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jayrockin · 9 months
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Anonymous asked: Ramadan Kareem, Idrisah!! How do you and your family celebrate Ramadan in the space station? Do you invite your friends over for iftar?
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No mooching allowed!
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luckthebard · 2 months
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choose some more violence please - give an unpopular opinion on anything you'd like (cr, d20, ttrpg, actual play, fandom etc)
Here’s one - a lot of actual play these days is what I would consider overproduced, and too much editing and bells and whistles post-production additions serve to make the content less engaging.
It’s not that I think the editors/other people doing that work aren’t doing a good job, I just think the direction often needs to tell them to dial it back about 5 notches because it can be disruptive and overbearing. I feel this way increasingly about D20 (I think it was a huge issue with Burrow’s End), with some of the audio cue choices in Worlds Beyond Number, and with the move to do closer and isolated camera angles with Candela chapter 3. I don’t fault productions for trying new things but I think the whole industry needs a reminder right now that less is more. It’s a trend nearly everywhere and I just don’t think it works as well for the medium as they want it to.
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blmpff · 2 months
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whatsalewd · 8 months
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Been having trouble drawing recently but this cat girl was really fun to draw, so maybe some interaction will help motivate me to draw more.
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genericpuff · 5 months
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at this rate the way my inbox is going i'm gonna have to start signing off my older asks that have been sitting in my inbox for a while with that clip from the Simpsons of Ringo Starr responding to his 20+ year old fan mail
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mulderscully · 8 months
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i didn't know mr. darcy had a first name
CRYING?
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nostalgia-tblr · 2 months
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hey it's me, the resident loom hater, up thinking about how much i hate the loom again. wondering what you would have made the Big Evil Bad guy for s2 instead of a loom- if you choose to respond this it can be a serious and well-thought out answer that genuinely works OR you can say "a really large hamster" and both would be more compelling than The Loom. personally i wanted renslayer full bad guy arc. anyway peace and love but not to the loom.
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I don't know really, because a new villain would require everything to be different, and then I have to think of a plot and there's a good 90 to 95% chance that whatever I thought up I'd like it more than That Fucking Loom, and then I would yet again be mad at the wasted potential and the fact that I cannot fix that :S
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pynkhues · 7 months
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Hi! Just wanted to pop in and mention how much I enjoyed your meta on Kendall and Logan. The line “To give it to Kendall is to let him wear that trauma - a trauma he doesn't understand - like a cloak and tell him it’s a gift.” will live in my head rent free from now.
To piggyback off of the idea you mention towards the end of your post on Kendall’s perceived vulnerability – I think you’re definitely onto something there.
Warning – the rest of this kind of long so feel free not to post publicly but – to my read, so much of Logan is grounded in the trauma of losing his family and I think there’s an echo of that in how he understands and reacts to Kendall. Logan is fearful of losing anyone on anything other than his own terms, and Kendall, by his very nature, evokes some of that fear. Kendall is generally understood within the family to be soft and emotional and by extension vulnerable either to substances, his own mind, or being led astray by ‘dangerous’ figures like Stewy (at least in Logan’s way of thinking, rightly or wrongly).
I think this tends to pluck at Logan’s more protective instincts.  But when Logan exercises that protectiveness, it functionally allows his own ‘vulnerability’ to show through. Logan is generally so reluctant to acknowledge the past, his own traumas, and his perceived weaknesses, that revealing those sides of himself, even indirectly, creates a type of unique connection. Logan might see Kendall’s soft bits, but Kendall gets to see Logan’s too. I think that may be part of what drives the relationship we see between them throughout the show and was the foundation for a certain kind of intimacy and emotional reliance in both directions that deepened and grew over time.
Logan trusts Kendall intimately and lets him in in a way that he can’t with his other children because it would require letting them into a softness or ‘weakness’ he may resent or refuse to acknowledge within himself. He doesn’t want anyone to see those parts of him. But Kendall’s own softness inherently brings that out in him and, although not all the time, it does allow a kind of intimacy to live solely between the two of them. I think it’s this very intimacy that allows Logan to trust Kendall with his pills/health and, ironically, makes him a good pick (in Logan’s mind) for sacrificial lamb at the end of S2.
I don’t think the above is the only driver at play (or even that the characters are aware of any of this), but I think it may be a meaningful one. And while Kendal isn’t Logan’s sole emotional crutch, I think he tends to take the full weight of Logan’s love – which I guess is in and of itself a form of violence because that’s all Logan knows how to give.
[As an aside, I’m endlessly fascinated by Logan’s refusal to lean on Shiv in this particular capacity, which arguably might be expected as she’s his only daughter and yet, I can totally see Logan being completely against the idea of his little girl seeing him with any weakness whatsoever. Just endlessly interesting to chew on Logan’s relationships.]
Hey! Thank you so much for your kind words, and I'm so glad you've enjoyed some of my meta! It's such a fun show to think and write about, so it's always very lovely to know that people like to read my thoughts too.
I totally agree with everything you've written here. That shared space for vulnerability and intimacy due to the very specific nature of Kendall and Logan's relationship feels really right, and the way that places a unique sort of love and violence at the heart of their dynamic is it's own sort of devastating.
It's interesting too, because I think in some ways that vulnerability also comes out of their respective relationships with the truth.
I said it in a post quite a while ago, but I find there's this really compelling juxtaposition between Kendall and Roman where Kendall can be vulnerable without being honest, while Roman can be honest without being vulnerable. It's a contrast that I think is particularly unique, and it's interesting to look at that against Logan, because Logan's sort of both and neither.
Which makes sense given Logan's relationship with the truth often feels pretty unique too. Logan as a character never seems entirely honest, but he's not really a dishonest character either. His truths seem uniquely tied to time, and a moment of warm and genuine honesty like him telling Shiv that it's her at the summer palace can become a bitter lie in the future.
For Logan, I think truth and honesty has to be tied to the present, because as he says in the show, there's just too much history. The past can be complicated, it can be twisted, it can be marked by your mistakes as much as your successes, sure, but for a character like Logan, the past is also punctuated by unmanaged trauma. As a result, the past for Logan is something that can't be touched, and I think that in s2 in particular is something Logan tries to teach Kendall, sometimes cruelly and sometimes with the only type of kindness Logan knows how to offer.
After all, we know that for Kendall, particularly in s2 and s3, the past is something he can't stop touching. He presses his finger to the bruise of what happened with Doddy repeatedly, and the secret of it does create this further space of intimacy. Kendall won't know until after his father dies that Logan felt responsible for his sister's death, but Logan will die knowing Kendall feels responsible for Doddy and simultaneously tries to alleviate him of the guilt of that while also using it to keep him close.
In some ways, it's a sort of shared trauma that Logan never lets Kendall know is shared at all, but then doesn't that just sum up Logan's relationships in general?
(And yes re: Logan and Shiv! I think the added factor of losing Rose / blaming himself for Rose too is absolutely key in seeming invincible and infalliable to Shiv in particular, which is another really interesting thing to consider).
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pure-jeff-ward · 7 months
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https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/446kzs/i_am_writer_and_actor_jeff_ward_of_mansons_lost/?rdt=45242 an old thread where Jeff answered some questions about filming in Manson’s girls and he posted some links to his old comedy projects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beCDZhiSWH8&list=PLYYq5cCR9h-t7xE2fmBU4WKnL2TgVVLlh 1:23 Jeff screaming “holy shit” and why is it so funny🫠
OH MY GOSH??? ANON!!! YOU HAVE UNEARTHED SOMETHING SO RARE AND AMAZING!!! 👏👏👏👏
thank you so so so much for the link to his AMA, but that youtube link is perfection! *chefs kiss* everyone go watch this and say thank you anon!!! <333
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luckthebard · 2 months
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Is there any DND subclass you haven’t played but really want to? Anything specific you’d want to do with it?
Oh, yes actually! I have wanted to try out Knowledge Cleric for a while now but just haven’t found the right campaign for it. I think it would be a good fit for my preferred style of utility casting and information gathering RP
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doomxdriven · 7 months
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//as of writing this and tossing it into my queue, I've got a random burst of muse for amagai, so like this and I may make a small starter or send him into ur inbox whenever I get the chance!!
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electricea · 8 months
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@ama-tcra-su continued from here.
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He had happened upon the end result of the scuffle, seeing everything only at a distance.
The white wolf had become such a familiar presence in his life, whether at his side, or at his home - and while he didn't consider her to be akin to an actual canine that tagged along loyally everywhere, there was a certain uneasy feeling that tended to creep up whenever the white wolf was anywhere that wasn't within his immediate line of sight - or at least somewhere that she had disclosed to him, earlier. Whether out of a childish desire simply not to be left alone or of a genuine uneasiness, he couldn't say but he knew that he didn't like it when the white wolf was somewhere that he didn't know.
That very uneasy feeling had compelled him to try and seek her out and find her.
...Though such a task proved to be easier said than done when he had no idea of where to find her and not even an idea or notion to guide him - which, naturally, led to a lot of aimless running.
While he would have liked to chalk him eventually discovering up to some deep bond between them or badass instinct, he knew that he had stumbled on her only through persistence and sheer luck.
Although what he saw gave him pause - even though he still stood a few feet away, he sensed there was something different about his companion, a feeling which he couldn't quite explain but which felt not unlike the uneasiness that he'd felt before. Something felt wrong and as he had asked this, he had felt an uncomfortable clenching in his gut.
"I..." In the face of her bared teeth and bloodied muzzle, he stayed frozen to the floor - not quite running in terror, but not running to her side just yet. All throughout his body, he felt true uneasiness and terror - terror at seeing this side of her or terror at what happened to her?
"But I..." He gathered up his words, swallowing thickly as he forced an unsteady step toward her. "I...I want to help you...!"
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ama-ships · 9 days
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This is the self insert/OC fairy. 🌼🧚‍♀️When you get this in your ask box, please tell us 3 facts about your S/I or OC and pass it around. Let's learn about each other's S/Is/OCs! 🌈🌷
Oh, man! Thanks for this one Luna! I have been dying to talk about my boy Oleander~ (I say my boy as in my OC that I created cause I do NOT ship with him but I love him like he were my sibling~)
One of the greatest things about Oleander is his lovely tea cup collection! He loves going to antique shops whenever he travels because this is how he expands his continuously growing collection!
Before he only had two rats! One named Biscuits and one named Cheese! (At least I'm certain those were the names~) He has since acquired two more rats, one named Malt and the other named Pepper~
Oleander loves his piercings! He has a lot of them! He has both eyebrows pierced (one has a double piercing), he has three lip piercings and his tongue is pierced as well! He's got three other piercings in places he doesn't show off to anyone but his partner~
Bonus fact! Oleander's name was inspired from the song Oleander by Mother Mother!
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