#also one of them is an ecoterrorist

[kidspawn]

for the soft asks:

8, 22, 27 pls!!

for the "things that remind me of you":

TRC (obvi) & weird dream-core art (idk why, but it just does, maybe because of the colors of your pfp). you also kind of remind me of someone I went to high school with, but, like, much much nicer and less judgmental <3

8. What's a fabric/texture that's nostalgic for you?

My mom has an afghan I have an odd emotional attachment too. My baby blankets are made of the same material, so ofc I sleep on them. Any big knit blanket/scarf/hat.

Idk if it counts, but sand too? I hate the feeling of it, but I grew up going to a lot of beaches in Hawai'i and sand just clings to every bit of you and descends from the oddest nooks and crannies for up to a week after you swam in the damn ocean. Peak existence is a prison.

22. Name of your favourite playlist?

For my playlists: I keep a monthly playlists of my favourite songs at the moment, but considering those have boring names, here are a few others: "screaming, crying, throwing up" (all my fav rock/punk music), "[internal monologue]" (making a playlist like i'm a YA protagonist), "healing the world....(with comedy)" (several bo burnham songs), "let's go let's go dateko!!" (anime themes)

i listen to a lot of character playlists. someone sent me a "tim drake kinnie (derogatory)" playlist and to them i say: i will find you in every lifetime (threat) <3

27. Do you like to garden? Have you ever grown something?

In theory, I'd love to garden actually! A lot of my extended family gardens, I appreciate it from a practical standpoint, and it's a controlled activity where you can dig your hands in the dirt. I grew up making hydroponic systems with my school, and if I had the space I'd do something like that with relish. It's good for food, and I have a use for my leftover coffee grounds!

When I still lived with my parents, I grew garlic and tomatoes and green onions. (I accidentally grew a tomato patch and had to rip all the vines up from outside bc my propagation went to well *sobs*) I rescued a basil plant from work, all that. But now that I'm moved out, my apartment is unfortunately just too small and my cat too prone to jumping on things and demolishing them. Love her. My succulent is dead because of her. His name was Steve. RIP Steve I miss you everyday.

AND THANK YOURGEHJN Especially about dreamcore. I have noticed I like dream-related media tbh. The irony is not lost on me. I hope everyone thinks of TRC in conjunction with me. It's my life goal. Fun thing not to diminish your correlation of me with your old peer, but I actually get that sentiment a lot. I'm not sure what it is but I often hear like... "oh you remind me of my childhood guy friends but not a raging misogynist" or "you remind me of my childhood friend but [x,y,z]". I find it interesting and a tremendous honour, actually.

Thank you so much, I hope you have a lovely day <3

Ask Games

[frownyalfred]

i feel like the whole “Ras wanted him as heir to the League of Assasins” part of Bruce’s backstory barely being a footnote half the time or just reduced to “trained overseas” in Bruce’s brain half the time when his history is being recounted to the reader is so funny to me.

Ra’s probably thinks he’s always on Bruce’s and Bruce is sure laying in bed regretting not accepting Ra’s teachings. On the other hand, if Bruce is not thinking about a case and is ever thinking about his years abroad its max “hrm, i should ask alfred to make some mulligatawny soup. that was some good soup”

and like the dad he is, he never considers elaborating outside of “traveled abroad”. if it werent for talia and him dating in front of him, dick wouldve had no idea

not to mention, the JL knows even less. if u told them “batman almost became heir to the league of assassins, an international ecoterrorist organization when he was, like, 20” either the majority straight up would believe u were fucking with them or would just sigh and go “of course he did” (*cough*clark*cough*)

It’s one of those things that’s equally unbelievable and also wholly believable. Oh he was a potential heir to the League of Assassins but turned it down because that wasn’t his style? Sounds like B. He was one of the best fighters they’d ever seen and managed to beat every single person in the LoA except Ra’s? Sounds legit. He had a relationship with Ra’s Al Ghul’s daughter and got secretly married and had a kid? Sure, I guess it sounds plausible.

I think Ra’s showing up to chat with the Justice League like some chatty in-law would be hilarious. Just showing off pictures of 20 year old Bruce and wistfully talking about the days when Bruce didn’t immediately throw a batarang the second he saw him.

[sapphiregem01]

Why not check out Pokemon villains/Antagonists?? We’ve got-

- A literal mob boss (who’s got like half the regions gym leaders working with him in the manga)

- Ecoterrorists going through a divorce (and are making it the entire regions problem)

- Some depressed 27 yr old guy (I stand by the fact that many of Sinnoh’s problems could probably be solved is Cyrus just got therapy and good meds)

- A literal cult run by a manipulated and heavily abused twink who’s been tricked into thinking he’s doing good and his abusive adoptive dad who’s just down right insane and literally attempted to kill multiple children MULTIPLE TIMES (and if I remember correctly actually like destroyed a city??? Oh and there’s this scientist they work with who’s committed(/commits) war crimes)

- Pokemon H/lter who’s into fashion and a REALLLLY old king-guy who committed genocide over his flower (also the ecoterrorists again but now they’re somehow gayer with better designs)

- Aliens from another dimension, an abusive milf, some middle aged(?) dude and his gang, and basically all those past villains but again and from different universes (including the scientist but now he’s on your side and stops his old boss from killing a child)

- Louis the XIV (Edit Elon musk sorry gang wrong villain) who heard the sun was gonna blow up in like a couple trillion years and threw a hissy fit (Also some girl’s brothers/fanboys/fangirls Ig)

- Some bullied kids and the Professor’s AI who’s only against you because the dead professor programmed them to only continue on and protect their life’s works rather than like take care of their son who’s your friends and an orphan now (oh and also some kid who’s life you like kinda shattered in the dlc)

- And finally one of the most feared champions ancestors who’s literally attempting to dethrone actual God from the Bible with the help of literal anti matter

[boylied]

Animorphs Reread- The Message

I've been sick all week, but Cassie is here to heal me. Let's get into it.

These early books all do a great job of showing us what the kids would prioritize their powers for without the war. Rachel and Tobias become ecoterrorists. And Cassie investigates what's been eating her animals.

Also the first sign of Cassie having Magical Powers.

I don't know how much time has passed since book 3, but i love that Cassie and Tobias are all jokes now about him eating live rodents.

"I would be glad to give him a picture of me in a dress or something" -GIRL PLEASE

I know that the group (esp Rachel) can get antagonistic with Marco, but we have to give it to him here. He didn't get overly defensive or combative. He knows why they're acting this way towards him. And he just comes out and reassures them that he's on their side.

And the yeerks begin to suspect that the "Andalite Bandits" might actually be humans. I forgot that it was brought up this early in the series. Because these kids were thoughtful, but early on they really weren't as careful as they should have been. Truly the only reason their secret went on for so long was that no one was brave enough to tell Visser 3 he might be wrong.

As a kid I always had more of a crush on Marco. But the way Cassie talks about Jake? I get it girl. 13 year olds are swooning.

Wait. This farm has been in your family since the Civil War? Putting aside the theory that these kids are somewhere in California (not canon. i get it). You're telling me that this Farm has been in Cassie's African American family since the American CIVIL WAR??? Sure, Let's not explain further.

Cassie's book is also the first time we get the dialogue over the ethics of morphing. I understand some of the hate Cassie gets, but honestly, when people complain about her always talking ethics? Get over it. It's a good thing. These are middle schoolers. The fact that they're having discussions over the ethics of taking animal dna, cloning that animal, and then mind controlling it? And then the variances depending on which animal/their intelligence level/asking consent? We should want our kids talking about this kind of thing.

"We can all morph fine" -oh the humility. a humble queen. but no Cassie. You are an artist sculpting a beautiful pot, and the others are kindergarteners smashing clay into makeshift ashtrays that their parents won't use.

It's bittersweet how these kids only get to act like kids by giving in to the dolphin mind.

Hold up, THIS is when they think of using the morphing power to heal? I guess it is? Their missions so far have been failures, but they haven't involved near death injuries. This is a bizarre realization.

I really love this moment between Cassie and Marco. Cassie is often portrayed as this wise earth mother type. But here we get to see that this is a major growing up moment for her. She needs to start making active decisions, and not just letting other people take responsibility. The war makes this transition a bit more life and death than most teenagers get, but still necessary.

This plan! This is the one. They're finally being smart about this. Morphing gulls to get a ride on a ship? Resting before going dolphin? They're finally thinking strategically.

Ax's introduction is just so beautiful. He's a child, raised by a militaristic education system during wartime. And now he's alone and afraid and trying very desperately to impress and assess these aliens who in a matter of minutes have just told him that his older brother (the War Hero) has broken their most sacred laws and was murdered by Visser 3.

This is also the first time we hear the black and white version of the andalites vs yeerks. I know that the truth is much more complicated than what Ax is saying. But right now, it's just a group of kids talking. One side is fighting to save others. One is fighting to destroy others.

And there we have it. The team is all together finally. A lot of firsts in this book that I had forgotten about. I'm excited to re-experience these kids integrating Ax into the group. Also, grateful for magic talking whales.

[thinkingabouttimdrake]

firm believer of talia being a good person cuz the debate between nature vs nurture i believe in nurture and damian us a good kid + LoA being ecoterrorists with ra appreciating the living world so much (mans literally crying when he “witness an extinction”) and being a talented sultan physician + scientist, wife guy, girldad etc

im not saying ra is a good person just that hes not cartoonishly pure evil AND HE WOULD NOTTT KILL AN ANIMAL for training purposes this mans killed his own people for harming a tiger

like he can be batman's antagonist for his methods but he doesn't have to be a pure evil person like this was one of bruce's teacher and also father in law who supported the relationship cuz he loves his daughter (i consume canon very selectively do not fight me on this i will not change my mind)

also its more interesting story wise like give them depth and dimensions i am tired of ANOTHER middle eastern old guy being the embodiment of evil like give the guy some legit reasoning, and i feel a bit meeeh with the white family saved boy from his brown family who he's had to cut off forever and so they don’t have to explore his complex cultural identity as a mixed kid (especially between two VERY different cultures the settling period was crazy cuz mans just experiencing culture shock and whiplash from the shit weather)

give damian a complex relationship between his two families like give mans some longing for his mother, happy with his dad and brothers but mans missing the days in the sun, the league’s botanical gardens, animal conservation, the food,….

conclusion: my take on the al ghuls, not crit of fanon but of canon because they made a legit awesome storyline and pulled the rug

[galaxymagitech]

So i too want to play with bat thematic

For the anti-honesty ask game, can you tell me about batman's children?

Of course! Batman (who has taken on the legal identity of Moose Wayne—no one expects the man named after a moose to be Batman!) has many children, but only three of them are legally his.

Barbara Gordón is Batman's only biological child, conceived during Captain Gordón's affair with Batman. Batman and Captain Gordón fell in love when Batman, still somewhat feral from being raised by bats, bit Gordón. Gordón then made a joke that neither of them can remember, but they both swear was hilarious. For the first time in his life, Batman laughed. He briefly became the Batman Who Laughs and traveled the multiverse, but Gordón cured him and they got married (and then later divorced). Barbara is a technophobe and likes to live in the rafters of libraries, hanging upside down like her Bat father does.

Stephanie Purple is Batman's adopted child. She is a metahuman with the power to spoil any milk—which is where she gets her vigilante name, Spoiler. When Steph was younger, she didn't have control over her powers. She constantly spoiled all the milk in the house, so her father gave her up for adoption. Bruce, being lactose intolerant, adopted her and inducted her into his bat cult.

Wayne Thomas is a kid that Batman adopted because he needed a normal kid to round all the insanity out. Wayne Thomas is Very Normal and would never jump off a bridge. He is constantly horrified by his legal and emotional siblings' antics.

Batman also has many children that are emotionally his, but not legally:

Ric Gayson, also known as Robin, was raised by robins. One day, while the robins were migrating through Gotham, a parliament of owls (one of robins' natural predators) came by and ate the entire flock of Robins. Ric Gayson swore eternal revenge on owls. Moose Wayne also hated owls because they are bats' natural predators as well, so they worked together to rid Gotham of owls. When that was done, he emancipated himself, because he ended up hating Moose Wayne for trying to make him shed his mantle of Robin and become Batboy.

Todd Jason Peters was raised in Gotham High Society. He is terrified of cars, because they go very fast. He is also terrified of bats. Batman keeps trying to kidnap adopt him as a replacement for Ric, and Todd Peters uses his immense wealth to take on various false identities, all of which Batman finds with his amazing intellect. His nemesis is Jimothy Drake, who uses his computer skills to help Batman crack Todd Peters' false identities.

Jimothy Drake was raised by ducks. His parents left him to take care of the house alone at age three, because three is Very Mature and Practically an Adult. Tim wandered into a duckpond and nearly drowned, but the ducks saved him and raised him as one of their own. But because he is a genius, he magically developed a working knowledge of English and hacked into the pentagon with a computer made of mud at age 7. He is obsessed with Todd Peters and blackmails Batman into letting him help track Todd Peters down.

Damien al Ghoul is the sweetest cinnamon roll who would never hurt a fly and hates violence with his whole soul. This is at odds with his ecoterrorist family, so he leaves with a tearful goodbye and a declaration that he will save the Earth through peaceful means. Jimothy Drake, who wants to save the ducks from catastrophic global climate change, is Damien's BFF. And since Damien is BFFs with Jimothy and Batman wants to adopt Jimothy, Damien is Batman's emotional child.

Cass Kane is Batman's niece from Canada who was also raised by bats. Unlike Batman, though, she was raised by vampire bats. Batman constantly has to hold Cass back from killing people and drinking their blood. She speaks English and French fluently, and is in fact a debate champion. She has magic empathy powers and an emotional IQ of 190.

[daemonmage]

I keep thinking about this AU where Bruce just stays in college and becomes a doctor but still gets dragged into the superhero world.

Ok so Bruce is a doctor and is known for never turning down a patient because he’s still Bruce and he just doesn’t want anyone to die. He still lives in Gotham which is still a horrible place. He still tries to help Gotham by donating and creating his Wayne foundation but it’s hard because the inherent corruption in Gotham hinders anything he does this way.

The mob is still super active in Gotham and a lot of Batman’s rogues still happen because a lot of his rogues just happen with or without Batman. Poison Ivy still becomes an ecoterrorist. Penguin still becomes a powerful mob boss. Mad Hatter is still just the worst. Tommy probably still tries to kill Bruce. Just so many of Gotham’s rogues still exist, except there is no hero to stop them in Gotham. People try, but Gotham is never kind to any hero. Bruce is immensely frustrated by all this but he can’t really do anything. Hell sometimes Lesly’s clinic (cause I feel like he would work there) gets harassed and extorted to help heal mob members and crime wars. He hates this a lot but he’s trapped. He doesn’t have Batman training or gear, the best he can do is help where he can.

However there are still other heroes in this world and Superman is literally just a quick flight away. The JL forms without a Batman and they see Gotham as a powder keg. So they try to help when they can and sometimes they get injured. It comes to a head when a Metropolis (Lex Luthor specifically) and some Gotham rogues team up to get rid of the main hero pain in their necks. Lex creates kryptonite bullets and disperses them to the Gotham rogues to use. Lex sees this as a win because he can get Superman killed without doing much and the Gotham rogues see this as a win cause they have a big weapon against Superman.

So Superman gets shot at with kryptonite bullets. They aren’t the best so they hurt him but only one really makes it through and hits his skin. He has to call in back up and the JL comes to help. I can image Wonder Woman or Flash getting there first. They have no idea what to do because holy shit Superman was shot. That shouldn’t happen! But they’ve heard of this doctor in Gotham that’s supposed to be really good. Maybe Oliver or Dinah suggest Bruce idk. So they take Superman to Dr. Bruce Wayne.

Dr. Bruce Wayne is at his manor with Alfred and a young Dick Grayson (because I firmly believe Bruce would still adopt the kids) and then there is a knock on the door. Alfred goes to answer and in barges the Justice League with a bleeding Superman. Bruce is immediately on his feet barking orders to the JL to get equipment he can use and telling Dick and Alfred to stay back. He doesn’t know what’s going on or how freaking Superman is bleeding out in front of him but he doesn’t care. Bruce realizes quickly that the bullet is cause Clark more pain so it can’t be a leave the bullet in there scenario. He gets the bullet out and asks the JL how to help Clark heal. They say sunlight helps but this is Gotham! It’s polluted and over cast all the time, he won’t be able to get enough sunlight. Bruce remembers a sunlamp they have from a science experiment for Dick. He tells Dick to go get it and they pray that it works. It does by some miracle, though it’s no substitute for actual sunlight.

The League is grateful for Bruce and Clark is also immensely grateful cause holy shit he got shot. The Justice League has to now figure out how these bullets got out in the first place and well Bruce can’t help but be nosy so he mentions that a few of his patients, the mob ones, let it slip that the higher ups got into contact with someone in metropolis and Bruce knows Lex hates Superman. So he helps them out a bit too.

And after that any time they need help with some medical issue they go to super doctor Bruce. He’s also still Bruce and can’t ignore his detective brain so he helps them with mysteries too from time to time. Idk I feel like this still needs more fleshing out but I think it could be funny. Or sad. Or both.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

https://www.tumblr.com/ecoterrorist-katara/754369556910309376/i-just-think-its-really-funny-that-aangs-only?source=share

Your thoughts?

"he kisses Katara at the invasion" Yes, and she kisses back, and cuddles with him at the end of the episode. Funny how they never mention that.

"When she didn't wanna talk about that kiss, he firebends at her" He firebends at her because Katara was SUPER out of character in that comic, DEMANDING him to firebend even when he was upset, which he knows he shouldn't do, and when he literally has to create a shell to keep HER away because SHE won't leave him alone despite him asking her for space several times, he finally firebends just so SHE will stop harrassing HIM.

"Aang considers Katara his girl" Really? He thinks of the girl that flirted with several times and has kissed twice already as a potential girlfriend? HOW DARE!

"Becomes furios when Actress!Katara doesn't like Actor!Aang romantically" *casually ignores Katara being jealous of all the attention Aang is getting from girls in Warriors of Kyoshi and again in The Headband, and snapping at Aang when he says he doesn't want to kiss her*

"He kisses her again, this time explicitly against her wishes" And the show punishes him for it by allowing her to snap at him, and then he keeps his distance until SHE wants to spend time together again, and SHE is the one to bring the romance talk back up by kissing him.

"Throughout the show, people reassure him that she will come around, continuously reinforcing the idea that Katara is “his” and he just has to be patient" No, they tell him to tell her how he feels and that, IF they are right for each other, things will work themselves out in the end. He's also constantly told that his fate as the Avatar might prevent that romance from ever happening, even if Katara has feelings for him too - this is literally what the Ember Island conflict is all about.

"We never hear from Katara how she feels" Again, ignores HER being angry at him for not wanting to kiss her, being jealous of other girls when they pay attention to Aang, explicitly saying "I never said I think of you as a little brother, that was an actress that doesn't know anything about me", innitiating both their first and last kiss, kissing back on the eclipse episode, etc.

"The friendship is very gendered' *blatantly lies about Aang not supporting Katara just as much as she supports him and about her being the Cinderella of the group when there are several episodes showing us the Gaang canonically splits chores*

(I won't go into the Legend of Korra stuff because I haven't watched it in years and can't remember shit because I hated that show)

"Bryke do not deserve the credit for creating a “feminist icon”" They do, you're just mad ZUKO wasn't the one "getting the girl" because YOU don't see Katara as anything more than a trophy for your favorite male character.

Also, I know this person is trying to frame this as a case of toxic masculinity (as in a guy being toxic because he's holding onto toxic ideas of what "real men" are like, not simply because he is a guy) but the wording of the post is labelling abusive behavior as being inherently a "male" trait, and that is called SEXISM. Don't use words you clearly don't understand, 'cause you'll use them wrong.

[autistichalsin]

So here's a hot take.

I see a lot of people saying that it would be fun to have a way to make Halsin worse. And I agree that it would totally be cool to be able to corrupt Halsin!

However, I don't think his canon arc would make the most sense leading to the Shadow Druids. Those are the tiny hints Larian dropped, yeah- the Shadow Druids being sent by Ketheric to corrupt the Grove to make them less of a threat against him, the Shadow Druids noting they are going to Baldur's Gate next, Halsin's brief moment of doubt that they were right. And a lot of other media love playing the ecoterrorist angle. So I can see why it's where a lot of people's minds go.

But from a characterization standpoint, I can't see it. Halsin dealt with the Shadow Curse for over 100 years. It cursed his home, and his childhood best friend who was the physical embodiment of nature. If he survived literally 100 years of darkness without being particularly moved to join the Shadow Druids, I just don't see how the sufferings of Baldur's Gate would push him into it. Those are much less personal stakes.

So, if we were to get a darker Halsin route, I would propose one of two things;

1. Introduce a failure state for act 2 that doesn't result in Halsin staying behind in the Shadowlands.

The easiest thought is that maybe doing part of the quest but not finishing it would result in him staying behind, seeing that there is hope to break it now, while doing nothing makes him think he's no closer to solving it than he was before, so things are unlikely to deteriorate while he goes with the player to solve the Absolute crisis.

Or if we wanted to make it REALLY awful, make it possible for Thaniel and/or Oliver to actually die, breaking Halsin's heart completely in the process. With his friend gone for good, his last hope gone, and with the Dead Three to blame directly, Halsin could become clouded by grief. Maybe it makes his story mirror Ketheric's in a sad way; Ketheric lost Isobel and became a monster, Halsin loses Thaniel and, while not becoming a monster per se, takes a darker, extremist path to avenging him, vowing to let nature reclaim Baldur's Gate in his memory.

Basically, what I'm getting at here is that there's nothing personal enough in Baldur's Gate proper to inspire such a radical shift. Canon, as it is, lets us see his momentary temptation and go "yeah makes sense" but there needed to be far more if I was going to buy his transformation to a Shadow Druid. This would provide that deep pain that cults are so good at preying on.

2. Similar to the above, but pushing it back to act 1. Make it so that the Grove raid, instead of being triggered by the player directly, can also be triggered by inaction; maybe once the player speaks to Minthara/frees Sazza, a timer starts for long rests, and at the conclusion, if the leaders aren't killed, the goblin leaders show up at the Grove. Halsin being freed already lets him fight on your side to stop them, while Halsin still being a captive lets the raid complete.

Similar to the above, Halsin's rage and grief at the defilement of nature then drives him into it. At first he just seeks out revenge, but later, after seeing the Shadow Curse and having those particular wounds opened back up (this one could proceed the same as canon) he gets pushed into something more methodical.

Shadow Druid Halsin could be a lot of fun IMO, but we would need something more than we have to establish a motive. Seeing sadness in a city for the first time wouldn't be enough to cause Halsin to drop every principle he has about nature being a balancing act between good and evil, darkness and light, order and chaos. For him to be pushed so firmly to an anti-society view, he would need to witness something far worse. So those are the two scenarios I can think of that would give just the little push, the sense of personal, direct harm, that would cause Halsin's morals to shift so drastically.

[19catsncounting]

Imagine if Lucifer got to really be an ecoterrorist in the later seasons.

Like, he's giving up on the apocalypse because it's only a matter of time until Dean and Sam actually end the world for realsies, but in the meantime he'll just fix up humanity's damage to God's masterpiece.

The Winchesters go to Wyoming, sure that there's a whole pack of werewolves from all the reported wolf attacks, and it's just Lucifer, who is just Putting The Wolves Back Where God Wanted Them. (Yes, he did cross-breed SOME of them with Hellhounds because they kept getting shot but It's Fine the ones that hunger for human souls have a 50/50 shot of being sterile)

A thousand-strong herd of white rhino are discovered, and they are not only bulletproof but they can also run at 100 MPH. There are rumors of orangutan tribes that have Fucking Lightsabers.

Lucifer's just making Tiny Adjustments you see. Just making little edits to make sure these beautiful creatures can cohabitate with humanity.

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ROUND 3 MATCH 18

Dys propaganda:

“Autistic ecoterrorist king - not canonically autistic afaik but he's one of those characters where it's like come on. This is basically canon. He's deeply weird and very distant from most people but if you get close to him he's ride or die, he's quietly adventurous, he says at one point that he feels like he was born in the wrong species, in the prepubescent stage of the game one of the default openers for approaching him is that he's sitting there sorting rocks for fun. I love his weird emo ass <3”

“Maybe I just have a thing for sad emo boys but I immediately loved dys so so much. kind of an outcast boy for the entire game, he feels like he really does fit in with the rest of the colony kids and is honestly pretty upset about people trying to industrialize/destroy the nature of the planet they've landed on because he thinks its so beautiful and they'd be best to just leave things alone and let nature run its course. has a twin sister who's pretty much the exact opposite of him and they both have a kind of jealousy about what the other has (dys thinks everyone thinks his sister is better than him and that everyone likes her more than they like him and wants to feel cared for the way he thinks she is. she feels she has a lot of expectations on her and wishes for the freedom she believes dys has with no expectations or eyes on him) however you can make them kind of bond if you choose to. if you dont date him and kind of if you do he falls in love with a humanoid alien on the planet that the player can also date and be in a polycule. i really just wanna give this boy a hug because he desperately needs one”

Nightowl propaganda:

"VOTE NIGHTOWL MY MENTALLY UNWELL MOMMY ISSUES FUELLED PUPPYBOY BOYTOY TWINK !!!!!!!!!!! MY TELEKINESIS THROWS EVERYTHING ACROSS THE ROOM"

"HE'S SO SPECIAL HE CALLS YOU A BITCH LIKE YEAH DUDE I'M ALSO MEAN WHEN I'M ANGRY ITS OKAY HE'S STUDYING TO BE AN ARCHITECT HES CUTE AND FUNNY AND ENERGETIC HE LIKES PLAYING WOULD YOU RATHER AND JUST TALKING AND HAVING GAME QUIZZES HES PERFECT AND HES FLAWED AND THAT JUST MAKES HIM EVEN MORE PERFECR INSECURE BBY MY LOVE"

[adobe-outdesign]

Team Aqua in AS makes a decent amount of sense to me as an ecoterrorist group whose plan is nothing more than “Noah’s flood the world to destroy humanity”; it’s not super well-thought out like it would kill a ton of Pokemon too, but tbf I think they weren’t expecting Kyogre to be as powerful as it was, and at least as a plan it does actually accomplish their stated goal. Team Magma’s plan is what’s really funny to me cuz they actually have to earnestly believe that expanding the land would be a net positive for humanity, like they’ve run the cost/benefit analysis and decided yeah this will work. Just imagine them giving a presentation to a board of investors like “here’s our plan to stimulate the economy and revolutionize industry: MORE LAND”

Also I kind of feel like Archie is the type to not think things through properly compared to Maxie? Meaning that he 100% did the board of investors thing and no one had any issue with it

[honourablejester]

Science Fiction Spaceships That Rewrote My Brain

While I’m in science fiction land for a while, I thought I’d have a look at a pair of spaceships that really blew my tiny childhood mind as a kid.

The Valley Forge, Silent Running (1972)

Silent Running was an environmentalist science fiction movie from the 70s that I watched on late night TV one night as a kid, and it mildly traumatised me, but also fascinated me. The concept of the movie is that plant life on Earth is dying, so a fleet of cargo hauler ships are used to carry biodomes of salvaged trees and plants into orbit around Saturn to wait out the reconstruction of the environment at home. The plot is kicked off when an order comes through from the company to ditch and destroy the biodomes so the fleet can get back to commercial hauling and making money, and one scientist aboard the Valley Forge decides fuck that and goes full ecoterrorist in an attempt to preserve at least one of the six biodomes on his ship.

Your mileage may vary on the plot, and the three robots and their fates may traumatise you, but I just want to talk about the Valley Forge and her sister ships themselves for a moment. Because the idea of a spaceship whose sole purpose is to carry biomes into space blew my mind. I’d seen gardens on spaceships before, luxury spaces and recreational spaces, because people need greenery to feel right, but the thought of a whole ship whose purpose was to carry and preserve plants was massive.

And, of course, the thing with Valley Forge is that she’s not designed to carry plants. She’s designed to haul cargo. She’s a skeletal spaceship designed to be an engine strapped to some struts to attach modular cargo pods to. She’s lean and barebones and brutal in her way. But she was refitted to carry hope, to carry beautiful geodesic domes full of salvaged plantlife and the last remnants of a living planet, to hold them and keep them safe until they could be returned planetside. And that purpose was then betrayed for profit, and she’s hijacked to be the battleground between science and commercialism, and also to be the battleground between the fragile ecosystems she carries and the harsh and lethal environment of space around her.

She just. She made such an impact. Colony ships and generation ships and ships designed to carry the last remnants of humanity are something I’ve seen much more frequently, but not a ship designed to carry Earth. The biomes and plantlife of Earth. To salvage not just the people but the environment, or something of the environment, of our lonely blue ball of a world.

So. All respect to the lean, brutal, commercial skeleton of a ship who carried the last remnant of a dying world in full defiance of her intended purpose.

The Cygnus, The Black Hole (1979)

Back when live action Disney movies got surprisingly dark and twisted. Heh. The Black Hole is a really creepy-cool science fiction movie in which the crew of the space exploration vessel USS Palomino stumble across what appears to be the derelict remnants of the USS Cygnus, a vessel that went missing 20 years ago, in orbit around a black hole. Forced to dock with her after suffering damage, they encounter the supposedly sole survivor of her crew, the scientist Dr Hans Reinhardt, and slowly realise that something extremely fucked up is happening aboard this ship.

Have you ever watched Event Horizon (1997)? Because the Event Horizon owes everything to the USS Cygnus. She is one of the early pioneers of sci-fi horror vessels over here. But the main thing about her, for me, was her aesthetic. Because the USS Cygnus is a frankly stunning looking ship, and she’s focused on so lovingly. There is an absolutely spectacular fly-by sequence where the Palomino first discovers the ‘derelict’ ship, focusing lights on her and flying beneath her structure like a submarine examining a submerged wreck, the starfield lonely and beautiful and deadly behind her, and then as the smaller ship crests over her, she lights up beneath them, abruptly not as derelict as she appears, and it’s the most spectacular moment. I got chills.

She is such a spectacularly beautiful and spectacularly creepy ship. Is her design even remotely practical? Absolutely not. She looks like an evil Christmas ornament or a gothic cathedral, all sparkling glass and dark, delicate metal buttresses. She’s so evil and so impractical. She’s orbiting a black hole, the impossibility of which is a plot point, and she’s orbiting a black hole on purpose, because some really fucked up things are happening on this lovely and oh-so-sinister ship. Seriously, the Event Horizon owes her everything. Her spiritual descendent ship. She’s so beautiful. And so spectacularly fucked up. But it makes for such stunning imagery.

If anyone has ever wondered why I’m so fucking fond of space horror. I’d like you to meet my lady. Heh.

[arach-tinilith]

Cauldron's Curse Session 3

Okay another Naady DND recap for those interested!

The last one is here!

Okay! So for background info, the noble kids that were kidnapped were from this family called the Kaylix's and I'm just now realizing i never mentioned their names lol.

Obviously the group was pretty distracted at the galaKaylizhe Kaylix's were SURROUNDED by other nobles at the time so it was impossible to warn them about the druids who had kidnapped their children and held them for ransom. So the next day, the party decided to show up to their house with the ransom note!

It went poorly.

Naadja set the tone by immediately accosting the butler for daring to look her in the eyes as he was a “slave” and it was disrespectful for a male of his place. When the nobles rushed in to see what was happening, Sevas handed them the ransom note with no other explanation.

So to them it looked like we just walked in, called their skilled worker a slave, and threatened them.

Sevas, charmer that he is, hammers it is by saying “if you ever want your kids back you'll pay them” 💀 which like. Whas never part of the plan😭

So we of course are very very close to getting arrested here, the guards have us restrained (Naadja is STILL flirting somehow) and Melody says that the Sunraes will vouch for us!!

Now, Vila's mom is obviously not a huge fan of ANYONE in the party at this point. Naadja made a huge scene embarrassing her, Melody later chewed her out for being a terrible mother, and lady Sunrae's son, Etmin (previously mentioned to have the affliction 💅) publicly flirted with Sevas. So we're all not on great terms here.

Luckily though, Vila is the one who comes through and lets the group explain what's actually going on.

The Kaylix's immediately call their guards to raid the den of the druids and the party tags along to free the mole as well (because another reward was promised for it🫶)

The Kaylix's rewards the party for telling them where their kids were and the leader of the artisans guilds gives the party a deed to a tavern for tge mole which was NOT the agreed upon reward btw and Naadja was PISSED but whatever 😒

Captain Eska also arrived to the raid and arrested the archdruid teehee. Apparently he was an ecoterrorist using shadowmagic in the name of the nature mother and was robbing people to fund his plot which still hasn't really been revealed to us!

But hey, job well done! They did save those kids which is huge and the mole and took down a shadowdruid circle!

So a local journalist pulled up to the scene and asked them to recount what happened and the group basically gave no answers, Naadja going by the name Janice again since her face was obviously going to be plastered on the news.

But afterwards the gang decides they've all got things to take care of and splits off.

Sevas says he's gotta take care of something alone and Melody wants to explore the arts guild.

So a throwback to this post where Naadja found a chalice with the insignia of house Baenre, right? In the meantime, Naadja's been doing a couple blood rituals and making this chalice into a candle for summoning at night while the others were asleep. But she really wants to know how it even got here.

Naadja finds the source of the chalice- Thalia

So Thalia, we saw in session one. She was the drow in the richest sector. Naadja seeks her out and has a conversation with her about leaving Arbella's (equivalent of Lolth) clutches and starting a new life

Naadja's hesitant about it but Thalia hands her a letter from her mother that states she commissioned a potion from Thalia to make Naadja infertile which prevented her from succeeding her graduation ceremony. At this exact moment, Naadja realizes that Thalia is a hypocrite for telling Naadja to leave Arbella when she's obviously still serving her, and that Thalia has wronged her. So she's planning to kill Thalia.

But first, she agrees to join her assassins guild to get close to her but in order to do so, she has to survive being hunted by the guild

Naadja runs to Vila, asking for her help saying she needs to go somewhere no one will find her. Vila takes her to a magic shop run by a cult called the Seekers. They agree, taking her into a pocket dimension where reality is very thin. She figures she might as well kill some time lighting that candle.

A vision of Sol'axle, her dead consort, appears. He's in the deepest pits of the hells, suffering and writhing in agony. He begs Naadja to rescue him (😬) and says Arazai, Naadja's brother murdered him by poisoning him. He said Arbella, their goddess, feeds on her followers' soul's agony while she traps them in the hells and it keeps her alive.

Then, she had a nightmare hallucination when the Seeker's cumulitive knowledge played chess with her. All I'll say about that is she had a massive breakdown that ended with her sobbing and bursting into the tavern, throwing herself on the table to throw a tantrum.

Meanwhile Melody ran into a couple drow while Naadja was losing her mind. They recognized her as she and Naadja were spotted saving the noble children together. They um. Might be notable Baenre's… you might've heard of them 👉👈

But wait! It gets worse! Naadja realizes she's up against A LOT RIGHT NOW and needs extra support so after resting, she goes back to Thalia to join the vipers and they say “good job but you didnt need to go so hard” and show a decapitated head that looks like Naadja's if you squint. She sorta shrugs it off but realizes that someone outside of the guild was trying to kill /her/ and mistook this assassin as her.

Naadja books it to Karsia, the devil she met earlier.

They make a partial pact- Naadja gets a boost in her magic and immunity to all poison and Karsia orders her to take out hits for her at the cost of a sliver of her magic if she fails

(And of course to celebrate this deal they of course fucknasty which is rudely interrupted when Karsia touches the scar on Naadja's leg. Not happy about that btw)

So anyway! Her first hit is Thalia

Lets cut to Sevas shall we? So a little background on what's been happening with Sevas, he's slowly been making his way up the organized crime circle taking jobs with crime lords. One in particular, Tsarin. She works for Karsia. And Sevas has a new job from Tsarin, protecting Thalia.

[boylied]

Animorphs Reread- The Visitor (pt 1)

Here we go y'all! It's time for my girl! Let's get into part one of The Visitor.

She still feels like a normal kid? That's cute.

"I don't usually turn down a challenge" that's how she starts. She's brave. She stands up when people challenge her. These are good qualities to have. Especially for a girl in the 90s (or now still, if we're being honest). It was the war that exacerbated these qualities. Who would she be if she had the chance to grow up normally? A human rights activist? A politician? Sorry, I'm getting emotional.

Re: the creeps shooting at birds- nvm. maybe she'd become an ecoterrorist.

"Four pairs of shoes for the five of us" - oh she's obsessed this early?

"eyes that seemed hurt and tender and hopeful all at once" -oh she's OBSESSED this early.

It's easy to forget that Rachel had normal insecurities. She was in gymnastics because she felt clumsy. She thought she was too tall to be any good at it. Like she knows that people think she's pretty and she knows she's brave. But she's still a middle schooler.

The kids deciding that roaches are too gross to morph and also possibly useless for spy work is hilarious. But the fact that they ask out loud can cockroaches see and hear well, and then all look at Cassie is Sending Me. And Cassie immediately asks what the hell they're on? Spell it out for them girl. You're a middle schooler who works with injured animals, not google.

The way Rachel describes the picture of herself and Cassie riding horses is interesting. She admires Cassie for being good at what she's good at. She knows that Cassie is a natural with animals and great peace keeper, and she values these qualities. And she knows that other people think of her as pretty and fashionable, but also tells us that she's clumsy and looks like a dork when trying to ride a horse. Even before becoming an Animorph, Rachel values Cassie's skills and does not value her own.

I know she has a valid reason, but Melissa is really giving typical teen angst.

Chapman is just sitting silently in the living room? Doing nothing? Oh he and the yeerk are definitely chit chatting.

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Ra's Al Ghul deserves to be the stranged grandfather of the Batman Rogues Galery. Everyone thinks he is this serious criminal ala More Mafia Penguin but he is an ecoterrorist cult leader girl dad who decided he is also Batman's dad.

He dislikes most Rogues but he still thinks Poison Ivvy is not all bad, sent a check to Harley in celebration for her getting rid of the Joker , sometimes asks legal advice he doesn't need to Two-Face exclusively to "keep him sharp so Batman can also not forget the flaws on the legal system" and gave every single Rogue an "what are your intentions with Batman" talk, he sent a message to the Sirens talking about how he thinks his daughters need more friends. He just vicariously interacts with most of them in a silly but also unattainable way (he is not from Gotham and is more powerful and socially significant) via mysterious notes some Rogues still think are a joke. He is a myth more than man between the top tier of Gotham criminals. He does hate most of them cause he has morals (do they involve thinking that human and animal life have the same measure and people that killed bugs deserve to die? A bit. But he has them), he also cares for some of them in his own way since he has watched them from the shadows for years to make sure they are fit for Batman.

The only time Ra's was somewhere near a Rogue in person was when one of his spies reported to him that Joker was again making "giving them the second Robin death" jokes except towards Damian. Now Ra's fully think Damian would have just escaped and not died. Still he loves the kid in his own way and so he and Talia go to Gotham to beat Joker to a pulp (they tried to kill him but Joker just won't die) before going their separated ways.