#valorant kin

[drumgun]

*starts to hypnotize you* you want to join our server.

cunt servants of the century trying to survive in a community with no kins because the source is overtaken by cisgender heterosexual dudebros. help us by clicking the link below. not a scam

only requirement: kin from val. so join. no excuses

would love a promo pretty please @fictionkinfessions

[viper-with-valor]

There's something rather nostalgic about this dossier from Fade. A blackmailing tactic she used to crawl her way into this protocol. With Omen gone, I have nothing left to hide. Still, reflection hasn't come smoothly with my mask slipping... Never could I truly admit my grip had loosened.

What is left, would be fear.

Fear I hadn't felt since the incident. Loss of control... Well played, Fade.

[spoon]

❝𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓻𝓾𝓷❞ ╰┈➤ Killjoy icons

[shittykinaesthetics]

Shitty Phoenix aesthetic: i think if you look this cool, having a huge ego is fine actually. you deserve that and no one can take it from you

[kincalling]

hello, i am iso from valorant :)

looking for literally anyone else from source tbh. though please be 18+ thank you & ill contact thru likes.

🐛

[findthebae]

yo! i’m kin w jett from valorant and i’m looking for any sourcemates. oh and i’m 17

! ! !

[findinyourkin]

hai :3 valorant kins come out of the dark and back to me. im cypher!!!! (doubles if ur out there fear not)(doubles may interact) pls just like/rb whatever i Will be in contact…

!!!!!!!!

[ariacodfish]

Didn’t anticipate I would actually finish this.

Anyways this context is that my two highest kins are characters from Minecraft roleplays that I hate.

[thekinhelpers]

*starts to hypnotise you*

you want to join our chat.

cunt servants of the century trying to survive in a community with no kins because the source is overtaken by cisgender heterosexual dudebros. help us by clicking the link below. not a scam

only requirement: you kin from valorant. join or suffer.

[stuckboards]

✰ MEDIA WHITELIST / BLACKLIST

For convenience, here are a list of medias I am confident accepting requests for (whitelist,) and sources I will not accept requests for (blacklist.)

WHITELIST

homestuck, danganronpa, undertale, my little pony, love live, death note, dream smp, creepypasta, pokemon, sonic, identity v, valorant, overwatch, mario, five nights at freddy's, scott pilgrim

BLACKLIST

killing stalking, boyfriend to death, hannibal, my hero academia, south park

[panicfable]

Proper ways to refer to Basher are either as just Basher or Sebastian "Basher" Moran, Sebastian Moran just does not make any sense to me. This is a different man than the one I know

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Weinersmith and Boulet’s “Bea Wolf”

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH, in QUEENS, NY. Happy Bastille Day! On July 20, I'm appearing in CHICAGO at Exile in Bookville.

Bea Wolf is Zach Weinersmith and Boulet's ferociously amazingly great illustrated kids' graphic novel adaptation of the Old English epic poem, which inspired Tolkien, who helped bring it to popularity after it had languished in obscurity for centuries:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250776297/beawolf

Boy is this a wildly improbable artifact. Weinersmith and Boulet set themselves the task of bringing Germanic heroic saga from more than a thousand years ago to modern children, while preserving the meter and the linguistic and literary tropes of the original. And they did it!

There are some changes, of course. Grendel – the boss monster that both Beowulf and Bea Wulf must defeat – is no longer obsessed with decapitating his foes and stealing their heads. In Bea Wulf, Grendel is a monstrously grown up and boring adult who watches cable news and flosses twice per day, and when he defeats the kids whose destruction he is bent upon, he does so by turning them into boring adults, too.

And Bea Wulf – and the kings that do battle with Grendel – are not interested in the gold and jewels that the kings of Beowulf hoard. In Bea Wulf, the treasure is toys, chocolate, soda, candy, food without fiber, television shows without redeeming educational content, water balloons, nerf swords and spears, and other stuff beloved of kids and hated by parents.

That substitution is key to transposing the thousand-year-old adult epic Beowulf for enjoyment by small children in the 21st century. After all, what makes Beowulf so epic is the sense that it is set in a time in which a primal valor still reigned, but it is narrated for an audience that has been tamed and domesticated. Beowulf makes you long for a never-was time of fierce and unwavering bravery. Bea Wulf beautifully conjures the years of early childhood when you and the kids in your group had your own little sealed-off world, which grownups could barely perceive and never understand.

Growing up, after all, is a process of repeating things that are brave the first time you do them, over and over again, until they become banal. That's what "coming of age" really boils down to: the slow and relentless transformation of the mythic, the epic, and the unknowable and unknown into the tame, the explained, the mastered. When you're just mastering balance and coordination, the playground climber is a challenge out of legend. A couple years later, it's just something you climb.

The correspondences between the leeching away of magic lamented in Beowulf and experienced by all of us as we grow out of childhood are obvious in hindsight and surprising and beautiful and bittersweet when you encounter them in Bea Wolf.

This effect owes a large debt to Boulet's stupendous artwork. Boulet brings a vibe rarely seen in American kids' illustration, owing quite a lot to France's bande dessinée tradition. Of course, this is a Firstsecond book, and they established themselves as an exciting and fresh kids' publisher in the USA nearly 20 years ago by bringing some of Europe's finest comics to an American audience for the first time. You can get a sense of Boulet's darker-than-average, unabashedly anarchic illustrations here:

https://www.comixtrip.fr/bibliotheque/bea-wolf-weinersmith-boulet-albin-michel/

The utter brilliance of Bea Wulf is as much due to the things it preserves from the original epic as it is to the updates and changes. Weinersmith has kept the Old English tradition of alliteration, right from the earliest passages, with celebrations of heroes like "Tanya, treat-taker, terror of Halloween, her costume-cache vast, sieging kin and neighbor, draining full candy-bins, fearing not the fate of her teeth. Ten thousand treats she took. That was a fine Tuesday."

Weinersmith also preserves the kennings – the elaborate figurative compound phrases that replace nouns – that turn ordinary names and places into epithets at you have to riddle out, like calling a river "the sliding sea."

These literary devices, rarely seen today, are extremely powerful, and they conjure up the force and mystique that has kept Beowulf in our current literary discourse for more than a millennium. They also make this a super fun book to read aloud.

When Jim Henson was first conceiving of Sesame Street, he made a point of designing it to have jokes and riffs that would appeal to adults, even if some of the nuance would be lost on kids. He did this because he wanted to make art that adults and kids could enjoy together, both because that would give adults a chance to help kids actively explore the ideas on-screen, but also because it would bring some magic into those adults' lives.

This is a very winning combination (not for nothing, it's also the original design brief for Disneyland). Weinersmith and Boulet have produced a first-rate work of adult and kid literature, both a perfect entree to Beowulf for anyone contemplating a dive into old English epic poetry, and a kids' book full of booger jokes and transgressive scenes of perfect mischief.

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/24/awesome-alliteration/#hellion-hallelujah

[viper-with-valor]

Sabine, Sabine

I'll never forgive her. I don't think I'm capable of that anymore. Whenever I see that version of myself, there's a small and weak part of me that squirms. But I know her, better than anyone. I know she hates it when I call her by that name. Sabine, what have you done?

[nycteris-g]

You want examples of anti-Manicheanism in Tolkien?

Take Maedhros - he who performed "deeds of surpassing valor" and stood against the darkness and armies of Morgoth for centuries. He who swore a blasphemous oath, condemning himself to damnation. He who murdered his kin not once, not twice, but four times. And he who, finally holding the very object that symbolized his damnation, realizes the futility of all the evil he committed and throws himself into the fire.

Is he bad? Is he good? He swore a blasphemous oath - by Tolkien's standards, that alone would make him 'bad.' And then, of course, there are, you know, the murders. But is he absolutely evil? Born to be a murderous thing? Beyond any redemption or pity? How can someone who so fearlessly resisted The Evil be an entirely lost case? Can absolute evil even recognize the horror of its own deeds?

Tolkien, far more insightful than those who try to divide humankind into simple categories of good and bad, masterfully depicted the complexity of human nature (the Children of Ilúvatar). Humanity is not inherently evil, nor is it doomed to fall - yet it does, and still holds the potential to rise again: to see, to believe, to choose to do good.

[spiritofwhitefire]

And to be clear, in case it wasn’t obvious, I’m a feanorian fan, specifically a Maedhros fan, but it’s startling to me how quick a lot of his fans are to excuse his actions. They aren’t excusable. MAYBE Alqualonde can be attributed to to naïveté, but he knew what he was doing in doriath and in the sirions, “he was in despair” no shit! That’s the point! He lost hope and began directing his oath toward his kin instead of Morgoth, it’s tragic and awful. He does deeds of surpassing valor and downward spirals into deeds of horrific evil. I’ve said this before with almost every male character I’ve ever liked: if you’re going to like a character, LIKE THE CHARACTWR! Don’t change the character around to become a more acceptable or palatable character that bares no resemblance to the ACTUAL character. By the end of the silm, Maedhros is a monster. A tragic one? Yes. A sympathetic one? I think so. But he’s a monster, and he tormented Elwing and he is responsible for her brothers deaths and her fathers death and the deaths of those at Alqualonde, I don’t think you have to ignore that in order to like this character

[kincalling]

hi, i am omen from valorant! looking for cypher, viper and anyone else to be honest..! i am 18+ so please be an adult as well if you interact, tysm.

🃏