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I love people who can change others' attitudes towards them for the better. It feels like some kind of ideal, unreachable charisma (for me)
Also, since I'm reading a portion of an article where Zhou Yu is reaffirming his loyalty to Sun Quan, lemme just reiterate my dedication to finding the worst way to go for Gao Wei. (:
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For some reason, the thought of a drunk Zhou Yu looking up like a cat if he hears a wrong note being played is so funny. And cute.
He's not pitch perfect he's just a neeeerd
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(*throws up blood and dies*)
(*or pretends to die, but tries to stage an ambush on a dude and gets suffocated when he finds the air hole you had in your fake coffin*)
Why man. @SGYY lmiao
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Turns out Ma Chao in history was a jerk
Can't top Liu Bang levels of bad dad though, dude literally threw his kids out of his own carriage three times so he could live. should've thrown his wife out too, that would've been hilarious for the record.this is the man who F/GO Xiang Yu helped become emperor through war crimes/atrocities btw lol who came up with the take?
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War: (*ends*)
Country: (*established*)
Victors: (*start killing off all the friends they made along the way*)
They don't show what happens after the ends of shounen anime for a reason.
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Tbh that's not a bad origin story, the major antagonist is a former friend of the king and the major protagonist is fighting under the impression that the antagonist committed treason and destroyed their friendship with the king to try to wrest power for themselves. Only to at the end discover that the king was the one who tried to murder the antagonist first, despite the antagonist's repeated efforts to beg for mercy.
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Time to start loving Lu Su even more, it feels like he deserves it
Look, I love generous people.
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Love how he also ditched Yuan Shu xDD
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Dang it, now I have to read Records of the Three Kingdoms.
Though not before searching up the authors this time lol, I need to know the biases first.
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Trustworthy men: (*speak*)
Sun Quan, taking their hand: HEAVEN'S GIFT TO ME.
I've read him saying the same thing multiple times, dude needs to increase the variety of his script xD
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Clapping one's hands and laughing somehow feels like such an Ancient Chinese guy thing to do
Like specifically Ancient Chinese guy with a beard in long robes.
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I really need to verify if Liu Bei really did have his newly sworn brothers massacre each other's families for the sake of efficiency
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I like to imagine SGYY was the equivalent of the author being a super fanboy of Zhuge Liang and writing a fanfiction in a way where Zhuge Liang kept taking Ws and for that to happen, everyone else had to change.
The equivalent of me writing a fic where Run can live and distorting the entire storyline lol
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I've watched too many SnK clips, all I can think for the Battle of Jiangling is "Suicidal Bastard" lol
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Okay so it turns out I need to stop
Good night guys xD
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Boardhost refuses to show my Chinese signature
Guess even the forums are socialist now. Welcome to Communist China
(In more seriousness it just means that formatting in general, and non-English characters, do not seem to be working)
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ñ...
no.
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Figured out a certain irony in HYXHN
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Wangquan Wumu--a name that originally is intended to mean "someone who resembles a sun that will never set, someone who will shine brightly forevermore" becomes "someone without later years (mu nian)" (he dies as a kid) (though I do appreciate how he will always shine on brightly through the form of memories...but also no. Why did he have to die I jfisdofjsdoifsd cry.)
Wangquan Baye--has no peak in his life because he lost his will and strength of heart ("baye" refers to a prosperous life/career)
Wangquan Fugui (I really wanna call him Richie I'm ngl)--has no riches in life because he sacrificed the chance for an easy life for love. Which is admirable but still kinda funny. Dude is pretty much homeless and probably has no idea how to function IRL. Also he pretty much ate mush for the entirety of his life thinking it was real food so that's there as well.
And Wangquan Shouzhuo (as a break from the angst overall)--a guy with a name implying he's modest and simple has very grand ambitions and so kicks out a good half of his entire family simply by being better than them (but for good reason, those guys he kicked out were bastards.)
I also find their personal flaws kind of funny in why they each weren't able to succeed completely and end the series before it began--
Wumu--believed in humanity and saw the big ideas, but also sucked at (family? in general?) politics and didn't think his father would kill him for petty reasons
Shouzhuo--the fathers in this series pass their problems on to their children. In his case I think it wasn't completely his fault because killing everyone would definitely be worse. But anyways those jerks being left alive meant Baye made a lot of wrong choices. And since we don't know enough about him, it's very possible maybe his ambitions were a reason as to why he wasn't able to truly achieve world peace or something like that (then again his beliefs relating to the spirits aren't known for now either, and since Baye had to challenge traditional beliefs, then his father most likely either believed the same as everyone else in this regard or didn't share his beliefs even with his children). We'll see, I suppose?
Baye--hubris led to all his friends (exempting one) getting killed, most likely by their own hands too which makes it worse contextually speaking.
Fugui--we still don't know how he died but it's possible he had a crucial flaw relating to that. I love him though
Does that mean if Kiaane were part of the Wangquan clan in the AU I'd have to rename them Peasant
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HYXHN better have a canon afterlife for human and spirit souls (:
I don't care if they can't reincarnate, if they dissipate they better start existing in another, happier dimension
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The current F/GO event really do be giving off "What is Obama's last name" vibes
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I found this hilarious retelling of G Requiem and had to share it
Believe me, you don't need to know anything about SS to understand. Because you won't.
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Status of stuff I've tried to catch up on
-I have no idea what SS spin-offs are doing. Do not ask me.
-Fate/Prototype's manga is definitely a BL mangawhat do you mean that's not even anything.
I love Arash but in the Prototype manga I probably couldn't recognize him half the time xD his face looong
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F/GO notes:
-I love Mandricardo so much help.
-I have successfully deducted that Achilles just really likes women who will kill him. (platonically and romantically...idk if a certain someone counts as romantic but uh. *is bludgeoned anyways*)
-Achilles getting ahold of Blackbeard reminded me of Changgong's interlude, where he bridal holds Shikibu and Blackbeard (on different occasions. ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS.) Which led me to searching their parameters.
It turns out Changgong has B Strength while Achilles has B+ Strength. Which is funny since Achilles in this event could use his entire body's strength to keep Teach from falling down, while Changgong pretty much just had his arms and shoulders. Showing how the + boost doesn't matter too much.
For measure: Edward Teach is 210 cm tall and 114 kg in mass, which translates to 251 lb. (Shikibu is only about 112 lb so she's a lot lighter in comparison, but she's not too light, I suppose.)
So basically: It doesn't matter if a Servant has lanky arms. (And here I am referring to Changgong, who has very normal arms. But if I tried to catch Blackbeard I think my arms would break. Not that I would catch him. Down the cannonball goes.)
Also, in conclusion, most of the F/DA Servants could bridal hold Blackbeard. but I would suggest they let him fall
Don't mind me, just going to bother Changgong and Achilles into doing a arm wrestling match now (:
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Mind is now cursing me with visualizations of my F/DA Servants' reactions to a Blackbeard dropping from the sky and I need to get them out of my system so here they are.
Saber: Mild panic as they try to discern where he's gonna land to catch him. They also only have B- strength so that means they might not even be able to catch him, not that they remember (or even think of this). They end up running around to and fro in cartoon fashion trying to get the right angle. In the end they probably end up getting smushed because they are not good at this sort of thing.
Archer: Nope.
Rider: Forgets how the law of acceleration (and laws of physics in general) works and literally just puts down one (1) folded jacket where Blackbeard will fall in hopes of cushioning the impact. His reaction is fast so he has the time to stand back and watch as it doesn't really work at all.
Berserker: Somehow, he can tell it's a Servant rather than a regular person, and so he kinda just watches. Insert comical ground explosion effect while he stands 2 feet away in front of the newly formed, Blackbeard-shaped crater, utterly unperturbed.
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Spoilers for the summer event
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Hold on, I'm gonna take the time to set up a nuke, brb.
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THEY DIDN'T LET ME SET UP A NUKE.
Seems like a good place to mention this (F/GO Arc 2 spoilers)
-Galaxian-There is very much a reason why I rank different LB kings differently on how much I like them. And going from order it's this (ranked from most liked to least liked, though I will admit that I don't like any of them that much):
1. Qin Shi Huang (as a character not for crimes against humanity)
2. Ivan the Terrible (just because I don't know anything about his character but feel like he hasn't committed [that many] crimes against humanity)
3. Morgan (you can see how this list's standards are kinda low ngl, I like her backstory but as a character in-plot,,, ehhhh)
4. Skadi, Arjuna Alter - Skadi would be 4 character-wise if not for what I just mentioned. In her LB she made some terrible decisions but that would have placed her before Junao, who was pretty much just stupid. Namely, if I just had the LBs to look at, then Skadi would be above Junao due to her having less power and having to deal with an impending Surtr on her own, while Junao had pretty much an entire pantheon in him and still got trolled by a clown. [but outside of plot, I do like Junao better both now and in the past, as I don't find Skadi very interesting.]
5. Zeus [I will never put Zeus in front of anyone else]
This list is really just a yikes huh.
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Inactivity continuation!
I am not in the best state of mind (actually it's just gotten worse from when I first realized it), and connected to that I've been thinking about how I should proceed for the future for here and IRL. Not thinking of leaving, just thinking about what I should do, how my activity should go, etc.
I'll be back when I'm ready. Hope you guys are doing well. Remember to take care of yourselves physically and mentally. Take breaks when you need them, treat yourselves to the best since we're only on this earth once, and remember that asking for help is a sign of strength and that you aren't a burden to anyone.
See you later.
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Brief update:
I'm doing okay now, I think. It was probably just my old, more natural self acting up there. Plus homesickness, and just my general temperament.
It's a constant WIP for me, you guys know that already. But maybe we'll get somewhere eventually.
Anyway, I still need to think more about what role I really wanna occupy here, so I probably will stay away when I can. (In this instance, I logged in because I realized I forgot to respond to a thread...though I probably have forgotten to respond to plenty of threads so. Ehh.)
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In other news, is it just me, or are images not working? Specifically from postimg.cc. When I click on the source link (which notably show as i.postimg.cc, not just postimg.cc, if that makes a difference), every browser I'm using says there's a privacy issue going on when it tries to link with the website. So just a heads-up there.
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As a test for imgbb.com and also to show you guys this because I wanted to do so for a period of time.
Hilarious (to me).
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