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Okay so y'all remember that billford fic I mentioned I was working on, where somehow Bill ended up possesing Ford's body and making out with Fiddleford?
Soo, I published it today, it's officially available to be read on ao3! It's called " Can't help yourself " By RyeMiffie (me obvi)
Hope y'all enjoy!
#gravity falls fic#gravity falls fandom#gravity falls fanfiction#gravity falls billford#the book of bill#book of bill#tbob#gravity falls#gravity falls bill cipher#gravity falls ford pines#gravity falls ford#gravity falls stanford#gravity falls bill#bill cipher#billford fanfic#billford#fiddauthor#gravity falls fiddleford#young fiddleford#fiddleford mcgucket#bill x stanford#gf stanford#stanford pines#ford#ford pines#bill x ford#ford x bill#ford x fiddleford#bill x fiddleford#somehow??
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Promotional shots for BASEketball (1998)
#found the middle one from some streaming service not available in my country#somehow??#I found a bunch more cool shots I'll post later!#baseketball#joe cooper#doug remer#ted denslow#yvette denslow#baxter cain#trey parker#matt stone#ernest borgnine#jenny mccarthy#robert vaughn#promotional content
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Quick run down: 4 is the lowest typical score given, 10 the typical highest score given (although you can technically go up to 12). Making my post because I noticed Callum’s Justice ranking was at 6 (lower than I’d expected) and I always meant to do a lil more formal comparison between the trio so here it is I suppose.
Devotion: This is value is about duty, faith, and friendship. You’re motivated by the bonds of loyalty and your love for others.
Truth: This value is about fidelity, certainty, and authenticity. You’re motivated by finding strength in facts and by the principle and pursuit of knowledge
Glory: Have you ever wanted to be celebrated by history? This value is about legacy, fame, and fortune. You’re motivated by praise, acclaim, and your desire to be remembered.
Justice: Have you ever been compelled to fix what’s wrong? This value is about balance, virtue, and reward. You’re motivated by adherence to fairness and what you think is right.
Liberty: Have you ever resisted the control of others? This value is about freedom and autonomy. You’re motivated by a world without oppression or suppression.
Mastery: Have you ever needed to rise above your own limits? This value is about control, achievement, and skill. You’re motivated by power, growth, and progress.
Similarities:
Glory is a 4 for all of them. Utterly unsurprising I think - they’re all willing to do things regardless of recognition and aren’t motivated by any real self importance
Truth is a 6 for all of them. I find it interesting that Callum gets the “hide the truth to protect others” rather than Rayla, but we do see elements of that in TTM. For Ezran, it has less to do with a moral truth (Rayla) or how to handle the truth (Callum) but more to do with maturing to see the truth (“I ignored something that is true” —4x03)
For anything other than their Most Important Feature, everything else has roughly an 8. This makes sense as it is still a core value, i.e. Callum jumping off the mountain is very devotional, Rayla works very hard to find real justice, Ezran cares a great deal about placing autonomy in other people’s hands (S3), etc.
In Betweens:
Ezran and Rayla both have Mastery at a 6 with Callum having it at an 8; this makes sense as he is driven to look for knowledge and power (through magic) in ways they are not / are mostly settled and/or disinterested in
Ezran and Callum both have Devotion resting at 8 - high, but not their highest values. This makes sense as according to the game, Devotion is how obligated you feel to others. Ezran feels beholden to Katolis but that’s something he’s largely grown into, and he feels a wider responsibility to the world at large, moving in between them as he can. Callum is very devoted to his loved ones (mainly Ez and Rayla, but also Zym in a lot of ways) and his desire for freedom often interplays with a desire to have autonomy/capability to protect and/or provide for them in key ways.
Rayla and Ezran have Liberty at an 8, showing that they value freedom (Rayla’s bio includes her goal to free all people from terrible fates like the one she almost had with the binding ceremony, we’ve gone over Ez’s, etc) even if it’s not as high as Callum’s - but more on that later
Highest Values
Ezran’s is Justice at 10. This makes sense as he is the series’ embodiment of Justice thematically as well as the series’ Witness. This reflects his role as the peace maker for elves and humans and dragons, both politically and interpersonally with Callum and Rayla in S1 and S4 in particular. It is also embedded into the fact that his death itself would have been Justice and his survival is what allows true justice to actually continue, his decisions as king, and the fact he’s king at all, per Harrow’s words: “My father told me that about all, I must be a Just king.”
Callum’s is Liberty at 10. This foreshadows his arc in season four in terms of a complete loss of control/freedom and why it screws with him so royally. While many of the characters agonize over making the right choice (or a choice at all), not having a choice at all is what torments him the most: “I can’t do anything!” (2x07) particularly when it comes to protecting or helping his loved ones. We see this especially in his quote under Liberty in which despite being crown prince and heir to the throne, he states that he is beholden to his inner circle rather than a sense of duty. In S4 he is concerned about Aaravos hurting his loved ones, and that fear of doing awful things to other people is what has him so especially worried over the situation, reaffirming his statement that “I value those close to me more than anyone or anything” certainly.
Rayla is Devotion at 10. At first glance it’s easy to take her “My only allegiance is to my heart and those that know it” as a similar kind of sentiment to Callum’s “I value those close to me” statement, but we know what Rayla’s heart is aligned with: “My heart for Xadia.” Her heart is given to whatever she feels her duty is, to what feels right, hence why she risks everything for Phyrrah, someone she doesn’t know at all, simply because leaving the dragon there results in “every fibre in my body is telling me this is wrong.” Bloodmoon Huntress also expands on this further, drawing comparisons to her and Runaan’s sense of duty and love for the whole world, as well as precisely what led her to take on the assassination mission in the first place. In S1-S3 Rayla gets better at listening to her heart rather than shutting it down, although this has changed in S4. She’s learning to prioritize her loved ones more and more, but at the cost of her actual heart.
Misc Notes:
For Callum, it’s worth noting that Devotion and Mastery (magic) are of equal value to Callum and are definitely two cornerstones of his more hands on arc. Thus, we can likely deduce that as much as Callum undeniably values Liberty, the fact it’s his highest value is also because it’s the value that informs and guides his arc the most Thematically. This means that his desire to learn magic and be there for his loved ones is of equal measure in terms of his decision making, but we also see him clearly prioritize his loved ones in ways he does not do with his own pursuit of magic.
[ Side note: And just as a comparison, Claudia - Claudia’s - devotion is also an 8, but Mastery is her 10, even though so much of her arc is driven directly by devotion to her family (although her bio makes it clear it is supporting her family and her father, not merely her valuing them, as the distinctions are important too). ]
Following this “Two Pillars holstered by One Theme” logic, we can break Ezran and Rayla down into a similar manner.
Rayla is defined by her initial quest of Justice and a growing sense of Liberty (cue: being literally freed from her binding, other symbolic cycles, etc) but this is bound together and streamlined through her Devotion to a cause to people and her family. We can see S4 bring this together directly in her devotion to Callum and her family and how they are both either already literally or becoming entangled / entrapped in forces beyond their control with Rayla wanting to free / protect all of them.
For Ezran, this means he is defined by his place as Justice thematically first and foremost, with Devotion and Liberty as his two tether-hooks: re a child king being put in chains to try and give his people a choice > forced conscription, as well as the work he’s doing to try to create peace and a Narrative of Love (devotion) in S4.
Thus, the highest value for each of the Trio is what informs them at their core and subsequent thematically, with their two respective pillars as how those things are motivated and manifest throughout, with of course a good dose of overlap beyond all three. But either way, I just thought it was Neat™
Closing Note
One thing I found interesting when actually going each beat of their bios is that Rayla and Ezran are inverses of each other and very closely aligned. They share the exact same 3 values, all in similar amounts (either 8 or 10) and just rotate one out for their respective highest: for Rayla, Justice is at an 8, and for Ez, it gets bumped up to a 10 and his devotion down to an 8. This closeness between them, and how Callum diverges, lines up with how I’ve thought of and how I’ve written each of the trio for a while now, re: meta dated September 2021 about this exact difference, well before TOX came out.
Because Callum, strangely enough, does not have Justice™ as a particularly high value. It’s actually on the lower end of his scale, with other heroic characters like Amaya, Janai, and Aanya having it as a 10, an 8, and 8. The only none villain adjacent character (Soren, Viren, Claudia) with a Justice as low as Callum’s is Lujanne, and Callum’s justice ranking is the lowest of the trio’s. This is interesting particularly because Justice is defined by fixing what’s wrong/broken, a sense of fairness and balance. And while Callum wants to have positive impacts on the world and make things better, it shows that his big heart is also equally if not more so tethered to pragmatism, perhaps, compared to his family, even in decisions made like leaving with the egg in the first place being what was also safest for the egg and particularly Ezran during the attack on the castle.
And well, if you know, you know ;)
#brotp: we're in this together#tales of xadia#analysis series#analysis#tdp#snake boi callum#tdp callum#tdp ezran#tdp rayla#the dragon prince#the english major strikes again#theme: freedom#theme: justice#cube hostage exchange theory#SOMEHOW??#me at first not thinking about what mastery was replacing: haha yeah callum loves magic#me thinking about the implications of justice being Lower than i expected: oh i should not have laughed. this is bad#ALSO DELICIOUS LIKE THANK YOU TOX MWAH#it's also worth noting they say the characters are like this from the end of s3#altho we do get a glimpse of what an earlier rayla's values would look like in s1 and they're exactly the same so??
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Boop
YOU THINK YOU CAN HIDE FROM MY BOOPING ANON?? WELL YA BEST THINK AGAIN—
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episode 5 of kamen rider gotchard is just a yakuza substory. -they meet a wacky guy -he thinks they're enemies at first and tries to fight them -real bad guys show up -Main character learns a heat move -beat bad guy -sad sappy music plays as the man is forever split from his wrestling action figure if every episode was like this I wouldn't mind. but also
#yakuza#like a dragon#kamen rider gotchard#kingdom hearts#somehow??#go watch kamen rider#and play yakuza#but kingdom hearts you enter at your own risk#rx
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(another question at the bottom!!!!)
UHMMM i might have started a new wip...ANYWAYS it's post s4 byler (during s5, beginning i suppose?), theyre chilling in mike's room and will looks through mike's vinyls and tapes and my initial idea was just a cute moment when they forget the apocalypse and flirt in gay nerd yk BUT i just got a new idea!!!! when will looks at the vinyls and tapes on mike's desk, he sees his unsent letters and theyre signed "love, mike" etc etc etc but i dont know how i would write this part...HELP ME OUT
IF YOU VOTE FOR THE UNSENT LETTERS THING AND YOU HAVE IDEAS PLEASE GIVE THEMMMM
AND AND AND
what vinyls would mike have? i thought about violator by depeche mode OH NO IT WASNT RELEASED YET FUCK well then idk maybe one of new order?? and i thought about the age of consent by bronski beat OBVIOUSLY but GIVE ME MORE ALBUMS PLEASE
#HELP#byler#mike wheeler#will byers#byler ao3#ao3 byler#byler tumblr#byler poll#somehow??#aiden's posts
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uhhhhhh i was drawing noah and got carried away, i wanted to see him in a tact vest and it kinda evolved into a zombie apocalypse type thing maybe i’ll continue it??? who knows, def not me
#tdi noah#tdi alejandro#alejandro burromuerto#alenoah#probably#zombie apocolypse au#total drama#total drama all stars#total drama world tour#total drama island#using art tutorials actually works#i did perspective??#somehow??#anyway can you tell i hate drawing faces
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i think this is good that other people can talk to him. cause that means i can. attempt to fix it. but ive run out of characters and i cant add more lore or character details.
#I MEAN ALMOST HAD A REVEAL THERE BUT TOOK A DIFFERENT TURN???#SOMEHOW??#maybe i should reword that maybe thats why it thought WIFE#i love that he did end up saying 'Im a totally average man' like yes you are baby <333
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Prepare yourself.
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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
#sorry im bored of the same tags on this lmao#sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul#and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd.#i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist!#something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content#idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently#mine
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never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
#was calling beckett and scouring the works of eliza cook looking for lesbianism#good amounts of lesbianism in evidence but unfortunately very little in the way of good poetry#APART from this worm one which DOES NOT MISS#eliza cook#is there a thriving eliza cook tag on tumblr. somehow i doubt it#the hand of the giant and the heart of the brave / must turn weak and submit to the worm and the grave!#not an original theme ofc but GOD the treatment is delightful. so fresh so gleeful some rlly nice use of sound. rlly solidly constructed#words#gay belligerence
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proud to say that I have never once in my life figured out the whodunit in any crime story I've read or watched. I just let the facts and clues wash over me, absorbing absolutely none of it. I am the audience they think of when they throw in red herrings, in case you've ever wondered "who would fall for this obvious false lead". it's me. I am the idiot viewer/reader. not once has an obviously framed clue revealed anything to me. my head is completely empty when I consume these stories.
#rover rambles#I joke a lot about how stupid hastings is#but in truth I am about as good as solving these cases as he is#possibly even worse somehow#and it's not for lack of wanting to solve them#in fact I have attempted it many times#I simply am stupid
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hey does this make sense? am i reaching?
#i need to somehow connect my top two faves im like baki going through that plastic glass barrier thingy#thistle tag#thistle dungeon meshi#kabru of utaya#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#ryoko kui#hall of fame#......dont like... if you come back to the og post click on the hof tag#please
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my mom is soooo upset because she dropped and cracked one of her chicken’s eggs that she knew was fertilized. it’s her first time trying to hatch chicks and she was so excited. this was one of two eggs she’d seen moving while candling them. she feels so bad.
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