Originally completed 01/08/2018
Full context here: https://shinda292.tumblr.com/post/176535427730/unbreakable-loyalty-of-the-sun-2018
Zoom in, there's a LOT of little details, especially for hardcore Alliance fans.
I remember reading this short story in a collection I found lying around my house (very big house, incredibly full of books), and never finding it nor the book ever again, to the point I'm doubting I actually just had a dream about reading it. I remember the title being something along the lines of "The Elf of the Rose", but I can't give a title that I know 100% being true also because I first read it in Italian. The story was about a poor girl living with her little sister and her abusive father. If I don't recall wrong the father often beat up the little sister, and clearly had intentions of raping her someday soon. One day she met inside a rose in her garden an elf (the evil, German folklore kind of elf) who in some way convinced that if she did what he told her, she would have been free from the tiranny of her father and would have been able to run away with her sister and her boyfriend. I don't remember how, but the elf in some way put unfortune over everyone around the girl, and ultimately made her kill her father by making him drunk, taking her clothes off and telling him to follow her until they reached a lake where she would have kept going more and more offshore, resulting in him drawning because of both not knowing how to swim and the booze. The boyfriend was also most likely watching this scene while hiding somewhere nearby, but I'm not sure about this detail.
I even remember the look of the book I found it in, but I guess that's not much help.... if it was an Italian collection chances are it's super rare. If someone has ever heard of anything like this, or has any lead, please give me an helping hand because this has been torturing me for at least 12 years now.
Not in a coma sorry it was amnesia I just flopped my words. And it was on the anime network in the early 2000s
For the life of me, I can't find his video / channel anymore.
I believe he played a male city elf while also giving commentary. It was kinda not PG friendly, like, you almost believe he wasn't roleplaying and that he is as evil as the character he is playing.
I kinda feel like part of his channel had the word "down" in there.
Does that ring a bell to anyone here?
EDIT : Found it! - This shit is hilarious
Everyone in the Fellowship has moments where they get introduced with full title and lineage. Gimli, son of Gloin; Frodo, Bilbo's Heir; Boromir, son of Denathor; Aragon, titles for days down to green gems; Sam, son of Hamfast (literally just a gardener). Legolas, son of Thranduil, last prince of the Sindar, next in line to be the "Elvenking" travels the world being introduced as, "The Elf."
Fine, it keeps Elves alien and estranged from men. But, it's also bizarre you'd bother to mention Gimli is the son of a prominent Dwarf, Sam's the son of a respected gardener, but Legolas... he's one of the last Elven princes, whose dad rules a giant forest spanking 1/4 the known world and 80 years ago literally saved the men of the North from starvation and a Goblin army... dude's just, "The Elf."
does anybody else remember the title of this anime?
The guy is bullied in his old life, then died and then got isekai'd to this island with 10/10 elves who don't know about sex and live with cute white furballs and fruit that tastes really good and then he became the sex warlord of that island
WARNING!! THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR BOOKS AND OBVIOUSLY SEASON 2!!
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This isn’t a post on the differences from the book and the show. I was a fan of Season 1 and had high hopes for Season 2. I believe reimagining rather than solely adapting a book series can be done and can be done well (see the animated Nightmare of the Wolf). However, I feel Season 2 failed on all fronts. It was rushed, disjointed and was clear to me the overall execution and direction was very lacking. The aim of this post will be to analyse, raise inconsistencies and facilitate discussion on plot-points that I took issue (this does mean this whole post is indeed subjective opinion!!) with using the established lore of Season 1 and acting as if the original source material never existed (to the best of my ability). You're welcome to disagree.
Characters
Voleth Meir
- In their first confrontation with Voleth, Francesca saw Ithlinne, Fringilla saw Emhyr and Yen saw what looked to be a young Tissaia. Why wasn’t it just regular Tissaia? The show has been confusing enough in the first season for people that have no knowledge of the Witcher universe. Why add to the confusion. EDIT: So it has been raised a couple of times that this is actually Yennefer. If this is true, that is even worse and makes even less sense. Why is she young? Wasn't she a hunchback? Why does she say piglet? Emhyr and Ithlinne seem to be accurate representations of themselves. Why is Yen's so different?
- Voleth is just used to decide their motivations and make them do what the plot requires:
- Alliance with Elves and Nilfgaard against the North? Check.
- Inciting Francesca against the humans of the North? Check.
- Yen meeting Ciri? (wow this is actually how it happens) Check.
- Used this way, it bypasses any need for existentialism that makes characters feel real. Any personal choice, political motive or decision is now dictated by Voleth, forcing them to become one-dimensional. Instead of empowering these characters, the writers managed to make them all helpless victims to the world and their circumstances. For a show that clearly wants to empower female leads, they manage to achieve the complete opposite.
- Geralt says in the final episode that Voleth Meir’s ultimate goal was to return home which is why she needs >!the Master of Time and Space!<, Ciri. Okay, awesome. Once she has the body, what is the point of killi
“I want…some Hot Wheels…a stuffed iguana…and…”
My six year-old son Jeff sat on the bed next to me, thinking. I was typing up my son’s Christmas list on my laptop, preparing to email it to Santa.
Of course, I was merely going to send it to myself. I didn’t trust any of those email addresses claimed to be run by the “real” Santa, and I wanted to play it safe just in case some creep was trying to use parents’ email addresses to stalk their children.
“Is that it?” I asked Jeff. He was always a low-maintenance child, and never demanded a whole lot.
Jeff nodded. “That’s all I can think of,” he said.
I smiled and sent the email before closing my laptop. “Now we just need to wait until Christmas morning,” I told Jeff. He smiled as he jumped off my bed and ran off to play with his toys.
The next morning, while Jeff was at school, I checked my email and was surprised to see a message titled “Your son’s Christmas list”, from an address I didn't recognize. I opened it up.
Hi Christina! I saw your son’s Christmas list, and there’s no need to buy those Hot Wheels or that stuffed iguana yourself like with last year’s gifts. I can send it right to you, and you can give it to him on Christmas. I can also confirm Jeff has been a good boy this year, one of the best I’ve seen!
Signed, Santa Claus. Ho ho ho!
I was confused. Who was this? How did they know my name or email? How did they know my son’s name for that matter, or what he wanted?
I told myself it was just one of my friends from work playing along. Yeah, that was it. Yesterday I had chatted with some of my friends over texting about what our kids wanted for Christmas, so one of them had probably just made a new account to add to the fun.
I deleted the email and went back to my usual business.
Shortly after Christmas Break began, I sent Jeff over to a friend’s house while I went to the store and bought the toys he had asked for, along with some wrapping paper. After heading home, I checked my email again and noticed a new message from the same mysterious address that had emailed me last time.
Hi Christina! I saw you went out and bought the gifts that I said I’d bring myself. That’s okay. I’ll bring my own surprise gift for Jeff instead.
*See, I’ve been a little short on elves this season, and I’ve been looking for new recruits to help me make toys. Jeff is such a good little boy, he’ll make a perfect elf! Hope you don’t mind me taking him up to the North Pole on Christmas Day. I promise I’ll bring
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Keira spun her greatsword in a wide arc, cleaving through both the Blightspawn in front of her and the one that had been attempting to sneak up from behind. Her blade split open mutated flesh like it was a knife cutting hot butter, scoring deep lines across the Blightspawn’s torsos that wept gray blood. Keira didn’t bother feeling triumphant – considering how effective the abominations’ regeneration was, those wounds were barely worth the 50 MP she’d spent to inflict them.
Knocking both creatures away from her, thereby giving her a much-needed moment to focus on one? Now that was worth 50 MP.
“POWER SLASH!” Keira slammed her beloved partner down onto the first Blightspawn’s back, piercing through its body and into the ground. The beast, a crocodile-thing with two heads and serrated skin, writhed frantically as it struggled in vain to escape from the slab of steel that was pinning it in place. As the second Blightspawn rallied to its friend’s aid, claws outstretched towards Keira's unprotected back, Keira used the momentum of her swing to vault herself straight over the first Blightspawn and land behind its tail. With both creatures taken off guard, and one heavily injured, Keira ripped her greatsword out of the crocodile-thing’s back and beat the everloving shit out of it until it stopped moving.
Reached Level 41!
5 Stat Points Gained!
Warrior Level Increased! 37 → 38
4 Points in Strength, 1 in Vitality. For once, her allocation choice wasn’t based solely on her personal preferences – raw power was the key to killing monstrosities that were fueled by Blight-born vitality. The remaining Blightspawn warbled in outrage as it spewed fire, breathing gusts of flame out from compressed sacks of air embedded within its skin. Danger Sense guided Keira’s steps as she jumped to the side well before its attack reached her. She eyed her MP, currently sitting at 150, and decided: fuck it.
“SPEAR OF STEEL!” Keira launched her greatsword like a javelin, crushing the Blightspawn’s head into a gooey red paste. She rushed forward as the blade reappeared back in her hand, preparing a follow-up attack to prevent the beast from regaining its footing.
Then Meyneth tore its spine out.
Keira skidded to a halt. She stared at the Dragonkin in utter bafflement, her posture frozen in the middle of executing a sword strike. Meyneth definitely hadn’t been there a moment ago. Yet there she was, tearing the Blightspawn to shreds as she bellowe
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I really think eso has the best looking dunmer of all the titles. Blades is the most recent imagination of dunmer and tho they don't look bad they just look like straight vampires not elves.
Kind of a shut post but I'm hoping Bethesda goes towards the design of esos dunmer over the other titles.
I don't mind skyrims either... But esos look better.
Do your worst!
So I've recently read Tibiasecrets article on the nomads. link
It's a great read, and after reading it I started a chat with the authors (Mogh and Bosst) because I wanted to share some (to me) interesting lore I've found on the way regarding rotworms.. while writing I found a crazy story. Bear with me. I'm going to show you how magic in Tibia really works and why the hell some rotworm pheromone is extremely valuable.
Okay, so a very simplified recap on the nomads and the rotworms.
The 'true sons of the desert' keeps several secrets
If you're not gonna tell me, I guess I will have to find out the long way...
We help them to retrieve their sacred casket that was stolen from them. We find a note in the thieves hideout, parts of it reads:
>They call themselves "true sons of the desert" and we managed to obtain their sacred casket by accident. What a great day for us. The right people will pay huge amounts of gold for it.
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>So far I found out that the strange substance in the casket has something to do with the rotworm species. It is strongly advisable to keep the substance in the casket. I opened it once and minutes later it swarmed with rotworms and carrion worms. Many of my people died in this accident. We presume that we deal with an attractant of a rotworm queen. No one has ever seen one but we are pretty sure that this species is organised by a queen.
All over their hideout we find lots of rotworms, and this rotworm pheromone we get is very important to them - why?
Why would 'the right people' want to pay huge amounts of gold for some rotworm pheromone?
Pheromone that when released, attracts massive hordes of rotworms?
What can we do with rotworms?
Humgolf is the chief rotworm tamer of Kazordoon. Perhaps he can shed some light into our questions?
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>Player: money
Humgolf: Gold is one of the things my worms can unearth.
Gold huh ;p
Is this why the true sons of the desert hold the rotworm queens pheromone so dearly?
Having a huge supply of rotworms at your command would literally be a goldmine. Or rather, how you would gather a shit tonne of gold from the earth.
Lets ge
... keep reading on reddit ➡I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
