#incompetent human

[mischiefisme-amess]

I think I’m incompetent at this whole “human” thing. Like what do you mean the meatsack needs to manually be fed this “food”-stuff or whatever, every four hours or so?

What do you mean it sends signals when in need of sustenance?

What signals? Mine doesn’t do that tf!?

I’m trying my best, okay! But the operating system is whack and it doesn’t fucking function properly! What am I supposed to do about it, huh!?

(I forgot to eat for 24 hours and did not realise, whoops. Didn’t even feel hungry about it tho, just like mildly off…)

[starry-bi-sky]

I'm so annoyed. @kingcrow01 tumblr ate your ask about Danny's opinion on the League. tumblr i pressed 'save draft' why didn't you sAVE DRAFT.

ANyways I'm making a post instead. For everyone else, the ask was in summary:

What was Danny's opinion on the League now that he's left it? If he missed the familiarity of it, if he recognized the cult-like behavior inside it, and if he now detested his grandfather.

And to answer (again, grrr): It's complicated! We love complicated <3. Yeah, Danny does miss the familiarity of the League, it was still his home for the first ten years of his life and he has a lot of memories there. Plenty of good along with the bad, and while he's less homesick than he was when he was 10, it still hits him like a truck at random intervals.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz are great, and he likes the Drs. Fentons enough that he's contemplated murdering Vlad for his meddling, but if he wants to eat the same food his mother used to make him and Damian, he has to do it himself and he can't get the taste right. No one knows arabic so he speaks it to himself because he doesn't want to forget his mother tongue, and he has a few books too. Frankly? He genuinely misses training.

Getting to use Sam's gym helps with his restlessness, same with training with Maddie, but he has no one on or above his level to go against other than his mother. And he only sees her twice a year at most. He knows that he's getting stagnant and he fucking despises it like a bad itch he can't scratch.

He feels conflicted about missing the League, however, since by now he recognizes the flaws and what was wrong with it, and he recognizes that it was cult-like. But even that is kinda, hrm, complicated? If this was a fic I would be able to go better into depth about what he has and hasn't unlearned because cult deprogramming is hard and Danny's doing most of this on his own.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz have helped with the more obvious stuff: like the ecofascism, the disregard for human life, his emotional constipation; the more obvious stuff that shows in his behavior and personality. But none of them are professionals nor do they actually know the full extent of what Danny's life in the League was like. They only have snapshots since Danyal is very tight lipped about it. So they can only help with what they see themselves through Danny's behavior or word of mouth.

But in summary: He sees, for the most part, what's wrong with the League and disagrees with some of the stuff they do now. But he's very conflicted, and trying to dissect his feelings on the League confuses him. His protests about it whenever Sam and Tucker joke about it have at this point become mostly empty (altho it still causes him some discomfort), and its an inside joke between them three.

As for Ra's? Despises him. If only because Ra's wanted him to kill his little brother -- thinking about his motives with the League confuses Danny, cognitive dissonance and stuff, -- a lot of his hatred stems from "He wanted me to fight my baby brother to the death. I destroyed my relationship with Damian because of him, I had to fake my death and leave my home, and I will never meet my father or see my brother again because of him. Fuck that guy."

[macadam]

Fully of the belief that Miko is only seen as an annoying character because of the dynamic between her and Jack.

Miko in isolation isn’t an annoying character. She’s reckless, and unwise, and has to be bailed out of trouble every five seconds, but this isn’t really an issue for any of the bots because as far as they’re concerned, this is Normal Human Behaviour™. They are constantly having to work with and around humans or bail them out of trouble.

Bulkhead adores Miko. He is exasperated by her like a parent is of their toddler, sure, but I wouldn’t say he is annoyed by her in any way. Her interaction with wheeljack is another example. When she exists with the bots by herself, she doesn’t come across as burdensome. She’s just limited, as every human is, by the curse of being small.

It’s only through her interactions with Jack, and his continuous challenging and calling out on her behaviour, that Miko becomes an annoying character. Frankly, it’s the tension between them which annoys the audience. We can only watch the same cyclical bickering between children before it gets old.

I have noticed that there actually are a lot of people who do like Miko, and find Jack super annoying instead. It seems like people pick one or the other depending on how you interpret which one is causing the tension. When I watched tfp as a kid, I loved Miko and hated Jack. Like, hated hated him. Because I saw Miko as a fun punk rock kid and Jack as the one needlessly calling her out. Upon rewatching tfp as an adult (who works with kids a lot) I related far more to Jack, and so the situation flipped; I saw Miko’s actions as more frustrating to watch.

The writers did eventually try to fix this, with the one heart-to-heart scene between Miko and Jack. But it was kind of rushed, and didn’t leave any lasting change to their dynamic. They went right back to arguing.

Tldr: Miko and Jack are annoying together. Fans usually pick one of em as the cause to be annoyed at but honestly, they are both fine on their own. Children bickering is annoying even in a fictional cartoon lmao

[nowritingonthewall]

🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[poorlydrawnandroids]

From the people who brought you: "Android detectives can't cook!" comes the concept: "Hank has a horrible food palate!"

He's happy to try anything once.

[massiveobservabletidalwave]

Grover is such a manipulative little bitch. I love him so much! Look at him wind fucking EDGE around his finger!! That whole scene did leave me with one VERY IMPORTANT question:

Yall think Ares was behind the Emu War? Is that a deep cut or a flop for him?

[deer-with-a-stick]

The more time I spend explaining Tolkien lore to my brother the more I realize that Tolkien was just batshit insane

[autism-alley]

Honestly another thing that annoys me about Gabe's death in the show is that the downplayed nature of the abuse makes his fate, for lack of a better word, inappropriate. Gabe being an explicitly physically and emotionally abusive bastard was what warranted him dying in the book. Yes, he is still financially abusive in the show, but he's more of a pathetic slob than a monster. Contemptable, sure, but hardly worth killing. At best, his death is a tasteless gag. At worst, it's disproportionate retribution.

fr like. after the first episode i was like well what the hell are they gonna do at the end of the series? from episode one it was always gonna be either don’t kill off the loser and commit to erasing a woman and her child’s story of surviving abuse, or do kill off the loser and have it be a completely unjustified killing (not only bc of the reduced abuse but bc they outright state sally divorced him!! book sally had no other alternative divorce financially was Not on the table!!). he might have been killed by his own hand in-universe, but the writers made that call, purposefully, to condemn his actions so severely they warrant death. i’ve seen people who don’t even believe his death was warranted in the books just out of the principle all killing is wrong—my opinion is firstly it’s fiction but secondly it sends a pretty clear fucking message that you don’t get to be an abusive fuck and walk away scott-free. self-defense and justice have a right to serve consequences, and sometimes those consequences are your wife with righteous blood lust and a desperate need for education funds

[arinrowan]

*yells at article* SUMMER SNOWFLAKES ARE NOT SNOWDROPS

[ousama]

roller coaster videos make me so mad people will just lie

[marcusrobertobaq]

Am I the only one that likes Gavin type of character? Like, the Gavin from the game not changing anything but adding more to his antagonistic character?

No stupid android romantical interests to fuck with his character or wack redemption arcs with silly headcanons, just...character exploration and high % assumptions like social and very political ones (if u know what i mean). It's something that was more explicit in the game originally but they had to tone it down.

Perkins was also a character with a huge potential but they cut lotta stuff bout him. I really wouldn't change anything about him or try redemption arcs, only add - cuz much like Gavin there's nothing to redeem for. They do what they think is right, they ain't looking for a change.

Believe me I still wondering if those rumors are correct and Curtis was Connor's first partner (like Jayden and Blake parallel from Heavy Rain), same way Connor had a cooperation with Perkins to hunt more deviants and later neutralizing the leader.

[gravalicious]

Gado - President JK [Kikwete], Corruption, Incompetence and Cronyismin Tanzania (2015)

Source: Peter Limb and Tejumola Olaniyan (eds.) - Taking African Cartoons Seriously Politics, Satire, and Culture (2018)

[mixelation]

there's a post on my dash discussing who the most "competent" character in a fandom is, and some of the qualifiers for what makes someone "competent" made me raise my eyebrows..... so i'll ask:

what qualities do you think make a fictional character "competent"?

[six-demon-bag]

[offantasiesandreams]

Hi! How do you think Zacharie and Batter would help a player who has trouble falling asleep?

Hello! I feel as though Zacharie would be a much better bet to go to when one has difficulty falling asleep, but that's just my silly lil opinion!

Batter and Zacharie Helping Reader Fall Asleep

Batter:

Batter is a being that, for the most part, functions on logic and nothing else. Therefore, his first thought would be that something must be keeping you up. Something akin to a noise you can’t ignore or maybe there is an enemy nearby that you can sense. Either way, his first action would be to find any loose spectres that are out to haunt you. And if there are none in the closer vicinity, then he will simply sit beside you and keep watch for any ghouls and ghosts nearby. It may seem weird at first, but he is more than happy to do so, no matter how tired he may be himself.

Now that’s what Batter would normally do if you told him that you didn’t know why you couldn’t sleep. However, if the reason is known and you will put it out there, Batter will try his best to act accordingly: If you have a nightmare, then chances are he will do as mentioned above once again to help make you feel safe. But in addition to that, he will also talk to you to the best of his ability. Again, not many words will be spoken on his behalf, he is more of a listener, but he will try to guide you through everything with logic. And if that doesn’t work, he will make a vow to protect you from whatever may be out to get you in the world.

As he is not one to initiate affection aside from words occasionally, you will have to ask him for cuddles if that’s what you desire. But really, ask him for anything, whether it be a walk, a playfight or some food and he will provide to the best of his ability. He is well aware that you need sleep, so he will do what he can, given he is provided some information on what could help you, to make you fall asleep. The only thing he is not willing to do would be making you unconscious through force, even if you request it. He will either pretend to be too weak to be capable of doing so, or straight up deny it.

Zacharie:

Now, Zacharie, on the other hand, may have some remedies that might even help you fall asleep: From teas to sleeping medication to strange artefacts, he has it all. Though, his first thought wouldn’t be to use any of these, aside from maybe brewing you some tea, if that’s what you’d like. He’d much rather talk to you about what may be keeping you up. Nightmares or insomnia, mental health or no tiredness, he, too, will weigh what may be the best options for which issue. While his go-to would be to simply talk over some tea for some time and perhaps cuddle, he is open to other suggestions as well.

If he needs to, no matter how exhausted he may be, he will try his best to tire you out. From a walk throughout the zones, to stargazing to a simple playfight, he, too, will do what he can. Though, unlike Batter, he is very open to showing affection, especially physically. He’s aware what kinds of effects physical touch and warmth usually have on someone, who is willing to accept them, and will try to relax you like that. 

However, if the problem of sleeplessness persists for a longer period of time, say, a few days without it getting any better, then he will grow worried about you. If natural remedies are of no help, then he might resort to some other ways of making sure you can get some rest. Zacharie knows some competences himself, and, as much as he fears and rues having to use them on you, he might do so if there’s no other way. He trusts himself enough to know that he couldn’t harm you, but he’d much rather not use them on you. 

Worried as he grows upon using his skill on you, he refuses to leave your side until you wake up, willing to use Belial’s meat to cure your condition if you won’t wake up after a few hours. Zacharie won’t leave your side, at least not for long, not even opening his shop if customers come knocking on his door. He only opens the door to politely tell them that he can’t sell anything for the day.

[la-pheacienne]

Sara saying that rhaenys wouldnt kill alicent cause theyre both mothers and women, despite alicents family being a direct threat to her own, and alicent and rhaenyra reconnecting after hurting eachother for 20yrs because now theyre both wives will never not piss me off. Do they not understand that alicent rhaenys and rhaenyra are humans first and foremost? Not mothers, not wives, not victims, not women but HUMANS. Like ned, stannis, daemon, aerys, robert, viserys were all husbands, fathers, and men each with their own beliefs goals and experiences that shaped them and yet if you put them all in room together no one would ever suggest that these guys would ignore everything about themselves and wouldnt all start fighting eachother one way or another just cause of those basic commonalities. Thats not how humans work sara

I have nothing to add, you said it all bestie.