#i feel like a nerd. whatever

[m1lkt00th]

preview. i might have overestimated the amount of TEXT but thats the whole point i think

feedback appreciated

[pianokantzart]

I love everybody rightfully jumping on the idea of Mario getting possessed by King Boo, but at the same time I'm not following the logic of a lot of the King Booario designs I've come across.

While there are a few instances in Mario canon where possession merely leads to a character getting a new coat of paint (Shadow Queen Peach and Lucien come to mind), there are a fair number of possessions that caused a major physical transformation.

(Yes I know Super Dimentio has a chaos heart thrown into the mix, but in my eyes it still counts)

While we've never seen a ghost possess a living person yet we have seen them possess plenty of objects, and the results range from simple glowing eyes when an underpowered ghost is at the helm, to oversized and frightening in the latter boss fights.

Point is... you're telling me that King Boo himself, whose greatest passion besides hating on Luigi is scaring people, would just put Mario in a gothic victorian outfit and change his eye color? I don't see it. I want an unsettling Mario-Boo meld monstrosity. It just feels right.

[toastytrusty]

anyone wanna talk about how irving had 23 stab wounds in him after hickey killed him. 23 stab wounds, as in the same number of stab wounds in the corpse of julius caesar. the coup staged by cassius, who was fueled by malice and ambition, and led by brutus, who was fueled by a righteous hope for a better rome. how hickey watched the carnivale fire, and found he was the only one who could save the men dying inside. the attempt from command to bring joy to the men Literally burnt down in front of him. he lost all faith in their ability and decided himself a saviour. how he's fueled in equal parts, within his delusioned mind, by righteousness and ambition. he wants the men to survive—if only to validate his own attempts to save them—but he also wants the status of leading them. something about fitzjames describing himself in his story as "caesar crossing the rubicon." something about carnivale being emblematic of the great fire of rome. something about fitzjames watching his carnival burn down while dressed as a roman emperor. something about the great fire of rome happening under nero, not julius caesar. something about hickey wearing fitzjames' boots after looting his corpse. something about hubris and spectacle and trying to be someone you're not

[starssoblue]

i need more episodes about adrien just trying new things and gradually figuring out what he wants to spend his time doing, what classes and hobbies he genuinely enjoys, and then eventually, what he'd like to pursue professionally. i never really thought about running before sublimation and while i still don't think that's actually his passion, i love that he connected the act of running to the freedom and joy he gets when he's being chat noir, running around paris saving people. one of my favorite things about adrien that a lot of people in fandom especially in fics miss is that just because he's decent or even great at several things doesn't mean he has a personal connection to that thing. in early ml he was acting in his friends' student films, playing sports to different results, fencing with his friends, participating in band, even modeling for fun. in climatiqueen, he discovered he was decent at drawing, a mess with labwork, quick with languages (no surprise there), and v new to baking—all things he could improve upon but nothing that made him feel passion. but he specified the reason he had fun trying those things wasn't the things themselves but because he was doing them with marinette, same as before when he took skills he was forced to acquire by his father and re-utilized them to hang out with his friends despite not feeling a personal connection to any of those hobbies or talents. i don't know if the show plans on him discovering this soon (they're sooooo young, i hate that he is even stressing about this just because his friends are not normal and because the french school system has most people declare their course of study in lycée) but i'm just excited to see him branch out and try new things and get the life experience he was denied when he was younger. 

and running away from the agreste manor (where he was confined and forced to be a perfect mold) as his first step toward self discovery? brilliant imagery.

[autisticrosewilson]

How come you’re a Jason enjoyer while also hating Tim even though he has more consistency when it comes to characterization and also has more comics as robin than Jason. Tim also has more developed relationships with other characters

I’m not trying to just just curious, you don’t have to answer this if you don’t want to

Buddy my favorite characters are Grant Wilson (died in the 80's, has not been seen or heard from since Rebirth, and even then only in flashbacks) and Talia Al Ghul (hasn't had consistent characterization since the 90's). I could not possibly care less about who has more content.

For me it's just because on a fundamental level I relate to Jason more. I grew up very poor, my mom struggled with addiction, my dad was in and out of jail, cancer runs in my family, and I got adopted at 13. His story is a lot more meaningful to me than some rich kid who only got his start because they retconned everything about Jason. Praising Tim for traits that Jason ALSO HAD but that dc made a solid effort to erase.

I also just find Tim boring for this reason. Xel Writer on YouTube put it really well when he called Tim an industry plant. He was built up on the basis that he's a better Robin than Jason, but not actual Robin Jason, the recklessly angry imaginary version of Jason that's been victim blamed to hell and back. So I really didn't care for him much at all. And it doesn't help whenever he's around characters I like more are downplayed so he can be the smartest special boy in the room. If you have to knock others down so your fav can be on top maybe he's just not that good.

Also Jason has been characterized and deeply affected by the women in his life and his complex relationships to them and his anger about sexual violence in particular is very core to his character vs Tim who right out the gate treated Steph and Tam both pretty badly and he's all around too much like all the reasons I hate Bruce. So.

[hollygl125]

On all that season 01 love:

One of the things I find very funny is when people talk about Sara and Grissom’s relationship dynamic as if it suddenly came out of nowhere—whether that response is coming in the second season or the fourth or at the end of the sixth or whenever.

Just look at the way these two nerds look at each other! ⬆️

I mean, these two lovely science nerds were making eyes at each other from the moment he turned around—i.e., when she first showed up, in the second episode.

The adoration! ⬆️

THE ADORATION! ⬆️

“Could you come tape me up?” followed by eye sex in the truck was the third episode, my loves—as was “I keep trying to be your star pupil” and him first caressing her face.

The face caress! ⬆️

The workplace flirtation! (He loves his “work”!) ⬆️

Just try to tell me these two don’t want each other! ⬆️

Mile-high club “cite your source” airplane bathroom flirting was the ninth episode; her looking at him like he was the sun and the moon and the stars was the ninth episode.

The crime scene flirtation! ⬆️

The pure, unadulterated adoration! ⬆️

Y’all, “You want to sleep with me?” and the two of them sitting together outside, bundled up in blankets, watching a pig decompose, was the tenth episode.

Yes! Yes, he does! ⬆️

(I was really tempted on the weekend to make a new GIF-set that covered all their flirtiest, most 😍😍😍 season 1 moments, but honestly there are so many that that’s going to have to be a longer-term project.)

Anyway, it’s totally fine if someone missed it! That happens sometimes! But let’s not pretend that that’s the same thing as it not having been there, because it most definitely was.

The adoration—it’s 100% mutual, my friends! ⬆️

[ohmyminsung]

JAEHYUN IN EVERY MV | LIMITLESS

[bluntandsaucy]

“The spren change when I measure them, Ashir,” she said. “Before I measure, they dance and vary in size, luminosity, and shape. But when I make a notation, they immediately freeze in their current state. Then they remain that way permanently, so far as I can tell.”

omg it's quantum superposition

[likelysobbing]

↳ gusto ko ng maginoo pero may pagkabastos, gusto ko ng barumbado pero may takot sa diyos . . .

↳ “just, like, trust me— i swear it won’t go bad . . . or, uh, too bad.”

maria (mari-AH, not mari-UH) maluluan. nineteen. filipina. fresh out the plane from the motherland of philippines; luan’s a transfer from dlsu who came over to uconn as a means of getting herself out there—don’t know how she’s going to do that though. she’s… not even out-out yet (as a lesbian). back in dlsu she was a high honors/highest honor student—dean lister STREAK, actually— but lowkey knowing philippines’ curriculum? she never slept. a total overachiever. now she’s just a political science major (sociology minor) with a little too much knowledge on mathematics because of how drilled into her it was while she was but a little baby. the meanest resting bitch face but is actually just awkward and unable to speak without stuttering. she’s bad at tones—both watching hers, and reading others’ own. she’s still getting used to america (her suitcase isn’t fully unpacked yet… don’t even get started on her dorm…) but she’s ready to start off the new semester with a bang! maybe. most of the time. she’s HERE, okay. that’s all that should matter. more info about her in tags, but tl;dr she’s a disaster.

↳ “ my dorm? my dorm has a futon and a pillow with no case on it right now. i have exactly one chair and no table. wait— no, that’s not true. i got a desk. but it’s like… i don’t like it.”

↳ gusto ko ng yakap 'pag paligid ay dumidilim, gusto ko rin ng halik sa noo pati sa leeg !

@likelysobbing. — … guys don’t look at me. this is so vulnerable of me to post

[afniel]

I am seized with a burning and sudden need to Get Super Weird With It except I'm also going to meet my partner's other side of the family soon and if I happen to Get Even Slightly Weird With It where they can see it, I will probably get to experience being the butt of uncle jokes, so I cannot do that right now.

But the moment nobody is looking I'm going to be so goddamn bizarre on purpose and who's going to stop me? No one. Definitely not me.

(And maybe I'll declare Fuck It We Ball and paint my nails anyway. Who give a shit. Well, unless my partner specifically doesn't want me to do that, in which case I guess I'll take it off again before meeting anybody.)

[apuff]

thinking about love in danger days

this is part of my conspiracy theory that that album is aroallo, but i've always gotten the sense that romance and romantic attatchment is much less important to danger days than any other mcr record. with bullets&revenge it's quite obvious as the demolition lovers take up like, everything, and the black parade has a heavy focus on a romantic relationship as well. 

while i do think there are lines in it that are romantically coded, there is a definitive lack of emphasis on it- like it's nowhere in the plot at all. 

i do think danger days represents a very familial type of love though. while other albums visit a sense of "i want you, i need you, i miss you, i hate you,", this is more like…"i love you, i want to protect you, i'm sorry"

i find this especially strongly in s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w:

"Nevermind about the shape i'm in, I'll keep you safe tonight"

"love, love, love won't stop this bomb"

"run, run, bunny, run"

and other songs: 

"i'll find you when the sun goes black"

"just save yourself and i'll hold them back tonight"

"how long until we find our way in the dark and out of harm"

relevant things i can't cover with just quotes are planetary go, oft-theorized to be about party poison and kobra kid, as brothers, leaving battery city together; sing, about the killjoys' last message to the girl while saving her; goodnite dr. death, phrased as him saying goodnight to children; and summertime, which i can't discern the meaning of but seems more like a family type of love. 

i think it makes sense that danger days is like this, seeing as it features main characters that take care of a child main character as opposed to main characters that love other main characters of the same age/ability. 

another thing i noticed while re-listening to the more sentimental songs for this essay is that there's just a distinctly different vibe to it. So much of it is focused around wanting to protect people, keep them safe and out of danger (<- ha that's the name of the album) and loved. i think this also makes sense, because the killjoys live a very, well, dangerous life without much security, and they'd want to provide what they lack the most. another semi-related thing i noticed is just how much of an emphasis there is on childhood in this album. i feel like there's a vibe of youth or teen-hood throughout the earlier ones, but this is just VERY strongly about kids. again this makes sense cause not only are the killjoys teenagers (a type of kid!) they also have a proper little kid to watch. 

also, i wonder how much of this stuff was due to gerard becoming a parent. just something to think about 

[sungwanns]

Obsessed with the fact that Spencer has the hand dexterity to knit this scarf, but can’t eat with chopsticks

[crazygirleddie]

i also think travis does NAWT get enough credit for magnus, sorry!!! like!!! sure, taako moments (by far beloved fan favorite) were incredible and justin is fucking hilarious, but travis came in episode 1 with a full page of backstory for magnus and Used that for all of his interactions and choices for the whole campaign. i just really appreciate that. and if you dont think that magnus and the Voidfish were the best dynamic in all of taz balance. then genuinely dont talk to me

[angelsdean]

my dad was also like "can this guy stop monologuing" when john-as-azazel was going on and on in 1x22 and then 2 seconds later dean goes "you mind just getting this over with, huh? Cause I really can’t stand the monologuing" and my dad was like "no way!" djfkdfkd

[anghraine]

One of the more peculiar things about my current academic existence is that it's like—

me (to my best friend): It feels kind of strange that I've always had so many ties to people who are much more literary than me. There are all these people I know who keep ending up at "I discovered True Art and now I'm too good for Star Wars" and I'm just thinking, "damn, couldn't be me."

best friend: ...you have a PhD in literature.

me: True, but not their kind of literature!

best friend: It's still a PhD in literature. Do these people have that?

me: Well, hmm, maybe not, technically. But I've never been all that interested in major experiments with form and style—doing that stuff myself or reading the kind of literature that focuses on pushing those boundaries. I've always cared more about popular literature that prioritizes immersion and world building and just getting people to care a lot about characters and plot and such, not the really prestigious stuff.

best friend: You literally teach Shakespeare.

me: Well, I decided not to study the things I love most so they didn't get tainted by academia. And anyway, I still focused on popular literature from my eras. The seventeenth-century stuff I was writing about made a lot of the late Victorians very angry because they thought it was crude and cravenly appealing to unrefined common tastes instead of True Art. The novel in Austen's lifetime was even more of a low-prestige popular form at the time, especially the female-dominated genres, which were most of them, and she took care to identify herself as a woman.

best friend: I know you did get into academia through Tolkien and then didn't study anything close to that.

me: I couldn't let them ruin him for me! And besides, I know that Shakespeare and Austen are about as prestigious as it gets now, but for me they've still got that pop culture media energy, you know? Though sometimes when people make sweeping pronouncements about artistry and literature that don't make sense for anything in English published before 1700, I have to fight the temptation to be ... that person.

best friend, laughing: You mean pulling a well akshually? At least you have the credentials. You could even do it like "well actually, *obnoxious cough* as someone with a PhD in this subject..." now. You spent years earning this! Tell a few people Well Actually as a treat and then go watch Star Wars.

[cloudruler]

I have a few critiques about veilguard but considering how much I love it compared to seeing other ppl complain about perceived Lore & writing issues it makes me feel like this as I'm offline trying to finish the game