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[flow2024]

An early review I’m assuming has now been deleted since I can’t find it anywhere mentioned that there could’ve been a better use of Nile and Quynh, the spectre of the big bad immortal undermined the premise of the immortality itself and the main relationships of the first movie. Which doesn’t sound promising. But it also said there were some strong threads of connection so idk. Holding out hope whilst expecting the worst I guess?

i typed out most of this and then tumblr ate it so i'm typing it again and may skim over some stuff BUT: in essence: while i was watching tog earlier what jumped out to me was the fact that despite being a netflix action movie, with all that entails, and kind of generic in places (said with all the love in my heart) tog does have a very strong thematic undercurrent. both in the conclusion the film comes to, which is we're not meant to be alone, and in the way it treats killing with a certain weight that this kind of movie doesn't always do. immortality is an integral part but also not really, in that i think rucka at one point made a comment about it originally being kind of an experiment in being able to kill off characters in various looney toons ways and still have them survive but became a story more widely about life and death and the way death gives life meaning. etc etc. which is clear in the first film, i think, especially with andy's loss of immortality and nile having a bigger role. it definitely fumbles sometimes but overall it's strong and, fundamentally, it Has A Point.

tog 2, however. first off when it comes to nile and quynh: noriko's arc in the comics is difficult to apply to tog 2, namely because it is in active conflict with andy's rediscovery of her purpose which has already happened, and because quynh is too complicated of a character to tie up easily in 100 mins. she's not a villain you can drop 17 storeys and call it a day. her anger is fully understandable. akasha is an easy big bad to have because she will be disposable at the end of the day and therefore leave a neater conclusion. plus andy has already had her purpose arc so introducing akasha means introducing new information (it seems?) which will shift things and allow for the we help humans vs humans suck conflict. etc

i wouldn't be super surprised if they just didn't know what to do with nile. she's a foil to andy in the first movie and helps that arc by setting up a mentor + mentee, ex immortal + new immortal, old + young kind of thing but that arc again is over. so like. beyond her settling into immortality and becoming more integral to the group i don't know how much she's going to get to do, especially in competition with a lot more information and characters in 100 minutes. which sucks because I Want To See My Girl and i think elements of her plot line from force multiplied, i.e. the other side of depends on the century, learning that they have made bad choices and needing to reconcile that with herself could be interesting. i haven't seen any of the clips by the way and if that's where they seem to be going don't tell me i want to go in blind! but yeah. i hope she's there more but if not ill be very annoyed. the being half cropped out of the thumbnail ain't boding well

generally i fear tog 2 is going to suffer from a bad case of missing the point. its general plot seems to revolve around Immortality Information We Don't Know Yet, but again, the immortality isn't and has never been the point. it's a storytelling device. it's used to explore purpose, whether what we do matters, etc. it's Not The Point Of The Story. but from the trailer alone (which may well be misleading, they often are) i fear it's not going to have that same strength in its themes that made the first film stand out and instead become a generic superhero action thing. as a recorded skeptic. i'll be having fun regardless and my expectations are on the ground so if it is good i'll be pleasantly surprised but i also haven't actually processed that the movie is going to be real and on my screen so who knows maybe it'll be awesome. at the end of the day, it will feature The Character on my screen which is really all that matters

[thephantasmalmaze]

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[philologique]

mostly wondering about geographic variation in this but wanna do general poll first just to establish a (heavily sampling biased) baseline

please do not doxx yourself in the tags but if you're a spoon-in-drink person or know people who are i'd love to know broadly where they're from!

[squiretilde]

Elf HRT! Month -2: October

I decided to do my own little spin on @ayviedoesthings' Dragon HRT. This oughta be fun.

First (You're here!)/Next

Also, check out other people's takes too!

@kaylasartwork's Bat HRT

@nyxisart's Puppy HRT

@welldrawnfish's Fish HRT

[punishedgwyndolin]

i find it kind of ironic and funny that “we’re more alike than we are different!!” is the classic creed used to shut down talk about intracommunity transmisogyny when like, 1/3 transmascs will get visibly uncomfortable and freaked out at the mention of the idea that you share a few kinds of dysphoria with them, as if trying to expand their self centered perspective is an attack; like if you say that very intense sudden puberty chest dysphoria is actually a common transfem experience as well and not just transmasc, by virtue of, yknow, not having breasts and being suddenly pushed away from girl friend groups by their classing of male harder than ever before in their childhood. which would be obvious if trans women weren’t a permanent afterthought

[year2000electronics]

WELCOME BACK TO PUPPET HOUR WITH BILL! SAY HI, KIDS!

[unpretty]

I don't know if this even counts as kink taxonomy but this is the only place I can feasibly complain about it so here goes: so I stumbled across weird audio only hypnosis porn. As one does. Turns out it doesn't really do anything for me sexually BUT oh my god it functions as the most effective guided meditation I have ever come across. Traditional guided meditations never work for me but a woman with a nice voice gently domming me into relaxation? Magical.

Except then they usually try to get you off through the power of hypnosis (does not work for me) or it ends up being some other kink thing when I just want to be dommed into actually letting the tension out of my shoulders for a change. This is the stupidest problem I have ever had.

akljasdlkjasdkl as someone who specifically can't listen to guided meditations because of my 'who the fuck do you think you are' impulse this is so funny to me. i feel like there must be some kind of hypnosis asmr on youtube that would work because they can't get into porn with those but youtube asmr is a taxonomy hell all its own. SOFTLY SPOKEN WAS SUPPOSED TO MEAN YOU'RE NOT WHISPERING YOU FUCKS WHY CAN I HEAR YOUR TEETH.

[yutokusumi]

anime guys to clip to your bag with all of your trinkets: 1/✧ ↪ tsukishima kei (haikyuu!!)

[creachiergh]

pro tip: put all the women in the 'but i'm a cheerleader' sleeping quarters and see what happens

[salute-desire]

I have zero idea if someone else on Tumblr has uploaded this and I cba to scroll through the tag + I require this on my blog Now

[sodafrog13]

ONE FINAL (for now) ROUND of pngs from recent OFF-icial materials! mortis's promo images leading up to the remake announcement and various sprites from the game! (including a zach i accidentally left out of this post)

some alt/indiv character versions of the promo images under the cut!

[startagainaprologue]

bonkity..... bonkity!!!!

very cute but... sad consequences..

[tamgerinee]

so my friends and i noticed the recent halloween splatfest used particular colors...

[evenmorecrows]

man i love when varric shoots people that are about to betray hawke. just completely on his own he's like Nope nope I'm not letting hawke bad-decisions their way into getting killed by some flaky loser. the second this motherfucker trips my spidey senses its a bolt through the head. sayonara

[hrokkall]

You were created by humans to protect. They died, so you continued to protect—protect everything they hold dear. You rest in the corners of hell that make mockeries of their holy places and tell yourself that you, you are the last bastion of everything they held dear. You are more than a machine, you fight like man—with honor—as you still bow before the thing that claims to be you. It fights like a dog, and you flee. You can't bring yourself to go back and see what has become of the temple.

You have a new purpose now. If it seeks to destroy, you will give it destruction. You use everything that humanity taught you to create, study the curvatures of their statues to weld together a new arm out of the remains of a sentry you mangled (what a worthless, worthless warmachine—knowing nothing but itself) resembling their own. You settle, once again, in a faux temple—this one of golden stone—and you wait.

It arrives. Of course it does. And you rend it apart. Piece by bloody piece. You take apart everything that you hate, hate, hate. It takes until your chest is dented in for the red haze in your vision to clear, to realize the scrap lining the floor is your own.

So you flee. Not in cowardice—you are not human enough for cowardice, you have always known this—but for the most mechanical thought of self-preservation. You flee and it follows, and some sinking feeling knows that the only thing the two of you feel is hunger.

You were never human, nor did you truly seek to protect anything but yourself. You will never know peace, for you were nothing more than a leftover of war.

It hardly matters. You were created by humans to die—and you die like the machine you are.

[mrusheronhiswaytotown]

(visibly sopping wet) Hhello sharvey nation ,