Stang's true form is still being workshopped but what matters is that he's big and less pretty than in his human form (not that Less finds him any less attractive)
Taigenâs love confession NEEDS to come before he finds out Mizu is a woman.
Listen. I have given this a lot of thought and the more I think about it, the more Iâm sure. When looking at Mizu and Mikioâs marriage, we can see how Mikio was in to the idea of a strong woman only so far as he was still stronger than her. This is clear when Mikio insists that he wants to âsee all of [mizu]â and insists that they spar; Mikio doesnât unsheath his blade even though Mizu tell him not to hold back. He assumes he is stronger than her and when this is proven false, like the beta bitch he is, he bails.
But with Taigen itâs different. Mizu and Taigenâs relationship has been a power struggle from the start. Taigen wasnât introduced to Mizu as a woman or a wife. Taigen has always seen Mizu as a swordsman first. And when the hostility between the two starts to cool, it is because of their mutual admiration of the otherâs skill. Mizuâs strength and boldness are what win Taigen over in the first place.
We also see a very important juxtapose between when Mizu pins Mikio to the ground and when she pins Taigen to the ground. In the first instance, Mikio pushes Mizu off him and calls her a monster. He feels put off and emasculated by being overpowered. In the Mizu/Taigen scene, however, once Mizu has Taigen pinned, he stares, awestruck, into Mizuâs eyes and gets a raging hard on. Instead of feeling emasculated, Taigen get so aroused that he has a full blown bi awakening.
So we know that Taigen is different to Mikio in that he is attracted to Mizu BECAUSE she can kick his ass, not in spite of it. But Mizu has been burned before. Badly. So if Taigen were to confess his feelings and tell Mizu that her strength is what he adores most about her, sheâd be like, âright, sure, heard that one before.â And thatâs why Taigen needs to confess his feelings BEFORE he finds out whatâs in Mizuâs pants.
In my daydreaming about a Migen love confession, I find myself reminded of this quote. How Mikio was like the exotic bird collector. He only liked the idea of Mizu knowing her way around a sword so long as at the end of the day, he can still put her back into the caged-in roll of the house wife.
Taigen is also guilty of this with Akemi. I sure there is still no small amount of attraction and love between them, but I think Taigen pursues Akemi mostly out of the personal fable he has written about himself; the poor fishermanâs son who raises himself up to be the star of his Dojo and then marries a princess. He might not have wanted to cage Akemi as much as other men would have, but he still sees her as the exotic bird. The prize. And thats why I canât ship them.
But with Mizu itâs different. Taigen even admits that Mizu is a better fighter than him. He KNOWS he could never cage her and by the end on the first season he strops trying, opting to stand beside her instead of against her (âitâs your fight, so itâs mineâ đ) So when he does confess his feelings, he has to do is as one man to another and make it clear to Mizu that her strength is what he loves most and that he would never want her to be anything less then the superior swordsman she is.
Only then will Mizu have a chance of believing that Taigen wants to be with her, not to subdue her into a wifely role, but to stand beside her in all her greatness. If Taigenâs confession were to come after he finds out sheâs a woman, Mizu might just think, âoh, NOW you want to be with me, cause you think just because Iâm a woman Iâll eventually submit to you.â Mizu needs to know she is loved AS SHE IS.
Also, I just think it would be HILLARIOUS if Taigen confesses, and Mizu is like, â well thenâŠ.. I guess I should let you knowâŠâ and then Taigen spends the rest of the episode with his mind fucking BLOWN and complaining that he has spent the last several months coming to terms with the fact that he is attracted to another man only to find out the man he is attracted to is a woman! He goes through a whole bi awakening for nothing!
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I work at a restaurant and nothing will ever beat the time this woman threw an absolute hissy fit at brunch because we ran out of home fries and all we had were french fries, she yelled at me, she demanded to speak to my manager, and when sheâs in the middle of complaining, my manager just stopped her and went âhey do you want a hug?â and this woman went âwhat?â and my manager was like âyou just seem super upset about the shape of these potatoes and I thought maybe you needed a hugâ fucking hysterical, I got to watch a human blue screen in real life, absolutely the best way to shame someone for their nonsense Iâve ever seen
The Most Delusional Demon of the Boiling Isles: A Kikimora Analysis
Donât misunderstand the title of this post, this is in no way a hate post about Kikimora. Iâm just generally fascinated with her poor life choices, and wanted to write out my thoughts and theorize just what kind of mindset she had throughout the series because WOW.
When we first meet Kiki she is portrayed as if she was Belosâ secretary, sending messages to Lilith on his behalf, as well as giving tours of the castle to the witchlings. We are shown that she is passive aggressive. We are shown that she can be intimidated based on Luz threatening her. Very typical traits of the villainsâ overlooked secretary.
Then we head into S2, and we are introduced to her more insidious and paranoid side. Kikimoraâs passive aggression morphed into pure aggression in Hunting Palismen by attempting to not only steal Hunterâs job from him, but also fully intend to kill him outright. Her obvious vendetta against Hunter only continued to manifest in Eclipse Lake, expecting him to take a page out of her book (which he does to a lesser extent) and sabotage her mission. One could speculate this more craze side is her reaction for the Golden Guard to be chosen for new Headwitch over her, but later events informs us the viewers that Kikimora probably already knew just how disposable Hunter was to Belos. Knowing this, Kikimora acted might have felt like she can act more boldly than she did with Lilith.
Our next new look at Kikimora comes with the Covenâs Dar Parade when Luz overhears Kikimora getting pressured in abandoning her post for the dayâs festivities in favor of not being disowned by her family. Luz, projecting her own family troubles onto Kikimoraâs situation, eagerly helps. However, Kikimora all but disowns her own family when the promise of a vague âpromotion â is dangled in front of her. She betrays and attacks Luz, disregards her family she was crying over mere hours ago, and what does she get from her precious promotion? She gets the âluxuryâ to keep living.
Before continuing on, I would like to focus in on Kikimoraâs relationship (or lack of) with her family. Hunter reveals in the Emerald Entails episode that Emperor Coven hopefuls are expected to leave their friends and family forever. That coupled with Danaâs tweet about how Steve and Matty having some sort of distance between them despite being brothers, itâs safe to say that Kikimora has already literally chosen her career over her family already, but the gravity of that chose probably just sunk in during the day of the parade. Of course, despite her bawling and distraught disposition at the idea of choosing between her family and the coven, she almostly gleefully chooses the later when the concept of more power is given to her.
Going back to the play by play. The next time we see Kikimora again, she not only is dealing with her lackluster reward of continuing to live, but she was actually demoted to be a lowly arms shipment delivery girl. Understandably, she is miserable up until Odalia gifts her with a massive abominton mecha suit, which just tickles Kikiâs obsession with having power. Then she sees her chance to âredeemâ herself in Belosâ eyes by capturing and deliverying Hunter directly to the Emperor himself. Kikimora even goes as far as to gloat to Hunter about Belos maybe making her his new âGolden Guard,â which is all kinds of messed up in hindsight, but Iâm getting a bit ahead of myself.
In the finale, with Kikimora unknowingly delivering Luz to the Emperor instead of Hunter, she cautiously asks for her old job back. Perhaps he could even give her a higher role as Belosâ right hand. Belos responds by savagely telling her that he rather âcut his whole arm offâ than have her as his right hand and to find a hole to die in after leaving her to suffer the effects of the draining spell.
We meet back with Kiki again when King finds her, and the full extent of her knowledge puts all of her actions in a whole different light. Unlike most of the residents of the Boiling Isles, Kikimora not only knew about the nature of the draining spell, but she also knew that Belos actually had no power in stopping it. She knew about the Collector due to her paranoid ease dropping. Not only that, but she also knew about the true nature of the Golden Guard, leading king into the graveyard filled with the bones of Belosâ âfailures.â
Knowing just how aware Kikimora was to Belosâ true nature, but still desperately wished to follow and help him truly tells us, true viewers just how delusional she is. She gloated to Hunter about maybe being named the next Goldne Guard, despite knowing about the numerous pile of former Golden Guard bodies being stored away in a pit. She potentially knew about the true nature of The Day of Unity for quite a long time, yet she still chose the potential power the Emperorâs Coven could give to her over her family. She knew that Belos made a deal with a âchild of the starsâ with the intention of killing all the residents of the Boiling Isles, yet she still crazed his approval. It wasnât until Belos outright just tell her to do die did Kikimora finally let go of the delusion that Belos would give a shâąt about her. She KNEW about the bodies of kids that Belos killed when they âbetrayedâ them, and she somehow still fooled herself into thinking it would be different with her.
Ironically enough, Kikimora was probably everything Philip could ever hope for in a âGolden Guard.â Someone who blindly would follow him in the depths of hâąll despite knowing all his terrible plans. Someone who could potentially handle almost all sorts of abuse just for the sake of recognition. Somehow who would willingly throw everything they had away, just to serve him.
Kikimora could have been the âperfectâ substitute for the âCalebâ Philip had ever wanted.
Fey: Very well. When you return home tonight, your mother will be in pristine health again. It will be like she never fell ill at all. Even the memory of her suffering will fade...
Human: Thank you so much. She means everything to me.
Fey: I know, I know. Let's hope the price wasn't too much for you after all... Only time will tell.
for people who are unaware of why the riots in minneapolis started happening, hereâs the facts:
it wasnât george floydâs protesters who started reacting violently; it was the cops.
the protest was peaceful until the cops showed up in riot gear, and started using water cannons, followed up by tear gas and rubber bullets. i got videos from friends who were there, of people screaming and running away from the cops shooting the water cannons, rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at them. they were even shooting at the protesters dragging people away to get medical attention.
speaking of medical attention, dispatch refused to provide any medical attention to the protesters. people literally had to drive their bleeding friends to the hospital because they refused to send ambulances.
cops are using non-lethal weapons in a lethal way. they shot rubber bullets into peopleâs heads and injured them. thereâs dozens of photos of protesters with bleeding head wounds from the rubber bullets.
multiple people used police scanners and heard that there were undercover cops pretending to be violent protesters who were throwing rocks and whatnot at the police, with dozens of eyewitness accounts confirming that information.
the person who instigated all the chaos last night (it was a fire at an autozone) with the looting and burning buildings is highly suspected to be an undercover cop pretending to be a protester, because the video of him keeps getting taken down. protesters tried to stop him but couldnât because he had a hammer and they were scared for their safety.
the cops jammed cell phone towers and cut live streams to interrupt broadcasts and to prevent people from seeing what was really going on and who actually started the violence.
the cops lied about protesters being armed and about throwing rocks and are literally trying to continue the violence happening and yet no one is holding them accountable for that.
and during all this, the cop that murdered george floyd still hasnât been arrested. he has had more than ten complaints filed against him and was involved in three other civilian shootings in the past. and yet heâs still out free along with his three other buddies involved, probably sitting on his couch while all this chaos is happening.
so donât get it twisted. the cops just want to change the narrative to make it look like theyâre the wounded and righteous party, when theyâre the ones who started reacting violently in the first place and are still acting violently. so donât you ever forget who started this tragedy and murdered someone, and who are continuing to react to the situation with violence.Â
can we stop with the âcoronavirus is a blessing, actuallyâ narrative
itâs not solving our âoverpopulationâ problem, because that was never our problem in the first place!! the problem is the overuse and inequitable distribution of resources
COVID-19 is not ânature taking itâs revengeâ, itâs killing the vulnerable, not the corporations and billionaires responsible for the climate crisis
and the whole idea that itâs âbringing us closer togetherâ may be true for the upper middle class getting to work from home, but itâs absolute bullshit for frontline workers, people who still have to go in to work, and people who canât afford to live now that they arenât allowed to work
What I love most about Skyrim (and TES in general) is how, once the surface is at all scratched, youâre confronted with the most buckwild lore in the history of ever. Like, Skyrimâs baseline experience is: you are a person born with the soul of a dragon, which means you can absorb their souls and speak their language. Fair enough! There are two moons! And vampires! Giants herd mammoths across the plains!
But then! Dig a little deeper, and itâs all âyeah, there are two moons, but they arenât really moons, theyâre the corpse of the god who tricked all the other gods into creating the world, and mortals just interpret them as moonsâ, and âan entire race created technology that runs on souls, and they accidentally erased themselves from existence while trying to become gods, well at least thatâs our best guessâ and âsome dudes replaced their hearts with plants and you can pickpocket the plant-heart right out of their chestâ and âhereâs a weapon that sometimes turns your enemies into pastriesâ.Â
One of the former Emperors of Cyrodill could nut so hard he used it to decapitate enemy soldiers. He also colonized the moon briefly. His biggest fan by far was a gay cyborg from the future.
The Hist are alien âtreesâ that crash landed on Nirn after their planet was destroyed. They exist outside of time as we know it really and drink memory as if it were water. They are only nerfed by the fact they donât have hands, a fact they fixed by tricking lizards into eating them, permanently altering their biology so that they resembled the man races and uplifting them into a sentient race of their own that is dependant on them to procreate.
This one time a monkey got SO MAD at god he and his human friends danced so hard it broke time for 1,000 years (which to everyone else felt like one night) and at the end they had deleted god and replaced him with a new, furry approved version.
If you wish upon a star, it might just come to earth and kill you. The constellations themselves are actually living, breathing beings and they fucking hate us bro, they are sick of our shit.
- The Redguards used to know a combat technique called Pankratosword that is essentially causing nuclear fission with your blade. They sword so hard that it causes a nuclear explosion. Itâs possible that it destroyed Yokuda, the Redguard homeland, but no one really knows
- Lord Vivec is known to the Redguards as the Ansu-Gurleht, âHe-who-makes-us-womenâ because he really, REALLY enjoys force-femmeing Redguard men.Â
- Thereâs like 17 breeds of Khajit, ranging from âlooks like an actual housecatâ to âcatgirl/catboy nyaâ to âwerecatâ to âfucking HUGE lionâ. What breed you get born as is not dependent on your parents but rather the phases of the moon.
- The Eye of Magnus from Skyrim may or may not in fact be a mining robot named KINMUNE from an incredibly distant time in the future who got displaced during a war between the aforementioned Hist, and the Jills, who are the female dragon-aspects of the dragon god of time Akatosh/Auri-El/whatever the FUCK you wanna call thatâŠthing
- The first NPC you meet in Morrowind, Jiub, later became a Saint because he cleansed Morrowind of its abominable cliff racers
- Dragons stayed the fuck out of Vvardenfell precisely because of those aforementioned abominable fucking cliff racers
Jin guangyao being able to monologue endlessly at guanyin temple is so unrealistic. There were at least nine other people at that temple, ten if you count wen ning crashing the party later! More if you count JGY's private army! Over half of the ten actively disliked him! They are almost all notoriously annoying and (too) vocal about their opinions! Have y'all ever tried to talk about something in a group of ten people? How about ten upset people? You get two sentences maybe. Make your point in 14 words or less or don't make it at all. This man was allowed to go on for like 7 chapters??? Unrealistic
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