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Suzy. 30. She/They. This was originally meant to be a place for my many thoughts about The Amazing Devil and also The Witcher, but turns out I have opinions about everything and they will NOT be contained.
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Can someone please help me?? I’ve been thinking about this for MONTHS and the more I try to figure it out the more frustrated I get.

WHAT DOES THE LINE ā€œā€˜Well hello my hollow Holofernes’/I wink but you don’t the joke,ā€ MEAN???

The issue is not that I don’t know who Holofernes is! He’s this guy!

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Biblical. Killed by a hot jewish widow for trying to force her people to worship some guy. Totally get it. But that does not???? Make that line make any more sense?

Is it a threat? Are they going to behead him?

Are they saying they’ve already removed his head and found it empty? Hence *Hollow* Holofernes?Ā 

Is it a reference to Dante’s Purgatorio? Are they saying he has too much pride?

WHO IS THE NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN THIS SITUATION?

I just. I have a lot of questions, and the more I think about this single line the less it makes sense.

Time for a semi-annual update on this post:

I’m SO SURE this is the world’s densest literary dick joke, yall.

I even have secondary sources to back me up on this one! (If pressed I’d say it’s specifically a fellatio joke lmao.)

I’ve done enough thinking about this line that it has rewired my brain. I don’t justĀ ā€œthink it might be a dick joke.ā€ The idea that this is a dick joke is one of my soul’s most basic truths.

Joey and Madeleine themselves could approach me irl, look me dead in the eyes and tell me, point blank, that I’m wrong about this, and my only response would beĀ ā€œinteresting theory, but I have to disagree. Guess we’ll never know...ā€

And you know what? I think that’s really brave of me <3

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tyalangand
Arthur: how could you lie to me all this time??
Merlin [extremely tired]: I literally confessed to being a sorcerer 2 weeks after I came to Camelot
Arthur:
Arthur:
Arthur: Merlin, you idiot

post that resonates with the whole fandom.. :D also..if anyone has a fic rec like this..please tag me.. :3

If no one's got a rec then Imma write it myself

I am awaiting that fic eagerly op

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nodudeshutup

merlin is such a compelling character because he's so contradictory. he's a man of mystery who's really bad at lying. you can tell he's lying about something, but his behavior is so odd no one can guess what he could possibly be lying about. basically, every character looks at him and goes 'you're clearly hiding something but im not really sure if I want to get into all that right now.' this is why he's able to tell everyone he's a sorcerer in episode three and no one believes him.

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penny-anna

Demographic of people in the Witcher fandom iirc convinced there's such a thing as 'lute oil' which best as I can tell is incorrect

'lute oil' is a lie jaskier made up to explain to people why he always has lube on his person

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Honestly, the hostage switch with a dude’s dead brother should’ve been the thing that sent Sandburg packing but instead he was right there operating a remote control wheelchair. I maintain that the only explanation is that my guy was down bad from day one. Like. That was episode THREE! It should’ve offended SOME of his sensibilities.

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Somebody might have pointed this out before, but how exactly did Aang & Co. get back to the fire nation with a defeated Ozai in tow?

Awkward bison ride in the saddle listening to him rant about ethnic genocide? Did they strap him to one of Appa’s legs? Dangle him from a basket? Leave him on a cliff for somebody else to come collect??

The bison was already at the Fire Nation! Katara and Zuko flew to the Capital City on Appa. The only option for the gaang to get out of that giant rock pillar forest was for Sokka and Toph to repair any damage to the airship Suki commandeered and fly back.

They probably just let Ozai sit on a chair in the employee lounge for the ride back. Probably didn’t even bother to tie him up, since, as Sokka loudly pointed out, he wasn’t a threat to anyone anymore.

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erisenyo

Would Ozai’s introduction to metalbending be when Toph causually reconstructs a fallen airship in front of him while shit talking Sokka and/or Ozai?Ā 

Because talk about a terrifying thing to encounter on the heels of losing your bending. Four children just took down you and your entire fleet and as far as you can tell two of them are borderline gods.Ā 

(I think Toph would need to be talked out of enthusiastically mounting him on the front of the airship like a figurehead on a boat. She would appreciate the symbolism, and the screaming.)

Yes, Ozai’s introduction to this half of the Gaang would be watching a fifteen-year-old walk a lap around and then figure out how to repair the ship that took dozens of his best minds to design, instructing a twelve-year-old how to reshape massive swaths of metal with her bare hands as casually as Ozai would instruct his tailors to lower the hem of his sleeve. The other girl keeps playing with a steel fan in front of him. Is she trying to intimidate him? He’s already intimidated enough. Where did she even get that fan, though?

Okay but Sokka’s leg is super duper broken at this point, right? So he isn’t walking a lap around the airship and then figuring out how to repair it at a glance – The Avatar is like, floating him around on a throne of stone, or airbending him regally around so that his feet never need to touch the ground.

And then this little gremlin of a human, who is displaying the greatest bending prowess Ozai has ever seen outside if another twelve-year-old handing him his own ass a little bit ago, is listening to what this random Water Tribe kid has to say.Ā 

Queue the existential crisis of Ozai’s life over who this all-powerful teen must be, and what kind of bending prowess he has to have that the Avatar is serving him as a palanquin bearer

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omletlove

don’t leave this in the tags, @erisenyo​

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So. I love being in a couple of old fandoms, and I'd highly recommend it to everyone! Find an old-ass show and obsess about it! Find fanfic written in 1993! Look at fanart first distributed in a zine! It's a great time!

However, it does make me really appreciate modern tagging and description norms. Fanfic written before AO3 was the default are all like,

tags: character a/character b

description: Something changes

words: 186,000

And no further information is given! You just gotta dive in and hope! And in a lot of ways it is a really good and magical experience and you end up reading things you might not have otherwise. And there's a certain satisfaction in the blind hunt, in having to just make a leap of faith. Again, I'd recommend everyone partake in at least one fandom like this! But it does truly make me appreciate how detailed tags can get now.