#man I'm a nerd

[the-fabled-void]

I have an unnecessary theory I made about how some Chara misconceptions, particularly their sexualization came to be.

Despite how much I don't like it happening, I find I enjoy analysing what happened (I blame studying psychology)

In my theory, it was like this

"Chara is evil" + "Chara is a girl" -> "Chara is an evil girl"

Then for a while they keep thinking that Chara is an evil girl, and are encouraged by the rest of the fandom. So, they make fan content, perhaps an AU

"Chara is an evil girl" + person finds evil women hot, so they sexualize them -> Chara is sexualized

(Came up with this during a comment convo with @gabersupermurder )

[inpienoinks]

I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE.

THIS SEXY ASS FISH PINS HIS EARS AGAINST HIS HEAD WHEN HE'S:

ASHAMED

DEFEATED

Tense...? (I'll elaborate at the end)

Probably more tbh

AND LET ME TELL YOU WHY 🗣❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

In this scene, Steb has his ears pinned back. His ears naturally rest pointing outward from his head. In the second scene, it looks like he's holding them back, but if you look closer in the first one, they're actually just resting flat against his head.

I see a lot of people saying that it's probably due to him being sad about Maddie's betrayal, but I feel like that's a little too vague. YES, he's most likely sad that his buddy stabbed him in the back, but I feel like it's more a shame kind of thing.

IN THE GIF BELOW, you'll see what I'm talking about. He looks over at Caitlyn, but after giving her a small glance, he looks back down, seeming to show some kind of shame or defeat. (Maybe even hopelessness?) There doesn't appear to be an out in their situation, and Steb knows that. I suppose he COULD be ashamed that he had trusted Maddie, but I feel like it's mainly just the defeat from the battle.

Ears flat against his head:

Ears usual resting position:

You can see his whole ear in the kneeling scene, and it's clear that he's not touching it. His ears just naturally pin back during some situations.

Not only that, but there are multiple scenes where you can see his ears twich. (I picked scenes from the same episode since it's easier to see here.)

↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

(In these two, you can see both his ear AND scale frills twitch)

↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

(You gotta look closely for this one) ↑↑↑

But this is where my third bullet point comes in, as well as why I'm kind of iffy on it. During the fight with the shimmer guys, Steb almost gets FUCKING SPLIT IN HALF, but Loris comes in clutch and sheilds Steb.

While Steb is curled up for the impact, he pins his ears against his head, as you can see here.

I feel like him being "Scared" isn't exactly the reason why he pinned his ears against his head. During the whole fighting scene, you can tell he is QUITE terrified, but he didn't have his ears pinned back until the scene above. I feel like it's less terror and more tension. He tensed up and curled on himself due to him expecting impact, causing him to pin his ears back.

STEB NATION, HOW WE FEELING⁉️⁉️⁉️🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[teddybeartoji]

film professor!toji, who always wears dark colored slacks and a button-up shirt, alongside with a tie loosely hanging around his neck and a pair of glasses that keep sliding down his nose. the watch on his wrist is always the same one, a relatively chunky silver one that surely can only look normal on a man his size. 

sometimes he rolls up his sleeves, sometimes he unbuttons a few buttons of his shirt; sometimes he ditches the tie entirely and goes for a less sophisticated look. the material wrapped around his biceps looks like it’s about to tear open whenever he folds his arms over his chest and his pants aren’t doing any better, his thick thighs are just bulging out whenever he decides to lean his ass against his desk. and he’s confident, he’s cocky. he looks tired as fuck and his hair is more often than not a complete mess, but needless to say, he always looks very, very good. 

film professor!toji, who’s got a habit of fidgeting with his pens. he’s either simply toying with them in his hands as he introduces the next film you’ll be watching or he’s got one between his teeth as he watches you guys do your presentations. and he usually tucks the thing behind his ear when he’s done playing with it. 

film professor!toji, who’s constantly throwing his legs on top of his desk when he’s listening to the class or when he’s showing you something from the projector. with his hands behind his head, he leans so far back in his chair that it has all of you placing bets on how long he’ll manage to hold that pose before he falls. he never does. 

film professor!toji, who’s an absolute sucker for films from the 80’s. indiana jones, alien, blade runner, scarface, evil dead etc etc – you name it, he’s seen it. has multiple big posters of said films in his classroom too btw. he’s not actually picky though, he’ll watch just about anything because well, why not. he’s not really pretentious either, though he will tease you if you claim a ‘silly’ film as your favourite but he won’t put you down for it. he’ll push you a bit, asking questions to test how sure you are of your answer and then just proceeds to watch you defend yourself with a long ramble with a sly little grin on his lips. that’s what he wants to see after all – that his students love films, no matter what kind. 

film professor!toji, who knows a lot of random facts about the most random films and is not afraid to very casually blurt them out during his classes. some of them are very informative and then some of them are rather questionable, leaning more towards a piece of gossip if anything else. but it’s not like anybody’s complaining.

film professor!toji, who asks what you guys have watched since your last class with him at the beginning of every single class. doesn’t spend an entire hour on this topic but it’s always a certified fifteen minute break from the actual studying because he thinks it’s important for his students to talk about films. to talk about what you saw – if you noticed any peculiarities or mistakes, whether you liked the thing or not. and he always listens; he sips his coffee with his pencil stuck behind his ear, and then proceeds to ask very specific questions. he seems to have seen, or at least to know, every single film ever made and it’s kind of ridiculous(ly hot).

film professor!toji, who's still somehow not entirely used to people calling him 'sir'. mr. fushiguro is what he usually prefers but the 'sir' still pops up every so often and it always catches him so off-guard that it takes him a second to realize that he's the sir.

film professor!toji, who rants in front of the whole class about how much it sucks to watch movies from your teeny tiny laptops. he’s a cinema guy, through and through. and of course, he understands if it’s like a money thing because well, it’s not the least expensive thing to do on a weekly basis but he just tries to emphasize how much better it is to watch things on the big screen. he urges all of you to always take the opportunity when it comes along. 

film professor!toji, who fucking hates grading any sort of papers. he just despises it. he huffs and puffs behind his desk with his head in his hands, contemplating whether this is the right job for him or not (he will never quit). 

film professor!toji, who mostly hangs out with his buddy down the hall, the loud-mouthed history teacher with pink hair. they go on smoke breaks together, laughing together over some stupid answer they saw on a test. 

film professor!toji, who throws his head back with an exasperated sigh every time he spots the white-haired physics professor staring into the hall from the small window on the door with a stupidly big grin on his face.

film professor!toji, who’s schedule falls just in line with the sly literature professor and his brother, the freaky philosophy professor. toji refuses to sit next to the latter, he finds him too off-putting. but with mr. geto – they like to drink their morning coffees together in silence in their own little corner, and it’s surprisingly comfortable. sometimes they talk about films as well, but they almost always end up bickering like some old people because their tastes do not align at all.

film professor!toji, who doesn’t miss the way some of the students seem to swoon over him – he finds it very amusing. he doesn’t really see the appeal, he thinks he’s way too old anyway.

film professor!toji, who’s eyes do seem to linger on you just a little longer than they do on others though. who does a very subtle double-take whenever you enter the room and who steals glances at you when he sees you in the halls. it’s not like he’d ever try anything, of course – that’d be incredibly inappropriate. you’ but he sure does think you’re pretty, there’s no denying of that… 

[ruby-static]

Dude caught me taking a screenshot, I'm cooked-

[sparrowlucero]

how is Doctor Who landmark queer sci-fi?

I don't think the 2005 showrunner, first and foremost a very prevalent author of queer fiction, can or should be disentangled from the show, both literally and thematically, and I don't think it can really be understated how groundbreaking it was for pg rated sci fi (or really any sci fi) in the year 2005 to have a recurring character in a heroic bisexual man who the doctor openly flirts with and kisses in a dramatic context, much less that this character heads a major spin off aimed at a queer audience. among other things.

slight tangent but honestly I feel like queer discourse can be a bit dismissive of this sort of stuff, art that they don't find to be notably gay by 2025 standards, or which comes from a queer perspective but in which queerness isn't baked into the literal premise, works that are metaphorical; these often get dismissed as less good or less important or less gay somehow and I think that's a really limiting way of looking at queer art. Stuff like doctor who, in my opinion, should be looked at in much the same way we'd consider davies' other works, rather than only notable when the lead specifically is explicitly characterized as queer (as he is currently, 20 years down the line)

[washichan]

Just now think about the relationship of Nero and Dante in DMC4 and DMC5. The possible other reason of why Dante pushed Nero away out of his life and go silent for years could be because of the implication that, Dante won't touch anything that of Vergil. As we have seen Dante trying to take Vergil's poem book from him in VoV. Ever since the fire that Dante likely blamed himself as the cause, he could have this mentality of not taking any that of Vergil, which also explain there is nothing of his twins that he owns. And it stretches to Nero, because Nero is Vergil's legacy. And Dante won't claim him, even though how much the young man meant to him, as the only surviving member of his family. Dante really love his nephew yet he doesn't want another tragedy happen due the things that has happened.

[blorger]

As a seasoned Draco Malfoy stan, I appreciate and enjoy reading too much into every single one of his book appearances but if I was forced, gun to my head, to pick just one as my favorite I'd probably go with the astronomy tower scene in HBP.

Draco and Dumbledore's conversation is truly a standout gem like few others in the books and any Malfoy scholar worth their salt ought to be well-versed in it; it's a veritable keystone moment for Draco's character development as it offers a glimpse into his inner workings like nothing else does, not to mention the much needed nuance and depth it adds to his characterisation. I felt like it was my civic duty to contribute to the Malfoy studies curriculum with a deeper look into Draco's Big Moment so I went ahead and produced this,

Draco's big day out: a retrospective

To set the scene: Draco has just spent the better part of a school year trying to kill Dumbledore under orders/threats from Voldemort himself and we join him atop the astronomy tower just as his plan comes to fruition. Dumbledore and Harry -our hidden observer- land there after a hectic day of Horcrux hunting (having been lured there via morsmordre), at which point Draco proceeds to disarm Dumbledore

Dumbledore has just consumed large quantities of poison and is actively dying on account of a curse he received earlier in the year ( also he's not planning on defending himself for Big Byzantine Plan reasons) but, according to Harry, Dumbledore gets disarmed fair and square

so let us give a round of applause to our boy Draco because, as Dumbledore begins talking to him, things stop going according to plan .

As the book's denouement takes place through Dumbledore and Draco's conversation we begin to notice that a few things are off with the tableau; the roles of captive and captor seem reversed and Draco, who ought to be more confident than ever, is having trouble going through with his plan.

We learn a few things through Draco's various appearances in the books but something that has perhaps not been obvious thus far is that he is just not a violent person. In all of Harry and Draco's skirmishes throughout the books, Draco has never once initiated a physical confrontation and his inexperience and uncertainty are made manifest now that things have come to a head: as the Deatheaters that Draco let into Hogwarts via the vanishing cabinet confront members of the Order, Draco shows more and more signs of unease with the violence taking place:

and

and

Draco is so distressed by the violence he's witnessing that he feels the need to tell Dumbledore he isn't involved in it. Here he takes pain to both distance himself from what he believes to be a murder and to inform Dumbledore of what happened

and here he feels the need to inform Dumbledore that he didn't intend for the notoriously bloodthirsty Fernir Greyback to come to Hogwarts

As Dumbledore and Draco talk, we see that Dumbledore understands fully not only what is happening but also Draco's feeling about it.

Dumbledore is certain that Draco won't kill him (and he will later be proven right); another important thing to notice is that Draco is labelled an "innocent".

In one of Snape's memories that Harry witnesses in DH, we find out that Dumbledore, aware of the mission Draco had been entrusted with and fully intending to die by the end of the year, wanted Snape to be the one that killed him precisely because he saw Draco as an innocent

Perhaps because of this (or maybe just to stall long enough until Snape can come in and kill him), Dumbledore's attitude towards Draco is paternal and teacherly through their conversation; he encourages Draco to tell him all about his various schemes and praises his inventiveness throughout

and

and

Draco, for his part, seems to crave this recognition and, as the conversation progresses, begins showing his reluctance to kill more and more openly and shows sign of self sabotage

As Draco and Dumbledore dissect the situation they find themselves in, Draco also feels the need to warn Dumbledore of Snape's duplicity

Another thing of note is just how young Draco sounds throughout the scene. In front of Dumbledore, who acts almost paternal, Draco sounds like a boy, petulant and insecure:

and

Finally we come to the crux of the matter: both Draco and Dumbledore know that Draco is not a killer

so Dumbledore attempts to save Draco from the impossible situation he finds himself in

and

it's here that we find out that, for all his bluster about wanting the glory that would come from killing Dumbledore (and aside from his very founded worry for his own life), Draco has been motivated to participate in his mission out of worry for his own family

it's because of them that he still tries to make himself kill Dumbledore and it's Dumbledore's offer of saving them that ultimately makes him lower his wand

and

[fiendish-illos]

man, i love Riptide sm guys. he was absolutely underdeveloped in the og series.

not too much to note, i decided to experiment with him a bit and gave him some swordfish coloration (and incorporated some waves into his markings to hint at his name). he has a scar on his left side from a skywing javelin that slipped through the chainmail netting. a lucky shot, but not lucky enough for them, as Riptide's still alive with a new story that trenched into his scales and skin.

[hwang-inhos-fish]

Hwang In-ho rides a motorcycle pass it on

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

I love how Epic is a story about how sometimes, you change in ways you can't undo. Sometimes it's a choice, and sometimes it's something that happens to you; often, it's both. And in some ways, you may be made worse. You may make mistakes. You may become someone you don't recognize, and you may not like who you now see in the mirror. You might lose your old self in the process of surviving.

But when you do, the people who love you will still be there. Not because of who you used to be, or how you might heal or become better, or out of ignorance of who you now are. Just because they love you, and you do not need to be perfect to be loved. You just need to be there.

And they'll be waiting for you.

[bonehilda-deactivated]

One of the best things about Disco Elysium by far is that it does not fear ugly women. The world is full of ugly men, but ugly women are so hard to come by.

[swkbiggestdefender]

I think sandy being represented as a butterfly is actually really accurate butterfly in alot of cultures means transformation, hope, and rebirth and in some chinese stuff it represents rebirth after death

sandy is a reincarnation of sha wujing but you could say he was transformed again by the way he changed for better

also a  blue butterfly symbolizes hope for yourself the hope that sandy have for himself that he won't change back to what he was his hopes and hard work is the thing that stopped him from felling back into his old self

[toasted-buguette]

So Ryis is my favorite bachelor to no one's surprise and as I get further into the available game I am enamored with the idea of him and the farmer slowburn falling in love while they pretty much singlehandedly rebuild the town.

Like come on? Those two built that whole general store all by themselves and you're telling me that there isn't any opportunity for a bashful brushing of fingers as they hand eachother tools? No staring at the other person while they're not looking cause they're so involved in their task and they look so cute when they're so focused? Not even a moment where one of them catches the other before they can trip on a loose piece of debris?

If I were a man predisposed to writing fanfic I would, it just a concept I fuck with so hard

[kyluxtrashpit]

Sorry for being the way I am lmao, but I cannot believe andor s2 has me jealous of sad cereal man. How did this happen. This is exactly how I want a woman to treat me. How dare he have what I want

[theofficialpeanutgallery]

I like to imagine Gordon getting increasingly flustered at the vortigaunts' nonstop praises. Just like, face slightly going pink, rubs the back of his neck and looks away all "aw, shucks".

Like, yes, Gordon Freeman is an unstoppable force of nature, but he's also like. Just a guy. He's a nerd and probably a little overwhelmed with suddenly being this Big Hero™️ that everyone is in awe over.

He's the guy who single-handedly WRECKED the Citadel with nothing but the gravity gun, destroying everything and/or one in his path, but like. They kidnapped his friends. NOBODY touches his friends without feeling the wrath of ten thousand supernovas.

But he's also the guy who fiddles with stuff in his friends' labs like a kid in a candy store. He's a man of multitudes.