#more intelligible answer

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

i just have one simple question for you why gabriel ultrakill? what is the appeal behind this angel

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[canisalbus]

I just recently started following you so i don't have the full lore of your murderous gay religiously traumatized doggos, BUT, from my understanding, they are Italian and i don't know what part of Italy they are from, yet i can't help headcanoning Vasco as Tuscan, while Machete is probably from some part of Veneto. And as an Italian who has heard Tuscans and Veneto dialet, well it's an hilarious mental image.

Vasco is indeed Tuscan, Florentine to be specific. He comes from a wealthy and influential noble family that has lived in Florence for centuries. He's proud of his roots, and it's usually easy for strangers to tell where he's from. He's a resonably successful politician and has worked as an ambassador and representative of Florence on numerous occasions.

Machete is originally Sicilian (ironically about as far from Veneto as possible), although he was taken to mainland at young age and has lived in several places since then, before ending up in Rome. The way I see it, he exhibits very little local color, his demeanor and (even though Italian hadn't become a standardized language yet) way of speaking are formal, neutral and scarcely give away any hints about his personal history, at least in the 16th century canon.

[spontaneousglitterbees]

I've been meaning to ask, is Kokichi's black ring meant to be an ace ring? I only ask because it's black and on the finger one would typically wear an ace ring.

This is probably funnier if Kaito doesn't know about Alter Ego yet

TL;DR: yes!! Very happy you noticed~

[glass-noodle]

i like "confused innocent wittle android" connor but only when he's doing it on purpose. male manipulator.

same 😚

Although! I also enjoy him learning to navigate the world beyond what he can access via internet/social protocols and stumbling a little along the way. He’s aware of how the world works on an intellectual level, but actually having to experience life — going through the motions of surviving, of feeling emotions, of actually connecting with others on a deeper level beyond “pick an option from this algorithmically optimized list”, requires more nuance and forces him to show more vulnerability in order to learn and grow and connect. So I can imagine him being caught off guard, or having his intentions misread, or picking the wrong course of action, and feeling (at best) a little abashed and (at worst) mortified/guilty sometimes as a result. He’s confident and smart and adaptable, but nobody’s perfect, and I think he’s generally pretty hard on himself if his reactions to his failures in-game are any indication.

I still like to imagine him as more of an “ends justify the means” type of person, though. Imo he wouldn’t be above using deceit and manipulation to get what he wants even after deviating, but he’s also developing his own code of ethics separate from CyberLife’s that dictate when and how and to what extent he should use those tactics, and whether the consequences to his interpersonal relationships will be worth it.

Machine Connor on the other hand? He knows exactly what he’s doing and he’s here to wreck your shit 😌✨

[phoenixyfriend]

Hey, just wanted to let you know that that Cal and Obi art you just reblogged is AI generated.

Ehhh, @fonmythenmetz (OP) has been pretty clear that it was also hours of drawing; they did the sketch, used the program to generate texture and color, and then went in and manually fixed/detailed/adjusted things to their satisfaction. Is that enough to not qualify as an abuse of the program in the way we understand it to be? Maybe, maybe not, but it's definitely not completely ai-generated.

I'm not sure at which point we distinguish between ai-generated and ai-aided, but I believe it's more of a 'used a program to do roughs for the colors and generate texture on the trees so I could focus on the faces and figures' than 'I fed it a prompt and posted the result.' It's significantly more effort than most AI art since they did the initial sketch and all the detail work, but less than something like the program that the itsv/atsv team used to overlay lines on the characters for that comic-book look (they manually drew a bunch to train the program, and then used that to simplify the process for the rest of the movie).

In this particular case, I think I'll leave it up, but I'm open to hearing the discussion on where this falls on the spectrum of AI use, morally.

[heatherfield]

fred and ginger do occasionally kiss in their movies! but they don't *romantically* kiss on screen until their 8th film (out of 10 lol). all the others prior to that are comedy kisses (top hat) or the ones the camera doesn't show (swing time) or ones that get thwarted at the last second (follow the fleet and also swing time again). something prompted them to in their 8th film (carefree), and then their last two films they play married couples so they kiss a lot!

(I'm so sorry for the late response! It's been a long week.)

This is interesting! I have to admit, I feel like I need to rewatch the Fred and Ginger films more closely because they blend together in my memory. I think I've seen at last half of their movies, but not the last ones.

(I lied—I have seen "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" but that was ages ago so I don't think I remember many details.)

It's also interesting to see how they show intimacy between their characters in other ways rather than the obvious reasons—whether due to censorship or creative choices. The "secret kiss" from "Swing Time" is particularly adorable!

I just love the cute fluff and spectacle of it all and that spark of the 1930s comedies. 💋

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Sorry not an animal related question, are you okay with people screenshotting your blogs and posting them on other platforms/tiktok?

I mean, it’s a public page, so I can’t really stop you.

[invinciblerodent]

an unforeseen side effect of my boy discovering the power of friendship, and the fact that emotions and human connections are good actually, is that it comes with simultaneously discovering that he's at least lowkey attracted to two types of people exactly: those who project confidence on the outside, but are sweet, soft, and in need of comforting on the inside (not entirely unlike a frightened animal), and pretty men with long, brown hair looking at him through lowered lashes with big, dark eyes.

a downside to that is that his newly found friend group is half one, half the other, and Gale kind of sits in the exact middle of the Venn diagram like an appealingly plump toad on a rock.

Look at him. The thought behind this face is very much an ".... oh, I'm not indulging this thought. I'm burying this so quick, and so deep, that it suffocates immediately."

[gothhabiba]

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[goldammerchen]

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i really like the nation-people pets being weird on pair with their owners lol. maybe i wouldn't have them... studying in the university, but yeah i like them being more intelligent than the average animal of the same species (tropes: "nearly normal animals"; "intellectual animal"), and in some cases able to communicate with their owners.

(unless i want realist, then they are common or exotic pets at most.)

[the following before was in a reply but tmblr is loving deleting them]

i must share again this other answer by hima ;w; (the implications are so mess up and i love them)

if that wasn't enough:

about howard, the ww2 english spy that appears as a ghost in one of the heta halloween events.

...to finish off, look at this note that appears at the end of davie:

(their lives suck, at least pets can keep up with them...)

an excerpt of something i have somewhere else:

It could be argued that immortals so interlaced with human history would need to have a faster time perception, otherwise they would go insane. Mad with grief and regret, overwhelmed with such a slow pace for lives that are so long, feeling stagnant. On the other hand, as much this fast time perception [might] helps nation-persons potentially seeing the big picture, time moves without mercy. The lives of the humans around are painfully brief, whole periods end and escape between their fingers before enough can be done.

[yellowlaboratory]

Hi!! What are your season 3 thoughts?? And most importantly, what are your Jiara related season 3 thoughts? :D

alksjdfhlaskdfj i have. so many thoughts. i've never ever written something short so uhhhhh.....stick with me, lmao.

first, non-jiara thoughts:

cleope was SO cute!!! i wanted to wait for the writing to convince me on them as a ship because I really wanted something more than "these two aren't with any one so lets put them together" for cleo and pope and I've been completely convinced. They both bring out a different side to each other and the way Pope opens his family and his home to her is just alkdjfhlksajdfhlkajsdhf it's unbearably sweet. i love her interactions with the heywards and i love how instantly she fits in. the scene when he leaves her in his room and she does a tiny dance and then falls back on his bed and says "thanks, pope"..... yeah i think i was cosigning on that ship as soon as I saw that asdklfjhaskdfl. and the scene in 3x06 where she stops him from shooting rafe and he cries in her arms.... oh my god. it single handedly saved that episode for me. AND THEIR KISS???? oh my god.

i also LOVED Cleo's friendship with JJ. When they are on a mission together, they are right there with each other. and, speaking of friendships, I loved that we got more JJ & John B, best friends since third grade content. the fact that they physically started fighting... idk, I think it just made them feel even more like brothers to me.

i also just really loved some of the (for lack of a better term) girlboss moments this season. there are SO many moments that i was loudly cheering for my girls. Cleo having the only brain cell like 180% of the time when Kiara is kidnapped. Kiara betraying rafe and stealing that boat (i was fully cheering ala kiara during the cliff jump scene like that is my GIRL) (also madison bailey the woman that you ARE the way she never even a little bit played into the r*ara of it all. any time Rafe looked or spoke to or was in the general vicinity of Kiara, she looked SO uncomfortable and I love that for me). and I really REALLY loved Sarah manipulating Topper lmao "you're such a giver" "it's just how i was raised" KLAJDHLAKSJDH

and, actually, I think the inculsion of topper in the heist was super funny and exactly the type of shit i want to see from him (if wheezie had been there to give him shit, it would have basically been any fic i've ever written with topper in it). when topper is being used purely for comedy, he's kind of a genius character - Austin North can deliver those bat shit Topper lines really well, and the rest of the characters (particularly Kiara) react SO well to him. he's so easy to make fun of!!! but then.... having Sarah go back to topper again was uhhhh not it. I think they should have kept the s2 or the s3 stopper storyline in, but not both. sarah going back to something that reminds her of a time when her life was easier while shit is absolutely hitting the fan and she has nothing else is like, very much in character, and that's what happened both times. the fact that they didn't show her growing through that in this season, but instead regressing..... idk, i'm excited to see a Sarah with more growth. also, canon comedic topper is dead to me forever after burning down the chateau so, i guess that's a loss on both fronts (i can't talk anymore about the chateau burning down but i have a lot of feelings about it).

i really hated big john. i'm so sorry, but looking back, John B should have left that man in the fucking bell tower. I think the amount of screentime he took is my biggest gripe of the season (i did a scrub of the show for just jiara scenes after my first watch and the amount of times i had to scroll by that man.... my god). and not only did he take up a shit ton of screentime, he kept John B away from the pogues - both physically and emotionally - for most of the season (the lack of goofy happy pogues moments is my second biggest gripe with the season). If you've read pltc, you know that I had a lot of thoughts about Big John and his relationship with the pogues but...... when he died (actually, this time), it was only dry eyes here lmao. I feel bad for John B, obviously, but everything (and i mean EVERYTHING) Big John did this season was so shitty for John B, I can only say that i think John B is better off without him.

i think the thing that has me the most conflicted is the 18 month time jump. narratively, it makes so much sense - and logistically, aging up the characters as the cast ages makes a lot of sense. i don't love that we'll miss alot of jiara and cleope but I'm coming around to the thought of it all by opening ao3 and waiting for those time jump fics to pour in. @ josh pate if season 4 opens with JJ slamming Kie against a wall as they're making out i'll forgive literally everything, i'm so easy to please.

i guess this is the perfect transition to the jiara of it all. the first few episodes literally bodied me. every interaction on Poguelandia bodied me - the way they were living their poguelandia/surf trip dream, the "just like we talked about", the angsty silent conversations they were having when they saw the plane. kiara getting kidnapped hit - I think the way JJ was so focused on getting her back was so perfect, the dock hug was actual literal perfection. I am a Hug Girl first and foremost and oh my GOD?

the first almost kiss floored me. i did not expect it. the transition from their dumbass little jokes to almost kissing.......... i'm gonna die. i literally fell off my couch. I think Pope being the one to break it up was inevitable, as was their conversation. idk how i feel about it, i know pope was always going to have opinions on jiara and i'm glad it wasn't super salty but.... i'm gonna need to rewatch it a few times i think.

episode 4 absolutely ended me. those conversations and the way Kiara knows JJ and the way JJ was imploding.... absolutely insane. the framing of that episode (like the actual cinematography not the writing lmao) was not my favorite, but the content was SO good. it was everything i wanted I was losing my mind. JJ telling Kiara she's a kook HURT. Kiara knowing that he's lashing out cause he's scared made me yodel. the talk in the chateau's yard about truces immediately followed by another almost almost kiss made me want to scream into a pillow. 10s all around.

I also love Heist Jiara. I loved seeing JJ at the carrera's house for the conversation about the cross, and the way he's a little bit like a caged animal around Mike is perfect!!! Him self destructing by stealing the money clip is just literally JJ 101. Jiara bike ride to Kilby Girl is now my entire personality!!!!!!!! also the fight about the money clip - that's not really about the money clip at all - followed immediately by JJ almost dying and Kiara being like "don't you ever do that again" is just aksldjfhkasjdfhlkjasdhlfkjasd i could YODEL.

the gate fight absolutely took me by suprise. the "i love you dude" was not what i was expecting AT ALL. JJ's buffering reaction and the way he's trying to downplay it was 10298/10. the hurt in kiara's face made me want to cry, and then John B fucking everything up feels... well, a little inevitable. I also love that even in their angstiest, jiara is still together, and in episode 8, they are sitting on the couch and kiara's playing the ukuele LIKE. they are best friends. they are so important to each other. nothing is ever going to change that. I also love love love the part where he's like "i'll tell you on the plane." idk it makes me feel buzzy.

episode 9 is a literal fucking feast. the feral jj, the way he KNOWS something is up when she doesn't show up, the way he drops everything and then ends up in kahoots with Barricuda Mike to get her back. "I kind of got a date" ????!?!?!?!??!!!!! then the whole thing about Marley the cat (josh I KNOW you are on the ao3 tag just drop me the username please) and Kiara immediately knowing it was him as soon as she heard "blond". the "me?". the KISS. the giggly happy in love couple that they are!!!!! i do wish the kiss had better lighting for my giffer friends but i know we're gonna get the brightest kiss in the world in s4 to make up for it (pates make it happen!!!). and i think my favorite scene of the entire season is them being so happy and giggly on the plane and the high five into a handhold alkdjsfhlkasjdfhlksadf.

episode 10 is obviously a drop off lmao. it sucks to leave the season on that note but we did get the "it's an adventure baby" and little background moments. I'm happy the pates didn't write themselves into a corner too much this season, and in a lot of ways I'm really glad that jiara is open ended because that means there's a lower chance of unnessecary bullshit being thrown our way really early on into s4. i would have liked a more definitive ep 10 moment but ultimately, espeically since we know we have s4, i'm not concerned in the slightest about it.

so, overall, i think there were parts of the season that felt slightly choppy (personally, I'm of the belief that they filmed a lot more than we saw), i think the first half was generally stronger than the second half, and I think i'm really, really fucking glad we have s4 confirmed so I don't have to stress about it even a little & we'll get to filming sooner. my sanity is hanging on by it's fingernails but it is in fact hanging on.

at the end of the day, i had the time of my life watching it and i had some really great people to share it with and I'll always be so unendingly grateful for that!!!!

[comradekatara]

a version of dream of the red chamber set in the world of atla - how would it even look like? the mere concept itself is fascinating

omfg lmfao are you reading my texts somehow bc I was literally saying this just the other day:

now obviously even though ba sing se is inspired by qing dynasty china, it’s also modeled off of beijing, whereas the jias live in nanjing (with the exception of yuanchun). and other regions in the earth kingdom obviously do not map onto qing dynasty china. gaoling/the beifong estate is distinctly tang dynasty, and other locations in the ek are inspired by korean, vietnamese, etc. cultures (no, the ek doesn’t just = imperial china lmfao). but mapping this novel thematically does not necessarily require mapping it geographically.

honglou meng pertains very specifically to its setting and how class factors into the nature of its world as well as the dynamics among its teeming ensemble. so even if you replicated it among the beifongs in their tang dynasty furnishings, or among the fn royal family in their…distinct cultural mishmash, it would still necessarily be located within an aristocratic mansion. the act of “leaving the garden” (to borrow andrew plak’s phrase) is a universal one (and I do intend to someday write a larger piece on the space of the garden as a site of illusion in hlm, paradise lost, and utena!), but the specific disillusionment and fall from grace that cao so painfully and personally describes implies a certain myopic, delusional grandeur to begin with. it is a novel fundamentally concerned with illusion and the hollow trappings of power, which is why there is something so distinctly shocking about when the lius come to visit (one of my favorite episodes), as well as, of course, the entire tragic denouement as each beauty of jinling fades. so to map it onto atla requires focalizing a class that is distinctly unheroic within atla’s ideological framework, whether it be the cloistered and excising upper ring, the shallow and stifling beifong mansion, or of course, the perfidious evil of the fire nation royal family.

i’ve said before that baby zuko is just kind of swagless baoyu. baoyu if he had no rizz and the only girls he knew were his sister’s friends. the relationship w his father is similar, although ursa doesn’t carry the same power and respect that his grandmother does, so his situation is obviously more dire. like, at one point baoyu’s father beats him so badly that he cannot walk for a not insignificant period of time, not to mention that time his brother literally poured hot wax on his eye lmfao. but obviously zuko was born with the opposite of a jade in his mouth, he was always dismissed as worthless from birth. he would write an elegy for his lost childhood though. he would.

i see azula as a sort of combination of xifeng and tanchun, who are of course both quite similar figures, but have enough distinct differences that it would feel somewhat reductive not to combine them. each is poised, subtle, sharp, devious, and exacting. however, while xifeng is overbold, azula is obedient to a fault. azula is, fundamentally, ruled by fear. and tanchun’s status as having to prove herself due to the circumstances of her birth as well as living up to xifeng’s skill managing the household makes her more poised and refined in her position of authority. xifeng, for all her brilliance, is illiterate. she is incredible, but her refusal to submit begets enemies. yes, azula’s hubris is also her downfall, but it is a hubris of ideology, not of ego. she is fiery yet subdued, ruthless yet obedient. she is mindful of the rules, and succeeds within them. even as she enjoys wielding power, she knows her limits. it is unclear whether xifeng, for all her ingratiating social savvy, ever truly does.

now, as for mai and ty lee, the parallels between daiyu and baochai should be evident. daiyu is certainly more outspoken than mai, but the similarities in their dynamic are nonetheless clear to us, especially in terms of how both ty lee and baochai navigate their social roles through a very deliberate performance of constant acquiescence and pleasantness. a lot of my friends find baochai quite loathsome, but in fact i think that she is one of the most underrated characters in the novel, her social savvy almost frightening at times. i suppose you could also claim that ty lee is quite like xiren, then, as a highly savvy social climber, but that also depends on how you read ty lee’s class background. regardless, i find their respective modes of self-expression and interplay as perceived opposites (especially wrt daiyu and baochai, who literally form a triangle with baoyu) fascinating. not to mention that if mai ever overheard baoyu’s elegy to his lost childhood, she would also ruthlessly lambast his word choices in the guise of being helpful.

toph is shi xiangyun. no explanation needed there. yue also has major daiyu energy. i can’t think of any other aristocrats. but even beyond devising these fun 1:1 (or 1:2) analogues, how the themes of illusion map across both texts is very interesting to consider. the greatest illusion in atla is the illusion of separation and domination, whereas the great illusion of hlm is that of an eternal, idealized state of grandeur, as well as the perfect innocence of childhood friendship and freedom from the solemn constraints of adult life. so while both texts do intentionally shatter these illusions, atla’s shattering is a victory against the logic of imperialism, whereas hlm’s shattering is a tragic elegy to an idealized past. hence why i position zuko as baoyu, as he is fundamentally motivated by a nostalgia to reclaim the life he has since lost. then again, aang (known swagful 12 year old babychad, in possession of much rizz) is similarly motivated by a (far more potent, imo) nostalgic desire for reclamation of the past, and with it, his place in the world, so he has equal, if not more, claim to functioning as a baoyu analogue. (and i guess you could also read katara as a sort of daiyu figure, although far more assertive and powerful.) the land of illusion is manifold and deep; it contains room for everyone.

also, i am now just realizing that you may have just been implying “what if the jia family had bending” instead of whatever this long, stream of consciousness, pointless ramble was. well in that case they’d obviously be earthbenders, although daiyu would be a firebender and baochai would be a nonbender (obviously). but like. swagever.

[spiderwarden]

Everyone talking about the Grove today and I’ll just say one thing. You’re just picking and choosing which slaughter to partake in.

[thesherrinfordfacility]

Second Coming: it will be interesting to see if the third series, if we get one, follows up the hint from the novel that the resurrection has already happened. (It's the third baby from the swap, Greasy Johnson, leader of the opposing gang and /very/ good with breeding fish.)

...now the thing is, anon, that this has sent me into a spiral; that spiral being me thinking "nah neil didn't write him into s1 (iirc) for timing/relevancy reasons, he won't be the second coming it's too out of field to randomly bring him in now",

and then in the next thought,

💀"neil didnt write him into s1"💀

edit: follow-up theory/analysis/meta/speculation

[jellie-the-aqua-puma]

I have a feeling, IF Gojo actually survives this and IF he loses his six eyes ability as some have theorized, we’re going to find out the answer to:

“Are you Gojo Satoru because you’re the strongest or are you the strongest because you’re Gojo Satoru?”

I’m not sure where Gege is going with JJK at this point, so I don’t know what purpose that would serve given everything that’s happened, however, I can’t lie and say that I am absolutely not looking forward to it being the latter (You are the strongest because you are Gojo.) which I wholeheartedly believe is the answer to that.

[darth-sonny]

It just hit me how horrifying Kraang Prime having LEO as his host... Leo who is agile and one of the teams biggest "transportation".. Like his portaling ability is so busted. It might not seem like it at first.. but its a key and powerful ability.

Just the thought of Prime!Leo portal chopping someone's head off.. or when smth gets even just a little bit worrying they could just easily escape, not to mention leo has IMPECCABLE aim. And he knows his family, strategies..

The fam is really in it now. And this is Kraang PRIME not regular kraang, i'm betting they can't just snap Leo out of it like Leo did with Raph.

Everyone's really hitting it on the money today huh???