#im very “ persuasive”

[kaladinkholins]

guys cmon. be ffr please. akemi did Not love taigen. the only reason why she was desperate to search for him to the point of putting herself in danger is because she didn't want to get married to an abusive man (which she believed at the time that takayoshi was). when seki tried to dissuade her from running off, her reason was not "but i love taigen and wanna be with him 🥺" it was because she refused to be controlled and have her autonomy taken from her; she literally says "i won't be locked away in edo married to a stranger." and when seki still tries to argue that getting married to the heir of the shogun would be better than getting caught by brigands, she then says "that kind of man"—referring to takayoshi—"treats women like animals. they say he's a tyrant." and when seki chuckles and says "what man isn't?" her response is "you." she doesn't even talk about taigen. she is using him as much as he was using her. they both see—or, well, saw—each other as means to an end. for taigen he saw that marrying into the tokunobu clan would elevate his status and wealth. for akemi she wanted the right to choose who she married, and she wanted that person to be someone kind. that's it! neither of them loved each other. but since they were courting of course they acted sweet to each other, and they do still care for one another, especially due to their romantic history. but let's be real! akemi is a boss bitch who dropped taigen and forgot all about his ass as soon as she saw takayoshi was a nice guy. because duh? not only is takayoshi a better lover (it's implied their lovemaking lasted a long time) but he's also kinder towards her and presents her with an opportunity to claim power and freedom, which she would not have if she had married taigen, as she would have still been stuck under her father's thumb. so literally why should she settle for taigen's stupid ass! she may be a little naive at times but she's still incredibly intelligent. she would not do something stupid for the sake of "love." you know who would though? taigen.

#blue eye samurai #wank.mp3 #kinda? #fandom.rtf #shut up haydar #like out of the 4 main characters #akemi is the brains (the mental aspect) #she mainly uses reason and rhetoric. that's why she's so good at persuasion and manipulation. #ringo is the soul (spiritual aspect) #ringo serves as the show's moral compass and gets mizu to follow her morality #taigen is the heart (emotional aspect) #taigen will always impulsively follow his feelings (he's so brash for this reason. if he feels angry he will act on it etc) #mizu is the body (physical aspect) #mizu suppresses her emotions. her reason. and her morals. she only lets her skills and primal instincts guide her. #that's why she's almost super human sometimes #but anyway yeah #akemi? is a strong-willed self-empowered woman! she is not some damsel. she is intelligent though somewhat naive #please do not mischaracterise her cuz she is a boss bitch! she is a queen a cuntress a baddie #also on that note. the nature of taigen and akemi's rship is one of the reasons why im not keen on a polycule ending #like please explore it in fanfic and fandom! i personally just dont want it canon. i just dont see it working! #like literally i dont even think taigen found her attractive... #i mean he did obv find her very beautiful as everyone does. but did yall SEE his face when she propositioned him? #no desire in that man's eyes. he is GAY! his sexuality is men + mizu. he is a raging and bitchy bisexual!

[oopbackinmymcdphase]

Art style practice with the mEGA SILLYS MWAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHBAIBABITSVUGBAJVIYABIYBSYVUY

#minecraft diaries #garroth ro'meave #garroth mcd #castor the chicken shaman #castor mcd #mcd #aphmau #raven mcd #ravens based off the mo'creatures dark raven #i really want to make my wyverns more bird like cuz i lob bidr #very inspired by diabolo maleficent gurlies rise up ig #me when bird :D #They should be friends they both have skills in bird persuasion #All the artsyles are merging we are so back #IM CONNECTING THE DOTS >:D #i need to draw LEVIN HAUBHSVHVGUSVJHBUHSVJHVSH >:((((((

[moomeecore]

ppl reviewing anti lawn books on goodreads and going "this is preachy" yeah its about a political movement what do you want. are they supposed to NOT advocate for their beliefs

#im getring nervous bc im writing the longest ever video essay that is a persuasive essay for the anti lawn movement #and i already overexplain shit sm #and in real life ppl r ususlaly receptive to my evangelicalizing of these beleifs #but on the internet ppl are mean. i dont want ppl to be mean to me. i just have strong opinions #also ok. american green is a great book and i find it annoying how its a Centrist Take That Acknowledges Both Perspectives on the basis that #sometimes it is jusy sooooo Obnoxiously Centrist #but it IS good to have both perspectives #but then at the end hes like ' and the ppl who wrote the landscaping revolution are CRAZY bc they think this is a moral issue ' #and its like YOU DONT???? YOU RECOUNTED ALL THAT INFO AND YOU DONT. THINK THIS IS A MORAL ISSUE #HWAT??? #the qhole book makes it Very Clear that anti lawn is the way to go just from Objective Facts #and then hes like 'and both sides suck!!! im better than them because im Neutral' and its like. did you read your own book man?

[desswright29]

I’m just gonna let y’all know now. When I officially meet Letitia I’m not doing no side hug. I’m wrapping my arms around her neck and burying my face lol. And if we in the setting for it we taken couples pics. I want a kiss on the forehead Tish! So I’m just prepping y’all so y’all don’t be like who that girl that Tish all wrapped around!! It’s me. Lmao

#To be honest #im very “ persuasive” #So I could probably actually get her to do it #And Tish love a fine woman. #And the body BODIES and my walk is NASTY!! So she’s gonna be looking lmao #(Thanks dad for making me start taking walking lessons in heels at the age of 6) 🙄

[driftwooddestiel]

I DID MY COMEDY PERFORMANCE TODAY!!! in front of like 200 people!!! and i didnt stutter or forget what to say!!! and people laughed!!!

#i wasnt THE funniest other performances got better reactions but that was largely because the people performing were popular #point is people laughed !! two girls i barely know came up to me after and said i was really good! (thank you nikita and i forgot your name #and according to one of my friends some mullets were making fun of me during my thing and then a popular girl behind them was like #hey stop dont do that #so thats cool #and the girl whos lockers next to mine also complimented my comedy thing after so that was nice #+ one of the other ppl performing who i used ro be super good friends with (years ago) was very engaged and laughing which was nice :-) #we may not be close friends anymore but yk its nice to still get along 👍 #also two of my friends also performed and they did well too ‼️ it was very cool #anyway im very proud of myself for being able to perform in front of that many people cos i have literally never done that #the last time i spoke to an audience of more than 30 people was year 4 assembly and that was like 100 ppl max #so yea im very happy lol. especially considering that the past three years weve been doing persuasive speeches instead of comedy #(comedy was introduced this year to try it out instead of persuasive speeches) #and for the past 2 years ive done my speeches to just the teacher and a few friends cos i dont like giving persuasives to the whole class #(which i still feel tbh) but like. i can do comedy and play a character in front of an audience! which is pretty awesome

[blooming-cecilia]

me when im self indulgent once again

#tulip draws #starbard #nameless bard x oc #dont look too hard i felt too lazy to properly color it in #and too lazy to also shade it wkjfjs #anyway. #new yume huh #...yeah 🧎 #giggling at starbard tho?? #came up with it on the spot and ive been told it sounds like a biscuit brand #and then another one tells me it sounds like starburst the candy and now im extra giggly over it #so silly #i think bard would be a little shit and encourage you to get distracted or give in to temptations #thats essentially what this is about actually JSJXJ #something caught tala's eye and bard knowing her well enough immediately goes #“you know you want it~ buy yourself the thing you deserve it <3” #asshole i am trying to save my money!!! #(hes very convincing and persuasive but even if he wasn't she easily gives in anyway) #he just has that kind of chaotic vibes i think #everything i think and say about bard is based off of vibes atp #on my knees mhy throw me some crumbs to live off of for a while

[hukkelberg]

There's a few tropes popping up in my register as I back comb through the entirety of the Penelope/Benedict tag (which is not that big of an ordeal as it may seem considering there's only 64 of them and I haven't sorted out the ones that involve Colin) and a lot of them are the common you know forced marriage, compromising, arrangement of convenience etc but I've picked up on a funny little dichotomy:

Benedict is very sweet and dotting and admiring—a handsome man coming to sweep Penelope off her feet in a joking way as they either find themselves married off or arranged to be so amongst one another, and are pleasantly surprised by the tender feelings that creep up on them. This one strikes me as very austenesque.

Benedict accidentally walks in on a naked Penelope or finds her engaged in whichever licentious act, and is so immediately utterly horny someone has to physically step in and remove him from the situation, and then he's off chasing after her so hard he (also accidentally) crosses the cusp of lust into love without noticing. This one is very fun.

I enjoy both very much, it goes without saying

#and by god i will write them both one day. #i think everything we left in the garden most resembles a grown version of one #bc it's very much persuasion meets widowers falling in love #but i really wanna try my hand at 2 that is absolutely my favourite benedict #it's like A fell first B fell harder but benedict's both #hukkelberg.exe has stopped working #penedict #i guess im just tagging the ship name until i find an appropriate ship tag

[bidanieljackson]

friendship ended wit gale. now karlach my favorite companion

#‘you urged me down this path’ no i fucking didnt bitch #yeah lemme just reload this fight that took me over an hour #so that i can save scum a nat 20 so that you actually listen to the words coming out of my mouth #fucker #im very tired #HGRGEHGRGRGRHGGHEHRHEGRHEHEHEHEH #if the persuasion doesnt actually work im going to lose my mind #he speaks

[shivasdarknight]

ask 1 of 3 because I fully expect complicated to essays to this as you answer for practically all of your WoLs

8. How did they feel about the liberation of Ala Mhigo? Do they feel it could have been handled differently? Where they at all bothered by how they were involved? 

{original question collection post - curious about anything else?}

Oh you are absolutely getting essays, especially with that intro and this question.

The matter of Ala Mhigo and its liberation is something that (un)surprisingly deviates from canon in the fact that all four of them deeply care about seeing it liberated. That resistance you see in canon is non-existent here in part because one of them is Ala Mhigan. You also get the eventual inclusion of W'khittri - another Ala Mhigan - but she's apart of the later groups.

(more below, as usual)

The liberation of Ala Mhigo was a fight they'd wanted to get in on since after becoming a team in ARR. Once they realized how well the four of them worked together and they shared similar goals, that's always been on the agenda. Seraphin is from the region and has family stuck in Little Ala Mhigo; Teodore employed Seraphin, sure, but he would see the nation liberated just from how he's seen its treatment at the hands of the Alliance; Gwendoline is effectively an underground chirurgeon that's been taking care of the medical needs of Ala Mhigan refugees who fled to Gridania yet were scorned by the nation, so she's got no delusions over what needs to be done; and while Surkukteni doesn't have many personal ties outside of Seraphin, she is the adoptive daughter of a war refugee (Kitase, a Doman) and would put herself into this for Seraphin's sake alone yet she has so many things pushing her towards this fight. They were planning on helping with the liberation effort after the Praetorium, but of course the Banquet.

The liberation of Ala Mhigo varies in how you get to the jump from Rhalgr's Reach to Kugane in this canon because the group has more political investment in this campaign than canon wol does (yes I'm still angry that "this isn't my fight" is an option to pick but not for Ishgard? the fight you were forced into?). This all started as far back as Surkukteni forging better ties between Little Ala Mhigo, the U Tribe, and the Amalj'aa groups - first the Brotherhood of Ash, and then slowly working with the tempered tribes. This was the backdrop of ARR for her as she helped them build up an alliance against the Immortal Flames and Ul'dah, which put them in a position to be in on Ilberd's plans since the four are significantly more involved earlier on. It means they have an easier time pulling him out of canon trajectory, they manage to keep him alive, and while he still does a lot of what canon dictates, his staying alive is to be a counter to how Raubahn just melded in with Ul'dahn politics (specifically the Syndicate?) while leaving Ala Mhigo by the wayside. Ilberd helps them integrate more with the Resistance, they spend a lot more time with the Ala Mhigans, and then Rhalgr's Reach falls and the party is now split.

Their main regrets are the fact they couldn't get to it sooner and so many people suffered as a result of it. The Dragonsong War was something they never intended on getting involved in, yet they got swept away in it and two of them came out of it really fucked up (Seraphin's left leg was mauled and struggles a bit with tanking, while Surkukteni nearly died against Nidhogg and lost a large chunk of her left side - both have limps, both struggle with their original jobs, and it sucks). They regret that they weren't as thorough that they could have been, but especially that they were put into a situation where they did have to split between Ala Mhigo and Doma - Surkukteni and Gwendoline went to Doma with most of the extra party members while Seraphin and Teodore stayed behind. Even though Seraphin wanted to stay, he still feels awful that he's not as useful as he could've been. Even though Surkukteni wanted to help Doma, she's still pissed that the cost of getting more military support for Ala Mhigo was the political freedom of her birthplace.

Surkukteni could've gone without Hien's involvement and the interference into the Steppe's rite of succession just to get more aid for Ala Mhigo, could've gone without getting further disabled by Zenos to where she effectively gave up on ever being a Dragoon again, could've gone without Papalymo's and Conrad's deaths, and really could've gone without the nasty attitude the Alliance took when she began to help the Resistance. Gwendoline - as someone who goes to Othard - shares many of Surkukteni's regrets.

Seraphin could have gone without some people (a fair number of the Scions, unfortunately) questioning his involvement and his commitment. He would've preferred if they could've dealt with it without having to bargain with other nations just to ensure that his parents could return home. He wishes they had, had a stronger front against Garlemald when Rhalgr's reach fell, and it makes him sick to his stomach that they weren't there sooner since so much of the physical home that his clan and his adoptive family used to live on is now just decimated by the Garlean's conquest. Teodore - similarly - shares a lot of these regrets.

The original WoLs wanted to be involved in Ala Mhigo's liberation and were building up rapport with both the Resistance and various factions impacted by Garlemald's campaign, but the Dragonsong War threw a wrench in all of that and caused so many problems within the group that required them to seek the aid of nations that wanted nothing to do with this conflict. They could only throw around their titles so much, and the only wish they had acted sooner and more efficiently - then maybe they wouldn't have lost so many people.

Bonus: mentioned the Amalj'aa here briefly, but this aspect is something that is a really major part of my rewrite. It's involving the tribes more into MSQ, and this aspect is how it doesn't really make much sense for the Ala Mhigan refugees to be automatically against any of the Eorzean Tribes considering how they are with the Ananta. While it's understandable that there are a great number of tempered factions, I don't feel like it's very fair for them to hold that same animosity that the nations do to even the non-tempered. Hence the arrangements struck between Little Ala Mhigo and the Brotherhood of Ash before it expanded to the three main groups of Southern Thanalan excluding anything associated with Ul'dah. This carries over to various Amalj'aa joining in the Resistance effort, wider ties with the Eorzean tribes, and eventually you see a fair number of people not aligned with the Eorzean Alliance working within Gyr Abania for the liberation of Ala Mhigo (so the energy we see in 5.4 and on but much earlier), and it's in part intentional to humiliate the Alliance into doing something. This is an entire thing that I can very easily ramble about, but basically just to summarize: the Grand Companies have to be coerced into fighting on the side of Ala Mhigo in canon, so the solution in the rewrite is to not rely on them and instead rely on bonds that the WoL group have formed over the course of their adventures - which means everything's gonna look a bit different.

Tl;dr: they weren't upset that they were involved; they were upset that they weren't involved sooner and only could do so with all this needless baggage.

#original #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #mxkelsifer #asks #answered #answered wol question #answered wol questions #writing #also notably but unrelated but ishgard's own relationship to the adjacent tribes is entirely different and doesnt frankly need repair #because im geeenuiineellyyy sick of how the tribes are treated #it's the only major arr nation that doesnt really seem to care that much about the existence of the tribes and their interactions with #tribes like the vath and the vanu vanu imply they have a Very different relationship compared to the rest of aldenard #so im taking that and ala mhigo's attitude with the ananta and make them the fkn sane ones because Im Tired #also i really dont get how ishgard and gridania are the allies when rhalgr is halone's dad like come the fuck on #basically the grand companies needed persuasion. ishgard needed no persuasion #because Im Fucking Tired

[sollucets]

so the summonable ghouls from the necromancy of thay i gave astarion paralyzed cazador and let starry rogue triple crit him to death

#it was astonishingly low chances…. cazador had to roll a five to get paralysed #& then he rolled a nine and i bardic’d it #so there was a chance it wouldnt work #poetic. actually. god #cinematic rolls is what dnd is ABOUT #also got a nat 20 on the persuasion roll not to ascend which i think is very. 🥹 of me #mostly for the 🥺 of it all on that one though. #because i didnt need it im a bard w persuasion proficiency and advantage #i had a +18 to that roll Without guidance. lmao #bg3posting #anyway. im a lil. wah #rowan chatter

[yakamozarda]

I have like. Two clear options ahead of me in case I get a remote job:

Stay in hometown, dont pay rent or utilities but be bored out of mind with only 2 friends in the city that i see occasionally? Basically save money till i can get a job abroad

Or move to capital, progress my relationship with the Guy I Am Seeing That I Am Starting to Like Too Much, dont save as much money but be in a central location where i can Do Stuff, Have Fun etc, and just. Enjoy life instead of getting ready for the Next Thing and go abroad when i get a job there.

Im v conflicted bc at one hand saving money would be nice but at the other hand. I will be bored to death here. And im tired of getting ready to the next milestone jfkfjkfbf

#cecil.txt #He is very persuasive..... Willing to cook wants to learn new skills with me GET A DOG...... #Idek man #Im tired of trying to reach the Next Goal or whatever the fuck and dont look forward to moving abroad yet #Like yes turkey sucks but i wanna stay in my comfort zone for a while and chill tbh

[britneyshakespeare]

you know i mentioned last night that i realized only *after* i started rereading david copperfield that since i recently became an aunt, i was gonna see the story from a whole new angle and start relating more to betsey trotwood. i didn't even think about how at salem house i was gonna be poor mr. mell...

#i mean i didnt really think about mr. mell much because he's more of a minor character #he doesnt come back throughout david's life like steerforth or traddles or emily or agnes or #or or or all these other dozen major characters #in fact i only think of salem house as a minor part of the book. the shit we gotta get through to get to aunt betsey again #in a sense i cant wait to be done with it again #but oh my god reading about the rowdy schoolroom and how he's hardly managing to handle his stress #MEEEEE!!!!!! ME AN EDUCATOR #diana rereads david copperfield #literally just let me fucking play my flute badly in peace #you know i really have grown up a lot in the past 5 years bc all the adults used to just be caricatures to me #in the sense that all of dickens' characters are kind of caricatures. theyre exaggerated and silly #whether theyre supposed to be archetypal good or bad people. #because the way dickens uses hyperbole. sometimes it's just too true! #like the assholery of steerforth. how disingenuous but charming and persuasive he can be #that is SO true to how it feels to look up to older people as a young child. david copperfield's yielding to him is so realistic #david copperfield's own childish innocence throughout the early chapters seems comical but is emotionally true to how childhood feels. #these were the parts of the novel that resonated with me very deeply at 19. and they still do #but oh now. now i understand the position of the working adults. especially since i work w kids now how different it all feels. #and have worked w kids for several years too. but only about a year after reading dc. actually almost 2 years #im one of the bumbling incompetent adults. oh dear. oh lord.

[error404vnotfound]

making myself read a book in my tbr by procratinating choosing which Austen book I'll read next

#do i wanna read sad bitch fanny book or sad bitch anne take 2 #because i did try to read persuasion last year and was very unsuccessful (i got bored) #but i also really really dislike edmund (from takes I've seen around) #team henry crawford idgaf #so yeah im reading a queer retelling of anne of green gables by my fave Spanish authors next #after i finish s&s tho #cant believe i have 4 chapters left #feels like I've been reading it forever but also like i just started #anyways serial reader my new favourite app #v reads the classics #adjacent

[kittyclowns]

you can play through pentiment and just never go talk to certain characters, the first part of the game I didnt go out of my way to explore the whole town so there were a significant amount of characters I never met 😭 I did not go talk to the Miller once.

But there's so much stuff you can do and only so much time that it makes me really want to play again once I'm done and investigate things I didnt before. (I'm still not done with my playthrough btw)

#it didnt help that i failed every persuasion in the very first bit like damn andreas you arent getting shit out of these people 😭 #mikulantica.txt #yeah im a little obsessed with this game its my fav ive played in a while

[magickedhat]

thinks about wren and how adaptable they are when it comes to social settings. they'll gladly hang out with u no matter the occasion, whether it's a chill diner or a party or a festival or anything u could think of.

of course, they DO have their preferences. and that's to simply... move from place to place, change up the scenery and the activity spontaneously, explore and discover and possibly eat on the way. to follow their instincts and whims, and to do so with willing company. i think THAT'S what they thrive on.

#ooc. ◜♣ / ❛ 𝐧𝐨𝐣𝐢 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬. ❜◞ #essentially i think they simply enjoy Moving and being stimulated from more than just a social encounter #they will drag u around Everywhere if u let them #and they're very persuasive too!!! #anyways <3 i rlly have been moving around and talking to people a lot so that's what spurred this on ABKXBBI #it's 1am and im tired but i'll be lurking for a little bit!!

[izzy-b-hands]

i need. to find a free course or even just a lecture on marine history

or marine biology

or naval history specifically

what are the chances the big name unis have some still up on YT and the Benadryl won't make me pass out before it's done

#text post #i have the urge to write a persuasive essay i HATE writing persuasive essays GIRL HELP #genuinely if a prof walked up to me rn id be like hi may i put on a shirt first and how are u in our home #but then i would be like hey can u give me an essay prompt and grade it for free pls? plssssss #and im being completely genuine #the school system broke me in a very specific and stupid way wherein this is what i find fun #im good at being a student but not much good at other things so. blease. essay???