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hlwim replied to your post: Random question but how old do you think Riza is?...

actually, in amestris they allow enlistment at age 16. but having her start officer’s academy at 18 is reasonable if you factor in initial training time. her actual age is never stated in canon.

I didnt know that! I mean if you also think about it, Ed is also a major at age 12. But we don’t know if there are exceptions to the state alchemist exam. they probably didnt anticipate a 12yo soooooo. who tf knows. 

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hlwim

i headcanon riza as around 3-4 years younger based on roy being 20ish when berty died, riza implying that she'd recently finished formal schooling, and that Amestrian military allows 16 year olds to enlist. but a lot of my headcanon is based on brotherhood, because that's where i started with fma.

YE idk how things were worded in brotherhood, but in the manga roy has no canon age in that scene and riza just says that her father made sure she had a proper education, there was no implication of anything recent

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hlwim replied to your post “Why does everyone I know write fanfic in present tense now”

i prefer it because it sounds better to me and i've always written in present tense. writing in past tense makes the narrative feel so closed off.

That was my reasoning in the past when I used it, but honestly past tense makes me feel more comfortable, like I’m telling the story of something that already happened instead of being in the moment. Sometimes immediacy is a good thing, but I’ll always associate present tense with a bunch of godawful fics written by middle schoolers that I read in like 2008. It’s literally the reason I didn’t read The Hunger Games.

I know it’s not rational, and this isn’t to discourage anybody from using it; I’m just trying to articulate why reading it makes me feel like my skin is three sizes too small. I'd probably read a lot more fanfic if it wasn’t used by literally every writer I follow on here.

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@hlwim replied to your post “I have to say, so far, I am enjoying Andromeda cautiously. The game is...”

the animation critiques are driving me up the fucking wall because you absolutely cannot compare facial animation of a set protag like nathan drake to a fully customizable protag like ryder that's just not how animating models works

Yeah, not gonna lie, I have some issues with ME:A (if you look at my wank tag, the list is... pretty long). Animation is pretty okay on the books (and again, the best I’ve seen from BioWare). Not to mention, since when was BioWare ever known for PRETTY GRAPHICS AND ANIMATIONS anyway????? I’d much rather they focus on story and character developments.

However, the animation is DEFINITELY not one of the problems. Like at this point I feel like fans are just attacking the game just because 1) it’s BioWare -- people sometimes expect too much from them 2) they are bitter for different reasons on the marketing leading up to the release.

It’s a tough place to be for BioWare because they chose to half-heartedly cater to dudebros and the “politically correct” crowd. Like actual catering without actual thinking in a design sort of sense.

The problem is when you do that, you just end up pissing everyone off no matter how much good you end up doing.

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#thank you for not putting fucking berthold on that top list 

@hlwim OFC! i thought about putting him in the notp list but i just. i genuinely dont think berthold gave a shit about riza’s personal life

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@hlwim I missed this earlier but yeah people think healers are sweet and helpful but that doesn’t last very long because of people who don’t appreciate them. I’ve refused to give healing over the pettiest of things and I’m not even sorry.

And at least Mercy can jump to people I play Ana and the whole time I’m like

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@hlwim

Thessia Ark mission was bullshit and super broken for Engineers! I'd pop a turret and it would spend all its time breaking the shield over your squadmate that will fail the mission when broken!

Haha, yes! It didn’t kill me but I was so annoyed that I had to run the turret out of LOS so it wouldn’t just spend the whole wave firing at Kaidan’s shield. Toxic jealousy from robot friends will lose us the war :(

Paladin was a lot more fun, maybe because it was broken up by other mechanics?

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hlwim replied to your post “I’m close to finishing It and I’m consistently disappointed and...”

a lot of his women characters are like that. i think honestly dolores claiborne was the only woman he wrote that felt real? granted i haven't read everything he's ever done, but there was a whole stretch of his books when he was at his most cocaine that are just. yeesh.

Yeah, I haven’t read everything but I’ve read enough. He’s got some great ones (Carrie, for one) but he seems to fall back on Mother Figure or Love Interest.

The most frustrating of his female characters for me was Rachel from Pet Sematary. She literally has no personality other than Wife and Mom and does nothing but cry for the entire book (even before anything really starts happening) and offer the main character sex when he’s upset.

Anyway, the problem with Beverly is that in the end SK finds nothing for her to do in the climax of the story other than the sewer gangbang. Like, all she does when the adult Losers confront It is stay behind with Eddie (who’s already dead?) while only Bill and Richie actually get to fight It. She doesn’t even get to confront her abusive husband again nor does she react to his death in any way. Why waste so many pages on him chasing her to Derry if he ends up being so irrelevant? And let’s not even get into the fact that she’s constantly reduced to an object for the male gaze, even from her own PoV...