listen. my guilty pleasure is those merthur fics where merlin is handed over to foreign lords and they get violent and then arthur finds out and goes apeshit. love it. so fun. but what i think is so funny is that like,,, merlin would punch back. maybe not realistically, maybe he’d restrain himself, but spiritually merlin is throwing hands. i just think its funny bc in like all the fics ive read merlin is the personification of 🥺 over it

...just heard about the upcoming perk changes...hmm...yeah. the only good one definitely is the adrenaline nerf. I've wanted them to take away healing off hook forever.

the other perk changes are ass.

ultimate weapon is still outrageously unfair, even if you take away the screaming! to me, it feels like they just saw the uptick in people using calm spirit following the addition of ultimate weapon, and decided "hm, the way to deal with this is to remove the screaming." no! this perks needs to be reworked differently! given a longer cooldown, something! it does way too much for just one perk!

DS buff isn't going to stop tunnelling. strong killers don't care if you stun them, and weaker survivors likely won't even have DS because it's licensed...waste of a buff. just as they should do with off the record, they need to spread out these important anti-tunnel strategies to general perks. it's so unfair that something this important be gated behind a DLC. and no one perk should ever be too strong!

also, I saw otz's commentary on the changes. I could not agree more that certain killers should be nerfed directly, rather than trying to just balance perks generally. not all killers interact with different perks the same... nurse, wesker, huntress, blight, etc do not care about a stun, even if it's increased in length. you need to change them & how their powers work in relation to stuns, so survivors have a chance to get away from them, rather than buffing the perk so that old man ghostface has an even worse time in this dogshit meta lmao.

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR KEVIN PHILLIPS

updat e . *coughs up blood*

no by all means keep judging cartoon villains solely by if they get redeemed in the end. i know some of us like to talk about other stuff like characterization or entertainment value or nuance as something that makes a good villain. but i think the only thing that actually matters is if the villain ends up on good terms with the protagonist at the end. all the Good TM cartoons with Good TM creators make the villains die a Horrible Death for being Abusers or whatever. and all the Bad TM cartoons with Bad TM creators Forgive Fascists by not making them get publicly executed by the 14 year old protagonist in front of the 8 year old target demographic.

i mean im so glad that more cartoons nowadays are subverting the psyop to support fascists that a few queer artists and queer shows definitely invented in 2017. there are so many popular cartoons doing that. it's almost like there are more properties killing their villains now and in the past than there ever were of properties that didn't do this. and it's almost like whether the villain gets redeemed at the end is more about the context of the story and its themes leading up to a narratively sound decision.

but you know. a few queer shows made by trans ppl were popular and they didn't kill their fascists and even had the gall to make them nuanced while also looking into the harm they did. guess it's trendy to forgive your abusers now because like two cartoons said so. out of like 40 other similarly high profile works that just straight up hit their villains with a bus or smth. by all means. keep heaping praise onto that one show about how they "let their villain just be evil" instead of talking about anything more interesting. that's so subversive, everyone's doing it!

“The Last Days of Moon Knight,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #28.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Federico Sabbatini; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

I'm not even thinking about them killing troy bc I just cannot let myself have THAT little faith in these writers bc it'll make me spiral and worry that the entirety of 8b will be shit despite the banger trailers like I know the show has been questionable for the last however long but killing troy in these eps would be another level of insanity to me

Ooh, could I request something with a royal vampire Scriabin x vampire hunter or priest Edgar?? I just saw their outfits for day 18 and was like 👀 "I immediately love them", lol. My brain also keeps making a half connection between this concept and vampire moths, probably because of the Vargases' weird relationship with moths/butterflies since the diaryfic. So if you felt like including any butterfly imagery, I'd be interested how you would incorporate it!

Day 24 - Try again? ♥

"I need them to die in eachothers arms and for it to mean something" then proceeded to make a terrible. horrible punch to the gut

......Wait why are 70% of my ships "I used to be unable to stand you"/"we had beef for ages" to lovers and 25% "we're childhood friends" to lovers. WHY DID I ONLY REALIZE THIS JUST NOW

Moment of silence for all the incredibly hot people who have no idea they're hot and won't believe it no matter how many people tell them and never will until they look at photos of themselves 20 years later and go "holy fuck I looked like THAT??"

Another moment of silence for their best friends tasked with beating back every single dickhead pestering them after every single mixer to set them up with Hot Friend, including people who were hitting on them until they saw Hot Friend.

hate it in yandere horror games when even the romantic path has flavor text like "he's so fucking creepy and i hate him but also he's so handsome" like no you're godmodding im hanging up

i could see how they would kill off tom. there’s been some things which could suggest it [the story of mog, who wanted to sleep forever, and so she did. maybe it was just a red herring nod towards what happened to kendall and actually is connected to tom, because of the sleep issues, and that early review said the whole deal with tom’s sleep issues is important]. and people have been guessing throughout the whole season that one of the siblings would die, it would definitely be something a little more... shocking/surprising i guess? i know we’re coming up with theories right now, but it is right before episode 9. no one has suspected it would be tom until the past few days.

having said that i would rather they didn’t do that. we’ve only just started to see tom actually stand up for himself and consider himself worth something, worth fighting to stay alive. we’ve seen him not crumble under guilt and shame and to something he normally would. we’ve seen him open up a little, we’ve seen that sincere side of him blossom, underneath the comedy. it would be kind of a shame to throw that away, at least that’s what i think.

I am not done thinking thoughts. The parallels between Luffy and Roger like. What if it came to the point where there’s a character or two that think Luffy is Roger? Considering how that world is those characters would probably have seen some stuff and go “Roger looking like a kid and alive? Yeah that tracks.”

@maileesque iblings......

[image id: two sketches of my ocs. the one on the left is cass, a girl with straight long hair and bangs. she has big round eyes and a button nose. she smiles at the viewer, her hair and cape flowing behind her. she holds a smiling mask halfway covering her face with one hand and waves with the other.

the one on the right is a bust drawing of ed, a guy. he has a nose with a bump, thin lips, a hooded eye with an eyebag under it, and a spiky eyebrow. his straight, slightly spiky hair goes down to the base of his neck and half of it is pulled back, indicated by a little doodle of his side profile. he also has a splash shaped scar covering the left side of his face and stretching down to the side of his neck and shoulder. his left eye is not open fully due to his scar. end id.]

I have no clue what to make my dark urge character. Does anyone have any suggestions for race and class (might stick with sorcerer) because I’ve restarted this like 36 times and my brain hurts.