Nangijala

@Nangijala@feddit.dk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In my humble opinion, the first 20-30ish issues are the best ones and then after that the decline is wild and steep. I also never really cared for the TV show. I was so excited when it aired and had been waiting to see the girls move and speak for so long. And then the art style, the color palette, the animation and the voice acting was all ugly and cheap and I never understood why they decided that the color palette should be different shades of piss when the comics were so vibrant and lush. But that is just me. Also, legit, after the comics go into the 30s, the entire franchise crashed and burned. It’s it’s own can of worms and I don’t want to bore you, but that was my first experience with becoming a dedicated fan of something and have a big entertainment company come in and annihilate everything that made the franchise good, run it into the dirt in the most disrespectful way and then cancel it because nobody liked it anymore.

  I like tarot cards too. The idea of them, that is. I like the imagery and the many different meanings they hold depending in the combinatiom. Ironically, the whole predicting the future part of tarot cards is the least interesting thing to me, but that’s how I feel about all these witchy things. It’s more so the idea of the weird magic rules and how aesthetic they are that I find so appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed I do! Granted, it has been a minute since I last visited Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, but I have a goal of gnawing my way through 50 books this year, so I might as well peek back in. Thank you for the reminder!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to love reading W.I.T.C.H. comics and they always had a bunch of fun stuff about zodiacs and reading the future in tea leaves, moons and stars and all that silly stuff. I friggin loved that shit because it was fun for the imagination and it also tied in well with the comic being about a groups magical girls who get their powers from nature and blah blah blah. I thought it was fun to find out what my element was based on what month I was born in and what my birthstone was and take little personality tests to see which one of the girls I was like the most (9 out of 10 times, I got Taranee).

  The thing is, though: I always knew it was just play pretend and fun past time stuff.

  I have had that fun permanently destroyed for me after people started believing in astrology and magic for real. I know people irl who refer to their zodiacs as an explanation for how they like their coffee or why they push their work to last minute or why they vibe well with this and that person. They take personality tests and believe it for real instead of using it as some stupid past time fun. Online, it’s even worse. It gives me the same level of ick as the women in Sex and the City.

  It absolutely fucking ruined the fun for me and I just can’t read my horoscope anymore because I don’t want anyone to think I’m one of those people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's literally science⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The best posture is the next posture!

  Had some pro ergonomic wizards visit my place of work a million years ago and they kept saying this and it has stuck in my mind like an echo from the ancient world.

  I try to switch posture regularly when I’m working. It helps.

  Making sure to go on walks regularly also helps with lower back pain in my experience! Can’t speak for people who have actual conditions and such, but us regular folk, whose backs are fine, just weak due to sitting down too much, there are ways to combat it without paying an arm and a leg for fancy equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon enjoys the little things⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of a book I read recently. A memoir of a local fox hunter in my area who was approached by an old sugar beet farmer who asked him that the foxes kept eating his beets and that it was kinda annoying. The fox hunter just thought the old man was senile and moved on. Later on he hear other sugar beet farmers complain about foxes stealing and eating sugar beets.

  He ended up having to face the old farmer who shoved a sugar beet with fox-like bite marks in it and asked him if that wasn’t fox teeth or what? And then the final confirmation happened when they found a fox digging up sugar beets and viciously eating them on the spot before digging up a new one and carrying it off to its den.

  In the book it was used as an example of fox intelligence and their ability to adapt to changes their environment. That no matter what happens, the fox will always find a way to survive where other species don’t have the same resilience.

  Anyway, I just thought about the sugar addicted fox when I saw your comment and had to share haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon enjoys the little things⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw man. Nothing better than the perfect apple. Crunchy and juicy. Sour and sweet.

  The best apple I ever had was one time when I was 12 and explored the back of one of my neighbors’ property where no human being usually went. All of a sudden, there was this small, but kinda old apple tree that seem to have been undisturbed for ages. It was early fall so the apples were ripe and BIG. I plucked one and took a bite and my God, that was the taste of summer. So so good. I genuinely don’t think my neighbors knew they had an apple tree like that in the back of their property. They never really went outside and their property was an unkempt, overgrown mess. There is a likelihood that this tree sowed itself decades ago, considering how carelessly it was placed. If I wasn’t so scared of them, I would have liked to ask those neighbors if they knew about their little tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it keeps getting momentum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid question, but since the world is currently falling over itself to make new business connections/alliances and is moving away from investing in the US economy because the clown president likes to threaten his allies, how long will the US economy last as the world slowly abandons America? Because while the movement may appear slow right now, I am actually experiencing this extreme change in the world order to be happening super fast. The effects may not be felt over night and maybe not even in ten years, but what trump has accomplished in one year, will most likely have a very negative impact on the US economy for decades and decades to come. Because we ain’t fucking coming back. That’s for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👐 aliens.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very impressive indeed. And a proper name for it too. Literally looks like a hybrid bird woman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👐 aliens.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  is that the harpy eagle or whatever its name is? They have freaky faces. Almost human-like in this super weird uncanny way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you have to make your feral manchildl boss dateable to a total babe who is well read and has tons of self respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that his supposed IQ is 165 yet I have never seen him say or do anything remotely intelligent. I’m sure he paid someone to take the test for him just like he paid someone to play his video games for him. The only thing Elon is good at is spending money. Especially American tax payer’s money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, zoomers are almost all in their 20s at this point. Some of them are inching toward 30, so I dunno if I would place upon them, the notion that they are too dumb to know how bread has different shapes.

  But yeah, if it’s a troll, them I’m whooshing because I don’t get the joke. If it’s stupidity I am concerned for the OP’s wellbeing lol 😆

  Either way I’m just confused by this post. 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they different shapes?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a trick question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least he wears his red flags on his sleeve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I think that it is time for all fans to accept that Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring will never come out. We will never get an ending. The only way this will be done is if George accepts defeat and recruits trusted ghost writers to finish his story for him while he steps into an editor role. Problem is that he will never allow this because it’s both an ego thing and an emotional thing. It is exceptionally hard for some artists to allow anyone else to come in and influence their vision. Especially if they have been used to having full control over their work for years. It is sad, though, because it is such a relief to allow yourself to lean on someone else and hand over control to them when you’re stuck. It is fertilizer for the creative process if you manage to find the right people. And when you’re in George’s position, it should be relatively easy to find people who can not only write in his voice, but add to the work. He already has those two OG fans (I forget their names) who knows his world better than he does, whom he’s used for coherence in his own story.

  As for Tyrion, I think he had some really, really, really cool plans for him. I believe he would link up with Dany and whisper poison into her ear and influence the snap of her mind, that would make her arrive in Kings Landing as an annhilator. That’s what I believe. All Tyrion wants when we leave him in the books, is to destroy his family and all of Kings Landing and it is said many many times in the books that he’s a small man who will cast a large shadow. To me that translates into him using Dany as a weapon. They just did it in the single most retarded way possible in the show and part of why is was so retarded was because of them editing out Tysha and erasing Tyrion’s villain arc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no recollection that Needle is made from Valyrian steel. Besides, if I remember correctly, it is only confirmed in the show that valyrian steel kills the white walkers. In the books, so far, the only material confirmed to kill the white walkers is dragon glass, which, Sam is the only on who has slain a walker so far.

  Needle is, as far as I know, made by a local blacksmith in Winterfell and I seriously doubt he has access to valyrian steel since they are extremely rare and the only valyrian sword in winterfell is Ice until Ned is decapitated and it is reforged into two swords: Widows Wail which is given to Joffrey and oathkeeper which Jaime gives to Brienne.

  Valyrian steel is super prestigious metal only owned by a lucky few and I don’t think that bastard Jon would have his tomboy sister’s first practice sword made from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  HBO gave Dumb and Dumber an unlimited budget and unlimited seasons because the show was the biggest success they had ever had and Dumb and Dumber were like: nah, let’s finish this shit and move on to star wars.

  As a result of this action, star wars dropped Dumb and Dumber from their deal and their careers were destroyed. I have seen their names pop up in writing credits on a few projects since GoT ended, but it’s never something that is mentioned or used to promote the movie or show they are working on. Hollywood knows to keep these losers’ names out of the spotlight.

  I cannot imagine the entitlement of these two, to have pretty much won the Hollywood game to the point that they had unlimited budget, unlimited seasons and episodes to continue making the most popular tv show in the world and they thought they were too good for it.

  And everytime I heard people blame George for them running out of material I remind them that these two fucks skipped and ENTIRE BOOK in the ASOIAF series because they thought it was boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “You think you want a good girl, but you need a bad pussy” or whatever the fuck that line was.

  I remember gagging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is real. The footage in full context speaks volumes about how they all felt. They were still being professional about it, but I think it was hard to keep a straight face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgive me, because it has been awhile, but I have zero recollection of Arya owning a Valyrian blade. What sword are you referring to?

  I still hold on to the belief that Arya’s fate is to assassinate differnet people in high places around Westoros, but not necessarily her main targets.

  Of course the leader is the Night’s King. K just don’t believe he will behave the way he did in the show. The White walkers looked nothing like what they do in the show. They are more like undead ice elves in the books, who speak and show impressive intelligence. The Night’s King will be there, he’s just not the same as in the show.

  And I do not believe Arya will be the one to kill him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened in season 5 was an emperor has not clothes moment. The “writers” revealed themselves to be completely incompetent and having the minds of 14 year old boys. There were already indications of that in earlier seasons, but it wasn’t as off putting because the writing was so good.

  But from season 5 and onwards, they just went full fuckboy and the quality of the writing decreased because they aren’t witty, they aren’t talented, they don’t care about the politics and they don’t understand what they are doing without George holding their hands.

  Plus, their original motivation to get the rights to turn the books into a show was to do the Red Wedding. That was their goal. It is so clear that after they got to do the Red Wedding, they lost interest in the story immediately and when George left, their writing skills were put to the first real test since the beginning. And they of course failed spectacularly.

  Fun fact: They were in fact so bad at writing that the original pilot almost got the show prematurely canceled but somehow they got a second chance to make a new pilot with new actors and the rest is history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t believe that is what she’s destined for at all. I think her plot has way more to do with stealth assassinations of people who are untouchable in Westoros. The whole winter is coming part is Jon’s plot.

  I do believe that Arya’s story is all about how dedicating your life to revenge makes you a lonely, empty person and Jon says something to her in the first book way before everything happens that j believe was foreshadowing. Can’t remember the exact quote, but they talk about how much she hates sowing and Jon jokes that she will be found frozen dead in spring with a needle in her hand.

  It is also important to remember that the night king in the show is not the same as the Night’s King in the books and that he’s not just some dumb villain who needs to be killed. There is so much more to him and he is also a Stark.

  I am curious, though, on your perspective and why you believe Arya will kill the Night’s King in the books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I fully believe that the way the show ended played a huge role in George not finishing the books.

  George is a perfectionist and I remember how he once mentioned that he stopped following fan forums years before the show was even a thing because when he saw fan theories guessing correctly the plot twists he had been working on, he started second guessing himself and felt the urge to change them. Instead of doing that, he stuck with the plots he had thought out and cut himself off from the fan forums, as I said.

  I also know that George entrusted Dumb and Dumber with the biggest plot twists and they carelessly butchered almost all of them in the show.

  While things were still good, George would regularly upload sample chapters for Winds of Winter onto his blog and I read all of them. I used to think that the idiot showrunners would take the show in a different direction and leave it up to George to finish his vision on his own because it was clear he wouldn’t finish the books before the show caught up to them.

  Many fans agreed and expected that the showrunners would go in their own direction because they had made several choices along the way that entirely closed off important plotpoints and back then we all thought that they were capable writers.

  Turns out the changes were more stuff like "we can’t include Tysha because Tyrion is popular and we don’t want him to go on his villain arc because hes a fan favourite. Stuff like that.

  And for me, it became very clear that they were following George’s plot when the sample chapters from Winds of Winter appeared in the show in the most mangled manner.

  I believe that the way the show ended was a horror fun house mirror of the true ending that George had planned for decades. They fucked it because they are retarded and lazy. I cannot imagine anything more heartbreaking as a writer with the perfectionism and self doubt that George has to see my big ending with Dany going mad, Jaime and Cersei dying in each other’s arms and Bran becoming the king of the north being done so terribly and being recieved with so much hatred from the fans.

  Although I fully believe that Arya killing the night king was Dumb and Dumber following the girl boss trend and not what George had planned for her nor Jon’s characters.

  I genuinely think it broke him. The fact that he already struggles with finishing his works because of his perfectionism was bad enough, but to realize that you handed over the pay offs of your decades long magnum opus to two retards… ooff.

  I’m still trying to get back into reading. Recently I have mostly stuck with autobiographies of local people in my country. Reading about dirt poor farmers in the 30s and 40a and stuff like that is pretty sick. Makes you both appreciate the comforts you have in the 21st century and mourn the lost connection with nature and the seasons. Anyways, biographies are kinda my catnip these days. For some reasons, and despite loving fiction, I still just can’t find it in me to bother to get invested in someone else’s worldbuilding xD again, Earthsea being the only exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a diehard fan of the show and the books. Mostly the books. The show, I stopped loving after the midway point of season 4 when it dawned on me that these fucks had no idea what they were doing and worse yet: they didn’t actually care.

  That the only reason the show had been this good up until now was because they had more or less translated the book into script directly and George had also been with them in the writers room right up until their “creative differences” in season 4.

  I originally stopped watching after suffering through season 5 and only went back because my friends begged me to watch it with them and I was the ASOIAF expert in the group. When Arya killed the Night King I quietly turned it off and never finished it.

  I think it hit me so hard because had I spent almost a decade being a super dedicated fan who would spend a lot of my free time deep diving into analyses and studying the worldbuilding, listening to interviews and talks with George, listening to fan podcasts that did deep dives, reading and re-reading the books while taking my own notes and making my own theories. It had really helped me through a very very dark period in my life where I felt lost and like I didn’t have a purpose at all. It might sound a bit dumb, but yeah. It was one of many little things in my life that helped me hold on to it and not just peace out, you know.

  And to realize that Dumb and Dumber didn’t actually care and that they rushed the shit out of the show and pooped out season 4 because they wanted to move on to star wars (lol how did that go for them?) that was just so painful. Not just ofr myself, but for George too. The cast and crew who dedicated so much blood sweat and tears to this franchise and for the fans like me who loved this world so much and got inspired to write and build worlds ourselves while escaping from things in our real lives that hurt.

  And it just got farted out like that when there was no reason for it.

  I am not kidding when I say that up until recently when Trump announced for a second time that he wants to annex Greenland from my country, the way Dumb and Dumber treated GoT was the angriest I had ever been. Goofy as it sounds. .

  It literally killed my interest in reading books and watching movies and TV shows. It took me three years to start watching movies again regularly and I am generally known among friends and colleagues as the movie buff. I’m the one you ask for movie recommendations. GoT killed my interest in movies for three years. It’s better nowadays, but I still don’t watch TV shows and I rarely read. If I do I try to stay away from series. Only exception was Earthsea recently. But yeah.

  The last time I dove into the ASOIAF world was when George released Fire and Blood. I haven’t touched it since and I will probably never rewatch the show nor re-read the books. It’s just such a bitter feeling everytime I see anything from that franchise now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the intent, but I still think it’s funny that you placed eco fascist underneath the group the native Americans.

  Btw, I still don’t think you know what indigenous means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are part of the ecosystem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure this person is aware what indigenous means. Unless, of course this meme is a 100% America-centric meme and largely ignores the entire rest of the world.

  Also pretty funny that “eco fascism” is placed underneath what I assume are native Americans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you hate AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. For me I just get impatient with AI. Most of the time the things I tried to use it for, it either couldn’t do, did poorly or did wrong. It was simply easier for me to do the shit myself instead of burning the planet by doing 50 prompts to get one useful result.

  I tried it, learned about the environmental costs and then I stopped using it. The only thing its good for is for super basic bitch translations like that one time I didn’t know what a particular mathematical formular was like in English and I couldn’t find an answer after searching manually for awhile.

  That’s the only time AI was helpful to me.

  And honestly, I just don’t trust that is can help me with what I need it for 99% of the time because it just makes shit up constantly. I can’t justify using this tool when the only useful result I ever gave me was the correct way to say a mathematical formulae in English. That is just too fucking weak. I am much better at looking for answers myself, writing and drawing things than any AI will ever be because I know what the fuck I want and I can make it myself while the AI has no idea what it’s doing and only looks good to people who has zero reading comprehension nor visual literacy.

  Like, I think AI music can be pretty good but I’m also a musical retard and I have no idea how to listen to music like a real musician, so to me it sounds good, but to someone who knows what they are doing, I’m sure AI music sounds like ass.

  That’s me with AI writing and artwork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I currently watch YouTube with the Wcosia browser on my phone and have barely gotten any ads since I started using it for this purpose. I dunno why it is like this. I think I have gotten one ad in months and all I had to do was refresh the browser and it went away.

  Used to use DuckDuckGo and their video player which also works fine. No ads.

  It probably won’t last forever. YouTube seems hellbend on becoming AdTube, but for now, this is a fine alternative. I dunno how watching YouTube works with ecosia on the computer, if there are ads there, but on the phone, nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you’re looking into seeing a therapist. It can’t be fun to feel like this. I also feel that some replies in this post are not helping your current state of mind at all.

  I can tell you that I have had my own experience with an existential crisis and I found my way through it. I think most people go through some existential crisis at some point in their lives, and sometimes it can really help to have the right support and realize you aren’t alone. 🤗

  I also hope you find a way to unplug from the news spiral and maybe even from the internet for awhile. Maybe go on a few walks in nature as well? I have found that it helped me a ton to just put on my shoes and a jacket and start walking when my mind became overwhelmed with the nonstop negativity online. Seeing the seasons change in front of your eyes has a profound healing effect on the mind. Everything slows down a bit and all the things that took up so much importance in your mind start to melt away. Seeing all the mushrooms currently sprouting up from the forest floor and hearing the chirp of a new bird i havent noticed before makes me so friggin excited to be alive. I want that for you as well.

  We were never meant to carry the world on our shoulders, my friend. I wish you the absolute best and hope you find your way through. Hugs. ❤️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of when I was using chatgpt to translate a few things I couldn’t figure out myself and for fun I tested it in translating slang from my language into English. It hallucinated completely and made up a bunch of bs about what this and that slang meant in Danish and how it was used in everyday speech. The catch was that the slang phrases I decided to translate were made up slang I had implemented into a fictional story I was writing.