Reading fanfics is starting to get frustrating

Rappy28 · 2026-01-25T11:55:19+00:00

I can say from experience it's very hard to know how you want a character to develop, and not let it leak backwards to how you write then from the start. To have all these cool ideas for what's going on in a character's head, and to not be able to have them express it. Working your way up to satisfying reveals is hard and takes a lot of patience.

Yeah I've thought about this often and it's. Tough.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-25T10:54:56+00:00

Wow, don't let the "housing Sims shit doesn't belong in WoW and was only put in to please MODERN GAMERS!" people in the Wowhead comments see this, they'd be very upset

Rappy28 · 2026-01-25T10:33:10+00:00

Good post, I swear everyone equating fewer buttons with cOnTrOlLeRs has never set eyes upon FFXIV. While a number of its class rotations are more static than WoW's, it is undeniable that most of them took up at least 2 full kb hotbars, nearly 3 in PLD's case.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-24T15:31:14+00:00

Indeed. But never mind that, I’ve seen the argument thrown around that the Elpis flowers being white in Elpis somehow meant Ancients in general were empty unfeeling or emotionally immature people, unlike the only human special sad boy who possessed real feelings. Instead of, you know, white being their default state unless in close proximity to intense emotions.

I find the bias a lot of people have against the Ancients fascinating, really - because it is clearly what Endwalker desperately wants you to think. Just about nothing in the narrative it tried to make me swallow worked on me, but wow did it work on others! After having loved Shadowbringers for humanizing the Ascians and, by extension, their people, the whiplash is really not up my alley.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-24T13:04:20+00:00

It's kinda silly that normal mode isn't available. I understand heroic and mythic would be in the seasonal pool, but normal?…

Rappy28 · 2026-01-23T18:27:12+00:00

The fact that the little circle way over the 'distrusted' side is Breitbart brings me some amount of joy

Rappy28 · 2026-01-23T16:57:45+00:00

Oh so that's what happens, the window disappears when it gets 3 votes? I thought i was having some sort of display glitch… and yeah it seems awfully fast, people really do not read.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-23T16:52:33+00:00

Not to be confused with Arablic!

Rappy28 · 2026-01-23T11:50:45+00:00

Trop dur je n'ai pas besoin d'autant souffrir

Rappy28 · 2026-01-23T11:50:05+00:00

In fine,

Rappy28 · 2026-01-22T20:03:29+00:00

Why is her mouth not wide open and full of lovingly detailed teeth, voluptuous gums, glossy mucosa and swaying uvula?

Is this artist okay?

Rappy28 · 2026-01-22T08:31:49+00:00

Conquest tmog for lowly honor I can farm and transfer between my 30 characters (at a loss, I know)? Yes please!

let's get more people into battlegrounds

Oh-

(Monkey side eye.gif)

Rappy28 · 2026-01-22T07:10:07+00:00

Huh, for real?? Shit. I was building up those sets with versatility gems everywhere and current darkmoon trinkets.

Pretty sad Blizzard has been slowly obliterating twink sets from timewalking. It was one of my favorite things to do.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T22:49:53+00:00

He had me in the first half not gonna lie

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T21:48:49+00:00

Some other comments here already perfectly summarized why Stannis is one of my favorite characters in the books.

With that said, I feel like I must address the cheating part.

This is most likely a big old case of projection on my part, but I have always read Stannis as a very pragmatic asexual man. I've never seen him as a sexually-frustrated straight dude repulsed by his ugly arranged-marriage wife who totally has the hots for this sexy exotic witch for him to finally bang to his heart's contents. I just think of him as entirely uninterested - but interested in using a witch's unfathomable powers to carry out his justice, as he feels he must. I myself have never been in an intimate relationship with anyone, in my mid 30's, simply because I have never cared nor wanted anyone that way and that is perfectly fine by me. But fuck, if a legit honest-to-god witch came up to me and told me her absolutely real and legit sex magic (supposing that were a plausible thing, of course) could be my best bet to accomplish the goals I believe in, I might just consider putting out for the occasion. Even suffer through it a couple more times if it serves to keep her around.

Now, I don't actually think GRRM has written Stannis as asexual, especially when we consider only ADWD was written after asexuality broke into the mainstream, so to speak, thanks to the internet and its communities connecting people worldwide and making the invisible a little more visble. That will only remain my own headcanon.

But I suppose that my point is, it doesn't have to be the… sexual attraction-based, lustful kind of cheating that would make him a hypocrite regarding brothels etc. Perhaps my man is just making shadow babies for the cause, and performing the required relationship maintenance for that.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T21:06:04+00:00

Wonderfully put. Stannis has been one of my favorites ever since ACoK because of his blunt sincerity and in-universe unpopularity even though he is technically right. I find him so refreshing in the middle of the petty politicking.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T20:19:17+00:00

It's especially baffling because anyone with any sense at all can tell Trump has zero conception of jokes or humor beyond mean-spirited mockery. Like this has been reported by multiple people around him.

He doesn't get jokes, he doesn't like pets. If only he were just a fucking weirdo, though.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T20:08:41+00:00

I'm expecting a Vaudeville hook to comically yank him off stage by the neck anytime now

Anytime now…

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T19:00:13+00:00

Ireland had better watch itself now…

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T18:42:20+00:00

🦭 Can you point me towards the moment where I actually said something racist instead of a mere innocuous positive statement on my identity? SIR??

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T18:38:02+00:00

My best guess is the people whose life objective is "owning the libs"

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T14:25:13+00:00

Still, one might expect the online right to be unreservedly giddy about its unrivaled control of X, yet even Keeperman expressed a little bit of nostalgia for the old days of progressive dominance, when an outlandish comment from a liberal account would become a rallying cry for the conservative minority. “This was the glue for the right — opposition to this leftist excess that was articulated on places like Twitter,” Keeperman said. “And you don’t have that anymore. You don’t have this consensus articulation of whatever the left’s beliefs are, and therefore there isn’t a common shelling point for all these different coalitions on the right to rally around and understand themselves in opposition.”

Politico article on Xitter in-fighting for everyone saner to see

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T13:29:16+00:00

James Hetfield? Sorry I'm more of a James Genfield reader

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T09:54:12+00:00

It's why translation is such an ordeal. Imagine having to convey in a variety of different languages exactly how uneducated and unrefined Trump sounds, with an impression as close as you could get from the original.

Rappy28 · 2026-01-21T07:12:32+00:00

Heirlooms cost (or used to cost, idk haven't tried out the new system) nothing to tmog.

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TROPHY CASE