ok so i just finished reading this gay furry visual novel called Adastra, and i have to say.

it didn’t have the devastating emotional effect that i’ve heard it tends to have on many other readers, but then again i’m pretty sure that’s just because i’m attracted to large buff sword-wielding women and not large buff wolf boys.

and then i realized

thinking about this. thinking

*walks up to the stage, shuffling my various notecards* *leans into the microphone* *looks down at my notecards and takes a deep breath* *The crowd watches, enraptured* "Lads, lasses, and jesters of the court...may I present...." "The QSMP eggs communicating in sign language." "I rest my fucking case." *the crowd goes fucking wild*

So, have all the big brains in the Layton fandom figured out an explanation that keeps both the end of Alfendi’s game and Kat’s anime both canon compliant?

NUH UH

"nuh uh?"

is that what you'll tell the court?

is that what you'll declare to the judge??

spoken truly like a five year old fresh out of kindergarten???

do you even have the money to support yourself? do you have a single coin to pay in settling fees??

..

monsieur neuvillette will be hearing about this

You know what would be the worst? If at the end of the war when all is said and done, after the clones lost every little thing they had, after Vaders rise and the Jedi’s fall, after all that death and hardship and misery? It would be terrible to be a clone and wake up like suddenly coming out of a coma, in a stasis chamber that they grew up in and rarely left, there was the craziest dream just before and there’s the lingering feeling something important just happened, this is Kamino 35bby, all the information they were just fed is already neatly stored in their perfect flash-memory brain. No ones died yet, all of that was a simulation based on a calculation of events to instal orders and hone the discipline of troops. It’s dark, there’s no way of telling if anyone or anything exists beyond the boundary’s of the inside. There’s a designated call sign and designation along with vitals displayed in the line of vision, it’s also counting down the seconds to when a new simulation is set to begin.

I have so many thoughts about Tech and how fun he is and how he’s clearly one of those “neurodivergent coded genius” type characters, it’s not done is a tasteless way and how his quirks are embraced and uplifted and not made fun of by the rest of the batch.

He’s not mean which is like a big thing for me. With so many of these characters it’s always equating being smart with being really mean, and while Tech is sarcastic and brags about his intellect, it never feels mean spirited and all the bad batch brags about their abilities. They all act like #not like the other girls. He knows his strengths just like the rest of the batch knows theres. They don’t call Tech “an unfeeling dick” for being super smart, he’s super smart and they love him for it. They don’t care that he brags about it cus yea Tech you are super smart we need you to hack into all of these droids and raise hell!!!!

And there is this running gag with Tech that I love where something will get brought up and everyone will turn to tech like “hey why didn’t you mention this really important thing before???” and he’s is like “ah well it was kinda obvious to me, my bad”. He’s not aware what he’s picked up on and what the others haven’t, and so he forgets to mention things and that’s so important to me. And the fact that the other characters know this about him and accept it as a part of him is just ahhhhhh so good. 

I also love how it’s usually Tech getting into childish arguments with other characters. Some of the best sibling interactions comes from Tech bouncing off other characters, and while it’s sibling bickering, it’s usually over small silly things and it really humanizes him that I feel like is missing in so many of the other characters in the trope he stems from.

Over all I love how much the Bad Batch love each other and embrace each other’s strengths. They feel so much like a believable family and it’s so great to see an interesting spin on a “genius type” character that doesn’t feel tasteless.

i know aging isn't the end of the world and 24 isn't that old and life isn't a race etc etc etc. however,

i will say that the way poor things handles disability and disfigurement left a bad taste in my mouth

People put all their stuff in december. Christmas is in december. That's all I can handle!! Why is everything else Also in december????

MUAHAHAHAH!! SNEAK ATTACK

AA AA WHAT!!!!!!! /POS

AWWWBSGFH THIS IS SO COOL THSBK YOU !!! <333333

not to be emotionally invested on main but I rly just want gideon to be okay

im always getting inspired at the wrong times lol. like ohhh yeah right now is the time to work on scripting my entire webcomic (has to be at a café with friends in 40 minutes)

Growing up is realizing you, fundamentally, still have the same needs as a toddler, just with a better sense of time and a more trained ability to hold back in public. Why am I crying right now? Because I'm hungry and I didn't get much sleep. I need a fucken. Nap and a snackie that's literally it. Chances are you also need a nap and a snackie, or a drink of water and some playtime, or to go apologize or do a coloring sheet. We had it right the first time actually. Go forth with this knowledge and prosper

the caz server is legitimately the first place i feel like ppl are both dumbasses (cursed) but also some of the smartest ppl i’ve met on the internet

wait it just clicked in my head, is your username a word play on simile??

Darling I’m so flattered that you think I’m that big brained and smart AJSJKSKSKSKWKKWKS

I came up with it from hee and jakes last name but we’re gonna pretend like I was that smart 🫶💕🤓

-monet 🥰

This morning, I finished episode 6 of Once Again thinking about that Alfred Lord Tennyson quote that goes “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all” and I wondered: is it true for Shin Jaewoo?

At 10, he had his first crush on Kang Jihoon, an adult who literally saved him, was kind and caring, who was his hero. Then, he spent 15 years (more than half his life!) crushed by the culpability of that man’s murder – murder that happened in front of him as he was being kidnapped again like holy trauma Batman!!

Now he is 25, still carrying that love, and that guilt that is clearly heavily impacting his life and twisting his sense of self (“somewhere you belong and I don’t”? How ready he is to sacrifice himself as a child to not have to live through that pain again???). And then! He gets back to Kang Jihoon, he gets to spend time with him as a fellow adult, finds out that he is also beautiful, and cute, gets to kiss him, to be hugged by him, and he falls in love again, and he is being loved in return. 

But so far all the clues we’ve been given suggest there is no happy ending for them, that Jaewoo is not going to be able to change the past because everything he’s done so far is already part of what happened (he remembers his scary older self talking to him, also the killer taking his knife that looks like the one used to kill Jihoon). Tragedy is coming for them, and Jaewoo is going to lose Jihoon again isn’t he? And then what? How is he going to keep going with the renewed guilt - he couldn’t forgive his child self, how the hell is he going to forgive himself now if he isn't able to save Jihoon? - with the renewed grief? When the pain is going to be exponentially worse than it had been for the past 15 years? 

Is there a point where you go through enough heartbreak that you can’t trust that loving was worth the pain? Where you can’t believe any more that even if it was ripped from you again and again, it was better than never having known love? Is there a way for Jaewoo to not reach that point by the end of his story? I sure hope so but man, that's a very thin hope...