the real tragedy of tlou is that in saving ellie’s life, joel dooms their relationship. it’s not tragic that he killed a hospital of ppl and prevented a cure bcus we have no emotional attachment to any of those people or the notion a cure might actually work and fix the world. we’ve travelled across that world with ellie and joel and seen how it’s in pieces and how unlikely it could ever be fixed the way the fireflies imagine. but emotionally we ARE with joel and ellie and as we see them in that car and hear joel tell his lie and see ellie’s face, we know that things can’t be the same for them again. i am now and have always been of the opinion that joel lies in that moment to protect her from her feelings of guilt and the burden of thinking she has 2 save the world (and ive always said too he should have told her the truth eventually instead of her having to force his hand to get it), but regardless of that the choice joel made and the lie is always going to be between them. things will always be a little different now. an unspoken thing that eats away at the space between them, making it bigger and bigger. and that’s why it’s really tragic because joel picked ellie’s life over and above anything else cus he loved her and thus knew her life had value independent of being a cure to save the world and she should get to live it, but whilst she is living it (something she is only able to do cus he saved her), he has to watch from afar. he saves her and loses her at the same time.

Okay i dont know if anyone else has pointed this out but throughout the vast majority of the ball (and honestly throughout many scenes in episode 5 as well but they don't seem as significant), Aziraphale and Crowley are on opposite sides of the screen they would normally be on. Particularly when Crowley is trying to tell Aziraphale about the demons outside the bookshop and he doesn't listen.

It's so interesting because this scene, in my opinion, is the crux of Aziraphale's denial and refusal to see what is actually going on and the danger of it (affectionate). The entire season we've witnessed Aziraphale downplay the real danger of hiding Gabriel in his bookshop. This is partly on Crowley, who knows more of the extent of the danger they're in and does not tell Aziraphale. BUT, we can't deny that Aziraphale is also ignoring the severity of the situation. I mean, he literally says that Crowley is overestimating the trouble they are in:

I just think it's INTERESTINGGGG. After the ball their positions return to normal and don't switch again until Episode 6 Crowley puts his sunglasses on and crosses to leave the bookshop.

It's also an interesting moment to choose switching their places on the screen because it's the moment Aziraphale's fantasy of being in Heaven with Crowley is crushed as well. You can tell that through Crowley's confession, Aziraphale isn't listening to a word he's saying, much like during the ball. BUT the dynamic doesn't switch until Crowley has totally rejected Aziraphale's offer.

Would love to hear anyone else's opinions on this, I could be overthinking it (I am the person who spent multiple days analyzing the lengths of Crowley's sideburns in each promo photo only to discover it was just a continuity error when the actual show came out LMAO.)

a fresh dumpling, golden on the outside

Been thinking of Aventurine a lot and the fact Ratio never uses his name

When Jade was talking to him his name was still Kakavasha and right before that the IPC news mentions a “Egyhazo Aventurine” fraud case and Jade mentioned how he lied to the Intelligentsia Guild so it seems very possible to me that Ratio met him before he was Aventurine and maybe that’s why he only ever refers to him as gambler? Maybe he actually uses his real name but knows he can’t say it on Penacony? Just seemed odd how he NEVER says it, not even when talking to other people about him. The only time we hear Ratio say the word “aventurine” is when he’s talking about the stone to Sunday, but he never says it in reference to the person Aventurine.

I’m probably overthinking this but it just seemed like the dialogue was going out of its way to keep Ratio from saying Aventurine, but when there was no way around it they just had him say gambler

Edit: Should add that I play in English and haven’t looked at the other languages, so maybe it just so happens that he never calls him Aventurine in English even tho he does in other languages? In that case this wouldn’t matter at all but I have no idea

Eddie’s going to be the last one of the team Buck comes out to and he’s going to be supportive because of course he is. He loves Buck, he just wants Buck to be happy and fuck Buck looks so happy - so free - now that he's figured out this part of himself.

But it’s also going to hurt like a bitch feeling like Buck trusts him least. Even though it isn’t that at all. It’s that Buck is terrified because what Eddie thinks of him matters so much, because he doesn't want Eddie to think he's been lying to him about such a huge part of himself.

I found the spell Circle of Death while looking at Arcanums for kicks and I need to ask: does ANYONE use this in regular play and if so, are your PCs on trial for war crimes?

Circle of Death

6th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 action Range: 150 feet Components: V, S, M (the powder of a crushed black pearl worth at least 500 gp) Duration: Instantaneous A sphere of negative energy ripples out in a 60-foot-radius sphere from a point within range. Each creature in that area must make a Constitution saving throw. A target takes 8d6 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Ella Purnell as Anita “Needy” Lesnicki

4.11.23 / live read directed by Karyn Kusama

based on this that I said in the Ineffable Bang server during a conversation with @heavenslittlehellion

My collection of cute Cow Girls grows... Hornwort, the moss cow, she/her. Original design by @bethdehart.

[ID Start: a quick colored pencil drawing of a thin, green anthropomorphic cow girl standing on one leg. She is light green with large dark green splotches sporadically on her, with one being a heart shape on her right hip. Her hair is brown and long and the ends are curly and a very dark green. From her head are two chartreuse atene similar in appearance to the plant hornwort and from her back are dragonfly wings also chartreuse. The cow girl stands with her hands clasped behind her back, stretching them far out and her left leg is bent slightly to have her hoofed foot off the ground. /End ID.]

Warrior Nun | 2.08 | "Jeremiah 29:13"

X-Men: First Class (2011)

running list of coffee headcanons:

before he started to frequent leblanc, akechi drank dirt-cheap instant coffee. like, the most discounted stuff he could find. he loaded it up with aspartame and almond milk until it was nearly beige and barely recognizable as coffee. it was just caffeine, right? it served its purpose.

the first time akechi went to leblanc, he could barely drink the pour over akira gave him. it was way too bitter, and way too coffee-like… totally the sort of thing a coffee snob could read the “notes” of, but still distinctly black coffee. he drank every last drop with a smile, of course, because like hell was he going to be outclassed by a guy who lived in an attic.

sometime between august and november, he started liking coffee. actual coffee. well, uh, he liked leblanc coffee. if that coffee tended to come from one particular barista, he wouldn’t dwell on those specifics.

a certain phone call made it very clear that he couldn’t dwell on those specifics.

one november morning, akechi tried to make a cup of instant coffee in his apartment and nearly spat it out into his sink. something about that made him angry. instant grounds had always been just fine for him! he’d never needed anything fancy before.

wait. before what, exactly?

oh no.

sometime in early december, akechi bought a pour over coffee setup. he tried to use it exactly once. the glass carafe and his mug both ended up shattered, swept up, and shoved in the trash. the coffee just didn’t taste right.

Who else can see Robert shrieking YEET and throwing Jimmy at somebody or is it just me

What about the talking bears you can find at any good pride parade

It was supposed to be just like any other day.

Just a normal day, a normal duel to decide who Jaden’s real best friend was, normal activities for normal kids.

Normal.

That was, until Syrus never showed.

I believe the captain speaks like 8 languages. and switches between them whenever convenient. like to express frustration in a language the people he's talking to won't know, or whatever. but also when he gets flustered or excited sometimes he slips into one. he's autistic so, sometimes you've just got to put on an accent or start speaking a different language. along with english and canon german, I think it's gotta be like. french. latin and/or greek. a scandinavian language idk which one, swedish maybe? russian. he knows morse code and the nato phonetic alphabet. his british sign language is out of date but he knows the old signs. anyway he mostly doesn't get a chance to use any of these skills because everyone just speaks english all the time, but one time the rest of the ghosts are all being really annoying, talking over each other stumbling for alison's attention and the captain complains under his breath about their lack of respect and the chaos of the house etc etc in like. welsh or something. and robin looks right at him and shrugs and responds in the same language like "yeah they're annoying but they're family. can't complain too much huh?" and cap just. whuh??!?!!!? because robin has been around for thousands of years and definitely knows allllll sorts of languages.

yk i love when people say geto is mother cuz it makes me think, all cult-leader coded characters are a little bit mother yk

geto? mother.

shigaraki? mother.

chrollo? mother.

the list goes on.

but these are like stand-ins for the overbearing mother archetype, the scary one you can't disappoint, the mom who gives you issues that are long lasting but whose approval you'll need till the day you die yk