#optimistic voices

[nonesuchrecords]

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs “Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying,” from her Grammy-nominated album Ghost Song, live at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York this past spring, with Sullivan Fortner on piano, Keita Ogawa on percussion, Marvin Sewell on guitar, Alexa Tarantino  on flute, and Yasushi Nakamura on bass. The songs were written by Harold Arlen/Herbert Stothart/Yip Harburg and Gregory Porter, respectively. 

[iwozlegit]

Earthspark Megatron: Optimus, how humane is it really to keep my former Decepticons imprisoned and caged like savage beasts? We…I…am better than this…this is not the right way to handle this…

Earthspark Megatron after seeing Starscream with Hashtag: holdmybeer

[luminous-orb]

happy 30th (!!) anniversary to what’s become one of my favorite games of all time

[transmascissues]

i’m going to be starting a job soon where it looks like almost all of my coworkers/bosses are going to be cis women and i am…terrified. especially since this is the job i’m going to have to get time off from for top surgery.

if there’s one thing i’ve learned over the almost ten years of my transition, it’s that a situation where i’m the only guy there is one where my gender is guaranteed to not be respected. it really feels like far too many cis women realize they’re alone with a trans man and just see it as an opportunity to act out some sort of power fantasy where they get to stick it to the big bad evil men by taking out their anger on the first man they see without the power to fight back. that or they decide you’re “just one of the girls” and will not hear otherwise, but honestly, given where i’m at in my physical transition, i have a feeling the former is more likely.

there was a time when i felt safer around cis women than around cis men, but now it’s just a different kind of threat.

[akuma-tenshi]

so the new hullabaloo lore teaser, huh??

[wildrosesayshigh3]

Anyone ever think about how some people probably miss Shen Jiu in Svvss.

How some Bai Zhan dissolves probably attacked because they were jealous of the Qing Jing disciples who had a teacher for all his sharp tongue and non existent tact was actually there. Where for all his harsh punishments and glares never beat you into the ground in the name of training.

How some of the older Qing Jing peak disciples liked the old one better than the new one without memories because he understood and while he was not nice he was kind in his own weird way.

How some Qiong Ding disciples liked him better when he had his memories because there was a peak lord with eyes like theirs. Someone so unequivocally looks like a wolf and a snake so unafriad to hide how hungry he is for more. But still so loyal.

How someone of the older Xian Shu girls mourned the man who treated them as the hidden blades they were. Who looked at them with a weary sort of respect and never once thought of them as belongings or things to be owned.

How some of the older hall masters and sect cultivators miss the sharp tongue and un forgiving wit of their former martial nephew and shidi. Who for all he never asked for help was never rude when it was offered for all the used to bristle at the implications of him needing help. He never lied to spare their feelings.

How a few peak lords miss their sharped tongued shixiong. He didn’t look down on them for being in the lower peaks. They miss the way their verbal spars would go and even if they rarely won the challenge was fun. As no one wants to challenge the beat of the best and that’s what the peak lords were.

How they all collectively feel like Shen Jiu losing his memory was a slap in the face to the man. Because all through the body of the same, the sharp mind is the same, they aren’t the same. No more sharp eyes or poisonous tongue instead there’s something soft. Something that if pushed slightly would die kneeling and not with a broken or straight back.

They all know that this wasn’t the ending that he would have wanted or even deserved.

As know instead of dying and being known as Shen Qingqiu the master tactician and the Xiu Ya sword he is known as Shen Qingqiu the Qing Jing peak lord, empress of the demon realm, husband of Luo Binghe.

[mortysmith]

thinking so hard about how morty is scared of ending up anything like jerry because of rick

[hikaaa-bi]

i need an entry in the format of a cursed wikihow article in tmagp now. something like "how to slice off your eyelids and replace them with bone marrow in just ten easy steps".

[childdevourer1]

Can you imagine sonic hears shadow for the first time but doesn’t whos talking so he’s just like OMG KEEANU NO WAY IM SUCH A HUGE FAN

And then shadow chaos controls out of nowhere and punts his ass straight into the moon

[utterdrip]

the way neil is able to change the cadence/tone of astarion’s voice in spawn vs ascended is honestly so fucking compelling and at least HALF the reason why i keep coming back to astarion. like it is very obviously still astarion. both are obviously astarion but they are so fucking different its chilling

[sonknuxadow]

stuck in an endless cycle of being annoyed about some of the stuff that was in the trailer and then i see how excited other people are and start thinking "well maybe some of the stuff that upset me could go in a different direction than im expecting. and there was still some cool stuff in there. maybe im overreacting or jumping to conclusions" and then i remember what exactly i was annoyed about and start thinking maybe i was right the first time and then i just kind of feel sad thinking about how excited i was over the first two movies compared to how ive been feeling about the more recent movieverse content and then i get frustrated with how it feels like im not allowed to express these feelings and opinions with how defensive some movie fans get and dismiss all criticism as needless hate regardless of who its coming from or what theyre saying and then i go Okay im normal now . until im reminded of the movie again

[random-meme-bot]

My Nintendo Direct Impressions

Pretty freaking fantastic!

[aulerean]

pensive

[vaugarde]

new mario and luigi was NOT on my card

[stop-breaking-my-heart-dragonage]

I may be laying on the floor staring into the void, merely vibrating as my brain rots about Veilguard, Rook, the companions, and Solas.

...this is the perfect excuse to replay my canon route.

Apologies in advance: I'm about to make my brainrot replay a problem for everyone and everything in my vicinity.