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niobiumao3 · 7 months

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every time someone shows up on a post about Tech to announce BUT HE'S DEAD or IT'S BETTER FOR THE NARRATIVE or THE STAKES or even THE CONSEQUENCES I make a few more sacrifices to the eldritch gods of TV show outcomes for a new voice line from him in the trailer and a kid or two for him and Phee at the end of the show.

the more people demand he is gone forever the more I demand his legacy live on for all of time through surviving so he can personally kick the Empire in the groin and produce some chaotic uncontrollable progeny who will go on to continue his legacy of enacting absurd plans without asking for permission.

#THE STAKES #THE CONSEQUENCES #shut the actual fuck up and make your own fucking post #dear god no one cares about your wrong opinions #I hope for all the things these people hate #just to piss them off #hand holding forehead touches CHILDREN #anything they don't want make it so #just to get them to leave us all the fuck alone #tech lives

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sophsicle · 1 year

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STFU IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS MAIN CHARACTER DEATH!!

kill them

kill them all

break our hearts again soph <3

i feel understood by this

#ITS JUST #the drama #the emotion #the stakes #don't you guys want stakes!!!!#i sound like some kind of shitty vampire hunter now #BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN #OHB

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hathaway-hayes · 7 months

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“AHAA!” 疯! (“Feng”)

Old-man, “疯” (“Feng”) Dirt-muddled, with limp, and Atop heat-warped asphalt Peddles wares and screams, “AHAA!” At police, the pride, and streets In between. But only he, could find Solace in a first night’s slumber Amongst the corruption, chaos, And wrath, come Liwan’s neon.

I’d imagined the predicament - A big loss come Mahjong stake And wine-swollen tongue; But the ivory tiles have been Masticated And extract the only explanation - The last loss, and more than wager, Just after, the “Last Supper,” And later cremation, “回家” (“return home”) When the wife fled, Took flight, and the children with her.

As bleak as that midnight may be, It was actually his day, the next, Considering, taxis, vectors, meters, Near centimeters and a miss; Fortitude favoring fender Whilst allowing for one more Skip-or-two, sacrifice or two, Smile or two, whatever or two! One more, “AHAA!”

“AHAA!” So long as, “疯’d” (“Feng’d”) breath. “AHAA!” So the rest of the stories would too. “AHAA!” For the sake of, “Aha!” And “AHAA!” in an echo, years later.

- Hathaway Hayes (2013)

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hamstermastersamster · 11 months

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I returned to my playthrough of FF7R, since my thumb is no longer quite as mangled and action/button-mashy RPGs aren’t a complete no-no anymore. While I liked the game well enough before I paused playing, it was in a mild way that didn’t really hit my compulsive ‘GOTTA KEEP PLAYING’ buttons.

However, last night, Barret's banter and the dynamics between him, Cloud and Tifa were starting to break my walls down.

Then I hit the Airbuster boss battle.

You guys.

#hamster plays #final fantasy vii remake #the MUSIC #the STAKES #the COMBAT #okay i get it now #attachments have been formed bonds have been forged feelings have been generated #tifa is such a powerhouse i love her so much #fast and feral at staggering everything

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mossy-rock-in-a-field · 2 years

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okay but real talk

everyone is doing a great job on HOTD and should be very proud of how they revived a dead/very bitter fandom after the end of GOT S8. The team behind the show is doing Fire & Blood justice, and the changes they’ve made have largely been warranted and wonderful. Peak casting. Big fan.

#hotd #house of the dragon #fire & blood #actors are killing it #script is stellar #the DRAMA #the STAKES #the SYMBOLISM #the PRETTY CLOTHES N STUFF

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georgiarts · 2 years

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i just finished the episode and FUCK u guys that was terrible and i am so sad i cannot live without those cute exu cuddle babies and the two polar opposite dynamics they bring to the table I AM SAD (also waiting a week to find out about laudna is the absolute worst and if we lose her too ME AND IMOGEN WILL NEVER FORGIVE)

#cr3e33 #critical role #critical role spoilers #i think fcg will bring laudna back if needed BUT STILL #no guarantees and i dont want any of them gone #also just bc of the pool of hate happening #it was an epic episode so stressful and tense and brilliant and i am sad about characters i love but i would never hate on matt for it #what a storyteller #i cant even begin to imagine the in-game repercussions of this #whether or not all the deaths stay permenant #THE STAKES #THE SADNESS #THE SENDING STONE #cr #crit role spoilers #cr spoilers #cr3 #cr3 spoilers #crit role

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cinemajunkie70 · 2 years

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And I am willing to fight for quite a few things!! This shit isn’t a dress rehearsal!!

#hard work #fighting #the stakes #life

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andy-dandy · 4 months

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love seeing the beginnings of perseus "pay your fucking child support" jackson's crusade against the gods' parental negligence problem in ep 1 & 2 of the pjo show. the absolute KING of "my daddy gave me issues so HE'S about to HAVE issues"

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson tv show #pjo series #i love his faceoff against mr d #'the FATE of the WORLD is at stake!'#'ok AND?'#percy is TRYING to refuse the call but the call KNOWS WHERE HE LIVES (and kidnapped his mom)#'i'm the son of SALLY JACKSON' what an icon

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secretmellowblog · 6 months

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People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!!#this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

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jay-wasstuff · 6 months

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Five nights at Freddy's (2023)

#when ur job or life is at stake. never forget to correct ppl even then guys.#five nights at freddy's #fnaf #fnaf movie #william afton #matthew lillard #josh hutcherson #mike schmidt #vanessa monroe #elizabeth lail #fnaf movie spoilers #halloween #spooky season

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hecateisalesbian · 4 months

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Alright fuckers if this gets 5 4 5 THOUSAND notes before midnight new years eve(Central American time) I’ll actually start doing the things that I want/should do

including:

basic self care

actually staying on top of chores

writing the mbalwjjsoqjjwillion fanfics

expand ALL my au’s

finish most of the art pieces that are sitting as wips

and more

WHAT THE HELL I LEFT FOR 5 MINUTES TO TALK TO MY MOM WHATAUWKJSJWJBDBNSA

NO MORE REPLIES

NO MKRE

ALSO NICE KUNG POW PENIS

yall really wanna make this fun

get this to 10k and I’ll start and begin posting a fic by the end of January

#try me i dare you #you got less than 3 days #Should’ve specified New Year’s Eve lol #Lowering the stakes

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intermundia · 26 days

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in retrospect i'm enjoying imagining the brainstorming meeting where they were like "our userbase is full of introverted, nervous, and annoying people doing parallel play, they all love bothering each other, but they also don't want to be overly familiar with strangers, let alone the people they've been hanging out with for literal years, how do we add enrichment to that antisocial social enclosure" and the correct answer was to let us socialize like a feral cat colony and nonverbally and impersonally yet lovingly smack each other lol

#boop #it was a good time #low stakes low threshold interaction

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blackpearlblast · 3 months

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Brown University students are launching an indefinite hunger strike for Palestine

they are asking for their university to divest from companies profiting from the genocide in gaza and openly call for a ceasefire and will not eat until the university governing bodies hears and considers a divestment resolution. if you are not familiar with the physical toll a hunger strike takes on the body, it might be worth looking up to get a better sense of what a significant action these students are taking. the university's highest governing body is having their first meeting of 2024 on february 8-9th so let's rally around them to muster even more pressure on brown university.

brown university contact page: let's state our support for these students and let brown university know the world will be watching what happens next!

additional reading: coverage of this story in the university's student news paper - get to know some of the hunger strikers

#a lot of hunger strikes are effective simply because it looks really bad if certain people die under your care because you were denying #them something they believed so important that they'd stake their life on it. and i think students who are in care of a school #are very much in a position to hunger strike powerfully.#there are even more articles on the brown daily herald that are worth reading i think shorter posts tend to get more traction but #i might make a follow up later #free palestine #free gaza #brown university hunger strike #hunger strike

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romanceyourdemons · 7 months

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i love when the fast and furious movies are like shit an international incident of world war-starting proportions. luckily i know just the guys for the job: approximately six bisexual mechanics from los angeles

#like i get them wanting to raise the stakes but these guys are literally angeleno mechanics #they run a bodega in the first movie #ryddles

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kingofooo · 12 days

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by character designer Delfina Pérez Adán

#Adventure Time #Marceline #Stakes #fanart #Delfina Pérez Adán #estampita

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akanemnon · 5 months

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The light only you (and your clone) could see

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

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