#AS IF SHOWING BASIC KINDNESS WAS THE PROBLEM

[wilsonology]

house md characters as my little pony characters. cause like. why not

gregory house: discord

both are manipulative, irreverent, and cause problems on purpose. they thrive on destabilizing the people around them just to see what happens. but deep (deep. like deep) down, there’s a soft spot. and they both get wildly defensive if anyone suggests they care.

james wilson: fluttershy

empathetic, conflict avoidant, constantly trying to help dysfunctional creatures (cough house slash discord). fluttershy literally takes care of wounded animals. wilson takes care of wounded. um. women. both are kind to a fault, and both have that surprising backbone that shows up once in a blue moon

lisa cuddy: twilight sparkle

both are overachieving, hypercompetent, type-a control freaks. they’re like. “if i don’t micromanage literally everyone in this hospital/magical kingdom, the entire thing will collapse.” they’re organized, responsible, and stubborn, but also have a secretly chaotic streak that slips out when things get too stressful (or when house pushes every button she has).

allison cameron: applejack

applejack is honest, dependable, and the moral backbone of her group — cameron is the same!! she wants things to be good and right. she’s dependable, sincere, and will stand her ground if her principles are being stepped on — but sometimes takes herself (and her ideals) a little too seriously.

robert chase: rarity

rarity gets dismissed for being vain and shallow, but actually she’s creative, hardworking, and generous in her own way! same with chase. people underestimate him because he’s pretty, posh, and occasionally a suck-up — but he’s got depth, ambition, and sharp instincts. both are stylish & a little dramatic

eric foreman: princess luna

luna isolates herself. foreman isolates himself. both struggle with feeling fundamentally different from the people around them. luna’s whole thing is “i don’t fit in with the others, i have to hold myself to a higher standard,” which is basically foreman’s entire life. they both balance bitterness with a genuine desire to do the right thing, and they’re both more sensitive than they’ll ever admit.

thirteen (remy hadley): starlight glimmer

starlight is sarcastic, guarded, and deeply afraid of intimacy. she keeps people at arm’s length because she’s scared of getting hurt (hi thirteen). both are competent, capable, and devastatingly smart — but their whole arc revolves around learning to let people actually matter to them.

chris taub: rainbow dash (but in denial about it)

taub wants to believe he’s cooler than everyone else. he projects arrogance. flirts too much. and leans on humor to hide the fact that he’s actually deeply insecure. rainbow dash does the same thing. both need constant reassurance that they’re talented, valuable, and not secretly failing at life (+ also chronic smug face lol)

lawrence kutner: pinkie pie

kutner is pure chaos. but like. the friendly, loveable kind. pinkie’s randomness isn’t that far off from kutner randomly shooting himself with a taser just to see what happens. both are energetic, fun, and bring levity to a group that desperately needs it! and when they’re gone, it hits hard.

amber volakis: tempest shadow

amber is sharp, driven, and willing to do whatever it takes to win. tempest has the same edge — all armor, no vulnerability… until the cracks start to show. both operate like lone wolves because they’ve convinced themselves that needing people = weakness. but once someone gets past the walls… oh, it’s so over

stacy warner: princess celestia

celestia keeps discord vaguely in line! stacy keeps house vaguely in line! both are elegant, poised, and deeply self assured. both carry that weird bittersweet sadness of having loved someone who will never quite be easy to love.

[lookstairs]

I think one of the most realistic parts about Baby Reindeer (2024) is how much Donny downplays the abuse he faces

I know everyone wants to hate on him for being “stupid” and blame him for everything that happened because yes from an outsiders perspective he made questionable choices but isn’t that what HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE DO?

I know so many people who’ve “played nice” or tried to downplay abusive behavior. You try and tell yourself “It wasn’t that bad”, or that it was just some crazy experience that should be forgotten. It seems so much easier to stay silent and just try to move on.

You don’t wanna start problems

You don’t wanna be mean

You don’t wanna be the bad guy

[vaguely-concerned]

seeing people claim that lucanis is 'bad representation' is hilarious to me because in so many ways he's really the closest anything has ever gotten to capturing my own personal experience. sorry for being bad real life queer and mental health/neurodiversity representation folks 😔 I'll take time to reflect and do some work on myself and try to do better in the future

[royalarchivist]

Quackity: Lately, I have been participating in events and projects, and unfortunately it's become clear to me that my presence and name have only been used to attract the attention of my national and international community with the objective, as I see it, of generating more attention towards controversies - destructive controversies, and a rupture that is very clear in the community. [...] In advance, I ask the organizers of any type of events and projects like this to please show more respect to me and my community, because I've shown lots of sympathy and cooperation in these various projects and events, but it's become clear to me that their only interest is in using my name. My name and my community have been used to attract all this attention for distorted purposes, and I will no longer allow that to happen. That is not what my content is about - not me nor my content nor anything I’ve done.

Here's Quackity's commentary on respect and his reasoning for distancing himself and his projects from future events and awards shows.

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Quackity: Before I leave, I would like to talk about something that is very serious for me and something that I would like to tell you about. Because for me it is a very serious topic and it is a topic that- well, I had my mind on and I want to express it- [reading Chat] yes, thank you. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.

Anyways, lately I have been participating in events and projects, and in these events and projects, unfortunately it's become clear to me that my presence and name have only been used to attract the attention of my national and international community with the objective, as I see it, of generating more attention towards controversies - destructive controversies, and a rupture that is very clear in the community, and this is what I want to say: I'm NOT ok with these types of dynamics or stuff like this, and I want to make it very clear to my stream, my community, and everyone that, for this exact reason that I just mentioned, I want to make it clear that I want to distance myself and any of my projects from the Esland Awards, which you all know is coming up.

Sadly, the Esland Awards have been an event with a history of much controversy, a lot of division, and a lot of divisions within the community, and as you guys know, as you know, my content has never been characterized by seeking controversy or divisions or anything like that. It's for this exact reason that I don't want to be involved with these awards.

In advance, I ask the organizers of any type of events and projects like this to please show more respect to me and my community, because I've shown lots of sympathy and cooperation in these various projects and events, but it's become clear to me that their only interest is in using my name. My name and my community have been used to attract all this attention for distorted purposes, and I will no longer allow that to happen. I don't want it to happen. That is not what my content is about - not me nor my content nor anything I've done. That's what I want to make very clear here.

That's about it. I'm going to continue with the projects I'm doing and I want to thank my community so much for the support and love. I appreciate it very much, but I wanted to make this clear - I wanted to make this clear. This is just a topic I wanted to address quickly.

Thank you for all the love and support, I love you all so much.

[miniagula]

movie sonadow would be so l umity-coded…and i say this bc their dynamic is similar to the games but with a different and tender perspective: they both empathize deeply with each other now, and this shadow is not as reticent or closed off bc of that. that being said: movie!sonic would ABSOLUTELY 'YOU'RE the sweet potato!' the hell out of shadow

[atopvisenyashill]

do you think jon will have a dark turn? i think about what the meereenese blot guy said about him stopping caring about innocent people dying and wonder...

i think basically everyone is going to take a "dark" turn in the winds of winter to be honest - which is why its called the winds of winter. i think basically every single character we get a pov from is going to meet their moral event horizon, and either blink or keep pushing. more than the books previous, i think we'll really get a sorting here of who is on the right (if not livable) path and who is on the path of destruction.

but what does jon's dark turn look like? well first of all, i think his leaving the night's watch is going to be significantly more controversial than it was in the show. it's not going to just be dolorous edd mentioning his vows in a single scene, it's going to be a whole big issue because i don't think the "well he did technically die" excuse is going to go over well. especially if he deserts, as i suspect he will, to help crown one of his siblings - when you look at it from an outsiders' pov it looks really bad that he's deserting to immediately go play politics. and the thing here is that jon does love his brothers in black, as much as he loves his blood cousins siblings. he thinks to himself that the night's watch was much more of a home than winterfell ever was to him because of how much of an outsider he felt like due to being a bastard and i think some of that is him coping but some of that is very true. at the wall, jon can make a name for himself without too much stink over being baseborn, something that is all but impossible outside of the watch. he does love sam as much as he loves robb, bran, arya, sansa, and rickon, and i would posit he loves ed, grenn, pyp, aemon, and jeor just as much as well, and likely feels a similar sort of fondness for cotter pyke, denys mallister, and the rest of the old guard as he did for people like jory, rodrik, luwin, mikken, etc. they are in his heart and he cannot abandon them anymore than he can abandon his siblings.

but he'll try! just like he tried to abandon his identity as a stark bastard, he will (imo) throw himself into being a stark bastard when he wakes and abandon his identity as a man of the night's watch. i've seen a lot of takes about how he will be ruthlessly engaging in a campaign claim winterfell to fight the Others and I think that comes from the right place but it has it the other way around - in an echo of osha's warning about "marching the wrong way" I think Jon is going to more or less abandon his fears of the others in favor of helping his siblings reclaim Winterfell, and he's going to be very ruthless in trying to crown them. sort of like a brynden/aegor/brandon snow parallel here, of a bastard sibling ready to take on the "necessary" violence to get their true born sibling the crown.

but as this is happening, there will be several factions that grow around the starklings - sansa and the valemen, rickon and the manderlys, arya and the brotherhood....and jon and the wildlings. i don't think he's going to accept a crown from them but i do think they are going to offer it continuously and look to him as their king in truth if not in name. It's noteworthy to me that the wildlings have yet to coalesce around another King Beyond the Wall; some have flocked to mother mole, and Jon thinks that they would flock to Tormund but that's only because he himself likes Tormund and would follow him. I think in conversation with Mance as King, Mance who was a kneeler who came over and proclaimed himself King to save the wildlings, the wildlings will proclaim this former kneeler as their king to save themselves over Jon's wishes - but since when do the wildlings care about shit like that lol. And that gets into the other way I think Jon is going to be more ruthless and dark; I think he's going to use the wildlings as canon fodder for a hot minute. Eventually he will come to accept his role within the wildling community - whatever that may look like - but in the winds of winter, I imagine it's going to be uncomfortably bleak as they stalk him across the North and he feeds them into the frontlines to protect his siblings without a care for the damage he's doing to them.

So yes there's a lot of room for darkness in his character! But rather than becoming militant about the Others, I think it's going to be because he rejects the threat of the Others, and starts focusing on getting his siblings a crown, to the detriment of the Watch and the wildlings.

[a-bitch-made-fullmetal]

alright chat. how do I convince my dad (german man in his mid fifties who doesn't like anime and has only ever watched like two studio ghibli movies because he was peer pressured to by his horrible children, mostly moi) to watch fma brotherhood with me

[daisywords]

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[theprinceandthewitch]

Okay... now it's time to go back to my silly little game...

[bombshellsandbluebells]

Thinking about the Ted Lasso finale again and how I feel like it does pretty much land everyone at a satisfying place, just occasionally fumbles getting them there.

And I was thinking specifically about Beard, and how, if we ignore the Jane of it all, Beard and Ted separating IS such a great place for Beard to end the show because of what we learn in Mom City and how it puts so much about Beard into new context.

Beard basically lost all of his relationships when he went to prison. When he got out, he went to Ted because he remembered Ted as a nice guy who he'd had a good relationship with for a time, (and frankly, possibly because he thought he could take advantage of that kindness) and when Ted helped him more than he ever expected, it seems that Beard just stuck with him from that point on. Ted was Beard's ONLY person, and while their friendship is so sweet and wonderful, I think it is so important for Beard to end the series at a point where he feels safe choosing to go a different direction from Ted. He has friends now, a job he's very good at, a community (and, yes, unfortunately, an incredibly toxic relationship that the show can't ever make up it's mind on whether it's a good or bad thing).

In the finale, Beard wants to go with Ted because he's been following him ever since Ted vouched for him with the police, but he wants to stay more because he's finally found connections outside of Ted. And as right of a choice it was for Ted to go home to his son, it's as much of a right choice for Beard to stay in England, a place where he can start anew.

(The problem is that it gets framed as being only about Jane and relationship we don't support. But like SO MUCH about s3, when I actually look at it it WORKS so well for his character, it feels so right post-Mom City's reveal, it just gets messy in the framing/execution. s3 to a T.)

(anyways, I was specifically thinking about Beard because of how many post-canon fics I've read that just casually retcons it so Beard went back with Ted, and I'm like....I don't actually think that's best for him, I think he found a lot more of a life in London than he'd had in America)

[strohller27]

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[redladydeath]

random opinion: hazbin hotel s1 would’ve been better as a stage show

[phoebe-ofthe-cosmos]

loved michael stirling down but the michaela storyline has so much more potential

[wild-at-mind]

I wish I could be a weird queer zine artist :/

[258-milkbags]

And that's just in English (I'm assuming) because there some folk who are second language learns who also struggle with understanding certain words. Or the fact they don't offer other language captioning like this isn't even the tip of the iceberg, the fact that some refuse to add CC is because it takes too much time or it makes the video less appealing/palatable is such BS

That's not even talking about the automated captioning and censoring of words, like I get it if you don't wanna get demonetized on YouTube but usually the actual word also gets censored but like on movies, TV shows and even on other forms of media??? That's not necessary or even wanted as if anyone is going to clutch their pearls at a swear word (of courses there's exceptions like always but wouldn't it be nice if we could choose???

I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished