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the first fallout show promotional illustration posted to twitter by amazon prime appears to be ai-generated
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my tweets sure go viral a lot on here! LOL
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*rising up from loosely packed grave soil* who the fuck buried me. This is atrocious. Do a better job next time
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TV show: This is a TV show called Shits&Farts. It is about shits, & farts. The main characters are two men named Shit, & Fart. They tell shit & fart jokes to each other for the whole twenty-minute runtime.
at least one person you follow on tumblr, instantly: omfg im WITHERING from last nights ep….. the dynamic between shit & fart is so fucking tense and erotic……im still fucking sobbing i hate my sweet babies….. why do they treat each other like this im fucking BATHING IN ACID….. its so good…….. im EMBALMING MYSELF and then DESECRATING MY OWN CORPSE…..
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Ah I don’t know how I feel about Vetinari being recast as a woman in the Watch.
Like, normally I don’t particularly care, I had no issue with a female doctor or a female Bosley. I wouldn’t even be that fussed by any of the other characters being gender swapped, and they’ve done the same thing for Dr Cruces which seems interesting. I just feel like part of the Vetinari character is that, on the surface, he looks like your typical rich, white male character and that’s part of his power. He is aware of that and uses it. I mean his official title is the ‘Tyrant’ of Ank Morpork. Other rich, white, male characters come along expecting him to have the same prejudices only for him to turn around and completely obliterate them.
Plus I’m a little worried about how it might affect his/her interactions with other characters. There are characters that are fundamentally sexist. Less so in the night watch, but definitely with the wizards who barely admit that women exist. It is something that Pratchett challenges within the narrative but it does exist. I dunno, I just don’t know if a female Vetinari, particularly one apparently combining the characteristics of “Dracula and Elvis”.
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Discworld was so carefully crafted so not only did each character feel real but they had traits for a reason
Sam Vimes - A lower class white male drunkard spiffing on the action hero trope character by showing what that lifestyle would look like and despite his great anger he also shows a deep tenderness and softness at his core that motivates that anger against injustice and is made to face and overcome his prejudices time and time again.
Cheri Littlebottom: From a species that considered itself only a singular gender she had the strength and bravery to commit to being who she truly is but refuses to let herself be cast out by her traditional peers. She’s as much a dwarf as any other and she’s a proud woman as well.
Anuga: She came from a Position of privilege in her home country and was willing to shoulder the abuses and prejudice that faced her in a new city simply because she couldn’t agree with the wrongness and abuses of her heritage and she learns to embrace herself and stand proud Ina. Vibrant community.
Lady Sybil: Plus sized and older she is considered a laughing stock by high society, and she knows it, she struggles against the expectations of a woman’s role and reveals herself to be as if not more politically competent than the leader of the city while having a husband who helps her overcome her privileged status to use her power to the benefit of society, while she equally supports him when he needs it.
A really strong and equal married couple I love how healthy their relationship is and how deep they love each other.
Granny Weatherwax: An old bitter hag on the surface but shes also capable of the greatest kindness. Pratchett calls out her thorny behavior and she herself shows remorse but at her core it’s what she had to develop, had to become to be strong enough to endure the great injustice of the world and stand firm against it, and deep down she remembers the time she was a girl who danced in the flowers with bees and just wants to protect the world for those that are still like that.
And so many more, Moist a character so overcome with guilt he constantly strives to be better but still with a flair for showmanship striving to undo wrongs he may never right, Nobby a joke of a character initially, who has hobbies involving his local culture and a fundemental sense of right and wrong. Tiffany a girl so set against the gender roles in her Community she becomes a witch to stand equal to those around her like her grandmother but learn she can be strong and feminine as time goes on and realized you don’t need one or the other.
God I love Discworld and all of Pratchett’s deep characters so many more than I listed here and it’s just so depressing to see an adaptation that doesn’t seem to care about the delicate way they were formed and the importance behind certain decisions.
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i hate that i’m so absent as a person. i don’t start conversations. i can barely maintain them. i’m so weary and spaced out all the time to the point where i can’t even keep up small talk and i’m just so disappointed in myself
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I feel like the books imply that Frodo’s soul doesn’t fully leave the world of the dead even after the point of the Morgul-blade has been removed from his body, and I really don’t like that.
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There are a couple of instances where he appears vaguely physically transparent to other characters. I guess it’s partially an ethereal glow, but it also leads to a sense of physical disconnect.
The wound gives him an ability to sense the presence of undead beings. He rarely demonstrates that ability in the books, but there is one point shortly after he and Sam enter Mordor in which he tells Sam to take cover because he can sense that one of the Nazgûl is flying overhead. I don’t think he would have that ability unless he was at least partially still in the world of the dead.
I don’t know what exactly Tolkien intended when he included those details, and I don’t know of any resources where he discusses that specific wound. All the same, I feel like it implies at least somewhat that the wound will eventually kill him unless someone manages to cure it completely and maybe that he is still in some danger of the Nazgûl claiming his soul prior to the Ring’s destruction.
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That poem jirt wrote about WHAT?
I found it: The Sea-Bell, or Frodo’s Dreme.
“The Sea-Bell opens with the speaker coming across a white shell “like a sea-bell” as he walks by the shore. He hears the sound of distant harbours and seas as he holds the shell in his hand… Eventually, broken and weary, he seeks out the sea and boards a ship that will take him back to his own land. However, when he arrives home the sea-bell no longer carries sounds from over the sea to him. The poem ends on a note of anguish as the speaker finds himself alienated from his own world, misunderstood and forsaken by those he once knew.” (wikipedia)
It’s super not okay!!
[…] Houses were shuttered, wind round them muttered, roads were empty. I sat by a door, and where drizzling rain poured down a drain I cast away all that I bore: in my clutching hand some grains of sand, And a sea-shell silent and dead. Never will my ear that bell hear, never my feet that shore tread, never again, as in sad lane, in blind alley and in long street ragged I walk. To myself I talk; For still they speak not, men that I meet.
