#and so conceited

[salemoleander]

I am BARELY resisting going full red-strings-corkboard on this season. And by barely resisting I mean not resisting at all here is an extremely long list of the events those pins would be marking out.

BigB getting a Task that was a different color than everyone else's. It's not just a randomly assigned Hard Task, bc Scar rerolled for a Hard Task and his was also just a white envelope. It's fundamentally different.

That task taking BigB away from socialization, and seemingly being an incredibly time-consuming and dull request. Of profound disinterest to any watchers.

The phrasing of his Task!!

Dig a big hole. All the way down. At least 3x3. Make it your base if you want.

Everyone else's are direct and formal - the only one with more than one sentence was Skizz's, with the rule clarification of "One attempt only." Bigb's Task is four short abrupt sentences. It is also the only Task to contain extraneous information, 'Make it your base if you want.' The requirements (at least 3x3) feel like an afterthought to mimic the numerical/specific demands of the other tasks.

Evo symbol on the face of the Secret Keeper statue.

The fact that there's a statue at all; the fact that there is a physical representation of what is assigning tasks that everyone must complete, when previously everything was always handled via commands and unseen RNG.

Grian talking to the statue, and (bc of his Actual Role as game organizer) acting as a mediator for the impartial decisions handed down, speaking for it.

Grian making one last bad joke and saying he doesn't know if it counted or not- depends on whether we the audience laughed.

Grian asking for task recommendations from the audience. The watchers are making the tasks. The Watchers are making the tasks.

Again I could be off-base, and I'm not usually even that smitten with bringing in Evo lore. I don't want a Big Bad really...but. It feels like something very unusual and intentional and cool is happening in this series. And I'd guess we'll know if theres something going on once we have more than one data point.

My largely unfounded suspicion is that there is another being (maybe Listeners, maybe something else) trying to reach out to the Players via decoy Tasks, and BigB was the first recipient. Get them alone, make them of disinterest to the watchers, and tell them something we don't get to know.

Because that's the really, really fucking cool part (if my wacky theory is remotely right): We're the bad guys. We're the ones giving out tasks - hell, we're the ones actively brainstorming harder and crueller tasks in Grian's comments!

If they actually made a story where the Players have to keep secrets from us I will be delighted. Bc that is the same genius bullshit that made Evo Watcher lore so fun

#secret life #slsmp #life series #grian #secret life smp #bigb #i think im starting to get the shape of the conceit #this could all be nonsense of course. i may be completely off base and nothing will happen and it's just a normal life series #but it feels like there's something Larger happening here #anyways. will keep thinking and mulling this over and collecting scraps of evidence #secret life spoilers #slsmp spoilers #spoilers #salem meta #salem tag #im so enriched. i love being wrong about stories

[unpretty]

i really do my best with literary fiction but the problem is that they keep sneaking edutainment in there but there's not like, a blacklistable tag for that, that tells me i don't actually want to read this and would be better off reading nonfiction on the covered topics. i'm sure this seems like a specific complaint but it's happened like three times in the last year and i only managed to finish one of them.

like does this book actually have queer representation in a way that will make me feel seen, or will this book have a part where the main character seems to look at the straight person they're expecting to exist beyond the fourth wall in order to teach them about stonewall or whatever. are they going to start 'as you know bob'-ing actual history at me. why does this keep happening. do the writers actually want to do the fiction equivalent of those youtube channels that just read wikipedia articles, or can i blame bad editors to make myself feel better

#original #this probably explains a lot about my 'no middle sliders' stance on books #i guess blackouts SORT of did something like this but in that case it felt really natural and flowed with the core conceit #so i'm not including it in this complaint of mine #if they were all like that i would be fine with it #even though between you and me blackouts was REALLY hard to read on a kindle. read that one in print imho.

[lovegrowsart]

it's pretty wild to me that people don't see that aang running off to save katara in CoD is his luke in empire strikes back moment, where he runs headlong into his want and attachment and he's narratively punished for doing so and not learning his lesson - aang runs after katara despite guru pathik's warning, like luke runs after leia and han from yoda on dagobah despite yoda's warning; similarly, as a result, things go to hell in ba sing se like they do on bespin - aang enters the avatar state before he's ready and gets killed, and ba sing se falls to the fire nation, luke fights vader before he's ready, loses a hand, and symbolically commits suicide after vader tells him he's luke's father.

the difference between their character arcs is that george lucas and co. actually went thru with luke's hero's journey and understood the fundamental difference between attachment and love, whereas I don't think bryke understood this difference and then dropped this from aang's arc pretty much completely and replaced it with aang digging in his heels into his want and attachment and he gets rewarded with energy bending from a lion turtle, the avatar state from a random pointy rock, and his forever girl from the self-indulgent white men that couldn't bring themselves to give their hero a compelling character arc that meant he might not have gotten everything he wanted at the end.

#the wasted potential of aang's arc gets to me so bad #the narrative and thematic set up is entirely there and they just shove it in the bin lmao #it especially irks as someone raised buddhist and dealing with writers that invoke these themes out of a fascination #with the religion and philosophy but then a complete unwillingess to actually commit to what those themes require of the character arcs #anyway sorry to say it #but zuko's arc does a better job embodying buddhist themes than aang's does in the end #despite all misappropriated aesthetics to the contrary #aang critical #but its really the writing like i LIKE aang i love his potential i hate how self indulgently he's written by the end of the show #atla critical #meta* #holly talks bs #also yes it would've been better narratively for aang katara zuko to the go the way of luke leia han #even if katara couldn't have been revealed as aang's surprise secret twin lmao #the thematic conceit of the triangle is the same in that luke and aang get over their infatuation with the first pretty girl he sees #and becomes the hero he needs to be #meanwhile hanleia and zutara are saving each other and being cool and kissing #anyway

[stuckinapril]

Reframing whenever someone decides to leave you out of something or walks out of your life or just all around neglects your presence not as your loss but as theirs…. like that could have been so much more fun w me in it but I wasn’t and that will forever be your loss

#It might sound arrogant conceited etc but I used to deal w a lot of attachment anxiety bc id be like #That person is so cool. They’re so exciting. They know how to liven something up. I’m missing out on their energy #But now I think ab how they’re missing out on mine too and how they’re at the risk of losing me w every half assed action they take #Loss is never just one way if you know you bring value to something. I legit felt that yesterday for the first time in my life #Ruminating and clinging to ppl less has truly come at the behest of knowing I’m someone worth keeping around #And if you decide not to that’s a failing on your end and I don’t have to overcompensate by proving my worth to you

[exlibrismortis]

okay but it is actually insane that Light was like 'I'll pretend to be L' and then proceeds to imitate him almost exactly. like. he's yotsuba-d he doesn't remember why he's so fixated on the mannerisms and speech of this guy he's chained to but he knows that he can copy him down to the way he forms a sentence, to the faux polite knife in the back threats. no wonder L immediately afterwards is like 'okay, Kira'. they know each other, even when Light has forgotten who he was. on an unrelated note everyone go listen to playing his game.

#death note #l death note #light yagami #when you and the bestie both have bloodlust!!!!!!!!!!!! #lawlight #that scene rewired me. I think. #I know its a common conceit but I will never be over the fact these two can only pursue each other so intensely #because they know each other so intimately #all while trying to deny that intimacy at every turn #I am not who you say I am you know nothing about me (you know everything about me you know the rhythm of my breathing) #(and it terrifies and excites me) #also the implications of Light's affrontedness to Near #as the person who stole his role as successor is. #hahahahahahahhahahaahahahh wow

[thecookieshop]

funniest dynamic imaginable everyone else can go home

#he will jump through a thousand mental hoops and gymnastics to explain why marrying her is just the easiest and least annoying way out #like sure dude ok. if you say so. #terusai #saiteru #the disastrous life of saiki k #i havent done fanart in a million years because ALL art time is filled up but. this hyperfixation is hitting me FOR REAL like a truck #so well see #anyway #conceited asshole with bizarre superpowers X conceited asshole with bizarre superpowers superior dynamic thanks byw

[petorahs]

hearts and their consumption 🤍✨🪐

day 5, fantasy | howl's moving castle paro

⬇️ extras + explanation below

i literally needed to explain my casting bc it seems so obvious for howlkechi but i chose akira as howl for personal reasons...(COUGHS sharesthesamepersonalitytypeasbothhowlandjoker COUGHS)

#shuake #goro akechi #akira kurusu #persona 5 #shuakeweek2023 #my art #ren amamiya #sorry for the abysmal casting but this is my truth ☝️ #well #movie howl at least #i feel like book howl is a hot mess and way more conceited #is that goro? idk i havent actually read it yet so #what matters is that i had fun :D hope u guys enjoy #this idea has been rattling in my brain sinch MARCH

[hoofpeet]

I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough

#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month #nofna #okay having finished this now-- #and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance- #the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense #so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though #also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet #easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her #but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring #as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about #/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place #<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris #the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better #but - #(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books) #the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool #assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing- #and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out. #hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about

[earlgodwin]

LUCREZIA BORGIA and JUAN BORGIA + being painted The Roman populace deserves their glimpse of us. Yes, brother.

#THIS IS SO FUNNYYYY #the second the family entered their papacy era... #juan and lucrezia quickly started to commission portraits like the selfie-crazed brats that they are!!! #adorably conceited dorks #pretty babies #juan x lucrezia #juan borgia #lucrezia borgia #the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #tvarchive #cinemapix #tvfilmgifs #periodedits #tvcentric #dailytvfilmgifs #holliday grainger #david oakes #by jen

[salemoleander]

Proposal: Give every player one Isekai Protagonist swap per Life Series.

This is both (evidently) funny as fuck, AND let creators invite friends onto the series without committing to them Officially Joining.

If someone has to be absent a second week they have to either pull a Grian and just be AFK or their substitute is Oli Orionsound. Their choice.

Some ideas for substitutes:

Joe Hills for Scar. Everyone assumes this will make Scar less deadly. It does not.

Zedaph for Joel. The entire server is covered in landmines and Joel has lost half his life by the end of this.

Doc for Jimmy. Likely to die horribly in funny ways and make threats they can't cash about it.

Fwhip for Impulse. If he claims he has a cold & doesn't talk with Skizz, he could get away with pretending to be Impulse for half an ep imo

Mumbo for Grian. Obviously.

Iskall for Etho. He hasn't played in vanilla for months, so a good match for Etho's knowledge of 1.19

Shubble for Scott. I'm imagining she can do a hilariously good imitation of his speech patterns, and an absolutely atrocious imitation of his voice.

False for Pearl. Equal wet cat energy, except even more deadly.

Pix for Ren (assuming he returns as planned next season). Ren's here, and he's GOING to make a narrative happen.

Gem for Bdubs. I want to see her mercilessly kill Etho multiple times, bc actual Bdubs will never let him live it down.

xB for Cleo. I want to see Cleo get 7 bow kills in a row. Also want to see xB's best British accent

#limited life #limited life spoilers #24lsmp #limlife #salem tag #im picturing this and i want it to happen so fucking badly #please grian make the next seasons conceit play into this bc this session RULES

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.

#this post is spoiler-free btw. the narrator is very upfront about the fact that it can't lie and says this very early in the story #i'm only like 40% through my reread and i don't remember any details of what happens but i'm already losing it #and the fact that it's first-person second-person narration...completely undivorceable from the conceit of the book #might write a different post about that but probably only after i finish rereading #i finally got my sister to agree to read it and she's like 'i read the first fifteen pages! i like the style' #and i'm barely restraining myself from being like girl please read another fifty pages and get back to me #if you are not frothing at the mouth by page 100 then your money back. guaranteed. #my sister loves semantics like the linguistic subfield of semantics so i've been begging her to read this for so many years... #like i KNOW she will love it when that stuff starts becoming apparent. which is remarkably early in the book #hrrrrhughghrhrrgh i want to talk about it so bad #the raven tower #ann leckie #my posts #unreliable narrators #or not!!! actually!!! #storytelling #semantics

[lovestereo]

#conceited #sza #2022 #2020s #sos

[tellthatbrokebitch]

mentally i’m still here

#tellthatbrookebitch #stranger things #byler #will byers #mike wheeler #we as a society moved on from this too quickly #is it conceited to do this for one’s own fic #probably but i still punches me in the dick so oh well #it’s wlso kinda corny but like… he’s FIFTEEN let him be a goofball

[everymariemjolnir]

Honestly what makes Stein a good execution of the mentally unwell mad scientist trope is that unlike your Rick Sanchez types who would scoff and debunk a cheerful character's optimistic worldview as cringe and naive he actually enjoys their presence and values that quality in other people

like he's realistic and acts as a voice of reason but doesnt revel in dashing anyone's hopes and dreams (unless it's spirit but that's just what they do to each other, and even then it's mostly taking the piss and not too serious)

#so much of this sciency character trope is them being conceited pricks that shoot down others optimism #its tiresome #soul eater #franken stein #tangentially marie related #not mangacap

[forgotmysword]

Now why did i envision her screaming this out loud herself when i was reading the manga😭

#i was so dissapointed when she didnt in the anime and it was the narrator instead #bc like it is something she would do #my conceited princess<3 #marcille<3 #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #marcille donato

[godsfavoritescientist]

Sometimes the way people talk about missing social cues is so over the top 😭 people will really say stuff like "how can someone live such a soulless joyless existence that they don't understand my joke" and "if you don't laugh at this are you even human" and "I can't imagine being such a miserable asshole that you think this is serious" and "how stupid do you have to be to fall for this 💀" and on and on like. I promise autism isn't a moral failing

#godsrambles #actuallyautistic #i see posts that say things like this almost word for word all the time on here #and on the one hand. i too think its funny when someone doesnt realize theyre being pranked #but sometimes people go from 'lol gottem' to 'lol only a bad person would fall for this'. somehow #and yeah it also happens in relation to pranking people who are genuinely shitty for legitimate reasons #but its like with calling shitty people ugly yknow? theyre not missing social cues Because theyre awful. theyre not ugly Because theyre mean #and yeah sometimes being gullible isnt related to being autistic. can also just be lack of knowledge in various areas #but that doesnt mean it isnt at the very least annoying to see these traits be linked to being a Bad Person lol #probably plays a small part in people being like 'lol ford is so full of himself for trusting bill' like. #how is being gullible and susceptible to manipulation the same as being conceited