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Speederbike chase (featuring humongous jedi robes)
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found the artist's name in the notes and went looking because this slaps (it's called A Place Where I'll Dance) and its not even their best song. check this shit out:
Oh this slaps actually
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I actually feel that, out of all of Green Faction, trLukey probably had the most justification in watching trFoolish die
Like
trOwen was just a king-killing fool /pos
trPangi has mistreated Yellow as much as they’ve mistreated him
trBad is a Freak for Foolish
But trLukey? Since day one, Yellow Faction has been bullying and murdering him. His literal first moments conscious, his first ever memories, were of the Yellow Faction killing him. And then they kept at it, killing him once and laughing about it and then ordering hits on him and justifying it with “Well, you’re Green! You’re just as guilty as anyone else on your team.”
Foolish took full, joyous accountability for every negative action that his team took towards Green. He laughed when Lukey told him that Ros/Sneeg tried to kill him over the simple crime of existing. He smiled and said that it was all fine because, well, it’s war. He isn’t going to stop anything until BBH is dead and in the ground.
Add in trTina bullying Lukey every chance she got, Ros’ and Sneeg’s general hostility, and Zam openly saying that he wants Lukey dead multiple times, and we have the only person on this server (who isn’t Red) with an actual justification to want Yellow destroyed
Lukey is a pacifist. He has never started a fight, not a physical one. His greatest crimes on the server have been A) being annoying, and B) being gay
So it only makes sense that he was the only Green member besides Owen to have a little dramatic moment just before the execution. He actually had something to say
the worst part is lukey was probably the closest with foolish out of any of the yellow members, bar pillager (pili2) who pushed him away.
Foolish is the king of yellow, and their actions are his the same way his death is theirs.
Ever since the beginning, Lukey has been nothing but considerate towards Foolish– any problems brought up have been perfectly reasonable. In the beginning, Lukey was up for a monarchy- it sounded fun! Everybody working as one, listening to one. And then Ros kills him, and we get the line that may as well have added him to the server: "What kind of monarchy has it's subordinates running rogue beneath them?"
Lukey is always up to play the role of subordinate when it so suits him. He'll gripe and jest about it, but he listens to Pangi and Bad. When with Foolish, it's always "how can I help you" and "of course". There's an unspoken your majesty behind it.
Foolish is easygoing, and so he follows the will of the people. While he won't actively antagonize Lukey, he'll belittle him and treat him like dirt just as his faction does. He disregards Lukey's opinions, emotions, and life.
The only point he listens is when he finally realizes that Lukey is incredibly complex– and even then its from the view of a player observing a particularly interesting chess move. Foolish still doesn't view Lukey as a person– he's only been upgraded from 'dirt under my boot' to 'pretty looking beetle'.
Lukey was so justified in that speech– because it summarized the way he holds the grudge against foolish, against Yellow, and isn't just a chill guy. He may be a pacifist, but only because red doesn't match the aesthethic.
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I wonder what it’s like to be a person who fandom-hops. It’s obviously very much the norm (and much more normAL) for fandom types to hyperfixate for a while and then move on. Some of us, however, looked at Obi-Wan Kenobi once 30+ years ago, and have been unable to look away since. 😆
Btw, sorry I kinda highjacked your post (in my other reblog) that was, I think, way more about your love for Obi-Wan than fandom practices. Here have a quick wolfman Kenobi as a humble apology (before i have to run a perform my other fandom duties lol)
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I wonder what it’s like to be a person who fandom-hops. It’s obviously very much the norm (and much more normAL) for fandom types to hyperfixate for a while and then move on. Some of us, however, looked at Obi-Wan Kenobi once 30+ years ago, and have been unable to look away since. 😆
Ya know what I actually don’t really know either. I don’t fandom hop i just collect them and pile them up on top of each other and all it takes to activate me like some sleeper agent is seeing 1 post and then i’m off to ao3 to see what i missed in the last couple weeks to couple years.
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Pangi’s chat (i say as if i’m not part of it on the reg) keeps talking about him losing his memory and I keep being like “but this isn’t the Burden tho???”.
Like, yeah, sure, the corruption could be eating at his brain (on top of his ass lmao) especially now that it’s reached his eye, but there’s been nothing pointing to that yet (or rather, the cc has not made any obvious decision to have it affect him other than physically) he’s even been saying that aside from some loss of sensation, he feels just fine for weeks - which to be fair could be denial but idk i believe him on that one.
What ails him seems just different to what’s described in the Keepers’ logs. Because he hasn’t been reset/hasn’t actually died. He just fucked around with the crying obsidian, got a lil bit on himself in the process and is now finding out. It’s the result of his experimentation rather than the (un)natural process of death in the Realm. So it’s not the Burden/Maddening. Like, even Keepers aren’t really sure what the fuck is up with him (tho after he guessed it was the experimentation they (or just Newt?) seemed to agree with him) and surely, they would know if it was it, wouldn’t they?
And don’t get me wrong, I would love to see more people go down with that particular sickness because the drama potential is huge, but really, I don’t think we’re gonna see it with Pangi unless he lets chat convince him or he gets killed a bunch of times.
FINALLY CHAT WILL STOP SAYING HE’S GOT THE BURDEN AND IS GONNA LOSE HIS MEMORY FINALLY I CAN REST
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Just saw a poll about school hours and I noticed that nobody specified the hours for Wednesdays (as they're half days), so I started wondering if Wednesday being a half day is not a universal experience...
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unpopular opinion but i think a ship that's not canon but both halves are canonically insane about each other is infinitely better than a ship that's canon and boring
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'all age gaps problematic' people are so wild. "what can a 19 year old and a 28 year even have in common??? what do they talk about??" BITCH THEIR HOBBIES???????
Do You Not Have Hobbies Or Interests
being age appropriate??? to a NINETEEN YEAR OLD?????????
like yeah i do personally think it's weird to date a 19yr old as a 28yr old but let's not act like that 9 year age difference makes them different species that can't even interact even as friends. like can we be normal. i promise you can talk to younger people.
I think their point is, though, that the lives of a 19 year old and a 28 to 30 year old are way different, because one could be in college and is fresh out of highschool, lending to their naivety, while the 30 year old (I like round numbers better) has a lot more experience in life, so it's hard to relate insofar as events happening to them.
i don't like generalizing like that, because people's lives can all take very different paths. not everyone goes to college. a 19 year old could be in the army. they could be getting married, they could be getting divorced, they could be doing anything. a 28 year old could be in college and living with their parents, while a 19 year old could at the same time be struggling to pay rent and being the legal guardian to a child. they could be in the same college class, even. life experience isn't linear, and it does the human experience a disservice to pretend everyone walks the same paths.
and relating is not all there is to human connection! i can't relate to the experiences and life of an olympic sports player, but that doesn't mean we can't connect on any level.
Over half of college students in the U.S. are older than 25. I don't know about other countries, but, like. The notion that "college" means "A life stage that happens at ages 18-23, which is basically an extended form of childhood, during which a person has no meaningful adult responsibilities, does not do their own self-care tasks, has never had a job (or at least not a 'real,' 'serious,' 'adult' job), and certainly would not ever even think about anything like having serious relationships or children of their own" is such an incredibly... astonishingly... narrow view.
Besides hobbies, some things that a 28 year old and a 19 year old might have in common to talk about include:
- Their babies. I've mentioned before that my mom's longtime best friend is someone she met when they were 44 and 18, respectively, and mothers of kids aged 3 and 1, respectively.
- The college class that they're both taking together.
- Their job that they both do. (So many people in the notes are talking about the older person being "more advanced in their career" and, uhhh, are you not only upper-middle-class, but also a time traveler from the '90s? What is this strange "People get regular promotions based on seniority and can reasonably be assumed to be in a higher professional position than they were 10 years ago" alchemy you reference?
I'm 40; my closest friends are 19 and 52. In both cases we have very strong commonalities despite being from different generations, and our points of differing life experience (whether related to our ages or not) simply bring enrichment to each other.
Edit: and if the "oh this is ok for friendship but not dating" crowd could grow up, that'd be fabulous.
I've had a fling with someone twice my age (I was 25) and it was pleasant, safe, and not remotely an issue.
My late girlfriend was half my age and we bonded over shared experiences that my closer-in-age exes couldn't even process, much less relate to.
Most age gap discourse is just ageism, infantilizing the younger party and painting the older party as a predator, and somehow at the same time immature; but this is not the innocent immaturity of a child in their early 20s (sic), and is instead the wicked, not-right-in-the-head immaturity of someone in their late 20s or older. It's nothing but just pasting ageist tropes onto people.
Aside from the moralizing pearl-clutching...
I think a lot of people in the notes are just keen to shout from the rooftops about how much more mature they are than people a mere few years younger than them.
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Love the quote from @hyperlexichypatia “…an incredibly, astonishingly narrow view.”
Thanks for bringing this back to my attention so I can add on, to all the people in the notes saying things like: "Casual friendship/fandom between a 19 year old and a 28 year old is fine, it's not like the Bad Kind of relationship where they share emotional intimacy and talk about their problems!" and "It can be okay because maybe the 19 year old is working and paying rent and living independently; you can't just assume they're sheltered and live with their parents"--
Let me just say from the bottom of my heart: a 28 year old (or older! a 50 year old! a 90 year old!) sharing close, emotional intimacy including sharing their deepest feelings and problems, with a 19 year old who lives with their parents, has lived a relatively tame and sheltered life, and seems "young for their age" is still absolutely fucking okay.
