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Yep

question i'm on the wiki for kou's raiteijou and it says on there that when kou's not using it, he disguises it as a black umbrella. however i am unable to locate literally a single picture in which he does this. does anyone know if this information is true or not can anyone confirm

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Personally, I think the secret to the magicians (S1-4) is that the pathetic main character is actually pathetic. He's not secretly powerful or chosen or given a level up through a training montage. He just cares so, so fucking much about everything and everyone that he becomes the main character. And the way that he cares is not ideal. It's painful and selfish. Its so painful and selfish that it feels real in a way that few other shows can truly master because their main character must be 'good' and a stand in for the general audience. (Which is why killing him was not some subversive win for the underdog like the writers toted. Like...killing Ned Stark was subversive. Quentin's existance is already fucking subversive. Him choosing Eliot over Alice would have been fucking subversive. Alice getting a plotline/personality outside of Quentin would have been fucking subversive (that scene in season 4 where she talks to herself is soooo good. Why would more of that depth require Q's death?)) Killing Q just took away a vital aspect of what made the Magicians special and added nothing.

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Real talk...does Nene have parents? We've seen or they've mentioned Kou's, Mitsuba's, and even Amane's, but I don't remember anything about Nene's family except her hamsters lol.

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So...the raven boys graphic novel I think works as an interesting suppliment to the actual novel, but it doesn't have the same dreamy quality.

To me, the Raven cycle should feel like a long, meandering walk in the woods. Like... it's nice, and you feel like you can finally breathe. Sometimes you hear rustling noises, but you don't see anything. It's beautiful and you stop to look around every few minutes. Are you being followed? No, just a squirell. The path starts going sharply downhill. You can't remember if the trail is an in-and-out or a loop or how long it's supposed to be. You can't tell if you're near the end, but you're still going down so at some point you will have to go up. You're not sure what direction you're headed anymore. The trees are getting taller and farther apart. You're walking toward something, but you never quite reach it. The trail never goes back up. Suddenly, you're back at your car and no time has passed, but your clothes are soaked through and you're starving.

The books make you feel what the gang is feeling because you're in their heads. The graphic novel does not. To borrow a beautiful phrase, it is less of itself out loud.

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Choreman is hilarious because it is completely unintentional, but it still works so well. Like Chase grew up rich, socially abandoned, and people pleases as a coping mechanism. Foreman grew up poor, had good parents, and learned defiance as a coping mechanism. They don't like each other because they both think the other is too much like House. Neither feels like they have a true home. Neither can escape House's orbit. Neither really wants to. Foreman literally swears that he will never like Chase. They hang out outside of work. They take House to karaoke together. They seek each other's advice over and over. They give each other brutally honest opinions tinged with fondness. They become family. And in the end, they are all that's left.

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Damen: Laurent is a fucking monster, am I right?

Laurent's people: Absolutely not. He's never been this horrible to anyone. What the hell did you do to him?

Damen: Well, he definitely doesn't know who I am or that I killed his brother so...it can't be that.

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The vibe has shifted. Lines hit a little harder. Ot3 is a little more obvious. Season 3 has been great so far! Seasons 1 and 2 were pretty good, but they were missing something, and that something was John Rogers.

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With all this talk of outie Mark not seeing innie Mark as a person, I think it's worth remembering that this isn't just a problem with Outie Mark. Innie Mark betrayed his new team of innies in the first episode of this season. He refused to work with them, and they were effectively killed (as mentioned by Dylan and proven by the old man Mark yelling on Lumon's steps). It's not that Mark S cares about all innies and their sanctity of life as people. He mostly cares about him and his friends. Just look at his behavior at Irv's funeral, where he literally says, 'he isn't dead, he's just not here', implying that Irving's innie and outie are the same person. (Although that line is post the start of his reintegration) Mark S's own consideration of innies as people is inconsistant at best and Outie and innie Mark both exhibit this same selfish blindness just at different points in the story.

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I offer an alternate take to the airplane scene with Cheng Xaoishi's head on Lu Guang's shoulder. I've seen posts saying LG was going to run his hand through his hair or ruffle it, but I read it slightly differently. So LG gave his performative annoyed sigh, but then I think he was going to push cxs off him like he normally would (and probably has in timelines before) but he realized that he could just let CXS sleep there peacefully without changing anything important. He was considering it, and that's why he paused and then looked so shocked when CXS sat up on his own two seconds later after the ding. I think LG was SUPPOSED to push CXS off his shoulder. But he didn't. Which would have some implications for how strict he's actually being with the timeline (as well as how soft he is for cxs).

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Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

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Comic of a funny moment from the fic “The Game” on AO3.

Kabru ignored the turmoil in his stomach and rushed onward. "My point was that you should look for someone you can share yourself with. Someone who likes the way you are.”

“I'm just not sure it's that simple for me,” Laios griped. "I'm not like you."

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The funniest thing about only listening to tlt audiobooks is that i often get distracted so I only ever get about 75% of the information each time through (totally missed the actual Ortus-Gideon name explaination lol). So when i see posts in the tag that seem a little unhinged I never know if its because of a scene I missed or if that poster is just like that, and then I'm like 'well i guess I have to listen again to find out' and round and round we go.

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I petition that the superhero team fighting in the Void henceforth be known as the Bladey Bunch.

Thank you. That is all.

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Killua: My special ability will be electricity, and everyone's going to think I'm awesome and terrifying!

Every adult who sees it: Whoa. That poor kid :(

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a cartoon for the guardian

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BLACK SAILS 1.02 “II.”

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No you don't get it, I'm a Good Person. You don't understand. I'm a Good Person which makes it okay for me to think violently about the Enemy, who is Bad Person. I'm commenting "you should be violently murdered" because I'm Good Person and you're Bad Person. You think saying that to someone is fucked up?? You should be violently murdered, you're probably Bad Person anyway