#and it's such a conundrum bc like

[kg3-confessions]

I find the differing relationships the principals in each game have to their kids so interesting

in kg1, jerome and his dad have a …surprisingly good relationship? yeah it’s DEFINITELY not perfect (ex: the principal calling jerome a disappointment) but at the very least he doesn’t turn his son into an experiment. the kg1 principal is an okay-ish parent but a BAD person

in kg2, the way penny is treated by her mom is just downright abuse, no other way to say it. she literally TURNED HER DAUGHTER INTO A CYBORG TO CAPTURE CHILDREN. the kg2 principal is a horrible person AND parent

in kg3, davey and his dad’s relationship is very interesting to me. davey at first straight up doesn’t seem to care that his dad is missing (and I’m pretty sure says that his dad was a jerk anyway? but I don’t entirely remember so take this w/ a grain of salt). and the way davey’s dad calls his son weird and says he loves alice more than his own son REALLY rubbed me the wrong way. the kg3 (former) principal is a good person but not a very good parent

Confession #39

[mansplainmanipulatemalewife]

The thing about writing Doc as a protagonist is that it means finding a villain bigger and badder than the guy whose whole brand is being the biggest and baddest villain on the server

[sharksonfire]

Ik Pyro is from Sydney in the comics (most likely Woolloomooloo specifically since he mentioned his grandma lives there) but I have a really in-depth headcanon about him being from somewhere in Tasmania (in-depth enough to include animal motifs and broader historical things lol I thought about this way too hard) and I really want to form it into a proper fic but I really don't think it would be that interesting to anyone other than, well, me...

[quirinah]

most of my entire brand is being the terminally online guy and the caffeine guy but literally being forced to get off the internet during film crunch and weaning off coffee has put me in a way better mood and im not even joking. dattebayo

[3416]

Sure adam may have been compassionate about the carjacking but he's also in the past detailed the ways fans have harassed Mitch by throwing trash at his house and threatening both his life and his newborns and then followed that up by being like but you can't blame fans for that. Now I'm not saying all fans should be blamed for that but they were in fact actions taken by fans. The only reason he's willing to be compassionate about the carjacking is bc the perps didn't know Mitch was a leaf. Also the amount of times that pod has used Mitch as ragebait to get people to listen to them they've completely lost my benefit of the doubt. Everytime that he has had a bad game they spend like an hour on it but when it's Willy or Auston it's like 10 minutes maybe. And then to be all butthurt that the man wanted to leave??? Like come on

yeah, like every time i've seen adam's words circulating in general, it's never bc he's some kind compassionate figure, lol. i feel like jesse is the least annoying of them easily imo.

it's this weird thing where we have to validate fans feelings and actions at every turn bc sports bring out the 'passion' in people and that's fine and it's like........... no actually, i don't think a lot of that is normal behavior or valid behavior. the feelings there might be real but you have a responsibility to be a decent human being both in person and in your coverage if you have a legit platform. and it's amazing that all of this is just bc of some minor shit 6 years ago. like the sensitivity level to negotiating.... from a crybaby fanbase... that's literally all of it. every opportunity to criticize him comes back to that specifically despite no one having actual horrible things to say abt him in person as a person. you can't point to a situation in the past 4 years where mitch marner has done something offensive or damning enough to deserve being the scapegoat.

it is funny to me when ppl act like guys like auston and willy 'embrace the market' while mitch doesn't. if embracing the market means playing through noise, mitch has done that. if it means being seen on the streets or participating in society there or giving back to the community or interacting with fans, mitch has done all of that. they all hate the media and the prying too, man. they don't lap it up and have fun, they tolerate it. it's a problem. (and how much these guys have to talk to the media is also a problem? like what are we doing) they acknowledge there are pros and cons to playing there (like anywhere) but the fact that the cons started to outweigh the pros for mitch is the saddest part of things. no one's taken the brunt of the blame like him for years now, and if other guys had the same pressure with their contracts up in this exact moment after 2 more playoff losses, i don't think you can for sure say they'd stay. obv a hypothetical but even the guys who say they love toronto, like if they faced that level of bullshit 24/7... like leak their addresses and harass their families and fill every ounce of online space about them with some bullshit 24/7. they wouldn't be happy go lucky about it. every year the tone and the reaching ratchets up. nothing that was going on 5, 6, 7 years ago is as intense as it is now, after more failure. people were gagging for change and they got it and they still aren't happy and they never will be. this was a bad change for them, but hopefully a good one for a guy who's had to deal with a lot and make a decision prioritizing both his/his familys comfort and the chance to get a look with a differently built team.

[evocatiio]

if chibnall was the one writing this season you lot would be talking VERY differently

[restlesscrustacean]

my ugly

[knightowl-studios]

Some favorite fictional hiss-beasts for the Year of the Snake :]~<

[neonteeth]

i enjoy my drawing style when it's done on physical media but i cannot translate it into digital no matter what i do

[kimquatz]

seeing my art from 2015 getting bumped in my notifications again LMFAO noooo my art from highschool looked so bad

[goldensunset]

sometimes you become mutuals with someone bc they seem cool and their art is good and you don’t think much of it then on a whim you go exploring their blog and you realize oh they’re COOL cool. oh their art is GOOD good. oh goodness gracious. help me. this person is .and they follow me . i think i hauve covid

[tommygotwrittenoff]

thinking about how we were robbed of seeing the texas arc resolved on our screens. do you think tim knows he won't be able to do it justice, so he says fuck it and focuses on a shitty, way too long helicopter chase? or does he just hate eddie diaz?

[lemememeringue]

conundrum.

[bpdanakins]

cal: now u sound like a jedi merrin: they got some things right cal: not everything

[marigoldbaker]

k making this an official post bc i've been unwell about it all day: am essentially four chapters from finishing the first book of the marigold fic. it's over 200k words it's going to be over 50 chapters i'm going to have to start straight up combining chapters because otherwise weekly updates means this thing WILL take like two years minimum to post properly.

technically i could start posting book 1 as i work on book 2 but i'm not sure if that's what i wanna do? i've really enjoyed writing this thing in semi-seclusion and handing it to like 3 people whose enthusiasm has buoyed me thru the writing process. at the same time tho i do recognize that at this rate it's likely gonna be another 5-6 months before this thing is done, and then weekly updates suggest that it's going to be at least a year of posting, so like .... shall there even BE an audience for this thing when that happens?

unsure. unclear. trying to figure out whether/if there's a secret third option

[muchmossymess]

What does pushing yourself even mean