#but in wf its like

[alteredsilicone]

"people really overblow how Eternalism is used as a storytelling device"

OHMYGOD RANDOM REDDIT USER I LOVE YOU, FINALLY I FOUND SOMEONE WHO GETS IT

Also this comes from a thread how it's "impossible" to explain Warframe's lore without making someone's head explode.

And it literally isn't. If you tell it chronologically it's not that convoluted at all. The worst part is the Operator/Drifter split but like... that's it.

#wf tag #eternalism isnt and has never been used to patch plot holes in DEs writing #those just exist organically LMFAO #eternalism is used to explain how the drifter and operator timelines coalesced #THATS IT #its literally my pet peeve u guys dont get how passionate im about this #good to see ONE person who gets it #also tbh eternalism has pretty clear rules #like a lot of dimension and time travelling stories just kinda make shit up #but in wf its like #the void is how you travel between dimensions #u can do that via void portals #ballas opened a bunch of portals during new war #the zariman is plugging a giant void hole and also acts as a corridor between worlds #and thats it #its really that shrimple #ok i know saying something is simple is condescending but ugh #i dunno i just hate how people think anything that requires thought is like #bad or too difficult or impossible or wtv #IM JUST BEING ANNOYING #wf reddit adventures

[allgremlinart]

🤨 Bruce...

#superbat #wf #what is with wf and using cheesey romance tropes in its writing like please

[gendrie]

its always “arya is catelyn 2.0″ until someone suggests that lady of winterfell might be a role that would suit arya based on the numerous characteristics that she shares with her mother and it also makes a lot of sense thematically considering how much arya and catelyn have been associated with one another since arya’s very first chapter (”a wolf with a fish in it’s mouth”) they continue to share a huge number of story elements: family/pack driven, water symbolism, the red wedding, mercy/revenge, the brotherhood without banners, life/death/rebirth, arya took her mother’s name as an alias and lady of winterfell, a title that went directly from catelyn to being currently attached to “arya stark”. their arcs have been circling each other almost constantly in numerous ways and its likely everything will intersect if/when arya does cross paths with lady stoneheart. ending with arya assuming her mother’s role makes perfect sense especially considering how insecure arya was about her abilities and worth in catelyn’s eyes. but nope, arya is only like catelyn until that doesnt suit the narrative at which point the similarities between them and the overlap in their arcs are meaningless actually lol 

#asoiaf nonsense #arya stark #like????? lmao #when arya reclaims her identity lady of wf is in the package imo #grrm loves making the the younger siblings who never wanted any of it step up #im not even telling people what to hc or speculate #i just think its funny #that they argue arya = catelyn except it will have zero relevance to her endgame #bc sansa's dead direwolf being called lady is ironclad

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

booklr, arise!! i am once again soliciting recs. specifically, i need your Best SFF/Generally-Speculative Books About Revenge (or at least with a Prominent Revenge Subplot). i will also accept Classics™, but they’re on thin ice.

preferably not YA (no shade to YA, but it’s not what i need Material for right now), preferably not a series--i’m looking for self-contained and actualized Revenge Stories. sci-fi or weird preferred to fantasy; magical realism also good. bonus points if it’s vaguely superpower related, more bonus points if it’s also queer.

hit me with your best recs, please!!

(an incomplete list of relevant things i have already read are below the cut!:)

- VICIOUS/VENGEFUL by Schwab (you see what i’m looking for, huh)

- THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

- SIX OF CROWS/CROOKED KINGDOM by Bardugo

- THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA by Lynch

- THE PRINCESS BRIDE by Goldman

- RED RISING by Brown

please note: i am NOT interested in THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO et al. OR anything ~Steamy~, which is what Goodreads keeps giving me

thanks for reading this far, y’all!!

#text #personal #books #booklr #book recommendations #seeking recommendations #revenge #books about revenge #sff recommendations #sff recs #i have no idea how to tag this for visibility but please do reblog!! #also tagging as: #nano 2023 #wallflower #wf #why yes i am in fact beginning to marinate on a NaNo Profile thanks for noticing!!! #i have like. thirteen post-its and no plot yet lmao #i wanna try revenge because i haven't done that yet but i don't know what i'm doing #i will accept movie recs too but i'm really mostly here for books at the moment!!

[uncaught-coolfish]

thank fuck I didn’t end up in the “willingly accepts the copaganda of rwby because the fake catgirl told me to do it” club because each and every time some new person tries to stand up and preach to the world “the writers writing an organization of in universe minorities, led by a fridged desi woman, with members including an indigenous girl, two middle eastern-coded twins, and a jewish named ex slave with the initials of a german named company branded into his eye, thats ackshully ☝️🤓 just an evil bunch of reverse-racist TERRORIST ABUSERS who are ON THE LEVEL OF if not WORSE the racists OPPRESSING AND ENSLAVING THEM…… is actually good and subversive writing” I want to throw a cinder block at something I am so serious

#yeah this goes in the tag. and you know what? main tag too! idc anymore this shit makes me pissed #rwde #rwby #uncaught-coolfish #I’m half native. you guys will hear how pissed this subplot makes me feel until the end of fucking time #and idc if it’ll make some crackers crumble. the show we both like did a racism. bummer I KNOW. #leaving anon open forrrrrrrrr im curious 😁 who will call me neurodivergent slurs first #and if any of you “ITS THE TROUBLES!!!” fuckers find this post do me a favor scroll past or roll off your bed for a second and touch grass #wf adam sienna ilia whoever whatever were not “wasted potential” they were characters made up for a racist plotline in a racist show cheers #someday I’ll finish up my revamped rant on how this arc of rwby genuinely makes the show one of the most racist series to come out in. #a fucking while. but similarly it is taking a while because I am putting all my pussy anger into it #they just had to make my girl ilia an indigenous girl having to be “redeemed” by a more privileged friend who is virtually white. #i say it every time if this show were not made in texas it would be made in canada and if you know what I mean than you know what I mean.

[constantvariations]

One of Hello Future Me's videos on revolution brought up an event from the Philippines back in the 80s: the dictator sent a battalion to crush a supposed revolt, only for the soldiers to be met with nuns and children offering food and water. The majority of the army defected as a result

I'm going to use rwby to try hammering this abstract concept into a coherent thought, but this incident got me thinking about how nonviolent protest is theater

If a similar event were to occur in rwby, for it to be successful, the protestors would have to be the cutesy faunus types: rabbits, cats, dogs, and the like because they're non-threatening. Attacking a sweet cat faunus would be akin to attacking a child or nun, paragons of innocence and virtue respectively. Only a monster could cut them down, and no one wants to be seen as a monster

A scorpion faunus, though? Their mere existence is a threat. That tail is dangerous, a weapon available at all times. Bull faunus have horns they can use to gouge out eyes and organs. Claim they attacked and most people would agree that killing them in self-defense is justified

Because nonviolent resistance relies on public perception, people who could possibly taint the image of the movement will get left in the dark no matter how important they are. Bayard Rustin was the one who taught Dr King about civil disobedience and was an organizer for many major events, but he opted to ride to events in the trunk of people's cars so his status as an openly gay man wouldn't harm the movement's image

There would be little wonder why the White Fang would be more popular with the "scarier" faunus. Public perception is already against them, so it's not going to change much for them if they join a violent organization, but this in turn will be seen as justification for discrimination against these types of faunus. A hellish self-perpetuating cycle

These faunus would also be far more likely to experience violence at a much younger age, akin to how black children are treated as adults even if they're literally six years old

The strategy behind nonviolent protest like the ones Dr King did is to show the world the mistreatment of the innocent, but when your existence is deemed a threat, there's little hope that you'll ever get enough support to change the system. This is why bigots constantly spew the "queer groomer" and black crime "statistics": by portraying someone's freedom as a danger to the innocent, any level of violence is justifiable defense. The police aren't attacking queers, black, and brown folk discriminately, they're attacking dangerous criminals, so it's okay!!1!

Theater can't save those already condemned and to try is wasted effort

#rwde #antiblackness tw #<- in the link #Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat a whole 9 months before Rosa Parks yet wasnt the face of the movement #good choice considering she was only 15 and shoving a teen into the racist public eye is Not Good but her pregnancy was also a major factor #idk hopefully i got the point across #somewhat related is the trend of the privileged being the biggest advocates for peaceful protest #while the ones who've endured violence - both economically and physically - are the ones who call upon violence #which almost always means violent *self defense* #the few occasions ive read where there were actual attacks its been targeted like the BLA ambushing cops #cant say i blame them considering the mcfucking everything the cops had going on #the bpp was basically destroyed by the police and fbi at this point and that was probs a major factor in their decision #and targeted violence was exactly what the white fang was doing before cinder showed up and ruined everything #literally nothing the wf does in the show is actually for faunus liberation bc its all cinder/salems orders!! #and no one is allowed to have a brain or personality or anything so no one questions why theyre suddenly switching targets #gr8 discussion abt activism here shawluna. love that you reduced the anti racism movement to mercenaries to avoid saying anything at all #ffs they even fucked up weiss's side of the convo! obvs the fumbling of blakes ball is much worse but come the fuck on #'the wf may have assassinated company board members and family friends but were teammates now so who cares!! team rwby go!!' #fucking barf

[milos-journal]

alr slenderverse sluts tell me ur fav characters in the tags. i’ll start!

#slenderverse #tag bait #ngl #anyway favs r #vinnie for emh #mary or milo for t12 its a hard pick #i havent watched mh in a billion years but #def tim or alex #idr anything from dh00. sorry #i like lexx wf :3 #susuan from sf <3 #and while hollowhemlocks is technically not sv #jesse hollowhemlocks deserves a spot #marble hornets #tribetwelve #darkharvest00 #everymanhybrid #whisperedfaith #hollowhemlocks #stan frederick #milomamu

[fightwing]

out of all the fab fiv.e age retcons i think it needs to be said the galaxy brained order of age is: roy, donna, wally, garth, dick

#like wally gives middle child of the middle children energy #and garth gives youngest aside from dick #and dick is necessary to be the youngest because there is a MANDATORY 'why is this 13 year old bossing me around' period in the titan.s #actually tho its whatever you want it to be and idm the minor titan.s changes #SO LONG as they forever keep roy as the oldest. like unironically i think his 'cool older brother' thing is so vital to the team dynamics #and in wf i think bee would be after wally before gar.th #(ignoring that wf wally is the youngest) so crazy to see dick be older and bigger than wally literally ever #but theyre all so similar in age it doesnt matter except in those moments the youngest gets to say 'youre old' about an age they'll turn in #like 3 months #also that 'dick may be the eldest of the batf.am but he was the baby of the titan.s' is my roman empire #OK working on drafts hope u all had spectacular days <3 #* i'd love to write but it's just not realistic / ooc. #although im not satisfied with donna be second oldest my wonder twin.s brain needs them closer

[silent-scribbs]

Working on my au to realize I rlly do need to fully design/redesign everyone

And outfits

Theres

So, SO many different ways to draw everyone… ouchie </3

#maki mayhem #☁️9 #guys please I had a thought about lore again and I like- #I also need to have human characters for the plot. I am also biased AGAINST my own ocs goin in- #Contemplating stealing characters from others respectfully /lh (I probably wont; scared) #Anyways Sally is 100% always wearin a fuckin cloud crown of a sort. She would be like that /silly #Actively making Wally go through The Horrors™️ #All of them will but Wally survives and is; erm; traumatized- #I still consider a third sub-au (or just like. alt route sorta deal. or maybe its just the end) thats just another play on words but not(?) #hhhh Its a full story in my head but like JUST GIVE ME A YEAR AND YOU’LL HAVE CONTENT (/j) #I have more stanima in my hand for drawing than writing and I think thats normal but funny #It’s always fun to think that WF will have minimal changes bc I made tha art recently and I like it #Idr if I typed that right and I’m on my phone- oh well. #Gotta work on outfits @_@ This will be. in fact. hEll #So anyways if u have suggestions for literally ANY OUTFITS OR HUMAN CHARACTERS then by all means go ahead lmao

[ladystoneboobs]

i call this collection, contradictory quotes from two boys very, very confused about their families, homes, and loyalties.

#valyrianscrolls #asoiaf meta #asoiaf #jon snow #theon greyjoy #jonathan snowflake starkgaryen #long post #this was such a pain bc tumblr kept giving me errors processing the post #so i ended up having to copypaste into a word doc and take screengrabs of that to post as photos #finally posting out of sheer stubborn frustration as much as anything #(c)lsb #i am no stark #its not like i think jon was wishing for cat's death every time she went into childbirth #but the possibility must have occured to him that w/o her nobody would question his place at winterfell where hed lived his whole life #the same could not be said for hostage theon with no stark blood #and hes blinded by jealousy to think jon had more honor at wf. more love maybe but he wasnt the one sitting with robb for fancy feasts #jon's thoughts of the gods are quoted bc hes implicitly counting himself a stark with that phrasing instead of his gods or the old gods #just like theon betraying himself every time he said plural gods even if he never cared enough abt any gods to pray until ramsay #i'll always think his capture of wf had as much to do w desire to become a stark as revenge #else he would have sacked the castle and took hostages back to pyke like asha said #its like the saying if you cant beat em join em for theon it was the opposite #he couldnt understand why people who knew him as a hostage wouldnt help him hunt down his own child hostages #it was only fair! theyd be his wards and still live at winterfell together #it occurs to me that stannis for jon was like ned for theon stern scary guy he had to remind himself not to care about #jon may as well be shouting im the lord of winterfell when announcing his desertion hes so bold yet he thinks if this is oathbreaking #if! what theon turncloak mental gymnastics could make it not oathbreaking to kill a northern lord?!

[m0th-gh0st]

please don't go, I'll eat you whole.

I love you so, I love you so

#seanlee #whisperedfaith #whispered faith #sean wf #lee wf #art #digital art #this is so gay im sorry #i have college work due but like.. them <3 #its not even valentines anymore but trust me i started when it still was

[alteredsilicone]

"In-depth information of the Warframe mandate is forbidden to all but the Seven."

Despite this, Albrecht Entrati:

-got a hold of the Helminth virus, which is the specific strain of infestation used to make Warframes.

-made his own Warframe (Qorvex).

-time travelled to 1999 to Warframe-ify people who believed he was saving them from a plague.

Albrecht Entrati does not give a single solitary fuck, I am amazed he somehow avoided the Jade Light.

#wf tag #he practiced alchemy which was forbidden #he got a hold of warframe technology SOMEHOW #like this man should have been vaporized long ago #not to mention the orokin didnt even take his void research seriously #he should be happy they didnt give him the Javi treatment and didnt lock him up #i guess Albrecht learned from the alchemist and thats why the underground secret lab system existed #im surprised Loid didnt go grey from keeping up with all the secrets #and also smuggling shit for Albrecht #MAYBE Albrecht being a proper Orokin saved him from any repercussions but like #its not like Orokin were known for their upstanding morals LMFAO

[driftpng]

how do folks even make friends within a fandom. official disc servers suck

#saying this as the Guy who has Not made friends with the same interest in games n stuff to talk abt in a Century or ever had the space #to talk abt its interests with folks. i've been too anxious over interacting w/ ppl for too long #like where do you even begin #i've been playing mainly solo awhile in wf aside from relic runs n stuff n there's the occasional talker which is nice but #i'd love to be playing w/ friends too #n it's been the same for a lot of stuff i've fixiated on in the past for a while. it gets lonely out here :( #wolfe.txt

[gendrie]

How do you see Sansa’s story unfolding in TWOW? People seem to want to rush it so she can get to Winterfell and kill LF, but she can’t have the Vale’s knights without the consent of the lord of the Eyrie (I don’t know why that’s so overlooked) so SR needs to die so she can marry Harry, but at the same time she’s married to Tyrion and LF is obsessed with her. He brags about taking the Tully girls’ virginity, and I’m sure he won’t be happy with the prospect of Harry having her before he does. And no one can tell me the Vale lords will be fine with SR’s sudden death and have no suspicions. Things won’t be that simple. I’m of the opinion Sansa will only slay LF after she learns what happened to Jeyne. Maybe Arya will return from Braavos with Jeyne? Dunno, but I know Arya will tell Sansa about it. Arya’s mere existence ruins LF’s plans. While there’s a Stark succession crisis going on in the North Arya returns with Robb’s crown and LF’s freaks out and tries to sow intrigues between the sisters. He’s too important an antagonist to be shoved aside that early.

you covered a lot of my thoughts on the subject. most of the fandom is just not engaging with sansa's material beyond a desire to see her as the qitn who never did anything wrong so they cut out the vale shenanigans, not unlike d&d, and imagine her going directly to wf to be fawned as the most perfect lady. for some thats the full extent of their investment in asoiaf lol.

but theres no reason for her to go up up north asap. nobody is checking for her, no weirwood is calling her name, no direwolves howling in her dreams, no magical association, ect. her arc is almost entirely devoid of northern symbolism tbh. she's never even spoken to a northern character on page who wasnt a relative or her bestie. and yet the fandom refuses to even entertain alternative courses for her.

whether or not littlefinger is telling the truth is kind of secondary now that he's revealed his plot to the audience. storytelling convention dictates that it will not come to pass. but i dont think he's being entirely forthcoming anyway. i suspect his plan is actually to frame harry (who seemingly has the most to gain) for sweetrobin's death. thats been his entire M.O. since day one (see jon arryn, see joffrey, see lysa) i agree that theres no way littlefinger intends to marry the object of his obsession to another man too. thats like losing catelyn to brandon/ned all over again. not that he could marry her off even if he wanted because tyrion refuses to die.

i also agree that jeyne p. will play into this. the fact that sansa hasn't heard about "arya stark's" marriage is downright conspicuous at this point. almost everybody (arya included) heard about it in storm. she heard about jon being elected lord commander already too. that was easily brushed off. as was littlefinger's revelation that he intends to kill sweetrobin. i don't think she will be able to brush off arya/jeyne, though. how she finds out remains to be seen, but i do think its likely grrm is withholding this info from sansa for a reason.

littlefinger's got his work cut out for him. he is not accounting for robb's will which names jon a stark and the heir to robb's kingdom, nor for bran, rickon and the real arya stark. this will give sansa a lot to deal with too. for good and ill. her siblings are alive, but she has been removed from the line of succession. that will sting and yeah, arya will obviously intend to give the crown to jon which will create conflict between the sisters.

ultimately, i think a variety of factors will cause sansa to turn on littlefinger. the biggest might be, simply, that he corrupted her for nothing. he's a liar and fraud and he hasnt done anything for her. he's tricked her into forgetting that with a promise of wf, but it won't last. she's going along with his plan to murder a child, her own cousin, but it won't give her what she wants in the end. the fantasy will be destroyed. when that realization hits her she will move against him.

#ask #theres not a lot of genuine speculation for sansa out there #most its just like #she will defeat LF in her next chap and then the vale will deliver her to wf where she sits pretty forevermore #like ok damn than im revoking her main character status lol

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

the hazard of being a night owl during nano is that Calendar Days and Writing Days aren't actually perfect equivalents, so i end up with asinine timekeeping like "november 18, technically," and "november 18, actually," scribbled in my margins to keep track of nighttime vs daytime writing

#text #personal #writing #wf #nano2023 #nano #this is Very Necessary To Me Actually #ive been reading through old stuff intermittently and keep getting pissed at past!Me for not dating any of this shit 🤣 #im like combing through geological records over here trying to carbon date shit #(like the beginning of this notebook is from when cramer was a woman and siku Existed and i CAN map that to a draft of avian initiative-- #--but gotdamn i dont wanna have to lmao) #so im trying to get better about scribbling a date if not a date and time for my writing sessions when relevant #so future me doesn't lose their fucking mind about it #but i like my words to be counted in the calendar days #but cards can be accomplished in Writing Days #anyway its 1AM and im just now crawling into bed about it but i had fun!! #love unhinged dreams!!!! #does it count as animal death if 1. its in a dream and 2. its in a kitchen in a dream #or is that just Dream Cooking at this stage #(its fuzzy because theyre not uh. theyre not food animals.) #i dont kill real animals in stories but apparently i do what i want in dreams

[i-hear-a-sound]

Happy Valentine’s Day, here is my probably controversial ship tier list in no particular order

#rwde #rwde because I PUT BUMBLEBY LOW #its not like I don’t like the ship because ideally it’s good. its just in my opinion… its kinda rendered my girl blake to just being- #-“the other half of bumbleby” #plus it was kinda used to kick the whole wf arc under the rugaaANYWHO #the positive/negative stuff tho isnt specifically positive negative just #“im indifferent but I dig it” and “im indifferent but I dont” #and technically crimsun is my favorite. its the one I could scream for a whole ass post about THE WASTED POTENTIAL AHGGGG #im still mad about it btw they could’ve at least had a sick ass fight together #but canon wise FREEZERBURN TRUMPS ALL