#specifically but nowhere else

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

What’s your favorite bit of lore? Or favorite holiday/festival in genshin they’re pretty neat

i'm absolutely biased towards lantern rite tbh

as for bit of lore, i'm not really sure. i feel like 'bit of lore' is really weird to define, bc ultimately most lore is all connected into bigger pictures. obviously i'm partial towards liyue lore in general, but as for a specific little bit...

probably still the possibility that zhongli is partial to archery.

#thank you <3 <3 #i know his passive talent is for crafting spears but like #the only reason why that talent is for spears specifically is bc he is a polearm user. nowhere in the talent itself nor other related media #do we get a mention of zhongli being particularly good at crafting polearms over other weapon types #we know he made the pwjs and the jade cutter. he didn't make jadefall but he did wield it. he also made summit shaper #we can assume he made vortex vanquisher n the unforged but there's no real confirmation on either. we do know he didn't make memory of dust #assuming he did make those last two that's still an equal number of polearms and swords he made. more swords if you wanna count the unforge #ofc he could've made countless op polearms off-camera. but we're never told that #dainsleif's factoid abt the talent is more about zhongli knowing his rocks than zhongli being a good polearm maker in specific #and the skill's name in chinese is more about astrology and divination than anything else. again more on zhongli knows his rocks #so like- we don't know that he had a mastery over crafting polearms in specific #and we know he wielded catalysts and polearms and likely swords as well #and still #the only real imagery on his design on what weapon he uses #is a fucking archery ring. nowhere is it mentioned that zhongli uses bows (that we know of) #yet he wears that thing on the daily. like he still uses it. like he needs to literally keep it on hand. why #why would he do that if he apparently does not historically use bows. #only thing i can think of is that he still practices archery. over any other weapon type. which is a hilarious thought tbh #but more crack theory than anything

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Me, decorating my room: ...should I get a naruto poster?

Also me: If I search for naruto posters... they'll all make me angry in a way that's fucking unhinged

#and i was right. of course i was right. i wanna spit and bite #thry focus on the wrong things. why cant they just read my mind and make exactly what i specifically want? #why the fuck woukd i want an itachi poster??? i want a fucked up chakra tree sapping the people of their life force #i want naruto standing strong when everyones trying to tear him down. i want kushina telling naruto how much she loves him before she dies #i want iruka taking care of naruto when everyone else has turned their backs. but those make for bummer fucking posters #and i dont wanna hang my own art on my walls. maybe i need to go to an anime con. but i still feel like the artists would focus on the wron #things. ugh. i am become a naruto elitist. i just have too many feelings abt naruto >:-[ #also. i live in the middle of nowhere in the mountains now so like i dont thibk ill b going to any cons. #also moving across the country is fucking exhausting and idk when ill have time to properly draw yet #naruto ramblings #is it too much to ask for everyone to interpret naruto like i do? in opposition of the writer?? is it me who's out of touch??? #no. its the people who are wrong. lol me and my fucking naruto feels

[infestedguest]

You know what? Lost fanfiction counts as lost media. I don’t care if you think it’s stupid and unimportant, somebody took the time to write a story (with zero monetary incentive) which they clearly cared about, and it’s very likely that at least a few other people did as well. All art is worth preserving, even if it doesn’t have any value to you personally.

#this isn’t about works voluntarily deleted by the author that’s an entirely different conversation #this is specifically about works lost to the purges or because the websites they were hosted on no longer exist #like in the late 90s - early 00s there was no main website for hosting fics there were a bajillion little ones #and nowhere near all of those websites are accessible today and a lot of them weren’t archived somewhere else before their sites went down #seriously #fanfic #fanfiction #fanfic meta #fanfiction meta #fanfic history #fanfiction history #lost media #anna talking about stuff

[mwagneto]

crazy how going to the skatepark in my commie bloc just to sit there for like 30 minutes doing fuck all and then leave immediately fixes my brain

#only 5pm and everything is dark and snowy. I'm having the time of my life #I've never seen a single person here other than me even tho ppl definitely come here #left empty for me specifically #i mean it's -1°c im sure noone else feels up to sitting outside in pajamas and a jumper like I'm doing rn but yknow #ofc it's not specifically abt this place it's abt romanticising every aspect of my life. but i #really like places that feel straight out of a pinterest board #like I'll never make one but im living all of them #i love being outside i love snow i love cold i love it when it gets dark early i love that we have 0 streetlights. slay #also. plugging my headphones in putting my hood up and getting on my kick scooter is so. im going to die #like i have the cracks in the street memorised but it's always scary jdmridjeifjjs #almost ate shit today coz everything is covered in black ice LMFAO #i need exam season to be over so i can go on stupid little quests again my daily walk and occasional #trips to the shops are nottttt enough for me. i need to go to the middle of nowhere and break into an abandoned building #barking

[tearlessrain]

well the local kink group I was in decided to drop its masking policy and be kind of scummy about it so… idk I guess I’ll just go back to going slowly insane in the woods

#the entire situation is infuriating and the board is Not handling the large amount of pushback well #there were a lot of immunocompromised people who were here specifically because it was the only group still masking #there is nowhere else to go

[lycanthian]

i need to fuckign explode

#i need to talk tohim i need to talk to him i need to talk to him i need to tlak to him but i caaaaaaaaaaaaaaant bc im too scared of that lol #it was on my mind two months ago it was on my mind a month ago and its on my mind now and it is driving me insane #bjt k dont want to say what it is because thats a can of worms of potential for people to Know i dont want #so glad the guy in question is locked out of tumblr and the other guy involved barely looks at tumblr #only fucking place i can get this thought out even vaguely #i need to talk to both of them bt i cant because i feel like i will die trying to. heart attack on the spot #as much as i dont want him to i hope he gets a notif for this and asks me sbout it #even though theres no way hed knownim specificslly talking abt him #bc at leas that way it spares me the fucking nightmare kf bringing it up to someone #and its like. objectively not s problem #if i just used my words and talked it out it would be done so fast.but the problem is even though i talk to both of them so much #the thought of talking to them abt this specific thing scares me so bad that #i think if i sent a text about it i would close discord snd not open it for 2 years #sighghhggggghhghgghhhggh ive been rlly good abt not venting on tumblr lately bc i didnt like doing it in the first plsce but #there is literally nowhere else for me to complain about this in a spacethat i am comfortable complaining sbt it in #that does not include one of the affected guys #lycan howls

[wonder-worker]

"Because Richard (III) usurped the throne, his retinue is inevitably seen as inimical to the crown and therefore in an important sense independent of royal authority. In the context of Edward IV's reign, in which the retinue was created, neither assumption is true. The development of the retinue would have been impossible without royal backing and reflected, rather than negated, the king's authority. Within the north itself, Gloucester's connection subsumed that of the crown. Elsewhere, in East Anglia and in Wales, that focus for royal servants was provided by others, but Gloucester was still part of that royal connection, not remote from it. In the rest of England, as constable and admiral, he had contributed to the enforcement of royal authority. When he seized power in 1483 he did not do it from outside the prevailing political structure but from its heart."

-Rosemary Horrox, "Richard III: A Study of Service"

#r*chard iii #english history #my post #Richard was certainly very powerful in the north but to claim that he 'practically ruled' or was king in all but name is very misleading #his power/success/popularity were not detached from Edward IV's rule but a fundamental part/reflection/extension of Edward IV's rule #even more so that anyone else because he was Edward's own brother #there's also the 1475 clause to consider: Richard & Anne would hold their titles jointly and in descent only as long as George Neville #also had heirs. Otherwise Richard's title would revert to life interest. His power was certainly exceptional but his position wasn't as #absolute or indefinite as is often assumed. It WAS fundamentally tied to his brother's favor just like everyone else #and Richard was evidently aware of that (you could even argue that his actions in 1483 reflected his insecurity in that regard) #once again: when discussing Edward IV's reign & Richard III's subsequent usurpation it's really important to not fall prey to hindsight #for example: A.J Pollard's assumption that Edward IV had no choice but to helplessly give into his overbearing brothers' demands #and had to use all his strength to make Richard to heed to his command which fell apart after he died and Richard was unleashed #(which subsequently forms the basis of Pollard's criticism of Edward IV's reign & character along with his misinterpretation of the actions #of Edward IV's council & its main players after his death who were nowhere near as divided or hostile as Pollard assumes) #is laughably inaccurate. Edward IV was certainly indulgent and was more passive/encouraging where Richard (solely Richard) was concerned #but he was by no means unaware or insert. His backing was necessary to build up Richard's power and he was clearly involved & invested #evidenced by how he systematically depowered George of Clarence (which Clarence explicitly recognized) and empowered Richard #and in any case: to use Richard as an example to generalize assumptions of the power other magnates held during Edward IV's reign #- and to judge Edward's reign with that specific assumption in mind - is extremely misleading and objectively inaccurate #Richard's power was singular and exceptional and undoubtedly tied to the fact that he was Edward's own brother. It wasn't commonplace. #as Horrox says: apart from Richard the power enjoyed by noble associates under Edward IV was fairly analogous to the power enjoyed by #noble associates under Henry VII. and absolutely nobody claims that HE over-powered or was ruled by his nobles or subjects #the idea that Richard's usurpation was 'inevitable' and the direct result of Edward empowering him is laughable #contemporaries unanimously expected Edward V's peaceful succession. Why on earth would anyone - least of all Edward - #expect Richard to usurp his own nephew in a way that went far beyond the political norms of the time? #that was the key reason why the usurpation was possible at all #as David Horspool says: RICHARD was the 'overriding factor' of his own usurpation There's no need to minimize or outright deny his agency #as Charles Ross evidently did

[wufflesvetinari]

ok FINE, some things about my half-orc cleric tav whom i love so very much

Lash grew up with her trying-his-best dad in Baldur's Gate (mom stayed with her orc clan). she had no lucrative skills and no exceptional cunning--between this and the default perspective of her as barbaric, she internalized a bunch of stuff, joined up somewhere, Saw Some Action, got good at killing people. like, really good. "her services were instrumental in leveling several towns including civilians and she got a commendation for it" good.

this did not feel good, and mid-personal-crisis about murdering strangers on someone else's orders, she deserts and saves one goddamn monk and ilmater calls her to his service. she regards this as a baffling mistake on his part.

illmater is a god of compassion, gentleness, self-sacrifice. his clerics are basically non-combatants, known to only use violence as last resort. goblins etc. see a cleric of illmater on the battlefield and avoid hurting them, because they know they are willing to heal both sides if they can.

lash is not like this. lash starts as a blunt instrument who is only good at violence. but she wants to do good in the world, finally, and if ilmater wants to throw away his famed gentleness to compromise on someone like her, who is she to argue?

she spends her first years training in a temple, but she doesn't have the head for scripture. neither does she have the conviction or creativity for complete non-violence, instead developing a world-weary acceptance of it as a tool to reduce suffering.

she's sent on dangerous pilgrimages repeatedly instead of being assigned to minister to ilmater’s followers, confirming to herself that her calling is a compromise on ilmater’s part: he needs a blunt instrument so that others can carry on the work of being gentle.

what she doesn't realize in this time period is that she is slowly becoming gentle. moreover, becoming wise. clergy and laypersons approach her for advice on a world they are sheltered from. she has a way of speaking that cuts to the heart of things, and she's a comfort in quiet moments. she is rarely misled by self-serving justifications and moralizing. her kind of wisdom is drawn from her knowledge of the world and its flaws instead of from scripture.

she still kills. she's still blunt, and quietly sarcastic, and not entirely at ease with her god. but gods, she wants to be kind.

i think that astarion seriously considered seducing someone else for his plan in act 1 (wyll or something lmao) because, based on a "clerics with wooden stakes" comment he makes at camp at some point, he thought letting a good-aligned cleric guess his nature would be extremely dangerous for him. he especially has a bunch of anger towards the god of compassion, because he "prayed to every god" and nobody saved him.

but it's hard for him to see lash as a cleric? i mean, yes, she has a way of staring at you that makes you squirm and feel Too Known, and she's stupidly self-sacrificing, and she's hilariously incapable of trickery.

but she's funny, in her own reserved way. she's a world-weary soldier, good with a story, disgustingly rustic, a good cook, with the habit of cussing out her own god without getting in trouble for it somehow. and she mostly says the right type of kind thing, not the type of kind thing that make him want to curl up somewhere and grow spikes. and...maybe it's not terrible, feeling like someone Gets your deal instinctively? someone quiet but self-assured, who doesn't push for more?

(and, like, she's hot? she's strong and a little distant. devious plan aside, he finds that hot)

i am only in act one. i think, in her "worst" (but also kind of sexiest) moments, she thinks of herself as a mechanism, and even frames it as such out loud: if someone has committed unspeakable cruelty, she's here to end them for it. action and reaction. no hesitation, no mercy, because her being brutal allows everyone else to be kind. a necessary evil.

but she's in the midst of a years-long process of learning to see herself in a...kinder light. and as their relationship develops i think astarion will prod her a lot about how she makes more complicated ("and fun!") choices than that all the time, you idiot. why else would she be traveling with such a bunch of assholes?? why else would she be good to him?

#CLERICS!!! #i ADORE the potential for cleric-specific dynamics in the Astarion romance (especially a cleric who surprises him personality-wise) #and i have nowhere else to put these thoughts #bg3 #astarion #I know very little about dnd deep lore keep mind. I got my info on ilmater from a wiki #lash the half-orc cleric

[dubiousdoctors]

deeply unfortunate that there is no way of living except to be in certain ways forever defined by the places you have spent your life!!

#the general sadness and detestation for this town has once again hit me like a fucking freight train #what a horrendous location. gilded birdcage set in amid beautiful and interesting and much less empty-hearted places. #but also I do live here and have lived here always and there's really nowhere else that I can claim to have lived. which. uh. kinda sucks. #funny the way you can beg for connection while at the same time remain convinced that you are not allowed at places because of This #hm. well. and maybe I'm extra maudlin because I forgot to eat dinner and maybe this specific issue has been evident for a while :/

[lavellenchanted]

just browsing through the willow tag and I find it interesting that the general consensus seems to be accepting that kit’s right, that madmartigan and sorsha chose elora over her, when I don’t think they did - at least, not in the way that kit believes

if elora has ever been chosen it’s as ‘elora danan’, the symbol, the saviour of the realm, because keeping her safe keeps the whole realm and everyone in it safe - I think it’s telling that she’s mostly referred to as elora danan rather than just as elora, and that allagash told kit that elora danan is what is more important and not who - rather than elora the person being chosen or loved more than kit is, which is I think how kit has internalised it

she had constructed this narrative for herself that madmartigan left with elora and gone into hiding with her, was raising her somewhere, being a father to her where he wasn’t to kit or airk, and even after learning that elora was also left behind and that madmartigan was searching for the cuirass and intended to return she’s held on to that idea of elora being loved more and interprets every act done to protect elora as an act of love for elora

which isn’t to say that madmartigan and sorsha don’t love elora, but they are also primarily acting out of concern for the entire realm

and the reality is, as much as I would like to believe that they think of elora as another daughter, they really haven’t treated elora that way; she has no personal relationship with either of them, she grew up as a servant (which involves doing a lot of hard work and manual labour), with no family, wondering who she was and where she was really from, given a new name and made to dye her hair from her earliest years and kept from her training as a sorceress to the point that she could have lost the ability to use magic entirely - and all of this with apparently no intention of her ever finding out the truth, but neither being allowed to leave the palace

(like, I seriously wonder what sorsha’s plan was if ballantine hadn’t been corrupted and had managed to bring elora back to tir asleen. would she finally have told her? would she have come up with another reason why elora couldn’t go? would she have locked elora up to keep her in the palace?)

I can’t imagine any of that feels like being ‘chosen’ to elora, and even if it was done out of love she has never felt loved or wanted

it’s implied that she’s struggling with a kind of imposter syndrome and I think part of that is feeling that there’s nothing really special about her and that everyone around her is only interested in her because of the prophecy rather than because of her as a person - I’d argue part of the reason she’s clinging so hard to the idea of airk is because he’s the only person she knows who wanted her as dove, who seemingly cared about who she is and not about the fact that she’s ‘elora danan, the last best hope’

so she lets kit insult her and shout at her, I think both because she recognises that kit needs to let a lot of her repressed pain out but also because outside of her cooking skills her self-esteem isn’t that high and it’s been further shot by suddenly having the weight of the world put on her shoulders, struggling with her magic while being constantly reminded that everyone needs to learn to use it quickly, and the survivor’s guilt from seeing the vision of her mother and from watching the woodswomen die for her - so she’s in a place where she will very readily and easily believe that everything is her fault, including kit’s pain, and that she’s going to get everyone killed, but I don’t think she’d agree that anyone has really chosen her, elora, the girl

all of which is to say, I hope elora has a chance to get angry and throw hands before the end of the series because she deserves it

#willow #willow 2022 #elora danan #oof that turned into a brain dump #but I have nowhere else to put my thoughts so you're getting them #sorrynotsorry #anyway I keep seeing that scene analysed from kit's perspective but not elora's #and I think that overlooks some of the nuance #but anyway yeah I specifically hope elora gets to throw hands with kit at some point #she deserves it after putting up with so much bs

[jvzebel-x]

"He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky."

x. "The Golem and The Genie", Helene Wecker

"I am no saint, and he is no monster for me to slay."

x. "The Hidden Palace", Helene Wecker

#The Golem and The Jinni #The Hidden Palace #Helene Wecker #📚 #so i had to wait an uncomfortable amount of time between reading these two bc of the library queue #&it was worth the wait these books were really good. they had a v specific feel that im having a hard time pinning #but also im not doing so well w words lately lol. #anyway the author is a Jewish woman who married a Syrian man iirc&these books were her merging their cultures #into an incredibly sweet&oddly well grounded story for one that centers around a jin&golem falling in love lol. #immigration is a pretty big influence here too; both of them end up in early 1900s usa by accident&stay bc they have nowhere else to go. #anyway there was a lot of detail so the reading felt a tad heavy at times but def worth it.

[dandyshucks]

like I could make a list of all the words that I see people using that they should stop using but I don't feel like that would be effective. black people and indigenous people and people of other minority groups have done that already so many times and it never really seems to do much because people see it, maybe reblog it, but they don't actually take it in because it's just a list of words. people are not understanding WHY they should stop using the language, so they continue to use it. put in the work to educate yourself, do some reading, and figure it out. really think about the harm of it. sit with the feelings of guilt and shame that come up and work through it. it'll be uncomfortable but you'll be okay, i promise. just do better in the future.

#and i mean i CAN make a list. but i'd much rather ppl go figure it out themselves #that would be far more effective than me adding yet another list to the pile that already exists out there #this isn't directed any anyone specifically btw; if you feel its about you then take it as a sign to go do some reading and self reflection #i'm not making this post with anyone in mind - i'm making it with the thought of ''this needs to be said bc i see it happening everywhere'' #and nowhere in this post am i using an angry accusatory tone. i'm just tired. i just want people to be better abt the language they use #it should not be the responsibility of the people the words harm to educate everyone else #dandy.cmd

[ghoulhusband]

it’s amazing how many things you can ‘haha as a bit’ yourself into when writing. for instance when i started fooling around with my carla lives au i was originally just gonna make her a follower and i went ‘haha wouldn’t it be funny as a bit if i imagined her, kitty and benny ending up together as a really weird throuple.’ well that was 8 months ago. and the resulting fic i’ve come up with is so convoluted

#i don’t necessarily know that i think benny is poly like committed relationship poly. but the situation is so complicated and specific #there’s nowhere else for me to take it at this point. ocs have been made unions have been formed #i’ve fully stolen carla from canon and given her a real personality. and a family. and a career. and fun hobbies like dancing. horticulture. #really specific historical interests. revenge. #benny gecko #kitty grave #carla fnv

[perenlop]

pokeani moments that exist purely to make Me miserable:

the line where they call ash's oshawott a throwaway pokemon in the unova league so they're just flat out saying they think it's a worthless pokemon

to thine own pokemon be true (extra angst points for me bc ambipom was my second favorite on the team at the time)

the granddaughter of the guy who trains gliscor calling gliscor pathetic and weak to her face despite gliscor being an extremely sensitive pokemon

pretty much everything about that gible

blue episode (favorite color but they made it a fetish somehow and also dewott and brionne and meowstic are all there and its so bad)

boxing heracross immediately. also that battle frontier episode where it's literally the only returning ash mon (barring torkoal i think but i dont count it bc its native to AG) to get humiliated onscreen

pidgeot returning but gliscor didn't even show up in the miniseries despite being an Actual Character

#sorry ik i keep bringing up the throwaway line but like. its SOOOOOOOOOO bad holy shit #the heracross one isnt aaaaaas bad tbf bc they really make up for it in the sinnoh league #but aside from one ep in the miniseries we never quite get an episode where oshawott proves itself in a battle #i still love that episode bc it still kinda feels like an apology for all the oshawott bashing in bw but i am a little :/ #that battling didnt even come up once #ive kiiinda eased up on gliscors benching episode bc at the end of the day it isssss pretty good to her. also its the best animated one #but its treatment like what i mentioned that still really drags it down to me #and also like. i know ppl praise gliscor being so powerful after the episode but i really dont get why we couldnt have just #had a gliscor training arc onscreen. but ig we wouldnt have that stupid ass gible plot that went nowhere now would we #but like.... we had such a huge stretch between that episode and the league. i really dont get why we couldnt have had a mini arc #where gliscor realizes shes not pulling her weight that well and really starts hauling ass #she doesnt really even sweep in the paul fight. she gets beaten immediately by ninjask #the drapion part was awesome tho yayyyy #but my point is that it wouldnt really change much if gliscor just stayed and got stronger on its own #have the bench episode be a wake up call for gliscor rather than a goodbye one and she becomes super competent #like im not just saying this bc gliscor is my favorite character in the entire show. i feel like its straight up kinda lazy and less reward #rewarding #imagine how the drapion fight could be EVEN MORE cathartic if we saw gliscor struggle and fight to get better throughout the show #as much as i like that specific battle and ash vs paul as a whole... it just kinda proves my point that sending gliscor away at all #was kind of a shitty move #like ohhhhh ash's team is all getting revenge for lake acuity yay!!!!! oh one of them was kicked off for the sake of a shitty gible plot th #which really only served to make shitty piplup bashing jokes and only actually had a conclusion in the league itself #by which time it was too late to actually do anything else with it. yeah we kicked someone off for that. but shes back now!!! #like it doesnt weaken the battle THAT much. in fact theres some value in how ash went out of his way to make sure gliscor could be there #so her defeat could also be avenged. and its still my fave battle in the whole anime. but it just proves to me how pointless that was reall #echoed voice

[daisywords]

they are being very nice and also rational (just explain everything rather than guess what I do and don't know—makes sense!) but I wish my coworkers would give me the benefit of the doubt sometimes instead of assuming that I am just a little baby randomly pressing keys when I do something "wrong"

#like! for example! #I fixed an ellipses added two nonbreaking spaces between the three dots like I was Literally Trained To Do at a previous job #and then he's like. ''oops looks like a couple of these spaces were nonbreaking spaces which we shouldn't use. #''there's a feature you can turn on in word that will show you what kind of break/spaces the document has! you can google it #but lmk if you need help setting up!'' #Hey. hey. I do in fact know how to click the little paragraph symbol I wasn't born yesterday. #You can just tell me Hey for future we don't use nonbreaking spaces at all even in ellipses #and I woulda been like 'cool' bc I know how to differentiate #which would be a logical conclusion to draw from the fact that I put them specifically in the ellipses and nowhere else

[flydotnet]

Starting the year off the only good way I could think of: a self-portrait inspired by bullshit my friend and I spewed this weekend.

#art #i guess #if i get a comment i'm expecting it to be about the specific cap #so true story #i just ordered it because i was ordering my sis' xmas present #and i was expecting shipping to wreck my ass so i picked something else for me #iirc this one was on discount but not the numberless one? #pros: my friends think i look swag with it #cons: someone could ask me if i live in the puy de dome #and also i have financial motives to support one (1) f1 driver that i wasn't even thinking much about before i got lost in the rabbit hole #anyway this is dedicated to that one george russell hater in the comment section of that one french video i watched once #i guess my problems also started in that one 2021 gp can't remember which one can't be bothered rn #those tags are going nowhere #who even let me watch the 2023 mexico gp holy shit this was a terrible idea