Sid impresses his audience with his message AND awesome PowerPoint skills.

@dduane uhoh! You are on their radar!

may i present.... this:

thank you for coming to my ted talk

Miranda Cosgrove was giving a TED talk but didn’t know what to say so she just sang the iCarly theme song then jumped into the crowd, the video then went on for 7 more minutes as her mic barely picked up the sound of her running away.

Ok while we are all waiting for patch 6 I decided to tell you what I think about shadowzel.

While I noticed a lot of people love the "toxic yuri" "ennemies to lovers" trope, I'm not feeling any of those two vibes with shadowzel.

Indeed, they are not really ennemies, the animosity of their relationship is linked with their goddess/queen orders.

Shar and Vlaakith both want the artefact while Lae'zel and Shadowheart do not even understand what it is. Their little night fight is the result of fear and misunderstanding.

In fact, in Shadowheart origin story you can even avoid the fight and talk with Lae'zel about the artefact.

Moreover, Shadowheart notices how horrible Vlaakith is, how easily someone as strong as Lae'zel can be manipulated by her. While Lae'zel clearly understands how mischievous and deceitful Shar is and sees Shadowheart being tormented by this darkness. They cannot comprehend their own brainwashing but they do realize each other's situations. Thus, they can help each other and together they are finally complete.

AND THE HAND SCENE ALSO-

Ok ok I stop. Happy Valentine's day 🌈 !

Why the fuck, when the Fidelius Charm was cast, did they not think to make a goddamn unbreakable vow !? Like, it's so obious ???

And Sirius ? They can literally take a memory into a pensine something and watch it, they have legilimency for crying out loud !! They have veritaserum ! So whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ??? It's so stupid!

And Dumbledore ! oh this sorry excuse of a human being !

He knew that Peter was the secret keeper ! So WHY IN THE EVERLY MOTHERLY FLIBBIDY FUCK didn't he said so ???

It makes me so fucking crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

And everyone that is like 'ThE BoY WhO LiVeD' 'hE DefEtEd tHe DaRk lOrD' erh, NO ?! It was thanks to LILY ?? He was just an INFANT who had the chance to be under a protecting spell created by LILY when she SACRIFIED HERSELF for her son ? Why is everybody forgeting about her ??

Oh, and don't start me about Snape !

'hE wAs BulLiEd bY JaMeS, HiS WoRsE MeMoRy iS HiM BeinG BuLliEd' Yeah, because he called Lily a slur

'hE WaS jUsT MiSuNdErStoOd' No, he was a death eater, fully believing in Voldy's BS,he only changed side because the girl he was obsessed with was in danger... Because of HIM ! People tend to forget that he was the one searching and giving the prophecy to the dArK LoRd, resulting in Lily's death.

And, 'JaMeS WaS jUsT A BulLy' We only sees him throught Snape's pov, aka, when he got 'bullies'c after he called Lily a mudblood.

And if James is a bully, doesn't that mean the Snape is one too ? No because :

-He made fun of Hermione for her teeth

-He bullies his students

-he exposed Remus when he had no reason for, since he is the one brewing the wolfsbane potion

-he hates and bullies the son of 'the love of his life' because Harry had the infortune of looking like his father, that Snape resents

-favoritism

-he was a death eater

-he is a racist

-he is a blood supremacis

-he is Neville worst fear, the boy who literally had his parents torturedby Bellatrix. Shouldn't she be his boggart ?? But noooo, it's our 'wonderful and misunderstood' Snape

-when he hugged Lily's body, while her son was crying his eyes out, being hurt, seeing his mother die, having blood on his forehead, and then leaving the house without even comforting or taking Harry to Saint-Mungos !!

-blamed James for bullying him, when he created Sectum Sempra, and was into dark magic !

-trying to make Harry expelled

Why is Jax so upset at the end of Episode 2?

He’s disappointed for the lack of violence, sure, but in the end he looks truly down. I wonder if he feels disconnected from the group? He was the only one not present at Kaufmo’s funeral and he doesn’t seem to really value anyone else in the cast - he moreso just uses them for his own entertainment and ends. While this is at least partially his own fault for being such an asshole man-baby, it can’t help with the feeling of isolation and rejection, feeling like he’s the only one worth his salt on the team, and that he has nobody to relate to or connect with, even in a situation where it’s natural to grow closer as a result of shared traumatic experience and living quarters. Essentially - he might feel like he’s the only one truly alone while everyone else seems to become dearer to each other, even if that feeling is because he views himself as superior.

His lack of ability to connect could also be because he feels like he doesn’t deserve it, of course. He clearly has issues with his ego; this could be because he thinks so highly of himself that the real him can’t compare, causing him to defend his status as “better than the rest” in order to protect himself from recognizing the difference between his perceived status and the reality of who he is. This could also be because he’s self aware that he’s an asshole and doesn’t know how to change or cope more healthily, so he just pushes everyone away and continues hurting them instead of improving. In the first case, he seems to struggle with some real narcissistic traits and clearly needs help - he also needs help in the second case, but it seems like his behaviors there stem less from blatantly narcissistic beliefs and more from his response to the trauma of the circus. Both cases could exist within the same character as well, even if only at different times.

Either way, he clearly needs a lot of support, a better outlet for his feelings, and some sort of reality check that actually gets through to him. He’s very young still, only being in his early 20s, so I think it’s a real possibility that his more cruel behaviors stem from lack of experience and knowledge about other people/social relations rather than from pure malice. We also don’t know how long he’s been trapped in the circus - if he already had some of these ego problems before he entered, it can’t have helped his mentality. I hope he realizes he needs to change and improve himself to improve his life and that he gets the support he needs throughout the show! I can’t wait to see more of him and his character development.

Anyways, I loved episode 2 and I want to see Zooble’s figurine collection

ima be gay for a second ignore me

ppl with soft jaws. ppl with vitiligo. ppl with acne. ppl in hoodies. ppl with big smiles. ppl with longer hair. ppl with 'weird' teeth. ppl with heterochromia. FKIN PPL IN SKIRTS! PPL WITH CURVES! PPL WITH BIG ARMS! PPL WITH ABS! PPL WITH FLOOFY HAIR! PPL IN SUITS! PPL WITH BROAD SHOULDERS! TALL PPL! STRONG PPL!

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Just a reminder that asexuality and aromanticism are not the same thing

I am ace but I am NOT aro

Someone can be aro and not ace

And people can be both

It’s not the same and you don’t need to have both to be a valid asexual or aromantic

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Why whenever lil girls do empowering things or things outside the gender norm do GROSS ASS ADULT MEN MAKE THE CREEPIEST FUCKING COMMENTS???

tw: pedo vibes

So here's a lil girl, A CHILD leaning to grill from her father. Very cute, very sweet and we love it.

But why the fuck did I see a shit ton of comments like this

ABOUT A LITTLE GIRL

SHE'S A MINOR! SHE IS A CHILD!

SAYING THIS ABOUT ANOTHER ADULT IS HORRID BUT SAYING THIS ABOUT A CHILD WTF?!

These sorts of comments are such pedo vibes

This wasn't the only comment like this either...there was a lot of these comments...

Why do dudes think this stuff is okay???? Why do dudes do this stuff constantly??? Wtf

Horse Rant

ok listen horses are fucking insane theyre smart, like dog smart, but they are so soft and lovely yes this is my horse girl moment fight me. HOWEVER they are also MENACES. My aunt's friend was putting away a horse in a barn and when she turned to close the barn door the horse ran up to her and BIT her BACK. Have you ever SEEN horse teeth??? Theyre MASSIVE!!!! And the horse BIT HER omg i cant. Horses just decide to bite every once in a while and it is TERRIFYING how much damage they can do like wtf wtf wtf wtf???? Horses can tell if youre sure of yourself and riding a horse actually helped with my anxiety a few years ago since i was nervous but you cant let the horse know that so you have to both ACT and LOOK not anxious because the horse can literally tell by the tone of you voice, posture, etc, etc, if you dont know what youre doing and will TAKE OVER for you and will REFUSE to listen to your commands. It's like some wild fake it till you make it shit like wtf wtf wtf??? Anyway horses are great and scary and theyre like extreme weather theyre so pretty but if you dont respect them youll get your ass handed to you thank you for coming to my TED talk

“What really matters at the end of life” - BJ Miller

Hey, I'm rambling about IkePri again

Okay, I just need to get these thoughts I have about Gilbert von Obsidian out because I enjoy predicting stuff and overthinking design and narrative choices even tho they might not be right. :P But there really isn't that much predicting other than me overthinking about narrative and design choices. This time there will be most likely spoilers of Gilbert's route so far, and route of Clavis and some thoughts I have just gathered while playing the game in general. I try to put these thoughts in cohesive order, but well... I don't know if I can really, because I just need to get these out of my head. These are my thoughts, ramblings and opinions. Feel free to form your own and certainly disagree with me! I apologize about the lack of art in this post. I'm busy with work currently so no fanart for a while. I'm also not native English speaker, so there might be grammatical errors and such. Sorry about that. Everything under the cut.

To start with Ikemen Prince is a romance visual novel first and foremost. That doesn't mean it can't be deep (and it certainly has been deeper than I initially expect, which left me positively surprised). I suppose there is somesort of thematic vibe that there is no prince whose ideals are the main thesis of the game itself. But that also kinda leaves that fact there is no huge catharsis regarding the world and it's state. Everything so far has been left quite open. And the more I have learned about lore of the world, I really feel like anti-monarchist here xd Clavis really sold me the idea for real. Or atleast throw away the absolute monarchy. That's where I think things should go, but that's my own belief. (really, the last king of Rhodolite... He umm... I have some opinions.) Chevalier and Gilbert First things first: I don't hate or dislike Chevalier as a character. There are just some things that give me Deus Ex Machina feels. But I know it is what they are going for with him. This genius that so far ahead of everyone that it is so alien concept to rest of the people. And well that is a very hard concept to pull off without being a genius yourself as a writer. Or that is what I feel like. But what I do love is what the writers are doing with him and Gilbert in thematic sense! (Hence why Chev x Gilbert sounds so juicy to me)

I really took steps to the deep end as I started to think about why I have enjoyed Gilbert's route or was interested in his story to begin with, but have little interest in trying Chev's one. Because they are so similar but they really aren't.

How I would describe it is that where as Clavis is the complementary to Chev, the purple to his yellow, the emotionality vs rationality, the heart vs the brain, Gilbert is more like right brain to Chev's left brain. If it makes sense like that xd Their color schemes are harmonious. Not opposite. Almost like how Nokto and Licht's color schemes are harmonious with each others.

(Nokto (Blue + white + gold) vs Licht (Blue + black + gold)) Not to mention that their names clearly are meant to mean light and dark. (Licht: variant for light, Nokto: comes form latin nox or noctis, meaning night = dark) But that is a rambling for another time.) Both their crests are tigers. White and black tiger. Chev's color scheme is White + gold and black. Whereas Gilbert's is Black + gold and white. But then the overall color that game devs use to signal about the characters baffles me a bit. Gold/Yellow vs Black/dark red. They don't seem to have too much connection or that of which comes to my mind quickly and without digging deeper. (because I believe that if you dig deep enough, you have digged yourself into a trap of overthinking about things. (Justifying things because you want to justify them, which I'm not big fan of. And sometimes things don't need meaning and we have to live with that. As much as it pains my overthinker brain.)) But here is my impressions about Gilbert so far. I'm at the point where MC has left the Clavis's party (I loved it btw). Gilbert really does give me toxic INFJ villain feels, but let's not get too hang up on terms such as that. But he is someone who is driven forth by his own ideals and desire to change the world better. He, like Clavis, seems to cloak himself in this idea that he is the villain and is okay, even happy, to take that role. He is the one who, like Chevalier, has thrown away emotional attachment out of the window (or so they say) unlike Clavis who makes his choices based more on emotion rather than rational thinking. Maybe that's why I like Clavis and Gilbert, they push MC out of their black and white thinking. That things are not so easy peezy as "choose a right king and everyone will be happy". There will always be someone who is mad about it. That's why I really loved the scene with Gilbert with the orphaned kids and the Clavis's party. He seems to enjoy the company of children (who are not morally corrupted or tainted) and he really empathically listens to those who are angry. He believes in the idea that "no one remembers what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel". (A quote with debatable origin, people say that it was coined by Maya Angelou. But I really love this quote, because I think it is the truth.) Gilbert isn't trying to rationalize against someone's choices with pure intellect. He uses empathy to guide him to the most rational outcome in that emotional scope. But he also uses this to manipulate people with fear. He uses fear extensively and he does it actively. Where as I feel like Chev just has that aura about him automatically. Hence my next thought: Action vs Stasis!

Gilbert and Clavis are action oriented. They shake the gameboard, they make the first moves. Gilbert probably more than Clavis. They both want change. Is it change for the better, we will see, I still haven't finished Gilbert's route but he really gives me this "I'm willing to become the greatest threat so that people unite to defeat me." or "I will conquer all so there will no longer be wars.". Chev, on the other hand, symbolizes stasis. His goal is to keep the kingdom of Rhodolite going. That's his duty and he is willing to take it. (even tho we can debate if that is something he really really believes in or even thinks about that much. I feel like it is out of obligation rather than of personal ideal. But alas, I have not played Chev's route yet.) Chev is reactive rather than proactive. He waits for the opponent to make the first move and reacts accordingly. (I'm not saying he is not reactive once game is on. More like "if there was not threat to deal with, he wouldn't create one".)

Chev doesn't care what you think about him. Gilbert does. He might seem like he doesn't but he is really there to prove a point. (I will pick up his dislike for lying later >.>) Chev is not. Chev knows that his way is the right way for him and that is enough for him. Chev also actively makes a "gettaway plan" for himself in Clavis. He knows that Clavis is the final thread that keeps him from going overboard because he understand that he has to be blind for "individual people" aspect to be a good ruler. Gilbert probably understands this about himself too, but he is trying to prove a point. So he needs to go overboard. Because masses of people need absolutes to react to. If it is something banal, it won't do. His evil actions need to shake the very foundation of ideas. The people have to face those things head on and see it for themselves. They cannot be sheltered. Gilbert gives me the vibes that he is willing to sacrifice himself not for the kingdom, but for the betterment of all mankind. He is happy to become the villain #1 if that means that other people will rise and take down the corrupted Obsidian or the corrupted idea. I would say that he is Lawful Good going on about things like Lawful Evil.

Gilbert asking questions means that he wants you to think, he wants to challenge your opinions and how you look at the world. Same as Clavis. They yearn for change. They want to change the world. Where as Chev wants to maintain things as they are. Chev "If it is not broken, we don't need to fix it" Michel. Where as Clavis and Gilbert want to improve the system. They are idealistic. Gilbert and lying

This is something very interesting. At first I thought that he was all "I dislike when people lie to me." but he really is "I dislike lying in all its forms." And he does say that he doesn't lie. And I'm starting to believe that is really the case. All the things he says are true. But because how other people see him, they are suspicious anyway. Like MC is. Like we all probably are when we start the route and think "So what is your trauma, baby girl?" When he is unsure or knows that he shouldn't say the thing he really thinks or that is true, he will deflect or give a very vague response. Which makes me quite happy to replay his route at somepoint with this in mind. In conclusion: Welcome to my TED talk, with no head or tail, just me overthinking about things about a otome gacha game. If you read this far, thank you for your time. Remember, if I ramble about it, it just means that I'm invested. Have a good day~

I know this is a big joke blog and maybe I should stick to the jokes, but I thought I’d do a little experiment here and try something new. Because I think the number one response I see to my posts are some version of “these hitboxes are bad,” which gives me the impression that some of you might not realize how thin the margins are on what a good move or hitbox looks like. So let’s get educational.

We’ll start with something really obvious. This is Jigglypuff’s back aerial from Melee.

Yellow is hurtbox, red is hitbox. You don’t have to have good eyesight to see that this move is almost all hitbox. It extends so far past the hurtbox, even past her leg in the animation, that even thinking about challenging this move is crazy. Puff’s bair is an infamously good move, and one of her biggest strengths as a character.

But let’s look at another strong move from a different game. This is Juri’s crouching medium punch from SF4.

You might still be able to see that this is a good move, but it’s not as obvious as Puff’s. The empty green boxes are the hurtboxes here, and you can see that the red extends past them, but not as much. So is this merely a good move? Hardly. This is easily one of the best normal anti-airs in the whole game. You aren’t getting much better than this without a dragon punch or flash kick. You can’t jump in on Juri unless you have something to delay your jump timing, like a divekick, and bait the move. This thing hits jumps from far, mid, and can even hit jumping opponents behind her at times. This move isn’t OP, but it is a strength of the character and part of what made her neutral so strong. So let’s take a look at another one of Juri’s moves that made her neutral so strong. Here’s her crouching medium kick.

Wait... the hitbox is behind the hurtbox? How can the move be good like that? But consider the way hitboxes are arranged. Juri can be counter-poked, sure, but this move had real good reach, was quick, hit low, and shifted her hurtboxes down to slip under a lot of stuff. At a glance, this doesn’t look like a good move, but when you take it in context with its frame data and the game around it, it’s quite good. And that’s the lesson here. A move’s hitbox is only a small portion of what makes a move good. It’s also important to consider how hitboxes are arranged around it, or other properties (looking at Persona and Blazblue’s attribute system). Fighting games are games of frames and pixels, and a handful of pixels can be the difference between a move being merely strong and completely OP.

I have a theory that in all routes, Vlad has and is in love with MC. All different routes with other characters are just different timelines that Vlad has tried to see where is the most perfect to be, which is the real timeline. Reason why we never see in routes MC turned as a vampire, is because in eternal timeline MC is meant to be with Vlad and somehow ends up to be turned to actual pureblood vampire. As in other information that you can see from the game is that Comte is mentioned to be pureblood vampire when again Vlad is Greater Vampire, which in my mind could be that he is actually cabable to turn others to pure blooded vampires, if he so would wish.

new year's eve traffic jam

LOL I CREATED A LIL STORY CONTEXT FOR THIS AND ITS FUNNY TO ME

obvisuoly gyutaro and furina can't drive (gyutaro is a demon from the 1910s and furina... well cars dont rlly exist in genshin) so that is left with tomura who can drive a modern car

yes he stole the car

anyone in bnha prob knows that tomura prob doesn't fully know how to drive and well... he doesnt own a driver lisense

and obisouly, he's not that happy about it and wishes spinner was here to do the driving

gyutaro is just not rlly used to modern tech but at least he can get a lil peak at future techonolgy

now furina here is being a lil cranky without her sweets and kept bugging the two on what's taking so long

like cmon, whenever we're in traffic we're dying to know what is the cause of it

both gyutaro and tomura are annoyed at this point but they are mamagaing it well bc they have dealth with this kind of behavor before (gyutaro with daki and tomura with himiko)

anyways that's just a lil silly story that goes on in my head when i was drawing this

hope yall have a happy new year ^^

(original trend under cut)

welp

The deeper meaning of the osemanverse books and how they can be used to teach teenagers morals - An Essay

Okay, so. The osemanverse is a very in-depth universe. we have places, we have names, we have schools, we can take any village in kent and basically apply the town of truham to it. Unlike most stories about morals aimed at teens, the characters are relatable. we have teens struggling with mental health, bullying and a whole set of real-world issues teens face. we also and some element of chaos that the average teen might not experience. For example, the solitare pranksters. BUT, even the pranksters have some element of moral. They're trying to get people see the light in a dark place, high school, but they fuck UP. Even after several years, they are still not forgiven, with higgs still being under repairs and the historic grounds probably never being fully restored, this resemebles how, even after years and therapy and healing, some scars will run deeper then you can imagine. Radio silence has a over acheiving secret fan geek who's almost completely burnt out, and a burnt out queer person who makes a podcast and his mother is abusive. Sadly, a lot of teens have less than ideal parents, including myself, and having a character who represents you, has problems like yours, and trys to fix them? That can give teens hope, and hope is a rare thing, with dirt on it's knees. Loveless is about a girl who struggles to find herself, causing harm to herself and others. she tries on different personas, trying to see if one fits, but none do. when she finds one that fits, she realises how much damage has occured and tries to fix it. The people she's hurt take a while to forgive her, which is good! Healing takes time.

What are teens afraid of doing? Fucking up. Yes, most YA novels focus on the fuck ups, but Alice Oseman really illustrates how gut wrenching it is to fuck up, and eventually, you heal. Healing takes time, Healing isn't linear, and of course, finding yourself is the most important thing you can do.

Thank You, Alice Oseman, for nurturing us and teaching us how to be.

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