#2000 posts i guess

[cowardlykrow]

"Hah, dude doesn't even know he's in my tamagotchi."

[blood-slush]

scraped from an archive of geocitiesghost' blog

[can-a-tuna-fish]

Ongoing idea that the squip can’t control Jeremy while they’re sleeping, so like a week after blocking Michael they start getting dreams about like holding his hand, and they wake up like this every single time.

[liaroflesbos]

oh no this is from 2000, way before Tim's No Good Very Terrible Year where his friends and his ex-girlfriend and his adoptive dad die, and before his biological dad dies, and he already has a complex about people dying on him

[oldinterneticons]

Top icons posted to @oldinterneticons - November 2022

[cosmicrhetoric]

i can never find the gsnk panel that's like "maybe read some shoujo manga and you'll be able to experience emotion" or something when i need it but two episodes of kimi ni todoke reset my brain this weekend

[omnificent-orion]

Regardless of warnings—

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[obrother1976]

sorry for being crazy. but somehow two of us (2000) is a literal, actual movie that exists. insane to me. it sounds made up if u even say any part of the plot out loud. like "oh yeah basically it ends with john talking paul into performing on snl, but then paul gets his guitar from the car and when he comes back john's on the phone with yoko, telling her he loves her and that she's the only thing that keeps him from disappearing, so paul leaves again, calls his wife and tells her he loves her. also after he hangs up he stops smiling immediately and just sort of stares into space. also did i mention that this is the only time either of them ever call their wives the entire movie? yeah right at the end when they separate again." like. what.

[evasive-anon]

Babs little pep talk to herself. 🥺 Babs tells Bruce off so many times, especially in Cass’ batgirl run, that it’s easy to forget it must be hard for her to go up against him too.

Cass’ suicidal ideation was really tearing Bab’s apart. Bruce’s inaction like worked out in the end but like taking the stance of just let her kill herself was pretty fucking wild on his part.

Separately, can’t believe the audacity of this comic they really used the same art of Babs for 5 panels and just the changed the words. No expressions changes allowed in the Batgirl budget I guess. 😭

[crawlingpen]

"use commas" this "learn how to spell" that. you fools. the very core of linguistics is the change that you so despise on account of lacking any sort of knowledge or foresight. you imbeciles. we the linguists laugh at your little commas and dots that you throw around in your playpen. you think it matters? you think any of this matters? the only thing you should even slightly care about is if you can understand or interpret the core of the message. you hold up the punctuation system as you do the values of the past, thinking it sacred, much like a false idol. you will never be free if you dont stop policing the victimless crimes we've made up. you will never ascend.

[emry-stars-art]

Here is the link to the application!!

So there’s this aftg artist *tucks hair behind ear* (it’s princepeachie)

And he’s put together THIS. It’s amazing. It’s thoughtful. It’s affirming and it’s open to You.

So on the tiny chance you haven’t heard about it yet, I want to direct your attention to the Foxhole Fund. There’s already artist introductions and maybe a sneak peek or two over on the instagram account, @/foxhole_fund!

I can answer surface level questions, but most would probably be better suited toward Peach honestly, I’m not too intimate with the details! I’m very honored and excited to be a part of this, it’s the best thing my work has ever been able to help with ☺️ Peach has been very clear that there’s still space open in the applications, and that you can apply no matter who you are! Don’t worry about taking resources for others - as of now, there is more than enough to go around.

Find the Fund’s linktree at linktr.ee/foxholefund (until I figure out why my tumblr won’t let me embed more links) including an Amazon wishlist and a ko-fi you can donate to to help further cover the costs of the project 💕

[tumblingxelian]

Okay so, given Mercury Black's and Cassandra Cain's backstories, what do you think both characters would feel after an encounter with each other where neither dies?

Sorry I've been neglecting asks recently, been kind of down and so just doing low effort reblogs with the occasional burst of energy.

Anyway!

This is a fun and interesting question I actually sought help in answering from but a humble good, who always has good Cass takes and loves RWBY!

Off the cuff and for anyone confused, the characters being asked about are:

Cassandra Cain - who was raised by master assassin David Cain to be the perfect killer. She was never taught to speak and only learned through physical action. Because of this she can essentially predict what a person will do before they act and she is functionally the best martial artist in the DC Universe, or always in the top 3. Said body language reading ability though also means she can experience her targets deaths by proxy which... Yeah basically led to her adopting a 100% no kill policy after her first mission. Thus leading her to running away, living homeless for several years before joining the Bat Clan and becoming Batgirl.

Mercury Black - Like Cassandra his father Marcus Black raised him to be an assassin like himself. Marcus may not have denied his son words but he instead stole the manifestation of his soul (His Semblance) claiming it was a "Crutch" and he would get it back eventually. He never got it back & instead had his lower legs mutilated to be replaced with robotic prosthetics which he then used to kill Marcus. Unlike Cass he's not the best of the best, but is definitely skilled & unlike her he's doggedly committed to the role of playing the villain with a veneer of jocularity he uses to hide that he can't imagine any other life.

Conclusion:

So we have two teens/young adults coming from very similar places as far as what they were trained and otherwise horrifically abused to be, but who ended up on seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum.

Cassandra's reaction when encountering most killers tends to be one of two things. A very stern "You need to grasp the enormity of what you are doing and stop or be stopped painfully." Or "Oh, you actually think this is in someway necessary, please do not do this, there is a way out, there has to be."

She's also very chill with people who did kill but choose not too, she's not... Preachy or judgmental in that sense, doing so would be hypocritical in her eyes.

So she'd likely emphasize a lot with Mercury, being able to see him as something of a "Therefore but for the grace of empathic body language go I." So she'd very much want to both stop him from killing but also show him that he can go down another path.

This doesn't mean she'd be inclined to be a doormat, quite the opposite but she'd definitely be working to communicate with him as much as fight him if she had to.

Mercury meanwhile would hate this. He is deep in denial about himself and hates being read for what he is, as local serial killer Tyrian Callows did in Volume 6:

Tyrian: (mocking) Oh yes, the world is mean, and I'm a big, bad man now just like the others. (laughs)

Mercury: (growls as he angrily walk over to Tyrian) How long have you been standing there?!

Tyrian: All you ever learned was pain and violence, and now you're too afraid to leave it. Such a tragedy.

Mercury: You don't know me!

So while he would see the connection the moment he had any details he'd throw up an aloof façade and claim Cass was weak and lacked the stomach for what he does or something to that effect.

Internally he'd be seething with resentment, or more, a blooming sense of inferiority about how someone who proves his beliefs wrong seems to so casually exists and wants to help him of all things.

He'd not welcome or trust her, not a first at least.

[lenievi]

o m g Javert...

BBC!Javert: What exactly does this woman mean to you, Monsieur le Maire? (>Fantine)

BBC!Javert: That young man... is he a... particular friend... of yours? Would you say he's... dear to you? (>Marius)

bonus:

Malkovich!Javert: What does he mean to you, that young man? (>Marius)

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(context? what context?)

[under--the--radar]

...You know, when I picked up the Dungeon Meshi comic last Thursday from where the anime left off, eager to resolve that cliffhanger, I wasn't expecting to finish the entire manga before the next episode was even released.

[piratewithvigor]

[lunarhobbits]

i find it really funny that allan and midge - canonically married in barbie lore, there was a wedding set and everything - are both in the barbie movie yet have nothing to do with each other and are reflective of completely different eras of barbie (early 60s and early 2000s, respectively)