#choices coded

[allaboutlov3]

There is a key difference between making a choice willingly and one that is made out of free will.

You see, Reg decided to get the mark. He thought about it a lot. He weighed his options carefully. He knew about the consequences. Ultimately, he joined them.

The decision was his. And it was made willingly. But that doesn’t mean he chose freely.

[clumsypuppy]

@heropartnerweek 2025 day 4 - beach at dusk

[babacontainsmultitudes]

The first few seconds of every dndads episode: Dungeons and Daddies is RoWdY HORNy vIOLenT podcast for grownups 🤪

The last few seconds of every dndads episode:

[timedyne]

yuzu and citra are dead because the yuzu/citra devs shot themselves in the foot. they continually POSTED footage and updates pertaining to games THAT WEREN'T OUT YET, which gave nintendo actual foothold to take them down for encouraging piracy. this is recorded directly in the legal documents for the case. they also (apparently, this is according to my friend who is more active in the emulation scene than i and i don't know of any recorded proof so take it with a grain of salt) straight up shared links to piracy sites in their discord which is an obvious no-no for any emulator???? and people straight up going on nintendo's OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS saying "fuck you i'm just going to emulate [insert game here] using yuzu" which is. well. loose lips sink ships.

fuck nintendo and all that, but this is almost entirely on the backs of the devs for being stupid. to any aspiring emulator devs out there: don't post about anything relating to piracy ever, especially don't post about the games THAT YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACCESS TO YET, and wait a while before saying a brand new game is playable on your emulator.

also: they settled out of court. no judge saw the case. this isn't setting any sort of legal precedent. all of your other favorite emulators are fine for now as long as they don't make the same stupid mistakes yuzu was making.

[reunitedinterlude]

phil 🤝 mio

[crispywizardtale]

[kidspawn]

One thing I love about Ronan - dare I say, I find incredibly refreshing - is that he's *not stupid.* And I mean that in any other series his character archetype would be designated as "the dumb one." Because he doesn't like school, well golly he must be dumb. But he's written as incredibly smart, in a way the others aren't.

I always appreciated that The Raven Cycle shows us Ronan IS intelligent. He's just not suited for the school system or traditional education - and that's perfectly okay. It's one of the few series I've seen that equally acknowledges intelligent people do not always perform well, or even enjoy, being in school. Because Ronan, when he cares about the topic, is intelligent as any of the others. He's the best in Latin and it's implied it's nearly effortless. (And solidifies my stance that Ronan is a bit of a perfectionist and when something is difficult for him he has a tendency to write it off - in academic spheres. But that's for another day.) His Latin is not perfect, but it's notably better than Adam or Gansey's. This is also part of Ronan's character that is later fleshed out, and expands him beyond his one dimensional character tropes.

So, this boils down to me being especially frustrated over his line about the Latin for "raven" being given to Gansey. Because even if they have their reasons - like us not having Gansey's inner monologue - I find this an odd choice because 1. Ronan is connected to Latin in a way that foreshadows his connection to Cabeswater, 2. RONAN IS INTELLIGENT and it's important we see that he's smarter than he projects, he likely hasn't been engaged in academia the way his brain needs to be (i remember a draft involving Ronan connecting with a teacher in elementary school, and this being significant for him), and finally, 3. Gansey is bad at Latin. Like. Explicitly so. Like. He admits to the reader he doesn't know or enjoy Latin all that much. And it might seem mundane or pointless but that's a detail about Gansey that further stresses the significance of having Ronan on their search. He doesn't know the Latin for raven, and this moment was meant to establish that Ronan is intelligent in ways Adam and Noah and Gansey are not. I'm worried Ronan is being written as the dumb comic relief, to be frank, and not having him as the resident Latin expert really alters his place in the group's dynamic.

(I'm not writing off the graphic novel but of all the changes this one baffles me THE MOST. It's not even a censorship issue its a rewriting of character dynamics and character depths that bleed into the rest of the plot.)

[gutsroses]

Hi guys hi guys hi guys

(Art i made that took 3 days fuckkkkk undercut)

I'm so tired 😭

Dionysus - @javaxzun

Code - @callmeherry

Track - @ken-tfc , fivebecomesnone, yourgonnahavetime

Choice - @youregonnahavetime

Deuce - me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The Quest Continues...

(part 1- part 2)

[mobageheroine]

Happy Women's Day

Shoutout to these beautiful and strong heroines! [2/2]

[vashti-lives]

Things currently on the first page of the "hot right now" section of knitting patterns search page on ravelry:

Several basic raglan sweaters

Mesh/fishnet sweater covered in sequins.

A dissected rat; complete with internal organs

Cute vest with stylized flowers

Two different sweaters (one pullover, one cardigan) with the same unicorn tapestry design by the same designer. Each pattern is $13 and there isn't a discount for buying both and neither pattern description mentions the other pattern. Designers can and should charge what they want for their work but this feels like a wild choice to me TBH.

Thong/Speedo "bulge" version-- ie designed for people with a penis. This pattern is no longer available??? Why is it on the hot right now page?????

Cute Christmas fair isle sweater.

Coin purse in shape of ten week old fetus.

Ranunculus sweater. Obviously.

Bookmark in shape of squished rat; complete with blood puddle.

Headband with extremely impressive goat horns and little ears. It's free and went in my library immediately.

5 different PetiteKnit patterns that still somehow look exactly the same.

Purse in the shape of grotesque head. For some reason the featured example includes a real cat tooth????

Hood with lamb ears being modeled by depressed young man.

That sweater with all the eyes which calls for yarn that is $58 per skein??

Hat that looks like a dead fish, but in a cute way.

Latest Stephen West shawl.

I don't know whats happening but the trending page pattern page has never been so chaotic. I am obsessed. Let's have more dead rat patterns and fewer tastefully boring PetitKnit patterns.

[stars-obsession-pit]

Hello! Can do a chapter fic off this fic prompt Danny phantom x dc: https://www.tumblr.com/corkinavoid/767516270934556672/dpxdc-legal-power?source=share

This isn’t a one-to-one recreation of that dialogue but it’s based on that as a framework/premise

Batman dropped down into the room behind a pair of figures—a teenage boy and a slumped adult—letting his landing create an audible thump to alert them of his presence.

If the teen noticed, he didn’t react. Even as Bruce approached, he continued to stare impassively at the wheezing figure on the ground, an old wooden bat with flaking green paint on its side loosely held in his right hand. Bruce had already suspected who the figure would be since he arrived, but seeing the Joker so broken was still bizarre. No laughing, no schemes. He didn’t even seem to be attempting to escape his binds, just… lying there, almost as if pinned in place.

Bruce paused a step behind the teen. “I don’t know what the Joker did to you, but this isn’t the right way to go about this.”

The teen scoffed, and Bruce felt a painful lurch in his chest as he was reminded oh so strongly of his son Jason. “And what, let him go kill more people?”

“I know he deserves to face justice, but not like this. Everyone deserves a right to fair trial. No one person should be judge, jury, and executioner.”

The teen turned to look at him with glowing green eyes, and Batman felt himself freeze. He had faced gods before, yet even using that as a comparison felt like an understatement. The boy’s eyes belonged to someone far older than his teenage form implied, and they radiated power. Inevitability.

When the teen—no, the entity—spoke again, his words carried an unearthly echo. “Perhaps, but I’m not acting for just myself.” He paused, glanced down at the Joker, then asked almost conversationally, “Do you know how many people he’s killed?”

Another pause, but before Bruce could even try to answer, the entity continued, “Eight hundred and fifty-six. He’s ended the lives of eight hundred and fifty-six human souls. I can tell you about every single one, if you want. About who they were, what their dreams were before he killed them. About the pain they felt at his hands.”

He punctuated the word ‘pain’ by raising up the wooden bat in his hands and ramming its end down onto the Joker’s arm. He let out a wheeze, muffled by the gag in his mouth.

“I have a duty to my people. I am the King of the In-Between and of all the souls that pass through it—even ones whose stays were as brief as his. I am the rightful arbiter of his fate. And with that power, I sentence him to death.”

He raised the bat again, adjusting his grip so he’d hit with the side rather than the end this time, then paused and let out a chuckle. “Of course, just because it’s based on some justice doesn’t mean I can’t have a bit of fun with it too.” He swung the bat down, slamming it into the Joker’s side, then hooked it under the clown’s torso and flicked him up through the air to slam into the wall. “We all really hate this guy.”

With the entity’s attention fully turned away from him as he sauntered towards the Joker’s slumped figure, Bruce could finally unfreeze himself.

Even if the Ghost King did have the right to pass judgement on Joker, Bruce still couldn’t let torture go on like this. He wouldn’t win a direct fight, but he could hopefully at least grab the Joker and bring him over to the police. Carefully, he reached for some of the smoke bombs and batarangs on his belt and readied his grapple. He’d have to do this very, very fast.

But before he could move, another figure entered the scene. Red Hood, emerging from the shadows on the far side of the room, an unexpected bit of a pep to his step.

“Nice to see someone else who gets that that bastard needs to die. But if I may make a suggestion, how ‘bout you use a crowbar instead of that old bat? It’d be a bit more… fitting.”

[lucabyte]

Happy PMD Red is on NSO day. Sadly I don't think King the Skitty and Muse the Cyndaquil will be returning to finish up their adventure regardless.

[pxxrthotie]

🎀 My type 🎀

[delusionalgirlfriend]

shall i summarize? satan and his diabolical ministers may destroy everything job owns, no questions asked. hugs and kisses, god.

A Companion to Owls

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The thing is, when you take Rebels and Ahsoka together there is a very clear pattern of Thrawn making perfectly sound military decisions only to have Weird Force Bullshit smash into it, so after getting warped to another galaxy by Space Snow White and his whale friends he decides enough is enough and teams up with the Weirdest Force Bullshit he can find. Like, these women can bring back the dead and have ominous coffins and pull swords out of nowhere. Even Ezra, previous conveyor of Weird Force Bullshit, seems to avoid them. So of course Thrawn thinks he’s finally won the Weird Force Bullshit arms race.

The thing he doesn’t realize is that Weird Force Bullshit is a spectrum, not a ranking system. He hasn’t even gotten to the teleporting fairy wolves or the dead owl goddess or the flashback dimension or whatever Luke is digging up on his Jedi archeology missions. Sorry Thrawn, it’s the GFFA, no one is safe from Weird Force Bullshit.