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the-real-page-turner · 8 days

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Introduction - Sisters (Chapter 0)

I love trains.

I don’t know every detail about them, but I know quite a bit. The coaches we were in were blue with a white lining. We were hauled by a small 0-4-4 locomotive. The coaches had an open interior; however, they were empty apart from me and my traveling companion.

Lila Blossom was my metaphorical sister. We are nothing alike physically. I have a dull gray coat, while she has a shining white coat, which is noticeably better taken care of than mine. I have messy, monotone purple hair, while she has two-toned pink waves in long, neat hair. I was taller and fatter, while she was almost unhealthily thin and short.

She looked up from her romance novel with her ever-so-funny resting bitch face and asked, “Why are you studying me?” She asked in a neutral, non-judgmental tone. I zoned back into the world of the living and adjusted my glasses with my wing. Yet another difference in us as she held her book in her unicorn magic. “I was trying to describe us as if this were on the first page of a book,” I said, leaning back into my seat. “I failed.”

I let a long, dramatic sigh escape my lips as I flopped my head onto the table between us.

She gently patted the top of my head with a hoof. “How did you fail the description? We aren't doing anything special.”

Her voice remained flat and level. Most found her tone and demeanor intimidating, including me for a time. However, after years of friendship, I learned Lila’s patterns and found her tone endearing, and when it drops to wild and free spirited in private, it is also quite a treat.

“My description felt overly wordy, but I can’t find a way to make it less wordy,” I said defeatedly. “Wording is very hard, one of the reasons F.T.O.L. hasn't had any new chapters.”

Thinking about my own book, as much as I love my creation, my stomach churns. Fresh Take on Life is my own adventure novel, about a prim and proper pegasus who just can't do things right.

I now sat up and looked at Lila. “Let’s hope a new home will help my creative process as well as your aspiration for mammalian medicine," I said, grinning at my own large vocabulary.

Lila let out a stressed sigh. “I am just hoping the program is good; the move has been expensive for mother and father. They could only afford to send me, so I don't even have them for support.”

I felt sorry for my friend; she’s had aspirations for veterinarian work for years but has recently lost her passion for such work. She said it was just a lack of viable methods of practice. Luckily for her, I found an advertisement for “Ponyville Animal Sanctuary.” With her having an actual means to her end and the funding of her parents, I offered to move with her, and now we are here, on a train to our new lives.

I had wanted to leave Manehattan for a few months now, and I am just glad I had someone to come with me.

Back to the matter at hoof: “I know you can do it, Lila; you are a tough bitch.” I stood up in the aisle of the carriage for dramatic effect and said, “You and I have conquered many things in the past. Trails, tribulations, temptations, and trickeries—we conquered them all.”

My antics earned a small smile from Lila as she looked thankful that the carriage was empty.

“Cast forth from the shackles of our home; we shall prosper in our new lives!” I was now yelling in a deep, dramatic masculine voice. I was using being trans for dramatic effect;this is one of the few times I don't get voice dysphoria. I tried to jump onto a table to continue my ramblings, but something caught my purple Starry Night-themed dress, and I ended up hitting the side of the table and tasting the dirty carpet on the coach floor.

Lila started laughing at me while picking me up with her magic. “Page, I don't want to take you to the hospital already.”

As she set me down, that name made me grin. Page Turner, It was new and flashy, a name I chose to go alongside my new pronouns. Lila has been with me through my gender transition from the start, and I owe her a lot of my gender euphoria. As well as most of my gender envy. The night sky-themed dress that I wear was picked out by her during a trip to Canterlot.

“I am too amazing to be hospitalized, so I'll concede,” I said with more mock egotism. “Don’t do that; you're already conceded enough,” Lila said, returning to her novel.

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The ride continued in silence for a while longer. I was losing myself in thought when Lila spoke up, “Page, are you doing alright?”

The question caught me off guard: “What do you mean?” I asked back, and I have been fine. I am usually fine.

"Page, you were so quick to leave home; are you still?” She paused and rerouted her sentence. “Are you thinking this through?”

That's an odd thing to ask someone, “Really showing your faith in me now; of course I thought about this.” I had thought about it; I just needed a day to decide to move away. I just think fast.

“I am not doubting you; I just want to make sure you are for sure. I love you.” She said, looking at me with what I assume to be concern or pity in her eyes.

“I love you, too. Sorry for getting defensive,” I said, looking at the rolling midlands of Equestria.

To outsiders, the three words ‘I love you’ may seem odd, but it's a platonic saying between us. The words have been so romanticized that we sometimes forget platonic love, so we say them to remind ourselves that we are not alone.

“The train should be reaching Ponyville soon; are you nervous?” I asked, looking back at Lila, who was putting her book away.

“Very much so; I have to meet Fluttershy by noon, half an hour after arrival.” Lila’s voice cracked slightly from its normal monotone to a more worried sound. Her face mirrored her voice.

“I’ll go with you! Hype you up, or just be emotional support. After that, we go celebrate at a bakery or something of the sort,” I said to Lila, feeling the train slow beneath me.

Looking out the window, I could see the thatched roofs of Ponvillle, along with many more odd buildings. The crystal castle stands out as the most out of place.

We stood as the train stopped at the station and the guard walked through, collecting our tickets.

I looked at my sister, one of spirit and not blood, and said with a grin, “Ready for a new normal?”

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rametarin · 2 months

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"You are not immune to propaganda," is itself, a form of propaganda.

Like many things from that specific corner of philosophy, it uses benign words in a very malicious way, and it comes not from a literal place, but an ideological one.

Like lego blocks that attach to it to give context to the words, it's said by the sort of people that very vehemently believe that any thought you have in your head only exists because someone else with more creative power or charisma put it there, like writing their name on a monolith. That you, you plebian shit, you rube, you little person, you NPC, are incapable of showing some backbone or differentiating between reality and fiction unless the culture around you dictates to you what is real or not.

They believe sexuality is not rooted in biology, but in culture, and that heteronormativity is a culture or tradition, not just the biological reality of how humans behave unless they're specifically the ones that do not function that way.

They have a very nurture view of how what you think and feel is formed and where it comes from, and congruent with those beliefs, believe they can make you think and feel and act in ways contrary to that if they can just surround you with enough messages that inundate you with their opinions and thoughts. It's just a matter of what values are "right."

When they say, "You are not immune to propaganda," they're not saying, "be wary of untrue things, because people with really shitty views and values would love for you to believe falsehoods to be true and act on them." They're saying, "Messages that are contrary to the ones we want you to think, are capable of turning you into a monster, just by the fact they exist, you're exposed to them, and there's nothing forcefully interpreting reality for you to tell you the proper way to think."

That's why they carefully chose to title "Critical Theory", the phenomenon of applying Marxist nonsense and polyloguery, as Critical Thinking. So you can't use the terms critical thinking and thinking critically without some smug assed jerk going, "Thank you for agreeing with me. :^) We should think critically and apply critical lenses."

And that's the beauty about constructing their statements by using seemingly benign strings of words, even true things. Because, if you use the literal definition of all those words, it's true. No one is entirely immune to propaganda, because no one can know and verify everything is true, especially things that which are subjective, or so far removed from what is identifiable by the layman that not even the most devoted team of scientists and most sensitive of instruments have conclusive, objectively derived proof for statements of true and false. Because they take statements like, "You are not immune to propaganda," and recontextualize them. Then treat their special context as if it's the one that is synonymous, true and as real as the literary definition they're talking about.

When called out on it, they hide behind the literary definition like a shield, while attacking with the recontextualization like a speartip, making it simultaneously whichever is most convenient, enjoying the benefits of both while not being the literary definition.

And that is why when people dismiss the hard left as incapable of memeing, I think it's the most detrimental way to think of them. Because they DO make memes like this. They just dip into the dark side of psychology and abuse of how humans communicate to hide these metaphoric devils in the details and glibness to never be wrong and make proper argument dishonest and impossible.

Also, it's why they lost their shit about when the reactionary response using this logic and method of containing statements in benign language, "It's OK to be white." Because the statement represented two things.

The first thing it represented was that it used their logic. That means to understand and think about the concept of what this statement is and means and its relationship with words and communication, you can apply this to things like, "You are not immune to propaganda," and, "Black Lives Matter." This threatens the unspoken part to come out, out loud. They don't want that to be status quo, they want it to be something understood but never verbalized or seen for what it is, by itself. It's Okay To Be White threatens this by drawing attention to the phenomenon.

The second thing "It's OK to be white" represented, was it's an objectively fine statement. If you take issue with the idea being white is okay, that's a statement about you. You don't like white people if you think their existence is not OK- therefore, wrong. And if you disagree with such a benign, milquetoast statement, suddenly you have to state a reason for why you find it so disagreeable. YOU have to come out and argue against why being white is acceptable. The onus falls on you, not other people, to dissuade and argue such a statement is unacceptable and somehow offensive. You have to list the reasons, you have to stand by it. You have to reveal yourself to scrutiny, and what you think and believe, rather than hide and let what you think and feel and how you arrived at that conclusion be unknown.

Now, if you know the sentiment behind it, you know it was constructed SPECIFICALLY to make people react to it with raised hackles and then go on tangents about how it's a "white supremacist dog whistle." When, it really isn't. But making such a statement, you reveal that you view all people that don't see being a white person as bad or evil, are therefore white supremacists. So even calling attention to the words between the lines, you reveal something about yourself. You cannot smear people that say, "It's okay to be white" as white supremacists, ubiquitously. It's an objectively true statement, and even if you try to emphasize what's between the lines as things said by white supremacists, it doesn't make it wrong. It's a linguistic and philosophical caltrop you just have to deal with without commentary, or step on it and try to remove it and squeal in pain. There's no in between.

And they hate the dissent. They hate that they have to expose themselves in order to dissuade people from making such statements that they try and make in omission and affirm the humanity and validity of white people, which DIRECTLY contradicts the derivative sentiments of other statements, and they hate that it uses the language smithing methods they use to argue in bad faith. It represents so much of a risk of people understanding the verbal and cultural cage they're in with no way of sloughing it off due to ignorance.

It's honestly a fascinating, if coldblooded, approach to human communication. And when you start to realize this is a genuine tool other human beings use to control the comprehension and interpretation of information while they pretend to give a shit about you or be saying nothing inflammatory at all, you better understand warning signs. Not unlike when you first learned about the concept of lying.

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brendleellipsis · 4 months

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Brendle Rambles About His Favorite OC For A Very Long Time

Yeah, it's pretty much exactly what it says on the tin.

This is Lore Redwood, and he is one of the two main characters of my primary creative endeavor at the moment, which I'm calling The Brendleverse for now because I think it's funny. He is also a pretty blatantly obvious self-insert.

The Brendleverse is meant to be a number of different stories in one big interconnected universe, because I've always been a sucker for that shit. It is also meant to be an expression of Me in my totality. Everything I care about and believe in, including my passion for creativity and storytelling, bleed through in these projects. To make sure all of this is cohesive, Lore (as well as the other protagonist, Summer) serve as emotional throughlines for the universe as a whole, with their arcs acting as the main connective tissue for all these stories.

I've just been thinking a lot lately about Lore's arc in particular, because, as I mentioned earlier, this character is functionally a self-insert. His personality, his arc and progression, his flaws and his struggles, are so intensely personal to me and my lived experience, so it makes sense that I'd have so much connection to this character.

I won't be talking about his arc throughout all the Brendleverse projects, because bits and pieces of it are incomplete, and also it would be Way Too Fucking Long, so for now I'm going to talk about his arc through the first main project, entitled Lorekeepers. No worries, this will also be very long. I do hope you'll indulge me.

Sorry in advance lol

So, I'll try not to delve into the nitty gritty Plot Details for Lorekeepers too much? Because despite being the first story in The Brendleverse, its also Really Big, so... I'll do my best to only give the context that is entirely necessary for Lore's arc. Without further ado...

THE BACKGROUND

At the beginning of the story, Lore Redwood is just a regular 17-year-old kid with nothing particularly special about him. In fact, if you looked at him as an outside observer, he would seem almost aggressively mundane. Boring, even. Like he doesn't even have as much of a personality to begin with.

In reality, Lore is a very internal person. Sometimes he struggles to feel much at all, and sometimes he feels so intensely that it borders on unpleasant, but it very rarely shows on his face. His expressions are limited in emotion, and his voice even more so. He is also, like me, autistic, and this manifests most often through his issues with sensory overload. When certain stimuli, especially sound, start to grate on his nerves, Lore tends to shut down even more than usual, struggling to maintain focus and generally panicking. There's really no escape from this sort of feeling for him; the metaphor he often uses to describe his issues with senses and emotions is the sound of radio static in his ears. No matter how calm it gets, it's always there, faintly, hissing violently, a reminder that the simple act of existing will always be a struggle to him. And so, despite being such an internal person, feeling trapped inside his own head, he simultaneously feels as though he exists outside of "normal" human experience. There's an implicit distance between himself and the rest of the world, even his own family, that prevents him from truly connecting with or understanding anyone.

As such, he struggles with socializing and making friends, to the point that he only has one, Summer Winchester. She makes an effort to know and understand him and his issues, and that's certainly one of the reasons Lore values her company. But really, Lore just admires her. Summer is brash and confident, or at least seemingly so. She is unapologetically herself, and whenever she wants something, she does not hesitate to take it for herself. And beyond all that, she's just kind. She cares so much for other people, and the fact that someone like her would extend that care to someone like him is... hard to believe. And that's why Lore sticks by her. She makes the impossible feel possible. She makes it all make sense. She makes him make sense.

...That was a lot of words to set up where Lore is before the damn story even starts lol. I'll try to speed it up.

THE FIRST ARC

In the first major arc of Lorekeepers, Lore and Summer are attacked by a weird memory-stealing monster called The Static, and are subsequently captured by a weird secret organization called LOGOS. They are taken to the organization's headquarters, and are told that the org. is trying to research and kill The Static, and that because those who are attacked by it have similar attributes, they must stay at headquarters for protection and research. Eventually, they meet up with some other characters and are like "fuck that" and try to break out. The breakout plan fails spectacularly, and when Summer spits on the LOGOS Boss's face, she is shot and killed.

This is when Lore hears a voice in his head.

"...Interesting. Very interesting. Well... I've decided, I'll give you the tools. Let's see how you use them."

And with that, Lore screams, and time begins to rewind, until Summer is alive again. To make a long story short, this voice was a character (who is also a self-insert lol) called The Writer, and that weird Event was Lore being gifted the powers of The Overwrite, which essentially mark a person as "the protagonist", allowing them to rewrite reality as they see fit (though there are certain limitations I won't get into). This power, and the "chosen one" vibes that come from it, are very important to Lore's arc.

Due to Circumstances, the gang still can't break out of LOGOS HQ, but the Boss allows them to stay so long as Lore help her with her research, because she is very interested in The Overwrite. This is where the next major aspect of Lore's arc comes in, because he meets Other Lores from Other Realities. To put it simply, these characters are from other universes that The Writer had made, and The Static warping reality is what brought them here. They were similarly chosen by The Writer and given The Overwrite powers. Their actual characters aren't as important, so I won't get into it too much, but the whole deal is that these characters are meant to play into one of Lore's major hangups, that being with his identity. He is, to put it lightly, not a fan of who he is as a person, so these alternate versions of him are meant to make him explore what exactly about himself he hates so passionately, while also starting to learn that maybe the person he is right now isn't as stupid as he believes.

Meanwhile, Summer is having a bit of a Bad Time because she has... so little control over the situation, which she isn't really used to. I mentioned earlier that Lore admires Summer to a great extent, and their friendship is by no means one-sided. Summer cares about Lore deeply, and when venting her frustrations about the current predicament to Lore, she accidentally says some hurtful things. She has always felt as though Lore needs protecting, and the way she words it implies that she, at least partly, sees him as "broken". Lore doesn't really take this well. His negative feelings about himself have essentially been confirmed by the person he looks up to most. So he runs away.

While all the other characters are participating in a Big Climactic Fight with the villain, Lore is alone, powerless, unable to do anything. And then he hears The Writer's voice in his head again, remarking on how very interesting the whole situation has become. Lore doesn't know what this voice is, but he's desperate. He asks The Writer what he should do, how he could possibly fix the problem, fix himself. The Writer says nothing. Eventually, Lore is going to have to choose for himself. Running from the issue, insisting it doesn't exist, doesn't do anything to truly help. If he ever wants to be happy with his life and the person he is, he's going to have to take a step forward.

And so he does. I could remark on how the big final fight, with Lore finally being able to wield his Overwrite Powers on command, would go, but at this point, the first stage in his arc is over. There's not much to say without moving onto the next arc. So, let's do that!

THE SECOND ARC

Again, without dumping too much of the story on you, the second major arc of Lorekeepers takes place in Patchwork, which is essentially a realm of dreams populated by Demons, beings formed from the public consciousness. It's a major part of the Brendleverse worldbuilding, but it's off topic, so I won't get into it.

Lore starts this arc stranded in Patchwork, entirely separated from the friends that he had been traveling with. The particular place in Patchwork he landed in is The Whispering Forest, which is essentially this cursed forest filled with illusions and mirages and such, drawn from the mind of whoever is currently in it. Fun!

Anyways, Lore starts traveling through the forest, to try and find his friends, but he is instead joined by the Other Lores that I mentioned back in the first arc. At the end of the first arc, they all departed back to their home worlds... and yet, here they are. And stranger still, their physical forms are glitching, as though they're slowly, forcefully being written out of existence. Eventually, they stumble upon a clearing, where they meet The Writer in the flesh for the first time. Eventually he reveals that the Other Lores are glitching like that because he is in the process of erasing their worlds from the fabric of reality in their entirety. All the other universes, except for Lore's own, will be deleted. The Writer posits that this is a good thing for Lore, that this is him being “chosen”, and that he needs to own up to the responsibility that entails.

Lore, understandably, does not take this well. He has a full on panic attack as he watches the Other Lores and their worlds get erased, watching his friends essentially die in front of him. And The Writer is frustrated by this. He believes that this should be motivating, that he should want to make sure this doesn’t happen to the people that “really matter in his story”. He starts to get Really Personal in this lecture, really poking at Lore's every insecurity, not really being subtle about the fact that these are things The Writer feels about himself as well. He repeatedly pushes Lore, telling him to get his ass up and move. He asks him, over and over, as Lore begs him to stop, what he is going to do. Eventually, Lore fully breaks down and just screams. There is a long silence, and then Lore stands up and runs.

Eventually, Lore meets up with the rest of the characters as they make a plan. To make an incredibly long story short, The Static monster I mentioned earlier is in Patchwork right now, and that's extremely bad, because it steals memories, and the Demons are all made up of dreams and stuff, which only serves to make the monster stronger. They decide to essentially evacuate all the Demons in Patchwork, making a portal to Earth and leading them through it, and eventually using Lore's powers to seal The Static in Patchwork so it can't hurt anyone else. There's a big ol' plan about it, I won't get into it here.

Before they leave, Summer tries to talk to Lore, worrying that he’s trying too hard to “play the hero”. But at this point, Lore is remembering the last conversation they've had like this, and feels like she’s trying to baby him. He's hurt that, now that he’s trying to be the person he wants to be, a hero that can help people, that that is when she chooses to reject him. He implies that, maybe, they were never friends in the first place, and before Summer can try to talk things out, Lore storms off to enact the plan.

The plan almost works, though they run into some interference in the form of Terra, who one of the major villains in Lorekeepers. She was in the first arc, I just didn't mention her for the sake of time. To make a long story short, she's an alternate version of Summer who was given the power of The Overwrite. When she arrives, she immediately focuses in on Lore, fighting him with all her strength, which Lore can't really hope to combat. The fight concludes with Terra pinning Lore to the wall, telling him that she finds him to be undeserving of The Writer’s powers, that he’s nothing but a weak, worthless little nothing who has no idea what he’s doing.

Now, this next line is important to me. It's a major part of Lore's character arc, so I've given a lot of thought to how it would be framed and delivered. Lore says:

“Everyone keeps trying to tell me who I am, that I’m weak, or that I’m worthless. And maybe they’re right. So, I’ll just be someone else. Someone better than you.”

And with that very line, this portion of his arc is over. In Lore's head, this is a triumphant moment, and that's how I want the scene to be framed. From his perspective, he's beating the bad guy, complete with a badass one-liner. But I want it to be clear that this moment is deeply tragic. The world is telling Lore that he is worthless, and his triumphant rebuttal is letting them know that they're right. This unyielding belief in that idea, the denial that he could ever be worth something as he is, that is what seals Lore's fate. With those words, he is already as good as dead.

Lore focuses his power, and in a massive burst, he blasts Terra off of him. He then tells his friends to finish the job and get the Demons out of Patchwork, and that he'll go and fight The Static alone, holding the monster off for as long as he can. And he does. And he fails. In his attempt to make The Static avoid his friends and the Demons while they escaped, he led the monster straight to them. In his weakened state, he snaps his fingers, using what little power he has left to create a barrier, keeping The Static in Patchwork, but not before The Static’s malevolent, malicious emotions fill the atmosphere. Lore’s arms go limp, he is drained of his color, and in a single instant, he shatters.

Lore is dead.

Well... kind of. It's complicated.

Lore is very much still one of the main characters in The Brendleverse, it'd be a bit bold to kill him off permanently in the first project. So, yes, he does come back, but it does take a while. But, yeah, saying Lore is "dead" would not be wholly accurate, but he functionally is in the story. That said, he still has some stuff going on in...

THE THIRD ARC

The third arc starts off mostly focusing on Summer. You know, The Alive One, and also the other main character. Her whole deal is pretty important to the story as a whole, but part of Lore and Summer's arcs was taking these two characters who were so often attached at the hip and deliberately separating them, so. I haven't mentioned her too much.

Anyways.

We do eventually see Lore again, and while he functionally died, his consciousness has still been kicking in The Static. He's essentially playing a game with The Static’s true identity, a young man named Verse, Terra’s former closest friend.

Just as Terra is an alternate Summer, Verse is an alternate Lore. A quiet and pensive boy in life, with one true friend he could count on, Verse saved Terra's life in a tragic accident and returned as a ghost through his desire to see her again. When he finally did, though, he realized that his friend never truly cared about him. Terra is selfish and egotistical and cruel. Verse's world view was shattered by this, because he, much like Lore, put his friend on a pedestal.

Betrayal. Regret. Hatred. Yearning. A burning desire for reality to just Be Different. Ghosts are… fickle beings. Their very forms, drifting in between the physical and immaterial, are dependent on the stability of the mind of the ghost. So, when a ghost is overwhelmed by emotion, their forms begin to glitch and warp… until they become a monster. A wight. And when Verse became a wight, he began to consume things, anything that had a memory attached to it, in the hopes that he could artificially gain the power of The Overwrite and right the wrong that was his life. This is how The Static was born.

Anyhow, Lore is playing a game with this guy! Yahoo! He's basically playing superhero in a fantasy world, fighting against comic book supervillains and pointedly ignoring the fantasy land version of Summer. One day, he returns to his house to find the false Summer waiting for him. To his surprise, she doesn’t seem mad. She instantly accepts everything about him. Lore kinda snaps at this and goes on a bit of a rant, about how Summer constantly needs to control him, and that she’s been a bad friend, and eventually he just concludes that he hates her.

...This false Summer is entirely unperturbed. She just smiles and nods, with this vaguely unsettling glass-eyed expression, blindly agreeing with everything that he says. It becomes increasingly obvious to Lore that he’s getting nothing out of this, that staying in this false reality will make it so that he’ll never be able to grow, and that all this stuff he wishes people would say or do is simply not going to happen. Realizing this, he uses his powers to destroy the fantasy world in its entirety, shattering through the illusion as though it were glass.

Verse is not happy about this. He just wanted Lore to see what he sees, that they have the power to reshape reality, and that they could have better lives if they just make reality the way they want it to be. Lore shoots back that if they do that, they’ll never improve as people; they’ll be forever stagnant. Verse sighs, calls Lore a sentimental fool, and uses his own ill-begotten power to fully imprison Lore within The Static.

Eventually, thanks to the help of his friends, Lore manages to break free and claw his way back to the land of the living, and after some Plot Things that I'd rather not to get into, Verse replaces Terra as the final antagonist of Lorekeepers.

Before all that, though, we need to address The Writer. Yeah, he's still around, and he's a major part of this story. It's very obvious that he's meant to be a stand-in for me, albeit with a few degrees of separation. He has my personality and mental health issues, and he also inherits many of my flaws. One of the major themes of Lorekeepers is escapism, and accepting reality, no matter how bad it may seem, because nothing will ever get better if you don't. I didn't go into writing this story with that theme in mind, it just sort of Happened, and I realized that I was using The Brendleverse as a form of escapism as well, a way to avoid the world that was hurting me. And I realized that, if I never let that go, even a little bit, the pain won't stop.

So, after some Plot Things that I'd rather not to get into, Lore confronts The Writer and convinces him to leave The Brendleverse behind and confront his own life, leaving the battle for the soul of this universe in the hands of Lore and Verse, as well as all the friends Lore has made along the way.

To talk about the conclusion to Lore's arc, I have to delve into the relationship between Lore and Summer, the main protagonists, and Verse, the main antagonist.

Verse… sees himself in Lore quite a bit. Both very hurt, very sad young men who have relied too much on a friend that they perceived as inherently better than them. Both hold this remarkable power to rewrite the world around them. There's a sort of… respect that Verse holds for Lore. After all, they're the only two left that have The Overwrite, a power granted to them by The Writer, a power that can reshape reality, that can bring dreams to life. Verse sees himself and Lore as dueling gods, fated to fight over control of the world. Now, of course Lore doesn't see it this way, but if anything that just reinforces Verse's belief. Of course Lore wouldn't see it his way, they're eternal rivals. In his eyes, Lore disagreeing with him doesn’t make his view any less right.

…To that end, Verse fucking hates Summer. He loathes her with his entire being. And honestly, her being an alternate version of Terra has nothing to do with it, because Verse still has a warped lingering attachment to his old friend. No, he hates Summer because she refuses to know her place. Summer in Lorekeepers is the ultimate example of defying one's destiny, of overcoming stagnance and moving forward in spite of pain. She is living proof that Verse and The Writer's "chosen one that is allowed to warp reality as he sees fit" is just.. bullshit.

Which is why I think it's great that, when Verse drags Lore into a little pocket dimension for the final battle, Summer jumps in after him. She refuses to give Verse what he wants, a one-on-one duel to the death with his eternal enemy. And so, Lore and Summer and Verse all fight, and the fight ends with Lore (through means I don't feel like explaining) taking away both Verse's and his own Overwrite powers. The Writer is gone, and no one has the singular right to decide the fate of the world. It will be written little by little, each day as it comes, by everyone living together to make a better future. That's how it should be.

Lore, in ridding the world of these powers, is severely wounded. But Verse is powerless. And Summer has a goddamn gun that can pierce through reality. So she's the one who delivers the killing blow. One final insult to a sad child who couldn't accept that, sometimes, things just suck.

And when Lore wakes up, he resolves to continue to live as himself. And he'll make that promise to himself every day, as long as it takes, until he doesn't even have to think about it.

CONCLUSION

That was absurdly fucking long, huh? And that's just the first project of The Brendleverse! Lore's arc continues from there! I'm not going to get into it, because this is too long already, but. It's a start, lol

If nothing else, it's a comfort to me that Lore's story does continue after this, that he keeps living. He takes big steps forward, he meets people, he forges bonds, he falls in love, and as the world changes around him, he changes with it, until one day he's the kind of person that he's genuinely proud to be. And through all that, he's found people who he loves, and who he can finally believe love him back.

And... I don't know. I'm very clearly biased, because I'm basically just writing the sort of story I wish I had when I was young, but. I think that's important. For there to be characters that reaffirm to you that you have value, and that there are people out there who can love you, and that you can be the person you want to be, even if you believe such notions to be impossible.

That, no matter how bad it gets, no matter how bad you feel, you can always get back up, and keep on living.

So yeah :)

#brendle rambles #my ocs #my writing #really long post #sorry

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I just finished watching the special. I unfortunately don’t have any strong feelings (?) regarding it, but I will say the aspects of it that did intrigue me! For one, I like how the special played around with its character dynamics such as Stan & Tolkien, Kyle and Kenny, Liane & Cartman, etc. I like the typical Matt and Trey type of wordplay/metaphor usage in regards to “streaming” and “water streams” while also addressing the drought and climate change situation we’re all facing right now. That’s something that only they could do tbh, but just wished that the plot was more engaging for me to be invested in the idea 😔 I love how even Sharon treats Tolkien like he’s her own son, and Kenny touching Cartman’s boobs at the end was funny. I’m a sucker for this type of humor dmvmdjf theyre just so astronomically huge, and the fact that Kenny just knows that they’re real based on his inspection. He certainly knows his stuff.

This might probably be a controversial take, but to put it delicately I simply can’t view Cartman to be so defeatist here. The Eric Cartman I know would always find a way to get out of a situation through creative or ingenious means, whether these methods are immoral, crazy or just sounds really good in theory. Like yeah, wanting his mom to get breast implants is “so him”, but I’d think in terms of raising the money for it, he’d come up with a few methods on his own terms through trial and error before resorting to actually asking financial help from the main kids. Technically, he didn’t “lie” that his mom needed surgery, he actually genuinely believed she needed it given the situation, so him asking his friends for help sort of took me off-guard? He’s usually quick on his feet, and he stops at nothing to get what he wants. It’s a trait of his that’s just so ingrained in him, and yet I just don’t see that here. Even if he’s truly going through a “redemption” arc set up by Matt and Trey, this is a huge core of his personality that is weirdly absent? It’s actually not a bad trait to have to put it objectively, so if he is going through a “redemption arc”, wouldn’t he still have this aspect of his personality but just use it for good? Not a complete erasure of it? I probably need to watch the special again for I might have missed something here. Maybe the second part will provide more clarity regarding these things, but as of now, I’d say the special wasn’t bad 🤔

#im quietly anticipating for the next part!!#im open to being proven wrong btw id love to hear your guys’s thoughts!#hachichiposts #south park #sp spoilers

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fanfic writer ask meme!

A - Of the fanfic you’ve written, which is your favorite and why?

I honestly love all of my fics, because writing fanfic is something I never thought I’d do and I love being creative in that way… I just sat here for forever and I don’t think I can pick one 😂 so i’m going to pick a few!

there’s more than one way to lose your mind: I love this one because it’s my first poetry fic and I got to mix “stuff happening” with pretty words – best of both worlds! Lol

you took me by surprise and left me falling like rain: This one was fun because it was something different, I don’t write Peterpatter often even though I like them a lot, and I think it had a decent amount of plot and drama in it! It also came together so well, I wrote it in only a few days if I remember correctly!

consider me the pearly gates (to your new favorite thrills): the start of our club AU! This was another one that was super easy to write and I have no idea how since it’s probably the most plotty thing I’ve ever written lol. There are so many sentences/paragraphs in here that I’ve looked back on like, “omg I can’t believe I wrote that”!

stuck in my head (with nothing left): this one too, the way I phrased some things in here, words that I used, were really cool and I’m proud of a lot of the linguistics of this fic (even though the subject matter was super difficult and I could have gone a lot deeper into it if I had wanted to/wasn’t so scared to)

i wasted it all just to watch you go: this one was like, projection times infinity, but I really love how it turned out because it combined my actual feelings with pretty words and characterization that I think turned out pretty decently!

i was never permanent: this one will always have a special place in my heart because it’s a Luke projection fic, which is when I’m at my strongest writing-wise, but it also came after a long period of writer’s block and actually got me out of a slump!

life sucks, and then: my first fic ever and i’m just super proud and fond of this one because it got me started writing fic in the first place. it’s a short thing that has a small section for each of the sunset curve guys and when I was writing it I didn’t really care about the characterization much, but I just love the tone of it. And I really love that Bobby part at the end with the matryoshka doll metaphor!

E - What character do you identify with most? Is there a certain fic of yours that captures these qualities particularly well?

I don’t…… know the answer to this, really… I feel like I should know it better lol.

Julie and I are similar in a lot of ways. Like, letting loss/the fear of loss overpower passion. I’m like Luke in the fact that I’m annoying (/affectionate???) and I love my friends, and I don’t usually shut up (about it or… anything else really lol). I care about the people in my life a lot and I’m always willing to fight for them (or yell at them to fight for themselves). And, I tend to run away from problems/not want to dwell on serious subjects.

Most of my fics, though, tend to be about Luke because I feel like, for some reason, I can get into his head the best. I’m most comfortable there. I got a few comments on “i was never permanent” about my Luke characterization that I really appreciated! (it’s funny because that was a projection fic and it’s in Luke’s POV and everyone liked his characterization… so I guess that also answers the first part of your question 😂)

O - What are your thoughts on people writing fanfic of your fanfic?

Incredible, 1000000000/10, fic will definitely come out better and be a million times more enjoyable and I will probably think about it forever. This person wrote an amazing fic based on this Willex proposal fic I banged out to make people mad at me (and put barely any thought into) and made the whole universe and scenario SO MUCH BETTER and I loved it so much. And @hufflebibin also wrote one, even though I don't think it was a fanfic of my fic, it was inspired by it because she felt the need to "balance the universe" 😂

And you always inspire me, so many of my fics I consider basically collabs because we’re pretty much always writing together 😂 I still can’t believe you loved my club AU enough to continue it and make it OURS (and then totally took it to places I was too scared to and made it so much more heart-wrenching and amazing).

My favorite thing about writing fanfic to begin with is the collaborability (which I benefit from immensely because I use fake-ass words like COLLABORABILITY lol) and getting to talk about the show and share your love of it and create cool things WITH people you care about. Co-writing or writing for people is always so much more gratifying to me than just writing something and tossing it out into the void.

W - What is your favorite pairing to write? Favorite pairing to read?

Honestly I like writing gen/character-centric fics better than romance, because I’m shitty at writing romance, but Juke is my favorite ship in the show, so probably Juke (bonus because of course Luke is part of it lol – actually, any Luke ship is awesome. I love writing Lukebobby, and Peterpatter is also fun! Juke is my number one though!)

And my favorite pairing to read is also Juke, but also Lukebobby and also sometimes Peterpatter. I haven’t really been reading as much fic lately but those are the ones I gravitate towards!

#ask games #answered asks

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🫓 What is your most popular fic?

🥘 What category do most of your fics fall under?

🍛 Have any comments, tags or reactions to one of your fics every made you laugh or cry or both?

🍢 Have you ever gotten hate on a fic?

🍣 What helps you focus or get in the mood to write?

🍥 What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

✨ send me an emoji and ask me about my fanfic! ✨

🫓 : what is your most popular fic?

this is most certainly time takes no prisoners (you'll see). very much hands down, very much no contest lol 😅

🥘: what category do most of your fics fall under?

found family lol. what can i say. something about it does in fact hit different for me. i always want more and the brainrot is never ending and it's arguably not the most popular fic genre, so when i run out of content in the fandom of choice atm, i start making my own lol

🍛: have any comments, tags or reactions to one of your fics every made you laugh or cry or both?

well, yes, for starters, several of yours!! 💗 like when someone leaves a nice/heartfelt and/or detailed comment on my silly little fics i am quite LITERALLY screaming crying (and only metaphorically throwing up) about it. that shit does in fact mean the most to me and i wouldn't push myself to actually try and do things i don't feel very good at if people did not seem to want me to do it, so when people feel Some Type of Way after reading something i wrote that is the ultimate goal. i wouldn't write stuff if i didn't want whoever's reading it to connect with and remember it, so i connect just as much back when they do!

🍢 : have you ever gotten hate on a fic?

thankfully i actually haven't yet!

🍣 : what helps you focus or get in the mood to write?

oof tbh i think me being ~in the mood to write~ is controlled by the whims of deities interested only in toying with me 😭😭 ive learned that even if i am not exactly in the mood i have to just Do it. and eventually i will either stop bc im like wow everything i am writing right now absolutely sucks! or i will get into it and figure out a whole bunch of shit and write 5k words. there is basically no in between lmao

🍥 : what’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

this is also gonna have to be time takes no prisoners. it is kind of a big first fic for me- longest, first top gun fic, first fic to rly get comments or kudos, most chapters, fic i am the most proud of, first series based work, etc etc- and the story (though obviously not my own, as it IS just a retelling of largely canonical events i can't take any credit for) means the absolute world to me. it's probably going to wind up being my fanfic magnum opus lol. it is always gonna hold a special place in my heart. i just adore this fandom and these characters and i just akdhdjhfjfhf love everything about the whole mav-is-bradleys-dad shit and the by extension found-family-w-people-mav-knows shit. it is just major *chefs kiss* for me <3

if i needed to give a more creative answer in the pre ttnp timeline (bc that is how it feels sometimes lol. there is pre and post ttnp/top gun brainrot and nothing in between), i'd have probably said all this effort to make it look effortless, which was the first writing of any kind i had done since like 2018 or something idk. i wrote and posted it last year, not too long before i began to write ttnp (it was actually right before i saw tgm at all), and it's for the world's most obscure fandom and it's very very self indulgent and i rly did just write it for myself, there's like under 50 fics in that fandom and mine has less hits than that lol. but i was and am very proud of it! (tho w the hindsight of rereading i hate the formatting so much god learn to use paragraph breaks what is wrong with you aaaaaaa).

#tysm for the ask!!! <3<3 and so sorry for the delay in my answering it omg #star unasks #brambleberrycottage #star.txt

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What might a clutter to-do list look like? Here are some "to-do" items that your clutter (physical AND digital) might be telling you:

"Read this" - books, magazines, news articles,

"Fix this" - torn clothing, broken electronics, weathered furniture, renovations

"Wash this" - clothes, dishes, toys, bedding, outdoor equipment

"Sort this" - paperwork, mail, digital folders, photos

"Finish this" - food and pantry goods, projects, books and media

"Use this" - medicines and beauty supplies, gifts, hobby supplies, games, decorations

"Get rid of this" - items you've already decided to let go of but need special types of disposal [e-waste, hazardous chemicals]

Does your brain fixate on what your clutter says to you? Does the list take up mental space? Do you feel guilty for never using the odd-smelling soaps your in-laws got you two Christmases ago? Is that metaphor specific enough that you can tell I struggle with it too?

Let's get into ways you can reduce or remove some of those to-do list items below:

Keep in mind that the same problem may require different solutions (or multiple solutions used as steps) from person to person.

Giving up. Yes, seriously, it's okay to give up. It's okay to throw your hands in the air and admit that you don't actually want to spend the little free time you have learning Spanish on Duolingo. If something you used to enjoy causes you negative emotions now and you have the option to stop, continuing to force yourself to experience it doesn't leave you any room to experience something else you might enjoy.

Taking the easy route. Assuming no one's forcing you to finish the to-do item to perfection, sometimes it's only getting done if it's getting half-assed. Get your brain out of the "all or nothing" mindset and try doing something 40% of the way or even less.

Prioritizing progress. I put off renewing my passport for years. Recently it made me anxious enough that I pushed myself to break the process into steps I could understand and got the steps done (hating it every second of the way, of course). I didn't have to enjoy it, but I did have to make progress.

Accepting it. This one sounds counterintuitive, but sometimes recognize that a to-do item is bothering you simply because you're letting it bother you. If it's not causing harm or taking up space you need for other things, and it will eventually resolve in some low-stakes manner (back to those gifted soaps I'm not a huge fan of, which I can absolutely put in the guest bathroom), sometimes it's okay to just take a deep breath and tell yourself it doesn't need to be as high on the list as your brain is putting it. If it continues to weigh on you, though, consider one of the other solutions.

Get creative. I'm sure you're familiar with how kids will make it look like they've actually done something (eaten their dinner, cleaned their room, done their homework) when they actually haven't. And I LOVE that energy tbh. So how can you achieve it as an adult? Is it giving up on handmade gifts this year and going on Etsy? Is it finding a charity that will pick up your donation pile from your doorstep even though you're capable of taking it somewhere yourself (because you haven't taken it yourself in six months?) Is it under-bed storage that hides your collection of squishmallows from your MIL?

And yes, I love to talk, so I'm going to elaborate on each of these and come back here to link to those posts when they exist.

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#declutter #decluttering #clutter #tidytidbit #tidyhome #get motivated

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When it gets things right, it's a touching experience with a lot to say, but too often what it has to say is drowned out by heavy-handed writing, poor line delivery, and unimaginative gameplay that juxtaposes a fantastical and metaphorical world. And like many that attempt to tackle the topics and themes that come with this, Sea of Solitude struggles at times. On December 8, we launched our debut title Call of the Sea, a personal and. Hello We are Out of the Blue Games, an indie game studio from Madrid, Spain. Tatiana Delgado Co-founder and Creative Director, Out of the Blue. Prepare to set sail to a paradise in the South Pacific.

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It was published by Raw Fury and was released to Consoles and PC in December 2020. Call of the Sea is coming to PS5 and PS4 in May no longer an Xbox console exclusive. As she set sails to explore and search for answers, she comes across creatures both fantastical and monstrous. Call Of The Sea is a first person walking sim, with puzzles, that was developed by indie studio Out Of The Blue. The world is built from her blurry memories, and is populated by that which haunts them. I'm sure you'll find out soon enough.In Sea of Solitude, you play as Kay, an adolescent girl whose loneliness has transformed her into a monster-like creature who finds herself in a familiar yet dreamy world that is being swallowed up by the sea. Despite launching straight onto Game Pass back in December of last year, Call of the Sea struggled to make a splash and has sunken into the depths of. Call of the Sea is by far the best story-driven game that follows the popular myths of creatures and gods with its own unique blend of beautiful art, environments, and story while giving a.

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The amount of revamping I want to do with my massive Buffyverse continuation, despite knowing that it's not going to go anywhere, is ridiculous...

Handful of new series to go with the ones that already existed. Turn the "movie" specials into mini-series that give them more room to explore, plus the additions of THOSE, because the stories aren't enough to spawn a whole new series, AND, with the new series, that means excising what were subplots in one thing for the new thing WHILE coming up with something else for the existing thing that used it as a major storyline...

It's ridiculous, it's inevitably time-consuming, it's nothing that I should spend my time doing if I ever want to get my own original ideas off the ground... And I STILL have more ideas spawning in the process, telling me that I should add them into this tapestry that was already ridiculously long and beyond my individual capabilities to begin with.

Like, the original concept was, effectively, Faith gets a spinoff that starts the year after Angel concluded, that got two spinoffs centered around original characters, and then there was a spinoff from one of those. Then, in filling character gaps for canon characters with a handful of specials, several more spinoffs were spawned, leading to this sprawling universe whose big, grand finale would have been taking place in what amounts to somewhere in the next couple of years, had it actually been produced.

And with all the idea generation I've been having, I'm feeling like I have a few more that could lead to that grand finale series being pushed back some.

AND, like the continuations for 24th century Trek AND the alternate Buffy/Angel continuations I've come up with more recently, this is stuff that, realistically, I have no expectations of developing beyond broad outlines.

Why am I so ridiculous of a human being? For that matter, why can't I just enter a timeless pocket of reality where I can actually have the time to come out with the collective 97 terabyte finished version of all these things?

Like it'd be really neat if I could get all of these what if concepts out of me so that, instead of spending my time wanting to work in someone else's universe, I could have the metaphorical board cleared to work on my own ideas. But that would basically call for me to spend more time than I have for anything else to even make the attempt.

I hate creative triage.

#dg gets personal #dg rambles

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word count: 494 words (not including lyrics) notes: creative claims (partial lyrics) verification self-para for cold as hell!

“the song’s all out. we just need a few more lyrics to tie it altogether.”

her phone’s on speaker as she listens to minwoo explain the process behind the song. it’s not like her to be so out of the loop when it comes to a song that’ll be on her own album, but she had been busy with crowned and equinox’s comeback to be totally focused. of course, she’s careful when it comes to planning her album, but it’s not like she can duplicate herself.

minwoo had given her a sneak peak of the song before, but she didn’t realize that it was done. “was there a theme when you guys composed it?” she asks over the phone with the audio playing at a lower volume.

“i don’t think so. the guys and i were just experimenting with sounds. it kind of wrote itself actually,” he says and she simply nods along. that happens with some songs. suji would argue that some of her best songs came out that way as well.

“all right. thanks for letting me know.” and with that, she hears the click of the call going dead. reaching over, she increases the volume of her laptop where the track is playing before taking out her notepad.

there’s a few taps of her pen on the arm of her chair as she thinks deeply about what to write about. it would have been easier if she were thrown a topic, but she has to start from scratch. thus, she listens to the track again and again and again.

cold.

that’s how she would describe the track. there’s something a little bitter about it. cold about it. a weird metaphor, but the song reminds her of metal. like nails scratching across a metal board. like the track is meant to hurt someone.

a pond where the memories have dried up a place filled with traces i don’t want to see there’s no longer an us yeah it’s getting cold as hell

a little harsh? perhaps so. looking back, suji’s not sure if she’s ever written lyrics that were so deliberately... cold. however, it’s a nice change. that’s what she’s looking for with this album anyway. humming it along with the guide, she throws this into the chorus section.

as she re-reads the lyrics, she can’t help but chuckle. since she’s spoken so much about getting inspiration from herself and those around her, she wonders what crazy assumptions will pop up once this song gets released.

the track is on loop in the background as she tries to figure out some of the remaining sections. now that she has somewhat of a backbone for the chorus, she’s feeling a bit more inspired for the rest of the song.

it was special, it was tedious there was nothing different even your name that’s scarred onto my lips will eventually fade

she enjoys how bitter everything sounds. as if she had her heart utterly broken and was getting revenge through her lyrics. when in reality, she’s rolling around in her chair at home, humming the melody to herself. that’s the beauty of songwriting, she thinks. and it’s a sign that she’s grown.

she no longer has to experience everything herself to create a story.

#famedverification #( ♡ * // self para. )

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pyroclastic727 · 4 years

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Owl House said fuck capitalism

So this episode was interesting. Lilith pretty much killed her sister. Why the fuck would she do that?

Even more interesting: why is Belos like that? How did Hooty put his head through one of those guards? Who the fuck is the Titan, and why does everyone like him? And how are these all tied together?

This episode was a metaphor for capitalism

...and another delicious step towards radicalizing the youth into dismantling this fucked-up neo-feudal system.

We’ll start with Belos.

Emperor Belos is a weird name, don’t you think? We all thought it was spelled “Bellows,” but it wasn’t. In fact, it’s five letters, starts with Be, ends with os, and describes a megalomaniac emperor that restricts people’s freedom in order to accumulate wealth for himself.

Sound familiar?

Emperor Bezos Belos created capitalism. He saw the beauty of magic and decided to make himself the most powerful.

Belos created a system that destroys the masses and boosts his power.

I’m dipping into fan theory a little, because the fan theory fits. We know that people get branded with coven magic that makes it so they can only specialize in one area. We know that Belos is the most powerful witch in the Boiling Isles. We know that the excess magic, magic created by restrictions, has to go somewhere.

It’s the same system that many viewers see all the time. A job takes up all your day and tires you for the night, so you can only do one skill for the rest of your life. Jeff Bezos is the most powerful man in the United States. Excess money, money taken by restrictions, has to go somewhere.

The magic goes to Belos, like how the money goes to Bezos. Belos created capitalism, and he won it.

The guards aren’t real.

Look, we’ve never seen their faces. They’re all the same. Why would you work so hard to get to the top, just to become a nameless, faceless killing machine?

Oh, also Hooty stuck his face through one. There is nothing under the armor.

Why? Well, it’s the same reason you see all those celebrities going around flaunting their wealth and bragging about how hard they worked. Like all those songs about how they grind every day and work harder than everyone else while you’re out clubbing, and that makes them dope. And then you take a closer look at them and see that they had a small loan of a million dollars fueling them, or an entire talent agency behind them, or their dad was a famous country star in the 80′s.

They’re fake. They’re hollow. They’re a ploy created by the capitalist emperor to try to delude you into working harder.

Let me put this into perspective. I guarantee that every single one of you has heard stuff like this: “Hard work makes you successful.” “I put in the work, and that’s why I’m successful.” “If you work hard enough, then you can be as successful as Mark Zuckerberg.”

And unless you’re a robot or really lucky, I’m sure all of you have failed at this. Maybe they told you that hard work would make you good at math, so you spent 22 hours a week working on calculus, only to pass it by 3 percentage points and have it destroy your perfect 4.0 GPA. Maybe they told you that if you talked to people enough, then you would make friends, so you spent a lot of time talking to people, only to end up lonely and friendless. Maybe they told you that if you did well in school, you would get a good job, so you spent all your time working hard to be a good student, and then ended up in a soulless, dead-end job.

The guards are there to delude you. Look, who really gains from you being productive? The answer is the ruling class, the CEOs, the government, the bourgeoisie. It has always been that. All you get from working is a paycheck that lets you survive. They get a paycheck that lets them get rich. Just like Belos gets the magic and productivity of the specialized coven witches.

The guards are there to trick you. The truth is that nobody can join the Emperor’s Coven. It’s just there to make you think that hard work will make you successful. Then you spend your entire life working hard, trying to prove to the person in charge that you’re worthwhile. You give your whole life to the Coven, and they give you nothing.

Magic is supposed to be something you pursue for fun. Being skilled at things, being good at something beautiful...that’s supposed to be something you do because you want to. But they took that and made it into a source of productivity. It doesn’t matter if you make good content. All people fucking care about is if you upload the day of premiere, if you make a lot of content quickly, if you maintain a million different conversations with strangers who expect you to be the most interesting person in the room. They don’t care how it hurts you. They don’t care how you crack from the stress. How you cry when you think no one can see you, and then you check your phone and someone can see you, someone did see you, and you have to put on your face and be the charming, magnetic person they want you to be. (oh by the way that’s why I wasn’t online much last week)

And it ruins it. Suddenly you can’t watch The Owl House without being stressed. You can’t make any content. You can’t make spells as powerfully as you want to. Your passion is replaced by perfectionism and insecurity, a voice telling you to keep being the best at what you do, or else they’ll forget you and let you die.

There’s also the Titan.

So nobody has mentioned him before, because in addition to the Boiling Isles being a hellscape full of witchcraft and queerness, it’s also full of atheists.

But suddenly we have people saying all this shit about him? Shit like, he gave witches the gift of magic, and then they learned to use it in a civilized manner, since being uncivilized was disrespectful?

I mean, first off, that’s fucking wrong. The island gives people magic. The island, which just so happened to be shaped like a titan-sized human. But the island/titan gives everyone all types of magic. Hell, even Luz gets to use magic, and she’s human.

It sounds really fucking familiar. (tw for discussion of homophobia and colonialism and misogyny). It sounds like when the news is on and they show some Tr*mp supporter talking about how fetuses have more rights than people and it is their holy duty to take away a woman’s control over her body and force her through unbearable pain and into an 18-year commitment she didn’t want to make. It sounds like all the times people tried to say homosexuality should be illegal, citing a single line in a book written two thousand years ago and heavily edited by a European king. It sounds like all the times people said God wanted them to conquer, to own the entire earth, to force the other races into pain to support them.

This is that bullshit thing people do where they commit awful sins and justify it by citing the will of God.

Or, it’s the Coven using religion as an excuse for evil.

Look, the Emperor’s Coven is clearly colonizer-coded. Saying that people’s original form of magic was wild (and showing a picture with the same joyous, rowdy energy of an 18th or 19th -century Black or indigenous party), and that it was God’s will for them to be “civilized?” Sounds like that thing that powerful white people did where they went and murdered people and forced them into their twisted capitalist system. God, gold, and glory, is what they said, because history books just love to omit the gore.

Lilith is passing the abuse cycle along.

You know, like a good little colonizer. God I fucking hate her. She’s a MILF, in the sense that she’s a Mother I’d Like to Fling off a cliff.

Ah, enough screaming about how much I want to drown Lilith in a tub of Hooty’s mucus. Let’s go into why I want to do that, and how she took the evils of capitalism and just...adopted those.

So, Lilith is sick and twisted for what she did to her sister. But, uhh, that’s the point. You see, there are so many other people out there like Lilith who would do the exact same thing, if given the chance. These are the people who do mean things when the teacher isn’t looking, and then act nice and try to frame you. These are the people who will hate you if you’re better than them. These are people who would do anything to bring you down, if you dare outperform them.

It’s greed, my friends. The mental illness that capitalism blesses us all with.

Lilith herself said it: she dedicated her entire life to the Coven. What she wanted was to be the best. And she almost was...except for her own sister. Someone who lived with her, annoyed her at home, bested her at school. Someone she could never beat, no matter how hard she worked. And her sister was younger than her, too! How insulting was that? Lilith wanted to be the best, and someone in her exact situation did better than her.

Lilith was insecure. And it consumed her.

But why? Why does insecurity consume her? I mean, no one can be motivated by insecurity forever. Well, not unless someone conditions it into you.

The lovely thing about the capitalist system is the morals it teaches you. Things like: “You’re only useful if you’re the best.” “Being school smart makes you smart, while being social smart or sports smart or creative smart or fandom smart is worthless.” “Your worth can be quantified by numbers and is based off arbitrary measures like your income or your grades.” Things that can and will drive us crazy if we let ourselves believe them.

And it did drive Lilith crazy. She got so twisted by a society that said being good at magic is her only worth. Look, Lilith used to be good at things, probably. She was good at sports. At times, she slips up and does an okay job of being Eda’s sister. She has a powerful presence when she’s in a room. And she’s wicked good at manipulating people.

But that didn’t matter. Lilith bought into the lies. She let herself believe that magical skill was the only way to measure her worth. And since she needed to be the best, she hurt Eda for it.

The beautiful thing is, Eda didn’t buy that. "It’s my power, kid. And before you showed up, I spent my whole life wasting it.” Is what Eda said, as she used up the last of her power, the last of her life, to save Luz. In her final moments, she proved that she’s not like them. She’s stronger than them.

None of this matters. Not magical prowess. Not the hierarchy. Not the promise of joining the Coven and having more power than anyone else.

The only thing that matters to Eda is her family. Her real family. Her Luz, King, and Hooty. And by extension, Willow, Gus, and Amity. Those are Eda’s real reason for fighting, for dying: to protect them. Look, there’s no way she would’ve come out of that fight alive. She has a family, and her love for them is stronger than greed or jealousy or capitalism.

Lilith never understood that. She thought the water of the womb was thicker than the blood of the covenant. Or, that the water of the womb and the blood of the covenant are stronger than the bonds of found family. She thought it didn’t matter if Eda loved, her, only if the Emperor loved her. Fucking bitch.

And now, a little something to worry about, before we go. Amity Blight. The girl who wanted to join the Emperor’s Coven more than anything, who dedicated her whole life to doing well in school, to being the best, to being perfect.

And then she met Luz. She fell for Luz. Now she’s in a tricky place, where habit and conditioning want her to join the Emperor’s Coven, but her heart wants her to do the impossible and destroy capitalism.

She wasn’t in this episode. Funny that being injured and unable to work ended up saving her from watching her future mother-in-law die. So she bought some time.

But Luz’s true mom is dead. This is the second mom she has lost, and she’s only fourteen. As powerful as King and Hooty are, Luz needs Amity. Luz needs Amity to support her and help her get back her mom.

So Amity has to make a choice. Fear and insecurity, or love and a high chance of death?

She’ll probably choose death. Because that’s the message that this family-friendly show is giving us kids. Fuck capitalism. All you need in life is to do what makes you happy and be with the ones you love.

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why do you like angela kang from caryl shipper perspective? what did make you to have faith in her regarding caryl ship and it's spinoff?

I think I should start with a warning - I do not trust any of TWD writers to deliver in-depth nuanced storytelling that is not plagued with missed opportunities. With that said, I didn't have much faith when Angela Kang took over as a showrunner, but she completely changed my mind with s9 and s10. WHY? Because she proved she is not Scott Gimple. It's that simple.

This got a bit long... so more after the jump...

Excuse me, Mr. Gimple, thank you so much for The Grove and No Sanctuary. But he is this show's worst showrunner ever. Congrats. He basically picked every thing I loved about this show and destroyed it, painfully slowly but surely. He was just jumping from one comic plot point to another, and he understands nothing of basic human interaction: all dialogue is delivered in riddles, lots of pointless philosophic dissertations that led nowhere, and he gave us less and less Caryl content. He turned one of the best chemistry/bond on the show into a meaningless 1 min interaction in s8! It takes talent! He took the joy out of watching anything TWD related, and I basically took one long break from fandom.

Then, Angela came along and she truly breathed life into a dying show. Characters started talking like normal people and interacting a lot more lol. Even though, she hit us with CZ, it was hard not to notice how Daryl had a major role in Carol's decision, and to a certain point, in Henry's life too. And that was not glossed over - Daryl became sort of a “mentor” to her child; and it was shown how he would do absolutely anything for Carol, and to keep her child safe. Then, he was the one there for her when Carol’s world came crashing down once again. Daryl was the one Carol leaned on, literal and metaphorically. She needed him around.... CUE to jealous!Zeke. And s10 happened, do I need to go over everything that happened in s10... you know! Running away together, Carol’s dream, talking about a future, look at the flowers ep.... I could go on and on...

I guess this is getting a bit long so I’m gonna go straight to the point - it seems pretty obvious to me where Angela’s narrative is going, and with every Carol and Daryl interaction we get more and more hints of what’s to come. Yeah, Caryl is coming! And it felt like the long journey started when she took over (season 9), and the train was going full speed ahead in season 10, until it was basically derailed by the pandemic, and then the announcement of TWD ending and the Caryl spinoff.

Of course, that journey is not without obstacles like Carol and Daryl’s deep-seated trauma that comes from both being victims of abuse, and their insecurities: the feeling they are not good enough, and feeling like they failed to save so many people they cared about along the way. I guess I will sound cheesy when I say this, but Carol and Daryl both have to learn to love themselves for who they are, before they can fully love each other the way they deserve to be loved and, finally, be happy together.

THAT’s what I think Angela’s getting at. Of course, there’s drama and angst and other possible romantic interests. Do I like or agree with some of her creative choices? NO. Of course, NOT. Like FUCK “leafy tea” and her waterboarding kink! Specially now, when it seems like Angela is just biding her time by delivering extra drama to drag out that Caryl resolution because the original plan (for Caryl to leave together at the start of s11) had to be changed. It can be frustrating. HOWEVER, I do want to give Angela a chance to finish this narrative before being too harsh on her. The show is ending! We don’t even have to wait that long to see where she is going with all of this.

WHY do I have faith in Angela for the spinoff?? Cause of everything I’ve seen in s9 and s10. We had some of the shippiest Caryl scenes ever. She did that. She brought the Caryl bond back, when it had been forgotten for what felt like too long. Also DIVERGED. That is the trope-ish shit ever! and Carol and Daryl are basically separated the whole episode. Angela has been pretty clear when it comes to understanding Carol + Daryl = SOULMATES. It may be a bumpy road but, no matter where it takes us, we know it’s a dream destination - CARYL SPINOFF!

#caryl #caryl positivity #QUESTIONS #this is not a Gimple friendly blog sorry #but this is a Kang friendly blog #happy saturday #tomorrow carol and daryl are back again!#can't wait

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hinagamoizaf · 3 years

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Odaiba Memorial Day 2021

My first Odaiba Memorial Day while being an active part of the fandom, and it’s high time I write an essay about my crackhead obsession with Yakari.

(*There will be some swearing & f-bombs in this post) As a kid, Yamato was like the ‘blue and cooler Taichi’ to me, like he doesn’t exist without being adjacent to the gogglehead. Also my family didn’t have the full Dark Masters arc in our CD collection, so I literally knew nothing about Yams’ emotional meltdown. But now, I adore this overly sensitive dork, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way. Maybe I’m biased in this reading, but I think Yamato has had to push himself to mature faster than his peers; and he’s very much a mini-adult at a young age. For all these grand monster battles, the main cast are still children; among them Yamato is a kid dealing with a lot of unresolved issues but he’s got a lot of heart, he’s passionate about those he holds dear but he just doesn’t know how to process this. Another thing that goes hand-in-hand with Yamato is the fact he’s a musician. Again, I could be reaching way into my ass here; but there’s this mumbo jumbo real life idea of the ‘depressed creative’, and Yamato works his way out of that dangerously romanticised label. The kid’s got a passion for music, he’s literally been playing the harmonica since Takeru was in diapers .Without spoiling DA:LEK, Yamato still holds onto that flame into adulthood but it’s not something he can actively work on; and that takes its toll. I love Yamato because he’s someone who cares so much about those around him and what he does; and he’s just a kid who’ sorting things out and wanting to better himself and well fuck, if that isn’t relateable. Even with the flaws that the Tri films have, I think it’s a natural progression for Yamato’s character journey. I see people saying how ‘they just turned him into a tsundere’ or ‘he’s so snappish now’. But seeing as most of the Tri cast are in High School and general teenagers are assholes to each other, yeah it’s not unreasonable to see why Yamato’s the way he is now. He didn’t lose his touch with the Crest of Friendship; when the literal world is up in flames, there’s still the same loyal and compassionate Yamato who understands the importance of being there for and with his friends. Yamato’s a big mushy boy who has a hard time conveying what he feels and his needs; Hikari isn’t any better and this was how I grew to love the concept of them being together. She’s not the Chosen Child of Light for nothing, Hikari’s symbiotic partnership with Tailmon is a very shoehorned metaphor of being an angel from Heaven and I absolutely eat that shit up. Fans have pointed out Hikari’s so mysterious with her role and powers as late member of the team, the same can be said for her personality. You see Hikari, you think ‘sweet, little girl’ and in part thanks to the 02 dub, she grows into being this sassy brat.

A brat who has trouble asserting herself and is prone to literally get dragged into an ocean of depression. Like any respectful human, Hikari cares for her friends and family; but a mixture of that and a tendency to devalue herself is Hikari’s fatal flaw. She’s too self-sacrificing to a fault, and this reflects the other extreme end of her crest. In my own overly pretentious words, I think Hikari has self-imposed on herself for ‘being the light of the team’; like she carries herself as a doll whose job is to bring others out of darkness when she’s still stuck in the shadows herself. Hikari doesn’t allow herself to verbalise her wants, let alone her needs because she doesn’t want to inconvenience others; she just goes with the flow and puts on a mask of toxic optimism.

I am aware this analyse could be me scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it’s how I interpreted Yamato and Hikari’s character; and now I’ll articulate my brain rot with how the fuck are these two being shipped.

You have these two people who already have this history and experience of being Chosen Children, but there’s also an underlying sub-connection of them being each other’s brothers’ best friend. As many Yakari fanfics have headcanon, it’s not unreasonable to think that Yamato’s at the Yagamis’ apartment frequently because A) Taichi is his best friend and B) The Ishida apartment is prolly empty ‘cause Hiroaki’s out being a workaholic. The Yagamis become the family that Yamato didn’t have growing up, and they welcome him with open arms. At their apartment, things are warm and rowdy, he doesn’t have to be alone with his thoughts and they treat him as a second son. Listen, I've been a diehard Takari shipper too, but I genuinely think Takeru and Hikari can be platonic soulmates. They know each other like the back of their hand, they’re cosmically entwined and their Digimon are in sync; they’re also legit a pair of best friends too. I know early 2000’s fics depict Yakari as being this big drama; but I have a weak heart and I’m here to say Yakari can be cosy and comforting and they’re just two idiots in love who need to be honest with each other.

I imagine their courtship not to be this grand display of fireworks and ‘the chase’, but a very subtle experience with slow burn. For me, Yakari is very much the first blossom of spring. They represent new beginnings and youth, the gentle lull of Mother Nature tending to the earth, something that’s natural but the routine has existed for centuries. Yakari is very much a gentle love, and with everything I’ve said about their characters; these two learn to embrace and nurture the other until they have a whole garden of spring’s blossoms.

This crackship has the surface-layer appeal of ‘brooding lone wolf’ and ‘sweet angel’, so when you peel the layers to find these two very private characters who just need that one-on-one reassurance/affirmation; this ship is a warm blanket of fluff and yes that’s basically the plot of my fics. It’s the charm of slice-of-life, the endearment of growing and improving yourself with the one you love with the occasional reminder that this is a series founded on puppies evolving into angels.

I’ve had enough of tragedies and melodramatic love affairs. I write about Yakari because as cliche as this sounds, I want more stories about ‘the light of friendship’. Yes that was a god awful line, but it captures why I have brain rot for this pair. To celebrate my first OMD, I have uploaded a special chapter on my AO3 fic titled ‘Mon ange’; it wouldn’t be August 1st if I didn’t half-hazardly work on this leading up to the big day. It couldn’t fit on Instagram, but this rambling piece is part of a bigger essay on my tumblr, so that’s also up and running. I hold Digimon near and dear to my heart, and I go about sharing that love by gushing about Yakari.

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