#also let me tell you

[fallencelsetial]

I’m gonna be cringe for a second but I have not stopped thinking about it since last night. And I’m just like…metaphorically cuddling Garu.

As someone that has trauma induced memory loss, I’m just really latching on to the boy.

[zhoufeis]

Truth be told: I am very certain that the only people who enjoy the ATLA live-action are those who have never had the pleasure of watching Asian dramas.

[heyclickadee]

I actually really like this moment for Omega.

Because let’s put aside the fact that Crosshair has his own whole thing going on here for just a moment. Yes, he’s angry and hurting and lashing out and wants this kid to just leave him alone so he can get back to sulking and having suspicious headaches (tm), and if you’re only viewing this from a Crosshair-sympathetic, “what about the chip?” standpoint, Omega shooting back like this can seem kind of cold, uncharacteristically obtuse, or even like the writers are using Omega to tell us that Crosshair’s just a bad person end of story. But I never really took that this way.

Look at this from Omega’s perspective. She’s thought of the guys in the batch as her brothers for most of her life, and she may have heard stories about them time and again, but she never really met them until that day in the hallway in Aftermath. I have to imagine that she sort of built up her expectations for what they’d be like and what actually getting to meet them would be like in her head. And, for the most part, meeting them goes really well. Okay, yeah, Hunter does try to brush her aside at first, but he kind of makes it clear that it’s only because he doesn’t want her in any danger or getting into trouble. Once they get past that, though, Hunter, Echo, Tech, and Wrecker take to having a new baby sister like a duck takes to water. She’s one of them, and they make sure she knows that.

Aaaaaand then there’s Crosshair. He’s snide. He’s mean. He makes it clear in that scene in the brig (before she sits down to tell him that what he’s going to do isn’t his fault) that he’s not that happy about her being there. And then later on in that same episode, he tries to kill them. He shoots Wrecker. But hey! She knows order 66 has just happened, she’s assuming his chip has just activated, and that he’s not normally like this.

And then every time she sees him after that, he’s shooting at her and the rest of her brothers, or telling his men to aim for her specifically, or giving the orders to fry them all alive in an engine, or shooting at them again. He takes Hunter prisoner. He does his absolute best to make it sound like the chip never mattered in the first place. That he had it removed before order 66 even happened, because he’s vague enough about the timing that it’s plausible from the character’s perspectives. That he chose to leave the team for the empire, that he decided to try to kill them multiple times, that he willingly gave the order to burn them all alive inside that engine.

And then! Despite all of that, Omega is nothing but kind. She gives Crosshair, someone who from her perspective has willingly tried to kill her more than once, every benefit of the doubt. When Tipoca City drowns, she saves his life, and doesn’t get angry when he doesn’t thank her. He’s meaner than ever and Omega’s still able to see through it enough to understand that he’s extremely not okay. So when he goes over to be alone after arguing with Hunter about the empire, she goes over to try to talk to him. She even shared some really personal information with him:

She’s trying so hard to build up some camaraderie and make Crosshair feel like he’s not alone, or like he doesn’t have to be. And, again, from Omega’s perspective, this is a guy who’s tried to kill her and the rest of her brothers more than once, who never once thanked her for saving his life, who’s done nothing but snipe at everyone the whole time, and who’s not been shy about insinuating that he doesn’t really want Omega around. Omega would be well within her rights to just leave Crosshair to stew, but she doesn’t. She’s still being kind and still trying to get through to him. Crosshair’s response? To throw her kindness right back in her face. To cut right across a tender spot in her heart and say that she doesn’t belong with them, and that she never will.

To be completely clear, this isn’t an anti Crosshair post or anything like that. I love Crosshair, I’m looking forward to his inevitable redemption/recovery arc, and I’d also make the argument that pretty much everything Crosshair says to and about his siblings in “Kamino Lost” is projection and that he’s really saying it about himself, BUT. Still. Back to Omega’s point of view; what Crosshair says in response to her opening up about why she wanted to find them is a cruel thing to say. So. Good for her for immediately shutting it down and letting him know that she’s not just going to put up with him being an ass. Good for her for coming to realize that sometimes the people you love and the you want to look up to can let you down. Good on her for getting that he’s not who she expected him to be, that she doesn’t have to make excuses for him, and that she doesn’t deserve to be treated this way, whether he has an excuse or not. And maybe her response isn’t the best thing to say and maybe it is Omega losing her temper a bit, but good! Good on the writers for letting a little girl character lose her temper a bit. Let her be angry.

But anyway, that’s sort of how I always took that moment where Omega tells Crosshair that she was wrong for thinking it was the chip the whole time; that she’s hit the limit and she’s not going to put up with it anymore, that she’s sort of taking him at his word about the chip, and that she’s probably talking less about him sticking with the empire and more about him acting like a complete asshole, and I like that.

(And another thing I like? Crosshair seems to get the message. I might be remembering wrong, but he doesn’t actually get on her case about anything after this.)

[doyouknowthisdisabledcharacter]

Hey what DC characters have been submitted so far (specifically for the comics)? I'm trying to avoid repeat submissions.

Here’s a recent list. TBH I don’t think we’ve probably gotten any new submissions on top of all those and I hate going through the DC submissions (there are many, they all have variable labeling) so there’s not any additions to that.

[sodacowboy]

I cannot shell out ten bucks for a crochet pattern but fuck!! there’s this one pattern that has a section that looks like water caustics and I really want to incorporate it into my shawl pattern!!

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)

I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.

On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.

But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.

And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.

When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.

Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.

[wizzard890]

before twitter goes, here's my favorite tweet of all time

[nikkisticki]

RULE

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

[cozylittleartblog]

Columbo and the Knight (1984)

put me in the universe where Columbo ran through the 1980s and had a crossover episode with Knight Rider. I think they deserved it, and I am not just saying that because they're my two favorite Old Shows. @telebeast wrote a little fanfic blurb about it and I HAD to visualize it into a comic (which is also the longest comic I have finished thus far at five pages...), so writing credit goes to them.

Autism W!

[asteroidaffection]

curvy curly

[khaopybara]

❝You said if I graduated as a doctor, I could ask you for anything, and you'd give it to me. (...) I know now what I want. (...) I want you.❞

SONYA SARANPHAT as PLENG SADABPIN and LOOKMHEE PUNYAPAT as WAN WANWIYA episode 1 of AFFAIR

[allgremlinart]

high school theater is so funny cus like. one year you can have the most cunt wrenching performance of Phantom Of The Opera ever brought to life by 17 year olds and the next year. a really mediocre rendition of Seussical The Musical.

[koobiie]

i love boys in a car simulator

the first pic is a redraw of an in-game selfie! here's the original:

[speench]

nsbu fans listen to me, listen, most of the cast hasn't had an Ify moment yet where they talk directly to their ?? alter egos?? and before we see dynamics unfold with other characters I need everyone to consider: Liv and Kingskin as unwilling father and his newfound ride or die child trope that is all

[electrozeistyking]

"She's Gone"

This bad boy was started on the third of November, and finished on the seventh. In total, there are thirty panels (all of which were drawn separately).

A good chunk of N's dialogue near the end came to me after I did some improv to figure out what he should say. I have since dubbed it "N's Failure Monologue."