So, I'm playing The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remaster right now, and a moment of sheer coincidence has me spiralling.
Personally, roleplay is genuinely my favourite part of any game. I love creating a character, giving them a backstory, and *only* making decisions in-game that I think they would make. I even limit fast travel because I want to traverse the map with them and picture their ponderings between plot points and dungeon crawls. But especially because of moments like the one I just experienced.
Currently, I am playing an Orc named Morga the Grey. She is a Wise-Woman who abandons Orisinium after a crisis of faith triggered by the "honourable" deaths of all of her adult sons. (I love playing as morally grey old ladies.) Here she is!
I realised early on that she would have never seen the ocean before, as Orsinium is in the mountains. Being in her late 60s, I figured that encountering something completely new and so vast and existential as the ocean would be a very novel experience for Morga.
And so, I decided to travel along the coast, down near Anvil. For the first time in her life, She has no clear purpose. I figured she'd meditate on life down by the waves.
Now this is my first time playing Oblivion in years. I have genuinely forgotten most of it, and I'd certainly forgotten where everything was on the map.
So imagine how stunned I was to be deep in the mindset of this character. To see a marker appear on my compass, to turn and to find the Shrine to Malacath waiting for her.
It's astounding how easily meaning and story can be found when you just sit back and let your character lead!
Just imagine. You've spent your life first as a mother, then as a priestess to a warrior god. You've never known anything different. You are devoted. Then one day your sons die. They have "good deaths" and will live in the afterlife with your god. You should be happy, at the very least consoled, but your children are dead and perhaps, if they'd been cowards, they'd be alive.
So you leave the life you've led for 60 years, and for the first time, you are without purpose and everything is foreign. You decided to follow the first thing you find that is new (and it is beautiful and powerful and awe-inspiring and could lead anywhere), and it leads you straight back to a shrine of your former god.
"I'm walking backwards into my own myth. I was trying to walk out."
I'm screaming, crying and throwing up right now. Why do I do this to myself.
💬 140 🔁 33214 ❤️ 8200 · ‼️Please don’t skip taking a look 🍉🇵🇸 · Hi, my name is Naomi, and I’m from Texas. I’m organizing this fundraiser o
Some of you may already be familiar with @ahmadresh’s campaign.
For those who are not, all information is in the post linked above, which has been verified by @90-ghost.
However, Ahmed’s old GoFundMe has been deleted, so the fundraiser in the attached post no longer works.
Ahmed is now accepting help via this GoFundMe and this PayPal:
My name is Tiffany, and though I live in the U.S. thousands of miles from Gaza, … Tiffany Dickenson needs your support for Help Ahmed Rebuil
Go to paypal.me/AhmedResh and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
From the fundraiser:
“Hello, my name is Ahmed, 19 years old from Gaza. I finished high school with a high average and a very good grade, and because of the genocide war on Gaza, I was deprived of enrolling in university. I had dreams and ambitions to study photographic design, but I was deprived of all of that because of the genocide war on Gaza. I was living the best days of my youth. But with the beginning of this war, I became unable to live my normal life. At least our warm house sheltered me and my family until it was bombed for the first time, that damned night. Our house has become like a ghost town. We continued to seek refuge from death there until we were besieged and displaced from our safety under fire to a tent (shelter) in the bitter cold of winter, with the lack of basic necessities of life (water pollution, high cost of living, disease, insect infestation, malnutrition, difficulty of movement, overcrowding), and many other daily difficulties, especially with the significant increase in prices. This was not the first time we had to be displaced. We moved again from a tent in Rafah to another tent in Khan Yunis. I then returned to our destroyed home to repair what we could to find shelter for my family, despite not having all the basic necessities of life (destroyed sanitation infrastructure and water lines, destroying any form of life). Please help me achieve my dream of completing my academic career at university and for my family to survive this genocide and escape to a safe place and travel.”
Ahmed is verified by @90-ghost, and besides that I have my own experience with him over the past months which shows that he is legitimate. He needs money for food and other necessities. Anything helps.
Stiles Stilinski and how teen wolf fails his character and relationships
TW: mentions of charecters traumas, disibilitys not being taken seriously, toxic relationships, one sided attraction, and teen wolf hate cuz as much as I love some of the charecters… the show is kinda bad (it’s my special interest b4 I get hate)
ALSO!!!
I am just an autistic guy who’s been hyper fixated on stiles as a character for years. I am not telling you how to feel about the show or him, I’m just expressing how I feel through a long (and I mean it this is long so strap in… or don’t… I don’t control you) tumbler rant. I have not finished the show but I have done a lot of research (about episodes and seasons that I have not seen) but I’m just human. If I miss something or don’t get something right, you can just tell me!!
Stiles stilinski as a character, while not a revolution to tv, was a pretty iconic character. A show about werewolves and the supernatural was absolutely side stepped by the human of the series. From the moment he’s on screen, he brings a fun vibe and some pretty funny jokes but you’re not here to listen to me glaze a white guy from an early 2000s show. Too much of that on here any way so let’s get to the real meat and potato’s!
Stiles was failed by teen wolf. They failed to give him relationships (and I mean platonic and romantic relationships) that were reciprocated. His relationship with Scott is ok at best. In the first season stiles goes out of his way for Scott to help him find out what’s wrong with him and it’s seemingly the only reason he’s there other then to get Scott to go in the woods and to show that Scott isn’t friendless and what does Scott do? Kinda just ignore him to hang out with a girl HE JUST MET. This isn’t a one time thing either. Stiles goes out of his way for Scott 99% of the time. He’s loyal and honestly a really good friend. Scott does not meet him there unfortunately. This is not to say that Scott never helps stiles out or never shows care for him, he just kinda always puts his issues first. I think a famous example is season 5 episode 9. NOW BEFORE YOU SCOTT SYMPATHIZERS BOO ME I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN MY POINT. Now Scott and Stiles have both gone through some traumatizing shit that no one, especially high schoolers but I can only give so much leniency. Scott is supposed to be a leader/alpha and although he’s bound to make mistakes, a good leader listens. He never really listens to stiles in this argument. He got told one story from Theo and just runs with it. He has this problem either way black and white thinking when everyone in this series is a person (werewolf’s and other supernatural creatures included) and being a person comes with not being perfectly good. Scott has this awful superiority complex when it comes to doing what he thinks is morally right. Scott through out the series proves that he is not as loyal to stiles is to him.
I’d also like to go over his relationship with Lydia cuz good god man. I don’t hate Lydia. I think she’s a great character that if not written in the early 2000s could really have potential but they make her mean to stiles (as most charecters are) and show no interest in stiles even as a nuisance and expect me to care about them as a couple. Now you could say the same thing about sterek (stiles x Derek) and you might even be typing up a comment now. Let me stop you. I think there is a key diffrance. We are supposed to root for stiles and Lydia. We are supposed to want them together when Lydia in all honesty is not intrested in him. It’s not a mutual arguing or back and forth. Stiles is deeply in love with some one who ignored his existence. As a afab person I feel bad for Lydia a little. Having the attention of a man that you don’t like all that much while you have a partner (Jackson in season 1 which he’s not a good partner but she’s still with someone) should get on my nerves and also kinda make me nervous. This is not me saying stiles is a creep or anything it’s just me highlighting the relationship that they share is kinda one sided. Now this is just personal preference and you might really like that dynamic but I don’t really want to root for a couple where it’s just pretty girl is there and she has some nerd who wants to be with her and she eventually gets with him cuz yay straight people. I know they grow and eventually Lydia is in love with him but I just can’t get behind it. It’s just nothing. The fact the he (stiles) yells at her at the school dance (season 1 episode 11) to get her to dance with him after she rejected the offer twice is weird!!! The whole speech is nice guy behavior on stiles part and it makes him seem down right disrespectful. I don’t care for the whole “no means I’m playing hard to get” idea. It makes stiles look like a dick, puts Lydia in the position where if she doesn’t say yes the audience will hate her, and it doesn’t progress the relationship in a healthy way. I think they would be really cute friends and you can even keep the “stiles has a crush on her” narrative and just make it to where he comes to an understanding that she has said no and they become friends. God knows we are lacking good platonic male/female relationships in media.
Now onto stiles and his disability. When I was in first obsessing over stiles in middle school or high school I was ecstatic to learn that stiles had adhd. I have been diagnosed with adhd since I was in elementary school. I was always an outcast cuz of it so to see a character, a fan fav at that, I was so happy. Getting any disability rep (especially from the mid 2000s) is crazy rare so I was happy to see it. Unfortunately in an interview Dylan o’brian (stiles actor) said that it was a joke. That even tho that in the series stiles says that he takes Adderall (a drug that treats adhd) he’s just like that. This was incredibly heart breaking to hear. Jeff Davis (creator of teen wolf) said that stiles had adhd later on Twitter but this isn’t a real relief to hear cuz either they wrote a “joke” that stiles might have adhd therefore dangling rep infront of disabled people’s faces while also having plausible deniability about having any rep in the show at all OR they wrote it in and just kinda ditched it at one point. They use derogatory terms for adhd to describe stiles like spaz just for him to be a nerotypical charecter??? Yeahhhhhh not a huge fan. If they actually wrote him to have adhd (which btw in my experience is like one of the most “accepted” disibiltys to portray in media so it wouldn’t even be taking a huge risk to give stiles adhd) then that would explain his behaviors, why he takes Adderall, why people other him when he seemingly does everything right. It was only ever a joke to the writers and I think unfortunately the actors. It made it to where other fans of the show can shut down the idea that stiles has adhd cuz “they don’t ever directly say it. It’s frustrating and overall makes me so sad.
Next his trauma. They put this man through a lot and just gloss over it. They do this with most of the charecters. Huge traumatic incadent then boom Scott saves the day we’re all fine!!! (Can you tell who my least fav charecter is through this rant?) it’s just annoying. Stiles was litterly possessed leaving him a broken man but it’s kinda just… there? No real ptsd. Hell he doesn’t even really have to deal with anything. They briefly go over that his mom died and kinda just became a shell of a person and that made his dad an alcoholic. It just happens. None of that affects stiles outside of that story line. Was it too much to write ptsd? Idk it just seems that anytime they have to write a charecter that isn’t a ambiguously white or white nerotypical untraumatized “normal” person, they fall flat *cough* BOYD *cough cough* DANNY *cough* what was that? Who said that? Any way it’s just weird and upsetting.
All of this to say…. I think teen wolf had so much potential and so many good ideas that just… didn’t make it. They failed stiles stilinski, not only that! They failed all of their character’s but I’m not crazy Coocoo about their character’s and it 1:38 in the morning so I’ll leave it with stiles. If you disagree with me that’s so fine, I’d love to have a conversation about your opinions! Just from my knowledge and experience, I feel like they could have done so much better for stiles
(Like make him a bisexual neurodivergent icon but whatever)
Have a lovely day! Thank you for listening. If you ever want to talk about teen wolf, my dms are always open and I’m crazy.
There are numerous accounts where Stiles and Peter get along. For pale-weak-defenseless-147-pounds-of-frail-skin-and-fragile-bones Stiles to spend so much time with the psychotic-monstrous-lunatic-who-everyone-hates Peter without the latter killing the former (and not even injuring, ever), it’s a very strange dynamic for the show.
Unfortunately I can not point out all of these instances, but I will do my best to point out the most significant patterns between these two.
I have three main speculations as to why this strange relationship exists between Stiles and Peter, but first let’s look at the evidence:
I saw a tiktok talking about the massive shortage of feminine hygiene products in Gaza.
The only charity right now that seems to be helping with this shortage is called Motherbeing
Motherbeing is an organization based on education and providing assistance in healthcare for Arab women.
They recently donated 200,000 sanitary pads as women have been taking dangerous measures to delay their periods out of fear of toxic shock syndrome.
In case you are unaware, toxic shock syndrome is a possibly life threatening infection that develops from wearing a feminine hygiene product, usually tampons or cups, for too long.
They currently don’t have donations open, but people are trying to get them to. There’s products you can buy from their website, however.
This will get like three notes, but I just came across it and I wanted to post something. When something as serious as genocide happens, people forget little things like pads and tampons, which actually can be life threatening.
If you want to donate to charities similar to this one, here’s a few I found:
-Helping Women Period: provides pads and tampons to women (and people with uteruses) who are low income or homeless.
-The Pad Project: supplies low income women with pads all over the world.
-She Supply: provides pads and tampons for homeless women in Texas
-Free the Tampon: organization working towards making sanitary products free
-The Period Panty Project: takes physical donations of sanitary products as well as just donations for women in Ohio.
-Days for Girls: donated reusable pads to women all over the world.
On the topic of languages, since Roman demigods all know Latin and all Romance languages derive from Latin, do you think roman demigods have innate romantic tendencies?
No surprise, I’m gonna focus on Jason specifically. Do you think it’s a somewhat of a natural characteristic for him? Do you think he thinks it is at least, even if it really isn’t?
I like the idea that it does give them a little boost, and he’s actually a very smooth talker. But I also, just for laughs, enjoy the idea of him hearing that Romance languages come from Latin and he gets a big head about it. I mean he gets as obnoxious as possible about flirting with everyone. He gives Leo a run for his money.
I’m still working my way through all the fics out there, but I really hope this is a thing. I hope people have written this, I’m obsessed with it. If it’s not a thing I’ll write it myself.
I want to see him boasting about how Romans were the original Romeo’s. Forget Superman, he’s a blond Romeo now. Shamelessly flirting with everyone. He doesn’t even have to be good at it.
He can use the cheesiest pick up lines, over dramatic winks, the whole shebang. Most of the the seven probably hate being stuck on a boat with that. Leo probably loves it and encourages it, ultimate wingmen supreme. A new and improved dynamic duo. I feel like Percy would enjoy it a lot, but only when it’s directed at him personally. He likes the attention.
Any time he flirts a little with Coach Hedge, talking about how very goatly he is or how his whistle really brings out the shine in his eyes, or how good he was in that last fight, Hedge absolutely eats it up. Puffing his chest out, “about time someone appreciated a real goat when they saw one” flexing and swinging his bat. Probably warms up to Jason like he did Leo a lot more, maybe Jason schmoozes him deliberately to get out of trouble or get things. Has Coach wrapped around his little finger. Leo would absolutely join in and they’d both schmooze him into submission until they get what they want.
If a monster won’t go down easily or they can’t get close, Jason just stands there and compliments them. Flirts up a storm. Sword down, smoulder on. He’s utterly ridiculous. Sometimes the monsters go for it and he can just wander up to them and then stab them, or smooth talk them into going away, sometimes he’s just distracting them while the others roll their eyes at him and sneak up on it.
I like awkward, repressed Jason that doesn’t know what to do with his feelings, especially in a slowburn. But I’m really feeling smooth talking, confident, borderline arrogant, flirty Jason.
[EDIT: There is now a fic for this in the reblog chain. If I come across anymore and get permission I’ll add them as well.]
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