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insomniaruler · 1 month

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More headcanons because yes

- food, food in the worlds of Minecraft is generally strange but there are key tenants to help you understand.

- Stuff that can be quickly crafted, cooked or made from base ingredients (such as wheat instead of flour) is filling in a sense but won’t sustain a players body.

- Stuff that is made with more time, usually made later on in a game, speedrunners actually need to eat more of this type of food because they don’t eat it in their runs.

- there are three types of death, death, perma death and The Endless Sleep. Regular death is simple, the player dies and wakes up where they last slept. Perma death is slightly trickier, a code mechanic that sends players back to the world hub and destroys their world, thus creating hardcore mode. And then There’s The Endless Sleep which is incredibly uncommon and under researched, it’s when a player disappears one day and won’t be found again.

- all the members of Hermitcraft are either looking for something or running from something. For some it’s obvious, Joel looking for a challenge and Grian running from the Watchers. But for others they’re both running and looking for something, like StressMonster who was both looking for a place to live in peace and running from faerie hunters.

On that note:

- StressMonster was a half Fae noble in the spring court, thankfully she was out of the castle visiting family when the first attack came. She fought at first but when one of her wings was cut off with an iron blade she fled the Fae Lands. she learned about the player side of her heritage.

- Jimmy remembers the games in stark detail but thinks no one (not even the victors) remember so he’s just kind of holding onto the fear from the games with nowhere to put it.

- a lot of people can be influenced by the lore magic of smp’s after they’ve concluded, usually it’s small such as Lizzie drinking more water after esmp s1, or Cleo being a little more intrested in history after the wc smp to Kristen gaining the magic and status as a fully fledged death goddess after the dsmp

- the birds™️ of Hermitcraft (False, Grian, Pearl) like to annoy Zedaph because he’s (definitely not) worm man

- pearl doesn’t sleep a lot, she still has the watchers in her head, trying to influence her, she’s weaker when asleep and she’s scared that if they break through they’ll terrorize Hermitcraft

- most players have a ‘chat’ that follows them around, Philza’s crowd, Technoblades voices, etc. etc. Zedaphs is a horde of sentient & autonomous worms on strings that follow him around, almost daily he gets packages from other hermits giving him back his worms because they’re just Everywhere

- Joe’s chat are ghosts that he pulled along with himself by accident, Quinn is a poltergeist who decided that yes. That one is good.

- there’s world simulations where players can go to experience the real world, such as the Japan where YHS was held

- A lot of hermits tend to over work themselves, TFC set up one night a week where he expects the hermits to either be in bed asleep or at his base eating a full dinner together. This tradition started in season 2 when he joined and goes on to this day but now without TFC the hermits rotate hosting weekly. There’s always a candle lit in TFC’s honour at these dinners.

#minecraft headcanon #hermitcraft #hermitcraft headcanons #headcanons #mcyt #mcyt headcanons #stressmonster101 #life series #tin foil chef

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hopetorun · 2 months

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i'd love to hear your beliefs about the tension in their relationship because i'm a very nosy bitch but obviously only if you feel like it!

lol well i did offer! beliefs is a strong word, tbh. more of a like ... is this stuff true? i don't know. but if i were writing a story where i wanted to have tension in that relationship, these are the places i would be inclined to introduce that tension. maybe there is tension in some of these places in real life! that's none of my beeswax.*

anyway: some places i think it is plausible that there's tension in the relationship, or at least plausible enough to play with in fiction. receipts on these where i can find them, sorry if they're paywalled but them's the breaks.

*unless they make it part of their public narrative

back in 2022 matthew was on the athletic hockey podcast and he talked about feeling "like a babysitter" when keith visits and how much keith enjoys being one of the guys. now mostly i think they probably have a pretty good time, but babysitter is a word choice there. i don't think it's a stretch to imagine that having your retired dad show up at your workplace and becoming the life of the party to relive his glory days could be ... trying.

not to beat around the bush but they're both opinionated guys! opinionated and chatty! and as a result you get: keith slamming the panthers on the radio. matthew sticking his nose into brady's contract negotiations (brady being grimace emoji about it). like, we know for a fact that the radio thing bothered matthew! and there's plenty of opportunities for one or both of them to offer unsolicited opinions that don't go over well.

to the previous point: i considered not including that because it's not as speculative as the others on the list. but it's definitely something i'd draw on if i was writing a story where their relationship is tense.

look, i'm not a man and not only am i not a man but i don't have any brothers and my dad died four and a half years ago and he never talked about his dad. so i can't claim to be an expert on the fathers-and-sons relationship dynamic. but why would i let that stop me from speculating wildly!

anyway: legacies. oldest sons. expectations. @ohtemporas touched on this briefly earlier, the way there's often an extra pressure on the oldest kid to be the same-gender-parent's legacy. do what i did. represent me well in the world. and i don't think it's even particularly weird for that to potentially lead to some conflicting feelings if all that legacy building leads to you being surpassed in some way. that's just human! especially for competitive people, and as i have said on this website before: no one becomes a professional athlete without being competitive.

here's keith being presented with matthew's 99th point puck from the 21-22 season, which his then-teammate did up with the writing for this specific purpose. chantal thinks this is SO funny. do think maybe being conflicted about being surpassed makes him not proud of matthew? no. but people can be complicated.

speaking of people being complicated: that one post-game after matthew scored 5 points on the blues. i think the tension between keith wanting his own team's success and wanting his sons' success isn't something people were making up out of whole cloth. but maybe it was especially noticeable when matthew was still in the western conference? i feel like it got dialed back after the trade. lol.

i'm mentioning it only because otherwise someone else might: i don't care about the hat thing. i think it's silly. if i was asked to throw my favorite hat onto the ice at an nhl game just because some schlub scored three goals i probably wouldn't.

a few concluding thoughts

i don't think any of this means they have a bad relationship! mostly i think that no two people have a perfect relationship where they agree on everything and never butt into each other's business uninvited and never hurt each other's feelings, because that's impossible.

i'm not making some counterpoint list of all the reasons i think they love each other. someone else can. i don't think having high expectations of someone means you hate them and i don't think anyone spends their time and money following their son's hockey team around the country on a road trip hoping to see him score his 100th point out of hatred or spite.

maybe i'm wrong about all of this and they've hated each other since 2002 and someday we'll get a tell-all story and people can come into my ask box or whatever and tell me how wrong i was. i don't care. all rpf characterization is fake. i watched keith froth at the mouth in the stands at the 2016 wjc every time someone so much as breathed on matthew, though, so i don't think i'm wrong.

#ask maggie #matthew tkachuk

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alltimefail-sims · 11 months

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Part 1 Ft. The (in-progress) Living Bonehilda...

Buckle up because this series will have a varying amount of long-winded explanations and timeline word-vomit... but I'm having fun, and I love lore, so I wanted to share my own. Basically, I've been working on fixing the plot holes and lore inconsistencies of some of my favorite sims in The Sims franchise, and I wanted to start with the lovely and vivacious Bonehilda. Fair disclaimer: I don't think that all the lore in the Sims is inconsistent. Some of the lore is likely ongoing or, in my opinion, intentionally vague. However, plot holes and ambiguity drive me crazy, so for my personal saves I had to eliminate speculation and create a timeline that felt clean, consistent, and interesting to me. So, with that being said... let's deep dive!

read more below the cut ↓

Let's start by talking about her life and death. After initial research, it became clear to me that Bonehilda would have lived around the same time as the flirty spirit Claude René Duplantier Guidry (an implied lover/admirer) and the angry, wrathful spirit Temperance (who is highly implied to be her sister), so she most likely would have been a living young adult somewhere between 1910-1920, and died somewhere in the mid to late 1930s as an adult. Why do I believe she died in adulthood, you ask? I think she likely died in adulthood because the one consistent detail across all three iterations of the game she appears in is that she is an adult skeleton, therefore it's only logical to conclude that she died in her adulthood and unfortunately never made it to elderhood.

I've seen some people argue that she is not actually dead, that she never died and did reach elderhood but just evaded death, but I disagree with this because (1) she is not an "elder" skeleton and (2) my eschatological-philosophy-inclined brain interprets eternal-life as either a divine gift or punishment. This is backed up by the fact that, normally, sims do not come back as skeletons but as spirits and living sims who do have eternal life maintain a sim form but are either occults (vampires) or have taken some elixir of life that just maintains their youthful appearance. Ergo, Bonehilda is closer to the Grim Reaper in nature and distinctly different than a previously living sim - she's a seemingly death-defying being that can be summoned from some unknown ether. Could this be the work of a curse? A sacrifice? A ritual she was involved in...willingly or unwillingly? There's no definite answer, but I do have a personal interpretation that I'll save for another day as it involves some other sims we'll take a deep dive into.

All that being said, I wanted to keep her human form consistent with this established timeline because...well...I'm kind of nuts I guess lmao. But I do like the challenge of working with "eras" in my saves because it makes the passage of time feel more realistic and deepens the interpersonal "legacy" roots that I like to create in the game.

Now let's look at her name, which I very much doubt was literally Bonehilda. I think the sims team chose her name to be a play-on-words. For example, I see a sim like Marcus "Flex" being a good example of this. I interpret "Flex" to be more of an acquired nickname due to his fitness prowess, not his actual last name (perhaps it is even a variation of a real last name like Fleck or Fletcher). That being said, after wayyyy too much thought I came to the conclusion that her first name was likely "Brunhilda," a name referencing a Germanic heroic legend, protector, and queen consort; a name that means "armed for battle" (just like our Bonehilda who protects living sims from malicious spirits). I like to think that our Brunhilda commonly just went by Hilda for short during her lifetime. The bone part, in my lore, became a moniker she was known by because, well, she's a skeleton (duh). But more than that, the likely explanation is that stories and legends about her created an unintentional game of telephone - meaning that as time went on and people told tales about her, her name morphed from the real Brun-hilda to Bone-hilda. I mean, it actually makes sense because they're so similar! Plus, I could see her embracing the nickname for its whimsy, as it's clear she has a kind heart and a good sense of humor. For simplicity though, I will continue to refer to her as Bonehilda.

Lastly, I'm going to touch on her personal appearance. We know that when she takes a "human" form (like when she showers if you add her to your household) she has an average body type, green eyes, and red hair, so I kept all those things consistent. Now, personally, when I think of Bonehilda I think of the words "lively," "spirited," and "trendsetter," so right off the bat I chose to make her hair short. Keeping up with desire to be historically-accurate, I imagine she was very into the rising women's suffrage movement of the 1900s and wasn't scared to turn some heads. Plus, I loved how bouncy and beautiful the hair looked and thought the shorter hair fit her face shape better. (It's an added bonus that I've never seen a human makeover of Bonehilda with short hair, so I thought it was a unique choice.)

In my personal lore, the Goth family was the last family she worked for before she died, and they definitely would have paid and treated her well; I've always assumed the Goths to be exceedingly progressive and far ahead of the times. (Side tangent: the Goths are consistently compared to the Landgraabs for good reason, and I've always seen this as old money versus new money, wealthy but with humanitarianism and philanthropy at the core versus wealthy with the intention of hoarding wealth at the cost of or with little regard of others and so on.) Truthfully, I could see the Goths of the early 1900s seeing Bonehilda (and any other staff that worked for them) as more like a part of the family than "paid help." That being the case, they would be generous and ethical, and Bonehilda would therefore have more freedom and means than your typical working-class single woman of the time, so she would be able to keep up with fashion trends/buy nice clothes/keep up with unique haircuts, etc.

As for her makeup - I am actually super happy with how it looks, so that likely won't change. Her blush is intense, but that's pretty accurate for the time period she lived in. I went with a paler, more natural lip than the movie-starlet red that was coming into style because I wanted her to have a demure, youthful look. I also went with a thin brow, but I do think it could be more "filled in" to suit the dramatic eyebrow look which was rising in popularity at this time. Lastly, the beautiful dress she's currently in is not staying as it reads too 1930s to me. My goal is to find an older looking maid's outfit to put her in that suits a 1915s-1920s look better.

I know this may come off like a lot of unnecessary thought and information for a seemingly silly, throwaway sim. However, I would argue that Bonehilda has appeared in 3/4 of the sims games... so as a long-running character she deserves attention and a consistent lore. As we continue this deep-dive series, she'll be connected to more of my personal favorite sims... so I'm really excited to share more with you guys!

I hope you all enjoyed Part 1! I don't know how many more parts there will be, but if you read all of this, know that I appreciate you and I'm so glad you're here!

Until next time... happy lore exploring, curious cats!

#bonehilda #simblr #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #sims lore #ts4 cas #ts4 lore #the sims lore #the sims #the goth family #ddseries #atfs #SO happy to be doing this. Lore is why I love the sims and this has been an idea of mine for so long. I hope you guys enjoyed this <3

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calextheneko · 8 months

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Mind Flayer Transformations, the Soul, and the Self

So before we get started, this is gonna be nerdy, breaking down some details about how a monster works and is created in DnD. It's also going to contain some Baldur's Gate 3 spoilers which I will put a warning about once we reach that point.

So Mind Flayers... The opening scene of Baldur's Gate 3 has you have a mind flayer stick a tadpole that crawls under your eye into your brain and yeah that's horrifying. Even more terrifying is the fact that in a matter of days, the tadpole will transform you into a mind flayer, and the person you are now will cease to exist and your new body becomes part of the hive mind.

Now, here's where things get really scary and why the situation is so dire in the game for those who don't know DnD lore. Turning into a Mind Flayer is a fate worse than death. They're like vampires but worse. Vampires need blood but have the option to feed on non-sapient creatures. Mind flayers will literally die of hunger unless they eat the brains of sapient creatures. If you somehow manage to keep your sense of self after the transformation, there is no moral lifestyle you can live. You are an inherently destructive creature that can only survive by brutally murdering other sapient creatures. You can try to go after evil people only but, how much can you trust your judgement? How long till you make a mistake? And do you have the right to act as judge, jury and executioner? Is your own morality so well defined that you have the right to decide who lives and who dies.

Now... Moving on from that, there's an even more terrifying fact. And this is the fact that when you become a Mind Flayer your souls is destroyed. ZIp, gone, poof. Nothing remains. This means the second you become a mind flayer you are barred from the afterlife forever. Which we have multiple confirmed afterlives in DnD so you know... This is something where it is a definite loss. Instead of an eternity of paradise (or punishment if you were evil) you just flat out cease to exist. No reincarnation for you, no afterlife. No soul. Of course, for some evil people, this might make the transformation appealing, seeing it as a way to avoid an eternity in Hell. Because much like lichdom this will keep them from dying of old age and could in theory allow them to live forever escaping punishment for all their evil deeds.

Except there's a key difference between a mind flayer and lich. A lich still possesses their soul. It's simply not in their body, but kept in a safe place that they have access to. This means if a lich is destroyed properly their soul will go face its eternal judgement. A mind flayer has no soul at all.

And here we come to the horrifying implications about Mind Flayer transformations. The transformation is lethal. A soulless body is just a husk, you can see this in this universe in spells that steal a soul and just leave an empty body with nobody home assuming the body isn't destroyed in the process. Your soul is who you are. So what does it mean to not just lose your soul but to have it destroyed and yet still somehow retain your sense of self?

Simple, you're not yourself. You're dead. You no longer exist. But, the mindflayer is a newborn. If they were just born, and are not connected to the hive mind through an Elder Brain, then the only thing they have to go on about who the are would be the memories storied in the brain that was used to create them. In short, when you become a mind flayer the real you dies. What is left is a mind flayer that believes it is you because it has all of your memories and experiences so concludes that must be its identity. This is sort of like Buffy vampire rules. When someone becomes a vampire, soul is gone and a demon inhabits the body that can retain aspects of the original person's personality but is still just a demon wearing their face. That's what a mind flayer with a sense of self is. Just a demon wearing the face of the person whose body they stole and soul they erased.

And this is why the stakes in BG3 are so high for your characters personally. You're not just trying to stop the transformation and survive. You're trying to avoid being completely erased from existence.

And now we start the actual spoilers.

There are a couple of 'friendly' mindflayers you can meet throughout the game who claim to be the original selves. As stated earlier, without a soul this isn't possible. They would be beings who simply believe themselves to be the original, unaware themselves that their creation erased the original from existence. It's like... If someone made a clone of you then killed the original you, the clone exists and claims to be you but the real original you is gone.

And there are signs.

Let's discuss the Emperor first. At first glance, he seems to be helpful. But, he's also extremely manipulative and is all take and no give. He stresses the need for trust, but never actually trusts you while demanding you trust him unconditionally. If you try to keep anything secret from him he will force his way into your mind and pry out the secret from your mind. Throughout the game he will show a complete lack of empathy for your situation, a complete failure to understand why you might take any issue with the morality of his methods, excusing it as pragmatism which he does some pretty evil acts. He's keeping a a person imprisoned for all eternity so he can siphon their power. And they're aware of it. That's messed up.

But it gets worse. If you decide to go evil, and at the end of the game decide to hijack the Netherbrain and take over the world. If you do so with the Emperor's assistance, he reveals he had already considered the idea. His reasons for being against it aren't on any moral basis. No, they're because doing so would put you at war with the gith that would only end when one side was wiped out a war he's not sure he could win. In short, self-preservation is the only reason he doesn't want to take over the world. If you convince him you can win, he will enslave the Netherbrain, but not stop there... He will transform you and your party all into his thralls completely under his control despite insisting he was a friend. Even if you romance him. There's no morality here, just a monster who needs pawns outside the prism he's in to survive, and would gladly become the main villain himself given the chance. In fact, should you not 100% agree to go with his version of the plan, he will immediate betray you join the Netherbrain and show up in the final battle, dominating your forces to serve the Netherbrain. This is a far cry from the hero he was before his transformation in attitude. And brings into question a lot of things you know.

Furthermore... You can get some interesting bits out of him should you anger him enough. His previous lover... If you make him angry enough you can get him to admit he actually made her his thrall. And if you argue with him a lot he will specifically refer to you as his puppet. The Emperor doesn't understand morality. He has no soul, how could he? He understands what he needs to survive, and so long as that equation include you then he will keep you on your side.

Next up, I forget his name... But there's the mind flayer you meet in the Underdark. Now, we don't get to know him as well but he says a lot of rather scary things if you take the time to think about it. When you ask him about how he survives his hunger, he talks about how he had an arrangement with a lich.

"The lich needed souls and I needed brains."

He helped feed souls to a lich to acquire brains. And while he says the agreement broke down because of moral disagreements.... Like, feeding a lich souls so you can then eat the brains is already crossing the moral event horizon.

Now he says he feeds on those who act against the interest of the Society of Brilliance while working on a way to find a way to survive without brains. Now this might sound good at first... But remember the Society is... kind of terrible. And has official experiments like... Let's kidnap an unborn gith child while they're in an egg so we can raise them away from their people and see what happens. So, if you're morally opposed to kidnapping unborn children. Congrats, you're acting against the interests of the society and now free game to be a brain snack. The Society is a group of scientific discovery but not one restricted by morality. This means a lot of innocent people can wind up dead simply for refusing to participate in experiments. After all, if you get the gith egg for the Society you'll most likely have to kill off all the caretakers in the nursery to get it.

Now, there's also your player character if they become a Mind Flayer. So... Again, they act like themselves, but again no soul, you ceased to exist. At this point you are someone who thinks they are you because they have their memories and your original character is gone. Can even see some hints of this in the ending with possible dialog options where they think about ending themselves... Or completing embracing what they are and eating all the brains that they can want.

Finally, Prince Orpheus himself, the Comet Prince, last hope of the Gith. And probably the closest thing we have to an actual moral mind flayer should he transform. The second he does, as established Orpheus is dead, what stands before you is an Orpheus clone with his memories and thinks he's him but isn't.

And some may ask well what's the difference. And I point back to the clone point earlier. If someone makes a copy of you and kills you, the copy going on to live doesn't mean you live. Just a copy. So, Orpheus like all mind flayers his original self is dead and someone with his memories is born.

The reason I say he's the most moral. All of Orpheus' memories point to him seeing mindflayers as the ultimate evil, things that should be destroyed on sight. Since he believes these are his memories and personality. He kills himself once the final battle is over. His memories recognize the urges he feels and recognize him as a being of pure evil that he's become and so he ends his own life rather that allow that evil to exist. If anyone else without such strong memories and thoughts about how evil mind flayers were and how uncontroillable their urges were, things could end much worse... Like some endings with a player character mind flayer and like what the Emperor becomes.

So... Yeah... There is no Mind Flayer version of you after the transformation. You're gone. Freaking Jergal himself confirms mind flayers don't have souls. Wait, I mean Withers. (Spoiler alert, Withers is Jergal) And as the original god of the death who has domain over all souls he's a bit more in the know about what does and doesn't have a soul than a mind flayer. So much so that he mocks the Dead Three in the ending for their plan being flawed from the start. Talking about how their plan was self-defeating. They hoped to control a bunch of souls by infecting them with mind flayer tadpoles and collecting those souls for power. But since the second the mind flayer transformation occurs those souls cease to exist, their plan would not result in them getting an ounce of power to bring themselves back properly or act out future plan. There's a reason I prefer to call them the Dead Twats.

So um yeah... This conclude my Ted Talk on Mind Flayers and why no, you do not want to become one, because doing so is instant death. Thanks for coming, and have a good one.

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Oh shoot all my post are DnD and Baldur's Gate related but one right now. I better start posting some Pathfinder lore and content posts before people mistake me for a 5e Player.

#DnD #Dungeons and Dragons #Baldurs Gate #Baldur's gate 3 #Baldur's Gate III #Mind Flayer #Mind Flayers #The Emperor #Orpheus #Jergal Knows What He's Talking About he's Freaking Jergal #Oops I Meant Withers #But I mean come on it's obvious

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banterismylovelanguage · 2 years

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Venti’s Attachment Issues

(This is gonna be a long one; get yourself comfortable.)

Since Stanley is used as a direct parallel to Venti in his story quest, every time we chat with Stanley, we can maybe get an insight to Venti’s feelings.

Stanley, constantly, misses the real Stanley. He’s always drinking, and he might be doing better since Venti put the real Stanley to rest, but the grief stays.

He wishes the real Stanley was still here.

Pretending to be someone else is exhausting and damaging to your ‘true self’—there’s no doubt in my mind about that.

Stanley’s wish likely reflects Venti’s wish, considering how deeply affected Venti is still by the loss of his friend at the end of his story quest (he can’t even speak it out loud; he just stays at the top of the statue lost in memories and grief.)

Now let’s take into consideration that Venti is a god and an Archon currently, and only a (likely) naive wisp when he met the Nameless Bard.

He lives much longer than a human.

His responsibility will always be their safety.

(Arguably) He is forced into slumber for… healing? (Or is this a sign of depression?)

He doesn’t believe in ruling over his people, so he is one of the weakest Archons (his reasoning).

He will never be on the same level as one of his people, no matter how “ingrained” in society he is. (In other words, if he revealed his true nature, there’s always going to be a sense of “This is Mondstadt’s god” with every mortal he reveals it to.)

Venti, or Barbatos, was the Archon to bring The Seven together to meet.

Zhongli doesn’t visit Mondstadt (that I know of).

Barbatos is the only known Archon to regularly travel.

Five of the Seven original Archons are dead.

The ‘new’ Archons know of each other, but it’s mostly from a ruling basis (they likely do not have those regular meetings anymore)

From this, we can conclude that Barbatos cannot have a personal relationship like he once did with another mortal, and when he tried to find something like that with The Seven, they, too, suffered a sort of “mortal fate,” the supposed immortals all died one by one.

And Zhongli and Venti might hold a deep understanding towards each other, have some sort of close relationship, but we definitely don’t see a personal one—at least in person—anymore. I don’t think the current Seven even meet up.

Now let’s consider the Traveler’s presence.

The Traveler is suspected to be hundreds, if not thousands, of years old.

The Traveler is not from this world.

The Traveler has abilities that even Venti is amazed by (ability to remove corruption by just the presence of one of them?? This should really be expanded on considering they’ve killed gods for this.)

Venti isn’t unfriendly, but he compliments the Traveler endlessly (really, every character does this to some extent, but it still has to be in character to some level); says we’re the “gentlest soul” in the most recent event.

Venti says his greatest wish is to travel (aka “see the world on my behalf” 👀) and now he adjusts the wish to include the Traveler.

The Traveler might be the only one to truly know about Venti’s doppelgänger situation.

Thus, Venti tells us personal secrets. He acts like an open book (Kusanali’s* (?) intervention proves that he would have told us more about the Archipelgo situation had we asked) even though we get a different feeling in the manga with him (he’s more secretive; see Celestia panel). He “brushes off” the truth in that sense, but I can’t remember if he’s ever directly lied to us.

Our happiness is important to him (again, these lines are hard to distinguish from the people from the game using Venti to communicate this, or this is meant to be part of Venti’s personality—I mean, look at what they did with Xiao’s b-day letters�� or anyone’s.)

Where am I going with this?

Venti isn’t as close to anyone as he is with the Traveler in modern day Mondstadt because he knows he can’t be as close to anyone else.

The people of Mondstadt that he loves so much seem to be the ones he keeps a distance from.

He’s watched Razor grow up (a curious statement), he’s friendly to Razor, but he’s not close like Bennett is (tbf, no one is—except Lisa???—but it seems like they act more like friendly acquaintances than friends.)

Barbara sees him as a talented bard (kinda like a coworker/colleague in the music industry.)

Rosaria thinks Venti is mysterious but likely harmless, so she doesn’t bother with him, and the god she cares nothing about (which could speak to a non-idolized look at him if he revealed it to her, but I think their relationship is best explored with others, meaning I don’t see them able to connect as well on an individual level—also, Rosaria could not care about the god because she doesn’t believe in him, so her reaction is still uncertain if she actually met him)

Jean knows who he is, but she can’t seem to figure out whether to be formal or familiar with her Archon.

We don’t know what Lisa thinks of Venti, but Venti speaks respectfully of her, so even if Lisa teased him like she does every other character, it makes him no different but also no closer to her. He’s more likely the eager “student” that she suspects there’s more to the eye of (if not the god himself), but she won’t push him to reveal it to her and maintain a respectful but distant relationship with.

Interestingly, Kaeya might be able to match wits with Venti in the way they both withhold the truth without directly lying. Yet, I don’t think either of them are 100% sure on how they feel about each other, so while it might be thrilling to talk to each other, it isn’t friendly.

Diluc is probably the closest to Venti out of the Mondstadt people (not considering Alice atm) just by favor of working the tavern on nights Venti drinks. Which is a lot and often. He treats Venti the bard informally, and this allows each other to be comfortable in teasing.

As a bartender, Diluc should be seeing Venti at his worst.

When you’re drinking alone at the bar, it isn’t necessarily a good sign (nor always bad). When you’re drinking as often and as much as Venti, it really isn’t a good sign.

But I don’t think that quite fits Venti because of the reason he drinks.

Venti likely sees himself at his “best” when he’s drinking; he’s jolly, he’s social, and he’s ready to have a good time.

When he’s sober, he’s still social, jolly, etc, but he’s quieter. Calm. He listens a LOT. (Am I the only one that watches cutscenes with Venti and thinks, “Huh, I thought Venti would say something about that” or “by now,” and he just doesn’t?? Idk maybe an iffy observation)

He thinks too much.

Venti’s quick wit, his ability to change the subject to something familiar, comfortable, and his reputation as the best bard in Mondstadt are what he relies on, and he can do all that drunk while not having to deal with his memories and all that comes with that.

So where do the attachment issues come in?

I think Venti’s lonely. And I think the proof is in Venti’s lines to the Traveler.

He can’t be close to his Mondstadt people in a real way. They all will die long before him. They will always hold a mortal concept of what Venti is to them. They will always remind Venti of what he’s already lost and will lose again one day.

But the Traveler “isn’t meant for this world.”

The Traveler is someone new, someone that can cure corruption, and someone that also wants (needs) to travel the world.

Venti’s flowery language towards us just shows how he’s grown attached to the lone traveler that continues to visit his land. That also understands loss and constantly surprises him. That helps the people he loves so very much.

So, while a lot of Venti’s lines could be attributed to fan service and are reflected in other characters, too, I think you can explain different reasons as to why the characters speak the way they do towards the Traveler. And I think this is Venti’s reason.

Aka I took fan service seriously and used it to explain Venti’s emotional issues

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Spoiler for those who haven’t finished season 4 part 3/the last two episodes

I just finished the last episode and my mind is a hot mess.

I’m probably going to miss some things but here are some of the stuff I have an opinion about:

1. Regarding armin/erwin my thoughts remain unchanged. Despite feeling strongly about it, I gave the series the benefit of the doubt when erwin got killed. I wanted to see if I was wrong. I would’ve been happy about it. In the end armin turned out to be as effective of a commander as a ten year old. The fact of the matter is that he couldn’t do much in the end. He had a number of breakdowns, he wasn’t able to control or utilize the colossal titan as well as bertholdt could in the past, he slipped up that time he was doing a little pep talk with yelena in the background, his biggest plan all along was always to “talk it out first” but that failed too, etc. Eren still did what he wanted and people still died. Except for blowing up the dock and when he tried to sacrifice himself so that falco wouldn’t get eaten by Connie’s mom, I don’t recall any other accomplishments that were of substance in season 4. It’s also possible that I’m just forgetting things because my mind is still racing right now and I’m still going through it emotionally, but for now my thoughts are unchanged. Can you imagine what it would have been like had erwin lived instead?

2. Connecting from the thought above, we can’t change that erwin died, but after finishing the series I can finally conclude that jean should’ve been the next commander. At the very least, he should have been made a vice commander. First of all it’s not impossible that floch survived all of that, but it’s pretty convenient that he did so he could shoot at the fuel tank in order to create a situation where the rumbling would catch up to them. In this situation it was also pretty convenient that Levi had been injured so badly he couldn’t be the one to fight, so as the commander hange decided she had to go, which was apparently a suicide mission because of the temperature around the colossals. I’m going to keep it 100% real here and say the circumstances leading up to this point of armin getting handed the commander’s seat were pretty convenient. Levi whose instincts were so great he managed to remain more or less unscathed for most of the series including when he had to fight kenny, he really didn’t see zeke using the lightning spear coming? And even then he couldn’t dodge it? Despite years of remaining unscathed under different circumstances that were just as if not more horrible? Levi who, along with mikasa, was the first to notice and to react to the replica of the beast titan throwing its shots at them? I just found it a bit hard to believe. And Hange said in the end, “The position calls for a certain quality― a mindset of continuously pursuing understanding”, and I admit armin did have this, but are we really going to ignore what hange also said earlier in the series just so it fits the current narrative? In season 3 when they were arguing about who to give the injection to, hange held mikasa back saying armin was indeed exceptional, but that he lacked the leadership and experience that erwin had. At least from my pov, armin didn’t really change much from the second half of season 1 to season 4. Jean on the other hand, has proven himself numerous times in this regard. He’s a quick thinker, reliable, practical, and passionate - all the qualities of a good leader. No doubt jean isn’t perfect, but imo he’s definitely more suitable. Let’s also not forget jean too has his moments of “pursuing understanding”. There are probably more than I can think of at the moment, but the ones that come to mind immediately are that scene at the end of season 1 which has really stuck with me ever since, when he asked armin if abandoning your humanity was the only way to win, and if eren did become that monster would that really be a victory for humanity, and then that other time when they were in the cell and jean asked mikasa and armin if eren hurting them had some sort of meaning behind it. I wouldn’t say jean is the smartest or the wisest character in the series, but he’s not brainless. Far from it. For some reason, and I’m guessing maybe because he can be short tempered at times, more often than not people don’t really talk about his quick thinking or about the important questions that he’s asked.

3. This is totally unrelated to the series and it’s about naruto so if you’re not into that or if you haven’t seen naruto just skip this part because spoilers.

Before eren’s intentions were made clear I already kind of guessed how it would play out because it’s reminiscent of how itachi wanted sasuke to be the one to kill him so that sasuke would be a hero of the leaf despite being an uchiha. Eren saw the crew as the people most important to him, and for itachi sasuke was even more precious than konoha itself. Eren committed genocide, itachi massacred his entire clan and more. Eren hurt the crew and especially mikasa and armin on purpose, itachi hurt sasuke on purpose. There was of course a huge difference between their executions, and imo itachi played his part much much more skillfully than eren did and for far longer, but it’s an interesting parallel.

4. I found the ending a bit weird. I can kind of roll with it but compared to the majority of the series and how it built itself up up until that point, it honestly feels off. I understand why people thought it was a bad ending, but I also don’t think the author deserved hate for it. And I mean like, there are some really angry people. In most situations, and I’m generalizing here, it’s alright to have opinions and it’s alright to feel a certain way but to direct those feelings towards the author himself is taking it a bit far. It’s his freedom to write whatever. Let’s be happy we even got anything from him. Without the author there would’ve been nothing at all. I know from personal experience it can be overwhelming at times, but it’s going to be ok.

5. I don’t have a particular attachment towards zeke but I felt sorry seeing everything that he had gone through. I’m mentioning this only because I’ve never really talked about it I think. I’ve talked about some of the other characters but not so much about zeke’s past from what I can remember. Grisha and Dina were terrible parents, and him calling Tom ksaver “father” was really sad. I know he’s not the only one and I really don’t even like him all that much but he really had it rough.

6. I felt that the love interests weren’t written very well. I get mikasa cause she’s been obsessed with eren from the start, but we really only started to see eren’s supposed “interest” in her in season 4, and only in glimpses. There really isn’t a lot of material to fall back on. I always felt he saw her as more of a sister? Of course he’s shouted at her before that he wasn’t her little brother or something along that line, but I always felt he just saw her as family. The only thing I can think of from earlier seasons to support this pair is that time when eren first wrapped the scarf around her and he was blushing. I always saw that as more of like, he was kind of embarrassed to do something like that because for him the act was a bit intimate and they weren’t too familiar with each other, but I guess you could also see it as him blushing because he had a small crush on her. On top of this they lived together in the same house and grisha has referred to mikasa as his daughter, so I just found it a bit weird. Obviously they’re not actually siblings but they were kind of raised as brother and sister for some time, so. A bit weird from my perspective. What’s more is the dynamic itself doesn’t seem to be very healthy. But I’m not mad at people who ship them. That kind of romance is definitely possible, and they’re technically not related, so it’s whatever I guess. They were also very young still so in an ideal world I imagine their dynamic might’ve been able to change for the better as they matured. On the other hand armin and Annie I found even weirder. It just felt too sudden. I get that armin ate bertholdt so that could’ve contributed, and I get that Annie literally only had armin and hitch as company most of the time for literal years, but it’s still weird for me. Like good for them but I wish it could’ve been a bit more fleshed out.

7. I’ve said this before but I didn’t appreciate the parallels drawn between Erwin and Armin. They are entirely separate characters with entirely different motives. Connecting to what I said at point 1 armin was never able to “replace” erwin. Of course the same can be said for erwin, he was never going to be another armin. I feel the same way about the parallels drawn between Sasha and gabi. Again two entirely separate characters with entirely different motives. I can appreciate parallels but only if they’re written well. These just felt like forced propaganda.

There’s more but for now I’ll stop here cause this is getting a bit long and I’m really tired

#shingeki no kyojin #armin arlert #Erwin Smith #yelena #eren jaeger #connie springer #jean kirschtein #floch forster #levi ackerman #hange zoe #zeke jaeger #mikasa ackerman #grisha jaeger #dina fritz #tom ksaver #annie leonhart #sasha braus #gabi braun #bertholdt hoover

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The evolution of Wednesday Addams (2)

I saw in a few big articles online people write about how the Wednesday from the 1960s sitcom was “changed” from Chas Addams’ original concept, and how the 90s movies returned to the “true roots” of the character. To that I will disagree heavily: Wednesday Addams, as played by Lisa Loring is actually a more fitting adaptation of the original Wednesday.

In the sitcom, the character of Wednesday was designed to play fully on the idea of a “creepy child”. She is creepy because she has morbid and unnerving interests: she keeps a beheaded doll named Marie-Antoinette in honor of the French Revolution (that her grandma told her about) and likes to bury her in the graveyard ; she likes raising spiders as pets, her favorite one being named Homer ; she plays with explosives just like the other member of the family (and in fact gets into trouble for using her uncle’s explosives instead of her own)...

But she is also a “child”. She is a full six-year old girl, with all the “six year old-girlishness” it implies. She is sweet-natured, friendly, gleeful. She is a ballerina who likes to dance (in a black tutu, of course), and she is innocent enough to not understand that a “family tree” is not an actual tree. This contrast is what makes her character: she is this cute little girl who plays with dolls... if only to recreate a version of Little Red Riding Hood where Little Red gets eaten by the wolf and dies. [Which in itself is actually, ironically, the original version - but Americans back in the 60s still had their dreams].

Kept from the original cartoon too, beyond her quiet cheerful nature, is her sensitivity. She is an artistic child who likes to paint and write poems (even though they are quite disturbing ones), and she is very sensible when it comes to all sorts of child-beliefs and child-content. When she heard from a neighbor that witches weren’t real, she became really scared, until her family held a séance to invoke the ghost of their old aunt who was a witch ; and when she first discovered Grimm’s fairytales, where dragons were killed by knights, she ran crying into her room ; and there is an entire Christmas episode dedicated to making her believe in Santa Claus again.

But one should not underestimate Wednesday Addams, because her sensibility makes her as much distressed and sad as it can make her fierce and angry. When a boy insulted her family, it was she who punched him in the eye (and not Pugsley as everybody believed), and she is deceptively strong as she can use martial arts to bring to the ground her own father. Let’s just say she is one tough little girl.

What else to say about Wednesday Addams? The sitcom identifies her middle name as “Friday”. She has a particular kinship with Lurch the butler, that she usually treats more as a friend than anything (she notably convinced him to dance ballet with her). The sitcom removed the occasional “bullying” of Pugsley so that the two are now siblings going along perfectly with each other (well... can the actions of the original Pugsley be even considered “bullying”? Since from Morticia’s point of view, it is clearly Wednesday who acts in an abnormal way for not attacking back...). And it was the first adaptation to have Wednesday’s hair be in braids (as I pointed out, in the original cartoon Wednesday’s hair isn’t braided). But beyond that I don’t have much to add, because in truth Wednesday was a secondary character of the series, which was much more focused on Gomez, Morticia and Uncle Fester.

The only thing I could add comes from “Halloween with the New Addams Family”. It is definitively a... weird piece of media, but I have to bring it up as it is the special designe to conclude the original sitcom and that gathered back almost all of the original actors. And it is the only canon answer we have (for the 60s sitcom chronology) about the future of a grown-up Wednesday. Wednesday, now between 17 and 19 years old, is shown to be a student at a music academy, where she trains to master the piccolo (and she masters it well enough so that each sound she plays out of it breaks the glasses around). Her musical ear is also what later helps her family when she notices coded sound-messages being sent to her for help. Wednesday is still wearing a bigger model of her childhood dress but, in a fascinating way, the switch to color in this special makes it so that you can actually now see the actual colors of Wednesday. As in, in the sitcom her hair and dress seemed black due to the grey palette - but in the special, her dress is revealed to be blue and her hair brown. And she also still carries her beheaded Marie doll around as a young woman! Which is either cute or disturbing depending on how you see it...

#wednesday addams #television series #sitcom #60s #the addams family #lisa loring

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The Truth About The Hybrid (Doctor Who)

In the episode Hell Bent the question of the Hybrid's true nature was never quite resolved, and it hasn't been touched on since. With The Moffat Era now long over, it's doubtful that we'll ever revisit this question, which leaves the whole storyline unfinished. That being said, there are enough clues present to figure it out, with a little help from Chris Chibnall and The Timeless Children. (Oh yes, I really am going there. I tend to give Chibnall more credit than most people.) The truth is staring us in the face.

The Master is The Hybrid.

Let's consider what we know. The Hybrid was a prophecy on Gallifrey that existed well before the Time War. It spoke of a hybrid creature, cross bred between two warrior races, who would stand in the ruins of Gallifrey and break a billion hearts, just to heal their own. That is the description that is offered in the ninth season. We know that the Timelords were obsessed with this idea, even after The Time War ended. Gallifrey had been saved, and The Hybrid was still out there somewhere, the catastrophe yet to come. First and foremost, I doubt the Timelords knew that The Master would be The Hybrid. It's more likely that they expected the Hybrid to emerge during the Time War. We know they restored The Master and gave them a whole new set of regenerations. They probably wanted to use The Master to fight the Hybrid.

As for what the Timelords were thinking, the most popular theory was that the creature was cross bred between Timelords and Daleks, and even Davros seemed to think that this was true. That he was fulfilling the prophecy by stealing The Doctor's regeneration energy during The Witch's Familiar. However, Hell Bent makes it specifically clear that any warrior race can technically qualify, including humans and even The Mire from The Girl Who Died.

Season 9 concludes with no real definitive answer about The Hybrid.

Davros suggests that it is a Dalek/Timelord crossbreed. The Doctor later dismisses this idea, suggesting that the Daleks would never allow this. Disregarding the fact that their creator himself posed this theory, a Dalek crossing its DNA with another creature has already happened in the series. Like, more than once. So that idea is nonsense. The Doctor goes on to say that he himself is the Hybrid. Which would tie in with The Eighth Doctor's claim that he's half-human, and Ashildr even proposes this as a theory. However, like Twelve said, it wouldn't make much sense for him to flee Gallifrey to escape himself. Really, whether or not The Doctor knows anything about The Hybrid, and what he knows, if anything, is exceedingly vague until the very end. Especially since he goes around dropping random references to the Hybrid during the season, like he's trying to figure out what it is. Hell Bent settles on the explanation that The Doctor and Clara together, form the Hybrid. Because they've become too dangerous to keep traveling together, pushing each other to such extremes. But there's kind of a big problem with that idea.

A Hybrid can't be two people.

That's not what a Hybrid is, or how it works. You would have to call it something different. Still, while The Doctor's knowledge on this subject is very unclear, I think we can point to one definitive moment as iron-cast proof that The Doctor knows the truth about the Hybrid, and that the truth frightens him. He says as much to The Veil in Heaven Sent. He says that he lied about the real reason why he left Gallifrey. That truthfully, it was because he feared the Hybrid. And this is the key detail - The Veil then freezes in place. It stops chasing him. Earlier in the episode, it was directly established that The Veil can be compelled to temporarily pause it's pursuit if The Doctor makes confessions. Tells secrets, truths, that he's never told before. Considering that he's inside his own Confession Dial, I don't doubt the the abilities of The Veil. It was never shown to be fooled in any other instance, so if The Doctor was lying about this...why wouldn't it know?

Meaning that whatever he said in Hell Bent about being the Hybrid himself, or that he actually has no idea who or what it is...The Doctor is lying. He does know. He must. He knows exactly who The Hybrid is, and for whatever reason, he's refusing to admit as much. He spends over four billion years in his own personal hell, all because he refuses to give up the secret of The Hybrid. Clara even asks him "Why would you do that to yourself?" and The Doctor doesn't really have an answer to give.

Let's fast forward to Season 12 for a moment. The Master has discovered the truth about The Timelords, The Doctor, and their history as The Timeless Child. This knowledge breaks The Master, it hurts them to their very core. If we assume that this incarnation is post-Missy, then this also means that The Master is in so much pain, that it set back all their growth during Season 10. What do they do to cope with it? Why, genocide of course. They slaughter everyone in The Capitol, and presumably on the rest of the planet. Hell, I wonder if they used The Moment. Not a part of this theory, just...an interesting question to think about. At the end of it all, The Master stood in the ruins of Gallifrey, responsible for it's demise. "Look upon my work, Doctor, and despair." And why did he do this? Because he was hurting, and he wanted revenge. "I had to make them pay for what I discovered." He broke a billion hearts just to heal his own. Now, this setup is almost perfect, but it's missing one key component. The Master isn't a hybrid, is he? No, he's a full blood Timelord, as far as we know.

Or at least he was, until he bonded with the Cyberium.

"All Cyber knowledge...all Timelord knowledge...put it together, and what do you get?" You get a Hybrid creature is what you get. The Cyberium is shown to be a living creature as well as a computer, and The Cybermen certainly qualify as a warrior race. The Master practically announces his status as the Hybrid by taking the remains of The Timelords and converting them into the "Cyber Masters" which are also arguably an entire race of hybrids. Now, I'm not the first person to propose this idea, that the Hybrid Prophecy referred to The Master during the events of The Timeless Children. But I'm going to take this one step further, and talk about The Doctor. About what was going through their mind during Hell Bent, and throughout the entire series. Because The Master is The Hybrid, but here's an even bigger mind-screw for you.

The Doctor knew all along.

They may not have known the details, or how exactly things would play out. But they have known ever since they ran away from Gallifrey that The Master would one day become the Hybrid. This is the only reason, the only truth I can see, that would explain everything. Not just why The Doctor fled, but also explain their inconsistency about this subject. They ran...because they saw their best friend's future. Saw him turned into a monster that would massacre The Timelords. Perhaps The Master was already taking their first steps down a path of darkness, and The Doctor's worst fears were confirmed by learning this secret.

Twelve recounts the story of a boy who got lost in the Cloisters, who was told a terrible secret by the Wraiths, and that he was never right in the head again, which led him to "steal the moon and the president's wife." We also know that this story was about The Doctor, and that it was in fact the president's daughter. Susan Foreman perhaps? Eh, it's a theory for another time. The scene then transitions into the discussion of the Confession Dial, and the secret that The Doctor guarded so closely that he spent billions of years punching through a diamond wall rather than give it up. Considering that, in the very next season, he vows to spend a thousand years guarding Missy in the vault and dedicates himself to the task of trying to redeem her? Yeah, I can believe that he would still be protecting his oldest friend after all this time.

The Doctor has a real blind spot when it comes to The Master, always trying to turn them back to the light, and refusing to let any other characters kill them even in situations where it's really not The Doctor's call to make (The Year That Never Was comes to mind) Noticeably, the one time that The Doctor "allows" someone else to kill The Master is Ko Shamus in The Timeless Children. Which occurs after the prophecy would have been fulfilled.

So there you have it. The Master is The Hybrid, they always have been. And The Doctor knew, they knew from the beginning. They just hoped against hope that they could get through to their old friend before this happened. And they very nearly did, too. Judging by The Doctor Falls, The Master came this close to turning over a new leaf. But The Timelords had to ruin that as well.

#Doctor Who #Doctor Who Theory #Doctor Who Headcanons #Fandom Headcanons #Fandom Analysis #The Doctor #The Master #Doctor Who Analysis #The Twelfth Doctor #The Thirteenth Doctor #The Spymaster #Hell Bent #The Timeless Children #The Hybrid #Ashildr #Missy

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Oh, Miguel 🙄🙄

I'm glad that Sapochnik isn't returning for season 2 because so much damage has been done to Laena and Mysaria's storylines in the name of 'girlbossifying' them. And no, he clearly doesn't care about these characters as much as their fans do, only that he gets claps and rewards.

Laena had a relatively peaceful death in the book after a complicated birth, with Daemon carrying her back to bed after she died on her way to her dragon Vhagar to ride her one last time. Instead, they're reportedly giving Laena suicide by fire! Her dear dragon flames her up as Daemon watches in horror! 😩

I know. I know. The showrunners wanted to girlbossify Laena and we should all 'rejoice'. "Look at her take her fate into her own hands, delivering herself and her unborn baby (who was actually born in the book) to death under her OWN terms. How heroic!" Right? Wrong!

You know what most viewers will conclude from this radical change from the book? That Laena 'is not strong enough', 'is cruel' and that she 'doesn't care about her unborn son with Daemon'. Or worse, that she traumatized Daemon and 'clearly didn't love him enough'.

Why? Because it's always the woman's fault when something bad happens to a dearly loved male character. How dare she break his heart???

I can already smell those derogatory comments coming and it's not fair because this isn't what Laena would've done, especially to her daughters. To inflict trauma of this magnitude to her husband and children AND her dragon is NOT who Laena is, but Miguel thought so. Just because. 🙄🙄🙄

However, my issue doesn't lie with Laena's changed death alone. Mysaria also gets robbed of a defining factor for her choices in the books: her miscarriage.

The showrunners, self-proclaimed champions of women's birth struggles, ERASED Mysaria's traumatic miscarriage of her unborn son in the book (her and Daemon's baby) after being banished from Dragonstone and humiliated under Viserys' orders enacted by Otto. This is what we should've gotten in episode 2 and what had canonically caused Daemon's initial resentment towards Viserys.

But no. Instead we got a one-dimensional Mysaria without complexity. Which is interesting given that her miscarriage and banishment in the book is what could've driven her questionable political advice to Daemon and Rhaenyra in the future as their defacto Mistress of Whisperers!!! Everything about that scene was changed up in the show much to the detriment of Mysaria's storyline.

Laena and Mysaria's characters have been grossly butchered and misrepresented in the name of writers' and showrunners' egos. Not so many people will get to understand how much impact they have on other character's lives (especially Daemon's) because of the changes.

What's even more unfair is that Miguel has seemingly taken from Laena and Mysaria's stories to give to Rhaenyra for mere fan service; case in point, Daemyra. So you have a situation where Daemon and Rhaenyra's stillbirth story is elevated over the other traumatic birth experiences (by case of omission or inversion in Mysaria and Laena's stories respectively) as Daemon will most definitely be by Rhaenyra's side when it happens and also get to share in her grief. They get to keep their storyline in the book while the others don't.

Keep in mind that Laena and Mysaria's experiences were put there to highlight Daemon's journey through the years and his changing sentiments, beliefs and understanding of things as well as his relationship with other characters (especially with his brother Viserys). Not just to merely compete with or sabotage another ship.

To see Laena and Mysaria's canon pregnancy trauma storylines being pushed aside and replaced with rhetoric, never to be known by non-book readers, is upsetting. Their experiences told us lots about their mental states, personalities, family, backgrounds and even the Rogue Prince they were entangled with. It was sad, it was beautiful, it fleshed them out and made them feel like real, average women with real, average struggles. But the show-runners have robbed these female characters for brownie points instead.

I hope these mistakes won't be repeated in the coming season(s). I truly hope they won't for the sake of the beauty of the story.

#hotd #house of the dragon #laena velaryon #mysaria #rhaenyra targaryen #daemon targaryen #daemon × rhaenyra #daemon × laena #daemon × mysaria #viserys targaryen #otto hightower #fire and blood #grr martin

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I learned some interesting history facts and it obviously gave me Vesperia thoughts, so here is one of the most Me fics ideas.

(Even more gratuitously Me than general Flynn whump, which is a much broader appeal).

SO ANYWAY, back in 1654, the ship Charity of London was en route from England to Maryland. During the journey, they suffered terrible storms and bad luck, and the passengers started to suspect that one among them was a witch. The finger was pointed at an older woman, Mary Lee. They conducted a trial onboard the ship, searched her body for Devil's Marks, and concluded she was definitely the witch. She was hanged onboard the ship and body dumped overboard.

What does this have to do with Vesperia? Absolutely nothing, but my brain immediately concluded that executing a supposed witch on a ship where everyone was already going stir crazy is absolutely how you get a ghost ship, and therefore, we can link this to the Atherum.

The game never really tells us why the Atherum never made it to port. Longchi's log simply says they have been adrift for 45 days and the men are giving in to thirst and starvation. He apparently died where he sat, which is, y'know... weird.

Only explanation? Ghost Witch Curse.

The Atherum endured harsh winds and dangerous currents on their way back to Yormgen. Tensions were high, blame started being passed around. It unfortunately landed on one specific sailor (or possibly a passenger) who was ultimate killed after a kangaroo court on the deck of the ship. They were killed, but their spirit lingered on and cursed the ship.

They wanted calmer seas? Fuck them, they'll get their calm seas. For week after week, the winds failed to blow and the Atherum was adrift, unable to make progress to Yormgen. Eventually, the sailors began to succumb to thirst as their supplies ran low, but the curse remained, and everyone who died remained trapped on board as a tormented spirit.

There is nothing in canon to dispute this, so I will choose to believe that Ghost Witches are involved in this part of the story because it's very cool.

...As an aside, it has become a bit of a pet peeve of mine how often ghost witches appear in horror media, but like... played straight? It's always the case that the haunting is due to an evil witch who remains evil and dangerous even in death. And that's so overdone in comparison to the very obvious and very workable idea of being haunted by the ghost of a "witch" who wants vengeance for her wrongful death. I mean a majority of people executed for witchcraft were completely innocent but had terrible things done to them and that's a perfect ghost origin story, but media always wants it to be a Real (and Evil) Witch.

But also when I say a majority were innocent I don't mean that some percentage of them were real witches. I mean like, some of them were actual murderers who killed people with normal methods but got accused of using witchcraft. like Peter Stummp who was tried for being a werewolf and then executed but he wasn't a werewolf he was just an ordinary serial killer.

anyway, this has been your 3am early modern European witchcraft history lesson with Nightfoot.

#nightfoot doesn't write this thing #if I wrote a fic about this it would be my 3rd vesperia fic about witch trials #which is a perfectly normal number of fics about witch trials for a canon that has nothing to do with witches

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TheGrio: Republican Mark Robinson says Black people owe reparations

Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina, is seen during a Save America rally for former President Donald Trump at the Aero Center Wilmington on September 23, 2022 in Wilmington, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.

Meet Mark Robinson a Republican running for governor in North Carolina who thinks Black people should be paying reparations. It’s bizarre even for the bizarre modern GOP, but here we are. Robinson, 54, is North Carolina’s lieutenant governor, and he seems like a lefty’s caricature of a modern right wing politician. He’s what we would dream up to make fun of the right.

He thinks Covid wasn’t a real threat, systemic racism doesn’t exist and the movie, “Black Panther,” was, buckle up, “created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxists.” The right loves to say the left is filled with Marxists. It’s a weird obsession. Robinson also said President Obama was “a worthless, anti-American atheist who wanted to bring America to its knees and then raise it back to its feet as a European style socialist hell hole.” He also called Michelle Obama “a man.” So, yeah, he’s another Black Republican who’s willing to say racist things. He’s like a grimier version of Candace Owens. And he could be North Carolina’s next governor.

Robinson captured my attention when a speech he gave in 2021 began bubbling up on Black social media. In the speech he said he opposed reparations because no one owes Black people anything. Typical right wing stuff until … he took a turn.

“Nobody owes you anything for slavery. If you want to tell the truth about it, it is you who owes,” he said as if he was speaking to Black people en masse. “Why do you owe? Because somebody in those fields took strikes for you. After those fields were ended and slavery was ended, somebody had to walk through Jim Crow for you. Somebody fought wars and died for you. Somebody lived less than because they didn’t have what you have, and they did it for you. There are people in their graves right now, and they are there because they were willing to stand up and fight for you.” He concluded, “Nobody owes you anything. If anybody owes, it’s you. Because you’ve been the benefactor of freedom, you are the one that owes.” If you want to hear him say this himself you can go here but, you know, it could be triggering to deal with so much internalized racism and tap dancing for white folks all at once.

That said, I don’t totally disagree with Robinson in this speech. He’s actually touching on a feeling I have long had about our ancestors. From those who were enslaved in the early years of this country to those who marched more recently, they have paved the way for us to have the opportunities we have. Our freedoms were bought through battles in the streets and the legislatures. I definitely feel like we owe a debt to the ancestors, and that’s a big part of what he’s saying.

But, I have always believed that my debt to the ancestors meant I had to do something with my life that honored their work, courage and sacrifice. I know many of you feel the same. There are Black revolutionaries who preceded me, and I know my life is better because of their work. I feel like I owe them something. On that, I agree with Robinson. But, typical of right wingers, he’s taken a good idea and leapt to a strange conclusion.

Where Robinson and I part ways is that I understand that debt is spiritual. It’s something I need to pay forward in my community and my family rather than an actual bill that I should pay. When Robinson combines this very real and beautiful notion of what we owe the ancestors with the idea of reparations, it becomes strange and even gross. And the idea we owe the ancestors something does not eliminate the moral right to reparations.

Just the mere mention of reparations turns Republican brains to mush. They’re supposed to be the party of business. They present themselves as the party that understands economic reality. If you deal in the realm of economic reality, the case for reparations isn’t that hard. Millions of Black people were trapped on slave labor camps for entire lifetimes, and those enslaved people created extraordinary wealth for the people who enslaved them.

Slavery was a major economic driver for the South, the History Channel says. “Slavery was so profitable, it sprouted more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River valley than anywhere in the nation.” They say if the confederacy had been its own nation, at the start of the Civil War it would have have been the fourth richest nation in the world.

The wealth derived from slavery was a major driver of the US economy for many Americans.

“By 1840, the South grew 60% of the world’s cotton and provided some 70% of the cotton consumed by the British textile industry. Thus slavery paid for a substantial share of the capital, iron, and manufactured goods that laid the basis for American economic growth. In addition, precisely because the South specialized in cotton production, the North developed a variety of businesses that provided services for the slave South, including textile factories, a meat processing industry, insurance companies, shippers, and cotton brokers.”

The entire U.S. economy grew because of slavery. A lot of people profited from the enslavement of Black Americans. Slave-built infrastructure creates wealth to this day.

So, let’s put it together slowly. During the period of enslavement, millions of Americans worked without receiving payment. Millions of other Americans benefitted from that unpaid labor and from selling enslaved people. Does anyone see a debt there? This country and its government owe the families of enslaved people. This isn’t a far-fetched idea. This country paid slaveowners reparations for having lost people they enslaved. If we owed slaveowners reparations, then how can anyone argue that we don’t owe reparations to the enslaved people and their families?

Robinson is as crazy as they come on the right. But unlike right wing loons like Candace Owens and Jason Whitlock, this one has a chance at amassing real power. Stay tuned.

#mark robinson #north carolina #Reparations #ignorance of american history of wage and labor theft is not an excuse #Republican Mark Robinson says Black people owe reparations #pay me #Black Labor Made America #Black Lives Matter

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On September 23rd 1880, John Boyd Orr, Nobel Peace prize winner, was born in Kilmaurs, Ayrshire.

Boyd Orr is most definitely in the “probably one of most famous Scots you have never heard of.” club, although some will know his name being used as a University of Glasgow Building.

Born in Scotland in 1880, Boyd Orr got his first look at hunger and poverty after he graduated from Glasgow University in 1902 and started teaching school in a Glasgow slum. When he showed up on the first day of class, he was shocked to see that his students were clothed in rags and covered with lice. They were unable to concentrate on their lessons because they were weak and malnourished.

“I went home the first night feeling physically sick and very depressed,” he wrote in his 1966 autobiography As I Recall. “I had another look at the school the next day, and came to the conclusion that there was nothing I could do to relieve the misery of the poor children, so I sat down and sent in my resignation.”

Although he worked as a doctor for a brief period and served in World War I, Boyd Orr’s real passion was nutrition—one of the most exciting areas of research in the 1920s. Nutritionists had just discovered that vitamins were essential to human health, and that animals or people who didn’t eat enough vitamins would develop “deficiency diseases” like scurvy, beriberi, rickets and night blindness.

Boyd Orr was one of the first to establish the value of milk being supplied to school children, which led to free school milk provision in our primary schools, which all us Scots certainly benefited from.

He helped found the Rowett Research Institute in Animal Health in Aberdeen, Scotland, to study the importance of trace mineral elements in animal nutrition. His book, Minerals in Pastures, published in 1929, was one of the first to consider the role minerals played in animal health.

Always remembering those poor malnourished children in Glasgow, Boyd Orr began investigating the possibility of improving the health of the poor in Scotland with better nutrition. In 1931, he launched a dietary survey, which discovered that a third of Scotland’s population was unable “to purchase sufficient of the more expensive health foods to give them an adequate diet.” The results of this survey, published in 1936 under the title Food, Health, and Income, showed that the diets of the poor were lacking in minerals, vitamins and sometimes even protein and calories. “These diets may be sufficient to maintain life and a certain degree of activity, and yet be inadequate for the maintenance of the fullest degree of health which a perfectly adequate diet would make possible,” he concluded.

Boyd Orr believed that the health of these people could be greatly improved if they were only able to get enough milk and other protective foods. And the results of his survey were fresh on his mind when he made the dangerous wartime crossing of the Atlantic to attend a historic conference in the United States—the first-ever United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture., after the war he became their first Director-General

Although his tenure in this position was short, he worked not only to alleviate the immediate post-war food shortage through the International Emergency Food Committee but also to propose comprehensive plans for improving food production and its equitable distribution–his proposal to create a World Food Board. Although the board failed to get the support of Britain and the US, he had laid a firm foundation for the new U.N. specialized agency.

In 1949 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition, donating the entire financial award to organizations devoted to world peace and a united world government.

In 1960 he became the co-founder and the first President of the World Academy of Art and Science

John Boyd Orr died near Edzell, on June 25th, 1971.

#Scotland #scottish #teacher #nutritionalist

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jenny-dreadful · 5 months

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actually, for funsies, lemme rattle off as many of otgw’s subtextual death symbols etc. as i can think of off the top of my head

(understanding that the bulk of this is probably well-trod territory if you’ve sought out much discussion on it, and that some of it is inarguably half-baked ideas that i’m interested in bringing up nonetheless)

Beatrice, in the Divine Comedy, is the name of Dante’s lost love. Also, there is a traditional folk belief (having trouble finding its origin) regarding bluebirds as a sign or incarnation of a deceased loved one

“Pottsfield” as a corruption of “potter’s field,” a type of burial place for the unclaimed dead (How nice, then, that all those skeletons seem to get such a joyful welcome!)

(Addendum: I love all those cheeky little lines there, like “Aren’t you a little too…early?” and “Folks don’t tend to leave Pottsfield.” gtfoh)

(DOUBLE ADDENDUM: Reference to this village event as a “harvest” functions at two ends, sort of. Death is commonly compared to a sort of harvest, as with the Grim Reaper; also, the Pottsfield idea of “harvesting” people who are already dead and buried, rather than living people, serves as perhaps the series’s first glimmering hint into the idea that the titular “garden” is a graveyard

The tavern crowd is satisfied to identify Wirt as “the pilgrim;” The Pilgrim’s Progress famously depicts an allegorical journey through death

Endicott—definitely well-trod that his name appears on a headstone in the real world later on, which is more text than subtext. But I wanna mention it anyway bc (while one may conclude that everyone lingering in the Unknown has died) Endicott is the only one it gets so explicit about, and here too is a graveyard-garden synapse crackle: Where can you find him? Well—in the real world, it’s the cemetery, but in the Unknown he’s prospering in his garden

The search for two pennies for ferry fare (presumably, one each for Wirt and Greg, with Fred and Beatrice planning to play dumb and board for free), ending in the sort of left-field thing where Greg sullenly throws them away? cracks me up because I can only imagine the whole episode being written before someone in the room went, “Shit, wait, they can’t actually pay the ferryman— How do we get out of this?”

(Add.: A ferry typically crosses a body of water rather than traveling along it, doesn’t it? Usually, a vessel like the one depicted would be called a “riverboat;” the decision to consistently call it a “ferry” instead is deliberate as hell.)

Beatrice’s initial endeavor is in bringing the boys to “Adelaide of the pasture”—or, in only slightly different terms, putting them “out to pasture”

Some more small ones, but when they encounter the other frogs and realize they’re all clothed, Greg kind of oddly makes a particular point of noting their unclothed frog’s “cold feets;” bare feet are sometimes used in art to suggest death, and separately, going barefoot is a part of proper mourning in some traditions. Also—there’s something to those frogs burying themselves in the mud to sleep, and to our party going on instead of staying with them, isn’t there?

Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for…thee, ultimately, if you get eaten? I’m gonna be tbh with you, I don’t see a strong connection here, but it feels weird to not mention it when there IS a strong (if general) association of bells as announcers of death. Maybe I’m missing something.

Greg sure does visit (and choose to return from) what can only be described as someplace resembling a child’s heaven. Traditionally, only one way to achieve this.

Oh, man, no big surprise with, like, “Come Wayward Souls”’ moody ass, but “Patient Is the Night” is such a cool instance of a particular old-fashioned, folkish flavor, poetically obfuscating the topic of death to present it as welcoming and restful (couldn’t work out a less pretentious or clunky way to say that).

And last, for now: Hey, shit, I’m pretty sure this doesn’t quite add up to anything, it’s just… It’s kinda weird that Greg’s big crime is revealed as the theft of a stone (painted to represent a person) from somebody’s garden, when this poetic interpretation of a graveyard as a “garden” (lined with stones, each carved to represent a person, in a different way) is established pretty thoroughly. Like, I won’t pretend that’s not kinda a reach. But it’s not nothing nothing, right?

#pardon me

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if youre still doing the chara bingo what ab jade?? :O

[From here!]

Ah yes… 🧍Jade, my ex lover

Jade’s in my top 3 right now, behind Azul and Riddle. But back then, he used to be my bias. 😭 It started because of a fanart that made Jade look hot (and by hot, I mean he looked like Jonah Clemence, my previous love), and that was when I spiraled down. Funnily enough, a week after, chapter 3 concluded and I caught feelings for Azul. 🤡 But that’s another story.

Anyway, though I may not like Jade as passionately now, Jade can make my heart skip a beat. Sometimes, it’s really good fanart or MMDs. Other times, there’s a cute piece of information in the game about Jade. Currently, there’s this utauloid maker on Twitter mkbt_jnrk whose Jade utaus are so good??? 😭😭😭 I find myself going back to my Jade stan era listening to some of their Jade stuff. I’ll definitely talk about them in another post because man am I mentally ill about their works 🧍

Interestingly, a small discourse on Jade's character came up today when this post was in the drafts. Some people saw others interpreting Jade in the "uwu" light and made their arguments as to why Jade is manipulative and sadistic and generally just not a good person. It's not the first time this sort of thing happens in the fandom. In fact, being an Octavinelle stan and being surrounded by fellow Octavinelle stans also exposes me to seeing more of this discourse regarding "the uwu-ification of Octavinelle in the fandom". Usually, I chime in agreement to anyone telling me their opinions about Jade because I see they all have their points but also, I'd rather keep the conversation analytical than argumentative. But if I'm going to be truthful, my opinion of Jade is that he... can be both.

Jade is a beautiful character for many reasons. He's composed and collected, a contrast to his wilder and more spontaneous twin. He can help you, he can do the cooking and the cleaning, he's polite in his speech. But he's also notoriously more dangerous than Floyd. You don't know if he's being completely truthful or if he's spouting out ambiguous statements, you may not realize you're being used by him, or you may know you're being used by him but you don't know how you're being used by him. Jade's SSR dorm story illustrates this. Rook and Vil are two characters who are incredibly sharp about those kinds of people, and in the story, they knew he had intentions for being in Pomefiore, but they didn't know what they were, even after he returns to Octavinelle. Jade is cunning, and he's darn good at it. He knows how to control a situation. And by the Great Seven, I'd be absolutely terrified of him if he was real because I don't want to be played like that 💀

But at the same time, Jade shouldn't also be defined by his manipulative side and sadism. Here's where I'd talk about his love of mushrooms and outdoors and terrariums! ...if I didn't remember that he loves terrariums because he can be in control of who lives or dies.

Ok, but I want to mention how Jade is also not That brilliant of a guy as well 😂 I often find people making Jade out to be some god for his terrarium hobby and his whole scheming and manipulating. But this is the same guy who gets roped into eating Lilia's cooking by the ghost chefs in Lilia's Masterchef story because Jade kept encouraging Lilia to do his shit. And Jade was like, "Haha oh shit" by the end of the story. 😂 Also in his own Masterchef card lines, Jade deadass numbed his own tongue 😅 He's a funny teenager too, he's got his own moments where he's bad at math

Most importantly, I want to talk about how Jade values the people he's close to. In Floyd's dorm story, after Floyd told him of his adventures of acquiring the rights to the mystery drink, Jade goes, "I'm glad I chose you". He may be expressing that due to Floyd's genius, but it could also be because he's just happy to have Floyd in his life. Before Azul overblotted, he was talking him out of stealing powers so he won't head into overblot. After saving him from overblot, Jade's first instinct is to make sure Azul is okay, even expressing that he's glad that Azul is okay. I think those already speak of how much Jade cares, especially compared to Floyd where he called him lame 😂 And you know his famous betrayal line, how he would torment the person who betrayed them with his words before tying them up and tossing them into the sea. It shows his more mean side, that's true, but I also love to see it as a line that implies that he values loyalty. Once you're in his trusted circle, Jade will want to keep you in his life because he's grown to care about you and to trust you. Maybe he can actually be your nice butler man who'd still be a little shit to you. And if you break that trust after all he's done for you, well fucker, time to say hello to the deep deep bottom of the ocean

So yeah, feel free to see Jade as a nice patient butler type of guy who can do No wrong or a manipulative sadistic bitch. But for me, Jade is a yummy balance of both sides and more. 😋

#twisted wonderland #twst #jade leech #ask #ask game

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kimyoonmiauthor · 2 years

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Giseungjeongyeol is not that hard to understand.

The stuff I can’t put into the wikipedia article and it’s too long to put into the masterpost Worldwide Story structures. Also a small refutation of conflict is the same thing as a problem...

BUT--BUT EVERYTHING HAS CONFLICT: Here is EM Forster: “Story: the king died and then the queen died. Plot: the king died and then the queen died because of grief.“ Though I disagree on the definition of plot v. story. Since story contains the plot and not all plots are stories. The first is a problem, but not really a connected thing.

The second is a conflict, and also a connected thing. And because I spent over a year reading mostly cis (he’s not het) white men, this is in refutation to another gay man, Percy Lubbock whom he found too reductive. (Because no one when they make big author opinion ever seems to contextualize the works.)

The thing is that story is a lot more complex than a meager plot line and it doesn’t need conflict. https://www.aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/04/e-m-forster-the-difference-between-story-and-plot/

Ever hear a kid tell a story?

A kid usually goes: And then we went to the park. The park had birds. But we also went to a museum, but the park also had some funny birds, and the museum had some birds too. But the birds were in a painting.

The question is, is that not a story? Does it have conflict no. Is there any problem to solve? No.

Is it a sequence of events in a logical order like EM Forster argued for: Yes. Is there a thematic set up? Yes.

Could an academic or psychologist read into it further? Probably.

So is it not a story even if it’s not structured like an adult-made story?

Ponder that while we get into the parts of Giseungjeongyeol.

Giseungjeongyeol

NOTE: If this suspiciously looks a lot like the Wikipedia page found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kish%C5%8Dtenketsu It’s because I wrote those sections after 3 years of pressing and asking and research. It’s open source, but I’m stealing from myself.

기 : raising issues and introducing characters

승 : the beginning of the action (But not to solve a problem, necessarily more for self realization)

전 : a change in direction or reversal

결 : the thing to be concluded and any lessons gained through the process or results.

The bit that foreigners to Korean soil hate in Giseungjeongyeol is always the jeon. Twist is fine from the “ten” part of Kishotenketsu, but the jeon always gets people really hard.

Usually “Jeon” is marked by a sudden direction change. So an emotional direction doesn’t go in the same direction like in Kishotenketsu. You were happy, and now you’re cursing because you thought everything was fine, but you found out the real secret this entire time--one of the characters has cancer. It makes your heart stop in your throat.

The other common Korean device is restarting the character back at the beginning. This can be translated probably best like the prodigal son type of storyline.

So, say coffee shop owner took over the coffee shop because they thought that’s what their father wanted. They come to hate the coffee shop over time, but are hanging on.

The Jeon would be he comes to realize that it wasn’t really his father’s wish in the first place and he’s not honoring his father at all. This forces him to re-examine through a series of scenes, rather than a singular scene, why they are running the coffee shop. The story might symbolically return him to the beginning of the story by using motifs that were used in the introduction.

The height comes from a realization, that maybe though he remembered wrong, he’s been honoring his father in a different way, thus returning us to the result, which is now he doesn’t resent the coffee shop at all.

This is different from a “ten” sort of set up. The Japanese version of this might look a bit like this: It opens with the son taking over a coffee shop. The coffee shop has a bunch of quirky characters. Over time you come to understand that the coffee shop owner opened it only because his father liked to run the coffee shop, but he’s struggling. He might find a singular letter that renews his interest in the coffee shop, sending the reader to new emotional heights through this discovery. The story might end with something like Coffee shop owner opens the shop to a new day as the old customers come in.

See, though the ideas are the same the cultural treatment of each of the elements is different. And notice there really isn’t conflict running through them. A struggle of ideals, maybe, but most of it is small stuff. Most of it runs on discovery of some kind--whether that’s realization and self-exploration kind of like in the Korean model, or just a small change in perspective like in the Japanese model.

The Jeon part always, always makes international people anxious. You’re changing the genre halfway through? But this was a comedy! (East Asians don’t pay attention to genre categories that much) What? You undid the plot up to this point for what?

The thing is that when I point this out, people take it as a huge deal. But European and European diaspora also does versions of this. The specific beats might be slightly different, but there is an increase lately of “I realized.” and sometimes drastic genre shifts with the realization. It’s not that foreign as you might think.

Also, I say this because French cinema, despite having the same plot structure as USian, is different than USian, because the thought is different on how each part should be. The introduction is slower, longer, and not so, so impatient. (The USian intro has been getting shorter and shorter.) There isn’t so much in the front. “OMG, brother, did you come home for Christmas?” Instead of letting the audience figure out they are brothers, from the dialogue, which is something that French films do in the set up. They let the audience figure things out. (USian mainstream film making frustrates me this way. “Don’t info dump what the reader could figure out, what are you doing--” “Hello, mother.” --;;)

Conclusion

Basically, it ain’t that different while being that different, which is the mode of culture everywhere. Also that outside influences can shift the plot understanding.

#giseungjeongyeol #World Literature #korean literature #Worldwide Story Structure

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