#and another guy got SHOT

[metaphysicae]

so we started a new campaign! it’s a custom system my partner built and to say i have been obsessed is an understatement.

[bother-blame]

KASUGA ICHIBAN AND ERIC TOMIZAWA | Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth

[elvisqueso]

"...What is it?" "The drums...they mean trouble. I shouldn't be here—" "I want to see you again—" "I can't—" "Please don' t leave—" "—I'm sorry." "..." "...I have to go now."

—Pocahontas (1995)

[cherrysodabear]

🔪'I know you're there..'🔪

[daily-hanamura]

[todayisafridaynight]

sometimes i get nishiki i really do

[bbq-potato-chip]

I hate this stupid copyright ad-filled internet. 5 years ago i could look up an anime episode on youtube and watch it (although it might be dub and grainy quality). now when i look up anime on youtube its all youtubers "live reactions" with the actual anime footage censored so they wont come under copyright. The one account that had all of the botw soundtracks on it was taken down and the only way i can listen to them is via CD. i hate it here

[electoons]

another day another taco bell drive thru murder-suicide

[spookythesillyfella]

they should make a don't hug me im scared where they kill colin the computer with hammers methinks

[girlwiththegreenhat]

you know what? at least he got his wedding. i guess ,

[bison-appreciation-club]

well i watched the last of the mohicans. the handsome man fell off a cliff. i am devastated. what did i just watch

[allthoseotherworlds]

It's honestly pretty frustrating sometimes how I feel like so many people say they love Martha, but mostly what I actually see people saying about Martha is how much she probably does/should hate the Doctor for not returning her crush, or sometimes how much people hate Blink/Family of Blood/Last of the Time Lords because they were hard for her.

And like, the former of those is frustrating because a) Nobody is obligated to return someone's romantic feelings, b) Being oblivious to someone having a crush on you might suck for the other person but is not actually a moral failing and c) Martha was sad about it but like. She didn't leave because she was furious at the Doctor for not returning her crush? She left because she knew her crush wasn't reciprocated and wasn't going to be, but couldn't get over it on her end while travelling with the Doctor. And also because the past year had been pretty traumatizing for everyone, including her and also the Doctor and also everyone else who was on that ship thing.

Anyways

I just wanted to talk for a bit about the things I like about Martha, or that are interesting, that are unrelated to those points above.

I think she's the first companion in New Who to join Unit, and I think still the only one to be a medical doctor with a strong scientific backing. Which is cool!

I think it's interesting that in the first episode she appears in, her family is shown to be kind of messy and kind of frustrating, and it feels like that's something she's a little glad to be getting away from for a bit when she travels with the Doctor (though it's not the reason she travels with them). And then, at the end of the season when her family is in danger she prioritizes their wellbeing enough to snap at the Doctor about it. If I remember correctly their phones were tapped or something and it wound up making things a bit worse, but I appreciate the nuances of her relationship with them and how important they are to her despite the messiness.

Despite all the ado made about her crush on the Doctor, I really loved how she really seemed to get the point of travelling with the Doctor. I think that she nailed both the joy and excitement of the unknown, and the compassion and sense of care that motivates the Doctor's travels, and which I think is vital to all of my favourite companions.

It also contrasts in interesting ways with how her personality shifts after she stops travelling with the Doctor - she still cares about people's wellbeing and seems to value the things she learned while travelling, but working with Unit and Torchwood does make her more military, and then of course doing freelance alien fighting (? or something?) in the End of Time.

I think Martha and the Doctor are an interesting duo because they contrast each other in interesting ways. They're both compassionate, hopeful but practical, and good at what they do, but they reflect those qualities in ways that almost, but don't quite, fit together nicely. They don't conflict, really, but they're not quite sustainable either.

They work well together and care about each other, but they're too similar in some ways and too different in others to ever quite see eye to eye, which is why they end up going in different directions. And I think that's not anyone's fault, or indicative of any deep flaws in either of them. Or even really a tragedy, because Martha seems to be doing new and interesting things every time we see her, with plenty of options available and a decent rapport with the Doctor whenever they show up.

Anyway this got way longer than I meant it to. Tldr: There are so many more interesting things to say about Martha than just "She must hate the Doctor". Here are some of them.

[13eyond13]

I don’t like Mello. I’m not crazy about Mikami, and Matt is hardly a character to me. This is one of those opinions that is common for casual fans to have but makes people more involved in the fandom very mad. I get if you’re spending hours and hours thinking about characters, you’re going to come up with more in depth personalities, romances, headcanons, and motivations for them. That’s fine and part of the fun. I just think you have to know not everyone is going to share those headcanons especially if they don’t draw from canon. .

I agree with most of that tbh! I think Mello just annoyed and bored me much of the time when I last read the manga (his plans were way too repetitive and not that entertaining or clever after his initial hijacking of the notebook to me, and then I felt like we rarely got much deeper insight into his character's thoughts and emotions that I could warm up to him with more either).

Mikami I liked a bit more in the manga than the anime for sure, and his weird suggestive long-distance chemistry with Light in the manga was maybe one of the funniest/most embarrassing things to me to watch aside from Lawlight. But he wasn't a character I found easy to warm up to either, and I don't spend a lot of time thinking about him or seeking out or making stuff about him myself.

I feel like we've covered Matt thoroughly enough in the last few asks already, but agreed he's just not that interesting to me hahaha 😆

send me your biggest "fun police" takes and I'll post em

[lord-squiggletits]

IDW1 must take place on an alternate Earth where no one has ever heard of ACAB and everyone wears "thin blue line" merchandise because there's literally no other way that a single Autobot killing a USAmerican cop in self defense would be such worldwide news that even Mexican journalists would go "OMG???? You like, killed a cop?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?" and it wasn't even framed as like, "you killed a human," the phrasing every time any character talked about it was very specifically "he killed a cop".

The cop was also threatening to shoot a group of surrendering/not-attacking/injured Autobots btw which is just the icing on the cake honestly lmao

[starryluminary]

The two toned hair guy and the scarred cop from disventure camp are kissing and I’m so EXITED

[californiaquail]

do you guys think i can go in to safeway wearing different hats and get 800 different vaccinations and exploit their vaccine coupons forever