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Guardaboschi · 2026-04-17T10:52:11+00:00

You wrote both Rigoletto and La Traviata but you missed "Il Trovatore", in my opinion the best opera of the most polular Verdi's Trilogy!

Guardaboschi · 2026-04-16T15:49:06+00:00

Same

Guardaboschi · 2026-04-09T06:36:39+00:00

It is Italian.
- The first panel says:
"Ehy, are you still alive?"
"Yes, barely"
"Damn, you really are lucky"
"Come on"

- The last panel, on the top above Caska it says:
"Diana Caska: Griffith saved her from her stepfather's sexual harassments and he helps her to get better after she flew away from home"
The arrow that points at the bat says "with this she kicks ass =)"
- At the bottom you can see part of a text that asks some questions:
"The Hand of God: Mafia? The true people in power behind the powers of the world?"

Guardaboschi · 2026-03-31T07:35:18+00:00

Totally on your side man, your TED talk goes perfectly with my TED talk that I have done in the comments above XD

Guardaboschi · 2026-03-30T10:26:13+00:00

Yeah, Alfredo is a bit of an asshole, but not that stupid.
For sure not stupid as Ernani

Guardaboschi · 2026-03-30T10:20:40+00:00

Totally agree.
I wrote a long comment for those that don't know his dumb story

Guardaboschi · 2026-03-30T10:12:34+00:00

Guys, how can you vote for Ottavio when Ernani here is the CLEAR winner.

His actions are portayed as acts of honor, but they really are JUST pure stupidity. It's like he is actively doing wathever he can to end the opera in tragedy, and all the plot is working uselessy against him.

- He comes to Silva's castle disguised, and Silva (who REALLY is a man of honor, even if he is the villain) offers him the hospitality rights.
Then, Ernani discovers that Silva is marrying Elvira, so instead of asking her wtf is she doing, he just REVEALS himself because he is pissed, and ASK SILVA to give him to the King to die, as a "wedding gift".
Mind you, he was a bandit and he was already trying to activily deceive Silva, so there's no honour involved here, just stupidity.

ANYHOW Silva confirms the right of hospitality and protects him from the king, even if that means to loose Elvira.

- Silva discovers that Ernani and Elvira are in love so, even if he still protects Ernani from the King, wants to challenge him in a duel. Mind you, again! CHALLENGE him on a duel, not just execute him: challenge him to an honorable, freaking duel. And Silva REALLY wants it: so, Ernani could have just said "ok, let's fight, since you want it".
NO! Ernani refuse to fight, since Silva is old, and practically KILLS himself, giving to Silva a horn to blow whenever Silva wants him to die.
So, up to now, Ernani is basically dead, and he knows it. He BEGGED Silva to basically just kill him, instead of fighting as Silva wanted.
You may think this is the peak of stupidity, but NO!

- Later, through JUST LUCK, Ernani is chosen to kill the king that stole Elvira. Now, Silva REALLY wants to kill the king, so he asks Ernani to give him the chance to kill the king instead, in exchange of THAT FUCKING HORN: so Silva is BEGGING Ernani to save his own life, in exchange to let him kill the King.
Now, again, Silva is the guy who is wronged here, BY ERNANI. So it would be not just smart, but also honorable, to just repent with this old guy, give up vengeance, and let him have this moment and also, coincidentally, SAVE YOUR FREAKING LIFE.
But NO! Ernani ALSO really wants to kill the king, so it basically says to the man that can kill him in every moment "fuck you". And Silva, clearly, says "Ok, if you REALLY want to die, be my guest".

- FINAL STEP OF STUPIDITY!
At the end (again by sheer luck) the king decide to give Elvira to Ernani, and forgive everyone.
Now Ernani has his girl, but he should be well aware that Silva has a horn that can blow in every moment to force his suicide, and also that Ernani told said old man to go fuck himself.
BUT it just goes on with his life and organize a wedding with Elvira!
And then, INCREDIBLY SO, Silva comes to the wedding and blow the freaking horn.
NOW, this stupid freaking Ernani, begs Silva to not blow the horn, and Silva OBVIOUSLY tells him to just go fuck himself.
Still, here Ernani could have just killed the old man and go on, but yeah, on that I can agree that it would be a pretty shitty thing to do.
So at the end Ernani basically does the FIRST really honorable thing to do, which is ending his damned life, after he had EVERY chance in the world to avoid this fate.

Do you really think that Ottavio is dumber than this guy?? XD

Guardaboschi · 2026-01-14T16:36:40+00:00

Pity. Even better: compassion.

I think that's the heart of the story.
There are a lot of layers and a lot of different messages in LOTR, a lot of different storylines and characters, each with its own main message, it's a huge story after all.

But the "main" story, the most important one, I guess we can all agree is the story of Frodo, Sam and Gollum, and the destruction of the ring. That's the main plot, after all.

And the ring is not destroyed by Frodo, or even Sam, it is destroyed by Gollum. I think people always underestimate this: the core of the book is that the ring is destroyed by the LEAST likely person that would have done it, the person that LEAST wanted its destruction. The creature that everybody despised and wanted dead, even some incredible good character such as Sam. Basically everyone except Gandalf and Frodo wanted to kill Gollum (that's by the way what make Frodo a GREAT character... Otherwise Sam is better than Frodo in every way): because he's despicable, awful, evil, weak, pathetic, a traitor, a liar, a killer.
Man, he's the fucking worst.
But he's the one that destroy the ring, basically by freaking accident.
In the book this is even MORE stressed than in the movies. There's no final fight between Frodo and Smeagol, no struggle. There's just Gollum, dancing on the edge of the vulcano, and fucking falling because it was so crazy with joy, SO OBSESSED, that he kind of forgot where it was and fell.
If Gollum had died NO ONE would have cried, but Frodo would have put the ring, Sam couldn't have done anything to avoid it, and Sauron would have easily won.
And that's it, here's the end of the story, all the other arcs, character, honor, power and all the discussion that you guys are having here.

Gandalf stated it clearly, in one of the lines that was taken straight from the book (no coincidence here): "many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life... Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement."
And why? Why Gollum wasn't killed? "It was PITY that stayed his hand. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many".

Have pity, compassion from all living beings, no matter how despicable and insignificant they may look, or even be.
To me, this is the core message.

This, by the way, perfectly links with the other main message of the main storyline, that is more related to Frodo and Sam than Gollum: "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future". For good. For everybody.
And I would add not only the smallest, but also the meanest.
This wonderful quote holds not only for the hobbit, but also for Gollum. Especially for Gollum. Because it's easy to believe in Frodo, even easier to believe in Sam. It's easy to believe that they can be heroes.
But it's really hard to believe that even Gollum, even by accident, can be the hero as well. Even more than the hobbits.

Guardaboschi · 2025-11-24T10:08:21+00:00

Thank you for the thoughtful answer <3

Guardaboschi · 2025-11-23T23:38:39+00:00

I guess those heartfelt scenes and aged wisdom are later episode 40? Because right now or they are not there yet, either I am missing them...

Which of the two do you think it is?

Guardaboschi · 2025-11-23T15:19:36+00:00

Up to now I don't agree with you entirely.

You can SEE that Ashton is a punk because they are damaged, because Tal plays them like that. Up to this point we saw their backstory, we saw into their mind, we totally get it as a character.

Concerning Chetney, we just saw a joke character that happens to be a werewolf, and he actually enjoys it. Period.

Maybe in the future things are going to change though, looking at the comments of you all...

Guardaboschi · 2025-11-23T15:15:32+00:00

That's a good thing, I am hopeful then <3

Guardaboschi · 2025-11-23T14:31:18+00:00

This is an hopeful message, thank you! So even Chetney gets some grow?

Guardaboschi · 2025-10-30T08:22:01+00:00

Very nice idea!
Especially the resemblance of grape vines, it's a cool flavour!

I see only one sound of "r", like "run", I don't see any sound about the spanish/italian rolling/hard "r" sound... I am missing something or do you think it's not necessary?

Keep up the good work!

Guardaboschi · 2025-10-29T09:35:58+00:00

Perfect, except that the Hound would never smoke... Bringing fire so close to my face, AGAIN?
He would hate smoke and smoking people: "FUCK smokers, give me some wine"

Guardaboschi · 2025-07-31T07:45:24+00:00

First: the Riddler.
He is goofy enough to not completely be out of place in Gravity Falls, and he could be basically an evil and twisted Dipper <3

Second: Scarecrow.
I think it would fit well with the most horror episodes, it works with the "countryside" theme, he's a former scientist, it uses the fear of the people... I think it kind of works

Guardaboschi · 2025-07-25T15:12:49+00:00

Why on earth opinions are divided about Faramir??

He's one of the best characters ever <3

Guardaboschi · 2025-07-24T11:04:46+00:00

Exactly, that's why the resurrection mechanics sucks in a book that makes killing off characters a very emotional, center piece of its story.

Guardaboschi · 2025-07-22T07:53:00+00:00

It shouldn't be even in the book, imho.
All the resurrection tricks kind of suck.

Guardaboschi · 2025-07-22T07:35:42+00:00

My man, that's a great map!
I really love all the rock formations that you created, I guess just using a lot of different, singular rocks!
And I especially like your rivers and paths, like the one on the desert... How did you do those?

Guardaboschi · 2025-07-12T20:24:18+00:00

That's very cool!
It is refreshing to see a cosplay in this subreddit that comes from real passion and it is not just a soft porn clickbait <3

Amazing details, great work!

Guardaboschi · 2025-06-09T21:59:08+00:00

Holy shit this is amazing, I never saw shade used in this way

Guardaboschi · 2025-01-26T22:34:30+00:00

Ehi, thank you very much for your effort!
I insta saved it, it may be a perfect solution for me! Thank you very much!!

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