#i'm losing my goddamned mind

[foxingpeculiar]

*long, exasperated sigh*

I got the package of wires and shit I need to ostensibly make my TV set up work. I have a total of 7 devices plugged into the TV. 3.5 of them work.

The TV has 3 HDMI inputs, and currently the setup is structured like this:

HDMI1: PS5 HDMI2: Series X HDMI3: (HDMI Switch) --3.1 Switch (Nintendo) --3.2 (Composite->HDMI converter, composite switch) ----3.2.1 PS2 ----3.2.2 Gamecube --3.3 PS3 --3.4 Coax->HDMI converter, VCR

Currently, I can get a signal from the PS5*, Series X, Switch, and PS3. I think what I have to do is switch the 3.2 and 3.4 out and plug them into HDMI 1 and 2 respectively, then run the PS5 and the Series X through the HDMI switch. Basically reduce the number of gateways the signal from the nonworking devices has to go through. Hopefully that'll fix it.

*But then there's the PS5. Which won't connect to or even detect the WiFi signal (everything else that connects to WiFi, including the Series X and Switch, works fine). I ended up resetting it, but now it won't install the system update--not through LAN or USB, not in Safe Mode... I've been at this for three hours already. I'm losing my goddamn mind.

[egophiliac]

HOW WE FEELING ABOUT THE UPCOMING NEWSS 👹👹👹

man, it's a good thing they stopped doing the episode 7 SSRs, because I'm really low on keys and gems right now and --

OH NO

[specterthief]

—The protagonist was portrayed as a special person to Akechi, and taking that narrative into account, you can imagine a lot of things from the ending illustration. Usuda: The feelings in this area are clearly expressed in Akechi's confidant. The other end illustration I'd like to discuss is the group illustration in Leblanc. Among all their friends having fun and messing around, only the protagonist and Akechi are looking at Leblanc's entrance; this composition is meant to have the nuance of addressing the player, as if to say, "This is the kind of world you wished for, isn't it?"

(Persona 5 Royal Official Design Works, Chief Designer Mumon Usuda)

what if i explode

[beif0ngs]

No matter what the era, the World Government has always tried… but failed to acquire the Gomu Gomu no Mi… Even after 800 years worth of attempts!! It is as though the Devil Fruit itself is trying to escape our grasp. […] After all, the other name of the Gomu Gomu no Mi is the Hito Hito no Mi… Mythical Zoan type, Model NIKA…!! Awakening the devil fruit is said to give its user's rubber body even more strength… and freedom. I heard that it's the most ridiculous power in the world! He fought as he fancied, and made people smile. The Warrior of Liberation… also known as Nika, the Sun God!

[fiona-fififi]

Starting to wonder how many of our favorite headcanons were actually started by Oliver Stark hiding behind some random buddie url right here on tumblr.com.

[redactedcrowart]

regret (maybe you shouldn't have fucking panini pressed your mancrush, dipshit)

[lacrimosathedark]

I need the comic book fanfic writers to be made very aware of something:

Roy Harper is the only one to EVER call Jason Todd "Jaybird".

This isn't a family name that he picked up on, or that Roy made and the family has adopted. Roy is literally the only person to call him that. Dick doesn't, Babs doesn't, Bruce doesn't, nobody but Roy does.

The others call him Jay sometimes, in old comics Jace was said a few times (which I actually like and wish people would use literally at all). Bruce has said "Jay, lad" like once and fandom adopted him calling Jason "Jaylad" but that's not horribly egregious so I tolerate it. Dick occasionally calls Jason "little wing". That's about it.

Jaybird is very specifically a Roy Harper thing.

(Honestly yall better appreciate me actually looking back in RHATO 2011 because BOY do I hate this comic. It's not only poorly written, but in my opinion, ugly as fucking sin and I need to burn my retinas now)

That is the first instance of Jason ever being called "Jaybird", and it becomes a lowkey running gag that Roy calls him that and Jason "hates" it.

And then we get this post Heroes In Crisis

This whole thing may have been poorly written because, again, Scott Lobdell sucks, but the intent is to evoke intimacy to make Roy's death hurt. Jason is supposed to have just lost his best friend and was told by Bruce Wayne whose last appearance in his life was beating the shit out of him and, oh yeah, who saved Jason? Roy Fucking Harper.

In addition to the fact that Roy only left Jason to get help for himself. He was supposed to be in rehab/therapy, somewhere safe, and he fucking died because of handwavy Speedforce shenanigans or whatever it's been retconned to now because nobody liked Heroes in Crisis. Roy was supposed to be getting better and he died ostensibly in an accident. Like if that's not the worst fucking bullshit--

This scene of Jason calling himself by what he deems a stupid nickname would mean jack shit if everyone and their goddamn cat called him "Jaybird". But it being a Roy-specific thing makes this scene distinctly about Jason being vulnerable and actively grieving. It's such a cliche trope, and a real coping mechanism, to call a deceased loved one's phone just to hear their voice in their inbox message again. He probably has no thoughts that Roy will ever hear it so this is just for him, but he's letting himself accept this dumb nickname Roy gave him now because it was Roy that gave it to him and Roy is fucking dead.

Like, in fairness it probably frustrates me more because I ship the two and parallel it with Oliver calling Dinah "pretty bird", but like...even as just a cheeky friend nickname, nothing romantic behind it, having everyone else call Jason that feels wrong. Especially his family who he still has so many issues with and, like it or not, he's closer to Roy than literally any of the Bats at this point.

This isn't the only time I've seen the fandom do this (this being giving nicknames between characters that just don't exist); Jason calling Tim "replacement" is absolutely rampant in the fandom and I hate that too because he never calls Tim that, and refers to him as such like once. I have a whole list of actual nicknames and insults these motherfuckers call each other somewhere, but maybe another time.

In short

STOP HAVING EVERYONE CALL HIM JAYBIRD.

Thank you and have a nice day. <3

[ex0rin]

First time in a bathroom stall, definitely not the last. Butcher & Hughie | The Boys S01E01

[buttercupyarnart]

Someone please tell me I'm going insane and my stockinette isn't actually leaning to the right compared to my ribbing.

I swatched specifically to avoid this. I swatched in the round. I did a big swatch. I did everything you're supposed to do when you swatch and the swatch didn't lean.

[gabetheunknown]

alright but the sheer talent that is Joey Batey

I'm in awe, you don't understand, the singing techniques, the difference in timbre, vibrato, aspiration when he sings as Jaskier as opposed to in The Amazing Devil (let's not get started about The Old Witch Sleep and The Good Man Grace, I will lose my mind) I hear what he's doing with his voice and it's delightful to say the least I've studied music for years and I've yet to find another male singer who is this fucking talented

[msfcatlover]

So. Did you know there's a backstory to Dick's mullet?

Because there is.

Mirage convinced Dick to let her restyle him while she was impersonating Kori. Which he went along with, because Kori had been incredibly depressed for the last several weeks and nothing Dick said or did seemed to be helping her. Dick had pretty clearly hit the point where he was willing to do just about anything to make her happy again.

Which I know doesn't even begin to compare to the many other ways Mirage took advantage of him (trust me, I just read it,) but has made me hate the mullet jokes now, because that was not Dick's choice.

(I'm sure it's just a coincidence Dick's hair & costume came out of it looking a lot more like the future!Dick Mirage was pining over. Contrasts between future!Dick & the classic Discowing Dick was wearing in the arc right before this one below the cut.)

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Here's future!Dick...

....Aaaand Discowing.

Obviously, she somehow magically grew his hair out several inches. But even beyond that...

Look at the stripe shape & placement on the new suit, lining up with both future!Dick's stripes & his mesh armbands.

Look at the glove shape, going from a segmented gauntlet to a single elbow-length piece with a curved upper edge.

While Dick's boots are considerably less dramatic than his future self's thigh-highs, they are still much more strongly emphasized in Mirage's version of the costume.

While future!Dick has the diamond on his abdomen like Discowing, future!Dick's costume has much less detailing around his abdomen.

Discowing also isn't the one with a utility belt. A belt which just so happens to have the same insignia as future!Dick's shield. Weird that.

While neither of the prior versions have the little glider-cape, I would like to note it's something future!Dick probably could've gotten a lot of use out of, given the way his sidekick usually carried him around.

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So anyway, I have gone from being kinda tired of the mullet jokes to actively disliking them. Less jokes about the mullet, more jokes about the rat-tail please.

[abib918]

so. how about that presents huh

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

I cannot stress enough I NEED BtSV to have a happy ending. For EVERYBODY. We get enough bittersweet endings in modern media PLEASE let the sillies be happy for ONCE-

[revenantghost]

EXCUSE ME??? KURONEKO IS IN EPISODE 12 OF TRISTAMP?!?!?!!?

WHERE

[handlememp3]

ONE THAT GOT AWAY. PRE-SAVE UP NOW. MONDAY APRIL 17.

[tarmac-rat]

What does it mean that I want to be her? I used to write without a reason Is it for truth? Is it for ego? Is it for fame? Is it for freedom? (Whatever it is, I know that I need it)

@togepies, whose VP work and OCs I've admired from afar for a long time, very kindly offered to take some photos of Riley and I can't get over how stunning she looks on PC ;_: .

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