#just me musing

[scrumptiousstuffs]

It’s alway interesting to see Thai fans/reactors on YT

Cause wdym the whole “putting a bucket” on your head and calling the cat’s name is actually a known thing? One Thai reactor predicted that’s what Tiger would say even before he said it…

I’m also low-key obsessed with this scene - Lynx let go of his ego and embarrassment cause deep down he still cares for Jiro, no matter what he outwardly said. And Jiro returned to him because he clocked on it, especially when not even mins prior to that Jiro was convinced Lynx hates him

#CatForCashEP2

*also interesting to see the differences when Thai reactors reacted to the scene where Krapor used casual language with Tiger or when Tiger almost touched Lynx hair.

Most gasps cause I suspect it sounded rude to them and their eyes widen with the latter scene - cause touching someone head in Thai culture is almost unheard of unless you are super super close to the person.

Plus - auto Eng sub translates Tiger description of Jiro, our former restaurant cat very differently from what the official subs:

Official Eng sub described Jiro as someone who met a lot of people and have a lot of experiences (or something similar)

Auto Eng sub described Jiro as being the ?Head group of the pack in the restaurant …

[radiance1]

Vlad: Would you like to form an alliance... with me?

Ghost writer: Absolutely. Absolutely, I do.

Now, Vlad should know better than to ally himself with someone who broke the Christmas truce, buuuut. The call for DnD is so tempting that he just had to do it.

He then dragged Daniel and his friends into it as well. Daniel dragged his sister along and then the Fenton parents found out and, well.

It suddenly became a thing.

Oh well, both Vlad and Ghost Writer sculpt up some lore from each of their character sheets, weave a world from words and then drag a random number of people to act as their 'players.'

It was supposed to be people from Amity Park, but there was a miscalculation on that part, and honestly you can't even blame them because they've been weaving nonstop and Vlad ignored quite a bit of sleep to try and make this perfect as he could.

So instead of civilians they dragged in a few members of the Justice League and, well.

As long as they play by the rules nothing would hopefully go wrong...?

[krems-chair]

I enjoy a good Solas analysis as much as the next person, and I like exploring all the ways in which the trauma he experiences may have influenced the many terrible decisions he makes.

At the same time, I hope we remember that it's okay to not be able to explain everything away. Solas has done terrible things, and we can't tie every single one back to an explanation that justifies it in a way that keeps him "pure".

Let him be murky. Let him have felt full-throatedly that the acts he committed in Mythal's name were necessary to make his creation of a physical body and subsequent service worth it. Let him fail to fully appreciate what he did to the dwarves/titans. It's only by viewing his flaws and harms in their entirety that the most exciting parts of his arc (at least to me) can be contemplated.

How far is too far? At one point do the wrongs you've scarred the world with become impossible to assuage through better intentions at other points in your journey? Can you learn through your friends and loved ones lessons you refused to be taught earlier, that caused you to hurt the one who tried to teach it to you? Can you make him see that it's not just the spirits and the elves that deserve restoration, but the dwarves? (We didn't get the opportunity to really dig into this particular avenue in Veilguard, but I think the fanfiction potential is ripe). What does he become when every possible method to reach him fails? How does Pride doom himself and leave no other choice but to put him down like the dog Elgar'nan declared him to be?

Idk. I have concerns that occasionally there's a binary standard applied where he's either wholly Solas or wholly Fen'harel with the implication being that he's either all good and every action actually stemmed from that place or singularly bad. When in fact, the coolest place for me to dwell in is the one where we have the moments where Solas raises his voice or plays a cruel trick because he's so exasperated, or where Fen'harel may have stopped to pet a halla on his journeys if for no reason other than to feel soft fur against his fingers.

He is at his most interesting when he is at his most complex, and when I say complex all I actually mean by that is when we let him be real, permit him to breathe within his own story and not just the ones we rewrite to make him more palatable, we do him more justice. Give him room not just to grow and evolve, but to dig in his heels and become the monster he never wanted to become. At the very least, he has near-absolute power in a world that by comparison feels very powerless. He's going to be just a little bit corrupted by the weight of wielding that power. The story will only get richer and more compelling if we let it exist in its entirety.

[ravanastrife]

Looking back at old tumblr posts I made in my early 20's and hrm. Best to delete some blogs I think. I was weird back then.

But it is what it is and we keep growing and learning. I'm still weird now too anyway

[applesandpavenders]

So, theoretically, if Gregor had killed the bane, and the ‘gnawers [got] their key to power’ would that mean that Gregor would have switched sides? Like, would Gregor have ended up working for the rats. Or would he have just been so destructive that he brought down regalia by himself?

Or would him losing the integral good part of him made him useless as ‘the warrior’ and therefore been unable to protect the underlanders. Or is it just that if Gregor killed the Bane, he would have made such an unbreakable hatred between both species that he would a, wiped out all humans in a mass war, and b, never become the peacemaker which is the most effective part of him.

[kimmimaru]

It’s funny because everyone talks about computers during the 90′s and I’m always sat here, not 100% understanding despite being old enough to technically use them then. My family couldn’t afford a PC at the time, neither could many of the families I knew as a kid. But my experience doesn’t seem to be very common. When we did finally get a PC with good ol’ noisy dial up etc I wasn’t allowed to use the internet so I just used to to play games like net hack (simplistic fantasy style game) and the card games that came with windows. But otherwise only dad used the internet and even then very rarely because mum used to HATE that it interrupted the phone lol. Even my primary school didn’t get PC’s until a little later, so we didn’t use them very often. My internet experience didn’t really happen until I was much older and I could buy my own laptop when I was a teenager and had started college (about 17/18). So I always find it a bit weird when people talk about the internet of the past, I never experienced it and it’s strange for me that it was so common. I always had the feeling my parents were poor (we only got a PS1 because my cousin gave it to us and before that the sega megadrive...god I loved that thing) but it’s only as an adult that I realise just how bad it was. It’s even weirder now that my daughters growing up with the internet and computers being so normalised, I’m not rich by any means but I could afford a laptop and a decent phone that she uses. I saved up for a tablet for her too. I dunno, it’s strange. I also wrote an entire three part novel by hand when I was a kid, I still have it. An epic fantasy story that I’m very slowly editing, took me forever to write it all up into word lol. It’s about the same length as LOTR I believe.

[avisleeh]

Even though I love the hype of the new chapter of Kimetsu, I can’t help but still miss Tanjirou. I wish we can see him sooner after that glimpse of Inosuke and Zenitsu.

[kimium]

Sometimes I wish I knew why people subscribed to me on AO3. I am always so curious.