one thing about me is that I pontificate. I live on the soapbox. give me a topic and I will speak for 3 days no I do not care that it's late I got interesting shit to say. join me or wallow in your silence like the coward you are
I know it is okay to dislike characters. Their not real so it won't hurt them. However in terms of Aang and Mai when people say "I like Mai and Aang but hate their writing" I think what they are trying to say is that they like the on-paper potential of these characters. Heck Im a culprit for saying this common phrase. Because I do like the on-paper potential for these two. Many people like the idea of these characters and what they could be. They could have been good characters if their writing was not terrible. I rewrote Mai's arc to be about her and her growth. Aang can be fixed if we remove Nice Guy TM and a whole lot of other things (won't get into that now). However, this could be just my perspective.
Your only friends / Oh, be anything I want to be?
have turned on you. / Oh, is this just a dream?
I am that voice, / Oh, give away so willfully...
you need me too. / Oh, please carry me away!
One of my favorite scenes in ep 6 is when Hob is telling Dream how much he’s lost in the last 100 years. From his wealth and social standing to his wife and children. How he made missteps and was branded a witch and was drowned. The reason why is of course in part because regardless Hob stays committed to his belief and love of life, but also because Dream is moved in that scene. He’s moved by Hob’s grief and then further moved by his resilience. It’s so lovely to me how much Dream wants him to continue loving life too. And when he thinks that perhaps the world has broken Hob too, he looks ready to cry on his behalf.
I also appreciate the interaction because typically the ageless being has to hype up the character who initially is written to be naively certain of their ideas about life and it’s worth; but that’s not what happens here. Hob isn’t driven by someone else’s assurance that life is good, he’s driven completely by his own. Even through all his grief and loss and even torture of his flesh he accepts it and he lives. Because he just fucking loves living.
I don't like when ppl say stuff like "izzy made (insert character, usually ed) evil" like he may have encouraged certain things but other characters are their own people and make their own decisions and chose their own actions, izzy didn't MAKE anyone into anything just like anyone can't make anyone into anything. People have responsibility for their actions. Izzy didnt MAKE Ed kill (or more accurately try to kill) Lucius, or cut off Izzys toe. Ed's actions are his own
Here’s my most recent work in progress… I think it’s pretty neat so far. It’s Vivec with my ‘Nerevarine’ Wraith, who has just replaced Archcanon Tholer Saryoni. She’s a bit too obsessed with the Warrior-Poet to ever actually finish becoming the Nerevarine, but she likes to pretend she’s Saint Nerevar’s incarnation anyway.
Do it. Give into temptation. Draw gory stubskep. Draw skeptic cutting stubborn open on a table. Draw blood and guts in an inescapably and undefinably hot way. I am the devil over your shoulder and i say fuck it we ball /lh
alright kiddos
cw: medical malpractice (blood and guts) (consensual)