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[alatuswind]

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[alatuswind]

Pirate roleplay (closed for now)

Hi!

I'm an F21 who recently had a sudden urge to come back to doing a 1×1 roleplay and, specifically, start a pirate roleplay.

I would love to brainstorm a plot with someone or have a plot based on the world of Pirates of the Caribbean as watching it made me once again obsessed with themes of the sea, mermaids, legends and pirates. But I'm also open to other ideas.

I'm specifically looking to do a M/F roleplay between two original characters. I used to roleplay as the male, but I'm equally open to be either the female oc or the male oc.

Because I believe that roleplays can help foster friendships and want to know my writing partner outside the roleplay, I'm only looking for someone who is +18 (preferably on their 20s).

I don't care much about the writing style, as I also don't have a specific one at the moment as I'm just returning to roleplay. But, I would enjoy responses detailed enough to keep the story going and both of us invested in it.

Some extra details:

🏴‍☠️ I don't feel comfortable doing NSFW. I'm fine with romance, but I will skip any NSFW moments.

🏴‍☠️ I love a good, slow, very slow burn.

🏴‍☠️ My first language isn't English, so I might do some grammatical errors.

Please like this post if you're interested, and I will send you a DM.

[alatuswind]

📖 Book Rants

○ The Atlas Six by Olivia Blake

[alatuswind]

🧣AoT Talk

The trios and their similarities:

○ Erwin and Armin

Random thoughts:

○ Hange's Grave

○ Carla Appreciation

Translations:

○ Attack on Titan Nintendo 3DS game

[riceballannie]

Starting to read the books and the only knowledge I have is that there is a concerning amount of betrayal and the existence of Cardan's tail

[rivangel]

after armin transforms, levi is apparently so injured that he can’t stand. he looks so tired and prepared to watch the others take on the hallucegenia.

then the MOMENT connie makes a remark that the steam doesn’t smell like titan steam, levi immediately figures out that this is like ragako. he’s the FIRST IN AN INSTANT to stand tf back up, heft a fucking thunderspear on his arm, and announce that they need to go back to the fight. he just got his leg chewed and swung through the air, coughed up blood, slept with a fever for like 2 days, just lost hange, and he’s STILL GOING

this is just one minute reason that anyone thinking levi was sidelined or useless in season 4 are either trolling or watched the show with their assholes.

if it weren’t for levi, multiple times, they wouldn’t have reacted fast enough and everything would’ve been for nothing.

[alatuswind]

Attack on Titan Nintendo 3DS game translation (#13)

This is a translation I did for fun as I was curious to know what this scene from the game was about. As I couldn't find any translation I decided to share the one I did. There are probably mistranslations as I don't speak Japanese, but, once again, this was just for fun. I accept any corrections

(Door opens and closes, and steps are heard Hange appears in Erwin's office, glasses up and angry, talking loudly.)

Hange: Aah! No more! I can't do this! At all!

Levi: It's noisy, be quiet.

Hange: (still talking loudly, now with the glasses) But hey! Can something like this happen!? Sonny, too! And Bean too! They were cute children that I cared for with great care! From now on! For humanity! A lot! It was supposed to be helpful! I can't even look into those round eyes anymore!? Who could have done such a thing!

Erwin: (ignoring Hange) Levi. What are the tea leaves today?

Levi: It was diverted from the centre. Not bad.

Hange: (angry and talking loudly) Hey, you two. Are you listening!?

Erwin: (looking at Hange) Calm down, Hange. Why don't you drink it too?

Hange: (in a more calm voice but still bothered) I'm not having tea. It isn't the time for a drink.

Erwin: Well, don't say that.

(Erwin makes a cup of tea and gives it to Hange)

Hange: (sighs, calm) ････････････, phew! I see, it tastes good.

Levi: So, You still don't have any idea who did it?

Hange: Not at all. Not even a clue. We've been completely outwitted. The only certain thing is that the crime was committed using a three-dimensional mobile device.

Levi: ･･････ I see. ････････････････････････ Erwin, are new recruits also eligible?

Erwin: Of course, this year's 104th training corps seems to be full of people with strong habits.

Hange: Ah, some kids are really smart, right? That's interesting.

Erwin: (agrees silently) ････････････････････････

Hange: (silence) ････････････････････････

Levi: ････････････････････････It's been 5 years

Erwin: Yes, that would be a reference point. It seems like it would be a good idea to exclude those who have been there for a while before that.

Hange: Five years. Now that I think about it, it was around that time that Levi joined the Scout Regiment. 5 years ･･････ or was it 6 years ago? When he first came in, he was like "I don't care about anyone!" So it was hard to get close to him.

Levi: (rudely) Shut up, damn glasses.

Hange: Yeah, like a wounded cat! But now, we're so open to each other. Well, you know, from the very beginning I knew we'd definitely get along!

Levi: ･･････ Who's good friends with whom?

Hange: Of course, it's me! However, Levi is loved by everyone. I was surprised at how strong he was right after joining the Scouts, but now he's the captain who brings everyone together. I think it's amazing that it's only been 6 years.

Levi: Even after 6 years, your annoyance hasn't changed. I think it's a big deal.

Erwin: (approaching) ･･････It's about time, both of you. (with a more serious expression) Levi. Next outside the wall check, you will be in the centre of the fifth row.

Levi: ･･････ Understood.

Hange: Take care of Eren. Because the fate of humanity depends on him.

Erwin: (still serious) Hange, how are you preparing?

Hange: (starting to get enthusiastic) Do you want to hear it? That's right, it's the best feeling. We have strengthened the elasticity of the wire. Efficacy testing has already been completed. The results are as expected. All that's left to do is wait for that time. Well, it was worth hitting the investor's ass until there was no dust left!

Erwin: That's why we need results.

Levi: You just have to put it out.

(Cups and spoons are heard. Everyone appears with a cup of tea. Erwin is with a teacup in his hand looking at Levi. Levi is drinking his tea and looking at Hange. Hange is happily pouring tea into the cup.)

Levi: Erwin, are you sure that he will definitely come?

Erwin: Yes.

Hange: (distracted and starting to sound creepy) Well, I have to treat them well, after all, they took Sonny and Bean from me. I need to deal with them in place of those children. I'll leave aside the question of whether they're human or non-human for now. What should I do?

Levi: ･･････ Erwin. I feel a little sorry for that guy just for now.

Erwin: What a coincidence, Levi. Me too

Hange: (didn't hear) What, what are you two talking about?

Erwin: No, it's nothing.

Levi: I'm talking about the tea being delicious. You should taste it too.

Hange: Hmm, let's see. ･･････

(Cups and spoons are heard. Hange drinks.)

Hange: Oh, it’s true. It’s delicious——

[ae-chidori]

Some new fan art I came across. I find the art style refreshing and something that feels unique and at the same time represents Levi very well.

by omupied.

[alatuswind]

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[alatuswind]

The trios and their similarities: Erwin and Armin - Aot Talk

If you just stumble on this post know that I'm just mostly writing for myself as I have lots of thoughts regarding aot. Whether you like my opinions or not you're free to interact, but do it respectfully (why did that sound just like Eren)

The other parts of "The Trios and their similarities" series: (upcoming)

Here I present my new episode of AoT talk. Today I'm gonna ramble about how two trios seem to reflect each other, being today's protagonists Erwin and Armin. This can be coincidences (although that's not a very Isayama's thing) or I'm on to something here. Either way this is not an deep analysis just random things that I noticed. By the way all this thought started here.

Both have a similar appearance: I can still remember when my sister was watching season 4 and asked me honestly if Armin had cut his hair to resemble Erwin. They are simply and obviously very similar in appearance. I swear if I didn't know I would think that they were related.

Both are great strategists: So none of them is an 11 in Intelligence but they are both 10 in strategist. Throughout the story, both show various times how they could predict, understand and come up with a plan even when the situation seems to be hopeless.

Both used their ability for speech and manipulation to have their way instead of force: This is mainly seen when Armin tries to capture Annie by using their friendship and Erwins's season three speech when confronting the Beast or even Erwin's whole plan in No Regrets manga.

Both sacrifice themselves on the same battle, each on one side of the wall: While Erwin was charging towards the Beast with all the rookies in a suicidal gamble, Armin was sacrificing himself so the colossal Titan could be defeated.

Both believed and were enthusiastic about something beyond the walls during childhood, being their dreams to confirm it: While Erwin was curious on whether were there humans outside the walls and later comfirm is dad's theory, Armin was curious about what other things could be found outside the wall, just like lava and the sea due to his grandpa's book (or dad's as it is only mentioned that his grandpa hid it).

Both had parents who were interested in what was outside the wall : Erwin's dad being a teacher end up noticing flaws in the history of how they had started to live inside the walls making him interest in the outside world. Despite not having a lot of information regarding Armin's parents, we know they care about the outside world enough to try to leave.

Both of their parents died by the hand of Djel Sannes from the First Interior Squad of the Military Police due to being to curious about the world outside the walls: While Djel is being torture by Hange and Levi he confesses killing at least four people. While Erwin's dad is directly shown to be one of them, the couple being Armin's parents isn't as obvious. However, due to Armin mentioning that they were going to go outside the walls and the other people mentioned by Djel were parents of other characters, I believe that is pretty solid that they were Armin's parents.

Both had that dream as their main motivation to enter the Survey Corps and fight: Although being a slave to a dream being a recurrent thing, both of them joined because they desire to finally confirm if what they were once told about the world outside the walls was true. However one can say that Erwin's situation is a bit more complex but that's for another post.

Despite all this it is still noticeable that they are also very different characters. But I also think that lots of their differences are due to different levels of maturity, as they are in very different ages and have different levels of experience. However, the more I thought I couldn't stop how they were similar in these little details.

[alatuswind]

Sometimes I wonder if Hange ever got a grave. And if there is one, where it would be.

On Paradis island together with the other scouts? Probably not as the Yeagerists would likely destroy it since Hange was concidered a traitor. On the land that Levi and Onyankopon stayed? It's possible.

We will probably never know. But I will continue believing there's one somewhere.

Sorry, I chose angst today.

[alatuswind]

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

☆☆

(this review is my honest opinion and has no intention of offending anyone. So just read if you want. It contains spoilers.)

(Quite long as I had a lot to rant about 😅)

Okay, let’s talk about one of the most disappointing, nonsense books I read and it was one of my biggest book disappointments.

The premise of the book was dark academia with big plot twists, about a group of talented people that enter a competition for a year to be part of a society that has the knowledge that once was in Alexandria. However, only five could pass to the second year and turn to be society members.

World Building

Bad or even non-existent. In this book, there are people with and without magic. However, a lot about this magic system is not explained in the slightest.

We know that there are different types, which makes us believe that people are born within a specific type. However, characters end up talking about having abilities outside their magic type. Despite it trying to explain (minimally) how that is possible, we just don’t know enough about the magical system to fully understand it. It just comes as a very broad and limitless magic type where quite everything can be put in a way to fit it.

The separation between humans and magicians is also never truly explained. It tells us that people with magic go to universities, have important roles and even high-paying jobs. Due to this, you end up assuming that everyone knows about magicians. However, suddenly when explaining that an old scientific theory regarding light was actually wrong as the real event was caused due to a magician making fun of the unaware scientist, we have to assume that humans actually don't know about magic. It could be that in the past humans didn’t know about it but now they do. But there is really no point in thinking it forward because it is never truly explained.

This constant lack of explanation of the world that you are being introduce to will, unfortunately, continue.

Another good example of how the world of this book lacks structure is the existence of mermaids. I had to reread the section more than once as I was surprised that this book had mermaids as they were just introduced out of nowhere. Pretty much as “Ah, and that’s Gideon, he is half mermaid, half something else”. So, they are in the universities but again does everyone know? Never explained. Additionally, why do they exist? They were meaningless besides creating a subplot for Nico and Gideon, which was also meaningless, so...

Writing Style

The writing style made it difficult to understand what was going on. I have nothing against simple writing, there are lots of books that can be very profound while maintaining it simple. But it was quite different. It kind of felt that the author didn't have the energy to properly explain and write things clearly. For example, she tends to use brackets to explain things further or even to indicate who talked. It went pretty much like this:

That had begun almost immediately after the installations (”installations” being Atlas’s word for all of them nearly dying on their very first night as part of the society).

“Why would someone want us to think Rhodes was dead?” (Nico.) “Is the question why Rhodes, or why us?” (Parisa).

The use of a certain vocabulary also made the writing feel like pretentious tweets more than actual thoughts, conversations or explanations, but I believe this is more a picky point on my part.

Some quotes really didn't make that much sense. You just have to think about them more than once to see the flaws behind their logic. For example:

You have a choice, you know. You have only one true choice in this life: live or die. It is your decision. It is the only thing no one else can take from you.

Hmm... not so sure about it. There were some more, but this was one of the best.

There were also moments when it seemed that what was pointed out in one page, was forgotten in the next one. For example, after a battle Atlas shows up and it is described that Dalton was right behind him when everyone looked. Considering this is written in POVs, they saw him, but in the same scene, it is pointed out that they were surprised when he talked because they didn't know he was there.

This type of situation is repeated in the plot too. For example, when Atlas and Ezra were thinking of their motive to create the new team, it is said that they didn’t know but wanted to do something useful with this magic. But suddenly on the next page, it changed and now it was because they wanted to destroy the society as they disagreed with it.

However, the scene that made me question my interpretation skills was the battle, which I blame on the lack of proper description. In this scene, Libby and Tristan are trying to defend the place from some invaders and they enter a room that has some enemies. For Libby, there were dozens of them, but Tristan could see there were merely three (powers and stuff). So they start arguing about it, and due to the lack of description, it just looks like the enemies are just there waiting while they start understanding their trick. Another thing that made me annoyed in this scene was when this pair entered another room where there were two more enemies. But the thing is that it just described that they entered and decided to wait to see if there was someone else. So... were they hiding? Were they just standing there in the middle of the room? I don’t know. However, when it is mentioned that the men looked up from the computer and immediately locked eyes with Tristan, I just laugh. So I guess they were just there, in the middle of the room. I actually tried more than once to understand this scene and reread it but still have no clue.

Characters

This is a topic that lots of people seem to disagree in their opinions. Some love all the characters, and some really hate most of them. I would say that I am in the middle.

Nico was my favorite initially (aka he was giving Cardan vibes). However, despite looking like he was gonna be the focus on the first pages, by the middle of the book he was practically forgotten in the main plot of the book and only appeared to participate in the secondary plot, which was honestly meaningless for this book.

Libby was also a character that I enjoyed. I did like her interactions with Nico for the most part, but they did start to annoy me as they were always the same, their relationship got no development whatsoever. Plus, it did feel like she was always a topic in almost every chapter, even if the reason was everyone making a very teen-like comment about how she asked too many questions when all were still meeting. This made no sense as she didn't ask that many and didn't even ask many more for the rest of the book. It feels like the author wanted to make us understand that Libby’s attitude irritates the group but thought that only describing her being annoying once would be enough to justify everyone's constant complaints for the entire book.

Reina is probably the most boring of them all. Not because she didn’t have potential but because she was simply left out of everything in the story. She was just there to read, quite literally and didn’t care about anyone, or start caring. So, when she disliked someone it would only feel dull as there were barely any disagreements besides a single moment. Once again, it feels like the author thought that just one single scene where nothing major happened was enough to justify the characters' complaints for the entire story.

Tristan was the one that I disliked the most. I understand he is the guy with daddy issues who looks for people who can hurt him and be cruel towards him. It was an interesting build for some time. But it got to the point that his monologues were always the same. All of his thoughts are loyal to his traumas but it never felt like he barely tried to think outside that even if he had all the ways to do so. No development whatsoever. Plus, his sudden high interest in Libby after that drunk nightstand just didn’t feel right to me. I can understand the reasons for the attachment, but it was just too sudden. However, I was quite interested in his dynamic with Callum, to the point that I would much prefer that the attachment he created with him would have been the focus instead.

Parisa was a surprise for me as I didn’t expect to like her as I did, but she was without doubt the most interesting one. Parisa made her relationship with s*x seem very logical. For her it was not just s*x, but her way of playing mind games. She is by far the most intelligent character in the entire book and the one that made this book seem engaging for a while. Everything she did had a logical objective and made sense. She even made the fact that the author always had to add sexual references in almost every moment a little bit more tolerable, but just for a bit.

Callum had all the potential, but none of it was used. His perspective on morality was very intriguing and his thoughts on emotions due to his ability were fascinating. He could have been the character that would make the reader doubt, make them question, be the imbalance, be the one that would challenge others, but all that was left behind. His game against Parisa was the best part of the book and the only reason I might have given 2 stars.

Plot

Firstly, there was the plot regarding the society. As expected this was the most academic part of the book. All six of them had to create better security for the society. Were they able to do it? So for the largest part of the book it was completely forgotten, but eventually it was mentioned their success when it was no longer important. If it ever was.

We also know they are having classes about certain topics and I guess they needed to research independently (once again, wasn't very clear). Three of them ended up working together on this research regarding wormholes in space. Despite sounding like a very big event as it was never done before, it was, once again, completely forgotten for the rest of the book. It didn't add anything to the book at all. And this same pattern repeats. There are academic topics that appear from nowhere, then the characters do something incredible, nearly impossible, and then it is just forgotten or not developed.

Now, back to the mermaids. From the very beginning, we know that Nico needs to protect Gideon from his mother. However, we never know what bad stuff she's on, apart from her being a terrible mom. We are constantly reminded that she is a threat, to the point that Nico almost died just to make a safe place she couldn't invade. However, she didn’t do anything threatening. By the end of the book, we are just left wondering why she even existed. Of course, this narrative may be going to be expanded in the sequel. However, I can not even feel a bit excited about it as her existence wasn't important for this book.

Despite these, there was a part of this book that was okay. Since the tension between Parisa and Callum started, the stakes got higher. The majority of it was still dialogue and not a lot of action, but when we finally got a bit of it actually made me interested. The best parts of this book were definitely when Parisa manipulated Libby and Tristan and the mind duel. At this point, it felt more like a dark academia and I was so ready to see their corrupt arcs coming up, especially when all of them decided to kill Callum. Until it was all left behind for the "plot twist".

One of the main topics of this book was about what we do for more or prohibited knowledge. This is introduced when they all understand that they have to kill one of them. The book makes it look like most characters would have refused before but the time in the society and the taste of all that knowledge had changed them and they would kill to continue having it. However, at no point in the book we saw this corruption happening. There were just random discoveries but never the obsession with it nor the selfish thoughts. And is not like most cared for each other to think murder would be a big challenge.

Now the "plot twist"…

Guess what, Libby’s boyfriend, Ezra, was all this time a time travelling and together with Atlas, selected the whole group for a reason that changes each page. Jumping all the moments and changes of narrative in the only chapter where all this was presented, I want to point out how badly this plot twist was introduced and how it completely destroyed the good potential that it had.

The first time we are foresight about this was when Tristan saw someone outside the society and the reader can easily guess that it was Ezra. At this point, it was intriguing. Then Ezra speaks with Atlas out of nowhere. Then we know there is an outsider from the initial six. Finally, we are just explained in one chapter to the end, that Ezra saw the future and Atlas is a traitor who is planning to destroy the whole world. This whole chapter made me just scream "WHAT?", and not a "now everything makes sense" WHAT but a wtf WHAT. Everything in this chapter is just confusing. Was Ezra not being part of the initiates a betrayal or his decision? Does Ezra like Libby or not? I don't really know since he does say he likes her and then thinks it is better not to respond to her question regarding him caring for her since he does not have something good to say. Even the whole thing about Ezra now having six recruits to go against the society made me question how the hell he got time to find those people as he didn't even know about Atlas's plans for the longest. Atlas’s choice, despite having good logic behind was terribly discovered and foreshadowed. The only things we know for the whole book about Atlas are that he got a position uncommon to be gained and that he was not in society a lot. The same applies to Ezra. To add to all this, Ezra only associates the end of the world he saw in the future with Atlas because he remembers a conversation between them when drugged. He didn't even question if he was wrong, that his friend would never do it. No, he immediately knew clearly it was Atlas.

This book made me feel that all the years learning English were for nothing because I constantly couldn't understand what was happening.

[alatuswind]

My roman empire is Carla saying this about Eren. She is the sweatest mom ♡

The fact that she loves him so much just for being born and didn't need anything more makes me honestly smile everytime. I love how aot tries to remind us to appreciate the little things in life.

"Why does anyone have to be special? I don't think that way. At least, this child doesn't have to be great. He doesn't have to be better than anyone. After all... just look at him. He is so cute. He's already special, because he was born into this world."

[towersedits]

this savage song  | author: v. e. schwab

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pride and prejudice | author: jane austen

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[yoong02]

bangtan edit: HEARTBEAT NETFLIX SERIES

"Discover the touching story of seven boys tied by the soul, united by the universe to make great things happen."

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