#this is also why imho

[not-poignant]

That latest chapter of Palmerosa was a big one right in the feels, I'm simultaneously worried that Raphael is going to be a total shit to Astarion and also kind of hoping that he is so that the people at the Last Word can tell him off for it. Cymon is very sweet, but God do I want to punch Eurus in the face.

Aha, I'm sure Raphael will be a total shit and somehow be decent at the same time.

The thing is, I think the people at the Last Word have a very 'how they are in that relationship is between them and none of our business' - so if Raphael were to torment Astarion in order to help ground him, they'd honestly stay out of it.

Eurus definitely showed his most hostile side, but from his perspective, he's got a devil who has locked two folks he knows into contracts, and he's got a vampire spawn who literally can only exist by eating people like him and his partner, who is vulnerable and under his protection.

He has no reason at all to view Astarion from the same lens we do, and he has actually no reason at all to view Astarion as anything other than a violent and unpredictable monster which - frankly - is pretty understandable given this is actually how most vampire spawn tend to behave.

Like, even giving him a chance to talk to Cymon on his own is incredibly generous of him.

We award Astarion personhood and humanity because we've played the game. Eurus however lives in a universe where vampire spawn literally murder, kill and eat people like him so they can keep murdering, killing and eating people like him. They are an infection / parasite / curse / monster that takes over the body of whoever was there before, and uses their visage to hunt. Personhood is not something that is awarded by default to folks like that, especially when those folks are in the company of someone who already has a pretty difficult relationship with The Last Word!

This is one of those situations - that I love writing - where Eurus has his own motives, and is making his own choices. If we view his actions through our own lens of knowing Astarion very well, then he's a dickhead. If we view his actions as someone who is determined to make it clear he isn't afraid to stand up for himself or his loved one in front of two monsters who could - honestly - tear the room and everyone in it apart if they wanted to, he actually becomes someone who's behaving in a fairly heroic way to keep it together for his partner, while still allowing for some flexibility because Alectrona is there.

That whole 'everyone is the hero of their own story' applies very well to Eurus in these circumstances, tbh.

[wizardemotions]

pinterest showed me some screenshots of posts that gave me the concept for an au where both harry and ron are sorted slytherin & draco is just slightly less rude in the first book. i could go into why i think this makes a lot of sense for ron but i won't. i've affectionately dubbed them the platinum quartet in my head and they will not leave me the fuck alone

[christinaroseandrews]

Keeping an eye on the UK election results as an American is wild.

Labour is the red party? Tories are blue? Who are all these other people? I heard there would be darth vader. I was promised darth vader.

Are the liberal democrats actually liberal or democratic? The reform party are apparently Nazis. Is the UK Green party like the US green party?

The BBC reporters all seem really confused.

What is this slider thing?

I mean, I'm glad that it looks like the Tories are on their way out... but Now I know how the rest of the world feels about U.S. elections.

[salsedinepicta]

Some kind of "everything is the same but fashion is more XV-XVIth century inspired" AU - part 1/?

(a few elements are based on Landsknecht armors/clothing, because they were mercenaries too, you know? But I've been kind and made the palette less... Everything. You're welcome, Fenris.)

[dreamaze]

Planet Nine : ISOTROPY Beautiful Ashes ✧ Shoot It Out ✧ Meteor Shower draft vs. final versions

[softness-and-shattering]

So I put on this netflix show, in their tradition of being extremely obvious with names its called Mech Cadets, and its an alien-mecha human-pilot fight-the-giant-bug-aliens story. My first complaint is that the alien mechas are called Robo's. Wow exciting /sarcasm. Anyway thats totally forgiven because 1 the story actually makes choices and puts the characters through consequences instead of like hinting at oh it something bad gonna happen psych we dont have the guts for that. Its a kid/teen show so its not super dark but it follows through and goes the places it needs to.

2, and maybe most importantly, I gotta talk about the disability rep. There's four teens chosen by the alien mechs to be their drift-compatible pilots (I think im using that correctly? Im not super informed on the genre but I know some), and we see straight away that one of the guys has a prosthetic leg from the thigh down, and uses it as an example to tell the main protagonist, hey none of us are perfect we dont have to be perfect we just need to be human. The next episode the mechas are given human-designed weapons to fight with, and the disabled kid gets these flippy sticks I cant quite work out. One of them gets a staff, the other gets this glove for punching, story moves on. Then a bug-alien-antagonist gets into the teens dorm and while fighting it, the alien dismembers the guys prosthetic. He immediately grabs his crutches and goes to town on it with his crutches, and balancing on them to kick with his one good foot*. Then they disconnect the rest of the prosthetic and use its sharp edge to kill the alien. And then he just moves around on his crutches with no comment and Ill cut myself off there so I dont spoil the whole thing.

Except, a couple episodes later, Im watching him in the mech fighting and moving around, and I realise that his giant fuck-off monster attacking weapons ARE A PAIR OF CRUTCHES. Theyre his fucking WEAPONS. Thats cool as fuck!

[birues]

Was anyone gonna tell me G'raha actually says sth like "it's the other way around, I couldn't die like this so i crawled out." When Emet-Selch is like "how tf are you not dead" or was i supposed to find out checking the jp text for my uni project myself

[bearforceone3]

blue the beetle and booster the gold

[the-pigeolympics]

working on doodle requests from my shop ✨

[fluffypotatey]

"Ignoring his own impact on wukong" owww. That got me. Fell into the same trap while reading the fic

yee that’s what hay we get with a Macky only pov :3 he is so biased and full of self loathing and projection please get therapy my guy

[karmirage]

so I'm trying to read all the appearances of my favorite characters and I'm rereading marvel graphic novel #4. it's really interesting how usually (lately) humans are portrayed as having wide open minds/needing technological telepathic blockers to stop psychic intrusions, but Black Eagle (Dani's grandfather) is noted as having specifically natural psychic defenses, in addition to what almost looks like a form of precognition (the vision Dani pulls from his head is his own death at the hands of Pierce's agents). this in addition to the fact that apparently Black Eagle and the Lonestars knew Charles Xavier makes me think that Dani's not the only mutant in her family...?

[rotzaprachim]

genuinely can't believe that teacher doesn't teach spanish, doesn't really encourage or tell her students to learn outside of class or how to (which tbh they should figure out on their own, but still), and then acts pikachu shocked when the only people who can speak in advanced conversation (lol) are the two students with other teachers. and then is like, actually what you should do is take the middlebury program (where i went) that costs $11,900 DOLLARS. she did kind of scare off the other students from going in person to LatAm too

[rawliverandgoronspice]

nothing is funnier than seeing huge masses of gamers having One Major Complain about a game that's about to come out and repeat it over and over as THE deal-breaking thing, meanwhile you (gamedev) are like "buddy that's not even in the top 3 of things that are wrong with this game you're all gonna forget it was even a thing that bothered you by the time you actually have the controller in your hands"

[fish-bowl-2]

Impressed that they were able to keep the video under 6 mins. If it were up to me this would end up being a 1:55:00 thesis.

[agneswarda]

hey golden girls enjoyers/moots :] could mamma mia (2008) be golden girls inspired? discuss

[heartslobbf]

[ID: ten shots from 'revolutionary girl utena with excerpts of black text edited onto them. the first is of a bandage unravelling from around saionji's hand. text reads: '"you can be so inconsiderate." / "you are too sensitive." / "then why don't you take my feelings into consideration?" / "if you weren't so sensitive it wouldn't matter."'

saionji's exchange diary being dropped into an incinerator by touga. text reads: '"do you love me?" / "of course⁠—; but i resent it."'

saionji pointing a katana at touga, who appears unfazed by this. text reads: '"couldn't we ever speak to each other without irony?" / "sure."'

a close-up of touga and saionji's hands in saionji's memory; touga has just finished bandaging his hand. text reads: '"i love you, you know." / "yes... but why?"'

touga standing on a discarded love letter. a butterfly perches on a poppy near his foot. text reads: '"why do you like these paintings?" / "what isn't there is more important than what is."'

touga and saionji sitting back-to-back on a bicycle at sunset. text reads: '"we should be more open with each other." / "yes." / "shall we talk things over?" / "what is there to say?"'

touga and saionji sitting at the student council meeting table, cameras surrounding them. text reads: '"are you ever going to cut down on your smoking?" / "it's all right⁠— i don't inhale."'

touga and saionji standing in the student council elevator together. text reads: '"sometimes i get very annoyed with you." / "the world is annoying."'

touga and saionji embracing intimately as saionji prepares to pull to touga's sword for a duel. text reads: '"do you enjoy suffering?" / "you can't work if you don't suffer." / "but we suffer anyway." / "i know."'

young touga and saionji in a church, touga kneeling down to utena's coffin to play with her hair; saionji stands behind him anxiously. text reads: '"you're always so negative." / "i feel death all the time." / "are you afraid of anything?" / "not working."' /end ID]

revolutionary girl utena (1997) / lloyd schwartz, who's on first?