#and really well maintained

[hostiae]

krauser calling leon a pretty boy, not bc he's homophobic. but bc, leon is a government agent ( a lot more cushy than a soldier the government threw away or the soldiers that died while the government prioritized leon's safety, especially from krauser's perspective ), to be insulting bc he's being antagonistic, and what i think plays a signficant role:

krauser has massive, deep scars across his face. he's no longer pretty himself. calling someone else "pretty boy" bc he's marred up and it's an easy way to shield against his own insecurity.

#ooc. // #homophobia tw #okay i'm done venting #EVEN THO MY PERSONALITY IS SOMETIMES MADE UP OF JACK KRAUSER RANTS #krauser is not a good person #leon is a good person #but krauser insulting leon #is not inherently homophobic #or bc of toxic masculinity #krauser is buff af #but also pretty?? #and clearly takes a lot of pride in his appearance #his nails are fucking pristine #hair is clearly a style choice #and really well maintained #but his body's been wrecked #and while he was given power #and had his arm restored #he's clearly still pissed by it

[irregularjohnnywiggins]

You ever have those moments where an idea just... won't leave your head?

#dcu #batman #bruce wayne #green arrow #oliver queen #fake tweets #things I was not able to adequately convey in the format: #obviously Bruce's reasoning is really a lot closer to Ollie's but Bruce has a secret identity to maintain and Ollie... well #I don't know if you can make it out but his twitter profile pic is him in the Green Arrow costume and that's not accidental #also I am pretty sure that Bruce does just have the first airing date of The Price is Right saved in a corner of his mind palace #just in case it's ever relevant to a case #and he's angry at Ollie because Ollie knows that and also knows Bruce can't admit it because it would raise too many questions #also I did consider an extra scene where they tag-team harass Lex #but it just didn't sound right to me #also I put a whole load of Green Arrow references in here #Q-Core N_Singh and H_Fyff are all from the Nu52 Green Arrow runs #albeit Naomi and Henry are at least in the good Nu52 runs #obviously this is post-Snowbirds Don't Fly/Hard Travelling Heroes in general so Oliver is trolling Hal and setting up needle exchanges #and even Hal explaining to Ollie what Twilight is is a reference to one of the most dated things about the Arrow pilot: #the extremely tacky Twilight joke #anyway hope you enjoyed!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girl found dead in a hidden room.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan xichen #jin guangyao #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #qin su #EDIT: Tumblr published an earlier draft with only half the notes I wrote so: late entry on my JGY thoughts. #Unlike the mystic powers of the stockmarket (what the OG meme is referring to) I think this situation calls for more active investigation. #qin su is such a deeply tragic character to me and I really wish we got a bit more from her. #Love everyone who sent me messages about her after the last time she appeared. #I think she needs a spin off of her being a transmigrator SO badly. #MDZS has so many interesting characters - but it sometimes fails to give them the proper room to really develop past a role in the plot. #That's just the consequence of writing a story like MDZS. Not every character in a book *needs* to have a rich inner life and backstory! #To do so would bog down the story and obliterate any notion of pacing. It's just not possible. #Jin Guangyao (nee Meng Yao) is unfortunately not free from this leeway rule. He is the culprit of this murder mystery plot #and thus NEEDS to encapsulate the themes of the book. And personally he's a 7 out of 10 at best on this front (in the AD). #MDZS is about rumours twisting reality and working towards truth. And about how people & situations are rarely ever black & white #JGY has his motivations. He's well written in regards to his actions making sense for his character. #What started as good traits (drive to succeed & improve his image) became twisted over time (do anything to maintain his image) #and it's a good parallel to WWX! He has the same arc (with different traits)! Bonus points for IGY in that regard. #but man....by the time we confront this guy for murder there's not a lot of grey morality. He's just...deep in the hole *he* dug. #There's a beautiful tragedy to it! More on JGY in later comics - this is getting pretty long already!

[meamiiikiii]

today's word is anonymity. the state of being anonymous. it is a hard word to say.

#in stars and time #isat #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat spoilers #tagged spoilers since if you stare long enough there are spoilers #for what you may ask whoooo knoooows #i think tumblr is chewing on this oops.... the quality....... #ah well #the amount of times i have verbally spoken the phrase inherent anonymity and struggled just to make sure the dialogue makes vague sense #is an embarrassingly high amount #but i maintain it is a hard word to say #especially if you are speaking really quickly #tag talk over adfsafas

[martyryo]

his biggest sin was having blue hair and pronouns.

#artists on tumblr #digital art #illustration #art #faith #faith the unholy trinity #john ward #father john ward #hiii heyyy #watching videos abt this game got me out of some very bad mental state like wow #he's narratorcoded #bro is played by edward norton idc #anyways loved the game sm and I tried replicating the plai color on black style while maintaining my type of rendering #also I figured out thst adding additional lineart after the shading makes things kinda more organic #like it's not all a messy mix of colors #so proud of having done this in around an hour #also dw I'll still post fight club but I need to draw some other stuff as well or I'll get tired of drawing the same three prople all over #stage is going really well #feeling workercore workerpilled workercoded #huhu going to sleep cause I'm sealing my casket with this late hour stunt #bye bye <3

[catboyrichardkarinsky]

i think the most annoying part of amatonormativity is that not only do you NEED to feel love, and not only is there an order your relationships must follow (romantic/sexual partnership above all, then family, then friends) but the fact that other people HAVE to be your top priority. like even if you feel all kinds of attraction, if you dare put anything else above your relationships they consider you evil. god forbid you enjoy your hobbies more than being around your friends even though how much you care about something is completely outside of your control. it's the worst.

#aromantic #aplatonic #amatonormativity #okay personal rant incoming. i ended a close friendship over them having opinions on a hyperfixation of mine that i couldn't stand #well it was more complicated than that it's really not the only reason it had to end #but the point is. they got so upset over me putting a fictional thing above them or whatever. and it's just. what if that IS the case? #am I evil for the order in which o like things? something i have zero control over? #like if it makes me so upset i can't talk to them without feeling legitimate dread it's not possible to maintain any kind of relationship #I'm sorry but that's just how I am #i can't change things I literally cannot control

[bonefall]

Was Squilf happy that her apprentice got with her grandchild? Did she set them up/is it common in BB for older family members and mentors to "recommend" mates? Not like an arranged marriage thing but more like your aunt going "you know my old apprentice Dudeheart, well, he has a son that's such a bright and courteous young man, I really think you two might have a lot to talk about"

It's SUPER common, probably making up a solid percentage of matches-made. That's just how it is in a society that heavily values making connections between its members; everyone's got The Auntie who's trying to introduce you to handsome and responsible suitors.

Rosetail actually paired up her son Redtail with Runningwind. I feel like she was a great matchmaker in her time, but I haven't yet picked any others she paired up. Maybe Lionheart and Frostfur! That could be cute!

But I'm not sure if Squilf did matchmaking for Spark and Holly. They were actually kithood friends and had the seeds of romance long before they blossomed.

When Sparkpelt explains this to Nightheart someday, she'll describe it as something that was always there, as right as the drops that slumber within a fat cloud. Even before it drizzles, its nature is simply to rain.

#Something I try to balance is that canon often slaps apparentices with young mentors #But in BB that would be avoided like the fucking plague #Mentors are supposed to be old experienced and connected #Because in BB they serve an INVALUABLE social purpose #They're literally responsible for turning a child into a well-adjusted adult #And expected to forge connections that the apprentice will maintain their whole lives #So really it makes more sense that not all warriors get the honor #And getting your first apprentice is more likely to happen at 5 years than the bare minimum in BB which is 2 or 3 years. #It's no mistake that Dove ends up going to Shadow where her mentor Birchfall has a TON of friends. Including Smokefall and Talonclaw. #Better bones au #Mentorships #Matchmaking

[ingravinoveritas]

Still thinking about Michael on the Zoe Ball Show today saying "The boy did good" and that David looked hot in a kilt at the BAFTAs, and I feel like another poll is necessary to take the pulse of the people. For science, that is...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #i was going to say 'cock slut' instead but #Michael really says it so much better just by being himself #i still maintain that Michael is a switch #but the soft!Dom era is doing things to me #bless his bisexual Welsh chaos #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #at this point the subtext might as well be a billboard #by which i mean #just that it's clear what Michael finds most attractive right now #but i will leave it to my followers to make up their own minds #discourse #poll

[theminecraftbee]

Three hands of blackjack in, and Doc’s honestly not sure he’s picked up on Ren’s intentions yet. It should be obvious; he’s a secessionist, and any crown looking for further power knows what it must do with secessionists. He’s even cracking down on it. Doc’s seen the sign outside the portal in the shopping district. Bold. Fast way to make the other Hermits dislike him - Doc would know. Instead, though, Ren invites him over, and Doc arrives with all of his excuses, and instead of deploying any of them, Ren has them playing cards.

He’s oddly silent. It’s making Doc fidgety a little bit. Ren isn’t a quiet guy. Months on a van, real or unreal, with the guy, are enough for Doc to be pretty confident in saying that one, and when Octagon is thrown into the mix, well, all Doc’s saying is that it’s strange that Doc’s the one fidgeting in his chair while Ren sits, still and confident and silent, and wins another game of blackjack.

It’s getting to Doc’s head. It’s also blackjack. This should be half luck. Maybe the illustrious king is cheating. Bankrupt as much morally as his vaults are in diamonds. That would be fitting.

(Maybe Doc’s bitter.)

It takes four more hands, each of them lost, too, for Doc to throw the cards down on the table and look up at Ren. “Look, man. I agreed to come play your games, though, uh, I didn’t know it would mean so literally. You’ve gotta tell me what you’re doing here, man.”

“Can’t two bros have a game night?” Ren says. It’s the first words he’s said all night that aren’t just him indicating what he’s doing with his cards.

“Not like this! And, uh, not sure we’re bros at the moment, Ren. Sorry.”

“I’ll deal another hand,” Ren says.

“No, you won’t,” Doc says.

“Yes, I will. You threw your cards face-up man. I’m not playing with all your hand shown.” Before Doc can explain that’s not the problem, Ren’s scooped up the cards and started shuffling the deck again. The sound of the cards shuffling against each other grates against Doc’s ears. Lowly, he starts to hiss. He doesn’t do that often, so the level of frustration should be clear.

Ren deals out another hand. He raises an eyebrow at Doc. Doc’s hiss turns into a growl back into a hiss into silence. He looks at his cards.

He puts his cards down again. Fine. If he plays into it a little. “Just tell me why I’m here,” Doc says.

“Maybe I’ve missed you,” Ren says. “I didn’t ask for you to leave, man. You just did. Maybe I’ve missed you.”

“You’re the one who asked us to throw our diamonds into a hole,” Doc says.

“Is that what my friendship’s worth?” Ren says.

“I don’t know, man! Maybe it’s more than that. You haven’t reached out before now,” Doc says. “Besides, you aren’t great with the whole power thing. You’re like me like that. Tend to get a little loopy with it.”

Ren looks at his cards and looks at Doc. “Do you want a deal?”

Doc looks at his hand. Eight of diamonds, six of spades.

“Hit me,” he says.

Nine of clubs. Bust. Ren flips over his own hand. Seven of hearts, nine of diamonds. He doesn’t bother getting any cards. He sweeps them into the pile again and starts silently dealing once more.

“I’m going to throw you in jail,” Ren says.

“Eh, I mean, that’s what I thought when I got here, man. You aren’t going to succeed,” Doc says.

“I just want to play blackjack,” Ren says.

“Stop this king business then,” mutters Doc.

“You aren’t getting it,” Ren says.

“Then explain it to me! Explain what’s wrong with you, and just stop all of this!”

“No. I’m dealing another hand.”

“Just throw me in jail!”

“Is that what you want?”

“Just -”

“I’m dealing another hand,” Ren says, and he deals another hand in the strange and dark castle Doc has found himself sitting in. Doc shouldn’t have come, and Doc should leave now, while Ren is still staring at him and intensely dealing cards instead of imprisoning him or stopping all this king nonsense. He doesn’t. He slumps in his chair and looks at his cards again.

“I don’t know man. I just want to play cards too,” Doc says.

“Yeah,” Ren says.

“How much longer?”

“Not much.”

“Fine,” Doc says, and he feels to make sure he still has his sword. He does.

They play the next hand.

#hermitcraft #a bee fic #rendog #docm77 #i think the potential for drama if doc actually DOES anything with declaring himself an independent state is High #so is the potential for relationship drama #anyway this is ren badly reaching out to doc knowing full well he's about to have to take doc out of the picture for political reasons #but not particularly wanting to do that. but not really wanting to talk to doc either because he feels betrayed #so he's just. silently going through the motions of a friendship he can't make himself maintain right now #delaying the inevitable final killing blow.

[chasing-after-the-abyss]

Sometimes y'just gotta… what even happened here.

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv spoilers #HSY deserves an award for actually maintaining a full circular timeloop #meanwhile KDJ and YJH are just like 'there are two of me and we both kept the trauma in the divorce (with ourselves)' #two KDJ in one story is how you get 'Apostle of Eternity and Epilogue' #I think both are true #It's just the narrative that has to finish with one or another #the 'system' if you will #meanwhile two YJH is just him being stubborn enough to break the narrative so he can get a happy ending (TWO happy endings) #good job man you were written to break the system and you did it #SP and OD need to get themselves an extra HSY copy to really complete the symmetry but there aren't any because she's too well adjusted! #DID NOT THINK YOU WOULD WIN THAT AWARD HSY #my posts

[carlyraejepsans]

"you'd think people from the minority with a specific slang word for "young, skinny, clean-shaven effeminate man" would be a little less clueless about this stuff, but you know... gay terminology only exists for online jokes right? LOL"

Huh???

what do you people think a twink is

#me saying clean shaven was me being light btw. some definitions specifically say "ephoebic'' #or well ''youthful''. ergo without much body hair. #18-20 year-old appearance either way. regardless of age. but shaving makes it easier to maintain the look as you get older #twink death even became a meme a while back but I really don't think people understood what that means #not to say that some gay people's obsession with youth isn't unhealthy especially in the long run btw. plenty to criticize about that #people aren't immortal. you age. you wrinkle. trying to avoid it at all cost will fuck you Up. #bur the point still stands. younger adults went out and dated adults of all ages both young and older and that's literally fine #it's adults. #answered asks

[cold-neon-ocean]

You're such a good artist and you've convinced me about Baatar being horse-coded. I'm curious what horse!Baatar looks like.

First off thank you so much you're so sweet ;; <3

Second, I'm so glad my horse-coded Baatar propaganda is working, you have no idea how long I've been ready to answer this.

Let us begin with our steed in question: - Lightly smokey copper bay warmblood: [ selle francais x holsteiner ] - Long star on his face and dainty little amounts of pastern white - Roached mane with minimal forelock so he looks like a velociraptor - 100% constantly at the ready to kick someone in the fucking face - Well known for whipping people in the face with his tail He'd absolutely be a sporty warmblood very much crushing the 5 star eventing scene. He's bougie and sensitive and ornery. His best discipline is cross country he's got the speed, stamina, and agility, second is show jumping as he sometimes gets a bit cramped in smaller indoor arenas, and then dressage. He isn't bad at dressage he's just prone to throwing a fit when something upsets him, like he will yank the reins out of your hands if he gets annoyed with your direction or if someone's phone starts ringing he'll stop dead and look around to see who it was so that they'll feel embarrassed lolol. And as good at eventing as he is it takes him like 45 minutes to wake up so if you don't prepare early, you WILL be late.

He's the sort of horse that makes you question who owns who in this situation because if his needs aren't perfectly met he will yell and scream until someone comes to attend to him.

Bonus: Custom embroidered blanket because he will still serve tactical fashion even as a horse and also he hates getting dirty.

#LoK #Legend of Korra #Baatar Jr. #LoK AU #[ hello yes I've been prepared for this for like 3 years #combining two of my fav things: Baatar and Horses #yes he maintains his rank at second in command and is indeed the empire's lead scientist still #I like you could make Baatar a horse in the show and change nothing else and everything would still make sense /j #I almost drew him with his glasses on but wanted to do this more as what if he was a regular horse #but I was joking with a friend about redrawing some LoK screenshots where I just draw Baatar as a horse and everyone else is still human lo #he'd be like Maximus from Tangled he'd still command authority from people and people do have to listen to him #I really wanted to give him cute boots as well but I wanted to get this posted today #also sorry if the text is small and hard to read I can never gauge how much text will stay legible in asks ] #Neon Ocean Art #ask matsu #anonymous

[b4kuch1n]

Your swsh art always makes me want to replay the game because i love it and its my favorite pokemon game and every time i play another pokemon game i think of it how i miss certain elements from swsh. Then i boot up the game and im once again caught in the 1 hour 40 minutes hand held intro and im like ah- now i remember why i have been playing other pokemon games instead of this one. Happy (late?) birthday!

you don't want to listen to hop? you don't want to hear him teach you about type matchups? you don't wanna let him cheer u on...? 🥺 waa....?

#ask #bakuspeech #I am joking to be clear lmao #thank u happy bday to me !! #tbh I got real used to pokemon overexpositioning since sumo lol. it's kind of a boon for me #cause I'm not a Gamer™ and my brain takes stuff on Very slowly #so the tutorial stuff and the cutscenes give me time to catch up. also it's still fun to see these guys run around #I am in fact here for these guys lol. weird thing to say about the game built on and with an essential focus on the pokemon I know #I just like humans! I just like watching hop running circles around my player character all excited #and leon being a dick to his hometown people when they're expecting 'leon' back and they get the champion instead #and you get to see sonia used to dealing with it but the frustration never fully fades and how close she is to hop and that picture's bleak #listen this is my bread&butter lol. leon really doesn't show up That much himself around the game he's a shadow casted over the story #it's always interesting to me! does Not mean it's not sluggish to other people who want to play the game lmao #but I like it. also the tutorial at least the first time around was necessary to me bc the difficulty scales way up later on lol #it's a very good first pokemon game I maintain this. sumo never managed to teach me the same way swsh did #I still care drampa tho thank u drampa for being real I love u #lmao it feels like saying I'm not a Gamer™ violates some tenets of having adhd somehow. but its just the case here #the main genres I play are 'itch games tangential to the haunted ps1 people' and 'popcap-style casual games' #my sport's figuring out shapes n movin my stylus sadly. well not sadly why would that be sad

[foolishnpd]

am I aplatonic or am I just incredibly narcissistic with the tendency to view the vast majority of people as a waste of time and not up to my level to even consider being friends with

#lilyroaring #actually npd #narcissistic personality disorder #it's not that I don't enjoy having friends #but I'm not unhappy in being alone either. I'm good enough for myself after all #but most people truly don't interest me #I don't have a desire to make friends #I don't feel that need for connection #I'm not incapable of making friends either. I used to be very social and well known around my school #but I just can't help but look down on most people #I think their attempts to befriend me are hilarious #I can play along for a bit but do they really expect it to come to anything? #it's different if someone's got traits I respect or even admire #but most people just don't have that #classmates or coworkers. why am I expected to get close to any of these people #they just bore me too much to be worth the effort of even maintaining status as an acquaintance #how can I expect to feel love for anyone when almost everyone is a boring irritating disappointment

[elftwink]

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

[labyrynth]

ok so your first problem was assuming mdzs is a story where Good People are Rewarded and Bad People are Punished.

your second problem was assuming that MXTX—who goes out of her way to showcase unresolved, tragic, undeserved endings in all of her works—would ever write a story with such a shallow notion of “deserving.”

the only reason wangxian makes it out unscathed is because they’re literally the protagonists. authorial intent and plot armor ensure their happy ending. that’s it.

#mdzs talk #moi #i mean it also helps that neither wwx nor lwj give a rats ass about the rest of the cultivation world #wwx had already fucked off and lwj was basically doing that too #that man has never given a single shit about politics and maintaining good relationships #like what does it say about you if even jiang cheng is a better politician than you. #mister ‘don’t talk to me before i’ve had my coffee. or after. just don’t fucking talk to me.’ #but yeah wangxian is like oh we helped to create a massive power vacuum and destabilized the entire cultivation world? #ahaha no way!🤪 hey actually can this wait? my husband and i wanna go fuck in the bushes 🥰 #like. lwj that’s YOUR brother that just lost his most significant emotional support of the last decade. #wwx that’s YOUR pseudo nephew whose parental figure you just got killed. #that’s YOUR pseudo nephew who now has to become sect leader at like 15. #but nah they wanna go bang on the side of the road #god forbid they try to clean up some of the gigantic mess they helped to make #and nobody try to argue ‘well but jgy!!’ buh buh buh nothing. jgy cleaned up after himself. #neither wwx nor lwj had ANY personal stake in seeing jgy dead. lwj SHOULD have had a personal stake in keeping him alive actually. #i still think it’s super shitty and hypocritical of lwj to defend wwx so strongly and yet try so hard to condemn jgy in PRIVATE #both wwx and lwj really showed their asses at guanyin ngl. obviously huaisang did too. #like yeah it’s noble and righteous or whatever but like. righteousness was not why lwj defended wwx before. #wangxian stans being self-righteous and hypocritical? with classist double standards? with black and white mentality? #wow! who would have ever guessed?