#it seemed very glossed over!!!!

[scourgeblooms]

commander ⇾ wayfinder

[neeshachar]

I just saw a post talking of the Black Water Arc and got inspired, but it disappeared into ether before I could interact with it.

Anyways, here's something I always wanted to be cleared out about He Xuan.

Black Water Arc spoilers | Tgcf Book 3 spoilers | White-No-Face reveal spoilers

He Xuan was NOT deliberate in befriending Shi Qingxuan in his plan of revenge. He did not even know SQX was tied to any of it.

He Xuan, immediately upon death, knew only one thing for certain, the heavens had something to do with it. He did not know what, he did not know who. It is cleared upon after the Bai Wuxiang reveals, that He Xuan learning of his fate was a part of Jun Wu's plan. Jun Wu wanted the other powerful heavenly officials weakened and out of his way. So, along with Jun Wu guiding XL to quests that specifically resulted in Pei Ming's loss of power, he also orchestrated a way to bring Shi Wudu down. So he let it slip to He Xuan that it was the water master who destroyed his life and it was him that HX needed revenge against. And this was done only right before the events leading to the Black Water Arc.

Yes He Xuan was driven, for the five hundred or so years, by revenge but it wasn't particular, it wasn't direct. He spent his time in the heavens spying in every possible gods in every possible direction, with hundreds of clones. It was Shi Qingxuan who decided to take particular liking to the Earth Master and be "best friends". So I believe that the centuries of their friendship (or more) was not disingenuous for He Xuan.

In most fan fics and interpretations, it is shown that when He Xuan "likes" or "builds a relationship" with Shi Qingxuan, it's with the prior knowledge that they are in his path of revenge. And I find that so cruel and not in character for He Xuan. Knowing the kind of person He Xuan was in life, how are we to believe he would be so cruel to allow SQX to love him, fully knowing what end awaits them? To ascend is human, to fall is also human. Hei Shui (Black Water) is still He Xuan in death.

Thus, whatever the nature of their relationship was, I maintain He Xuan wouldn't do that (and it would be so especially cruel if their relationship was intimate). This is further shown in his desperate attempts to make Shi Qingxuan see what his brother had done to the scholar he once was, to fall out of support for his brother, to just be fair and safe !

He revenge for Shi Wudu is righteous, it is fair and it is poetic, even. But the end to his and SQX, isn't fair to anyone. In the end they had to be on oppsite sides, as SQX chooses Shi Wudu (and of course they do, Shi Wudu is the parent that cared for them for their entire existence!). And that is a betrayal for He Xuan.

All of this is to say, He xuan loved Shi Quan too, he did not know Shi Qingxuan was someone connected to his destruction, and thus SQX (and him, as well) were just collateral damage in his oath of damage. He Xuan was not cruel and calculating with SQX from the beginning (well he was, but in a deceiving everyone in heavens with false identity and ulterior motives way, NOT in a I know I'm going to cause you unimaginable hurt in the future but will still let you form emotional and/or intimate connection with me way. )

[lyriumsings]

baldurs gate is so funny it’s just

laezel &shadowheart: let’s break you outta this religious cult!

wyll & gale: let’s break you outta this unhealthy relationship!

astarion & karlach: let’s break the people who broke you!

that’s it that’s the game

[alteredsilicone]

"So much of what we do resembles magic. No wonder we found demons in the forbidden spaces." "'Arcanes'. The very name smacks of sorcery. Asking for trouble, in my view."

These lines from Loid when browsing arcane dissolution are interesting, considering the fact requiems are incantations which seem to have "sorcerous" qualities.

Zariman Announcer: "Welcome to the Oro Works. Unseal only those Requiems you are authorized to recite."

Heard when entering the Void Armageddon mission, which contains the Reliquary drive.

[theholeyness]

[cluescorner]

Arlecchino's whole deal is unbelievable

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder what's causing my weird powers? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta become King and then kill my "Mother".

*Kills Clervie and "Mother"*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I was able to defeat a Fatui Harbinger when I'm like 17 or so? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta be in jail and become a Harbinger.

*Is in jail for a while and becomes a Harbinger*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I am-

Pierro: Hey what's up hello, anyways you're descended from the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah. I'm sure that this is a lot for you to take in so-

Arlecchino: Ok.

Pierro: ...You're just cool with that?

Arlecchino: IDK maybe? I can't really worry about that at the moment, I'm a father now. This orphanage full of children I love (who also are child soldiers and are not allowed to leave or else I'll execute them except maybe now I'm just gonna wipe their memories IDK I'm morally complex) isn't gonna run itself.

*Runs the orphanage/spy recruitment initiative*

Me, the fucking player: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE KHAENRI'AN? WHY WASN'T THIS BROUGHT UP IN YOUR FUCKING QUEST?? OR ANYTHING ELSE????

Arlecchino, talking to me through my phone: I honestly don't know why you care, I'm too busy to give a shit. Anyways, I'm gonna go fight fate itself I guess. I'm sure that I don't share any thematic parallels with any other Khaenri'an characters (particularly as it relates to acting and family angst) and that I haven't made the idea of 'curses' on Khaenri'ans and what they entail even more complicated than they already were. See ya.

[movedtodykedvonte]

my biggest issues with ways Spamton and Jevil are depicted is how people depict the manic aspect of their characters.

Like yes they are objectively insane but that’s not just them being feral. Yes, Spamton makes confusing choices and has asinine reasoning behind it but he has reasoning skills. He’s incoherent to us but he is coherent to himself. He may be partially winging it but he knows how to manipulate and play up his schtick until he gets his payout. The guy is capable and determined. 

Same thing with Jevil. I get he’s goofy and doesn’t take things seriously but I feel like people underplay his maliciousness compared to Spam. Like his joke about playing a simple numbers game with the lighteners was a death threat, he acknowledged their hp and intended to get it to 0. I see people acknowledge his love for violence but Jevil weirdly sensible, the only rules he abides by are that to the games rather than just making them up, he’s a lot more conditional than given credit.

[dreamlanddeluxe]

I watched captain laserhawk with my roommate and he said that the show can essentially be summed up with a studio going Hey. What if we gave donkey kong a blunt and a gun. And they were right for it

[sparky-is-spiders]

I want Jon and Sasha to both be the archivist and to drag each other down through a corruption arc.

[quirkeduptransguy]

YES my username on yt is a blood bros reference :33 i need to go to crimes world again i know in my heart and soul that i love her but i seldom show her attention .. i need to care her more ..

HOOFRAY!!!! also pretty please do!!!!!!! for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[birthday-of-music]

while november 20th did cause me irreparable damage it was much less than i expected and i think there should be more. look it hurts when canon has a bunch of angst but it hurts more when canon SHOULD have a bunch of angst but DOESNT.

[claratyler]

what did pj do /genq

he posted a video with pewdiepie a few days ago. Needless to say it gave me whiplash to see that in my youtube recommendations.. but it's more shocking to me to see that everyone was enjoying the video in the comments. or that here on tumblr, people have continued to post about pj completely ignoring the fact that he's out here collabing with Mr Notoriously Racist Youtuber

[creaturebloom]

you know what ??? i don't like a*y p*nd

i just don't. getting married in the morning, throws herself at the doctor ! time jumps FIVE YEARS and is married and HEAVILY PREGNANT and the one thing she says before ending the dream is that she's never told rory she loves him ????????

like. im not bashing the actress she's doing what she can but the writing of her character is just. absurd to me. i get it like falling in love with the doctor is something girls do on this show but like. to be actively engaged and decide after a couple of adventures that you're gonna bang the doctor and completely forget about your fiance ???

AND THEN SUDDENLY it's all fine actually ! she chooses rory in just a couple episodes !

and even just these like 7 episodes in she's like "the doctor trusts me more than anyone and would tell me anything" but like ...... mostly he just yells at you to not do something that you then go do anyway ???

it's just such a weird ass relationship that they have like. literally what.

[ednaeflowers]

edna's love language is quality time. she's spent 1000+ years by herself on r.ayfalke waiting for e.izen to come home—she will never, ever admit to it, but she's definitely felt lonely before through those 1000+ years, so quality time would definitely help bring her closer to someone. she will still, of course, tease whoever she is with: because of how she's like, the more she teases you, the more fond of you she is. she isn't the type who talks about how she actually feels, especially if it's sentimental or personal, so it's very subtle in how much she enjoys someone's company. she opens up slowly, but once you gain her trust, she trusts you.

it reassures her to know that she still has people around her. it'll make her feel more comfortable knowing that there is still at least another person she can be around since she literally lost the only person she could truly rely on—so, it makes sense that she doesn't want to lose more people. she is very "loud" about how she teases people, but very "quiet" in how she shows what's actually on her mind. to know what she is feeling, it's all in her actions.

[problemswithbooks]

the fact that spinner doesn’t care more about his fellow mutants like why tf would you even introduce this plot

Yeah, I really don't get why Hori wrote this sub plot like this.

Like I see people mad at Shoji, saying that he's not listening to Spinner and his grievances, but he literally hasn't said shit about the mutant discrimination stuff. Spinner can barely talk as it is, or think and only screams about getting Kurogiri back. Shoji isn't shutting down his or really any of the mutants issues, he's just pointing out that they're being stupid and violent for zero reason.

Getting Kurogiri back has nothing to do with their cause and will not help them what-so-ever. The only one it helps is AfO--a guy who has never shown any care for mutant discrimination and has not promised these people anything. Spinner hasn't promised to help them either--they just latched onto him because...idk, they like his face, I guess.

It's honestly a little insulting to write this sub-plot this way because it presents the oppressed people as stupid and looking for excuses to be overly violent. Their arguments for standing with Spinner are weak or even non-existent and they literally have no reason to storm the hospital the way they are.

I get what Hori was going for, but it's so clear he's out of his depth and didn't put in the work to research how to write this storyline. He put it in because X-Men did it and because it added to his worldbuilding, yet he didn't put in the time to actually have it be more then surface deep.

And I think that's why some of the takes on this chapter bug me because it's just people gushing about how good it is and how it makes the villains so deep and the kids/Heroes horrible people, yet it's written so poorly. Hell, Hori putting Rock Lock of all his Heroes in this part of the story is by itself questionable. Having you're stand in racial allegory tell an actual black character that he doesn't get their pain is ridiculous and if Hori had spent any time researching for this story he would have realized that was a bad idea.

I get that people want a story that takes the system to task and has this sweeping narrative about oppression, but BNHA, if that is it's end goal, is still terribly written. Yet, I don't see anyone who thinks this chapter is good admitting Hori has made mistakes with this plot point. They're just to focused on how it could make their favs look better and owning the Heroes, rather then if the story makes sense.

[here-there-were-dragons]

what i’m getting initially from the lore is that the arcane flight in ancient times had a decent burgeoning capacity for aethernaut technology and there is a non-zero chance there are other unfathomably ancient early space age artifacts of a fallen past dragon civilization in the sky, and that following the astrolab’s launch the entire planetbound aether civilization was wiped out with little trace by some unspecified cataclysm, likely warring with another primal race, leaving the scientists on the makeshift generation ship as the only survivors.

perhaps aether was not their original name, but over untold tens or even hundreds of thousands of years isolation the remainder of their species, descended from their lost landbound counterpart’s trained aethernauts, shortened the title further and further into simply “aether” and with enough time (and book-eating) further simply forgot there was ever more?

and they get all their battle tactics knowledge from their poorly organized larp sessions of old-enough-to-be-fossilized tapes saved from their lost groundward civilization of ancient dragon star trek and name things like they work for god damn aperture science. “material emancipation grille”. and they’re literally sparkledog mary sues. who the fuck let them name themselves. why did they start naming themselves “xxxdarkstarxxx” i can’t decide if it’s numbly dismaying or numbly fucking hilarious (as all emotions are numb and distant for me these days) that that’s canon and there is now a canon mary sue sparkledragon breed like have they literally just been doing nothing but spinning their wheels creating warrior owlcats rp forums up there since the rest of their species died. when they sent all their best and brightest up there was it like how the entire modern real world tech infrastructure is held up by about 30 furries that if any one of decided to disconnect their pager for a few hours the entire internet and literally civilization itself would collapse in a fire and now all that’s left of their breed are all descended from that.

their culture seems to be clan-troupes, likely descended from specific maintenance teams, of distorted half-religiocized echoes of random portions of long-forgotten ship repair safety training and shakily clung to jumbled impressions of some sort of lost pseudomilitaristic crewed vessel hierarchy, and it’s strangely giving me a combination of the movie passengers vibes and a wikipedia summary i skimmed once of one of the later books in something called the xeelee sequence, which described a long-future descendant of humanity on a generation ship in which these remnants of humanity had devolved so much that they now no longer had much sentience, preforming ship repair and maintenance by pure instinct as a way of attracting mates and having no real understanding of what they were doing or why.

a am however at a loss as to why, of all things their lore could be, their entire gimmick seems to revolve around compulsively eating paper.

after seeing a trailer for something called hyper light breaker, i assume an alleged sequel to something else called hyper light drifter, i have made the retroactive decision to assign them a synthwave-ish, hyperreallife pulsating sleek slanted laser light energy beams making roadways for sleek glowing similarly fizzling near-digital lightcraft sort of aesthetic, vaguely cyberpunk but made from faintly magitech parts, sans any sort of digital artifacts visual additions. the actual aesthetic i am thinking of is not in any way based on the game itself, but instead is based purely on the feeling of the name alone taken out of context of the game it applies to. what type of imagery and feeling of the words “hyper light drifter” on their own with no knowledge of the game inspire. i will likely forget what i meant by this in three weeks time.