#they've been at it for 20 years

[zingaplanet]

Ok but I think rivals that sit and chat together after TOURNAMENT FINALS deserve to stay together forever ok

[marinecanary]

threw this together in like 5 seconds

idea credit: @chungledown-bimothy

[arthursfuckinghat]

"I was gonna say you're like a son to me.. but you're more than that."

"It ain't that complicated!"

How quickly that shoulder pat of comfort turned into a condescending one.

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[larrylimericks]

19May24

Precisely a year since it started (The Sun forgot ratrry tongues darted)— May the next be as mild (We’re still detoxing Wilde)— The curtain’s come down, Hussell’s parted.

[intramoon]

𝒲+𝒜 (circa 2017)

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 192

a break from artfight for some good news! i have finally scheduled a surgical consult to have my enemy (read: uterus) removed. this is a bit of a scarier prospect than my breast reduction was, but i think it will be an equally impactful quality of life improvement when all is said and done!!

anyway those of yall who have been here since the beginning may remember me posting through that whole process so i figure why stop now.

[doggendoodle]

people last episode: oh my god the bad kids don't care about the rat grinders having been groomed at ALL they only want violence. ignore the fact that the rat grinders have been nothing but violent and horrid all season a lot of which was of their own accord

the bad kids this episode: i can't believe we weren't able to redeem ruben. hopefully we can redeem mary ann. we did it last season we can do it this season too. man porter sucks he's such a shitty person and a shitty teacher

[anghraine]

Today's unhinged "good God I hate how much extreme generosity I'm expected to extend to the Peter Jackson films by people who make wildly bad faith arguments about things I like" rant:

I am very deeply tired of people insisting with zero evidence that of course the LOTR films are imperfect, but the difficulties of adapting LOTR are such that it wasn't possible for them to be better than they were—in, apparently, any respect. They just couldn't be done better, at all, because it was so hard to make something watchable at all.

This is always just like ... really? Really?? Just what prevented them from making better decisions about anything? What exactly made casting every actor of color as barely differentiated villainous hordes in the twenty-first century so necessary and unavoidable? The glamorization and vast expansions of battle scenes and insertion of "heroic" war crimes was the highest film as a medium could aspire to in the early 2000s because of what insuperable force?

What made it impossible to give Arwen a coherent character arc? The films could not have been made without the underlying assumption that most of the cast are NPCs who will only do the right thing, when they will, if prodded or manipulated or influenced by main characters? In what way is this an inevitability of adaptation or film that simply couldn't have been conceptualized differently, much less better?

There is zero explanation or justification for why any of this stuff (or the myriad other flaws) had to be that way and couldn't have been done better in any way at any point. It's just stated that the films that exist must be the best films that could have existed because they're the ones that do exist and are popular. QED.

That doesn't make any sense, though, and it doesn't convince anyone who doesn't already agree. The idea that they could not have been better in any way (including their worst quality, which again, is the extremely racist casting), that some force was preventing not only the actual filmmakers but any filmmakers that could possibly exist from doing anything better just seems patently absurd.

You can like them and respect what they did achieve without demanding that everyone buy into a baseless and irrational argument that their pop culture success means nothing about them could possibly have been done any better. Look, I was in my mid to late teens at the time. I remember the early 2000s quite well. It wasn't now, but we are not talking about an age so divorced from our own that any of these things were somehow fundamental to the media landscape.

There are ways in which the LOTR films were very good that were essential to their popularity then and now. This does not require anyone to accept that it was literally impossible for them to be better than they are or that some defense is required against every criticism of them ever.

I am not, incidentally, talking about removing Bombadil, an entirely understandable and defensible decision that the film defenders in my notes somehow always feel the need to bring up. I know that changes had to be made, that adaptation is not a word for word transcription, that it would always be a difficult text to adapt, that structurally minor elements had to go, that they are cinematically beautiful films that a lot of work and love went into. I know this. EVERYONE knows this, because for the last 20 years it's been impossible to criticize anything about them without being reminded. Their accomplishments, and their existence, do not mean that any choice made by the filmmakers must definitionally have been the right call and could not possibly have been better in any way.

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20's Fantasy High: Junior Year episode 14

[itsgonnagetinspiringsoon]

GIRL HELP I CAN'T TELL IF THE FAETH BABY IS A BIT OR CANON

[motherhenna]

everlark content coming soon :>

[selenityshiroi]

It's amazing how weird people are being about the house in Hateno and being so adamant that Link doesn't live there.

Like...People can have whatever headcanons and interpretations they want...but it's not exactly rocket science as to Nintendo's intent, here.

There are a lot of nods to BOTW in TOTK but almost all of them are incredibly vague and subtle. The overarching plot is only kind of generally mentioned and interactions with NPCs who had sidequests in BOTW tend to be 'thanks for helping me last time' instead of saying what Link did.

This is clearly because Nintendo are trying to keep BOTW spoilers to an absolute minimum. So that if anyone wants to play it who hasn't (or if you've missed things and you plan to play it in more detail later) then the experience is affected as little as possible.

I think the only side quest I can think of that is kind of spoiled is Kohga mentioning Link throwing him down into the depths. And that was more because it was difficult to explain what he was doing down there otherwise.

So the reason why Link's ownership of the Hateno house isn't mentioned? Because it's a BOTW side quest. That's it.

They could have had Zelda living anywhere. Even in one of the new houses just on the other side of the bridge. She could have been living with Purah or something. They chose to have her living in the house Link brought. And not because Link's ownership has been erased. But because Link's ownership is bonus knowledge for those who played BOTW and it adds to the tease of the ambiguity of their relationship status.

[khyann]

i finally got to play alhaitham's story quest and holy shit, haitham, kaveh, get a fucking room

[junkyard-cat-enthusiast]

love how Sunny can be a reference for such a wide range of topics from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial to the Bob Dylan biopic

[teatitty]

Since real life card games are super competitive and have a lot of fancy rules and special cards etc etc [can you tell I'm not a card game person outside of like. Basic solitaire] do you think Gwent is so serious for Geralt in universe that he has taken on the stupidest side quests possible just because the reward is a Gwent card he hasn't got yet. Do you think he brags about being on a card himself?

Actually wait I think Competitive Gwent being a Witcher trait would be funny as fuck just Geralt and Eskel and Lambert fucking booking it to the shops to try and get the newest cards before the others do, constantly showing off their collections and doing trade-offs, secretly teaming up in tournaments to take all the winnings but then getting way too into the competitive side of it and getting kicked out for fighting one another

If you ask Vesemir what it takes to become a Witcher he'll stone-faced tell you that you need to get good at Gwent. Good enough to hold your own against another Witcher. He's lying out of his arse of course but he's also not wrong because Gwent causes broken friendships the same way shit like Uno and Monopoly does. Ya know