#is def at least a LITTLE BIT

[idkstuffiguess]

I just saw a post abt how Suo from Windbreaker looks like Hualian's lovechild and now I need an au/crack crossober where Suo is like their kid and he misses ONE weekly facetime and Xie Lian and Hua Cheng assume he got fucking kidnapped or died and HIGH TAIL IT to Bofurin

[jude-jespernumber1glazer]

If i were to point at which crows would be the least insane of them all it would be Wylan

[texanmarcusdavenport]

I actually think Donald is one of those parents everyone ASSUMES is conservative and then one of his kids comes out and he's like "okay? 😐so you're bisexual, big deal. i did drag in college & had a torrid love affair with a Latino man.... Ramon i still miss you."

[housemdork]

thinking and about wilson and his patients rn. there's grace obviously but i think we can assume she was an outlier. theres him and matty (family), him and tucker (wilson), him and his patient that died in known unknowns...

we see at the end of the series that he has had more than enough patients to fill the cafeteria and he can't tell, at first, that they're actors, yet he keeps all these gifts his patients give him.

they see a certain side of him and is it real? is it fake? does it matter? he helps them, isn't that what's most important? they're grateful him, even when they're dying.

just. oncologist wilson,,,

oncologist wilson indeed!!

at a less interesting/emotional level, i think 8x21 has wilson "not recognize" the actors at first to add to the viewer experience - if he immediately could tell, then the rouse wouldn't work ofc. but i also can see in his face throughout this scene that he isn't entirely convinced, and the incredulity of the ENTIRE cafeteria being full of his former patients doesn't make sense to him, even if he wants to believe it (which is just some cruel added sadness smh).

but more importantly - is Oncologist Wilson real? i think about this all the time, and i do still think his career factors majorly into his persona (as the Persona Man of all time). except in this role, it works, which lends to its sincerity. all the traits that make him terrible in his marriages - an obsession with neediness, a building resentment when that neediness is fulfilled, feeling incongruent/incomplete (@ my comphet wilson agenda) - don't amount to those negative traits as a doctor. these traits actually end positively, somehow. if his patients recover, they leave his life when they're mended; if they die, he's there till the end. in both situations, there's no lingering.

yet! at the same time! i think he's got an ouroboros-esque thing going on here. he has an attachment to the memory of his former patients that we don't really see from the other doctors, but over and over again, he restarts the process by way of his profession that will hurt him so much. it reminds me of house's line in 2x19 about why wilson isn't on track to becoming a burnt-out oncologist because he "eats neediness." rather than becoming dejected by all the loss and grief, wilson keeps letting it fulfill and consume him (a dynamic that's mirrored well in his relationship to house). bro is the king of self-flagellation, but somehow makes it selfish, re: grace. a big-time enigma.

it's SO interesting how he tries to map what works in one setting (the caring oncologist in the workplace) onto another setting, where it completely fails (the caring "heterosexual" husband) and the fallout he experiences when this doesn't work.

that these traits make him a successful and beloved doctor makes me think that he's more genuine in this role, however. i really do think there exists a deep kindness in wilson, and he always makes us ask the question - is it so wrong to love so that we feel loved in return? are we wrong for wanting that, if it creates love and kindness along the way? the most kindness is demanded of wilson because of his profession, yet he's grilled the most whenever he falters. he really is awfully human, ya know?

[blooky8]

a situation

my new gw2 moots. forget about my current acc. i'm pretty sure i fucked up

okay its not really that serious, but i am pretty certain that i have to make a new one. see, i started playing through the website-downloaded launcher, made my acc on there and everything, and pretty soon after playing for a bit i figured that i will be needing the first expansions if i really want to enjoy this (the mount trial is like giving out free drugs to acquire some returning customers its crazy), BUT here's the issue:

from where i live, i can ONLY buy the expansions from steam. and apparently, FOR SOME WEIRD REASON, you can't link steam and gw2 accounts. from what i understand, i have to reinstall the game as well, and my website-made account has to stay behind, expansion-less </3

it's not too big of a deal, since i've played (actually progressed and didnt just afk) for like, 5 hours? but still kind of a bother, plus now i need to re-add everyone (and my freaking gifted dyes are gone😔😔😔 sorry lizzy)

if i got something wrong do tell me, and if you're wondering why i can't buy dlc from the website you can ask and i'll elaborate, but it is definitely 100% impossible without some crazy machinations that i'm unable to perform. to the three (four?) people that have already added me, i'll send out the new account id shortly

[ibblescribbles]

Do you think you will ever check out Raincode? It's made by the same people who made DR but with a more focus on mystery. (It has the same vibes and stuff, I feel like you would like it a lot) another thing, the writing is so banger

Yes, I've already played Raincode!! Really enjoyed it, especially for the DR-like vibe and I actually made charms of the main cast:

I have sketches of Yomi and Yakou that I've been meaning to add to this set for ages but haven't been able to bring myself to refine them ;v; Makes me happy when people recognize the Raincode merch at cons tho! I'm really excited for Kodaka's new game too, I haven't played the demo yet!

[artuurle]

Hi :) I absolutely love Cliff! I hope you don't mind me asking, but will Cliff become his own person in your AU and have different type of relationship with Thespius?

Thank you ^u^ I dont mind!! Before i continue, Apologies if i'm misinterpreting this ask in any way, i struggle with interpreting meaning sometimes- if i've misinterpreted feel free to send another ask!

Cliff, despite the new physical form + memory problems, is still the same person he was before revival and still goes on to become the God of Storytelling. He is not the exact same personality wise as canon Click Clack for various reasons, but he is still Click Clack. He's a little more restrained, but is still almost the same eccentric god seen in game. Though the quest line in this Au would be different than how it went normally.

The god of storytelling actually ends up taking the whole situation a lot easier than the god of love does surprisingly, He sees it as one of those "Classic tales of doing anything for those you love" seen in mythology- and he does love a good story.

Click Clack and Thespius's relationship in this Au doesn't change in the long run, as they get together at the same point in the timeline as the game. This was because of almost 100 years of handling the consequences of what had happened during the AU and owning up for their actions (mostly on Thespius's end, obviously). The pair have had plenty of time to talk it out through the years, and talk they did. Their immediate post- ascension relationship in general was a little awkward and messy, though.

[homosexualhomophobe]

Is it worse if Armand’s ms paint drawing of him and Daniel is really bad or really good?

So when I made that post and envisioned Armand's MS Painting, it was a perfect recreation of this:

(Except obviously with himself and Daniel, and very much pixelated and over saturated.)

But I can also see a version of this scenario where Armand wakes Daniel up and shoves his face into a bright screen, just to make him look at this:

Which I THINK is the crueler of the two options! Either way, my good friend Daniel Molloy has not gotten a good night's sleep in months because his freaky boyfriend keeps waking him up to show him things.

[narfedam]

Devastated at current SF6 news. Fuck it. Catboy Yang cause I’m sad now. Like whatever😭😭😭

[stalling]

went from “next week I’m gonna leave him alone and let him come to me” to pretty quickly failing that…

to having a very good week. I was feeling a little crumby about it last week and reminding myself I suffer from delusions, and while that may still be true, this week was a reminder that I’m not fabricating this whole thing. I’m not making something from nothing.

And I’ve done a lot of catching myself smiling at work.

[starry-sophrosyne]

You know what I think Leo needs? Competition. >:3 - @sopping-wet-cat-wizard

.. SWIZARD. WE'RE NOT INTRODUCING ANOTHER NEW EVIL MAN IN HERE. I'M NOT WRITING OUT TWO BASTARDS- /hj /silly

[pre-successful]

The way Charlie KEEPS finding and accidentally(?) romancing random lesbians this season?? hello???

[mad-hunts]

barton, over here in one of my threads right now, after simping so hard that he's willing to just start killing 'bad people' instead of killing innocent people to stay with his partner and remain as a family + so he's trying to come up with a new identity with her:

[desnayy]

Fit and Tubbo hanging with each other cause neither Pac nor Phil are gunna log on... Stepdad and stepson moments

[ashenberry]

previous mgrec doodles here which also links back to an explanation of what the hell is going on here is part 2 which apparently just consist of my sunny venom doodles

[ID in ALT]

THANK YOU JOEY @counterfeitubiquity FOR HELPING OUT WITH THE IDs augh why do i make so many of these.

[habitant]

Dimitri Filipovic and Harman Dayal on The Hockey PDOcast discuss the Dobson trade to Montreal, the caliber of player that he is and the fit with the Habs. Episode released on June 28th 2025 [59:20 to 1:14:53]

FILIPOVIC: But let's focus on Dobson here, and the fit with the Habs, and kind of what they're getting in him, because I think... This is true for a lot of, you know, offensive-oriented defensemen, in terms of depending who you talk to and their preferences, I think opinions are gonna vary. He seems like a very polarizing player, having played for the Islanders the past couple years, and obviously peaked two years ago with that 70+ point explosion, and then, regressed somewhat from a point perspective at least last year. And it feels like people have kind of soured on him, as a player a little bit. I think some of it is justified, I think there's a lot of things that we're gonna talk about today that suggest that that's probably unfair, and that he's still the caliber of player that he was regarded as previously. But what are your thoughts on Dobson, and the Habs prioritizing landing him and ultimately doing so?

DAYAL: I love this fit for the Habs. I've been a long time Noah Dobson believer. Even going back to his draft year, I watched a ton of his tape in the Q[MJHL]. I've been a long-time believer in [???]. I never thought he was quite as good as his 2023-24 season when he put up the 70 points, when he finished top 10 in Norris trophy voting. I didn't view him as this upper echelon number one defenseman, necessarily. But I also think that the criticism of his game coming off a down year this season has been a little bit over the top. So I'm a little—I'm in between, in terms of rating the player, um, between what he did in 2023-24 and this past season. To me he's sort of like low-end number one, slash ultra-premium number two. In my mind, he's one of the top ten or fifteen right-shot defensemen in the NHL. It gives them another dynamic puck mover, another even-strength needle mover for the Habs, which outside of the [unintelligible, but I suspect he means "the first line"] and the Lane Hutson pairing, the Habs needed more five-on-five playdrivers. And look, top-pair, right side defensemen in their prime are one of the hardest things in the league to acquire, and for the Canadiens, outside of that second line center position, that was probably their biggest roster need moving forward. Plus, you're able to sign him in, sign him long term and under 10 million dollars, as the cap hit, I think that contract will look good, as the cap continues to skyrocket. He's obviously not a, not a perfect player, but I'm a fan of the player. I love the fit, whether he's with Guhle, or you wanna load up your two best offensive guys and have him play with Hutson, and sort of do the Toews-Makar thing, the Hughes-Hronek thing, where you're stacking two of your best puck movers and offensive guys together, that's an option, but I also think he'd be a terrific fit with Kaiden Guhle.

FILIPOVIC: Yeah, you mentioned not only a right-shot defenseman, but one who's 6"4 and, you know, in the prime of his career, turning 26 in January, similar in just—in part one, I had Steve Peters on and we were talking about Michael Kesselring within the context of the JJ Peterka trade, and a lot of that same stuff applies, obviously, Dobson at a much higher echelon in terms of production where it wasn't just that 23-24 season. The past four seasons, he's averaged 56 points per 82 games played. The only defensemen with more total points in that time are a pretty good list of Makar, Quinn Hughes, Fox, Josi, Headman, Dahlin, Karlsson, Morissey, and Bouchard. Now, I think there's some important context to apply to what happened last year. Obviously, the Islanders bottomed out due to injuries and regression, and wound up getting the first overall pick and getting Matthew Schaefer in the process, but the underlying numbers still suggest that he was a legitimate driver, right? 54 percent, or even North of it in terms of five-on-five high danger chance share, expected goal share... I think it's, because of the injuries, and as a result of it, like he winds up playing 50+ five-on-five minutes with Romanov, Isaiah George, Pelech, Pulock, Mayfield, and then getting into like Mike Reilly, and Dennis Cholowski, and the Islanders had this rotating door of defensemen all year, where they wound up using twelve of them for ten games or more. And then, there's also the fact that Barzal only played 30 games, right? And we don't often think about the impact of defense and forward combinations, because we think of defensemen within the context of their own pairing and their own partner. But it's clear when you just, apply any thought, but especially look into the tape, and what those two guys were doing together when Barzal really had the best season of his career in 23-24. The chemistry between the two, and the dynamic of creating space for each other, and sort of playing off each other in this symbiotic way, and that was on full display that season. And then you remove Barzal from that equation as well, and I think that added a clear detrimental impact on him.

Clearly, have some questions about his game, right? I think some of the footspeed stuff defensively, in terms of defending the blue line, has always been up for debate. Although, you look at Cory Schneider's data, and he was much more aggressive last year in gapping up, and closing off space, and jump in passing lanes. He was still giving up a very high percent of scoring chances off of entries, but the actual volume of what he was allowing guys to carry the puck in went way down compared to even his best season in 23-24. He forced many more denials, and so that's all stuff you like to see, and then there's the component of, sometimes, what's drawn the ire of Islanders fans is, have been the blunders with the puck, right? Giveaways, turnovers, things like that, and some of that is a by-product, I think, of him not having a lot of urgency to his game, right? He plays at a very, slower rhythm, much more methodical, I think, with the puck, and is a bit more deliberate, and I think he needs to ramp that up a little bit, and maybe going to a more fast-paced, younger, explosive team in Montreal is gonna help with that. But it's also, I think, a by-product of any defenseman that handles the puck as much as he does, right. Playing 23-24 minutes a night, being relied on to do all the heavy lifting as a creator and facilitator, you're gonna wind up having your share of giveaways just because you always have the puck on your stick. And if you're as talented as he is, you're routinely trying to do stuff with it to create. And so, those blunders are gonna happen, but I think the net positive in terms of his impact, and how good the team is with him on the ice, and how much he creates, of course, is just undeniable. And so, I think betting on the player to bounce back, and even really, kind of framing it as he wasn't necessarily as bad as some of the overall numbers might indicate last year, I think is very fair and so I think he's gonna be awesome in Montreal.

DAYAL: Yeah, as you alluded to, he's not a perfect player. Especially defensively, and the puck management side of things. He did have some very loud defensive blunders, but when you step back and look at the overall picture, he's consistently won his minutes playing first-pair the last four seasons. He has been in this top pair role and the Isles have scored more goals than they've allowed in every single one of those seasons during Dobson's five-on-five shifts. And even when we characterize his defensive flaws, the actual number of goals against that he's on the ice for aren't actually that high, right. So you look at the last three seasons, Dobson's been on the ice for 2.24 goals against per 60 at five-on-five, that ranks top 50 among NHL defensemen. So, yes, he's prone to blunders. Yes, without the puck, there are moments when you'd like him to be a little more assertive closing plays, and killing them proactively, and he's been criticized for not always leveraging his 6"4 frame assertively enough, and I understand all of those question marks, but... Ultimately, you step back, and when you can find a 25 year old defenseman who isn't just, isn't just competent in top pair minutes, but is consistently winning them, that's a really hard player to acquire.

FILIPOVIC: It is, and as I said, some of the regression as well, right, where in 23-24, he has the 70 points, the plus 12, last year he winds up with just 39 points and a minus 16, you look a little further and, as you alluded to, they still won his five-on-five minutes. He had a plus 3 goal differential, part of that minus is just because he was on the ice for a shocking amount of empty net goals against, because the Islanders weren't very good, and the power play itself was 31rst in the league. And so, he was on that unit, but with Barzal out, and then trading Nelson, I'm not necessarily holding that against him. And, you know, as you look ahead to him in Montreal, with Lane Hutson there, the points might not necessarily bump up back to that 70 point total, and he might not even get a heavy volume of power play usage, but what he's gonna be able to do at five-on-five is I think gonna make a massive difference. And I wanna talk more a little bit about that fit, in terms of the best way to deploy him, and what you see. Because I imagine, Marty St-Louis certainly, you know situationally, if they're trailing or pushing for offense, gonna be inclined to load up both him and Hutson, you know on their natural sides, with one being a lefty and one being a righty, and I think that that dynamic can certainly coexist, because they both like to have the puck on their stick, but they also do it in different ways. Not only with Dobson's shot, compared to Hutson's more sort of holding on to it and trying to make plays for other dynamic, but also what I said earlier about whenever he'd be out there with Barzal, you'd sort of see this where Barzal would kinda be holding on to the puck, and circling the zone, and Dobson was so good at stepping into the open lane, or kind of moving off of the spot. And getting lost in the coverage and then popping open and either getting a good look off of it, or then setting up a teammate with a backdoor pass. I think they're gonna be able to replicate a lot of that with Hutson, some of the interchanges at the blue line, and setting him up for a one time look in a good shooting position, so I love that, but I think even long term, the idea that you add a guy who can, has already proven that he can float his own pair is a massive development for the Habs. Because when they had Hutson and Guhle out there, as the year progressed, things were shaping up really well for the Habs, but beyond that—and some of that was deployment, right, like they leaned on that Mike Matheson-Alex Carrier pair with such heavy defensive zone deployment where I think they were under 30% offensive zone starts for a long time [habitant note: correct, that pairing ended the season with 21.05% offensive zone starts, which was the least out of any Habs d-pairing that played at least 100 minutes together over the course of the season]. That's gonna result in bad numbers, especially with Matheson not really having the skillset to accommodate that, but they just didn't really have playmakers or facilitators when Hutson wasn't out there, especially if Guhle was playing with him, and now, you have a second guy who can get the puck to the forwards efficiently and quickly, and I think we agree that Marty St-Louis wants this team ideally to play quickly, North-South, and attack much more off the rush, and I think a guy like Dobson and his skillset is really gonna help enable that to a great extent.

DAYAL: Yeah, this is um, this gives Marty St-Louis a lot of different options, and I'm curious to see how they experiment in training camp, and pre-season, and even during the start of the regular season to land on what's the optimal way to deploy these guys. Because you're right, Dobson can drive his own pairing, which is such an asset, where some defensemen only thrive in a top four setting when they have an equal or better sort of partner to play with, whereas Dobson, you can trust that his skillset can work in a complementary role, if you wanna load him up with Hutson, and especially with their offensive skillsets sort of being complementary, they would have a ton of success together. But also, now Guhle all of a sudden, he's a big winner in all this where now all of a sudden you're imagining that he's gonna be with one of Hutson or Dobson at all times. And when I look at Guhle's skillset, as a, as a sort of shut down, more authoritative physical presence, a guy who can gap up in the neutral zone, and also fits that modern blend, where he's mobile enough, and has enough sort of puck skills to complement an offensive guy. It takes pressure off him to single-handedly drive a pair, and I think the idea of him and Dobson together, where you mentionned that Dobson isn't always necessarily the best at defending off the rush, well that's an area where Guhle really excels in. So that fits there, and if Guhle isn't with Dobson, then he gets to play with Hutson full time. So this gives the Canadiens a ton of options and even when I think about this Habs blue line long term now, to have Hutson, Dobson, Guhle, and then also Reinbacher coming. This Habs blue line is gonna be an absolute force for years to come.

FILIPOVIC: Yeah, I loved it. The 23-24 tape, I got into it in preparation for this, was just absolutely sublime for Dobson. Like the amount of, the things he was doing in the offensive zone, in terms of some of the backdoor passing and setting guys up for tap-ins, or the shot passes and the Islanders had a bunch of guys netfront with Lee and others who were able to capitalize on that, or just kind of playing around with it at the blue line and creating space for others was next level. And so I think that's something to really look forward to here. On the note of pairs, and having a second pair that can hold their own, I know it was only five games in round one against the Caps, but I think it's pretty instructive in terms of what we're talking about, where, when Montreal had Hutson and Guhle out there in that series: 55% shot share five-on-five, 61% expected goals share. Unfortunately, when they had the other pairs, which were Matheson and Carrier, or David Savard, who's since retired, with either Xhekaj or Struble, they were in the mid 30s essentially, right. And there was a massive sample of Matheson and Carrier kind of playing in a role that wasn't suitable to their skillset, and being overextended, and they were just getting crushed in that time, and really you could even date this back to since the 4 Nations break, when Montreal really started their spirited playoff push, and that's a 26 game sample. When they had Suzuki and Hutson out there, up 17 to 4, 61% of the shots, 61% of the chances and expected goals, and then without them, down 27 to 14, and everything in the 30s. And so, just having a second driver who, if you don't have those guys out there, is still able to keep you afloat and actually create stuff, is just gonna be so massive. On the powerplay note, I think we both expect that he's not necessarily gonna feature very heavily on the top unit, right? Because I think the splits for them last year, they wind up 21rst on the man advantage, I don't think that's reflective of how good their top guys were. Because a lot of that includes the early season when they were kind of working Hutson in and trying to manage his minutes, and Matheson was on that top unit. And as soon as they put Hutson up there, and he was playing with Suzuki and Caufield on the top unit, they exploded up to 9.5 goals per hour, and that was the, I think, 6th best in the league, and then now you also bake in Demidov's playmaking and potentially adding to that as another creator. That's gonna be a pretty lethal combination of guys, and I think that's gonna allow Dobson certainly to quarterback the second unit, but just generate a lot of his value to this team I think in just making them a much more well-rounded five-on-five group. And that's something you look for when you try to take that next step as an organization from, last year was a fun story, they made the playoffs for the first time in a while, and now actually consolidating on that, and building it out and scaling it, and becoming a team that does this year over year, and actually advances past just five game cameo in the first round.