dead-butterfly2-blog:

Soo Won please end up with Lili !

ohdoki:

pixel-letters:

jrco-disd:

the-last-hair-bender:

argonianbot:

i dont think you guys appreciate how rad this site is 

because first of all you got your basic fantasy and game race names for like

everything

BUT AS IF THAT ISN’T ENOUGH

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AND THIS THERE’S MORE????

BAM, PLACE NAMES

AND STILL MORE

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This is my go to site for naming literally anything.

this site also has generators for flags, languages, maps and other cool stuff, seriously it’s awesome, go check it all out and help the site if you can.

YES!! FANTASYNAMESGENERATOR HAS BEEN MY FAVORITE WRITING WEBSITE FOR YEARS

@longhairedantagonists

verlidaine:

A couple of Stormlight Archive character headshots!! Venli, Rock, and Teft for now, although I hope to do more! These were real fun to do :D

skymarks:

Shallan: you don’t think I can fight because I’m a girl?

Kaladin: no, I don’t think you can fight because you’re in a wedding dress

Renarin: for what it’s worth, I don’t think Adolin could fight in that dress, either

Adolin: perhaps not, but I would be a radiant bride

wind-tribe-girl:

Oh my my 😍💕 I’m in love! This colors, light, their smiles

gedtenarlebannen:

clockworkspider:

arimell:

What I want for my favorite antagonists: redemption arc

What I don’t want for them: death

What I also don’t want for them: everyone just accepting them and forgetting about their crimes as if nothing happened and all that being called redemption.

I see Soowon tagged here and I know it’s more of a general sentiment but I’ve been thinking about this for a while so I’m just gonna borrow this post to discuss this. Hope you don’t mind. 

I don’t really think Soowon’s an antagonist or needs a redemption arc. (Or maybe he has always existed in one.)

I’m not saying Soowon’s problem free. He’s a pretty morally grey character. Just stay with me for a bit. 

A redemption arc is when a villain tries to do good in order to make up for their wrongdoing. 

It’s the wrongdoing part that’s difficult to define. Nothing Soowon has done in the story has ever been framed as objectively wrong, just controversial. 

1. Killing Il. This may or may not have been necessary for the greater good. Never confirmed. But let’s view killing King Il as objectively wrong. Has Soowon been doing everything in his power to fix the issues in his country? Yes. In that case every time he appears he already exists in a permanent state of redemption arc. 
   
2. Approved the blockade of the wind tribe to force a vote ^see above. 
3. Reclaiming Sen Province - Controversial, not framed as explicitly wrong. 
4. Almost starting a war with Xing - Did not actually start the war, so technically still no wrongdoing. 
5. Not apologizing nor compensating for Kouka’s war crime against Xing - Objectively wrong, but arguable in context. At that point there wasn’t much Kouka could do to compensate for 200 dead POW, and Kouka needed to show strength to neutralize Xing as a threat. Also the initial mistake was not made by Soowon so this is less of “bad thing Soowon did” and more of “right thing Soowon didn’t do.” 

Soowon definitely has problematic views, like when he is flat out unapologetic for his father’s war crimes. He’s also a nationalist. But those views didn’t translate to any actual wrongdoing, story-wise. 

So like… I don’t think he needs a redemption arc because there’s not much to redeem from… Yet. Once he actually, undeniably, fucks up… that’s when he’d need one. 

Forgiveness, in this case, is actually a different issue from redemption. It’s really more about Yona and Hak. Soowon’s betrayal was personal for them. It’s really about whether they chose to let go and there is nothing Soowon can do that can undo killing Yona’s dad. 

So that… really depends on Kusanagi-sensei’s view on forgiveness… Hurt can never be unhurt vs. forgiveness is the only way to heal. Either way, it’s out of Soowon’s hands. 

I agree

Now if you mind me

My other son fucked up really bad.soowon must not fuck up.never

for sake of my mental health

I think Yona s point of view would be more questionable if she were the queen. The king being a nationalist is necessary in my opinion in the way that he puts the wellbeing of his country first. (That doesn t mean that he slaughters people on a daily basis).

iluvluvnutella:

lol i’m actually tired with surveys who is the strongest or who will win between Hak and Suwon. It was like brain vs brawn. Even Suwon admitted Hak is stronger than him.
If they will ever have another match again and one has defeated physcially, both are still losers for me. imo, there’ll be no winner in a fight between a close friends that turned into enemies.

madlori:

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Well, first of all, WELCOME TO ONE OF MY PET PEEVES.

A female character does not have to be “strong” (whatever your definition of that is) to be a good character.

Women can be strong, or wussy, or emotional, or stoic, or needy, or independent, and still be legitimate people and interesting characters.

In our totally understandable desire to see portrayals of strong women (in reaction to decades of damsels in distress and women as appendages), we’ve somehow backed ourselves into this corner where the only acceptable portrayal of a woman in the media is a strong, kick-ass woman.  That is not doing women any favors.  It just leads to the attitude that you have to be ONE WAY ONLY to be legit as a woman.  You shouldn’t have to be Natasha Romanoff or Xena to be considered a good character.  Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Buffy as much as the next person, but that should not be the only acceptable portrayal.  It should be okay for a female character NOT to be strong, too.  Let’s take Molly Hooper as an example.  She is not the stereotypical “strong” woman.  But hell, she went through medical school, didn’t she?  She’s smart, and she’s funny, and she serves a story function - she is not a major character, but she doesn’t have to be.  But her character gets criticized because she pines after Sherlock.  What, you never pined after somebody?  Did it make you invalid as a person?  You never got a bit silly over a crush?  I know I did.  And I still consider myself a strong woman.  It should be okay for Molly to have a crush on Sherlock without getting the “oh, she’s so pathetic, what a terrible example, what a horrible female character” thing she so often gets.  Yes, because it’s so terrible that a female character should reflect an experience that like 99% of us have had.  

Screw writing “strong” women.  Write interesting women.  Write well-rounded women.  Write complicated women.  Write a woman who kicks ass, write a woman who cowers in a corner.  Write a woman who’s desperate for a husband.  Write a woman who doesn’t need a man.  Write women who cry, women who rant, women who are shy, women who don’t take no shit, women who need validation and women who don’t care what anybody thinks.  THEY ARE ALL OKAY, and all those things could exist in THE SAME WOMAN.  Women shouldn’t be valued because we are strong, or kick-ass, but because we are people.  So don’t focus on writing characters who are strong.  Write characters who are people.

The only bad female character, if you ask me (and you did), is one who’s flat.  One who isn’t realistic.  One who has no agency of her own, who only exists to define other characters (usually men).  Write each woman you write as if she has her own life story, her own motivations, her own fears and strengths, and even if she’s only in the story for one page, she will be a real person, and THAT is what we need.  Not a phalanx of women who can karate-chop your head off, but REAL women, who are people, with all the complexity and strong and not-strong that goes with it.

This is why I disagree with the “damsel in distress” criticism of Irene in the last scene of Scandal.  Here’s the thing about being a damsel in distress…it’s only bad if that’s all she is.  If the character’s defining characteristic is being a damsel in distress, that’s bad.  But if an otherwise complex character with lots of other agency and actions happens to be in distress, then…that’s all it is.  She is in distress.  That happens.  Characters are often in distress, or there would be no plots.  Should a female character never be allowed to be in distress, at ALL, to be valid?  No.

A strong female character is one who is defined by her own characteristics, history and personality, and not solely by the actions or needs of other characters.  She is a person in the story, not a prop.  That is the best definition I can come up with.  Note that my definition did not involve martial arts. 

That was probably longer than you were anticipating!  I’ve had that percolating for a long time.

How about writing women as “people”? Women and men aren t that different safe for some attributes.

sorasan000:

The dif between Keishuk and Judo when it comes to putting a wedge in the Hak/Yona/Suwon core relationship is that Judo tried it once re: misunderstanding, was confronted and reigned in by Suwon, and he never did it again and focused on his job. Keishuk, however, is going the persistent route. 

May be one reason why Soo Won “has forgotten” to tell him…

felixazrael:

Published by FelixAzrael June 16, 2018

Introduction

On June 15, 2018 at 7:00 am, I stumbled into the dumpster fire that had become of my beloved Lotor and Lotura fandoms. I sipped my coffee, read a few spoilers, and quietly smiled to myself. At worst, I would need further context and perhaps the writers really were incompetent. At best, this season would have me cackling in mad delight like the Emperor himself just as I thought it would (spoiler alert: I did). If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you know I live for high drama in my Lost Boys and Girls. It’s not enough for a tragic character to quietly come crawling back toward the light like the “good victim” narratives want us to believe. No, I need my trash children to writhe in the gutter before they soar. That’s what makes an epic, as opposed to a milquetoast, redemption arc. Saul didn’t become Paul before murdering countless Christians and Kenshin Himura didn’t pledge himself to non-violence before his life as a bloodthirsty assassin resulted in him killing his own wife. Yet the themes of both stories suggest that those who fall the furthest can rise the highest. Having now had a chance to watch Season 6, I can wholeheartedly attest that either the writers have set up a redemption arc of mythic proportion or they are wholly illiterate in how story elements function.

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greater-than-the-sword:

oh-my-chevalier:

greater-than-the-sword:

Getting real tired of these tumblr posts like “you don’t have to forgive [x person].”

Yes you do. At least, if you claim to be a follower of Christ. Unforgiveness is NEVER good and is ALWAYS a sin.

Forgiveness doesn’t mean you have to TRUST that person again or keep them in your life or put them in a situation that would allow them to repeat the offense and it doesn’t mean you have to believe them if they say they’re sorry and they’re obviously not.

Then what *does* forgiveness mean? This is something I’ve never understood.

It means that you no longer hate them or harbor bitterness against them in your heart or desire to get revenge. It means you sincerely hope they will repent and and that God will save them and accept them into heaven. You accept the possibility that they might become a better person.

That is what forgiveness means if the person is unrepentant- if they are sincerely repentant then it might also mean giving them a second chance at rebuilding a relationship, but that depends on the circumstances.

It means “letting go” of the bitterness in you. That is the hard part.

iluvluvnutella:

AkaYona Chapter 159 Korean Scan is OUT!!! Click HERE.