#team orders suck

[my-fall-from-grace]

also mclaren fans i’ve seen both sides for the team orders but pls.. let’s NOT become like some other teams. i don’t want oscar vs lando girlies fighting each weekend. i’m literally begging y’all to remain unproblematic. look at mctwink’s singing tswift at each other tenderly, find videos of their blatant heart eyes, and take a deep breath

[parisoonic]

i really wish we got the tf2 tv show because i think, about your talk about how pyro ends up being a foil to the other characters, pyro is such a wildcard of a character that if you need someone for an episode to complete a dynamic it's pyro. he's designated driver. he's the mcdonalds employee. he's scout's ma. she's helping miss p dismember bodies. it's coming in through the dog door

your ask got me thinking about how i'd use pyro in a show and IDK if anyone else has seen Solar Opposites but how they split the Pupa's screentime between A + B plots in the first/second season would be spot on the money for me. Pyro could be there, in the A plot, in small ways (like you said, at the back of the bus or en rotue to the episodes mission) but then gets sucked into a 'mundane' B plot for some tonal levity within the episode. Pyro's gotta run that FTSE 500 company! They've gotta seduce the Ballicorn comic writer in order to read the never-published final issue! They've gotta earn an Astrophysics PHD in order to steal their Professor's Pokemon topped pen....that sort of thing. And then occassionaly they can show up with the deus-ex-mechina for the episode with the rest of the team being none the wiser (other than vaguely baffled as their flamethrower could've REALLY come in handy fighting those haunted scarecrows).

[moonsidesong]

i dont mean to sound like a sore loser, honestly splatfest results aren't important to me, i just have fun playing with my friends and my sister, but like, good lord i feel like there's gotta be something wrong with the points system at this point.

even if you don't care as much about winning, at least having a bit of a competitive spirit is what makes splatfests fun, and its not very fun to feel like you're always either on shiver's team or on the losing side.

[hotboxthesupra]

it’s kinda funny to me that team orders are just the norm now and oscar and lando can talk openly in the press about the team opting to use them when back in the day they literally tried to get alonso to kill himself on live tv for doing the same 😭😭😭

[the--firevenus]

Oh lilith realize my ass doesn't want to bother with the arena mechanic (cuz I'm not a competitive individual in that regards) and decide in order to proceed in the afk season you have to get into the supreme level!?!?? LILITH, THINK ABOUT THE POOR CASUAL FREE TO PLAY LILITH, I CAME HERE FOR LORE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I know and aware the clothing reward for getting higher up in ranks but lilith please I'm a peasant among these good player 😭😭😭😭

[meanqueens]

Was I supposed to be rooting for Rhaenys girlboss speech? Because this lady accepted the Great Council despite having the better claim. She allowed her 12 year old daughter to be offered up to the king. She allowed her granddaughters to be passed over in favour of obvious bastards. Now, all of these actions can be seen as the correct political choices for her standing and survival despite them being choices which shackle her to a system that’s screwed her over…but that’s exactly what she’s shaming Alicent for! And the narrative doesn’t frame her as a hypocrite! And Alicent doesn’t have a dragon to fight, unlike Rhaenys, and the only thing Rhaenys has done to fight for freedom with that dragon is murders hundreds of innocents. Yay?

thank you for your ask, anon, and excuse me for just a moment while i roll my eyes into the back of my head from recalling rhaenys’ lovely little speech.

“Now, all of these actions can be seen as the correct political choices for her standing and survival despite them being choices which shackle her to a system that’s screwed her over…but that’s exactly what she’s shaming Alicent for! And the narrative doesn’t frame her as a hypocrite!”

anon, i think that might be the very worst part: for episodes upon episodes now, the narrative has been framing the blacks as morally superior to the greens, when in fact the dance itself is a very selfish and morally grey conflict. it’s not LOTR, with the clearly heroic fellowship fighting against a faceless dark lord (absolutely no LOTR shade, i adore it but i think it’s a good example of what i’m trying to say), it’s people’s wants vs. other people’s wants. “need against need”, as that richard siken quote goes. nobody is leading a revolution against the broken and toxic system; they want the world’s most uncomfortable chair as a means of survival in accordance with that system. and that is a fascinating story on its own, with no clear heroes and villains! but that’s not the story they want to tell.

now until this point, i was with rhaenys; i interpreted her actions exactly as you mentioned, necessary political moves to help her family survive, exactly what everybody else is doing (yes, including the greens, HOTD!). so much time and care was spent with building alicent hightower a compelling character journey, but that doesn’t appear to matter in the greater narrative; apparently that journey was meant to continuously shame her for adhering to the patriarchy (even though it’s clear why she’s doing it). lowkey it reminds me of what GOT did to sansa, subjecting her to trauma after trauma (and i mean the ones that were not book accurate, y’know, the ones that had something of a purpose?) for the sake of stripping her of her fundamental gentleness because that’s not the story they wanted.

maybe rhaenys’ intentions were just to mess with alicent’s head, but the narrative paints her words as justified and not manipulation. and then she throws all her political finesse out the window by slaughtering people in a careless act of dragon violence. what a messy writing decision, like wtf?? who is this woman on meleys bc that doesn’t feel like rhaenys anymore, the savvy grandma who made her peace with her lot and thusly tried to protect her family from the fallout of the throne scheming, because she recognized how toxic it was. she’d lived it. and now she’s bringing the roof down on her family’s heads, just as she did to those smallfolk. when otto hightower is advocating for the little guy and you’re preparing to roast somebody, you know you fucked up.

apparently the “inside the episode” relays that rhaenys didn’t go through with burning alicent and her family because she “couldn’t do that to a mother”, correct me if i’m wrong. idk, i’m interpreting it as a moment of camaraderie, rhaenys seeing herself in alicent, another woman putting herself between the people that she loves in the face of fire and blood and death… even though she just kinda shamed her for it.

in conclusion: just because you can ride a dragon doesn’t me you should (or that you’re the hero of the story).

[slagclaren]

putting the brown in zak brown the way i'm absolutely shitting myself rn

[digitaldiseas3]

shockingly work has not been terrible today so far!!!

[maraeffect]

BIG DISABLED JOY MOMENT i'm FINALLY having a consult for a custom/specialty wheelchair tomorrow 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[fandomunsexyman]

The Spy-Maestro dynamic is the FUNNIEST thing to me because they’re both getting a taste of their own personality through the other but they are also so incredibly petty towards each other.

Spy recognizes Maestro as someone so committed to their job/persona that she’s borderline stopped being herself anymore. Maestro views herself as least important when it comes to her job and her future. She's not the person that she used to be anymore, she's Maestro and that is what matters most. What comes first is what needs to be done and how she needs to do it. And isn't that him? He's dedicated his life to his job but what about when it's done? What happens next? What is he doing this for? They all have skeletons in their closet but he’s recognizing his own.

But Spy also dislikes Maestro because they’re both full of themselves in a way that pisses off the other. It's hard for Spy to maintain his cool-guy persona when Maestro consistently recognizes him by the tar in his lungs and has no problem telling others as much. She also decided to wear a cheap suit to the battlefield because she does not care to spend the time to buy a suit that would be fashionable and comfortable like his own despite the fact that she could easily do so. Her fashion sense is an atrocity and-

Maestro sees Spy as what she could become. Maestro could devote herself so much to her job that she’s lost sight of why she’s doing it. She’s not Maestro the Mercenary, she's Maestro the Future Star, and it's important to remember that distinction. She is going to be famous and Spy is Spy. And there’s something terrifying about that. How easy it would be to get sucked into this world, and to stop fighting the cesspool. To become so dedicated to what has to be done that you’ve lost sight of why you’re doing it.

Maestro also dislikes Spy because fuck him her fashion sense is amazing. Nevermind that she hasn't had a composition played anywhere in years, everyone goes through rough patches who cares about hers. And actually Spy it says more about him that he's bothered to research her because he's probably the one who's "deluding" himself and not her. Also there's no point in her wearing an expensive suit to work because they are paid to kill and die everyday so who gives a damn about what brand of suit she's wearing as long as she's wearing it.

[masqueradeoftheguilty]

side order spoilers //

god. seeing marina build a vr game in unity. i get it girlie i really do

[seventeendeer]

just played sonic frontiers for the first time for a couple hours and in my professional Sonic Expert(tm) opinion, we need to crowdfund therapy for whoever directed this game. or, if I ever manage to locate the willpower to finish this fucking game, for me

[snarkylinda]

The Last Gasp is so funny- it's easy to write anyone else being unhappy with being out of the Team- Penelope can't be herself and has to overlook literal crime happening in front of her, Matt, Luke and JJ literally have a body count of how many cases they can't assist because....Linda is a bitch; Tara is pretty much a marriage counselor, FBI version; Emily was put with an awful chief/partner.....and then there is Spencer, who looked genuinely happy with his teaching job until he realized all his students want to rail him.

One of these things is not like the other.

[inhidingxoxo3637]

Are these bitches soft lauching team orders??

[shae-la-hyene]

Nate is a grief stricken man who is haunted by a loss he'll never truly recover from and that is shaping is entire life. While ruthless, he is a justice that is selfless and total.

Sophie is just an asshole who spent her entire life manipulating people, even the ones she claims to love, into giving her what she wants.