#anne answers things

[syrasenturi]

i’m unstoppable

#amphibia #until my vacation is over in a few days then who knows work will probably murder me again #im insane for now enjoy #syrass #1 (one) happy froggy thing #since im losing my mind i might get more into it but for now take the crumbs #if people ask i can try to answer but it's still not fully fleshed out but there's like some stuff #anyway did you know. anne boonchuy #she's great just some guy who went through way too much 💕 #posting this at 3 am probably shouldnt but i cant just wait gn

[samarecharm]

geniunely not trying to put words in ur mouth im geniunely asking: what do you actually like about persona 5? from all ur rants im just wondering why you didnt drop the game bc it seems (again, im not trying to put words in ur mouth) that it simply not for you? i geniunely have not felt any of the issues you bring up outside of the writing ones and i cannot tell if i'm just easily pleased and not good at discerning what a good game is or we simply have dif things we enjoy in a video game. i hate getting tone across text but im asking out of geniune curiosity im not trying to attack your opinion (;-;)

Nah, i dont feel like ur attacking me, and I hope u dont feel the same when u see my complaints! Lmao. In my defense, I am replaying the game for the first time after completing my first file back in 2020, so alot of the faults i kinda shrugged off in my first playthrough are now glaringly in my face now that I no longer have the confusion and interest in learning the main story to keep me occupied. The game is clunky all the way through, and at some times, even frustratingly so.

But despite that, i do like this game. Alot! Its probably one of my top games ever if im being honest!

This ended up way longer than I intended, so im putting it under a readmore to keep the post short on dashboards

If i had to describe what I liked about the game in the simplest way imaginable…I think I would say, I like how the game makes me feel :) I like the music. I like the vibe. I like the immersion from city to city, and I like the premise! I like the characters and I like the connections you make with these characters! As im replaying this game, i am most excited to see Akira and his comments about the world :) i like hearing everyones voices, I like their little interactions in Mementos, and I like seeing them fight!

P5 is the first game I played in the series; its the game that introduced me to SMT in the first place! And it (smt) is a series that my longtime best friend LOVES and never thought hed be able to share with me! It is a game i keep very near to my heart; it has influenced me in ways i did not think would happen in the short couple of years since i first finished it. It genuinely keeps me awake some nights thinking about the world this game has created, and I think that is a testament to the impact its had, be it good or bad.

The joke about wishing theyd make a persona game that was Good is that despite all of its numerous flaws, the games manage to snatch your attention and pull you in anyway. Imagine if they made a game that had all of those things that i mentioned I loved, but done Right and executed Properly?? Where I got to have a story that made sense and didnt need to be spoonfed to me (in like an HOUR of dialogue and scenes; an HOUR!), and characters that talked and bonded beyond the tiny snippets of interaction theyre allowed to have in mementos? Combat that let me use PERSONAS i liked instead of BUILDS that stop me from getting instakilled throughout the entirety of the endgame, and a Persona building mechanic that didnt feel like I was shooting in the dark looking for possible fusions that end up not even being useful in the endgame.

Ive mentioned it before, but I complain so much bc I have seen what a good p5 game looks like, and its Strikers almost to a T. Combat is still your typical warriors-esque style combat, but it is at least different from the turn based strategy of the main game. Characters talk to each other freely, they hang out and comfort each other in a way that feels more connected that the base game. Strikers implements the ability to see ALL possible fusions with ALL registered personas, not just the ones in your Stock, so you can fuse easily without having yo consult a guide. The story feels like it makes SENSE with antagonists that feel morally grey and sympathetic. Genuinely, alot of the complaints for p5 I had were almost immediately rectified in this game.

But please also know that the praises I sing for this game is only bc of the groundwork laid by p5 and the world it created. Thats what I like about this game, that it had such a captivating premise and cast of characters, that a DIFFERENT company was able to hit the ground running with them. P5 had alot happening in that game, but i think what it had most was potential. The effort put into this game is astronomical, and the possible connections you can outright MISS if u arent paying attention was worth the money and time to implement; even if it meant that it could be considered a waste of resources to higher ups.

Books and games and part time jobs???!! Silly little cutscenes that add nothing to the game PLOTwise, but define and flesh out the personality of your protagonist. There was alot of love put into this game, and its evident by the fact that we have NOT seen a new persona game released; they bank on existing titles bc they are unwilling to make a game like this from scratch again. They dont want to ‘waste’ resources on good voice acting and a complex, overarching story; they dont want to waste money on scenes a player may never see, on routes a player may never get to experience. Making a game that gives u even the slightest bit of freedom means more money in programming and detailing that freedom. This has been an issue for a WHILE, and its a miracle that the gaming landscape had space for a colossal title like p5!

I complain bc I want better, and I do not think that is inherently at odds with my love of this game. In b4 im told to get good; ive played on hard and tested out merciless (its NOT fun, im making godbuilds again and its boring 😞). Its not the most accessible turnbased rpg; theres no colorblind modes, and the affinity system is convoluted and overwhelming. Combo moves are hard to keep track of and it can be incredibly frustrating to see your turns being skipped or seeing characters take extreme technical damage without understanding WHY it happened. The fact that they KNEW the game was desperate for qol improvements by the time royal came out, and instead of updating the base game to have those improvements too, they just pushed the royal edition out for people to play instead. It sucks! Customers and fans deserve better than being forced to shell out money for a game they already played !

As the gaming climate gets more and more hostile and unbearable, I think it is good to look at your games critically, and understand why products come out subpar. Persona 5 is a fun game that has a nice cast and an interesting premise, but it is ultimately tied down by its refusal to build on existing building blocks regarding its combat, and it insists on having insulting and downright out of character dialogue and scenes to appease the audience its designed to be targeted to. It is easy to forget sometimes that queer ppl are infact NOT the prime target of these games, its cishet gamer bros from aged 16 to 40 who will laugh at homophobic comments, who drool over a 16 yr old girl with a 16 yr old mindset and a grown womans body, who need to be placated with constant sexual comments to deal with a convoluted story that will inevitably make zero sense until its laid out for you before the literal end of the game.

Its bad. Its good. Its so shallow and its unbelievable that they thought having the plot twist make ZERO sense until they showed CUTSCENES of YOUR character discussing Goro and his connections to the metaverse for endgame SHOCK VALUE was more important than just having your team be smart and piece it together over time. Its shit. Its literally amazing. It let you FUCK your teacher ??????????????what the FUCK. They also let me shoot a god in the face w the best looking ult persona in the world so i can ignore that shit. And ultimately that is how i got through the game. Lol.

#chattin #answered #i have mentioned it before but i did NOT romance anyone #u know why? bc i literally didnt know it existed #i maxed out ann and the game was like ‘hey. this next decision is important’ #and i was like. huh. u know what. i have not looked up a guide until now. thats scary. i dont want to lose a confidant… #and learned that. #so uh. i really DID go through the game bot realizing i could date anyone. even the adults. #anyway. this was alot. and i tried to keep out alot of my other complaints #bc i have so many. but they are like. either nitpicky things or things that are issues in lots of games too #like the models suck in this game but i can look past that. graphics are always bottom on the list of complaints #and i do like the little animations!! i like akiras little tics #and i like seeing personas do their casting animations; shiki ouji and nekomata are my faves #i distinctly remember that being a thing i wished to see more of. #bc i liked thinking of what joker would look like fighting for Real #and then i remembered him being in smash so i was like COOL. ill look at those #and then i got STRIKERS and it was exactly what I wanted #i think #the game is like. #its bad. but in ways that i wouldnt call another game bad #like back 4 blood is BAD bad. its awful. the gameplay is bad. the story was shit. and the servers shut down within a year or two of launch #risk of rain 2 is bad in the way that it continuously obscures and withholds information to the player. its tedious and frustrating #but unlike b4b i LIKE ror2 and will continue to enjoy it. #bc the gameplay loop FEELS satisfying #and ultimately thats how i feel about p5 #for all of its faults; its fun. it has a gameplay loop that is consistent and fun when u get the hang of it #im playing on hard again since merciless is just me making the right instakill builds while i pick up my team over and over again #and theres still a challenge in having the endgame weapons and armor #its satisfying! and i think its satisfying bc I was given the luck of having this be my introduction into the series #maybe i would have a better opinion on the game if i came from p4. or maybe not! who knows !

[princessanneftw]

“Well you know what you’re getting because he’s been practicing for a bit.”

Princess Anne speaks about the question of the Monarchy’s relevance, and what kind of king she thinks her brother King Charles III will be, in an interview with CBC News.

#lol that’s such a sibling answer #she does make a good point about the monarchy too tbf #I can’t wait to watch the full thing #princess anne #princess royal #british royal family #brf #king charles iii #kciii coronation

[teecupangel]

Hello! New ish follower here with a curious ‘what if question’: what if Edward was training Jenny to be an assassin?

So you think she’d fully commit to becoming one after his death/ her abduction? (I’d love her to meet Anne again ahh 😭)

Hello! Welcome! Sorry for the delay (said in the tone of an old woman who suddenly has visitors) :)

First of all, let’s talk about why Edward wouldn’t want Jenny to become an Assassin and wanted her to get married to someone he considered ‘financially stable’.

Edward isn’t the type of person to be swayed by what was considered to be the norm during his time so I like to believe there’s a deeper reasoning to why he was so adamant of stopping Jenny.

The whole “I want my children to be safe” can’t really be the reason because he was training Haytham to be an Assassin when he was young.

Because of this, my headcanon is that Edward fears Jenny’s death and that’s what stopping him from understanding just how deeply Jenny wishes to be an Assassin.

Although he tries to not favor any of his children, Jenny reminds him of his failures as a husband and a father. The dress Jenny wears in the epilogue of Black Flag is very similar to her late mother’s dress so there’s a possibility that she inherited her mother’s taste of dresses (or maybe she actually picks dresses that reminds her of her late mother).

This only serves to remind Edward of Caroline and the growing fear of losing Jenny as well to a similar sickness that could have been cured had it been treated.

Had Caroline had the money needed for the treatment.

And then…

She started showing interest in being an Assassin.

He sees the growing anger in her eyes as she sees him training Haytham instead of her when Haytham doesn’t even know what all of this training was for.

He sees her and he sees someone he lost in her as well.

He sees an Assassin he cared for and lost.

He sees Mary Read.

The more he tries to push her away from her desires to be an Assassin, the more he tries to keep her safe, the angrier she becomes.

The more she becomes jealous of Haytham.

And so…

We need a change.

Something that would snap Edward from his haze of grief and guilt.

Someone who can tell him how he’s seeing his daughter but not seeing her at the same time.

And that person?

Is Anne Bonny.

For this to work, we need Anne to remain with the Brotherhood and it is hinted on that she became an Assassin in Assassin’s Creed Memories’ card of her having her brandish a Hidden Blade (I kinda hc that it’s Mary’s Hidden Blade) so we can have Anne paying a visit to an old friend of hers, just a simple social call. Tessa is suspicious though since she’s a beautiful woman that, as far as she knows, is unattached.

She has a husband though and her own children are training to be Assassins.

That’s why she can see the anger and jealousy in Jenny’s eyes.

And she can also see the guilt and grief in Edward’s eyes.

So she mediates for the both of them.

It takes a while for her to get the two stubborn Kenway and Scott to meet at the middle.

But in reality, it’s more of Jenny getting more of the upper hand because, not only did she get what she wanted (to be trained as an Assassin) but also a bonus (her father stops trying to get her engaged).

Anne left soon after, knowing her inclusion to the start of Jenny’s training would simply lessen Edward’s authority and recruits need to fully trust their instructor.

But she did promise to visit more often to keep an eye on Edward.

Why Edward?

Because she has to make sure Edward doesn’t slip back to those dark thoughts again (she says this playfully but she’s actually quite worried).

That following morning…

Haytham is surprised to see his older sister joining them.

But she just glared at him so he kept quiet.

And so…

Edward starts training Haytham and Jenny together.

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Unorganized Notes:

Haytham started learning swordfighting at 6 so that’s around 1713 with Jenny being 18.

Jenny’s inclusion makes Haythan’s training more… thorough. While he does need to focus on increasing his stamina, he tends to try out the freerunning techniques that Jenny is taught while he’s doing his own training because they look ‘fun’ and also he’s a bit peeved that Jenny gets to be taught those while he’s been ordered to just… run.

There’s a bit of rivalry going on here. Haytham is more of a prodigy and some of it can be attributed to Tessa’s genes as he does need to be ‘better’ than most to pass on the Auditore-Kenway genes to Ratonhnhaké:ton (and to Desmond). Because of this, Jenny works harder than the two of them to simply catch up, not realizing that catching up to Haytham means being better than most recruits her age.

Jenny gets the title of the ‘Wild Kenway Girl’ because of this though but she just ignores this. This worries Tessa, mainly because she’s worried no one would marry Jenny and that is a bleak future for a woman as far as Tessa can see. Jenny just shrugs it off and jokes that Haytham would take care of his undesirable sister when she’s old and wrinkly. Haytham takes this seriously much to his parents’ amusement and Jenny’s groaning.

By the time Birch makes his move, Jenny would have already been inducted as an Assassin (22), perhaps a novice or a rank higher.

Since you specify Edward’s death, that means that we’re not saving Edward in this one XD

So we’re left with two main ideas after Edward’s death:

(1) Jenny is captured and, by the time she escaped (with Anne and her children’s help), Haytham had been taken by Birch and has been inducted to the Templar Order, leading us to the Kenway-Scott Abel and Cain setup. In this one, Jenny would be hunting down Haytham and no one is sure if she’s hunting him to try and reason with him or to kill her because he’s a ‘stain’ in the Kenway name. In this one, Jenny would end up being Ratonhnhaké:ton’s secondary mentor who doesn’t always agree with Achilles.

(2) Jenny is able to fend off her attackers and protect Haytham but fails in protecting their father. In this one, Jenny stays with the Kenways and takes over the household after Tessa has a breakdown (calling her and Haytham monsters). Birch is gone in the wind because he knows the Assassins know he’s a Templar and Jenny takes over training Haytham as well. In this one, Haytham becomes an Assassin who has a vendetta over Templars and hunting down Birch (who would now be the one to go to the colonies which will lead to Haytham and Kaniehtí:io meeting because… no matter how much is changed from what is meant to be… the Calculations will always find a way to ensure the birth of Desmond Miles will come to pass)

#sidebar i don’t think we have actual confirmation that she actually met anne bonny? #anne stayed in the mansion while edward meets with her in the docks #but i can totally see her staying in great inagua for a few days while the both resupplies #during that time she could have met anne #that would be the logical thing to do lol #assassin's creed #teecup writes/has a plot #fic idea: assassin's creed #ask and answer #edward kenway #jennifer scott #haytham kenway #anne bonny

[sebastianswallows]

I think just about all of the Sebastian/MC fics I've read hand-waved a cure for Anne to some degree or another, so how do you think Sebastian would react if Anne's curse did actually kill her? Would it make a difference if it happened soon after the events of the game or like a decade later? And how would Ominis take it?

I think, judging by what we know about Seb, he would be devastated (he's pretty emotional as it is, and very attached to his sister), but he wouldn't lose himself over it (he's pragmatic when he needs to be, and a survivor). So it would likely plunge him into a good 6 months to a year of depression, from which he would emerge gradually, but he'd never really get over the loss of her. He would probably have a lot of mementos saved, but might avoid them to not become an emotional wreck again. He'd also keep her belongings and their house just as it was. If it happened shortly after the events of the game, he'd likely fail in his studies and wouldn't care about performing well in his exams, if at all.

It would also cement his hatred of goblins and anything associated with Rookwood (even if he found out goblins didn't curse her, they were involved with the whole thing and aided Rookwood, so he'd hold them all responsible).

There's also the cultural aspect to consider, as the Victorians were obsessive about death and it was a highly ritualised event for them. They had mourning manuals on the proper way of mourning, the duration, how to behave during each phase of mourning, etc.

As for Ominis, I think in a way he'd take it even harder than Sebastian, because although he loved Anne too, he had less time with her, so he'd be full of his own regrets, but in a different way. He'd probably also regret not getting involved more with finding a cure for her (a lot of 'what ifs' going through his head), which might make him a bit cynical and flirt with the idea of giving the dark arts a second chance, before reminding himself that it's the dark arts that killed her, and he'd ping-pong between those thoughts for a time. He'd be less demonstrative about it than Sebastian though, because he would socially have less of a right to (no matter how he felt about her privately).

I also get the feeling her death would sort of spoil their friendship for a while, because being around each other would remind them of Anne not being there. But after a while, they would depend more on their friendship than ever before.

If her death came 10 years after, it depends on how Seb would've grown up during that time. If he spent his life dedicated to caring for her, it would be the crushing realisation of inevitability. He'd be drained, hopeless, and feel like he'd have to pick up his life from scratch.

If, however, Anne had kept her distance all that while, he'd probably despair even more for all the time together that they didn't have (and he wouldn't be sure whether to blame Solomon, or himself, or Anne for that). Also, as Anne would've been in contact with Ominis all this while, Ominis would've had time to emotionally prepare for it, and Seb would be filled with jealousy and resentment and a feeling of unfairness. I think that would be the worst scenario of the lot, honestly.

Oh my, thank you for this depressing ask, anon 😂 It isn't something I expected to have so many ideas about, but it gave me a lot to think about! 💚

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[annelostshoe]

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[fideidefenswhore]

Who is your most hated Seymour? For me, it's John, Thomas, Edward and Jane.

roflmao, tbf, i know intellectually that there's not enough there there to justify hating john seymour, but he does give me bad vibes...whatever happened with catherine fillol was weird and i do get the sense he was involved even if not in the rumored way. and also, when siblings hate each other to such an extent, it's often bcus they were pit against each other by their parents, so i get the sense he was not a good father (there's some debate on whether he died late 1536 or 1535, tbf, but if it was the former it's strange that none of children seemed to mourn his death, that he wasn't mourned at court as the queen's father, etc) . margery doesn't have enough about her known for me to judge; it's sort of weird to me that this stereotype has fallen she and jane had a bad relationship and her favorite child/daughter was elizabeth (this occurs in like...several...novels). we don't have an equivalent positive remark to 'next to mine own mother, no woman alive i know better' (AB, about her own, and to bridget wingfield), nor any records of them often being in each other's company during significant events or eras, but we don't have anything negative either. i get you have to make choices in fiction and 'neutral' is not an interesting one but like...damn.

what's interesting about edward and thomas is that, even before their sister becomes queen, edward is not spoken of well by his contemporaries. very early (iirc, 1535) on, his 'small conscience' is decried, and he becomes such an avaricious figure that cromwell and the king have to interfere in his attempts to manipulate and loophole property laws to his own advantage and the impoverishment of others (and, not usually in his favor, despite him being a royal in-law). thomas, however, seems like he's better liked in the 1530s, although this can maybe be attributed to him being more of a nonentity (a comparative example is some tudor authors insisting GB was 'better liked' than his sister anne-- not true, it seems-- or more often, that their sister mary was...which is probably true, but also probably more indicative of relative lack of power and positions and leverage than 'kinder' personality)...it's not until the 1540s that we get comments of the same genre ("somewhat empty of manner"). thomas thus seems more like a figure of gradual corruption, his arrogance was increased was by his nephew becoming king, it seems, and resentment brought out an ugly side of his character (arguably, the same with edward, just earlier on).

it's extremely unpopular to say this on here, but yeah, jane is definitely not a favourite of mine, either. but i don't think my reasons for this are really common...i don't care if she slept with henry before marriage, i don't care if she didn't, i just find her biographers weirdly contradictory in their judgements of her character, the nature of her rise, and her own beliefs. there's also like, this sense of historic illiteracy from some of her defenders...joining a royal household (as far as the most prestigious positions, that is) was not the equivalent of serfdom (as in, they could leave at any time). jane's supporters were courtiers who hated anne, so it's reasonable to assume she did, as well. so, there's this sort of moral hypocrisy about jane as a figure and her advancement and how she came to her position that has always prevented me from warming to her as a figure. 'she hated anne and all she stood for' explains her involvement in her downfall, but not her securing the position in her household in the first place. and by virtue of her close proximity to anne as queen, she also knew that it was nigh impossible that she was actually guilty of the accusations of adultery.

what else...her defenders insist that the oaths of supremacy and succession were anathema to her moral compass, yet she likely did have to have had taken them herself, just as a subject, and if not that then definitely as a member of anne's household. this wouldn't have martyred/imperiled her life, althought it probably would have her career (elizabeth darrell never took these, so i wonder if the penalty for women was different...? barton is often cited as an example but this was not in her indictment. princess mary seems to almost have been a victim of this, but it might've been more that her signing was more important since she was a rallying point for dissenters).

and even if jane never took these, the presence of noblewomen serving anne as queen lent to her greater image of royal legitimacy. she had to have known that, and if she didn't believe her position was legitimate...then why be part of that tapestry? there's not an equivalent to her predecessor to be made here, not when anne left her own predecessor's household and began her own as soon as she came to believe catherine was not legitimately queen or henry's wife. any credulousness towards contemporary report of this time would suggest anne was extremely hostile towards her rival, but there is a difference between declaring that you'd sooner watch your rival hanged before revering them and, well...actually doing that (...essentially, if not literally).

actually, i don't think there's actually much to suggest jane was set against the religious supremacy unless you make some suppositional leaps (the dissolution wasn't so explicitly connected here, her support of mary as princess, even if rather cosmetic, could be seen as support for her decision not to take those oaths herself for nigh on two years...). nor against succession acts as brought by parliament, since the same illegitimized any potential rivals to her future children, and she seemed to make a point in one of her only pieces of writing we have in emphasizing edward's legitimacy (implicitly, at the expense of her stepdaughters).

the narrative fiction i probably dislike about jane the most is this idea that she was so reverent of catherine's memory, it's really fucking weird, honestly... it bothers me because i know it's embellished to increase reader/viewer (the tudors comes to mind) sympathy and somehow for me it does the opposite, lol. there's something about the concept of her trading on the memory of this beloved woman (who, herself, probably didn't even remember jane, there's nothing to suggest any kind of friendship between them) who was exiled, this woman whom jane did not a single thing for (not even abstaining from joining the household of her rival), that just really grosses me out. henry was the one who was her husband, and obviously he was a fucking asshole to and about her, but there's at least something more...direct, in his attempted erasure of her memory. it's always bothered me that it's never acknowledged that the antecedent (which was carried on throughout) to jane's queenship was the erasure of both her predecessors, the illegitimization of both their daughters, both of them being subordinated, and, more or less (mary present for christmas, elizabeth not, but both there during the rebellions) equally expelled from court.

#purplefictionlover #tl; dr that got way longer than i expected . lol #but yeah honestly jane would be a more appealing figure to me were this not the case #if she were sort of neutral about coa. idt i have hated a fictional character as much as i hated weir's iteration of her lmao #sobbing in her bed for 24 hours straight the day of anne's coronation... #sobbing in her bed for 24 hours straight the day of coa's death.... #i felt oh so kh in the tudors #'it's not aBOUT YOUUUUUU ' #bcus the thing is that if she was... how did she justify. any of that? #did she just hate herself? the answer alison weir gives us is yes and that was exhausting to read #she is very very self-loathing in not having been able to do anything for catherine and she hates her family for 'making' her join anne's #household and i fell asleep and snored so deeply it registered on the richter scale #the belief from this genre of tudor authors seems to be women are just disgusting if they had any sort of agency #(weir really reduces anne's agency as well...at least early on #and they're both very very dull as a result)

[commsroom]

As our resident Eiffel expert, what do you think his childhood was like? As in, do you think there might be some trauma there? (Probably nothing “major”— nothing he’d think of as trauma— but I feel like it probably wasn’t entirely healthy either. Or maybe that’s just projection due to knowing someone veeery similar to Eiffel)

oh! i wrote about some of that in this post.

that line from his backstory doc - "eiffel was extremely hesitant at first, but desperate to become independent from his family and strapped for cash, he finally relented." - and what gabriel urbina said about eiffel being an unsupervised "tv is my parent" kid really defines / reinforces my perception of his childhood. like, mostly i think eiffel's parents just... weren't around. i think he was an only child, and hasn't been in contact with his family for, like, his whole adult life. he's resentful about people always forgetting his birthday in a way that makes sense if he's been holding onto that hurt since childhood. he's so used to being alone - not even being present in his own life - and he's internalized the feeling that he doesn't matter much to anyone. i think it was @books-space-things who said something to me, like, eiffel is so used to being alone, he doesn't realize how lonely he is.

most of his relevant backstory stuff with canon basis is covered in that linked post, so, on the headcanon side of things... he's got that undiagnosed / unmedicated adhd; i'm sure as a kid he was constantly getting the message, like, "i know you can do this, why don't you try harder?" and he didn't know why it was hard for him, so he thought he must just be lazy. i think he really wanted a dog, and either 1) really got his hopes up, but never got one, or 2) had a dog, but came home from school one day to find out his parents gave it away. if his parents were still together, they probably shouldn't have been. needless to say, i don't think he had a happy childhood, but i don't know if he fully recognizes the ways it was unhappy, because more than anything it was just kind of... empty? because his parents' lack of attention meant he got to like, stay up and watch movies all night on a school night, and eat junk food, and go wherever he wanted by himself, whenever he wanted... when he's talking about his childhood, sometimes he mistakes that for freedom. and that kinda ties into his pop culture escapism. but, like, he's probably got a core childhood memory of waiting for one of his parents to take him to / pick him up from something they completely forgot about. pretty much his whole life, i think eiffel's been training himself to expect disappointment.

#wolf 359 #w359 #doug eiffel #asks #basically. yeah i agree. i don't think he had a good childhood but i think it was mostly defined by absence. #and that's probably one of the reasons he got into such a toxic relationship as an adult. he's starved for emotional intensity #like no matter how much he tries not to care. he really really cares. eiffel is a guy with a Lot of feelings and not a lot of good outlets. #... and however it turned out. he really did want to be there for anne. he wanted to be a better parent for her. #i also think he entered the workforce young and constantly went through that cycle of like #working is the only way to pay for things i want. nevermind nothing is worth doing this job for even one more day. i'm out #that continued into adulthood but with more serious consequences. #anyway. thank you for asking. he makes me so sad. #sorry i haven't been posting much outside of answering asks lately. but. it's my birthday today. can you guys send me things about eiffel.

[thediamondarcher]

TALK ABOUT THE TUDOR DYNASTY (we're here to listen to your hyperfixations)

thanks whoever you are!!

I'm going to talk a little bit about Anne Of Cleves since she's my favorite queen and i adore her.

She married Henry VIII and it was a political marriage (since he was the king of England and she was a princess of Germany), although Henry had seen Anne's portrait and immediately found her very attractive. She saw his portrait too but when they met in person she didn't recognize him, he was obese and looked nothing like he did in his portraits. So when she didn't recognize him, he felt completely embarrassed and so he started saying that Anne was disappointing in matters of attractiveness because his ego got hurt by her not recognizing him. Anne Of Cleves is described by many as an honorable person and a very attractive woman (which i hardly agree with). She even had a great relationship with Mary I and Elizabeth I (Henry's daughters). They were married for 6 months, she never married again and also never left England. She outlived Henry and every other wife he had

#anne of cleves #she will always be my favorite #henry viii #tudor queens #tudor dynasty #tudor history #thediamondarcher #answering asks #clarifying again that I'm new in this topic so maybe some things are wrong but have compassion lol

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

for the book asks, 2, 6, and 15 please! Hope you get better soon!!

hi, friend!! thanks for asking! referencing this post.

2. Did any book inspire you to seek out further media, such as the movie/show/fanfiction? How did you feel about that take?

so MOST of what i read this year doesn't have a movie/show affiliated, is what a quick scroll through my goodreads says, and i don't read much fanfic (i prefer reading not on a screen). i did, however, scroll through the SYSTEM COLLAPSE tag for murderbot purposes for like 72 business hours after finishing it! much giggling and cackling and shrieking ensued, so. good takes and good enrichment all around, there. your honor i love them all

i'm tentatively interested in the ANNIHILATION movie (especially because i know vandermeer borderline hate-watches it himself, and i'm SO intrigued haha), and maybe in ROADSIDE PICNIC adjacent things, but i'm very bad at committing to watching anything so i have not done either of these yet.

6. Any new favorite authors?

a bunch of my high star ratings this year are authors i've read before (see: martha wells, alix harrow, jeff vandermeer, etc), which makes this one harder than i thought it'd be.

new to me, i have really enjoyed t. kingfisher, and i'm keeping an eye out for more by naomi salman and dolki min and malcolm devlin! salman and min both only have one book-length work out a piece, so i might be Eye Keeping for a while (which is fine! i can wait--they're both definitely worth it).

15. A book you never thought you'd be into but were proven wrong.

okay so please don't judge me for judging books by their covers but: i don't tend to pick up SFF books with ~militaristic~ or ~militaristically drab*~ covers, because that's not really my jam (and also i really like colorful things).

that being said: i was pleasantly surprised by how much i enjoyed IMPERIAL RADCH by ann leckie (which came highly recommended by several trusted friends)--it started kind of rocky, but it definitely grew on me and i'm obsessed with breq now AND THE TRANSLATORS, I LOVE THE TRANSLATORS, i'm so excited for TRANSLATION STATE to come out in paperback in may (it's already VERY pre-ordered haha).

*(i would like the record to show the other series i had this problem with recently was, in fact, murderbot, and we all know how that turned out.)(delightfully.)

thanks again for asking!!

#text #answered #book asks #ask games #end of year #murderbot #system collapse #imperial radch #ann leckie #martha wells #dolki min #naomi salman #malcolm devlin #also thank u for your well wishes i appreciate it!! #i am fortunately at the 'it feels like a head cold and not death' level of plague lmao #i wish i could smell things but it could be very much worse... #six-of-ravens

[msboutofcontext]

#magic school bus #out of context #ms frizzle #keesha #da #dorothy ann #wanda #ralphie #arnold #nasa #they finally answered #never mind #nm #i took care of it #i did the bad thing #outer space #asteroid #comet #Out of This World

[violaplayer1414]

My home town in Italy?

YES!

Ooo then, we can go visit my aunt and uncle in Greece

#lisa ann walter #abbott elementary #mentally unstable #law #chessy #lana del rey #middle aged women #time answers #grace responds #honeymoon #wifey things #besties

[licncourt]

I never understood why people got so mad about Louis living with Lestat in his chateau(?) People act like Lestat is some kind of tyrant, but really he's just a guy who 90% of the time throws silly theme parties and the other 10% is stopping vampires from killing each other. There is no indication that Louis is being held against his will, but for the first time Lestat doesn't demand anything of him and Louis can spend his time however he wants.

I know what you mean for sure. I guess I do get the concern given the givens (90s canon), but one thing that's consistent through the books is that Lestat is not the boss of Louis and I don't ever think there's a point, even at their worst, where Louis was in any danger from him. Of all people, Louis is probably the most fine.

And I agree with what you said too, despite the whole monarchy thing, Lestat has really never been less controlling in his personal life. Maybe he's wielding unethical political power, but that does not seem to cross over into his relationships in any significant way. Thank God.

#thanking anne for one thing and one thing only #answered #vc

[arkhammaid]

i wanted to post two fics this weekend (and finish them today) but life hits hard, so yeah. fics will come out when i finish them, i don't know if i have any time this weekend

#anne talks: about important things #sorry abt that i was really excited to post the first ollie x little stark au #family drama tho <<< #will also answer all asks and comments (for tags) as soon as i can... which will take some time #sorry again ://

[emzular]

Billy has been confirmed to be racist, it's racist to pretend he's not

theres only so many times the fandom can answer this - if you’re poc and/or if you see him as racist then that’s fine that’s how you see it and i won’t argue that.

but if you instead can look at him holistically as a character and understand that as an abuse victim he’s acting in the only way he knows how in order to keep himself safe (aka telling max not to hang out with a black kid cos his dad will beat him up) then that’s also fine.

no one is sitting here celebrating a racist billy. every billy fan has analysed his interactions and come to terms with the fact that he’s being abused and it’s manifesting in anger and in some situations it comes out as racist because he is acting in the only way he knows to convince max to listen to him. he’s terrified of his dad beating him up. he’ll do whatever he can to avoid another hit.

and this, this false mirroring in order to survive, is very common in childhood abuse victims.

but anyway, dacre said he didn’t play billy as racist. so if the duffers wrote him as a racist, that wasn’t what we saw on screen because he didn’t play it that way. and yes caleb said billy was a racist but caleb didn’t play billy - caleb is allowed to feel that billy is racist of course, and i won’t argue that, but that wasn’t dacre or billy’s intention. caleb and anyone can have that opinion of billy and i won’t argue it, but there is more to billy than that.

did he act in a way that could be perceived as racist? yes. but is he a racist at heart? in my opinion, no. and that’s why it’s okay to enjoy him as a character because no one who likes billy is celebrating him as a racist nor do we perceive him like that. he’s a messed up abused kid acting in a way that comes across as racist and antagonistic in order to survive.

call me racist all you want but all i am doing is empathising with a character who’s trying to survive in a hostile home environment.

#billy hargrove #harringrove #stranger things #my boy #i’m tired #ann answers

[annelostshoe]

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#Anne answered asks #anne's things #artists on tumblr #Anne’s art abc:3