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still-a-morosexual-help · 8 months

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this year really isn't letting me be normal

#the sudden influx of all the queer media releasing their new seasons one after another has me frothing at the mouth #as soon as i get over one thing something else comes along #'s a good year to be gay and insane #obey me #obey me! nightbringer #good omens #good omens season 2 #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #our flag means death #ofmd #adventure time: fionna & cake #adventure time #the magnus protocol #?#does book 7 of twisted wonderland count?#choices blades of light and shadow #blades of light and shadow

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phaaz · 11 months

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princepotatosack · 7 months

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what if blades of light and shadow had youtube or whatever

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rusty-clockworks · 4 months

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#blades of light and shadow #blades of light and shadow 2 #bolas #bolas 2 #choices blades of light and shadow #choices blades of light and shadow 2 #choices bolas #playchoices #pixelberry

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livelaughlovecassie · 4 months

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Something about Tyril. The one most staunchly against Shadow magic at first. Being the one to help defend Valax

#my husband he’s grown so much #nobody’s doing it like him it’s true #blades of light and shadow #playchoices #choices blades of light and shadow #tyril starfury

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playchoicesconfessions · 7 months

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Sent by anonymous

‘I understand many of the critiques of Blades 2 but the fact of the matter is after 3 years of waiting, combined with the way the fandom created this bubble of perfection around the original book and placed it on this pedestal as some shining beacon of literary excellence? This book was never going to be able to meet people’s expectations, let alone exceed them.’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

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bedtimegiraffe · 30 days

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I finally figured out why all the party members in Book 2 come out as so frustratingly self-focused to me.

It's not because they're all struggling with their own stuff. It's all about shelving your agenda- that thing in a relationship where you go, 'You need my support right now, so we're going to worry about my thing later.'

And MC does this constantly.

I just barely escaped death and found out a year passed, but is Kade recovered from the Shadow Court?

I just almost drowned, but it's time to comfort this owlbear cub and unpack Valax's trauma!

I just almost died twice to the Ash Empress, but is Nia coping with being corrupted okay?

Which can be okay. Shelving your agenda is part of a healthy relationship of any kind.

The problem is that no one does it back. I think Tyril and Nia kind of sum up the whole group's attitude:

But I don't think MC was ever going to be 'ready.' Someone else was always going to have to 'unshelve' it for them and make an effort to put the focus on MC.

Now, adventurers don't tend to be particularly well adjusted people. The full party has got maybe 1.5 healthy childhoods and 4 living parents between them (judged pretty generously). But it still feels like the others can't get it together enough to ask if MC is okay. Not that MC really makes it easy! I see MC as someone who is so used to pushing their feelings down to focus on whatever work is in front of them, they almost can't access their own emotions.

Which is why we had the brief glimpses of panic and the breakdown moment in Chapter 17. I think the breakdown makes sense mechanically. Kade is the one character your MC is guaranteed to have a strong connection to and this way it's not gated behind any diamond choices (like some really crucial character moments with Aerin and Valax, no I'm not bitter about it). But that makes it feel like the whole party has been neglecting MC while Kade immediately sees MC and goes, "Dude, you are not okay. Talk to me.'

And MC tries to turn it into comforting Kade! Kade has to actively argue with MC to make them actually acknowledge that they're having a hard time.

MC for some reason can't or won't talk about their own trauma and Kade (who's only been around for 5 minutes) is the one who has to actively force the issue for MC's own good. Which is not a great look for the rest of the found family.

Afterward, Mal and Nia both seem to address it without really getting the point. Mal says, "We know things didn't go the way any of us wanted." (Which could mean... anything. But I'm feeling generous.)

Protecting MC from death is not an equivalent exchange to talking about feelings! It is in fact dodging the feelings by focusing on practicalities again! Y'all better get it together in Book 3, I swear.

Overall, MC constantly delays addressing their own vulnerability and issues to focus on everyone else. And the others don't know how to do the same thing for MC, so the pattern just gets more engrained and damaging.

Except for Kade, my perfect boy.

Sources (they're fun, I promise!):

Screenshots from Neckrone Shen's playthroughs of Blades on YouTube, my go-to for whenever I can't remember something or don't have the screenshots myself.

I think @oh-so-youre-a-nerd's incredible piece 'Take Take Take' kept rattling around in my head until I figured out how to articulate why it felt this way: https://www.tumblr.com/oh-so-youre-a-nerd/736449955360899072/take-take-take?source=share

The language of 'shelving your agenda' came from the very good Cinema Therapy video about Kristoff from Frozen:

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#I will choose to try and make things make sense in-universe rather than citing writing choices 100% of the time #I love the team I just think there were some windows of downtime they really could have used to check on MC (all the time on boats...)#choices blades of light and shadow #blades of light and shadow #choices blades #blades 2 #blades mc #choices bolas 2 #choices bolas #tyril starfury #nia ellarious #kade #kade of riverbend

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fairymatchmaker · 3 months

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⚔️🖤💛𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 💛🖤⚔️

I'm already late for the party 😆 but I'm very happy that I got to draw my babies!!😭💖

Discovering new style.

Characters by Pixelberry Studios @playchoices

@choicesficwriterscreations

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hotchocolatelovesyou · 5 months

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Okay, but like, you're not. And you better have a mental breakdown at one point or I'll make you have one.

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thedezzler · 2 months

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This is hilarious to me😭😭

Not by me‼️

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chanceisagoodboy · 4 months

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN IF WE CHOOSE THE SHADOW REALM, KADE KEEP ON LOOKING FOR US LATER ON 😭😭😭😭 HE CAN NEVER HEALLL

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still-a-morosexual-help · 5 months

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Yes yes virginity is a particularly stupid social construct and shouldn't matter unless it's a kink you're sharing with partner(s)

But also BOLAS MC fucked two virgins and seems to be on their way to fuck a third and 2/3rds of those virgins were evil and all three have tried to kill them at some point and I can't explain why this is so funny to me but it is

#choices bolas #blades of light and shadow spoilers #choices blades of light and shadow #blades of light and shadow #bolas 2 #bolas nia #bolas aerin #bolas valax #aerin valleros #nia x mc #aerin x mc #princess valax #valax x mc

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phaaz · 11 months

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