i think the actual disconnect between nie mingjue and jin guangyao is that nie mingjue is dying and knows he's dying and has to stick so so so closely to his morals and virtues or else it'll have been for nothing and then he'll have to come to terms with the fact that maybe he didn't actually have to die after all vs jin guangyao who wants to live, he wants to live and be safe and have all the things he was told he could never have-was told he was never good enough to have-and will do almost anything to make it so. and these are two like irreconcilable point of views right (and both Correct and Wrong at the same time) and so they can't understand each other because they aren't even having the same argument and neither of them can see that
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i cannot succinctly describe what is so funny to me about this shackleton 2002 promotional image but there’s something about shackleton looking like he’s about to give a fast food cashier a piece of his mind and hurley posing gayly combined with the most low effort graphic design i’ve ever seen. it’s beautiful
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You ever just read a fanfic that rots your brain so much that you had no choice but to make a comic out of it? Yeah.
Anyway, here's the first 1000 words of A Mirror in the Dark by Fastern on Ao3 illustrated.
(Click for better quality)
I know I could have picked some sort of big scene to illustrate, but idk man, I felt like going from the beginning even if it doesn't seem like much is happening. Trust me when I say this is the best Traitor Kaminari fic I have ever read. My initial plan was to do the whole first chapter but then I realized I didn´t have infinite time so have these 8 pages instead!
Anyway, go read the fic right now. You will not be disappointed.
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get to know me game
i'm so late to this but thank you babes @wintrwinchestr @janaispunk @reedrchards & @strang3lov3 for tagging me <3
rules: answer + tag 9 people you want to get to know better and/or catch up with!
favorite color: red
last song: so long london - taylor swift (yes i still have ttpd on repeat)
currently reading: lately i've been trying to catch up on my tbr so i've only been reading fics, but i just finished to the light by @metaphoricgibberish and i'm absolutely obsessed with it!
currently watching: in preparation for szn 2 i've been rewatching house of the dragon (also i'm already rewatching szn 3 of bridgerton)
currently craving: fries (when am i not)
coffee or tea: coffee. always. specifically iced coffee
np tags: i saw a bunch of ppl do this already so anyone who hasn't done it yet !
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Scattered Stars
Chapter 23 is up now, which means my Fenhawke anthology fic is finally finished!
It had been months since the Arishok and months more since she’d been formally named Champion. Perhaps a whole year had passed since the night they'd spent together. The time had flown past, too quickly for him to grasp when it might have mattered. In a sense, Hawke hadn’t been there for much of it herself, for she'd sat hollow-eyed and silent in her library for days on end with hardly a word or gesture to indicate that she still lived at all.
“Hawke,” he said quietly, when he might have formed another name.
The corner of Maria’s mouth quirked. She held a hand between them, palm up. A peace offering, he supposed, or a choice. Nothing had changed; he could not take back what he’d done or who he was. But—
He could not touch her. Even the thought of it dragged him back to that night, when he’d taken her into his arms and buried his hands in her hair and—
“Goodnight,” Fenris told Hawke, and set off into the Kirkwall night alone.
Read more or start from the beginning
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Just say you think cp is ok as long as the minors are fictional you fuckin pedophile
Normally I ignore hostile or pre-judgmental asks on the off chances I get them, but I'll make exception for this one because it seems like a good opportunity for some much needed nuance-- also because I get this person's disgust, I really do.
But you, my fella, must understand that this isn't about the morality or even lack thereof behind dark fictional content, at all. You must realize that wanting dark and taboo fictional content (yes including that one you mentioned) not being allowed to exist actually does nothing to improve or protect irl lives, much on the contrary actually. No, I don't think there's any possible moral reason behind fictional cp content (nor do I find it 'ok',) but once again, this isn't about morality.
Please take a moment to read this thread (it words this topic better than me) then think it over. Trust me, it's a better use of your time than annoying ppl online with words you can't even bother standing up for with your name/face.
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When you listen to the funeral in Boléro when you're 19 and are fairly naïve and have been lucky enough that you've never had a death close to you, you think Hera doesn't understand "why they have to be gone" because she's an AI and she only has 4 years of life experience to go off and it's inevitably difficult for someone without a physical body to conceptualise death. But then you get a little older and things happen and you realise No, that's just what grief is like.
Hera thinks that it doesn't make sense to her because she's missing something, because there's something that her creators didn't put inside her head, or at the very least because she's never experienced that kind of loss before. She thinks there's something that can be explained to her that will make it easier to come to terms with the deaths of people who've been a part of her life. And Eiffel struggles for an answer, or rather a way to explain to her that there is no answer; "Hera, we don't… I don't know that there's… That's not what this -".
The truth is that there's nothing that Hera is missing. What is happening inside her head feels "wrong and stupid and wrong" because that's just how it feels when someone you know dies. That's how the other characters are feeling too, even if they express it differently.
Hera thinks that she feels the way she does because she's experiencing things differently to her human crewmates, but that's not really the case. She's just being the most honest about those feelings.
It's not an artificial intelligence grappling with human situations that she can't understand. It's a person struggling with grief in the way that any human struggles with grief.
Hera's feeling that she doesn't know how to deal with this, her inability to stop thinking about the fact that they're gone, her sense that there must be some set of instructions she wasn't given, her desperation for a way to make it better or easier, her plea for things to somehow make sense… It's all just so incredibly, heart-wrenchingly human and real.
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