#aligning our interests

[aelswiths]

Excerpt from "Home Again" For @aadmelioraa Happy Birthday 🥳🥳!!!

#the last kingdom #sevenkingsmustdie #Happy Birthday Kat!!! #I hope you like it #aligning our interests #this fic actually makes me go INSANE every time I read it #I am absolutely FERAL about it #I just love them so much #they mean everything to me #your honor i love them #tlk aelswith #tlk alfred #aelswith x alfred #alfred x aelswith

[darlingod]

Jude: I want you to swear yourself into my service

Cardan:

#Cardan: bet #he rlly said “our interests align” #the cruel prince #jude duarte #cardan greenbriar

[electric-plants]

cyno: why did you turn down being a sage?

alhaitham: i can’t think of a job i would want to do less. wait no i would hate your job more actually

dehya: hey alhaitham watch yourself that was kind of rude—

cyno: actually that was…kind of hot….

#haino #cyhaino #cytham #haino incorrect quotes #alhaitham #cyno #dehya #this is how that conversation went right??? #i think cyno sees alhaitham do anything and thinks it’s hot honestly #i think that man is WHIPPED #they’re like if opposites attract weren’t opposites #like they like each other because on a surface level they’re SUCH opposites #and have such different values which is just INTERESTING and makes both of them CURIOUS #and they’re both just weirdly into curiosity cause they’re NERDS #but then they get closer and!! they look a little deeper and they are just!! #So Similar #so Aligned #and by then they’re in so deep that it’s ‘i love our differences i love our similarities oh shit i love everything about you’ #im sorry #i can literally never shut up about how they’re different but the same but also DIFFERENT but also the SAME

[swept-away-sands]

Black Sails I: "A YOUNG SAILOR enters."

COOK: Oh, so you're a coward then?

JOHN SILVER YOUNG SAILOR: Yeah. You too?

Item the first: Where do I begin with John Silver? Actually, let's start from a different angle. John Silver begins Here, no sooner and no later than he sees The Opportunity (though he does not know the Narrative has chosen him just yet, nor that aligning his fiscal goals with those of Captain Flint will irrevocably alter the course of his life) and he takes it.

My first impression of John Silver is that he was a cheeky bastard an impish scoundrel who was possessed of the bad habit of biting off more than he could chew and just enough strategic/ballsy charm to walk away relatively unscathed. I was drawn in by the fact that he was equipped with a dashing smile, at least before, you know, everything that followed, but you could tell behind his big blue eyes that he was playing some sort of 4D Chess.

I would like to credit the writers, showrunners, and actor man Luke Arnold for unfolding this character like a map with only half a key. He intrigues me, he infuriates me, I hate him forever, I love and forgive him implicitly, I cringe when he makes me think of myself. That rare sense of unbalance and discomfort brought on by a story is something I will treasure and hope to even come close to brushing against again. There is a John Silver imprint on my heart, thanks to this story, my own personal Black Spot.

#my art #black sails #john silver #characters that live in my head and don't pay rent #man convinced flint that their interests were aligned like 3 days in #but has yet to convince me that he could handle making a grilled cheese sandwich #if only we could still outright lie on our resumes so easily #only thing i would change about the show #is for silver to have 1 (one) positive cooking experience #maybe serving flint or madi some stew he whipped up would have fixed something i dunno

[bookshelfdreams]

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#just saw that tweet abt pink days on the set of the barbie movie & i think it made me realize why it - the marketing etc - annoys me so #'margot robbie went around collecting fines and donated them to charity haha' okay. look. #that's just the perfect metaphor for how it worked for us - me - anyone who wants to align themselves with me - when we were girls #isn't it #because you grow up and you desperately want to fit in with the other girls but you don't & you don't know why #but you're surrounded by things and people telling you what a normal girl is like & little-to-none of it is things you find appealing or #interesting. makeup and fashion and skin care. gymnastics and romance. you're told that you are obligated to be pretty #but prettiness has never been part of your perception of yourself. femininity is an arcane concept #an exclusive club that will never grant you entrance #& the only comfort you can give yourself is deciding that it's dumb anyway. shallow. vain. who cares about looks and boys and all of that #idiots that's who #but this is Doing It Wrong too isn't it? because now everyone who has taught you that you will forever fail at femininity turns around #& tells you that's patriarchal oppression and YOU'RE the bad one by distancing yourself from something that always made you feel defective #'YOU may have never lived up to this impossible standard of perfection but some ppl do and actually it's fine to be like that! #hyperfeminine traditionally beautiful women are the most oppressed group of all & finally we will stand up for our rights!' #'girls can be pretty AND conpetent' but that's not what they're actually saying. isn't it. #because performing femininity correctly is the prerequisite. a threshold you can never cross and you know that. & that's fine #but somehow that's wrong too because you're not supposed to make peace w that are you. you're SUPPOSED to want to do it right #even if you don't and never have and never will #and once again everyone is yelling at you that this club isn't meant for you. if you criticize the barbie movie you're antifeminist #if you refuse to wear pink I'll make you pay a fine #hashtag girlpower #(well im not a girl. not a guy either. and not a secret third thing. just bad at femininity. #bad at being a person. and y'all don't need to tell me you don't want me in your club #I've always known that. i just wish you'd stop expecting me to beg for entrance.)

[coldgoldlazarus]

I know the metroid timeline is purposely pretty vague, but do you have a headcanon for how long it's been since metroid 1? I figure it has to be at least a few years, even in the games themselves don't take place over a long period of time each

I think my initial off-the-cuff guesstimate would be somewhere in the vicinity of eight to ten years, with Samus in Zero Mission being in her mid twenties, and in her early-mid thirties as of Dread. Wanna double-check what little canon info there is later to make sure there aren't any glaring contradictions, and it's hard to say how Prime 4 may alter things or not, but here's my rough guesses about the timeskips between games.

Zero Mission to Prime - A couple years, enough time for the escaped frigate Orpheon to set up shop on Tallon IV before Samus comes calling. For simplicity, let's round to an even number; my instinct would be to say two years, but apparently one source says it is actually three. I'll split the difference and say 2 Years, 6 Months.

Prime to Hunters - A couple months at most, mainly because I'm pretty sure it was said explicitly somewhere that Prime and Echoes were six months apart. 2 Years, 8 Months

Hunters to Echoes - A few months, probably a slightly bigger space on this end of Hunters, but still not too long, in keeping with the aformentioned six-month gap. 3 Years.

Echoes to Corruption - Approximately a year, give or take, allowing for Urtraghus's near-complete seed conversion (unimpeded compared to Tallon IV) and creation of Urtraghan Pirate Phazon Cult, along with the other logistics groundwork laid for their massive attacks seen in the game. 4 Years.

Corruption to Federation Force - Merely a few months, as Samus would still have to have been recovering from her phazon corruption for the pirates to have feasibly captured her, and for the Federation to switch gears from their now-useless PED technology to Project Golem. (Meanwhile, I hold the headcanon that the Pirates are quite vast and decentralized compared to what the games claim/imply, thus the Urtraghan Phazon Cult was not representative of the entirety of the Pirates, and the Doomseye crew were a completely different branch who had been setting up seperately from the Urtraghans during the same time period, and were unaffected by their fall.) For rounding purposes, let's say that's four months, putting us at 4 Years, 4 Months.

Federation Force to Samus Returns - This space is the big unknown variable, especially given this is most likely where Prime 4 will fall, and we don't yet know whether it will ultimately be a one-off or start a brand new trilogy or what. But for now, assuming only Prime 4 goes in this space, I'll give it something like a round two years, with P4 happening closer to the back end of that, to lead fairly directly into Samus Returns with only a few months between them, with whatever incident occurs there finally spurring the Federation to order the Metroid extermination. But if they do wedge in even more games after Prime 4, I would stretch this section out to three or more years. But for now, 6 Years, 4 Months.

Samus Returns to Super - I detailed in another post that while I originally agreed with the general consensus that Super follows extremely closely off of SR, I have since changed my mind. Even though I have my issues with the forced inclusion of Proteus Ridley and the general tonal mishandling of Metroid II's ending, if we are to aknowledge that that event occurred, I feel like Super must make far more sense with some temporal distance between it and SR. Ergo, I posit that rather than them being a week apart at most as popular consenus goes, there must be a minimum of four months between them. Enough time for Ridley's attack to be written off as a fluke, and somewhere in that time Samus and the hatchling Metroid embarked on an adventure that convinced her it was unsafe at her side - either in too much danger, or too much of a danger to others, or both, thus prompting her to bring it to Ceres Station, kicking off the events of Super. So going with that conservative estimate of four months, that puts us at 6 Years, 8 Months.

Super to Fusion - (I am of course just not aknowledging Other M in this timeline. Fed Force is overhated IMO, but I don't have enough patience for OM.) Given that enough time must have passed between Samus Returns and Fusion for the Biologic Space Laboratories asteroid space station to have been set up around SR388 and brought into operation for the habitats to be filled, but the X parasite propogation on said planet only reached the station shortly before Fusion begins, I would guess about a year or so passed, with the bulk of that time being spent simply building the station before operations proper began only a month or two out from Fusion's opening. But that's relative to Samus Returns; relative to Super I would estimate that gap to be somewhere around eight months, bringing our total up to 7 Years, 4 Months.

Fusion to Dread - This is another kind of weird one given how Dread just has Samus working with the Federation again, even if presumably on rockier terms than before. There must have been at least a solid couple-month stretch of initially dealing with the fallout of Fusion, then things settle back into an uneasy status quo, before the transmission comes that sets off this newest adventure. At the same time, not too much of a long stretch, given Samus still has the Federation-loaned purple Gunship and her new/old AI friend. So another eight-month stretch there puts us at 8 Years.

If I say Samus is like, 24 in Zero Mission, (given it seems she was in her early 20s when she was with the Federation, and had already been a bounty hunter of good repute for a couple years as of ZM) then that puts her at roughly 32 (or 33 or 34 if I do stretch out the period between FF and SR) in Dread, which just feels right to me. These are of course all rounded to exact numbers, I imagine the actual stretches of time to be a bit more uneven, but still amounting to this overall length.

#not a reblog #metroid #samus aran #metroid timeline #asks #this is far more headcanon than canon-backed #but I hope it is interesting #this is also going by our earth calendar rather than the in-universe time measurements #so my couple bits of actual canon info may be off #and my estimates certainly don't align with like #stellar cycles and whatnot #but still #close enough

[boleynqueenes]

i love your writing and your stories! plus you're pretty much the only one i found on ao3 who actually centres on anne and henry? so thank you for allowing me to feed on my obsession without making me feel wrong for it lol <3

you are so welcome...like snow on the beach:

#verse 2 lines 5-6 #aftergclw #we are the most hated bcus we have the greatest time as we bond over our suffering and reinvention #i think it entirely makes sense that there exist so many AB aus #but im flattered you like mine! #(ie... what historically happened. was such a specific set of circumstances aligning #that it is hard to imagine it could be replicated in any other set of circumstances #and she fought so hard to achieve what she wanted . that you just can't help but wish she won #henry is secondary to most but i ultimately.... feel that he ruined his own life as well like it was all downhill from there #so au's of this nature . mine at least. i try to explore what might have been going on in his mind #it's just very interesting to me)

[screambirdscreaming]

At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.

But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."

This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.

What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!

I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.

#i made the mistake of looking in the notes of the beach sand post i reblogged to see if anyone else had interesting comments #And the rate at which it went from like #1) person states with moderate confidence an opinion based on their personal observations #2) multiple people reply with “wow thats so insightful!” (aka it aligns with my preconceived notions of how things work) #3) someone else adds additional personal observations which are not really relevant but which can be absorbed into the narrative #4) people start outright stating the underlying belief on which this bias is constructed as if it were a fresh insight #5) general derisive attitude towards people who haven't seen the Obviously Correct solution to this complex real world problem yet #It's very....... #It's not like it's a high stakes post but it's such a microcosm of the whole dogmatic phenomenon #Also this js a more specific gripe to My Field or w/e #But the degree to which people react to the problems caused by the whole “Control of Nature” era of engineering #with this equally reductive “Nature will Fix Everything” type of attitude #Is sooooo frustrating. #Yes a great many of our current problems could have been avoided if we had not made massive changes to ecosystem processes on the assumptio #That they were simple and we understood them. And that they would respond in predictable ways. #the simplicity in retrospect of “wow we Should Not have done that” does not mean that they are simple to undo! #You can't go back in time. You can't turn back the clock on chaotic processes #Which is. Almost every process ever. #Restoration is hard! Returning to previous regimes of sediment or flooding or fire is tricky and full of foibles! #Moving towards a future which doesn't suck as much even if the past cant be recreated is also uncertain and difficult! #It's frustrating to see people act all high and mighty about how they Respect Nature unlike whoever is making all these decisions #When their understanding of the natural processes in question is AS simplistic as the people who caused the whole mess back in 1910 or w/e #Like I'm not saying there's not bad interests standing in the way of functional restoration on all levels #That's very much a fight to be fought. #But looking at that fight-in-process and saying “wow none of you Respect Nature like me uwu let nature fix it” #Is. #Ugh.

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

help there will never be another show i love as much and as specifically as our flag means death!!!

#what am i supposed to do now? develop hobbies and interests???? #anyway. just experiencing the rewatch / 'there will never be any more after what you just rewatched' horrors for the next few days. #it's fineeeeeeeeee. #(it's NOT fine! i'm BEREFT!) #dollsome's deep thoughts #our flag means death #technically there are other shows i love as MUCH as our flag means death (gilmore girls; awae; the 2000s/2010s comedies of yore; wwdits) #but the specificity with which ofmd was my absolute dream show is just never going to happen again 😢😢😢 #the stars aligned too well!

[seiwas]

hi my sweet sel :3 i’m sneaking in w a fresh matcha for u to ask for a moot bingo card 🍵… i’m 2 curious i couldn’t resist </3

ari my beloved!!!! thank you for the matcha 🥺 i am sip sippin it while doing your bingo card (my feet are also kicking in the air behind me 🤭) pls sit with me, i am offering you a cookie!! 🍪

(c) xen-blank for the template!

send me an ask and i’ll fill up this bingo for you!! 🥺

#when i say lots of shared interests i rlly mean lots of shared thoughts 🥺🥺 i feel like u just Get what i mean Yk???? #i think we understand characters so similarly snd it is so satisfying!! and also comforting to have someone just knows what i mean 🥺 #i am chomping ur head because it is simply TOO BIG. full of ALL THAT PROSE AND TALENT. #and younger sibbie vibes bc i do feel like i am always aww-ing at you whenever i see your interactions on my dash!! #esp when you receive all the love you deserve 🥺🥺 #i feel like we became moots when you had only a few works up and to see how much your library has grown!!! 🥺🥺 #i feel the proud big sis moment a lot 🥺🥺 #and pls keep sharing w me ur thoughts and rants and characterisations and aus and hc and EVERYTHINF! 🥹 #we r mutual chaos bc we share the same braincells sometimes i think… same w the bouncing of the walls pic… those r our braincells when #-our ideas align #shaking you violently bc i am so in awe at how much you write #REALLY SO AWESTRUCK. u r amazing. i still have so much of ur stuff to read!!!! #ari.🦝 #twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat #ask #rep #ask game

[losthomunculus]

heyyy since ao3 already made 3x it's goal in like a day how about you consider supporting archive.org which is currently appealing a lawsuit from the 4 biggest publishing companies in the united states (see: Hachette V. Internet Archive) that could have serious effects on the preservation and distribution of media in the digital age

#ao3 #archive of our own #naaawt trying to tell you what to do but js they surpassed their goal and your interests probably align with archive.org

[katiefratie]

Flint and Silver are so the same (not that the same but not not) they both absolutely would betray anyone to save themselves (with some exceptions)

#black sails #no one is allowed to be mean about anything im wrong about btw #ive never been wrong in my life and my memory is bad so #but like silver literally says i didnt betray you because our interests align rn

[basilpaste]

I just wanted to let you know ive been following you since you still posted kindergarten stuff and its so wild to always see the new fandoms youre into even if i know nothing about them (EG. The current one i think thats about time loops?) Like. i just see you on my dash and go :0 Basil has a new fandom! sweet!! You are like....my Tumblr blorbo. if that makes any sense.

OH?????? i am... a tumblr blorbo. woag.

thats a whole like. four to five years. its so wild to know that people have Perceived me for this long! and strange that you havent gotten sick of me kdfghdkfjgh (i kid.)

also YES this new fandom is about time loops. in stars and time is a very good game :]

#basil answers #asks #anon #technically i still sometimes produce kindergarten art. its just. mostly teen punk felix redraws. #and the kidd i drew with sif the other day i guess. #it makes me really happy to know that people enjoy seeing me on their dash!!! #even if our interests dont really align anymore!!!!!!

[winepresswrath]

I'm sad Michael Sheen didn't get to tweet his way through GO2 however the Bowie reference has me wondering if we would have survived it. the chaos this man foments.

#ok i know it's just a bowie reference but in my heart i'm like crowley duke of hell confirmed???? #it's interesting because i do think it's going down & there's like an 85% chance i'll hate it but that remaining 15% is so tantalizing im #not even too upset #there's also the very real possibility that im wrong #but david tennant making such a big deal out of crowley not being able to entirely let go of hell has given me a new enthusiasm for my #theory #press says good omens #poor michael sheen though he really did all that For Us (ok he did it for himself and our interests are aligned) #free him!!! pay actors fairly and free him #he didn't befriend one of his favourite authors get cast in the adaptation and make his otp canon for this

[stillcominback]

🎀 🎀 🎀

#hi friends! #local cryptid laurel making a quick little dash appearance just to check in tbh 💗💗💗 #miss you all and writing loads but life continues to be a lot lol 😮‍💨 #still job hunting which has been really rough in general but also mentally #then raising my daughter aka puppy who I love but takes a lot of my time and energy 🐶 #BUUUUUUT a couple things! #1 - i’m better at checking into discord these days so if you would like to plot/write there and/or make servers to do so I would LOVE THAT #2 - RE: depressing job search - I’m working on opening up my own small shop!! #I’ll be starting with a collection inspired by The Traitors aka one of my fave shows atm #but will be doing all kinds of designs going forward! #I’ll drop more info here once we officially ✨launch✨ #but I would love to get more followers on our IG page and just get some hype/interest going! #so if anyone wants to check us out to see what’s to come (soon)! the IG is sonichedesigns #(and the website is thatsoniche but it’s not fully opened yet!) #I’m nervous but excited because I’ve always wanted to do something like this but never really had the time or creative/mental energy #so maybe the stars are aligning who knows! #LOVE YOU ALL and hope to catch you on discord at least! #(again not abandoning tumblr or rp at all! just don’t have much time for it so my blogs are basically for aesthetic things and w/e I have #time for haha 🤪💗 but discord I would love to do more writing and stuff so hmu or ask for my handle! MWAH!) #💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[birdmenmanga]

who was gonna tell me someone put up a birdmen video essay 8 months ago

#birdmen #interesting takes here! not sure I agree with everything but it IS a 12 minute video essay about birdmen #I think it's really funny that this person's big criticism of bm is the fight scenes not being that good which. like yeah #it isn't ABOUT fights the way kekkaishi was about fights #tanabe's goal wasn't 'what is the most riveting fight I can create' but rather 'how can I use blackouts to further our characters' #which naturally ISN'T going to result in the most exciting fight scenes because it's not ABOUT it #HOWEVER! I recognize that having Good and Riveting Fights IS an important component of most sci fi shonen stories #so like yeah. reason number 124325 birdmen is more seinen aligned than shonen aligned #also abilities being underutilized? yeah I totally feel that. but I don't think you can really say that the story is about abilities either #but yeah I think I agree with most of the things they said about birdmen's good points #like yeah! it's realistic. there's a good reason that they're schoolkids and their personal story arcs ARE about coming of age #it IS about not being alone and finding that you have more in common with your neighbor than you believed #I had more thoughts but I lost them lol #Youtube