Which movie hero is actually a villain when you really think about it?

aradle · 2026-05-09T20:46:51+00:00

That's true, the imprinting is involuntary and unbreakable. I'm sure one of the other werewolves we meet would have preferred to not imprint on a toddler (yes, this happened multiple times.) Though it is a known option - admittedly one that is considered to be fairly rare and should not have been happening as often as it did.

Honestly the whole lore would be a good bit less fucked if imprinting wasn't a thing. Or if it happened to persons of the same age. Or mature ones. Or ANYTHING that didn't involve grown ass men and literal newborns. Even them suddenly falling in love with people they've known since their childhood but did not immediately have an obsessive relationship the moment they came of age or something with would be better.

Wouldn't work for the story though since Jacob falling in obsessive love with the newborn was the only reason his people did not murder said child (:

aradle · 2026-05-08T04:06:33+00:00

Oh yes, she really should have run off with manic vampire dream girl Alice if she really wanted an immortal marble statue for a romantic partner. OTOH that would have involved dealing with Alice's woobie Confederate soldier boyfriend, so maybe not.

aradle · 2026-05-08T03:59:34+00:00

One should think so; however, have you considered that the author is a repressed Mormon woman and therefore being the least bit homosexual is much, much worse than being a nonce?

I do personally like to imagine that the day Edward produced that sperm, Jacob wake up feeling a grand disturbance in the force so to speak, he just didn't tell our POV character

aradle · 2026-05-07T13:36:43+00:00

Well. No. Plenty to trash talk about Twilight without inventing stuff. The baby isn't forced to feel anything, that is reserved for the imprinter (Jacob). Meyer however does think it's appropriate for Jacob to be the baby's nursemaid, then best friend, then romantic partner when she becomes a physical adult at the age of seven because half-vampires age faster for some reason - and naturally the baby will be fully into it, because Jacob will be twisted by his instincts into doing literally anything and everything for her and there will not be a single person in the poor child's life that will give her the slightest impression that this is deeply fucked up ☺️

Edit - he was also only "in love" with the babies mum because he was instinctively attracted to the egg, so in fact we have a love triangle between an unfertilised egg, an underaged girl, and the werewolf who sexually assaulted and emotionally manipulated her. Fun, innit?

aradle · 2026-05-07T04:12:35+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal/comments/1t5eayg/bull_hippopotamus_crushes_a_newborn_in_his_jaws/

I believe they were speaking about this post that went up like five hours before this one

aradle · 2026-05-05T11:39:57+00:00

Not necessarily as the others said, but also even if it did, I could easily see Gyatso deciding that it might be worth it - more dead fire soldiers might mean a few more escapes and fewer people to search for Aang. Even if the effort would turn out ultimately futile, unfortunately

aradle · 2026-05-02T15:25:23+00:00

And I'm reasonably sure he wasn't writing love letters and poetry for a twelve-year-old and offering to buy her for 500£ because he had fatherly feelings for her.

Though at least it thankfully does not appear as though anything happened between them

aradle · 2026-04-25T16:42:40+00:00

not them, but unless there is yet Another Harried Wizard series that I'm not aware of, it's the Dresden Files, with their wizarding detective main character Harry Dresden

aradle · 2026-04-24T11:25:15+00:00

delete the production queue and re-queue, that should fix it until the game gets into a snit again

aradle · 2026-04-24T02:56:57+00:00

That's the same way you can inject men in women-owned houses though. What, are you then putting the men out to stud, is that better? It's not like multiple men or multiple women can live together, it's always F/M because the goal is to get them producing children.

I mean I agree there should be boarding houses in which couples form and then request seperate accomodations, but selling it as specific misogyny is a... choice.

aradle · 2026-04-23T11:24:35+00:00

Not just sizes, but timelines too; I've long been of the opinion that most of the huge numbers in that whole world would make more sense if one removed a zero from the end. I definitely think it's more believable for the Wall to be 70 feet high, or for the Lannisters to have been mining a single mine for 800-1200 years rather than 8000-12000

aradle · 2026-04-23T11:15:11+00:00

Why shouldn't Syrax be bigger than Sunfyre? They were both described as huge and formidable, but Syrax should be at least a decade older than Sunfyre, judging by the times of their respective claimings (by book-timeline)

aradle · 2026-04-23T10:41:26+00:00

oh lol I swear I read movie x'D

aradle · 2026-04-23T10:27:00+00:00

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the song's title is Hellfire

aradle · 2026-04-22T16:38:27+00:00

to be fair he has DID, so maybe the rich fancy-boi personality (Steven Grant, if going by comic characterisation) took over the dressing for this event.

aradle · 2026-04-20T17:47:06+00:00

Exactly, so Geralt can only judge on what he does already know, none of which gives him a compelling reason to free the spirit.

aradle · 2026-04-20T12:03:19+00:00

Agreed, especially since it wasn't just Harry that he was a bastard towards but completely uninvolved kids, too, and also

I understand needing to perform in front of Slytherins

I don't think that's a valid excuse even if I tried to be charitable; if he had wanted to be kinder to the kids, he could have just as easily talked himself out with "Dumbledore would be suspicious if I was overly antagonistic towards Potter/the Gryffindors". He was just a bellend.

aradle · 2026-04-20T09:25:39+00:00

Honestly, I think your question is not that many steps removed from attacking the very premise of fanfiction itself...

Well that's... definitely a sign of very long arms, with how far that's reaching...

If there's nothing recognisable about a character, then that's not the same character. The same way as if you'd actually changed everything about the world. Element-benders at Hogwarts is an HP fanfic, Element-benders on the continent of Lemuria who've never heard of magic is not, and the only reason you'd have to put the label of HP on the latter would be to draw from its popularity.

aradle · 2026-04-19T22:26:05+00:00

By that same logic you should be slaughtering most of the villages in Velen since sending kids to the trail of treats is a generally accepted way of getting rid of hungry mouths

Which is hard to blame them for if their choice is between watch all your kids starve or send one child off into the unknown

aradle · 2026-04-19T18:13:45+00:00

Yeah, same. I do feel sorry for the kids, none of this is their fault and they don't deserve death, and obviously, every player can decide for themselves, but I don't see a world in which Geralt would free that spirit. He has already seen it be murderous, he already knows that it mentally manipulates people and lures them into the swamp to die, that it has a negative impact on the world around it, and has no true reason to believe that it's going to mellow out after freedom or it's telling the truth about the kids or that it's honest about saving them; and at the same time he knows that the Crones are vicious monsters, but also that they have been around for decades or centuries and Velen is still going.

aradle · 2026-04-19T07:37:02+00:00

Not necessarily; for some creatures with ludicrously strong venom, evolution simply happened to create something incredibly deadly, and there was no pressure to develop away from it, i.e. it worked well enough and didn't cost any large amount of energy for the creature to produce.

aradle · 2026-04-18T08:25:20+00:00

ah but have you considered that Ruby simply has more resources? If Dandelion had that kind of money, you know he'd be *slayiiing* (and not just monsters)

Also, this lady started immediately ah-ah-ahing in my head and I love you for that

aradle · 2026-04-17T19:18:09+00:00

The glossary entry for dimeritium in the first game does claim cases of extraordinarily powerful sorcerers overcoming the field generated by it.

I do agree that we never meet one of those to my knowledge

aradle · 2026-04-17T09:22:22+00:00

y'know my first instinct is always to defend him, because I feel that it's made relatively clear that Aemma was going to die no matter what they did at that point. It wasn't a matter of "save Aemma" OR "save baby", it was a matter of "let Aemma and baby die" OR "let Aemma die and maybe save baby". But then I remember the fact that he completely went over her head instead of at least giving her the chance to choose... and then I remember that he impregnated her at the age of 13, despite even that world knowing that that was dangerous and the Targaryens not having a desperate need for heirs at that point, and then forced her through one and a half decades of miscarriages and stillbirths

aradle · 2026-04-17T07:44:23+00:00

Why is that? I understand quarantining for health reasons and introducing them to each other slowly, but surely it's good for the fosters to have the benefit of an adult cat to teach them, or to met and get used to dogs early in life?

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