i think one of the things i find compelling about rhaegar is that he’s a very good example of how selfish and destructive a martyr complex is. from what we know, it doesn’t feel like his obsession with the prophecy was overtly egotistical — less ‘i’m great ergo i’m the prince that is promised’, more ‘oh fuck, if this is true then unless i do these very specific things everyone and everything i know is doomed’.
and yet. there’s still something selfish about that. about assuming you have to be the one to solve the world’s problems. even when it eats you up, even when it isn’t some glorious purpose but a terrible shadow hanging over you. to assume you’re the only person who can do something — and, ironically, in trying to fulfil the prophecy and prevent the destruction of everyone he lover, he doomed pretty much all of them.
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Not sure if this is where you want your asks to be sent or not, I'm new to your blog so sorry if this is the wrong place
There is another instruction for Wally that I haven't seen you talk about and I want to know your thoughts! Back in november, before the responses, the secret URLs (such as woxyve) had the word "delete" added to the end (ex: woxyvedelete) implying that they wanted Wally to delete the page. After this most recent update it changed again and now says nodelete meaning that Wally refused to do that task. Thoughts?
where else would asks be sent if not the Askbox! inbox! both!
i actually wasn't aware of this until a few days ago, when i saw a post pointing it out - i had never gone directly back to those pages. which serves me right! i'm gonna be double checking Everything from now on lmao
but my fucking GOD is it interesting. thus far Wally has been... fairly cooperative. he's had a moment here and there, such as closing the guest book and losing his patience a lil, but he does his best with the rest! especially with requests! so for him to straight up go "lmao nah" when asked to delete something...
characterization-wise, i think it's very telling. as of now, Wally has been commonly portrayed as a bit of a doormat - getting talked over, sitting off to the side, being a bit of a background character - in in-Home media. less so in his whrp/qa/You interactions, but he's still widely agreeable & willing. but him refusing to delete the urls gives major points to him Having A Spine. he's holding his ground. he knows what he's doing. he's not going to let the whrp shut him up. there's a Thought Process / Plan / Purpose being shown here, or at least hinted at. there's a sense of.... Control. of "this is the way we're doing things, this is what i'm saying and you're going to sit down and listen"
it's just... such a shift from the Wally we see in his interactions with the neighbors. which again, lends credence to there being a time discrepancy, with whrp Wally being older and more "experienced" while past Wally is still figuring his shit [being alive] out <3
story-wise it adds some Delightful friction. like obviously there's already tension, what with the staff only page, "Let Me In", the mysterious black stuff, the guest book closing, and the whrp/qa being disturbed by it all. but Wally outright refusing to delete things is a Different sort of conflict. it's more... direct. which makes sense! his interactions with the whrp/qa are becoming more personal, too. but it lends to the feeling of a push-pull. as the whrp/qa investigates Wally and starts treating him like the person he is instead of a long-lost character, they're probably gonna clash (a lot) despite the apparent impulse to pursue Welcome Home. currently, Wally doesn't seem big on compromising. if he doesn't know what to do, it looks like he simply Won't or he'll do his own thing and be like "shrug". if he doesn't want to do something, it also looks like he simply Will Not.
of course, there's the strong possibility that the whrp Were Not Serious about it. the 'delete' command might have them testing the waters, poking the bear, etc. but then were they testing to see if Wally is there, or were they testing his level of compliance? both? a secret third option?
and if they Were serious about it... why? what is it about the marked urls that made the whrp go "get that outta here"? and why couldn't they delete it themselves? i mean, obviously they can't delete anything Wally adds, otherwise the extra stuff he's added probably wouldn't be there (unless the impulse / curiosity driving them is too strong to delete anything added). but there's still a why about it. what changed so fundamentally in the site's code - or laws of physics/reality - that made it impossible to alter Wally's additions?
it's just. i feel that there are a lot of implications in such a small interaction. it shows more than one would expect.
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Hello Ninjago fandom member. I want to play a game.
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When Stede faked his death by getting mauled by a jaguar and then hit by a wagon and then crushed by a piano and then riding away looking back at the chaos and saying “Now that’s a fuckery.” He DID that.
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“...That’s another reason why this Soap and Ghost relationship works, right--is that, for whatever reason, y’know--that doesn’t need to be talked abut now...but--Ghost has, well it’s clear that Ghost has a huge amount of respect for Soap, right? And he wouldn’t let anybody--in fact, for anybody else to talk to him the way Soap does would mean a different thing--but they’ve been through a lot together. But what’s great about that moment--and I’m glad you brought it up Neil-- it that [Ghost and Soap] are pushing each other to evolve without even realizing it. And for Soap to say something like that costs something for him. And for Ghost to correct the record and say what he says, that costs something too. And I think, again, that’s why this game is so satisfying is these characters--they’re going to places they’ve not been before. But they help each other get there. And I think that’s a good theme that’s come out from this game is that, you know, they need each other.”
-Samuel Roukin on Ghost and Soap in MWII (x)
Honestly, one of my favorite parts of that interview from yesterday. Not even from a shipping stand point, but Samuel just like seems to get it when it comes to what makes Ghost and Soap scratch at everyone’s brains and I think that’s awesome.
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my favorite thing about the duck shuffler plush trailer is the implication that all the next-level reality-bending associated with the high roller comes from buck. it's not special, and it's not something unique to the high roller; buck can just Do That. he can restore color to a monochrome world at the clench of his fist, nbd. the high roller's ability to levitate and be literally invincible, normal tuesday for buck. being that he seems to have some kind of direct control over light (the restoring color part of the trailer), he can probably do the silhouettes thing like it's a lame party trick, and he simply never gets a lucky enough thpin to make it happen in a fight against toons on the streets of TTC. it makes total sense now that i think about it considering how Wager Management is itself straight up reality-bending in a different way from the other managers' (since many of their cheats bend reality in some way). altering toons' dna instantaneously to literally species-swap them into ducks, summoning giant bars, etc. just imagine him accidentally using Wager Management as his lever gets caught on a doorframe (equivalent to stubbing your pinky toe), and before the outcome settles, he's gotta prepare for either summoning jellybeans all over his office or, idk, fusing with the nearest cog and literally, irreversibly breaking the fabric of the spacetime continuum. casually. in a casual way. like, he does it all the time, by accident. insane.
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Okay so this is killing me but you have a fic summary in ur pinned post but no link and I’m begging for it. Unless you haven’t written it yet idk but it’s very important that I get it please 😭
“Whumpverse: Eddie finds a drunk and bloody Steve Harrington in a bathtub at Tina’s party three days after Starcourt. He incorrectly comes to the conclusion Steve is in an abusive BDSM relationship”
Ahhh yes, my other brainchild that I ignore all the time. I feel like the joke title for that one was F*ck Around F*nd Out lol.
I have a lot of bits and pieces of that one written, but I made the decision to focus on the soulmate AU I've got running on A03 (and now Adopt a Jock and the BB fic lol) because it's gonna be another one with super long chapters and I'm having enough fun attempting to wrangle the fifth chapter of the Soulmate AU (it's become its own damn novel at this point but so help me that fic will only be six chapters if I have to FORCE it to be six chapters!) So what I have linked under it is what's been posted thus far, and nothings on A03.
Once the Soulmate AU's finished, it's gonna be my next Big Fucker in terms of fics, so it'll get there! Not sure when, but it will get there!
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