seeing a lot of talk of the season 5 finale, which is fun, i get that it was controversial (honestly the fact it was really risky is kind of one of the things i like about it lol) and wanting to add my two cents but can't think of much i haven't already said before
but something i do want to emphasize is that season 5 ending on Marinette telling the biggest, boldest faced lie she's ever told (that goes far beyond "protecting her identity") to kick off the Lila arc is by far the coolest thing they could've done imo, because I was not at all excited for the Lila arc before but now I'm totally invested. Now Lila isn't the Evil Liar to be taken down by Good Marinette. Marinette is the liar to be taken down by the very liar that she took down. It's not a story of "defeat that freakishly evil girl" anymore, but instead a story of "Marinette's own actions and decisions coming back to bite her". And the lie itself (WHICH LILA KNOWS IS A LIE!!) only exists because, and is most impactful towards, her relationship with Adrien, which is the core of the series!! I CARE about their relationship, and that's the stakes!!!
I just cannot get over how cool that is, and how much I didn't expect it. I know we all were expecting a big fight with Ladybug and Chat Noir just defeating Gabriel and then watching Chat Noir cry or whatever in the few remaining minutes of screen-time and then it's all over and done with, but that's a series finale. This was a season finale. And they did something really unique and unexpected with it, while making sure it's a juicy season-finale conflict that leaves me actually excited about season 6
also, a side note— I think the framing of the finale made this confusing so I totally get why discussions about it are kind of all over the place, but... 90% of the post-wish stuff we saw had nothing to do with Gabriel at all. It was all Mayor Bustier, who was already running for mayor and wanted to enact green laws and projected to win (she was up against D'Argencourt, the character whose schtick is that nobody ever votes for him in elections). I don't think Gabriel's wish included "Please, Gimmi, I want my son's school teacher to win the mayoral election this year" lol. So a lot of talk of "why is Gabriel's World presented in such a positive light?" is kind of weird to me. That's not Gabriel's World. That's Caline Bustier's. All we know so far about Gabriel's World is that Nathalie is in it and he is not. And frankly, the fact everyone is so happy and cheerful and living it up after his death is more a roast than anything
( also, just a reminder that the presentation of Gabriel's statue— the only scene discussing Gabriel in a positive light by someone In The Know— was done by Tomoe Tsurugi, a series antagonist, vowing to continue his work, with a song in minor key playing in the background. i feel like the question of "was this meant to be unsettling or triumphant?" is pretty obvious. just wanted to remind everyone. also by definition characters cannot celebrate gabriel as a "hero" without in the same breath celebrating monarch's, aka gabriel's, death. yknow? )
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Everyone's getting so heated over evolution right now that I kinda want to say I believe in some secret, third thing for kicks and giggles. Get real gnostic on 'em.
Oh? You believe in evolution? And you believe in creationism? Well *I*, the most learned of individuals, believe that we are actually yet still in our larval stage as a species and will only be able to enter the kingdom of heaven when we grow the exoskeletons which will make it so our flesh can handle the gaze of God, like a REAL Christian
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TARNMA HOT TAKE: Tarn is the sophisticated one that listens to classical music and wants to do ballroom dancing, Pharma does NOT share these tastes and instead is the kind of dude who will dance to whatever generic pop music is popular on the radio this year and would do the Cha Cha Slide/Cupid Shuffle/(insert popular song everyone knows the dance routine to in your culture) and sing shittily with his favorite songs while drunk
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twitch streamer max au where he opens up sims 4 to recreate an argument him and george had to prove he is right
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Hell yeah fuckers it's still Valentine's in my time zone so take some KNPS Whenuju for the soul
Summary: After the Visorak were dealt with, Nuju and Whenua had no need to keep living together. And that's fine. Neither of them have strong feelings about that whatsoever. Surely the fact that they're both miserable is unrelated.
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how will we ever get the spark to wonder, question, and think deeply about art when someone says a prompt or two into a generator, and out comes a painting that doesnt mean anything, because nobody took the time to tell a story within it? how can anybody do that if the art has no meaning like with ai art? when it isnt meticulously crafted by the complex mind of a creative human?
you cant tell an ai to convey the hurt and betrayal of a mortal against their own hubris as they fall off of the high horse they pitched themselves upon the way that a human would, because ai isnt human. it will never be human. and to compare ai art to human art and call them equals is dehumanization, and it strips art of every power it has ever had across the whole of human history.
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having Liz feelings as per usual, and she is just so good and so hurt and there’s an almost desperation to be loved in her eyes even as she pushes back to see if she can break her relationships- if they’re not sturdy enough to last, and no one ever came after her (granted Diego but too late and as a friend) no one ever wanted her as desperately as she needed them to, except Max Evans who got over his greatest fears for her, and like *chews own arm off*
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"Don't be so stubborn. You know I'm right." ( from henry lmao / @ladyseidr )
“ I KNOW THAT YOU’RE AN IDIOT, EMILY, ” comes the irate reply, one pale hand waving dismissively. In the other, a sheet of paper is clenched, bullet points all scored out, each more aggressively and viciously than the last. “ And I know that you’re not the one who studied colour theory for this very purpose. Red is perfect — the streaks on the floor will help families find their way from party rooms to others. ”
With this, he opens the crumpled sheet theatrically, and this time it reveals, just below the bullet points, a floor plan of the diner: complete with trails of crimson red splattered on the floor leading from room to room.
“ I just think you’re being paranoid about all this. It doesn’t even look like blood. Children aren’t going to see this and assume some kind of crime scene — red, ” he adds snootily, “ has feelings of adventure, playfulness and excitement associated with it worldwide. I read a book about it. ”
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Ed: -drinks something she shouldn't have from the lab because she thought it was coffee-
Lucy: "I established two rules! What were they?"
Ed: "Fuck you!"
Lucy: "What were they??"
Ed: "I don't know, "don't do my fucking job"??"
Lucy: "All substances that are used within the lab must stay in the lab AND I cannot have to phone the urgent care more than once a week!"
Ed, (Seinfeld voice):
"What was this week???"
Lucy:
"I thought you were screaming in agony!!"
Ed:
"My Chemical Romance is not a valid reason to call an ambulance! That one doesn't count."
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started looking into portraits of Anne Boleyn again and okay, VERY intrigued by the overpainted woman discovered by xray in the serpent portrait of Elizabeth I. just feels like there's a very good chance that that IS a contemporary portrait of Anne!!! It's hard to make out the full features since they're partially obscured by the overpainted portrait, but she has this like knowing enigmatic look in her eye, and a(n unfashionably) wider mouth, which Anne was described as having (and often not showing up in portriature, like the notorious NPG 668 has the fashionable rosebud mouth). Ofc, it may beg the question of, if contemporary portraits of Anne were destroyed, how did this one survive into Elizabeth's queendom to be painted over... but oh, how intriguing
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