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emetkoto · 2 years

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idk man I just really like your style of rambling about them ig? like I find peoples' enthusiasm for things very sweet and infectious sometimes and your emetkoto posts defs hit that spot for me? like your joy and love for them seeps through and infects me too it's great. emetkoto good. anyway tell us about after vauthry. do it. give us the deets.

well thank you very much, it makes me happy to hear that ive had that effect on you 🥺🥺🥺 thats exactly what i hope to do with my posts about them but i do have bad demon brain so sometimes im like hmm. 'am i just being unbearably annoying instead actually???' and ofc sometimes its 'oh this is not original at all nobody wants to read this' so its always nice to have a little reassurance like this ghsljgsfd….

cracks my fingers so hard they all break anyway now for that essay you asked for

RIGHT SO LIKE right before vauthry, literally the night before that fight is when emet selch takes k'oto to the tempest to marry him and seubsequently erase his memory of it to "keep things fair" or whatever (basically he still had tiny little pangs of doubt about how things would turn out bc of yknow the whole being tempered for 12k+ years situation and he wanted to make sure that if it like. came to them having to fight. k'oto wouldnt hesitate bc he had smth like that holding him back :,) little did he know that he tried to hesitate in the end anyway and was only stopped from sparing him by ardbert) but thats a whole like other thing i still have to finish writing the worlds longest stupidest hardest to read post about so im physically restraining myself from going on about this anymore right this moment as much as i want to repeat myself forever about it bc GOD. God. god.

but anyway he was full of love and hope for k'oto, so much hope that he would be able to hold the light and prove mankinds worth so he could lay his mission to rest and stay by his side (and undo the spell holding his memories of the wedding) he was so SO ready for it and then. it just. all came crashing down :,) he'd allowed himself to let his guard down and put his duty aside and have hope in humanity again one last time and fall in love and k'oto just couldnt do it! even with his subtle help holding the light back he couldnt handle it, he was still too weak at 7 rejoinings and that shit hurted bad!!! he succumbed to the tempering and grief and rage and disappointment and closed himself off again…from there its probably the more canon adjacent bit of their story, graha tia acting embarassment, back to the tempest (altho k'oto doesnt remember having been there once before AUGH), amaurot, dying gasp :,)

throughout it all k'oto is trying desperately to get him to listen to him again but emet selch keeps cutting him off and ignoring him which hurts A LOT and ofc he says some. mean things to try and get him to just leave it be and accept what has to be done and stop talking about it bc HE didnt wanna think about it anymore EITHER obviously here but k'oto doesnt give up he keeps trying all the way to the very end….he never planned to kill emet selch, he just wanted to weaken him enough that he would take a moment to stop and think and listen , a last ditch effort to fix things but ardbert (and everyone else really) saw that it was like. too late for that. there was no way in hell emet selch was hearing reason anymore and if k'oto let him live there was a pretty high chance he would just kill him when he tried to get close to him so he took control of his body and made sure that axe killed, oops! way to kill a dudes soulmate and then be absorbed into his soul so you can never actually apologize for it…when the dust settled and k'oto realized what had happened he. was. A MESS!!

the only thing stopping him from breaking down right away was emet selch shushing him like 'let me enjoy this last moment with you in peace and quiet'……remember us and all that (although 'us' had a very obvious double meaning here

anyway tldr; WEHHHHHHH,,,,,,,

sorry for unreadability i very much wrote it exactly as it came out of my brain which is a long run on thought with no consideration for line or paragraph breaks. i tried to turn it into a few chunks for you

#words of mimi #emetkoto #shadowbringers spoilers

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skenpiel · 2 years

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all i know is if i was a cat id look like the top image. our family friends’ 7 year old daughter drew a picture of me as a silly white spotted cat though and i was obsessed with it however she caught me in a very specific time wearing stuff i normally dont (i.e, my glasses on and my hair in braids) so im on the fence of making that a fursona

#dont rb btw pls if u wanna rb the fursona drawing u can just go through my art tag till u find it #and yeah no matter how obsessed i am with the drawing the 7 year old made of me i would assume a fursona should resemble what you look and #act like most of the time and not just specific moments #plus i dont even have circle glasses.#still though….. she said she was gonna draw me and the fact that she made it a silly sleepy cat……. was INCREDIBLY #like. thats how she SEES me. id drawn her before that as a normal human (obviously) but. she drew me as a cat cause thats what she thinks i #look like. and idk how im supposed to NOT love that #its so unbearably sweet augh #also the fursona drawing i made is from like. 8 months ago so i should probably redraw it when i get home LOL

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unproduciblesmackdown · 4 years

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merkleymrack replied to your post “kinda a funny shtick of mine that i’m aro and have such strong takes...”

(1)i agree with u 100%, i think love is hyped up so much, partially because people looove the narrative that love can save you in some way. whether that's saving you from evil, from your shitty environment, from mental illness, from sadness, or from yourself. and that is basically bullshit. "love" as a mystical force and chemical attraction between 2 people doesn't and can't do any of that. real relationships forged over time, based on trust and compromise and a fundamen-

2) tally optimistic outlook on life can help you deal with life, but that's not as snappy. and i think this ties in nicely with what you pointed out about love being perceived as isolating (in a positive way almost) by lots of people: it is because they are co-dependent and attracted to this toxic relationship because it feeds the narrative that "love" is all they need to be happy or to be saved. thats my hot take of the day

talk series criticizing Romahnce, every thursday at 6

for real though let me accuse capitalism some more for Not Great Ideas About Romantic Love b/c like!! that’s basically all you’re allowed to look for in terms of reliable companionship and Any kind of close relationship from your peers. b/c the Nuclear Family is the imposed social unit of choice b/c extended families don’t allow for enough isolation / cut-off support networks......you Outgrow the nuclear family you were born into, and then you’d better find your romantic partner asap to start the next generation nuclear family, because you’re not gonna get other support / community anywhere else, better enjoy having friends before everyone righteously pairs off and sees each other way less, because it’s Totally Fine to have all of your time -> energy -> identity -> existence consumed by just your roles as Parent and Spouse

not to mention like, whenever people of any relationship status are super overworked and like, especially with having unreliable / inconsistent schedules that don’t line up and needing to work a thousand hours a week to scrape by, people have less time to spend with each other and to foster those connections when they’re like always At Work or exhausted and recovering from work or, when they Do have some free time, it doesn’t like up with the free time of their friends’..........like hmm too bad there’s not One Person who is super devoted to Just You and can always make time and prioritize You, Alone.......

Life Under Capitalism is dehumanizing and alienates everyone from each other and doesn’t value life and commodifies anything that people might find adds Value To Their Life and like, our grievances and suffering is just Personal Problems that need to be fixed through our Personal Choices, b/c community is strangled off, isolation is pushed, and you need to Have Money or Die, and there’s the idea that the Way Things Are is flawed but ultimately okay and works out for good people............and it all brings it around to like, the idea that actually Finding Romance is *all* that life is about and is the one route to happiness. like, this concept is just casually trotted out in whatever media as blatantly as that, that “what’s even the point of being alive if you don’t find that Special Someone” and everyone just kinda goes “huh, yeah, that’s true...” like, it’s just Fine to accept that life is a hellscape and you’d want to die if it wasn’t for this one nice magical thing (your true love(tm))......like, maybe there’s a problem with that? we shouldn’t all just accept that life is unbearable but romance is the sole cure? and it’s not even really Anti-Capitalist when a holiday movie / any romcom is all like “this career person thinks that Love is for suckers and only making money is good, but then eventually their romantic interest shows them otherwise and they realize that said romance / a dash of Family is actually what Really matters” b/c it’s just like.......hey don’t be upset that you can’t actually Get Ahead under capitalism!! the people who are making more money than you are unhappy, i promise! it’s fine that you aren’t really succeeding Financially, b/c you have Love, so be happy with that and don’t think that there’s any systemic issue here.

anyways and like yeah of course it does probably seem to people like Romance is the only thing that can improve [insert any bad situation about their lives] because what even else is offered to people, seemingly, right......it’s like, first of all i hope you have a good relationship with your Nuclear Family, b/c they’re the only ones who will be Unconditionally There For You......but even if you do, it’s not like those people can be Everything in your life........and re: friends it’s like, well, i hope you’ve made super lasting friendships in high school and/or college, cuz after you enter The Working World good luck making new friendships!!! even if you do you’ll drift apart b/c nobody has time to nurture the relationship!!!! meanwhile of course everyone should be looking for romance, and hey, that will transform your life and enable you to endure all the other miserable everyday shit you go through, b/c the one person who matters cares about you. and they’d better b/c that’s the only really strong mutually supportive “unconditional” relationship you’re guaranteed! clearly!!!

like of course positive relationships of any kind tend to Improve Someone’s Life......of course isolation makes everything worse for anyone......it’s not like a good romantic relationship SHOULDN’T improve stuff for people, but like, no way should it be the case that romance is the ONE THING available and it better fix fuckin Everything or else you’re on your own when it comes to dealing with those problems that Aren’t improved and if you can’t deal with it on your own you’re fucked, cuz it’s romance or nothing!!!! it would be totally convenient to like, be deeply in love asap and have that make everything amazing and hopefully it’s ur life partner so that you don’t have to worry about Struggling On Your Own like..........a romantic relationship is really all that looks to be on the table according to the Life Narrative that’s pushed really hard. and defining that romance as “this person will always be there for you for Anything and you’ll always be there for them and you’ll always be happy as long as you’re With Each Other” is really Something when life under capitalism guarantees no happiness nor for anyone to be there for you or care about you or help you otherwise

like yeah Friends are nice but they’re kind of sold as the nice optional bonus, or like, they’re there for you but you don’t have to be there for them, low maintenance ideally, and if they drift away when you don’t spend time on them or support them then that’s fine as long as you’ve got that romantic partner b/c that’s how romance is so often defined, as being More than any other relationship, like, hey i don’t Need anything else, i don’t Need anyone else, it’s fine if i only have you, for some reason we gotta view relationships as Tiered and know which one’s you’d consider disposable if you put them all through a winner-take-all tournament bracket.......brilliant approach which is totally fine if the agenda is “give people One Good Relationship with One person which must fulfill their existence and fix everything lacking” like ok

i mean there it alll comes back around to going “augh jesus christ” at Isolation packaged as romance where it’s like “[as long as Romance] it’s fine if i die, it’s fine if i don’t have anyone or anything else, it’s fine if we never engage with the world or talk to anyone else again”.......like fuck!!!! this is horrible!!!!!! god!!!!!! Isolation is Bad gang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and abuse overlaps sooooo hard with isolation, and you’ve got that deliberately isolating tactic that abusive partners pull that like, you can’t spend time with family and friends, it’s me vs. them, and you should always be prioritizing More Time With Me and be perfectly happy with *Only* our relationship or you don’t *really* love me..........but then this same sort of Concept will be just be touted as Ideal Romance as long as both people are cool with it lol!!! like, i don’t even Want to be around or think about anyone else, this one person is my whole Life And World, other loved ones who????? it’s Just Us now and hopefully forever, #sweet

like it’s pretty Effed Up that people have to feel like there’s only one way to expect someone to ever be at all devoted to them or really care about / understand / support them and that’s through having a Current Great Romantic Relationship, which must and should be *everything*..........like, everything i think abt “this idea about romance seems awful” is about like........romance shouldn’t be this way for even people who currently have that kind of relationship, and it should Always Be Fine to be single, even if you want / hope for a romantic relationship.........i’m keenly aware that snagging a Romantic Relationship seems like the only way to have someone committed to being On Your Side and paying attention to your existence every day. but really of course that shouldn’t be the case......and when a romance IS had, why is it worse to have a grounded view of it like, when people compare it moreso to friendships rather than to being some kind of magical bond which effortlessly yields Everything You Need In Life, so now you don’t have to care about anything or anybody else

sounds mean or Cold or whatever to be like well the way i see it is that “romance is unnecessary” but i mean, first off it is, you don’t Need it and some people don’t want it. but imo it’s not Bad to see it as just like, a sick bonus, a really awesome thing if you want it and it happens, but like, of course life isn’t Worthless or Ruined if someone who Wants a partner is single / becomes single. like, ideally Being Single regardless of whether you want that to be permanent or not should actually be enough on its own for anyone to be happy!! nobody should Need to have a partner to be happy / feel like their life is okay the way it is. like, is it not actually more ~romantic~ or whatever to feel like okay, i would be fine and happy with being single, but i would rather be with this other person because i Want to be, but i don’t Need this relationship to be okay. vs. the whole like i *need* this relationship type “that’s the puppetmaster who cursed my dick” approach where it’s like, god believe me this isn’t my idea but i MUST be with you, i’m miserable without you so i basically have no choice, this is like, the universe holding me at gunpoint. why not have choosing to be with someone just like “yeah i prefer this to Not being with you and i think it improves my life overall” without anyone having to feel like it’s their only option for happiness

anyways i really can’t imagine the concept of like, a Romance just absolutely cutting down all these other aspects of your life b/c you don’t care about / Need that shit anymore being an at-all pleasant or appealing concept versus like, it just being its own positive relationship that enhances everything and Doesn’t become your sole source for so much shit like validation and commitment and intimacy and support / help and companionship and etc etc etc etc etc etc

i’m sure this isn’t the only tangent i forgot to throw in somewhere else but everyone knows my “'teen angst’ is largely comprised of anticapitalist sentiment in the face of the hellscape and cognitive dissonance of adult life under capitalism and YA media deals with this and the struggle to find genuine connection and value in everyday existence" takes, well, it’s kinda wild how it’s basically a requirement for any YA work to have a thread of Romance running central to the whole thing. not like that doesn’t happen in other Genres, and not like some works don’t lean into that way harder than others, and not like every main char Ends Up with the/a love interest at the end, but it’s like, jeez. imo supports my idea that romance is Supposed to be *the* panacea for the ailments of capitalism

#merkleymrack #isolation = bad #Romantic Subplots keep trying to make it into evidence that the relationship is Real and Good Actually & im like. you frcking Disgust Me #don't even come at me with any strict delineation between friendship and whatever-romance-is-to-whoever-wants-to-define-it #even some cishets are out here with the innovation of like whoa what if we liked our partners?? what if we were friends with them?? wow lol

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oscarwaswildebutalanwaswilder · 5 years

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Boast busters (Queen AU)

Snails: Gangway! Comin' through!

Jim: Augh! Snips, Snails! What's goin' on?

Snails: Wha, haven't you heard?

Jim: Whoa!

Snails: There's a new gem in town!

Snips: Yeah! They say that she's got more intelligence and magic than any other person ever!

Brian: Really?

Jim: Aw, no way, that honor goes to Bri here.

Brian: Where is this gem?

Snails: Ho, she's in the town square. Come on!

Snips: Yeah! [laughter] Come on! Whooo!Lily Pearl: Come one, come all! Come and witness the amazing magic of the Great and Powerful Lily Pearl!

Audience: Ooh!

Lily Pearl: Watch in awe as the Great and Powerful Lily performs the most spectacular feats of magic ever witnessed by human eyes!

[fireworks and fanfare]

Freddie: My, my, my! What boasting!

Jim: Come on, no one's as clever as Bri— Bri— Bri— Oh! [clears throat] Hey, Freddie, I, uh— Mustache!

Brian: There's nothing wrong with being talented, is there?

John: Nothin' at all, 'cep'n when someone goes around showin' it off like a school filly with fancy new ribbons.

Freddie: Just because one has the ability to perform lots of magic does not make one better than the rest of us.

Roger: Especially when ya got me around being better than the rest of us. [laughter] Eh, I mean, yeah, uh, magic shmagic. Boo!

Lily Pearl: Well, well, well, it seems we have some neighsayers in the audience. Who is so ignorant as to challenge the magical ability of the Great and Powerful Lily? Do they not know that they're in the presence of the most magical gem in all of the universe?

Freddie: [raspberry] Just who does she think she is?

Jim: Yeah! Since we all know that Brian here is—

Brian: Jim! Shhh!

Jim: What? What's wrong?

Brian: You see the way they reacted to Lily? I don't want anyone thinking I'm a show-off.[fanfare]

Roger: So, "Great and Powerful Lily". What makes you think you're so awesome, anyway?

Lily Pearl: Heh, why, only the Great and Powerful Lily has magic strong enough to vanquish the dreaded ursa major![fanfare, fireworks]

Audience: Ahh!

Snips: What?

Snails: No way!

Lily Pearl: When all hope was lost, the citizens of Edimburgh had no one to turn to, but the Great and Powerful Lily Pearl stepped in, and with her awesome magic, vanquished the ursa major and sent it back to its cave deep within the Everfree Forest!

Snips and Snails: Saw, sweet!

Snips: That settles it.

Snails: Lily truly is the most talented, the most magical, the most awesome gem in Brighton.

Snips: No, in all of the universe!

Jim: How do you know? You didn't see it! And besides, Bria— [zip!] Mmph! M-mmph!

Lily Pearl: [laughter] It's true, my enthusiastic little admirers. Trixie is most certainly the best in Brighton.[crickets]

Lily Pearl: Don't believe the Great and Powerful Lily? [chuckles] Well then, I hereby challenge you, Brightonians. Anything you can do, I can do better. Any takers? Anyone? Hmm? Or is Lily destined to be the greatest gem who has ever existed!?[fireworks and fanfare]

Jim: [zip] Please! She's unbearable! Ya gotta show her! Ya just gotta! [cries]

Brian: There's no way I'm going to use my magic now, Jim. Especially since—

Lily Pearl: Hmm, how about you?

Brian: [gulps]

Lily Pearl: Well, how about it? Hm? Is there anything you can do that the Great and Powerful Lily can't?

Brian: I— I—

Lily Pearl: Well, little hayseed?

John: That's it! I can't stand for no more of this!

Jim: You show her, Deaky!

John: Can your magical powers do this?[Disco Deaky in action]

Audience: Whooo! [cheers]

John: Top that, missy.

Lily Pearl: Oh ye of little talent. Watch and be amazed at the magic of Lily!

[snake charmer music]

John: Whoa! Uh!

Audience: [laughter and cheers]

Lily Pearl: Once again, the Great and Powerful Lily prevails.

Roger: There's no need to go struttin' around and showin' off like that.

Lily Pearl: Oh?

Roger: That's my job![plays the drums with water creating a rainbow]

Roger: They don't call me "Rainbow" for nothin'!

Audience: [cheers]

Lily Pearl: When Lily is through, the only thing they'll call you is loser.

Roger: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa-a-a-a! [gulp] I think I'm [gulp] gonna be sick.

Lily Pearl: Seems like anyone with a dash of good sense would think twice before tussling with the Great Lily.[thunder]

Roger: Ow![laughter]

Jim: What we need is another human to challenge her. Someone with some intelligence of his own.

Roger: Yeah! Another human to show this gem who's boss.

John: A human to gem tussle.

Brian: Uh...

Freddie: Enough. Enough, all of you. I take your hint, but Freddie is above such nonsense. Roger and John may behave like ruffians, but Freddie conducts himself with beauty and grace.

Lily Pearl: Ooo, what's the matter? Afraid you'll get a hair out of place in that rat's nest you call a mane?

Freddie: Oh, it. Is. On! You may think you're tough with all of your so-called powers, but there's more to magic than your brutish ways. A person needs to be more than just muscle. A person needs to have style.

Audience: Ooh!

Freddie: A person is not a person without grace and beauty.

Jim: Fred won't let Lily get the best of him! He's strong, he's beautiful, he's—

Audience: [gasps]

Freddie: Quick! I need a mirror! Get me a mirror! What did she do to my hair? I know she did something terrible to my hair!Brian: Nothing.

Roger: It's fine.

John: It's gorgeous.

Jim: It's green. What?

Freddie: Ugh, no. Green hair! Not green hair! [cries] Such an awful, awful color! [cries]

Golden Harvest: Well, I never!

Jim: Well Bri, guess it's up to you. Come on, show her what you're made of.

Brian: What do you mean? I'm nothing special.

Jim: Yes, you are! You're better than her!Brian: I'm not better than anyone.

Lily Pearl: Hah! You think you're better than the Great and Powerful Lily? You think you have more magical talent? Well, come on, show Lily what you've got. Show us all.

Brian: Who, me? I'm just your run-of-the-mill citizen of Brighton. No powerful magic here. I, uh... I think I hear my laundry calling. Sorry, gotta go.

Jim: Bri?

Lily: Ha! Once again, the Great and Powerful Lily has proven herself to be the most amazing gem in all of the world. Huh, was there ever any doubt?

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