“could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you?” is such a romantic line because despite cannibalism sustaining the illusion that hannibal can control everything and determine outcomes and reverse time, loving will has changed him so drastically that instead of consuming will, will consumes him. and hannibal hungers for him, yearns and aches for him, but is content to just exist near him. to stay in his orbit somehow, if only will allows it. hannibal, who needs to cannibalise others to stay in power, finds nourishment just by looking at will. he loves him so profoundly that he could be imprisoned forever and still it would be better than knowing he might never see will again. it sates him more than eating the pigs beneath him. in will, he finds religion
Does anyone have a good summary for Fit in 2b2t? He's one of my mains, and even in my top list of people I watch for big events in the QSMP. But I've never watched an episode of 2b2t or anything else he's done. His character intrigues me the most when it comes to his "past lives." I just don't know where to start.
so 2b2t is a pretty famous anarchy server with a really in-depth history (starting all the way back in 2010) and large userbase. fit has a lot of videos on his channel basically documenting the history and significant events of the server, sometimes he calls himself a 2b2t historian, and he used to play on the server quite a bit either introducing his friends to the server or spectating / participating in big events.
an anarchy server is a public server that has no rules, no admins and no moderation, so as you can imagine its basically a free for all the moment you join. the idea with 2b2t is that its pure chaos and practically impossible to get into without help from someone already in the server. the spawn is always trapped and i believe everything within a few thousands blocks of spawn is a destroyed waste land, thanks to massive tnt explosions, cast towers everywhere and obsidian basically encasing most of the spawn. its also considered an extremely ruthless and competitive server, they really hate new players and its almost guaranteed that the moment you join you will be targeted. you could argue that there's a kind of hierarchy within the players, and established teams and groups that have banded together to maintain control which is typically signified by their bases. however the different groups on the server fight ALOT and that's why its particularly cut throat as the fights would get pretty heated and with no admins or moderation, it would get VERY intense. basically everything within 2b2t is to do with conflict, abusing mechanics and trying to survive, hence the name anarchy server.Â
fit never really joined a group, he just kept up with a lot of the events and made videos about the different groups and all the happenings on the server but he mostly kept to himself as a solo 2b2t player who was trusted and known by a lot of the players. SO i think for his character’s background on qsmp, he's painting the picture of a man who used to live in a desolate destroyed world who’d do anything to survive and knows just how cut throat and horrible the world can be. and that he was sort out by someone from 2b2t to infiltrate the qsmp island but fit has started to doubt his life on 2b2t and doesn't want to return to anarchy and destruction especially thanks to ramon. he's started to enjoy the sense of community and safety which isn't something he had before.
this is what the spawn of 2b2t looks like by the way.
(so sorry if this was an information overload or not what you wanted i kinda got carried away as i was typing it out)
i just think is so beautiful how q!fit and q!cellbit can easily connect over knowing how horrible the world can be and how extreme can people turn, but still keep making such an active effort to make the place they live into a better, calmer and kinder world.
they know hate and that’s exactly why they fight so hard for love
the one thing i will always carry with me from atyd is wolfstar loves david bowie
reread this is how you lose the time war and it was a different experience entirely reading it and fully understanding what’s going on! really glad i did! i never reread books immediately after finishing but this one warranted it i think and since it was a novella the length was pretty digestible. glad to have experienced this book, thanks bigolas dickolas
5 basic things you can do to improve your ao3 experience +1 thing that will not help
- Get an account
There is a process to this- you need to get on a waitlist and then will be sent an email to make an account (at this point in time the wait time is about a week)- but once you have an account you unlock a lot of features that make the whole experience better, such as the marked for later list, turning off the extra acknowledgement for adult content, mute users, and you can see more fics that are only available to people with an account.
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If you love a trope and want to see more of it or love a niche character, click on the tag to search within it. You may get fewer results but it will allow you to scratch that specific itch without having to wade through 100s of pages of results. If you search by a trope, you can then apply a fandom tag on top of that so you see the characters you love.
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Don't make it anyone else's problem if you didn’t like a fic
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Happy reading!
spiderman and cops. okay. intrinsically tied since the beginning. hobie mother FUCKIN brown the anarchist. gwen's dad pointing the gun at her. being the threat— not fully letting go of the goddamn gun even after she took off the mask. he, in the end, recognizing he cannot be good to her and be a cop at the same time, choosing gwen, and her, in the argument, saying "you're a good cop", saying she understands why he can't be her father instead, saying that being a good cop is not a good thing at all. he gives up his badge and saves himself by it. the narrative saves him and saves gwen too.
miguel and the centralized spider government. okay. how the scale of it and the organization around a single person take the spider people from the heroes of their own worlds to the threat in miles'. lost in the utilitarianism. and HOBIE MOTHER FUCKIN BROWN! THE ANARCHIST! not letting miguel unilaterally decide what the greater good looks like, deciding not to act in its name, deciding to act on his own perception of goodness. every spider person in the facility is indeed a spider person, but only hobie and miles act like Spider-Man. when worse comes to worse.
friendly neighborhood spiderman. spiderman as somebody supposed to exist in the small scale, in community, defiant of the complex social structures of the world. your friend. your hero. thread the needle. defy canon. listen to your gut. be there for those who matter to you. and try and try and try and try against everything against all odds because you're SPIDER-MAN YOU'RE SPIDER-MAN it's YOU and you can DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
I think a big thing that people are overlooking is how Hobie looks out for his own and how much that coincides with punk culture.
Him looking out for younger teens is so fucking punk of him. He lets Gwen stay with him because she's vulnerable and struggling, he makes her a watch, he lets her keep his shoes, etc. and it's not out of romance, it's because she's family. Same with Miles; he knows Miles is naive and wants to help him, because he's been in the spider society longer and he knows what's really going on. He sees the adults, who are supposed to mentor them, targeting Miles and he just knows it's flat-out wrong and that he wants no part of it.
Hobie takes on such a big brother role for the other characters and I love it. He's more mature than the other teens in so many aspects, and he uses his experience to teach them how to get by because that's what being punk is about
The impact Spiderverse has on art and artists is INSANE. Everyone is drawing, everyone is CREATING. From colour studies, to the art style studies, to making sona influenced by the movies' character designs. AI generated images are nowhere to be seen, and I hope they're going to stay buried in the uncreative pits they belong in... the world is in balance.
Seeing all the works are... WOW
All of the actors for the Six of Crows storyline are remarkably well cast, but gonna focus on Kit Young for a second because that dude has something so fucking special. There's a subversive joy in his choices as Jesper that just kills me. Like at the end of season one with the line: "Tell me you have a plan. I don't care if it's a lie."
Reading that in your head without having seen his interpretation, the instinct is to go a little ragged, sardonic, exasperated - something to tell us that the character does actually care but just fucking can't deal with this shit right now. But Kit puts a pleading inflection on the line, his Jesper truly wants to be lied to, bringing it around to comedic desperation.
And it's not just with this line delivery, those facial expression reactions he does elevates every scene he's in. My favorite underrated moment is when he gives Wylan a confident wink and thumbs up when they're both getting the shit beat out of them. The juxtaposition of Jesper indicating "this is going exactly according to plan" when it's clearly not brings so much fun to the scene.
But the scene I keep coming back to over and over that I'm blown away by is under the carriage, when Jesper remembers Wylan. I could see so many actors taking those line directions and putting some angst behind them. We know Jesper was hurt when Wylan left in the morning, we know he blocked it out because his ego was bruised and he didn't want to face the pain of it. It would have made perfect sense for the line reading to have an edge to it, any indication of a grudge.
But Kit's face is lit up with nothing but fondness and joy as he remembers. And obviously actors aren't islands, the writers and directors have big influence - and they clearly are in line with a joy-filled Jesper, since the first thing they have Jesper say isn't "and you left me," it's "and you brought me stroopwaffles."
Jesper isn't a clown, but he's allowed to be one when he wants to be, and Kit leans into choosing joy with such effervescence. It only serves to make the dramatic scenes that much more heart wrenching. I hope we get a lot more Crows on screen, but whatever happens I'm excited to follow Kit's career, what a talented dude.