#selfish nation

[kyoshi-lesbians]

[ID: A series of GIFs showing the parallels between Azula introducing herself to King Keui in Kyoshi Warrior disguise and Ozai asking Fire Lord Azulon to make him the crown prince over Iroh. The last GIF shows Azula and Zuko peeking through curtains watching Ozai speak to Azulon.]

“I am your humble servant, here to serve you and our nation. Use me.” // "We are the Earth King's humble servants."

#i learned how to make gifs for this. that's how crazy it made me #the line is all azula BECAUSE it's all ozai #ozai's scene with azulon is a performance for ozai (one that is explicitly called out as such by azulon) #but for azula. a child. watching it from the shadows. well. #ozai killed azulon for his selfish ambitions & azula kills people for ozai #she's aware that ozai had no real loyalty to azulon - that ozai is performing - but rationalizes it as ozai being most worthy of the throne #rather than unquestioning loyalty to the father/nation itself being detrimental to the world at large & herself personally #.... #I've been feeling so ill about azula lately. god. #azula #ozai #r.post

[starsandhughes]

brady got his revenge for quinn scoffing at his fight attempts last season

#boyfriend on boyfriend crime #somebody's jealous of petey #you already get josh! don't be selfish brady! #he loves you and you do this #smh #quinn hughes #brady tkachuk #vancouver canucks #kaylin’s nonsense posts #quinn hughes nation

[kissingagrumpygiant]

wait whys M9 not a found family

Because they fucking suck at caring about each other in a genuine way when it calls for it

#caleb/veth this will never be about u dw 🫶💕🫶💕🫶💕🫶💕🫶💕🫶💕🫶💕🫶 #anyway beau can scream co depandency till we're all blue in the face but they SUCK. #they are awful and they are selfish and i love them but they are the worst ''found family'' ive seen #me when i refuse to help my friend and her fey bestie me when i refuse to reign in my friend when hes spiralling into eldritch pirate shit #me when i refuse to help my friend take a stand against his abuser that btw is dragging nations into war #me when i refuse to give a single shit about my alleged firbolg friend about . anything #me when i simply dont ever check up on my friends after they go thro the most traumatising shit ever bc THE PLOT!!!! ITS GOING FORWARD NOW! #we have to care about a DEAD TIEFLING WE KNEW FOR 2 MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!! NO TIME!!! #ask #anon #cr disk horse

[elisiassideb1tch]

#ptv #ptv lyrics #pierce the veil #pierce the veil lyrics #lyrics #lyric quotes #the new national anthem #selfish machines #vic fuentes

[monards]

i know hoyo is setting up rhine to have good intent and whatever in her trying to 'save' khaneri'ah or whatever; but i REALLY hope they stay with the cruel persona thats been built up for her. because it would be so wonderful to see a character who had good intent in the beginning just get absolutely corrupted; with the inability to ever go back to that prior state purely because of what had happened. also because there is NO way in her turning back after all that shit

#sorry. i dont think theres any good and plausible explanation for rhine to still be a kind or gentle person in general #she can (and SHOULD) have her moments. but it'd make so much more sense (and be much more impactful) for her to be inherently cruel #because look at all the stuff thats happened #i love the indomitable human spirit trope. dont get me wrong. #but rhine has that in the way she WONT stop her research till shes either dead or murdered. she is not gonna be gentle kind and optimistic #she watched all her kids (that she was SHOWN to care for) get very brutally murdered. #had to then go and kill her next creations that she didn't consider perfect (which most certainly fucks a women up. no matter what you say) #made the 'perfect creation' and the way she treated him was obviously a HUGE contrast to how she was before (being gentle and nuturing) #and left him (albeit with what we can guess was good intent) with NO goodbye just #a recommendation letter. a text. and his final mission #she could have good intent #and still care for others #dont get me wrong!!!!!!! #but shes. human??? #humans can be (as much as i hate to say it) a tad selfish when it comes to survival #and being antagonized demonized AND shunned by teyvat and even her own people. having to survive multiple gods wrath #isn't. gonna be good for the human psych #and it isn't gonna be something fixable #look at how furina progressively faltered over a hundered years WHILE being adored #she already started waning in her ethics and morals (as someone immortalized as a human WOULD) #with exposing lyney and all of that when it was VERY clearly the morally wrong thing to do (which her as a human would know) #and being relatively pessimistic and clearly spiralling #(no hate. i love furina with all my heart.) #if thats how FURINA started going #imagine rhine who has nobody (save maybe alice. but i doubt she'd be constant given her spontaneous nature and refusal to sit still) #shit man. even I'D go crazy and be horrible. #its okay and natural to be bitter #and its not as if anybody was there to help #hexenzirkel has a ton of women who survived their own nations falling yes #but not ONE of them (from what we know) has had circumstances any where near rhine's

[timothylawrence]

Hiii my Tav, Tara (not the tressym) here to introduce herself 🥺

At first glance she may seem selfish and standoffish but in reality she's a ride or die friend. You got enemies? She'll electrocute them! Need a hypeman? She is surprisingly good with words - think of someone brutally honest but they use it to compliment you. She is also short and lives in a bog :)

TARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love thinking about her and Rana so often omg... i love standoffish characters sm. I think Rana would really like the selfish nature- she's been there and oftentimes she's still there. I think she'd compliment Rana and Rana would just stare o_o with her face as red as her hair before avoiding her for a day hahahaha!!!! Also her and Rana are both short but powerful I LOVE THAT!!!!!!!!!!! I love the idea of her watching Rana do a cool stealthy move and then cheering her on which makes her mess up ahahhaahah

#asks #euryalex #two gorgeous girls sorry i love tara so much shes so beautiful and i love her lil selfish side sm #but also shes so so so fun . i love you bog girl #thank u for sending her overrr shes so wonderful...!!! tara nation wya !?!

[ei-mugi]

one time i was talking to my american online friends about stuff and i was like "haha yeah people always say i look ambiguously european but cant place what i am specifically" and they were like "i dont think europeans have a look though." what do you mean. you dont believe different ethnic features exist...?

#just was reminded of it lol #one i no longer talk to used to insist that i was british because of my not-british accent and would not believe me when i said #no... i dont live there #id told them i was aussie. they didnt believe me though. like they thought i inexplicably had a brtisih accent despite never #having been there ever #another i said i didnt get a SSCoE for HS but a diploma. thats not what diplomas are here but they kept insisting i was wrong #like i have the certificate....its not a diploma.......... thats not what it says. #but they were like just call it a diploma : / its basically a diploma #i know AU isnt that different to the US but at least we are usually a little less annoying #i did see that asshat who was like 'uhhhh climate change means you dont have snow? not for us australians a-durrrrr X D' or w/e #what a twat. even from a purely selfish perspective we still also have climate change. its very noticeable. come on #anyway for a full decade i basically never met anyone online who wasnt USamerican.................... #so. i do have some amount of frustration. #they got mad at me for saying bikkie or pressie as slang even tho theyre super easy to figure out from context. also it doesnt matter #'STOP using slang you KNOW us americans WONT UNDERSTAND' #we were talking about christmas!?!? pressie is straightforward!?!? even if not...why are you so indignant #on a more awful note i knew one sheila (white) who was like very vocally/performatively into blm #but then one time when i mentioned aboriginal australians she was like 'what...ive never heard of those before...' #youve known me for years even if you never looked at anything in your life ever id definitely mentioned them before #pretty fucking important. both for my country and when caring about indigenous/first nations peoples. oldest surviving culture on earth #but she was like how was i supposed to know about them : / #because i thoguht you cared about these issues!?!?!??!? also just generally ohhh my god #how could you be vaguely aware of AU history as being similar to your own and then say you didnt know we had indigenous peoples #like. what do i even say #do you think... only america has indigenous peoples?????? #its fine not to know a foreign countrys history in depth but just...the absolute basics....about an issue you claim to care about... #sigh. ok this is too long. i feel that last one is justified to complain about tho

[peony-pearl]

GOD!!! I love Iroh

#honestly they could have made his character darker in canon #let him have killed dragons #let people ask why he only stopped the siege after HIS son died #let Zuko in S1 get tired of Iroh's dicking around and scream at him that he's not taking capturing the Avatar seriously so Zuko can go home #and Iroh can't tell him that yeah he doesn't want to go home because he's depressed af #but also acting silly is an easier way to keep Zuko away from Ozai #AND it keeps Iroh away from the Fire Nation #so yeah he's being selfish but it's keeping Zuko safe #I wish Iroh and Azula could have had more one on one moments #I wish he could lament that Azula is going down the same path as him but Azula is too proud to see #that she could lose everything and be as much of 'a loser' like him #Yes there will still be the tension #Iroh will still encourage Zuko with moves that Azula doesn't know if it motivates him #because if Zuko loses faith he WILL get his dumb ass captured and hauled home in chains #Iroh has lost one child he will not lose another #but then let him realize he could be damning Azula all the same #but the more he tries to talk to her the more he sees himself and his pride and ego and he cannot get to her in a way that won't jeopardize #his and Zuko's safety #so he must focus solely on himself and Zuko and getting to BSS #there's more I could say but I think I have enough here lmao

[jilf]

rewatching amazon lily🥹

#if İ think about it all for too long İ'll cry. hancock forced to cooperate with the world government for her title of warlord because the #kuja nation is just a small island in the calm belt the government wouldn't hesitate to wipe off the face of the earth..in spite of all #they've done to her and her sisters. to protect the island😭😭😭 and all the women on it #she's selfish and cold but everyone loves her and the children look up to her🥹 #personal

[hylianane]

hey OPLA if you want to pick another random supporting woman to give sudden romantic tension with Nami, like you did with Kaya, I’m just saying that Tashigi is right there. and that it would mean a lot to my heart

#namitash nation isnt so much a nation as a small village but i am happy to be here #giving Smoker and Tash more connections to the SHs is always good yknow could really help move their narrative forward if you catch my drif #and Nami. Deserves the fun cat and mouse dynamic with a hot marine lady with beautiful eyes #I also wanna see if the LA will touch on one of my favorite glossed over bits in Alabasta #that is that despite the Strawhats coming to love and care for Vivi- they only ever agreed to help her because Nami wanted cash #They did a GOOD and WONDERFUL THING with purely selfish intentions the entire way through. First to get money and then to help their friend #I wanna see that morality explored!!! Do they dwell on that kind of thing at all???? #fuck okay I’m done with the tags rant ummm #my post #one piece

[magioffire]

am i the only one who gets slightly irritated (read: irrationally irritated) when americans are discussing american issues amongst themselves and some european has to come in like “WELL ACKULLY all you dumb americans are wrong and stupid and also fat cant forget to mention that and LET ME TELL YOU why your experience is Wrong” like please...shut up....please god...

#just like its annoying when americans think everything is about them its ALSO annoying when europeans think their experience is superior #like whenever we are discussing the problem of heat related death in america and how AC/central air should be a human right #theres always someone who has to be like #'ACKTUALLY youre stupid and fat and selfish if you use AC typical americans just open your windows to keep cool!!' #meanwhile they live somewhere temperate and cool and have never dealt with the extreme temps that can be common in many parts of america #please if youre european and you think you got something smart to say about how americans live you most likely dont know the half of it #and try talking to us instead of just being like lol typical dumb americans!! doing dumb things!! #and why do they always gotta bring up weight too when they are losing a debate with an american #every single time its always the 'well...YOURE A FAT AMERICAN!!" when we actually bring up good points #i guess clownery knows no borders or nationality #anyway i woke up and made the mistake of reading the comments in an article discussing AC as a right in oregon #after 100 people died from heat related death #theres always someone who has to be a purposely obtuse little SHIT #rant cw #and dont even get me started on how some europeans are very purposely obtuse when discussing racial issues in america #dont EVEN get me started #also theres the fact that with climate change related heat waves becoming more common EVERYWHERE #youd think it would be more like yeah we've been having heat problems here in europe too this is how we cope with it #instead of ...whatever THIS SHIT IS #(also a lot of our buildings esp lower income cheap buildings arent made to withstand super extreme temps for long periods of time) #(because they were either A. built in a MUCH cooler time B. built with a 'fuck it we gotta flip houses' mindset in mind so they are Cheap) #(or the heat reducing measures in old buildings were enough 150 years ago but they arent enough now)

[balladyiromanse]

just read THIS and im devastated its still Odyniec’s Listy z podróży i’m gonna translate it into English below I paraphrased it a bit since it’s XIX century Polish. Odyniec writes:

Naprzód [Adam] zaczął zbywać [mnie] żartami, następnie chciał zbyć ofuknieniem: „Nudzisz mię! dajże mi pokój!”, itd. Ale gdy i to nie pomagało, chciał mię, jak się zdaje, przestraszyć; i zatrzymawszy się nagle przede mną (bo chodził wkoło z zapalona fajka), wlepił we mnie wzrok swój badawczy i odezwał się jakimś grobowym, wyraźnie udanym głosem: ,,Czy ty myślisz, że ja i ciebie nie przeczytam na wskroś?”. Nie zlaklem się jednakże i odpowiedziałem wesoło: ,,Czytaj sobie co chcesz: wzdłuż, wszerz w poprzek i na ukos będziesz wiedział przynajmniej jak ja ciebie kocham.” [Adam] Zaczął śmiać się i skonczylo się na zwyczajnym gładzeniu włosów.

At first he [Adam] started to kid me, then he tried to make me leave him alone by complaining: “You’re making me bored! Leave me alone!” etc. But it didn’t work out so he started intensively staring at me and spoke, his voice fake sepulchral so you could tell it was yet another joke: “Do you think I can’t see through you?”. I didn’t let him scare me and replied cheerfully: “See through me all you want. Then you will know how much I love you.” He [Adam] laughed and played with my hair.

#mickiewicz #romantyzm #odyniec #pushing the polish national bard was bi agenda #he was also VERY kind and nice to everybody and WAS NOT selfish and egocentric #polish literature #polish romanticism #poeta geniusz jakiś on nie istnieje

[ilikeyoshi]

even 56% of consertatlves want a fucking ceasefire. we're all constantly getting screwed over by the people we're supposed to be able to trust with our interests. this is insane.

#how the fuck do we have numbers like this and government that so blatantly opposes everything we believe in. #i know how it's that only evil selfish people have the stomach to swallow the gallons of human blood necessary to be in office #but christ. fuck man. #yoshi talks #us politics //// #*national scale office i should clarify. local office tends to still have humans with a conscience involved.

[torgawl]

fontaine and furina having this theatrical motif around them has always felt intentional. the way furina was characterised in the first two patches almost being the personification of the ostentacious nature of european, and more precisely, the french monarchy has always come across as aforethought. the same way furina was presented as not having her nation's sympathy and indulging in her own pleasures is very akin to marie antoinette, as we all probably know (and this makes even more sense now knowing she has a similar fate of being sentenced to death by the guillotine, which we can almost infer is also related to treason by acting against the security of the "french state" or genshin's version of it: fontaine). now, to make my point i want to quote a few characters and expand a little on what i have interpreted of them.

let's start with lyney who is introduced and has a bit of a monologue on magic in the teaser for fontaine.

"the essence of magic is getting people to believe a lie. and the most important part of this is what people see."

lyney tells us, the viewer, the interpretation of a lie depends enterily on what you see and how you see it. doesn't this resonate perfectly with the title for fontaine's last archon quest and the theme that was presented to us all the way back to toy teyvat's teaser narrated by dainsleif, "masquerade of the guilty"?

"people don't realize how much they expect their eyes to tell them the truth. but it's not real it's all a show. and every part of the show is carefully controlled. controlled how? by choosing the right time, the right place and the right people."

i pointed out how lyney talks to us as the viewers because i think we're very quick to exclude ourselves from being seen as a character. it's easy to infer that a major plan is taking place thinking of one character (or a group of characters) fooling the others. but i always thought it was curious the way these things and the emphasis on being part of a play was pointed to us (you and me, if that makes sense) like we were going to be the ones fed a lie so that the curtain could fall eventually at the end. you know what's curious about this specific lyney quote? how the camera pans to clorinde and neuvillette as we heard the words "the right people". specially after seeing the trailer for the last part of the archon quest, having neuvillette aknowledge he now knows his role and hearing furina say at the end she hopes he enjoyed his part in the play ties perfectly with this.

"but keep your eyes peeled, and you might be able to turns thing to your advantage."

weather you think of yourself as the viewer or not, this phrase feels like a presage for what the future might look like.

after lyney's monologue, arlecchino chimes in and the conversation stirs a little.

"in a nutshell, magic is what you see with your own two eyes. very fun, but it's not enough."

she seems to be indicating that having a trick inst enough, that making people believe the lie is what makes the show. this trick has to be so perfect and believable that it's impossible to see through which she then compliments with:

"let me make something clear. you think of yourselves as magicians. but when you're on the stage, you're first and foremost actors. good actors hone their craft to mesmerize the whole crowd."

arlecchino makes a distinction between magicians and actors and, this way, the narrative of being part of a play is introduced once again. which makes me think of her hand creeping out from behind furina in one of the posters for the next update. so it has me wondering what her part of the play may be. seeing arlecchino characterised as a wolf in sheep's clothing and someone who would betray the tsaritsa in a heartbeat almost makes me wish for that to be the case. but i also wonder if she is doing something in exchange for the hydro gnosis. theories apart, she's definitely weaving her threads in there somehow.

i could skip the next part since we already know the furina we meet is but a superficial layer of who furina actually is and her role as the hydro archon. but the way she is introduced in the fontaine teaser really ties with everything mentioned in this post, making it clear she's the main character in the play.

"ugh boring! why do I even bother? when are we going to finally see a real twist for once?"

she's described by dainsleif in the teyvat teaser as someone who "lives for the spectacle of the courtroom" as we all have seen through the first patches. it also correlates to the whole theme of justice as entertainment which many people have expanded upon. she asks to see "a real twist" and who better to do that if not the queen of flamboyance herself?

i wanted to point all of this out because, since the beginning, i think it's been obvious furina as a character was always implied to have people change their view on her. not only by other characters but also us, who are part of this big play by following fontaine's story. this was highlighted by the sheer difference in the way traveller is treated or used in fontaine compared to other regions, having other characters play the big important moments as if we were side characters (loss of protagonism), and the ammount of control we are given over (our influence in court and our role as a lawyer, for example). this change in opinion furina was fated to have has always beem hinted to be triggered by some sort of sacrifice. being so influenced by marie antoinette, having furina turn into a scapegoat or a martyr and getting people's respect after death (either real or metaphorical) feels to fit the narrative. this is why players not liking furina has never really bothered me. i believe furina was not characterised - when she was introduced to us - to be liked, quite the opposite. it was faux, a way to manipulate our own perception and opinion on her. i think part of our "role" was to be tricked, much like what we are hinted at throughout the narrative.

#big ass post to say i really think the whole thing with people being upset at furina hate took weird proportions #not wanting to discredit the misogyny in fandoms because i know that's a thing and there were definitely being weird about her #but i also think this is the exact reaction that was expected upon giving us a character that seems selfish and irresponsible with the fate #of an entire nation on their hands #nation she 'seemed' not to care about #and even if it was fake it's hard to develop emotional connection with people you don't fully understand #which is why despite the hints we will only see her true heart in the final act #and i don't think the trailer for 4.2 would have gotten such good reviews any other way #i don't think her sudden death sentence would have shocked so many any other way #i don't know if this makes a lot of sense but i really do believe we were supposed to be played with this time #instead of being actively behind what's happening #i think that's actually my favourite thing about fontaine #i apologise if this is all very badly written 😂 #but fontaine's story telling is so good!!!! #and i although i'm unable to come up with actual theories i love that there's so many fun details to appreciate and intentionality in #everything that's been delivered and showed to us #anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk on why furina hate was premeditated #which feels ridiculous to say but you cannot tell me it wasn't 😂 (to an extent at least) #i'm exploding anyone who said they'd like her if she was a boy with my mind #peace and love on planet earth ✌️ #genshin thoughts #my post

[ladydisofdurin]

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#Genuinely can’t believe how selfish ppl who voted for national are #what the fuck man #Nzpol #nz

[sayonaramidnight]

I'm playing my Barbie dolls again and making myself a little sad.

I'm also holding my friends' dolls gently in my hands, happy.

#being this close to saying #“let's not say goodbye come with me and let me love you” #but it feels too small and selfish compared to the grand ideals #the dedication to a cause #the fate of the world and its nations #eyes set on somewhere beyond the horizon #heart too big to be given to just one person #and why would they love someone like you anyway #one who never stays in one place for long #not fit to settle down and having not much to offer #perhaps in real life they would have a sad reunion decades ;later and regret it all #and this is what makes me sad when I'm the one daydreaming it #but when my friends do the same with their dolls I believe in it with all my heart