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spacefinch · 1 month

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Incorrect Quotes: Wild Field Trips edition, part 2:

Ralphie: I'm in my mum's car, vroom vroom.

Dr. Tennelli: Get out of me car!

Ralphie: Awww.

Martin: You have entered RADICAL SATURDAY

Aviva: Today's Friday, though.

Martin: IRRELEVANT

Zach: Oh sorry, I fell asleep while I was waiting on you to make me a sandwich.

Gourmand: Go back to sleep AND STARVE.

Alternatives to “Ladies and gentlemen”:

D.A.: Ladies, gentlemen, and others

Carlos: Ladies and germs

Koki: Beloved friends and tolerated acquaintances

Wanda: Allies, enemies, and those I’m still deciding about

Zach: Fellow scoundrels

Tim: Entities of interest

Jenny: Guys, gals, and non-binary pals

Evan: All y’all

Tim: Folks

Dr. Tennelli: Distinguished guests

Ralphie: Comrades

Martin: My dudes

Chris: A warm welcome to everyone who managed to sneak past the Zachbots

Mikey: Eating chips with chopsticks is unironically galaxy brain. Your fingers don’t get greasy and it lasts for longer.

Ronan: Fork

Mikey: Oh, yeah, I’m going to stab my crunchy foods and make them fall apart like an absolute absentminded dunce, fool, clown, jester, like a monstrous moron, an idiot of Shakespearean proportions, a cretin.

Jimmy: Um, you seem to forget that ‘chips’ can also mean fries. And that’s probably what he was talking about, haha

Mikey: I did not forget anything. I purposely ignore the idea of using British vocabulary to do my part in helping it die out.

Keesha: Really? EVERYBODY was kung fu fighting? I find that hard to believe. Stop feeding me these lies.

Chris: Well it was really hard to see if it was everyone, you see they were as fast as lightning.

Carlos: And to be honest, it was a little bit frightening.

Ralphie: KNOWLEDGE is knowing that a tomato is technically a fruit.

Phoebe: WISDOM is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Ralphie: PHILOSOPHY is wondering if a tomato is a fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie?

Dr. Tennelli, about to kick them both out of the kitchen: COMMON SENSE is knowing that ketchup isn't a smoothie.

Martin: I put my Creaturepod down and now I can't find it.

Chris: Want me to call it?

Martin: It's on silent.

Chris: I'll call it anyway.

*Everyone stands around listening for a faint buzzing sound*

Carlos: I'm going to give raccoons the gift of fire and then teach them ceramics and they will make little bowls with their little hands.

Aviva: You cannot give raccoons that kind of power!

Wanda: The opposite of "the elephant in the room" is "the centipede in the room." Something that's not actually an issue, but everyone's freaking out about.

Chris: As someone who has worked with venomous animals, I can assure you that a centipede in the room is in fact a very big issue.

Gavin: If you have knees, you are valid.

Phoebe: Homophobes have knees, too.

Gavin: Not for long.

Carlos: Who is teaching my dad Zoomer slang?

*earlier*

Mr. Ramon (via text message): What do you think? I totally stan it

Carlos: Stop

Keesha: Stop excluding the B from LGBT. I'm sick of it. British people should be proud of who they are. Screw you.

Zach: What means “I hate you” in dinosaur?

Carlos: No. Dinosaur is the language of love.

Katie: I almost dropped my Creaturepod on my soft carpeted floor but thank god I have lightning fast reflexes and was able to slap it into the wall instead.

Wanda: I heard my brother [Henry] say he was going to Dairy Queen, so I snuck in his car and he has no idea I’m here.

Wanda: He asked his friend what he wanted and I popped up from the floor and said “I was thinking about a milkshake." I have never heard two teenage boys scream louder.

Carlos: Do not stand near the open fire when you have a tube of cocoa butter in your thigh pocket.

Jenny: This is so oddly specific. What happened?

Carlos: I am confident in your ability to figure it out from the clues provided.

Aidan: You’ve heard of mom friends. Now get ready for: Anti-mom friend. They suggest every single impulsive thought that runs through their head like, "Hey, what if you jumped in that pond in the middle of the night?" to the group while the mom friend begs them to stop.

Phoebe: Eldest sibling friend.

(Both of them look at Carlos)

Keesha: Hi, could I ask how exactly does one accidentally set a lemon on fire?

Martin: Microwave for 40 minutes

Keesha: Why were you microwaving a lemon??

Martin: I read boiling lemons helps cover up bad smells (I wanted to cover up the scent of burnt oranges), but we don't have a big enough pot on the Tortuga.

Keesha: Did you burn an orange too? How??

Martin: Microwave for 40 minutes

Carlos: Love is dead and never existed. All you did was betray me as I lay sick and festering. You are the definition of dread.

Phoebe: Are you okay?

Carlos: My cat stole my freakign garlic bread.

Carlos: A theif

DA: Thief?

Carlos: Theif

DA: I before e, except after c

Carlos: Thceif

DA: No

Dr. Skeledon: Children, this is dirt.

Arnold, Carlos, and Phoebe: dirt? dirt? dirt? dirt? dirt?

Wanda: My mom is asleep, quick reblog this post with skeletons saying bad words.

Phoebe: 💀Tax evasion

Keesha: 💀Gerrymandering

Carlos: 💀Music piracy

Gavin: 💀Rug burn

Mikey: 💀Frick

#magic school bus #incorrect quotes #wild kratts #wild field trips

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donut-cloud · 1 year

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Lifesteal incorrect quotes

Mappic: I'm the most responsible in the group.

Ro: You've literally just set everything on fire.

Mappic: I know, and I take full responsibility for it.

Spoke, texting in the group chat: I wonder what Apple shots would look like?

Mappic: *sends a picture of of a syringe with an apple slice shoddily edited inside*

Zam: *sends a picture of a shot glass with an Apple poorly drawn inside*

Parrot: *sends a picture of a person dunking a basketball into a hoop but replaces the basketball with a poorly resized apple*

Ro: I hate all of you.

Branzy: Why is Zam crying?

Mappic: He said the only food that can make you cry is an onion.

Branzy: ...and?

Mappic: I threw a watermelon at him.

Zam: We're trying to write a card for Branzy's birthday and it is not going well.

Clown: How about "Best of luck for the next 40 years"?

Mappic: He's 28, Clown

Clown: Yes, the average life expectancy is around 60-80

Ivory: No you can't write that

Mappic: "Many happy returns for many years that I'm sure you will have"

Zam: That still sounds oddly threatening

Ivory: "I hope you have a happy day and... many subsequent years"

Zam : Stop making it sound like he's dying!

Cube: Has anyone seen Spep and Mid?

Parrot: I think they're taking a walk outside. Said something about "A very important conversation".

*Spep, and Mid outside*

Mid: At my funeral you have leave my casket closed and play Pop goes weasel-

Spep, writing it down: Ok, what else?

Mid: Take the bouquet off my casket, throw it into the crowd, and whoever catches it you have to say you're next.

Spep, still writing it down: Like the opposite of a wedding?

Mid: Yes!

Spep: *Pauses and looks at Mid*

Spep: I love it!

Mid, out of nowhere: I scare people a lot because I walk very softly and they don't hear me enter rooms. So when they turn around, I'm just kind of there and their fear fuels me.

Cube, sleep-deprived and very shocked out of his brains: WhEreE dId YoU cOmE fRoM?!?!

Clown whipping his scythe out: Who dareth creepeth up on me?

Ash: I think we should get a divorce.

Red: What are you doing?

Ash: Just practicing.

Red: Why are you already planning your hypothetical divorce?

Ash: I don't know.

Red: You don't even have a partner.

Ash: Hypothetically divorce me.

Red: Okay, then I'm hypothetically taking half your assets.

Red: you didn't sign the hypothetical prenup.

Ash: you DID hypothetically sign one.

Red : Who the fuck is this guy?

Ash: I'm his hypothetical lawyer in this divorce case.

Red: Well then, I'm taking the hypothetical kids.

Red, to Mid: Right? We can get those, right?

Mid: Yes, we can definitely get the hypothetical kids, don't worry about it.

Hal: Who the fuck is this hypothetical werido? hypothetical idiot glasses-wearing nerd.

Mid: Wow, that is a lot of hypothetical insults. I need to keep these on for continuity because I look like the other lawyer.

Ash: This is MY hypothetical lawyer and we have been hypothetically WE ARE TAKING ALL THE ASSETS

Red: How could you hypothetically do this to me?!

Ash: Because you hypothetically are an alcoholic!

So I'm back I know that I posted that I was addicted to reading?. Nah I didn’t post that, that was my friend. The real reason is that the same friend deactivated my ac and I was just too lazy to un deactivate my ac.

#lifesteal #lifestealsmp #lifesteal smp #princezam #ashswag #Parrot

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mayflora-18 · 18 days

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Ssssooooo. . . Here’s the dealio.

Anyone who has seen my posts, especially the incorrect quotes, would know I have created an OC for Call of Duty named Sherlock.

Sometimes I will watch a video on YouTube or read something and my brain will immediately say, “OMG, that’s so Sherlock!” and then I proceed to create random facts and scenarios for her in (yes, Sherlock is a woman) that I think are so great that I don’t want to lose them.

Going through @cod-dump’s asks for her OC Moose was the final straw.

For the last three weeks I’ve been looking at her posts for #shadow company moose and I’ve been answering some of them for my OC on sticky notes, if that makes sense.

I have decided to post them, and whatever other questions you guys might have for my character, you can just gently interrogate me in my ask box.

Cool? Cool!

Let the fact-dropping begin!

Hope you enjoy, too Mike!

(Edit) No pressure tags: @harveywritings92 @dawn-the-dazed @natelia-aldelliz @homicidal-slvt @tanukigobrrr @sluttylittlewaistenthusiast @hurrraaid @skylarsblue @a-small-writer-in-a-big-world @bluegiragi @lazybutsmexy @nrdmssgs @shadeops21 @sleepyconfusedpotato @tojisun @astraluminaaa @ghouljams @ghostslillady @loving-azerath @deadbranch @ghostaholics @kneelingshadowsalome @ageless-aislynn @anitalenia @konigsblog @imsilay @fartybraind @prodigy-from-pluto @rowarn @katz-chow @diejager @sofasoap @gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot @azkza @redpool @hisa-plush @gremlinstuffsblog @sans-chara @glucosegaurdian3rd @ihrtgw @needle-and-voice-thread-and-lies @bug-is-snug @aye-liyah @dawnofazrael @alexisdefinitelylmao & @lea08

#fact dropping #call of duty #call of duty oc #cod modern warfare #i need attention #shadow company moose #cod sherlock #inspired by cod-dump

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bnha-more-like-bnh-gay · 2 years

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Things I’ve said during mental breakdowns as incorrect bnha quotes, because humor is my coping mechanism part something:

Shouto: it’s fine, my aunt mom just wants me dead I guess lol

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Mei: I don’t need therapy, I have humor 😎

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Shinsou: it’s chill, we’re Gucci

*narrator voice* they were decidedly not chill or Gucci

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Izuku or kaminari: I’m just a ball of,,,,, bleh

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Sero: in theory,, I am funny; but in practice? in practice, I am fucking hilarious

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Mina: 🎶crying myself to sleep and pretending I don’t exist. This is a myth, and time is just a metaphor🎶

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Kaminari: aaaaaand time to write my feelings out in vent fanfiction. Yeehaw motherfuckers, it’s time to cry

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Shinsou: my trauma really just pulled up in a Tesla and told me to ‘get in, you sack of shit’

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Kaminari: I swear to whatever, if I don’t finish this homework right now, I will vanish from existence. I’ll just,, poof. Bye bye, kaminari. No more denki, just. Disappear, in my little, disappointment. hole

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Izuku: I want to edit my life

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Izuku: so, thanks to doctor who, we know that if you touch your past self, bad things happen. But we don’t know to what extent this is. If you touch something your past self has touched, will bad things happen because you touched the dead skin cells of your past self?

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Kaminari: I wish I was puppy living lavish lifestyle

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Toga, for some reason?!: *messes up saying something* yup, good job, Toga. Thank you, toga, I try my best! And yet you’re still a failure. Hahah that’s not funny, that’s just mean 🥲

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Mina: why do school when you can just freak out over not doing school and sit there having a panic attack? Ahahahahah, oh god, someone please kill me

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Hitoshi: I haven’t slept in so long, and it’s great because my brain is numb and the world is fuzzy. But I’m like, really smart, it doesn’t matter that I fell down the stairs today- it probably didn’t help that I haven’t eaten or drank anything for the last 19 hours, so I’m also really fucking stupid, but in a genius type way-

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Mina or toru: because I am a ✨material girl✨ I will blow my bank account on stuffed animals, as this is the only way I receive serotonin

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Shouto: I haven’t had a hug in years, and you know what? That’s okay. Normalize being touch starved. It’s okay, you depraved freak. There is nothing- there is very little… it’s okay to have things wrong with you. You’re not killing people, you’re fine.

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Momo or izuku: I love this book more than I love myself-which I will admit, is not hard-but still. That should count for something

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Shinsou: I have not slept in 53 hours, and you know what? That’s okay. Normalize being unhinged. The dissociation bean juice (coffee) might only make me more tired, but it’s as bitter as my soul, and I feel alive and dead at the same time: the duality of man. How iconic of me

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Kaminari: I just spent three hours staring at a blank page because my writer’s block is stronger than All Might, but you know what? That’s okay. Because I have memes to carry me through the day. When in doubt, meme it out

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incorrect-whos-lila · 1 year

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hi! i’m mod lila, and welcome to incorrect who’s lila quotes! about the mod, rules, and tagging system can be found under the cut. i hope you enjoy your stay! :)

about the mod!

hi, i’m mod lila. you can call me that if you’d like, otherwise, i also go by marshy. i use any pronouns, but generally have a preference for he/him or they/them. i’ll be the one running this blog, as well as contributing quotes of my own to fill the queue with—currently, i’m not looking for additional mods since i don’t expect this blog to be too overwhelming to maintain, but if that changes, i’ll be sure to make a post about it! my main is @marshmellowtea, and occasionally i make unhinged posts about this game over there. :)

rules for the blog! (well actually some of these are more like loose guidelines but still lol)

submissions are open for this blog, including anon submissions. i as mod reserve the right to refuse submissions i feel are inappropriate, but hopefully those those will be few and far between.

quotes will post once a day based on queue, unless there’s a reason to change that (such as a huge influx of submissions). quotes will be both from myself and submissions, and they will be tagged accordingly. submissions will be tagged with the blog url of the submitter as well if applicable, otherwise they’ll be tagged as anon. :)

because the queue is run on submissions and my own brain power, this blog may have periods of inactivity from time to time. sorry in advance for that ^^;

if your submission hasn’t been posted in a reasonable amount of time (depending on how the queue looks that time period will probably change), feel free to send an ask about it! i just ask that you don’t hound me about it, i do have a life outside of this blog after all, lol.

if you know the source of your quote, please include it in your submission! unknown sources will be tagged as “source: unknown”, but i think part of the fun of an incorrect quotes blog is seeing where all the quotes come from so i’d like to minimize use of that tag as much as possible. if you see a quote with an unknown source that you recognize the source of, please feel free to send in an ask!

light nsfw will be allowed (think things like jokes and allusions to sexual content), and will be tagged as #suggestive. no full on smut in the inbox though, please.

this is more of a personal preference than a hard and fast rule, but i highly recommend putting your submissions in chat format if possible (or quote format, if it’s a quote for one character and you think it fits better). i’ll still publish submissions in normal text post format, but i just think it looks neater, haha. also, as mod, i may go in and edit the formatting of your post if needed for readability (ex. bolding character names, adding paragraph breaks if need be), but i’ll never change the actual text of the post itself (that includes typos, btw—if you see a typo in your submission, feel free to send in an ask to get it fixed! i just don’t want to fuck with your text without permission, it feels rude, lol). ^-^

please do not send submissions through the ask box! submissions sent through the ask box will be deleted!

any content that i feel needs a trigger warning will be tagged as “tw [thing]”, and trigger tags can be asked to be added for certain posts, though i reserve the right to deny tag requests for any reason (they will probably almost always get a yes, but there are some things that i may just be unable to tag for whatever reason. not....quite sure what those reasons could be, but i figured i'd put the warning out there, lol). on the whole, though, while i understand this game can be dark and deals with some heavy topics that are bound to be mentioned here from time to time, i’d like to keep this blog mostly lighthearted.

finally, most importantly: no discourse on the blog for any reason, lol. it's just not the place :'))

tagging system (or, aka, mod lila overexplains himself lol)

i wanna preface this section with that i don’t expect you guys to tag your submissions yourself—as mod, i’m more than happy to do it! especially since i’m a little particular about the way i order them, haha. that being said though, if you do want to tag your posts, this is the way i’ll be doing it. don’t worry about following it to the letter if you do add tags, because i’ll go in and edit them as needed like the perfectionist little shithead i am, lol.

tags should (mostly) be in the same order every time: fandom tags first (i use both who's lila and who’s lila?), character tags generally in the order they appear in the post (mentioned characters may or may not be tagged on a case by case basis), ship tag(s) if applicable, trigger tags if applicable, the quote source, whether it’s a submission or my post, the submitter’s url/anon, and any commentary from myself or the submitter (i am a chatty bitch, apologies in advance lol. if both me and the submitter have commentary, i’ll differentiate our comments in some way, with the submitter’s comments always coming first).

the submission tag will be, well, submission, lol, and my quotes will just be tagged “mod lila”.

as stated above, triggers will be tagged “tw [thing]”. sources will be tagged “source: [thing]”.

general posts/announcements will be tagged “mod lila whispers to y(o)u” (like when she whispers to yu in that one scene? haha. i’m clever i swear—)

any other tags/tagging conventions that need to be created will be added here as needed!

#who's lila #who’s lila?#intro post #mod lila whispers to y(o)u #this. got long. i'm so sorry ghlkasjgdfds #i did say i was a chatty bitch oops

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jennyviviandee · 8 months

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"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated strengthen the body and form the heart. Or in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as render it independent."

On this day in 1797, English poet and author Mary Shelley (Wollstonecraft was her original last name: her father was political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was feminist Mary Wollstonecraft) was born. She became Shelley after marrying Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1816. She edited and promoted the works of his. In 1818, at the age of 18 she'd anonymously publish Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus, a genius novel. Shelley's name appeared on the second edition of the first true science fiction story five years later (1823). 1831 would bring the most widely read version of Frankenstein that included a new and longer preface from Shelly herself.

In 1822, Percy drowned when his sailing ship sank during a storm in Viareggio, Italy. In 1823, Shelley would return to England with her son Percy Florence Shelley (after three other attempted children ended with death prior to Percy's birth in her life) with her focus on raising him whilst being a professional writer. Alas, the final decade of her life was full of strife (illness) likely caused by the brain tumor that killed her at age 53 (1851).

The book image I posted was the cover of the version I read many years ago now. To the best of my knowledge, I've read at least two published versions of Shelly's Frankenstein. The 1831 and 1818 ones, I think. I have unfortunately misplaced the book somewhere. Still haven't found it...

Even though Dr. Victor Frankenstein is the scientist's name, his creation actually has no name. I believe Shelley chose Victor in reference to John Milton's Paradise Lost that frequently labels God as "the Victor". Not to mention there's a quote from Paradise Lost serving as the book's epigraph as well.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay

To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee

From darkness to promote me?

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Victor's decision to "play God" would lead to his creation being made. Dr. Frankenstein displays hubris in thinking he could generate life like God. Then feigns responsibility for his own creation after giving it life.

Erroneously the name Frankenstein has been associated with Victor's creation. Even in some official play adaptations and films despite being incorrect. The closest to a name Dr. Frankenstein's creation receives is when he calls himself "the Adam of your labours", and elsewhere as someone who "would have" been "your Adam", but is instead "your fallen angel." Her word usage of "Adam" is in probably a reference to the story of Adam and Eve. The rest of the time he's identified as a "wretch", "creature", "monster", "demon", and "it" in Shelley's groundbreaking influential novel that is a horror, science fiction, and a tragedy all at once. Similar to Clint Eastwood's Man Without a Name, Dr. Victor Frankenstein's creation is An Entity Without a Name.

It is a tale I absolutely recommend checking out (that is one of my favorites from one of my favorite authors). Same applies to the 1931 film adaptation of Shelley's famous Frankenstein (based more on a 1927 play from Peggy Webling and John D. Balderston than her novel) from openly gay Hollywood director James Whale. Boris Karloff gives an impeccable performance in it.

#mary shelley #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #science fiction novel #horror #paradise lost #john milton #the bible #personal #historical #frankenstein 1931 #boris karloff #james whale

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screamingaboutaceattorney · 1 year

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liveblogging the great ace attorney: the adventure of the great departure-trial part 3

hoo boy. been a while, huh? sorry about that, i don't have an excuse. however! i'm here now, for an..... admittedly stupid reason (i saw a compilation of this game's prosecutor objecting and needed to know if it was real or not)

again, sorry for the shitty quality, i can't transfer pics off of my switch for shit. i did add image ids this time though!

reactions under the cut! also i won't have screenshots for all of my thoughts cause i took like a hundred screenshots and there just isn't room

oh shit women weren't allowed in the courtroom unless they were testifying (or on trial probably)? did not know that but also i'm not a lawyer irl nor do i want to be one it kinda sounds like hell

ma'am did you steal this (also love how everyone's crowded behind the defense bench it's very cute)

also apparently susato is sixteen, which means no forced heterosexuality! yay!

something about curare, continuing the long tradition of ace attorney giving fictional elements stupid names (except atroquinine, but i am deeply deeply attached to aa4's characters and story so i might be biased)

edit: i’m an idiot and curare is a real thing. thank you for correcting me @addicted-to-12th-intro!

will you just shut the fuck up

man this poison is like a really fucked up way to die? goddamn

sorry for pics of auchi twice in a row but that's not. there are no rules about this shit

oh she's racist yuck (this might not be a new thing idk it's been over a year since i last played the game)

I'M????????????? MA'AM WHAT THE HELL

AND THEN SHE'S FINE? WHAT THE FUCK

phoenix's true ancestor istg /j

do you think about me being a lawyer often? gayass

bro WHAT

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

GOD THAT'S SUCH A FUNNY SPRITE HOLY SHIT

alright i'm sorry i just had to share that

HOSONAGA WHY AREN'T YOU DOING ANYTHING THIS IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM

AND THEN SHE JUST FUCKING DESTROYED THE EVIDENCE???? WHAT

yeah i can't excuse that actually that was really fucking dumb of you

okay i hate to agree with auchi here i really do but the thing about ryu "just remembering" the bloodstain is pretty out there

hosonaga apparently is here to save my ass and be really. pretty weird actually

like thanks for bringing the evidence but maybe care about what your superiors think of it

also is this a regular occurrence cause if so maybe. do something about that.

cackling at the judge calling hosonaga "man" that's really fucking funny

god okay this next part took me FOREVER cause i didn't realize i could examine the evidence while presenting it and i was down to my last badge before i figured it out it was awful but! i did it!

you do not fucking have one bestie you're like. an english major i'm pretty sure don't quote me on that it's been a while

auchi says i wasn't invited, which i'm fairly certain is incorrect something tells me i was in fact invited to my own trial

in a truly shocking turn of events, the witnesses from the very beginning are back! and when i say "a truly shocking turn of events" i mean "i didn't think anyone cared enough to bring them back after like nineteen hours of the trial"

so see a chiropractor? (sorry)

the witnesses come in and are kinda funny? maybe? idk this trial has been going on for a very long time and my brain is melting out of my ears

hosonaga wants to say something! which thank god he's like the only reliable witness in the courtroom. maybe he's misinformed sometimes but goddamn it seems like he's doing his best

he was at the restaurant looking for a thief which he maybe said before? again this trial is LONG

nosa is apparently the thief of la carneval! which isn't. too surprising tbh that was going to be one of the witnesses and brett is obviously the killer while there's no reason for korekuta to steal from himself

nosa is trying to pin the blame on his infant son which. is quite a choice. a really funny choice, but still. a choice

oh he has a breakdown! it's pretty entertaining tbh i don't really have anything against it

oh fuck this is actually kinda sad

like he just wants to provide for his son and he's not paid hardly at all i feel bad for him

i do kinda wish he wasn't here cause the stuff with him and korekuta is just dragging the trial out longer than necessary but aside from that? i have nothing against this choice

also i love how his mustache is all crumpled after his breakdown and then stays that way for the rest of the trial jgkalsjglkasjg

don't make a persona 5 reference don't make a persona 5 reference don't-

brett wants to leave and like fair enough this whole trial has been going on for way too long i want to leave too but goddammit let me indict you please i'm so tired

didn't phoenix say this to apollo in turnabout trump in regards to the ace /j

brett is going to have tea with the minister of justice which like. how the FUCK do you know them you're studying chemistry or whatever just because you're british does NOT mean you know that guy i'm going insane and losing my mind

GET HER ASS

nosa says he does not have the balls to ask brett if he can hide a stolen item in her food which. fair i wouldn't either and she one million percent killed a man

also why are you shoving you baby back behind your shoulder everyone is aware of him by now

but there was time for snappy naming, apparently

brett is trying to eat her mask now, apparently. doesn't seem like a particularly healthy meal to me but go off ig maybe it's different in britain

the other steak has blood on the plate! hooray! i've won! probably hopefully please god

WHAT THE FUCK THAT SWAN IS ALIVE

goddamn that's a breakdown and a half

is that what you call it

did i call her having a place for a gun in her outfit? i'm so certain i did. it being under her skirt tracks though it's not like anyone could look without. issues.

ma'am this is not a misdemeanor you fucking murdered a man

KAZUMA WHAT

did this bitch just draw his sword in a courtroom and cut off the prosecution's topknot from across the room

AND THEN JUST FUCKING SAY THAT? SAY YOU'RE A HOMOSEXUAL AND GO, SIR

what the fuck is this mission that the judge is talking about

don't like that expression!

oh ryu's on the witness stand for the verdict, that's cute

FJLKASJGLAKSJGLASG AUCHI HASN'T FUCKING MOVED SINCE KAZUMA CUT HIS TOPKNOT THAT'S REALLY FUNNY

post trial time! apparently kazuma's sword is a family heirloom or something. idk what does it mean when someone says "this is the spirit of my family clan"

he's bringing the sword to britain? good fucking luck with that bestie

oh this man is GAY gay huh

ah. brett's not gonna face consequences for her crimes. fuck

oh susato's so nice and helpful and i appreciate her doing my paperwork for me thank you ma'am

idk, mia, belief in your client?

oh shit i was right

wait. wait fuck. wait fuck the next case is case two how bad are these parallels gonna be shit

i'm already attached too FUCK

yeah that's not gonna be a thing for another hundred years or so idk when this game takes place

oh boy kazuma wants to ask me a favor and ryu has already basically agreed so they're clearly dating (please god let me be wrong about the mia parallels)

again, i am an english student or. whatever

she was in the courtroom for five minutes sir

LMAO THE HOSONAGA DISS

and that's the end of the trial! hopefully the next case won't take nearly as long to get out, but we shall see! until next time!

#nadia plays tgaa #ace attorney #the great ace attorney #the adventure of the great departure #ryunosuke naruhodo #susato mikotoba #kazuma asougi #taketsuchi auchi #jezaille brett #satoru hosonaga #kyurio korekuta #iyesa nosa #aido nosa #yujin mikotoba #og post

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youlackconviction · 2 years

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had some fun on twitter today lol. a series stan came @ me with some of the above so i decided to compile them and other common genuine responses that i’ve seen to LOKI-series-critical meta and create a fun little game for y’all.

if you want to use this board go ahead, i’d appreciate a credit back this blog or my twitter @ulackconviction if you do use it, so i can follow your threads myself. just save the pic, mark which responses you’ve received from fans of the LOKI series, and reblog with your edited bingo card.

below i the cut will quote each one and my own response to each “argument”.

if you hate sylki then you are biphobic - no, i hate sylki for many reasons but alleged bisexuality is not one. how about, the toxic abuse dynamic sylvie sets up towards LOKI? let’s start there.

you don’t want your uwu emo boy LOKI to heal - incorrect. i’d love for him to finally get a chance to be heard and acknowledged, genuinely cared for and shown how to let go of his unresolved trauma. but that would require a compassionate person talking about it and showing it, none of which the series did.

it’s not incest they don’t have the same parents - they literally have the same father: laufey of jotunnheim.

it’s not self-cest that’s a made-up thing - well. hard to say really isn’t it? since the showrunners have both defined sylvie as “a LOKI” and as “not a LOKI” in the same breath. obviously it’s a fantasy concept, but people will have their opinions about that either way.

why don’t y’all just move on and shut up? - rude. why should we? LOKI is important to us and the series is hurtful and disappointing, and we will shut up when we feel like it. maybe never. cry about it.

if you don’t like it then don’t watch it - we like LOKI tho. and that’s who we were promised. that’s why we watched it. the damage is done.

y’all are just mad that lokius is not canon - lmao if there’s one thing to not be mad about in this shitshow, that would be it. mobius is just as toxic and abusive to LOKI as sylvie is, so it’s just as well.

LOKI is just a selfish villain - citations needed thanks. i’ll wait. not even the series managed to portray him that way so... good luck.

sylvie is not LOKI she’s her own person - ok... if she’s not LOKI why is she dressed like him? why does everyone in the series call her the superior LOKI variant? why was LOKI’s help enlisted in the first place to capture her? why does she say “we are the same person” to him?

sylvie is LOKI so genderfluid rep is on screen every time she is - wait what? she is LOKI now? hang on... i think i have whiplash. and more questions. also, an individual presenting and identifying consistently as a single binary gender throughout their entire appearance does not constitute genderfluidity representation.

mobius did not torture LOKI it was therapy - therapy. right. so physical violence, threats of further violence/death, repetitive physical brutality for the purposes of “softening up” the candidate (yes that can also be defined as torture), intimidation, and misrepresenting the truth for manipulative purposes (you killed your mother) is therapeutic. got it.

fluidphobia is not a real thing - genderfluid folks would disagree. let’s ask them?

go touch grass - one of my favourites, gotta say. for all you know i’m typing this on my phone while laying in a hay paddock lol.

misogynist, you obviously just hate women - again. the reasons i can’t stand sylvie are many and varied, and none of them have anything to do with her biology or gender. disliking one (1) woman because of her actions and personality is not logical grounds for such an accusation.

well tom loves the series so... - uh, good for him? i think tom loves tennis too... doesn’t mean i have to enjoy it, nor i suspect would he insist that it’s unreasonable for me not to do so. my brain is actually separated from tom’s by the entire molten core of a planet, so i can actually think my own thoughts about things.

LOKI is out of character in the series because he learned self love - okay so he learned self-love the instant he fell from the sky above that mongolian settlement? because that’s the moment when he ceased to resemble MCU LOKI in any way, shape, or form. hair, skin colour, mannerisms, personality, vocabulary, physical strength, intelligence, fighting ability, grace, wit, charm. wow. incredible. who knew it would be so easy? and who knew self-love would look so shitty?

LOKI is not out of character in the series compared to the films - um... actually he is, and it can easily be demonstrated with simple side-by-side comparisons of appearance, posture and body language, abilities, and speech patterns. see above.

LOKI is out of character in all the movies and now we see his real self - this is such incredible nonsense - it’s impossible for a character to be out of character in their seminal appearance(s). thor 2011 established LOKI’s character. this claim is right up there with “LOKI acts differently from the movies when he’s off camera.” um... what? hun, this is a movie. there is ONLY on-camera. there IS nothing else. are you confusing BTS footage of tom with LOKI?

series antis have no friends - one in a range of irrelevant and unsubstantiated personal attacks that series fans like to sprinkle into their arguments as if it somehow strengthens them, rather than revealing them to be three children in a trench coat hurling insults.

everything you think about LOKI is just a headcanon - no... the stuff that i know about him was told to me by the films, and by the writers and directors of the films, and by tom back when he was first engaged for the role. all of it is coherent and consistent. and that’s what i think about LOKI.

i’m not going to read/watch that! but you are wrong - incredible powers of deduction: to refuse to even engage with a piece of media or information and yet claim to know everything it contains, and be able to judge its accuracy. truly amazing.

LOKI isn’t going to fuck you - again, more absolute gold from a person who has literally run out of rebuttals. when you consider the barriers to such a liaison... crossing the boundaries of reality no less... lol imagine if this is how political debates were conducted in parliament or the senate. “the president/senator/prime minister/queen isn’t going to fuck you, you know!” lmaoooo.

LOKI is a narcissist to fall in love with himself - look up NPD, and then read this again. also, LOKI actually hates himself and goes along with others’ ridicule of him because his self-worth is literally in the gutter. he only likes sylvie because he describes her as being nothing like himself. he has no idea that he has any value.

your anti opinions are taking away my enjoyment - ok so... don’t read them? block me or mute me or whatever, and get on with your life? it’s not like you have any kind of past attachment to me like series-antis do with LOKI?

i never liked LOKI before the series anyhow - i mean that’s fine. but don’t even start trying to tell people who actually do know and love the original character, ANYTHING at all about him. don’t even start.

sylvie’s trauma is worse than LOKI’s - how do we even know? and why is that even relevant? how do you judge what damage a person has incurred by comparing it to some other different person with different experiences? fuck off with your trauma olympics. but since you made it a competition: LOKI wins. i care about him, i don’t care about sylvie. therefore his pain and opportunity for healing will always be more important to me. die mad about it.

even if the series hurt minorities, how many people even is that, tho - literally a remark one of my friends received when defending genderfluid folks on her blog. so apparently according to series fans, you actually can put a number on how much real-world suffering is okay for the sake of entertainment.

sylvie is not a narcissist to fall in love with herself - interesting, since in the show LOKI was explicitly labelled one for this exact reason. an “incredible seismic narcissist”, in fact. there wouldn’t be a serious double standard in play at all, would there?

no one cares what you think - well i have evidence to the contrary: both from people who agree with me letting me know; and from those who don’t being unable to resist coming at me and berating me for it. including the person who said this, ironically.

you just hate sylki cos you want to fuck your siblings - another incredible take by a series fan defending the canon ship. i really can’t follow their line of argument here... it’s unclear what message they want me to walk away with. surely if i hated the ship for incest reasons it would be because i DON’T want to fuck my siblings? (for the record, i do not). so that was a confusing one, but it was a real response, so it got included.

#in defense of loki #fandom wank #series stans really be like

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0tt3r-pop · 2 years

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May I request some min/inkling incorrect quotes? (Can be romantic or platonic either one is fine :D)

Will do ^^

Sorry this took so long :')

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Min: I swear if I see one of them running off again without a plan, I'll make sure to mark their grave-

Inkling: I'll... I'll keep that in mind...

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Inkling: *is showing Min a very old map*

Min: Wait a moment, there's a path here and here that isn't documented, as well as-

Inkling: *look of pure love and adoration*

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Kwazii: *trying to explain current meme culture*

Inkling: So basically, I have to go searching for beans at 2am with friends?

Kwazii: Well no-

Inkling, already on the phone with Min: Min, I have a proposition to make.

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Min: Oh my stars. Do you know what this is?

Inkling: It’s a book. There’s a lot of those in here, this is a library. My library specifically.

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Min, trying to text Inkling: O

Inkling: What?

Min: Don’t read into that. Please...

Inkling: I will read into that.

Min: How? It's just a letter. A single letter.

Inkling: Why is there a space after it, hmmmmm? There's meaning behind it!

Min: Really Professor? It's a letter, that's all.

Inkling: It could stand for something.

Min: I promise you that it stands for nothing.

Inkling: Like Oppression! Or worse,

Min: Professor, I accidentally hit the letter "O" and hit send.

Inkling: Optometrist.

Min looking up from her phone: • - •

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Inkling and Min: *having a joke argument*

Min: You know what? I'm going to prove that I'm correct with solid facts!

Inkling: I will too

Inkling: *grabs a book with the proper information*

Min: *pulls up Wikipedia and edits the article just to mess with Inkling*

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Min drawing out a map: I've connected the two dots-

Inkling looking over her shoulder: It seems you have.

Kwazii vibrating in the corner whispering the meme under the breath: hhhhhhhhhh

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Min: Help! I’m drowning!

Inkling: Calm down, we’re only in six feet of water!

Min: NOT ALL OF US ARE SEA CREATURES INKLING-

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Min: Good morning Professor!

Inkling, who hasn't slept in days: ... What?

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Inkling: You spent all our money on... this?

Min, putting tiny raincoats on ducklings: They live outside. They need this. Trust me.

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Min: Are you busy?

Inkling: Yes.

Min: Cool, have a look at this if you may-

•─────✦─────•

I see these two as such a chaotic duo and I have no idea why. Super nice people, insanely smart, and while they have basic logic and common sense they would end up doing the stupidest things known to man.

Once again I'm sorry for this taking so long, my brain lowkey evaporated on me lol.

Request and such are still open ^^

#octonauts #professor inkling #Min #octonauts min #min the mapmaker #Octonauts Professor Inkling #Octonauts Min the Mapmaker #Inkling and Min #Professor Inkling and Min #Professor Inkling and Min the Mapmaker #ask #octonauts kwazii #kwazii

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forthedancingandthethriving · 6 months

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Incorrect quotes (Winding Rest edition)

Irene: I scare people a lot because I walk very softly and they don't hear me enter rooms. So when they turn around, I'm just kind of there and their fear fuels me.

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Dream King: Your smile? It makes my day.

DK: Your happiness? I live for that.

Nightmare King: Shut up? Please.

Deepling: Hotel? Trivago.

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Irene: I guess it was that day I came home to a cold house, devoid of light and love, and I knew then that my sorrows would only grow.

Brightlight: Irene, this is the saddest life story I have ever heard! And you're only thirteen!

Brightlet: Oh, I'm sure it gets better!

Irene: No, at eight, things really took a turn for the worst.

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Deepling: Irene is at that very special age where a girl only has one thing on her mind.

Brightlight: Boys?

Irene: Homicide.

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Darkling: Deepling said its my turn with the brain cell.

Brightlet: Square up.

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Brightlet: Wasn't icarly that guy that girlbossed too close to the sun because he was down for Apollo?

Irene: ICARUS?

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Irene, setting down a card: Ace of spades.

NK, pulling out an Uno card: +4.

Comets, pulling out Pokémon cards: Jolteon, we choose you!

Stars, setting down two cards: Go fish!

DK, trembling: What are we playing?!

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NK: Fine! I don't give a shit!

Irene: You seem to give a lot of shit for someone who claims not to give a shit.

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Brightlight, to DK: We’ve organized your messages into three categories.

Brightlet: “From Nightmare King”..

Brightlight: “Death Threats”..

Stars: ..and “Death Threats From Nightmare King”.

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Irene: *shatters a window and climbs through it*

NK: *appears behind her and helps Irene through it* Breaking and entering is wrong, starlight.

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Brightlet: Where is everyone?

Deepling: Irene had a nervous collapse, Darkling and Brightlight are looking after her, Nightmare King is trying to kill Dream King, so I’m in charge.

Brightlet: Oh my god!

Deepling: I know, right?

#avatar: irene #oc: nightmare king #oc: dream king #oc: brightlet #oc: brightlight #oc: deepling #oc: darkling #incorrect quotes

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zombyaru · 1 year

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Special Forces! 😼

Welcome to my blog where I escape from my reality. The blog is dedicated to COD, despite the constant debates in my mind about publishing about my other interests... For the moment this is my main blog! Drawings, drabbles, headcanons and other things my brain allows me to do.

It's more reblogs than blogs, get used to it.

‼️Please note that this post along with the tags are constantly being edited.

Tags: #incorrect quotes, #draw, #gif, #drabble, #icons, #alerudyworlddomination, #headcanons

Characters: #Rodolfo Parra, #Alejandro Vargas, #Valeria Garza, #Simon Ghost Riley, #John Soap MacTavish ← There are many more characters, but these are the common ones!

I do a lot of reblogs about #gyaru, #left 4 dead, #alerudy, #autism and #ADHD if that interests you.

🌷Esposa número #1 de Rodolfo Parra (No lo pienso debatir con nadie) /ij

#introductory post #introduction #intro post #introducing myself #uwu

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mythological-mayhem · 6 months

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Welcome to my blog!

Tell me I did not just post all of my content without an intro (-_-)

Anyway, I'm mythological-mayhem, or Iris/Liara (she/her)! I do a ton of stuff on mythology in general, including Greek, Aztec, And a little bit of Norse and Egyptian. I love all mythology, and while I haven't studied all of them yet, leave me a myth suggestion or something and I'll be glad to look into it!

I post a lot of content involving headcanons, incorrect quotes, and a lot of mythology brain rot, but I'll reblog anything important enough.

My ask box is always open, but no NSFW and nothing really graphic unless it's historically accurate (I have a very loose definition of graphic, so it's generally fine). No NSFW blogs should be following me, and I will block any and all that I see.

I'll warn you guys now: I do not have a consistent blogging schedule, and I've yet to set up a queue. It could be anywhere in between one day to one or two weeks between posts. My schedule is really busy, but I enjoy posting and will do it several times throughout the week if I'm in the mood. If you're into a blog with consistent posting, this isn't the one, sorry.

Anyway, that should cover it! Hope to see you around!

2024 Edit: Okay, so I've decided that I'm going to make this blog focus on Aztec mythology more than the others, due to the real lack of this content I see. Basically because if no one's going to do it, I will. There has been a drought of Aztec god stuff on Tumblr and I fully intend this blog to be the rain that brings more mythological diversity to this website (wowww that was more poetic than I'm usually capable of).

From now, the layout of the blog will be 50% Aztec mythology, 35% Greek mythology, and 15% other mythologies. I am a Tezcatlipoca fan so like if you hate him dni (but I do post some mild hate of him sometimes, not really hate more like frustration/disappointment because you guys this man has done a LOT of things wrong).

Anyway that should really cover it, see you guys!

#intro #hi #to all of you who liked reblogged and followed without knowing who I am #I love you guys #but here's an official intro #to avoid confusion about who I am #yes I'm a real person #anyway back to the mythology brainrot

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horizon-verizon · 7 months

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I think it could be correct to say the Radowski article can feel accurate for ASOIAF when the rest of the storyline would really turn out as this better written version of GoT some fans always seem so eager for. The illusion they fall victim to is we would have a 'good' story then, because it would be technically better written. But 95% of the writer's criticism would still stand, and we'd still end up with pointless, toxic, unsatisfying shlock overdoing the subverting expectations shtick.

Disclaimer: This post will undergo several edits even after publishing because I am that person.

Anon's talking about my Twitter thread HERE about a 2021 article writer's critique of GRRM and ASoIaF. And they are referring to the last post about it HERE. And their post kinda reminds me of the latest ozymalek/pheonixashes quote here:

However, I wouldn't say "95%" because:

more than once, Radowski's goes into parochial stances that turn out to be incorrect and relying on what others have said of the text rather than what is in the text--they often actually more reveal how we've been guided into looking to Dany as the readers' AND commonborn's/HUMANITY's hope both by narrative and our pro-feminist/class-conscious selves (ASoIaF being "anti-fantasy" or "having no fantasy/a-fantasy"when that is really just some stupid fans' interpretation)....and this really undermines their point about ASoIaF being even technically horrible

they/she used a particular literary element incorrectly in their critique of how GRRM writes his characters

I'd instead say "70-80". Or that several times, the writer makes their good points, and then sometimes messes it up.

I start to question what do critics mean when they say "well-written"? Morally vs technically, and when "technically" just means aestheically vs moral criticism; is the line blurred there, or do people blur it themselves? "Technically", to my understanding, refers to paragraph formatting, pacing, spelling, punctuation, grammar and vocabulary (i.e., diction); all those things that writers and speakers use to convey meaning almost poetically, that itself could develop a certain style or rhythm either familiar or more on the original side. All are meant to convey the psyche of the character, and the stakes of the events/scenes, and ultimately contribute to the moral spirit of the story. One person says: "I-the-reader am a brain parasite. the characters think thoughts they would never tell me. I see their worst impulses, their immediate instincts, their intrusive thoughts. a lot of it is unsavory, but it's done in such a way that it all feels deeply real and true to life." Does this not mean that the story is written better than what Radowski thinks it is? I'd say "yes".

There is this:

AND

It's weird and self-sabotaging to assume that because (some) fans interpreted the Starks pre-Ned-death as the moral standard of the story that is what the text offers.

The Boltons have been the Starks' ancient enemies--not quite to the level of the brackens and Blackwoods' enmity bc: the Starks always managed to come out on top; there was had lasting "peace" intervals of cohabitation; and the fighting itself reasoned/characterized not by the Blackwood-Bracken Romeon-Juliet family feuding so much as the Boltons being eternally ambitious and ruthless. I think that because they take on their flayed skin and ruthless ambition as their house identity, the feudal system itself creates the Boltons and we have an interesting enough tension of what makes identity/the villain in such a fantasy story. It's philosophical. But hey, I haven't heard or seen criticism of this beyond OP's oversimplification of the Boltons' presence.

Yes, of course, we all can see the Bolton's final end coming from the Starks and yes they are obviously evil. The question is not whether their conflict is complicated so much as the questions about identity present in such a conflict married to the feudal/Westerosi militant preference for male "strength" that makes the Boltons develop pride in such violence that I definitely think produced the crazy, off-the-wall Ramsay Bolton. Another character we can attribute such a social phenomenon to is the ironborn revving/raping society's effect on how men like Euron Greyjoy become who they are.

Oh well, a missed opportunity.

Even me just pointing out how Ned's death launches his family to become many different people is a testament to the deaths/violence/bursts of emotion creating the plot points the OP critic claims do not exist at all.

Like I said in that Twitter thread, the writer makes very true & good points about sexual violence against women, and I personally don't much care for Brienne's story in the way it's almost written for Jaime's not-morally-redemptive-but-self-redemptive arc (as presented by fans as morally redemptive bc it's supposedly getting Jaime away from the "true" abuser/source of evil in his life, Cersei), and I have taken the "soft" goal of identifying where and when GRRM makes his repackaged/reversed subverted tropes because this wasn't a part I pondered as often as I should have.

However, it is actually incorrect for this person to say that it's "never" explained why Brienne wants to be a knight or imply that her "idealization of knighthood" doesn't itself come from her experience with gender.

I don’t understand why Brienne couldn’t stay at Evenfall Hall and be her father’s Castellan or Captain of the Guard. She’s the only surviving child (and heir) of Lord Tarth, so I’m confused why her father would let her roam Westeros as a hedge knight. It’s also never explained why Brienne wanted to be a knight in the first place.

So just because Brienne is her father's only surviving child, she must, morally, become the lady instead of following her dreams and being a knight (what the original writer leaves us to believe)? The first actual female knight to be customarily trained or to become the better/needed version of the knighthood that real knights (all men) have abandoned in their responsibility and cynicism?

So, there is only one way to live morally, and it is to act inauthentically, to ignore the pleasure one finds in the sword and self-defense, and to be another's more direct "guard"? A guard is an inferior "career" choice for a GNC woman?

The writer expresses that they can't fathom being a knight when there's the option of being a lord or the equivalent. Maybe they should read the book and accept different people, including women, have different perspectives and reactions to whatever empowers them, different developments of being? Not everyone wants to or should hold political positions of power that move & practically organize large groups of people/a community. Some people prefer to just be musicians or writers, poets or parents, doctors but not scientists or philosophers, etc.

blankwhiteshild says it way more eloquently than I in various posts, but the purpose of Brienne and Jaime is to highlight a constant thing GRRM does with his characters: making the marginalized the heroes of the story. The writer of the article winds up reinforcing some "toxic" and misogynist ideas in the process, which in turn puts into doubt their abilities to read or be totally or even well-entrusted to inform people about what's going on in the story and in the characters' minds.

The OP is under the impression that Brienne is trying her damndest to become like a man, transition or be a transgender man, or truly just to reject all modes of traditional femininity (that is really just socially-coded and enforced, constructed femininity) just because she loves to use a sword and does not conform to the Andal ideals of feminine looks. They should have been clued in about the falseness of this sort of thing with there being a politics of desirability and an insufficient binary enforced through femininity characterized as the "opposite" of masculinity--by how she's constantly described as "ugly" and "too much" of a "man". A commentator in that thread pointed out:

So the original critic seems not to have understood where Brienne was coming from, how young she is, or even familiar with her history...which is the entire impetus behind many characters' conflicts with the system GRRM is criticizing but choosing not to criticize through more characters other than Dany & Arya.

Not only that, Brienne "acts like a man" not because she hates women or thinks them inferior and hates herself as Ceresei does. She does not hate herself because she does not take her womanhood as the justified cause for her society subjecting her to abuses or reserving power away from her towards men--she did not develop that sense as Cersei has. She takes up the sword because her build allows and inspires her the confidence and opportunity to protect herself and others, which psychologically fulfills her. Plus she greatly admired and loved Catelyn Stark, who is not at all "mannish" in the social paradigm of Andal feminine beauty at all--Catelyn is rather known for her physical beauty as well as her sense and practice of responsibility. Catelyn also struggles with seeing her past labor of directing her Tully household and being a sort of new authority after her mother dies, having learned all her life that what she performed as a man's job. She constantly vacillates between marrying what women/girls acting out their obedient, subordinate roles versus herself using and wanting more political duties coded or suggestive of "male" from both necessity and necessity-self-generated desire. In all of this, Brienne admires Catelyn, wanted to be her sword shield forever at one point, and never said that Catelyn should be something that she wasn't. The text gives us that Brienne left her father's castle because she knew that she would never fulfill that lady-lord role despite her being able to fight (again, not everyone should be or can be or wants to be a leader in that way), so she left to follow her dreams.

To argue that the text says she is inherently mannish because of this ignores the text AND actually repackages Brienne's struggle with society's evaluation of her worth/her experiences with sexual assault as unreal and unworthy of discussion. It reinforces, ironically enough, that Sansa-stan bullshit of women tending naturally having to be as little as "masculine" as possible to be both considered real women and worthy of admiration. What happened to the love for gender-nonconforming women AND the truth of GNC also still being victims to misogyny and sexual violence--hello, the consequences of anti-trans bathrooms hurting Black/PoC, physically GNC white women and girls! You are attributing sword-wielding and martial activities to only men, just as how medieval men used to justify women being kept out of higher positions of power (Rhaenyra; written by mononijikayu). Again, just bc even I--the reader--am uninterested (at least as I am of Dany) or stupid, doesn't mean that this theme and logic isn't there for anyone to see and observe if they simply applied themselves.

I also find the Starks-as-a-unit uncompelling as hell, esp without their women. Their roles pre-NED-death as sort of societal "fixer-uppers-but-by-being-conservative-and-non-confrontartional-until-the-social-feudal-order" is ethically unsound and thus tiresome. Their individuals Arya, Jon, Bran Sansa (and in that order) are interesting and compelling...but the Starks before Ned dies? Eh.

It's clear that they were meant to be the narrative's designated feudal honor keepers, which really isn't very "honorable" at all (the unraveling/unseating Stark supremacy "traditional values: honor, justice, responsibility, and family" that's really just maintaining the integrity of the oppressive feudal social order). I'd argue that the Starks' dissolution was both needed and necessary to the points GRRM strives to make about class and gender roles. It pushes things off to position the Big 5 as who they need to be for the Long Night, by putting them in positions where they must navigate around constrictions against their transitioned states/identities to prepare Westeros and become leaders in their own right.

There is something visceral and pleasant and morally satisfying to be said about being the socially ostracized/marginalized person, even though not their own intentions, becoming a crucial element to saving the world by redirecting the societies that seek to destroy or limit them. There is something like a grand poetic "compromise" (this is not the right word, but the right word escapes me) there that draws me in because it's often the case for marginalized people to be capable of living in this world ethically confidently and with as much sense in their own agency as possible...as much as they can anyway.

Yes, I would say the draw for GRRM's work and ASoIaF is that it puts us into these people's minds without relying on a stream-of-consciousness POV like that of Virginia Woolf.

Bran's becoming the 3-eyed crow and showing that disabled people are worthy and can "do" or be able at important tasks and roles while being still imperfect; Sansa coming into her own against Littlefinger coming from being a bully against her sister from said classism & sexism that favors her; Tyrion, like Bran, his own flops and struggles in living as a disabled man but still being an aristocratic man (Shae)...I'd say that yes, there is a lot of conflicts (not "internal") many characters of ASoIaF go through. Problem is that they are not as actively trying to upend or explore other options as Dany. Jon maybe is closest, but even he still uses slavery with not as much compunction about it as Dany locking up her own dragons to protect her Meerenese people, so...

About how to write violence in a way I do not think is the only effective way to write violence (regarding Oberyn's fight w/the Mountain vs. Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters):

However, to say that Oberyn's death itself was unsymbolic and totally absent of anything higher in meaning, that the random stableboy's death did not itself refer to something other than a random stableboy getting smashed is incorrect:

"The luckless stableboy [sic] behind him was not so quick. As his arm rose to protect his face, Gregor’s sword took it off between elbow and shoulder. “Shut UP!” the Mountain howled at the stableboy’s scream, and this time he swung the blade sideways, sending the top half of the lad’s head across the yard in a spray of blood and brains […]".

I would argue that the stableboy getting hit and killed in the crossfire conveys his and other "peasants" protection from higher borns' military, violent activities. The randomness, as we know it now or should now, is meant to convey the randomness begotten from a privileged lack of compassion. That is not an absence of meaning by definition.

However, it becomes trying and consequential when there's very little to no real pushback from those little guys elsewhere in the narrative through collective actions or inside looks at how these people may protect themselves against these people. That perspective is missing and thus undermined. It then is GRRM is saying that there is no out nor even escape/relief. And then you are exhausting your reader more than you should--not to say that you should push your readers' mental and emotional capabilities, but you must be aware of what can bring them (a particular audience) to an unforgiving point of frustration and hopelessness. It may not be intentional, but for writers tasking themselves to be as critical of societies like this and failing to notice such a thing in their own writing is a serious failure that needs to be addressed.

American enslaved people not only physically rebelled through weapons and organized themselves in secret meetings or ran away. The ones who stayed or didn't fight poisoned their masters; held up work; destroyed tools; made as of they were too ill to work; made emotionally healing hymns that themselves were instructions or hidden messages; learned skills "from blacksmithing to dressmaking, to increase their indispensability to those who profited off their labor and to decrease their chances of being sold and separated from loved ones".

The consequence of not letting students know about various ways enslaved people resisted their conditions: "But because insurrections were so rare, when they are taught in isolation, students are left with the impression that the vast majority of enslaved people who did not rebel accepted their bondage. Some even interpret this to mean that African Americans were complicit in their own enslavement."

While common-born people are not slaves because they cannot be sold off and/or separated from families, they also were not completely considered important enough and in many cases "enough" of humans themselves. I mean, even in Essos, do we often hear of how the slaves (slaves by class and war, not race, but it is still the complete objectification of humans for the economic prosperity of a few) resist?

This is why Dany is also even more beloved--she is that "out" and possible rescue., as she--above all the other characters--is thinking about people across and under these class distinctions for their own sake. She embodies the goal that more ethically conscientious readers are looking for (esp those who are the more progressive...and morally correct, tbh).

And I must point out that I agreed with the paragraph formatting the article writer pointed out. If It were me, I would have separated & isolated much of the sentences to convey the quickness of the battle and to emphasize that stabelboys'd eath. If you're going to convey the randomness of his death, why not the isolation of this death by rewriting it to:

Spectators screamed and shoved at each other to get out of the way. One stumbled into Oberyn’s back. Ser Gregor hacked down with all his savage strength. The Red Viper threw himself sideways, rolling. The luckless stableboy [sic] behind him was not so quick. As his arm rose to protect his face, Gregor’s sword took it off between elbow and shoulder. “Shut UP!” the Mountain howled at the stableboy’s scream, and this time he swung the blade sideways, sending the top half of the lad’s head across the yard in a spray of blood and brains […]

Not only is this less drag on my eyes and brain, I have made sure to readers that this moment is emphasized and to be remembered. Of course, with a later hint of some malice or rebellion targeted towards the mountain from maybe a friend or family member of that poor stableboy.

Therefore, the OP comes off of being more like describing how they think fiction writers should write--conflating style with overall storytelling, not the grammar and formatting. And thus, it becomes a lot easier for anyone else to believe this person that they just do not like high-fantasy fiction as a genre, and thus cannot conceive of how speculative, self-subverting, and subtle the genre could and can be. It doesn't help that they used a nonhigh fantasy example for the technical writing for their analysis of violence-creation.

Quentyn Martell was a bit redundant. However, "irrelevant to the narrative" is simply false. With his death, we now anticipate how Dany is going to use or interact with the Martells if and when she ever lands on Westeros and searches for allies....the Martells being those who supported her brother in Robert's Rebellion and from whom Oberyn, the guy who tried and failed to exact revenge for Elia on the Mountain (another theme the OP ignores in their critique of GRRM presenting"bad writing"). It's almost as if the answer to Elia's justice is not going to come from male-on-male "honor" killing, even out of her brother's love so much as Dany having to reckon with her own family's decisions face to face. Apparently, this is not an exciting enough prospect.

It also goes into how the OP thinks how characters' deaths somehow, someway mean nothing in the plot or that GRRM uses expected unexpected death for no reason at all. Which, as I already showed, is untrue and an exaggeration.

So, ironically, by criticizing GRRM's use of character death, and his lack of blatant critique, the OP practices what I think is GRRM's real issue: a liberal lack of real critique on their own absolutes and exaggerations that undermine their credibility.

Let me reiterate: what makes ASoIaF problematic is the lack of perspective and paired over-exaggeration of some violence (most esp the sexual kind against women and girls) for the sake of emphasis that was already emphasized and to make a point that would have already been made without such "emphasis", thus normalizing such violence, even claiming it "necessary". The violence isn't "pointless" as much as it goes beyond the necessary and repeats itself with no relief or seeking hope w/o Dany's anticipatory and present critical role, thus it seems pointless.

Remember, this shit was written in the 80s-90s, published in the 90s, and is now being read and critiqued by people in 2023 who have gotten much more conscious of the need to critique the status quo...but also can themselves fall into reinforcing it when they do not choose to engage with the taboo text/moments with a more distanced lens. And GRRM is still a rich, liberal white man.

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