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sirenofthegreenbanks · 7 months

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deeply enjoy that the novel can also be read as a commentary on the fallacy of information. we have zzs as the main narrator who adds to this nuance by being a former spymaster and leader of a bunch of proficient investigators. hes very intimate with the process of verification of information, and even his vast databank of knowledge and his abilities of filtering and sorting the "true" from the "fake" is tested throughout the novel through many instances and events. its especially interesting because he makes a major mistake, almost from the very start, that he resolves only after a very long time, and only after overcoming personal weaknesses. his personal weakness at recognizing truth vs decept reveals itself in the inability to meet personal events with a human perspective; he is basically functioning like a person with two lives, and most of the time, he at least acts as if he is regarding wkx, suspected master of ghosts, from the professional business grounds of the retired leader of shadows rather than from the perspective of a person with an adventurous life and wishes of his own. in this lies the danger to misinterpret and to refuse to confront what is truly going on. if zzs cant 'find' the "true reason" for the ghost master following his humble retired self, he is going to do his utmost to make up one (on the basis of his personal and professional experience with such situations), instead of considering at least once the admittedly unlikely chance that wkx might like him and is even deeply sincere about him. this doesnt signal anything less but that we, as the reader, should not irrevocably trust even the one person who is in most stories the most trustworthy; the main narrator. instead, we are advised to reserve us the right to doubt and think for ourself, to look critically upon even zzs, which only circles back to the novel's theme of the fallacy of information. it even lends to the novel's dialogue with the human right to form your own opinion and your own thoughts and come to your own conclusions, no matter how much they might diverge from norm or mainstream or traditions, and no matter how tempting it might be not to.

#tian ya ke #just thoughts im having while im continuing my reread #zhou zishu from tyk #zhou zishu #this has me wondering if zzs's struggle with himself regarding trusting in wkx's display of sincerity #can also be read as his general struggle with being a person with a life of his own and private opinions in service of no other than himsel #one of the things he learns is that is okay to have desires and its okay to Be a person #oftentimes that reveals itself in the novel's question of morality as a concept and the conditions for receiving love and care #'are villains and ppl whove done bad stuff deserving of love and care? do they need to earn it?'#but i think it also comes true here where zzs essentially needs to find a way to be human again #going from having lived a life with a truly atrocious work/life balance to a life that is fully and entirely his own #(i always think that zzs taking the nails has a lot to do with reclaiming ownership)#(and also with 'detoolifying' himself; hes turning himself into a cripple he is 'useless'. this gives him the justification #he needs to live according to his own personal whims and desires.)#updating my tags to find my insane chat with geneticcatalyst again->#bouncing thoughts back and forth #the mutual tag #geneticcatalyst

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watercolor-hearts · 10 months

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I don't really wanna emphasise my Hungarianness here because it feels a bit strange to do so but I wanna tell you my favorite and most useless fact about the Hungaroring since it's the Hungarian GP week.

So as usually only the Hungarians know, the Hungaroring isn't in Budapest as the trophy and the sign behind the podium usually say. It's actually in Mogyoród (18 kms/11 miles from Budapest). And do you know what Mogyoród is in English?

Your nut.

#i once wrote this in the tags under a post last year #and then i decided i'll tell it to you every year while i'm here #so useless and i love it so much #thank you for... reading my most valuable post in this fandom 😃👌#formula 1 #hungarian gp 2023 #for further useless Hungarian things please send an ask 😂

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apricote · 8 months

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WHEN will people learn not to post character hate in the character tag <3

#girl i'm just browsing halsin's tag and someone is like #halsin is boring and useless af and i enjoyed killing him #like okay?? did you need to tag it as 'halsin'#that's just not cute #and will get you on my shitlist so fast #i don't care if someone hates characters that i love!! but it's just very annoying when people straight up put it in the tag #please don't do this pls and thanks #💬

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foryoupeko · 6 months

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My sister and I might play DRV3 soon

I wanna draw something to illustrate how I feel about the characters before and after the game

But please don’t be mad at me when I say I hate a lot of fan favs hahahaha j-just remember I don’t know these characters so it’s based off the little I know of them! Who cares what I have to say? I didn’t even play the game!!! (Cries because I know it’s not gonna go well but I’m neurodivergent so I have to over share or else I’ll die)

#I’m gonna say the names in the tags!#be warned!#I’m not starting any fights!#imagine me saying #I hate these characters #and I turn out loving them #in the end!#the good ending!#it’s kaito maki gonta and tsurugi #kaito seems like a giant asshole #maki is a mukuro clone #gonta’s fans irritate me #tsumugi seems useless #Kirumi gets honorable mention #for having a horrible twist

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harryforvogue · 1 year

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OKAY HERE IT IS, i’d love to hear more about her OCD maybe you could write about him watching her do her routines and genuinely being interested and asking her why she does it and how he can help? and yeah he hates seeing her struggle and it’s not nice to watch but he is just so fascinated by her mind and he truly wants to understand her thinking, maybe nothing too deep something quite light hearted still? like maybe she has to turn the light switch on and off a certain amount of times, or rearrange her bedside table multiple times and he just walks in the room completely unbothered and joins in and is like “okay, what are we doing?”

HERE YOU GOOOO!!!

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The plan was always to stop by Lucía's house to pick her up so they could have dinner together at a nice restaurant, but Harry doesn’t know if Lucía’s forgotten about, or if she’s just having one of those moments.

He walks into her bedroom expecting her to be fully dressed, sweeping some eyeliner onto her round eyes, but instead, she’s on the floor with what he suspects is her entire closet beside her. She’s calmly taking the tops off their hangers and then repositioning them in the opposite way. She lays the fixed clothing beside her before reaching for the next one.

Lucía stress shops a lot, so there are well over 50 articles of clothing on the floor right now.

Harry watches her for a while, leaning against the doorway. She could see him if she raises her head to the mirror across from her, but she’s so engrossed in what she’s doing, she doesn’t even look anywhere else. He crosses his arms and listens to her mutter something along the lines of “No, this isn’t right at all” as she fixes the hanger in the opposite direction, laying it down. “That’s better…”

He smiles. The urge to crush her to his chest suddenly takes him. He wants to make sure there’s no room between them. He’ll only let her go when she’s complaining about it, yelling, Let me go Harry! I get it, okay! I get it! No more! in between giggles. His fingers itch to grab her face and kiss her senseless. How many years has he known Lucía? And how is it that he still doesn’t know what’s going on inside her head? She would have a heart attack if she saw the state of his own closet right now. It’s actually why she’s been banned from coming to his house recently. It looks like a mess and he would prefer to not send his girlfriend into a downward spiral at the mere sight of it.

After watching her for some time, Harry makes himself known by stepping into the room and dropping a kiss to the top of her head. Her hair is wet, the curls well defined already. She glances at him when he kneels in front of her and takes a few hangers, shifting them over to claim them as his pile.

“Oh. Hi.” She looks at the clock.

“Hi back,” he replies.

“I’ll be done in a moment.”

“Take your time. I’ll help if that's okay with you?”

Sometimes she doesn’t want him helping her. Sometimes she does. Harry can usually tell by her frantic movements when she doesn’t want his assistance. But right now, she’s calm. She’s not shaking, and she's breathing fine.

“Yes,” she says. “Just be neat, please.”

He removes a few dresses off the hangers and fixes the hanger to face the right instead of the left when he puts the dress back on it. He tucks it to the side and then picks up another.

“What time do we have dinner?” she asks him. Good. She didn’t forget.

“In half an hour.”

“Oh, okay.”

He watches her continue rearranging the hangers. It takes some time, but they finally get through the chunk of clothing on the floor. He picks up his pile by the hangers and lays it on her well made bed. She does the same, standing in front of him. It’s not over though. Now it’s time to fix the order of the clothing.

He thinks that’s what she’s doing. He’s not actually entirely sure. She moves clothing left and right, making three separate piles. He stands back to let her work until he catches onto what she’s arranging the clothing for. Winter clothes. Summer clothes. In between season clothes.

He steps forward to help her. When he makes a mistake of putting a sweater in the winter pile, she gasps and grabs it, putting it in the in between pile. Harry softly apologizes and then continues. He does the easier ones. All her dresses and blouses are for the summer. She carries on with the other piles.

Once he’s sure he’s finished with the pile he’s unofficially named as his, he stands back and lets her finish up. She has a lot of winter clothing, he thinks to himself. Then he realizes that most of the clothing is his.

“You take so much from me, you thief. I ought to do something about it one day.”

Lucía tucks her hair behind her ear, bending down to remove a piece of lint on a sweatshirt. “You give me them and then don’t ask for them back. Is that really my fault?”

“I’m not so sure it’s my fault.”

“Then it’s not mine either,” she says, her eyes twinkling.

Now, she begins to tie the hoodie’s strings into perfect bows. Harry can’t help but smile, sitting on the bed’s corner, helping her tie them off. Somewhere around the seventh hoodie, he asks, “I’ve got to ask. What are we doing?”

Lucía’s brow is furrowed. “Fixing my closet.”

“Mhm. And just one follow up question – why are we doing this 15 minutes before our dinner reservations?”

“Can’t help it, that’s why.”

Harry finishes tying the string of a faded hoodie. “Got it.”

She’s tucking her hair behind her ears again, likely annoyed at the wet tendrils smacking her face every time she leans down to fix her clothing. Harry stands up when she’s on the final hoodie, walking around her. He waits for her to finish, and then he wraps his arms around her from behind, pinning her own arms down in the embrace.

“Harry–” she says, trying to reach the clothes with him latched onto her. “I need to finish.”

He tilts them to the side until her hair moves out of the way, neck exposed. Softly, he kisses the spot beneath her ear, tightening his grip until she squeaks. “Luce.”

“Yeah?”

“Let’s go now.”

“I know. But, um, we have to put these back in the closet.”

“And,” he murmurs, kissing her neck slowly as if he’s savoring it, “then we’ll be done?” He inhales, the scent of her shampoo driving him insane.

Lucía shivers, glancing over her shoulder at him. “I think so.”

He knocks his head against hers. “I never know what’s going on in your mind.”

“I don’t think I know either.”

He kisses her throat again before turning around with her still in his arms. He shuffles them to the mirror. Lucía rests her head on his shoulder, gasping when he gently bites down on her neck, his hands splayed over her torso, one under her breast, the other on her stomach.

Harry notices now that the circles under her eyes are dark. She may not have had a good night last night. He’ll make sure to fix that tonight.

He removes his lips, looking at her through the mirror. “Do you see it?”

He feels her throat work as she swallows. “See what?”

“How beautiful you are. Absolutely heartbreaking.”

“You just saw me fixing all my hangers to face one way like a lunatic and you’re calling me beautiful?”

Harry laughs softly, closing his eyes as he hugs her to his front tight. “In my books, you’ve never been more beautiful.” He turns his head to kiss her cheek a few times. “And I think I’ve seen you behave, er, like a lunatic, other times.”

“Which time are you referring to?”

“Oh, there's just so many, my love.”

“You’re so romantic.”

“Aren’t I?”

Harry picks his head up and looks at them through the mirror again. He removes one hand off her torso and holds her jaw instead, squeezing her cheeks together. “Can we go eat, please? I'm very hungry, and if I don’t eat soon, I will be the lunatic between us.”

She frowns. “We have to put the clothes away.” But Harry’s squeezing her face so tight, it comes out all jumbled. She breaks into laughter seconds before Harry does. He lets her go and heads straight for the clothes before her.

“What order?”

“Winter, fall and spring stuff together, and then summer.”

“Well, at least I got that right.”

“You do know me very well.”

“I’m a very attentive lover, as you already know.”

She smiles, watching him put all the clothing back, neat and perfect. He shuts her closet door and then raises an eyebrow at her.

“All done?”

She nods, cracking her knuckles over and over. “I would have liked to pass a lint roller over them all, but I can do that, um, later, I guess.” She nods again, but this time to herself. “Okay. Let’s go.”

Harry reaches for her hand as they’re heading out of the bedroom. He makes sure he’s the one turning the light off. He kisses her knuckles as an apology for her constant attack on them.

“Thank you for all that,” she whispers when he leans down to kiss her properly. Harry’s grinning into the kiss. When he pulls away, he quickly leans down and grabs her thighs, throwing her over his shoulder. She shrieks and grabs his jacket, her hair falling all over her face.

She cries, “I hate when you do this! I’m going to fall!”

“No you’re not.” He carries her like that to the door. “You walk too slow,” he says, the smile still in his voice. “And I’m so hungry. Oh, watch your head, my love.”

#harry and lucía #i love when they're happy #harry styles fic #harry styles fanfiction #harry styles blurb #these tags are utterly useless i'm realizing now

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elalalune · 6 months

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What if Law is a White Queen candidate? And when the Red and Heart kingdoms separate, he's the one that becomes the new White Queen?

In an AU of this AU he could be 🤔 not sure how he'll feel after going through 3 different roles in his lifetime though

My thoughts on the main AU is that White and Red are based off chess pieces and one of their ways to become a Queen is through Pawn promotion. Since Luffy is technically a Pawn here, he has the ability to become a Queen (not all Pawns can just become Queen though, they'll have to go through highly specific conditions or have the right drive/characreristics for it). And Law was a Knight candidate that was promoted from a Pawn before the shift, so he could've become a Queen candidate if he stayed on a Pawn's role

Also unlike chess, this is the process for the Pawn's roles: Pawn —> "Queen/Bishop/Rook/Knight" candidate —> Queen/Bishop/Rook/Knight (whichever role they picked to be a candidate of)

The Pawn "_" candidates can go back to being a Pawn but they cant pick any other option once they chose the role (ex. Pawn becomes Bishop candidate, goes back to being a Pawn, can't become a Rook candidate)

It's different for those that are already born to be candidates of their position. Not all Queens/Bishops/Rooks/Knights came from Pawns. Once someone else already has taken their potential role, they simply lose that candidate role.

Heart doesnt have the Pawn method of choosing though and most of the time Red and White's Queen candidates were picked the same way as Heart

I do like the idea of Luffy, Law and Kid being the next gen of Queens but I'm still not sure if I really want that because I might change my mind later 😅

It doesn't really matter to me though because I'm only focusing on Shanks' and Buggy's story, so feel free to think of who's who in the next generation ^-^

#man I love world building even though it's not likely going to be mentioned in the main story lmaooo #also i tend to edits the tags and add additional info on the asks later so feel free to check them out again for more useless lore #also King candidates can be anyone even a roleless denizen or a Pawn #They're not born being a candidate and them being chosen is purely because of another person's will and not bc of Wonderland #buggy in wonderland au #asks #BIWasks

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zealctry · 13 days

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the forehead kiss: the elusive love language that Hidan will accept from people he likes. also the elusive love language that might get you gutted like a pig and strangled with your own intestines if done incorrectly. shrug emoji

#&*' trashcan / tbd.#about tag tbt.#( spent like an hour arguing with my boss.#love that for me.#so have some random useless Hidan info as I distract myself for 1.2 sec then go back to work aghjkl. )

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elftwink · 17 days

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been learning to play ironsworn (gritty fantasy ttrpg which you can play with a gm but is mostly suited for solo or small group co-op gmless play) after having the rulebook pdf for several years (stars finally aligned to remove invisible thing blocking me from reading it idk) because i'm on another solo ttrpg kick & i don't know what took me so long to get around to this game because it genuinely is exactly what i was looking for. years ago when i was playing through solo 5e modules i should have just been playing ironsworn (believe it or not, 5e isn't very suited to solo play and is extremely clunky when you try lol).

also though i have dabbled in some other solo ttrpgs, a considerable amount of them are journaling games which is fun but imo considerably more work (usually by the time i'm a quarter of the way through the journal entry, i know how to entire scene played out and i want to move on to the next gameplay thing, so i get frustrated and bored quickly. it feels like when you solve a level in a video game but don't have the coordination to pull off the necessary move so you have to spend 20 extra minutes doing something you already figured out), so i really appreciate like not needing to write something for the game to progress (ive been taking notes for my own record since im playing solo and thus am not really out loud roleplaying the way you do in a group, but i definitely could do that instead and not take notes and the game would still function perfectly)

& ive been playing by myself but also in the past ive played a lot of ttrpgs in very small groups which has been other games but is mostly dnd and like. we also should have been playing ironsworn so that having a gm was not necessary. have definitely played games where we had to adapt the rules soooo much to do something that is just base game included in ironsworn. plus it's rules-light enough to do pretty complex moves that pose difficulties in bulkier games (ever introduced someone to dnd and they tell you they want to do a sick backflip and catch something and then attack and you have to tell them that will require several different consecutive rolls and some creative liberties with how the rules are 'supposed' to let you move? you can just Do That in ironsworn. use the strike move and describe it. done!)

the one thing is that although it's rules-light enough to theoretically play any setting or genre (some with more difficulty than others), ive found so far that like... the grittiness and sense of threat is very built into the mechanics so that would be sort of difficult to work around or change (but i think it's great from a game design perspective). what i mean is like, okay: you start with 5 max hp. there isn't really a way to raise this max hp, you just slowly gain abilities (assets) that make you less likely to have to lose the hp in the first place, or that make it easier to recover. when you encounter foes, you rank them on a scale of 1 -5, and enemies on the lowest side of this scale do one harm to you, while enemies on the highest side do five harm to you. so even though encountering an epic enemy won't always be deadly due to the assets you have, they are ALWAYS capable of taking you down to 0 hp with one good hit. so the feeling of threat is much more present compared to games where your character starts to be able to just tank and push through a failure or huge threat.

admittedly also i'm playing solo, im still learning how to balance combat, and also i built a character who has NO combat talents and iron (the close quarters fighting stat) is one of my lowest stats so i personally am under much more threat than if you built a character who knew how to fight or who could do deadly harm. but also the other thing about combat is it's extremely difficult to maintain control of the fight; you have to score a strong hit to do it on basically all moves, and there's a really limited pool of moves available when you don't have the initiative, and obviously none of them really favour you. i don't know that this makes combat genuinely more difficult, but it does make you feel like the fight is always about to spiral out of your control. every second you let it drag without decisive action feels like it brings you closer to dying. like i said, this is a feature of the game design and not a problem in any way. just thinking about it because when i was initially learning i was going to try to supplant it into a homebrew fantasy world of my own but the tone just wouldn't be right. and that it is somewhat difficult to replicate the kind of worlds that i typically play or run for dnd, which tend to lean somewhat sillier and definitely much higher fantasy

but i like to try new things and tbh especially in dnd i find that i very rarely feel that sense of threat and when i do feel it, it has nothing at all to do with the actual mechanics and reality of the combat and everything to do with how well the dm sells it to me and makes it sound and feel scary and dangerous. which is a testament to what a good gm can do for you but i do appreciate the threat feeling more built-in and also being actually real.

#good idea generator #kas plays ironsworn #am giving it a tag because i will continue to talk about this. its my blog #idk i just find in dnd like. players often FEEL threatened WAY before they actually are threatened #which makes it really hard to balance combat because players treat evenly matched fights like hopeless death traps #so instead they do underleveled combat that feels boring for some hard to pin down reason #but like. the reason is even though you're nervous about the dm's description and the things the monsters can do #there is no real threat. especially in bigger parties where the players DOMINATE action economy. they are always in control #so of course it gets boring. it drags out so everyone can take their turn but it never forces you to make difficult choices #or to totally exhaust all your abilities. after awhile the combats start to feel same-y #because even if the monster is different. you never have to do anything different to defeat it #ofc this is a subjective assessment and also if youre reading this and we play dnd together this is not a gripe abt our table i love u #i think it's really easy to get trapped doing this esp in tables which like rp more than combat #because its also like. once you're used to a certain balance of combat if your dm suddenly threw you a big one #you assume that this is a uniquely large threat in the narrative as well (rather than a rebalancing attempt)#and treat it accordingly. which is to say with way too much caution because it isnt actually that big of a threat #so then as a dm when you have to maintain the feeling of threat and the mechanical threat #(especially when sometimes the mechanical line between 'cakewalk' and 'tpk' is razor thin #and is more about the initiative order and luck than anything else)#you start to prioritize the feeling of threat. which is imo the right call always #but its just after awhile when you feel the threat but nothing ever happens to anybody. the dissonance starts to affect the table #also balancing dnd combat as a dm is really hard and often requires a LOT of on the fly adaptation #because sometimes the CR is useless and you don't know how it's gonna do until the dice are on the table already #anyway. my point is that im enjoying how ironsworn handles this problem

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