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on the rocks (r.c)
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paring(s): Rafe x single!mom
summary: as the couple prepared for the wedding, problems began to arise between them, shedding light on a bigger problem. (Part five in the WILLOW SERIES)
warning: single parent, slight mention of shitty family
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The couple has been engaged for almost six months. They knew the process wouldn't be all sunshine and roses, but neither Rafe nor y/n prepared for the conflicts.
"All I'm saying, y/n, when we combine our finances, I can take care of you and Willow. You won't need to work some dumb assistant job." Rafe sternly spoke, hip rested on the counter. His wife to be sat at the kitchen, head bowed.
It was late, Willow asleep in her room, but the only time the couple could truly talk it through. "But I am your assistant. I love getting to work along side you and for you. I want to bring something to this marriage and help out." He tried to cut her off, but she persisted. "I want to work."
Y/n didn't want to sit around and be some trophy housewife. Working gave her purpose and fulfillment outside of her daughter.
"Babe all I am saying is you can persue painting and we would still have more than enough to live comfortably." For some reason that rubbed her the wrong way, setting off an undefinable emotion with her heart. Instead of blowing up, y/n took a deep breath and turned to him.
"Rafe, I think we need time to cool off and we can talk about it tomorrow after work. I just-" Rafe slightly huffed.
He wasn't sure when he got angry over this, but he let it fester deep within. Maybe it was something kelce said about Rafe needing to be the bread winner, or some kook socialite saying it's unprofessional for a wife to work for you. He just wanted her to live without any worry, even if it meant he had to work harder. "Yea. Sure. That works. I'll go."
Y/n's heart shook in fear with every short response he gave. The man shuffled for his keys and b-lined it for the door. "Rafe I-"
"Love you too. Bye." And he was gone. What happened? She knew the engagement put on more pressure, but the fights over things that seemed trivial were draining, if it wasn't work, it was education for willow, and if not living arrangements, it was honey moon details. It worried her how Rafe would just walk out first chance he got. Maybe he was trying to give her the space she needed but the lack of communication caused many restless nights and anxious thoughts. This would be another sleepless night.
It wasn't much different for Rafe. The large man sat in his spinning chair at the office. He was so accustomed to holding y/n tight as he drifted into slumber, his own bed felt foreign and he would much rather get some work done then waste time replaying every mistake that took place prior. Rafe's mind drifted to the painful look she gave him as he walked out. It's how he imagined his face looked when his dad would head to the office during his birthday celebrations or when he was sharing something with him. Why was this harder?
By the time the two made contact in the office, instant regret flooded the room. Y/n rushed to the tired man, rubbing her thumbs across his cheeks. "You didn't sleep here did you?" She already knew the answer due to the wrinkles in yesterday's clothes and dried drool on his cheek.
"I just had some things to finish up." It was half the truth. When he was at home, sometimes the temptations for past things haunted him. At the office, he felt in control. He never knew how to explain it to her, but sometimes he just needed this as a distraction.
"You're working more than usual, Rafe." Y/n's voice was stern yet caring. "You'd yell at me if I worked half as much as you have been."
His voice became defensive. "Of course I would. You have a kid."
Y/n physically reeled back. "Willow. Her name is Willow." It was the first time he made her daughter feel like a problem.
"That's not what I meant." Rafe appologized profusely.
"She's my kid. My problem? Is that how you see it?"
"Just listen, I didn't-"
"No, you listen to me Rafe. We talked about Willow. You said she was your daughter, that you loved her like your own. But it seems to be whenever it's convenient."
Worry etched every line of his face. "One time. I wasn't thinking."
Y/n's breathing became labored as she tried to remain calm. "That's not how being a parent works. Maybe I have more thinking to do."
"Wh- what do you mean?" Rafe stopped all motion and stared at his fiancé in fear. "You don't-"
"Maybe we just need more time. So you can either start thinking like a parent or realize you want out." Her heart shattered just thinking about the thought of losing him, but everything was overwhelming, the fights, the engagement, and much more. Maybe it was her insecurities, but y/n had to think for her daughters sake.
"Baby." His eyes watered. "Please."
As monotone as she could, y/n looked him dead in the eye. "I'm taking a sick day." With that she walked out, barely holding it together.
Rafe threw his papers off his desk, fighting the rage bubbling inside him. God why couldn't he think before he speaks. Rafe felt like the biggest fuck up possible. Did he really just lose the two best things in his life.
Ward happened to be on his way to drop papers off for his son when he saw his future daughter in law rush out. "Y/n!" He wasn't greeted with the typical smile and that worried him. "What's going on?"
Nothing prepared him for the words that answered. "I think I just broke up with rafe?" Her voice shook in question, unsure of the events. Tears began to pour out with no care who was in ear shot. Rafe was bound to hear the heart wrenching wails.
"What happened, Sweetheart?" He tried to consul the girl now in his arms.
"I have to go. I can't be here. Consider this my two weeks. I'm so sorry, I just-"
Ward could barely process what she was saying. "We'll work this out. I want you here at the company. You're a valued member."
"What about-" she couldn't bring herself to say his name.
"Take the next few days off, when your ready we'll talk. You can work through me from home." He didn't want to lose her and Ward didn't want his son to lose her completely either. She was the best thing to happen to the family.
"I don't know, I just need to leave." With that she rushed out, leaving the two Cameron's to share some heated words.
- It's been a week since y/n saw Rafe and the distance felt like a death sentence. She took Willow to the mainland to get them out of anything that reminder them of rafe. okay The poor younger girl didn't understand why he wasn't around, just that mommy was sad when she asked if he was joining. "I'm sorry mommy. Don't cry mommy."
Y/n ran a hand over her daughters hair, smoothing out the knots caused by the ferry ride. "It's going to be okay."
"Rafe will come back. He promised." More pain surged the mothers heart. Part of wanted to scream at Willow and say that Rafe had to much pride to reach out and he's the one who ruined it, but it would be the farthest from the truth. He texted her nearly any chance he could, leaving an abundance or voice mails. Sometimes he wouldn't even speak, just the shakey breaths and whimpers. She was the one running it. She chose to ignore him for the sake her own pride and dignity. The way she love Rafe terrified her, but she didn't want Willow to be more hurt.
All of a sudden her phone began to ring. She tried to ignore it, believing it was Rafe again but something deep down urged her to check. 'Ward Cameron.' Hee screen flashed.
"Hello, Ward."
"Hey sweetheart, how are you doing?" He kept his voice soft, noticing hers was shaking.
"I'm fine. Is there something that you needed?" Talking to ward seemed to be a lot harder for the only fact he wasn't his son.
"I know you're taking time off and spending time with Willow, but I was wondering if you could swing by the office so we can chat? Please. Willow is more than welcomed. You know I love her." Y/n let at a heavy sigh. She hasn't been to the office since she walked out on Rafe, but it was a Sunday and from what she heard he was visiting Topper.
"I think Willow would love to see you. We will head there when we get back."
"Good. Good. Well I will see you two then." She hung up and let anxious thoughts consume her.
Y/n's body shook as she gripped her daughter, stepping of the ferry and the whole way to her office. It wasn't long before she was unlocking the work place.
Willow began to squirm, looking around the space. "Rafe?" Her small voice called out.
"Shhh. He isn't here, Willow."
The child continued as she began to wail. "I want rafe. H- he promised he would be my friend. Why does he hate me?"
Y/n heart shattered. Rafe did love Willow. The mother knew it without a doubt. She had let her emotions cloud judgement and pushed him away. It was her own insecurities and she fucked it up. "He doesnt hate you."
"He said he would be my dad so people would be my friend." The mother set Willow down, allowing her to run and search the office in anguish. "He doesnt want me."
Ward heard the commotion, stepping out in sight. "Running in my office? You're lucky it's after hours."
"Papaw!" She sobbed, running to him.
"Hello, sweetheart. How are you doing?"
"I miss, Rafe." Ward's eyes fluttered to see the tear stained mother. "Where is he?"
Y/n tried to speak but feared she'd burst any second. There was no way she would embarrass herself infront of her boss. "He's been super busy. I'm sure he just hasn't had anytime."
"He doesn't love us, does he mommy?"
"Shh, baby girl." The mom did everything to console her daughter who was now a mess in her arms. "Please calm down." Within ten minutes, Willow managed to wear herself to a sleep.
"Poor girl, is missing her naps."
"I don't think that's the only thing she misses." Ward placed a warm hand on y/n's shoulder. "It's okay if you miss him too."
It was if that was all she needed to release all the buildt up emotion. Tears and cries poured out from every crack in her heart. "I didn't listen to him. I didn't want to listen to him."
Ward set Willow down on a comfy chair then tended to the mother. "Things are stressful it's bound to happen."
"I'm just so scared. What if he just changes his mind and dips? That would hurt way worse then right now. Willow is young enough she'll forget eventually." All of it was true, but she also didn't want to live without him. It's been hell for them and it would be a lot worse. Only Rafe would make it better.
"When rafe was about Willow's age, he played on an instructional soccer league. Every Saturday, he would kick around a ball with some other kids. Nothing to special. Around the same time, I started working those Saturday's." Ward scrunched his face to hide the emotions he felt. "The way he'd walk in with a smile until he saw me, then silently rush to his room. I don't think I'll ever forget that. I know he hasn't. He still brings up the first time and everytime I wasn't there. Kids don't really forget it, they bury it deep and it becomes who they are."
"What are you trying to say?"
"It's better to work on it. If you let this go, what lesson will that teach Willow? That people argue so you have to leave before you get left? I see fear in your eyes. Just talk to him."
"Is that why you called me here? To get me to talk to him?"
"You guys both are hurting and I worry about you both."
Y/n let out a shaky sigh. She knew Ward had only the best intentions and that he was right. Any anger she held onto was released through more silent sobs. "I think I ruined everything."
"I highly doubt that. Rafe looks at you as if you were the sun and stars. He stares at the picture of the three of you when dragged him with you the first time. He still loves you and where there is love, and only there can forgiveness take place."
His words brought hope as she frantically stood up. "I need to go talk to him. I can't keep running."
"I got Willow. She's more than welcome to spend the night." Y/n embraced the older man, still sobbing on his chest.
"Thank you." With that, the woman ran to her car and sped the whole way to Rafe's home. The living space he desperately wanted to bring Willow and herself into. A place he brought to show how much he loved them and appreciated them. The life she nearly denied him of.
But he hurt her feelings, dismissing her wants. Both parties really needed to communicate on this.
Rafe sat at his desk in a back room, tears streaming down his flushed cheeks. Where did things go so wrong? What happened? Sure he's been stressed with work and the wedding in a month. It was a large adjustment. He was just praying the pair could survive.
That's when he heard sniffling that pulled him from his thoughts. There she was, in her most purest form. Completely vulnerable and broken. "I'm sorry." She whimpered.
Rafe stayed speechless. "I'm so used to complete control. It makes me feel secure. I know what ever happens would be on me. But I also love working for you. I love watching your face light up when you complete a small task, how you hold my hand in meetings. I get to spend time with you in a different setting. But I don't want any of the that if I can't have you. If I can't guarantee you come home to Willow or me. I want you."
"Y/n. I love you. I don't like or agree with you ignoring me and not communicating that, but I have had time to think and really do some searching of what I want." She held her breath, fearing this would be the end, but he continued. "I also don't like you working for me. It feels so wrong when I see you as an equal. Much more than that. Fuck were litterally engaged." His eyes widened. "We are still engaged, right?"
"Yes."
"So be my partner. Don't work for me. Let's work together. If you want a day off, take it. You can do whatever you like. We do it all together. It is a family buisness after all."
"Rafe-"
"I mean it. What do you say?"
"Can we take tomorrow off?" Y/n sheepishly smiled.
"What do you have in mind?"
"An us day with Willow. And your family. And we could go on an adventure."
He grinned. "We could take a family trip to the mainland."
"Or maybe the courthouse?"
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catladyoftheyr · 2 months
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Summer Vacation chapter 1/??
You kissed me in a way that’s gonna screw me up forever
Characters: Bella x Edward
Summary: Bella’s grounded after the events of the first book so Edward’s been sneaking into her room at night to spend time together. They end up kissing and things get a little steamy.
Word count: 839
A/N: my favorite parts of twilight are just Bella and Edward being cute together. I love them doing regular teenage things and I wish Stephanie Myer had given us content of them just being teenagers over the summer. This series is just me writing my ideal summer romance bc I have twilight brainrot. Edward might be slightly out of character idk and idc. This is my MY version of him 🫡
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Edward and I had only been dating for a couple months officially. So much has happened since I moved to Forks in January that it’s felt like ages. It hasn’t even been a month since what Charlie had started calling The Incident when I stormed out of the house and told Charlie I couldn’t be trapped here like my mom. I still felt guilty for intentionally hurting his feelings, especially since I couldn’t tell him the truth. “Hey dad, my boyfriend and his entire family are vampires and another vampire tried to kill me in the ballet studio I went to as a kid.” Would probably make Charlie institutionalize me.
I heard my window softly slide open and Edward materialized in my bedroom. This had become a habit since I was still technically grounded. Charlie had tried to convince me to stop seeing Edward, and when that failed he’d declared that I was grounded until further notice. “Hi,” I whispered, unsure if Charlie was asleep yet. “You can pick the movie tonight.” I’d been saving my wages from my part-time job and managed to buy a small TV and DVD player from a local thrift shop. Edward rummaged carefully through the small stack of DVDs and held up a copy of Pride and Prejudice before sliding the disc in. We sat next to each other in my bed and Edward planted a light kiss on the top of my head.
“You smell like coconut,” he murmured.
“New shampoo”
“How long does Charlie plan on keeping you locked up in the house for?”
“Probably forever at this rate. I keep trying to convince him that I've learned my lesson but I feel like he’s not budging. He thinks you’re a bad influence.” I can't say I entirely blamed Charlie. He was doing his best to parent me on his own and I wasn’t making it very easy lately. Still, I wish he’d ease up a little. I leaned my head against Edward’s shoulder, wanting to feel the coolness of his skin. His eyes were focused on the screen but my gut told me he wasn’t paying attention. I wished I could know what he was thinking about, and I know he wished the same of me.
I traced the veins in his hands with my fingers. Edward stiffed and I looked up at him for the signal to continue. He nodded and my fingers continued to tread lightly up his arms. Physical intimacy was still largely uncharted territory in our relationship. I wanted so desperately to allow us to be less restrained with how we touched each other but we both knew the risks. I knelt and turned to face him on the bed and cupped his jaw gently in my hands. Edward was if a marble statue of a Greek God had come to life. He was classically beautiful and his features were stern but gentle underneath. I closed the gap between us and let our lips connect.
His lips were cold at first but quickly warmed with mine on them. Edward didn’t technically need to breathe but I felt cool air hit my face as we kissed. I felt Edward’s hands grip my hair and pull me closer. We broke apart so I could breathe and I locked my eyes in his. His eyes darkened with passion and he let his hands fall from my hair. “Do you want to keep going?” He asked. I nodded fervently and slid his hands down to my hips. Edward lifted me onto his lap and I locked my legs behind him. I was tired of being careful and controlled. I needed to touch him. Our lips met again and I moaned softly. I gripped my hands into his hair and tried to leverage myself even closer. His hands dug into my hips firmly. Even in passion he was in control of himself; he could snap me in half if he wasn’t cautious but I didn’t care anymore.
Edward pulled back to look at me. “You’re so beautiful, Bella” he whispered in the dark before his lips moved to my neck. I gasped and wrapped my arms around him tighter, digging my nails into his shoulders. He sucked lightly, surely intending to leave a mark. He’d told me that vampires marked their mates but this was new behavior for Edward. I whispered as he made his way to my collarbones, planting light kisses all the way down. “I love you” he said softly.
“I love you too. Keep going please” I said breathlessly. Just as Edward was about to oblige my request there were footsteps in the hallway. We both froze and I silently prayed for Charlie to go back to bed. The only sound in the dark room was my breathing and the television. Charlie knocked lightly on my door and I swore under my breath. “Yeah?” I called out.
“Can you turn the volume down please? I have to be up early tomorrow. Goodnight, Bells.”
“Okay I will. Goodnight, Dad.”
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otaku553 · 1 year
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I gotta say your gijinka Kirby in the BNHA and KMY universes is quite cool as well as cute due to how Kirby looks so I was wondering what is the interaction between the proper characters from both anime/manga is like with Kirby?
HAHA OMG I haven’t gotten to talk about this in so long!
Ok so in bnha the idea was mostly Meta Knight as a Pro Hero and Kirby as kind of an illegal sidekick that Meta Knight never registered because hero society has something called child labor laws :) and so to avoid that, he eventually used some kind of loophole to enroll Kirby in UA so that Kirby could legally work under him as a hero intern. In this universe Kirby would just be a bundle of joy to their classmates and not necessarily take Heroics very seriously because they’ve been doing it for so long that it doesn’t really phase them the way it does the hero-hopefuls who think that being at UA will drastically change their lives. This rubs some people off the wrong way, but most find that Kirby’s nonchalance is refreshing in a place of high pressure and expectation. In any case, Kirby has to confront at some point that despite their physical strength and overall power from copy ability, there are things they can’t solve by smacking. Or maybe the responsibility that comes with having so much power, or maybe the possibility that they are the natural antithesis to darkness and evil and are the sole person able to fight against the manifestation of negativity that is dark matter :)
As for KNY, Kirby would be in a similar situation to Muichirou in that they’re so powerful that at a young age they were promoted to Pillar, but were definitely not mature enough for the position not prepared for the responsibilities of it. In any event I never put Kirby in a world without Meta also, so Meta would attend Pillar meetings as Kirby’s substitute since Kirby wouldn’t understand most of the meeting anyways. Kirby’s favorites among the Pillars would be Rengoku and Mitsuri immediately, maybe all of the others given the time to get close to them, since they have a way of naturally warming up to people. Most of the Pillars are just sad that the responsibility of being a Pillar has been handed to child, since no child should have to take up a mantle of killing, no matter how skilled. They’re maybe even unsettled by the way Kirby so easily disposes of opponents, as if they hardly need to think about it. But aid is aid, no matter what form it takes, and they’re in no position to deny it, so they might as well try their best to let the child at least have a normal childhood around them.
The trouble with putting Kirby into any world is always that Kirby is vastly overpowered for any and basically every setting, including their own series. But overpowered characters are still fun to play with character-wise, since they break what we know of character struggles and development. We get to see less standard development, such as the way having great responsibility from a young age crushes someone, or the way strength too great to fathom creates consequences that a child cannot comprehend that may come back to haunt them later.
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ritornello · 1 year
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Sleeping Dead thoughts (lots of spoilers)
I’m expecting the books to arrive on Monday but I decided to buy the digital copy of volume 2, which came out yesterday on Renta!. I have to say I prefer Honto’s reading app to Renta!’s web reader but Honto probably isn’t getting it until the end of October.
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The extra at the end of volume 2 is really cute. Mamiya wakes up in Hell, but he’s not sure if he actually died or is just having a dream. Sada appears dressed up as an angel, but he’s a Buddhist so the outfit doesn’t make sense. Mamiya says that if it’s a dream he imagined Sada to look like that, so I guess he thinks of Sada like a guardian angel. It definitely helped take off the edge from how ridiculously bleak the last chapter is.
When I read the final chapter for the first time I assumed that Mamiya killed himself. It was intentionally left kind of vague, but with the experiment failing and Sada re-dying it seemed like he completely lost the will to live, especially after cremating Sada’s corpse. I think by doing the latter he initially planned to follow Sada’s advice to destroy everything and leave, but living without Sada was impossible for him.
Since it was also never revealed who it was that rang the doorbell, I guess we’ll never know if Mamiya committed suicide or was put back in a psych facility by his family. Even he wasn’t sure what happened before the extra, except for the fact that Sada was gone for real, and that being alive would be worse than being dead. The last ten pages of the manga and the callback to volume 1 (when Mamiya was watching Sada play with Monkichi in the garden) was amazing. Mamiya missed Sada so much.
I liked that Mamiya’s final actions were hypocritical to his and Sada’s discussion about loneliness, when he said that he could live “alone” because living in a society and immersing yourself in work doesn’t completely isolate a person. In the end he couldn’t keep to his own word or Sada’s hopes for him to move on.
Speaking of vagueness, there was never a full reveal of what Mamiya looked like without his clothes on. Sada was so great with understanding Mamiya had dealt with a lot of trauma and just goes along with what he requests when it comes to their physical relationship. I loved when Sada did a total 180 about refusing to killing Buta-san after he saw the burn mark and scars on Mamiya. It must have been aggravating for Mamiya to have to hear Sada’s talk about helping him after the incident in highschool, since Sada never knew the extent of what happened, but he still wanted to be a nice guy and look out for Mamiya. And as it turns out, Sada is really trying to be a nice person. During the first half of the series Mamiya took care of Sada’s needs, but as the story progresses their relationship reverses and Sada has to look out for Mamiya’s well-being, even forcing him to eat, bathe and sleep once things really go downhill.
In the end Sada never reciprocated Mamiya’s feelings, so their relationship felt one-sided with a lot of codependency. But I think Sada was genuinely happy when he reacted to Mamiya’s confession of his feelings. Sada said that he preferred being a friend with benefits because it was easier to be a friend than a lover. When Mamiya said he wished Sada liked him the same way, and that Sada could always be with him, that was Sada’s first time being with someone that was a lover. Mamiya also benefitted from this because he got to experience having non-predatory intimacy. So even though there was a lot of incompatibility each one got something out of being together.
My only complaints are saved for a couple redraws for the new release. There’s one page depicting Mamiya at his worst, and in the new version sensei completely omitted one of the arms/temples of his glasses. At first I was thinking “ah cool they’re broken, she made him even more of a mess for the book”….and on the next page the glasses are fine. It really distracts from how emotional the scene is supposed to be. This had to have been one of, if not the worst page in the manga to have an error on. There’s also a chapter cover that looked like a scrapbook polaroid with handwriting on it (something like 2 days 1 night vacation with Mamiya) but the text was removed in the book, so it’s kind of plain in comparison.
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Overall I loved reading this manga and it’s definitely become my fave of Asada Nemui’s works. Her character writing is so good that she can use some cliches but make them perfectly fit into the story, like Sada and Mamiya being highschool classmates. My favorite scene in the entire manga was when Mamiya’s sitting in his van and trying to recite what he would say if he ever met Sada again. Even though Sada wasn’t Mamiya’s friend in school that one page reveals so much about how Mamiya felt about him, and in the following scene Sada’s story and everything that happens in the first chapter begins. Everything tied together so well! 💝
I rarely ever write this much about manga, so I hope whoever finds this series enjoys the ride as much as I did 🥹.
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oolathurman · 1 year
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ok so despite what everyone may think i am first and foremost a zelda fan and the new nintendo direct zelda trailer has me YELLING and i'm gonna copy paste what i said in discord but be warned there is a conspiracy wall and pins and thread everywhere. this is a long post you have been warned. special interest go brrrr so hard i might need new RAM.
I'm so excited for matt mercer for voicing ganon
i think the car thing. it looks like nintendo saw everyone fucking with physics and making their own diy vehicles and shit in the first game and then nintendo was like 'fuck it let's make it a feature'
AIR DROPPING ENEMIES ONTO YOU?????
am now more convinced than i was previously that the twilight realm/shadow plane/whatever (a la twilight princess) will be a part of this game, give the floaty bits and the reversed sounding music clips. however i never did play tp so /shrug
hee hee funny hats on mobs
are we leaning more into zelda puzzles again cuz i fucking hope so i miss that shit bro
give me my enrichment puzzles
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did ganon gain sheikah slate magnesis powers???? the light blue connection bits between this golem's bits look like magnesis.
screaming alone in the house I'm excited for loz totk
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the crop circle shapes are gonna be a new puzzle and if I'm wrong I'm eating my shoe. like there is no fucking way the zelda series would have something like that and NOT make a puzzle out of it.
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SHEIKAH SLATE FUNCTIONS BUILT INTO YOUR NEW ARM
still can't figure out what culture may have made that shield but damn if it doesn't look cool. there's the crying eye element which would make me think sheikah but also it's so very different than the sheikah eye logomark we've known all this time????
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new arm looks dead. did ganon's arm get grafted on him. tf.
also if this is sheikah tech it is not a flavor we have seen yet. unsure if it IS sheikah or my hope for twilight tech.
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the thing on his belt ARE WE GETTING LIMITED CHARGES OF SOMETHING. WHAT IS THIS. IT LOOKS LIKE CAPSULES.
MY HYPERFOCUS AND SPECIAL INTEREST IN ZELDA IS EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW AHHHHHH
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yeah we def DIYing our own shit now hehehehe
ALSO LOOK AT YHE FACE ON HIS TRACTOR WHAT CULTURE ARE YOU FROM THIS LOOKS LIKE. IDK SOUTH AMERICAN VAGYELY INCAN SHIT. ANOTHER STRING FOR THE TWILIGHT REALM PIN
IT'D ALSO EXPLAIN WHY THERE WAS THAT AREA IN BOTW THAT HAD VAGUELY INCAN LOOKING ARCHITECTURE AND IT JUST WAS NEVER EXPLAINED
I THINK THE TWILIGHT REALM IS THE EXPLAN wait link did you just. grab a random stable for your tractor. is that what that wooden structure is. oh my god babygirl.
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99 luftballon also yall see the very angular smoke coming from that floaty bit on the left right. let me. screenshots one sec.
also look at twilight architecture while i find screenshots
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k this was the best i could find but the lil squares and shit. it's always been very TP. and now elements of that are being brought to totk.
there is so. much. thread. on the "twilight realm" pin rn on this mental conspiracy theory board.
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link gets goody baskets from the sky now
also adding more conspiracy theory thread. the architecture from the twilight realm uses that cyan color.
also idr if tp uses reversed vocals at all but i know that in general loz uses a lot of audio cues, and will back that thing up and reverse it, and /flaps wildly/
i am conspiracy theorying so hard yall IM SO ECCITRD FOR RHIS GAME
ZELDA SAYS "LEND HIM YOUR POWER" NOT "LEND ME YOUR POWER" "LEND HIM YOUR POWER" IM 90% SURE SHES TALKING ABOUT GANON AND IF SHE IS DO WE GET GANONDORF IN A BIGGER ROLE THIS TIME OH MY GOD
AHHHH YHE ERHU SOUNDING INSTRUMENT PLAYING ZELDAS LULLABY IM CRYING YALL
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ok so a few things (i started out with 'two things' and then the list kept growing)
that arm is definitely dead. still not convinced that's his original arm.
he's tossing the master sword to go save zelda oh my god i'm crying yall (listen the knight who would risk everything for his charge is a trope i would die for and apparently so will link)
that arm is glowing red. that specific red has been the color of Malice TM and Ganon TM in botw
this clip comes right before the 'lend him your power' line I AM 98.88% SURE THAT IS GANON'S ARM god the conspiracy threads are so tangled rn yall
another thing, he's got that... idk, brass banding thing? from earlier? off of his arm in this clip. and now the arm is glowing woooooo so that tells me that whatever it was, it was keeping the Malice TM away, probably away from consuming him too much.
how heavily will we see the consequences of malice eating away at him, idk.
but given that the malice has like. eaten away at his clothes, even the leather that's keeping his shit in place (look at how worn it is in the second pic compared to his completely fine and unmarked bracer on his left arm), wait where was i going with this. oh yeah. this seems like Malice is a fast acting thing.
also fwiw a good handful of other folks in the video comments are also talking about how they're reminded of twilight princess so i don't think it's TOO far fetched.
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so at this point i'm pretty sure of a few things but it's also late at night so i could probably be convinced of almost anything. that said, i'm pretty sure of a few things.
that's no longer link's original arm. (my best bet is it's ganon's arm.)
the twilight realm, dark realm, mirror realm, whatever it is, it's coming back. it's not far fetched given that botw is sorta a conglomerate of a lot of elements from previous games, or has easter eggs from a lot of other games (eg tingle's islands, lon lon ranch), and TP was one of their biggest games.
ganon and link swapping arms could also explain(?) why that golem has magnesis keeping it together. tho this feels like a stretch.
90% sure we're having more involved puzzle dungeons again which i'm excited about.
i'm preordering this game idc what you think
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supernova1us · 7 months
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So I had a really weird, random transformers concept idea pop up
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So I had this idea that i just got yesterday and kept thinking about. similar to RID2015's motif of all the decepticons being animal themed, this series would have the theme of the Decepticons be based off the universal classic monsters. literally this whole idea came from a pic where someone showed that wfc megatrons arm could be swapped with primes because of the weapon gimmick. and i was like, oh megatron with a different arm is cool, what if he had many salvaged parts, like frankenstein. so yeah i just rolled with and kept developing that concept, fell down the rabbit hole a bit and so here's what i have so far.
the plot is that at the height of the war, shockwave tricks megatron into leading a crew of cons mostly loyal to him on a fools errand looking for an energy source, so he can gain command of the deceptions. ending up marooned on earth in the scheme, they spend years there, attempting to first conquer humanity, then hide from them after being repeatedly overwhelmed and many killed, and finally to simply survive. badly damaged and no longer caring for their goals, infighting finally causes them to all go rogue to survive in their own ways. after the end of the war, optimus leads a crew of autobots to investigate and possibly capture megatron after learning of his fate when shockwave was defeated. the autobots role then would basically be monster hunters, attempting to remain in hiding on earth, with the help of Mikaela Banes, to hunt down the now monstrous decepticons
megatron-primarily based on the Frankenstein monster, he'd be surviving now as a grotesque patchwork of parts from his fallen warriors to stay alive(also partially based on DOTM design). he still maintains his drive to dominate and cunning and continues to manipulate events from the shadows, also sorta making him a bit of dr frankenstein as well. bots he'd def have parts incorporated from would include thundercracker, blackout, demolishor, flamewar.
nightbird would be based on the bride of frankestein, owing to her original origin, she will have been made by megatron from parts scavenged from shadow striker, slipstream and flamewar.
barricade would be based on igor, having been badly crippled and still faithfully aiding megatron as his crony. he secretly has the statsis locked bodies of rumble and frenzy hidden away, which he has one-sided conversations with.
starscream would play up his g1 trait and be a spark ghost, frequently haunting/tormenting megatron but also keeping tabs on the other cons and watching/harassing the autobots.
soundwave would be based on the phantom of the opera, with half his head being melted/badly damaged, he now hides in the sewers and composes his own music which he anonymously broadcasts to the human city above. he is also going insane as his damage means his mind reading abilities are always active and hearing all the humans minds. he also refuses to free his cassettes from his chest out of paranoia that they may either betray or abandon him.
skywarp would be based on the invisible man, his body having been rendered virtually nonexistent by previously being overloaded when attempting to teleport, he wears makeshift armor(made from jet parts and based on the armada version) to be seen and hold together his barely existing physical form.
reflector would be based on the classic zombie horde; he/they created far too many copies/clones at once, spreading the shared consciousness too thin until it snapped, leaving them all bereft of any higher consciousness, only barely living functions like stunted mobility and desire to find energy, as well as brain modules from other bots to potentially restore their own mind.
shatter, would be based on dracula, after a failed experiment in augmenting the decpeticons energy processing abilities, became a ravenous energy vampire, compulsively sucking off raw energy sources to survive, including other bots.
sixshot would be based on a werewolf, having lost control of his savage and now independent wolf mode, which he cannot resist switching to at random times.
spittor would be based on the creature of the black lagoon, with his look and traits based off his tfa version but to a greater extent. he now also has a proper frog alt mode, though a grotesque one.
cyclonus would be based on the mummy, having been supposedly killed by the humans and bound in titanium wrapping and dumped underground to be forgotten. he eventually stirs from statsis lock, his mind deteriorated and his body barely functioning and only held together by the bindings, and goes out to seek warped revenge on humans and transformers alike.
Bonecrusher, based on his movie version, would just be like a wild engine of destruction, very much a jason vorhees type.
blackarachnia, with a tfa design, would be also mutated into a technorganic which is treated more as her being this biomechanical abomination, somewhat inspired by the Metaluna Mutant.
snapdragon and apeface would be based on godzilla and king kong respectively, and be like mini kaiju who consistently feud in beast mode and destroy the same city over and over.
the insecticons are now feral insect types who have built a large underground hive.
the autobots would consist of optimus prime, ironhide(movieverse based), red alert(tfa based), jazz, bulkhead, mirage, hashtag(earthspark based), bumblebee, cliffjumper, whirl, knockout(rotf based) and wheeljack(dotm body design and personality, but with typical colors and head design). optimus, jazz, bee and cliff would have overall design and traits based on their wfc/foc designs, simply just if they now had earth mode features.
so, what are thoughts on this admittedly weird concept?
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dark dragon vers of magicant 👀
(In response to the tags of this post)
Anyways, yeah! It's interesting that Magicant doesn't really appear in Mother 3. It feels like such a cool and interesting part of being a PSI user in the Mother series, but whatever. I imagine a being as powerful as the Dark Dragon, who in my view is a being made of the Earth's Power, has to have a Magicant. I imagine Magicants, though large, do have limits to their size. The world can only exist inside one's head, so it is usually contained to one town and a surrounding area, whereas I think that the Dark Dragon's Magicant is significantly larger than that.
It's probably impossible to explore the entire thing, considering that. It kind of grows infinitely as necessary and is sprawling. It's sort of why travel works weirdly in Her Magicant; because it'd take too long to get anywhere if travel worked the way it did in reality. You sort of just inevitably appear in one place or another, the path in front of you stretching and squishing down to what is necessary for you. It's a lot of natural space, but there are some different settlement-type areas around.
I'm sure there are Denizens of this Magicant that were created of Her mind for Her mind, but I haven't developed that much. Who else is contained in there, though, includes the Magifolk; Magicant is already shell-themed, as are the homes of the Magifolk, so to me it feels like that perhaps they are a creation of the Dark Dragon. They get to have a big, shell-themed castle. So they disappeared, but they still exist in some form in Magicant.
In terms of other things, I talked extensively about "forest gods" in Jonel's chapter that are just splinters of the Dragon that carry out Her will and watch over different areas of Nowhere on Her behalf. The stag and the Drago appear in that chapter. There are some others, but the only other one I developed was a dog one, but anyways. The difference between how those forest gods appear in reality vs. Magicant is sort of interesting; in reality, they're just vague shadowy shapes, whereas in Magicant they are actual, physical black animals. They also talk, whether flat out being the vessel for the Dragon to speak with, or with their own voices.
They sort of act as guides around Magicant in the same way that they are guides in reality. They're wise, and want to help someone who visits-- because it is possible, though very rare and would be up to the Dragon's discretion. Per Kumatora's chapter, she was selected to enter because she is connected to the Magifolk and needed to speak with them. In addition, the proof of concept chapter I mentioned starred Lucas visiting, and this is something he's done many times, although this was the first time he was allowed to explore it.
I digress. The last set of pre-existing denizens in Magicant would be Chosen Ones relating to the Dragon. Anybody who has been connected to Her still has a copy of themselves living within this Magicant. To keep it short, prior to Her being sealed away, the Chosen Ones were all in one long familial line, until the last one decided to betray Her and attempt to control the Dragon, which wound up with Her being sealed away because she attempted to kill off humans for it. Not that She could act all that rationally when he was the one controlling Her heart anyways, so She had to be sealed away until She could be revived and controlled by another again.
So, there's a long line of people who all worked alongside Her, and now exist as copies in Magicant. It isn't the real version of that person, just an imitation of them. Even the one that betrayed Her is probably still in there somewhere, just hidden deep away forever, separate from the others. There's a copy for Lucas already, and it's very eerie on both ends-- both the real version and the Magicant version-- to know that one of you is just a mere copy of somebody who is real. Lucas found it deeply unsettling, and so did his counterpart. But they all live there, peacefully given a sort of afterlife within Magicant with Her.
Magicant similarly also is where the Dragon exists, since Her size makes it difficult for Her to exist on the same plane as reality. I mean, She can, She just generally chooses not to because it interferes with Nowhere and the creatures living on it. Essentially, you have to contact Her via the Prayer Sanctuary-- I guess you could do it anywhere, but that's the best option-- in order to see Her. Even then, there's no guarantee you will. Jonel saw a small portion of the Dragon's Magicant, and saw part of Her true form, but he isn't really capable or allowed to see Her as She really is.
I imagine She really does just look like a dragon, ginormous, pitch-black, the big, white moon eyes I always mention. Though with Magicant, She can also squish Her form down to something smaller as necessary, it's just not Her true form, and therefore not preferable to Her. The Dragon could take many forms, such as the forest gods, though I think She can also take the form of a human if She'd so like. Either She would imitate one of Her Chosen Ones (-Dragon pointing at Lucas- this is the ideal human body. you may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like) or just take on Her own unique form.
I think the Dragon could also squish Her form in reality, it's just easier to not exist there at all. If She needs to make an appearance, then She will, but overall, the Dragon really tries not to interfere with human lives unless absolutely necessary to avoid them becoming reliant upon Her. But if you really need advice, and you really need to ask Her for help, trying to contact Her in the sanctuary, as mentioned, is a good bet. The Magicant is also Her reception area for people basically GRHF. You can get a good chat there.
And that's basically it, far as I can remember. It's a way less wacky version of Magicant compared to Ness's, and is more structured the way Maria's is. I think the more powerful you are, plus perhaps the older you are, the more stable Magicant becomes. It's still an odd, eerie place, but it's like a fantasy world more than a bizarre dream. Time doesn’t work right, it’s always bright, so on.  It's a world unlike any other, and would be the most unique Magicant anybody could possibly visit. After all, I think a god's Magicant is something pretty damn special and significant.
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tenebrius-excellium · 2 years
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It’s interesting hearing your thoughts on the audio version of the httyd books specifically, because the books had a lot of illustrations that really influenced how some people remember the scenes. Like - you know how you said you don’t like horror? Trust me, that part where the Witch tells Hiccup a story was just as horrifying, if not slightly more so, in the physical book. From the second Hiccup falls into the tree prison, the pages are black with white text (except for some lines on the edges representing the tree’s trunk). Then, when the Witch goes disturbingly silent, you turn the page and BOOM - Toothless’s eye beams light up the Witch’s shrieking figure in stark black and white.
The books are full of drawings that look like they were drawn by an old man with shaky hands, basic artistic talent, and a feather pen full of ink. They add a ton of atmosphere to the story (there’s at least one per page, and many of them are embedded into the text), so it’s cool seeing you absorb the story without them - kind of like seeing what stands up on its own and what was “helped along” by the illustrations.
Anyway, when you’re done with the series on audio, I’d recommend finding physical copies of the books and flipping through them to see the illustrations! They start out pretty basic and get more detailed (and more powerful) as the books go on. There are a couple of full-page spreads that still make me shiver just thinking about them.
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Oh my gosh. That sounds so awesome. Do you own the books??? Would you mind submitting that particular illustration of the Witch towering over Hiccup to me?? I would very much like to see it! O_O
Yeah I am personally fascinated by the audio experience as well. I haven’t really listened to a book before. The voice that David Tennant provides for each different character is hilarious and spot on. I also find it very relaxing to just lie somewhere and listen. I’ve spent my summer at the lake and on some grass under the sun, while hearing Berk’s story told a different way. It’s really something!
I decided to do this after purchasing the first book and finding myself underwhelmed by the typesetting. It made me realize that the exact illustrative style that would make the book appealing to a kid, greatly disrupted my reading experience as an adult. It wasn’t about the drawings but about the actual typesetting with the font sometimes in all caps and the onomatopoeia and everything. So I thought to myself, look, I know this story is good. I’m going to give it another shot, I just need a different type of media to properly enjoy it. It’s amazing the difference it makes. Plus, the audiobooks are free! ;)
Thanks for asking, B!
Cheers
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bg-sparrow · 2 years
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Oh look, another website is hosting my works without my consent.
You guys, I TIRE of finding my works on websites I did not put them on. FictionHunt has pilfered 12 of my stories without my consent. Granted, I'll give them a little credit for not being the assholes that are NovelHD/NovelWW; they credited my pen name instead of listing it as "Anonymous" or another author, and there is a "source" link to FFN, but they have the text copied and pasted on their website. They never contacted me, never reached out to say "hey, can we share your stories on a website we're building?" I would have been cool with that.
But they didn't. So now I have to wonder if the people I found plagiarizing my stories on Wattpad didn't just lift them from sites like this instead of me directly. Again, glad they at least kept my name on them and have a source link, but I don't appreciate having to discover this by googling the summaries of my own stories.
My husband said that I should be glad that the story I want to tell and share is being shared; they're doing me a favor. And in this case, maybe I half-believe that. But because my stories are on NovelHD/ NovelWW where they can't be removed - where they're posted by "Anonymous" - I'm hurt. I'm hurt that this twisted form of "flattery" is so disrespectful of an author's time and talent.
I get into a vicious cycle: I see my works in places I didn't put them, and I swear I'm going to stop writing. I vow to remove my stories altogether. But the problem is these websites will still have my work, and then I wouldn't have the timestamps on FFN or AO3 proving that I posted my content first. So, I always resolve to leave my works published so that if it comes to blows, I can show that I am the true author. And I can provide original notes for almost every one of my stories, but because they aren't verbatim to what is posted, I know that hardly matters in the realm of the interwebz.
My works are posted BY ME on FFN and AO3. A long time ago, I gave permission to a site called "moviefanficchains" to host my first fics, but never anyone else.
I know my stories will end up on other sites. I know that's how it works. I can't police it all. I know it's "just fanfiction", but it still hurts. I can't tell you how much my heart hurts for those who share their original works and have them stolen to be put on these sites; they probably rely on them for some kind of income whereas I don't. Yes, I enjoy sharing my stories far and wide and want them to be known. Just be courteous.
I don't know. How do you handle this stuff? If FictionHunt apologized, I might not mind having my stories hosted by them, but if they're going to be shady, I don't want to be associated with it.
It's just been five long months of dealing with plagiarism/ lack of consent with my works since I got back into writing. I'm tired. My motivation takes a HUGE hit, and the whole "what's the point" thing rears its ugly head. I'm obviously going to keep writing, and I'm going to keep calling people out on their bullshit.
I just needed to type this out so I can get back to writing. I only have six chapters left until I complete The Time Circuits Series - 72 chapters total across the five stories. And I am petulantly thinking about only sending physical copies of the ending to readers who request it at this point because that's how hurt I feel about all this.
Send hugs. And report assholes.
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joshhhhhhhhhhhhhhh · 1 year
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gonna talk about physical releases of Sonic media because having bought the 4K blu-rays for the 2 movies a few days ago I felt like researching what was available and planning what to buy because I want to own it ALL
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AoStH is nice and easy because it has a like modern release with literally everything on it so like the pilot episode and Christmas special are included, and it’s all on blu-ray too and has actually nice cover art which from my research is not a guarantee at all lmao. So yeah this is on my like Amazon wishlist. It’s region locked to the USA and I’m in Scotland but whatever I don’t really care lol.
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Sonic Boom meanwhile has this cool steelbook blu-ray, which isn’t region locked too which is a neat bonus even if I want it mostly to have instead of specifically to watch, but nice to know all the same. Really big fan of the boxart here too it looks dope. And yeah it has everything which is like, the main prerequisite I care about lol.
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Sonic X wise I’m waiting for this. There’s actually a basically identical modern blu-ray release by the same company but it’s dub only and in the case of Sonic X I’d want to go original language because yeah. Plus from the description this one should also have better video so. And also the boxart is cooler. So this is another wait for it to release and then like, yeah. Neat.
And from here! It goes to shit.
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It appears that the only complete home release SatAM has is this DVD release from 2007, featuring cover art from Ken Penders in what is tbf one of his better pieces. It’s an okay release I’m sure! But apparently it lists the episodes in a different order than they broadcasted in and has a couple bugs somehow. That and in being from 2007 I don’t think I’d be getting a new copy possibly either. And while DVD is fine for a show that’s like from the 90s anyway it’s still ehhhhhh. I’d definitely put off buying this until I’ve got the above 3 at least, and hope that within that time SatAM should miraculously get a new release. Considering the 3 we just spoke about I want to be optimistic at least.
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Underground seems almost more tragic than SatAM with fortunately 2 complete series releases in the UK! But they both have shit box art and appear to have cardboard sleeves that are like badly deteroriated from just how old and preowened these are. And DVD too. Really not optimistic about the currently available Underground releases. This is another case where I’d really want to hope that it can get a new blu-ray release or something for the same justifications as before but like. Hard to be confident there lol.
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in terms of the OVA it seems like this DVD release from 1999 is the best we’re gonna get lol. The cover’s okay and even in DVD quality the OVA looks pretty damn good - and in just being 50 minutes instead of trying to cram entire TV shows on DVD I’m pretty confident the quality would be fine too. But like you know I want blu-rays! I do not expect this to get newly licensed (especially with the confusion of Paramount’s Sonic movies) but imagine if it did! I want that. tbh even in this state it’s higher in my priority list than SatAM and Underground, mostly because I really do think this is literally the best we’ll ever get, and also I enjoy the OVA more anyway.
As for the stragglers. Sonic movie 3 will inevitably get a 4K blu-ray release like the first 2 movies did, and I’ll be happy to buy that in uhhh 2025 lmao. Sonic Prime is only a few days away from dropping on Netflix, and I am. Not sure how confident I should be in that getting a home release ever. I know those types of rights things are very annoying and Netflix aren’t great for home video releases and I imagine that might be even more the case for an animated series aimed at kids too. But in an ideal world it gets a physical release on like blu-ray and shit. And there’s the live action Knuckles series for Paramount Plus that we’ve really not learned anything about yet lol. Part of me wants to assume that that’d be more likely to get a physical release but I don’t actually know enough about how Paramount operates to really comment. But like, praying.
Anyway that’s the post lol.
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taleasnewastime · 1 year
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hii from your bookish anon again ~~
jimin in growing pains is so incredibly hot, but oc in the wake of your leave? that's a whole different story. her determination and drive is so attractive. the way she behaves is so cool. I love oc. if I were her, I'd never really come back, but she's so strong-willed and determined. role-model worthy, I tell you. and the way you made us FEEL the angst, heartbreak and the yearning-to-be-understood that the oc went through was just 😩🤌. fucking amazing, I swear. I rarely find fanfics or even books with such badass female ocs, and this is the perfect cup of tea for me, I didn't even realize i needed to read about a character like this.
I wouldn't say it's really E2L, for jimin and oc, but I get the tension between them, and their past. it's so.. how do I say it, full of tension. they way you described e2l from your reply on my latest ask would be fitting in their situation (given that there's a happy ending). i am loving this.
- dark romance books aren't everybody's cup of tea, the topic can be a bit heavy at times, because there can be a LOT of triggering stuff. fantasy's really fun to read tho, I loved almost every fantasy book I've come across.
- omg you have the whole shatter me series?? you should read it as soon as u can, it's actually good. i actually finished the first book of the series, you might not like the writing style, but that's what it's like inside the character's head, how she's thinking.
- the invisible life of addie larue is just on a different level than other books (at least for me). the way it's written? poetry. magical. amazing. I loved it. the plot? so intriguing i had to take breaks to take everything in. and the smut wasn't really smut, ik, but the way it focused on her emotions and the things she felt. loved it. bc you see a lot of authors write smut but some are just.... luc I found frustrating, but I can't blame you for liking him. he IS hot and attractive, the way he acts. and Six of Crows is actually on my tbr!!
- my book bf? have a few, but def cardan (cruel prince series). loved him in wicked king, but at the last scene tho... anyways he owns my heart.
- I'm really not a fan of colleen hoover either lmao. read it ends with us and was majorly disappointed with the writing style. you write so much better. idk the hype any her tho. and please I beg of you, if you don't want to come across really really really bad smut and an even worse plot, no development for an imp character, do not even TOUCH the sequel. traumatized me fr. but did u hear abt her wanting to turn the iewu book into a coloring book 💀 like what are we gonna color 💀 the stairs or ryle's fits of rage that didn't end well 💀. also have you heard of the movie adaptation?
- I actually haven't finished any Emily Henry book 😅, but I started/am almost through a few, book lovers, beach read, people we meet on vacation. love her writing.
- I think I prefer a series over a stand-alone. because it has more depth and keeps me busy for a long time (I get bored very easily). but when I just want to read to get my mind of something, I go for stand-alones, when I don't have enough time. what about you? which do u prefer, or does it depend?
-still waiting on the next part of the jimin mafia series tho, it was so good, I will wait forever if that's the time you need, can't imagine drifting away from the series, I keep rereading it!!
have you heard of jimin's online fansign for his new album (I love it I love it I love him)? do you read one book at a time or do you start a lot of books at the same time? what series/stand-alones are you reading now? anything more from your tbr you wanna share? how do you write so well? who is the most admirable/role-model worthy character you've ever read about? which book got you into reading? reading online or physical copy? paperback or hardcover? (if u read online) pdf or epub?
haha it's okay you responded late, you have things to do/going in your life. how was Dublin? I hope you had fun ^~^. anyways, have a great day, and good night, from wherever or whenever you're reading this ask. hope it wasn't too long hehe.
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Yo! Firstly, thank you so much for your kind words about Growing Pains and In The Wake Of Your Leave, it made me smile. I'm diligently working on the subsequent parts and let me tell you, there's lots more angst to come. Hopefully it'll be out in the not too distant future!! I am a little worry my 'twist' is going to upset some people, but you can't please everyone. I tried to make her as strong willed and someone who doesn't need anyone else as possible, so I'm happy that came across.
Dublin was great thanks! Have you ever been? I drank lots of Guinness and beer. Always makes for a great weekend! I went to Brighton the following weekend so I'm looking forward to some weekends at home chilling. Have you got any holiday plans coming up?
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I agree about The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Have you read any other books by V E Schwab?
Oh yeah Carden as a book bf is a good choice. He was a bit rough in the first book, but he redeems himself.
Ah I'm so glad you're also not a fan of Colleen. Not that there's anything wrong with liking her stories but sometimes I feel alone in not enjoying her stuff. looool your comment about the colouring book had me creasing. I have heard about the movie, they have Blake Lively playing the main character? I'll be interested to see how they make the film.
Oh yeah, I do love a series and getting attached to characters and learning more and more about them. But I do also find stand alone books quicker and easier sometimes. It's a tough one because sometimes I want to learn more about characters and I get upset when a book is over but then with series I can find I get too much and I get bored or tired of the characters. Guess it ultimately depends on the writing and whether it's good and keeps me interested.
I tend to only read one book at a time, mainly because I know I'll favour one over the other and the one will go forgotten. I'm not one for DNF'ing, I try and push through no matter what. What's your preference?
I've just finished Icebreaker. Have you read it? I kind of loved it, kind of hated it. lol. I don't want to spoil anything and I would say it's worth a read if the synopsis appeals to you. I'm now onto Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Only 50ish pages in but I'm loving it. Can see why people rave about it. What are you reading atm?
My tbr is never ending. I am one of these people that views buying books as a hobby in itself, which is not good for my bank balance. I can always see my mum side-eyeing me when I tell her about another book I've bought. Some books on there that I'm excited about are The Kingdom of the Wicked series - I've read books 1 & 2 and I have book 3, might re-read from the start when I come back to it. Half a Soul. The Roughest Draft. A River Enchanted. And I've read Things We Never Got Over and though it wasn't my favourite I do want to read the next one in the 'series'. Have you read any of these? Or anything you think I should be adding?
I've always kind of being into reading, I used to love Twilight and The Hunger Games at school. When I went to uni I didn't read much, I think because I was having to read so much academic stuff the last thing I wanted to do was read in my spare time. It was the pandemic that got me back into reading again. All that time and nothing to do! Was there a specific book or thing in your life that got you into reading?
How do I write so well 😂 Thank you, I'm happy you think I do. Honestly, I don't know. There's lots of things I'm proud of when I read back but I've written but I also think I sometimes go into too much detail and it gets a bit boring. What I'm trying to say is I tend to think up ideas and then just write and hope for the best. I do honestly think reading a lot helps too, seeing writing styles I like and don't like and different ways of plotting a story. Do you write or are you interested in it?
I read both physical and digital books. I prefer paperbacks because they're lighter and I love holding an actual book, but I also have a kindle which is great for holidays. I've never really read pdfs or epub books, do you recommend? Where/what do you read them on?
The boys have been killing us with content recently!! Jimins online fansign!!!! I mean imagine! I can't even imagine what I'd say. I mean I don't speak Korean so I would feel awkward/bad about that. I'd probably plan for ages, stressing about what to say and then not be able to get a word out in the minute I have with him and regret it forever. But, we can dream right - think that's why I write fanfics, just trying to put out into the world everything I know I would never actually do but wish I could.
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vireeza09 · 2 years
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Finally got to finish a book in such a looong time. And when I say looong time, it’s idk when was the last time. 3 or 4 years perhaps? 😅 And this one, I finished in about 2 months. Lol. Don’t judge. I have work and trying to get by life, and a full-time mom at that. My free time is almost always spent either through Tiktok watching vids, Netflix watching kdramas, or Shopee, mine-ing stuff that I don’t really need but I want to have. Hahahahah 🤣 Things definitely changed. I could finish a book before in just one sitting. 2 to 3 days max. And this one took me 2 months. Hahaha! I feel like my attention span is too short now that I get easily bored. Or, my so kulit daughter just cannot spare me a few minutes of peace and quiet, and would just pester me from time to time. 😅
I got myself a Kindle. I have always loved to have one - College days when I was at the peak of my reading addiction. I just know that I couldn’t have it back then because the budget is just enough for tuition and allowance. 😅 And so I looked for ways on how I can conveniently read - I got ebooks and converted them to .jar file and uploaded them to Tequila Cut. It’s like an app for you to read ebooks. I searched it just now, and I guess they’re not in business anymore. 🥺 Good old days. I feel so old! Hahaha! Dunno what has gotten into me, but I finally gave in and end up buying this Kindle. I shouldn’t have joined that FB group. Budol is real. Hahahaha 😅🤣 Mind you, I still have 3 large megabox full of books, about half of which I still haven’t read. These are the books that I collected for almost 10 years of me staying here in the metro. I promised myself back in college that when I am already earning, I would buy the printed ones and start my own collection. I dreamed of seeing them in bookshelves one day, in like a home library, but for now, the megaboxes would do. 🙈😅 And of course, if time permits, I would still read those in my to-read-list. ❤️ Though I have this Kindle, nothing beats the physical, hard copy of books. The smell is just so. . 🥰👌🏻 I don’t even know how to describe it. 🙈😅
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Love this case that I got. 😍🥰 Salamat, Shopee! 😅😂
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And I just want to share. The Kindle’s battery is sooo amazing! I got it last March at 59% and after 2 months, though I am not reading that much but it is in sleep mode I guess, it still has 28% battery as of this writing. How cool is that??? 🤩
Anyway, there were a lot of book recos in that FB group, but I chose the ones from CoHo. I know she’s popular and everyone’s raving about her books, but just like what I said, I haven’t been to reading in a few years now. So I decided to read her books first. And I don’t know if it is just me, but if I am reading books of a certain author, I would start from her 1st book, down to the latest - regardless of which books are popular. I think it’s the Virgo in me. 😅🤣 So yeah, Slammed is her first book. It’s a series btw, and came out back in 2012. So I have 2 more books to read from this series. 😅 It’s pretty good. 😊
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So there. One down. A whole lot of books to go. I have already started getting back to reading. And so I hope that I can continue this habit? though, because I also have the habit of starting out things and not finishing them. 😅🤣
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so-you-melted-22 · 3 years
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i might just teach myself how to sew, just so i can sew my own damn star trek uniform!
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Kisses and Near Misses (Riff x Reader) Part 1
Summary: First kisses never really go down how they’re imagined. No one ever wants to imagine a disappointment. 
AN: Hello! This multi-part fic will cover the many kisses across Riff and Y/N’s relationship. For once, I’ve actually finished this series! It has fourteen parts with two different endings. There is a fair bit of angst in this series so make sure you check the content warnings or message me if you have any qualms. Thank you to my beta @ineedabifriend and @inkandpen22 for answering my many questions 💙 Let me know what you think! 
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Content warnings: implied internalised homophobia, physical violence (a punch) and threat. Reader uses he/him pronouns.
Masterlist // Next Part
Your name: submit What is this?
The First
The vibrations from the band, accompanied by aggressive dance steps, thudded through the night’s air. Even from outside the club, the anticipation of entry combined with the exit’s chills were enough to get the neighbourhood drunk with excitement. Y/N certainly was. Although he had partaken in a few drinks before turning up with his friend and frock1, so that might have helped. Roisin had been wonderful, as per usual, and now she had some time with her new girl after dancing with Y/N to solidify their cover. It was sweet to see Grazie so happy with her, especially after her last break-up.
Y/N’s shoulder was knocked forwards by another, one that belonged to Riff. His smart jacket was checked for wrinkles before Riff joined Y/N’s pace. 
“You’re leaving a room of pretty girls to walk me home? Aren’t I lucky,” Y/N said with an unabashed mooning over Riff written on his features.
Hands in his pockets, Riff shrugged, “Gotta make sure you’re safe and sound.”
“I’m still not joinin’ your boy band.”
“Your loss.”
“You sure your boys are ok with you abandoning them for the night?”
“If they aren’t, they’ll have to get over it.”
“You mean you’ll have to deal with their shitty whining tomorrow?” Y/N said, though he still smiled at the prospect. 
Their feet copied one another in their steps, and Y/N matched his own to Riff’s body language, down to the position of his elbows – stuck out from where his hands fit snugly into his trouser pockets. Y/N would sneak glances at Riff’s profile against the late night lamps to garner the mood. Soon his throat was alive with unwavering hums that carried in the cool air down the street. His hands soon emerged with dramatic flair at the familiar tune, and he spun on the spot before carrying on jauntily.
“And here I thought the Irish could hold their drink,” Riff quipped.
Y/N pretended not to hear this stereotype, just as he had done when Riff asked if his accent was “real” the other month. “Come on, you know the words!”
And he began to sing a little louder than his previous hums. It took two seconds for Riff to join him, their arms wrapping around each other’s waists as they kick-lined down the street. Fancy footwork led them into a mockery of a ballroom swing. Lyrics belted out at the top of their lungs left only enough oxygen to spin their way around one another. The moon was their disco ball, the speckled stars as its reflections dazzling their concrete dancefloor. Out of nowhere – to the two boys at least - someone screamed out one of the many towering apartment blocks. The words took a second to sink in. When at last Y/N and Riff realised they were being yelled at to “shut up”, they dashed off, giggling with childish glee and their hands still together. Their feet clattered down the gridded streets and took them to the slums. As they stumbled to a stop, Y/N and Riff’s bodies clashed, setting off more laughter while they steadied themselves against one another’s jackets.
The first kiss Y/N received from Riff was blown across the pub he worked at. It floated over the heads of the drunken patrons, rammed at the bar like pigs at a trough, and reached Y/N with Riff’s smug signature. Surely it was a joke on Riff’s part, but it meant everything to a fresh-off-the-ferry Y/N. It was his first night in New York, and every night from then on he slept in that famous skyline was spent imagining what Riff’s real kisses must feel like. On his cheeks, his forehead, his mouth, Y/N imagined they were impassioned with hands keeping him in place to be revered more. Or maybe tender in private moments, reserving every ounce of adoration for those minutes they had to themselves, that was one of his favourites.
But Y/N never imagined it would be so… brief. So brief that he thought he dreamt it. But the sudden shift in Riff’s expression was something his brain would never conjure. All the blood had drained from his face. No more condensation escaped his mouth; his whole body was stiff without breath. But his eyes were joining a dot-to-dot on Y/N’s face to complete a conclusion.
Riff suddenly disappeared, his legs carrying him fast from years of practice.
Confused, and slightly delayed by the alcohol, Y/N broke into a sprint after him, and his tipsy tongue began calling his name. 
Through the maze of debris stacks and half razed houses, Y/N tailed his friend for an answer while his mind desperately clawed at the feeling of Riff’s lips against his. Closer and closer, he made it in reach to grab at the back of Riff’s shirt. They crashed again but this time, Riff swung around and punched Y/N across the cheek. The force knocked the kiss’s image out of Y/N’s mind and he wobbled back.
Riff fisted at Y/N’s collar, barely an inch between their noses as he hissed, “Nothing. You say nothing, got it? Nothing happened.”
Y/N blinked at the spit that narrowly missed his eye. With an agape mouth, he nodded only to be shoved into the dirt pile behind him. As his body adjusted to the sudden shift in gravity, ears still ringing, his foggy vision spied Riff vanishing around a silt mountain.
His head still resting on the powdered dirt pillow, Y/N wiped the spit away and the tear that joined it on his cheek. His stomach was twisting itself around into knots like a boy scout practicing for his badge - not from sea sickness or missing home like that first kiss. No, this was so much worse. A short prayer to St. Anthony to find his lost happiness was sent to the Heavens as he recuperated himself in the ruins of his daydreams. Crushing the grit beneath his fingers so tight that it could become a diamond, he pushed himself to sit up. His mind rattled as he stood up and continued to do so throughout his walk home. He wondered if it would ever stop.
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1 Frock: gay slang for a women who pretends to be a gay man’s girlfriend
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Riff Tag: @that1fanficwriter​ 
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redrobin-detective · 3 years
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thoughts on halfas I guess
Vlad Due to the nature of his accident, Vlad took a long time to come into his powers and really isn’t all that powerful at a basic level. What he has going for him is a stable human form and lots of time/training. Vlad stated that he spent “years” in the hospital from his ectoacne. I submit that he didn’t become half-ghost right away, instead sweating and suffering through ectoplasm contamination for like 2-3 years as it very slowly converted and eventually stabilized him as a halfa. Like going through that alone? Your friends not visiting you and going off and getting married without you? No wonder he’s bitter. His ghostly obsession is with control and power after going years without it. He actually generally forgot about the Fentons for a long time, very out of sight, out of mind. Only when he got the notice about the reunion did his obsession with latched onto them, determined to rewrite past wrongs and have power over those who hurt him (maddie as his forced lover and jack dead). This desire mostly switched over to controlling danny once he knew about him.
It took him a long while to get a grip on his powers once he stabilized, even simple ghostly tricks took a while to master. His desire to master them was helped/contributed to his obsession with power and control. Even the most basic of ghostly abilities took Vlad months if not years to get a handle on. It was also a struggle bc there really wasn’t any ghosts he could ask. Not just because of his pride being unwilling to ask for help (tho that did play a part) but also without a stable portal there’s not much access to the Zone/ghosts in general. He had to rely on natural portals opening and then somehow find his way back. He once got lost and was gone for 7 months real time. On the flipside, as a consequence of his powers building slowly with minimal ecto-contamination, Vlad is a very stable halfa. It would take a lot to kill him from either human or ghostly threats. His fire core is strong, steady but it never burns hot enough to hurt him. He constantly feels feverish (100-102F/38-39C) but its never enough to actively be a threat to his living body.
Danny Oh boy, where do I start with Danno? I stated above that Vlad took a long time with his powers and is a moderately powerful but stable halfa? Danny is the exact opposite. Homeboy but his ass deep-fried in ectoplasm, an intense jolt that immediately bonded ectoplasm to him skipping the majority of the ecto-contamination period Vlad suffered through while also ‘charging’ him. While it still took time to gain control of his powers, he had the power and ability to use them straight away. Vlad was secretly shocked to learn Danny had only had his powers a few months when they met. It took him years to reach that level of power/proficiency. He is, at his baseline, an incredibly powerful ghost both because of his halfa status but by the nature of how he got his powers. Like in a year he defeated ghosts far older and more experienced than him. It scares a lot of them though they won’t admit to it. 
Vlad especially is worried that Danny is a shooting star, burning so brightly early on that he’ll burn and fade quickly. That future is very possible if he keeps pushing his powers as hard as he does throughout the series. If he doesn’t start slowing down by the time he finishes his adolescence then his human half will just give out. All that is basically a roundabout way of saying that Danny, as compared to Vlad, is a very unstable halfa. Too much power, relatively weak human body that cant quite contain all the energy while under constant stress. He’s more powerful naturally but he walks a very fine line, if he leans too far into one of his halves (overexerting himself as Fenton or Phantom) he could destabilize. It’s one reason that Vlad’s Danny clones had a hard time surviving, his ectosignature is incredibly tenuous and unstable and can only maintain under very certain circumstances.
Danny’s instability is both improved and worsened by the maturation of his ice core. On the one hand, it helps stabilize his ghost form by concentrating his ectoenergy within his body. It gives him greater control of his powers meaning he doesn’t have to exert himself quite so much. On the other hand, the natural consequences of his ice core really are stressful to Dan’s human body. While his body was completely changed and adapted to being made half-ghost it still has human needs and thus can’t be, like, completely frozen. Danny’s body is constantly at war with itself, Phantom trying to cool the body down to subzero temperatures for the health of its core while Fenton tries to keep the body somewhat warm for basic human purposes. He levels out somewhere around 93-95F/34-35C which is still hypothermic for normal people but he tolerates it. As Phantom, when he’s using his ice, there’s a mental thermometer in his head telling him when he needs to stop and warm up a bit. A bad fever or intense heat would be deadly to him as well. Basically Danny needs to learn to self regulate his powers, to not overuse them and respect his physical limits or he won’t make it to adulthood.
Danielle So Dani, taking cues from the sections above to talk about her. Gonna start by straight up saying that Dani isn’t human or really technically alive in a traditional sense. She is, however, a new type of ghost that closely mimics life. She has the advantage of having a true consciousness like a human, an ability to think and change outside of obsession and while she does ‘breathe’, ‘sleep’ and ‘eat’ her body doesn’t truly require it if it comes down to it. Downside is she isn’t like really alive alive and doesn’t have a real living body which makes her more prone to destabilizing (this will be an issue her whole life, the Fentons are constantly giving her injections and such to keep her together) and also doesn’t have human advantages like a living body to stabilize her or the ability to phase through ghost objects.
I spent a good long while saying that Danny himself is unstable and all of Vlad’s clones destabilized because of it. So what made Danielle different? Vlad combined some of his own core to hers in an experimental attempt to stop his clones from melting at the drop of a hat. It worked as Dani was the most stable of all the others but Vlad could sense his own energy in her, knew her core was not a true copy of Danny’s so he ceased that line of experimentation. As Dani develops and matures, more bits of Vlad pop up in her. She wakes up with fangs one day, sometimes Vlad’s control/power obsession bleeds into her and she develops a fire core, like him. Her core really upsets her, thinking she’s like him. Danny helps her work through it, saying her core doesn’t define her, that she’s not Vlad or Danny but her own person. They make a deadly combo, the fire and ice Phantom cousins, his hair misting like freshly fallen snow while hers crackles like a flame. They just gotta watch that they don’t freeze/overheat the other.
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baelpenrose · 3 years
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Fallout Thoughts - Caesar, ahistorical bullshit, pulp fiction, faux-intellectualism, and the way the Legion apes a cultural misremembering of Roman culture that traces to an author most of you have probably never heard of.
This one's for you @adifferenttime
There's three things about me that are relevant to this post and we'll get to the third one part way through. But the first two are relevant up front. Thing about me everyone who follows me on this site knows because I never shut up about it and it's in my damnass bio: I'm a historian. Thing about me that people who have followed me for a bit know but aren't as immediately obvious: I am also a fallout fan. Caesar claims the Legion is "a nationalist, imperialist, totalitarian, homogenous culture that obliterates the identity of every group it conquers. Long-term stability at all costs. The individual has no value beyond his utility to the state, whether as an instrument of war, or production." This is not Rome. In no way is this Rome. "The Individual has no value beyond his utility to the state, whether as an instrument of war or production" is not Rome, it's Sparta. Rome also never obliterated the identity of every culture it came into contact with - it actually prided itself on assimilating the knowledge of everyone it absorbed and adapting the best parts of each. His rejection of technology is also fucking absurd - Romans believed their willingness to advance was one of the reasons they were conquering everything, it was a sign of roman greatness - Caesar sees it as only bringing weakness. That's not the only aspect of the Legion that's closer to Sparta than it is to Rome either - while Rome was brutally ableist, it was not eugenicist. The NCR mention that every legion soldier they see is "a near perfect physical specimen" and we see evidence that the legion start training in childhood.
Sgt. Boyd says that the Legion soldiers slit their own throats when they are at risk of being captured - again, not a Roman behavior.
Legionaries retreated all the time - standard legion doctrine was to retreat when you lost over a third of your troops, because it was better to live to fight another day than to piss away men, metal and money on a point of pride. Spartans were the ones so thoroughly indoctrinated that they pretty much suicided whenever it looked like they might be captured and refused to retreat. Now, Spartans were nationalist, imperialist, fairly totalitarian, eugenicist, statist assholes, and militaristic ones, but they were NOT terribly imperialistic ones, dedicated to stability though they were, and Spartan women enjoyed comparatively large freedom compared to most of the ancient world - had a lot of civic power. So maybe, you're thinking, "Okay, Bael, you've made your point, Caesar took notes from both Rome and Sparta. It's a mix of both, some Roman misogyny, some Spartan military training, all that." Fuckin' NOPE. See, both Spartans and Romans were militarily a heavy-infantry focused force-structure, tactically speaking. Their forces were all about large groups of heavy-armored, shield-carrying infantry with spears and swords forcing the enemy into close-contact, face-to-face, direct combat where discipline and brutal main force was the determining factor of the battle. Maneuver was strategic - once tactical, (ie "in-battle movement") commenced, movement became limited and force was applied until one army was ground into submission by the other. Rome wanted to seize territory and control it to gain its resources and make use of them. To eradicate the people living there - save in extreme cases such as Carthage, where the Republic believed a point needed to be made in an extreme manner - would have defeated the purpose. The Legion does not do this. The Legion, tactically speaking, is a light-infantry force structure. Its troops are lightly armed, lightly armored, do not actually engage in prolonged engagements for any reason if they can avoid it, and rarely take or hold territory. They're fighting a guerrilla war - and they're fighting one of depopulation, terror raids, slave raids, and torch-and-burn destruction of infrastructure and food supply. In no way does it militarily operate the way Rome did, either. In addition, Rome, while it was more misogynistic than Sparta, did have women in roles of importance - particularly religious ones - that gave them genuine societal power. A far cry from the way that the Legion represents them. In addition, the male sex worker in West Side mentions that the Legion punishes homosexuality, where Rome was permissive, bordering on binormative - it was considered normal to the point of being almost expected that young people would experiment with their closest same-sex friends, though it was considered humiliating to be on the receiving end of penetrative sex from someone lower in a social hierarchy than you were. So where the actual fuck are Caesar's gender politics coming from? Well, a friend I respect quite a bit has argued they come from Gram, but even as misogynistic as Mormonism is - hell, as Christianity is - there are upper limits. Even within those extremes they wouldn't be as flagrant as the legionaries are in openly making remarks on the beauty of newly-captured slave women. Thomas Aquinas and more than a few other Christian theologians - ones I admit I respect very very little for my own personal reasons, some of which are philosophical and many of which can be boiled down to "many traumatic memories are directly related to a Catholic upbringing and I have some scores to settle with the Catholic Church," - make compelling theological arguments regarding why women should be subservient but not wholly degraded according to the laws of those faiths, and Gram seems like a person who would have kept comparatively true to his principles in that respect. No. Caesar is very much meant to echo faux-intellectuals who misunderstand Hegel in the way Neitzche did. He makes a number of other errors as well - the Legion's Latin pronunciations are all over the place between Gothic,
Classical, and anglicanized, more
or less according to rule of cool, and their grammar is frequently mediocre. Thing about me almost no one knows: One of my big guilty pleasures is old-school pulp fiction and fantasy. Like. Original Robert E. Howard Conan the Barbarian, Original H.P. Lovecraft, that kind of thing. Insanely problematic horseshit in them and all, there is something about the really unique, neurotic/visceral writing styles that I just really like, and that I feel has sort of gone out of the world with the death of pulp fiction magazines. I bring this up because we know that to some degree, we know that pulp fiction exists in the world of Fallout, and that the Legion is okay with it - or at least willing to overlook it - Aurellius of Phoenix has copies of Grognak the Barbarian in his office. Though, I will say speaking as a Conan the Barbarian fan, while "amazing for the 1930s" is still "racist and sexist as fuck by 2021 standards" it is NOT "advocating for mass genocide or forcible sex slavery for half the population" so we're going to have to look elsewhere for Caesar's gender politics, but we've gotten our first inroad. Now, I'm sure you're thinking, "Bael, what the FUCK does pulp fiction and this admittedly funny aside have to do with Caesar's gender politics" Well, you know how in previous fallout posts I have offhandedly referred to Caesar as a "John Norman Fanboy," and I am about to explain that derisive reference. See, back in the 1960s, there was this college professor named John Norman who also wrote pulpy shitty misogynistic bondage porn as a hobby. (If you were curious, he lost me at "misogynistic" I would have been fine with "pulpy" and depending on quality I'll give "pulpy smut" a shot but I digress). It was about this random douchebag who got isakai'd into an alternate world where his shitty absent dad had vanished to, where his dad trained him as a warrior and abruptly taught him how to survive in this awful social darwinist fuckfest of a planet more-or-less stuck in the iron age where men are more or less allowed to go around slave raiding whenever and whereever and whoever the fuck they feel like outside their own communities as part of normal masculine activity. Pretty much the entire story is framed around thin excuses to have horrible scenes of humiliating women and long antifeminist spiels of pseudo-philosophical dreck about why men are naturally dominant and women are supposed to want that. It more or less languished in humiliating obscurity because his writing style sucked if you aren't a psuedo-intellectual political science or philosophy major who read Nietzche between frat initiations, but it suddenly got super popular during the backlash against second-wave feminism. Here's the thing. This unbelievably shitty series had greco-roman aesthetics with none of the actual values of Greece or Rome. It, too, has a social-darwinist "Death before dishonor makes you a real man" bullshit thing going. It, too, had a completely culturally anachronistic disdain for homosexuality, AND a view that technology and modernism were corrupting people and making them weaker and less manly or good. AND. AND. The warrior caste of this idiotic fictional world fights almost entirely through light infantry tactics of throwing spears and fast, light attacks with swords and hand-axes, from ambush, carrying away women as slaves and fleeing away. Now, critically. This shitty series, on its own, is not that big a deal. But it IS the single cultural event that resulted in Roman slavery starting to be played for nigh-constant fanservice in almost every thing set in greece/rome. Much of the "oh that's just realistic" creepy memory of how everyone in rome was just into teenage girls? This shit. I cannot begin to emphasize just how much the popularity of this FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT THAT THIS ONE FUCKING PRICK WROTE has damaged popular memory of Rome because of how popular it got with white faux-intellectual proto-MRA fuckboys. But back to Edward Sallow. Does it strike anyone else as suspicious that a man who is a very clear
faux-intellectual has created an army - granted, one he skillfully commands, one wielded well - that operates on a faux-intellectual's understanding of Rome, from an author who has the same misunderstanding of Hegel, and apparently the same gender politics as he does? Sallow is a hypocrite and so much of NV is dedicated to showing us that he is a fraud - it wouldn't shock me if some of this was meant to indicate he only understands popular memory of Rome instead of the way it actually worked.
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