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[pickinganame]

Hello! Made a new blog to rant about things I like and/or reblog fandom stuff. You're welcome to interact.

[pickinganame]

I just know fake Daeron is actually the true Daeron. They knew he would be killed if he, alone, fought three dragons, so the Hightowers had no choice but to give him to Daemon. However they also knew Rhaenyra probably wouldn't execute him if he pretended to be a fake. Now he is "cleared" and Rhaenyra will look for him elsewhere, where his uncle took his dragon maybe? And he has a chance to escape.

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Rhaenyra when Corlys suggests the crown can legitimize bastards:

[animentality]

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Not to be a hater, but these people will turn around and turn the bottom in their yaoi into such a feminine caricature that you wouldn't get away with writing a woman in a m/f like that because you'd be rightfully be labeled as a misogynistic. But like sure, yuri is just heterosexual ships cosmetically changed

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

the way that holding sandrone's dead body was probably the first time that columbina ever saw her face. she took off her blindfold because she finally thought that the world might not disappoint her as much anymore and one of the first things that she sees is proof of how possibly one of the first people who just saw her as an equal and not a god to make demands of made the ultimate sacrifice to bring her home. oh my god

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Arlecchino going to the Tsaritsa twice to snitch on Dottore is hilarious. For starters, it sound like something a 5 year old would do. "But mommyyyy, Sandik stole my toys" "You played with it long enough, it's Sandik's turn to play with the Moon Marrow now!"

That aside, what is she even snitching on? Dottore is in the right to attack Columbina because she's a deserter. The Tsaritsa put out an edit for her capture, too. It can't be considered Harbinger infighting. You know who's out of line? Sandrone and Arlecchino for failing to report Columbina's whereabouts and/or capture her. On the contrary, they were actively working to send her outside of Teyvat! That gotta count for treason and aiding a deserter.

I'm just saying. If the Tsaritsa steps in, it won't be Dottore who gets it. That gotta sting for The Doctor Official Hate Club/ Columbina defense squad but that's reality.

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If Columbina becomes smitten with the Traveller after everything everyone has done for her, they have permission to beat her with an hammer. Especially Lauma and Arlecchino stood in front of that gate for 3 days like idiots for Columbina to swoon for the Traveller? Please no

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I try to stay out of the Rerir hate but today I saw a take on Tiktok (my mistake, I know) that's just...have you even played the game?? The person said that they wanted Rerir and Arlecchino to meet (ok, I'm with you) because Rerir would see he wasn't even good at wiping out the Crimson Moon dynasty and Arlecchino would destroy him.

Powerscaling aside - I don't really think even Hoyo knows who would win any given fight outside of whoever is on the Traveller's side at the moment - Arle would destroy him? Does she even care about people who died 500 years prior, of a lineage she knew nothing about until Pierro told her and she researched when she was an adult? Frankly, she seems to care very little about her ancestry, at least as far as culture and revenge go. Maybe she's interested in the powers that come with it but I highly doubt she'd want to take revenge on one of the goons who did grunt work to kill some of her ancestors. She had a family-ish in the HotH and, aside from Crucabena, she didn't even care to avenge them. I'm hard pressed to believe she'd care so much for some long-lost civilization.

And Rerir...at least in the flashback...didn't really *hate* the Crimson Moon either? If they told him to kill anyone taller than 6 " or anyone who likes milk, he'd probably would have killed them and wouldn't have cared for the Crimson Moon dynasty at all. Nor was he proud of his assassin performance to such an extent, it was just a job he was good at and grew up into and that was getting him ahead, not something he picked out of love for the game. If he saw Arlecchino he'd be surprised, maybe? But upset that he didn't kill them all? He didn't even care to kill them all to begin with.

I think some people really want to project what their feelings would be (in Arlecchino's case) and bad quy clichés (in Rerir's) onto this game just because the Rerir/Crimson Moon situation touches on such an heavy topic. Its so annoying to see.

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Im taking a class in ethics at evil university. Today the professor is asking us if it would be ok to divert a trolley to kill 5 people even if doing so would mean you saved 1 and justify our choice.

i'm not gonna do your homework for you, anon. if you can't write your own essays, how are you gonna be ready for when you need to make a speech to the hero about your evil schemes? are you going to ask fucking chatgpt to monologue for you?

if you want a hint, though, consider that nothing in the premise forbids you from finding the person whose life you 'saved' later

[greatwyrmgold]

That's a cop-out. You can respond to any evil hypothetical with "and then I kill more people" to justify your choice. You can kill someone after not pulling the lever, too.

[sigmaleph]

and, to be clear, you are of the opinion that 'you can justify whichever choice you want' is an undesirable property in a theory of evil ethics?

[cockatude]

"Oh, its ok for me to help people If I might kill more in the future." Oh what, so I guess it'd be ok to give a bunch of people clean water just because you later develop chemical weapons? You're line of thinking is morally solvent.

[sigmaleph]

and thus you see the problem with the absolutist, black-and-white thinking of villains these days. "waaa waaa you can't do nice things for people that makes you as good as the heroes"

have you even considered how much easier it is to get people to trust your chemicals are safe if your reputation is "that nice lady who gave us clean water"? no, of course not, you just get into pissing contests on social media about who is more corrupt, entirely divorced from any real-world practice of evil. y'all think it's more important to do nothing right than something wrong.

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Am I a Phainon fan? Not really. Did I enjoy the Flame Reaver twist? Also, not really. But by For The Sun Is Set To Die I lowkey got attached to Phainon's role. Everything that has happened up to this point was for the sole objective of letting Phainon create a new world.

Hell, even just looking at the last words of each character. Personally, I clowned over the "Bring the dawn, Deliverer" cheesy line, but that's the common thread of most lines. Mydei and Anaxa are, iirc, the only two who say it directly but most conversations imply that the characters are wishing to reunite in the new wolrd [that Phainon will bring]. Maybe Cipher is a bit off, but considering she legitimately died to buy time for Phainon, she's with everyone else in spirit.

And anyone there's no doubt that everyone truly believed Phainon would deliver them to the new world.

The twist of Amphoreous being a simulation to the benefit of the Black Tide and Era Nova being a lie were great - but of course, that means we can just scrape everything that we built up to this point with Phainon right?

That part really bothers me. It might make sense technically but meta-wise? The writers wrote the whole lore of Amphoreous in that same patch. If they didn't want Phainon to disappear, they could have easily wrote the pseudo-scientific mambo jumbo differently.

I don't want to hate on Cyrene, because it would bother me of any other character swooped in and got the leading role in Phainon's place. But even if it was just TB, it still feels that anything in the last 2 (soon to be 3) patches feels so disjointed. We had a good recurring theme with Phainon and the sun, bring a literal and metaphorical "tomorrow" to Amphoreous, that was essentially what everyone struggled towards. Frankly, this connecting thread comes apart ever since the Hysilens/Cerydra and now it just feels lile TB, the geniuses, March and DH, and Cyrene saving the world - not just from the amount of screentime they got, but from the way everything the Flamechasers didn't matter at a practical level at all, except from having a token scene where everyone chimes in and says their lines - and they are so out of their depth that they'll probably won't ever be able to matter. And even, if by some miracle, they do matter the core issue with me, that the "original" we saw was reset without leaving any mark at all, still stands. What we saw and did for 4 patches only had relevance in that it introduced us to characters and lore, but the actions really didn't matter in the overall story. And the main example of this is how the first half of the story all lead to Phainon achieving everyone's dream, just to scrap him, everyone and their dreams too.

I was happy when I learned Amphoreous would last a whole version but it seems the story fell a bit off halfway through. At least as far as coherence is concerned. At this point, I would have probably been happier with a shorter story

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Am I a Phainon fan? Not really. Did I enjoy the Flame Reaver twist? Also, not really. But by For The Sun Is Set To Die I lowkey got attached to Phainon's role. Everything that has happened up to this point was for the sole objective of letting Phainon create a new world.

Hell, even just looking at the last words of each character. Personally, I clowned over the "Bring the dawn, Deliverer" cheesy line, but that's the common thread of most lines. Mydei and Anaxa are, iirc, the only two who say it directly but most conversations imply that the characters are wishing to reunite in the new wolrd [that Phainon will bring]. Maybe Cipher is a bit off, but considering she legitimately died to buy time for Phainon, she's with everyone else in spirit.

And anyone there's no doubt that everyone truly believed Phainon would deliver them to the new world.

The twist of Amphoreous being a simulation to the benefit of the Black Tide and Era Nova being a lie were great - but of course, that means we can just scrape everything that we built up to this point with Phainon right?

That part really bothers me. It might make sense technically but meta-wise? The writers wrote the whole lore of Amphoreous in that same patch. If they didn't want Phainon to disappear, they could have easily wrote the pseudo-scientific mambo jumbo differently.

I don't want to hate on Cyrene, because it would bother me of any other character swooped in and got the leading role in Phainon's place. But even if it was just TB, it still feels that anything in the last 2 (soon to be 3) patches feels so disjointed. We had a good recurring theme with Phainon and the sun, bring a literal and metaphorical "tomorrow" to Amphoreous, that was essentially what everyone struggled towards. Frankly, this connecting thread comes apart ever since the Hysilens/Cerydra and now it just feels lile TB, the geniuses, March and DH, and Cyrene saving the world - not just from the amount of screentime they got, but from the way everything the Flamechasers didn't matter at a practical level at all, except from having a token scene where everyone chimes in and says their lines - and they are so out of their depth that they'll probably won't ever be able to matter. And even, if by some miracle, they do matter the core issue with me, that the "original" we saw was reset without leaving any mark at all, still stands. What we saw and did for 4 patches only had relevance in that it introduced us to characters and lore, but the actions really didn't matter in the overall story. And the main example of this is how the first half of the story all lead to Phainon achieving everyone's dream, just to scrap him, everyone and their dreams too.

I was happy when I learned Amphoreous would last a whole version but it seems the story fell a bit off halfway through. At least as far as coherence is concerned. At this point, I would have probably been happier with a shorter story

[nomohmoss]

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I don't like the incest-y Aqua/Ruby pair at all but I gotta say, now that I've almost wrapped up the manga, I'd take it if it ends the Aqua/Arima/Akane love triangle. Arima and Akane should just get with each rather than chase Aqua

[ilynpilled]

there r some characters that u really love that u do not want to see any opinion or discussion about online ever. u agree with like 2 ppl on earth total about. maybe 3. their haters lovers glazers fuckers shitters pissers whatever pissing u off to equal degrees. just a beautiful kind of torture chamber to find urself in

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I like how JGY, XY, and Su She had more or less the same issue with their status and how powerful people treated them but, out of the three, only Su She has a point (*at least in The Untamed). Gusu was attacked and he was left fending out for himself because non-Lans couldn't even get to safety, that's honestly fucked up and I can't help buy sympathize with him.

XY and JGY on the other hand... XY clearly has issues but all his bitching and moaning about his little finger feel more like an excuse. I can't even begin to consider his backstory as justification for his actions.

JGY on the other hand was ~kinda~ right at the beginning (again, talking about The Untamed version specifically). But frankly he became straight up power hungry at some point. "They call me son of a whore! No one respects me!"... and he had to become Chief Cultivator about it? He couldn't just be content with a high-ranking position, could he? Even within clans, not everyone becomes Clan Leader, let alone commanding all clans. People with skills like LWJ and WWX weren't supposed to become anymore than subordinates to their respective brothers, for example, and no one was looking down on them. So I was very sympathetic to him back when he was in the Nie clan and people shit talked him but at some point....no, just cut the crap and admit you want to be the most powerful man alive. No one believes this "people look down on me, I did what I had to" BS anymore.

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During the second siege of Burial Mounds, I will never not find it funny how everyone's hesitating between going inside the cave and fighting the puppets outside and Nie Huaisang gets tired of it and, shamelessly, runs inside. That's pretty normal for Nie Huaisang but I always crack up at his following of Nie disciples also running inside panicked like him. If Nie Mingjue was alive and saw the shameful display of these Nie disciples he'd die all over again. He'd have clobbered the puppets with his bare hands and what are the Nies doing now? Running before the children, even.

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I can't watch any part in which Lan Xichen defends Jin Guangyao because I end up laughing: I keep thinking he sounds just like me when I'm delusionally standing up for the character that turns out to be the worst POS in the story. And that happens every single time.