Lucifer Morningstar's posts
Posted in Act 13: In the Wake of Butterflies
Posted 6 years ago
So are the locations somewhere on the forums?
Posted in Act 13: In the Wake of Butterflies
Posted 6 years ago
I'm not clear is this a scavenger hunt or riddles?
Though I'm not great at either.
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
She is. Io's last words were 'find Ran'.
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
Alright. All chores are done including dog walking and it was a lucky day where I had no dishes to do.
I'm ready for the next act.
Posted in Divergent series
Posted 6 years ago
Such as in the case of Twilight, twas the coming of the film that lured my curiosity to this series.
WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
I found the idea of a human genetic modification Holocaust while a little (very little) Dark Angel-esque, the social policies of each faction (including the factionless) and the political controversies of factions vs. freedom and over those considered "Genetically Damaged" unique and intriguing.
The development of the characters and the build-up of all these mysterious elements to the experiment, the core of the plot was strong and compelling...until the climax of 'Allegiant' the final installment in the main trilogy.
Roth has said that Tris's so-called "sacrifice" was an act of maturity, that established that she had grown up and understood herself but I did not read it that way at all.
From my perspective, Tris went from a strong-willed, determined individual to depressed and giving up on herself, on finding her identity in the chaos of the genetic war.
Her dying words as she seems her mother holds out her hand to take her into the afterlife: "Am I done now?" sums this up.
Her so-called 'sacrifice' from my perspective was more of a surrender, a selfish need to escape her divergence which she'd progressively become more lost in, in the discrimination and deception of it as opposed to the excuse she fed herself, that she was honoring her parents by giving herself for Caleb.
In fact, in doing so, she didn't save him at all, she branded him with a legacy as a betrayer for life by taking away his chance for redemption, to be remembered as a hero.
So that pissed me off pretty royally.
The one thing I did like about Tris's death, was that Four braved the zip line for her, to scatter her ashes. I was actually pretty proud of him then the way Roth says she's proud of Tris's "Sacrifice" :P.
Roth kind of wrote herself into a trap when she decided to kill off the protagonist whose perspective the narrative is written in because the duel perspectives with Four in 'Allegiant' kind of gives away that the second perspective was set up because Tris dies and would need a replacement to take over naturally where her perspective ends.
As pointed out we also have that random perspective switch when Tris is knocked unconscious in 'Insurgent'.
Then there is Four's reconciliation with his mother. That she fell to her knees and halted the war with a snap of her fingers as soon as his ultimatum passed his lips was far too simple a solution that felt forced and as though Roth were rushing to make a deadline. It reminded me of how I kind of rushed the stopping points of my drafts for the fiction writing class, I took a few years ago on the nights before they were due. I just didn't buy that load of crap.
The films so far are even worse, they leave out vital aspects of the story and go AU in areas such as Jeanine living to hear the Edith Prior message and being killed by Evelyn instead of Tori in 'Insurgent'.
Ugh, I got way to into this and am starving myself here. Need food!
Posted in I did not do that
Posted 6 years ago
@vengeance: You might want to change your password, it sounds like your account has been compromised unless you share your account but since you found the appearance of the unknown song creepy, I doubt that.
Posted in CALLING ALL ADULTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Posted 6 years ago
I wanted to vote. My senior year of high school, partner classes Economics and Civics (one the first semester and the other the second) required us to register when we turned 18 and I voted in the first presidential election I was eligible to.
Transportation was an issue. I don't drive and for an unknown reason none of my family, myself included received our vote by mail ballots. Then when my stepdad and stepbrother went to the polls last evening, they did not invite me and I had no idea that's what they'd gone to do until they'd returned (BTW they informed us that my mom and I WERE on the list to enforce the oddity of our not getting our mailing ballots). In my time it was during the event game and I was engrossed but I would have gladly stepped away to vote.
I, however, would have liked to have been better informed, I must take the initiative to research rather than just rely on my Twitter feed and the campaign commercials because I do plan to vote in 2020. Even if my mail ballot once again doesn't come I'll request a ride with my best friend to my local polling station, she's a devoted voter and is no longer in a different state than I as she was in the Trump election. Hopefully, that holds true in 2020.
Posted in Pokemon A - Z
Posted 6 years ago
N for Nidoran
Posted in Don't mind me, just wandering through.....
Posted 6 years ago
@An draoidh: Welcome to Voltra.
Your timing is perfect, we need a wizard in our current event. Just hop aboard the carousel horse at the top of the page.
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
Still would've been cool to have you though.
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
I getcha. Duley noted.
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
Oh. I do use a colon when beginning a sentence with a ping, I just leave it out of the end of sentences because it makes no sense there.
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
YUS! Thanx @Hazer!
Posted in Act 12: Breaking the Barrier
Posted 6 years ago
True, Io's story isn't complete.