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We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

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Me reading "I Became the Tyrant of Tower Defense Game" and reaching ch 407: Fuck. SALOMEEEEEEE 😭😭😭😭

#i became the tyrant of a defense game #novel reading

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So, I’ve been reading quite a few TCF reaction fics lately and something I’ve noticed about all of these tics is that they all say Cale managed to take the war against the white star from 20 to 2 years and you know what? They’re wrong.

Cale had 2 years to prepare for the war with the north and as he’s running around he finds out a bit about arm and what they’re doing but not their purpose. This man finds out about the crazy stuff the white radish and the sealed b*tch have been doing only after the war with the northern alliance happens. You know how long it takes him to deal with all that?

A YEAR! One mother f*ck*ng year! Raon isn’t even 7 yet! This man Thales 20 years of war and terror and pain and suffering and deals with the problem in one f*ck*ng year. Sure he collected most of his allies and strengths in those first 2 years but Cale was still pretty much working blind when it came to the white radish and his plots.

People, you think 2 years is impressive? This man really did most of it in one and our beloved fool was in an entirely different dimension for 3 months of that year. Cale is legitimately terrifying and these fics are not giving him enough credit.

#tcf novel #cale henituse #tcf cale #lcf cale #lout of count's family

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I apologize for teaching people about shipping discourse but it's so funny

all of my followers above the age of 16 and/or who have jobs you must know that the hippest new trend in shipping discourse is that in an effort to distance themselves from "problematic ships", people have now established the label "comship" or "complicated shipping" to describe a ship that I guess is too problematic to be normal but not problematic enough to be problematic. Theres a vicious community divide on whether or not comshipping is ethical because nobody can agree on what the line between "problematic" and "complicated" is, probably because it doesn't exist . In my 2024 thesis I will argue that bingqiu is a "comship" (complicated ship) while cumplane is a "proship" (problematic ship) b

* clarification because people are getting confused in the notes: people who identify as "proship" are just using it as the opposite of "anti shipping", "pro" as in "shipping favorable"; but the people who identify as "antiship" aka "not shipping favorable", you could say, use it as short for "problematic shipping". Some of them, usually teenagers, genuinely believe that the only meaning of "proship" is "problematic shipping" and so I guess like don't believe people who tell them that the more common meaning is "shipping favorable". These are the people who are now arguing about "comships". Other people who identify as "anti shipping" I presume are aware that the term means "shipping favorable" in circles they're criticizing, but use "pro(blematic)ship" as a sort of snarky insult because of the double entendre. God I hate talking about this

#listen: ship discourse where “my ship is better than yours” is normal #it's traditional #ship discourse about problematic shipping is a mass delusion that just appeared recently and kind of annoying

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There is something about how Nishi Osamu-sensei draws her characters' excited face that just draw me in. Like, how exciting must it be for their face to be that flushed and rosy

#mairimashita iruma kun #mairuma

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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

#history

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Damn, the stakes got higher in the most ridiculous way possible. Not complaining though. Just remembering how it started with a guy that trying to avoid getting hurt and escalated to world jumping shenanigans.

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Wow Cale-nim just bombard the supposed enemy (that will soon turn into ally?) with information. He did it so casually while laughing like he’s having a talk about little silly things instead of world exploding information.

Cale think Clopeh is far from Ron level of service because he not served him a lemon tea?!? Cale?!? What happened?!? You miss Ron’s lemon tea??? Cale?!???

Cale-nim and Clopeh having a solo mission together must be a dream come true for Clopeh. He poundly guard Cale-nim now.

Alberu is rocking in the virtual game, but isn’t he a little addicted to it??

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A part of me says to get the spoilers, but another part of me don't want it. See my dilemma?

You know what, just tell me what Alberu is doing...

I kept seeing that part of Alberu being a gamer, but just what context...

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Wow Cale-nim just bombard the supposed enemy (that will soon turn into ally?) with information. He did it so casually while laughing like he’s having a talk about little silly things instead of world exploding information.

Cale think Clopeh is far from Ron level of service because he not served him a lemon tea?!? Cale?!? What happened?!? You miss Ron’s lemon tea??? Cale?!???

Cale-nim and Clopeh having a solo mission together must be a dream come true for Clopeh. He poundly guard Cale-nim now.

Alberu is rocking in the virtual game, but isn’t he a little addicted to it??

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Someone, pleeeaasseee do my FGO Demeter fight??? I'm so frustrated!!

It just heal, heal, heal!

AAAARRRGGGHHHH

#fate go #fate go demeter #fgo

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What is this about Alberu being a gamer??? I haven't read the novel in a while. Stoped when meeting Jung Soo in murim.

#292

Wow Cale-nim just bombard the supposed enemy (that will soon turn into ally?) with information. He did it so casually while laughing like he’s having a talk about little silly things instead of world exploding information.

Cale think Clopeh is far from Ron level of service because he not served him a lemon tea?!? Cale?!? What happened?!? You miss Ron’s lemon tea??? Cale?!???

Cale-nim and Clopeh having a solo mission together must be a dream come true for Clopeh. He poundly guard Cale-nim now.

Alberu is rocking in the virtual game, but isn’t he a little addicted to it??

#lout of the count’s family #trash of the count's family #cale henituse #lcf part 2 #tcf part 2 #clopeh sekka #alberu crossman #alver crossman

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Why do I felt frustrated when seeing a bunch of likes and no reblog? To the point I just goes "Oh, another like. Whatever then."

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When Your Dad is a Pillar of the Universe: Author's Note

Listen, I got a massive, massive writer block for the main story. But I kept getting idea for the snippets.

Like this one, you know how Embrace work, right?? It literally 'steal' something and store it somewhere. Heck, the Embraced stuff doesn't have to be a physical object. IT'S DEFINITELY PART OF THE ERROR PATHWAY OKAY????

Mr. Fool: Your team leader is a good guy right?

KRS: Yeah, he saved me when you fell asleep at those early days. Why?

Mr. Fool: Why does he felt annoying? He felt familiarly annoying?

KRS: ???

Mr. Fool: He won't randomly wear monocle right?

KRS: What's wrong with you and your phobia of monocle??

Mr. Fool: Monocles are evil. Spell it with me. E-V-I-L

KRS: Haah? *sigh

KRS: It's probably Team Leader's abiility, Embrace. From what you tell me it was similar to that Thief ability you had.

Mr. Fool: Ah, I see. A lesser form of 'Theft' then.

KRS: Sure, whatever you say Old Man.

#lord of mysteries #lotm #klein moretti #lord of the mysteries #trash of the count's family #lout of the count’s family #lcf #kim rok soo #When Your Dad is a Pillar of the Universe

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I May Be a Fake Angel by BB_Roin on AO3. Gotta read it with translator though since it was chinese and I understand no chinese. But majority LOTM fics came from CN part of the fandom so translator is a must.

Does your fandom have it?

You know what I'm talking about. That one divinely inspired fanfic that contains the holy trinity of good writing, length, and completeness.

(If it does, say the fandom and fic in the tags!)

#lord of mysteries #lotm #fic rec

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There is something about TianzunxKlein fics in lofter that soothe an itch I don't know I have.

Like, I don't know. The mindgame Tianzun is doing to Klein/Zhou Mingrui in those fics is somehow addicting

#lord of mysteries #lord of the mysteries #klein moretti #lotm #celestial worthy

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When Your Dad is a Pillar of the Universe 5

"Well, here we are."

Kim Rok Soo looked up at the apartment unit that will be his residence until this weird old man got bored of him. It was small and old. There were grafittis on the wall near the alley and it had barely any place to park a bike.

"Kim Seung Jong's house is on the 2nd floor. Room 203. Let's go." Stinky old man said as he lift up Rok Soo's belingings. Rok Soo himself only clutched his last plush toy, Ms. Salted Fish, closer before following Kim Seung Jong.

"Why do you call yourself with your own name? That's weird." Kim Rok Soo asked.

Kim Seung Jong just hummed, "I'll explain everything to you later. We just need to get inside the room alright?"

They climbed through the rickety stairs before reaching the 2nd floor. 3rd apartment from the stairs is apartment 203. When the door was opened, Kim Rok Soo had to cover his nose. The room reeked of cleaning supplies.

"Did you kill someone or something? It reeked!" Kim Rok Soo complained while pinching his nose.

Kim Seung Jong rubbed his neck while chukling sheepishly, "Ahahaha.... it kind of like that but not really?"

At this, Kim Rok Soo slowly took a step backward. He inhaled and was about to shout, but....

.

.

What was he planning to do again?

"Goodness, child. Calm down. I said I'll explain, didn't I? Now, why don't you take a shower while I prepare our dinner?" Kim Seung Jong shook his head as he walked to the kitchenette while waving his gloved hands.

Kim Rok Soo grew even wary. He knew he was planning something, but just as he was about to act on that plan, he forgot. Kim Rok Soo never forgot anything since the accident. Even now, he still vividly remember the bright red of his father and mother. The way his father threw him out of the car. The way the car blazed with his parents still inside.

"Listen Rok Soo, some fate can't be stopped. This... is just the way it is." This was Kim Hyun Woo's last words that he remembered.

After that, his memories blurred with the blaze of the flame.

"...soo. Kim Rok Soo!"

With a gasp, Kim Rok Soo returned back to the present. He looked at Kim seung Jong that crouched in front of him. Kim Seung Jong looked worried, but Rok Soo felt that it was a superficial worry.

"Are you alright?"

Kim Rok Soo nodded but kept silent.

Kim Seung Jong sighed. "I already prepared your clothes. Go wash up. Bathroom is 2nd door left."

Kim Rok Soo quickly made his escape and dashed to the bathroom. Reaching it, the child locked the door and slumped down behind it. A glimmer of tears slowly falls down, expressing his feeling of mourning and uncertainty.

For the first time since the accident, Kim Rok Soo showed his grief.

In front of the closed door, Kim Seung Jong that was about to knock stopped. 'He' heard the little sniffles hidden behind the door. 'His' expression was flat, as if everything 'he' showed to Rok Soo before was fake. 'His' eyes were dark and dull.

"Grief, is it? It's been a while. Should I feel grief for my short lived marrionette?"

'His' phone screen flashed, "Great Master, are you alright?"

'Kim Seung Jong' smiled a weird smile, "It feels like seeing that child mourning a marrionette actually roused a little bit of my humanity, Arrodes. I suppose I will play house a bit longer."

"As you will it Great Master!"

'Kim Seung Jong' chuckled. 'His' present state is that of sequence 4 parasite.

After the accident that 'his' sequence 8 marrionette can't evade, the Lord of the Mysteries was looking for a compatible vessel for 'his' need. So 'he' went through Kim Hyun Woo's entire family tree to see if 'he' could turn one of them to a marrionette. Surprisingly, all the living relatives was in good condition so 'he' was forced to stop.

'He' thought 'he' could left the child to Kim Hyun Woo's family members to be taken care off. Unexpectedly, the child's innate luck was terrible enough that he was put with, in simple words, living garbages.

And thus, the series of misfortune that follow Rok Soo's distant families were actually some little harmless retaliation curse from the Lord of the Mysteries.

"It seems I've grown attached, Arrodes."

"Isn't that beneficial for your humanity, Great Master?

"It should be. Arrodes, tell me, where are the thugs that Kim Seung Jong took bribes from resides?"

"Great Master! They reside in district X block G! Their total number currently in their base are 150 peoples."

'Kim Seung Jong' smiled a dangerous smile. A smile that could send a certain Envoy from Church of the Fool and the Angel of the Stars from the illustrious Tarot Club screaming for their life.

"Well, if they could bribe Kim Seung Jong to let them free, then they shouldn't protest if I asked for upkeep fee, no?"

"Great master! You are the best!!" A little cheerleading avatar appeared on his phone.

'Kim Seung Jong' chuckled and tightened his gloves. "For now, let's talk with the kid. There are a lot of things to explain."

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#lord of mysteries #lotm #klein moretti #lord of the mysteries #trash of the count's family #tcf #lcf #lout of the count’s family #kim rok soo #When Your Dad is a Pillar of the Universe

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When Your Dad is a Pillar of the Universe: Snippets 2

Kim Rok Soo was brushing his teeth when he saw something unusual. He kept seeing a flicker of red in the mirror.

"Old man! The mirror is acting weird!"

"Let it be, Rok Soo! Just Arrodes sulking as usual!" His old man shouted back from the kitchen.

Kim Rok Soo returned to brushing his teeth. Of course, the mirror was still flickering red. Until finally, when Kim Rok Soo finished wiping his face, his reflection changed.

"Interesting," said his monocle wearing reflection.

Shocked, Kim Rok Soo yelled for his old man, "Old man! My reflection is wearing monocle!"

Suddenly, the bathroom door was blasted open. His old man suddenly wore a black and yellow cloak and carrying an old fashioned gun. Menacingly, he pointed the gun at the mirror. The mirror's reflection smirked while mouthing something.

A bright light explode from the gun, breaking the mirror apart. Rok Soo felt a bunch of doorways opening around him to transport the mirror's fragment.

"What was that, old man?"

His old man didn't answer. Instead, he pulled a golden strip from somewhere and shouted something in a weird language. Immediately, another explosion rocked the poor bathroom, further turning the mirror into dust.

It seems his old man isn't done and was planning something else.

"Wait, wait, wait! You'll destroy the apartment and the city if you continue! Stop! Old man stop!"

His old man wheezed. The light in his hand dissipated and the black yellow cloak disappeared.

Suddenly, his old man grabbed his face and turning it left and right. He also grabbed a flashlight somewhere and shined it to Kim Rok Soo's eyes.

"You didn't have the urge to suddenly put on a monocle, do you? Or a penchant to wear weird wizard clothes?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Listen Rok Soo. If you ever see anyone wearing monocles that acted suspicious, immediately called me. Understood??"

"I don't get it. But alright."

His old man nodded and told him to go to bed. After that, for a few months afterwards, his old man kept doing drills on what to do when you encounter suspicious monocle wearing people.

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Roan Kingdom, at a ball celebrating the Crowned Prince's birthday

"Oh shit."

Several people looked at Rok Soo.

"Weird bastard, what is it?" Asked the red head.

Rok Soo didn't answer, instead, he grabbed his pendant and whispered, "Old man, a weirdo wearing monocle is here. He kept staring at me with a weird smile."

All of a sudden, the sky outside the ballroom turned dark. Many thunders strike at the ballroom.

The guests were scared, Rok Soo and Cale's group was busy evacuating every guests and ensuring no one got hurt.

Weirdly enough, the thunder seems to be only targetting one person only. Somehow, everytime the thunder strikes, there was this soft voice accompanying it.

"Get away from my son, you #$*^#&%#!!!!!"

Kim Rok Soo sort of regrets calling his father even though it was a reflex by now. Those drills are terrifying.

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#lord of mysteries #lotm #klein moretti #lord of the mysteries #trash of the count's family #tcf #lcf #lout of the count’s family #kim rok soo #amon is terrifying guys #could be fic canon could be not #amon ptsd is difficult to clear #need divine descent just to handle amon

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Basically the whole Sealed God's Test Arc:

This is an Iseki (cale teleported into the past), inside another Iseki, (Kim Rok Soo-Cale version Birth of a Hero) inside another Iseki (birth of a hero original version) inside of another Iseki (Kim Rok Soo’s original world aka Korea that is basically Solo Leveling lol)…. my goodness.

#lout of the count’s family #trash of the count's family #cale henituse #tcf novel #tcf cale #totcf #totcf novel #sealed god's test arc #should we call it. incepkai? #inception isekai got it? so it became incepkai #i'll kick myself out