#a deliberate act

[torsamors]

“Does [the emotion chip] work?”

“No. I am pleased to say it was damaged when I was forced to fire on Lore.”

“Pleased? Data, you've wanted emotions all your life.”

“Yes. But emotions were responsible for what I did to you. I would never risk letting that happen again. My friendship with you is too important to me.”

[Image ID: 5 images with a quote from @archivistbot overlayed on each image. (1) two images, one of data and his father, with his father holding his face. The next is an image of Troi and Data. Troi is hugging Data from behind. The text reads ‘It’s fine if you don’t know why you’re here, but you will.’ (2) An image of Data and Geordi, from the Descent pt 2. Text: ‘Because love is not simply the absence of hate,’ (3) Two images, one of Data holding hands with Sarjenka as he says goodbye and Data holding hands with Lal. Text: ‘It’s a very’ (4) Two images, one of Data helping Geordi against orders and one of Geordi greeting Data at his ‘funeral’ after being saved. Text: ‘deliberate’ (5) Geordi stopping Data from destroying his emotion chip. Text: ‘act.’ :end ID]

[llove-me-anyway]

Buck being held at gunpoint *mildly inconvenienced*

Buck being caught by Eddie on his “first date with a dude” *life and death flashing before his eyes*

[g1ngerbeer]

the most interesting thing about lu guang to me is the fact that he seems so normal and even well adjusted to literally everyone else including people who meet him for like 2 seconds. this is important to me. its important that he has just enough control over his emotions to SEEM like the only sane person in the room especially in contrast to cheng xiaoshis impulsivity. lu guangs skillful approximation of a Normal And Trustworthy Guy is critical because makes the eventual reveal that hes batshit fucking insane and putting himself through an infinite evil hell grief time loop for his doomed qpp even better i hope this helps

[tomurakii]

I like bloodweave. Okay. But I DON'T like the version of them in fanfic where Astarion is a dick and Gale is like. Whining and pleading for him to be emotionally vulnerable (or just. Nice to him) prior to the relationship being established. Because that is just not accurate. Gale needs the player to express interest in him during his weave-teaching scene before he even considers hitting on them properly. Gale is entirely resigned to his fate and needs someone else to pull him away from it. Gale only starts being sweet and romantic and devoted after you accept his love confession and give him hope for the future. Gale says fuck all and then slinks away to cry privately if you break up with him.

Like he isn't chasing after people lmao. He isn't dropping to his knees and crying about anything much less this dickhead he met a week ago. He is overwhelmingly passive about literally everything personal to him up to and including his own death (provided there are no casualties/there is a good reason) until after the player expresses that they care about him. Astarion is not doing that in any of these fics.

Like Gale is friendly and a dork and doesn't wanna get murdered but he fully has a suicide plan. He thought the artefacts would help him survive but he didn't believe he'd ever truly live again. If Gale confessed and Astarion said/did like one (1) mean thing afterward Gale's romance is closed off forever. He's wandering into the forest to cry. He's killing himself immediately. His fragile ego and self worth can't take it. You have to understand that when we joke about him being pathetic it's not bc he's like. Sopping wet and chasing people down and begging for a scrap of attention. It's because he craves affection but would literally rather die than ask or even hope for it until someone else forces that hope back into his serotonin-deficient tadpole brain.

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[red-moon-at-night]

I find it so SO interesting that as soon as Kazui's breaking their marriage vows and revealing his true feelings (literally tearing apart the dove), the wife is already falling off the balcony

Her hair is fluttering in the wind. The apple fucking splatters on the ground this whole sequence is so visceral I'm spinning it around in my mind. Kazui views his truth telling as a violent act, the killing blow.

[hollenka99]

What I thought Bad Touch was going to be: Siffrin is going to finally grow comfortable enough to be touched more and he's going to finally tell Isa that it's cool to touch his shoulder. It will be a really nice bonding moment between them. I can't wait to reach this part of the game :D

Bad Touch:

Me: D:

[treasureplcnet]

btw i love revenge stories i dont think anyone should ever move on peacefully. a bit obsessed with the way weissman went to the synagogue and rabbi and asks, "my choices killed a child. would god take mercy on someone like me?" and the rabbi says "it's not god's mercy you should look for. its the child's" and like you think that would spur this man into charitable activities and to maybe look out for orphans but instead he goes on a 24 hour revenge bender that ultimately ends in two revenge killings and his own death. what's better than righteous anger and wrath and love twisting someone into the worst but also a truer version of themselves <3

[thewertsearch]

@ramdomartkid asked: What are your fav panels so far? :3

Man, that's tough. For now, let's pick two per Act - the funniest panels, and the prettiest panels. You'll have to click through them manually, as Tumblr got a little quirky with the formatting.

I'll leave Act 5 until it's over - mostly because Act 5 has so many amazing panels, we're going to need a full post. You can really see how Hussie developed the comic's style over time.

[talistheintrovert]

there's something so inherently queer in the way The Eighth Sense is being acted and ESPECIALLY in the way it's being filmed, and the cinematography and editing choices that keep taking my goddamn breath away.

the almost pain in the longing of short, broken glances to avoid being caught staring, the eyes darting over his whole face instead of lingering too long on his eyes or lips, the tentative broaching of conversation and testing of boundaries that only happens with that level of anxiety in a queer relationship

the constant fear of "what if he's not?" "what if i'm mistaken?" "what if i step too far?" which straight people rarely have to worry about, because at worst if you ask another straight person out you'll get meanly turned down, but if you're queer and you ask a straight person out the reaction could be SO bad, so you're scared and you're withholding but you're just WANTING

there are whole scenes where their friendship is clearly blooming and they both forget their sexualities and they're just having fun like they do with other people

and then there's always a moment where it THUDS back home again. the wetsuits. the showers. outside the bar. on the beach. where they're both so clearly HYPERAWARE of themselves and each other and feeling so exposed and so so scared but still desperate to be near each other

jaewon and jihyun are in parallel states of just YEARNING so badly that it makes my heart ache and my breath catch every time one of those scenes appears

[elveny]

You know that scene where Renna connects the power with Egwene and leads her to ignite the tree?

Her voice is so gentle, she's smiling, looking for connection, tries to convince Egwene that, see, isn't this better? The two of us connected, me guiding you? Doesn't it feel good?

It nearly makes you forget the sentence that started it.

"Look to the tree, Egwene, I know it gives you comfort."

There is nothing in that cell but the cursed pitcher of water she can't touch, the leash, and the armband that kills her if she comes too close. The one thing that gave Egwene the tiniest of comforts was looking at the tree.

And Renna makes her destroy it.

[torsamors]

- Slaughterhouse Five x Star Trek: The Next Generation

[image ids: five images from the star trek film Nemesis with a quote. (1) Geordi and Data walking, their backs to the camera. Text ‘And Lot’s, wife of course, was told not to look back’ (2) Data, turning his head towards Geordi, who’s out of focus in the background. Text: ‘where all those people and their homes had been.’ (3) Geordi, looking at Data, who’s now out of focus. Text: ‘But she did look back.’ (4) Geordi, looking at Data for the last time. Text: ‘and I love her for that.’ (5) Data, looking at Geordi for the last time. Text: ‘because it was so human.’

[gatalentan]

LISA ANN WALTER on Melissa Schemmenti 📺 SAG-AFTRA Career Retrospective (x)

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Obviously the structure of an episodic series often requires characters to go from 'complete strangers' to 'close friends/family' in an unusually short amount of time. I get it.

Writers need a 'new guy' in the group to ask questions about the setting that the audience can't, but still (especially in comedy shows) want the fun dynamics that come from all the main cast knowing each other super well. It's one of those functional tropes like L-Shaped Blankets where you're required to suspend your sense of disbelief.

Having said that, I love when writers choose to take this trope and retroactively justify it by later on revealing that the Seemingly Normal Everyman Character is actually as unhinged as the rest of the group— it's just that their weirdness manifests specifically as an ability to form found family dynamics with literally any group they join, almost immediately after joining.

Like, you assumed that they just fit in so well because your group has a special vibe, but then you accidentally left them in the supermarket for like five minutes and by the time you realised and went back they were already Blood Brothers with the cashier.

Characters who are like friendly dogs in that you can put them essentially anywhere, with anyone, and they will just be like “welp! Guess this is my New Family now” and just go along with it.

[hesgomorrah]

something so special about watching old tv shows do shit that would be called queerbait if they came out today but they predate queerbaiting as a phenomenon so you know it's genuine home-grown all-natural free-range homoeroticism

[normalbrothers]

ARTHUR: Well, he's been different, you know, since the war ...