i had assumed it was sakura as well so now i am curious because bad takes and handlings of characters make me sad
okay so, the character in specific is chris yukine from symphogear Spoiler: discussion of csa + spoilers for symphogear s1 she has a past as an orphaned child sex slave raised in a war zone who was then further abused by the first season's main villain, but of course 95% of fanfic writers ignore this and keep putting chris in uncomfortable situations and then passing them off as cute and adorable when logically they should fuck her up even more. the worst is of course when they write her in sexual situations and then claim things like she's super good at sex and has zero issues in how she performs, or she has no trauma over her sexual abuse because she likes rough and kinky sex, because none of these fucking idiots know a goddamn thing about how sexual abuse can affect people and think you can just 'get over' years-long trauma in like a day admittedly canon all but outright erases this aspect of her past after s1 because the post-s1 writers are disgustingly incompetent, so I guess most people are just following that lead. still, it's so fucking annoying, and doubly so for me because I identify strongly with chris for a multitude of reasons, so seeing her handled badly can be really upsetting sometimes
Very fucking tired of characters doing [insert fundamental aspect of basic decency] for another character, especially one they're close to, out of fear of what that character would do to them if they didn't. How about they do it out of, you know, basic decency, or respect, or at the very least because they care about them. This gripe most recently brought to you by "character a [who is incredibly close to character b and doesn't give two shits about the rest if the cast, and also is the opposite of chatty] doesn't out character b to the rest of the cast only because he knows that character b will hurt him if he does!" Fuck you.
that's... a tidal bore. it's completely explained. there's a schedule. there are boats that take tourists out to photograph it. it's a really really terrible metaphor. what are you doing, author, you obviously googled 'whirlpools' and took the biggest one on wikipedia, but didn't bother to read the article. i dunno if i want to keep reading. this is like... the first paragraph. also lieutenant corporal isn't a real rank. also why is arthur's name 'chan'. and can i expect more "magnets, how the fuck do they work" nonsense from this eames? actually, that sounds hilarious. i think i have to keep reading just for that. edit: nevermind, there's like 4000 words of tell-don't-show before there's a single line of dialogue, and most of it is a banal kind of nonsense, like that eames has an 'air of privilege' that causes this chan guy (who i think is probably arthur but he's so ooc i can't tell) to make groundless assumptions about him but actually he went to a public school 'but not one posh enough to rub the grime off him' whatever that fucking means and i'm just... not getting paid enough to read this.
I am very confused about whether or not this author knows that in the UK, "public schools" are the big prestigious universities that rich people fight to get their kids into.
i got the impression they did, but thought there were like... middle class ones that were slightly shoddy, or something? which may well be the case, but combined with the general aura of Did Not Do The Research it just comes across as senseless.
frankly fanfic authors in general tend to be absolutely clueless about 'posh' things, tbh. for instance, i was a scholarship kid at a very exclusive private school in minneapolis, and not only was i not bullied for it, most kids kind of put me on a pedestal for it like "oh wow you must be super smart!" which... i guess? i did have to keep a B+ average, and the one year i got a B average i lost my scholarship and had to go to public school for a year and then retake the entrance exam. but i'm not a supergenius, i wasn't going around being tony stark at people to make them admire me. they were just being admiring because they thought it was impressive that someone did well enough to get to go there for free, and they certainly didn't resent me not being rich. you know, i'm gonna crosspost this to 'the assistants' in case anyone wants to ask questions about that.
I had the opposite experience, where parents disliking that i was i their fancy private school do to sliding scale payment options if not encouraged certainly didn´t Stop some pretty severe bullying from their kids.
They're generally for students 11-18, not universities - even if some of them are called 'colleges' anyway. Incidentally, they're called 'public schools' because they're open to anyone who can pay the fee, not just the nobility or clergy, which was a big deal when they opened. There are some 250 of them (400 if you include girl's schools), and not all of them are Eton. And even Eton has scholarship programs. Maybe they were going for Lance Corporal? Saw 'LCpl' and extrapolated? Now Charybdis is a truly unexplainable phenomenon, in that there are sometimes whirlpools in the strait of Messina, but... they're pretty tiny. It's... it's not exactly a violent, in navigable bit of sea, despite its reputation in Greek myth.
I mean, it is relatively explainable by the tendency of literally every culture that has encountered tidal whirlpools to exaggerate them to ridiculous extents. What gave the strait of Messina its reputation as dangerous is actually Scylla - that is, the reef that people would most likely end up running into if they tried to avoid the whirlpool.
i mean if you don't know anything about how oceans work, a whirlpool's gotta be a really terrifying thing. i absolutely am not slagging bronze age poets for getting hyped about them. but i am slagging the hell out of an author having a modern, well-educated, canonically quite intelligent man refer to a scottish tourist destination as 'truly unexplainable'. :P next metaphor should be old faithful. the mysterious lance-tenant corporal explodes like that completely unexplainable phenomenon which definitely no one knows how it happens at all.
They were. Navigation in open water was also shit and for the most part they had to sail with land at least somewhat in sight or risk DEATH.
(To be a bit nitpicky, if Wilusa AKA Troy 7.0, "Why do we even keep building cities in this exact spot anyway, aren't we doing some sorta cursed burial ground layer cake here" edition, was destroyed in the Bronze Age collapse, I doubt Homer was a Bronze Age poet.)
"Homer" is actually widely regarded to not have even existed in the first place. The stories attributed to Homer were told as oral tradition and were likely gathered from several sources before ever being committed to a written recording.
Another alternative people find sound is that Homer did exist but he was not the one who composed these poems. He, instead, was a compiler and reciter of some repute whose variants managed to survive over those of others. In either case, the theories about him that tend to be more accepted these days do not attribute authorship of the works to Homer and they can't given the dates. You can find other similar cases too in other places! I find it all rather fascinating, granted I'm like an oral tradition stan who is anti-auteur.
stone age poets then? well, they get even more of a pass for being scared of freaky tidal dynamics. :D
Not sure exactly how old but it's pretty fucking old, yeah. Which can explain the disparity one can find between details mentioned in the plays versus the tech levels and what not of the compilation of the version we got. As well as how detailed these descriptions of the tech can be.
locked room mysteries only work in genteel society where no one could ever possibly pick a lock, copy a key, shimmy down a drainpipe, etc. -- it's frankly ridiculous to treat a locked door as an absolute barrier no one could have breached when you open up the suspect pool beyond lord and lady fluffington, colonel mustard, and a handful of upstairs servants.
