#in summation:

[generalflopsy]

God gives his toughest battles (questioning your sexuality again) to his strongest soldier (me, having been out as bi/queer/whatever for like 7 years)

[cametotheshowinsd]

In Summation - Taylor Swift

[mattmurdeaux]

ABCs with MATTHEW MICHAEL MURDOCK ✍️

Part I: A-J

[ecoustsaintmein]

last thoughts for tonight:

i love, love, love jack o'connell's acting choices in the way he plays paddy mayne, whenever eoin is his main scene partner.

like -- have you ever had a massive, massive, crush on someone but don't want to make it too obvious? so you end up never meeting them in the eyes, even when you're talking to them? make it look like you're still nonchalant?

because that was what jack did when he played paddy. dónal finn's eoin will never break eye contact, will keep looking at paddy fondly, like paddy is his moon and his sky. in every. fucking. scene, when he speaks to paddy. meanwhile, paddy will sometimes take a glance at eoin, but he never holds his gaze for long. he always looks away every few split seconds, as if he's afraid that he will be known.

'i'm hardly known to myself', he says to eoin, when they were playing chess in s1 ep2. in a way, i think he does know himself. i think he's scared of admitting it. he's afraid that if he shares a gaze with eoin a tad too long, eoin will see right through him, that he'll get caught.

and then, in s2 e1, he tells bill stirling, 'mirrors are for those who don't know themselves'. he says this, without looking at his own reflection.

anyways. the only time that it looks like paddy was able to really, really hold his gaze was when he talks to eoin is in s2e6. when he's talking to eoin's ghost.

the catch? eoin's not really there.

[evermoredeluxe]

In Summation by Taylor Swift

At this hearing

I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department

With a summary of my findings

A debrief, a detailed rewinding

For the purpose of warning

For the sake of reminding

As you might all unfortunately recall

I had been struck with a case of a restricted humanity

Which explains my plea here today of temporary insanity

You see, the pendulum swings

Oh, the chaos it brings

Leads the caged beast to do the most curious things

Lovers spend years denying what's ill fated

Resentment rotting away galaxies we created

Stars placed and glued meticulously by hand next to the ceiling fan

Tried wishing on comets.

Tried dimming the shine.

Tried to orbit his planet.

Some stars never align.

And in one conversation, I tore down the whole sky

Spring sprung forth with dazzling freedom hues

Then a crash from the skylight bursting through

Something old, someone hallowed, who told me he could be brand new

And so I was out of the oven

And into the microwave

Out of the slammer and into a tidal wave

How gallant to save the empress from her gilded tower

Swinging a sword he could barely lift

But loneliness struck at that fateful hour

Low hanging fruit on his wine stained lips

He never even scratched the surface of me.

None of them did.

“In summation, it was not a love affair!”

I screamed while bringing my fists to my coffee ringed desk It was a mutual manic phase.

It was self harm.

It was house and then cardiac arrest.

A smirk creeps onto this poet's face

Because it's the worst men that I write best.

And so l enter into evidence

My tarnished coat of arms

My muses, acquired like bruises

My talismans and charms

The tick, tick, tick of love bombs

My veins of pitch black ink All's fair in love and poetry

Sincerely,

The Chairman

of The Tortured Poets Department

[oacest]

(x)

highlights include but are not limited to: interviewer: how long have you been together? noel [sloppily chewing gum]: two--eh, it'll be three years in october. and... me and him have been together... [long silence, giggle] y'know. for life. well we're brothers, aren't we! we've been together a long time.

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interviewer: have you two been playing at home all your lives? noel: we actually played... with each other, yeah. [both giggling]

[friendlylocalgeek]

Meme inspired by my getting back into both Dave the Diver and Delicious in Dungeon

[wlwanakin]

attack of the clones (2002) dir. george lucas / bones and all screenplay by david kajganich / revenge of the sith (2005) dir. george lucas

[dnickels]

In district court, the case was assigned to David Hittner, a Reagan appointee in his eighties. One of the main points of contention was whether drag constitutes artistic expression, and is therefore deserving of First Amendment protection. On the stand, the state’s attorney repeatedly questioned Montez about twerking. “He finally said, ‘Well, can you demonstrate for us what twerking is?’ ” Montez recalled. It seemed to him that the attorney was trying to needle him to admit that the dance style was obscene. “I looked at my attorney, and she didn’t object,” Montez said. “And I looked at the judge, and he said, ‘Well, you haven’t heard me say you can’t.’ So I got off the stand, and I did it, in my suit and tie.” (Afterward, friends told him that he’d probably made history as the first person to twerk in federal court.) Montez told me that the moment was galvanizing. After he came out, at age thirty, he had vowed never to let himself be silenced again. “It really was one of those moments where I felt like I took back my power,” Montez said. “Because I wasn’t embarrassed. I wasn’t shy. And then I got right back on the stand and kept answering just as good as I was before. It didn’t throw me off at all. And I would do it again.” The moment seemed to have impressed the judge. “Darn it, it was interesting,” Hittner said, at the trial’s conclusion. “That’s one thing why the job never gets tiring: you learn about different things and different folks and different science every day.”

[annabelle--cane]

it is just incorrect that--no, that's too direct of a vague about posts by three or four specific people, don't be mean. okay, let's try again: without contrasting anything else, it is my personal take that--nope, that still reads as passively about something, you're gonna be seeing screenshots of your own posts on other people's blogs for a month. in the abstract, without mentioning a topic, I feel that--well the problem with this one is that anyone who knows you will recognize the secret topic instantly, but to anyone who doesn't then this will look like word salad about a problem you made up. right, right, final draft: somewhere in the world there is a thing a don't like, but also, there is a thing I like more. yeah that looks pretty bulletproof.

[bellamuertes]

#sorry yaz i am built SO different

Sacha Dhawan as The Master Doctor Who | The Power of the Doctor (2022)

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

I had a dream where me and WingedQueenLynx were at an arcade and there was a fighting game with art by @finzphoenix and we were so hyped

[sirenofthegreenbanks]

we also need to understand wkx's side of things. he was planning it all out and it would have worked; he did not expect zzs to be the variable that makes everything more complicated. zzs wasn't supposed to be at bailu cliff and he wasn't supposed to be at the second heroes conference. wkx intended to run through his plan of personal revenge and community justice on his own, while zzs was supposed to be recuperating safely kept with his friends in a manor somewhere, blissfully unaware of the proceedings.

but then zzs does show up, in both instances, and while it doesn't make things worse for wkx's plans, it makes everything worse for him personally. it fucks up zzs's recovery schedule, and it forces zzs to exist in a world where wkx is dead and he has lost him for the brief while it takes wkx's plans to properly unfold.

like, imagine how it must be for wkx. the last he wants is to cause zzs further pain. and zzs is so terribly in pain, so visibly wrecked. he is completely frozen when wkx shows up out of the blue to crush the second heroes conference. and wkx can't afford to take care of him, he can't just pause and apologize and comfort him as i'm sure he wishes to. he has to ignore zzs's feelings and move on with the show.

and by this, he doesn't even know the extend of zzs's grief. he can tell that zzs is Not Well, but he has no idea How Unwell zzs is. he expects this to be something he can solve with conversations, and now that his life is finally turning around and things start to look better, he is expectant and optimistic. he has no fucking idea!

i mean, it is hysterical and terrible and tragic! i love it

[vanes-lawlol]

"Like a giant mountain boulder! Hiyah! Gigantamax!"

[madelynhimegami]

Ms. Accord Guide

I think this might be the longest summation yet (I have not actually checked if this is true). And yet, it explains so little, doesn't it?

Accord is the most enigmatic character in the franchise.

The main thing we know for certain is that she is dedicated to keeping her students safe from external threats.

Her title is the Sorceress of White ("White Mage" in Puzzle Pop's localization, but the title is phrased strangely in Japanese, hence "of White").

Accord always speaks softly and politely, no matter who she is talking to, and no matter what the situation is.

She also has an incredible poker face. That's why she's almost always smiling, even when she's upset.

Even though she presents herself as a kindly teacher, her students find her intimidating.

Although she's the only one we ever see, Accord is (probably) not the only teacher at the school.

She also only teaches magic. Other, more traditional school subjects are also part of the curriculum.

Accord is the homeroom teacher for Amitie, Klug, and Sig's class.

Accord is very, very secretive. She seems to always know what's going on, is in on everybody's secret lore, and never explains herself.

She's not above lying about things, either. Klug once called her out for her deceptive reputation, even towards her students.

She sent her students on a wild goose chase. When one of them accidentally found out about it, she knocked said student out with a hammer, making her forget what she discovered.

(said student was also one of the ones that got moved to a different class after Sig transferred. could be a coincidence, or…)

She also spent a not-insignificant amout of Chronicle (prior to joining the party) hammering passerby that accidentally discovered her.

She was the one that requested for the delivery of the items needed to lift the Tome of Sealing's seal to Primp.

She also knew that Klug was trying to work out how to lift the seal, and even warned him to be careful about messing with things he didn't understand.

For some reason, she sees no issue with Klug continuing to carry the Tome with him at all times, even now.

Accord is aware that Klug is a not-uncommon victim of possession, and she is very aware of the Crimson Soul's plight. She also claims to hold "no ill will" towards them.

There is some very recent (but also very circumstantial) evidence that Accord would rather her students believe he doesn't get possessed at all.

When Amitie asked about why her hat was being mysterious, Accord just told her, "you are imagining it" again and again until she accepted the explanation.

Similarly, she's sidestepped every question she's been asked about Sig's arm.

She seems to always know who another character is before they've been shown to exchange a word between them before.

In fact, she knew Maguro's name before he introduced himself, and dismissed the question of how with "it's not important."

At least once, Accord has just so happened to have exactly what's demanded by the plot to proceed, all ready to go for the cast to utilize

She sets up the player (explicitly the player) with a possibly-illicit pay card for their personal use in Primp, and warns them not to tell anyone about it. Dapper Bones accepts its use in his store without question.

Despite how she presents herself, Accord is a troll. She says and does things to people for little reason other than to screw with them for laughs (or in retaliation)

One example (not mentioned above or below) is lying to a hypoglycemic Lemres about how many sugary snacks she had on her person. And then ate said sugary snack once his back was turned, while wondering out loud if Lemres will be able to recover. All because Lemres criticized her baking skill.

Another example was to give very intentionally unhelpful answers to Schezo when he asked her about Meena

Despite this, Accord does a lot to keep her students safe, as well as anybody else that may be in genuine trouble. ∴ The reason we know she's aware of Klug's possession dilema is because once, the Crimson Spirit was willing to put the body they were occupying in mortal danger for the sake of their goals. Accord stood against them to keep Klug from harm. ∴ She then lied to the other kids about what Klug had done, so they wouldn't be angry at him. ∴ At least one of the focuses of Sig's supplementary lessons is to help him control his magic. ∴ Her primary objective while Ecolo was present in Primp during 20th was to keep her students away from him until she could personally determine how much of a danger he was to them. ∴ She's prone to giving advice unprompted to people stuck in a mental spiral. ∴ She spent most of Puzzle Pop's story doing damage control, helping multiple characters who had been enthralled by the dream to return to their senses. ∴ While she did not personally do the same with Lidelle (Satan had gotten to her first), she did help Lidelle to not blame herself for what happened with her. ∴ She also helped Maguro and Ally to find whom they were searching for. ∴ She went out of her way to ensure that both Meena and Sig were protected from serious harm. ∴ Similarly, when Accord caught up to Meena, she reassured, cheered up, and encouraged Meena to be brave.

Although she is supposedly a good teacher, Accord has some very questionable teaching methods and punishments, even when overlooking the wild goose chase.

Let's just say the operative word in the second bullet point of this post is "external."

The punishment for extra lesson given because of a practice battle getting a little out of hand, and her ending up in the crossfire as a result, was to have five of her students (and a sixth who doesn't even go to that school) to go through a labyrinth in the forest, with Popoi a full-sized dragon guarding the finish line.

Failure of completing the labyrinth resulted in the punishment of a week of detention.

Accord once flunked Klug on a test because he had marked up the answer sheet wrong. Even though it was clear from looking at it that he knew the answers, just didn't mark the right space.

Sig once let ants loose in the classroom. Accord had him reinact the Little Match Girl on the coldest night of the year as punishment. In a town full of sorcerers.

Amitie was once at risk of having her soul dominated by an evil doll. Accord's method of handling it was to stand back and watch what happens

Klug was once reading a magazine (a sorcery journal, really) during a break between classes. Accord confiscated it without warning.

She then held it for the ransom of "everybody needs to pass the next test." This led to another wild goose chase for some of her students, as opposed to handing out study guides like a normal person.

According to Accord, lying to faculty is punishable by forcing the student to go directly home after school.

She is close friends with Seo, of the Spacetime Detective Agency in Intral City. For some reason, Accord is an exception to the rule that the detectives are to avoid spacetime cross-contamination.

And because you can't have one without the other (plus I don't have a seperate image for him at this writing), here's Popoi too!

Outwardly, Popoi is a normal, lifeless cat plushie that says and does nothing without Accord puppeting him via ventriloquism.

Some students (past and present) have managed to swipe Popoi long enough to examine him themselves. They confirmed that Popoi is just a plush. However, this is only physically true.

Amitie is the only one among the student body that actually believes Popoi is alive.

Beyond that, the only characters we know for sure that knows of Popoi's true nature are Akuma (since he's also a possessed plush) and Seo.

Lemres might be aware of it, but he might just be going along with the "bit."

Ecolo just flat out ignores anything Popoi says. Either he refuses to acknowledge the "bit" on principle, or knows but doesn't care about Popoi being seperate.

Popoi is not as polite as Accord, and is as catty and rude as he feels the situation merits.

Supposedly, he gives good advice when inclined to offer it.

The exact nature of Accord and Popoi's relationship is just as ambiguous as everything else about the former. It's not clear who the "boss" is between the two, or even if they're two aspects of the same entity.

Reading between the lines of Fever 2's library suggests that Popoi may have once been the lord of Ta-Toon-Da Castle, who imposed punitive tolls and taxes in his territory, and threatened Primp with military force when defied… but perhaps not.

Popoi runs the point shop in 20th Anniversary. He's very eager to take your money.

In addition to claiming to be a demon lord ("Prince of Darkness" in EN Fever 1), Popoi has also posed as a dragon. Apparently he has some shapeshifting ability, but neither of these disguises stopped him from meowing or making cat puns.

According to Seo, Popoi also claimed to be a master ninja in the past. Popoi denies this.

Popoi is not a good liar when put on the spot. This is especially evident when someone almost discovers Popoi isn't just a doll.

Popoi's name comes from an onomatopoeia that loosely translates to "yeet."

[foolishlyzephyrus]

i get what they were trying to say in lucky day but perhaps a paramilitary organization was not the best to use as an infallible group