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The Tides of March

(glitch)

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Scathach is never not the sexiest person in town

queen

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That’s . . . that’s almost better.

its so funny that i have an about me link on my blog and u probably click on it expecting a cute little blurb abt who i am but instead you get this

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I found a Pokemon book at Toys R Us and…

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So yes, if their boobs are wireless you can hack them.

The remarkably straight faced DM (via outofcontextdnd)

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I kind of like collecting the porn bots that follow this blog. Nowhere else can I find literary gems like schlong-lovemuscle

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I had to get this out before December ended :’00

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“I’m gonna have to call you back. We’re in the basement of a noodle house in Boston and there’s werewolves.”

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Welcome to Fuyuki City, and welcome to the Holy Grail War. 

This multifandom and original character roleplay verse’s applications are open! We want members eager to develop whatever character they so choose, all while based in the universe of the Fate series. This RP will be partially plot- and event-driven, but said plot will be built around the characters themselves! 

We’re looking for seven Masters and seven Servants (one of each class), so slots are limited! We’d love to have you join us!

HOME || RULES || MASTERLIST || PREMISE || BASICS || MESSAGE || APPLY

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Okay so I don’t know why I was suddenly thinking about this in the shower today, but you know what grinds my gears? Peripheral mystery plots in non-mystery shows. Handled right, they’re a neat exploration into an unknown element. Handled incorrectly, they’re a pulsating tumor hanging off the plot and making you wonder why the hell they bothered introducing it in the first place.

I enjoyed shows like Hyouka and Ghost Story because, honestly, I enjoy mysteries. Never been much good at solving them, but watching someone else do it has always been really fun for me. (Side note: I think I’m bad at them because I lack the lateral thinking ability required to make the evidence jumps. Or maybe people are just bad at writing them sometimes, because I can more or less first-try most Phoenix Wright cases).

I’m going to pick on Attack on Titan even though I’m not a fan of the show, haven’t read the manga, and only watched like six episodes of season 1, because I still think the way they handled the mystery of what Titans are and how they work really poorly. Feel free to blow up my inbox and inform me of what an idiotic plebian I am for not worshiping at the feet of our giant naked cannibal overlords.

See, they establish really quickly that Eren’s dad did . . . something to him involving a needle, and one of the driving motivations in the early arc (beyond Eren’s near-suicidal need to kill every single Titan he lays eyes on) is getting back to his hometown to find out what dad was keeping in his creepy medical basement. Then we get sidetracked by a million years of basic training and character development. Okay, sure. Then we get sidetracked by ten million years of retaking Trost. Alright, sure, Girl Genius took five years to recount the events of about two in-universe days. Then Eren turns into a Titan.

What.

Honestly, if they’d just said “oh, yeah, sometimes people do that” I probably would have accepted it. Special powers in anime is nothing new, and the main character having special powers in anime is about as old as the art form itself. But no, they tied it to Daddy Yeager’s creepy needle thing, so now that secret is probably locked in a basement accidentally buried by giant naked cannibals, too.

Then other people start doing it, too, but they’re evil and work for a doomsday cult. Because apparently every near- and post-apocalyptic setting has a bunch of people crazy/stupid enough to consider suicide on a racial scale to be a good idea. So maybe the whole “I can turn into a giant, intelligent naked man” power isn’t locked up in Daddy Yeager’s murder basement?

Who knows. I don’t think they ever explained why, and I think the little explanation they’ve given literally was “yeah, sometimes people do that,” but still seemed like it was implying that there was something deeper and darker to it than that.

I guess between this and the fact that it’s just too grim kinda turned me off of the series.

Infinite Stratos can also get raked over the coals for this (and many other things). I’ll admit that, years ago, I was actually something of a fan. Dug up the light novel translations and read as far as they had (which was right when things got irritating, oddly enough), watched the anime, whole nine yards. Never read the manga, though, so I guess you can still crucify me for that.

But after spending most of the series as your average “harem comedy with a certain schtick to flavor the extra non-harem-related bits” they abruptly introduce this whole huge evil organization with nebulous goals fielding some kind of opposite-sex clone of the main character. Or possibly just a younger clone of his older sister, established to be the baddest ass of all the badasses in the world. What are their goals? Who knows! What do they do? Steal ISs to advance their goals! Lose their experimental ISs in largely pointless attacks against the main characters. Vanish into thin air to do it all again next week on another continent.

The biggest mystery in the first season of the anime was “what the hell was like, half of episode 12 supposed to be?” Because NGE did the whole “self-reflection with the soul of the robot” thing, but at least had the excuse of the robot being a biomechanical alien cyborg powered by the soul of Shinji’s dead mother. But the ISs haven’t been established to be alive, or even self-aware. Self-modifying, sure, but that was shown to be a chunk of adaptive coding and some very complicated hardware. Then it never comes up again.

The biggest mystery of season 2 is “who are these people and what do they want?” This is not answered, or even really addressed. They just show up, wreck shit, get their shit wrecked, and vanish. I guess the other mystery is “who the hell let the guys who made the Rosario+Vampire anime in here?” but that’s a different bag of fleas altogether.

As much as I enjoy Neon Genesis Evangelion, it can get lumped in here, too. So many questions are raised about the nature of the Evas, the nature of the Angels, the nature of the Human Instrumentality Project that it begins to feel like A Series of Unfortunate Events, or a poorly-knit sweater of dangling plot threads. And the worst part is that I’ve been part of the fandom for years. I’ve watched the show, I’ve watched the Rebuild movies. Never got around to digging up End of Eva, but I’ve read enough about it that I don’t really think I have to at this point. But the worst part of it is that, even with all of the published material, all of the bonus content, all of that -- we still don’t have a concrete idea of wtf any of it actually means. Fans have assembled good enough guesses to write internally-consistent fanfiction of it, but interpretations differ between authors and any attempts to get the Anno to actually explain this shit mostly results in him waving Death of the Author in the interviewer’s face.

Which is, y’know, kind of irritating. Postmodernism has never really been my thing, and so the idea that the intentions of the author are irrelevant compared to what interpretations can be deciphered from the text can lead to some really weird shit. Like the theory that Dracula knew how blood types worked years before medical science did, and so his repeated draining of Mina Harker was actually him saving her life. Or that . . . fuck, what are their names? Two characters in The Outsiders are gay for each other (which led to a hilarious shitstorm on Twitter when somebody asked S.E. Hinton about it and she said no, that’s not how she wrote them). 

I guess, what I was getting at when I started this whole thing, is that if you’re not a mystery show, where answering the plot-driving question isn’t the point of the plot, you need to progress your mystery on a time scale that isn’t best expressed in geologic eras. I don’t care how kickass your fight scenes are, or how involuted your political intrigue plot is; if you’re going to introduce a mystery element, do something with it in a timely manner, and for the love of all things holy, give us some concrete answers when you do.

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GAME IDEA REBLOG THIS AND TRY TYPING YOUR URL EYES CLOSED

VD&diydgbyt-buh

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Oh so this is why wolfhounds were bred to be fucking enormous

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Get to Know Me Uncomfortably Well

1. What is you middle name?

2. How old are you?

3. When is your birthday?

4. What is your zodiac sign?

5. What is your favorite color?

6. What's your lucky number?

7. Do you have any pets?

8. Where are you from?

9. How tall are you?

10. What shoe size are you?

11. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

12. What was your last dream about?

13. What talents do you have?

14. Are you psychic in any way?

15. Favorite song?

16. Favorite movie?

17. Who would be your ideal partner?

18. Do you want children?

19. Do you want a church wedding?

20. Are you religious?

21. Have you ever been to the hospital?

22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law?

23. Have you ever met any celebrities?

24. Baths or showers?

25. What color socks are you wearing?

26. Have you ever been famous?

27. Would you like to be a big celebrity?

28. What type of music do you like?

29. Have you ever been skinny dipping?

30. How many pillows do you sleep with?

31. What position do you usually sleep in?

32. How big is your house?

33. What do you typically have for breakfast?

34. Have you ever fired a gun?

35. Have you ever tried archery?

36. Favorite clean word?

37. Favorite swear word?

38. What's the longest you've ever gone without sleep?

39. Do you have any scars?

40. Have you ever had a secret admirer?

41. Are you a good liar?

42. Are you a good judge of character?

43. Can you do any other accents other than your own?

44. Do you have a strong accent?

45. What is your favorite accent?

46. What is your personality type?

47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing?

48. Can you curl your tongue?

49. Are you an innie or an outie?

50. Left or right handed?

51. Are you scared of spiders?

52. Favorite food?

53. Favorite foreign food?

54. Are you a clean or messy person?

55. Most used phrased?

56. Most used word?

57. How long does it take for you to get ready?

58. Do you have much of an ego?

59. Do you suck or bite lollipops?

60. Do you talk to yourself?

61. Do you sing to yourself?

62. Are you a good singer?

63. Biggest Fear?

64. Are you a gossip?

65. Best dramatic movie you've seen?

66. Do you like long or short hair?

67. Can you name all 50 states of America?

68. Favorite school subject?

69. Extrovert or Introvert?

70. Have you ever been scuba diving?

71. What makes you nervous?

72. Are you scared of the dark?

73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes?

74. Are you ticklish?

75. Have you ever started a rumor?

76. Have you ever been in a position of authority?

77. Have you ever drank underage?

78. Have you ever done drugs?

79. Who was your first real crush?

80. How many piercings do you have?

81. Can you roll your Rs?"

82. How fast can you type?

83. How fast can you run?

84. What color is your hair?

85. What color is your eyes?

86. What are you allergic to?

87. Do you keep a journal?

88. What do your parents do?

89. Do you like your age?

90. What makes you angry?

91. Do you like your own name?

92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they?

93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child?

94. What are you strengths?

95. What are your weaknesses?

96. How did you get your name?

97. Were your ancestors royalty?

98. Do you have any scars?

99. Color of your bedspread?

100. Color of your room?

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Need donations - please read

Okay, so Spring is now here and as most of you guys know, I have a pet rabbit. I move him outside into his little hut during the Spring and Summer time and in about a month from now I will be doing that. He needs to get exercise while he remains out there for the next two seasons so his stomach doesn’t get messed up like it did when I first moved him out there a year ago. However, I need to keep him in a protected area because there are wild birds and cats who can harm him if I just let him run around in my yard. Sadly though, there is one piece to his hut that is missing, and he can’t get exercise unless he has that piece to move safely in. 

This is what it looks like I plan on getting him the largest set, which costs somewhere between $193 - $225, so I need A LOT of money to to get it. I currently have $50, so I am greatly in need of more money.

It would mean a lot to me if any of you guys make a donation, no matter how big or small. Even a few dollars is appreciated, and I’ll even through in a drawing for you as well! You can donate to my PayPal which is Sayasaki20@gmail.com. You can send it to me either gift or goods and devices.

Also if you guys could, please spread this around!! I’m hoping I can reach this goal by the time Easter comes around, which is April 16th in the US! So please, it would mean so much if you could commission me, especially knowing that my rabbit can get exercise and be healthy for the next two seasons!

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One of my favorite pastimes is making a shitty Magic deck even shittier.

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Guys

GUYS

THERE’S MORE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY2nVQNlUB8

no fucking way

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I have no idea what I just watched but that was great

no fucking way