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[goldensunset]

like a lighthouse to guide you home

[prismaticsaltedink]

Scoria and Sakura are best friends! It's so cute when I see the things they do together, and it makes me so beyond happy that they both came to live with me so that they could share their lives with each other. They absolutely insist on it, and does so much good for the other.

I can't imagine how else they could have found happiness if things hadn't worked out exactly as they did. Scoria has basically been Sakura's "emotional support snake" while she worked through things from her past I'll never fully know that caused her a lot of issues with panic and fear. Sakura knows this too, and looks out for her sister, the only one she truly trusts and feels completely safe with.

The moment they wake up they both want each other to snuggle and play with. Scoria loves to be affectionate with both me and her sister who seems to have not had this earlier in her life- but Scoria is showing her how nice it is not only directly but demonstrating with me and Sakura also trying, copying what she has seen her sister do.

Sometimes when one goes to check on the other they'll join in on... I'm not even sure what they were doing. But they had a good time while taking a mandated union break from digging tunnels for the isopods.

So happy I get to share in the adventures of these two best friends! It makes me so happy to see them living their best lives together, and being beyond content snuggled together with their found family.

[shannonsketches]

I'm sure it's been discussed at length already but I think it's easy to assume saiyans are strong so their genes are dominant but I (like to) think it's the opposite. It's interesting to think that the ecological nature of a saiyan is stealthy and invasive, and according to Jaco a saiyan invasion was going to be extra dangerous to earth because they look like earthlings (and a lot of other human-like races in the db universe) and one baby saiyan will easily go completely undetected until it starts the extermination process.

so it actually makes a lot of sense to me that a saiyan hybrid would take more physical traits from a local species, while maintaining the potential to house a saiyan's strength and inborn power over ki (which I think due to the story following a group of people who use it is a thing we often forgotten is a super rare and dangerous ability in that universe, and inborn/instinctive to a select few very powerful races). Could also be a fun way to explain why their tails can detach and grow back, since that may be the only real Tell.

because like yeah gohan and goten look like goku but they also look like chichi ykwim? trunks and bulla look like bulma. pan looks like videl. thoughts i chew on.

I also just find parasitism a real good meaty horror concept to put in my little 'this is why everyone's afraid of saiyans' headcanon file along with 'can see in the dark, biologically strategic energy consumption, can go long periods without food or rest' and of course the canonical 'surprise monkey werewolf kaiju'

[eddtollett]

i love a sansa brienne friendship dearly but i do tend to think it's arya who brienne will end up escourting home and that friendship is so untapped in fanworks. need them to meet so bad they would each think the other is so cool

[novelconcepts]

like, there’s literally a scene in s2 where all the adults are finally together and there’s no distractions and no outsiders present. they’re even a little drunk and loose with their words! and yet van still shuts it down when misty tries to bring up their time in the wilderness! that’s her first instinct, even when they’re all together, and there’s assumedly no judgement! like yes she doesn’t want the mood ruined, sure, but it’s also a perfect summation of it all: they don’t think about it, because they can’t, because they’re always having to re-write! nat literally two seconds later in the very SAME scene asks what they all remember, and it’s made clear they can’t??

Yes! This is not new, and it wasn’t new in season 2, either. The Taissa running for Senate and the Taissa in the woods going “this place will follow us forever” are two different women. She remembers it was bad enough to warrant making sure no one would talk, but do we think she really remembers all the details and still ran for office? No way. Shauna would not have the reputation for being a soft, boring housewife if she recalled in vivid detail setting up a teammate’s murder and then demanding her hair as a trophy. Nat remembers the most, I would guess, but she’s also been dulling those memories religiously for two decades. They remember the big picture, the vague awfulness, but the specifics of who they were? They’ve been running from that for YEARS.

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[littlespoonevan]

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[danascullly]

knowing from the leaked filming footage that they did shoot Buck turning around after Eddie drove away is just so good because it both 1. confirms they were recreating the Abby goodbye nearly shot for shot and 2. that they decided Buck wouldn’t turn away from Eddie. which in a series of shots like this is so telling because there’s zero visual indication Buck will be moving on

[chemical-processes]

Dick (post Robin, pre Jason) goes on an interstellar mission and is nearly killed, gets stranded with his team for double the time the trip was supposed to last. The JL declares them missing in action and from the spotty evidence they can gather from the team's log & comms record (which is on a relay delay due to the space travel), everyone assumes they're dead. And then they make it back alive miraculously and they land the ship and Dick steps off and for the first time since they've known him Bruce breaks his composure in front of the entire Justice League literally grabbing Dick up into the tightest hug and squeezing him soso hard because he did not think he'd be coming back at all let alone alive and whole

[minipokeys]

Musings on Pokey + morality.

Something that jumps out at me about Pokey's dialogue is the way he qualifies people. He doesn't describe them much morally. And well, duh, but is it really that straightforward?

While Pokey's brand of evil sounds frivolous and banal, he also mentions "so-called justice" and he uses the corruption of humanity (that he causes) in M3 as an excuse to kill them, despite that not being his motive. But Pokey doesn't say humanity is evil, he says they're weak. If the evil comes in the way they end up acting because of being weak, it's an interesting thing, I'll come back to that.

Another thing that jumps out at me about Pokey's dialogue is his weird baby talk that comes out sometimes. "I promise to be good". "Please dote over me more. Please talk to me like good boys and girls, you know, just like me". Pokey uses terms often applied to morality, but is actually referring to "niceness" of behavior. About himself, he says he's "trouble-making". So, he wouldn't describe either himself or other people by morality. In both cases, you could say that the person he describes would "stumble" into evilness by accident, so to say (by trouble-making/weakness).

That's being less harsh. Pokey tends to protect himself, but it's an interesting thing to also protect people you mean to kill. To me, it makes sense because Pokey seems to be inspired by people (similar to the people) that Eb and M3 portray as corrupt. People who know and handle money, powerful people (advising for Monotoli, his whole M3 plan, Pokey would be inspired because that would be why he has this knowledge). These terms, to Pokey, in my opinion, would also describe his dad. If it's his dad, and if Pokey also draws inspiration from that, meaning he would also see a good side to that, the hesitation makes sense.

But what does Pokey think is evil? Implicitly, power itself. He thinks power is evil. He assists the "strong and able" but he's helping Giygas, who's mystically fated to lose, Pokey himself being the last resort. He's helped corrupt people throughout the game that Ness beats. Despite evidence to the contrary, to Pokey, the side of malevolence, to put it in a way, is inherently more powerful.

To me, it makes sense that this association from Pokey would come from being abused. Pokey, being traumatised, and/or cowardly, if you want to put it that way, would be logical to have an adversion to evil, then, if, to him, it's something that people can't help, and if it brings up that sort of association to him.

Corruption. He likes it and he doesn't.

So, this would explain why he chooses not to qualify in that manner, but also why he brings up that sort of thing. So he won't act as a moral agent and that's why his motive is finally other and superficial (being bored, playing with Ness/Lucas) despite having much to think about in relation to so-called justice.

[ainawgsd]

Here's hoping I come home with a CPAP machine this afternoon. I saw my sleep dr yesterday for the follow up on my sleep study back in October (!) According to my sleep study I stopped breathing an average of 9 times an hour with oxygen saturation dropping as low az 79%! I got set up with the respiratory therapist this morning. I might cry if they have to order it and ship it to me.

[multiversal-pudding]

Shoutouts to an underdiscussed Horror of the Looky Loo Storybook

Like. Just to ignore the whole thing about bricking up Poppy’s window for a minute- these people thought the way to brick something up in the first place involved sticking the bricks together with glitter glue. Forget The Horrors, these people aren’t gonna make it past the next time it rains-

[stickyvoidpaper]

hc that Tim has a false sleep disorder diagnosis from when he was younger because he refused to tell his parents he was awake for most of the night.

[etapereine]

those damn khakis

[necromycologist]

YIPPEEE. ME TOO <3

[sneckoil]

it’s funny to me that every season of house needs a christmas episode. the one indication of the passage of time