#( Noble and someone else: . . . )

[quietwingsinthesky]

do you think fourteen has a breakdown one day about just how much time with donna he lost. it was that easy, the whole time, for the metacrisis issue to be resolved, and instead of him ever figuring that out, he lost years and years of a life he could have had with her. he stood on the outskirts of her wedding. he wasn’t there when she was pregnant with rose and wasn’t there when she had her. he wasn’t there for a thousand little moments where he could have made her laugh. every time she looked for him without remembering who she was looking for could have been a time he was standing next to her. and he’s never going to get that back. time machine at his fingertips and yet somehow the one thing he never has enough of is time.

#it’d make him more grateful that he came home to her in the end but god. god. #and its not a long amount of time. not to someone like him. but at the same time. isnt it. #isnt every second that he could have had and never will get the chance to an loss so infinite that he cant stand it #its not that donna was alone without him. its not that she had no one else there to support her. #but he couldnt be there. #‘you were okay without me’ is such cold comfort when he could have been a part of her life. she could have been okay *with* him. #sorry im losing my mind over how much they both lost and how theyll have to live with that and move on from it and take what they have #and hold onto it so tightly #doctor who #fourteenth doctor #donna noble

[howlonghaveyoubeenseventeen]

a fresh new copy of a twilight book shouldn’t exist. in my mind every twilight book is in used condition

#like the only way you should be able to get one is from someone else not from like barnes and noble or whatever

[audhd-nightwing]

(some parent get-together thing at rose’s school)

random parent: *purposely deadnames and misgenders rose in a conversation*

donna, rolling up her sleeves: you wanna say that again?

the doctor, holding her back: they’re not worth it

random parent: wow, would you look at that. it’s the f^g and the hag!

the doctor, rolling up his sleeves: what the !@&$ did you just call her?

shaun, holding both of them back: you’re a grown adult bullying a child. it’s absolutely pathetic. you obviously use insults to hide your own insecurities, and tonight you decided to take it out on my wife and brother-in-law. that was a bad decision. don’t make it again.

random parent: …

shaun: anyway, have a good night everyone! :D

#donna and 14 are driven by their hearts above all else #and are very protective #the doctor would *try* to mediate #but the moment someone insults donna he is throwing hands #so shaun has to be the one to deescalate the situation #he’s a lot smarter than people give him credit for #doctor who #dr who #donna noble #shaun temple #14th doctor #rose noble #verbally assault transphobes!! #psychoanalyze those bitches and use it against them! #doctor who spoilers #14 and donna #censored the cursing cuz i just can’t imagine the doctor actually saying fuck #14s adventures in coparenting

[captainsupernoodle]

just rewatched the runaway bride and oh wow donna literally being dropped in the middle of the doctor's post-rose sulking in some random nebula and getting the full spectrum of him loving the genius of humanity and seeing a time he's never seen before and re-wiping out a mother and her children who were planning on eating their way across planets with a blank face and making it snow for a person he just met to make her day a little better. she tells him he scares her and invites him in to eat dinner with her family in the next sentence. augh.

#they've really been Like That since the first episode #the second time she slaps him he's like WHAT DID I DO NOW??!?! like he's already accepted this is just gonna happen to him at random interv #ls #doctor who #noodle watches doctor who #tenth doctor #donna noble #the runaway bride #standing next to her when she learns her family had the reception without her and while her fiancee mocks her #throwing himself into someone else's problems lol #noodle speaks #noodle watches

[jayktoralldaylong]

Captive Prince Spoilers

Every time I think there is no more revelation to shock me. This book turns around and spits in my face.

Oh Jord. Oh poor Jord.

#Did this guy just make rounds of the entire palace in search of children to fuck and when he was done he explored other nobles? #ladies and gentlemen we have found someone worse than fucking Jin Guangshan #I can't- My brain cannot compute this #who else? who else did he taint? who else did he betray? who else did he lie to? #How does he lie like it is breathing?! #Did he fuck Auguste before sending him to that field to die? #was that why he was protective of Laurent? #How old when he started with Auguste? Ten? Younger? #I can't #It hurts #captive prince #laurent of vere #How many children #how many children #how many adults did he destroy? #To make them fear even contact from time to time #I hate it

[spite-and-waffles]

Trying to drag real-world ethics into the Batverse is a bad faith argument when absolutely nothing in the Batverse has any ethical or moral standing in the real world.

Real world evils that claim death tolls:

- billionaires

- cops

- vigilanteism

- copaganda (crime-fighting as a genre is libertarian copaganda)

- prison industrial complex

- war on drugs

- child soldiers

- policing entities without democratic or civic transparency or oversight

- finding acceptable targets for your personal trauma and visiting what you believe is justified violence on them

But all of that is fine and good and acceptable as conceits of the universe, EXCEPT the question of "should this rich white guy who appoints himself the protector of the innocent due to the failures of the legal system, actually do something about this guy who keeps killing because of the failure of the legal system?" THAT is somehow above challenge or question. Never mind that turning the concept of "legal incompetence", meant to protect the most vulnerable population in a society, into a loophole for fictional mass murderers is violent ableism and copaganda. Forget taking a deep dive into why exactly killing is bad, or how far a value system can go before it becomes self-serving, or storytelling imperatives or any of that. The only reason any of us could ever take Jason's side (re: the Joker) is that we, in real-life, think that "bad guys should die". Instead of the fact that because nothing works as it should in the Batverse, the Joker's continued existence actively cheapens any moral code that allows it.

You can take whatever side you want to, but get off that horse and actually engage with the question, or fuck off with the dudebros who think "killing a serial killer makes you as bad as a serial killer" has any actual ethical basis.

#i'm so fucking done with this grandstanding and moralizing #jason and bruce are both moral absolutists driven entirely by personal trauma #and yes jason is a bad guy. i like him as a bad or morally grey guy #but it drives me nuts that y'all can't see how bruce is very far from being a 'good' guy #he doesnt kill anyone even the joker not because he considers joker's life sacred #but because he's afraid he'll snap and start killing everyone else #this is not the behaviour of a stable and noble man #if you're so close to the edge that having to kill for any reason will send you on a killing spree #then you're fundamentally unfit for your chosen vocation #jiminy jesus christ #also? a child deserves a parent who will kill to protect or avenge them #if someone took my baby from me and they kept getting out and killing other people's babies #that guy would be dead and I'd be in jail #and it would be worth it #the lowest possible bar for loving a child #but then he fails his kids in every other way too so why not this one #anti bruce wayne #jason todd #bat meta #fandom wank #spite waffle

[slusheeduck]

Fictober 2023 Day 16 - Prompt: "This better be good." Fandom: Baldur's Gate 3

“Astarion, if I could have a moment.”

Astarion looked up as Halsin called him over, a big hand waving him toward his tent. He rolled his eyes as he shut his book. “Oh, this better be good,” he muttered to himself, but did indeed saunter over. His arms crossed as he looked over the druid, who seemed engrossed with fiddling with something in his hand. “What are you doing?”

“I just need a few more…” Halsin smiled, holding his work out to admire it. “There we are.” He held the little object in his hand out for Astarion. “For you.”

Astarion took it, frowning. It was a little wooden figurine, masterly carved with an artistic chunkiness to it, of a little cat. He looked it over for a moment, then looked back up at Halsin. “…this isn’t a ‘Thanks for letting me sleep with your lover’ present, is it?”

Halsin barked out a laugh, shaking his head. “No, no, though I wouldn’t mind if you saw it as a token of friendship.” He sat back, another piece of wood in his hand as he started to whittle at it. “You know, whenever I talk to you, I’m reminded of a time when a young druid I knew was trying to get a kitten to be her pet.” He squinted at nothing. “Animals, of course, cannot truly be tamed, especially not cats. But that’s a lesson some people learn the hard way, and she was one of them.”

Astarion crossed his arms. “I’m not following.”

Halsin continued, “Well, this cat, it hissed and swiped at her every time she tried to come near, and she was distraught. Thought she was doing something wrong, and that she wouldn’t be able to follow Sylvanus’s path.” He glanced up at Astarion. “Finally, I told her to give the cat some space. She didn’t want to, of course, but ultimately she did. Eventually, after a great deal of patience on her end, it came up to her of its own volition.” He smiled. “And, by the end, it was the cuddliest cat I’ve ever seen.”

Astarion frowned. “Well. That’s a very pretty story. But I still don’t see how…” As he unwound his arms to shrug them, he glanced at the little cat in his hand. “…you’re giving me this because you think I’m a cuddly kitten?”

Halsin grinned. “I’m giving you that because I value your space, and I’ll let you come up to me as a friend in your own time, if ever.” He looked back down at his new carving. “But I think you have the potential to be, yes.”

“Well, I think I’m insulted.”

Halsin glanced up. “Then I’m very sorry,” he said, and damn it all, he sounded earnest. “In that case, I can take it back.” He reached up for it, only for Astarion to step away.

“No, it’s mine now.”

Halsin smiled and gave a little laugh, and he returned to his work. “Then I’ll leave you to it. And if you ever want to come back, I’ll be here waiting.”

Astarion puffed out an indignant breath, walking back to his tent. Imagine, him being compared to a cat. It was nearly enough to make him hiss.

...like a vampire. A very scary vampire. Obviously. Fictober 2023 Drabble Master Post

#fictober23 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #halsin #For the record everyone else got figurines too #Wyll got a lion 'for its noble bearing in spite of its deadly power' #Lae'zel got a peregrine falcon 'for its decisiveness in its strikes' #Shadowheart got a butterfly 'for the beautiful transformation it undergoes' #Gale got a raven 'for its cleverness that only sometimes gets it into trouble' #Karlach got a rabbit 'because you strike me as someone who just likes rabbits :)' 'I DO!! :D' #Fal gets a bear naturally 'so you can remember me should we part ways'

[turnleft]

do you ever think about how in journey’s end donna thought she had nothing else to live for, but in the star beast she had something (someone) to die for

#like!!!! in JE she chose death because there was truly no reason for her to live #(ofc the doctor did not let her die and he wiped her mind against her wishes to die as the doctordonna) #and then in the star beast she chose death because of rose. because of shaun. because of sylvia and wilf and all of london #ofc tsb isn’t the first case of donna agreeing to risk her life/sacrifice herself for someone else #she jumped in front of ten when the racnoss empress ordered to shoot him #‘never mind us’ in fires of pompeii #the suicide in turn left (and she didn’t even know the doctor in that universe and still gave her own life for him) #ANYWAYS back to my point #the difference between her choosing death because her old life is so depressing vs her in TSB choosing death bc her old life needs saving #you can say she was pretty much suicidal in JE #and fifteen years later she got her own family. a husband. a daughter that she loves more than anything. a mother who actually appreciates- #-her. #maybe i’m connecting random dots but i think it’s a beautiful example of why you should always keep going. things WILL get better. #my posts #donna noble

[joejoeba]

the concept of rebirth is terribly underutilised in Jojo tbh

#You've got The Jojos. The same essence over and over and over again for the good of the world #Sometimes at the same time! What is time? Not linear I tell you that #Joseph recognizing his own soul in Jotaro and Josuke. Jotaro recognizing himself in his daughter #Same as any father would but not #And the Zeppelis. Noble bloodline born to die for someone else #Every Zeppeli that meets a Joestar feeling that their life is beginning and ending at the same time #Not to mention part 7 onwards! Literal rebirth! Where is the nostalgia the recognition #Where is the I knew you once and I know you again #Hello then and hello now #If I was writing this shit you know the sentimentality would be off the CHARTS #Anyway. Surprise Jojo emotions??? #I was listening to Son Lux Alternate World #Joejoeba not art

[sskk-manifesto]

(´･ᴗ･ ` )

#I really like the “We're the bad guys' enemy” line. For someone I generally despise Dazai has all my favourite lines in this show… #Idk I can't really vibe with the unbalance that there is between s/kk. #Like when push comes to shove‚ Dazai has the power to keep Chuuya alive or let him die. #I understand why they make a compelling dynamic in their complexity‚ but it just doesn't do it for me. #I'm a little sad my opinion on them hasn't really changed since I watched the anime for the first time... #Also; I really can't vibe with Chuuya allowing Dazai to kill Q. Yes I know Chuuya cares about his comrades deeply. #Yes I know it can be interpreted as Chuuya seeing himself in Q as a living weapon and being disgusted by it #(though I honestly don't think that was intentional of the author). #Yes I know Chuuya is a mafioso and kills people. No I don't think your personal issues justify you being a dick to other people I'm sorry. #Back to my main annoyance with the episode: I must have already talked about this but I hate hate hate the narrative #“the mafia works for the city” “the mafia deeply loves the city too” it's so so sickening and insulting please stop I'm begging. #Please visit any actual city with a rooted mafia presence for once in your life (signed: someone whose hometown was destroyed by the mafia. #The writers really don't know what they're talking about and‚ politely‚ it's offensive.) #Also b/sd keeping being extremely nationalist with Mori (who's largely depicted unsimphatetically for the first part of the episode)– #bringing up western thinkers and subtly mocking Fukuzawa for not knowing them– #and Fukuzawa (the righteous man. the noble spirit and just soul in this episode and Mori's antithesis)– #stepping forward to say that he knows strategists from the east (because who else would he need?) #I don't know if it's meant to symbolize the conflict with an hostile and invading foreign power (the Guild). #But it does come across as. A very isolationist way of thinking. #I know it's subtle but it's really evident for me. And I didn't want to talk about this any further… #But by bringing actual examples of this I hope I can better explain why I think that b/sd holds nationalist views– #and that I'm not just making it up out of nowhere. Otherwise I fear I'd only come off as pettily hostile to b/sd in everything #That's it. I feel like I've been losing a lot of mutuals over my main recently due to not shutting up (sorry) #so I suppose it's only fair I lose them on here too pffttt. #Tune in next week for more bad takes #random rambles

[lord-squiggletits]

IDW Optimus defeated Unicron and saved Earth by using the power of love, recognizing someone else's pain as valid, and apologizing and helping them grieve. If that isn't peak Optimus "mercy, peace, forgiveness, and justice" Prime then idk what else to say honestly

#squiggposting #idw op love #my guy saved the day thru the power of love and forgiveness. like literally #if ppl don't get that this OP is fundamentally as noble and loving as any other OP then there's really no persuading them #almost literally no one else would've had the strength to apologize and acknowledge the pain of someone actively trying to kill them all #and it turns out OP's willingness to take responsibility for his species' wrongs and ask for forgiveness is what saved the day #it doesn't get any more optimist than that

[agent-jaselin]

Some interesting thoughts, but if you say you won’t become a mind-flayer Orpheus dies it with no question like, fully understanding why but personally being willing to sacrifice himself, lae’zel protests but doesn’t offer alternatives other then the player, and maybe i’m imagining things but i swear there is a convo right after where she’s mad at you fir doing it?

And I’m just thinking about Calem in that conversation and how fucking angry he’d be. Like Orpheus isn’t his prince, faerun isn’t his world, and he’s made it clear he’s wanted to go home this whole time.

Calem just ripping into her when she’s mad like “I didn’t hear you offer yourself in exchange, and I’m not sacrificing *my* soul for your crusade.”

Like what is a general friendship getting wrecked in a single moment by Calem seeing the conversation as Lae’zel expecting Calem to sacrifice himself for her. Whether that is the point or not. He’s too tired of being expected to give up everything to put up with it on another world.

#i don’t know if someone else would intefere and iffer themselves in that cinvi eith a different oarty than i had #but i know in mine there was ni discussion really just my character saying they arent willing ti change and orpheus going fir it #bg3 spoilers #he is a very noble character ill give him that #bg3 x ffxiv #wol as tav #reluctant wol #this made worse by him almost becoming a sineater befire he got to the new dimension

[hanadoesstuffbadly]

So it seems that Arthur’s accent has been one of the most confusing parts of this fandom for me at least-

I’ve seen people say it’s Scottish, I think I might’ve found someone calling it Irish, and I don’t remember if it was you or someone else who said this but someone said that it’s actually from Yorkshire?? 😭

Anyways what do you think it is ☕️🗿

Going back and listening again I'm still fairly sure that it's a Northern/Yorkshire accent. You don't tend to get many regional English accents in international films/tv which is both a massive shame and probably where the confusion comes from. Merlin's accent is generally what people think of even when someone says "British accent". His is actually pretty limited to the well-off parts of Southern England. It's just that most British actors either have that accent already or put it on when doing a role.

Since Arthur and Merlin are both English folklore figures, it would make sense that they'd give them both English accents; since a couple of the others sound like they come from their fairytales' countries of origin (Pinocchio- Italian; Hansel and Gretel- German).

#thanks for the ask! #I haven't made a red shoes post in a WHILe but English accent rep is actually something I have a lot of thoughts about #generally you get good/smart/noble characters with the posh southern accent #idiots or evil henchmen with the Essex or 'chav' accent to show how uneducated and snively they are #and sometimes you get Northern or midlands accents to represent being rough or tribal (if they don't just use Scottish accents) #if I'm wrong and someone else has evidence that it's actually some other accent then just ignore me :) #red shoes and the seven dwarfs #red shoes and the 7 dwarfs #red shoes

[swordmaid]

so I was looking up the tenets for lolth’s paladins and I found this little list. not sure how canon exactly this is but I thought it was interesting -

kind of laughing that shri’iia does the exact opposite in act 1 which leads to her oath breaking. she girlflopped so badly lolth decides to drop her ass then prob hunt her ass down for being an embarrassment and a failure. like girly was not exerting her power at all - it’s her first time in the surface ever and she’s surrounded by people who could literally kill her any given moment (considering all the stories she heard abt how surface dwellers hates drow) not to mention that the tieflings you encounter when you see lae’zel were ready to attack you that just fueled her paranoia. > she was not sowing discord at all she was laying low and keeping her mouth shut …!! she has no allies here! and she doesn’t know where she is! and there’s an illithid tadpole in her head! it would be foolish of her to paint herself as an enemy when she’s already so out of her environment so she keeps her mouth shut … thoughts to herself … bides her time and sees who’s useful to her and who’s not … she can always get rid of the ones that she doesn’t need later but for now she’s seeing what she can work with first …… > have a plan… shri’iia had no plans…. at all. she was following lae’zel around because the crèche was her only lead … but then they mentioned a druid named halsin who’s a very good healer so she turned her objective to that … then a goblin mentions their priestess is a healer too so guess she’s looking for her as well… honestly who thought making the drow who’s never been to the surface and literally does not know where she is or what she's doing the leader of the group a good idea….. in my hc the leader is gale

#but I’m like 🤭🤭🤭 at the idea of shri’iia being considered an embarrassment by Lolth just bc apparently lolth paladins are pretty rare #like she doesn’t give her blessings easily and they mostly go to her clerics but to a paladin … and for someone who’s not noble birth too…. #like she had potential ..!! she was mentored by a matriarch of a noble house ..!! but then she flopped soo badly 😭😭 #and I hc mid/the end of act 1 she still hasn’t accepted that she’s an oathbreaker and she’s still delusional thinking that she can get #lolth’s favour again it’s like no 💗 girly. she hates your ass 💓 if you ever return to menzoberranzan she’ll turn you into a drider probably #and it’s only in act 2 where she accepts that she is an Oathbreaker. and she does Not need Lolth. and Lolth doesn’t deserve her (delusion) #but I love that idea for her bc she was So proud of herself … and she devoted herself to her goddess to the point that her sense of self is #essentially Gone.. but then she gets rejected. so now the thing she’s most proud of is taken away from her #by HER own actions no less .. like she can’t blame anyone bc it’s her own fault ..!! and that’s what stings more ..!!!!! she’s the one who #fumbled the bag … so it’s like where do u go when the very thing you dedicated your whole life to rejected you #and you’re so far away from home. and you CAN’T even go back home.. where do you go. no choice but to keep going…. #then she eventually accepts the role as an oath breaker bc it's the only thing she has left. her oath no longer binds her ; every choice #she makes is hers and hers alone.. which is so ..!! girls when you're faced to reclaim your own agency or else you'll fall into the void #you're left with ...!!!!!!! also it is so perfect bc the oathbreaker dialogues are all abt freedom and agency of self. #being free from dogma and making your own decisions! and you also want others to be free too … #and the fact that the oath breaker knight helps you make that decision I hc she becomes similar to him as well #where if someone chooses they want to be free she will help them … but it has to be their own choice … #which ties in perfectly with the act 2 and 3 quests esp for the companions .. all abt making ur own decisions … #so the leadership role goes from gale then to her … #should be heading to bed bc I have an early start tomorrow but hrk head filled w thoughts of my oc... #but act 1 shri'iia is essentially her getting such a bad grade at being Lolth-Sworn Drow that lolth disowns her 😭 #im so ill at the thought of her not being able to return to menzo tho ... i dont think the underdark is safe for her either like she should #b getting hunted like sport .... maybe thats why she released the vampire spawns down there lol #like <3 revenge. everyone loves revenge especially an ex oath of vengeance girly <3

[keingleichgewicht]

pafl is an exercise in juxtaposition

convergence // occam's razor

convergence // the mill

convergence // the mill // false disposition (twice) // occam's razor

convergence // strike 3 // occam's razor

convergence // comfort zone

#pafl #parties are for losers #i could can and almost certainly will keep going #THAT LAST ONE REALLY HURTS OH MAN OH BOY #oh its noble to serve as means to an end says yura mocking mocking mocking. and arent you noble? and arent you proud? #dont you love being a gear in the machine? dont you love being a weapon in someone elses hands? #aint it what youre used to? #feel good? feel familiar? #feel comfortable yet? its old hat! you and i we've been there done that! we've been trapped! but guess what: now ive got the key! #i am going to get back to 'fair play is overrated' vs 'mercy is the sign of a talentless actor.' its the same thing #what we forget about like a dog is that the whole point of the thing is that TEMNOVA IS ALSO LIKE A DOG #long post (SORRY)

[the-bisexual-a-genda]

I think the deal that switched Fig and Gilear's luck didn't start in the Night Yorb fight. I'm thinking about Sophmore Year when Gilear said he was going to turn his life around. I don't know. That moment keeps sticking in my mind.

#it happened before the pride armor #and he was making the promise with fig #who i think was an archdevil by then #or maybe the fact that she wasn't yet is why it didn't happen imediately #i dunno i dunno #i just keep thinking of it #something about gilear being the one to start it #not fig being noble #but gilear prideful #because even if the reason you improve yourself is for someone else #its still for you #i think he is the chosen one in that he was the one who made the choice #god they're so fucking interesting #they will both endlessly try to save each other but they're too scared to save themselves #because that requires really sitting with yourself and they're both so deeply insecure #fig has started it in the forest but gilear #gilear faeth #that man will not get to the hard stuff #talking shit about himself is so so easy #as easy as fig slipping into a disguise #but he doesnt know himself hasnt for years