#Fire Solutions

[thefrogwild]

The Spotlight

[chongoblog]

Your AI environmental articles talked almost exclusively about data centers which is also how the rest of the entire internet works. Do you want to get rid of that too?

Incredible that you managed to read through all of those articles in such a short time. It would be a shame if you missed something like this:

There are plenty of other reasons to be opposed to this AI stuff other than environmental factors, too, btw.

[bukashki]

@ninadove YOU.

Thank you for making me appreciate the tragic nature of slithering-out-of-grasp design of Aspik. I could not resist :(( I BLAME YOU FOR EVERYTHING <3

rest of you read It brings the world back into tune

Bonus: A familiar voice

[bucketsfullofyou]

The Elemental Trials ✨

Ft. They did the earth trial but it was empty so now they gotta do a group dance with cute outfits

[ifuckinglovelemondemon-srs]

Do you ever just listen to a song and go "damn this song is so good that i want to inject it into my system"

[jaxi-the-dragonborn]

thoughts on nightwing variants :O

SwiftWings: there's some debate on whether or not they're considered true nightwings, - very slender build, fast and agile in the air (NW kingdom preferred aerial fighters), weak ground combatants, cousins to the RavenWing variant (least connected to the og NW) - longest wingspan, but also the narrowest wingspan. The "tail feather" scales present at the hip in the RavenWing variant merged with the bottom membrane of the wing, causing that spike you see - "tail feather" scales on tip of tail - typically dwell on cliffs - pupils are large and round, iris is typically dark browns, greys and black in color - least amount of star scales

RavenWings: "cousins" to SwiftWings - second largest (on average) - like SwiftWings, exhibit being moonborn with silvery markings on body (like magpies) - has "tail feather" specialized scales on hips and tip of tail - only NW variant where the back scales and spikes merge - pupils are small and round, iris can range from golden yellow to pale green PantherWings: AKA the OG NightWings - silent fliers - strongest fire breath - strongest ground combatant - subtle spots and stripes on body and wings - darkest in color of all NW variants, best equipped for hunting on ground - Diamond pupil- eye colors typically hang out on the warm side of the color wheel, but cool colours have been observed

StarWings: Rarest NW variant - most prominent crest of spikes - most amount of star scales - closely related to OG NW variant - when moonborn, stronger than average powers - shortest but broadest wings - scales reflect the night sky they were born under

[acidhydraart]

LORD OF FRENZIED FLAME

Fanart of the Frenzied Flame ending of ELDEN RING, more specifically its appearance in wayneradioTV's playthrough, featuring his character Willem Dafriend as the titular Lord of Frenzied Flame (in other words, Willem DaFrenzied Flame!) That only really matters for the outfit, with his head replaced, but it's an outfit that happened to look sick in the ending!

[tinfoil-jones]

How does Weirdmageddon happen in the Jerk Ford au?. Does it even happen at all considering.. Ford literally seducing Bill?.

Jerk Ford may have tricked Bill Cipher by rizzing him up charming him back in the 80's, but baby girl Bill was not about it afterwards. The rage and hatred Bill has for Jerk Ford can only be described as 'all consuming and bloodthirsty but also reeking of desperation'.

Weirdmageddon still happens, with the circumstances being different. For one thing, it was triggered by Dipper breaking the snowglobe with the rift in it because Jerk Ford did not tell either of the children what it was, and Dipper wanted to break something Jerk Ford liked because he saw he was getting closer to Mabel, and Dipper was NOT standing for it.

Another thing, on the Nightmare Realm side, there were no major Henchmaniacs who survived to the end. The heaviest hitters on the side of Gravity Falls made sure of that. The heaviest hitters being Old Man McGucket, Stan, and Shifty (Fire Chief Doppelgänger). Below is the how and why:

McGucket didn't need to be driven insane by the memory gun in order to be unhinged. His love and aptitude for death machines is still a major factor even if he did have to keep that side of him more hidden from his wife and children. As soon as Weirdmageddon comes? Oh, he's having the time of his life and getting pot-shots with his death ray in-between shifts working on The Shackatron. McGucket takes out a mix of henchmaniacs because he uses weapons and doesn't parry at all.

Stan is more hardcore than his canon counterpart because he's the one who inherited the murder gene instead of his twin. He really embraces the mindset of "Peace is an option, but never your only option", plus he's so normal and unassuming that combined with his duplicitous nature he is never perceived as a real threat because 'he's just a boring teacher'... Until it's too late. Stan takes out the smaller Henchmaniacs (and then the escaped prisoners) compared to McGucket and Shifty because he's only fighting with brass knuckles, a baseball bat, and whatever other blunt object happens to be in his vicinity.

Shifty is an alien shapeshifter. They technically do not belong to this world, but it's the only world that they know. It's their home. And damnit, they are not letting their home, with their friends and family, be overtaken by some extradimensional interlopers. There's only room for one otherworldly being in this town. The choose to drop all pretenses and fight in their true form, later having 'help' from Steve the Tree Monster.

Old Man McGucket's Casualties

Kryptos

Keyhole

Lava Lamp

Teeth

Stanley's Casualties

Bill Cipher (w/ the help of Jerk Ford)

Discount Auto Mart Warriors (Didn't kill them, just beat them up really bad until they surrendered)

8-Ball

Hectorgon

Amorphous Shape

Shifty's (w/ The Tree Monster) Casualties

Pyronica

Zanthar + Island Head Beast

Paci-Fire

Creature with 88 different faces

The Horrifying Sweaty One-Armed Monstrosity

Although Stan killed only three Henchmaniacs on his own, he was more brutal than Shifty and Fiddleford; he was sticking the bodies on pikes right outside the cabin as a warning to Bills remaining forces.

[aardvaark]

i don’t think we talk enough about how sophie copied her life philosophy from a kenny rogers song lmao. how many times do the leverage team pick her up on trying to pass off song lyrics as advice? or plots of films and books as Definitely Real Anecdotes. like they’re all at the bar telling some scary stories that happened to them and suddenly someone interrupts her like "ohhh fuck you that’s The Cask of Amontillado" and everyone groans. hardison sees parker’s notes from being mentored by sophie and about half of it is (admittedly applicable) paraphrased song lyrics.

[toskarin]

miss Toskarin you’re not convincing me that Skyrim was the ruin of all western rpgs. In fact you’re convincing me that the issues began with oblivion.

I'd better be careful or else I might convince you of my less loudly-held beliefs

[starlight-bread-blog]

My Interpretation of The Last Agni Kai

(Disclaimer: This isn't critisism of Zuko as much as it a small breakdown of the tragedy of the royal family. This post was also editted and it may not appear in reblogs).

Do you hear this language? "The showdown that was always meant to be". It's somewhat true, but I'd argue that it's not because of who they are as people. It's because of Ozai.

It's because they're the golden child and the scapegoat. It's because they've been put against each other by their abuser.

I would argue that she is sorry. She does love her brother, and she didn't want it to end this way. Zuko cannot see that, and he isn't sorry.

In The Beach, Zuko burns a picture of them, as a family.

To him, the picture resresents the perfect past. Before everything went to shit. But he no longer fits there. Even though he's back. He's frustrated, he hates the world, and wants to burn it all.

Especially after he has redeemed himself, he is sure there is nothing for him. His mother is gone, his father is abusive, and Azula: the prodigy, the favored one, who belittled him from the day Ozai began to favor her. She left him in the dust while making it extra dirty. She's barely his sister anymore, she's the untouchable force making his life worse.

In Zuko Alone, Azula practically taunts him over his planned murder.

This is what Zuko sees. Not a human, not a sister, but a boogeyman. After all, Azula always lies. What he doesn't see is Azula's reaction when she realizes the situation is serious. She'll never let him see that.

Azula could have burned the bridge all those years ago, when he was banished. But she didn't. She is the reason he's back home, on that beach. Ozai was her God, she was disciplined to him and only him, even more than herself. And she lied to his face so Zuko could come back home. She's cunning, manipulative and dangerous, but she loved her brother.

Zuko can't see that. Even when "she's slipping", he can't see that. Of course he wouldn't, her love for him is overshadowed by the damage she caused him, and his envy of her. She's above him, the demon haunting him. As Ozai and their history led him to believe. And he sticks to this belief, until it's disproven.

(Author's note: Azula's face here makes me want to cry, props to the animator)

She's human, his sister. And she's trurly sorry it had to come to this.

The Last Agni Kai is a tragedy. It's the story of two siblings who grew up in an abusive household, with a dad who played favorites. One made all the wrong choices, while the other could not fathom the other's humanity. They don't reconcile, they put themselves against each other. Because it's the showdown that was always meant to be. And he only recognizes it wasn't, after it's over. Now, he too, is sorry.

[squeakyleftsneaker]

You survived, gj🫡✨️ Thoroughly enjoyed your descent into hell. Once again, just straight up ignore the fandom (even this message if needs be). Fandom is not what it used to be thanks to the hell shippers of this fandom, particularly the kl*ncers. The Lance stans are insufferable, and their hatred of any ship that isn't KL is well known. It's thanks to them that any ship in general they Personally Do Not Like gets labeled Literal Pedophilia/Basically Incest. Watching Voltron in its heyday was exhausting. Their hatred of Shiro and Allura are well documented, shoving them into Space Dad and Space Mom roles. They hated how close he was to Keith and would spam LOVE THOSE bROTheRs on every social media site to make people who never watched believe they were actually related and have that gutjerk reaction of disgust. They made a whole ass fuss over Adam because he was their ticket for getting Shiro out of the picture. That fuss is partially what led S8 to being delayed and rewritten, and the entire reason for that shit epilogue wedding. They celebrated Allura dying so Lance could be with his ~One True Love~ a heavily fanonized Keith to go with their langsty altean prince true black paladin bisexual king self insert.

SO I let this sit in my inbox for a lot longer than I care to admit. Mostly because I at the time didn't have a great picture for how this all played out, and to be honest I still don't.

I did kind of want to discuss this just bc I was having a somewhat related discussion about a totally different work of fiction (one I may talk about later on here though I am still not quite sure what to do with this blog) and It got me thinking about this message again. Now that I've read the whole dissertation about it, I am kind of intrigued by the mechanisms by which Klance as a ship became so popular.

This may have been the fact that I basically inhaled the whole show over the course of a month, but I never actually picked up on a significant focus on Lance and Keith's relationship in text, though I've been made aware that some of the marketing for the show did lean into it.

This is, however, not super related to what I did want to talk about which is more related to shipping and how we read fiction and interact with it in fandom. I don't think I'm UNIQUE in these observations, no observation ever is, but I do think that having now gotten a slightly better idea of what the show was (and wasn't) I feel comfortable at least getting a sanity check on it.

I, on a personal level, completely understand how someone, in particular someone young, would feel suspicious and RIGHTFULLY uncomfortable with a relationship between two adults with a large age gap who met when one of them WAS a young teenager. That is, IRL, a pretty clear red flag. I get it. I really do. I don't think you, if you're a teenager yourself, should "get over" that feeling of discomfort.

With that being said, I think it's also possible to see why other people in the fandom are, rightfully as well, very suspicious of a group of people who say they're endorsing pedophilia or incest. It's not NEW in queer spaces. It's, in fact, pretty much what ALL queer spaces and queer people put up with. That's what so much anti-queer language and extremely homophobic tradition uses as a bludgeon to devalue queer relationships, queer stories, queer spaces.

Particularly in media, queer stories that weren't allowed to just be queer in and of themselves have historically OFTEN been rejected through the lens of "they're like siblings" or "but it's such a huge age gap," and I think that it is an unintentional, but still real, reinforcement of that language and that policing of morality in fandom that have in general been used to denigrate queer people and queer people desiring to see themselves in media, to be represented, and to take works of fiction that are emotionally significant to them and read themselves into them.

So, yeah. Idk. I can see how particularly young people would be uncomfortable on a personal level with the idea of shipping Shiro with Keith or like. Any paladin. I get that. But I also totally and completely get how that same language and rhetoric around pedophilia and incest being applied to a canonically queer character is like. Very much reminiscent and rooted in a lot of homophobia within fandom. These are in tension with each other.

It is also true that there is a tension in that Shiro and Allura are both very much not white (yay), Shiro is our main character that is canonically queer, and to reduce them to "Space Mom," and "Space Dad," relegating them to non-romantic, background roles feels a little disappointing! Even if that's not the intended effect!

Perhaps more importantly though, they're not rooted in the text itself (which is where we get to the later part of this ask). I don't know a lot about Lance fans as a Culture [TM}, and I will probably not be entirely incorrect in saying that there's all kinds of flavors of insufferable fans (I am one myself), but I do think that this sort of thing naturally arises in a text that doesn't have a whole lot to interpret.

I've written before that Voltron lacks depth. Which means that if you're a fan, if you want to interact with the text, if you want to really discuss the characters, you run out of textual material very quickly. You have to read stuff into it. You HAVE to do a healthy amount of DIY characterization. And Lance is a very natural character to do this with because he IS our point of view character very loosely (though the show does a poor job with this). So I get how that arises, I get how the show itself encourages ~fanon~ over canon because there's so little in canon to talk about.

Sure, in canon for the first 2 seasons and in season 6, the relationship between Keith and Shiro is pretty narratively central. But the writers also totally drop it for ages on end and fail to explore it. I don't feel uncomfortable saying that pretty much every potential ship in the show requires a very substantial amount of eisegesis.

No ship is more textually supported romantically than the others. Not even really the only canon one between paladins, because Lance and Allura have very little reason to be together (deep sigh. Oh writers, oh writers what am I to do with this).

It's very natural for fandom to do fandom things. That's totally fine imo. But I think it's always worth remembering when interacting with others that fanon is. Not textual. You're playing in a sandbox, not doing sand castle archaeology. HOWEVER when showrunners and marketing teams interact with fandom, they reinforce the idea that fandom should influence canon. Choose your own adventure, but for a work of fiction. This is. Something that impacts pretty much all long-running works of fiction. Even if an author doesn't intend for it to happen, if you see it you're impacted by it. It's an inevitability of serialized works. You can see the fingerprints of "Give The People What They Want" all over later iterations of Star Wars.

Ultimately I think Voltron ended up as a perfect petri dish medium for The People [TM] to get what they wanted. Because there was very little in way of canon, because of the compressed timeline of production meaning that there wasn't a lot of time to THINK, and because they kept feeding into it.

But it's still fiction! It's always important to remember that fiction is, and always will be, NOT REAL! You can explore things in fiction that aren't possible in real life. Shiro and Keith or Keith and Lance or Lance and Allura or Shiro and Adam or Shiro and his rando husband who I'm sure he divorced in like a year all could've worked in some alternate reality (not to Slav it up) where the writing had had teeth and substance. And if exploring those hypotheticals makes you personally uncomfortable I get that! I don't read fanfiction (dear reader I am lazy) but if I did I would ESPECIALLY avoid reading Zuko/Katara fics because I feel really uncomfortable with the power dynamic of colonialism present there. That SAID, I don't think that that's a ship that shouldn't exist.

I don't think that shipping that, that wanting to explore that, that being curious about how that could've played out is BAD. It rarely is. And shutting out people looking to explore those dynamics is a great way to breed resentment, and a great way to reinforce the rhetoric of people who want nothing more than to shut Those Freaks up. Be wary of the language you use. Do not echo the language of homophobes. Particularly when it comes to your textual interpretation of a work with ultimately SUPREMELY LITTLE interpersonal depth.

Therefore I SHALL be writing a 500,000 word Shiro/Slav fic because you know what character DOES pull the drama out of Shiro? THAT'S RIGHT BABY! Because I need to be exceedingly clear here duh and obviously I am not gonna write that shit I am nowhere near funny enough for that

It's all made up, dawg! What you make up does matter, but how you handle it matters just as much, if not more! Voltron accidentally created a pro-colonial clusterfuck where none of the characters really know each other, but I'm sure you can see how the same exact elements of the show could've done something genuinely interesting and unique!

Fiction is, at its core, a place to explore things that aren't real. You can have some things that make you uncomfortable, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are fundamentally immoral. And I would caution greatly against shutting down exploration and creativity.

[foxika]

commander fox job description. im begging please read the rest of the job details it's so funny

from this twitter post. caption reads: "Found the worst job ever (£28k a year btw)"

[anabetel35]

The Magnus archives more like the marson archives because. They commit like so much arson in that podcast it's crazy

[peaches2217]

I am clinging to this post like a life raft right now. Y’all know exactly who I’m picturing.

[nightwonder7]

Willow Don't Starve 🤝 Florian Identity V (this isn't a request i'm just saying i think they would be pyro bros)

MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!!

Orphans ✅

Set fire to their orphanages ✅

Raging arsonists ✅

Together they would be a force to reckon with, that's for sure. Crazy how I ended up in both these fandoms.