#frightening to both of them

[llycaons]

I love content of wwx being smitten...just very in love and goofy about it and sappy and tender in ways he hasnt been allowed to be in canon. I would like to see more of it but I refuse to leave my circle so it comes inconsistently or not at all

[grandadtwelve]

clara oswald is to missy what jack harkness is to the doctor. do you understand.

[simpforsolas]

It’s alright. You are home.

[shakingparadigm]

In a modern au I think the wagyein would be like one of those gaint ass crocodiles that Ivan gets away with keeping because its technically a service animal. As long as its on a leash its all good and not a threat to the public!!

Ivan being rewarded with a more expensive and unique kind pet like a whole fucking crocodile honestly seems pretty in line for him 😭 especially since it adds a new "chic" flair to his photoshoots and his general aesthetic. Imagine Ivan's new photoshoot drops and he's in a suit posing with a fucking crocodile. Insane.

I really like the imagery of this large, scaly and dangerous looking reptile being tamed as Ivan's pet, something that could help boost his image and push that luxurious, enigmatic vibe. You know, like how stereotypical evil lairs have sharks or other rare and dangerous animals guarding the entrance or simply acting as accessory. That kind of vibe. I also like the imagery of this sharp creature being forced into submission and captivity. Forced to become a good, obedient pet, holding in its urges and keeping its teeth hidden. A being taken from the ruthless, grimy darkness, cleaned and maintained to perfection, forced to perform for the cameras. Ivan can empathize, he knows what it's like.

"Technically a service animal" is fucking hysterical. Ivan going Hello, sir! Please excuse my emotional support 12ft crocodile. Don't worry, he's very well-behaved.

I actually think Ivan would get along very well with his hypothetical crocodile. Just like the wagyein, he'd feel connected to it in a very personal way. Also just like the wagyein I think Ivan would be the only person it would never harm. In my head I have the mental image of Ivan petting and cuddling it as if it were a puppy.

[laniidae-passerine]

obsessed with how, even now, people are scrambling amongst all the contradictory evidence to find the good guy in all of this, as if it’s not antithetical to the story being told. there is not a ‘good’ one amongst them. all of them are fragments of trauma and fury and kindness and hope and pity and love bundled together to make the shape of men. if you are looking for a good man, a kind man, a brave victim, a valiant survivor, then you have to turn to another tale. for you will not find one in this room full of monsters.

[everysongineverykey]

and for my next trick i present... my Grand Tv People Freakout Extravaganza!!! *falls to the floor weeping violently*

[frogspawned]

pet peeve is when a story tells us something is aberrant, but it seems to matter more about who does the behavior than the behavior itself. rorschach in snyder's watchmen isn't going too far; we watch nite owl and silk spectre ii snap necks and arms with gleeful, loving abandon, in slow motion no less, while they lecture the audience about rorschach's violence. heroes frequently torture the plot contrivance out of a villain and then moralize to the camera when the villains do the same. indominus rex's killing spree doesn't shock or appall me; all the jurassic world dinosaurs act like mindless killing machines, and the camera lingers, rapturous, on their cruelty. it's not an outlier. there's nothing interesting about it beyond as a set piece.

in a better script, the indominus rex would have had pathos; a chimera made for entertainment, for profit, stitched together with no regard for itself and placed in a lonely box. a freak among freaks. of course it would be mad. but the film wasn't interested in it as an animal, or a character, only as a moving piece of scenery for people to scream at or breathe tensely while it can clearly smell and reach them but doesn't, because it isn't a character and doesn't have motivations.

it's just sort of boring, i suppose. it tries like all other empty drab things do to cover it with bombast and roaring and soaring brassy scores but it's just sort of dull. a sprawl of nothing.

conversely peele's nope is a transcendent monster movie, imo, because it thinks about the the whys and hows, how jean jacket perceives the world, how the world perceives her, and lets that shape the narrative as much as jupe or emerald or gordy. they consulted biologists and behaviorists, digging into the meat of it. the creature as a camera as an animal as a device. nope has layers. it takes its own insane premise seriously, and has something to say, and is a goddamn good movie. i forgot where i was going with this.

[vibrantboredom]

I'm relistening to I am in Eskew at the same time as the Silt Verses come out and it's so fun seeing ideas introduced in Eskew resurface in TSV, like I just finished ep. 24 and the way the History Society works is so much like our new scary war saint!!! Obsessed

[legend-had-it]

another one for the gays

[0lympian-c0uncil]

Okay, but AmphiSei who has an open relationship so people often assume that ‘oh, they must not love each other that much’ but then see Poseidon literally drop everything every time he sees Amphitrite to run at her & Amphitrite also dropping everything to catch them & them being so happy & genuine as they hugged & spun each other around like they were mortal teenagers/a young couple who were still forever in their first stages of pure, obsessive love

And so the others are now like ‘oh…’ (confused) but the Siblings are just like ‘yeah…’ bc they’re a fond sort of used to it (it happens to them all the time too)

I love Amphitrite and Poseidon being lovesick and obsessed with each other. They are the relationship the other gods envy because they have worked out all of their problems and are experiencing their marriage in a way that makes them both really happy.

Also tall wife Amphitrite supremacy (Poseidon loves his tall beautiful monster wife)

Zeus and Hera wish they had what Amphitrite and Poseidon have

[summersofsalt]

a soft place to land (b&w version here)

[cocolacola]

sertegra nation we dont talk about this enough

[basofy]

i hate that the horrifying context makes it hard sometimes to enjoy the sillier parts of this conversation cuz

FUCK YOU MEAN FLESHY PARTS SAY BREASTS!!!!!!!!!! SAY BOOBS!!!!!!!!!!! YOU VIRGIN

[level30lawn]

okay so having looked into palworld a bit more and the developer pocketpair, im not super against them anymore? im not the BIGGEST fan of them making "AI: Art Imposter", even if it is just a party game for funsies, but near that i can tell they dont do that for the other games they've made

the game people have been pointing to as pocketpair's abandoned scamware game (craftopia) received updates pretty consistently up through the last year or two since its launch , but if there are others that they have left people high and dry with i dont know about them

the most compelling case of actually stealing a creature's design is between pw's arsox and pokemon sage's (still in development since like 2014 but still being updated i think?) flairees. im a little skeeved out by that for sure. the other one worth looking at is this fakemon someone made, which ended up just being parallel thinking anyway. The other examples (a lot of which are in the 2nd thread i linked) are of pw pals being somewhere on the spectrum between pretty damn similar and "oh that's actually original", leaning moreso (imo) towards the latter.

I'M still going to hold off on paying money for it, both because I like waiting for early access games to cook and because I have other fish to fry

[nomorefstogive]

Nightingale and Cinnabar Deserve A Vacation

Hello my fellow Chiefs of Minos, I am posting this to remind you all that there are exactly two individuals who qualify as having even a modicum of sanity within the walls of Minos and we are not one of them.

So please remember to show your support to the pair of individuals responsible for keeping Minos from descending into the pits of utmost primordial chaos and dragging all of Dis down with it in an orgy of madness and chaos. 

Because, let us all be honest with ourselves for a moment here, without Nightingale being the hyper competent and dutiful Adjutant she is, and Cinnabar being the security expert and loyal guard she is, Minos would have become something straight out of an asylum workers worst nightmares. 

So let us all agree these two deserve a chance to take a vacation and relax and not have to worry about coming back home to find Minos either in ruins or having declared succession from dis and began a campaign of world conquest while the chief sits and vibes with some of the other sinners. 

With that said, let us offer our gratitude towards these two brave souls who shoulder the weight of being the dams that hold back the flood of madness that is the antics of Minos and offer them a toast to their health and sanity.

Because if they ever lose either then all of Dis is going to descend headfirst into the hell it claims to have risen above. 

Is this a crack post? Maybe.

Or perhaps a glimpse into a future idea for here or ao3...only time will tell.

Till next time.

[vancilart]

elder dragon boogaloo