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goldrushenthusiast · 8 months

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Have you read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes? 🎼🕊️🪱

If you have not read it, what do you think about the title? What characters represent birds and snakes?

*spoiler alert*

If you have read it, how birds and snakes play a part in the narrative? Also what do you think about Mockingjay role in the original trilogy and this prequel?

Thank you.

@curiousnonny

ofc!!! literally I live for BOSAS. like I’ve read it so many times I’ve lost count.

I think the second part is supposed to be if I have, even if not I’m gonna answer anyways, but I love the title, especially because Lucy Gray loves ballads.

Like she literally writes them. And this is their own story- of themselves. Which also really represents them, writing stories about themselves lol.

I think that the Coriolanus and Lucy Gray are the snake and songbird respectively. While I have seen cases made for the other way around, and some points are valid, I can’t really understand it as well.

Maybe that could be interpreted as how they’re not too different overall. How sometimes, when you love someone, you start to adopt parts of them you wouldn’t have normally, and you take parts of each other too. Idk. But Coriolanus is definitely a snake, not a songbird, and Lucy Gray is definitely a songbird although she for sure could be a snake.

Coriolanus is constantly tricking and manipulating people & things for his own gain (snakelike behavior), is in general a snob, and very ambitious. Lowkey I’m just naming slytherin behavior but you get the idea.

Of course, Lucy Gray loved to sing, but she also knew where danger was and how to avoid it, like Mockingjays did. She sang songs passed down from Covey member to Covey member and still kept her own voice, making songs of her own too. She is who she is because of something naturistic (the Covey) and something Capitolistic (the Games), like the Mockingjays.

Really I think that’s just surface level, and the most obvious (imo) but there’s many other things the songbirds & snakes could represent in the book too.

Like the fact Lucy Gray used snakes as crutch, and knew how to manipulate them (hmmm, makes you think of how she treated Coriolanus, who I’ve alr labeled as a snake), and how Coriolanus’ first military order/idea thing was to immediately get rid of Mockingjays (a songbird, which I’ve alr related Lucy Gray to) because they…unnerved him. And covered it up by saying target practice.

I think this shows how they saw each other, although both at different parts in the relationship- Lucy Gray saw Coriolanus as someone to help her stay alive during the beginning of their relationship and used him for that, and at the end, Coriolanus couldn’t handle Lucy Gray leaving him so he starts blindly shooting (remember- he wasn’t too good at catching Mockingjays). It’s why songbirds is first- she’s the beginning. Coriolanus, a snake, is what leads to the end.

Songbirds and Snakes could also be a metaphor for the capital vs the districts.

The districts, the songbirds, flocking to what keeps them safe yet never actually being guaranteed it. The snake, the capital, controlling said songbirds. It’s a ballad of the differences between the two, a showcase of what they represent and what happens when you mix two of them. I don’t think BOSAS is a love story, but it’s not not one, either.

Genuinely a case could be made for Dr. Gaul & Sejanus being the snake & songbird. The snake constantly toying with the songbird. The songbird who has a voice but is constantly confused on how to use it.

It could also be a nod to how important both songbirds and snakes are to the story, but I’ll get to that in the next question.

This is basically a testament to how all-encompassing the songbirds and snakes are, and how many things they can be interpreted as.

Ok, yay, now next question!!

The story wouldn’t be what it is without birds and snakes.

Coriolanus’ first sighting of Lucy Gray is her dropping a snake down Mayfair’s dress. This drastically impacts how the capital and how Coriolanus view her from then on- a preformer and a fighter. Without that small act of rebellion, and the performance onstage, she wouldn’t have half as many sponsors or interest in her.

Lucy Gray also leaves a small snake as a present for Coriolanus when he tries to kill her. Like a last goodbye, almost. That snake really drove the point home Lucy Gray wasn’t playing around or anything. She was fr. It shows Coriolanus who he thinks she truly is, and drives the point home she’s wrong for him.

Songbirds are a bit trickier/less obvious. Songbirds help represent the differences between them- Lucy Gray’s love of music, Coriolanus’ tolerance of it. Lucy Gray’s love of freedom, Coriolanus’ disgust of it (in large portions when anyone other than him has it).

As I mentioned earlier, Coriolanus, upon hearing them for the first time, wants all the Mockingjays dead. He literally can’t help saying how much he hates them ((as we see with him & Dr. Kay, while he usually has good control. Also good lesson on how songbirds (Lucy Gray) make him lose control)).

Songbirds provide a gruesome opportunity to show Coriolanus’ true colors.

Last question! Ok lowkey feel like that all sorta answered it, but I love the mockingjays. They’re such a vibe, honestly, and I love how crucial they are to BOSAS and the OG series.

Rue’s whistles (representing safety and codes).

Coriolanus’ hatred (representing his hatred & slowly sliding grip on self control).

Their mutative state (the capital can’t control everything, good always wins, yada yada what Katniss says basically).

Like what a W for birds all around, honestly. I’d love one that just sits outside my window all day.

As always, thank you for the question @curiousnonny, and anyone else feel free to debate but not argue these points in reblogs or replies, but please stay civil.

#thg #the hunger games #ballad of songbirds and snakes #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #bosas #tbosas #ballad of my ramblings #Coriolanus snow #coriolanus x lucy gray #Lucy gray #lucy gray baird #sejanus plinth #dr gaul #the hunger games prequel #the hunger games katniss #katniss everdeen #mockingjay #mockingbird #jabberjays

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qprstobin · 5 months

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My thing is I can sort of see it as like.... The fantasy of somebody accommodating and loving you despite being disorganized/messy/etc (especially as someone with. some pretty severe ADHD)..... But only if it's gone through several layers of telephone via shouting down a wind tunnel.

Like. Somebody heard someone with ADHD say that they relate to Eddie & went and ran with the most surface level expression of that, and somebody else went "yeah this is a great way to write a caregiver/caregivee dynamic without making it kink" & along the way you lost the fact that even if you *do* have a genuine inability to remember to clean your room more than once a month or do your fucking taxes you usually at least have a self awareness and/or a desire to use what energy/periods of function you do have to express your appreciation or even out the fucking scales.

At least, if you're aiming for a relationship that is *meant* to be fucking functional or aspirational, rather than weighed to one side without so much as a conversation about it to confirm that everybody's getting what they want out of it.

Oh man this fandom is SO GOOD with unhinged games of telephone lmao.

I think that's what gets me lmao, is that I have ADHD too. I have incredibly bad ADHD. Yes it's awesome when you have people willing to accommodate your brain fog and executive dysfunction, and do nice things for you on occasion but like the sheer level this fics have T.T

Like it's awesome when people in your life are like "oh I saw you were stressed/having a bad time so I did your laundry or washed your dishes for you to help you carry some of the weight" but it's like you said I can only imagine that some extreme fantasy aspect of it had to have gotten tangled in to warp it that much. Because the side no one wants to acknowledge to is that sometimes if people do that shit too much it just becomes embarrassing for you, feeling like you can't do normal shit on your own.

Like it's a disability yeah! It's nice to have people support you but doing nothing also makes me feel useless lol. And you've hit on the biggest things, most of the time in those situations there's some reciprocation too! Much easier to let others pick up the slack if you are also pick up the slack! That's the relationship ideal imo. Otherwise yeah it does just feeling infantilizing or like caretaker kink.

Also while writing this I think some other influences come from the genre of "Steve hides Eddie at his house and helps him recover after the bats ate him" fics, which, I'm also honestly not a huge fan of. But I wouldn't be surprised if people loved the idea of Steve taking care of Eddie while he recovered and then just starting applying it to every part of their relationship, not realizing how bad it makes Eddie look outside of like mutually agreed upon kink shit.

#sorry anon i feel like i got on my high horse here a bit i did not mean #i totally agree with you and i am shaking your hand about the adhd lol #anon #anonymous #asks #anti steddie #anti fanon steddie

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gelatinbfb · 4 years

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leafy character analysis i wrote in a quick brain explosion state, enjoy :)

(also pls dont think i hate leafy bcz i can sound mean here i love her a lot as a character and im just willing to point out how i think she is lol n i find her rly interesting)

under the cut !

leafy values others a LOT and its evident by her simply wanting to help her friends as much as possible in every way she can even if its not helpful for herself. she thrives on the help she gives to others because she cares THAT much. while that is a big deal she still can be very egotistical and sees her good deeds as very important and while she IS helpful she can end up being very not-humble about it. and she tends to get controlling and freaked out over others not accepting her help (because she can be VERY overbearing) since she expects a positive reaction ALL the time from others. she does have her limits when it comes to helping ofc like when she only accepted to help pen if he gave smthng in return

leafy cant process or comprehend how others could simply refuse her help anyways and since she is Very emotional she instantly gets pissy. and also bcz of her tendency to be a bit self absorbed and overly-proud of her "helpfullness" it makes it worse. you can also kinda see her control-freak attitude and high self image by her neverending niceness chart and putting everyone in boxes

when firey basically was friends with her in a STABLE manner unlike any other friendship leafy had, and when he ditched her for a silly misunderstanding it basically broke her and twisted her around making her show off her vengeful side entirely and turn more harmful and greedy rather than the always helpful jolly person she tries to be/ends up being like

its important for me to mention here that leafy sees others as beneath her imo, even if she doesnt like to admit it/doesnt realize it consciously. a lot of times her helping for others resembles somebody pitying somebody and underestimating their abilities or babying them basically, this kinda shows her controlling nature tbh ..

leafy has a tendency to be controlling probably bcz she freaks out upon any dis-order esp others disliking her or not accepting her help

after being chased and almost executed over being a thief and having everybody hate her she did kinda mellow down and lose it so ig thats where the wanting to stab and throw knives at everyone came from..

in bfdia (in general) she did end up being kinda annoyed and vengeful over people yet still w anting to be friends cuz she was lonely (obviously) and wanted to be on good terms with everyone again lol

in bfb.. shes more of a disaster

after experiencing all that shit she is still overly helping and all but the exact same controlling freaking out leafy

upon gaty just wanting some time to think and not blindly accept her friendship leafy jsut instantly gets angry and annoyed which shows her sheer impatience upon anyone rejecting her or her actions (yet again..)

she grabbed her team members for beep JUST by seeing who needed help the most in her eyes,, even if they were not in any need of help she decided on it herself. this just shows me more of her thinking that others cant take care of themselves and leafy thinking she is a deity or some shit to others just bcz she helps people she views as "incapable" lol

and while she IS still very friendly and willing to help her nasty side shows a lot upon anyone being an inconvenience, aka balloony lol,, , in times like these i rly wonder if leafy actually cares for others from a level deeper than exclusively the surface because she ends up being SO controlling. especially with how she has a loyalty chart and bossess around everyone in her team and uses them when its necessary for her

perhaps she tends to be overbearing and more controlling when shes under some sort of pressure, in this case the contests perhaps,, she can end up forgetting or not giving a fuck about others as long as they do as she says because she views them as mere tools in such cases

and since shes already discomforted by lack of order and lack of control, she tries to fit everyone into boxes to do as SHE tells them to do and not anything else

i do believe leafy has good in her and she genuinely tries to help others and be nice but she is unable to realize that not everyone is in need of help and not to mention that she undermines everybody by seeing them as lesser and so trying to control them since she thinks they wont be doing things right if it isnt what she tells them to do lol

i think leafy has a hard time comprehending everything around her so she relies on making charts and keeping track on others relationships with her and how much she trusts them etc etc but since thats not how people Work it ends up being harmful since she expects everyone to fit her views and how she comprehends them, she ends up believeing no one else but herself has free will and a mind of their own (which continues the cycle of her trying to help in a fit of pity and power hunger to keep her world/mental state together)

in the end leafy is very in need of more self realization and trying to care for others feelings and needs in a way that OTHERS have and not the way she views them as being, and her loving others deeply wont solve her issues with listening to what they actually want

#leafy bfdi #leafy bfb #character analysis #bfdi #bfb #g.txt

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lesbiancarat · 3 years

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Lol its fine!! Reply whenever you can ^_^

But ahh true, true. Idk why I thought it would be a hint to the music lol but a sort og an evolution of the concept so to speak. Either way, am excited for the comeback because fresh svt is always iconic. Oohhh the concept photos are all pretty and idk which one to pick jfkshfjsjd. Like they are all very on brand for them but also unique and pretty. Very artsy haha.

Ahh yes, rabbitnwas forever iconic and it was what helped other places like discord to do similar things! But ah understandable!! Both seventeen and nct (when I was getting into kpop more) always felt like BIG well known groups due to their fandoms being so big at least to me. Especially when people always recommended their songs i just assumed they have been around for a while like bts when I joined only to realize they are still rookies. Monster rookies indeed!! The fact so many people love them is enough for me to say they are amazing, well respected and loved by many. Those comments annoy me, especially when people downplay their hard work by claiming 'bighit helped them get more famous' like what!? Yes bighit did help with getting more western attention per se but like downplaying as if they haven't achieved anything at all is confusing to me. Claiming how streaming fans aren't doing s good job to which im like one, mass streaming isn't healthy and two, fans who do try their best and we do beat records of our own. Seventeen isn't unpopular, just because they aren't you know who level doesn't mean they aren't big like do people forget what unpopular means?

Anywhoo, a day late but happy late birthday to our tiger King. May he forever rule the tiger land and take over the world with his tiger agenda lol.

yes! one side fits my aesthetic the best but all the concept photos were nice ^^

and yeah it is annoying but at the same time those people are so detached from reality that I'm just sort of like whatever djflgj like 'it's obvious to anyone who knows what they're talking about you're wrong so I'm not going to bother arguing w you' is sort of my mindset when i see those comments dhfkj bc if i don't think of it that way then i get angry easily. the way i see it bh/hybe definitely is helping SVT with western promotions but like. i don't think SVT/pledis would have been incapable of expanding into the western market on their own if they wanted to. but it's a given that it will be easier and faster with hybe bc they have connections and a reputation in the western market already established. honestly I'd guess that was one of pledis's main incentives for agreeing to the acquisition. but at the same time hybe and western media wouldn't give SVT the time of day if they truly were the flops some ppl try to claim they are lol

and yeah agreed, streaming culture can be super unhealthy. it's one thing to do it if you want to but at the same time don't be losing sleep over it or prioritizing it over your real life responsibilities. and definitely don't guilt trip and say a bunch of toxic things to others to get them to stream... i feel like it would be a lot healthier if fanbases just stuck to simply explaining, hey this is what streaming is and why it can be important (for like music shows etc) and here's how to do it properly if you choose to stream, and then just let people decide for themselves. there would still be people more than willing to do it, and without the guilt tripping maybe even more people would just find it enjoyable. but hey, what do i know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i also think most kpop stans underestimate how many views from from casual listeners and fans vs hardcore fans/streamers. like streaming does make a difference, but not 100M views difference like some people try to act like it does. tbh there are a lot of groups that have a smaller core fanbase than SVT but get hundreds of millions of views bc they have a lot of casual listeners. you can even see it internally too: don't wanna cry is SVTs most viewed MV by a mile, it's the only one to pass 100M views, let alone 200M. and it has nothing to do w carats streaming dwc extra hard, it's bc it's arguably SVTs most well known song outside of the fandom. i see reactors all the time who react to it and say "oh i know this song! i had no idea it was by seventeen" and you can look at the comments section and see a bunch of people saying the song has a fandom of its own/even if you're not a carat you have to know this song

kpop stans also put too much emphasis on views imo and also equate views to popularity, which on the surface might make sense but isn't always the case. actually in terms of profit, groups/companies make the vast majority of their money off of album, merch, and ticket sales than they do off of views. but those are all things that are a lot harder to "sell" than views, because they actually cost money for the consumer, while you can watch an MV for free. hence why it makes sense that there are a lot of groups with hundreds of millions of views that get relatively low album sales. it's easy to convince casual fans and and listeners to watch an MV than to get them to buy something

and I'm not trying to diss other groups at all or try to say groups that consistently get 200M+ views are flops, they're absolutely not. I'm just trying to point out that kpop stans completely underestimate the amount of casual listeners that exist

but this is why SVT is honestly such a fascinating case. their MV views are nothing to write home about, and yet they're the second highest selling k-act at the moment and are in the top 10 if not top 5 highest selling k-acts of all time, their album sales are literally insane. a lot of people chalk it up to carats being bad streamers but like i said before, streaming isn't going to make a difference of hundreds of millions of views. this indicates to me that seventeen have a bigger core fanbase (ie people who call themselves carats and actually keep track of seventeens activities) but a smaller audience of casual listeners compare to other kpop groups. and i think a lot of people, carats, and non carats alike, pick up on this in some way or another but don't realize that's what's going on and it manifests in kind of weird ways sometimes

and this fact isn't something that bothers me, i actually think it's super important more than anything for SVT to have a strong core fanbase if what they're shooting for is longevity. but i do find it strange bc as i said, groups that do better with digitals than physical sales make total sense from a consumer standpoint!! so how did SVT end up like this!! it's so interesting for me to think about. i think i would have a better idea of why this is if i had been around since debut but alas

the only thing i can come up with is that SVT is better at retaining fans or like... getting fans invested in the group so people who become carats are less likely to be multistans? bc multistans play a huge part in both being and attracting casual listeners. they're the ones making video compilations and edits and content that includes multiple kpop groups, which is how a lot of non-fans get interested in other groups. whereas if someone is just a carat and making content for SVT the people most likely to watch that content is ppl who are already carats. i know im not the only one that's noticed it's kind of rare for SVT to be included in multistan edits and videos. which i don't blame anyone for, i think most of those people genuinely just don't stan SVT and they shouldn't be expected to include a group they don't know we'll or at all. at the end of the day ppl can make what they like. but it's interesting to observe as a general trend. but idk SVT potentially having a lower percentage of multistans still isn't really an explanation for why SVT doesn't have as many casual listeners bc those things kind of just go hand in hand. like either one could be the cause of the other one if that makes sense

ANYWAY sorry for the long reply but as i said the ratio of SVTs core fanbase vs casual listeners is a topic i find endlessly fascinating dhfmfj

#melia.ask #📖 anon #long post

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blue-bower · 3 years

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Unpopular Opinion: Not all art exists to be critiqued.

And more than that, I thoroughly believe that critique is unnecessary and uncalled for unless the artist asks for it first.

This is going to get a bit lengthy, so bear with me. This is something that has been on my mind for many, many years. After having college art classes where group critiques felt very surface-level and one-sided, I think it’s high time that the art community, and any consumers of artistic media, take a step back and question how critique should be handled.

The immediate response to someone who resists critique is usually “Well you’ll never improve if you can’t handle critique” or “The world is full of opinions you don’t want to hear, so learn to get over it.” But I feel like that kind of callousness, and that need to shove an opinion on someone who didn’t ask for it, is incredibly inconsiderate and selfish. Last I checked, people are not required to tolerate opinions they don’t want to hear. And that’s all that critique is: an opinion. Not an end-all solution to something someone is struggling with. And people need to stop acting like their opinions are the Holy Grail of advice, and that if an artist doesn’t accept it, it means they’ll miss out on the chance to improve.

I feel like online critique is especially harsh, because many artists who start off online are very immature and stubborn. We’ve all seen that artist that uses “iT’s JuSt My StYLe!!” to excuse bad anatomy. We’ve seen newbies use traced doll bases or blatant art theft under the guise of “Well I’m still learning!” We’ve seen over-confident artists who fly off the handle over people who are genuinely trying to help them. And yes, those kinds of people are very irritating, and give artists a bad name in general. But stop assuming that every single artist that won’t take every critical comment with a smile and a thank you is a whiny stubborn brat that can’t handle critique. Oftentimes, artists have very valid reasons as to why they aren’t mentally and emotionally equipped to receive criticism in that particular moment. There’s a difference between constructive criticism, and pointing out flaws just for the hell of it. You can’t convince me for a moment that someone coming onto a drawing unprompted and commenting “Lol those eyes look shitty” is meant to be helpful or encouraging. It’s just dickish. And it’s only ever those types of dicks that then turn right around and say “lol learn to handle critique”. It really doesn’t cost anything to have common courtesy. “You should always be willing to accept critique” implies that artists should always be striving for perfection, which can be a very unhealthy mindset to have, especially towards a hobby. Yes, I believe that in some circumstances, aspiring artists should definitely be willing to hear out critique for the sake of improving their craft. If you’re entering art into a legit contest, if you’re planning on honing your craft in order to start selling your work, if you’re wanting to run a professional gallery exhibition, then by all means, you should be willing to reach out for professional opinions and advice. But NOT all art is made with the intentions of being “professional” quality. IMO, artists don’t need to constantly be trying to strive for improvement with every single piece of art they make. They shouldn’t have to treat a quick drawing they’re making as stress relief like a school project or an entry for a gallery exhibition. It really takes away the fun of doing something they love if the pressure is constantly on to do something perfectly.

Perfection is overrated. It’s also bullshit. If someone spends more time trying to be perfect, they’re going to develop an unhealthy complex rather than just learning to have fun. Not everyone is making art for the sake of winning awards or entering into some professional gallery. So maybe stop trying to put on the pressure that art can only be valid if it is flawless, and winning awards or making money.

Artists are already their own worst critics. Unless someone is going “Yeah my art is great and doesn’t need to be improved”, chances are they’re already constantly criticizing themselves and working to push past their own doubts about their art. So giving an unprompted critique can feel like an affirmation of their insecurities, and may even kill their drive to make more art. Anxiety, insecurity, and other mental health issues can be negatively affected by unprompted critique.

Let’s kill the mindset that people aren’t allowed to shelter themselves from things that can be emotionally distressing, yeah? If something makes someone feel bad, it is not your place to make fun of them for it. And on the flipside, the idea that artists should take critique just because the intention behind it is sincere is laughable. Because regardless of intention, it can still have a negative impact on someone who has been beaten down by these “good intentions” most of their lives. I’ve always hated unwanted advice; not just on art, but on anything. It brings me back to the years and years I spent being treated by my parents and peers that I was incapable of doing anything on my own. The only times I really started thriving and improving was when I did shit behind their back just to prove that I can do things on my own. And being told “it’ll look better if you do (X) instead” just makes those gross feelings resurface. It makes me doubt my own sense of judgment, even after many years of drawing and improving on my own. And finally:

Artists should be allowed to have agency over what kind of feedback they receive. This is why any website that allows feedback usually has the option to delete comments, or block users. It’s why people can be kicked out of public places if their shitty opinions are causing discomfort to those around them. It’s why people can hang up on phone calls. Artists can learn for themselves what techniques should be improved on. They’re more than capable of looking up tutorials, finding free classes, or asking for their own advice. I am my own person, therefore I should be allowed to decide if and when I want to receive critique or advice. I should be allowed to trust my own judgment and skill enough to figure out when I’m happy with how a drawing looks, or decide when something looks off and I need a second pair of eyes. Taking away that agency can make an artist feel like their opinion about their own work ultimately doesn’t matter; that they’re incapable of doing something on their own merit, and that they’re only working to impress other people.

So all in all, it should be common courtesy to hold back on giving critique unless the artist asks for it. And it’s very shallow to jump to the conclusion that any artist who resists critique is doing so out of an unwillingness to improve.

#critique #art critique #unpopular opinion #art #artist #artists

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rubyredsundae · 3 years

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Mass Effect Trilogy Tag!

I was not tagged by anyone, I just really wanted to join in. If you see this and want to as well, please do! I've been loving reading through everyone's :)

I am a fan since… 2011ish? Definitely at least a year before ME3 came out. I remember watching my brother play ME2 and thinking it was so cool. While he was away it was a huge comfort for me to play it in his room, kind of like a bonding or cathartic experience for someone who wasn't there at the time.

When ME3 came out, me and him went to the midnight release at a gamestop like 40 minutes away or something, wearing clothes we threw together to kind of fit the N7 color scheme. Even though we don't talk anymore, those memories are still really precious to me. Also, the nostalgia of playing ME1 after-school or on the weekend, running to get my easy mac from the microwave during a cutscene, stuffing too hot mouthfuls while speeding the Mako towards the conduit on Ilos.

Favorite game of the series: It's a tough call between ME1 and ME2, but I'd say ME2. It's the game I get the urge to replay the most.

MaleShep or FemShep? Femshep all the way. I only play MShep when I want to do his exclusive romances. No offense to BroShep, but ME was the first game I ever played that let me not just be a girl, but customizable. Not just to be the already generated token girl character in a pack of boys. And not only can you play Femshep, but every game you are surrounded by smart, funny, tough women as squadmates. It was such a huge deal to me, and still is. Femshep represents so much. As Jennifer Hale put it, FemShep was a military grade boot to the video game industry glass ceiling.

Earthborn, Colonist or Spacer? I personally tend to lean spacer in-game, but I tend to use Earthborn when I'm writing fics.

Paragon or Renegade? Usually Paragon, but Renegade playthroughs can be really interesting, especially if I have a detailed background about why Shep is the way they are. My first Renegade, Krystle, is pretty bigoted and anti-alien until she meets Liara. Krystle is naturally guarded and quick to anger, so meeting someone who seemed to accept her and listen to her without judgment really opens her mind.

By the 2nd game, she wakes up in the cerberus lab with new biotic powers, having previously been a regular foot soldier. This makes her seeth, having someone completely take her agency, agreeing with the illusive man on the surface but plotting against him the entire time. She starts to lean more Paragon, if only to piss him off. She has the biggest smirk on her face when she blows up the collector base.

Biotics or Tech? Oooh, this is hard. Maybe biotics just the tiniest smidge because of Jack/Samara biotic bubble throw during the suicide mission. I don't know if we'll ever get a screen adaptation but THAT is a moment I would pay to see done with a big SFX budget behind it.

Favorite class: Sentinel! I don't know how much this reflects on my class preference in gaming in general, but I love the 'jack of all trades'ness of it. By the time I get an assault rifle, I don't really feel the need for anyone else to make up for something I lack. Also, tech armor in ME2? Where your shields regenerate automatically when it breaks, and the cool down is when you initially active it, instead of when you detonate it? Chef's kiss. I understand why it was nerfed in 3 but I'm still mad.

Favorite companion: Ho boy. This is obviously very difficult to choose but I'm gonna say Miranda. I've always loved and identified with her character, I love the accent, and she's always useful on missions. I was so happy when I learned she could be a squadmate in the armax arena.

Honorable mention to Ashley in ME1. Her character is rarely used to exposition lore, so she just gets to have her personality fleshed out. I don't always agree with her but she does seem genuinely willing to listen. ME3 tosses her out the airlock though; partially because her content was bugged and never restored, leaving her inclusion feel half-baked, and partly because Ash and Kaidan have to be able to serve the same plot function as each other and it negatively affects her character more than his. This could also be intentional on bioware's part, to try to flesh out kaidan's personality and tone down Ashley's as a response to criticisms of them from ME1.

Least favorite companion: Also difficult, because I don't really hate anyone as much as I am just less interested in some. I didn't like Zaeed for a long time, but I think he's much better and really funny in ME3. James was pushed on me too much at the beginning and it made me really dislike him, but I think he's greatly improved and also pretty funny in Citadel DLC. I'm also pretty indifferent to Jacob; I don't think he's a bad character, just disappointing because there was a lot of potential.

Not that every character has to go on and do some grand quest to be interesting, but I don't feel like Jacob every really got a big hero moment like everyone else. He is a very calm and introverted person (imo) who doesn't really share his feelings, so it's always been hard for to to connect with him on anything.

My squad selection: Depends on the game, but it usually involves Garrus lol. Typically it's Liara/Garrus in ME1, Miranda/Garrus for ME2, and Liara/Garrus again in ME3. I am very boring and predictable! If you have any suggestions for me to try out and mix things up, let me know!

Favorite in-game romance: Also depends on the game. ME1 it's Liara, hands down. It was the first game, really the first piece of media, where I was told two women could fall in love and be happy and that was okay. The amount of enlightenment and comfort in figuring out that I was bi these games brought me is kind of wild to look back on.

ME2 is a toss-up between Garrus and Thane. They are both wonderful but in completely different ways. I tend to now romance Thane on characters I don't plan on importing to ME3, or if I do, to just have a really depressed fucking Shepard lol. I hate how much Thane was brushed off, especially if you romanced him.

Other pairings I like: l love Miranda so much, but I'm a gay girl so I ship her and Femshep. Same goes for Tali, Jack, Ashley... damn I'm just really gay for straight girls huh :/

I don't really have any other ships for non-Shep related pairings.

Favorite NPC: Shiala is really cool to me, I wish we got to see her in 3. Emily Wong is also cool, also wish we saw her in 3. There's probably a lot more that when I come across them next I'll be like, "you! I love you! You're my favorite."

Oh also Joker! And EDI! But not together. Idk I feel like ME3 threw a curveball at me with "do you support organic/non-organic relationships?" Like m'am please don't ask me, I accidentally drank turian liquor last year, I'm not qualified to be an expert on this.

Favorite antagonist: Tbh I really dig Saren. I think his reasoning is super fascinating, both to set up how someone who's indoctrinated can rationalize to themselves that they are still in control; and as a foil to Shepard, to show what can happen when you become too isolated and the ends justify the means. I think his VA does a great job of walking the line between desperate survivor and madman. He's also the only antagonist in the trilogy that we ever fight 1 on 1 (ignoring squadmates) and it feels more personal. I think he's such a fantastic foe for the first entry in a trilogy and I don't think he gets enough credit.

Favorite mission: Is it cliche to say the suicide mission? It's honestly close to perfect. The stakes, the sequencing, the cinematics, the score. Everything works so well.

Favorite loyalty mission: Kasumi's and Tali's are really cool, as we all know. Samara's is also cool because it is entirely non-combat based. Shepard has to prove they can accomplish what seems impossible without a gun or biotics.

The confrontation at the end with Morinth always haunts me a little, because they are both right in their own way. Morinth's final line, "and they say I'm the monster", as you let Samara kill her, watch her scrambling backwards in fear... I know that she's a remorseless killer, but it gets me every time.

Favorite DLC: It's Citadel, obviously. Turns out what I really wanted was quality time and a party with all my friends. I love mass effect for many reasons, but simulating friends and affection when I had none has always made me bond to this series like other games don't. Is it sad? Sure! But I don't think love and affection for fictional characters should ever be shameful until it makes you hurt other people.

Control, Synthesis or Destroy? I'd say destroy. If the other options were presented earlier and we had time to stew with it, maybe I'd be more split. But all of this in 5 minutes? It's not like the collector base where the implications are obvious and the choice is just down to what Shepard believes. The 3 choices all seem like space magic out of nowhere, and none of them seem to really offer any insight on what Shepard should believe. So I say destroy, just because it's what Shep has intended and is most consistent with their character and their admiration of Anderson.

Favorite weapon: The spectre level assault rifle in ME1. Never have I felt more powerful.

Favorite place: Idk why but I just thought of the creepy lab with all the scientists during the leviathan DLC. I really love when Mass Effect leans into the Lovecraftian horror aspect of things. Talking to Sovereign and Vigil in ME1 gave me goosebumps my first few playthroughs.

A quote I like: I have hundreds, but the one off the top of my head is, "After time adrift among open stars, along tides of light and through shoals of dust, I will return to where I began." I have a poster of it up on my wall right now!

#mass effect #mass effect trilogy #mass effect trilogy tag

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bigskydreaming · 4 years

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Is there anything dumber than a reverse-age AU? No, seriously, Dick is the paragon because he was the first Robin and antedated Speedy, Aqualad and Aquagirl, and Kid Flash. And you can go down the list. Tim has to follow Jason because Jason would be different without the death trauma: Tim himself had a bit of a complex about not "deserving" the mantle Dick created and Jason sanctified. Then we get to Damian, who is young enough to be Dick's son.

Like, I’m not trying to shit on people who just like reverse age AUs for the fluffy aspects a lot of them tend to have, to be fair. Some people are just looking for fluff, and I get that. Those AUs don’t appeal to me for many reasons I’ve already gotten into in depth, but on a surface level I mean, its not really a big deal to switch things up sometimes for the hell of it. But in any kind of in-depth examination of that premise, I feel there’s a whole lot of missed opportunity left to explore in that....with that being I guess the thing that nags at me most?

I mean....I would be genuinely interested in reading a reverse age AU that actually acted as kind of a....”It’s A Wonderful Life” examination of what happens if Dick isn’t the first Batkid, but the youngest. I think it can still be plausible for Tim, Jason, Cass and Dick to all end up adopted even if Damian is the oldest.....but the one thing I’ve never seen any reverse age AU examine is the part I’d reeeeeeaally be interested in, like you alluded to with the other original sidekicks....

And that’s the element that’s really missing from reverse age AUs for me, personally.....acknowledgment of Dick’s impact not just on his family’s formation....but the DC universe as a whole. Dick wasn’t just the first Robin. He was the first child hero, period. He was what started the whole movement, not just within his own family, but outside of it as well. Without his example, would Donna and Garth have left their homes to become heroes for the surface world/Man’s world? Would Wally have even tried replicating Barry’s experiment, thinking that it was even possible for a kid like him to be a hero? If Bruce’s first child and protégé was his biological son, would Oliver have thought to take Roy in as his ward instead of just making sure he ended up with a good home?

Look, I love Damian. But Damian is not Dick, and it doesn’t really track that their positions could be switched and wind up with nothing else being all that majorly different......I guess the thing about reverse age AUs that makes them really just not my cup of tea is like....to me, it seems like they should result in HUGE ripple effects and alteration to the Batfamily and the DC Earth as a whole....and those ripple effects imo ARE the story, ARE the things really begging to be explored by that premise to me.....but its not really what I think most readers and writers of those stories are looking for, hence the disconnect for me.

Like....as I said, I do like Damian, but for who he is. And who he is, is just....not the bright, shining example who captures the imagination and inspires other people the way Dick inspires people. And that’s okay! Because its not a knock against anyone else to not be that, its just who they are.....and who they are isn’t Dick Grayson. Everything about Dick Grayson specifically, is what led to the trend of child heroes both on a meta level and an in universe level. Nothing about that is accidental.....those only appeared in more and more comics because Dick Grayson, the original Robin, captured the imagination of readers and appealed to them and made them want to see MORE child heroes.....just like the sight of a young child in bright colors and cracking puns even as he kept pace with one of the most dark and infamous heroes of the DC Earth captured the imagination of other young people like Dick and with talents and powers of their own and made them sit up and say hey, maybe that could be me too....if someone my age can be BATMAN’S partner, why couldn’t I be Wonder Woman’s/Green Arrow’s/Aquaman’s/The Flash’s?

And I just don’t really see Damian having that effect on peers, you know? Because Damian is like his father in temperament and preferences, whereas Dick was deliberately a contrast by his own choices. Damian wanted to BE like Bruce growing up hearing his father’s legend....and then he wanted to be more like Dick, when he realized Dick’s own strengths and attributes, IMO.....but as the first child, without Dick’s example? Damian would be more inclined to be a mini-Batman, calling himself something like Batboy and molding himself in his father’s image......which means keeping to the shadows. Being more myth than in-your-face-indisputable-fact like Dick was as Robin. And Bruce would have been more inclined to see this as a good thing, and keep Damian as much beside him in the shadows as possible, unlike Dick who just wasn’t suited to that and wasn’t interested in trying to be that.

So I think that a huge potential ripple is right there from the start....like maybe there would be other Batkids and protégés for Bruce after Damian, but would there be other teen heroes? Would there at least maybe have been a delayed start to the other teen heroes, not inspired by Damian directly but more just parallel evolutions who took a little more time to find the inspiration and opportunities to impress themselves upon their mentors? Would even Gothamites know for sure that Batman even had a partner, or partners plural, or would they be more rumor than symbol, like Dick was as Robin, and the other Robins were inspired to be when following HIS example, rather than BRUCE’S example?

That’s what I would really love to see from the reverse age AU premise, personally. And why the ones that exist just don’t really draw me in - they all seem to by premise alone just kinda devalue Dick’s effect on his surroundings as well as just his character as a whole.....there’s the impression that it doesn’t really matter if Dick came first, that anyone could have had the same effects and results that he did, when like.....that’s just not true, IMO. And it is kinda an inherent knock against his character because it sort of runs with the idea that Dick’s no big deal, that his precedent is no big deal, that he wasn’t necessary, for the DC Earth to be the one we all are drawn to today, and that’s just....I don’t see it.

I mean, so much of that is what draws me to his character, personally....the fact that he IS so much bigger than just himself, that his actions and choices have such far-reaching implications. Dick Grayson IS the ripple effects that he’s caused from day one of his creation.....and ignoring that, acting like that’s no big deal and like it could just as easily have been any other character when to my mind it wouldn’t have been any other character because no other character has made the choices he has, specifically, for the reasons he has, specifically.....like, I think that has a lot to do with a lot of the almost implicit or absent-minded....not even contempt, but just....non-interest in his character, that many fans of other Robins have.

Like, what if Dick wasn’t the first - that’s the basic premise of these particular AUs. But the conclusion almost all of them result in is....nothing else would really be all that different. And that’s just not that far away from saying that Dick’s character is largely irrelevant and inconsequential....when to my mind, obviously, nothing is further than the truth. Yeah, what if Dick wasn’t the first? Honestly, truly asked and examined.....what would be different? Not just about his family but the whole DC Earth?

Because I think the differences would be enormous.

LOL, this is the 80th anniversary of this character’s creation. A character who has consistently been one of the highest profile, most visible characters in the entire DC universe for pretty much all of those 80 years, in one way or another. Who has only spent part of one issue dead, in all of that time. And in none of that time retired, or absent, or not in some way still at the center of the cape community.

How do you pretend that a character with that much history, that much presence.....has no real distinct impact on everything he’s connected to? That he could be plucked out of that tapestry and easily and seamlessly switched with a character who is noted for being the night to his day, just as Dick originally was the day to Bruce’s night? It just doesn’t make sense, IMO.

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ultrakatua · 4 years

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"in part 1, the one he hates the most is ironically Byleth" Yo, I'd love to hear your explanation and analysis on this tidbit if you have the spare time. Your takes on Claude are really fascinating to read!

Oh boy, there’s a lot to unpack. I actually have a lot to say about the evolution of the relationship between Claude and Byleth in part 1 because it was my favorite aspect of the game. So I’ll indulge.

Please keep in mind I played the route like three months ago now, and I went through the first 30 hours in like two days. While I was fairly attentive, there’s probably stuff I forgot (especially regarding the timeline). Also reminder I haven’t touched the Black Eagles yet. Of course all of this is just my opinion, etc. etc.

Heavy spoilerz of course.

So, ok… I think it’s something you can miss, because based on appearances alone Claude is the most friendly from the get go and on a surface level, he is always like that. I think the game is fairly clever in that regards, cause it is easy to just get carried by his seemingly cheerful demeanour and forget how sketchy he can act at times. You are warned from the very beginning Claude is fake af, though, and in the prologue, he straight-up says he will bullshit his way into earning Byleth’s trust, and that’s literally what he does during the first few chapters. Then he turns pretty hostile later on.

I think it’s worth mentioning here that Dimitri absolutely doesn’t trust Byleth either in the first months of the game. However the main difference between them is that Dimitri is much, much quicker to change his mind. Dimitri was afraid of Byleth because of their apparent lack of humanity, a trait he hates since he’s himself very empathetic to a fault. So when Byleth starts showing emotions, all his doubts dissipates at once.

However for Claude, it’s a bit different. I’d say he was wary about Byleth for the same reasons as Dimitri, but there’s also more to it. Claude is against the Church (as an entity), so Byleth’s connection with Rhea is another thing that bothers him, and I think way more than their “weirdness”. So unlike Dimitri who gradually trusts Byleth more and more, Claude goes through that arc where he starts let’s say at maybe 50% trust level, and then as Byleth’s connection with the Church becomes more and more apparent with the Goddess stuff, he actually trusts them less. This obviously occurs when Byleth gets the Sword of the Creator. From this moment on, Claude is very passive-aggressive in a way he only really shows with enemies. iirc there’s a dialog where he implies he wanted to go after the relics in the first place, and Byleth kind of screwed over this plan. Not just because they have the sword and not him, but because Byleth is potentially an ally of the Church, which would mean they could be his direct enemy.

It’s true for all lords that their fate lies on having Byleth with them or not, but Claude is very aware about it, and even more than the player is at this point in the game, because Byleth is more than an emotional support for him: his all plan relies on them for various reasons, and the moment Byleth can be an enemy, he is screwed. Lorenz and Hilda can be obstacles for him but 1) they are easy to read and therefore to manipulate 2) all in all they don’t hold that much power by themselves 3) Claude can act without them. None of these points are true when it comes to Byleth. I think Byleth’s importance to Claude is often very overlooked because he doesn’t have it “that bad” without them. Sure, Claude doesn’t need Byleth from an emotional POV to the same degree the other lords do (though I’d argue he’d never win that Nemesis fight without growing up as an individual thanks to Byleth). But when it comes to raw power, of the three, Claude is actually the one who needs them the most. Claude has very little support even in his own country. Of the 4 other great Houses of the Alliance NONE are clearly siding with him (Gloucester and Ordelia are pro Empire, Goneril is against Almyra and Edmund is an opportunist who’s most likely after his position). Claude is powerless without Byleth, without the Sword, and without what they both stand for.

So between the moment Byleth gets the Sword and I’d say the Goddess Tower event (and later Jeralt’s death), Claude is at peak pettiness, because Byleth can potentially screw him over badly. He gets some very shady lines in those chapters. I think the one that stuck with me the most is when he says something like “I bet you would give me the sword if I asked you. You are so selfless, that’s what I like about you”. He also shows jealousy, expressing how unfair it is that Byleth has a cool relic and all, and he doesn’t etc. I think there’s potentially resentment as well to some degree: Byleth gets everything he was never given the chance to get. They get the relic of his dreams. They have people trusting them unconditionally. Claude never was the cool kid, and he always had to fight for literally everything in his life.

I think Claude initially wanted to steal the sword and some dialogs hint towards this, however as he learnt more about the relics, he understood it would be useless into his hands since he doesn’t have the right Crest to use it properly. So having Byleth on his side becomes a necessity at this point, and instead of antagonizing them, he tries to win them over (again) because he literally has no other choice. You have this scene where Claude openly questions Byleth about their faith (to make sure they aren’t with the Church/won’t turn on him) and then you unlock the B+ support, which is basically all about that as well. I think they both occur around the fusion with Sothis (the B+ support unlocks for sure right after Jeralt dies), and overall Claude seems to slowly change his mind after the Remire village incident (I think?). By the Goddess Tower event, he at least trusts Byleth enough to consider them a potential ally and test the waters. Iirc it’s the first time he mentions being an ambitious person. And obviously it goes both ways. I know the choices have no consequence, but I can clearly remember two additional moments (and maybe there’s more) where you have the option to show your support to Claude: in the library, where you can straight-up say that you trust him, and when you can let him take Jeralt’s diary.

Now, I think it’s actually fairly hard to pinpoint the exact moment when Claude starts to like Byleth, and not just as a tool, because even until the end of the game, heck, even in the goddamn S support, everything Claude does has some sort of ulterior motive, especially in part 2 (ever think about how the first thing he does after reuniting with Byleth is making sure they still are at their peak, ie, are they strong enough to help him?). This doesn’t mean he lies about his feelings of course, but it’s something to keep in mind. imo, both are related. I don’t think Claude would trust someone he doesn’t like, at least not to the extent he trusts Byleth, and the other way around. And I think for as scummy as it looks, the Jeralt diary scene is also a way for Claude to show he trusts Byleth and to check if that trust is reciprocated, simply because he’s completely upfront about the fact he would have stolen the diary anyway. He’s showing his cards, basically.

Anyway, that’s pretty much my take. I know my reading of Claude is fairly harsh on him, I’ve read people saying that this line about Byleth’s selflessness sounded like a compliment to them, for example. I’m sure you could read him as a massive asshole if you wanted to lol imo he has a bit of both in him, and that’s what makes him interesting. But that’s basically how I felt playing the game. I was actually completely led on by him when I played the first chapters, so when he started acting so strange about the Sword and so passive-aggressive in a way that seemed so much unlike him, it made me realize that in retrospect, he really wasn’t genuine at all. And it became clearer when he actually showed sincerity is the later supports and story events.

tl;dr: it takes him a very long time to trust Byleth because they could potentially represent a very big threat to him (indirectly or not) + they have protagonist power and it probably grinds his gears to some degree. Lorenz and Hilda say some racist shit, but they don’t threaten him directly the same way, and they obviously don’t have the really neat glowing Sword he’s been dreaming of

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thefudge · 6 years

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TLJ thoughts, post-viewing

sooo, i have a lot of feelings about a lot of things. also the subtitles didn’t prepare me. for a lot.

this movie is made up of many quiet, non-verbal moments and rian johnson lets those moments sink in and dwell with you and that’s great

rey exploring the workings of the force, for example. there’s a really cool sequence where she’s trying to find out who her parents are and she lowers herself in the embodiment of the dark side and it’s very trippy and cool. it’s not rushed and it’s v atmospheric. she gets the incentive to do that thanks to kylo. his revelations about luke and his general aura of “troubled darkness” inspire her to dig deeper.

i think what i liked most about reylo was its sense of gratuitous intimacy. what i mean by this is that they seemed to connect without effort, without having to manipulate the plot to make it fit. they seemed be in their own little movie, dealing with things beyond the usual surface level of star wars ‘good vs. evil’. kylo’s philosophy about letting the past go is definitely flawed, but the way the movie frames reylo, they do seem to “let go” of their surroundings and circumstances when they’re together. it’s sort of timeless.

i will say, i don’t think the romance was that "romantic”, if that makes sense? and i think it’s a good thing. their bond is very real, but it goes beyond “romantic drama” and your usual hero/villain trope. it has shades of that, ofc, and there is palpable sexual and romantic tension, imo. but i sensed something more mature and interesting between them. it could go either way. do i want reylo to have a future in ep 9 and after? yep. is it possible they won’t? also yep. mainly because kylo let rey down. and here’s the kicker: it’s not rey that really rejects him. it’s him that rejects rey. because she tries quite a few times to bring him over to her side, and i think her anger and sadness stem from the fact that, ultimately, kylo didn’t choose her, and ergo the light. he’s still v much conflicted and i think she can sense that. but rey is hungry. she wants all or nothing. she can’t have half of him. so she doesn’t reject him as much as tell him straight up that she won’t stand for being second. for instance, she expects him to fold to her side immediately after taking down snoke. when he doesn’t, she’s quite literally in tears. this hurts her on a deeper level than “oh no, the dark side won and the resistance lost an important ally.” no, this feels like her parents all over. leaving her, deserting her. that’s how i read it, tbh.

and kylo does some reprehensible shit in the latter quarter of the movie, lol, like i won’t woobify him, since i like my antiheroes to be antiheroes. but he's not quite villain level? if u look at snoke, if u take that cool, collected snarky asshole - that’s a villain. he knows who he is, and what he wants. kylo is hopelessly confused and always looking for validation. he tells rey that she’s the one always looking for father figures - but oh, benny ben. it’s actually you. he wants someone to really see him, and that’s why he’s drawn to rey. but just to clarify: he doesn’t have it in him to kill his mother. he has an open, unambiguous chance and he stops. he is willing to destroy her when she stands behind walls and is shielded by the resistance. yet when she’s in the open, no. that was my read on it.

his fight with luke is...very much one-sided. luke appears as a force-hologram to fight him and kylo just wants to obliterate him for very, very personal reasons. kylo is not the cool, collected new emperor who is going to “kill the past”. he lives so much in the past that he doesn’t even realize luke isn’t even there.

and btw, kylo doesn’t kill luke, though he wishes he had. early on we get this foreshadowing. when the first force-bond happens between him and rey, he goes “no, you’re not doing this. the effort would kill you.” meaning that, to transport yourself through space via force (without a bond) takes a looooot of energy. luke goes on a suicide mission, basically. he knows using the force like this will kill him. he’s almost having fun toying with kylo at the end.

when kylo realizes he’s a force-hologram, luke smiles and says “see you around, kid.” not exactly anakin vs obi-wan, if u know what i mean.

and then back on the island, we see luke peacefully give himself over to the force and vanish. it’s v tranquil and quite satisfying and the original star wars theme is used so well, imo. do i think we could’ve had more of luke? sure. but he went out on his own terms. that’s the whole point - kylo didn’t kill him. he killed himself.

again, i want to emphasize that kylo is still very much an antihero, dipping his toe into villainy (and failing - which makes him more angry, which only makes it harder to be the villain he wants to be haha). he’s not a Good Guy. many posts will crop up in the tag about what a poor, lost soul he is. yes and no. rey actually understands him when she closes the falcon door on him. she knows him and appreciates him. he will never really be ben solo and that’s a good thing. trying to be ben solo so hard is what got him in this mess. he isn’t supposed to be a Good Guy. so no, i don’t want him to “turn” (see my thoughts on “turning” below). i want him to truly move beyond the past and reform himself on his own terms, just like luke. because hey fam, luke isn’t a Good Guy in this movie either AND THAT’S GREAT. anyway, i certainly won’t be romanticizing him (kylo). he’s a compelling antihero who definitely has baggage and trauma (luke did try to kill him as a boy, though he has a wildly dramatized version of the event lol) but he is also someone who has to help himself. ultimately, rey’s goal isn’t to “save” him but to push him to save himself. honestly, if kylo had followed her and “turned” and reluctantly joined the resistance, it would’ve been a total let down and a betrayal of his character. him “turning” wouldn’t help him. he’d still have that darkness and that anger inside of him, multiplied. boy needs therapy - aka working through his issues, not ignoring them and joining the Good Side.

Other things I liked:

- admiral holdo’s arc - beautiful, well-done and surprising. laura dern kills it.

- benicio del toro!!!!! no small parts with this man. he is delightful. imagine rick from “rick and morty” but way hotter lol. he was probably my favorite addition, after rose. he’s the middle-ground guy, he’s more han solo than fucking han solo. he doesn’t believe in good guys vs bad guys and he shows both finn and the audience that the two sides err because they believe their path is the only path. he perfectly encapsulates the very real contradictions in modern-day ethics and how our “pure and wholesome” activism often shields us from some terrible truths. he does have a semblance of a heart underneath his cynicism but i love that in the end he doesn’t suddenly discover the power of friendship with finn and rose. he’s a jaded asshole with shades of good, who’s probably seen some rough shit. BUT, he has this super cute moment with rose before things go to shit regarding her necklace and it’s !!!!!! it shows how much he understands human nature. i kinda ship them. aaaanyway. i definitely think he will return, his arc is not done.

- ROSE TICO SMILING AND BEING HAPPY. ROSE TICO RIDING THAT KANGAROO CREATURE AND ENJOYING LIFE. i treasured those scenes a lot. she’s a great combo of feisty and childlike, tough and innocent. gosh, she reminds me of bonnie bennett so much ;___;

- general hux. yall, it’s true. it’s all true. hux may have won me over. hux in TFA was just a lite over-the-top villain imo. but here??? he’s such a fun, dynamic character, rian gave him a lot of fun, humorous moments. and honest to god, he’s also given some humanity. when kylo takes over, he is genuinely affected and disturbed by his level of aggression. and he’s....idk, much less evil in this one. probably because of the humor. he just seems like a man dead-set on fulfilling his mission, brainwashed to the core. and underneath the brainwashing, he seems to be your average overwhelmed white dude. i don’t think he’ll be redeemed or anything but...it’s weird how at the end of TLJ he is probably the MOST reasonable dude from the first order???

- there’s this great little message about failure. i think here TLJ was inspired by Rogue One. because a lot of the characters in this movie learn to let go and accept defeat. you can’t always save everyone, you can’t always fight back. sometimes, the brave thing is to retreat and treasure the ppl you love. so i def liked that.

- GODDAMN GHOST YODA. i honestly thought i’d hate it because...gimmick, amirite? but that scene with luke was SO emotional and also funny and visceral and just - i was a bit teary-eyed, ME, THE GRINCH. i was suddenly nine again, watching star wars for the first time. ANYWAY.

- luke skywalker deserves a separate entry. mark hamill did so much with this character in the last few scenes. also some of the stuff he says about the force in this movie is legit beautiful and i love how he criticizes the vanity of the jedi - because this was what was missing from the prequels. anakin fell because the council was tone-deaf. the jedi are often responsible for their own doom and so they must always be vigilant - which is a goddamn thankless job. i love that luke acknowledges this.

-luke/leia moment. GAAAAH. HE KISSES HER FOREHEAD GOODBYE AND SHE KNOWS HE’S NOT COMING BACK FROM THIS. I DIED.

- in that order of business, leia finally FIIIINALLY gets to show off a bit and use the force in a pro-active manner. it’s also clear to me that episode 9 would’ve been the story of her and “ben” and i think she would have been the catalyst for his eventual development. but sadly, we’ll never see that ;____;

-there is some gorgeous cinematography and visual direction in this movie. particularly in the third act, on that salt planet? the red trails? shivers.

-i didn’t hate any of the new creatures like i thought i would??? probably because they were used sparingly and with a sense of humor.

Stuff i kind of didn’t like:

- phasma. phasma, phasma, phasma. WHAT was that??? like tell me that wasn’t anticlimactic as hell. she was, sadly, a pointless character. unless she somehow survived the fire and destruction, which i doubt, i really don’t see the point of casting wonderful gwendolyn christie just to stand there in armor.

- MAZ KANATA. is barely in this. i call bullshit.

-sigh, okay so i loved rose to death, but her arc revolved way too much around finn. on the one hand i get it, on the other hand.... i was hyped because ppl were saying she gets this big moment to shine. and granted, imo, she shines every moment she’s on screen. but i think her climactic scene was... *fart noises*. it’s completely centered around finn. she saves him basically, and it’s definitely heartfelt and lovely but also...it’s finn’s moment 100%. because it’s him who has to learn about his own worth. i do think they make a good team and i ship them a little bit, but the one-sided kiss was not satisfying and i’m tired of having to watch my darling woc give their love and devotion freely, only to be tertiary characters in their own story. like, imo, it should’ve been rose who flew straight into that cannon and tried to take it down for her sister. she should’ve been the one determined to take it down. and it should’ve been finn to save her and tell her they must find meaning in other things. finn definitely cares for her and in the last scene we have of him, he’s tending over rose and waiting for her to wake up BUT. will rose ever be number one for anyone, like the white girls, i wonder? eh, i’m probably just grumpy old aunt. she does get to have an internal world, she’s a believable human being, she matters. the thing is, white girls in these movies can bend their little finger and they’re considered worthy and complex. rose has to jump through hoops to be seen the same way. anyway.

- i liked poe dameron’s arc, which is “hey, maybe i should stop posturing and listen to women more lol” which is “learn when to retreat and stand down” but...honestly, you hire gorgeous oscar isaac who can give you real emotional weight and you just...kinda under-utilize him. yes, he did a lot of stuff, but he...didn’t take time to internalize it. this dude feels like he’s got a lot of demons and conflicting desires and a rich inner life, yet we only skim the surface of that. like, he’s aways in go-mode, we rarely get a quiet moment with him. like pls fix this, episode 9.

-luke’s reaction to han’s death is pfffffffffffff. maybe we’ll get more in a deleted scene?

- also....can we stop pussyfooting and legit talk about han as a dad? because they keep hinting he wasn’t a good one, nor a very good husband to leia. but...it’s very unsatisfying to keep hearing about it without good storytelling to back it up.

- the world-building & the origins of the first order. i had problems with this in TFA and, big surprise, i still have problems with it here. basically, why has the first order taken over the new republic? how did they gain support? were there remnants of the old empire that survived and thrived as the first order? what about the knights of ren? luke mentions kylo took some students with him when he destroyed the jedi temple, so....what about those guys? like, this very fraught and war-torn landscape doesn’t have a solid history. how did A become B? why is every corner of the galaxy oppressed? why are some planets thriving more? are they all arm-dealers??? i find that hard to believe. yeah, we have the expanded universe for that, we have books and comics etc. but i need these movies to give us a sense of their own universe. i’m...still not convinced.

-lolol, snoke dies like a bitch. and it’s so anticlimactic and duuuumb. dude, a five-year old coulda seen that coming but your ancient super powerful ass couldn’t? laaaame. he’s like “oh, yes, i sense no more conflict in you, kylo ren. just a deep certainty”. YES FOOL, because he’s decided to remove u, because he’s confident he wants rey, and not you, by his side. it was soooo lame. but i guess we had to remove him to make the audience think kylo was turning good for a second there.

-which reminds me... and you probably saw this coming, i hate the idea of “turning”. rey keeps talking about ben turning to the light. and this verb annoys me to no end. it’s made clear that they both already have a lot of light and darkness in each other. it’s about finding balance. where’s my grey jedi??? episode 9 pls????

Extra Reylo stuff i didn’t see mentioned which i adored:

- during their first force-bond moment when they sense each other, kylo ren runs out of the medical unit and into the corridor like a goddamn luckless teenager, expecting to see rey pop up in a prom dress. it’s precious. i love awkward!kylo. also rey tries to shoot him bc she thinks he’s actually there and kylo bends down, thinking he was shot. it’s a rly cool moment. and it doesn’t feel malicious like, he doesn’t expect anything less from her.

- there’s so much charged electricity between them and it’s not all sexual. it’s kinda mystical and i dig it. i’m weirdly reminded of xavier and magneto??? as in two enemies who have such a rich history and whose bond transcends human morality.

-OKAY. i saw no one talking about this but THAT GODDAMN SNOW WHITE SCENE. so rey decides she’s going to turn kylo to the light because that’s their one hope of defeating the first order etc. luke tries to stop her, but she’s like i’m going after my man. okay. she gets on the falcon, then she puts herself in this casket-like pod and AND. we get this lovely, breath-taking sequence of her arriving at the first order base, slipping gently into the hangar in her casket. and she’s def nervous. AND THEN. she looks up through the glass and there’s steam at first and through the steam we see kylo’s face, looking down at her wistfully. IT’S SO WEIRDLY FAIRY-TALE WTF. and then ofc the guards come in to shackle her. BUT JESUS. the prince looking into the casket to find snow-white WHAT ARE THESE AESTHETICS. it felt like a nod to the infamous scene in TFA where he carries her bridal style. it’s very fairy-tale-esque.

- i love that in the scene with the multiple reys, when she reaches through the mirror to see her parents, the shadowy figure who appears and touches her hand seems at first to be kylo and then she realizes it’s herself. i also love that she talks to kylo about that experience. GAH.

- i just rly loved that there was so much humanity in their interactions.

Reylo stuff which sort of bothered me/left me wanting more:

- like excuse u rian, during the praetorian guards fight, i needed more moments where kylo looks at rey and is worried for her sake. i needed that fight to be a bit more visceral and about the two of them and their survival. they do fight together and it’s great but then...they’re sort of separated and carry their own small battles (i did love how rey saved him with that lightsaber throw)

- the whole “you come from nothing, you are nothing.” yea yeah, he’s a dummy who doesnt know how to express his feelings, he’s mr. darcy x 1000 of faux pas. but i still think adam driver’s acting went a little much there. the way he delivered that line was a bit off for me. ofc, he follows it with “but not to me”, because he’s basically proposing to her, but i needed a bit more, an extra line from him confirming her importance. or maybe no extra line, but a bit more feeling. did i mention i love wrecked!kylo? the “please” killed me haha.

Final thoughts:

- enjoyed it more than i expected to, and it does operate with way more nuance than TFA but it stiiiill fell short with some characters. it didn’t have the weight of rogue one for me, but it’s more lighthearted and entertaining, which i appreciate, cuz it reminded me of my childhood. and ultimately, whether we like it or not, disney does operate on nostalgia. all in all, it’s a worthy star wars movie, 8/10. rian deserves an A-. (he also wrote this thing and whoaaa...i wonder how much more ambiguous and dark this movie woulda been if he’d been given full non-disney freedom)

#tlj #tlj spoilers #reylo #i also talk about other characters and plots but i'm a reylo person so ppl are gonna probably be annoyed if i tag the characters sigh #tlj review #my thoughts

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meggannn · 6 years

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3, 5, 8

@ferociousqueak and @servantofclio also asked for 3, what a coincidence!

3. What was your big “Wow” or “Oh Shit” moment in Mass Effect? Approaching the Citadel? Seeing Sovereign take off on Eden Prime? Something else entirely? I’ll try to think of the biggest ‘moments’ for me… Unfortunately I was spoiled for a few things but even still there were a few times I was a little surprised/startled, like “I didn’t think they’d do that" like when Saren killed Nihlus (“what the fuck?”), or Sovereign talks to you on Virmire (“hot damn lol”), or you drive into the citadel through the relay statue after realizing the Citadel itself is a relay (“HOT DAMN LOL”). but the biggest intense, reactionary moments for me were:

I think the first time I took a second and kind of sat back in awe of the story was talking to Vigil on Ilios; this VI talking to a strange alien 50,000 years in the future, surrounded by scores of its dead brethren that it failed to save, in the slim hope that she might defeat what wiped them out, like, I realized how many times this had happened, how many histories and races that had been wiped out that Shepard would never fully know about, how many times THEY had each tried to warn future generations. it was the first time I got a sense of the grandness of the game and universe, and just how I’d barely scratched the surface. the music, tension, and overall level design was just really well done there.

the first “oh shit, did that really just happen?” moment was when we see Shepard’s profile close up against the black of space, and then we pan out to see her oxygen line has been cut, and her hands go to her throat as air escapes from her suit, and her body flies out into the darkness and becomes a speck and we don’t follow her. and then we see MASS EFFECT 2. like, what the fuck bioware?????!!!!

the first “oh shit” chills-down-my-spine moment was I think when I brought Garrus and Tali to the Collector ship, you meet no enemies but the sense of foreboding and claustrophobia that hovers over you as you travel through all the tunnels, and then you open up to this grand valley full of empty pods for future human victims, and Garrus says, “They’re going to target Earth.”

the Arrival DLC was another plot twist I said “oh shit” to that felt different, just because I genuinely thought Shepard would be able to save the day. I loved it though, I loved that we had a protagonist that failed. even though everyone supports/is behind you, like…. no other moment in the series really made me feel the weight of all the people Shepard couldn’t save. it wasn’t even a choice like “save the council vs sacrifice the council,” like, this was a mission that Shepard could not win, because sometimes you get always there too late, because that’s war, and also the nature of the work. it felt so realistic, added more depth to the gray morality (and really one of the most “Spectre-like” actions Shepard ever does imo) and I appreciated that we saw a character fail.

other misc “holy shit” moments: kalros taking down the reaper on tuchanka, SHEPARD FIGHTING A REAPER ON FOOT, and in the worst way possible, that short little sequence right after harbinger hits shepard in the beam run, and you hear someone’s voice saying “nobody made it” and the screen flicks back to light and everything’s fuzzy and bloody and slow, but through it all you see shepard GET UP, BE SHOT, AND KEEP WALKING. anyway i’m dead just thinking about that moment goodbye

5. Have you ever accidentally slept with Sha’ira the Consort? On purpose? LOL YEAH, JUST THE OTHER DAY (I’m replaying ME1 rn). I didn’t know that asking for more payment resulted in sleeping with her, I was just trying to be stingy on my renegade playthrough. Whoops.

8. What was your reaction the first time you realized the choice you had to make on Virmire? What was your choice the first time you played? This was one of the downsides of coming to the series late, I knew what the word “Virmire” meant and what choice I’d have to make :( I picked Ashley just ‘cause in the moment it made sense for Shepard to go back to save her (she’d planted the bomb) and I reasoned that Shepard could probably rationalize it to herself that she could save Kaidan too in time if she was quick enough. I also felt really bad that I’d accidentally triggered Kaidan’s romance without meaning to, knowing I’d romance Garrus later, and I didn’t want to flag any romances going into the next game. but I also just genuinely liked Ash too.

#keelificent #megan talks about bw

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Rant: overall quality of reddit comments/discussion about China is very low. via /r/China

Rant: overall quality of reddit comments/discussion about China is very low.

For all the spotlight that China has (justifiably) gotten in 2019, most comment threads on highly upvoted China-related posts on reddit have been absolutely atrocious IMO. The police brutality in HK, atrocities in Xinjiang, election interference in Taiwan, and other issues re: Chinese politics/society are all worthy of in-depth discussion but there is very little substantive discussion, or at least very little that's visible (talking especially about in "mainstream" subs like news, worldnews, etc.).

It's like all nuance goes out the window when the subject is China; no one gives a shit about sharing real insights or constructing arguments with attention to logical validity. Instead, shallow comments dominate the upvote cycle. Irrational emotion and the entrenchment of preconceived notions reign supreme. Which I guess is to be expected given the circlejerky dynamic of reddit in general, but still. Here are some examples of the things I see most frequently:

The obligatory karma farming "fuck China" comment, with no attached discussion points. Cool. Understandable sentiment, but adds nothing of value whatsoever.

The subsequently obligatory reply of "Fuck the Chinese government, the people are all right." Thus creating the same predictable thread every time. (Next replies: "But the people support the CCP so they're complicit. Fuck China." "No they don't." "Yes they do." ad nauseum.)

/r/sino squad with its fragile ego and toxic nationalism

Random wumao and/or obsessive nationalists defending the CPC to the death despite eating up downvotes (see above)

Random alt-righters who don't know shit and don't give a shit about HK or China but love taking every opportunity to toss around the word "Commie" despite understanding neither Communism as a general concept nor the meaning of the word in the context of China's political/economic structure.

Thinly veiled racism and xenophobia - people taking potshots because they hate yellow people, not because they (aforementioned bigots) have any genuine concern for the human rights of yellow people. Alternatively, jingoists who see the Big Red Menace as a threat to Murican interests and influence (see above)

Comment from random dude who taught English for 2 years in China and is now chiming in as an expert authority on all things China, sharing sweeping generalizations about the collective psyche of 1.5 billion people. Never mind that maybe just maybe the sooooo many people they talked to did not cover such a wide gamut as they thought and maybe just maybe cannot be reliably extrapolated into axioms about the world's largest nation. That's not to say there aren't accurate or useful generalizations one could make, but holy shit are there some presumptuous claims out there that get beaucoup updoots.

Surface-level whataboutism. E.g. "sure what China's doing to Uygurs is bad, but what about Murica destroying Iraq." I don't think it's inherently wrong to discuss similar situations/policies from other countries - in fact I think it's a very interesting point to explore. But very rarely does this kind of thing seem to be brought up in good faith - instead of discussing how oppressive governments' use similar/unique tactics or how our biased media portray different countries' oppression differently, it's just a peen-measuring contest of which government is the bigger baddie.

Gross simplification of issues as black-and-white; a lack of effort/desire to understand context and drivers behind why certain people think/react as they do; inability to acknowledge people on "our side" as capable of any wrongdoing.

All right, I'm gonna stop there. Not even gonna get into the somewhat interesting (imo) evolution of this subreddit as a hub for disgruntled expats to...whatever it is now lol.

Ehh, guess I just wanted to vent a bit. /shrug

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erenjaegur · 6 years

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Snk Positivity Day 6: Love Your Series

Im gonna put this under a read more because I cant think of express my feelings on something without turning it into a full length incoherent ass essay so!!

I’ve been in the snk fandom since I was like 12 lol - Im 16 now so that’s like, five years?? I can still remember like I’d see a lot of gifs n stuff of it going around tumblr and for some reason I just really felt I wouldn’t like it like I had smthing lowkey against it?? But then I decided to watch it one day, n i still remember, I was just chilling on my laptop watching it in the sitting room, my family around me and stuff and goddd it was soo good... but it made me tear up... n bITCH I was NOT! about to cry in the sitting room around my family. I was not! prepared for that. That night I stayed up till possibly 1 or 3am just watching it, I must’ve gotten to like around episode 6 I think? I loved it so much I rlly fell in love, I finished it all in just three days.... three days of which I also went to school and stuff and had to go to my friends party.... bitch i was pissed i didnt even like that person....i just wanted to finish snk lmaooo 😭

Im pretty sure Id spend sm of my time invested in snk and looking through snk tumblrs and stuff and other fandom stuff of it, I loved it so much!!! like!! thats all I did and even then I was still forcing my friends to read/watch it. I was really cringey in 6th class wow lmaoo I would literally go around during break with the snk manga like xD!!! eren is my baby!!! saying shit like that yikes.... bitch first of all hes 4 years older than you...your literally 12.....

Especially then, when I was younger it brought me sm happiness like when little me was going through shit then little insecure young me, you know how people say u use entertainment to escape or whatever, a distraction, idk.... like that was rlly it man idk ho to describe it without sounding weird i swear it was like my main source of happiness omg lol

Almost always, its very rare like I’ll be watching a movie, listening to music, anything like that just consuming some piece of media or literally just like. living my life and I see something and im like. omg snk au in which.... or I just somehow relate it back to snk or some of its characters lol. Like even when I was on holiday in Venice last year I was literally like thinking of a fanfic of like, the 104th on holidays in Venice like how wholesome...

Like I really do love snk I think about it every day without fail, and I honestly think I’ll always always always love it, and even if I don’t, it’s always gonna have a special place in my heart. Like, I liked it since i was literally 12 years old and it helped my through shit and I just have so much good memories associated with it. I honestly rlly do picture myself being like a 40 year old woman and still loving snk but like the fandom is dead or something... 😭 I rlly hope that never happens.....bc that will happen my 40 year old ass will b like boiis whens season 10 coming out ? Like I really hope snk is one of those series that kind of just lives on forever, or atleast for a very long time - Like Harry Potter for example

Okay, all that was really personal and I’d be surprised if anyone is reading this anyway, but I love looking back on it and talking about snk like this, I love it :) Butttt, getting to one of the reasons why I think I might love snk so much, and I mean, I can’t really pin it down why I love it so much, I dont think anyone can pin down EXACTLY why they love something, especially a series, but I think one thing I really like, and it becomes really apparent when I look at other series is like, they have a good balance between male and female characters if that makes sense. Like theres not way more men in the show than there is women, like how it is in some series or like, theres not way more men in the show than there is women, and the female characters in the show aren’t just like background characters pretty much, and they’re all good fleshed out and developed characters n shit. I think people have talked about this before but yeah.. And the female characters aren’t sexualised or anything like that and like, theres basically little to no fanservice at all which is nice. Supereyepatchwolf said something about it in his video about snk, how it can appeal to everyone because anyone of any age and gender and such can be in the survey corps n stuff... :P

And the characters just in general of course :) I honestly think the characters is one of snks strongest points, like... im not about to do a full on character analysis on anyone here lol but they’re just so amazing. Like I think on first glance it can probably be easy for people to sort most of them into like a trope or something or just write them off as cliche - mostly eren is victim to this bc people are like typical shounen boy !!! but like. you know anyway. I wish I was better at expressing my feelings and thoughts lol. Like god idk i feel like its so easy for someone who idk might just be a casual fan or smthing to just kinda see the characters on their more surface level without seeing how much depth they actually have - and I feel like that could also easily happen with anime only ppl. Like snk really does have so much great n complex n developed characters, especiallyyy now with the timeskip, more so now than ever. Like you know when you love something so much that you cant just pin point one thing about it... because its like.... everything about it i love n everything within it works to like compliment everything in it if that makes sense u get me?? like i cant just pinpoint ONE THING its the whole thing.... why i love snk? *directs u to link of readsnkmanga.com* or something lol

as for the characters themselves, obviously u can tell, with my url, u can take a guess at who my favourite is :) since the timeskip, i dont like him as much - not that i dislike him, i could literally never - but timeskip eren is basically a whole new person - and im not saying that in a bitter tone or anything, if anything its cool and i appreciate it and i understand why eren is like this now, all the shit hes been through- stuff so singular that barely anyone else would be able to understand, no one, if anything. So i understand why hes like this, and as i said earlier, this’ one of snks strong points its complex and rlly developed characters... The things I admired about Eren is just like... his good and bad, everything. How passionate he is, how he wears his heart on his sleeve - that of which being his most notable quality imo, and he expresses himself in an unapologetic manner like.... the courtroom scene... he rlly shouted that in front of all those people... how headstrong, stubborn and impulsive he is. I relate to Eren alot, thats part of the reason why I love him so much because I think I can kinda see myself in him.. but on the same hand, I think it’s also because he possesses a lot of traits I admire. Eren never backs down even when the whole world seems to be against him. He holds on firmly to what he believes in and never gives in, even when literal guns or canons are being pointed towards him. He’s full of determination and will power and he knows what he wants, and he’s also not afraid to express his opinion, even if he knows that he’ll be laughed at or be largely disagreed with.. And I admire his impulsiveness too. Those are all things I admire and other things I didn’t mention.. like me, I’m a very non confrontational person, I always feel things out before getting to it, and even then a lot of the time I just don’t at all. I might second guess my emotions and feelings when it comes to relationships with people especially, and I can a lot of the time stifle or keep quiet about my own beliefs, not completely keeping quiet, but not speaking them out as firmly as I believe them in my own mind, yielding? more I guess, if people disagree with me, I might step down a little - Which isn’t a completely bad thing, it’s good to be openminded and to see other sides, but when it’s coming from a place of embarassment or insecurity, not so much. So I really admire those traits in Eren :) I relate to him a lot, but I also know that in a lot of ways too, we are veryy different. I’ve even thought before, if I knew someone like Eren irl would I even like them lol?? Who knows lol. But as a character, I love him :) My other two favourtie characters after Eren, Levi and Jean, I won’t go into them as much as I did Eren but with them, and not just that, all of the other reasons they’re my faves.. I have like more of a ‘crush’ on them lmaooo like with them i could read so much /reader fanfic lol... but even though Eren is my #1 I could nEVER...god NO lol. And I think thats also down to the fact, as I’ve been saying I seen myself in Eren... rather than the other way around :))))))))

Like god there have been so many times I’ve laughed, cried at stuff in this fandom, made good memories as a result of it irl too... bullied my friends into watching it.... Like I have nothing but good memories. I really can’t express enough how positively snk has impacted my life like I genuinely can’t, it’d be impossible.. I seriously love it :) I’ve made friends bc of it, gotten closer to friends bc of our mutual interest in it, stuff like that...:) And even if those things didn’t happen, I’d still love the series and its fandom itself. :) I seriously can’t thank enough, the ppl that contribute to this fandom, I really can’t. Everything, and everyone to small and big creators, thank you so much. Well known and lesser known creators, like just everything and everyone, seriously. Everyone is just why this fandom is so great and!! Like I just think how lucky am I to have smthing like snk have such a big fandom and stuff and so many great people in it. Like y’know when you see your favourite fanfic update, you see your favourite artist has put out smthing new, even just see a funny snk text post or something, it all can really brighten and even make your day, and its so good :) There are so many amazing creators in this fandom, fanfics that are honestly better than published books I’ve read - like seriously, some of this stuff seriously deserves to e published or something!! And the fact that so much of these creators are putting their work out there and sharing with us for free, is just so great, and I’ll never not be grateful for it :)

Like seriously, returning back to when I was like 12-14, some days back then when I was younger it really felt like y’know the only things I could take comfort in was this series and its characters and stuff yknow.... and maybe im just being and emo teen but im getting kinda emotional thinking about it just now :’) Like seriously... I feel like im maybe being too much in this post lol but seriously this series means a lot to me.. as I said, I can honestly really picture myself being like 40 and still rlly loving snk like no matter what, whatever happens, wherever the series goes, whatever the hell, it’ll always hold a special place in my heart, because its helped me through a lot, a lot of bad days, I have nothing but good memories associated with it, made friends, seen some of the most beautiful art and read rlly great writing!! Just like yeah. Thank u Isayama and this entire fandom.....

and I was gonna peace out but I also want to appreciate and throw some love @ Isayamas art and art style. Obviously, Isayama was a bit infamous in the earlier days for his art not looking so great (Which also is amazing bc like a manga with not so great art like his in the beginning... grew to become so BIG!! like who would’ve thought) - even so the character design and stuff was all really good?? Like I also think thats a strong point he has too!! And all those years of practicing really shows, because damn!! look at his art now!! It’s really damn nice and im not just saying that lol :P

Anyway!! :) Thats all lol

#idk what this is its just a jumbled ass incoherent string of thought sorry!!#snkpositivityweek #i feel like i should be embarassed jst by the sheer lenght of this n i lowkey am but like?

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