#prepare to get fucked up

[queenerdloser]

that mark (very recently!) was so fucking pissed about helena using the wrong name for gemma that he went to immediately do experimental brain surgery as a giant fuck you and then DIDN'T anticipate his innie self getting pissed when he got helly's name wrong really underlines how much mark doesn't think his innie loves helly and also doesn't consider his innie to actually be him at all.

[ourstarswerethesame]

LOCHLAN RATLIFF SEASON 3, EPISODE 8: AMOR FATI THE WHITE LOTUS (2021-)

[wu-does-art]

im not immune to Salvis (platonic or romantic? up to you) bonus because yeah

[scribz-ag24]

I've recently seen again a post talking about the Sableye and Dusknoir's relationship so i'd like to put my two cents in the discussion, for I love screaming into the void about PMD. (this isnt meant to discourage any other interpretations btw this is just my take on theirs and Dusknoir's relationship, bc I think they're very fun characters and I am very glad the game actually gives these minions a bit of relevance in se5).

Tbh I don't buy that Dusknoir treats the Sableye nicely, at least not out of kindness. I don't think he's a tyrant or inexplicably mean, of course, and I think his minions ADORE him, but i also believe that doesn't mean he's nice to them, sth that i consider meaningful for their character arcs.

Throughout the entire game he's exclusively giving them orders, in se5 he concocts a plan that involves thrashing them MULTIPLE times (he's lucky Grovyle isn't one to try and kill enemies in battle ig), and the cherry on top is that the first time we see him being fully genuine he does this:

(yes, he is in turmoil in here, but there's not a single thing implying that 1. this is an unusual response towards the sablye, 2. dusknoir feels bad for it at some point or is surprised at himself, 3. this has any impact in the sableye at all. You can argue these reactions happen off screen and we don't see them, they don't happen bc they have pressing matters to attend to or they happen after they return to life, and that's perfectly valid, but i'm sticking with what the game shows us, here.)

I must say, though, the fact that the Sableye, despite having been almost mindless pokémon up to now, STAND UP TO AND ATTACK Primal Dialga for their boss and even try to look after him despite him ordering them to check on Grovyle and Celebi first is SO important to me. they are goons to the bone and they love that scheming ghost so much.

My own view is that Dusknoir is generally polite to them (you wouldn't randomly break your own revolver or weapon without any reason, would you?), but is quicker to get mean with them than with people he doesn't know or he is seeking to manipulate. He doesn't care about their behaviour as long as they get the job done, which is why I think the anime thing of the Sableye climbing onto his shoulder isn't that remarkable, rather it's a very cute moment, one that is showing how they've been working together for long and how their size difference affects their interactions, but it is not necessarily conveying an affectionate bond (this is a bit random, but it reminds me of Disney's Jafar with Iago lmao. throw your pet sableye at your enemies so they mock them and then return to your shoulder). Additionally, Dusknoir letting the Sableye onto his shoulder is probably as close as we are gonna get to a villain turning around in his chair while petting a cat in PMD lol.

[this isn't meant to be a one-to-one comparison, it's just a detail i find cute and shows that this gesture can have multiple interpretations, with none being the only right one]

Leaving that aside, I hesitate to claim Dusknoir trusts his Sableye as allies, as Grovyle makes a point in the main story of how the Sableye (your Sableye, he says, as if objectifying them; not friends, but tools, weapons at Dusknoir's disposal) are lacking compared to the way hero/partner/grovyle support one another (power of friendship and hidden information babyyyy). The Sableye are used to Dusknoir's way of doing things, though, I'm sure. They know what happens when he's displeased, after all.

I think, most of all, the Sableye are meant to look disposable: they are 6 identical pokémon that almost act like a hivemind, and we are not supposed to think at all about how we may hurt them in battle any more than we do with the angry Manectric pack or random dungeon pokémon. This, I believe, is why the game has them stand up against Dialga and gives them unique dialogue at the end of se5. They're meant to show their inner shine, just as Dusknoir managed to do. They suddenly gain an individuality they had never shown while they were working to maintain the dark future.

Where they abandoned Dusknoir in the Old Ruins, now Grovyle has motivated them to look for their dignity and fight for a better world, and that starts with protecting their leader from Primal Dialga's rampage, and supporting his new objective and allies in their quest to save the future. In their own small way, they've also grown as characters throughout SE5.

I believe that, overall, Dusknoir saw the Sableye as tools, but thanks to their growth and clear care for him, there's a possibility he might start to see them (and by extension other pokémon) in a more genuine, less pragmatic / objectifying way in the future. Now that Dusknoir has the chance to live a fulfilling life, he may learn to care for others without surrounding himself by so many walls. If anything, I think their future is quite bright. Not that the Sableye would mind if he still thrashed them around, though lol, they're clearly not bothered much by it (special episode 0 had a great depiction of the sableye imo, you can check that romhack if you haven't yet).

In conclusion, look at these little guys who adore their can-get-mean-but-is-mostly-polite boss and probably have a body count but now are good, they're so cute:

[kaiserouo]

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ghost is so excited it dumps its arsenal in the house

[ineed-to-sleep]

Just yeeted two of my wisdom teeth out and ohhhhb my god I get why people hate going to the dentist now

[superbat-lmao]

The Justice League, on their way back from a deep space mission that was incredibly successful, received a distress signal from a galaxy they’re passing through.

As they investigate, they learn that a colony of a planet has been wiped out. Completely.

Slowly they piece together that there is some being out there that had been terrorizing planets, starting with colonies and then eventually going after larger settlements and home planets.

The League also learns they are not the first people to learn of this foe, or try to come up with a solution to stop them.

The colony they are inspecting has researchers on it that had fled or escaped from other planets where they piled together all they knew about their enemy, and in an attempt to sift through the mountains of data they had collected, created a device.

If a person was connected to the device, they would mentally experience the number of years required to process the data and come up with an attack plan in seconds. What the researchers had needed was time, so they created it.

As the League pieces this together, Superman sees that there is a being approaching the remnants of the colony and the defense system alerts the “remaining colonists” of the imminent threat. Their failsafe boots up and takes the nearest person, in this case, Batman, who had been studying some of its programming, and activates.

The rest of the team didn’t have a chance to react before Batman blinks and is in motion, setting up machines and dictating code without lifting a finger.

There is no fight, because after the two seconds Bruce was in the machine he was a flurry of motion and the enemy was contained.

They ask him how long had passed for him in the machine. It takes him a full minute to respond.

“150 years.”

[yasbeych]

gasp! my memory circuits were shocked into remembering Plato’s allegory of the cave!

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

MK6 you say??????

[i-maj-ine]

Just started reading ORV (not that far in but I am lightly spoiled on some plot points bc of friends) and trans Kim Dokja would hit diff if Fourth Wall's censor helped cover how fem his body shape is

Like that'd be fucking hilarious

'i didn't think the apocalypse had to happen for people to be more accepting of my gender' says local man, who has a skill that literally convinces others that his boobs don't exist

Imagine the misunderstandings. Imagine them, please, I beg of you. I need someone to vibrate on the same wavelength as me when it comes to everyone literally not Knowing He Is Trans because HE LOOKS LIKE A FUZZY BLOB.

Kim Dokja, very confused but very glad that people are so accepting when he knows he doesn't pass as a guy. Kim Dokja, scrunching his face when people talk down to women and look at him like he'll implicitly agree because he's one of the boysss. Kim Dokja, getting weird ass stares for the menstrual products he has on hand-- (OH GOD BATHROOM BREAKS, BATHROOM BREAKS WOULD BE SUCH A HILARIOUS SUBJECT, IMAGINE HIM GOING TO THE WOMEN'S BC OF HABIT AND GETTING TUGGED BACK BY SOMEONE ELSE STERNLY LIke stop laughing Sangah-ssi, you're being such a bully rn)

He just looks like a thin frail looking stick of a guy, it's like only when people get close and touch (if you're even allowed to... the kids get that privilege via hugs) that some areas seem to have more give than others while others seem more expansive than they actually are. When you set your hand on his shoulder, the hazy form is lower and tinier than you expected... He's so weird.

[constantly-deactivated]

[the-star-and-the-smols]

SO I got the rdr2 mod that includes size change and UHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I'M GOING ABSOLUTELY FERAL RN Max height I can get him to is 5x before i run into Extreme Difficulties and Glitchfest But DAMN if I don't love me some good perspective. I have more pics willing to share if this gains enough traction

(p.s. sorry for not amazing graphics I promise do the best with what little RAM I have :))

[animebookworm16]

JinMao Epic AU where Maomao is Odysseus and the impossible challenge that Jinshi sets out is a poisoned meal and whoever can eat it and survive gets to be his queen

[baycitystygian]

oh it's fucking ON

[charmac]

Ok, I know you literally said in your post that you tried to write it out and its hard to phrase, but like, why does the alternate/new ending of mythic quest necessarily mean some kind of falling out happened between Rob and Meg (I think something probably did happen, but i don't get how the ending change points to that)

Apparently they'd originally filmed different endings without the kiss, and this was just an alternate they had originally filmed at the time. I guess since they now know they won't get another season, it makes more sense to not have a cliffhanger, even though it's stupid to just erase what they originally put out.

So let's just first contextualise that they're claiming this retcon happened alternate ending was filmed and released to give the audience closure, in the event they were cancelled.

I am guessing you liked Mythic Quest and watched the retconned ending, so I'm genuinely asking here, would you say their claim rings true? Because personally, after watching it, I see literally no closure. It’s still a cliffhanger for every single character’s arc. Even if you pretend there are no characters other than Ian and Poppy, there's still no closure. A very pregnant Poppy still abandons her baby daddy to be with Ian. The alternate ending is still leading somewhere (considering the entire build up of Poppy and Ian's codependent, pseudo-sexual relationship) but instead of leaning in, it just cowers out and has them move past it, turning that energy into their work (once again).

It is maybe seen as more "acceptable", in a way, because there's not a *huge thing* that is left unaddressed, but I'm incredibly unconvinced that this was an alternative ending filmed just in case they were cancelled. It is the same ending, minus the kiss. (Honestly it's less satisfying to me. There is no payoff!! They're in the same goddamn place!)

The only way I believe this alternate no-kiss ending existed and was made purely in case they were cancelled is if they truly don't give a fuck about any of the other characters and think only Grimpop should get an ending (and I find that hard to believe, especially considering Ashly Burch (Rachel) is a head writer and David Hornsby (well, David, lol) is the third EP/Showrunner). I mean, not even credit scenes?? A "where are they now" for MQ employees? Maybe, like, polaroids from Rachel and Dana's wedding as a backdrop to the credits? An article about Jo running Playpen with David (perhaps to the ground, perhaps to fame and fortune)? These are like, the cheapest of the cheap ideas on how to correct season finales into sitcom finales.

What they put out tonight is just clearly not what the concept of a "just in case we get cancelled" ending is for a workplace sitcom... so that begs the question, why the hell were there different versions of the Grimpop moment?

IMO, there had to be a disagreement between someone wanting them to kiss, and someone not wanting it. If Meg and Rob were on the same page as to where this arc was leading, it would have just happened or not happened. Or, it would have happened with an actual Series Finale re-write and/or additional scenes for closure.

(To clarify: I don't think on its own that this retcon (happening AND being able to exist at all) proves a falling out between Meg and Rob occurred, but more-so points to disconnect and/or disagreement in the direction MQ was going)

[snailfen]

gamers this shit is so hard i might have to spend another 3-4 months playing rain world to beat the secret bosses 😭