I love the portion of a sleepless night where you’ve totally given up, and start looking at your phone for some relief of the frustration and boredom, but it’s a double edged sword, bc it’s like damn my entire brain and eyes feel like gravel right now, why am I reading Lucy Sante’s obituary of Paul Auster lmfao
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Oh my God, you are helping raise foster cats? Pls explain in depth
yes!!!!!!!! i grew up w 8 cats and my "if i had a million dollars" dream has always been buying a lot of land w a barn to turn into a feral/stray cat sanctuary. luckily content creation has been treating me well and i've been able to rent a place w an extra room that i've been using to foster cats! first were cotton, poof, and bagheera from the humane society but i just signed up w a smaller shelter to help with longer term medical cases!!
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Current thing making me insane: Flint’s accent.
So we know extraordinarily little about Flint’s early history, really. Raised by grandfather, fisherman, from Padstow. That is a very specific location to give us, given vagueness of everything else.
The interesting thing is, Padstow is in Cornwall. The Cornish accent is by far one of the most distinct British accents, you would absolutely recognize it. And one of the main things you might recognize it from is that it is the basis of the ‘stereotypical’ pirate accent (thanks Robert Newton 1950 TI adaptation Silver). That’s how Flint would have spoken growing up, and he clearly erases all traces of that accent and is doing this very generic upper class London accent by the time he meets Thomas - a natural part of becoming educated/passing as a gentleman/etc, plenty has been written about that. Flint was not the first transformation in his life, Lt. McGraw was equally created.
Point being, when he ‘created’ Flint, it would have been VERY easy to revert to an earlier way of speaking to blend in. But he makes the choice to keep outsider status. His vibe remains very much ‘officer and gentleman who has turned to piracy’ rather than ‘naturally a pirate’ although he probably could have picked the latter if he wanted.
Why? Hm, I started but it got long. Flint and maintaining outsider status is perhaps a separate post. For now I will leave it at: probably some combination of perceived superiority, self punishment, and Miranda.
[I do acknowledge that Black Sails doesn’t actually do that accent pirates much anyway. I think some of it holds just in terms of class differences though, and still an interesting choice]
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. - Allen Ginsberg
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Hey hey I need to uuh hum fight you at the back of a Denny's or something over those tags on my cyberpunk post lile wtf? That's such a good analysis of his character I love your work a lot in general but this is doing me in I'm gonna cry, you're so fucking right about this dumb broken man 🥺😠
I will not fight you I will bake you a cake and give you a kiss because you're very sweet I appreciate your kindness 😘
I really love your perspective on Johnny's disabilities and addictions impacting how he sees and interacts with the world-- as someone who herself isn't disabled I tend to overlook the way people view the world through that lens and as a result have realized that I haven't touched upon it much in my own analysis of Cyberpunk, and your insight really was spot-on and spoke to me in a way I hadn't considered before.
I talk a lot about the themes and meta of the game but Pondsmith himself came out and said, like, before the game came out that Johnny is not the hero of the story. He THINKS he's the hero of the story but the way people and even himself idolize him and his actions are in many ways his biggest shortcoming. Johnny is addicted to the image of himself, much like he's addicted to his vices and addicted to his cause. He needs his anchors no matter how detrimental they are to him, but in many respects those anchors were never his choice. Now he's stuck in his place, dug in and unable to move, and that's the way he dies. Alone, unmoored, and stuck in his ways.
He's a very tragic and even empathetic character-- I do understand why he does the things he does and feel for him when he suffers tragedies-- but treating him as a hero of this story is wrong, in my opinion. He's a disabled, traumatized war veteran who was set up in life to fail at a very early age. His flaws are of his own making. They are not of his own design.
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no i respect the hater vibes o7 thank you! that is very much an Odd Decision that the mod author made and I'll keep an eye on it during my first playthrough.
(also I may also be a story mod hater, so far I've not particularly enjoyed any of the ones I tried but I had just assumed I had been unlucky with the ones I tried out or they weren't my thing)
There are definitely mods out there to edit the visual choices for Vigilant, at least, including the robes.
I have a few on my list to try that are supposed to be good: The Forgotten City, Wyrmstooth, Moon and Star, and Legacy of the Dragonborn.
Also there are a few new ones I'm curious about called Sirenroot and Warden of the Coast.
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I love all your Billy HCs they deserve more notes! What are his favorite 80s bands and who do you think he'd have crushes on?
gosh tysm!! 🥺🤍🤍
motley crue - some people say he'd be a tommy lee or a nikki sixx groupie and i say he'd be a groupie of both. nikki as a sag sun and billy as an aries sun? he’d live for the chaotic fire sign match energy. tommy is that tall libra drummer greek god that would have his mouth foaming for.
guns n roses - easy, he is a an izzy straddlin girly. izzy is that quiet introvert aries he’d adore for his extrovert aries vibe he’d die to have a song writen about him by izzy!. after him i can see him having a thing for slash, duff and steven adler. axl is more like his inspiration icon in the personal, family trauma matter, style and hard work ethic but at the same time he’d fight him so bad lmao
INXS - i know i know not metal but still rock & roll af and eighties enough for billy to vibe with. he is beyond infatuated with michael hutchence he'd so believe he was his perfect muse ok bye he wished he wrote never tear us apart about him.
bon jovi - wants to get railed by the entire band specially jon and richie.
ratt - he daydreams he’s married to stephen pearcy in another life. periodt.
winger - bestie, kip winger is his main rock & roll love. if he hears anyone saying they find him unattractive he would so bully you for that and honestly he’d so have the right for that because this is kip fucking winger. he’s also his hair and aesthetic icon.
poison - his thot energy increased after seeing the sex tape of brett michaels and pamela anderson do i need to continue elaborating on that one.
dokken - same as bon jovi, would kill to get railed by don and george.
L.A. guns - i once readed here someone posting that he jerks off to kelly nickels. which is something i didn't think i needed to know until then so yes that is canon
cinderella - he is loud and excited claiming he’d look so cute with tom keifer okay. heather, robin, carol, max, el and chrissy would kill anyone that tells him otherwise
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