Ngl the funniest part of Monsters University is the revelation that Randall doesn't squint all the time because he's suspicious and paranoid it's just that he can't see for shit

bought "immortal life" as a gift for myself and I'm immediately obsessed

it's stardew valley style farm sim but xianxia (said by someone who never played stardew or farm sims this is guesswork lol)

anyway it's early access now but it will come out as a full game in Jan 2024! and I guess there is a possibility that the price will go up once it's a full game cuz that happens sometimes so if ur interested now is your chance hah (its on sale rn for 11,19€)

lmao sorry to keep this going but. tim absolutely had it the easiest of the bat kids, not even a discussion. he had a cushy, priviledged life with parents that actually cared about him, and fanon going uwu poor sad little rich boy so so so neglected and abused... GIRL?!?! cass got the shit kicked out of her till she became the best fighter in the world, and she was homeless for nearly a decade after that and yet often feels like shes the one comforting tim ("""little brother uwu""")

I get you I think it is just frustrating when people try so hard to give Tim the back story Cass already has and then processeds to either not include cass completely or just make her a bland cardboard cutout of a character that's only job in any story is to support which ever male white lead is currently crying

i'm actually still somehow mad sorry last post i promise i swear but the 50th pulled a version of ten from the gap between waters of mars and the end of time and this is SUCH good material SUCH a good time and place to explore how his delusional "they're all gone and i can do anything, i can save everyone" mindset from timelord victorious is like this paper-thin coping mechanism for his overwhelming guilt and loss you have BILLIE PIPER in this special you can explore what rose will represent and how she'll impact the doctor and how he has an all-too-human love that destroys him bc of her and how ALLLL of this leads back to the timewar which is something ten thought he could come to terms with but never did . NO. elizabeth the first marriage. i hate it here

doctor who getting a good writer again is something to look forward to but istg if he constantly brings up rose tyler again...

the first chapter of lover boy is really intense on an emotional level because So Many Things happen in quick succession it's like beau barely gets a chance to breathe and process it. meanwhile RR opening chapter is just felix and dorothy arguing in a laundromat.

10 characters 10 fandoms ✨

Whaaat she's alive? And she's doing a... tag game?? What's going on??

Thanks dear @greypetrel and @buridanshorse for tagging me ;u;

I'm tagging (no pressure darlings <3): @underneathestars @melisusthewee @dungeons-and-dragon-age / @layalu @daggerbean @transprincecaspian @herearedragons

1 - Alistair Theirin (Dragon Age)

2 - Vetra Nyx (Mass Effect Andromeda)

3 - Boromir (The Lord of the Rings, movies and book)

4 - Jesse Custer (Preacher, show and comics)

5 - [equally] Ahsoka Tano, Asajj Ventress (Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

6 - Laura Roslin (Battlestar Galactica)

7 - King Richard (Galavant)

8 - Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)

9 - Nadja of Antipaxos (What We Do In The Shadows, the series)

10 - Sara Connor (Terminator saga)

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I'm not surprised that there is no middle ground between "women who could incinerate you with a single look" and "unredeemable cretins with wet cat in their bio"

cant stop thinking about you juno from the descent

So much happened in this episode!!

I'm baffled by Shin Yu's problem solving skills, or rather lack thereof. They seem to consist of doing whatever the heck he wants, when he wants with little care for anyone else (dragging Hong Jo outside and outing their relationship to the whole office very publicly and forcibly WITHOUT ASKING HER was a SHIT MOVE) and that's not the only time he's done or said without considering Hong Jo's opinion or her feelings. He's hurt her quite a few times due to his inconsideration and honestly Shin Yu's got some growing to do before he's good enough for Hong Jo. YEAH I SAID IT.

But putting my annoyance at Shin Yu aside, this was a cute episode and I'm glad Hong Jo's finally able to return Shin Yu's feelings without feeling like The Other Woman or like an embarrassing secret of his. We're at episode 10 with 6 (?) more episodes to go, and the slow burn's been burning. Very slowly and teasingly. Had Shin Yu talked to Hong Jo about having an arrangement with Nayeon early on they could've been together much sooner and these past 10 episodes would've easily been condensed into 5-6. Shin Yu wouldn't have seemed like such a two-timer to Hong Jo and the viewers. But the writers made some risky choices and I can respect it, hah.

The journey here's been extremely confusing, but finally some pieces are falling into place. Flower creep's been casting dark spells and making the dolls, which was honestly to be expected given his stalkerish antics and the straw found at his greenhouse/garden. I was hoping for Witch Nayeon's appearance, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards (too bad).

I am SO GLAD that Shin Yu kinda grew a spine during this episode, though, because having Shin Yu and Hong Jo miscommunicate for several episodes would've been even more painful to sit through. At least some things were resolved in this ep, like Shin Yu's breakup with Nayeon and the reason why Shin Yu stayed with her for so long. Not a super satisfactory reason to keep it a secret from Hong Jo for so long, though, btw!

There were several cute and spicy scenes in this episode like the scene at the bridge, the little moment in the elevator and the 🔥🔥🔥scene 🔥🔥🔥 at Shin Yu's office, which I enjoyed a lot not gonna lie, even though it was very PG-7 in the end (boo!).

We had Hong Jo's confession scene and the comeback of the Red Hand, which was of course Hong Jo's as a couple of people had predicted since the very beginning. Which may or may not mean more unhappiness for our main couple.

The last point of confusion seems to be which spells are real and effective and which ones aren't. Also I wonder what Hong Jo told Jaekyung. And will Hong Jo come to remember her past self?

I lost my Pokémon X&Y Nuzlocke </3 so now I’m replaying Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Timeヽ(˶ˆ∀ˆ˵♡)ノ!!!

The main thing about IDW OP that I'm on my hands and knees begging people to understand is to actually treat him like a fucking character and give him the nuanced understanding that this fandom gives to other characters just fine. Like, I s2g the reason no one even talks about IDW OP is because at the first sign of him making mistakes or having a flawed worldview (you know, like a REAL PERSON and not a cartoon caricature) they instantly bail and go "zomg worst Optimus ever".

Like please for fuck's sake IDW1 is a story steeped in realism and moral grayness can you stop for ONE SECOND and realize that IDW OP being a little bit of an asshole or making big mistakes doesn't instantly make him the worst character ever and maybe take the time to actually read his story? B/c half the shit people say about IDW OP makes it obvious that they've only read MTMTE and LL (badly, might I add) and it annoys the shit out of me

I've had some time to collect my thoughts after a couple of days so here they are even though nobody asked.

I really loved the finale. It was devestating, no doubt, but I think this is their best one yet and I absolutely loved how they handled it. There was so much grieving in this episode, not just from Carlos, but from Owen and Judd as well. But despite everything they chose happiness and the wedding ending up being beautiful and bittersweet and joyful all at once.

There has been the question of deleted scenes but there's really only one we've seen so far that I would have loved to see in the episode. Other than that, I'm just glad we get to have them all as extras. I don't think the wedding needed them though.

Another thing I'd like to add is that yes, sometimes storylines can feel rushed in shows where you have a lot of characters and especially if there are clear favorites within a fandom. There was a lot going on, but that doesn't necessarily mean any one character's storyline is less valuable than another's. I guess I'm speaking as less of a fandom member and just more as an enjoyer of the show if that makes any sense. I love all of the characters in this show, and while I would be lying if I said I liked every single storyline, that doesn't mean I wish they didn't happen. In this case, however, I loved all of the storylines and I think they all made sense together given the theme of this episode. I personally don't think any of them shouldn't have been there in favor of getting more wedding content.

Honestly, my only regret is not getting off of tumblr as soon as the final bts stuff started coming out. I'm pretty bad when it comes to guessing things so if I hadn't been aware of the theories I literally would have had no idea and it would have hit me so much harder. It still got me pretty good though.

Again these are just my opinions so feel free to ignore everything I say if you didn't feel the same. I'm happy though, and I'm going to continue being incredibly annoying about this show. ♡

I’m as wary of a white people writing black characters as most normal people, and I definitely want to be sure there are checks and balances etc, but it’s so weird to me to see people acting like RTD was being ignorant when he wrote Ten being casually racist re: Martha, as if Ten’s entire character isn’t centred around his mega flaw of being profoundly self-centred, hypocritical, and him never thinking about others’ experiences and denying them agency.

And some of it is definitely on him for making Ten’s incredible selfishness a flaw, not a proper arc to be clearly textually addressed if not fully fixed. Where it finally builds up to the Time Lord Victorious and then….Rusty just acts like last two minutes of Waters Of Mars covered it, and dumps the TLV idea to do The End Of Time instead, rather than the two-parter based on highlighting and resolving this issue that it really should have been narratively. Because what we got requires you to read between the lines, and if you didn’t see that Ten doing things like getting Martha trapped as a servant with zero thought for her was obviously and blatantly wrong, then you’re not going to pick up him being a dick to Wilf and whining about not wanting to go is also deliberately messed up.

It’s like when people see what Ten did to Harriet Jones as an example of RTD being misogynist, rather than the character deciding he’s sole judge, jury, and executioner, even when the consequences of that come back a season later as obviously wrong with the damn Master!

I’m certainly not saying RTD hasn’t done accidental racism, he sure as hell has, has a lot of stuff to learn and unlearn like the rest of us, but given that he’s a high profile creator it has far more consequence and he has to be held to high standards. For example, I fully believe that he didn’t think for even a moment how the ‘stupid ape’ stuff re: Mickey would translate when they cast a black man instead (though I will say the entire character arc with Mickey is centred on proving that he isn’t stupid, and the Doctor was wrong to dismiss him), and sometimes RTD can be clumsy and unclear ie. Rose comes across as homophobic with the ‘you’re so gay line’ unless you do the work to realise it as a growth arc when she meets Jack, and RTD is gay. But it’s so bizarre to me that people look on the Martha stuff as an example of this being RTD’s flaw rather than Ten’s, even when the episodes itself are clearly aware of it. Like: “Oh just walk around like you own the place” - ‘like you own the place’ - not accidental phrasing. And that at the end of the episode Shakes refers to her as his “Blackamoor” in a blatant yikes moment for her and everyone watching to point out even this historically amazing ‘good guy’ is doing (so-called ‘positive’) racism.

The desire to see a writer as a ‘bad person’ or ‘bad writer’ when the hero is flawed, is so often a misplaced urge to ‘protect’ comfort characters, and keep them morally pure, and frankly it’s exhausting.

Apparantly it's a thing where people say: "don't hook up with your DM"

And boy am I here to say those people are wrong 😂

mm okay this is a thought i had on the bus like all great thoughts so this might be incomprehensible but im thinking about taob zuko and hakoda's relationship to duty, how there's such a vivid parallel from the very start of their duality. there is zuko and there is the fire prince. there is hakoda and there is the chief. thinking about how book 1 is a journey of duty and humanity. over 19 chapters, zuko is taught about humanity, how it doesnt have to be exchanged for duty, how both can exist within him simultaneously. he begins as prince zuko. he is abrasive and hateful and he fights the water tribe every step of the way, but by the end, he is just zuko. he chooses the water tribe over himself. he loses his firebending. he leaves the red ribbon behind. but hakoda? hakoda's journey is the complete opposite. where he teaches zuko the strength of humanity, hakoda sees in zuko someone facing the same burdens of duty that he faces, and zuko teaches him things about leadership without even realising. the importance of duty in the face of turmoil, the responsibility on their shoulders, the cost of their wrongdoings. the moment they were placed in control of the lives of others, they lost the right to total humanity, and while zuko's journey and age allows him a reprieve of that duty so that he can embrace humanity in its entirety, hakoda continues to carry that load. in chapter 1, he makes an objectively illogical, emotion-led decision to keep zuko alive and bring him aboard, a decision that is even stated in the story to have only worked because it was zuko instead of literally any other firebender. by chapter 19, hakoda makes the decision to leave zuko behind despite almost having it confirmed that fong took him, because he knows that his duty lies with his tribe, that he has dozens of lives in his hands regardless of what his heart wants.

book 1 is about zuko learning to choose humanity over duty, but it is also about hakoda having to choose duty over humanity.

...well, at the very least, he’s taking some sort of precaution. I still think this is a terrible idea. If nothing else, it’s super risky to bring Owlbeast Eda out in public where someone who’s seen how dangerous she can be might spot her and decide to cause further problems about it. Also, King’s chosen nemesis is a child. It’s just... concerning all around.

Hmm, the bottle of elixir being on her nest-side table suggests that Eda simply forgot to take it. (So much for taking care of yourself, Eda!) But then, what’s up with those empty bottles in that bag? I would assume that the bag is hers, but I don’t think I’ve seen it around before. Are those bottles for elixirs she’s taken on previous nights, or has she had to increase the amount of elixir she has per day? 

And most importantly, will we actually get an explanation for any of this? Knowing Eda, there’s a good chance we won’t.

It’s getting a bit late, so I’ll be pausing here for the night! I’ll resume as soon as I can tomorrow. 

Until then, goodnight!