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Yeah, well...How 'bout a boat that's not a boat. You know what I mean? Of course, you do. You take out one plank...boat's the same as it ever was. It's just got a— a hole in it, that's all. You take out a— a lot of planks...and all of a sudden, you gotta ask yourself...what— what the fuck am I looking at? This ain't no boat. It's just a— a pile of wood, man. It's just a fսckin' pile of wood.

Walton Goggins as The Ghoul/Cooper Howard Fallout (2024—) 2.03 "The Profligate"

#fallout #ghoul #dogmeat

whereareyourightnow

#soulmatism

#fallout #ghoul #lucy mclean

whereareyourightnow

If you have to hurt people, God won't judge you

FALLOUT - The Handoff

#fallout #steph became my fave after s2e7 like she is horrible but i get her

Okay I LOVE "Hear my Hope" but was anyone actually giving a chart of the required power level to jump in and help? Nothing funnier than Veggi and Cherri Bomb going like "We (you) need to be stronger" "Nobody left to save the day 🥹". Sorry, I missed the moment they told you that you were excused from the team building exercise. Would helping seriously injure them and how would they know? Because it was literally an all-hands-on-deck situation, even if their power was 1/10000th of Nifty's, it was worth adding it! Granted, they didn't know they were up against Lucifer's angelic power since they'd just walked into the situation (Angel, Baxter and Cherri at least), they just like sensed it was above their pay grade?

#Also do I misremember or are Nifty and Husk coming from the building and they arrive BEFORE Veggi who was literally there.#She is excused for carrying the Hotel on her back the whole season however #I mean I would say that if I weren't comparing her to Nifty! Worked hard all season #kicked an overlord's ass five minutes before #And still sprinted to help while the others were sitting on their hands! My goat #Hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel season 2

I've been thinking about what would happen if Charlie DOES achieve her dreams. Like she figures how to redeem murder (which would take care of 3/4 sinners so far...), how to redeem every sin and convince her guests to take redemption seriously. All the current guests are redeemed, all the current staff members are redeemed, new people come and she makes friends with new souls and redeems them too. New souls die and at that point everyone who wants redemption can use a pretty well developed system, so redemption becomes quick. Then what?? She either sees new souls for like a few years and Hell is empty of any veteran or she's stuck down there with the Vees, some newbies who come and go in a blink and Alastor forever (no, I don't think the Vees and Alastor have the potential to want redemption. They'll stay there forever or until they get sick of each other.) With no friends, no possibility to actually meet all the other guests and friends besides some short visits to heaven if she's allowed. MAYBE Vaggi and Lucifer stay with her but they could possibly be redeemed (I'd really LOVE to see "anyone can be redeemed" Charlie send the Devil himself back to heaven. If sinners can be redeemed, so can fallen angels). She's the only hellborn in the team and so the only one who can't go to heaven because she has nothing to redeem. Even her mom, Eve or any other mythological person we might meet after Lilith is only a sinner.

I'm feeling so bad for her. Achieving her dreams means saying goodbye to the friends she worked so hard to help and loves so much and that she'll end up alone in Hell.

#Hazbin hotel #charlie morningstar #seems like Angel dust wants to camp out in hell forever though so that's good #So it's going to be Alastor and Vox arguing for eternity #I couldn't do it chief I'd murder one of them #Like theoretically I don't think she would be forbidden from going to heaven but it wouldn't be the same #She's the only one who could never be allowed to live there #I don't think Vaggi and Lucifer have any interest in going back to Heaven anyway but I think they could just like the sinners #But yeah they wouldn't go back regardless #let alone if that leaves Charlie alone #I mean

thememedaddy

#meme #lol #if Luneth is this funny in the remake then I have to play it

ptitsa-poh

Just started to play and built a camp for the first time

#clair obscur: expedition 33

comickergirl

This game is a beautiful and brutal examination of grief and letting go....and also you can wield a baguette sword.

#clair obscur: expedition 33 #sciel #lune #verso #maelle #for those who come after!#I miss gustave :(

I'll be honest, I didn't rewatch season 2 so I don't remember if they changed the rules but didn't Gi-Hun go on and on about "Let's just give up! Let's both go back! If the majority wants to leave we can!" during the squid game in season one with Sangwoo when they were wrestling in the mud?? Couldn't he...try this time as well? Convince the baby's dad to give up like he tried last time or try to pull the "one in favour one abstained, we should leave" card when he he was alone with the baby?

#squid game season 3 #squid game spoilers

I thought nothing could beat Ali's death in season one but then it was Hyun-Ju's turn. She did everything right. The only person who absolutely didn't deserve to die was the soldier woman and YET. I'm so mad and sad I can't keep watching I swear.

#squid game 3 #squid game season 3 #squid game spoilers #Cho Hyun-Ju

The Last of Us S2E2: Battle of Castle Black

#the last of us #the last of us hbo #game of thrones #I had a bad feeling when Abby stumbled on those frozen infected and I was like just like that made up scene in GoT season 1 #hbo will hbo #also why is Dina with Joel and not his brother? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense ngl #the zombie breaching in was cool ngl but there was nothing like that in the game or have a play a complelty different game?

bellatrixdulac

This might be controversial but…like the vindication I've felt when Mu Qing and Feng Xin spelled it out for Xie Lian that Hua Cheng is creepy as hell in book 6? I was thinking the same since the start and I felt like I was the only one. Unreliable narrator and toxic shipping are fun but genuinely everyone seems to think that HuaLian is like a "goalsss" kind of relationship in the fandom, super cute and romantic but uh? If it wasn't the main ship, everyone would likely hate Hua Cheng for being a creep, let's be real. I felt like I was living in a bizarro world until those two finally spoke about it. Not that I had any doubt he would not turn creepy. I have believed since the start that Hua Cheng picked the colour red so he could use all his red flags as clothes lol He was always so... icky.

apenapaperandadoofus

Hi! So first of all, I don’t mean to fight or say any of this in any disrespectful way, I just like discussing books and such but this is not meant to be a fight.

1. The stalking: while I understand why some people might perceive it that way Hua Cheng was NOT stalking Xie Lian. This is a common misconception. He was LOOKING for him but thorough-out the entire 800 years Hua Cheng had NO idea where Xie Lian was. How can you stalk someone without knowing where they are? He was looking for his god to protect him now that he had the power to, unlike in the past.

2. Hua Cheng never keeps Xie Lian from his friends. He never says “hey leave those guys, don’t hang out with them.” Is he mean and fiesta towards them? Yes. But keep in mind the reasons why

Mu Qing: left Xie Lian during the second flashback, and then didn’t defend him during the land argument. Hua Cheng was 15 at most at that time and watched as his God was betrayed (we know MQ had his reasons but for XL POV he was getting betrayed) PLUS being practically bullied by the other officials and HC couldn’t defend him. You know who could? MQ but he didn’t. If your partner was hurt by their friend wouldn’t you be a bit cold towards them? Also add the fact MQ kicked out HC out of the army solely because of jealousy.

Feng Xin: from HCs POV FX left XL during a terrible moment for him, yes XL asked him to but HC didn’t KNOW and it looks like after XL “fell from grace” his friends betrayed him.

Banyue and PX although I can’t speak much bc I read the books a while ago, I don’t recall HC ever being purposely antagonistic towards them. When XL goes to talk to Banyue and comfort them, HC doesn’t stop him, in fact he encourages him and the words he said. After all, it was those words that saved HIM. PX also did a lot of bad things, and Hua Cheng hates corrupt Gods. Of course he isn’t going to like him but he doesn’t stop XL from hanging out with any of them. If he didn’t want them there he would’ve made them leave from Mt. Tonglu.

While he teases and tries to irritate FX and MQ and YES he did try and separate them in Mt. Tonglu, it was bc they were arguing about MQs thing with the holy land. Bringing back those memories wouldn’t have made him feel empathy for them exactly. Besides he wasn’t even going to kill them, he was trying to get XL out of the cage as fast as possible to not see the statues (more on that later).

Shi Qingxuan and Black Water

The only reason HC was trying to get XL to not hang out with SQX was because he didn’t want him to get involved in BW revenge. He warned him bc him and HX have been working on this revenge for about two centuries, they made a deal long before XL even knew SQX.

And why didn’t he let XL help SQX at the end?

Literally just ghost politics. Remember, HX is a calamity, just like HC. They say in the books that if two calamities came face to face no one knows what would happen but it wouldn’t be pretty. Of course HC isn’t going to go back on his deal with HX who is his informant and spy on the heavens because of XL, as much as he loves him.

Also not to spoil much, but you’ll see later on that HC never separates SQX from XL. In fact there’s multiple chapters showing the contrary.

HC first of wall, was never asked by XL to look for SQX and find him and if he was he would have (although given he couldn’t find XL for 800 years im not confident on his finding skills lmao), and second of all, HX made sure he couldn’t be found. HX is also powerful, so easily he couldve stopped HC from looking.

Plus in the future if you see them interact and he’s literally super chill about it and in fact, we could argue is the person he treats the nicest apart from Xie Lian. (He’s shown to be nice to Guzi, Banyue, SQX, Yin Yu, we could even argue HX)

Hua Cheng never separates XL from his friends, he never kills them (which he could) or tells them to stay away. Apart from the cave of 10k statues where he was literally having a panic attack inside bc XL would realize that HE was his beloved, plus MQ and FX treating him like dirt (even since he was a child, FX treated HC like dirty trash they found on the street) and even in the extras, you will see they eventually have a good relationship, and to quote HC:

Even if HC doesn’t like his friends which again, we can see change in the extras, he lets Xie Lian make his own decisions and he follows him. The ONLY time he opposed him was during BW arc and we already explained why as a ghost king he couldn’t.

Final thing: about the cave of 10k gods.

I totally understand why it would seem creepy. However if we break things down and see the reasons you’ll see Hua Cheng never did it with a dirty intention (even the murals are explained bc it’s land of the tender, and it’s part of HCs moments with XL, it wasn’t like a random sex statue, it was part of the theme of being his memories and moments with his beloved, which the land of the tender was part of).

First hundreds and thousands of statues of one deity or person are completely normal in other religions and even for emperors. You can probably find tons of examples on google. So there’s an explanation that this is a religious practice HC was taking part of.

In Mt. Tonglu we can deduce HC was going through it, he was NOT having fun and it was a hard process for a whole decade. Remember HC was bullied practically to the point of wanting to die, and the only reason he was there and got saved from death twice was bc of XL. Of course hea going to think of him during this moment since it’s his comfort and reason to be there. And once again, he was doing a common religious practice for his God. The beauty of it too, is that along with it being religious it’s also shaped into love, which is for HC two separate matters, since he both sees XL as his god and as his beloved, but that’s why he always leaves a flower on XLs shrine, why he made the statues. Bc it was part of the religion. It wasn’t a creepy, oh let me make the person I’m obsessed with over and over (bc we can see HC is not obsessed. Head over heels in love? Yes. But obsessed? No. Look at Luo Binghe from SVSS if you want that, and compare the two. You’ll see the difference right away). HC has things outside of XL, he has his city, his gambling, he paints and sculpts bc he likes it, not bc XL is forcing him to.

While it’s understandable why some people would see it like MQ or FX, see it from HCs perspective. He has never, and will never try to make decisions for Xie Lian or make him do something he doesn’t want. He respects him as a person and lets him have his own autonomy- we can see it so much throughout the books. (Super small spoilers for the extra) If he wanted to he could’ve separated SQX and XL, not only in the past but later in the future when they find him. XL literally mentions he goes visit him daily! HC contacts MQ and FX when something is wrong with XL he literally contacts them straight away, and THEY contact HIM (which means they have an ARRAY) if there’s anything wrong. He COULD have separated them, he could have killed them, but he doesn’t because even if he doesn’t like them which is understandable, he knows XL likes and cares about them so he won’t separate them.

Sorry for the long rant lol. Anyway, while I do see why some people see it that way, I feel a deeper need of understanding of all of the characters situation plus the era. Now if you wanted to talk about toxic and even compare, like I said before, look at Luo Binghe from SVSS. As much as I love SVSS he IS toxic, he actively tries to separate his love from his friend MULTIPLE times and does more things that are kind of questionable.

Anyway long story short, HC does care a LOT about XL but it is not toxic or obsessive. In fact he does it in the healthy way. He is a rational human being that knows his partner is his own person, he lets XL make choices, even the wrong ones (black water plus calamity era!) and he keeps the people that hurt him away, unless XL cares about them (like MQ and FX). For example. Look at Qi Rong. Xie Li doesnt really care about his cousin or like him, and HC has ANGER towards Qi Rong when he disrespects XL (and it is only until then he hears him up, might I add) but when XL shows he doesn’t want to kill him (bc of the body he’s possessing) and keeps him in his shrine, HC doesn’t kill Qi Rong. He pisses him off, sure, but when XL and him are away for some time he even sends people to take care of them AND the shrine. If he wanted to keep and aisle XL from everyone he could have sent them away.

Phew thank you for coming to my ted talk. Also this wasn’t done in a mean way or anything I just like character analysis lol. Sorry if English was crap, not my first language and yeah.

dianxiacantastemolecules

Imagine reading tgcf and thinking hc is the stalker while *someone* else is actively trying to sabotage xl throughout his life 😀. Op needs to finish the novel and then speak for fucks sake. Never seen anyone misunderstand hua cheng so hard.

bellatrixdulac

Granted, I haven't finished the novel yet (I'm on book 6) so I am absolutely going back to the previous reblog when I do finish so I don't get spoiled. Btw I am not saying that he's a stalker because he obsessed over XL for 800 years…indeed, as the other person said, he couldn't even really find him as far as I understand so how would that count? That part is unhealthy, imo, but to each their own, he wasn't wrong for clinging to the only thing he really found comfort in after his country was destroyed, he (possibly, I think) died and so on. He's not the first person to obsess over religion and, while it's not really a good trait imo, it's not even something that sets him apart from so many other real people or characters (barring this infamous mural that Mu Qing and Feng Xin really disliked? I guess they're going to show us that they overreacted later, so I'll hold my judgment on this).

I'm saying this for the shit he pulled before/at the start of the Broquade immortal story. Removing someone who lives with XL to impersonate them when XL openly said to you that he was not going to see you for a while? And then live there, secretly, as Lang Ying? Dude, if you don't think that's stalking, fine, I'm not talking anything legal here. I'm saying he's a messed up person who puts his own desire to see XL first, even before XL's own feelings and common sense. And that brings him reeeealy close to a stalker in my book. He couldn't be aware of the reasons why XL told him that he didn't want to see him for the time being, and yet not only did he show up either way, he even did so in secret posing as a person XL trusted to some extent (the fact that he kinda sorta kidnapped another ghost XL wanted to rise as his student even goes in the background here as XL himself, somehow, trusts HC enough to believe that Lang Ying is okay so the story doesn't linger on it. But still…not cool. wtf). I don't need to finish the novel to see he's a messed up person because the motivations don't really matter, he's done that. Unless the ending magically reveals that he did receive special permission from XL to pull this crap, it's messed up and really far away from cute, romantic or even just normal. You see, this kind of comment is exactly what I was talking about. I ship toxic stuff, I shipped worse than HuaLian in my life, and liked people who are soooo much worse than him. That's not the issue. The issue is how the fandom sees this guy as some kind of romantic role model, apparently? Help. Besides, I kinda get this is one of those "mastermind behind the curtain" kinda story, kinda like MDZS, but it still doesn't make it okay. HC isn't XL's partner at the start of the novel, nor is he anyone special to XL until book 6 at least. He doesn't need to baby him, lie to him, hide in his house etc just because someone else is putting him in danger. Besides, I've never said HC is the worst person in XL's life, or the only one who's ever done something wrong lol