#but i wish it was more prominent

[standing-bears-dont-run]

I miss these two dorks.

[suspendingtime]

KATE WEEK 2024 [6/7]

Day 6: “N” - NERVES ↳ Kate and Mary, bathing in BRIDGERTON 2.07 ‘Harmony’

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Preview of the runner up results from this poll. I wish everyone who wanted to see more SVSSS characters from me a merry "I'm So Sorry'.

[bruhstation]

We all love train Yaoi but....what about train Yuri? (Amazing art BTW. I literally gasp when i SEE it in My dash , especialy your Gordon pieces)

train yuri.... heh.... lemme interest you in a couple. actually this gave me a slap that I gotta get back to the yuri grind

[selkiewife]

“I wish...”

A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords, Tyrion X by George R.R. Martin | Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in GAME OF THRONES: “The Laws of Gods and Men,” Season 4, Episode 6 | Alice in “Vinegar Tom,” by Caryl Churchill.

[pianokantzart]

Reading an interview with the developers of Mario Tennis Aces and...

... asdfkjlkj help.

[arthur-kilgore]

So here’s the thing about chapter 6 that has plagued me for months now; I thought I noticed a difference in Arthur’s appearance between my first and second playthroughs but I wasn’t certain because I didn’t take a lot of screenshots. For my third playthrough I played it up as much as possible (#2 I took really good care of Arthur, frequent rest/baths/meals/etc, #3 I neglected him as much as I possibly could) and uh, yeah. Screenshots for comparison.

[bonefall]

god if only the fathoms had been more blubbery and manta ray-esque theyd probably be my favorite. as it stands? aethers and snurges.

REAL. I really love the Fathoms and they're going to be super concentrated in my lair, but I do wish they'd been more fat. They fill the niche that I like about Fae with having such huge wings with a fresh coat of paint-- but maybe I'm just forever longing for a modern version of Dusthides lmao

I hope at the very least, the actual art closer resembles Merriqan than the preview divers in the event. I love her smooth, chunky neck and that thick, almost bogsneaky arm.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville's] piety as queen seems to have been broadly conventional for a fifteenth-century royal, encompassing pilgrimages, membership of various fraternities, a particular devotion to her name saint, notable generosity to the Carthusians, and the foundation of a chantry at Westminster after her son was born there. ['On other occasions she supported planned religious foundations in London, […] made generous gifts to Eton College, and petitioned the pope to extend the circumstances in which indulgences could be acquired by observing the feast of the Visitation']. One possible indicator of a more personal, and more sophisticated, thread in her piety is a book of Hours of the Guardian Angel which Sutton and Visser-Fuchs have argued was commissioned for her, very possibly at her request."

-J.L. Laynesmith, "Elizabeth Woodville: The Knight's Widow", "Later Plantagenet and Wars of the Roses Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty"

[supercantaloupe]

What is the antisemitism in TUC season 1? Does it have to do with Wally the golem?/gen

[ID: an ask from an anonymous tumblr user that reads "would love to hear more about the antisemitism in unsleeping city! was a while ago that i watched it and can't remember what you might be referencing but definitely want to be aware of it.]

no, it's not about willy the golem -- i actually think willy is a great addition to the season (even if i wish we got to see more of him), and an indication to me that brennan/the showrunners were definitely trying to be sincere and inclusive. i want to make it clear that i don't think anything antisemitic in tuc is there intentionally; i think it's there out of simple ignorance, which is also why i think fans don't frequently see/comment on it either. but i don't think that's an excuse, either.

my grief with tuc1 is largely centered around its portrayal of robert moses as the villain. especially by making him a greedy, power-hungry lich working en league with bloodsucking vampires. (also his mini is literally a green skinned skull man in a suit. yikes.) here's the thing; i know robert moses was a real life horrible person, who actually was racist and powerhungry etc etc. and i know that robert moses, the real actual person, was jewish. my grief with tuc1 is not that they chose to use robert moses over literally any other person (real or fictional) to be their season villain (though i'd be really curious to know what tuc1 would have looked like with a different villain), but that they chose to take a real jewish person, turn them into an antisemitic caricature, and then only barely add other portrayals of judaism to balance that out.

like, tuc isn't completely devoid of other jewish representation. as you mention, there's willy the golem -- and again, i really like willy, and i love that it's a portrayal of a golem that's faithful to jewish folklore (ie as a benevolent, guardian construct rather than a mindless destructive monster. i am not a fan of how 'golem' is so frequently misused as a generic enemy creature in other fantasy and ttrpg spaces, including other seasons of d20). but as i said earlier, i wish we see more of him in the season, because he's not around very much, and feels a little more like worldbuilding than a full character to me. also, he's not human. jews are people.

the only other human jewish character in tuc1 is...stephen sondheim. which, again, yeah, that's a real person who really was jewish. but i really wouldn't blame you if you had no idea of that when watching tuc1. maybe from the name you could guess he might be jewish, but i don't think people ought to make a habit of trying to 'clock' someone being jewish by having a 'jewish-sounding' surname. as he's portrayed in tuc1, you'd never know he's jewish, unless you happen to already be pretty knowledgeable about the man in real life. it's far more likely you'll know him as a theater legend than anything else (may his memory be a blessing).

now i'm not saying that brennan or the showrunners should have played up the jewishness of Real Person Stephen Sondheim to counterbalance the depiction of robert moses; that just feels weird to me, especially considering that sondheim was literally alive when tuc1 was filmed and released. it's a tricky thing to portray real people in fiction alongside made up characters, especially when they are contemporaries, and i don't think 'outright caricature' is the way to go about that. nor do i think that moses' jewishness should have been played up at all, because again i don't think that would have been particularly true to the person/character, and also Fucking Yikes. but, c'mon, if you hear the names 'moses' and 'sondheim' next to each other, which one do you associate more with judaism?

and as it stands, these are the only representations of judaism in tuc1. one admittedly nice but very minor nonhuman character; one human character you'd never be able to tell was jewish; and a third human character who, while never explicitly referenced as jewish, plays into some really hurtful antisemitic stereotyping. and it was a choice to not include anything else. maybe not a deliberate one, probably more likely one made out of simple ignorance than anything else, but a choice nonetheless. in a city with one of the largest and most visibly jewish populations in the country, and a culture that is inextricably influenced by that jewish population. a jewish population which has been and continues the target of rising hate crimes for years. i know that nyc means different things to different people, and everyone's nyc is their own -- but my nyc is jewish, and it sucks that that its jewishness is referenced directly in only one very minor way, which is greatly overshadowed by its, in my view, really insidious indirect references.

i don't know exactly how to go about addressing this. obviously, the show can't be changed by now. even if it could, i think the final product would be very significantly different from what it is now if the villain was something/someone else. i think including more references to jews in new york, more (human) jewish characters, hell, even mentioning hanukkah celebrations and menorahs in windows (it takes place in late december, after all; depending on the year it's not at all out of place for hanukkah to coincide with xmas!) would help. having literally any more positive jewish representation in tuc1 would, i think, help balance the bad stuff that's there. because, yeah, robert moses was real and he was terrible and he was jewish. but he's one jewish guy in a city with over a million jews, the vast majority of whom are just normal people. i don't want him to be the only vision of us that people get, in tuc1 alone or in any media. i'm not saying that jews can't or shouldn't be villains in fiction; but especially if you are a goyische creator, you should be really careful in how you're portraying us, and if there are other contrasting depictions in your work, too, in order to not (even accidentally) demonize jewish people as a whole.

[kideternity]

[Image ID: A black and white inked digital drawing of Digimon character Lilithmon. She is wearing a simple kimono holding an umbrella over her right shoulder looking to the right side. Lilithmon herself is a humanoid digimon with four bat like wings, two at the top of her back near her shoulders and two around her abdomen- the two at top have a spike respectively and the two below are longer and bigger and more tattered, with various piercings or jewellery dangling off of them. Her right forearm is metallic and covered in swirly embellishments ending in long claws. Lilithmon has two short curved horns coming out of her head, a fairly extravagant hairstyle with two long bangs coming from her middle part framing her face, the rest of her hair straight falling at the shoulders with a large bun on top, adorned with a hair comb, and other accessories like hair sticks that have a pendent at the end of them which each have their own pair of small wings. Long tendrils come from her hair as well ending in arrowhead tips. She has a relaxed expression on her face, and a bat emblem on her forehead. /End Image ID]

I like Lilithmon a lot

[flea-palace]

he said this im pretty sure

[thewhizzyhead]

I know the reunion concert was literally just 2 days ago but my bros my guys my dudes I miss WATT so so much and I really do want this show Actually Revived because I miss my cheerleaders, pma's stories and music are fucking great and I wanna hear more, watt has so much room for improvement, and I wanna see watt thrive aaaaaaaa

[artaintfartwarriors]

[moondoposting]

i didnt expect to like riri as much as i did, but i need more on her ASAP

[silent-partner-412]

i’ve seen the claims that pikmin 1 has the best pikmin combat cuz you can’t “solve” it. in 2, purple pikmin/sprays can annihilate anything. in 3, enemies are generally weaker and the rush + spicy sprays are super powerful. in 4, you have purples (again) and now ice pikmin for what is effectively bitter sprays again, plus oatchi. you don’t get any crutches like these in pikmin 1, which means in theory you have to think more about what you’re doing in combat to kill enemies, plus pikmin die by far the easiest in 1 compared to the other games in general combat encounters.

except… in practice i really don’t think this made the game harder. enemies still didn’t tend to be super tough as long as you accept that casualties are inevitable. i don’t have a ton of experience with pikmin 1 but when i played it recently i found it to be a very comfortable ride, not a lot put up a ton of resistance even if more pikmin did end up dying compared to the other games. if anything combat to me feels worse in pikmin 1 cuz the ways you can break it in half in the rest of the series are fun to me.