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[rioblitzle]

working retail

[hotvintagepoll]

Will Scarlett has lost his temporary lead in the Hot Medieval and Fantasy Man Melee, so I'm back with screenshots to prove my point that Will is the Hottest Boy in the Land. I normally avoid these types of long posts but I will do anything for my Slutty Merry Boy, so buckle in.

To introduce Will Scarlett—oh by the way here's the link to his whole movie—I think it's important context to know that when we first meet him, Robin is saving a man's life and Scarlett is staring at nothing in particular. His head is empty of thoughts. He looks this way the entire scene. I'm not sure he blinks.

As soon as the danger is over (a danger he did absolutely nothing to help with) he has a chuckle with Robin! Sunshine and laughter and roses!

The next time we see him (which is soon, because this movie loves Will Scarlett too), he is bitching because Robin had them sleep in the woods (???) and he got stabbed in the back by some acorns.

Here he is falling over a log.

Here he is getting smacked with a branch.

HERE HE IS AFTER GETTING SMACKED BY THE BRANCH.

He serves cunt continuously through the entire Little John sequence, and we don't have time for all of my screenshots, so just a quick smattering:

Here he is being hot and unsupportive when Robin decides to fight the biggest guy he's ever seen. (Scarlett literally says "your skull not mine" and then just stands there.)

Here he is getting in Robin's way.

Here he is, picking the hottest pose possible so he can be the bard and play little showtunes while Robin gets his ass kicked.

Oh my goddd fuck me.

Worth mentioning that Little John does loudly identify Will Scarlett as "a pretty fellow" and nobody contradicts this. In a world where all of Robin's men have one personality trait (big, friar, or tiny), Will Scarlett's is Slut.

Once we get out of the Will's Musical Singalong chapter and Robin goes in disguise to the archery contest, Scarlett does too, except whoever told him he couldn't wear his normal Versace didn't tell him what normal people wear because he shows up looking like this.

Absolutely nobody else in the crowd looks like that. That's just what he thinks the Normies are doing.

With Robin captured, you'd think it's time for Will Scarlett to contribute something. Unfortunately he is constitutionally incapable of not serving cunt at all times to the exclusion of all else, so Maid Marian thinks of the plot while he stands by looking really hot.

Here he is serving cunt as a monk. Jesus Christ.

HERE he actually does something during the climatic battle! I had forgotten but he does swing his sword around a little bit. He doesn't actually look hot while doing this which explains why he has never done it before.

i saved this screenshot with the caption "the beatles" and i'm not wrong.

here he is doing new things with blood eyeliner. very brat.

SUCH A SERVE THERE IN THE BACKGROUND AND FOR WHAT

in conclusion, Will Scarlett is a hot hot man who is clever (by his own estimation, never proven within the story) and extremely hot (by everyone else's estimation, proven twenty-seven thousand times over). He serves several different looks in the movie, all of them incredible, and is apparently brought along by Robin just for his charming good looks and lack of thoughts because he's certainly not good at anything else. He is the hero to all of us who want to hang out in this movie but not actually work out or hold a weapon, and the bard that every Sherwood story deserves. Vote Will Scarlett, my legend, my icon, my idiot.

@medievalandfantasymelee

[rogdona]

[townslore]

rare german sighting. i promise this is funny

[cherub014]

making descole and sycamore keychains for myself because why not ^^

timelapse under the cut!

[puhpandas]

gregory vanessa and freddy will have content in secret of the mimic no matter how small like to charge reblog to cast

[chimerafeathers]

it’s pretty funny looking back on my perception of isat as i played because it shifted a LOT.

a lot of rambling about my specific experience with the game below the cut lol

starting point was like

- “oh one or two of the people i follow started posting about this game. looks cute. i might check it out sometime so i won’t read anything too closely.”

- somehow dashboard osmosised the info that main character and star person were connected/the same and NOTHING ELSE. info goes to the very back of my mind and is not consciously considered for a very long time

- Secret Sleepover Society posts a VOD of the beginning. eventually get around to watching this long after it’s clear that they’re not doing a full playthrough.

- [gets like 20-30 mins into the first vod] “oh wow i REALLY like the art and humor, this is so incredibly my style. since J&J aren’t finishing it i’m just gonna stop watching now and play it for myself”

- [reads a comment on the SSS vod that says isat is now on the same level as undertale for them] “ooohhhhkay i expect this to be fun and sweet and emotional but. cmon” [press X to doubt]

- intrigued still but become skeptical and guarded in that way where someone hypes something up TOO much to you and you’re suddenly on the lookout for flaws and overaware of your own emotional investment into the thing, like “sure it’s good but is it really gonna be THAT good 🧐”

- “this is probably gonna start out very cute, get ~dark and emotional~ later on, i’m gonna cry at the end (this is not hard to accomplish), i’ll think about it a lot for a week or two, and then i’ll move on and just think about it fondly from time to time :)” (i have not had a hyperfixation this strong in years lmao)

and then it being a “tumblr game” really kept hitting that “on the lookout for flaws” point over and over again. because i’m very aware of the pendulum swing of tumblr trends around storytelling preferences—all those posts like “why do people want characters to talk like they’ve been through 10 years of therapy, everyone should be fucked up & toxic instead” and “not everything needs to be found family. sometimes people are just coworkers/friends/whatever, stop trying to fit every relationship into a familial or romantic box” and “why are these medieval characters listing off their identity labels like they’re on 21st century social media. they would Not have that terminology/level of self awareness”

so i played the beginning kinda going “ehhhh” about how clearly communicative a lot of the characters appeared to be, the big hammer of “HEY THIS IS A FOUND FAMILY. DO YOU GET IT?” during the friendquests (especially with Odile saying it’s weird for an adult to be friends with a child, which i disagree with), the kind of awkward pronoun scene between Loop & Siffrin…i kept squinting at it all, trying to figure out if it worked for me or not in context.

and. it does. with the found family stuff especially, i keep thinking about how earned it feels, how the big friendquest “found family” hammer is like…a fakeout of the real ending. it’s not enough to say the word or play with the aesthetic of family. what does it actually mean to care about someone that much? what lengths are you willing to go to, what wrongs are you willing to forgive? it’s important that it IS family, and not ““just”” friendship or coworkers or mentorship, because the craving for permanence is so deeply etched into Siffrin’s character and that concept is the closest they can get to something that might last. but at the same time, those relationships are the same no matter what name they go by—friendship, family, the word doesn’t matter because the love is there regardless.

i thought Siffrin was gonna be a kinda bland, blank slate character in the beginning! i thought the focus was going to be on all of the other characters, and “Siffrin” was just going to be our unobtrusive player vehicle to interact with them. something along the lines of Slay the Princess, the Stanley Parable, even Undertale itself—the “decider,” Stanley, and Frisk are all characters, technically, information can be gleaned and extrapolated about their personality or background to some extent, but that’s not really the point or focus of the story they’re in. it’s about the situation, it’s about the choices YOU, the player, are making, it’s about the characters you meet and the relationships YOU establish under the player character’s name.

lol. lmao, even.

there’s a Black Sails post i saw a long time before i watched that show, that said something along the lines of, “by the end, a character’s lack of a backstory becomes the most poignant tragedy of them all.” i didn’t fully get what that meant at the time but it sounded intriguing! and now i’m like. YEAH. YEAH MAN. IT SURE IS.

the “blank slate” impression didn’t last long at all, but it’s still wild to me how cleanly all the little elements that gave me that impression in the first place were retroactively justified and made heartbreaking. of COURSE Siffrin says he “didn’t have anything better to do” before joining the party. that’s not a weird, weak cop-out, that’s a lifetime of being adrift and alone hidden behind an amicable smile.

none of the characters are as open and communicative as they appear. not with us, not with themselves, not until they’re pushed to a breaking point. their experiences with gender and identity are grounded in the cultural and religious worldbuilding and aren’t as utopic or shallow as slapping on a label and calling it a day. they’re examined in the context of their world and identity first and foremost, not ours (as much as that’s possible to untangle anyway), and meaningfully conflict and interact with those elements of characterization.

it’s just. man. my expectations weren’t low going in—i fully expected to love it!! it just caught me off guard how layered the writing would actually be.

[untimelyambition]

curt and kim being dance partners in all the scenes at the castle is something that is so special to me

[recurring-polynya]

this is. however. the greatest next-episode-preview in all of bleach. possibly all of anime.

[ofdreamsanddoodles]

realized w how much of a big deal melanie made with the tape recorder last episode that that like... hasn't happened in the protocol verse yet this season. once the archivist left, we reverted back to listening in on everyone using their phones & computer mics while tma is ONLY recorders. it kind of gives the sense that there's something else listening in. they're different eye domains

[deus-ex-mona]

daily nagisa till kimikawaii gets an mv: day 1

[writer-room]

Lloyd’s the kind of person to be completely silent while everyone is horribly singing Bohemian Rhapsody only to belt out the line “I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all” in perfect pitch and then fall dead silent again as he went back to like, reading a book or something. send post

[firstworldbank]

fuck you. think about your favorite payday character as a fashion doll. think about all the dinky little plastic accessories.

[leroibobo]

The problem of poor nutrition among the urban poor was not only of interest to those engaged with industry and labour, but also to militaries—and thus there was also a military impetus behind the project of identifying protein requirements. During the Boer War of 1899-1902 the British military had struggled to find sufficiently tall and healthy recruits: 40-60% of would-be soldiers failed to meet the statutory height requirement (compared with around 10% in 1845) and this was suspected to be the result of poor nutrition in situations of urban poverty. A committee was set up to investigate, and the nutritional scientists they interviewed were confidently able to pinpoint the root of the problem: too little protein, especially meat and milk (although excessive drinking of overly-stewed tea was also considered a major worry). At the same time, it was feared that problems of public health might be a symptom of the “deterioration of the British race” instead of the result of poverty. The two explanations were intimately connected, since meat-eating in particular was increasingly understood as a site of racial difference and imperial superiority. Meat was believed to be necessary for bodily strength and was at least connotatively linked with desirable psychological traits like bravery and rationality; when it was found that certain populations (particularly in the US, Australia and Germany) had particularly high intakes of meat and that many Asian and African populations particularly low, this offered 19th century thinkers one possible explanation of imperial power and domination as a consequence of natural law (“the effeminate rice- eaters of India and China have again and again yielded to the superior moral courage of an infinitely smaller number of meat-eating Englishmen”). In India, distinctions were made between colonial subjects according to whether their traditional diets promoted ‘courage’ and ‘strength’. Rice in particular was condemned for its low protein content and wheat and lentils identified as preferable — but vegetarian diets of beans and grains were still fundamentally poverty diets compared with meat and milk.  The ‘ability’ to go without eating meat became a racialised symbol that could be weaponised in conflicts over labour and Asian immigration in the US (“you cannot work a man who must have beef and bread alongside of a man who can live on rice”). Institutions in the colonies offered European scientists opportunities to undertake nutritional experiments on populations “limited neither by unwillingness nor small numbers” which identified increased protein (meat, dairy, and possibly wheat) consumption as a means of improving the yield of colonial labour; thus the development of nutritional science was both informed and facilitated by racist-colonial beliefs. That said, it is hard to untangle racial from nationalist motivations here, as meat-eating also played a role in competition between western nations: the USDA saw evidence of US national superiority not just in the “starvation diets” of India and China but also in the fact that US protein recommendations were higher than those issued by European scientists.

Blaxter, T., & Garnett, T. (2022). Primed for power: a short cultural history of protein

[cobrasx]

he said smrh here i just dont remember..... naahhhhh im KIDDIJG IM KIDSING HE SAID--

"OHHH RIGHT! your ticket... of course! i didn't forget! ↳ "And The Winner Is...";; ep. 36

[joinmeinjoy]

I really like how in s3 they made an active effort to show how Hannibal really did live in his mind palace as much as he could while in the BSHCI.....absolutely devastating