#heroin makes sense

[fireintheimpala]

God. Imaging being in deep horrifying multi year love with a man, your best friend, your deepest and only close connection for 15 years. And you blow it up somehow. And part of you knows it’s your fault but the other part could never acknowledge that and live.

Too bad he’s not a normal ex. He goes on to be the top recording artist of the time. He flaunts what historically becomes thought of as one of the best marriages of all time, agreed on by everyone, you don’t even exist. He blasts from the radio every time you turn it on. You tried to send him song messages because you’re really so weak, but he sends back such a surrealist mix that you can never tell whether you’re crazy for hearing something or unloved in return.

Just…imagine

#McLennon #I’ve been on a poor Paul kick but damn poor john #paul mccartney #john lennon #heroin makes sense

[indelicateink]

watching the s2 trailers i'm just so loving the 1790s glimpses so far. it could be totally misleading, but i kind of get the sense that (for now, in these clips), armand is kind of painting a picture of how initially(?) lestat impressed him as a sexy badass when he came into his life? bc these memories, sir. damn.

which is a hilarious contrast to a season of louis's condemnation of him mostly as a manipulative, insensitive, selfish partner who was a crap mentor and a terrible parent, who nonetheless had a compelling "way about him" (and a vampire bond). (BUT! ofc if we read between the lines it's clear these aren't louis's only feelings on the matter. just the framing he currently has for daniel.)

i'm really curious whether louis or armand (both?) is portraying lestat looking glamorous and villainous at the trial:

and not to break your dash, but of course claudia's recounting of him that we're allowed to know is mostly lestat as anywhere from a negligent to cold to monstrous maker/uncle/brother/tormentor.

so curious to meet lestat from lestat's POV?

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #like so far i get the sense the case being made is maybe lestat is just a force of nature that happens to people daniel #breaks up covens (presumably) #crashes your brother's funeral. makes a compelling enough case to get you to marry him later that night #has a way about him (onstage) (in ur catacomb sucking on ur wrist) (that black tar heroin sex) #not that this story is About Lestat! just observing how other people frame him so far #amc iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #armand #claudia #iwtv s2 spoilers #yeah i took the editorial liberty of color coding their stories blue and red bc it was visually too confusing otherwise

[jacarandaaaas]

“We need more mean women in Disney movies”

y’all couldn’t even handle isabela madrigal

#encanto #encanto disney #disneys encanto #isabela madrigal #encanto isabela #the takes calling her an abuser were actually insane #like I love mirabel but she wasn’t a helpless victim like she was the first one to talk snarky #ppl still think isa doesn’t deserve forgiveness #like I’m sorry that girl was conditioned to live that way for HOW MANY YEARS!? #like yeah it makes sense she would snap #isabela my love #isabela my beloved #disney #disney princess #disney heroines

[sage-nebula]

Something I wonder about is whether Metal Sonic / Overlord calling Tails "unworthy child" will ever be followed up on.

On the one hand, this happened so long ago that it would almost feel weird to bring it up now. On the other, it's such a cutting, damnig criticism that throwing it in and then doing nothing with it feels like there was a story that was intended but cut. It's hard to believe this was just put in there for no reason.

A huge part of Tails' backstory is that he has always looked up to, and wanted to be a hero like, Sonic. And he has felt at times that he falls short of this. His theme from the Adventure games touches on this: "I wanna be strong, I wanna be trusted [. . .] I wanna be cool, I also wanna be like him / but that's not something I can do so easily." His arc in the Adventure games is about him becoming a hero in his own way. He saves Station Square in SA1, he throws (mecha) hands with Eggman in solo showdowns multiple times in SA2, the final time coming right after he's made to believe Eggman just killed Sonic right in front of him. (Which is why his treatment in Forces is so infuriating, but! This is not the post for that.) Tails doesn't have Sonic's strengths, but that's okay, because he has his own strengths that Sonic doesn't have, and his Adventure theme touches on this, too. "There are things only I can do."

But although Tails does become a hero in his own right, and has so much more confidence in his strengths now than he used to, I think he could still struggle with the thought that he's not enough sometimes. As much as I fucking hate what Forces did to him, this arc in the comics still does directly follow Forces, wherein Sonic was captured and Tails couldn't do anything to help him. What does that say about him? How does that make him feel? Is he good enough? Does he deserve to be at Sonic's side?

The use of the word "unworthy" is a deliberate one. Metal isn't calling Tails stupid, or weak, or slow, or anything else that could be an easily dismissable, shallow insult. He's calling him unworthy. He's saying, maybe you are smart, fast, or strong. Maybe you can build computers and pilot airships and maybe even crash one into me. But you are still not good enough. You are still an unworthy child. It's such a deliberate precision strike against Tails' insecurities. Metal wasn't just lashing out. He somehow knew just how to hurt Tails and he stabbed into that squishy weak spot with extreme prejudice.

And then . . . nothing ever came of it.

Of course, literally 2 pages later we had Sonic hyping Tails up:

So maybe that's why. Metal called him unworthy, but Sonic called what he did amazing. So . . . problem solved? I wouldn't think so, but I'm also not on the creative team for these comics, so 🤷‍♀️ If I was, Tails wouldn't be referred to as a "sidekick" in his cast blurb while everyone else gets to be called a hero (or heroine), lol.

But anyway, I don't know where I'm going with this. It's just something I was thinking about as I try to sleep despite my illness making that difficult.

#miles tails prower #IDW sonic #no i will never stop bitching abt the sidekick thing #it bothers me SO much #he's just as much of a hero as the rest of them!! stop disrespecting my small son pls #it can't even be the age thing or the ''not a Team X leader'' thing #bc Cream is both younger than Tails & is in his spot on Team Rose #yet she gets called heroine while he's just sidekick #and i'm happy for her dgmw!!! Cream is great but like #why is Tails looked down upon. what did he do to not earn his hero title #after all he's accomplished on his own?? makes no sense #sth

[itspileofgoodthings]

Idk if it’s too late but ✨ (and also 💛💛💛for u darling 💛💛💛)

NEVER TOO LATE FOR YOU <3

Your Austen heroine: Catherine Morland

GIRL I THINK YOU'RE CATHY. So the interesting thing is. As always, Austen is so specific so so her characters are always so truthfully shaped by their circumstances and their upbringing and all the specifics of their situation and you are truly, in so many ways, so far ahead of Catherine because SHE'S JUST A BABY GIRL who is growing and learning and being 17 and also, also I think that you are much more of a scholar and a much more robust analyzer and you're handle on Theme and Story is much farther ahead than hers but the core??? You know I love talking about the core and Catherine has such a wonderful core and it's so like yours in many ways!

She has such a beautiful and sensitive instinct for story, she's always picking up on the vibrations of this (I think Henry as well as Austen says this about her, that even when she's wrong the instinct is right and true!); she's so good-hearted and kind-hearted and wants to be the best friend she can be and she holds out hope for as long as she can for that to be true; and most of all there's a specific hard-to-name extremely endearing quality of guilelessness that you have both have that I love so much?? I don't really know how to explain it but I always think of that scene at the opera where she sees Henry and it's the day after the walk where she (in his eyes at least) blew him off to be with John Thorpe and she runs after him and she's like "I'm so sorry I didn't go on the walk but John took me by surprise and said you didn't mean to walk" etc. etc. and she's so sincere and whole-hearted and SINCERE that Henry just completely melts in spite of himself and it's so incredibly cute. And tbh I don't think there's another Austen heroine who has that particular kind of appeal where there's an earnestness but also total lack of self-consciousness that it's impossibly hard to keep any barrier up against them. Her power is almost in not knowing the kind of power that she has but just thinking about what she wants to say and saying it so sincerely and that is you to me!! You are so incredibly appealing in that you're always just crossing the threshold of things and inviting people in to follow you simply by being who you are. None of your charm is calculated at all and it's the best. Also Henry Tilney would love you both because of you and almost I think in spite of himself which is what makes Northanger such a fun romance despite what some critics think.

#magpie-trove #I hope you like and/or it makes sense on some level at least haha #she is you to me!!! <3 #in as much as I am taking your wonderfully distinct personality and mapping it onto an Austen heroine

[batrachised]

But even in the moon Jane's dreams ran true to the ruling passion. Since the moon was all silver it had to be polished every night. Jane and her moon friends had no end of fun polishing up the moon, with an elaborate system of rewards and punishments for extra good polishers and lazy ones. The lazy ones were generally banished to the other side of the moon...which Jane had read was very dark and very cold. When they were allowed back, chilled to the bone, they were glad to warm themselves up by rubbing as hard as they could.

I love how Jane's wild flights of fancy involve CLEANING

#it makes sense that she dreams about justice when her everyday life is injustice personified #this is why she's always at the top of my fav lmm heroines #a girl after my own heart #lantern hill book club

[microwaving-tesilid-argente]

the appeal of Tesilid/Hestio is that hestio would be extremely upset about it. Him, crushing on this mf who's always so stiff and is a doormat who can't look out for himself and whom he's been ribbing for years and who is also very very handsome?!?? blasphemy!!!! Multiple years of denial and you would need to pry a confession out of him. Affection disguised by sharp comments and yells.

((now imagine if he hasn't done shit about his feelings until Tesilid's regression starts. Some timelines he confesses. Some timelines they get together. Some timelines he never does a thing; but now that Tesilid has lived rounds where he does, he can see through his bravado. Does Tesilid reach out first?

Dozens of get-together plots playing out, but there is never a happy ending; not in the long run. Tesilid wakes up to a new Hestio that's not the one he left.

Some timelines Hestio is greeted by an unusually familiar Tesilid. Some timelines Tesilid inexplicably avoids him, and when Hestio tracks him down he looks at him like he's one wrong move away from crumbling apart. Like Hestio's presence itself hurts him. Whatever the fuck did he even do?))

#a transmigrator's privilege #the perks of being an s class heroine #oh hell i need to come up with a ship name for them 😭 #i can imagine someone new entering the tags and seeing a tes/hestio post and being like HUH???? IS THIS THAT KIND OF STORY? #NO YOU DIDNT READ THE SIGNS WRONG I JUST HAVE EXTREME BRAINROT #it just makes a lot of sense to me for everyone ever to be in love with tesilid. okay. #on the other hand ephael's crisis would be more along the lines of oh hell there goes my dream of escaping to the secular world... #mf church isnt going to let tesilid go. he's stuck here w tesilid now. #anyway another appeal of tesilid/hestio is that hestio is tsundere adjacent #like hes not afraid of letting ppl know he cares per se hes just very brusque about it #its always fun to put tsundere adjacent chars into romances and watch them melt into a formless mess ☺️👍 #teshes

[postalollie]

If needles was a regular human before becoming part of sulfur, I imagine he would have been maybe a war surgeon or something

#yes I know theres daan #BUT #daan is a doctor #not surgeon #so it works #and that is what I feel works best with the design needles has #(granted maybe he looked different as a human but the heroin and inhection makes sense if hes a surgeon bc anesthesia) #fear and hunger termina #needles

[h3llofaday]

Taylor Swift: he jokes it’s like heroin but this time with an E

My dumbass: ???Eeroin????

#while typing this post out I just realized she probably meant heroine that makes a lot more sense #taylor swift #ttpd #the tortured poets department

[bethanydelleman]

Attractiveness of Jane Austen Heroines (Rated)

The obligatory follow up post (I promise I’ll do male villains next)

1A. Marianne Dashwood (pre-illness beauty): So lovely that Truth is less outraged than usual! Her beauty is remarked upon even by her careless-half brother, who apparently ranks beauty by marriage prospect for your pleasure. Marianne seems to be extremely attractive.

Her form, though not so correct as her sister’s, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens. Her skin was very brown, but, from its transparency, her complexion was uncommonly brilliant; her features were all good; her smile was sweet and attractive; and in her eyes, which were very dark, there was a life, a spirit, an eagerness, which could hardly be seen without delight… The Miss Dashwoods were young, pretty, and unaffected… It would be an excellent match, for he was rich, and she was handsome…  She was as handsome a girl last September, as I ever saw; and as likely to attract the man. There was something in her style of beauty, to please them particularly

1B. Jane Bennet: Seems to be a general consensus that she is pretty darn good looking. Mrs. Bennet puts a lot of stock in Jane marrying well because of her looks and Bingley basically falls in love at first sight. Even Darcy begrudgingly admits that she’s pretty, so I am betting she’s about the same level as Marianne.

I am sure she (Elizabeth) is not half so handsome as Jane… “You are dancing with the only handsome girl in the room,” “Oh! she is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!” s to Miss Bennet, he could not conceive an angel more beautiful…. Miss Bennet he acknowledged to be pretty,.. I was sure you could not be so beautiful for nothing!

3. Emma Woodhouse: We are told by the objective narrator that she is handsome, but all other praise comes from biased sources. This makes Emma and Knightley a good match, as I was scarcely able to judge his physical appearance either! 

handsome… “Such an eye!—the true hazle eye—and so brilliant! regular features, open countenance, with a complexion! oh! what a bloom of full health, and such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure! There is health, not merely in her bloom, but in her air, her head, her glance. One hears sometimes of a child being ‘the picture of health;’ now, Emma always gives me the idea of being the complete picture of grown-up health. She is loveliness itself. Mr. Knightley, is not she?”... “I have not a fault to find with her person,” he replied. “I think her all you describe. I love to look at her; and I will add this praise, that I do not think her personally vain. Considering how very handsome she is, she appears to be little occupied with it

4. Anne Elliot (post-sea breeze restoration): Even Sir Walter recognizes that she is beautiful again and he doesn’t care about his daughter at all (affection changes beauty). Mr. Elliot is also an objective observer.

he looked at her with a degree of earnest admiration, which she could not be insensible of. She was looking remarkably well; her very regular, very pretty features, having the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind which had been blowing on her complexion, and by the animation of eye which it had also produced. It was evident that the gentleman… admired her exceedingly…. That man is struck with you, and even I, at this moment, see something like Anne Elliot again.”... he began to compliment her on her improved looks; he thought her “less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly improved; clearer, fresher. Had she been using any thing in particular?.. Anne Elliot; very pretty, when one comes to look at her. It is not the fashion to say so, but I confess I admire her more than her sister…. Anne, smiling and blushing, very becomingly shewed to Mr Elliot the pretty features which he had by no means forgotten… 

5. Elinor Dashwood: Very pretty. Not as beautiful as Marianne, but seems to be doing well in  her own right.

Miss Dashwood had a delicate complexion, regular features, and a remarkably pretty figure. Marianne was still handsomer…. The Miss Dashwoods were young, pretty, and unaffected

6. Elizabeth Bennet: Her beauty seems to be the type that grows on you, and is likely aided by her charming manners. I have included the speech from Caroline Bingley because it is very likely that she is repeating what we know Darcy told his friends at the beginning of the novel (But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face).

I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane… But there is one of her sisters sitting down just behind you, who is very pretty… “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me.. Though he had detected with a critical eye more than one failure of perfect symmetry in her form, he was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing; and in spite of his asserting that her manners were not those of the fashionable world, he was caught by their easy playfulness…I remember, when we first knew her in Hertfordshire, how amazed we all were to find that she was a reputed beauty;...  Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character—there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.

7. Fanny Price: Pretty enough as Mary Crawford helpfully says. Sir Thomas is surprised by how attractive Fanny has grown when he arrives home, so we know at least she has greatly improved since childhood. Mary is probably a better objective observer than Henry, who is just looking for excuses to flirt with Fanny.

Your uncle thinks you very pretty, dear Fanny—and that is the long and the short of the matter. Anybody but myself would have made something more of it, and anybody but you would resent that you had not been thought very pretty before; but the truth is, that your uncle never did admire you till now—and now he does. Your complexion is so improved!—and you have gained so much countenance!—and your figure—.... You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at. You must try not to mind growing up into a pretty woman… She was then merely a quiet, modest, not plain-looking girl, but she is now absolutely pretty. I used to think she had neither complexion nor countenance; but in that soft skin of hers, so frequently tinged with a blush as it was yesterday, there is decided beauty; and from what I observed of her eyes and mouth, I do not despair of their being capable of expression enough when she has anything to express. And then, her air, her manner, her tout ensemble, is so indescribably improved! She must be grown two inches, at least, since October….  I have always thought her pretty—not strikingly pretty—but ‘pretty enough,’ as people say; a sort of beauty that grows on one. Her eyes should be darker, but she has a sweet smile;... Fanny’s beauty of face and figure

8. Catherine Morland: We shall grant her the Award for Most Improved. Described by her loving family as “almost pretty”

At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more consequence. Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart; she had now the pleasure of sometimes hearing her father and mother remark on her personal improvement. “Catherine grows quite a good-looking girl—she is almost pretty today,” were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds! To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive… two gentlemen pronounced her to be a pretty girl… appeared to much advantage

Again, it is hard to judge what is objective and what is the result of love or loathing, but this seems like a fair assessment of the female heroines. Now I have an idea for an FF where I pair off everyone in order of attractiveness instead of compatibility. I’m already laughing imagining Marianne and Edmund Bertram... 

Honourable Mention: Harriet is probably equal to Emma in beauty

#jane austen #jane austen heroines #mansfield park #northanger abbey #pride and prejudice #sense and sensibility #persuasion #emma #emma woodhouse #elizabeth bennet #jane bennet #catherine morland #anne elliot #elinor dashwood #marianne dashwood #the serach for objective narration #I want to make a huge spreadsheet and rate every physical description by reliability and objectiveness but when would I find the time!

[normalbrothers]

the thing about "the sins i've concealed for so long" and the odd emphasis on it given how arthur struggles to say these words is just. we know about arthur's "sins", we are pretty much shown everything he's been up to throughout the show, so what is it that has been concealed. what are we *not* shown

#the reason he takes heroin at this point is out of a desire to forget something. there's a pervasive sense of shame when it comes to him #throught season 6 #what is itttt #and aren't we given an answer when he makes it known that he plans to die alongside tommy ..

[hoodienanami]

ppl on this site will be like 'the sex pistols were soooo mean and evil and terrible so theyre not punk!!!' and then worship bad brains

#hoodie talks #all four of the actual sex pistols are better ppl then hr from bad brains could ever hope to be #also the linked article doesnt mention that hr loves beating the shit out of women and has been accused of rape #so if you actually think 'punk is kind' then you wouldnt be reccing his band #i like their music too but hr can die painfully just like all other domestic abusers and rapists #the rest of bad brains are fine tho theyve made apologies for The Incident and explained that their religion twisted their minds #and im very pro not viewing an entire band as Just their frontman so im not saying dont listen to them #im just saying dont be a hypocrite #btw the sex pistols were never violent or dangerous band! ppl were violent towards them but they didnt want violence at shows #sid vicious was violent yes but he wasnt part of the band until 1977 #and since the pistols broke up in january 1978 that means sid was in the band for barely a year #the rest of the band really didnt like how he acted and actually tried to stop him #but its very difficult to talk sense into a suicidal heroin addict #anyway i could tell you facts about your fav punk/hardcore band that would make you shit rocks for weeks! #theyre all bad ppl! everyone in the music industry is a bad person! #punk rock posting

[serpenteve]

thinking about how alina starkov was written to be such a bland generic YA protagonist so that any reader could relate to her but that in and of itself makes her one of the least relatable characters because she doesn't come across like a fully dimensional human being that makes decisions you can understand but rather like the author's selectively sentient plot device?

#idk man she's just so.................passive its infuriating #lb tries in the later books but...meh #the other characters will forever be more interesting to me #every time alina remains passive in the story im just like........wHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS #why are you even the heroine???? #why can't you just get your hands dirty? #why are you such a simp for the imperial monarchy whose wars killed your parents??? #for the nobility class that didn't give a shit about you at the orphanage??? #her motivations just makes.....zero sense

[social-mockingbird]

The current book I’m reading (Caraval) has a lot of reviews in which people complain about its intense purple prose and overuse of color imagery (like, Scarlett has unconfirmed synesthesia but it’s not really talked about, she just sees everything in colors, and it’s some of the only descriptive imagery used, so it can get tiresome). Which, like, I get. Pretty empty language is annoying and this book is a little predictable and I’m probably a little out of its target age range.

But I present, for your consideration, my humble argument:

shapes

and

✨COLORS✨

#I know the purple prose makes no sense I know that #however there is so much color here and it makes my brain go weeeeeeeeeee #it is silly and I love it #people have colors. emotions have colors. the entire circus has colors for different things #i am a simple reader and I am enjoying my indulgent color imagery #vera rants #back on my literature analyzation shtick already and it’s still summer 😂 #this book is like looking at a kaleidoscope #do the lights and colors mean anything? no. #are they still delightful to look at? yes. #and like. since the entire premise of the book involves wandering through a magical circus I feel this is very apt #also this poor heroine is used to dressing in various shades of beige #cut this poor HGTV-color-scheme survivor some slack

[ladye-zelda]

I saw your tags from the post a while ago about how the small details in totk Make up for the main story, and while I agree, I gotta say that the things some people say about the story being bare bones or whatever (and BOTW’s story to that extent) just…doesn’t make sense to me. Because I think the problem is with the execution rather than the writing. Like, BOTW was even more bare bones,because it was just a bunch of exposition. Not to say the story wasn’t good because it absolutely is, but it was minimal, imo. Anyway I said all that to say that I personally do think that totk has the better story, but the execution is worse and I think the open world format hurts it. And I think if people could look past that they could see how good it is. But of course that’s all just me. Neither game’s story is particularly great but I love them both. Anyway I did not intend for this to get so long but what do you think about that? I’m just curious 🙂

Sorry this took me a while to respond anon, I was trying to think of a way to respond XD

Yeah, I can definitely agree that the open world aspect hurts the story of Tears. I was thinking about this earlier, and I think Breath of the Wild's story worked because it is so barebones. The developers were able to develop the story around the gameplay, which has always been Nintendo's adjective for both of these games (and probably all of their games, though I am not too much on an expert on that in all honesty) first and foremost. And it worked, for the most part.

I do believe there can be no "perfect" Zelda game, and especially not one that can appease all Zelda fans (even the games that everyone praises to be perfect has their haters, though I guess hate is too strong of a word). I think the main downfall of Tears of the Kingdom was that it couldn't live up to fan's expectations and wants for the Zelda franchise. Tears of the Kingdom was always meant to be BotW+, since the developers had so many ideas for Breath of the Wild they had to make a second game in order to fit all of those ideas, which led to them repeating the same gameplay mechanics as Breath of the Wild.

Don't get me wrong, TotK's gameplay is good since it what made Breath of the Wild good as well, but because it's exactly like Breath of the Wild is what made it sour in the minds of players. I guess for the players who played other kinds of games in between Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom allowing them time to do something else, it isn't so bad. But for the players who play nothing but Zelda games or who were late into getting into the Zelda franchise (such as myself) it can be a little... repetitive (and I'm mainly talking about the quests, shrines, and the same mechanic of unlocking a terminal in a dungeon found in both botw and totk). Hence why I was so drawn all to the other world discoveries not unlocked by doing a side quest, which I think is the greatest improvement TotK brought imo.

In terms of TotK's story... I don't hate it exactly, but I will say I will prefer BotW's better. I still kind of need to analyze the story of TotK fully for myself to draw any real conclusions for me; my biggest problem is how it completely erases BotW's story from it's story. Sure, half a dozen years has passed in between games (both in-game and irl) but surely the impact of defeating the Calamity would've left something... bigger. Like, wouldn't word have gone around that Link was the one to have defeated the darkness looming the castle? They could've at least acknowledged him directly instead of pulling a Tony Hawk and saying "oh you have the same name as that guy who defeated that evil some time ago". I will give them the benefit of the doubt, but then again everyone knows Zelda and he has never her side so, ???. Sorry, didn't mean to rant there. It was kind of a frustration I felt along with many others while playing the game. Main story-wise I don't have any real issues other than you're seriously telling me that there was another ancient civilization before the previous civilization that had even more ancient technology? It kind of pushes my suspension of disbelief (and once again repeating things from BotW).

Anyways, thank you for sharing your opinion anon! Once again I am immensely sorry it took me this long to come to it; tldr in my opinion I prefer Breath of the Wild's story over TotK's. You do make a lot of good points that I agree with, but I think it boils down to personal preference over which game is better due to how similar the games are, which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on opinion.

Thank you so much for reaching out and discussing this with me!

#the ladye answers #amazing anon!!! #despite being fine with what we have for totk I do kind of have some ideas on how to improve it #though I do like how totk answered some questions that we had for botw (mainly the 8th heroine story) #but I think it would've been better if it followed the traditional zelda formula of having sequels set in a different place #or if it was just set in the ancient past from the start #I think it would've fixed the open world story aspect #like it could still be open world but in the ancient past #it would present an interesting way because now you're living in the story instead of have it all have already happened in the past #just like in botw and totk #idk again that's an opinion of mine but i think it would made me enjoy totk a bit more #right now I think I'm just feeling a bit meh from it due to experiencing burnout #tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #totk discussion #also sorry if this doesn't make any sense; feel free to send another ask for clarification #I promise I'll get to that one sooner XD

[variousqueerthings]

@jerottblyth I was writing this in the replies of your “ a glimpse of BJ's post-series white picket fence” and then I got annoyed with the limit, so!

I just rewatched the episode with Hawkeye's ex that he didn't marry (twice), and BJ talks about how he's never even been tempted by another woman, vs later on cheating once (I believe in s5 -- the first BJ episode I really commented on, because it surprised me at the time and I couldn’t place him or it), and then later on him considering leaving Peg for the reporter... 

and then I watched some bits of Inga (s7 -- the last of the relatively what I call “good boy BJ” seasons, and the season that ends on all the main cast family members meeting one another, which idk, I just place at an interesting juncture narratively) in which he talks about himself and Peg as equals/her as a woman who has a mind being a good thing, and how that contrasts with the especially 8-onwards intense reactions he has to her growing into a more and more independent person -- changed beyond the person he knew before he left, changed without him, changed to no longer needing him, changed into a reality he cannot return to and pick up from as if he never even left in the first place (not that I read BJ as conservative for the day technically, but that she’s not the person that said goodbye to him and that manifests in unintentionally sexist ways, where he gets upset by her just living her life, when he needs her to be a symbol of unchanging normality that turns back on the second he’s back in the picture and youknow... that’s fucked up sir)

I think it fits with the weariness of the later seasons: BJ s8-onwards getting more cruel and lashing out more, and him and Hawkeye increasingly acting like an unstable relationship in which Hawkeye often plays the role of the placating wife to an emotionally unpredictable husband. I make it heterosexual on purpose, my headcanons about BJ do veer more towards him having a het read of whatever is going on between him and Hawkeye -- first evidenced that one time he was physically violent, and Hawkeye was both an outlet and a consoling partner and BJ was jealous of not getting to be a partner to Peg/father to Erin, and jealous of Trapper’s relationship to Hawkeye at the same time??? 

Long story short there is a trajectory for sure, from the man who arrives to the guy I’m seeing now (one more episode left before the finale!), and yeah, I definitely like to read it as the fantasy-of-home bit by bit falling to pieces around him, and also the guilt at all of that heroic all-American fantasy of war not being what the reality is, and maybe feeling like an idiot for believing in any of it in the first place (he had that line where he mentioned that he had the chance to not get drafted and he wanted to do the honourable thing, or something along that phrasing, and he has a few episodes in which he does try to play hero of a kind, like in BJ Papa San and he gets very upset when he can’t save the day), and of course the guilt at all of his personal failings, especially -- I decide to headcanon -- the fact that he did cheat. The evil of the situation seeped into him and made him a “lesser” man than what he was 

and all of that manifesting his pettiness (which was clearly something that was already there, although pointed in the direction of acceptable targets like Frank or bad guys of the week, or that old friend he had who was Also A Dick and how that suggests some of BJ’s past, or even Charles, soz Chuck -- because BJ is a Good Guy Honest). 

And now I’m on my rewatch at the same time, and almost finished s4, and looking at it from the pov of that trajectory, it’s very fun looking for early-season-in-hindsight cracks in the “good boy persona”

and with all of that, I do enjoy currently joking about how he’s the end-series villain (Frank is gone, Charles isn’t the main source of conflict, Margaret has long since developed into the love of my life...) but the most interesting thing about it is of course that the story doesn’t end with a villain, it just ends with broken people, from what I see -- BJ is not a bad guy, certainly not in comparison to the likes of someone like Frank, he’s just... not coping at all. And some of the things he does are seriously messed up, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he does more things like that before the end.......

I do like seeing how different characters break, and BJ’s breaking is oh so very messy/shrapnel filled

#bj hunnicutt #im watching MASH #MASH meta #MASH #hawkeye pierce #peg hunnicutt #tbh dont think you can fully piece together bj's character without the last three seasons which is interesting on its own #when everyone else felt pretty clear to me from the get go #this was a very ramble in phrasing but i hope it makes sense #bj as a batman villain who wants to commit naughtiness but tries to direct it at worse bad guys #bj as a great depiction of a man who returns from war and gives in to bitter feelings about whats been lost and takes it out on family #bj as a heterosexual man in a wartime relationship with a queer man who is forced into the role of a heterosexual woman #bj as a very bomb that exploded 10 minutes after trapper's plane left the runway #bj as a mask under a mask under a mask under a mask #bj as romance narratives about a straight frat boy that the lead heroine wants to punch in the face but secretly isn't so bad #bj as the posterboy for early 50s america gone on the fritz #bj as knowing he's the shadow of a man he'll never meet #etcetetc.