#not to oversimplify

[hawkinsunderground]

so I thought of a new byler fic idea and now I'm wondering if I should start writing the first chapter knowing damn well I already have my main WIP that I'm working on. Buuuut, I think I could realistically do both without sacrificing any more time than I already do with my ever-changing writing schedule, so should I just go for it??

[medraut-pen-draig]

on amok time again: they really did "spock experiences primal alien mating drive and murder fuck ritual," and didn't even play with "and this is an excuse to see our prim and proper mr spock get sensual with a lady!". like he expends ALL of his hot dominating fantasy uncontrollable lust rage energy ON KIRK. they wrote that and had ONE chance to make spock have any scandalous, carnal housewife jerk off material romance they wanted with any sexy space woman in the universe, and they chose kirk. when he does interact with a woman he throws a soup at her

[worsehaircut]

[cobblestone-butch]

Love love love watching Pearl, Etho, and Tango talk game balancing and rule clarification. Pearl sees games as a skill to master, and her perspective is concentrated towards what feels both achievable and fair, throughout a journey from beginner to pro. Etho sees games as a puzzle to solve, a system to optimise, and his concerns about game balancing focus on where the loopholes are or what could be exploited in a way that produces skewed results. Tango's role is creating and running a game that is engaging, so he curtails pure 'game design' suggestions by asking if something is going to be fun, for the players of all levels and the viewers, too. In conversations between them, the points they raise are how they show their personal investment in their game and its players. I think that's neat

[charcubed]

Love Transcends Severance

"My Love, Mine All Mine" Mark Scout / Gemma + Petey + Helly

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[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I cannot believe this is basically their dynamic

[warblogs17282]

idk if this is a controversial opinion but screw it, I do like the fact that they decided to make Millie straight.

Before you all start assuming things, I love how much queer rep is in helluva boss, encompassing a lot of different sexualities and more, I just simply love how unapologetically queer helluva boss is.

With that out of the way, the main reason why I like the choice to make her straight is because the show has made it very clear that she's a straight ally, which as we know, straight allies are important in the real world as well, so because of that, I am glad that the show has given us a clear example of a straight ally.

Plus, her being a straight ally with a bisexual husband, a trans lesbian sister, and her being incredibly supportive of a pansexual imp with strong feelings for a gay owl makes Millie cool as fuck imo.

[tophat-69]

Viktor saw a student’s notebook, actually took the time to read it, saw merit in it despite it being totally worthless to everyone else, and showed up after hours while Jayce was struggling and went “hey so this is good but you missed this specific concept, let’s work through that together.”

You cannot convince me he would be a bad professor.

I will defend my to “Viktor is a great teacher, actually” headcanon to the death. Is he sarcastic sometimes too? Yes. But all the best teachers are imho.

[dr-reids-fidget-toy]

garak giving himself a severe addiction bc he’s cold is honestly so fucking real

[stardustedknuckles]

I am shaking the wizard Steel in my jaws like a squeaky toy. I've loved her since the beginning but we are beginning to really peel into what makes her who she is. It's the new world she believes in, not the emperor. I would venture to guess that she despises a man who would have her fly a damaged ship of wounded people over a military parade "just for morale." That's never been her. This was the first time we have seen the emperor or Steel interacting with him and his entourage and she fucking hates them.

And the wizard Gray calling out her ability to end a whole bloodline. All but threatening to tell on her to the emperor. Combining that with her telling Suvi that this new world has no need of a sword of the citadel and everything she does, but it will have need of Suvi.

A world without war, without fear. And I wonder, if she has no faith in the emperor and this new world has no need of her, what would that world need of an emperor?

Or, say, his bloodline?

[randomstuffjustrandom]

Presents

Tony: Present time!!!

Avengers giving each other gag gifts and stuff.

Natasha, handing Clint a present: Here, Clint.

Clint, shaking the box: Ooh. I hope it's HYDRA heads. Please be HYDRA heads, please be HYDRA heads.

Clint opens the box: It's HYDRA heads. (The head of some HYDRA ppl)Awww, how did you know?

Natasha, smiling: Merry Christmas

Avengers: *horrified silence*

[elbiotipo]

It's fascinating to me that for our modern (at least on European-influenced societies) thinking, the classical Roman way of life is so familiar. When you read about it, the rethoric of the speeches feels modern, a society based on contracts and laws and litigation, with public works, a state bureucracy and standing army and trade economy and even spectator sports, a concept of philosophy separated from religious dogma and tradition, with even a limited understanding of a government by 'the people' and 'citizenship', even the names all sound familiar even if in completely different contexts, and no wonder since they inspired our current politics.

This all in contrast to medieval feudalism, which is completely alien to me. A society created upon family connections and oaths of fealty and serfdom with no such thing as an overarching state, not even kingdoms were any more real than a title one person holds, and all held together completely, utterly, to an extent I cannot emphasize enough, by the institution of the Church and the Christian faith. In a way we just aren't used today in our secular world. I simply cannot overstate how everything, every single thing, was permeated by faith in the Medieval worldview and the Church which took its power from it, we have an understanding of it but I think people just don't realize it.

[orions-garden]

shoutout to alessandra strong. showed up beefing with juno steel then kissed him on the lips in the same episode and disappeared for a season and a half only to tell him about her future wife and mostly to tell him to get his shit together. then fucked off of mars never to be seen again. iconic.

[anghraine]

I finally read a good article about Austen and eighteenth-century socioeconomics that gives rough approximations of eighteenth-century prices/incomes in modern (I think c. 2014) currency, but is appropriately emphatic about just how rough those approximations must always be given drastic differences in the economic worlds we live in. It's actually much more about the economics than Austen, and particularly about how much descriptions of "middling" incomes and what was affordable to people who had those incomes is still a conversation about a tiny, tiny elite in terms of the overall population at the time.

Austen-wise, though, the author also found room for a tangent in which he goes off on a scathing condemnation of Mr Bennet in socioeconomic terms, which I do love to see. Most baronets generally had land and incomes far closer to Mr Bennet's than Darcy's and yet Mr Bennet can't be bothered to even slightly provide for his children's futures beyond what was legally required by his marriage settlement (even the girls' meagre inheritances mostly come from Mrs Bennet's money rather than his). The author acknowledges the passage about Mr Bennet saving to counteract Mrs Bennet's extravagance and also how this is an indictment of Mr Bennet as well as Mrs Bennet, something that criticisms of him often skate past, and even points out how enthusiastic Mr Bennet is about the convenience of Darcy paying for it all in a way that can be read as funny and endearing, but also as distastefully shameless.

Anyway, it was nice to enjoy an academic text again, lol.

[emmikay]

Odysseus: My darling wife, I’ve been away for so long- But I got you a present!

Penelope: A present? For me?

Penelope, shaking the box: Oh, I hope it’s the suitor’s heads. Oh, please, please be the suitor’s heads.

(heads spill onto the floor)

Penelope: How did you know!?

[stgroversfire]

i do really adore the tgcf/mdzs top dynamic of "i love this extremely traumatized man so im going to follow him around and enable him to do whatever he wants"