#what i am saying is

[apologydanceenthusiast]

Hello, sorry-- is this seat taken?

No?

Thank you.

*sits down and folds his hands mysteriously*

"Oh, I learned that the hard way." Aziraphale replies when Crowley asks him about his shitty french.

You know, the french he learned from a teacher who's name translates to Nightingale.

French, you know. Like the language of love.

He learned it the hard way and still to this day can't seem to find the right words for what he wants to say.

That's all, thank you.

*gets up and mysteriously disappears into the void*

[raindrop-rouge]

I’m listening to Epic: The Musical for the MILLIONTH time and got really excited about the use of names in the show - one thing in particular. 

Most of the characters are introduced with their name announced immediately before or after their very first line (with more or less intensity, ranging from a single call of it to POSEIDON POSEIDON POSEIDON POSEIDON--)

And then you get to Penelope’s song (WHAT A SONG WHAT A WOMAN) - and she’s not announced by anyone, nor is she interrupted as she sings to be named (until a bit later). BUT!! it’s not that it doesn’t matter who she is: her theme gives her away, it plays before she begins to sing, and at that point, the audience knows VERY WELL who those notes stand for, who this woman must be. She is virtually the only character in the entire Odyssey deemed not to need a verbal introduction. I love that. I love it so much.

So, I assume that it’s because this is Odysseus’s story, and she’s the centre of his universe, and so it shows her importance (Telemachus isn’t introduced either, for likely similar reasons, but also he is the only kid in the musical so. fairly obvious - and another character never expressly named is Zeus himself, because again, not really needed). But then I wondered - how is Odysseus himself introduced? 

THAT’S RIGHT: in the very first song, when it kicks off, the audience does not know who is singing. I personally assumed it would be Agamemnon, actually, King of the Greeks; when he was named in the song, I thought, odd, but perhaps then this is Menelaus, his brother, the reason everyone is here in the first place? Nope. Named as well. Ah. Neo’s here and told to avenge his father, so Achilles is already gone. Then who? 

And there he says it, for the first time: Penelope. That’s the giveaway! THAT is what tells the audience who this man is - his relationship to his wife. The protagonist of this story is Penelope’s husband, Odysseus. Not the King of Ithaca; not son of Laertes (as would be the traditional way). It’s just such a great way to introduce him (and a good reversal of defining women based on their connections to powerful men...)

Anyway I got REALLY excited about this lol my inbox is open if anyone wants to talk about it and curb my posting, which atm is my only outlet :)))

[zevranunderstander]

okay so ive in detail explained that i think astarion has very similar themes/a parallelling story to both fenris and zevran from dragon age but i can't believe it took me this long to realize there is a third character you have to compare him to to get the full image

because while astarion shares a lot of themes and beats of backstory and motivation with fenris and zevran, he doesnt reeeally have a very similar personality to either of them

anyways ianthe tridentarius is pale, snobbish, dramatic, vain, but also overexaggerates how vain she is to keep people away and make them underestimate her, loves the spotlight, clearly thinks she's the main character, is rude & sarcastic for her own amusement only, thinks she's incredibly funny, and while she has this projected persona of Being Really Cool, if you start to dig just a little bit you realize she is incredibly incredibly pathetic and insecure and doesn't know what she is really doing, but would outwardly never ask for help, and really thrives when being seen as An Evil Person because she likes the power associated with being seen like that. yeah.

[songofnoheart]

@waxgentleman

"Yohohohoho! I mean! Who am I to refuse my well-deserved prize? Even though I still have no idea what exactly we were playing..."

[find-me-in-hell]

mischa x talia this noel x mischa that guys stop fighting mischa has two hands

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼���" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[notherpuppet]

When you’re trynta be cool with your crush but she’s a freaking smokeshow 😩🪦

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[greelin]

six packs are soo scary and unnatural to me. Put that beast AWAY

[aniseandspearmint]

I am curious, bc I just ran across one of those, 'everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened!' things so-

This isn't meant to be a commentary on the event, just whether or not you remember where you were/what you were doing when the news hit.

As an example, I was home sick, doing dishes, when mom yelled for me to get in the living room RIGHT NOW.

[syb-rooks]

The bad kids are an incredibly healthy and supportive friend group BUT OH MY GOD THEY SUCK AT COMMUNICATING!

Half of their problems would be solved if they talked to each other.

Fabian would GLADLY pay for Adaine's components and for Riz's tuition if they asked. He would even get his papa to change his trust fund conditions to include them. Or he would declare Riz and Adaine his nemesis.

They would figure out the reason for Fig's misfortune in a week max. They would march into hell, probably accompanied by both Gorthalax and Sandra Lynn, and demand to break whatever deal she made with whichever demon involved.

If Fabian even suggested he was lonely, the bad kids would organise sleepovers every night. He would circle between the Thistlesprings, the Gukgaks and the Mordred Manor. Lydia would pack him his own lunch.

Fig would immediately start promoting Cassandra's religion on all social media, and get her to thousand followers in a week. The rest of the bad kids would join without hesitation.

If Riz would finally admit the HUGE stress he is under, everyone, even Fig, would stop piling all the work on him and happily write their 10 page essays. They would convince him to see Jawbone, and enjoy his last years in high school. They would band together to find the rogue teacher within a day. They would make sure that Riz's resume is the most impressive CV that the universities have ever received.

They would all gather together to come up with music for Fig and Gorgug's new album. Fabian would choreograph their music videos, Adaine would come up with rhymes, Riz would bring a list of all their adventures, including motifs and connections made, to give her inspiration, Kristen would suggest to make parodies of classic camp songs from her old church.

Adaine would contact Aelwyn immediately to get dirt on Porter, to blackmail him. Gorgug would get permission for his MCAT exams by the end of the week.

And if she would stay on the phone a little longer and admitted how much she is struggling, Aelwyn would immediately return home along with her cats. Then she would drag her sister to Jawbone's door, and force her to give him the components list.

The problem is that even after all those years, after all those adventures, even after the forest of the nightmare king, they still each think of themselves as the weak link. As the person in the group that isn't allowed, doesnt deserve to take space, ask for help. Because they should be able to handle it on their own. Isn't that what adulthood is like?

They would abandon anything and everything to help someone else, as long as that person isn't themselves. As long as they dont have to show their amazing, incredible, powerful, and oh so compassionate friends how weak and imperfect they are in comparison.

[amelie-isnt-french]

Protocol is actually just us Magnus Archives fans rapidly descending into s2-Jon-levels of paranoia. Granted, just like s2 Jon, we have reason to be paranoid, but it's still hilarious to see us all collectively scaling the walls of our enclosure while frothing at the mouth over our theories.

Jonny and Alex are playing us like a cheap harmonica and I'm so here for it

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF

[mintaikcorpse]

Enjoy Blake Roman shipping Huskerdust

[weaselmcdiesel]

i was being so so so real when i said id make more katnep comics

[firstofficerkittycat]

reducing jack to just bad queer rep is so wild to me like were u guys alive in the 2000s. here is a time travelling faggot he is hypermasculine and shamelessly effeminite and has one of the most bitterly brave death scenes u have ever witnessed in ur young life oh wait he can never die. they invented a poof who could never die