#and proving idiots wrong

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

"You and me, Ethan. Together we go save Rose, and then we can grind Miranda into paste!"

[twpromptsillneverwrite]

Stiles (seductively): Mr. Hale, is there anything I can do for you?

Derek: Are we doing a secretary/boss roleplay?

Stiles: Just play along!

Derek: I would, but why are you wearing high heels?

Stiles: They don't sell sexy secretary outfits for men...

[casavanse]

Hmm. I wonder who that anon might be.

[thatlonelycactus]

Y’all where’s my “The Great”-style historical dark comedy series about Octavian, Agrippa and Maecenas at?

Like a group of boys who can’t be any older than 20 just rocking up and trying to take over Rome? With some dorky idiot saying he’s Julius Caesar’s adopted son and his two friends are there to cover his ass? Everyone’s just kinda like “ummm wtf”?

Yeah you don’t see it.

[kalolasfantasyworld]

Any Haikyuu fans around here?

We like the cat @purpled-royalty ^^

[reflections-of-mobius]

[ @thehordemultimuse || Continued from here!]

Why--- did she feel a sliver of worry in the other?- It was something Ten was quick to try to mentally brush off. She'd not let tonight be ruined by that panic. No, such a thing wouldn't do on a hangout between friends that had-once been meant to be a date. She'd show whoever stood up Hope just how wrong they were!

Tonight would be a great night, or she wasn't Dark Gaia!

"Thank you! You look gorgeous too." And those heels? Those only served to complete the look. At times, Ten forgot her roommate was a fashion designer- but it wasn't hard to pick up when one got to see such beauty. Purely an observation, of course. Something she noticed and could point out, since she'd known the other so long. "Sounds good to me!"

She'd never had Soleannian before. Ten wasn't about to say a word of it- and if it tasted bad, she could just disable this form's ability to taste while she ate. It wouldn't be that hard,...but why did such a thought feel like an insult to the other?

She took faer arm, hoping to internally quash the concerns that were rumbling about in her head. Ten nearly- nearly- equated it to those first-date jitters she'd devoured so many times before, but such a thing was ridiculous. First off, she was a deity- and second off, this wasn't a date. Just her trying to fill a role that some poor bastard had decided he wasn't willing to take.

Two arms looped around Hope's own, a small chuckle escaping her at the thought. The two didn't need to split costs, but-- Hope didn't need to know such a thing.

"That sounds like it'd be delicious...and expensive. Good call on splitting it." She'd be able to share with her...!!! That thought alone had her tail swishing back and forth, just a fraction faster than usual. The third of her arms on Hope's side lifted, moving to brace her back as if to guide her 'fellow' mobian- despite the hedgehog being the one who had to lead. "I'm a bit short on rings right now...so we may need to split the actual meal, as well. Best that we plan for that appropriately." She was never short on rings. Not ever. But,...

It was just...

A way to bond with someone, right? A totally normal thing to do,...had to be.

[hasperkalttunen]

i’m running out of captions for these posts but i am so so proud of him

[thegoldenhoof]

This is a possibility, that is just hitting me and part of me feels like this is in too much bad faith to even consider but it also makes sense in a way i cant get out of my head.

That Izzy's death was basically the writers' way of dealing with Ed's lack of accountability and growth this season.

That what they mean by Ed can let go of Blackbeard now is that the crew/audience can let go of the things Ed did as Blackbeard/Kraken and move on now because the Blackbeard part of Ed has died with Izzy. There will be no further reflection of this. Ed gets to walk away from that now and find peace and we, the audience don't get to question what happened to all the issues he was dealing with.

Izzy is Ed's version of Frenchie's box in the flesh and apparently the message of this season is lock it in the box and move on.

Ed's lack of growth and the point of Izzy's death were never two different problems. It was the cause-effect of the same problem.

[excarow]

VBS is both wlw & mlm solidarity (kohane and toya) AND wlw & mlm rivalry (an and akito)

[bylightofdawn]

Dear Star Wars Fans

It's Hot Take time with El.

I am sooooooo fucking sick of seeing these "Weh, Star Wars sucks now posts" or "Disney keeps putting out the bad stuff and is RUINING MY CHILDHOOD" posts.

It's legitimately like I'm being transported back to the '90s/early 2000s forums where endless fanboys were whinging over Lucus ruining Star Wars with the prequels. And BTW, they have not stopped in the past 20 years. They will continue to be pedantic and toxic and generally pessimistic about everything.

So to come to Tumblr and see that same mentality being shoveled about like three pounds of horseshit that cross my dash at least once a day. And well, I'm grumpy enough this afternoon to go off.

Hot Take Point One: Just because YOU don't like a show or a series doesn't mean your opinion is the majority. There is someone out there who loves the season you're proclaiming is the worst thing ever. That character you detest is someone's special blorbo and the ship you despise is someone's OTP. And that is okay; their tastes are entirely valid, and your experience is not universal. You are not a peerless bastion of flawless good taste and the supreme authority on Star Wars. 

How do I know this? Cause you're on this hellsite and you like Star Wars. 

I'm not naive enough to expect people to not bitch about and complain about things they don't like, and honestly, you're allowed to do that. I encourage you to do it. I want people to keep in the back of their minds that it's their opinion and that it's not universal. And their opinion is no better than another person's. Even someone who you think has a shitty opinion or ships something 'problematic'. If you're going to proclaim someone else has dogshit taste, I would encourage you to look into the mirror and realize someone else thinks your tastes are dogshit as well. And fuck right off with canon is the only real and valid opinion. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES DISNEY HAS CHANGED CANON? They can't make up their fucking minds; nothing is set in stone, so just enjoy what you enjoy and let other people enjoy what they want. We're all here because we supposedly love this fandom, right? I feel like people have lost sight of that point. We're supposed to love Star Wars, and it should bring us together as a fandom, not tear us apart. But that's a rant for another day.

Hot Take Point Two: Have a little appreciation and respect for the people working on these shows. Unless you are in the industry or working on said show, you probably don't understand the amount of work, effort, blood, sweat, and tears that goes into making these things. Some of these people grew up dreaming about working on a Star Wars IP. This is probably a dream come true for a lot of people working on these shows, and you're pissing all over those dreams for popularity points on the internet like this is fucking Reddit, and you're farming for upvotes. No, it's not perfect; yes, there are going to be shitty VFX and cringe as fuck dialogue. 

It's not perfect, but they do their best with what they get handed. We had a saying in my old print shop, you can only shine up a turd so much. aka you take the shit you are given and you try and make it as polished and pretty as you can but at the end of the day you're working with the shit you were given. And I'm not saying these series are criticism proof or that you're not allowed to ridicule some of the terrible bad choices made.

I will go to my grave ranting about the ridiculous batshittery of fucking jetpack jousting in Mando S3. 

Hot Take Point Three: I will also argue that there are good elements in every new Star Wars IP released by House of Mouse. Yes, even the one you hate down the cockles of your black heart. I challenge you to shut out the noise from Tumblr, the bandwagon hating on something, and go in trying to find something you enjoy in a season or an episode. Find, say, 5 things you enjoy or a character (even a cringy one) or a set piece you visually find interesting. Maybe a funny joke or even a special effect so ridiculously stupid you can't help but laugh. (I'm looking at you Ahsoka fighting god damn fighters with a lightsaber while on top of the Ghost zooming around at full cruising speed. It's so utterly preposterous I can't help but laugh and shake my head all at the same time.)

You don't have to post about it or speak about it to anyone don't worry your friends don't need to know you might secretly enjoyed something you all 'hated'. Though I would also challenge you to actually speak about it as well because...hear me out here, you might find NEW PEOPLE who enjoyed those same things you might make more friends in the fandom, shocking I know. 

But just trying to FIND a positive thing in a show will give you a slightly more balanced relationship with how you consume it. Honestly, that's just general life advice you should try and take to heart. That's a freebie from your old Auntie El there. 

It's so easy to be a negative, pedantic fan who hates what we claim to love. But by making the conscious choice to find something good in this so-called pile of shit in front of you, maybe your relationship with the IP will be a happier one. If nothing else, you'll perhaps get sparked and remember what made you love Star Wars so much in the first place. 

So yeah, keep in mind your experience is not universal, even if you hate it, respect the time and effort it took to make it and try and find what sparked joy in you in the first place when interacting with the media. 

Oh, one other thing? 20 years from now? You're prolly going to look back on these shows you hate and find yourself nostalgic and maybe even a little apologetic for how much you dogged on this stuff because there will be a whole new cycle of brand new IP people are creating where people are proclaiming THAT is the worst shit ever made and they don't make Star Wars content like they used to. 

Cause that's just the human condition, and as someone who has been in this fandom for thirty years? I've seen that cycle replayed multiple times. We love the Prequels now, but twenty years ago, everyone hated them and thought they were ruining Star Wars. It doesn't get worse, it doesn't get better; we just grow older and learn to have a new perspective and learn to interact with the fandom in different ways. 

I'm just begging you, please stop being negative, toxicly pedantic fans who just sit there tearing down everything and learn to interact with the thing you claim to love with...actual love.

[primordialruin]

i just realized I got the colors of the rainbow wrong

Do not perceive me. I'm usually smart

[the-golden-ghost]

Seeing a post that Pisses You Off for misinfo reasons but you aren't knowledgable enough to actually refute it

[ennuidays]

its not serious Ur not serious ab it An ur motives r stupid n hold no real life value

[byfulcrums]

I commented on this idiot's video ("The Empire Was Right") disagreeing w him and he called me a baby weenie

[unproduciblesmackdown]

ppl will be explaining how a difference is a difference & not a Deviation from a Superior state, & people who are the ones considered Default Normal (superior) will be like "okay....to be polite....i Might say i consider Some aspects of Some people's existence mere 'difference' & not being less than me...." as like hey i'm a Benevolent god. i still actually get to consider you worse & don't have to "humor" anything that challenges my superiority. if you only want everything to fit into the norm then it will all come back to upholding the norm. thinking of people's analysis of their own realities as equally legimate as being like Obscure, Irrelevant, Superficial & then using that reasoning to justify dismissing them. same as worrying that the [Different Lessers (Others(tm))] as Everywhere = a manifestation of the awareness that, yeah, respecting them as equals Does threaten your norm which is smothering everything everywhere. ppl who need to lock in the idea of Borders around personhood like um Yes they're all delineated separate Identities outside any hierarchy & so i think it's relevant to for some reason push back against "ohh so now Everyone's queer" like why not. why couldn't they be. what if they were. what if queerness was everywhere b/c it's ideological not a cordoned off Alternative Identity that is accommodated by focusing on Love(tm) as the new border around whose existence we might begrudgingly accept at arm's length (i.e. being otherwise "normal"! just imagine swapping out the binary gender (or, deep breath, presumed Private Parts) of one partner in an exclusive romantic lifelong nuclear family marriage, & that is Gay / Trans Rights. still gross but maybe we can do it, as long as they don't talk about it or shove it in our faces or even exist for more than one encounter w/us in our lives b/c what are the odds). evergreen laughing at someone suggesting ableist logic might be embedded in language of past & present b/c it's just So little to ask for that it's irrelevant but it's also So much to ask for that of course i'm not gonna do anything more than pass it along like "this is why i don't take ableism seriously" like yeah it's the disabled randos like it's the individual cringe teens(tm) ruining [the cishets would take Gender seriously otherwise!!!] & that's why you won't think about it or do anything about it & continue being comfortable with the norm & resent that actually their Difference is Less & disability is something worse that ppl "excuse" & all these ways that people are & all these things that they do are funny & weird & inexplicable & etc & one can't possibly be cruising along perpetuating a hierarchy with a sense that you're reasonable, well meaning, kind, etc etc & thus Justified, systemic oppression definitely wants to maximize how uncomfortable & arduous it feels to everyone rather than push to make it more streamlined & rewarding to embrace, or at least accept, whatever superiority over others you're afforded

[theaudacitytowrite]

Oh sweet precious naive Deany-boy... 2 more seasons until he gets proven wrong 😂