#is Like That and is scheming and whatnot

[vic-does-battlecats]

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[demeterdefence]

kept meaning to make a post and kept FORGETTING to because i'm dumb but i cannot stop thinking of all the loose ends / introduced plots that got dropped without any warning and one that has been sticking out is persephone's "new" abilities after she "lost" her powers

we get a lackluster hint in episode 267, when apollo uses some random magic deus ex machina to "restore" persephone's powers. he starts bleeding from the nose and ears.

also apologies for the terrible quality, i forgot that lo went under daily pass and had to scour my own screenshots lmamdgjsf

it's not explained at the time whatsoever and in fact, the vagueness of the narrative kind of half-heartedly implies that it's an effect of ouranos' magic - it's also completely handwaved away, since no one bothers to ask why apollo is suddenly bleeding from the orifices and able to use persephone's powers.

it's not until persephone and hera decide to visit kronos in tartarus that persephone explains she somehow knew all along what this strange power was! she can apparently make a god rot from the inside!!!

it's not explained at ALL how she figured that out or like ... why she has that specific power. it is mentioned during the solstice where she creates winter that she can only make "decay," but that's a pretty obvious and visual thing - she's quite literally blistered the mortal realm in snow and ice, with all the plants dying on their physical surface.

important context, but other than persephone's attack on minthe, she is never seen using her powers on another person. her abilities are always on herself, or using plants / growth in some way. the fertility goddess nonsense does mean that hades and kronos are able to use her powers to strengthen themselves, but beyond that plot point being ridiculous, it's also something they don't just figure out overnight. kronos being able to escape control the underworld, and hades going godzilla mode during the trial, are clues used to eventually figure out what persephone's fertility goddess powers can do.

in regards to her new winter powers, persephone either figured it out somehow before the scene with apollo, or she figured it out after. with no explanation how.

moving from the how, we then get the last mention to this power, when persephone attempts to stop kronos

spoiler: it does not work. the power is never referenced again.

in terms of lore olympus' many crimes, it's a small thing, but it stands out to me as such a flailing attempt to write some wiggle room into the finale. rachel was struggling to get to the end, that much was obvious, and she was padding out the episodes as desperately as she could so that she could pull on any random thread and find a way to keep the plot moving. in better hands, this might have been a legitimately interesting power to explore for persephone! the goddess of spring, capable of rot, capable of such bone-deep destruction, and how she reconciles that with growth. it could have been a powerful juxtaposition, but it got abandoned as soon as rachel figured out how to give persephone her powers back. presumably, persephone still has this ability, but it is literally never brought up again. we have no idea if there was lasting damage to apollo, if it did anything in particular to kronos, what it can do to a god (the assumption is nothing, since both apollo and kronos seem just fine in their final scenes.)

it's just. amazing to go back and look through all the various strings rachel was knotting together, seeing stuff that might have been genuinely fascinating to explore in some other writer's hands! tiny little things like this, added up together to just be crapshoot after crapshoot. it's no surprise at all that rachel finished the last episode barely an hour before it went live. what a mess.

[prettyinpwn]

I wanna give whoever designed Ford's portal outfit an award.

[bunnyinatree]

Can someone who is well-versed in Witcher lore confirm or deny whether Geralt has albinism? He is listed on the wiki page for characters with albinsim, but seeing as every character with albinism that I know of isnt included, I dont trust the list very much…

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

When two of your OTPs are technically Blue/Yellow and Blue/Orange pairings (depending on the merch/art)

[xskyll]

I just need to vent. Someone made a podfic of one of my fics a short while back. Yesterday, they told me they were monetizing their channel and asked permission to put ads on their podfic of my story. I'm very glad they asked permission, so I could say no, but all the same, I can't help but feel so angry. I would never go to someone and say, "Hey, do you mind if I make money reading aloud your story that you spent months and months slaving over, while you don't make a single cent? Do you mind if I throw ads on this thing you poured your soul into, turning your love letter to fandom into another cog in the capitalist money machine?" I just imagine someone listening to my description of Shouto fighting Bakugou and listening to him bare his soul about his toxic behaviors—I scene I tried to craft with such care—and just before Izuku kisses Shouto's black eye, an ad for a Kia plays.

Part of me is wondering if I'm overacting—I know some people would say, 'it's just fanfiction, calm down'—but a larger part of me is like, "The absolute gall! YOU making money using MY heart???"

[bionic-vapour-boy]

as much as i love participating in FIRST and FRC i can't help but feel so dissapointed at how,,, usamerican it is. like its this super cool competition marketed as this "wow were giving kids steam tools to become the better versions of themselves!!" but then you look a little into it and theyre sponsored by the cia and the us department of defense and boeing and bae systems and so on, litteral groups who profit from mass death and you start to see it isnt really for making future scientists who will fix the world or something its just to make more american military complex workers. why waste your precious engineering skills doing something useless like helping others when you can help us make bigger and worse bombs! but #womeninstem so its okay guys

[rigginsstreet]

no but actually post season 3 where billy ends up in a coma after starcourt and wakes up and remembers every awful thing he had to do and hes shaking with sobs remembering heather and her being his first victim when all she wanted to do was help him and he feels so guilty about it and max is like “no heather made it, shes alive” and billy doesnt believe her until heather comes walking in with steve and robin (there is much to explain, bills been out a while) 

and at first billys relieved to see her alive but also doesnt want her anywhere near him because hes afraid he’ll hurt her again etc etc but heather just crawls into the hospital bed with him and holds him and reassures him shes fine and its over and theyre gonna be okay now and just.... best friends <3

[castleinthemist]

like the thing about why i keep harping on about playing older games isn't just a kind of attrition against only playing the brand new stuff that's viewed as like, the only thing worth playing but also an exploration of shit i missed out on because of my age/wasn't released in this country/didn't have the means to play it or whatever reason and that i think it just fosters a much healthier approach in the play of games? Like, i'm never going to play something and go 'damn this game's mechanics/mode of play is so outdated and aged', like, look i get it? Quality of life gets slung around so often you'd think that games without mechanics or features (i'm not talking about accessibility here. There are many older games that just lack severaly basic accessibility features and are thus, unapproachable to many people i would not fault the player for avoiding them for that reason) might be 'outdated' because they simply lack some random thing that is commonplace these days but once you've spent at least like a couple of hours in a game you get used to it. You get used to how it plays. Just. meet it on its level is all and you'll find that the more often you play older stuff, the more often you understand how to play them and the less attrition you'll have against them

[robotwrangler]

yes man printing out little homemade cards he makes using some software on the mainframe thats definitely not designed for making cards but he does it anyway like those grandmas that make knitting patterns in excel.

Thank you anon I love this & am so honoured to be the one you chose to send this to. Yes Man would SO do that, it’s so him

[loathsome-little-creature]

Out here plotting the demise of my enemies. On my scheming shit

[myreputatioooon]

The dichotomy of wanting to get into more MCYT content because you fucking love that medium of storytelling versus the sheer emotional burnout of series and fanfics with too much hurt and too little comfort inflicted upon you which you still haunts you tok this day

(and also you dont have anytime you ain't reading all that but that isn't important)

[meiozis]

I must say, your Vernon fanfics really hit too close to home. Amazing writing, I am invested in them with my own heart. The feelings of nostalgia, bittersweetness and comfort swirls inside my mind everytime I reread your stories. Please be healthy and have a happy, lovely life.

I'm so glad you enjoyed reading them <33 and the fact that you reread them!!! Honestly I've been feeling so down about my writing lately but whenever I get a stray anon in my silly little askbox I get so emotional

I guess I forget how much it means to me if my writing resonates with even a single person <3 thank you so so much for your kindness and I'm so glad my silly words mean something to you <333 I hope you're having a lovely day, and I hope the rest of the year treats you kindly

[noxianwilled]

✒️ + also the Grand General , the people need to know !!

send me ✒️ + a ship (romantic or not!), and i will write a meta about it.

— @vixtionary

the tldr is he's. sort of an uncle? maybe? she's known him since forever, she 100% supports what he stands for as grand general, and she respects him a lot. she doesn't always trust him, she's not always happy with him, they're not necessarily very close, but she's fond of him nevertheless.

i lean towards the idea swain and marcus were, at least, friends since their youth; as a result of their long standing friendship, i think katarina would have seen swain around a lot. that doesn't mean they were close, really, but there's a familiarity. especially considering how attached she was to her father, swain being marcus' friend would already make her have a somewhat good opinion of him, even if it's in a weird uncle sort of way. out of the three du couteau children, she was likely the one who liked him better for whatever reason (the reason is he's around often and friends with dad).

but, like i said, for all the familiarity, it's not like they're close. he doesn't strike me as someone who'd care much for children, and she would be... slightly wary of pestering him too much. which certainly doesn't mean he didn't sometimes have to deal with little katarina (especially when she was very little) hanging around and asking questions and simply wanting to talk.

either way, after her failed first mission is where i tend to think swain's presence in her life becomes more significant. not immediately after, but some time later. i always thought it was suggested she was working for swain, based on her short story — where she's still taunted with being a disgraced assassin, which made it particularly significant, as it suggests the grand general gave her the chance to work for the trifarix despite her status.

i think that would sort of speak for itself, but then there's the emotional element of literally everything surrounding her disgrace. it's deeply personal, from the reason why she failed to the way she was punished for it; it left her marked far more deeply than the iconic scar. her father deemed her a failure and would have her brother kill her. but swain gives her a chance to prove herself — to show she has what it takes to be a great assassin, and, more importantly, to prove her commitment to noxus. her father, despite being her father, would not give her another chance. but swain, someone with no such deep ties, does what marcus wouldn't. her redemption relies on him, initially. and katarina will never forget that when other people would look down on her for being a failure, he gave her the chance to prove she was more.

his public and political persona, with all he defends, is also something she'd be very favorable to. before her failure that likely wouldn't have happened at all, but the person katarina grew up to be is someone who believes wholeheartedly in what swain preaches — his vision of noxus is the noxus she wants to build and fight for. katarina sincerely believes everyone should have a chance to be acknowledged for what they are capable of, rather than having things because of their birth (and that's not resentful! it's not pettiness against nobility, i actually think the foundation for that goes back all the way to talon being adopted — but i digress). she thinks he's very right in taking away from nobility and giving equal opportunity for everyone, including commoners, people from lands that originally didn't belong to noxus, or former slaves. she believes in strength, and she believes all different sorts of strengths have their value. what sacrifices nobility has to make for that to work are a small price to pay, in her eyes.

as a result, she's a fierce supporter of swain for reasons that go well beyond any personal connection. but in a way i do think she's fond of him. katarina didn't necessarily trust him, not entirely, before learning about the demon shenanigans. she didn't know him well enough for trust to exist, imo, though she'd lean towards trusting him over many others (she's just sort of naturally distrustful to an extent, after, you know, her family betrayed her). that's... slightly different after she knows about the demon, i think, all the more so because it's implied katarina would be working far more closely with him.

but yeah, regardless of trust, i think she is somewhat fond of him. katarina will talk to him less than respectfully, but in truth she's far more willing to listen to him than to most others. she respects him greatly, and the impact he had on her life is something she's very grateful for. i hesitate to say father figure because i don't think there's that closeness, but there is something of that... even more with him testing and preparing her to get rid of him if the need arises (or, in a scenario where she did become the faceless, where i think despite her independence to act there'd be a hint of mentorship in there, maybe even as a result of, well, katarina being someone he knows since childhood and who'd then have an important role in noxus' present and future).

[chainreh]

guess who just finished three hopes lol

[threnodians]

i was going to change my theme after i got jiaoqiu but honestly i kind of love it 🤔 was going to make it neuvillette–themed after tomorrow because he’s my beloved main and i adore him very much and also i have always been in love with the ocean so 🤔