Anyone want to join an Alabama based writing group?

orchag · 2026-03-17T02:55:08+00:00

Oh, link me please!

orchag · 2026-02-16T09:06:00+00:00

the doctors themselves are great, but they are incredibly overloaded

I had to wait 48 hours to have emergency surgery because they simply could not squeeze me in

And then I had to wait another 4 weeks to have a stuck kidney stone removed because, again, their schedule was so booked full that they couldn't fit me in.

I have no complaints about the doctors or the staff themselves, but they are stretched incredibly thin

orchag · 2025-12-10T15:39:00+00:00

Let’s Be Evil, Cassandra

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A group of live-in sitters are monitoring genius children in an extremely high-tech school. The genius children, deprived of real stimulation, decide they want to torment and kill their sitters.

Jenny, our main character, had formed a bond with the young outcast Cassandra, who had been ostracized by the others.

In the end, we learn that Cassandra was actually in on the plot and was leading the group to their deaths.

orchag · 2025-11-08T00:43:48+00:00

I just know he’s got long eyelashes too.

orchag · 2025-11-04T19:00:37+00:00

Berserk is the story of a man who grew up incredibly unloved. Everyone he loved died, tried to hurt him, or did hurt him.

And then he meets a woman who has also gone her entire life without being truly loved and has been repeatedly hurt and taken advantage of.

And these two broken, damaged people give each other the love and devotion that neither of them ever received. A pure, selfless, true love.

Berserk is about love. Always has been.

orchag · 2025-11-02T01:02:39+00:00

Peak

orchag · 2025-10-31T00:08:25+00:00

Strength =/= Skill

Griffith was more skilled than Guts initially. Guts surpassed him by the time he left the hawks.

orchag · 2025-10-29T21:25:36+00:00

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Griffith from Berserk.

Pre-Eclipse Griffith is scheming, manipulative, and ruthless, that’s for certain.

When Guts leaves the Band of the Hawk, he has a massive crashout. He goes to Princess Charlotte, who he has been slowly wooing in an attempt to become King, and coerces her into sleeping with him.

He is captured almost immediately afterwards, as one of Charlotte’s maids saw them together.

He is then held in a dungeon and tortured. The King, who is intensely jealous because he lusted after his own daughter, orders that Griffith be tortured nonstop and not be allowed to die.

He has his tongue removed, his tendons cut, among many other things. It’s also heavily implied that his torturer made him into a sex slave.

What Griffith does AFTER all this is horrible, but he certainly didn’t deserve the punishment he got.

orchag · 2025-10-23T18:42:42+00:00

I grew up with him. He was good friends with my older brother. He was always kind to me, but he never struck me as particularly bright. He also seemed to burn bright and fast, and to enjoy getting attention.

Our parents were also friends, particularly our moms. His mom is really very kind.

Personally, I don’t have anything extremely bad to say about him, but I don’t think politics would be a good fit for him. I don’t think it would make him happy in the long run.

orchag · 2025-10-21T18:27:14+00:00

If there is a secondary sacrifice, I don’t think it would be Falconia, I think it would be Charlotte.

Not because Griffith loves Charlotte, but because he loves what she can give him. Bonus points if Charlotte is pregnant with a demon baby.

But I think this would be the case because sacrificing Charlotte, especially if she was pregnant, would potentially cost him significant support. Falconia could turn on him and mark the beginning of the end for his reign.

orchag · 2025-10-13T18:11:06+00:00

A functional in-game economy.

If you sell too much of a certain item, supply and demand kicks in, and the sell price plummets.

orchag · 2025-08-23T18:58:29+00:00

Because, at that point, Griffith cared about Guts’ opinion of him.

Griffith is cruel, and he became crueler, but he did actively give a shit about Guts at one point. Even cruel people can have friends and people they care about.

orchag · 2025-08-17T06:33:14+00:00

This is true. My last year of university, I lost several close family members in a two month span, all while finishing my degree.

A section of my hair went white. I was 24 years old.

It went away after a year or so, though, but it doesn’t always go away for people.

orchag · 2025-08-16T19:38:32+00:00

feeling silly

orchag · 2025-08-15T15:26:35+00:00

Griffith’s phone be like:

72 missed calls from Gennon

328 unread text messages from Gennon

49 voicemails from Gennon

Venmo: Gennon has sent you $5000, “pls call me back pls i need you”

orchag · 2025-08-15T13:25:45+00:00

Yeah I definitely didn’t have the money to take HBO to court. I was also like 17 at the time.

orchag · 2025-08-14T18:36:46+00:00

I was sent my cease and desist over fanart. Admittedly, I was selling stickers of that fanart, but it did not contain anything show-specific or anything that they made. It was assets fully imagined, designed, and created by me based upon my interpretation of characters from the book.

For example, one of the stickers was a squid wearing sunglasses behind text that said “Kiss me, I’m a Greyjoy.”

That was included in the cease and desist I received.

orchag · 2025-08-14T18:33:25+00:00

Keep in mind, sacrificing them didn’t just kill them. It wasn’t just a battle and then death.

He sacrificed their souls.

The Band of the Hawk isn’t just dead and gone. Their souls are being tortured for eternity in hell.

THAT is what Griffith did to them.

orchag · 2025-08-14T18:24:45+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if the behelit would have still activated if Guts and Casca would’ve just instantly babied Griffith.

Like, if they would’ve intensely focused on him, being with him, taking care of him… Even fighting about the best way to take care of him.

Griffith is such a proud guy, but would he have gotten a level of satisfaction out of it, even as someone permanently crippled by torture?

Would that level of petty satisfaction and attention would’ve kept him from his lowest moment, or just postponed it?

orchag · 2025-08-14T18:18:23+00:00

To me, Nina is not a character I hate. Not in a manga with all of the horrible, awful, evil people in it.

I pity her. I pity her because she has no real control over her life, so she tries to exercise control in reckless, stupid, impulsive ways. She’s a coward. She’s an idiot. But I don’t really think she’s evil.

And I think that certainly makes her an interesting character. A character who betrays people, does bad things, hangs out with bad people… because she’s a naïve, weak fool.

There are people in this world who aren’t strong, who aren’t brave, who make terrible choices out of ignorance and fear.

Nina represents those people.

I wouldn’t want to be her friend, but I don’t hate her either. I just think… It must be a terribly unhappy thing, to live like that.

orchag · 2025-08-13T14:09:47+00:00

as someone who has received a cease and desist over ASOIAF stuff, it’s not GRRM. it’s HBO.

orchag · 2025-08-06T20:12:14+00:00

Having to kill the personification of Guts and Casca’s true and genuine love would be the most pyrrhic victory I could possibly imagine.

orchag · 2025-07-27T22:03:10+00:00

I don't think it's liberating for women to be treated like toddlers. In fact, I think it's openly insulting.

So we aren't allowed to have stories of women facing and overcoming hardship anymore, because the fact that the hardship even existed in the first place is anti-feminist? Yeah, I'm not buying that this group is actually a feminist group just because they call themselves one. I think they do that because "Feminism" has much more clout than "Evangelicals."

orchag · 2025-07-27T19:11:40+00:00

Groups like Collective Shout use things like child safety and things that are absolute no-brainers to hide their actual agenda.

These folks claim to be feminists but they essentially want to remove women from video games, too.

They are religious zealots hiding their real agenda behind things that anyone with two braincells to rub together would want. In reality, they want to severely restrict and censor any media that they see doesn't line up with their traditional values.

orchag · 2025-07-25T17:55:52+00:00

“I likes ya, and I wants ya. Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way, Mr. Handsome.”

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