Loose Duke

Here in the vents and on Tumblr now

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Hey y’all, I got so entranced with the burnout relatability of Sophomore Year Fantasy High that I’ve taken to Tumblr for more of my bullshit. Expect lots of headcannons, rambles, and me trying to express my ever changing thoughts on this hyper fixation.

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I often put on repeats of Fantasy High Freshman Year as I’m going to sleep (familiar background noise and all that jazz) and I was just struck with the thought that Gorthalax made that deal with Johnny Spells very purposefully.

He had some situational awareness from inside the gem, he knew his daughter was approaching high school age, and he knew Johnny was a weirdo who hung around underage girls. You can’t tell me this demon dad didn’t put two and two together and happened to come up with condition of Johnny not being able to have sex. It’s funny and it’s also him protecting his kid.

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Me screaming at the screen at these disaster vampires as they fumble the opportunity to have an invisible ghost helper who can go through walls and spy on people during the day. That also knows extensive lore on the founding of the town but I guess let’s just keep telling him we’re Jesus /lh

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Comfrey spent her life running from her own heart. The heart that felt too much to stay still and when she finally slowed down enough, she let herself go out in a blaze of glory.

And Pappy knows this is the end she wanted, but it doesn’t dismiss Pappy’s want for their end to have been together. That maybe in another life, they could’ve boarded the Zephyr together for the last time, and gone out holding each other in sleep- rings on their fingers where they had stayed their entire lives.

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Like the idea of Wealwell losing his eccentricities and mannerisms (i.e. “straight bitch”) because realizing his family has been in Zood but hasn’t come to check on Maxwell. Hasn’t come to see if his little brother is still alive.

It’s the one thing that stays constant under his ever changing frivolity. Maxwell is his family, and those bitches in wing suits are pissing him off.

I support the Wealwell killing Hatwell agenda. Meeting adjourned.

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Comfrey strikes me as someone who is not fully there any more. Not in like an old age way, but as someone who has been functioning a little bit like an immortal being.

There’s that trope where the beings that live the longest lose their humanity and disconnect from all the personal connections they had. It’s somewhat of a god complex that keeps Comfrey coming back to Zood’s past to “solve” major conflicts but write off any damage she does as a necessary sacrifice.

She reminds me a bit of Icarus, but continuing to fly when she’s on fire and burning everything around her.

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Another post because for once I don’t have the patience to wait for the whole season to come out before I watch a D20 season.

I’m totally on Maxwell’s side about being mostly honest to the random NPC’s. In the adventuring party episode his reasoning was about how everyone had their own thing going on and it’s sooo true for this season.

Like two crew mates already left for their own main character reasons. The dinosaurs had no reason to lie either, they knew nothing but their weird colonialism snapshot stuck in bodies with no thumbs.

Just saying, I relate to being on the “damp blanket” side of things lol

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Posting at 5am my time because the latest episode of Cloudward gave so many clues yet so little context. Spoilers ahead~

What if Straka isn’t some mythical beast but rather just a victim to the red light at Ramantsu Power Station? If Comfrey was messing around with the power of the station and either she tested it on bird or it flew in on its own and got hit? I’m not sure how big Straka is actually, I think I missed that part.

With Maxwell getting that glimpse of what the red light would do to a person, imagining what it could do to an animal… Zood already seems to have a habit of changing the intrinsic nature of the wildlife.

Also what if Comfrey was experimenting with the lights because there’s some way of them getting them back to Gath. Like maybe the mechanical overtaking of a person is what protects them in that return trip to Gath? If you want to wield the light of Zood and bring it back to Gath, you have to sacrifice the part of you that is Gathian

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Therapist: Hungry Hungry Hippo Alligator Sam Riegel can’t hurt you

Hungry Hungry Hippo Alligator Sam Riegel:

Happy birthday man, wtf

[olderthannetfic]

Every year… Every damn year…

[fighterkimburgess]

Tags like this are the reason I tend to donate extra to AO3 when I can afford to.

[olderthannetfic]

Honestly, I don’t even care if people I know donate. AO3 is designed so that a few generous patrons can make a nice thing exist for everyone… But holy shit do I wish tumblr would learn how websites and companies work because it is important to know what motivates them.

On AO3, MORE TRAFFIC IS NOT BETTER HOLYFUCK. That’s only true when traffic = more ad revenue or a better pitch to venture capitalists or something.

[azcrowleyfell]

Ao3 is literally a nonprofit, kids.

[roach-works]

to clarify, rather than scold: The Archive Of Our Own is a nonprofit organization that runs an archive of fanfiction, specifically for the purposes of recording and maintaining all fanfics uploaded to it. it was founded after livejournal and fanfiction.net repeatedly deleted queer and ‘problematic’ fanfics in order to please advertisers and keep getting ad revenue. for decades, fandom was at the mercy of corporations who repeatedly deleted–with little warning and no mercy–whatever platforms were used to host fanfiction, especially dark, queer, kinky, and immoral fanfiction that would annoy corporate interests or scare off investors or offend advertisers.

AO3 is specifically relies on donations, rather than ad revenue, because it is the Archive Of Our Own, and is not answerable to any political agenda other than protecting and maintaining, again, all the fanfiction uploaded to it. there are checks and balances, and there’s a governing board, and they’re all dead serious about making sure that the archive endures any attempts by outside parties to censor or remove its content, no matter how abhorrent that content is.

the archive is an archive, not a social network or a platform. it hosts content and it serves that content to users in an efficient way–hence the phenomenal tag system–but it is meant to safeguard writers and their writing, not to profit from its users. it literally can’t profit off of its users or monetize their interactions in any way, just by virtue of its own structure: all money given to a nonprofit goes towards furthering that organization’s mission.

see, when a company or corporation makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then the guys that own the company keep the rest of the money, and that’s profit. when a nonprofit makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then if it has extra, it reinvests in various ways, like building new things or improving old things, or it saves the money for future labor and upkeep it might need.

the archive cares that users are able to control their own experiences of it, and filter out the stuff they don’t want to see. they care that users are protected from harassment. but they don’t profit from users’ engagement with the site, so they don’t do anything to encourage traffic the way a for-profit site that’s monetized engagement has.

hopefully this explanation helps someone.

tl;dr, a non-profit archive can’t profit from traffic the way for-profit social networks do, so it doesn’t care about you in a completely different way.

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Lucy Frostblade but it’s to the lyrics

“always an angel, never a god”

Hi, this post has been brought to you by exam anxiety- exam anxiety, why focus on studying when your brain could latch on to a dead fictional character?

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Ever notice how when Fig is feeling vulnerable, or just not at her best, she casts disguise self to become a new confident person? Because I have and it makes me I L L

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Jawbone diving to cover Adaine and Fig when the ground started shaking- my heart 😭. Dadddddddd

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Bring back Cathilda, Fabian needs some life skills. Poor boy is all alone in his monstrosity of a boat house.

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I love Cassandra so much, please don’t be abandoned like all of Kristen’s other gods because the track record isn’t great 🫡

[bigbird07]

Poor Fabian, even though she’s gotten better his mum is still very absent. When he got home and she was leaving, moving on with Gilear, broke my heart a bit. You could tell by the way he was talking about the money he now has, it’s not what he wanted 😭