#sorry for the grain :

[casualavocados]

Why are you being weird with me again? I thought we weren't doing that anymore. I'm not being weird. Yes, you are.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS 1.05 • A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers

[pissditching]

"where's gerard" "when are they coming back" "where is she"

grain silo.

[hellboys]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (1992)

[massivewaffle]

I think a lot of people are feeling dissatisfied with the lack of PVP on Purgatory because Etoiles has (barely) been able to fight. The majority of people watching/participating actively assumed Green was a frontrunner purely because it has Etoiles in it, who 3 v 1'd the codes, so who could even compare in a PVP event?

Problem is, Purgatory Etoiles isn't treated the same as QSMP Etoiles. On the island, Etoiles had a purpose in fighting the codes. He was never a threat to his fellow islanders, and they knew him well enough to not be scared. Etoiles was playful and well-liked by everyone. But in Purgatory, where it's team v team and friends v friends, everyone is on edge and wary of Etoiles because he 3 v 1'd the codes. They cheered for him at the time, but they've also seen what he can do and what he could do to them.

In Purgatory, Etoiles is feeling a bit annoyed with everything. Suddenly, everyone on the island has forgotten that one of Etoiles' driving character traits is that he's honorable. Too honorable right now, maybe. He doesn't attack his friends in a blitz; he asks them to 1 v 1. He gives them armor and time to craft before a fight. He promises (and honors) his vow to not loot their bodies; he waits so they can get their stuff back. He is yearning for a fight, to participate in the one activity that he loves, something that he was admired for doing last week, but now no one is willing to engage with him. The day before Purgatory, he was asking to stick fight and teaching people how to improve their PVP, and now they assume he will attack them? Rather than blame his friends who don't want to fight, he sometimes blames himself for being too good with too much of a tryhard reputation to be worth the risk. He's snarky and dramatic and feels rejected by all the islanders who praised his accomplishments days ago.

Etoiles is basically a labrador who is desperate for someone to play fetch with. He needs stimulation - needs to be called upon for something. He's desperate to engage with others, but he's so lonely and dispirited and so ridiculously bored.

[jjongho]

yeosang ∙ 230106 ∙ mubank interview

[tyongie]

TEN 'TEN' - The 1st Mini Album

[ride-a-dromedary]

Since you know like 10000000x more about the elven language than me, what are your thoughts about the meaning of the name Halsin?

I like this question, because based in interpretation*, the name does suit him! We're going to use what we have access to in DnD elvish, as Tolkien elvish is a different language entirely and they don't have much overlap.

We'll have to break his name into pieces, and that can be done a variety of different ways, depends what you choose to do. I figured easiest ways are: Hal - sin

Very cut and dry.

or

Ha - l - sin

With the "l" being an adjoining tonal letter. In both cases, "sin" would likely be broken up into a combination of "sy"or "syy" + "-in"

Now the meaning of the pieces:

Hal/Hol: "pale, weak" OR "precious" (Side note: Astarion's "The Pale Elf" might be said "Hal'kesir/quessir" - very close to "Tel'quessir")

Ha: "free, freedom"

Sy: "wild"

Suffix -in: "brother, sister, sibling"

So, directly, it could mean:

Hal-sin = "Pale/weak or precious wild brother"

OR

Ha-l-syin = "Free wild brother" (Which I would phrase more like "Brother of the free wild" or just "Brother of the wilds")

I am inclined to lean towards the latter definition/meaning, as I believe it suits him very well, and aligns with the relationship between him and Thaniel. Naming himself as a sibling of the free wild indicates that his relationship with nature is the forefront of his personality (nature being his very first friend), and indicates a closer connection than others might have. Judging by how Halsin speaks of his connection with Thaniel shaping who he was as a person, this may imply he's named himself after how intertwined it all is to his being. Familial familiar and inseparable.)

(It also sounds more in line of what he would name himself than the alt. - I wouldn't really assign the words "pale" or "weak" as something Halsin would name himself...

...unless he is implying, as he was most likely at the point where he was the last of his kin and the only child left, that he was the "weaker" choice of sibling to be left of their line. So "weak brother of the wild". Pales in comparison. But I feel like that's a stretch.)

FUN BONUS, in elvish, Halsin could have written his name like this:

Or like this (A variant of Espruar, the alphabet of the moon elves that was used to transcribe elvish, used around 1372 DR - since retconned. And since Halsin would have likely learned to write between 1147 DR and 1152 DR, probably not used by him, but possible he learned as he would have been around 120 by then):

*Disclaimer that DnD elvish, at its core, has had a very contradictory lexicon over the many years, and most words are drawn from 2e and 3e materials - elven also has several words for singular things, single letters that can change the meaning of a word or sentence entirely/thrown in to make a word flow better and have no meaning otherwise, and is a very tonal based language in that you could physically be saying one thing, but another elf would hear something entirely different in the intonation. Therefore, everything I write here is interpretive based on the materials we have access to, with a little extra HCing and logical assumption.

[sollucets]

Wait up.

[bugscholar]

The Beatles (27 July 1963)

[irregularbillcipher]

the "paul is richie's uncle" headcanon is really cute but i really love it in tandem with the idea that ted is surprisingly involved in his little brother's life while paul is more just vaguely fond of his nephew, but doesn't really know all that much about his friends or his day-to-day life

like, the idea of ted knowing all his geeky little brother's friends really well, like letting them chill in his apartment every now and then to watch movies or driving them home when they have their stupid library study sessions or whatever is already pretty fun, just the idea that the Local Bastard has accidentally and begrudgingly been saddled with these two loser highschoolers because they're his little brother's dweebus friends that he doesn't want to admit he has a soft spot for, but it's made doubly funny if paul just has no idea that his nephew's best friend is the little brother of the Worst Guy In His Office. ted comes over to paul's desk one day with a stack of dog-eared manga like "pete forgot to take these this morning, so you give 'em back to richie for me, okay? also, ruth's right, stein and spirit are definitely fucking and i want him to stop fighting with her about it when i pick 'em up from the library" and paul is just like. okay. i have several questions about this.

[indiangp]

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alternate versions:

[brocktonbay]

Rose & Blake: The Mirror Phase; or, Hatred of the Self Through the Gendered Other

Pact, J.C. McCrae // Girl at Mirror, Norman Rockwell // "Origin of Love," Stephen Trask // Twin Peaks, "Beyond Life and Death" // Fight Club (1999) // The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) // The "Uncanny," Sigmund Freud // Supernatural, "Skin" // The Doppelgänger: Double Visions in German Literature, Andrew J. Webber // Black Swan (2010) // Pact, J. C. McCrae // "Mirror," Sylvia Plath // Not to Be Reproduced, René Magritte // Pact, J.C. McCrae

[marimeeko]

Kudo looking at Izukus memories and then saying that Izuku has an affinity for forgiving ppl who don't deserve it "like Bakugou"

And Izuku giving OFA 5 minutes later out of spite like

"If you're going to talk shit about my Kacchan maybe I don't want you in my head, damn, take 'em, Shig"

Lmao Izuku like "you come into MY BRAIN, and start acting up like that?? LEASE CANCELLED"

[ashleyslorens]

[chromatic-lamina]

Mihawk to Buggy (conveyed by body language only):

Your clown aesthetic disturbs my equilibrium.

[porto-rosso]

Generally don’t love it when people go ‘no actually they’re the exact opposite with no room for a middle ground’ in response to bad fanon cos it tends to be reductive and reactive in a way that doesn't hold true to the character any more than the original bad fanon did. That being said I do wholeheartedly believe cass gives the worst advice out of any of the bats. Like actively has-been-banned-from-giving-advice bad. Steph was worried about her grades once and Cass told her to kidnap her professor so he couldn't score the final. Any Cass-offered solution falls under the general categories of either a) punch it or b) ignore it.