is herobrine behavior/lore not common knowledge anymore .... has the world really forgotten about the 2x2 tunnels .. trees with their leaves all gone ... the sand pyramids in the ocean ... the herobrine shrine that would apparently summon him ... the lost to time brocraft hoax livestream that further popularized herobrine as a concept (of which herobrine was just a painting from a texture pack, later removed to which the streamer would continue to act freaked out until the end) .. the original forum post from sometime in august 2010 that detailed encounters with a pseudo-player in the distance on a singleplayer world which included this screenshot
does anyone even care at all. about a herobrine so small
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i fucking love people here you guys see this dinnerplate-faced daycare animatronic and go "what if they were detectives" and you make all this amazing astounding art and writing and concepts and designs like yeah . sure . im going to be normal abt this and im not going to think about the incredible levels of creativity involved im not gointg to think about how much i love seeing beginner artists using the dca as a way to learn new skills in art and character design Im not going to think about how much joy is in all those AUs and how much artists and writers put aspects of whatever they enjoy in those stupid ass clowns to make these incredible inspired stories and artworks absolutely Brimming with love for what they created &how much i love seeing people in the community huddling around those AUs and hyping them up and making More Art from those yeah im normal. whatever
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anyone else having to go through fhjy at a snail's pace bc every time there's a teacher-student interaction (even the positive ones!) you want to set something on fire because of how much you hate high school and american academic culture and it throws you back to the Bad Old Days of actually being in high school, but also you really like fantasy high and you really like the characters and their story and the players and the way they're exploring & critiquing the US school system and basically everything about the show but actually watching it makes your brain explode?
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I'm once again thinking about the missed opportunities to have Klaus and Kol bond more. Part of Klaus' whole motivation as a vampire is to get his werewolf part back and to finally be stronger than Mikael (sort of, I'm simplifying) both of which can be obtained by breaking his curse. But Kol? Kol is the only other original that can relate to having a fundamental part of themself ripped away from them. Klaus might not have known he was a werewolf until he killed, but he likely still had a connection he couldn't explain, as evident by him going to watch the wolves transform. And something he'd never been able to explain was now gone. He might only be able to realise the connection afterwards through its absence.
Kol though. Kol had grown up with magic, a connection to nature and the world around him in a way the rest of his siblings supposedly didn't have. And then he gets turned. And not only has his baby brother died, his father has just murdered him and the rest of his siblings after forcing them to drink human blood, which he'll later learn. Now, not only does he have to deal with the grief of Henrik's death and also his own but also the loss of his magic. A loss that's likely only worsened by Kol being a self-proclaimed child prodigy.
Kol is pretty much the only one who could understand what Klaus is going through with the binding of his wolf. We know Kol searched for ways to get his magic back/carry on practicing magic in the same way that Klaus was looking for ways to break his curse. While Klaus likely could still feel his wolf there despite being bound, Kol has no access to his magic anymore. I just think they should've been able to bond or connect over their shared loss of an intrinsic aspect of their selves at the hands of their parents
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ARATHAIN LITERALLY SAID RAT BROUGHT CLOWN ALONG AS A FUCKING SHOW DOG AND CLOWN WENT "hi :3" IM SOOOOO MENTALLY ILL RN
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not putting this in the tag because i KNOW its meta-bitching but i do hate people treating the wyll ravengard tag like its a discourse tag and not, yanno, an actual character tag. "its so fucked up how larian made their black character so much more boring than the rest!" is character hate and the average person scrolling his tag is trying to explode you with their mind. he does have fans, you know that, right?
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Okay but somebody has to talk about the way Brennan including an in-world storyteller at the top of the first scene in the first episode of main campaign, vaguely name-dropping world geography and some of the lore on the different casters, is MASTERFUL exposition.
I also can't get what seem to be Umora's version of sorcerers and warlocks out of my brain. Warlocks, okay, making a deal with a spirit makes sense makes sense.
BUT.
SORCERERS BEING THE CHILD/DESCENDANT OF HUMANS AND SPIRITS??
I want. Give me. Give me nowwww. I want a character (NPC or Guest PC) who is the child of a human and a Wild One like Eursulon who lost their spirit nature. I want the product of star-crossed lovers and MORE TRAPPED SPIRITS. The mechanics of that whole process [as explained in the Children's Adventure, Episode 5, not specified here so I don't have to tag spoilers] is so fascinating.
The mark of excellent fantasy/speculative fiction worldbuilding for me? When I can start speculating at the possibilities. When there are so many possibilities that your brain starts to populate the world with unfathomable diversity without that ever being spelled out to you.
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so, i’ve caught up with blue lock once again, just in time to see the pxg v. bastard munchen match, and so far (ch. 256) we haven’t seen that much of rin yet. or at least not much that really gets us into his perspective the way the u20 match did.
however, based on what we do have so far, i think that my predictions were a little bit hopeful in the character development department. so far, rin mostly just seems kind of angry, which isn’t that different from before the neo-egoist league. he’s also still playing football to specific people, like isagi and sae. and that’s not a bad motivation, i just think that at times it holds him back during the games that he plays with them.
i do think that we’re going to see rin develope during this game. but like i said earlier, we haven’t really seen much of him so far with the focus mainly being on charles chevalier and hiori. not to say that i haven’t enjoyed the long awaited (for me anyway) game between pxg and bastard munchen, just that i’m very excited to see what kaneshiro does with rin next.
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i watch one (1) fifty-minute retrospective of a police-consultant series that ended a decade ago - and that i only ever casually consumed while it was airing - and immediately Must Consume All The Things.
(some good food out there, let me tell you. the fandom is strong)
in my defence though: the themes of grief, trauma, self-destruction and healing? the exploration of trust and personal damage and accountability? the found family dynamics between a team of people who are all a little damaged or misplaced, and stumbled across each other, and chose (over and over again) to Stay???
and and and!! an arrogant-expert guile hero main character with a Dark and Troubled Past who is full of self-loathing and on a typical revenge quest, yet breaks the mould for these kinds of protagonists - embodying joi de vivre, delighting in random acts of kindness towards those he cares for, and acting as a gold-standard trickster archetype (mocking towards authority, neutral towards the blameless, gentle towards the vulnerable)???
and don't get me started on the police-consultant-and-their-cop will-they-won't-they oh my god this dynamic i adore them together i just want them to be happy they are so important to me
(also, aforementioned retrospective was right. the season 3 finale was flawless, and it would have been infinitely more interesting to not have the plot twist. because the trauma wouldn't (didn't) disappear with the revenge complete, with the Big Bad dead and buried. the tension lingers. you have to go on living afterwards, and figure out how. and how do you do that, when you've only been living for revenge for so long, and keeping everyone at a distance out of fear you'll drag them into the mire with you? how do you break those old habits? how do you let yourself live again? how do you convince yourself that you deserve it?)
(aaaaand now i'm contemplating writing a post-season 3 au based on that concept, goddamn it)
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