#to be fair this is entirely in character

[chiimeramanticore]

that thing about drawing your fav characters with a watermelon

#to be fair this is entirely in character #watermelons are a very beachy fruit. and beach bear's canonically a leftist #rae #rock afire explosion #rockafire explosion #showbiz pizza #animatronics #beach bear #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #juno.txt #juno.png #my art

[coquelicoq]

if you're wondering what the big deal is about the louis-philippe sentence in les misérables, it is, in the original french, 760 words long. the subject of the sentence doesn't appear until 95% of the way through, at word #711; the main verb is word #712. the sentence contains 91 commas and 49 semicolons and is almost entirely a list of laudatory adjectival phrases describing the erstwhile king of france. this is perhaps especially notable because les mis is, shall we say, not known for being particularly gung-ho about the monarchy.

this sentence copied and pasted into Word takes up more than one page single-spaced. in the 1800-page folio classique edition, it is fully two and a half of those 1800 pages. that means that les mis is 0.14% this single sentence. more of les mis is made up of this sentence than earth's atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide (0.04%). if the page count of les mis stayed the same but every sentence was the length of this one, les mis would consist of only 720 sentences total.

incidentally, guess who named hugo a peer of france 17 years before the publication of les mis?

#he also goes on for another six pages after this but by then he has remembered the existence of the full stop #the endnotes say that hugo 'se devait de faire [ce portrait] aussi favorable que possible à la personnalité de l'homme #qui avait favorisé sa carrière' (had to make this portrait as favorable as possible to the character of the man who had favored his career) #in fairness to hugo it's not like louis-philippe was alive to read this. so he wasn't just sucking up to get something out of it #he says at the end of the chapter that this description is 'entirely disinterested'. which like on the one hand i get #bc like i said louis-philippe was not in power and reading this. but otoh victor 'ancien pair de france' hugo u r not exactly unbiased. lol #les mis #lm 4.1.3 #i just looked up the english translation and gasp! hapgood turned it into four separate sentences!!!! #so i think y'all who are reading it via les mis letters (which uses hapgood i think?) are gonna miss out on the full experience :/ #my posts #linked to #syntax #idk if i got this across but the worst part is that the subject of the sentence - the beginning of the independent clause - #doesn't occur until the very end. so for the first 95% of the sentence you're just waiting for the bass to drop!!! #like reading it out loud you have to raise your pitch at the end of every dependent clause because you haven't gotten to the subject yet #AND THERE ARE SO MANY CLAUSES!! 49 SEMICOLONS PEOPLE!!! FORTY-NINE!!!! #victor hugo would be TERRIBLE as a hype man. he would take so long that the crowd would tear him to pieces with their fingernails #before louis-philippe could come out on stage. and then they'd be so mad at louis-philippe for inspiring him that they'd tear LP apart too #actually i think i'm using hype man wrong. i'm thinking of the guy that gets the crowd hyped up for the main guy before the main guy #makes an appearance. a hype man is the guy who makes interjections during a song. victor hugo would be bad at both of these #like just imagine the announcer at the beginning of a basketball game. and now...your starting lineup...at power forward... #and then he just says the 760-word louis-philippe sentence. #dead. murdered at the hands of the fans. microphone shoved down his trachea.

[pathetic-gamer]

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #its honestly a little funny how EXTREMELY not okay he is even when he's still got the Cool Guy persona up in the first game #tormented by nightmares from a young age. anger management issues. assaults paparazzi. described by his agent as 'manic depressive.' #lowkey obsessive about his wife. presumably has substance abuse issues. so deeply unwilling to confront and accept his own #flaws that he *may* have created an entire extradimentional being that killed dozens of people about it. no qualms about using #people's real lives to his advantage in his stories (see AWAN dialog with the scientist lady). calls himself basically a god even though #he didnt even get out of the dark place by himself (and never would have). generally an shitheaded asshole. #definitely a character of all time #(to be fair though he's significantly less of an asshole in aw2)

[iwasbored777]

Love learning new things just like the other day someone said that, apparently, in order to lean on Miles' shoulder Gwen had to use extra strength and concentration cuz it's already hard to sit upside down and she made it even more difficult by balancing her weight enough to lean her upper body towards another person and it made me think of how she didn't hold hands with him which was way easier to do in that position but she felt so bad that she rejected him that she said "fuck gravity he needs to know that I care. I already fell for him I might as well fall down too"

#love gwen's policy being like i can't be with you but i just want you to know that you mean the world to me #even if i never say that and if you don't think so you do #honestly this world is so messed up that it's hard to open up even when you want to even when she could in itsv unlike here #she didn't because it wasn't so easy #but i love that she didn't cuz her entire character was making friends again not making boyfriends #and i was happy to see that despite the chemistry and being so adorable they remained friends #and they knew each other for few days it was too quick #and his uncle just died #and peter was right there lol they couldn't kiss in front of him not the first time at least #so they should get married in the end of btsv it's only fair #gwen stacy #miles morales #gwiles #ghostflower #spider man across the spider verse #across the spiderverse #spiderverse

[feroluce]

Massive 4.2 Genshin Impact archon quest spoilers concerning Furina and her identity ahoy, but I kind of like the idea that like. After everything is said and done, when Neuvilette goes to Furina to tell her everything he saw, at the end of it he holds out his cupped hands and water condenses in them into a bubble.

Neuvilette tells her this was a gift, from Focalors. She had wanted to apologize. She knows she asked Furina to do something horrible. She knows she put her through the worst levels of hell and never even got to personally thank her after it all. With her execution, Furina's curse is broken, but she was forced to play a role for 500 years. 500 years. And that's. Something that is going to take a very very long time to unravel and work through. Years, at least.

So now, Focalors wanted to make her an offer. Longevity, not as a curse this time, but a blessing. Furina will not be immortal. But she will be able to take back the 500 years she lost and then some. She'll have plenty of time to rest, and then to heal, and then to do whatever she'd like. She can wander all of Teyvat by foot if that's what she wants, she'll have the time. She can go see every stage opera ever made. She can leave Fontaine for a generation or two or three and come back when she can start anew, when none of the humans will personally remember her.

She will have time to figure out who she is and what she wants to do. She can finally unearth all the things she buried over the last five centuries.

It's her choice, though. Neuvilette supports her either way. They find a pretty little bottle to put the water bubble in together, because Furina doesn't want to drink it just yet, she wants to think about it first. She's still going to leave for a while. Neuvilette supports that, too. But she takes the bottle with her, carefully wrapped up in cloth, and that's enough for him, just to know that she has the freedom of choice in her own life for perhaps the first time ever.

#neuvifuri #genshin impact neuvillette #genshin impact furina #genshin neuvillette #genshin furina #I'm normally not one to ahy away from major character death. like. at ALL. #shit dude that's my bread and butter right there #but for some reason it's just not cathartic for me with Furina like it is with other characters #it's just!! #after suffering for **500 YEARS** the 60-80 she would have left as a human doesn't feel like enough #it doesn't feel fair #she should get to have more time than that to be happy and have fun #she saved an entire nation! she's earned it!! #rest via either death or longevity; both are extremely good and valid. this is just my personal preference #genshin impact #genshin 4.2 #genshin impact 4.2 #Neuvilette #furina #(and I would like to think that Furina does go on a journey- but she returns to Fontaine eventually) #(and it's maybe not when she first comes back. it's maybe not for a long time.) #(but there is a day when Furina goes to Neuvilette and tells him she has something to give him. something important.) #(and she hands him an empty bottle)

[zeb-z]

ok but the thought of the code actually glitching to break Etoiles armor hits hard though. these monsters are literally made up of code, they can glitch appearances, glitch items - of course they glitched his armor.

besides that, it's an ultimate blow to his character.

he's upheld his expectations as the islands greatest warrior, their defender. with this comes not just that responsibility, but a sort of respect for who/what he's been fighting off. the codes he's grown so used to. if he were to ever lose, he'd expect it to be from exhaustion. from being physically unable to lift himself up and fight anymore, because there would be no other way he would not stand and fight - but he loses without being given a chance to win. the code messes with Etoiles’ own player coding to unnaturally break his armor, giving a dirty death to someone who fights with duty and honor.

it wasn't fair, and that's the entire point, it was never going to be fair. like how they psychologically fucked with him using fake Pomme before, and almost won - this was never a fight to see who could win. it was a fight to ensure that he would lose. he’s reminded of something important - that he can bleed, and he can die.

this island doesn't play fair, and he can't shoulder the weight of the world on his own. a single shield will never be enough to protect a whole village. and now he's lost the actual shield, the one thing he could use to protect them all.

the loss leaves him without protection, both feeling guilty failing as the guardian of the island, and unsatisfied, because how can he say he truly got a chance to beat the challenge? there is no satisfaction in this loss, no way to come to terms with his failure, because it wasn’t done on an even playing field.

it’s hardly a consolation, knowing his loss was unnatural, unfair, because it’s a loss he could not afford. not only did he lose the shield, but he learned that there are moves that are unfair and unnatural that he can’t fight against. how’s he meant to fight something that can influence his own coding, especially without the shield that gave him the chance to fight in the first place? how’s he meant to protect the island, when he can’t protect himself?

15-1, G fuckin G

#looking directly at my ‘etoiles is a shield’ analysis. breaks down into tears screaming crying throwing up #I’m never falling asleep during an etoiles stream again btw. last time I did and woke up he got the code sword. this time he lost the shield #I’m gonna have to watch the full fight and not just clips on twt and might add more after depending on what I see but fuck man #it wasn’t admins cheating just to give him a loss. it was codes cheating to give him a loss. it was unfair and cheap and entirely done #because of that. a reminder that the island does not play fair. maybe a reminder they can’t fight alone or smth #idk I’m fucked up about it #I can’t believe he lost #mcyt #qsmp #etoiles #q!etoiles #character analysis #z speaks

[bibiana112]

"girlie did very much fail at solving a sudoku puzzle to save her life though" NO! SHE ONLY HAD HALF THE NUMBERS YOU CAN'T SOLVE IT LIKE THAT MUCH LESS ON A TIMER

#I know it's next level character brainrot when fandom jokes at their expense start getting annoying but like 😭 #there's a lot more fair things to make fun of her for! #like she didn't get good at puzzles to compensate for that if anything it would be even more frustrating how simple of a task it would be #if she just hadn't been at the wrong place at the wrong time out of the sheer incompetence of her captors #she needed junpei to solve it for her because he actually had the entire sudoku grid to start from #zero escape #angy *crosses arms and sits down* (aka don't take it as serious complaint but like. understand do you understand where I'm coming from here) #also like I suppose the port Does kind of lose this context in translation so. fair #a grid without all the necessary minimum numbers as a starting point is not *impossible* but given the circumstances it might as well be

[fantastic-nonsense]

Canon!Tim is superior to Fanon!Tim purely because there's nothing fanon could possibly come up with that's funnier than Tim canonically being the closest thing the DCU had to a milk carton kid because he refused to evacuate from Gotham during the No Man's Land crisis with his dad and snuck back into the city after the bridges were blown up

#actually that's not entirely fair: Tim DID evacuate the city with his dad. he just didn't STAY evacuated #classic Tim behavior asdfghjkl #Canon!Tim is already such an incredibly chaotic and ridiculously funny character there's no need to invent a whole new personality for him #any 15 year old kid who refuses to stay evacuated from his post-apocalyptic hometown simply doesn't need it #tim drake #dc comics

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[dr3amofagame]

no consistency to my c!dream design in art except for the thought "would this make character sam awesamdude lose his entire mind" pinging around in my head like the sony screensaver as i work on the piece from start to finish

#this is kind of a lie im trying my best to be a bit more consistent lol #but this is one of the guiding principles yes #to be fair character sam awesamdude would lose his entire mind w/ most c!dream designs. to be fair. #like this is the guy that canonically scrapbooked sam bucket #but still

[inkykeiji]

i still cannot believe dabi actually showed up in this lil white number like he is such a theatre kid

like genuinely got himself all dressed up for this fight and kept the belt—because of course he did, because the belt is iconic, the belt has come with him throughout all three of his outfit changes—and showed up looking sexy as hell to what he was essentially intending to be his own funeral.

he definitely has a flare for the dramatic!!!

#also i know people are all up in arms over this one shot and how awful it looks compared to the manga and i’d just like to ask #where the heck u people have been for seasons 3-5 #where dabi was consistently drawn SO funky looking #we are LUCKY they did him so well in the touya reveal #and also;;; i don’t think it’s fair to judge this entire scene based on this single image #but yeah bones drawing dabi to look mediocre at best is not anything new or surprising #i genuinely hope they DONT do it in this fight #but i won’t be surprised if they do #they’ll never compare to how beautifully hori draws *any* of his characters #they also just can’t fit the detail into the anime #but anyway~ yeah #saw this and this was my first thought HAHAHA #clari chatters #inky.dabi #inky.bnha

[seriousbrat]

me inventing an entire magical drinking game as well as a whole language system and social structure for the goblins and then not really including them in my fic lol

#my google doc is very detailed rip #well i can use them in something else #i mean to be fair the drinking game is just a version of king's cup I didn't entirely invent it #but the goblin lore is very in depth #if anyone needs names for goblin characters let me know lol #esp female ones as we get no examples in canon sadly #at one point i had a bit of merpeople lore too and i scrapped it

[rapidhighway]

hey i might be controversial but im not really feeling the 12th doctor so far

#idkk idk what to thinkkk #i finished s8 today #im just nottt feeling ittt #i just think i might hate how moffat writes no matter what it is fdvxcdfdfv #i actually don't know WHAT is wrong because it's like... things i SHOULD be enjoying but im not it feels like its bad #idk idkkkk #i just feel there's something lacking and i felt the exact same way through the entire 11th doctor era #its just even worse now because i guess im tired #like im so desperate to enjoy this doctor like i did 9 and 10 and i just cant?? cant enjoy the companions and side characters as much eithe #idk man :( #i need to watch some older dw stuff and see if im idealizing the old episodes lmao #because i really want to have a fair opinion of this showww #heeeelpp ToT #i think i just dont like the writing? but i dont know enough about writing to actually say what's wrong #theres just something wrong #ouough #i still hold so much hope everyones always so excited about 12 and i was very excited and its just not ittt #ough ok byeeee #ok wait #like i think his personality is fine and stuff is fine it's just.. the stories? the way they present them? i dont knowwww #i just dont really like moffats dw i gues... #SAD

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Ok but if I actually were a character in Breaking Bad I would feel so gaslit the entire time like what do y’all mean you hate Jesse Pinkman??

#also bc walt would actively be gaslighting me the entire time #in fairness a lot of the characters warm up to jesse over time but still #wdym he isn’t the babyest boy you’ve ever laid eyes on #jesse pinkman #breaking bad #brba

[spideybonez]

does charlie day only know how to play bisexual autistic loser characters

#i'm watching the mario movie rn and like DAMN he really just. plays the same character in everything but in different fonts #to be fair i haven't seen his entire filmography so i could be wrong about this but like. I'll take the bet that i'm right #charlie day #super mario bros movie #iasip #fuck can i tag this with monsters university #FUCK IS THERE A TAG FOR THAT??? #monsters university #OH MY GOD THERE IS LMAOOO #lego movie #si yaps

[dangoulains-devotion]

on this late night i am thinking incredibly hard about how, when faced with a choice between preventing a new friend from harm + clearing up a misunderstanding and choosing the path that would potentially find him a cure for his catatonic friend, zack recalled marlene's words of saying that aerith liked cloud, and of course she did, because he (zack) wasn't there. hadn't been there for a long time

and after recalling these words and grasping at the ribbon tied around his hand, zack ultimately decides that by taking the right-hand path he can, with some luck, fulfill two of his own desires - 1) potentially seeing his friend cloud healed and healthily awake again, and 2) making sure that aerith will be able to be happy when she wakes if he succeeds the first part. he has not and will not let go of his adoration and love for her, but if cloud is seemingly what makes her happy in this bizarre world he's found himself in, he'll choose that option in a heartbeat, because her happiness means the world to him even if it means accepting that he's not the focus of it anymore. he just loves her so much . oh i'm in pain. zack fair the man that you are

#shout out 2 younger me who stayed up late on a school night finishing crisis core and then sobbed all over my psp #zerith is my favourite ship for both those characters and the doomed aspect is part of the delicious spice. it does cause immense pain #but its worth it #anyway people who try to shove zack aside or trivialise his impact for the sake of their ship can catch these mf hands #the most painful part of the stuff pre-remake trilogy had to be that both of them died before aerith had a chance to learn the truth #but in AC they're there... together..... i hope part 3 can give us even just one scene where they meet . and talk. and clear things up #they're both gold hearted sweethearts they deserve that much #i guess what i mean is. i want the 'deleted scene' from the lifestream that happens between forgotten capital and AC #the start of the gongaga section in rebirth + the entire ending battle gauntlet gives me hope #ff7 rebirth spoilers #ff7 rebirth #the amount of love i have in my heart for zack fair and his pure heart literally bursting with love for everyone and everything #O U G H #editing the tags to add: this is not a clerith post. this is a Zack Fair Most Perfect Man On Gaia post