#what does this mean c

[hellkitepriest]

never kill yourself. jeremy pritchard could still see you shirtless

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[girderednerve]

the theory of law that says it matters a lot what the particular text of a given policy says, what loopholes the specific language might leave, &c., is best described as "LSAT prep" or perhaps "wishful thinking." the actual practice of the law is not a rhetorical exercise, it is a power negotiation; these executive orders are written to signal clear intention to judges & create chilling effects for people who are bound by the law but not empowered to interpret it. the viciously transmisogynist executive order signed yesterday says "at conception" because it's a popular phrase among people who oppose abortion, & the violent repression directed at trans women is connected directly to all other attempts to subjugate women as a class, not least by suspending safe, legal access to reproductive care

[mamawasatesttube]

the timkon fans who shit on bart are annoying, the konbart fans who shit on tim are annoying, and i don't actually know if there are timbart fans who shit on kon, but i sure hope not, because they'd be annoying. the three of them are a set!!! do NOT separate. red tornado literally assigned them one shared brain cell. what is not clickign

[dreamsuvivor]

Can somebody explain to me like I’m 5 why tf didn’t Feyre at least try to shapeshift into her Illyrian form when she was literally on death’s doorstep during labour?

We get that vague explanation at the beginning of the book about the shapeshifting and using of magic possibly not being good for the baby. But when both her and Rhys are about to die, shouldn’t you at least try it? What is the worst that can happen? they’ll die? well they are about to anyway, so why not try it, at least?

And also side note: How did Cassian survived getting gutted, but fae women die during c-sections?!

[charlietheepicwriter7]

"Mr. Bubbles, Mr. Bubbles-"

A little boy's voice--the first little boy that Tim had discovered in the labyrinth city below Gotham--echoed through the cavernous halls. Tim crept over the rubble of a broken stalagmite that had fallen through the ceiling, destroying the white and gold decor and dripping water inside. The room up ahead was lit only from glowing green tubes of liquid that lined every wall of Amity, the ectoplasm that powered the entire city.

"Are you there? Are you there?"

He peeked out from behind a crumbled wall. On his own, the little boy was crouched over corpse, fresh enough that it's blood was still wet on the floor. The boy's giant needle, the go-to weapon of all the Little Sisters that Tim had seen so far, was jabbed into the corpse's stomach and, slowly, ectoplasm and blood filled the glass jar on the end.

"Bring me a lolli-"

There was no sign of a Big Daddy, but Tim knew there was one nearby. These children were never without their protectors after all.

"Bring me a toffee-"

And at this point, Tim had killed enough of them to know for certain that one was around.

His left arm, marked all over with the needle marks of constant Plasm and ecto-dejecto injections, tingled, like there were ants under his skin. Or more accurate, he mused grimly, electricity-

Don't Think About It.

"Teddy bear, teddy bear."

He kicked his bare feet excitedly as he finished harvesting ectoplasm. Screwing off the jar, the child lifted it up to his lips like a cup and drank the viscus liquid down in huge, chest-heaving gulps like his life depended on it. Unlike Little Sisters who wore gore-covered dresses, the Little Brother was dressed in a white medical gown, relatively clean considering his filthy surroundings. His arms and face were free from dirt or blood, and even his hair looked suspiciously washed and combed.

Tim tightened his grip on his gun.

The Little Brother sighed, wiping his mouth on his sleeve. Brushing off his skirt, he yanked the needle out of the corpse. Then, like he could sense him, the boy looked straight at Tim. He froze.

Blank eyes covered in a green flim stared at him... and the Little Brother smiled at him, his teeth stained brown from the muck. "Mr. Helper! There you are, I've been waiting soooo long! Big Sister thought you'd never catch up!"

[appleflavoredkitkats]

yes fundy's entire dsmp arc is about his abandonment issues but i wished fan media dug more into that and didn't just portray fundy as some useless pathetic child who's crying for wilbur every five seconds

like there IS so much to play with fundy's entire shindig. personally i find the entire "wilbur promising fundy l'manberg" thing to be a curse, and also a fundamental aspect to fundy’s character. l'manberg to wilbur specifically isn't just a land or the family that grew up there, but rather an embodiment of his ideologies— a peaceful land that transcended the need for violence as a means of power.

so whenever i think of wilbur promising l'manberg to fundy, i actually think he. fulfilled his promise. but in the worst way possible. because if wilbur's base ideology is a need for peaceful camaraderie, and that is l'manberg, then that means fundy is sort of made a vessel for beliefs wilbur has long abandoned, you get me?

and i mean, it's probably not the intent of the cc's, and fundy alone is not a full encapsulation of what i'm suggesting... but there is something to be said about fundy being incredibly present within the nations he took part in— l'manberg and its two other variations, las nevadas, the greater dream smp. like he plays an active part in these by being a blind follower of its leaders and their wants as long as it means they'll end up prosperous.

and i mean. the last time we see fundy in the dsmp is when he finally gave schlatt's sword away to eret and the museum, looking up at the replicas of past l'manberg flags. and idk, it's sad really. time and time again i call fundy the heart of the countries he's been a part of, a true, genuine follower of his leaders because he gullibly yet truly believed in their capabilities. that sense of undying devoutness is a rarity in the dsmp, and if you think about it, the neglect imposed to him is the neglect of the original ideologies of the smp that would have overrided its status quo of violence

[autumnwhistles]

(note: this is purely from a character perspective, not a comment on CCs.)

grian and scar have now both been in opposite positions to the original 'cactus ring', and it's so interesting to compare their attitudes to sacrifice on both ends. whether or not scar threw the fight in the cactus ring, he did offer for grian to kill him before it began. grian declined this, but was clearly fighting with the intention to win during the fight itself – he's giving scar a chance, but not sacrificing.

in secret life, scar's on the other end of things. he's fighting another winner – who herself has been sacrificed for previously – and, like grian, is going into what he assumes to be a fair fight... but which is in his favour due to the others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for him. this is a common pattern for winners: in whichever order, they take the win once, and are once willing to sacrifice themselves to let another take it.

cut to wild life.

this time, it's grian in the final two once more, yet again against an – albeit more distant – ally. he's got a win under his belt already, so you might expect him to do what pearl did, what scott did, right? sacrifice their chance at glory to let another taste it for the first time.

and yet:

"I'm going to have to kill Joel"

"Can I win this? I worked so hard on this series, I'd love to win it!"

because here's an important thing about life series!grian: though he's willing to even the playing field, he's not willing to sacrifice – not when it matters. pledge your loyalty to right a wrong, yes; give lives to gain allies hours, yes; refuse others' sacrifices to fight on fair terms, yes. but in the end, no matter how much he wants to stick with friends, no matter how bad he feels about it, no matter how may "i'm so sorry"s he gives – he will put his own life first, in the end.

there's a reason he's the reason for so many of his allies' deaths, after all. and in its contrast, the wild life finale showcases this beautifully.

(and for the record, i don't see anything wrong with this from an out-of-univere perspective – it's been 5 seasons and 3.5 years since Grian's last win, and even if it hadn't been, it's the CCs place to judge fairness, not ours.)

[hanzajesthanza]

i like that in the sea of misinterpretation of geralt and re-interpretation of geralt, sapkowski decided to drop a banger novel that’s like:

hey, you know geralt the witcher, right, well remember how much of a hero he is and how much love he has in his heart and the deep loyalty to his friends and intrinstic humanism he embodies, how he’s emotional and susceptible to fear, insecure and doubtful sometimes, but how, in the end, he always saves people, even when it hurts him he does it, and that’s his purpose as a hero, saving people and wanting to protect and defend the innocent, appearing with sword in hand whenever evil stalks in the darkness? because he is a hero? a witcher? that’s who he is, our geralt, a witcher?

yeah, that geralt?

yeah :)

[idle-compy]

new clip spoilers below!!

AM I CRAZY OR DOES THAT PHONE SAY GIA

[caliburn-not-calculator]

This is your sign to talk about the blorbos. Pop off

Okay I was yapping about mechanite gender today so imma transfer some of those yaps here to inflict on tumblr

So to me mechanites don’t have any cultural understanding of gender beyond what has been picked up from societies existing around them. Like a mechanite raised in a non mechanite society will probably have more typical “binary” view on it but someone from a more classical Mechanus society is more like, we just Exist and present as we please, no more to it than that. Machines don’t have a gender, they have no biological reasons to have conceptual ideas of sex or hence gender differences based of norms around that. They just exist and likely have demographics based off other factors for different things.

Canon Maxim is agender to me for this reason, if I’m picking a label for it. I feel like Maxim would have used neutral pronouns all through living in Mechanus but get he/himed upon going to the material plane because he presents in a typically masculine way through sheer coincidence, and going, yeah sure that works. He doesn’t really care enough to say otherwise and it fits fine for him. It’s nice and clear and doesn’t cause any confusion. Efficient, which is all that matters. Like, does a machine sit there and worry about what it presents to the world as? Does it care for gender? Does the unflinching and unified power of Mechanus ascribe to such ideas? No. Hence, neither does he. He doesn’t have much of a concept of gender for himself, it is a thing that exists outside of him I think

Also, despite physically and vocally sounding masculine Maxim’s clothing choice a teeny bit less stereotypically masc. In aus I’m like, yeah that guy lives in a suit probably, but in canon I physically cannot see him wearing that. Pants? No. Exists exclusively in long heavy mage robes. Which is indeed all he’s ever described to wear in canon (unlike VR-LA but we’ll get to that). It’s not like a dress but it’s a very neutral sort sort of garb by your stereotypical standards.

Then, onto VR-LA, who I have some fun thoughts about. Having been from Candlekeep has a more human/oid like view on gender. Not to say they were strict on having a binary but like, they actually have concepts of male and female unlike a purely mechanite society. He goes with being a guy because he was raised in that sort of slot, and that way he doesn’t have to overthink it. Like sure he doesn’t have any complaints and this is a role he can fit into just fine. But there’s a vague disconnect there that he’s not really acknowledging. He probably has that view of himself shaken up by spending more time around mechanites and yes this is my way to give the robot a mild identity crisis.

I will make that robot gender queer you can’t stop me

He pointedly ignore the little sparky feeling of euphoria he gets from long swishy wizard robes,. He doesn’t have a problem with masc clothes but he’s never really explored beyond it and is finding out hey, I like this?? Which is also one thing to note which is very minor but VR-LA like. Wears pants, which idk to me feels weird for a robot but it’s clearly a fashion/comfort choice he’s made. Even when wearing wizard robes he did his time showing thigh in season one and now they’re gone lol. He just leans a little into that more stereotypically masc look.

Anyway yeah I think VR-LA should get to experiment with gender presentation a little, as a treat <3

I also have thoughts about the other mechanites (Mainly E-DN being more gender neutral, AS-TR is she/they to me and very femme, Astro on discord pointed out C-RA being most strongly aligned to her gender in being feminine and yes I agree I love that). But anyway I have shit to do that I’m seriously procrastinating so that’s for another time

[bleue-flora]

It never ceases to amaze me about how many different dehumanizing labels Dream is cast in. The tyrant, the green boy, the bad guy, the wrong’un, the villain, a psycho, psychopath (which tbh are already rather kinda extreme for his supposed crimes especially at the beginning when they started). But then they go further, calling him a snake thing, pure evil, a monster [clip], a freaking ghoul [clip], even to the point of calling him Lucifer in the finale - The Biblical incarnate of evil [clip].

And what’s really interesting is the inconsistency in which Dream reacts - because on one hand he should stand up for himself, but on the other maybe he should just lean into it and maybe they’ll leave him alone. Maybe the fear and label can be his defense instead of their offense. And that gives him control over it, turns him from the victim to the victor.

In the disc confrontation, Tommy calls him pure evil and asks “how do you sleep at night”, to which he responds “just fine” [clip] {oddly, directly contradicting his comment to Techno about no sleeping btw lol…}. Later, he talks about building the prison with a “little bit of evil” but then counters Tommy’s accusation of calling him evil again with “evil is in the eye of the beholder” and “you’re evil to me” [clip].

In the finale, towards the end, Tommy talks about how he saw Dream as nothing but The villain but that isn’t true, and surprisingly Dream disagrees by saying “I am. I tortured you” [clip] {also contradicting what he says to Sam in Daedalus…}. Which is interesting. In the finale, he also makes statements like ‘we can’t because we’re soo evil’ and “we have done plenty of evil evil things” [clip] (which Punz actually counters with “not for no reason.”) But in instances when they call him a psycho and psychopath he has a different reaction saying “huh, I mean, I wouldn’t say that,” [clip] “I’m not a psycho. Everything I do is deliberate” [clip] and, in the finale, “you guys are psychos. You broke in and tried—and killed me in my own house—the prison.” [clip]

One of the keys here I think is the distinction of having reasons - he’s not evil for kicks, he has a reason and motive and logic behind it. Something, in the finale, he questions whether Tommy has, first because he broke in and killed him unfounded and then towards the end of the stream asking about why he constantly steals and griefs and stuff, “why are you trying to ruin everything all the time.” [clip] - What was your reason? Because that mattered to Dream, someone can do evil things but they have their reasons, it’s when they don’t that they are more so truly evil.

He may have done evil things, he may even be the villain, but in his mind he’s not a psycho or pure evil, or a monster because he has reasons, there is a reason he did the things he did, there is a reason he ended up here. Not that those make his deeds justified and less evil (like Sam and Quackity more so believe) but that just makes him a person, who sure does evil, but also feels, and has reasons, desires, and motivations…etc. Just like everyone else. He doesn’t even see Quackity, who confessed to being sadistic and spent months torturing him, as pure evil or even a psychopath instead saying sarcastically in Daedalus, “like Quackity ‘cause he’s full of feelings… He’s totally not a sociopath…” because that distinction between sociopath and psychopath in Dream’s mind is important. Quackity is a bad person but he isn’t the embodiment of evil, he’s just a person who did evil things.

During the first war, Wilbur calls him a little lizard snake thing, to which Dream responds “I’m powerful” [clip]. Which is strange and kinda sad to me that despite being called an actual animal(s), one more importantly often representing evil like Lucifer the snake, he doesn’t counteract it. Maybe because he’s tired of Wilbur calling him similar dehumanizing terms or tired of arguing with Wilbur in general, since everyone believes him anyways. Regardless, he instead rephrases Wilbur’s words - maybe I am a lizard or a snake but you better not step on me because I am venomous and powerful. Which aligns pretty well with his monologue [transcript] where he talks about “Do snakes just bite?” or is there a reason. Because maybe he can’t change Wilbur and Tommy’s metaphor and maybe he can’t change the label of evil despite his attempts because everyone believes them instead, but maybe he can try and use their own words to defend himself. Maybe then they’ll see him as an actual person. {or not…}

[spaciebabie]

something that has been happening 2 me frequently for like years now and i have no clue why b/c irl i look like the most normal person on this earth

[sycamoretrees]

i see you sanada...

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[slayerdurge]

i gotta say i do love durge & minthara just standing in the corner cheering on astarion as he ascends. best enablers in baldur's gate. 💖

[vaguely-concerned]

it's so interesting that gideon opens his heart so quickly and completely and irrevocably to twig, while regarding mishka -- a parallel little sister/kid figure with some worrying hag magic attached, who also is in a situation similar to and has overlapping trauma with his own; they both have the scars of manacles around their wrists and are exploited for some inborn capacity other people want to make use of -- with such measured distanced distrust. and any reason you want to imagine there makes so much sense! it could be it's just too much like his own situation and he can't go there without getting into contact with things in himself he'd rather not feel or remember. might be instinctive flinch-away from still dealing with what happened to twig (and then jabberwock party wipe horror on top of that as a further attachment anxiety booster -- he didn't see kremy die since he's the first to go, but he sure gets to hear the story afterwards), and not wanting to risk that pain again so soon. twig meeting him at a moment where he was ready to let someone into his fiercely guarded in-group, and mishka didn't? just plain differences in personal chemistry (again... mishka is a lot like him in a lot of ways. perhaps. too much for comfort from some angles)?

if his trauma brain has decided that NO I've got kremy under one wing and twigsy under the other and sorry kid I only have two fucking wings, nothing is ever going to take this from me again while I'm alive to fight for it (the way they took my dad and my home and all those years of my life)... biggest FAIR ENOUGH GID! AS YOU WERE GID YOU DO YOU GID!! in history honestly even if it is a bit unfair to mishka