#saved memo

[awhoreintheory]

Peter, getting dropped in Gotham and doing his mandatory public library research, only to (and here comes the shocker!) Find out he's in a different dimension?!?! (Par for the course, we know how it goes)

But imagine, right. Batman is one of the first heroes he sees, and he's good at fighting and is very much sticking to his theme, Peter doesn't assume he's the Iron Man of this world, no.

Peter assumed Batman (less cool because he doesn't have a hyphen) is Spider-man's alternative

So, picture Peter avoiding Batman, not because of his no meta rule, but because he thinks this guy is a grown up (less cool, obviously) version of Peter and doesn't want to like. Cause a paradox or something by coming in contact with him

It'd be hilarious guys

[chonkymoth]

My hare-brained theory is that Sean is going to die due to his heart issues, excessive drinking, etc but thanks to Laszlo now having a grasp on how to reanimate the dead...well, you get the idea

[narumippi]

info credit from @skylardoesthings (inazuma eleven seiyuu ref for future refs)

jesus fucking christ up to this day I'm still learning new things from the IE community like you guys could be my certified profs

inazuma eleven the golden mine of S tier seiyuus and the list goes on as we speak

[the-jackals]

First birthday without mom.

It doesn’t feel right.

[zekkopunks]

if staying up late is bad then why is being up at 2 am so fun hm?? take that liberals

[liistenwellallofyou]

Icons I have that I'll never get to use.

[naralanis]

Had someone at work call me to tell me they wanted me to stop using AI for my emails (my EMAILS?!?!), otherwise they'd have to tell my boss.

I was so fucking confused. Apparently, my emails and other company communication are riddled with what this person called the "long ChatGPT hyphen". They helpfully shared screenshots where they highlighted my ubiquitous use of this supposedly tell-tale sign of AI use.

IT'S THE FUCKING EM DASH

GET FUCKED

[skythealmighty]

Memo about Joke Object Shows

This has been sitting in my docs for way way way too long, so off I give it to the internet! Yes, I did this for a school assignment. (Yes I got a good grade.) This is uh, mostly about BFC and TDOS for the record. I way over-analyzed some things tee hee

Word Count: 2446

Pages: 6

[megaawkwardhuman]

ok while I don't plan to do this for EVERY bunny anniversary since I know a bunch of y'all love him so much and (I SWEAR THIS ISN'T SOME SORT OF WEIRD APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE AND I'M BEING SERIOUS) it's the one year anniversary of my first nandor bunny drawing I decided to whip this up to celebrate :]

happy birthday bunny nandor :3

[thesilverlock]

pierce ➣ dynamics: "Whenever I look at you..."

While their ''miscommunication flirting'' brings some levity, it can’t distract from the greater issues for long. Jey is running from the war. He had to find a way to understand why choosing only Order made him feel like he was splitting. Needed to pursue Chaos, away from a group who kept villainizing it. He’s using 96. In a similar whatever way 96 is probably using him. Not that it should matter. The Number is Astral’s evil copy, not an individual. Just a cheap, broken replica., , ,,

>>extra zexoodle

[sirellas]

I love reading your thoughts about discovery. Huge ds9er here. I watched discovery once, s1,2 as they were streaming and last year the rest. I don't remember much but I feel that pretty much what you said about pilot and georgiou apply to most characters and arcs. We are more told about the characters than seeing them ourselves (With a couple of exceptions). For example Michael's arc, her motives, struggles, growth etc I never saw them myself, I was kept told that she's been through this and that, that she changed etc but I never felt it. IMHO it was a show with so many potentials but it needed better writing and better character development

exactly!!! by the time they tried to do a soft reboot in s3, i was still asking myself who these characters even were (except for michael, but you're right too about her. i remember watching in like s2 and still not understanding how the hell she fit into her strange backstory. and the actor is great, but there's only so much acting can make up for). how am i supposed to care about them if all i know about them is a little quippy intro and then they just never do anything with the characters

the thing about discovery, for me, is that it's kind of a bad show but it had the potential to really start something and grow into itself too like you said. same could be said for picard too until they dropped all their original characters.... like they keep getting scared of their own new characters so they rely on gaslighting and nostalgiabaiting to cover it up. and discovery was the first, right, so that's understandable that they were still finding their footing. but then they didn't ever lol. the constant focus on fancy technology and being "cool" and making wild dramatic connections to past canon that just doesn't make sense and then moving past things like they were nothing.... at some point you have to back all that up with real character-driven story that should make people want to keep coming back to it. i don't really dislike any of the characters in discovery mostly because i don't feel strongly enough about them to care either way!! lol and somehow new trek still hasn't learned this lesson almost a decade later.....

[bestworstcase]

Your points about Salem and Cinder possibly being a fucked up mother/daughter relationship also puts her constant parallels with Ironwood and Winter in V8 into a very different light as well.

Ironwood and Salem, in their own dark and twisted way as a result of their culture/their circumstances loving the one person they consider to be their daughter, but differing ultimately in regards to what they chose to do about it.

Ironwood deciding that his own selfish desires and ideology mattered more than even the one woman he cared for more than most, while Salem basically dropping and twisting her ideals into a pretzel to help the one person she considers the closest thing to a replacement daughter for her dead daughters with Ozma.

Winter, thinking the world of Ironwood only to ultimately have to oppose him due to his betrayal of her and everyone else, vs Cinder thinking Salem is just Madame 2.0 due to Salem constantly stamping all over her trauma buttons by poor decisions and abusive actions born of her own trauma even as Salem, in her own fucked up way, is willing to do anything for Cinder if she truly asks for it.

It also frankly explains rather well why Cinder is so important in Salem's plan in a way that I haven't been able to pin down without that as a consideration. Cinder thinks it's because she's got some fancy storybook destiny that she needs to prove that she "deserves", and the audience being led on a red herring to think that it's only going to lead to her being discarded once Salem has no more use for her. When in reality it's because (again in her own fucked up way) Salem wants her surrogate daughter to get what she wants in her life (mixed with fighting a rebellion against the gods) because Salem knows exactly how Cinder feels about having her trust broken beyond repair and demonized by others.

And all of this occurring in the story arc where an overarching theme is of multiple parents (Dr. Polendina and Penny, Tai and Summer and Ruby Rose/Yang, etc.) being deeply flawed people who are willing to do anything and everything for the sake of their daughters.

Cinder.exe will just end up suffering a mental bluescreen when Salem ends up showing this in the most undeniable way possible, because it's so opposite to everything she understands about the world.

:)

give 8.4-5 (<- fault + amity) a watch with this reading in mind sometime. bc cinder’s relationship with salem and penny’s with pietro are directly compared, in a really interesting way:

PENNY: Why are you doing this? Why serve someone like Salem? CINDER: I don’t serve anyone—and neither would you, if you weren’t built that way! PENNY: …That is not… [She glances down, making eye contact with Pietro.] I choose to fight, for people who care about me.

<- amity is a really fraught place for penny to be confronted with this, both because it’s where cinder orchestrated her being ripped to shreds a year ago and because in order to get the comms satellite launched, penny had to let her dad remote into her system and literally use her body like a puppet and it is painfully obvious that she did not feel comfortable with that.

so… for cinder to come here and draw an implicit equivalence between salem and pietro and insinuate that penny is not free, that truly does get under penny’s skin. which i think is something that often gets overlooked, because it’s layered under the more obvious fact that cinder really doesn’t understand who or what penny is at all; but like, penny hesitates. it takes her a moment to figure out how to articulate that’s not true because there is a kernel of truth to cinder’s point. 

penny was built to be ironwood’s weapon. his perfect super-soldier. and now she that she’s defied him to do what she thinks is right, half the people she cares about have told her that she’s being evil and selfish and it’s her fault if everyone dies. and the other half told her she needs to go to amity and stay there and not help anybody, and she feels like a tool, she feels like she has a million things she’s supposed to do and none of them are what she wants to do. so she has all these mixed-up feelings about… what she was built for and what she chooses to be.

and like. in 8.4:

CINDER: I… I want to search for the winter maiden. I think that— SALEM: Did you hear that, my pet? She thinks; she wants. As if she’s done something to warrant me caring about either of those things.  CINDER: We’re just sitting and waiting. Without the maiden, the vault means nothing. Let me claim it for you.  SALEM: I will tell you when and where you are needed. CINDER: But your grace— [The Hound lunges around to snarl at her.] SALEM: I would like to think I have shown a great deal of patience over my many years walking Remnant, but I do hate repeating myself. You will remain here. Is that clear? CINDER: [lying] …Yes. Yes, of course. Without you. I am nothing.

vs 8.5:

PENNY: I can fix this. […] Our message is only a few minutes long. I can try to hold Amity in place for— PIETRO: Absolutely not! You’re in no condition to do something like this. Even just the temperature out there could… PENNY: It is our only option.  MARIA: She’s right, Pietro. We have to remember the big picture— PIETRO: I don’t care about the big picture! I care about my daughter! I lost you before; are you asking me to go through that again? No. No, I want the chance to watch you live your life.  PENNY: But, dad, I am trying to. PIETRO: …Right.

<- literally. literally the exact same argument. not just in terms of what the conflict is but the structure of the dialogue is identical. the interrupted statement of intention; the practical reasoning shot down; “but, your grace” vs “but, dad”—the difference is that where salem is masking, pietro wears his heart on his sleeve, and that allows him and penny to come to an understanding that she is going to do this and he’s going to sit in his fear and support her. whereas salem gets the false capitulation and false security. 

it’s pretty in-your-face (<- which i think supports the interpretation of salem’s motive being protectiveness twisting through her emotional walls) and it’s an interesting parallel to set up given that salem does, in the end, come to a similar resolution to step back and let cinder take risks. it telegraphs the possibility of constructive change, a choice to accept the fear instead of trying to force cinder into a position where the fear doesn’t exist. 

it’s also just darkly funny in a way. cinder kills penny twice and is directly the culprit for pietro’s intense terror of losing penny, and salem feels that same terror for cinder. mirrors. 

but yeah with ironwood and winter too, “i’ve chased a lot of shadows over the years, always expecting betrayal, but never once did i think it would ever come from you” vs “you chose to disobey my specific instructions, just to fail again. and… i’ve realized it’s all my fault.” and, “consider this my last order: step aside” vs “here i am holding you back, instead of lifting you up.” 

salem if nothing else takes cinder’s betrayal as a reason to reevaluate her own actions and consider what she did that gave cinder cause to disobey her, where ironwood is by this point completely disconnected from the reality that loyalty is a two-way street. 

and there’s something too in salem choosing not to stop at “it’s my fault” but fully articulate that she understands why cinder did what she did; it’s of a piece with the way she responds to cinder in 8.14, a conscious reversal of “she thinks, she wants, as if she’s done something to warrant me caring”—she does care, and she has always cared, and it shows in how she speaks to cinder when she’s not trying to prove she doesn’t care.

like. salem chose to put her trust in cinder—an enormous degree of trust, over and over again—without having any illusions about what sort of person cinder is. she knows cinder is singularly focused on what cinder wants. she’s unfazed by the disobedience because she knows she prevented cinder from getting what she wanted. whereas ironwood trusted winter because he molded her so well into the perfect lieutenant that he never imagined she could break from him, because he never understood there was more to her than the surface he sculpted. 

[clumsypuppy]

footnotes arent enough I need you to talk to me like im fucking Amelia Bedelia

[valvesoftware]

breakups are so fucking weird. three years and just like that it's gone. huh

[zekkopunks]

omg its been 2 years since I got back into mother 3 l🎉🥳

[amburgundy]

girl idk if memo has a crush on patricia pancakes but i certainly do after she literally saved my sims' lives????