of any acknowledgment that his background might have fucked up his perspective A Little is the other protagonists going 'WOAAAAH he's SO cold and fucked up, mogadorians amirite' and then moving right the fuck along

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[hells-greatestdad]

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Finally off work whoop whoop

[inazuma-fulgur]

If you feel targeted/spoken to by this video: good. And if you still defend even just some liberal appraoches to politics after hearing this then you can't be a leftists no matter what you think about yourself, I will gatekeep you. Get the fuck out.

These political phenomena/dynamics exist in countries other than the US as well, particularly in US client states/US allied countries.

Looking back in time how the US government system has destroyed several countries and rebuilt them with a new "democratic" system mirroring the US'es just adapted slightly to fit the particular MATERIAL CONDITIONS of them is very telling and interesting and honestly anyone who doesn't spend time relearning history during adulthood/after school is doing something wrong imo.

[momochiiee-reblogs]

Welp, since I'm being rendered jobless starting this following weekend, and some issues at home happened I am now taking on all cleaning duties home

The bright side is, I will probably clean more often my room precisely cuz if I'm cleaning all other areas, it takes no extra effort once I'm set in motion, by force of I don't want to disappoint anyone else even less than what I usually disappoint myself when struggling with starting tasks ahdshfhdhfhjf