#inconsistent narrative

[alarrytale]

I can't remember what old interview it was, it might have been GQ? Where they really pressured Harry into saying how many people he had slept with. I think it was the same interview where he said he thinks he would know if he was bisexual/alluded to not being bisexual. He said he slept with 2 people. I assumed 1 was Louis and 1 the german boy.

Hi, anon!

Yes, it was the gay vampire interview as i call it in GQ. Here is the quote;

GQ: So you're not bisexual?

Harry: Bisexual? Me? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I'm not.

About who he slept with he said;

GQ: Do you know how many people you've slept with?

Harry: I know the number of people I've slept with, yes.

GQ: What is that number?

Harry: I'm definitely not telling you!

GQ: Can you give me a rough, ballpark figure?

Harry: No!

GQ: Say "yes" or "no". Less than 100?

Harry: No!

GQ: So higher than 100?

Harry: No, it's definitely less than 100...

GQ: Lower than 50?

Harry: Yes, lower than 50.

[b]GQ: Lower than 30?

Harry: I'm not doing this! You're cornering me!

[b]GQ: Lower than 30?

Harry: I'm not doing this! You're cornering me!

GQ: Come on you're a rock star. OK, less than ten.

Harry: Yes. Two people. I've only ever had sex with two people.

GQ: I don't believe you.

Harry: Well, that's my answer. Read from it what you will!

And what most of us larries read from that is the german boy and louis. This interview was published in september 2013. So either he's lying here or the number he's slept with before txf was only two, or the number of people he's slept with after txf was two. Carol*ne Fla*k, Emi*y Ata*k, Lu*y Horo*in, TS and the rest of the women who's claimed he slept with them before that interview can't all be telling the truth. Unless he's lying.

This interview was horrible and the 'come on you're a rock star' comment, when the interviewer isn't getting the answer he wants to hear, is aggravating.

[abhi-views]

Ooru Peru Bhairavakona: A Fantastical Journey with Mixed Results

Ooru Peru Bhairavakona: A Fantastical Journey with Mixed Results

Review: Ooru Peru Bhairavakona, starring Sundeep Kishan and Varsha Bollamma, has cast its spell on audiences, but not all find themselves enchanted. This unique blend of fantasy, folk tales, and horror has garnered mixed reviews, leaving some captivated and others questioning its magic. A Promising Premise Takes Flight: The film’s initial pull lies in its intriguing premise. A hidden village,…

[slutforpringles]

Daniel Ricciardo - Spanish GP 2021

Daniel made a brilliant start to jump two places up to P5, then holding that position ahead of Perez's significantly faster Red Bull through the first set of pit stops and deep into the second stint until lap 45. He fended of the faster Ferrari of Carlos Sainz in the final stint to finish P6.

[ziyechs]

joe'marr bengals reunion — a (somewhat) comprehensive timeline

1 — “have you spoken to the cincinnati bengals and what would it mean to reunite with joe burrow there?” — “i have talked to the bengals. i don’t know how many times i’ve talked to them though. but, me and joe, you know, i wouldn’t mind going back with joe. if we go back together we’re trying to do nothing but get back our chemistry and have some more fun.”

2 — “i'm really excited for this draft. i don't really know what's coming but, you know, if me and joe could get back to it... i’d love to have some fun with him again.”

3 — “i assume you'd be okay with a potential reunion in cincinnati if that were to happen?" — "yeah, i wouldn’t mind.”

4 — “me and joe talked about [a reunion] maybe like three, four times actually. we talked about it a good bit of times. he texted me this morning, just letting me know: ‘get your bags packed’, so i guess that meant that was gonna be the pick. i don’t know if that was a hint or what. so, he sent me that little text this morning, i was like ‘okay… i'm ready, bro’.”

5 — “what was your reaction like when he was lowkey recruiting you?” — “i actually was believing him sometimes, sometimes i was like ‘stop playing with me’ and sometimes i was just like ‘okay bro, i gotcha, i'm ready now’ so. i believed him this morning when he told me, you know, pack my bags. so that's when i finally was like: ‘yeah he might really be calling this’ so that's when i took his word.”

6 – “jimmy burrow, did joe tell you—he’s always been kind of coy about what he said to the bengals—did joe tell you that he wanted the bengals to select ja’marr?” — “yes, i think we figured that… and eventually… yes, he pretty much told us that he wanted ja’marr.”

7 — “it was like a week before the draft, ja'marr said: ‘dad, joe texted me.’ […] he didn't say what he said, you know. but he said: ‘joe just texted me’, [...] so he had talked to joe like... or texted with joe once or twice that week. and then he told me, he said: ‘dad, if i get with joe, we're gonna kill’ [...] so he was all excited about getting with joe.”

8 — “what was the first thing joe texted you when you got drafted by the bengals?” — “make sure your bag's packed and ready. yeah, that was what he told me.”

9 — “the cincinnati bengals are on the clock now. earlier that morning, i had got a text from joe. he said: hope your bags are packed. i know it's me, at the moment, that's what i'm saying to myself. i can't wait to be a part of it.”

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[swordscleric]

I'm only halfway through the second phase of Predathos (which, to be clear is an incredible vibe for a bossfight, love a good head & hands/multitarget-same-entity boss) but I cannot shake the feeling of disappointment and just dissatisfaction I have had with this campaign that definitely started with Dusk/Yu, got followed up handily with the first Delilah/Sun Tree fight and then has been unfortunately reinforced with every discussion surrounding the Prime Deities since Hearthdell. This campaign is fascinating to pick apart, I have been really enjoying pulling apart why it isn't working compared to C1 or C2. But as much as I'm having fun dissecting where the worldbuilding has led to the current weaknesses in the gods' argument or reading other people's incisive commentary on the lack of personalities on the Ruby Vanguard's end, the "girlfailure" nonsense, etc etc, man do I wish this campaign was better than it is.

There are so many avenues of improvement -

Matt telling everyone to prep and write characters for this campaign instead of a C2-esque character-focused campaign.

Matt working religious organisations into the world properly.

The cast engaging with Marquet as a genuine location rather than set-dressing.

Otohan, Ozo and the rest of the Vanguard having more than "*insert snappy line here*" for their personalities.

No Delilah.

Bell's Hells having an iota of curiosity for anything outside of their own selves, including but not limited to: the gods, religious worship, the Elemental Titans and why they were sundered, how the people of Exandria feel about the gods, Vasselheim and its role in suppressing information about Predathos, Ludinus Da'Leth's plan and how it would still break the world if they did it in his place

I don't know why all of this fell into place in the way that it did, but it did. We can endlessly speculate why - the cast resting on their laurels after C2, not having enough time between the animated shows and Daggerheart and Candela Obscura and, and, and - but at the end of the day I really do hope that whatever form the final campaign wrap-up takes, they burn the damn questions asking the cast "what if the world was made of pudding and this character and this character kissed?" and instead pick questions that get them to introspect for a potential Campaign 4. Otherwise I don't know what will happen, but it sure as hell won't be Mighty Nein part 2: Issylra Boogaloo.

[mortispoxi]

Seeing Twitter users recommending the People Make Games documentary as a good way to get insight on the issue is so….

I know, I’m always extremely disappointed whenever I come across someone who thinks it’s the end all be all explanations regarding the Studio ZA/UM situation.

Recommending that video always comes with a heavy caveat from me that the person needs to stop around the 40 minute mark since the interviewer shows a very clear bias that’s unbecoming of a journalist.

Regardless, now that more people are finding out about these layoffs, which might take out members of the studio that have been there since the beginning, it could finally help smack some sense into those Twitter users that actually thought, FOR SOME REASON, Rostov, Kurvitz, and Hindpere were lying for shits and giggles rather than seeing what's ACTUALLY going on which is that the investors have a very obvious agenda against the real wronged party. Hopefully this'll also open their eyes to how the People Make Games video fed into this twisted narrative that Kurvitz was somehow at fault/responsible for the theft of his own IP, but that might be asking too much from their concrete brains. Here's hoping though!

[arabella-strange]

the thing is, the campaign set us up to ask these enormous, important questions about what's right, what the appropriate limits of power are, who gets crushed under sweeping decisions where no checks are made or even possible -- and so it's hard not to be a little frustrated that the final option the BH chose was 1) Imogen and Co. rocking up to Vasselheim with a God-eater inside her, effectively squaring off to the tune of 'you will deal with us because you have to'... and yet 2) no real underlying conviction or plan or skills or networks to draw on, just the vibe of 'y'all gotta do better, I dunno how, and what "better" means is also pretty fuzzy, but anyway it's your problem now so figure it out'

like yes obviously everyone has to figure it out. that's... the problem we started with. can you contribute any new insights into the conversation? or did you just want to break something?

[itstwoamandimcursingyourname]

thinking about how aleksander called Alina an apt pupil...and thinking about how Alina spent all of shadow and bone feeling stupid and kept belittling herself for being a slow learner when it came to all the grisha theory and controlling the light and how she carried that complex of thinking very little of her own intellectual capacity throughout the rest of the trilogy even though she made sm progress(up until the last battle)...and despite that or because of that perhaps, aleksander called her an apt pupil...

[alarrytale]

Oh that GQ interview is simply awful especially that rock star part makes me seriously sick. It happend 10 years ago so it’s absolutely pointless to discuss if he’s lying about it or not but I would like to trust him he’s used to not lie and so he can’t even lie when it comes to speaking….

Anyway it also reminded me this

…imagine if one day, after HL’s CO, all those women have to admit this too lol. What an earthquake!

Hi!

I agree about it being pointless to try to figure out what he's lying about or not. I think we all agree on that one source says that, then there is another one contradicting the first one and so on, and that there is inconsistencies in the narrative. Then you have to ask yourself the question why there is a inconsistent narrative around this topic.

Harry has lied in interviews before, in particular in printed interviews where the journalist is paraphrasing what he said. There are countless of examples. In the rolling stone interview he said;

“Sometimes people say, ‘You’ve only publicly been with women,’ and I don’t think I’ve publicly been with anyone,” he said. “If someone takes a picture of you with someone, it doesn’t mean you’re choosing to have a public relationship or something.”

This is a big fat lie no matter how you interpret it and there is plenty of evidence disproving it. Saying things like that makes me lose respect for him. Don't take us for fools. But again you have to question why he's lying about it. And at the end of the day we all know why...

In regards to the fake girlfriends coming clean. I don't think they all will. I think they don't want to shine a light on it. Some of them have been lying, milked it for all it's worth and gotten attention from it. They could face a lot of crisism and backlash by doing that.

[nohara-rin-dot-mp3]

rock lee + associates is. hm. i'm very interested in its treatment of tenten so that's where the focus of my analysis has been but also like, on a more general level, it is usually not good. women who aren't tenten are constantly disrespected and objectified and none of them are allowed to be people. a lot of the jokes are homophobic. it's about as bad as naruto the original in all of those regards. and imo rock lee is terribly out of character for most of it. any and all structural concerns are brushed aside. and it's not even that funny some of the time. 4/10 i'm sitting through it for gender analysis purposes. there are a handful of good episodes but overall it's about as good as naruto is

[erstwhilesparrow]

hey does it ever make you kind of crazy that post-reunion, c!owen introduces himself to us as owen agarci? agarci as in the name of the demon he shot in the chest during his trial? we know that's not c!owen's real last name -- he tells us so right then and there -- but i think it matters that of the last names he could have chosen for his lie, he took this one. his last name might have been the only thing he still carried with him of his family, of his past before the attack, and he refuses to use it or admit to it.

because it is an introduction, y'know? his narration, after the reunion, is a way of remaking himself in our eyes -- he is not the person we thought he was, so he needs to introduce himself again. and here, the thing he claims as his originating point, as the moment from his past he wants to carry around with him in something so fundamental as his name, is the moment he first killed a demon. this is the most important piece of his past. this, he is telling us, is where he comes from.

i think a lot about how we never actually see owen's parents. i don't even think we get their names? we get their voices in flashbacks over shots of empty fields and unpopulated streets. there is a kind of blankness to owen's past, or to what owen will reveal to us of his past, that forces us to take on faith that he is telling the truth when he talks about his own history. there is no one who could say otherwise; all the people who might have known him before he was a soldier and then a general are almost certainly dead.

it grants owen a fascinating degree of control over his own history. of course he can remake himself in this way, of course he can tell any story he wants of himself in this way; there's no one left to dispute his claims. in a way, he is his own origin -- as he tells us the story of his life, he is also creating that story. he came out of those woods with nothing but a bow on his back, no history, no one still living who could call to him by name. whatever life he lived before that point doesn't matter -- the thing that fundamentally made him the person who walked into town and demanded to join the army wasn't the life he lived with his parents, it was the violence he'd been exposed to and the violence he'd discovered himself willing and able to engage in. or so his story goes.

do you think when he woke up at the bottom of that elevator, memories wiped, nothing left to him of his past, there was some strange sense that he had done this before? do you think he rose up toward the light of the clearing above, empty-handed and alive, his entire life before this point a history waiting for him to tell it, and wondered why it felt familiar?

or maybe it's that he's refusing us. because following his turn during reunion, there's almost a sense that he has tighter control of the camera now. he addresses his 'voices' nearly antagonistically, wishing we/they would go away, responding and talking to us/them in a way that feels harsher than how he's addressed chat in the past. he's frustrated with us/them: why are you still here, i thought i was done with you. he accuses us/them of only pretending to care, of lingering not so much out of concern or any desire to do something as out of some morbid curiosity. there's a degree of access to him that we seem to have lost. it's as if he's finally certain that there is an audience, and what he's willing to show us shifts.

there's something really lovely and horrifying about a lot of the more scripted sections of owen's pov after the reunion. how it shows us things only he knows (the knife in his hotbar for much of his dinner conversation with guts, the beat where he grabs his backpack and reaches for a weapon when it seems like ayngel is about to recognize him, the interaction with puddy in the second clearing when he visits with krow), but we are nevertheless shut out of his interiority as he starts talking less to others, starts favouring third-person camera shots and narration where he gets to step out of the moment and talk to us directly. you can even think about the 'scripted by owengejuicetv' segments after each kill as signalling this: he has such visible direct control of the story we get to know now. he is the one who gets to tell this story, who gets to move the pieces on the board. here's what happened, he says to us. this is how it went. this is what i do and who i am and here are the parts that mattered. do you ever think about how rasbi's ending wasn't streamed from her pov? do you ever think about how the only witnesses to rasbi's death were rasbi herself, and owen?

[thevioletcaptain]

people of tumblr acting like the season finale went full ship-seeking torpedo when EYE saw eddie tell buck "i'm right in front of you" while buck gazed at him in heart-eyed awe before leaping toward him across what seemed like an insurmountable distance 😌

[themissingnumbers]

Y'know what- That's fair. Glitch City wouldn't be a very comfortable place to be in, would it?

But now I'm kinda curious... If you're in Gen 1 Viridian City like you said, then how is the Pokemon Center not all broken and corrupted? Is Glitch City like- I don't really know how to phrase this- Contained??

I've always had this idea in my head that Glitch City wasn't just one corrupted city but like a Kanto-wide thing. But, if you're safe in Viridian, then maybe it's not as widespread as I think it is... Sorry Green, I know I'm making a lot of assumptions, but could you tell me how the Gen 1 world works? If you want to, of course.

"Hoo boy, well, I'll try to explain all I can, Also, Don't worry 'bout it, make as many assumptions as you want, hell you can even be assumptive about me if ya want, I'm just here to entertain you after all, Aren't I?"

"Anyways, Lets take these in chunks!"

"No, no, you're right, The Gen-One Kanto was broken into rotting pixels and bits.

Buuuuut, as ya know, there's more than one cartridge- more than one game for the first gen too. Did'ja think every version of Kanto was like that buggy mess?"

"Nah.."

"Just two!"

"Though, technically I would say yes to this, it is at least somewhat contained. Hell every god's gotta have a couple handfuls of eternity prisons where it keeps its least favored. Some get mountain, some get graves, some get depressed, Some get Bitrot."

"If ya want more info on the world though, you're gonna have t' ask fer more specifics, can't just dump a mile-long history lecture."

"Yes, I'm referring to Reddo, though you're right, there are many rejects 'round here."

"I disagree though I think he is little. Sure he may be tall but he's practically a skeleton. I can break him like a twig. And have broken him like a twig."

"Nah, as I said, not gonna spend my time in a bitrot hell prison if I don't gotta.

My Kanto's just empty and abandoned for a different reason. Last time I saw a person here was.."

"It was...er..."

"hm. Maybe it was when I..."

"Yeah.. Yeah, it was...."

He shrugs.

"Oh nah they're just some part of me or somethin or other. I don't think I got the like. carving-painting-other skill bull to do that anyways. I just take the textures and my sprite does its work for me."

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[gendrie]

"Then what good is it?" "As well ask what good is life, what good is death? If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him—valar morghulis." "Valar morghulis," Arya repeated. It wasn't hard. Her fingers closed tight over the coin. (Arya, ACOK) She fled from him, but only as far as the next open door. I know this room, she thought. She remembered those great wooden beams and the carved animal faces that adorned them. And there outside the window, a lemon tree! The sight of it made her heart ache with longing. It is the house with the red door, the house in Braavos. [...] Faster and faster the visions came, one after the other, until it seemed as if the very air had come alive. Shadows whirled and danced inside a tent, boneless and terrible. A little girl ran barefoot toward a big house with a red door. (Dany, ACOK)

these being in consecutive chapters does not feel coincidental. im not necessarily arguing arya is the girl in dany's vision. i think that could be a fun twist! as arya is associated with barefeet in clash in particular (barefoot surefoot lightfoot) and if the house with the red door is in braavos she will likely see it in twow. that being said its probably just representative of dany's inner child searching for home.

but it seems like grrm is drawing a connection between the two. he puts arya on a course for braavos which, as far as we know, is the same location as dany's house with the red door. the placement of these moments suggests, to me, that braavos is its true location despite a lot of theories to the contrary.

[sheepie-self-ships]

WHEN will I be able to just telepathically yell from the rooftops my selfship lore. What do you MEAN I have to write fic about it if I want the message to get across

[nohara-rin-dot-mp3]

Hiii :D For the character ask if it inspires you: Orochimaru

first impression: evil guy... very evil... i liked the snake vibes but i don't think i was particularly attached to them

impression now: if you tell a kid that they're going to be evil and then ask them to do evil science experiments for you and then tell them that they're evil for doing the evil science experiments. well i've got surprising news about what happens lmao. it's not that what happened isn't their fault per se it's just that perhaps their were. influencing factors. and the of course the universal naruto moral modifier of "everyone is kind of like that :/" but you can tell that orchimaru's soooo evil because of queer-coding. until they switch it to a comedy device. god i wish their androgyny was sincerely depicted.

favorite thing about that character: i really just like the fact that everyone kind of forgets the orochimaru was the main villain for like, half the series. it's chill. they're chilling. they didn't even like stop the war crimes or apologize they just start living in konoha again. the timeline around their original departure is so funny too it happens like on four different occasions depending on the flashback so i can only imagine that they just kept getting discovered and then. not leaving. because hiruzen didn't give a fuck. hilarious.

least favorite thing: i don't even know there's a lot of things that are objectively terrible about them but i find myself fond of all of them... i guess the fact that they talk with jiraiya sometimes. get a better rival. tsunade is right there.

favorite line/scene: all the body horror stuff. i love body horror. i love it when their skin melts and shit. that's cool.

favorite interaction that character has with another: their first fight with tsunade!!!!! literally everything about there interaction across that timespan is soooo good. them offering to revive dan n nawaki is obviously manipulative on some level but i also like to think that orochimaru is actually trying to give her them back. because they love her. and like, they're both missing-nin, right, even if tsunade was never officially put in a bingo book? and then she REJECTS him and KILLS HIS ARMS and it's just very good very yuri.

character that I wish that character would interact with more: i would have loved to see them interact with konan in a meaningful way... both of them are chasing immortality (orochimaru through actual, physical living forever and konan through carrying out the goals of the dead forever and ever in order to preserve them in memory like a pinned butterfly) and both of them are insane and i just think. that there could have been something there. like even if it was just a fight i would have loved to see it... i want to see konan's plan to take them out (i KNOW she has one it probably involves. ten million billion bombs. foolrpoof.)

character from another fandom that reminds me of that character: shoko jujutsu kaisen.... it's the medical malpractice and insane skewed morals based around making themselves immune to suffering. it's a good character archetype i like it a lot

headcanon about that character: they can't drink for SHIT idk if anything on the topic has ever been said but if it has i do not care i know in my heart. that they are a lightweight. most of the time they just don't drink because they don't really enjoy it anyways but when they go out with tsunade she always convinces them to take just a sip and then makes fun of them in the morning because they passed out after like. two beers.

song that reminds of that character: blue lips by regina spektor. smth smth death being human/fighting that + the passage of time. idk. mostly this is just vibes.

unpopular opinion about that character: i see a weird amount of sakumo/orochimaru and i just don't see the vision at all. like. what is compelling about their relationship. orochimaru is possibly one of the LEAST suicide guys ever but not in a way that contrasts meaningfully with sakumo's most suicide guy ever shtick i don't understand what the appeal is!!!!

favorite image:

idk what happens in boruto but i'm a big fan of orochimaru's milf era.