#Messaging provider

[seaglassdinosaur]

The affection between Black men in Sinners!

Smoke and Stack hugging and saying ‘I love you’ before they part ways in the corn field

Stack’s excitement and cheering as he listens to Sammie’s music while the two of them cruise down the road.

Delta Slim playing with Sammie and mentoring him by explaining the historical and spiritual significance of music to their community.

The way Smoke and Delta and all the others place their bodies in between Sammie and Remmick when the cards are laid before them, holding out an arm to stop Sammie from sacrificing himself; insisting that they’re going to die before they let Sammie leave through that door.

The protective and desperate way Smoke clutches onto Sammie in the final act; Remmick burning up in front of them and Smoke wrapped around Sammie to shield and comfort him and provide another barrier between them and the vampires just in case.

Stack showing up, telling Sammie he’s been following his career the whole of his life, collecting his albums because that’s his little cousin! He’s known him, they’ve known him, and isn’t it amazing to see how far he’s come?Supporting him from a distance, but supporting him nonetheless.

The option Sammie is given at the very end, and the way his choice is honored. Because as much as Stack (and Mary) love him, theirs is not a possessive love. It’s the selfless kind, that they will not try to hold onto Sammie past his time, but instead make sure he knows how important and loved he has been in life.

[ceescedasticity]

Been reading a lot of Batman fic lately and it's weird to me that— Okay, not that weird. I think I get it, just—

"It is good and empowering for kids/teenagers to go fight bad guys if they feel it's necessary" feels like a significant underlying assumption of much of the source material, like "[these particular kinds of] aliens exist" and "magic is real" and "vigilantism is a good idea". These are things you need to suspend your disbelief about in order to enjoy the source material.

I understand why someone might find the kid heroes thing harder to suspend disbelief on; you can reframe it into a statement applicable to the real world which is a problem if a lot of people believe it ("it's fine to endanger kids/benefit from their labor if they agree to it"). But—

In the setting, "being able to fight bad guys" is often equivalent to "being a person with power and autonomy". In the setting, "It is acceptable for kids/teenagers to go fight bad guys if they feel it's necessary" is equivalent to "kids/teenagers should have power and autonomy". Is this something you want anyone concluding in the real world? No, of course not. But this is fiction.

I don't know, it feels like getting hung up on Aragorn's tax policy, to some extent? Or going to a burger place and complaining the menu is full of burgers?

[haveihitanerve]

Somebody: Jasons so angry and aggressive and kills people- hes the most violent batfamily member Bruce-I-would-have-killed-joker-had-fucking-superman-not-stopped-me-and-I-would-do-it-again-if-any-harm-befalls-my-family-also-i-beat-up-people-daily-as-therapy-wayne: what? Dick-i-was-planning-a-mans-murder-at-age-eight-and-would-have-done-it-also-i-didn't-have-superman-so-i-did-kill-joker-Grayson-Wayne: huh? Tim-My-body-count-is-probably-six-digits-by-now-but-it-doesn't-count-if-bruce-doesn't-know-stalker-Drake-Wayne: repeat that? Damian-i-came-with-the-katana-and-a-body-count-at-age-eight-wayne: what did you say about Ahki? Stephanie-i-will-crack-mad-funny-jokes-while-beating-your-face-in-with-a-brick-Brown-Wayne: waht? Barbara-i-wouldn't-but-like-i-could-and-i-know-you-and-your-entire-family-extending-to-your-great-uncle-thirteen-times-removed-Gordon-Wayne: *typing on keyboard* what was that? Duke-I-created-a-cult-about-robin-and-also-i-was-raised-in-gotham: sorry?

[rookclan]

Time for a Milestone Raffle!

The support I have gotten with this silly clangen blog has been absolutely incredible and I cannot thank you all enough.

So to celebrate this milestone and to say thank you, I want to give back in the best way I can with a blog like this!

I will be selecting 3 winners on 01/19/24 who will be able to make a character that I will place in one of the outside groups of my clangen! They can be in one of the three outside clans, starclan, or even just a loner! They may appear more than once depending on when the opportunity arises in the clangen, and you will be credited for the character whenever they appear!

You may enter two times total, by reblogging and liking this post! You must be following me to enter.

If you reblog to a sideblog, please tag the blog you follow me from! Multiple reblogs from one person only count for one entry.

[amiibo-king]

btw i want to take a minute to tell everyone once again abt my favorite messaging protocol name of matrix (link) bc more ppl need to know about it

matrix is not a single service like discord or whatsapp or whatever but is instead a whole protocol, which means that it's not beholden to a single corporation! similarly to email, you make an account with a matrix provider (or self-host if you're tech-savvy) and access your messages on that account via a client, and you communicate with other people by messaging their address (which usually looks something like @.username:host.org) but in terms of the experience itself, its very similar to discord! you can even set up discord-like servers or "spaces".

its also end-to-end encrypted so there's no chance of fascist governments spying on ur chats... just sayin

[capn-twitchery]

fate has determined grace gets one (1) really good skill. he'd better go get that godawful bohemian renown up, put that guy on the stage

ignore that he'd be too shy to sing in front of literally anyone and this is kind of a useless win for grace specifically :( even when he wins he kinda loses

[conscydraws]

It's finished. My 111 hours long lovesong dedicated to Jusant ~💕

[cajunfoxnight]

So following that, I'm guessing Val is also eats the most

Ah no, that honor would go to Gambit, with Rags making it for close competition 🥲 (RIP Gus's wallet)

[horror-aesthete]

[icylancet]

If you want to get into Enstars lore...

With the upcoming prsk collab, I'm sure it's attracting people genuinely interested in learning Enstars lore. (Or if you're someone who's been playing Enstars but hasn't been engaging in the lore) In that case, do NOT start with the Reminiscence series, but instead, I highly recommend to read the Main Story first before anything else. You can read it through the English server, BUT if you want to know the very start of Enstars lore, read Basic/! era Main Story. (However, the unfortunate side is that Enstars doesn't really allow fan translations...)

You'd see people recommending stories from the Reminiscence series (Checkmate, Crossroad, Element, Marionette, Meteor Impact, Obligatto, etc.), but I highly advise to NOT read them if it's your first time learning Enstars lore — this was my mistake when I was a new fan lol. But if you do already know tidbits about Trickstar and Jin & Akiomi, then I do recommend reading their Reminiscence stories, which are Rocket Start and Guilty of Perjury respectively since it mainly tells their formation and initial dynamic with each other. The other Reminiscence stories I mentioned deal with heavy topics and require knowledge from ! era Main Story, so I really advise reading those first. It would give you a wrong impression of the characters (which is why I didn't like Shu and Eichi when I was new because my introduction to them was through Marionette💔 I'm a big ValkyrieP now though and i also love fine!)

If you want story recommendations for specific units (particularly Valkyrie, Knights, Switch, Akatsuki, 2wink, Trickstar), just send me a DM! I'm super willing to help anyone who wants to learn more about these lovely units

[miitopiaenjoyer]

I feel like Chat would be the type to say some pretty wild stuff when startled. Depending on the situation, I bet they'd either A) yell out the first random message that comes to their hivemind brain, B) yell out all of the messages at once in a horrible, indecipherable stream of gibberish, or C) mash together parts of a bunch of different messages to form a completely new sentence that no one actually said in the first place. I'm sure option C usually just results in absolute nonsense, but on the rare occasions that it doesn't, I bet it's REALLY funny, which is what made me draw this comic, lmao. Poor Magical John probably scares them most often, and has to deal with this regularly without any context.

Transcript under the cut! I know the chat messages are a bit hard to read since I wrote them so small, not to mention all of Magical John's extra letters, so not the best for readability, haha. In hindsight, probably should've used two pages for this comic... Anyway, enjoy! :)

[TRANSCRIPT:]

PANEL ONE:

Magical John: Hey, Chat-

Chat: (STARTLE!)

PANEL TWO:

Chat's internal monologue of messages appears, with some words underlined in purple (marked in this transcript with purple text):

Message 1: WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO KILL HIM

Message 2: WHY did he do that I'm going to SCREAM

Message 3: I have to go die of a heart attack now brb

Message 4: So hungry... Dad plz let us eat :FEED:

Message 5: YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME SKJHJKL

Message 6: WHY NOW YOU BASTARD

Chat: (Slow turn~)

PANEL THREE:

Chat, repeating the underlined words: We're going to eat you now.

PANEL FOUR:

Magical John: ... Huh?

[moleshow]

the 2020s political argument for unionization is that the only activity/location that rivals the phone in terms of time spent is the workplace. once they clock out they are lost to phone

[kod-lyoko]

It's Always Sunny in Pomodoro??

hello, is your hyperfixation on sunny preventing you from studying and doing your work? that's why i hired this mac to stare at you and keep an eye on you during your pomodoro sessions and judge you if you lose focus

[scrambledd3ggss]

HELL FOLLOWED WITH US FANS (and Andrew Joseph white fans in general) IT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED

THERES GOING TO BE AN ANIMATED MOVIE ADAPTATION OF HELL FOLLOWED WITH US