#the two variations are:

[that-sweet-jester]

should have become a hairdresser, less war crimes

(hey just so we're clear - DO NOT TAG THIS AS A SHIP)

[shroomwar]

These two idiots kill me because what Crowley is hearing from Aziraphale is, “I am able to look past your demonic nature because I love you so much, but if there was a way, I would change that part of you” and what Crowley wants to hear is, “I look at all of you and I love all of you”

Meanwhile Aziraphale’s actually saying, “I love every version of you that I’ve known, but I miss the smile you had when I met you and I would give anything to bring that joy back”

[forecast0ctopus]

these guys am i right

[martyryo]

Yaoi blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[betaminshitto]

Too close

[starliteonearth]

I find it really funny that the main pairings of WHC are all introverted nerd x extroverted jock. Though the dynamics differ: sunshine & sunshine protector (Gotae), sun & moon (SHSE), and eclipsed sun (Bakjin).

[mrmeepsmadmind]

this photo fucking kills me bcs it's smoke swearing in his mind

' if this goddamn pig shirks us or pulls up with armed whites, i'm raining hellfire in five seconds.' Always on Edge

&& then there's stack thinking

'im rollin THE BEST cigarette 😸😸😸 !!'

(says that abt all the cigs he gets to roll for smoke and or anyone, for that matter)

[08-47]

it shall be cuboided soon

[bodyndblood]

[sparrowlucero]

thoughts on the doctor who finale?

left me feeling a little cold, which is sad because there's a lot of interesting stuff in it - the doctor as a queer man trapped in a time loop based on a conservative podcaster's ideal world is patently a much more evocative premise for a season finale than what the same showrunner was doing back in the late aughts; it feels like a very pointed thesis statement for the show and more in line with what I like about RTD as a writer. I like the bait and switch of the "character trapped in fake universe realizes the world isn't quite right and breaks out of it" type plot where it turns out the villain is exploiting the inevitability of a universe breaking to other ends. I like that the villain is a weird eugenicist who's goal to revitalize her species is something the doctor is kind of tempted by; that feels spiky and like the thematically correct choice for this version of the show and the anxieties of the main characters. I like the set and creature design of the bone palace and the "fossils" a lot. etc etc. but also you can just tell it was originally a much tighter story that production issues hit hard (like "ending changed while season was already airing" hard), both in longer term ways (it's pretty obvious the story was originally about ruby before problems with the cast, and so attention is split between her and the character written to replace her this season in some pretty frustrating ways, like how the ending with bel and the baby wouldn't be that strange if applied to ruby, who's in a family that fosters) and in short term ways (the pick up filming is like, half the episode, and is a pretty rough and not especially elegiac send off for the characters...). Kind of a mess, but I also appreciate it in certain ways?

[toffee4you]

Random scenario.

(slightly suggestive?)

I've been thinking about how, when someone calls something small, maybe a french fry or bean sprout... Another person might joke, "it's not THAT small now!"

You know why.

However,

What if, MC was training with Silver for the first time, trying to lift up their training sword which is still decently sized. It's a sword, after all. They say, "Wow, this is way larger than I thought!" to which Silver bluntly replies with, "It's not that large, now." in the most flat tone... With the most deadpan face. MC just stares back with wide eyes. Silver doesn't get it.

[solaestial]

headspace visitors 😲

alts without the omori ui (i've become indecisive about the background colors as u may notice 😔)

[flymmsy]

So if you're telling me Durge was the first person to be tadpoled, and Gortash tadpoled his parents...

Gortash not only showing up to Flymm Cobblers unannounced, despite avoiding his parents for decades in the same city, seeking revenge driven by his abandonment issues ...but give me absolutely unhinged Gortash who shows up ALSO driven by grief and loss and rage.

Give me a Gortash who is a new brand of scary. This is not the ruthless politician. This is not the arms dealer. This is not Bane's Chosen. This is something foreign even to himself that verges on madness.

He shows up at their door disheveled in a way he would never allow himself to be. He smiles wide, his only intention to harm, and laughs and laughs through the tears streaming down his face.

[crossdressingdeath]

You know what? I think a lot of DAV's biggest plot weaknesses ultimately come back to DAI, because a lot of them can be summarized as "Why didn't they get into [thing that DAI set up]" and... the answer is that Bioware was never going to be able to meaningfully engage with those things, and they should've known that when they wrote them into DAI. The Divine, Kieran's existence, Urthemiel's soul, the Well of Sorrows, all that stuff DAI set up that people are mad DAV didn't focus on? All of those should have led to pretty big alterations in the worldstate, and the worldstate has to remain roughly the same for everyone. We were never going to get the massive impact those choices should've had, for the same reason the Warden's boon at the end of DAO was quietly forgotten about as soon as Dragon Age became a series instead of a standalone game: the writing just can't support choices that would create such massive divergences. Like... take Urthemiel. Whether or not Mythal got Urthemiel's soul (and by extension whether or not Solas potentially had the chance to take it) should have been a huge deal! It should've led to two pretty different paths! Except... it can't. Because Bioware can only write one story for each game they make, which means the critical path can't really change beyond flavour text and occasionally which character gets a cameo slot; Mythal didn't get Urthemiel's soul in every worldstate, so Urthemiel's soul can never be relevant to the main plot. And the thing is, they would've known that going in! DAI was the third game, they must have known that worldstate variation could never be more than flavour text and cameos! Hell, you can see Bioware scrambling to make all the Divine options more or less the same in terms of impact on Thedosian society in DAI, which was definitely done to make writing sequels feasible. So why did they write Mythal getting Urthemiel's soul into DAI? And it's the same for all those other big, story-changing choices. People have differing opinions on the merits of including variable flavour text just to say it's there but that's not what this is about; in terms of the actual plot the variables cannot be relevant (unless it's something like the Warden ally choice where every option is ultimately the same in terms of plot impact, and even that one's pushing it; it never is explained how Hawke ended up friendly with Loghain). I think when talking about choices from DAI that DAV didn't engage with it's important to take a second to ask yourself if Bioware could have written a version of events that worked equally well with every possible outcome of that choice and could be tweaked to engage with every variation without having any major impact on the main plot. If the answer is no I think it's better described as a DAI problem than a DAV problem, because it's not actually DAV's fault that DAI wrote checks it couldn't cash.

[sacchiri]

"what is that— "

[harriertail]

guess who