#so the rather aged notes

[inavagrant-a]

See the thing about the “broken vase” dilemma at the end of the Interlude quest made me take that as foreshadowing for future events to come where inconsistencies in what’s /remembered/ to what’s /seen/ just catch up eventually. 

Like the golden feather Wanderer has on will be something Ei and Miko will recognize because that’s something only The Shogun can give out.

Then there’s Mona who can read constellations and if and when should she ever encounter Wanderer again and look into his constellation she’ll more than likely see things just aren’t adding up either. 

This is all convoluted right now and more assumptions than anything from my part but honestly I am here for all of that. For inconsistencies to catch up in the future.

#out. #i was in tatarasuna again reading the rather aged notes #and any mentions of #the 'eccentric' got wiped from them #but that's because #as nahida said in the archon quest #you gotta hide these sorts of things #from irminsul to where it can't tell it's related to the thing it's going to affect #so the rather aged notes #not mentioning the eccentric add up #because scaramouche wanted 'the balldeer' and 'kabukimono' to be no more #albeit not in the way irminsul went about it but #beggars can't be choosers

[spookberry]

"i kissed a girl once when i was 12" is kind of a losing response anyways

#danny phantom #savant par #I've had this scene as a wip for ages tbh #i imagine the 'actual soup' note on the thermos was left by jazz for him #did i successfully capture how shit school lunches are? #i always just packed my own lunch rather than eat the school stuff so idk #tucker foley #sam manson #my art #fanart #phanart #cyber space

[masezace]

little off topic for my blog, but i started watching a new show since a friend mentioned it was good and i'd heard positive things about it, so i just wanted to talk about it a little bit (probably never again after this since this isn't a fandom blog, but it's the only one i have rn so idc it's going here)

the show is Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, and just going on looks alone, despite my love for dinosaurs and the Jurassic Park franchise i never would have considered it. it appears to be very much for kids, and as i'm in my late twenties now i'm not particularly interested in especially kiddy media. however a friend my age enjoyed it and mentioned it has a canon lgbtq+ couple in it among the main characters, so of course i just had to watch it. i had already been hearing that despite its initial appearance and premise, it was surprisingly good for a kids' show, so i had already been curious, but i was even more keen after knowing there were queer characters, and not even the adults, the kids themselves (in a kid's show?!! what a time to be alive), so i finally sat down and watched it.

[spoiler warning, both minor and major, for the rest of this post btw, so continue reading at your own risk if you haven't seen it yet/are still watching]

the show overall

okay so firstly, i am coming at all of this from the perspective of a writer, so my observations are from a technical standpoint more so than just as a fan of the show. and honestly, it really is a well-written show as a whole. is it geared towards kids? definitely. there are plenty of jokes/gags in it that just don't appeal to me as an adult, but beyond that, there was plenty to appreciate as an adult.

the writing is actually phenomenal? there were several points in the series where i just sat back and mulled over the way a scene went, what the thought process behind writing it was like, how well it was executed, and how important it was to the characters and overall plot.

the suspense is spot on, nothing gets dragged out too long, and i will admit there have been a few scenes throughout that actually got me; i jumped! it's actually scarier than i expected a kid show to be, but i'm so glad they went where they did because it really elevated the experience.

the pacing overall is very good, adequately engaging for kids' short attention spans (and us adhd adults 🥲) but not too short either to a point where things felt abrupt or unfinished. plot arcs are well developed and tied up nicely. also, as a bit of a dinosaur nerd, the array of dinosaurs in the show is super broad and satisfying! very fun stuff.

character element

imo the real gem of this show is the character development. honestly it's just *chefs kiss*

the characters grow and change so much and so realistically over the course of the show, it's honestly so much better and more satisfying than the character growth in most adult fiction/media recently.

the growth in ben (who btw was def my favorite character by the end of s1) and kenji in particular were my favorites and, in my personal opinion, the most interesting. the way ben started out anxious, cowardly, and rule abiding to a fault, then grew into a brave, confident, adventurous little pyromaniac gremlin, then had that stint later in the series where he regressed a bit-questioning himself-until eventually ultimately striking a great balance and really coming into himself was just... peak character writing.

kenji started out overconfident, lazy, and overly concerned with money/status. but that arrogant overconfidence and laziness slowly turned into responsibility, and a desire to protect his found family, and the realization that it's the people in your life that really matter most.

honestly what i mentioned only scratches the surface in terms of those two characters, there's certainly more that can be said about them (as well as all the others) but i'm not really in the mood for a deep dive character analysis atm. just trust me tho when i say these characters are so well done and each one of them have arcs that are super satisfying to watch play out.

queer representation

and as for the queer couple? yasmina and sammy are PERFECT. it was so beautiful watching their relationship grow from one-sided to mutual friendship, to loyal devotion, then to love. they were set up incredibly well and incredibly naturally. i have like, no complaints when it comes to them. i don't even know if there's anything i can say that would add to things, they were just a really awesome couple to watch become canon, they're the beautiful and painfully needed representation we all beg for in tv and movies.

shipping, chemistry, and intent

but oh goodness... probably my only real complaint about the entire show would be how benji (ben x kenji) and kenji x brooklyn (kenlyn? brookji? idk and idrc) were handled. because for all that this show did SO much beautifully right, they really screwed the pooch here, sadly.

i'm gonna start by saying that the writing in this show, as with most, is deliberate. what i mean by this is that despite having no clue who it would be because my friend thankfully did not even spoil me as far as the genders of the queer couple, i clocked yas and sammy as the would-be queer couple as early as season one (actually it was between them and benji, but more on that later). i could already see the chemistry, because it was deliberately written in.

shipping is subjective. anyone can ship any character, and in most cases it's pretty easy to see how there could be (romantic) chemistry between fan pairings based on their personalities, their arcs, etc. and that's okay! ships don't even have to have any canon support to be valid, because shipping is for the fandom, and it's for fun (i have a few rarepairs and crack ships across different media that i just love).

but onscreen/written romantic chemistry is a lot less subjective (to clarify, it is subjective whether or not the chemistry is good, but it's not subjective about whether or not it exists). there are literally scenes written with the sole purpose of building the romantic tension and/or chemistry between planned couples (some of which even have absolutely zero plot relevance, which usually is not advised tbh, and most of which are the cliches/tropes you see in literally any romance ever written, some are just disguised a little better than others. but make no mistake, it's all the same set of cliches. there is nothing new under the sun), as well as intentional, key moments within scenes that have other purposes. they are essential to establish romantic pairings.

and typically, the foundations for these couples are laid VERY early on. always within the first or second season (well, at least they are when the writer actually knows what they're doing and has at least a rough plan/outline for the entire series & characters. this is usually a large part of what separates the good chemistry from the poor chemistry. an author who knows who the couples are going to be and has a plan from the beginning to build them up is going to be more successful in creating a believable relationship with good chemistry. one who does not plan, or makes last minute plans will almost certainly fail, and the couple is just going to suck). when the set of characters you're working with are going to stay the same for most or all of the story, you start immediately.

i don't mean to toot my own horn, because i think it's because i'm a writer so i just pick up on narrative patterns very easily, and pretty much always clock the planned couples within the first few episodes of any series, and by the end i am right like 9 times out of 10.

that being said, do you know whose deliberately written chemistry i also clocked in jwcc? ben and kenji's.

kenji and... brooklyn?

no offense to people who like/enjoy kenji and brooklyn, you are free to love them, but the way their romance was written is... quite possibly the weakest point of the show. it felt like they were just trying to appease the upsetto heteros in charge, because there was definitely another het pairing that had a lot more potential than kenji and brooklyn (hello darius x brooklyn aka darilyn, you would have actually made sense because your relationship had amazing buildup and multiple standout scenes from s1 on. dgmw, i love that we got a m/f strong, supportive, purely platonic friendship out of them, i live for those and we really need more of them. but we could have had that with kenji and brooklyn, or darius and sammy, or ben and yas, literally any other pair instead).

kenji and brooklyn as a couple came out of absolutely nowhere. i honestly think they decided to shove them together last minute, and had no actual plan for them until they were working on s4. because their development barely started at the VERY end of s3 (the abruptness of him caring about her being held hostage so much more than literally anyone else in their group despite them having like zero buildup to that point gave me whiplash), but honestly didn't really even become "meaningful" development until s4, over halfway through the series. the two spend the first 3 seasons basically not particularly gaf about each other individually, only as part of the whole group and on an equal level with everyone else. they otherwise have no deliberate narrative foundation. it just starts in s4 with no prior hinting. which makes their development rocky and difficult to believe. the funny thing is their characters literally have dialogue (in s4) trying to draw comparisons/parallels between them to say that they especially have a lot in common and like??? no? they really don't? not any more so than any other two kids in the group. their relationship just, really falls flat.

it was disappointing to see it take such a massive spotlight in the series for almost all of seasons 4 and 5, overshadowing the friendships that have been the focus of the show and should have remained so, to the point where at times it just felt like i was watching some stereotypical het highschool romance. genuinely, it made s4 & 5 more of a drag to get through. yasammy and ben and yas' growing bond (which by the way was so sweet, it had the strongest queer solidarity vibes good lord, i sure wonder why yas chose ben out of everyone to come out to first, hmmm) were some of the few things that kept me invested, otherwise i would have dropped it if it had leaned much farther into becoming the kenlyn show than it already was. especially when it was that pair so much of the focus was given to, even though we had so readily and perfectly available, the pair that could have, should have been: benji. which finally brings me to:

ben and kenji

benji's foundation was laid in s1. their interactions, the situations they found themselves in, were deliberate (on the writers' part). i'm even gonna go out on a limb here and say the pairings were fully established in s1e3, even with parallels between yasammy and benji (sammy clinging to yas and ben clinging to kenji throughout the episode), and darilyn gets the beginning of their development too.

even though they bicker a lot in the beginning, they clearly care about each other? kenji protects/helps ben multiple times, and there are definitely some looks ben gives kenji at times. at the end of s1, the one who seems the most deeply effected over ben's "death," other than darius (understandably since he's the one who failed to save him), was kenji! immediately after it happens, we get two close up shots, darius and brooklyn then yasmina and sammy. after which, we go back to the whole group with kenji in center frame, the focus is intentionally on him. it is only kenji who drops to his knees at the loss, and then we get a close up of just kenji. he was saved for last, and he was alone in frame (tbf bumpy was in frame too, but i'm talking humans here), which implies his feelings are especially important in this moment. that is the reason for solo close ups.

after ben's "death," kenji takes to always wearing ben's fanny pack, and up until bumpy--who ben cares VERY much about--got separated from them, kenji was the one who (however briefly) took over her care, ensuring she got off the monorail with them, and he's extremely distraught, more than pretty much all of them, when they can't find her, and he's last to leave when they decide to accept that ben's gone. even when they do leave, he's distant and distracted and his mind is clearly still on ben.

other than darius, kenji is the only one (if i'm remembering correctly) to mention ben/say his name after they lost him, upset because he was actually trying not to think about him. he has clearly thought about ben, probably a lot, because it's hard not to be reminded constantly when you wear something that belonged to a deceased loved one. and frankly, he appears to be the only one who dwells on him that much.

when ben reappears alive (which btw he found the group again because of kenji's butter knife, hello), the frames literally purposely focus on kenji's reaction. he's the one in the foreground every time they show him and brooklyn in that scene. he is the first one to say ben's name, the first one to go to him and hug him, and the scene takes special care to highlight kenji's strong emotions at ben's reappearance, lingering on his teary face as the focus for a bit even after brooklyn enters the frame to hug ben (because she is not at all an important element in the scene at that moment). just like when ben "died," the way this scene is written and shot HEAVILY suggests that ben holds significant importance to kenji, specifically. because again, the focus here is on kenji and ben almost exclusively, with brooklyn as only an afterthought lol. and quite frankly literally everyone else's reaction to him being alive was pretty lackluster compared to the special attention they gave to kenji on this.

and then in s3 we have the infamous hat scene, where darius and ben are in the limo and ben sees and mentions kenji's sailor hat, looking sad and sounding like... longing?? then directly after we switch to kenji realizing he forgot his hat?? the scene has no real significance tbh other than to draw a connection between ben and kenji. like, it acts as a transition to switch to the pov of the group on the boat, but it was entirely unnecessary? why not just have darius say something about the others and then show them on the boat? if there were no special relationship between ben and kenji, it would have made far more sense if they really wanted it to be ben to say something, that he sees the hat, and sadly says something along the lines of "i hope the others are okay/doing better than we are right now/etc" which implies that the hat made him think of everyone, their whole group. rather than what we got... which very much implies that he was mostly just thinking about kenji 💀 and then kenji thinking about the hat at the same time ben's looking at it and thinking of kenji. like, this is.... a very blatant connection being made by the writing/directing here.

all of that. so many deliberate connections made between ben and kenji, they had a very solid foundation laid for a romance to develop, and by all intents and purposes one already WAS developing according to the show's own subtext. which was why up until s4 obliterated the idea, i was positive the queer couple in the show was either going to be yasammy or benji. it was extremely obvious imo. but as soon we started getting the typical, loud, cliche "we are going to pair off these characters" scenes for kenji and brooklyn, i knew we were getting yasammy and not benji (to be clear, i'm not at all upset about yasammy, they're beautiful and i love how their relationship was done, i wouldn't have had it end any other way for them. but i do personally prefer benji, i just like their personalities and dynamic more. and i feel they had so much potential that got wasted to make way for a far less interesting pairing between kenji and brooklyn. why can't we have 2 queer couples, huh? and if we really needed a minimum of one hetero pairing to appease whoever needed appeasing, darilyn was right there).

but then??? their like entire bond just gets dropped (honestly ben himself gets pretty heavily sidelined for almost all of the last two seasons, which is criminal imo). mostly so that a rushed kenji x brooklyn can be established. like there are still a few small moments here and there in early s4, and one episode in s5 (ep 10), but from early s4 till pretty much the end of the series we hardly see them have any meaningful conversations or interactions, meanwhile literally every other combo in the group does.

it's so weird? why build up benji so deliberately over the course of multiple seasons just to like, fully discard it for a pairing with far less chemistry, even after the chemistry-building scenes they shared, some of which literally had no other purpose than to affirm their connection? even though they were very sparse, the moments benji had were just so blatant (kenji leaps into the rock crevice right onto the back of a saber tooth to save ben?!!?? like he literally was just willing to exchange his life for him like that?? he basically says that he wasn't really thinking, he just did it. so he moved out of what, emotional instinct, that's what we're meant to intuit from that series of events? implying that he specifically has strong emotion and doesn't think things through when it comes to ben? because he doesn't do that kinda stuff for any of the others in the group! even better, this parallels when sammy jumped on the nothosaurus to save yasmina. and then the way benji look at each other after it's over??? hello??? and then how kenji pulls both brooklyn and ben in for that hug a couple minutes later... side eyeing the writers for that choice. they knew what they were doing there and they were evil for it). i just can't see any reason to have dropped them like they were, after all the development they shared for 3 seasons. confounding. biggest disappointment of the series.

i know this probably reads to some as just "wahh, my ship didn't become canon" nonsense. but that's not why i'm bugged. this wasn't just a ship i liked and wanted canon despite no actual narrative support, as most ships tend to be. this ship did have narrative support. there was intent behind many of their scenes together, lingering looks and little things that matter narratively and are always used to signify a stronger/special connection. and it led nowhere, for no good reason. that bothers me. writing that implies and promises something, but never delivers on it. like a person who never finishes their sentences (think Dr McPhee from Night at the Museum). ultimately it's not a HUGE deal or anything, at the end of the day it's just a ship and just a kids' show. but as a writer, it's just irritating to see something like that be done. what can i say 🤷

conclusion

even despite the wasted potential between certain pairings, and even though i do think the first three seasons were superior to the last two, overall i really enjoyed the show, and for what it was, it was really well-made. the overarching focus was of course on found family and friendship before anything else, which i absolutely love, and it was masterfully done. out of 6 kids, all of them had at least one or two meaningful bonding moments one-on-one with another in the group, so every possible combination had their moment to build strong, believable friendships with each other. i'm just so surprised by how good it was as a whole honestly, good enough to binge over the course of a week. i will happily recommend jwcc to anyone willing to give it a watch regardless of age, because i definitely think there's no age limit for a good story, no matter the medium it's told in. :)

#jwcc #jurassic world camp cretaceous #benji jwcc #benji #yasammy #yasammy jwcc #i would say that there's prob an age minimum tho... it's a bit scary so depending on the kid i wouldn't rec it to under 10 years #this is a long post #omg so long i'm sorry #i just have a lot to say #gotta shout into the void #it just be like that sometimes #fair warning this post is literally just me praising the show in the first half n then going absolutely off about benji in the second half #review #tv show review #as always with stuff like this that has any mention of ships it is bound to ruffle some feathers #so let me postface this with the reminder that this is all just MY OPINION #you are free to disagree but i'd rather you don't share your disagreements on my post via reblog/notes #feel free to write up your own show/ship review if you feel so strongly #otherwise if you dislike anything i've said you can just scroll past or block me <3

[festaventurine]

honestly respected how some recent shonen jump and spinoff titles have fun sense of creativity in their concepts compared to years ago where people would struggle with creativity just to survive the magazine/publisher. what if you're awakened from being a stone for thousands years and have to play minecraft back the technologies. what if a magic-less h*rry p*tter actually had balls to punch eugenics in the face and it was funny. what if this abandoned esper kid had assassin and spy as adoptive loving parents. what if we make the horse idol gijinka franchise into a tooth-gritting shounen sports manga about one of the most popular white horses in japanese horseracing history. it used to be only one piece that actively tries something creative and survives the magazine's axing imo.

i think we also kind of need a love comedy that actually had flare of creativity on it there-- nisekoi was almost it but it succumbed to the harem tropes.....

#sunset usamin rambles #anyway i think dr. stone and mashle is very fun series that anyone could enjoy #i know spyxfamily and cinderella gray isn't exactly main #jump itself but lemme put them there as respect. (read them too) #also death note was rather creative for its age too!! but it's much older so #i havent been reading much jump romcom tho is there any recs. early nisekoi was brilliant

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

a scar i totally forgot about in my notes and by extension that drawing i did (but you couldn't see peter's back there anyway so eh)

it's a handprint from kaine (somehow the only one? idk) TBH there's a chance this scar doesn't even end up happening so i guess it doesn't really matter if i forgot it cause it might not be relevant lol but i wanted to doodle it anyway...

#it would probably be pretty faded eventually. this doodle is more like a year later rather than decades like the other drawing... #nadiart #fanadiart #i mean. technically. #came in through the window last night #peter parker #i'm drawing something way dumber related to this also XD #rough art #drawing him after a shower/bath one of the only excuses i could think for drawing his bare back at this age/general time #cause for a while there he's got the spidey suit on almost 24/7... #takes him 3 years to stop wearing the suit under his clothes all the time and unbutton back down a little #maybe if he was having sex his shirt might be off but even then idk #can still fuck clothed after all #to clarify the handprint is theoretically (as of rn in my notes) from peter and kaine fighting each other while held captive #the location i picked is like picturing wrestling grappling grabbing at his back you know #but i'm still working out some details of how often and when they were or were not sedated so i'm not sure if they actually would fight #or if that's something i'll be scrapping #i mean they probably fight other times while not held captive in a basement together but it's not the same kind of situation

[designernishiki]

today on tumblr user designernishiki’s autistic-with-a-special-interest-in-psychology deep dives: dissecting the hell out of kiryu/nishiki’s childhoods and kazama’s parenting (or lack thereof) and how it all relates to their emotional development (or lack thereof). they will never be safe from my psychoanalyses

#childhood development isn’t actually an area I have a ton of experience researching which is part of what makes this intriguing tbh #because I was basically thinking a lot about how it makes alot of sense that kazama being a semi-absent father figure would result in kiryu #idolizing and idealizing him to the (objectively unhealthy) extent that he does. because he wasn’t around super consistently kiryu would #hardly get to see/experience his flaws and have healthy disagreements and blatant differences with him and etc all-in-all making it so he’d #never really gain emotional autonomy and come to see him as a full-on person rather than an anti-hero character he wants to emulate as much #as possible. and by the time kiryu does come more face to face with kazama’s flaws and moral greyness he’s already well past the age range #where you’re supposed to develop emotional autonomy and have the most neuroplasticity to do so and thus it’s much more difficult for him #to deconstruct the idolized figure of kazama in his head. not to mention kazama died basically just as kiryu started to be confronted with #kazama’s less-than-perfect actions and traits and etc so he can’t humanize him through in-person experiences #it’s. a whole mess #I should save it for the big analysis post and not these tags fhshdjsnd #nishiki may have to be his own post completely because I feel like I’d end up having to talk about why he absolutely reads as borderline to #me and why it makes a lot of sense that certain symptoms/maladaptive thoughts/behaviors grow to be so out of control eventually #I have many thoughts about that boy and I already have many many notes on his potential bpd and image issues in general #hoo boy. #rambling

[afieldinengland]

INSIDE NO 9 S7E6 ‘WISE OWL’ + PIF PARALLELS

play safe: frisbee (1979) | charley says: strangers (1973) | charley says: matches (1973) | apaches (1977)

#my edit #inside no 9 #no idea if these were particular inspirations but they mention both charley says and apaches on the podcast so. likely at least #also on a pif-related note i was thinking about how interesting it is that dumb ways to die was so big for my age group when we were ten #it’s a rail safety advert essentially— but it uses gory convoluted ways of dying to make kids laugh and spread their message rather #than terrifying them á la the finishing line (1977). i still know all the words. so i suppose it worked….. #i remember a busful of us singing it on the way to a residential trip in wales in year six #still. it’s an interesting difference between decades for the same message #inside no 9 spoilers

[mccleans]

#spent all day helping my best friend move into her new flat #and it was really lovely to be able to be there for her and help her unpack and set everything up #bc her bf (one of my other flatmates) is going travelling for a couple of years in march so obvs he's moving out and they're breaking up #which is why SHE had to move out bc she couldn't afford the rent on a double room by herself #and she's only just moved down the hill like literally a five minute walk which is obviously amazing #she's not ages away yk #and she's moved in with our mutual friend which is nice too #but on a selfish note now i'm left behind in a flat with four 20 year old couples #and i'm now the outside friend like i'm the one who has to go home yk rather than being the one in the home #and i'm just dreading being alone so much of the time like cooking dinner alone and coming home from work and being alone etc #and i'm worried as well that in the new flat they'll get really close and i'll be like forgotten about and left behind #and i know this is all catastrophising and mind reading and all those therapy phrases #but it just sucks. it really sucks #i had to walk home in the rain just now up the hill at half 12 at night #and i cried the whole way because it just all sucks so bad #i knoooooow obviously there's worse problems in the world there's people that are dying kim etc etc #but i'm just very sad about it right now. very very sad about it #so it's 1am and i'm going to sleep and i will wake up at 4am for the match and arsenal better fucking pull through for me #goodnight love u all sleep well appreciate the people in ur life x #also i mean two 20 year old couples lol i don't have eight flatmates

[circus-k]

sometimes transgenderism is tearing up at the thought of being a middle aged guy with a dadbod and a receding hairline

sometimes transgenderism is seeing people use old age and balding as a way to "scare" transmascs away from going as far as they'd like in their transitions and seeing those as positives. as proof that you're alive and you're here and you made it

i want to be that old trans guy who's hair has thinned out. who's body softened and filled with age.

i want to be happy.

#ck.txt #'t is so scary what if you turn out all bald and fat and old' what if that's how i want to turn out? #also that mindset is so. idk. all those things people use to try to make hormones (usually testosterone) seem so scary are just #normal parts of aging #of being alive #if i could chose between being an ugly disheveled man or live as a woman #i'd chose the man every time #it doesn't matter how many adjectives or 'unflattering' imagery you attach to it #i would rather be happy than beautiful #cause if i'm happy isn't that beauty? #also on a less serious note i'd be such a dilf i'm so awesome. i NEED to be some sweet old man #this is weirdly deep its just one of those nights. you know how it is

[lyfeward]

y'know what I gotta leave a more detailed note for myself or I WILL forget and I like this idea so —

the Horned Knight obviously is the Lord of the Forest with a court of dryads [including his wife, who is a dryad] and human servants who are ensorcelled with moss + flowers growing over theirs mouths + eyes. will dive into that at some point. but he is a knight so I have a thought of there being what I will call the Order of Yore. this is a knightly order, which he leads, consisting of spirits who — well I'm gonna steal a phrase from Solas: "reenact the bloody past in ancient wars both famous and forgotten." I feel we can assume that dryads are spirits inhabiting trees, and so I will say the Order of Yore [aka the yorder as I like to call them] consists of spirits inhabiting animals but in a way that anthropomorphizes them. like, you don't just have a possessed fox who can talk. you have a possessed fox who can talk, walk on two legs, wield a weapon, and a wear a jaunty feather cap. it's a whole thing. anyway, these knights are drawn to great deeds of valor, chivalry, honor, battle, that sort of thing. they can often be found reenacting such deeds that have occurred in the past. in an instance where they come upon a deed that is currently happening / has happened recently, they will reward it. however, if they come upon someone acting dishonorably, cowardly, against their code of chivalry — well naturally they punish them. and it's known they've been punished. thus it's no surprise folktales paint the yorder as an ill omen. it's said if you come upon them, you will soon meet your death and it will be a grisly one. in fact, some say that if you come upon them they will kill you themselves and drag away your soul to serve as game in their hunts for all eternity. tales of their rewards in recognition of noble deeds are rarer owing to the rarity of noble deeds themselves.

#OOC / HOLLY. #note to self #I have a whole thing on HK I've been saying for ages I would polish #ever since I started writing Amis basically #the basic gist is that he's not just some spirit #rather he IS the Tirashan and in the bitheistic beliefs of northwestern Orlais he is a face of the gods #which is to say he is a god #that's why the Shame summoned and bound him: an attempt to gain control over the very land itself #but whatever the Shame did did not go as planned and being bound like that just. doesn't work for a being like HK #so it kinda screwed with his memory and sense of identity #he is an amnesiac in a sense. he has this kind of instinct to do certain things but he doesn't really REMEMBER who or what he is #like acting as the Lord of the Forest because although he doesn't remember it he IS the forest #and having this fixation on duality with the Marquis/e because duality is his very nature #he is meant to be one end of a duality and another deity is the other end #in his case the other would be the spirit of Serault / the parts that aren't the Tirashan #aka the roads and fields much like he calls the Marquis/e the Lord of Roads and Fields #this also manifests in him taking a wife. he is meant to have an 'other half' #although he doesn't really remember that it's part of his nature and seeks to be fulfilled somehow

[icouldhyperfixatehim]

this tracks.

@laowen @oswlld @wuxyings @maggiecheungs this exTRemELy tracks, you are all blessings and scholars and sweethearts 🥺🥰🥰

#serious note: everyone on that list (and many more besides) have been instrumental in me getting through one of my worst years on record #you are all so creative and kindhearted and earnestly enthused #and it might be silly to make such a big deal of a fucking tumblr blog but honestly any light to see by when you've been stuck in the dark #and you guys are what makes this place a light - rather than just somewhere to piss all my time up a rope lmao #so many times this year it felt like the best thing to do for survival would be to let my heart embers go out #but the warmth in my heart i have for ye and had through that time is proof positive that i could make it through w something of me intact #okay now i'm really off on one #byeeee take the mic away ty byebbbyebuhbuhbyeeebyebyebye #love all of you and your minds and generosity okay bye byebyeby- #ag seafóid

[emmavakarian-theirin]

gamerbros will be like "i miss the OLD bioware! their new games are terrible!!" than be praising mass effect 2 specifically

#like you'll see them trash andromeda (a single game) by saying how much greater the trilogy (T R I L O G Y) is #and then say they refuse to go back to me1 for how boring it is and that me3 was rushed with lazy writing #'and dragon age is a woke train wreck and anthem is bad because (checks notes) i'm biased' #i mean personally i think ME2 would have worked better as it's own seprate game rather than the filler in the trilogy #which is why people praise it so much compared to the others because it stands out so much it doesn't fit #but they don't want to hear thaaaaaaaat even though it's just proving their own points #anyway filing this one under 'things i wish i was brave enough to post on reddit' #god i might post it on twitter though and be That Bitch

[classical-vanity]

One thing I find really aggravating about myself is that I never finish things

#i just start stuff and then never finish them #hobbies mostly I suppose #like I started a book back in 2020 and I had under 100 pages left #I did finish it this year #took me 3 years to actually finish it #it’s actually one of my all time favorite books too #I have a paint by numbers started and I keep thinking on starting a new one #rather than finishing this one I have which is like 80% done #and it’s more than just small things like this #wanted to learn Italian and I started a notebook with notes and stuff #haven’t opened it or made any progress in ages #I guess it’s my lack of discipline and dysfunctional perfectionism #anyway #gonna stop rambling now #this has just been bothering me lately #and I should really do something about it because it’s no one’s fault but my own #it’s just so hard but i don’t think it’s good long term to just stay like this #I don’t like it #tbd later

[lottieurl]

the way my next edit is gonna be only a minute and forty seconds but it's gonna take me like twenty hours to actually make it

#do you ever think about how much time and effort goes into creating things and then it can be viewed or read in a moment #anyways im now pretty used to premiere pro so its rly enjoyable 🥰 but also takes ages #cause i literally can spend half an hour on 3 seconds of the video #also well finding scenes cropping etc alone takes time. its 19 hours of footage!! #on a related note if anyone actually read this far do you guys know if you can even create youtube accounts easily now #cause its just your google account now?? but id rather have a different account for my silly little edits

[mariocki]

Infinite list of favourite lyrics: 223/?

Tina Turner - GoldenEye (1995)

"You'll never know

How I watched you from the shadows as a child,

You'll never know

How it feels to be the one who's left behind.

You'll never know the days,

The nights, the tears, the tears I've cried;

But now my time has come

And time, time is not on your side!"

#favourite lyrics #tina turner #rip #goldeneye #bono #the edge #1995 #james bond #wildest dreams #might seem an odd choice of Tina song to celebrate her life‚ what with the wealth of massive success she leaves; i mean River Deep Mountain #High? Proud Mary? The Best? all bangers‚ all absolute masterpieces (I am particularly in love with River Deep which I would consider a #perfectly constructed single). but this is slightly an indulgent thing on my part; rather‚ i should say‚ a sentimental choice #as slightly feral teens‚ my bff and i would drive around north wales late at night (there isn't much to do here when you're an angsty angry #teen) smoking and listening to cds we made blasted as loud as possible on her car stereo. i think the goldeneye theme was on p much #every cd we ever made; we both knew the lyrics back to front‚ we'd both scream sing along and try to hit those incredible lingering notes #and quavering vocals like Tina (obviously never doing it at all justice). I'm not sure why we loved the song so much. partly bc we were of #an age to have been around for Goldeneye as a film release and game and it was a pretty big deal‚ reinvigorating the bond #franchise after something like a decade or more of slow decline into irrelevance (don't @ me i genuinely enjoy the Timothy Dalton films but #the fact is the franchise was dead in the water by 95). more likely it was because it is simply such an infectiously good banger of a song #it's everything a bond theme should be: Big‚ dramatic‚ campy‚ a little bit eerie‚ quasi operatic. it's a whole mysterious narrative #delivered in 3 and a half minutes in a pitch perfect vocal from a legend at the height of her powers. i actually didn't know until today #that it was written by the U2 twosome (but it makes sense and i can hear it now) but regardless they wrote it specifically for Turner: for #her own specific delivery and style. it's possible to sing this song a dozen different ways following the same lyrics and music and end up #with a dozen entirely different songs. but only one was the right choice; Tina's. a dark velvet glove on a cold hard gun. there was only #ever one tina turner‚ and so it should have been. rip to a true icon.

[drumsandwaves]

my thesis is done and everything is overwhelming so it's time to come back to tumblr and its wonders

#everyone who tagged me into stuff: i love you so much please don't refrain from doing it in the future just because i didn't answer then #i might get around to actually reply to those if i can find them again in the notes #the whole point of this post was basically to say what i said in the tags rather than the post #in true tumblr fashion i guess #well now it's time to go feral about shakarian and dragon age once again