#so I've seen quite a few

[tuttle-did-it]

You know, it's genuinely sad to me that aging favourite character actors no longer have any fun murder-mystery tv shows to guest-star as murders on.

[littlebunno]

.- Could you draw Ville? I love the way you draw him! Your art is amazing!

[coco--rush]

Slugcat intelligence

This is a short ramble but I've seen some people act like slucats are but simple rodents. I heavily disagree with this statement and not quite sure where it came from beyond them looking like it. Simple facts are we seem them even just in Monk's and Survivor's cutscenes to be at least emotionally intelligent enough to have families (reaffirmed in watcher) Not even mentioning downpour if you take it cannon. They have an entire communal society in downpour cannon. The only other intelligent creatures the scavengers have a lot in common with slugcats even gameplay wise. Both being in upright positions being able to use items (hold spears/throw rocks/carry pearls and deliver them) Just like scavangers slugcats can also make the connection to bring things to the iterators (debatable if as gifts or to purposefully be read off) They're also capable of understanding overseer instructions/recieve taskes once the mark of communication has been granted.

I don't think they're super highly intelligent but they're definetly the very least around the same level as scavenger.

[galacticlamps]

ok I have A Lot of thoughts about the staircase confession (well really about Edwin's whole character arc, but all roads lead to rome) but for now I just wanna say that, yes, I was bracing myself for something to go terribly wrong when I first watched it, and yes, part of me was initially worried its placement might be an uncharacteristically foolish choice made in the name of Drama or Pacing or Making a Compelling Episode of Television but at the expense of narrative sense--

But I wanna say that having taken all that into account, and watched it play out, and sat with it - and honestly become rather transfixed by it - I really think it's a beautifully crafted moment and truly the only way that arc could've arrived at such a satisfying conclusion.

And if I had to pinpoint why I not only buy it but also have come to really treasure it, I'd have to put it down to the fact that it genuinely is a confession, and nothing else.

That moment is an announcement of what Edwin has come to understand about himself, but because it takes the form of a character admitting romantic feelings for such a close friend, I think it can be very easy, when writing that kind of thing, to imbue it with other elements like a plea or a request or even the start of a new relationship that, intentionally or not, would change the shape of the moment and can quickly overshadow what a huge deal the telling is all on its own. But that's not the case here. Since it is only a confession, unaccompanied by anything else, and since we see afterward how it was enough, evidently, to fix the strangeness that had grown between him & Charles, we're forced to understand that it was never Edwin's feelings that were actually making things difficult for him - it was not being able to tell Charles about them. 'Terrified' as he's been of this, Edwin learns that his feelings don't need to either disappear completely or be totally reciprocated in order for him to be able to return to the peace, stability, and security of the relationship with which he defines his existence - and the scale of that relief a) tells us a hell of a lot about Edwin as a character and b) totally justifies the way his declaration just bursts out of him at what would otherwise be such a poorly chosen moment, in my opinion.

Whether or not they are or ever could be reciprocated, Edwin's feelings are definitively proven not to be the problem here - only his potential choice to bottle it up - his repression - is. And where that repression had once been mainly involuntary, a product of what he'd been through, now that he's got this new awareness of himself, if he still fails to admit what he's found either to himself or to the one person he's so unambiguously close with, then that repression will be by his own choice and actions.

And he won't do that. Among other things, he's coming into this scene having just (unknowingly) absolved the soul of his own school bully and accidental killer by pointing out a fact that is every bit as central to his self-discovery as anything about his sexuality or his attraction to Charles is: the idea that "If you punish yourself, everywhere becomes Hell"

So narratively speaking, of course it makes sense that Edwin literally cannot get out of Hell until he stops punishing himself - and right now, the thing that's torturing him is something he has control over. It's not who he is or what he feels, but what he chooses to do with those feelings that's hurting him, and he's even already made the conscious choice to tell Charles about them, he was just interrupted. But now that they're back together and he's literally in the middle of an attempt to escape Hell, there is absolutely no way he can so much as stop for breath without telling Charles the truth. Even the stopping for breath is so loaded - because they're ghosts, they don't need to breathe, but also they're in Hell, so the one thing they can feel is pain, however nonsensical. And Edwin certainly is in pain. But whether he knows what he's about to do or not when he says he 'just needs a tick,' a breather is absolutely not what's gonna give him enough relief to keep climbing - it's fixing that other hurt, though, that will.

Like everything else in that scene, there's a lot of layers to him promising Charles "You don't have to feel the same way, I just needed you to know" - but I don't think that means it isn't also true on a surface level. It's the act of telling Charles that matters so much more than whatever follows it, and while that might have gone unnoticed if anything else major had happened in the same conversation, now we're forced to acknowledge its staggering and singular importance for what it is. The moment is well-earned and properly built up to, but until we see it happen in all its wonderful simplicity, and we see the aftermath (or lack thereof, even), we couldn't properly anticipate how much of a weight off Edwin's shoulders merely getting to share the truth with Charles was going to be, why he couldn't wait for a better, safer opportunity before giving in to that desire, or how badly he needed to say it and nothing else - and I really, really love the weight that act of just being honest, seen, and known is given in their story/relationship.

[taliesinman]

everytime someone fetishizes rochu instead of making it the most dramatic thing of all time an angel loses its wings. how can you talk about rochu without talking about first contact during the imperial era. how can you talk about them and not go through how their dynamic during the century of humiliation suddenly changed in the 1920s. how can you talk about them without talking about comintern business and switching support between the kmt and the cpc. how can you talk about them without talking ww2. how can you talk about them without the short honeymoon phase after liberation in 1949. HOW CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THEM WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT. the drama. the politics. the historical intrigue. and you're telling me people ship rochu because "small delicate asian boy x big strong slavic man uwu" ? come on

[bumblingbabooshka]

Vulcan Fashion/Hair Insp

[josephscoat]

Tintin, his humble beginnings/introduction to the world of reporting― a bullet essay of headcanons by me, Jo.

I like to headcanon that before Tintin ever became the world-renowned, wonder-boy reporter we’ve all come to know, he started out as a paperboy for one of the local publications in his municipality of Brussels.

I imagine he started young, like around 12-14 years young.

He needed the extra pocket money, given that he’s an orphan with near to none and he wants to buy nice things for himself obviously; so the adults in his life suggested he find himself a job and landed on paperboy, then *boom* the rest was history.

He actually wanted to write for the publication, but they didn’t have a vacant slot at that time so he was stuck with delivering papers rather than writing them himself.

While it wasn’t the job he’d originally wanted, he’s still happy he got accepted somewhere and was determined to do his gosh darn best at whatever he was assigned to do.

He’s just bright-eyed and excited like that.

Kid braved the sun, the rain, cranky old people who would not hesitate to beat or hose him if he came near their property and rabid dogs to deliver them papers.

In spite of this, he’s mostly happy with his newly found line of work, being able to travel around a lot and (sort of) meet new people.

He likes to look on the brighter side of things, what can I say?

Later down the line, when the pub he delivered for decided to open a literary page on their papers to stir things up and try to get some extra revenue, he’d try to submit his own stories that he’d written under a pen name.

Eventually the editorial board + staff caught on and took notice of their paperboy’s potential as/eagerness to be a writer and promoted him into field reporter.

Unfortunately the editors of his pub are really shady right-wingers― seriously; nobody in their good conscience would send an at the most, 14-year-old boy into Soviet Russia in the dead middle of winter without any regards to what would happen to him if he ever gets caught by the Russian government once he’s there.

I feel like they were lowkey expecting to never hear from him after sending him off; it’s horrifying that they’d view literal children as a something rather than a someone, that could be easily disposed of and replaced.

So imagine their surprise when the kid comes back, bruised and battered with a small white puppy in his arms, slamming a front-page worthy news story into his editor’s desk demanding his salary.

[lordcephalopod]

I have a hypothesis/hot take that I'm growing firmer in my belief about like every day but no idea what to do with.

I think the rise of "food sensitivities" is fucking up people's health like. Real, real bad. Don't get me wrong! Food sensitivities and allergies are real! If you have celiac gluten is non-negotiable! If you get the potato sweats you probably shouldn't be eating those potatoes...

But I know so many people who went to some "nutritionist" who recommended a strict elimination diet to determine what the person is allergic/sensitive to. Person goes on the diet and suddenly feels better! They determine they're sensitive/allergic to some large swath of food, change their diet, and probably take fist fulls of unregulated supplements to fill any nutrition gaps.

And it goes great at first! Then like 6-12 months later their mental health, physical health, and fucking life are falling apart and they don't know why.

Like buddy...pal....it might be the self inflicted nutritional deficiency you gave yourself based on little more than Vibes and then tried to plug up with pills.

Maybe they did eliminate something they're allergic to! But that shotgun blast of a diet probably took out a lot of shit they're not allergic to. And having a very complicated, very strict, very nutritionally complete diet on the long term is a very tall order for most people.

Saw round one of this with the rise of "gluten sensitive" people who felt SO much better after going gluten free only to eventually realize their diet before was just like 80% bread/pasta/etc and they didn't feel better because gluten bad, they felt better because vegetables good.

Idk, i don't want to countermand anyone's doctor based on a hunch. I've just seen the pattern repeat so many damn time it's very frustrating. And I swear I've never seen anyone call it out without being some sort of feral "clean eating" borderline fascist weirdo.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I know that people are rarely their best selves at a funeral, but do you ever just watch your family move through the process of mourning the Patriarch and have a sudden and violent and vivid understanding of Why Everyone Is The Way They Are

[chirpsythismorning]

Nick himself said that his knowledge is confined to the leaks prior to s4, the s4 scripts from his verified source (likely within a source) and basic knowledge most fans paying attention have been able to formulate about s5 based on what has been released officially/unofficially, trends from Netflix and common sense.

He is saying based on all that, he doesn’t think byler is happening. 

And if we think back to what the Duffers themselves shared in the 4x09 script, it literally implies Mike’s monologue worked, and that it was entirely genuine. This tells me that the script the Duffers released for Emmy consideration, is not that far off from what Nick saw for himself. 

I think it’s likely Nick got something that the average below the line worker might manage to get their hands on if they tried hard enough. A copy they know they have to water-down to prevent these very situations from happening.

Unfortunately for the Duffers, it just so happens that they didn’t scrub their watered down copy hard enough.

Unfortunately for Nick, he admitted that it’s possible and even likely that the production will release things that aren’t exactly accurate with the sole purpose to lead fans sleuthing astray, without realizing it may have ironically already happened to him. 

[foxstens]

time to elaborate on the 'everything happens bc andrew got kevin pregnant idea'

*came up with it because kevin disappeared from the public eye for 9 months

except i'm having trouble coming up with a scenario that would work.

a raven!andrew au is the most straightfoward but it messes with the premise in the first place. if he gets pregnant in the nest and then stays there, what are the options? try to hide it? wouldn't work. tell someone? they'd force him to get rid of it. get rid of it on his own? also wouldn't work. unless he would be allowed (and or forced) to keep it for some reason, but why???

what else. uhhh well since riko breaks his hand at the time of the winter banquet, perhaps kevin and andrew hook up at the winter banquet? it would delay things by a bit and then how the fuck would kevin escape if riko doesn't break his hand? and what about the entire plot point of kevin being better than riko? does that just not happen? maybe the erc doesn't notice or maybe tetsuji doesn't pit them against each other or maybe it does happen riko just doesn't get as angry because kevin lets him win in the end??

except i don't see them hooking up just out of the blue. kevin probably wouldn't even think of that with riko and everyone so close, especially if he had just been accused of being better than riko. andrew probably also wouldn't be up for it considering ~everything.

unless they kept in touch since they tried recruiting andrew to the ravens? but even then they'd def be extra cautious.

if we handwave the setup though, thinking about what happens next is very fun. kevin finding out and calling andrew in a panic, whisper-yelling because how the fuck did this happen his life is over what the fuck does he do and andrew just fucking shuts down for a second because what except he's on his meds so he tells kevin to just get rid of it but he knows enough about kevin's situation to understand that's not a possibility and he's andrew fucking minyard and he can't not take responsibility.

and this is kevin so of course the priority is to make sure kevin's safe and they'll figure the rest out later, so he tells wymack(????????) and they arrange to get kevin out of there somehow (????????) maybe jean is on it too because he'd understand in this scenario????? or maybe he's not and he wouldn't, idk.

so then kevin is out and he's still having a meltdown and andrew is also quietly having a meltdown and so is wymack because what the fuck but they hold it together somehow and then they have to talk about it and decide what to do but that's not at all easy when kevin is now having a meltdown because he just ran away from the fucking nest and riko is going to kill jean and then he's going to kill kevin and-

so it takes a few days. i'd guess neither of them have ever considered if they want kids considering how young they are and also their lives until now and all kevin can think about is how it will affect his career so yes the wisest decision would be to just get rid of it but wymack and abby and betsy do their hardest to make sure they won't regret whatever they decide. in the end it's left up to kevin and for some reason he decides to keep it. because it's andrew? because he can finally control something about his life? because he wants to have more than just exy, somehow? because it's kind of what his mother did? maybe all of that and also as a giant fuck you to riko?

he makes sure andrew is okay with it first, of course. says andrew doesn't have to have anything to do with the kid. the only thing he asks is that andrew lets them stay there until kevin learns to stand up to riko. and that's exactly why andrew agrees. because kevin now is very different from who he was two years ago in that dingy locker room, even a few days ago when he called andrew in a panic.

so everything is the same except kevin gives birth before kathy's interview. also kandreil is real and seth lives because i said so.

interesting to think how having a young child around would change the three of them and also the team dynamics. not at all realistic though!

[wonder-worker]

people really do not know what they're talking about when it comes to Elizabeth Woodville's social status, huh?

[sysig]

*chanting* Second pet, second pet, second pet! (Patreon)

[tennessoui]

Do you have a preference for top Obi-Wan or top Anakin in obikin? And if so, why? I'm new to the fandom and ship, and it seems that top Anakin is very popular. I've always imagined him bottoming more often for Obi-Wan, although I like to think they switch occasionally

i very much do not have a preference or an opinion on this! i read and write either - the important thing for me is that they're recognizable to my understanding of the characters and i don't see either of them as massively frail, demure, twinky, etc so that's usually the stuff i don't read or interact with (and i've moved away dom/sub stuff currently) though more power to you if that's what you like! to me, their sexual positions in bed do not make up a big part of their characters, so i really can switch between both and enjoy it all.

it's just not the interesting part of a story for me, and honestly (and i know this is controversial or what passes for controversial in a fandom lol) i don't tend to tag my explicit fics with who is topping and who is bottoming if there's penetrative sex involved - especially for longer fics because the story isn't about that in my mind. it's a very small aspect of it and the least important part

i do think i've seen a lot of conflating dom/sub with top/bottom lately and that's a trend that comes and goes like waves and also a trend i very much dislike. i definitely have stronger views on conflating dom/sub and top/bottom than i have on who should top and who should bottom LOL

[bossthebicon]

pro life tip: rewatching cooking crush when feeling bad will turn a shitty day into better one 💚

[monotonous-minutia]

guess who's going to see Roméo et Juliette in cinema today!!