#i need like. a way to explain this isn't

[paradimeart]

Would kup have gotten roped into having to watch one of the little orbbies? Like little rodimus? Or did he just get to sit back and laugh at ratchet and his rambunctious little guy.

ratchets on standby for training accidents (part of his agreement to be allowed to stay with omega) so he's met orbimus once or twice but has no idea what he's looking at. ratchet would rather explode than let anyone else alone with that thang

even before the war it wasn't really very common knowledge what protoforms actually looked like since they were so heavily guarded. and they still are. so no kup wouldn't babysit

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[lazylittledragon]

i am losing my entire shit right now, this single panel caused a nuclear disaster in my ig comments when someone said "halsin just saying 'astarion's partner' instead of his name feels icky"

which is such a fucking reach by itself but descended into this in about 5 seconds

[eightspringdays]

if you have the feeling this arc may feel incomplete or something is off, take into consideration fujimoto is doing it on purpose

From this 2021 interview with Da Vinci magazine. Fujimoto doesn't spoon-feed you the content, he never has and I think the charm resides in that he never will

[fromtheseventhhell]

I have a question for people who fervently argue that Arya has no potential for politics but think that Sansa will be one of the main political characters, and I'm asking this seriously.

If Arya learning multiple languages, how to tell + detect lies, how to rule her face so she doesn't reveal her emotions, being able to blend into different situations, thinking quick on her feet, knowing the importance of gathering information, being someone who makes friends wherever she goes, convincing a FM to help free Northern prisoners and participating in a coup, etc. don't make Arya capable of participating in politics...what exactly is it that you think Sansa will be doing as a political figure?

[bumblingbabooshka]

Re: Tuvok being Janeway's true biggest enabler, I really like how it's implied that Janeway absolutely returns the favor

Like, Tuvok has the nerve to basically tap Chakotay on the shoulder and go "Um? I hear you're going with B'Elanna's plan? That's not how it works. I, Tuvok, just made a suggestion and you're not following it which is really confusing to me. If JANEWAY were here-" and I do love him for it and I DON'T think he's lying. I think Janeway really does have a long history of listening to Tuvok over others, perhaps without even realizing it. Janeway & Tuvok together sound like hell in space, a literal nightmare, and I adore them for it. Janeway unintentionally strokes Tuvok's ego by letting him do whatever he thinks is best in any situation while Tuvok unintentionally feeds Janeway's self-image of what a glorious captain should be and I'm not saying Tuvok isn't smart or Janeway isn't a great captain [they objectively are these things] - I just really love this ouroboros they've got going on. They bring out the best in each other, they're so selfless, they'd sacrifice their life for the other, and also they're a little bit full of themselves in part because the other keeps feeding them, and I think that's beautiful✨

Tuvok Voice: Sorry. This is...really difficult for me...I'm just not used to not being favored by the captain. Chakotay: ................................................................

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

my favorite scully and mulder moments from s5

in episode 1, mulder sneakily enters scully's apartment. he sits in the dark in silence; as she gets undressed for bed, he says “keep going, FBI woman”, which only slightly surprises her (her face is shocked, but she doesn't yell; just asks "mulder? what are you doing? why are you sitting in my bedroom in the dark?" which is an incredibly reasonable question! he tells her that he killed a man, and she thinks he is joking, so he clarifies that he isn't)

scully waking up in the hospital bed in episode 2 to mulder by her side- she’s worried someone will see him as they just spent a good amount of time faking his death, but he smiles, grabs her hand, sits on the bed, and kisses her cheek, saying “i’m officially among the undead” (WAHHHH)

(and when she is so worried about how he will have to confess everything, including killing that guy, he does his best to prevent her from dwelling on it- “hey scully, how about those yankees?”)

how she very seriously warns him that skinner is the guy on the inside, and he’s touching her face, saying no, he’s not; mulder knows that skinner made the deal with CSM, but she doesn't know he risked his career and life to save her

and then she offers to take the fall for shooting that guy, saying “mulder, if i can’t save you, let me at least give some meaning to what’s happened to me” (tears. TEARS)

(and when her family arrives to visit her in the hospital, he says he was just leaving, giving her one last kiss on the hand before heading out)

mulder coming by her bedside again after considering taking CSM’s deal to join the dark side, but ultimately refusing: “then why’d you come here if you’d already made up your mind?” she asks, and he laughs: “because i knew you’d talk me out of it if i was making a mistake” (the total trust they have in each other......)

when mulder leaves for his big hearing, she tells him that he’ll be in her prayers (and he kisses her cheek once more, telling her to ask the “father to say a few hail mulders for me, okay?”)

(she is literally laying in bed dying, and despite him never understanding her beliefs and her having, you know, imminent death on her own doorstep, she talks to god about him. intervening with the creator on his behalf. and he, instead of being dismissive of religion like he usually is, accepts the help with a joke and a kiss on the cheek... i feel like i could write a poem on the subject and my emotions still wouldn't be fully expressed)

they’re in the car on the way to a team building seminar in episode 4, and mulder leans over to scully, asking her to please kill him now

however, she immediately realizes he's come up with a new plan to get out of the whole thing by investigating a case: “you want me to tell them that you’re not going to make it to this year’s teamwork seminar?” (he grabs her shoulders, bending over a little to meet her eye level) “yeah. you see that? we don’t need that conference. we have communication like that, unspoken. you know what i’m thinking”

scully trying to start a fire to keep him warm after his body goes into shock- she asks if he has ever thought about dying, saying she was angry while she was sick, and talking about the struggle to give suffering meaning. and then after he makes some joke to get her laughing, she picks up him, placing his head in her lap (“i don’t wanna wrestle”, he mumbles, to which she replies “get over here. i’m trying to keep you warm”)

he asks her to sing as they cuddle, so he can know that she is awake and keeping watch. and then when she indulges him, his whiny ass requests the chorus, too <3

when he wakes up he is so scared to see that she isn’t there, but she was just getting some berries LMAO

mutual roasting in episode 5; she says she thinks the townspeople are so bored and obsessed with what they see on TV that they’re imagining a monster, to which he responds “i am alarmed that you would reduce these people to a cultural stereotype”; when he is spouting frankenstein comparisons to the case, she hits him with the “mulder, i’m alarmed you would reduce this man to a literary stereotype” <- they were having a nerd off!!!

“given the power, who could resist to create life in his own image?” “we already have that ability, mulder; it’s called procreation”

and the famous black and white dancing scene to cher music <3

in episode 7, mulder offers to stay with her while emily is dying, rubbing her back as he says so. but she says she wants to do this alone, so he walks away, and she climbs into emily’s bed

and at the funeral, when scully’s mother asks her if she is ready to go, she says she will stay a little while longer and get a ride back with mulder. soon after, she asks “who are the men who would create a life whose only hope is to die?”, and he answers “i don’t know. but that you found her… and you had a chance to love her… maybe she was meant for that, too” (doing his best to find the meaning in the suffering like they talked about in episode 4, because he knows she finds it incredibly difficult... yeah. and her choosing to spend more time with him than to go home and be with her family... whew)

scully refusing to let mulder fall for pusher’s tricks in episode 8, telling him to hang up the phone before he gets sucked into his games

linda bowman uses the same ability to push her will onto others to convince mulder that scully shot herself. he sees scully, begging him to make her stop, before she shoots herself and collapses. he screams, and imagines himself cradling her head. and when the real scully is in front of him, the mind tricks make mulder think that she is linda, so scully has to try and prove it is really her (“you killed her!” “your mother is tina. your sister is samantha. modell warned you- don’t play her game”). scully has enough time to save the day by shooting linda, and by the time he realizes it really is scully standing in front of him, she gently grabs his arm, calling for an ambulance. the terror of it all. and the loyalty that can inspire such terror...

in episode 9, she tries to explain how it would be physically possible for someone to swallow pounds of dirt, and he just smiles at her; “well… you asked me for answers. those are the best ones i’ve got” <-and listen, after his endless ghost and ghoul explanations, i think your lungs to dirt ratio sounds perfectly reasonable, scully

mulder also decides to dig up a grave in that episode, while scully warns him anything he finds will not be admissible in court. isn’t that just so Them? she’s not gonna stop him, but she will make sure he knows what they can and cannot use as evidence.

“i don’t think this was an act of grave robbing, scully” “no, that’s what we were doing” <- LMAO COME ON….

(there’s also a scene at the very end where mulder is stuck in endless mud and you can see scully helping him up, which greatly warmed my heart)

episode 10’s whole dynamic while scully is on vacation and he is back at the office, but especially this exchange over the phone:

“no, i don’t think it's witchcraft, mulder, or sorcery”

“yeah, well, maybe you don’t know what you’re looking for”

“like evidence of conjury or the black arts, or shamanism, divination, wicca, or any kind of pagan or neo-pagan practice? charms, cards, familiars, bloodstones or hex sins, or any of the ritual tableaux associated with the occult, santeria, vodoun, macumba, or any high or low magic?”

“scully?” “yes?” “marry me” “i was hoping for something a little more helpful” (i watched this scene 3 times because there was SO much to adore, including how serious his face was)

she finds him trapped inside an AI torture chamber in episode 11, and pulls him out, mumbling “you’re going to be okay, i’m going to get you out of here”, dragging his limp body to safety

scully walks into their office, where mulder is sitting, at the start of episode 12: “mulder…” “DON’T. don’t even start with me”

scully describing him as “characteristically exuberant” (“hope you brought your cowboy boots! yeehaw!") as she recounts what happened, and him describing her as “less than exuberant” (“well, obviously it’s not a vampire” “why not?” “because they don’t exist?”)

when scully tells mulder not to rule out what cassandra spender has to say in episode 13, she says the words slowly and carefully, and they lock eyes as he nods, recognizing the significance of the moment in terms of her own beliefs

when scully is in the hospital after the explosion in episode 14, mulder wakes her up by running his fingers through her hair, then giving her the gentlest smile; she asks what time it is, and he laughs- but this makes her self-conscious, so he explains “i’m not laughing at you. i’m just very happy to be standing here talking to you, that’s all” (screaming. btw)

(he then raises her bed a little so they can look at each other while he explains what happened, but a nurse shoos him away, saying she needs rest; he leaves with a thumbs up despite her yelling after him)

“the truth i’ve been searching for? the truth is in you” <- man hold on. hold on, man. MAN-

scully undergoing regression hypnotherapy to remember what happened to her during the explosion. mulder is sitting on the couch next to her, looking terrified as she screams. and despite not being fully present as she recalls the horrors, she taps at his hand next to hers on the couch, wordlessly asking him to hold it. when she comes to, she’s panting, and asks if he was there the whole time. he nods

and later they hold hands in the back of a cop car as they get taken to jail <3

scully breaking into mulder’s motel room while he is undercover in episode 18; he screams at her to get out, and denies being undercover, even though skinner told her everything. she stops his yelling with a breathy “oh, mulder, what did they do to you?”, and sets his poor broken fingers as he winces

(and then she is able to recognize him on the tape of the bank heist despite being masked because of his fingers <3)

then they jointly scream in the CIA guy’s face because they realize he was testing bioweapons and killing civilians… synchronized rage looks good on them

mulder decides to go by himself to investigate the mysterious manifesto in episode 19. not even a minute after he walks out of the door from where he was questioning a witness, he calls her to ask her to look through all of the x files, searching for a specific phrase, which she finds. and then we get to hear him say “scully, at the risk of you telling me i told you so, i think it’s time for you to get down here and help me” “i told you so”, she says with a smile

later, he’s rambling about his bug conspiracy, still wearing the clothes that got all bloody from being taken hostage, and she asks if he has gotten any sleep

scully visiting mulder in the hospital after he goes off the deep end, seeing bug people everywhere, breaking into someone’s house, and attacking skinner; she slips her hand into his as he is restrained, telling him she hopes he can see through this delusion: “you have to be willing to see” “i wish it were that simple” “scully, you have to believe me. nobody else on this whole damn planet does or ever will. you’re my… one in five billion”

the hug at the end of episode 20 as they find the x files in ashes </3

[garlandgerard]

people in this fandom really treat 457 likers like shit

[zakiyah]

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[thedreadvampy]

Me trying to be low-key and normal: "Ehhhhh so I think Saltburn is really the epitome of naive camp per Sontag largely because Emerald Fennel has a strong desire to reflect a very specific aesthetic sensibility but you know, because rich people lack a certain uhhhhhhh connection to the I guess cultural zeitgeist of Normal Fucking People it's just a clusterfuck of absent signifiers, right?"

Me trying So So So Hard to impress people and look cool: "So I'm trying to read The Second Sex but it's full of sentences like 'reifying the alterity of women removes access to the human Mitsein' and it's like lol, what does that even mean?" [<< knows full well what that sentence means and actually thinks that's the clearest and simplest way to express the idea]

[badninken]

L O N G (painless penetration)

my mental jury is still out on if this really feels epic enough to live up to the mysterious "awakened power" hype but it is a cool and unintentionally funny moment so *applause*

[shoot-i-messed-up]

i wanna see the arranged marriage au 👀

tysm for asking !! I just explained the basic premise here, but I realized I didn't really actually talk about the superlantern dynamic so this is going to be what this post is about!! :)

under the cut bc I'm a little embarrassed (TW for consent issues altho that's like, lowkey the whole point of an arranged marriage AU)

basically, it's all set up by the first night they spend together after just having been wed:

Due to some miscommunications in the Krypton-Corps treaty, Hal (who is a trans man here because if I don't write Hal as having some complicated gender feelings, it's my sign that I have been kidnapped) believes that he has to get pregnant to make the treaty-required child. So. On their wedding night, Hal puts the moves on Clark, and Clark almost believes that Hal also wants it (and Clark's not even opposed to having sex with him because even though he was forced into the arranged marriage, sex is fairly decoupled from ideas of marriage for this AU Krypton because of the birthing matrix situation + Clark's also a progressive by Kryptonian societal standards), until Clark realizes that there's been a fundamental misunderstanding of the treaty and is like, okay, so now I'm never trusting your yes again because I almost couldn't tell the difference.

So like. They both still have to work together because they both want the treaty to succeed, despite their saboteurs lurking in the background (oooh political intrigue). But Clark, despite being a normally kind and agreeable guy, is pretty icy towards Hal initially, because of this. Maybe not icy per se, but like, distantly polite? Like, Clark will act close and warm with Hal when they're in public, but as soon as it's just the two of them, it's bland smiles and nonethusiastic dismissiveness.

But then the progressive social movement that Clark is a part of is genuinely super mad that he got forced into marriage and partially take out some of their anger on Hal via violence, so now the two of them have an incentive to actually pretend to fall in actual love even though everyone knows theirs is a political marriage.

Their whole marriage is essentially them being coworkers in the extreme where there's a bunch of problems that they have to work together to mitigate, like attempted assassinations and stuff. yk. just a casual Tuesday with the bae <3

Then it goes from them being coworkers + forced proximity to them being lowkey kinda actual genuine friends to them each slowly getting actual romantic feelings towards the other, which they know is requited back because they've learned the other well enough to know when they're putting on a farce and when they're being genuine, but like, they can't actually be in a relationship yet (despite being married lmao) because they have too much shit to worry about at the moment. yk. that kind of dynamic

the progressive social movement eventually becomes, like, a straight-up people's revolution. Clark joins, and so does Hal, reluctantly, because he's super wary of becoming a Sinestro-like figure interfering with intraplanetary affairs (Sinestro haunts the narrative lowkey bc of the dictator thing). At this point, there's little incentive for them to continue to keep up the "act" of being in love, so they are...kinda actual boyfriends now! yay! but then when Hal tries to put the moves on Clark again, Clark just gently stops him and is like, I'd rather wait until we are completely free of any incentives, so that this is completely pure and genuine. So instead of waiting for marriage to have sex, they're waiting for divorce

When they eventually reform the government and make what will essentially be their Bill of Rights but with a special emphasis on negative rights (as in, the govt can't do this or that to you), the treaty gets overturned, and their new Supreme Court (or the equivalent thereof) will have their first case: the El v. Jordan divorce

(I have the entire ending climax and resolution in my head playing like a movie. But I would need to write all of the middle parts before that could happen sobs)

[miraclesprinkle]

No memories remain of anything before

Yes, I'm with you in a garden of carnage

In a mayhem of trickster and tricked!

[lyxchen]

I keep reading comments regarding actors or also sometimes characters where it's like "I don't ship it but this is so cute" and huh???? Friends are cute with each other??!? Like. All The Time??

I hate how much stuff is made to be exclusively for couples. So many moments of actors being funny or teasing or sweet or caring with each other is literally friendship. But somehow our view of how relationships are has been so warped that you can't say "they're cute" without also having to clarify that you don't ship it. And I think this is much more common online than it is in real life. It is so present in shows and movies that as soon as two characters have a sweet dynamic or good chemistry that they Must be in love.

It's actually so strange to me how many things in media that are usually just normal friendship behaviors are being immediately twisted into romantic love. Like maybe that's just me but I have so many friends that I could (regarding age and gender) have a crush on. And all of these people are Beautiful!! But I've never developed a crush on any of them. Because that's just not how I feel about them. It's so unrealistic to have a crush on every good looking person of the gender you are attracted to, that you meet.

And this is not even about hugs or holding hands or any other physical intimacy (which is also totally normal for friendships). This is about people, friends doing all that cutesy giggly adorable stuff that everyone does with their friends. Looking at somebody while they're talking, poking them for fun, leaning toward them when you're laughing, all of this is stuff that friends regularly do. And it's so normal. But so much media has so agressively portrayed these traits as purely romantic that it has warped our entire view on the relationships of people we watch interact online.

I think there's also that added issue of how men in media are often portrayed as only being cutesy and outwardly sweet with a romantic partner but not with their friends. And suddenly you have people everywhere ship two male actors because they... like sitting next to each other in interviews? Because they try to make each other laugh? Because they are interested in listening to what the other is saying? Because they smile at each other??? Are we okay? How is this not the most normal human behavior to people? This is seriously tripping me up because I also just recently really noticed it. But our online perception of relationships is So Far Off from real life. And we don't even notice.

Anyways tldr is: you can find actors doing cutesy stuff with each other cute without having to worry about it being interpreted as you shipping them. Friends do cute stuff all the time. They're not in love, they're being friends. And those cute moments are very, very normal friendship behaviors

[natsumiikan]

I just finished the natlan archon quest after putting it off forever and it was mind-blowingly mid but I think I realized what the problem is. There's no Yuri 💔

[kaurwreck]

oh, i figured out aya's skill.