#clan nonsense

[grineerios]

i have strong opinions about him okay

[Text under Volt Prime reads: THREAT -sharp -orokin-y -frowny face energy -will kill everyone you love -trash talks you on xbox live] [Text under standard Volt reads: FRIEND -round™ -no thoughts head empty -has a lil stupid smile -gives great hugs -moves like a newborn foal]

#this was brought on by a clanmate asking why i didn't have a volt prime noggle #and i had to explain threat vs friend #warframe #personal nonsense #volt #volt prime #clan nonsense

[nixnmatch]

Just a Normal Exchange between Tenno

just a normal everyday exchange with @grineerios

#clan nonsense #cereal ass motherfucker (affectionate) #rig rambles #warframe #nix n kaine

[uldren-sobs]

Some cool screenshots

And then some General Disrespect

#destiny 2 #screenshots #root of nightmares #lightfall #nezarec #clan nonsense

[laufire]

also while we're at this jason is far less of an "unreliable" narrator than you always act like he is, you just can't accept the other bats ever fuck up.

#also the other bats are unreliable narrators *regarding jason* #but if you think jason would get over his INCONVENIENT FEELINGS #(trauma and righteous anger) #if ONLY he knew (prioritised) what the other bats suffered (about something that happened to HIM) #that's soooo not a conversation you're ready to have #talking to the void #my thoughts #jason todd #dc #dc comics #dc thoughts #bat clan #fandom nonsense #bitter lau tag

[badass-at-fandoming]

Nosferawwwtu

From A Crochet World of Creepy Creatures and Cryptids by Rikki Gustafson

#vampire the masquerade #vtm #world of darkness #wod #vtmb #nosferatu #clan nosferatu #text post #my vtm nonsense #crochet

[neosatsuma]

I for one would be thrilled if the big bads were defeated through 1) the power of comedy and 2) the criminal justice system (randomly applied)

#jjk #jjk spoilers #the fact that Higuruma CAN'T CHOOSE what Judgeman prosecutes if the funniest thing on earth to me #I DO think it's interesting that iirc both Takaba and Higuruma were granted their techniques by the stunt Kenjaku pulled #like. techniques like this were largely extinct bc of the progressively increased focus on assured-hit domains right #and the conservative higher ups want to maintain the traditions of the last couple hundred years or whatever #they don't like weird techniques like Hakari's #and the major clans want to maintain certain inherited techniques #sorry I'm overhearing my boss being really embarrassing Im losing focus here #long story short: techniques/domains that aren't focused on combat seem to have largely died out #Takaba's and Higuruma's techniques are like. cloned wooly mammoths or something. reintroduced. #BY KENJAKU #so it'd be extremely funny if it was These Techniques that were the lynchpin in taking the bad guys down #my nonsense #jujutsu kaisen #jjk 244

[amorremanet]

seeing a post that has interesting canon analysis and wanting to reblog it until you get to the last paragraph and just

#fandom shenanigans #tumblrisms #actual about me #wank for ts #opinions for ts #kassie hush #mine: text #i am always here to talk about how MXTX Be Gendering Again in her novels #bc truly there is SO MUCH to talk about re: how she plays with gender & this usually applies to Wangxian Bingqiu & Hualian bc Main Ships #but it also happens with the supporting characters & relationships and i love love LOVE analysis of this shit #please do talk to me about how the relationship coding w/ jiang cheng & wei wuxian is more romantic than brotherly & jc gets the fem tropes #but that being said: it’s one thing to say that JIANG CHENG believes wei wuxian’s ‘blah blah blah duty & debt to the jiang clan’ nonsense #from guanyin temple…………but i deeply question the media literacy of any READERS who actually believe that story for themselves lmao #i also seriously question their read on wwx as a character when he spends the entire novel being an unreliable narrator abt his own feelings #but like okay cool we have fundamentally irreconcilable reads on both wwx & chengxian; you do you *thumbs up*

[cero-sleep]

Reunion

#nautical nonsense #mermay #clan of the cursed #fnaf y/n #my art i guess vdkshdk #art #illustration #procreate #mermaid #siren

[krokaxe]

Larson • Marlee

#krok.png #OC Art #OC Artist #OC #Original Character #OC Sheet #OC: Lars #OC: Kitty #OC: Warren #OC: Lena #Spot the member of the family that came from the vampire clan #Making sheets I can use for easy swatches/references #Refreshing after spending many days archiving Yet More Nonsense #After being ripped off #Again.

[majimassqueaktoy]

All I do is see yakuza fans give horrible advice on what order to play the games and they do it with so much conviction

#just play chronologically #like literally just play 0 through 7 lmao #if i started with 7 i can tell you right now i would have said 'wow this game play sucks and i dont know what all this tojo clan shit is' #like its such weird advice #also seeing people be like play kiwami 1 and 2 and then play 0 #????? Nishiki is not going to hit the same if you dont already know him??? #ALSO IF YOU PLAY KIWAMI 2 THEN THE MAJIMA SAGA WILL BE NONSENSE? #like you guys played the games regular but give new potential fans horrid advice its kinda funny #yeah actually start with 3 and then play 6 and then play 1 but the og ps1 game and then play lost judgment and then snort crack

[grineerios]

Invincible Summer Days - Octavia Prime, Titania Prime, and Volt (feat. VeriTimeLord and BethTheBeek)

#warframe #personal nonsense #grineerios captura #octavia prime #octavia #titania prime #titania #volt #clan nonsense

[featherdawn]

so I'm finishing up The First Battle and like. yeah gray wings "tell the stars you won" line fucks hard but where did this come from. u spent like 3 books doing nothing but whining over everyone hating ur brother for being a power hungry dictator. where did this change of mind come from. ESPECIALLY SINCE MINUTES AFTER U GO BACK TO CODDLING HIM.

this chapter should've been from his pov. like I wouldn't hate this nearly as much if we saw his thought process; the brutal realization thar he can't keep denying that clear sky is a shitty person and everyone was right about him. idk. either that or give the line to thunder.

#warrior cats #dotc #dawn of the clans #gray wing #clear sky #i do not like gray wing can u tell #i think i might actually like him less thsn clear sky #like dont get me wrong clear sky sucks but like. in a way thats lowkey compelling now that ive been in his head a while #like this shitty awful guy justifying his shotty awful actions and then getting scolded by like 20 ppl at once is delectable #but gray wing? GOD shut up #we get it u love ur brother but can u stop fuckinh whining about how everyone hates him #“all he did was murder and threaten over nonsense borders why does everyone insist hes a bad guy :( hes just scared guys :(

[laufire]

would you mind expanding more on what you dislike about the gotham knights social services arc? i've always been a fan of the way it depicts jason! robin, and how bruce, alfred, dick, and tim each speak about him in the interviews. even if the way the arc depicts social services as antagonistic and ultimately concludes in "bruce has no culpability for jason's death" is a little objectionable. i'd be curious to hear your thoughts.

honestly, I remember the arc crossing victim blaming jason & trying to portray him as someone the audience might find unsympathetic territory for my taste (joke's on them, he's never done anything wrong, etc. etc.).

I don't mind how it portrays social services in gotham at large: they're a corrupt bunch willing to look the other way when it comes to a rich guy's possible mistreatement of kids in his care; one (1) person tries to actually do something about a dubious situation but ultimately decides he can't or won't go against bruce, following the corrupt institution's mandates instead. it does piss me off that there's absolutely no self-awareness about how maaaaaaybe. mr bruce batman wayne. whose purported goal is to end the crime and corruption in the city. is instead fully taking advantage of it here, in order to COVER UP HIS SON'S MURDER. like. jfc. there's NO acknowledgment in the comics that bruce didn't just ~not avenge~~ jason, he effectively robbed him of any possible justice for his death.

but what I hate most about it is this (second image). the whole "you hold no responsibility for jason's death because you were not his father, but also if you were his father it's fine, you still did right by him" of it all.

it pisses me off so fucking much!! first of all, this version of barbara is ADOPTED, AT ROUGHLY THE AGE JASON WAS WHEN HE DIED. so. ??? am I supposed to take this as an attempt to erase the adoption? I would make a joke about bruce friendzoning his son but man, it's so shitty that they do this lol.

like, we can either take the run at face value, and think, okay. jason was a troubled kid with violence issues due to his shitty upbringing. he was not what he was portrayed as in his original robin tenure, which was yes, a troubled teen, but also an extremely compasionate one who wanted to do good, who protected victims because he strongly empathised with them, and who was actually good at the whole robin thing, often being of invaluable help to bruce. no, instead let's believe he was everything robin SHOULDN'T be, that he should've NEVER been made robin, if only for his own sake, and definitely for other people's. and oh, bruce didn't even consider him a son. he was just Some Kid he tried to "reform" but always saw as a delinquent, as a project.

in which world doesn't this make bruce worse?

my personal take is that this is how bruce, barbara, alfred & co cope with jason's death, and this is a take I do see often. but it's a take that the narrative never challenges. never. not here, not when jason returns. it goes uncriticised, unacknowledged as a falsehood. and when jason is alive his character can speak for himself and does, but when he was dead he was just that. dead, gone. no part of the narrative was on his side.

this is related to why I immediately will stop taking you seriously if you claim jason was a better character when he was dead lol. when he "haunted" the narrative. he didn't haunt shit, it was all like this! what people mean by saying this is that they're uncomfortable with how jason's return completely fucks up the ~batfamily status quo and they can't be comfortable with it anymore. jason keeps pocking holes at it.

#replies #anonymous #talking to the void #bitter lau tag #fandom nonsense #dc #dc comics #jason todd #bruce wayne #favourites: fucked up families #bat clan

[badass-at-fandoming]

Is Beckett meant to be a poc (in vtmb)? I think so based on his facial features and his skin being a light shade of brown. But he was born in Britain during the 1700s-1600s which makes being non-white a lot less likely (though there were poc even back then).

This is an interesting question, @chinesegal! Thank you for your patience with me answering it. I was traveling, but now I'm back!

When I look at Beckett in Bloodlines, I interpret him as a white British man. But a lot can change depending on what mods one uses to make the game work. For example, this Beckett...

...looks much less pale than this Beckett:

One must also factor in Bloodlines' poor lighting. As any visual artist trying to figure out Sebastian LaCroix's hair color will tell you, the lighting in VTMB is a terrible, mercurial beast. The dingy lighting certainly aides the grimy, uncertain atmosphere, but poor fan artists struggle.

The last sticky point I can think of is how all the Kindred characters are supposed to have a "deathly pallor," especially if they have lower Humanity. Deathly pallor can muck up skin tone wonderfully. I think Strauss would be the best example. He's an older Kindred (LA by Night states he was at the Convention of Thorns in 1493) and made a gargoyle (which involves torture), so he's definitely on the lower end of the Humanity scale. According to VtM's lore, Strauss has trouble maintaining a lively, human appearance. Some fans interpret him as white and often point to his white voice actor, Jim Ward. Others remark on Strauss' resemblance to Morpheus from The Matrix Trilogy, cite the deathly pallor lore, and interpret him as a Black man with graying skin. As in, Strauss looks closer to what a Black man's corpse would look like. The deathly pallor factor allows for this interpretation, and in the gap can nicely fit Cuthbert Beckett. He's an Elder Kindred and has had periods of low Humanity. Maybe he's brown and has been through the wringer.

VtM has a tenuous relationship with history, but if you want to check in with it, real life history doesn't obstruct an interpretation of Beckett as Black or brown. British people have had black or brown skin since forever, as you referenced. The oldest Englishman, Mesolithic era Cheddar man's skin is possibly darker than the reconstruction suggests. Ya gotta remember that white skin came to be because people weren't getting enough Vitamin D. If Beckett is descended from the indigenous Celtic Britons (unlikely but possible), his ancestors might not have been malnourished and lived somewhere the sun could penetrate the mists of Avalon.

So like, given all the above, you can definitely argue that Beckett's a Black or brown British guy. Whatever floats your boat.

That wasn't exactly your question, however. You asked if Beckett's meant to be a person of color or white. This implies you want to know the devs' original intention with the game, which I guess at being Beckett as a white man.

Beckett has been described as white in past White Wolf publications. Or rather, not described, because white is default skin tone in so many works, very unfortunately. In the Victorian Trilogy, much is made of Halim Bey, Theo Bell, and Hesha Ruhadze's black skin, but Beckett's skin tone gets no comment. He's "a long-haired man" with a "wolfish grin one might imagine on a privateer from a past age," (The Wounded King, pg 123-125). Someone describes him as "a pauper's version of Buffalo Bill Cody," (197). When his lover Emma disrobes him, the text notes "his feline pupil slits [and] amber irises," (pg 204). Special attention is paid to Beckett's hands: "dark hair, slick like sable covered the back of his hand, fading to a more human-seeming growth on his forearms" and "His fingers were longer than a man's should be, and the nails were hard and thick like a dog's," (ibid). In Year of the Scarab Trilogy's Land of the Dead, he describes himself with "lean, muscular physique [with] round smoked glasses [hinting] at a pretty boy slumming," (pg 101). By the absence of skin tone description, by the unfortunate reality that white skin is seen as default and therefore unworthy of comment, we can infer that Beckett is white. That's to say nothing of the Vampire: the Masquerade - Beckett comic, which depicts him as white. I wouldn't give the VTMB developers the grace or credit to suddenly deter from this character history.

After all, these are the same devs that failed to come up with a story with Chinese people that wasn't Yellow Peril drivel, created a white PC with "locs," declined to brown Nines' skin, and made Skelter imply that Black Americans make up their own oppression. Just like, all of Chinatown is hard for Chinese and Japanese players to get through. Even by 2004 standards, it's real shitty. With these other missteps, it's hard to imagine they'd have the creativity to re-design Beckett as brown or Black. I think they meant him to be interpreted as white.

But you don't have to! Death to the authors! In your fan art, fan casts, picrew, fanfic, chronicles etc, he can be brown, Black, indigenous, or whatever ethnicity bees your knees. You create the Beckett reality in your Beckett-loving head.

Thank you again for the ask, and I hope the essay made the wait worth it!

#ask #text post #chinesegal #cuthbert beckett #beckett #vtm #gangrel #my vtm nonsense #vampire the masquerade bloodlines #vtmb #wod #world of darkness #clan gangrel

[weepingnightmarenaruto]

Like why did Kishimoto make the Uchihas cops?

Konoha is a military village, so there can’t be that many civilians. Like we have Ayame and the Ichiruki ramen guy (did we ever get his name?). We don’t really know anything about Tenten and Lee’s families and we barely know anything about Sakuras (her dad was a ninja I think). Other than that all of the Konoha characters are ninjas and the parents that we get to know were also ninjas. So like how many civilians could there really be? Not that many. So then who were the Uchiha police force meant to police? The soldiers when they were off duty? On duty? It could be, but why would Tobirama give the Uchihas that much systemic power when he didn’t really like them and wanted to oppress them? Is it because of the whole “people don’t tend to like the ones that crack down on crime” thing? Like “Boohoo people don’t like cops because they have systemic power and have a tendency to abuse it”, “Poor them”. what?

Like why did Kishimoto decide to make this weird connection between a fictional oppressed group (the Uchihas) and a real life oppressor group (cops)? He didn’t have to do it, but he still did. And like why? It’s not really needed for the plot to work, but he still kept bringing it up. What was his intention with this? Is he just stupid?

#Naruto #uchiha clan #I will never understand kishimoto and the way he comes up with plots #This was such a nonsensical plot😭😭 #what was Kishimoto thinking? #I’m very inclined to say that kishimoto is ‘blue lives matter’ #but considering how he ended up doing the Uchiha plot line #he seem to be more ‘fuck cops’ #that said though the story as a whole is very ‘pro’ military and imperialism #so like #what did he mean with this? #kishimoto is just stupid #ignore my rant😭😭😭

[cloudblaze]

There's so much tension in Squirrelflight's Hope that's kind of interesting to read, but I'm constantly distracted from the narrative by just.... Why...? Why don't the Clans just expand their borders a little further from the lake? Every time a POV character goes outside their territory it's noted that there's tons of space that way. It's such an easy solution????

#the only clan that i think would have trouble doing that is riverclan #their territory is kinda boxed in between the lake + windclan + a road + twolegplace #but everybody else? #thunderclan and windclan especially. just? go further out??? #crowfeather had to walk all night in his SE to find any roads or towns so clearly the land next to windclan is free to hunt on #the protags in po3/oots wandered all over the place beyond thunderclan and shadowclan so clearly there's room there too #I'm also constantly distracted by the authors i guess forgetting that theres a forest on windclan territory #they keep saying that it's moorland as soon as you cross the border stream. uh no?? #i guess consistency isn't something i expect from this series but this level of nonsense makes every cat look so incompetent