#not to be annoying and pedantic but

[storygremlin]

I keep seeing posts about how Buck hasn’t seen Chris in a year, and I just wanna point out that technically, according to the insane timeline 9-1-1 has given us:

3 months post 7x10 when Eddie decides to move back to Texas

1 month between Eddie moving and 8x14/15 (per Buck’s conversation with Ravi)

1 month TOPS (more likely 3 weeks) between 8x15 and 8x17

And I know there’s a short time jump during hiatus and another one between Maddie surviving and the U-Haul scene, but even if we’re a bit generous with both (like a month each bc there’s no way Eddie waited longer than that) that’s 7 months total. Which is still significant but not a year.

[greenglowinspooks]

Alright, since it’s no longer 2 in the morning and my head’s a bit clearer, I present to you:

Liminal Riddler

So, not everyone in the DC fandom knows about this, and I’d bet that even less people in the Phandom do, but at one point, the Riddler had cancer. Had, past-tense, because he cured it. With the Lazarus pits.

And yeah, not everyone who gets dipped in the pits has to be liminal, but one would assume that the sudden replacement of a large number of malignant cells throughout the body is gonna do something.

The Riddler already acts quite a lot like a DP ghost in some interpretations anyways. He’s got a strict gimmick that he genuinely can’t part ways with, he’s campy and fun, he’s incredibly violent, etc.

Also, the way that he would react to this whole thing would be funny as hell.

Do I think the Riddler would really care if the GiW was after him? No. This is Gotham, the government is constantly going after him anyways.

Do I think he would care if Danny was being hunted down by the same people, and his parents were involved? Somewhat. He probably wouldn’t care about Danny specifically, at least not right away, but a young boy running terrified from his own parents would definitely bring back some bad memories, and he would probably give him a hand (if for no other reason than to get back to plotting crimes instead of dealing with childhood trauma).

Do I think the Riddler, whose entire thing is being smarter than everyone else, would care if the GiW somehow let slip that they thought he didn’t have human intelligence? That they believed him to be nothing but an echo of human life?

It’s not even a question. He would be the most insufferable person in Gotham within the hour. Genuinely nothing could stop him, especially not if Danny was helping jailbreak him from Arkham every time he got caught.

Almost every major road is closed. Every warehouse on the Docks is on fire. Somehow, they managed to color the clouds and smog a bright green.

The natives of Gotham would probably get those anti-ghost laws and acts overturned faster than the Justice League, if only to make the Riddler stop. His traps and games aren’t even lethal at this point (due to Danny’s insistence), but they’re so genuinely annoying that the general population is about to beat the GiW agents to death themselves just to get the Riddler to quit it already.

Also, I think that during this whirl of chaos, the Riddler would become quite fond of Danny.

He’s a bright young boy who’s very fond of wordplay, and inventive enough to keep up with him. Aside from the inevitable crisis of “oh god I’m becoming the bat,” he’d probably be happy to take on Danny as his protégé. Even if the boy won’t let him kill anyone (rude), he’s a terrifying getaway driver and can turn the both of them invisible and intangible, making Arkham escapes a breeze.

Hell, the Riddler would probably be willing to make a false identity for the two of them, just so he could get the boy proper schooling.

(Yes, he thinks that the entire education system is a sham and that he could do much better, but Danny wants to go into aerospace engineering, and the Riddler isn’t one to squander someone’s interest in learning.)

(Also, Echo and Query would find the whole thing hilarious)

[xadnem]

Maybe I'm just hopelessly brainwashed and drowning in the kool-aid of a mythological america that never existed, but I really do think the whole "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY" thing should be an actual mentality that we as a society hold by default.

[spitedrowning]

the things being a sfth fan will do to u. i just thought, with very sincere frustration, "its 'SHOVE your finger up my ass'"

[opens-up-4-nobody]

can I just say, I followed you for your beautiful art style and use of colours and I stayed for your beautiful art style and use of colours AND cyanobacteria. Like, I know nothing about them because I'm a classic lit major but more often than not I find myself reading your posts about cyanobacteria with unexpected interest and fascination

HAH! I'm glad u enjoy them bc I feel absolutely intolerable when I talk abt them lol. But also. I am the cyanobacteria evangelist. I am the patron saint of cyanobacteria.

[sha-brytols]

i swear on everything i am this is not rude vaguepost i promise i'm not mad about this it's just i'm very fucking pedantic for no reason .

but anyways the breach in inquisition is very much not the example to cite for why tearing down the veil is very obviously dangerous and would have catastrophic consequences because we're like. explicitly told almost directly that what happened at the conclave was a freak accident caused by a number of unprecedented events lining up to create the worst possible outcome. solas' original plan was to use corypheus as a sacrificial dummy to power up the orb because he was under the impression once corypheus powered it then he'd just fucking explode and solas could grab it and use it to tear down the veil peacefully*. but the problem is corypheus is a scary eldritch horror and can hopscotch into peoples bodies after death so he was able to keep using the orb after death, which was completely out of solas' calculations. then everything went wrong because

corypheus is an insane megalomaniac who didnt know what the hell he was doing

there was some fucking guy there that interrupted the ritual and made everything explode

red lyrium was there and made everything explode worse x2

the reason solas joins the inquisition to fix things at all instead of just standing by in a redditor pose letting everything happen is because nothing that happened at the conclave was even remotely part of his plan to tear down the veil. he was actually horrified by the damage caused and basically scrambled to try to help reverse as much damage as possible—even Despite knowing that doing so would have been a huge risk to him given that he's an elven apostate in the middle of what is like. the biggest civil war in thedas.

anyways i'm not saying any of this to dispute the "bioware does tell you point blank that tearing down the veil would be catastrophic" i'm actually saying it because the funniest thing about this to me is that it's actually objectively true but people are just kind of mistakenly using the wrong example. because. idk you might be reading the above and being like "solas is an unreliable narrator so obviously you cant trust that his plan would have went any different" but the hysterical thing is that solas himself literally says. yeah. this is gonna basically be the end of the world. i was just hoping it'd be a lot less violent.

do not get it twisted tearing down the veil would have almost definitely resulted in widespread devastation it's just solas was hinging on it being quick and clean which i think is infinitely more damning than if he was just naively under the impression it'd all be fine and what happened at the conclave was just kind of a one off thing

[twopercentboy]

watching make some noise and got violently taken out of it by the misuse of Continental United States, you meant the continuous US I fear, Continental includes Alaska

[moonshynecybin]

Marc would LOVE being álex’s pseudo-step-parent-in-law! The exploration of this dynamic on top of their insane codependent sibling dynamic is soooo interesting i want 10 billion dollars of research to go to this field of study immediately

marc sometimes is lowkey a tennessee williams character. not least of all in that this would delight him in a deep lizard brain sorta way

[projectiondepartment]

can i say something there's this one academic who everyone loves to post about and reference but every time i read his work im like that's what i thought you'd say you white leftist academic

[culmaer]

I wish I could ignore this but alas I have no restraint and have to comment

the maker of this gifset has disabled reblogs because people were being mean in the notes about the "treble clef being in the wrong place", so unfortunately I can't reblog the actual post. but I still want to point out that ✨technically✨ all of those people complaining are wrong

the G-clef doesn't "go on G". the G-clef indicates where G is. it's a subtle but relevant difference.

when the G-clef is on the second line, that's a "Treble clef" and it indicates that G is on the second line. and so the clef in the coffee art is simply indicating that G is on the third line !

and sure, that's not a Treble clef. but it is a Soprano clef ! we don't use the Soprano clef anymore but historically there were a whole variety of different clefs. G on the third line is the same as middle C on the first line and that was the Soprano clef. simple as that. here are some more examples :

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

man. now I'm thinkin abt like. deep sea animals seeing the sun for the first time.. is it beautiful? is it warm and comforting? or is it terrible. is it burning and hatred and blindness. hell is real and it's above them. it's rays through clear blue water, it's dry and dessicating and it means they're visible to predators and prey alike. will they starve first or be eaten? there's no camouflage up there. there's more than just red light. maybe they'll be abducted by those shadows that offer momentary relief from the blinding light. do you think they tell ghost stories about the ones who went up and never came back down? maybe it is beautiful

[visenyaism]

crazy difference that i didn’t realize in the GoT show was i lowkey thought tyrion didn’t send that guy to kill bran. but it’s v obvious in the book that he did that shit!!

nooooo babe you’ve been listening to petyr baelish again. it was joffrey who did that because he overheard his terrible nasty father robert baratheon saying it would probably be better if bran was dead and sent that guy to kill him as a sick baratheoniacal-lannisterist way trying to impress his dad. tyrion and jaime both come to this conclusion independently of each other in a storm of swords

[monstermoviedean]

there has got to be a middle ground between "you are only qualified to speak about history if you have at least a phd" and "you are qualified to speak about history because you skimmed some tweets/saw a youtube video/listened to half a podcast once"

[wraithsoutlaws]

"i love this character but i gave her a makeover to get rid of her weird freckles and pimples and makeup and"

[gaysie]

one thing that always bothers me about the pilot is they call parkinson’s an autoimmune disease. which it is not. but i just read on reddit that in the original script daniel had MS and then for some reason they changed it later to parkinson’s but i guess never changed that line. but i wonder why the change…

[sallytwo]

Hey samm weird message from me but i just wanted to say that i do understand your grievances about office work a lot and I’m sorry you have anons being facetious when you’re just trying to express normal emotions. The internet has made us all so unempathetic and bad at connection. My experiences obviously don’t match your own but I’ll never forget the first time I was on assignment in college and I actually felt like I was in danger. I was covering a protest and the organization didn’t give me a press badge so someone driving a big truck thought I was a protester and tried to hit me. It was really just the first of a lot of similar experiences but it humbled me in a way I can’t even describe. Stupid daily annoyances and awkward small talk was something I unfortunately cared a lot about prior to going into a dangerous career, and all it took was one wake-up call for everything to fall to the wayside. A lot of my journalist friends and heroes battle with substance abuse and mental health issues and they are some of the smartest, kindest people I know, and so it always hurts to see stupid, privileged shit every time I open a social media site. It feels like it’s all for nothing, like their pain and the greater good doesn’t matter. But it absolutely does. :( You’re doing good work, and anyone who can’t understand why you would want to step away from such pain to stay sane just hasn’t experienced something similar. And although we can’t force them, it means a lot when people do understand. You’re a good person and one of the people I consider a smart, kind person who has also been through some tough shit, but it doesn't take away from how kind & smart you are

thank you emmmm that really means a lot coming from you. youre like the only person i can talk to who DOES know what its like. i know i'm being overdramatic and annoying complaining about these things, i know i sound like a whiny little kid, but its difficult because no one my age knows what its like. its frustrating not being understood by anyone. working on ships is already isolating because you're away for so long and then people don't care enough to learn about my job or make stupid jokes about it. i know it doesn't matter but i'm a very sensitive person and its infuriating that i cant even hold a conversation about my life experiences without being told im traumadumping, or people not believing me. im just trying to talk about my job its not a joke to me its not funny! last year when i first heard the news i went to tell my college friends about it, i said "my friends just died in a plane crash", and they thought i was joking. they never realized i was being serious and then got mad at me in the following weeks when i was acting moody and depressed like oh my god i wonder why. i wonder. i dont know what my point is im just kind of tired of everyone forever.