#yonder talks

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the popularity of old man yaoi waxes and wanes in fandom, and you can mark the tides pretty clearly on ao3 sometimes. for example, the first work in the inheritance cycle's brom/jeod tag was posted in 2024

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something about kian and rand is so fucking compelling. like dgmw they're both also obsessed with rolan in equally painful ways, but them. god. they're best friends. they're terrifying, perfect mirrors of each other. they have the unshakeable stoner's bond. they can't stand each other. they're exactly the same. they're total opposites. they hate each other's choices in life. they hate their own choices more. they desperately envy each other. they lie, they lie all the time, about everything. they admire each other's honesty. they're literally chillin. they feel everything so intensely they'd explode if they tried to verbalize it. they've never been in love with anyone, least of all each other. they're best fucking friends and they love each other so much it'll kill them. they shared a childhood. they don't really care anymore. they wish that they could care. they touch so easily. they can't talk about it.

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they call me maliketh cuntslayer, slayer of maliketh the cunt

holy shit i'm so excited to actually finish this game. i've abandoned two playthroughs (due to Life Circumstances, not lack of motivation) and this is my first time getting to the Godfrey/Loux fight and now i'm through! i want to spend some time leveling and beat malenia before i continue on, but hoooooooo it's enticing...

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i realize the name timothy comes from the greek and means something totally different, but my first thought when i heard his name was "oh, he's afraid" because in latin, timeo = to fear

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tried to skip to the end of the dustchart slowburn tonight and it did NOT work. those fools would rather sit really close and think really hard about kissing and know that they're both thinking it and still refrain. just to spite me. it's like they know i'm watching them and they don't want to give me the satisfaction i swear to god

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not to "guy who only watches star trek" the nightmare blunt rotation, but they DO parallel the original star trek triumvirate in some interesting ways

if, for example, spock is the head, bones is the heart, and kirk is the soul-- then, too, rolan is the head, kian is the heart, and rand is the soul.

or put it this way. rolan appeals to reason, kian appeals to emotion, rand appeals to humanity.

kian and rand bounce off each other in the exact same way bones and kirk do. they offer each other a safe, solid person to lean on, to drink with, to bitch with, to be messy and human and alive with. they need each other. desperately.

rolan and kian poke at each other's weaknesses in the way that spock and bones do. they might disagree on some of their life choices, but rolan would trust kian to carry his soul, and kian would risk his life for the safekeeping of it.

and then, of course, rolanrand. spock and kirk. do you want me to start bc we could be here all day.

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tiredest man in whole world booting up elden ring with vague hopes of getting into leyndell despite not being prepared for that fight at all

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the problem with bitb is that it's set in the deep south--in the very rural deep south, on the bayou!--and yet there are 0 black characters. not a one. which. like. i can ignore the basements, if you havent lived around sea level i guess maybe you wouldn't know that nobody has basements. (are basements a common thing?? anywhere?? they seem fake to me.)

but there is NO WAY you wrote about what is very well known to be a predominantly black area, and still accidentally made everyone white. that's a deliberate decision not to engage with reality. and it comes across (to me, a southerner) as a fucking sundown town, because the absolute absence of poc is WEIRD. IT'S NOT NORMAL. WHERE IS EVERYONE???????

as an aside, i think if you genuinely never/rarely see nonwhite people, you are living an abnormally insular life and you need to get your ass out of the wealthy areas of town at LEAST once a week. walk around the block by the walmart or something. grow your soul. if you are afraid of poor and/or nonwhite people, you are a danger to them. get comfortable. say hi! they're your neighbors!

anyway. what i usually do for podcasts and books is to just create character designs that aren't white, particularly for the main cast, because it's fun, it's free, and i'm very good at it.

so i'm mulling that over in my mind. might fuck around and make them all black. i'm already making them fat, i might as well, yk