#and. obviously. i'm winning at that

[vulpinesaint]

did you guys know that the gay bar is so awesome actually

[autisticrosewilson]

"Oh Steph wouldn't like Jason just because they have similar backgrounds because he kills people/is a criminal/fights the bats!!"

This is in the 90's BEFORE he even tortured her. She doesn't go through with it, but she sees the evil he's capable of and its enough for her to justify it. She only doesn't because it "goes against what Batman taught her" but well.

That's the same man who would let her dad's friends infest her house for MONTHS until BLACK CANARY came to Gotham and handled it

A grown man who would go on to verbally degrade her, withhold the tools he gave everyone else, keep her intentionally isolated and then use her lack of resources against her.

So yeah. I'm sure Steph's faith in Batman and his teachings have wavered plenty. Just because DC casually discarded the way she was treated so she could play happy family with the boys, but she has NO REASON TO. Before she was aged down there was definite tension between her and Tim, and while Babs worked to get that relationship back, Bruce did no such thing. "Oh I'm just as proud of you as I was with the boys" when he thought she was dying doesn't fucking change how he treated her.

And of course, there's her own forray into betraying the family and being a criminal in The Next Batman series.

That's without getting into how she was compared to Jason, the way she watched a murdered east end kid be toted as another violent, reckless, idiot who didn't think and got himself killed.

"Oh but he tried to kill Tim!" First of all, you didn't read that comic. Jason was TESTING him, they were 2 years apart MAXIMUM, and Tim FOUGHT BACK. Jason gave him a little cut and a nose bleed that he slapped a bandage on and was fine. Damian also started his first meeting with Tim antagonistically and even though he was actively hostile to her, Steph still formed a close sibling bond. Her first meeting with Tim she threw a brick at him. He spent a not significant amount of time belittling her and telling her she wasn't cut out for hero work when she came back. This is the same guy who hallucinated Jason just so Jason could be like "Oh I got myself killed don't be like me!" Can we be real she doesn't give a shit. I guess you could count Hush but. I know they retconned it so that was Jason but when the fuck would he have had the time to do that between death, catanoia, the All-caste, and his murder tour.

Stephanie understands better than anyone that desperate circumstances lead to desperate people who do bad things. Stephanie understands being belittled and compared to a rich white boy who never had to fight to survive like you did. She understands being isolated from the hero community. She understands the evil that exists and the ways the system is corrupt, and that the bad guy never STAYS caught. And it's not like she has any big problem with people who kill, Babs said in 90's she would fucking LOVE Joker to drop dead and Dinah has killed multiple times. She literally switched places with Lady Shiva? These are both women Steph looks up to. You don't think Steph would feel any admiration at all for someone who gave Bruce a taste of what it feels like to be shown up? Someone who made Roman's life hell? Someone who made Tim put action behind his shit talking? An alley kid who came back and refused to be another statistic, who showed everyone who spent the last decade calling him stupid and reckless EXACTLY how cunning he can be? None? At all?

I just find it a little hard to believe.

[theroboticxyz-art]

perhaps a trade would suffice?

[astersofthesky]

Is it just me or does "ghost" L looks more soft and serene and pretty in this or it's just Light romanticizing the heck out of L in his imagination.

This scene happened 10 days after L's burial, meaning they stayed there for 10 days straight. What if the reason he asked the task force and Misa to live in an apartment because during those 10 days, he kept seeing L's "ghost" wandering in the headquarters.

Literally like this, he'd see L sitting in on his chair. He'd see L on the bedroom they shared with. He'd see sugar cubes stacked on each other and sees L putting another piece in it's tower.

Probably explains the dead eyes, those soulless, empty eyes. He is being haunted, not because of guilt, but because he actually misses L's presence (but he's too prideful to admit it) so this feeling of missing him reflects on his eyes. Light looked like a walking dead man in here.

What's even crazy is that Light blatantly mourns for L that even Ryuk notices.

Just look at his face. It was as if he's fed up at Light for just moping for days now. The way he asked, "Is your score finally settled with L?" appears he's hinting that "Are you done being depressed over your dead rival? Cause I'm starting to get bored af."

Which works in Light's favor because he now atleast a more concrete reason to dedicate himself to judging criminals because if he doesn't, Ryuk can just kill him. And he won't have his work thrown out the window just because he keeps on seeing L's ghost and feeling depressed at the sudden emptiness in his life.

Light, you are such a loser / pos

[tornado1992]

I get the appeal of Sonic the Hedgehog being its own urban legend in his world (IDW can we now call it earth) like, a blue blur that appears out of nowhere, destroys some robots, maybe picks up some wildflowers while he saves entire civilizations like it's just a walk in the park and just a few people get as much of a glimpse of him from up close (and that means you're also getting a close glimpse to this week's god of destruction so maybe be careful with that)? it is really cool, but the side of Sonic that is well renewed, the one that it's known by the world as a protector, a hero to some level, the side thay annoys restoration members, the side that gets recognized by the masses, praised by children, feared by villains and admired by almost everyone to a certain level... one that is big enough for him to get bootleg merch? It's just really funny to me like

Popular is an understatement

[melkor-did-nothing-wrong]

Soooo if we operate under the assumption that they circulated any form of currency... do we think that Utumno/Angband coins had Melkor's face on them, on account of him being the ruler orrrrrr...?

[tempests-bards-and-birds]

please god make the "three time winner of the best bard of mondstadt" one of the earliest pieces of evidence we got for the samsara without us knowing it at the time because it would be so fucking funny

[binnybinnychickendinny]

i actually think daily about the fleury/binner almost-fight bc. okay so obviously the consensus among every nhl fan ever is that they should've been allowed to fight right lmao. but what i think most people do not realize is that allegedly the fight was planned. from before the game even started. because binner and fleury have a friend or trainer in common or something? and binner knew getting into a fight was on fleury's bucket list and he was like "sure man i'll get into it with you if there's an opportunity" and then he saw fleury skating down the ice and was like "oh yeah okay let's go" and then the refs wouldn't let them. like everyone looks at it as "oh just jordan binnington being jordan binnington and fleury was going to kill him about it" and there's definitely a LITTLE of that but they also both wanted to get into a fight just for the hell of it LMAO. i totally understand why fleury didn't share that with the reporters immediately afterwards (and neither did binner, this is from an interview he did that i assume most people have not seen) but it is funny to me that the surrounding context is less "binnington being insane and fleury being the saint that he is deciding to fight him in that moment" and more "binnington being completely willing from the start to get into a homoerotic goalie fight just bc fleury wants to"

[mirnirrr]

Who gets the Astral Vulture's Crimson Plumage? 🤠🍷🟩🟦

[bagheerita]

So I read A Stitch in Time and one result of that which I was certainly not expecting was that I feel so much sympathy for Enabran Tain. Garak's life is a tragedy, but Tain's is a fucking black comedy.

I mean, he's a terrible person and an absolute shitbag, but can you imagine? You have this kid. You go to all the trouble of arranging for him to be raised in a family situation where he won't be rejected from society for being your bastard. You get him into the nicest indoctrination school where he can hobnob with plenty of uppercrust kids. You get him a job in your Order and all the proper training. And he's actually, like, really good at it. But he has this fatal flaw of being completely incapable of not making stupid, short-sighted, emotional decisions.

A scene I imagine has to have happened just prior to Garak and Tain's confrontation at the end of part II:

Like goddamn. When Tain asked "what's your plan for getting rid of her husband?" and Garak's just like "plan what plan." Dude. I'M disappointed, I can only imagine the guy who's job it is to know and plan for everything isn't at least as disappointed.

I know he didn't actually, but do you think there was ever a time when Tain wanted to be like, You know what. Just go back to Tolan and become a gardener. Join that illegal hippie cult. It's fine.

[the-physicality]

can i give a suggestion to the new york sirens marketing department? i know the topic of attendance has been beaten into the ground [and there are a lot of factors outside of the FO control], but have you considered, now that you are playing in an nhl arena, the premise of comp tickets/cross promotion?

start by giving all the local kids teams bogo tickets, specifically to weekend games

then start handing out comp tickets to *your demographics* at the nhl games or put a coupon on the back of the nhl ticket

go to the gotham games and cross promote there

go to the liberty games and cross promote there

go to exile games [the rugby team] and cross promote there

go to the USL Super league games and cross promote there

pull up to the wnba draft

when i say cross promote what i mean is give soccer/bball/rugby ticket holders a 15 or 20% discount on your tickets

not all of the seasons overlap all the way but there's a window for sure

get people who regularly travel to watch ny sports in jersey/ women's sports invested in the team

ads on the PATH?/busses/NJT?

tiktok microinfluencer ads? [is tiktok still a thing? i haven't used it since before the ban]

get on a touch more/ do a live event, maybe at build? [does build still exist? and everyone goes home with a free ticket]

do a sponsorship at a queer bar.... signature cocktail, let's say the ambulance [for siren, get it?] or hat trick [for hockey] or siren song [a little on the nose imo but still valid i'm sure] Do this specifically in preparation for the pride game??? do a coupon for a stamp? or a discount code?

ambulance would be probably a dirty shirley temple or some kind of sangria [come to think of it ambulance might not work bc it's kind of like shouting fire in a movie theater] [also it is red which is not a ny color]

hat trick - a triple long island iced tea [this is a lot but so is a hat trick] or maybe a flight of 3 shots? [tough in a club setting for sure]

siren song would be a frozen marg with triple sec [blue] and green liqueur swirled in [this might be called an earth marg but that's what it was called when i was in college] OR it would be a trash can [you know where they just mix a bunch of alcohol in and it's blue also they put a little mermaid charm in it to customize] [or the trash can could be the hat trick]

main point: get your target audience in the door by meeting them where they're at and then keep them with the product and experience [which will be better with more people]

i am convinced that people would go if they knew about it, they just don't know! and it's your job to let the people know!

[anghraine]

It's honestly kind of funny to me that catapulting into Kirk/Spock shipping has launched my usual "meh, not into jealousy as a metric of romantic love" shipping tendency out the window and instead I'm genuinely charmed by the extent to which they reflect the same unhealthy seething jealousy.

This is most obvious with Spock, but you'll get McCoy joking about Spock falling in love with a computer (not an android, a stationary computer) and McCoy being A Normal Guy Joking About His Friend Having a Hobby is immediately contrasted with Kirk's barely repressed jealousy (you can all but see him thinking "time to talk another computer to death" while McCoy just laughs at his own joke about it). Kirk gets more and more generally insecure until Spock publicly declares that, while he does like an efficient computer, Kirk is irreplaceable and he doesn't want to serve anyone or anything else, and Kirk looks like he's about to kiss him on the bridge.

(Kirk still talks the computer to death, btw, for plot reasons. But big "Edith Keeler must die" energy.)

I also enjoy Kirk's horror/outrage at Leila Kalomi and her obvious gloating over "taking" Spock from him in the docility sex pollen episode and Kirk's willingness to do or say anything to get Spock back vs Spock bleeding intensity throughout "Requiem for Methuselah" as Kirk falls in love with Rayna, then Spock numbly listening to McCoy's speech about how he can never understand the glories or agonies of romantic love triangles or passionate love before waiting for him to leave and then wiping Rayna from Kirk's mind. Just two bros who are totally normal about each other!

[posallys]

okay not to like bitch and complain about nothing but it really is such a weird experience being a consistently high-performing student to the point it's expected because for example my last orgo exam grade got put in wrong and it was in as a 79 but it was supposed to be a 97, and I was freaking out because as a former gifted kid a lot of my self worth and identity is founded on me getting good grades. and I was having a small little panic attack thinking I did "bad" on this exam and my friends were either like a) why are you freaking out it's not that big of a deal or b) oh don't worry she probably put the grade in wrong! you couldn't have gotten a bad grade you don't get bad grades!!!! and it's like neither of those are actually comforting because somewhere along the line people stopped telling me "good job" and the "good job" just became the expectation and praise turned into jokes about "wow you could have done better" when i'd get like a 98 instead of a 100 and so a lot of my formative years were spent trying really fucking hard to get 100s on everything because I physically could not get better than that and so people would have to tell me that I did a good job and so now I have intrisically tied my worthiness to my grades and like yeah I know that even if it WAS a 79 it was not the end of the world but then there's people at that same table who were like "but you just don't get bad grades that's not possible" and so I'm there with two possibilities. either everyone thinks I'm stuck up because I'm upset with a grade a lot of people would kill for in that class, or the opposite and I'm like disappointing people because "it's just not possible" for me to do bad. anyway like it's not that big of a deal but even professors will make comments sometimes like "yeah I had to check the name on this paper because I was surprised you missed this question" like yeah me fucking too I guess. i wonder what my life would have been like if people didn't stop telling me "good job" when I was 7 years old. i wonder what it's like to not care. anyway if I had a therapist they'd be hearing about this.

[revvethasmythh]

Thinking about returning to the Lighthouse after picking up the weekly groceries and how it's gotta be like, "oop, excuse me, Lucanis! I am here to restock your Bedroom, don't mind me." Like, the concept of the Panty-Bedroom(TM) is killing me currently. Imagine getting hungry in the middle of the night only there is A Man in the pantry standing between you and Midnight Cheese Snack? Imagine being the Man whose bedroom is the communal food pantry for eight weirdoes in the Fade? What levels of insane must your life have reached for you to be either of the people in this scenario

[blamemma]

the epitome for me of this being a fake championship battle that f1 are trying to push so that they can sell more tickets, is that they're out here publishing max v lando points graphics when babes.....lando could really quite easily lose p2. if ferrari are quick (praying), he's under serious threat of finishing p3 behind charles in the wdc. the points gap between p2 and p3 is tighter than p1 or p2. but can't sell a championship battle that way can ya boys. anyway. vamos ferrari.

[corey-wh0re]

Return To Silent Hill (2024) | written by Christophe Gans, Sandra Vo-Anh, & Will Schneider & directed by Christophe Gans