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Why Vinland Saga is so Impactful to Me

I know that the thing that makes me feel so connected to Vinland Saga is Askeladd and Thorfinn's relationship. Something about it is one of the most impactful things to me, but Ive been trying to think of what it is so I can capture it again in new art.

I think what it might be is something about hating someone you love/loving someone you hate. Something about how we don't get to choose who we hate or who we love and the great unfairness of it all

Like if I hate my father, I hate someone I love. I don't get a choice of just hating him. No matter what I want, he will be a deeply important part of my life, even if he died and disappeared forever (I don't hate my dad, it's more complicated than that. I love him but feel hurt by him. This is just for example purposes).

Like Thorfinn does not get a choice; the man he hates and wanted to kill is forever a very important part of his life. Because Askeladd raised him, Askeladd is permanently important. There is nothing that lets us move on 100% from these permanently important people. No matter what we want, they will keep affecting us. There's something hard-hitting about this unfairness.

I think Askeladd and Thorfinn's relationship impacts me the most because it's one of the purest examples of getting no choice in how we feel about someone: An enemy who has done horrible things to you becoming like a father to you. It also captures the extreme unfairness of this situation by having Askeladd be taken away from Thorfinn in a way that was completely out of his control. He didn't even get to end Askeladd on his own terms. Someone else took away his reason for living, the person who he defined his life by, even though he hated this person.

It's just very oof to love someone you hate.

Regret

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anger management issues

Im so happy that everyone here is so fucking based and real. Fuck that blue eyed freaky twink

Peak. I love tetsaii's artstyle. The farmfinn looking up 😭❤️

Not sure whether the white or red center background is better. Anyway why was he aging backwards in manga he only looked younger and younger

Thorfinn doesn't wanna be there but I do

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Help me figure out how to poison my fics on AO3 for data scrapers

We need to get creative, gang. I don't want to lock my fics. Is there any way to poison text so that if AI models scrape the data for training, it'll be nonsense? I was thinking if AO3 let us insert CSS into individual fics' HTML, we could insert a ton of nonsense, then make it invisible to people and screen readers, but still be in the text for AI. Idk if this is very possible.

Anyone got ideas? I might lock my fics in the meantime (sad)

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