#investment target

[shorthaltsjester]

there are literally no standouts in downfall because everyone sat down at that table and said hey you wanna see something cool and proceeded to Become their characters but idk if it’s because they’re beside each other and that aids the dynamic or just because it’s the delicious similarities and insurmountable distance between the god of death and the god of (in various ways) life but ayden and emhira’s interactions were so chewy and delicious. i’ll be thinking of their exchange fairly early on after ayden cast lesser restoration on that old man and emhira not cruelly but just simply stating “you cannot heal everything.” and ayden’s equally simple reply “we can always try.” emhira seeing the family trist has built and wondering at the presence of children, “surprised there is laughter in such a horrible place” and i know she’s speaking of hawk’s hill but i wonder if she is also speaking of exandria itself in some ways. the delicious space between in and out of character that only really happens in improv stories where as brennan is narrating and says “in this dark room” and nick interrupts and adds “it is not dark.” brennan’s incisive point in the cooldown that while the love that ayden and trist have for mortals and for exandria is warm and the kind of love someone would likely Want from gods, there is something maybe more honest or whole about emhira who says . actually these mortals are little shits that will kill you not because they fear you but because they hate you. whose very existence should be (and still often fails to be) a reminder that the gods can be usurped by mortals. the insight nick shared in the cooldown that ayden does not forget emhira’s origins but in a way dismisses them, that the god of death is a different beast. ayden wanting to find. way to save the people of aeor, insisting that the prime deities Win if they can find a way to do so. emhira reminding everyone that death is inevitable (and she does not add anything to clarify that she intends such a statement to only exist for mortals) as she argues for them to work to take down aeor and the people in it. the fact that the god with the most present connection to mortality is also the one given the most explicit clarification that she Is the god we know as SILAHA calls her the matron, brennan’s narration clarifies purvon is her champion, taliesin as asha asks for clarification on the recognition of emhira as a god and prompting the familiar spectre of a woman in a white mask.

i want to be very clear that when i say there are no standouts i Mean it because i’ve been awed and endeared and intrigued by every single character choice everyone made and as always brennan’s narration is so incredibly well suited for the mission impossible greek tragedy vibes that comes with this story and i’m so fucking delighted by the fact that laura, ashley, and taliesin are playing gods that their characters have known quite well in the past. i’m incredibly excited by what we’ve already gotten to see from abubakar, nashir, and nick and cannot imagine what other greatness is to come. i’m psyched to see the relationship between asha and the law bearer and am delighted that (perhaps for now perhaps for the whole arc) it is being seen through the lens of “my wife promised me a visit with apples and all i got was a rock ice emissary”. i also have many incoherent thoughts about the fact that, of the players who appeared as the same character in the opening and the story, taliesin’s ash and asha are the ones whose name remains the most unchanged.

i’m obsessed with the fact that this creature sent as a stand in by the god of law and duty believes his primary gift is love. while there is a certain mourning and sadness to every god we see, that SILAHA has a certain playful whimsy and jofyful curiosity about the world. that the only one of them who has been mortal before stops to steal an imp necklace from the neck of a drunk on the train (and that moment between brennan’s narration that this man will be dead by morning but, with death standing invisible in front of him, he is incapable of seeing it coming, and then laura as emhira breathing in deeply and brennan having that spark a coughing fit. they are Story Telling). asha seeing the erased image of a god, of a family member and saying “there’s a hole in all of us.” brennan narrating “this is a place where they tried to kill a story. it’s a very frightened thing to do.” (and god. the motif of fear. especially given the very present fear felt by the gods in current day exandria. they’re doing insane things in the critical role 3 part departure).

trist reminding ayden “he never tells the truth” and asha contesting “he only tells the truth, it’s just rotting.” emhira and asha both as perhaps the less Good™ much more neutral but doing so in such different ways, asha as bitter and hungry while emhira seems uncomfortable but there’s a familiarity and a certainty in her discomfort with mortality (the law bearer would also be included here but the emissary seems much more like trist and ayden (for now) than emhira or asha). something as insignificant as trist and her husband speaking to their children and affirming that little lies are okay while trist has lead a significant part of her life likely dishonest about who she is. the fact that there’s a certain childlike quality to the emissary who they’re all charged with ensuring makes it to the end of things even if they cannot. the fact that nahal (unclear which god they were, and i’m assuming it’s the first god of death but regardless still an absolutely compelling development in a short amount of time) in those opening moments is horrified by the concept of away which is unfamiliar to them only to soon after look upon their family and say. maybe away was better. Especially if those were words spoken by the god who would one day be replaced. these three episodes are going to haunt me and i’m excited to meet the ghosts.

[brainrotcharacters]

"Wolverines bite into necks during mating"

📢 WADE!!! TIME TO WEAR PHEROMONE PERFUMES MOTHERFUCKER GO. NOW.

[dandelioncasey]

Just came across a post which mentioned this concept and now I'm wondering - has anyone found any fics where the shooting was about Hen and Chim, not Buck and Eddie? Or where the tsunami was Chim and Denny not Buck and Chris? Because I am DOWN to read those if anybody has written them, that would change the plots so much and I'm so curious ���

[cringengl]

Spot the difference

[finrays]

I mean, Callie and Marie HAD to have known… SHOULD have known at least…

There’s a really REALLY good chance that they should have known that Marina was an Octoling, man. They were sharing fries and collaborating in-concert before Octo Expansion got added to the storyline, so they’ve met her in person.

And their peepaw is fuckin Squid-on-Octo-Violence McGee. They’ve literally been playing the “Watch out for the Revenge of the Octopodes” game with him since they were blobbly little mostly-squid children.

But they didn’t say anything about it, other than “WOW, we love your music, so cool, let’s play another show together!!!”

Either they just don’t actually give a fuck and are like “Oh, cool, not having to fight each other is nice too, we’re down to get along.”

Or, given how Nintendo keeps saying in all their official dispatches, “Listen guys, these little squid people are so ridiculously laid back and silly that like 98% of life passes over their squishy heads,” they just… ACTUALLY didn’t notice it, lol.

I mean, Craig LITERALLY saw a picture of Marina in her Elite gear and didn’t comment on the fact that she was Octomilitary until Pearl mentioned floating rocks… points in the “Inklings might just be too dumb to notice” category.

There is a third option, though, which might just be my favorite. And it’s that these two spied on her for a while to determine whether she was a threat, and likely decided “Nah, not really,” after watching her cry over a shojou manga through a spyglass (and also crying since they ended up reading over her shoulder.)

[fenkko]

cant believe i reached 30 tags in prev post rambling about homestuck i didnt even know there was a limit

[piecesintoplaces]

guys do you like doc martens are they worth it (preferrably for my pals who live in snowy climates!!) and if so which ones do you like

[thebeastofblackmoor]

while we’re talking recommendations, I want to remind everyone that Hitman 3 has a murder mystery level that is so much fun

[tibli]

It feels voyeuristic to share videos/images of the brutal suffering the Palestinian people are going through every day, and I hate that it's come to that. I hate that these people are forced to display their loved one's mangled corpses for everyone to see, in the desperate hope that it will convince the governments of the world that they don't deserve to be treated like vermin to exterminate.

I want to be clear, they are not wrong for sharing these things, and it is paramount for us to show it to others. It is deeply upsetting and troubling to see these things, but that's exactly the point- that's the purpose. If they have to live through it, if they themselves cannot escape it, then it is our obligation AT THE VERY LEAST, to listen to them and look at whats happening, even if it disgusts us. ESPECIALLY if it disgusts us. We owe them that much. We owe them our anger and rage on their behalf. We owe them our full attention. Genocide is everyone's issue, and to look away is to help the perpetrator.

[avengerchuck]

Why are you awesome

All in a day's work, buddy!

[strangerwheelerthings]

People might not agree with me here, so Im curious:

(Do note that I am asking about his official job, and saying teacher or something does not exclude the possibility of other stuff on the side such as things dealing with monsters.)

[twinsarekeepers]

Reading some of the critiques of pjotv and now I know why y’all are on tumblr and not in the writer’s room 💀💀

[thecolorsfucked]

i just genuinely need ppl in fandoms to realize only other ppl in fandoms and anne rices dead corpse give a shit about anything they do like ur not the target u never were

[red-hemlock]

(-Whispers- SoOoOo-.... Is any good Samaritan out there with a Switch able to tell me the difference between a normal, an OLED, and a Lite?)

[gentil-minou]

I really just want to protest these dumb changes and leave this site even for like a day but I just love what tumblr had always been for me, a safe place for me to enjoy what I like without being bombarded by things I did not like. It's always felt like home to me.

Now, it feels like I'm being evicted from the place I've lived my whole life to make way for new perspective more profitable tenants. I feel like I'm losing my home.

[lisahafey]