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btw i think if you tried to explain politics to Winnie the Pooh he wouldn't really get it & then if you went on explaining he'd be like 'why can't we all just be nice to each other' and you'd be like you got me there Pooh. I just don't know. :(

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i’m sure someone else has picked up on this before and i’m like 8 years late to the discussion, but here i go again

so while he’s still an assassin, shay cites a little line from the merchant of venice after assassinating james wardrop:

“even the devil can quote scripture to suit his own purposes”

he doesn’t cite it verbatim, but it’s clear what’s being referenced (i spent two whole playthroughs being like “where the hell have i heard this from?? and then it only clicked after i googled it)

i love the use of that line in rogue, in the context of both the templars and assassins. for the templars its meaning is obvious in the moment. but it’s far more interesting when it’s applied to achilles and his brotherhood.

from shay’s perspective, achilles’ pursuit of the precursor sites—even after being confronted about the earthquakes in haiti and lisbon—goes against their creed. achilles swears up and down that what he’s doing is for the good of the world and that it’s the responsibility of the brotherhood to take those sites for themselves to keep them out of templar hands. the intention would be harmless only if disturbing those sites didn’t result in the collapse of cities and the death of innocent people. stay one’s blade from the flesh of the innocent and all

despite this, achilles is adamant that he needs control of these sites. i’d go as far to say that it’s a hunger for power driven by achilles’ pride, arrogance, and his blind faith in the creed, which is something he definitely uses to justify his ambitions. which, in a weird sort of way, circles back around to templar ideology.

even things that are good in themselves (the creed in this instance), can be twisted to serve bad purposes

so yeah. to say i love this line of dialogue that shay has would be an understatement

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Do you think Lee suspected that Haytham held back in his final fight with Connor

#assassin's creed #haytham kenway #connor kenway #charles lee #assassin's creed forsaken

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OP this is good

Rating Alex Rider Villians on a scale of 1-10 on how supportive they'd be of me telling them I'm Agender:

[Just so we are clear, the concept for this came from a TikTok-er who does a good amount of Alex Rider content/analysis!)

Harod Sayle: 5/10 He's too focused on his own revenge plot against British school children to care and he wouldn't entirely understand it, but I get the vibe that he'd ask some follow-up questions about what I meant and then just be like "ok cool IG". He'd misgender me a lot, but it wouldn't be from a place of malice, it would just be because he forgot. He'd be quick to fix his mistake though. All in all, Harod Sayle's just too spiteful to have the energy to expend on being transphobic/enby-phobic/agender-phobic (I never know the right term to use, please send help!), so he simply wouldn't be. If I were British, however, he would be the most transphobic person on Earth to me!

Nadia Vole: 10/10 She'd ask for pronouns upon introduction and always make sure that she's using the right ones! If nothing else, Nadia Vole is a professional, and professionals use people's correct pronouns, names, and honorifics. I also get the vibe that she'd not put up with anyone's bullshit if they're intentionally going around not respecting other people's identities. She also just gives the energy that she's queer (especially in the graphic novel), but then again it might just be me projecting.

Mr. Grin: 5/10 Bro's literally just doing his job and couldn't give less of a fuck. He'd respect my pronouns and stuff, but it'd be out of total indifference to me. Just like, he doesn't have the energy to waste, so it wouldn't matter to him whatsoever.

Dr. Grief: -10/10 He's a racist/nazi/white supremacist/fascist jackass (probably a stronger word would be better suited for this, but I don't feel like putting it in), so going off of what we know already, I can make a very educated guess as to what his stance on me not fucking with gender would be...

Eva Stellenbosch: -10/10 Same with Dr. Grief. She'd also just straight-up hate crime me for fun, so there's that too.

Alexei Sarov: 8/10 He'd be a little confused/not know entirely what being agender meant, or even what it is for that matter, but after it was explained to him, he'd make an effort. He'd read up on the subject, he'd ask questions, he might mess up on pronouns and such pretty regularly, but there'd be an effort on his part and that's what matters!

Conrad: 1/10 He's a chaos gremlin of pure hatred and murder. He is alive solely out of bitterness and spite. He'd purposely misgender me/be actively transphobic just to feel something. Anything. Conrad just wants to watch the world burn and he's got the gasoline.

Damian Cray: 20/10 There was no heterosexual explanation for that man to begin with! I also can't see him being super big on gender in the first place. He'd be out there actively fighting transphobia and showing his support for all of the LGBTQIA+ community! He'd validate me and he'd be aggressively supportive as well!

Nikolai Drevin: 0/10 Y'all saw how he was to his son Paul Drevin. Paul has been head-cannoned/heavily implied to be gay and we all saw how THAT turned out... I just feel like Nikolai Drevin would not hesitate to force me to go to conversion therapy. That's it. Maybe he'd pretend to be supportive at first to lull me into a false sense of security so he could kidnap me for conversion therapy, but it'd be a complete and total act. Believe me, this man IS ABSOLUTELY NOT an ally!!! That being said, he wouldn't outright kill me/other type of hate crime me. Not that conversion therapy is ok or anything, but the bar is so low on this list at points and I'm forced to give credit where credit is due. He'd kill me because I beat him at something which is something he does with everyone else so it's an equal opportunity thing.

Desmond McCain: 3/10 He'd try and do an exorcism of me. not necessarily because of the whole agender thing (not that that would hurt his decision though), but just because of me as a person. I don't care if he's not that kind of religious, but that wouldn't matter to him. He'd become that type of religious. Desmond McCain would also try to talk me out of being agender (not that that's someone that can do) by telling me that "God didn't intend for you to reject your natural calling as a woman." which isn't something that I think that God would agree with because I just don't... Either way, he'd say that I was a sinful person and going to super-hell when I eventually and he'd mean it too even if he's just faking being a Christian.

Dominic Royce: 4/10 He'd be on the quiet side, but don't let that fool you! He'd actively be doing everything in his power to pass anti-trans laws even though legislating is not part of his job! He'd refuse to acknowledge my saying anything about being agender and say condescending shit like 'You're too young to know that!" or "It's just a phase!" and would be calling me "young lady" or "Ms./Miss" a lot which would just be super uncomfortable.

Owen Andrews: 2/10 Bro totally leaves Reddit comments about how being trans/non-binary/agender isn't real/is a mental illness or some bullshit like that in his free time for fun and probably believes it as well. That being said, however, I don't see him being super transphobic out loud to my face. He'd definitely misgender me every time and place he got, but I could probably beat him in a fight and he knows this.

Darcus Drake: 6/10 He'd use the right pronouns, he'd be respectful enough, but mostly he wouldn't be too bothered with any of it.

Dr. Raymond Feng: 5/10 He'd be skeptical about it, but he'd hear me out and just accept it. I get the sense that he'd be thinking 'oh is this internalized misogyny or childhood trauma or something?', but I stand by my statement saying that he'd ultimately be accepting and validating to me more or less. Not a strong ally, not a transphobe, just a man who presumably has a doctorate in psycology with no quams about imprisoning and interrogating a thoroghly traumatized child. And I for one think that's beautiful. (Not actually, I just wanted to put that last part down there.)

Dwain Garfield: 1/10 He's a Trump supporter. 'nuff said. Source? Trust me bro.

Vladimir Sharkovsky: -5/10 He'd hate crime me or, more accurately, have somebody else hate crime me for him.

Harry Bulman: 2/10 Bulman would've been out there writing transphobic AF articles LONG before meeting me. Harry Bulman would be writing articles about how being trans/non-binary/agender was the latest 'fad/trend', go out of his way to make fun of the trans experience, and spread misinformation about how "gender/women are under attack!". Now, I don't think that he'd actually believe what he's writing (except for the whole thing about it being a 'trend' or mental illness or whatever), he's just in it for the money/the clout. Not that this makes it any better, if anything that makes it worse. In any case, he'd laugh in my face when I say I use they/them pronouns and then tweet about it or whatever and call me a 'crazy, blue-haired liberal' or whatever despite me not having blue hair. In short, metaphorically (never literally) fuck Harry Bulman!

Colonel Aubrey Sykes: 1/10 He'd just call me a 'snowflake' and say that he identifies "as an attack helicopter" because like many transphobes, he hasn't evolved much since 2016-2017. Also, since I'm not a veteran or active service member of the military and an American, I just get the vibe that he'd already have had absolutely zero respect for me in the first place even if I was cis. Also, he just gives extremely misogynistic vibes too, so whether or not I was cis wouldn't change much.

[Probably going to do a separate list for SCORPIA members and the Nightshade board. The same goes for MI6/CIA/ASIS characters. It'll be fun maybe!]

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Do you ever think about the fact that the memories of all the Assassin's Creed characters are passed down genetically, meaning once they have kids the data basically stops? Which is why Haytham's sequence in AC3 ends IMMEDIATELY after his fling with Ziio?

And not only that, but the secret ending cutscene in Black Flag? At the opera house? That couldn't have been from Edward's perspective. Assuming we're seeing it through the Animus, it wouldn't make sense for that to exist in his DNA record-- all his children were already born. Which would mean that scene wasn't part of Edward's data. That was Haytham's memory.

Yeah I think about it a lot.

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I love how canonically Ratonhnhakè:ton, Haytham, Edward and Shay all are carrying random bits of feed in their pockets just to feed someone's random poultry.

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Communists and anarchists will spend all day talking about abstract concepts and structures like capitalism and the state, but willfully ignore the very real, tangible curse placed upon me by the foul necromancer

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True crime podcast but you realize as you're listening that the host is just describing episodes of Scooby-Doo

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writing prompt: deliriously giggling

Whumpee ran across the field in the pristine white snow, giggling uncontrollably as they tossed their shirt to the icy wind. They were so warm, so unbearably warm, and at the same time so amused by it.

Whumper wouldn't think to look for them in the snow, they wouldn't suspect Whumpee running straight into it without any shoes or a coat. How dumb, when the snow could just as well keep out the cold as it could keep it in.

All they wanted to do was roll around in it and make a couple snow angels while that idiot looked for them near the main road, and really, who could stop them?

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Going off @icebluecyanide's tags here X

Crisis averted because drunk Alex accidentally calls Tom's phone from the party, or he deliberately calls Ian, or Alex is sober and it's like that one vine.

Ian: "Sorry Martin, raincheck on meeting the contact. I have to go pick up my probably drunk nephew from a party he's definitely not supposed to be at and then possibly ground him some more."

Wilby: "Um...but..."

Ian: "If he's so against just telling us over the phone, then maybe you should meet him. Here, I'll drop you off outside, let me know what he says, bye."

And Yassen is there at the warehouse, just standing in the dark by himself.

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I keep thinking about Desmond always being on edge. Always in Survival Mode.

He could never relax on the Farm, his Dad always breathing down his neck. Get better. Be better. Do better.

And then, Desmond ran away. And he always had to look over his shoulder. Always had to be a step ahead of the Templars and Assassins (a great feat btw)

And then Abstergo got him and I can't imagine him relaxing in that environment. Only to be plucked out of that space and be back with the Assassins, back in the Animus.

With people he didn't know, who wanted to work and save the world and at the end, his Dad was back again too.

Surely Desmond never left Survival mode. Wouldn't even know what that would feel like.

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IT GETS WORSE!!?

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man I wish people understood how much it sucks ass to be neurodivergent and trying to find the middle ground where people like/tolerate you. like, I'm either "boring" (trying to wait my turn in conversations, holding space for other people, taking a back seat to let others get some spotlight) or "too much" (too loud/talking too much, getting excited to share, trying to participate in group conversations/activities). No one really talks about how much of being neurodivergent is just sort of trying to make yourself palatable.

I feel like so much of my life has been spent trying to find this effortless sort of middle ground everyone else seems to automatically already know, and I'm always swinging too far one way or the other. I'm lucky to have neurodivergent friends who grok me, but goddamn I wish that I could just like, exist without the constant background script in my brain that's like "you're being too loud. You're not talking enough. you're being self-centered. you're being boring. you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong." I feel like I'm back in high school trying to make friends but stuck as the eternal "weird kid"

it's just... lonely and sucks bad.

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this Conversation pit is ruining my life

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if a supervillain said "you wont kill me thatd make you just like me" i would simply say "no it wouldnt id be saving millions of people" and the villain would say "but youd be dooming yourself. could you really live knowing youre a killer" and id say "well id certainly have trouble. ill probably be very sad about it. definitely a lot to unpack" and theyd say "so you wont do it" and id say "oh no im still gonna" and theyd say "what" and id say "youre a supervillain responsible for countless deaths and yet here you are desperately trying to bargain for your life. you want to live. which means you can easily live with yourself after being responsible for countless deaths. i, on the other hand, will at the very least have tremendous difficulty with even killing just one person and at worst might just jump out a window right after i do it. the very nature of this whole conversation about whether we are the same has proven to me we are very much not the same and i am certain killing you to save millions is the morally correct decision here" and theyd say "what" and id say "get killed idiot"

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The way Alex's demeanor shifts the second Blunt enters the apartment is such an amazing detail. Because maybe minutes before he was trying to not completely break down with Mrs Jones but the second Blunt walks in Alex is calm and defiant. The sneer he gives Blunt in that moment is so telling of how Alex feels about Blunt. We all keep talking about how important it was for everyone else to treat Alex the way they did but no I haven't seen anyone talk about how Blunt treated him.

From the beginning Blunt was harsh and used every dirty trick in the book to get Alex to do what he wanted. But for the first time Blunt is finally faced with actual repercussions for not listening to Alex or anyone else. Because Scorpia is killing anyone they want just to make a point and Alex is working with them. And then when they get a hold of Alex Blunt but no choice but to be honest.

He couldn't manipulate or force Alex into anything, he was literally begging Alex for any answers he could give because he was truly desperate, and that I think also helped Alex just as much as the kindness and grief everyone else felt for him. Because it forced him to really look past his anger for how Blunt had treated him and the anger for the deaths of Ian and his father, because for the first time Blunt had to treat him like a person and it helped break Alex out of his spiral just as much as everyone else did.

This is also why I felt like the ending fit so well. In the end Blunt had no choice but to finally trust Alex completely and tell him the truth, and honestly I think Blunt realized that his lies and his pride were part of the reason that not only did Scorpia grow back but Alex was so easily caught in their web. I also think that in the end he knew he wouldn't be able to ever tell the whole truth to anyone like he needed to, so in order for the department to do what it needed to and for Alex to stay on the right path he had to leave.