#thesis presentation

[blueskittlesart]

good news everyone im doing another legend of zelda presentation for my very serious senior level college class

[caesxr]

[khaotunq]

Then why are we talking, Captain? First Kanaphan as Kant (The Heart Killers, 2024-2025)

[ursiday]

hii

okay so i wanted to ask if u know the order of the books in feline wizards, im asking because i know you like the series and i wouldve asked on ur xenofiction designs blog (nightpaw) but i dont know if ur still active on there at all lol

i've been trying to search for the order the books go in but i cant find anything for that except the first book (which is the book of night with moon, right?) i have no idea how many books there are either, i think three? idk

i hope this makes sense😭

I believe there are three: The Book of Night With Moon, To Visit the Queen, and The Big Meow (in that order). There's a page on Diane Duane's website that lists them and also has more info: https://www.dianeduane.com/novels/

I've only read the first one myself though :-) The cat books are a spinoff of another series of hers about human kids in the same universe, IDK anything about that series but I think that's why Feline Wizardry is a little obscure

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

i am OBSESSED with the way that these vault songs are all tied to sentiments that are already present on the original album. slut and blank space. say don't go and all you had to do was stay. suburban legends and style. is it over now? and out of the woods!!!!!!!

all of these thoughts reflecting each other just in different flavors – satirical versus desperate versus angry versus versus versus! it's all the same! the only difference is the presentation!

[memen18-m5r3]

wacky karaoke night!

[welcome-to-green-hills]

https://www.tiktok.com/@sonicmovie/video/7443133559608495391

Does… does this imply the folks at the Chao restaurant decided to make one of their costumes look like Knuckles???

Sweetpea, I think what we’re seeing is Knuckles Chao-sona

[vonspe]

Love your Rook so much!! 😭

Does your Rook move to Nevarra to live with Emmrich post game or is he pissing Viago off by picking up all of the Nevarra jobs as an excuse for an extended vacation? I could imagine Viago fisting the air while Lucanis and Teia hold him back to keep him from dragging Rook’s ass back to Antiva.

Ty!!!

My post game hc for Rook is that he goes completely rogue and is trying to help establish democracy in Treviso. He never liked being a crow and doesnt think they should have any political sway. its fun to think about 💁‍♀️ still pissing off Viago more than anyone thought was possible!!

[sarcastic-clapping]

currently thinking about the fact that i wrote my 60-something page bachelor’s thesis for my politics degree about the growing influence of memes and internet culture on mainstream political communication and how political communities online were becoming increasingly polarized and insular and how that could impact polarization in american politics as a whole if the influence of internet culture continued to expand into the mainstream….in 2016. during the primaries.

[devotioncrater]

"no hints were dropped" ok not to be that person but here are the hints that were dropped regarding Colin and Trent being gay:

1. Colin mentioning Grindr in a joke

2. Trent touching the arm of a man in the background

Here is one of the hints that Keeley was bi (even though I do believe she's been canonically bi since season 1, but not everyone sees it this way)

1. Her desktop background was in the colors of the bisexual flag

Here were some of the hints that Ted was bi:

1. Bisexual flag colored triangles above his head in the hallucination sequence

2. Inverted pink triangle next to him in that same sequence (and you can't tell me the creators didn't know, when the Homomonument is based on that symbol)

3. Countless (countless!!!) comments about men's physiques ("huge muscular thighs all caked in mud", whistling at a picture of Pep, "look at that head of hair", "he's strong", "he looks like a Rodin sculpture in cleats", etc.)

4. About a man (Higgins) and a woman (Rebecca), he had to say: "that's a crowd I don't mind being smack-dab in the middle of"

5. Him checking Trent out in the pub in 2x07 (his eyes are up there, Ted!)

6. "It could go either way", "I contain multitudes" and other comments in this vein

7. Bi lighting as he entered the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn

8. Giving similar looks to the female waitress and the male waiters in that restaurant (including a waiter in a cowboy costume that looked like he belonged in a gay club, who tipped his hat at Ted when greeting him)

9. "That's cause you were put into a box", "That box ceases to exist today", the box in the hallucination sequence breaking into triangles (as in the bi triangles and the inverted pink triangke), "we've been playing too rigid", "our guys need freedom", "fast, fluid, free, with full support", the "box that one needs to break out of" being a prominent motif in season 3

10. Wishing Beard called him pet names ("Honey, is that an ingredient or something you just called me?")

11. His crush on Pep

12. The connection between Ted and Colin: "my whole life is two lives, really", both wearing orange in Sunflowers, "I just want to kiss my fella" (Colin doesn't say "fella" , but Ted says it all the time), Ted just needs to get inspired and Colin's play is "inspirational" after he comes out, as per the commentators

And so much other stuff that, had Ted not self-identified as straight (*cough* put himself into a box *cough cough*) , you could make the case that he was canonically bi.

Here are some of hints that there was a romantic connection between Ted and Trent:

1. They hit a lot of romantic beats, and not in the jokey self-aware way in which Roy and Ted hit them in "Rainbow", but in an organic and sincere way

2. They both checked each other out: Trent checked Ted out when Ted was changing in front of him, Ted checked Trent out when Trent came up to him in a pub and hit him with a pick-up line while his date that looked a lot like Ted waited for him outside

3. Did I mention that Trent was on a date with a moustachioed man who dressed in a similar style to Ted? Let's mention it again

4. In that very bar, during a 50 second long conversation, Trent managed to say the word "love" three times. I searched the word "love" in the transcripts of the episodes. There's no other instance in which its frequency is this high

5. "Love our chats" incomplete rule of threes

6. "Sport, it's quite the metaphor" (implied: a metaphor for love; see also "love's a beautiful game" from the song Ed Sheeran wrote for Ted Lasso), "Also makes for a heck of a nickname", "Good night, Ted", "Good night, sport"

7. The soft, romantic, melancholic song playing in the background of this scene, while Ted and Trent are the last ones left in the office, with lyrics such as "When your words begin to crumble like the sidewalks all around this crummy neighborhood / From the chalky cliffs of Dover / I'd come over, I'd start over if I could"

8. Trent wearing sunflower colors in the episode "Sunflowers" and in the finale; sunflowers symbolize Ted's home (it's not subtle). He's the only character dressed like that. I'm still looking for any other explanation other than "Trent is Ted's home"

9. Their constant flirting and the way they look at each other with incredible fondness

10. The entire episode "The Strings That Bind Us". It's structured around Ted and Trent's relationship, and the way Trent changed because of Ted (in season 2, Ted defined a soulmate as someone who changes your life forever). The red string metaphor. Ted points out that soulmates are connected by a string tied to their little fingers. Ted and Trent both extend their little fingers out in similar shots. They are connected by a huge block of red in their last scene of the episode. Ted makes several comments about other men that apply to Trent ("Look at that head of hair", "Frames his face nicely", "My favorite one, he was clean shaven"). Many more details that lead back to Ted and Trent: Nate tells the restaurant owner to tell Jade he said "Hello". Immediately after, Ted and Trent say "Hello" to each other. The map that Nate's father used to ask out his mom has the number 1.3 written on it and an illustration of two people at a table in a restaurant. Ted and Trent went to a restaurant together in season 1, episode 3. The last scene of the episode mimics a "Race for Love" scene from a romcom, with Trent chasing after Ted. Trent also does not say a word to anyone other than Ted in the entire episode. He is completely focused on Ted

11. "Trent, what do you love? Is it writing?" and Trent ends up writing a book about Ted and naming the manuscript after Ted and he only cares about Ted's opinion on it (he leaves the room when Beard starts reading, but stays in the office after hours just to watch Ted read. "I just wanted you to like it.")

11. Trent's crush on Ted, confirmed by Jimmy Lance (and also obvious in the show, if you ask me)

Now, why would I believe that none of these hints were intentional? Maybe some could be explained away, but all of them? The hints we got for Colin, Trent and Keeley were so much smaller than this, and those turned out to be intentional.

anon i wish i could offer you the response you deserve, but i cannot stop rereading this masterpiece & focusing on the portions of evidence you provided that i didn't even pick up on until you laid them out. holy shit

[nekioka]

[all-yourn]

Dean Winchester & "O Ruthless Great Divine Director" by Lingua Ignota

[xxplastic-cubexx]

i’m so glad you brought up that bit in excalibur where magneto’s ideal prison is him getting to be a husband and father again, because it’s so relevant to the idea that the house of m reality isn’t actually everyone’s ideal life, but just wanda’s idea of what everyone’s ideal life would be. all the time i see x-fans condemn magneto for house of m because his ideal world is him becoming exactly like his oppressors, but house of m isn’t actually the life magnus wants! any time magnus gets to become a political leader, he hates it. he hated ruling genosha. he hated ruling krakoa. deep down, he doesn’t want to be superior. he just wants to live in peace with the family he lost.

also, shoutout to magda and anya, who never get to be anything other than magneto’s women in refrigerators. i wish they got to be more important than that. i love it every time we see them in comics, but it’s so rare. and shoutout to magda in particular since she’s been almost completely erased from the narrative by the maximoff retcon. really hope we get a reveal that natalya maximoff was magda all along when we inevitably make wanda and pietro magneto’s mutant children again.

i honestly didnt know excalibur was a predecessor to HoM when i heard about both runs so when i saw that set of panels for the first time it really had me reconsider HoM and the 'ideal reality' bit, im surprised i dont see it mentioned more often

i really wish there were more appearances of mags, magda, and anya; if there are stories focused on them i barely see them talked about... ive heard magda is mags' best-written partner from some but i also very rarely see stories that feature her directly named, so i never get to see her beyond the few fleeting instances i just so happen to catch her. id very much like to see more of her and mags' domestic life....

i think if we find out that natalya was magda all along i'll howl: this family really Can get more complicated contrary to popular belief 💀

[deswhomst]

final year or MY final year stay tuned to find out

[spatteringstars]

Thinking about that time I did a forty minute presentation on power point night and half of it was me not shutting up about how mentally ill bruce’s relationships with his children makes me

[dicklessthewonderclown]

there are a couple of steps just outside my apartment building that i always sit on to smoke (bc if i ever smoked weed in the house my roommate would vivisect me), and it’s pretty quiet, but whenever a car goes by, they’ll always like glance over at me. anyways, so i’m sitting outside with my bong and the religious horror fic i’m rereading, it’s a very normal evening, i’m vibing. until this car drives by very slowly and i make the mistake of accidentally making eye contact with the driver mid (very large) rip.

now a fun fact about me, my friends and by extension like acquaintances and friends of friends know that i’m a really great person to smoke with when you’re interested in trying weed for the first time. i was recently teaching a couple smoking buddies how to use a bong, and one of them was having trouble so i was like ‘ripping a bong is the blowjob of smoking weed, and once you accept that it’s really easy to get the hang of.’ (side note: it worked)

anyways i’m pretty sure what i felt in that moment is what it would feel like to make eye contact with someone passing you on the freeway mid road head

shout out <3