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This user just spent +$200 on Japanese Pikmin merch
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now introducing anders’ child: anders II
he was never very good at picking out names.
anders: it took me so long to pick out a name once. i’m not doing all that again
varric: didn’t you just get anders from other people deciding to call you that
anders: yeah
bethany: genuinely without my brother how are you alive
anders: badly
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I lived! Day one: complete. I am jazzed as hell that the entire company runs on a piece of software that runs as an IBM i series AS/400
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mutant explosion doodle n sketches dump in honor of my children getting into @whatinthefuckingninjaturtles
#some of these are getting cleaned up soon hopefully#tmnt mutant explosion#tmnt fan iteration#tmnt au#my tmnt au#my art#tmnt iteration competition#tmnt donnie#tmnt venus#tmnt mikey#tmnt april#who are holding hands you ask??? hohoho well i am a fan of the classics you see#if it ain’t broke
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inuyasha… 2!!!!
#obsessed with how she wrote almost the same plot#girl goes back in time. meets white haired demon.#if it ain’t broke
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@staff @support Day 1 of posting pictures of my cat until my blog icon is back where it belongs on mobile, because its inconvenient to have to go all the way back home to refer to it. Just trade the shop & blog icons pls.
#kitty#tumblr staff#please fix the thing#I don’t use the shop button nearly as much as I use the blog icon#tumble support#if it ain’t broke
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Thank iOS 16 for returning the tumblr logo back to what it was 😜
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if you aren't a terf then why are you into hp and all of the blogs tumblr say are related to yours have terf or radfem in the url
are you saying you found a contradiction between how i identified myself and the observations you’ve made and you decided to trust your own judgment instead of my words
#anon is a terf block and stay safe#this is a barely elevated version of the attack helicopter thing#but if it ain’t broke
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hi originally posted this at the end of a long thread of back and forth, here’s the og post if you want full context but i feel like this needs to be its own post especially bc i keep seeing this argument being made—the argument that the kids (in this case it was annabeth) SHOULD just know the monsters are monsters and who they are and how to defeat them before ever encountering them, that it’s a problem if they don’t.
the problem is not if 12 year olds should recognize a trap when they see one, even if they’re smart 12 year olds, and if that’s realistic. that is entirely beside the point.
the problem is rick riordan wrote a book series whose formula is bringing myths to the modern age and he’s not sticking true to that in the show—percy jackson and the olympians’ Shtick is taking these classic, ancient threats and giving them a new face. these traps work because these kids are not walking into a cave marked with Get Out and getting ambushed by monsters—the monsters are disguised as harmless mortal human beings, in harmless mortal human being places (for the most part) and i think we—and more importantly, the show—are all forgetting the mist, the magic involved here. it’s not just that medusa is a “creepy lady with her eyes covered” it’s that there is ancient magic at work here, magic that, like the systems of abuse pjo exists to criticize, has been evolving and continuing its malevolence for millennia. it’s formulaic, that’s the point. it’s the same trap you’ve learned about all your childhood, the same trap a thousand children before you learned all their childhoods, and still, it works. you fall into the trap. because that’s how generational abuse works. it’s a trap. it isn’t enough to learn monsters exist, what they look like from a second hand story that originated thousands of years ago. if you want to escape alive, you have to adapt as quickly as they do, recognize their face, and ultimately, beyond any individual trap, the game itself has to change. real, generational change.
so. the problem is rick riordan wrote a series with a formula for action that perfectly captures the overarching, systemic conflicts he was commentating on, and then threw that formula out in the show because it was “unrealistic”. i don’t give a damn about realism when it works to the detriment of the story. this is a story about generational abuse, yes, but it’s told through ‘a tale as old as time’ and that’s why it works so fucking well. and when it comes to basic storytelling, if your characters know the threat before they even walk in and you do practically nothing to then make up for the stakes you have removed, that’s a flaw. now you’ve lost the entertainment value for your audience, on top of also lessening your themes.
something else that is so. honestly soul-crushing as a writer and a creative, is that to me this is reflective of the way we are now afraid to tell earnest stories. stories where we care not for listening to the people who want to pick apart fictional, mythical, fantasy stories for not being “realistic” instead of aligning with our target audience who acknowledges reality is not what makes a story. think of your favorite movie, show, book, comic, what have you—has the reason for your favoritism ever been because it is the most reasonable, the most grounded, the most practical out of any you’ve seen? or is it because of the emotion? the way it speaks to you, to your life and the person you are? the journey it takes you on? is the percy jackson and the olympians book series so good because it’s inherently realistic?
the secret to storytelling is, very simply, focus on your story. everything else is secondary. if it’s written well, it doesn’t matter to me that the characters walk into a trap that, to the audience, is obviously a trap. because i can understand how the characters don’t know it, and how the story falls apart if the narrative just tells the characters it’s a trap from the jump. that’s what dramatic irony is—first used in greek tragedies! this is literally a tale as old as time in every sense except for the end—where it’s happy. and it’s not earned if we don’t first see, over and over, the status quo as a tragic trap.
it’s not about if annabeth (or the other kids) is “smart enough” to not walk into a trap, or about if she’s just too prideful to not walk into what she knows is a trap (or any reason that could apply to the other characters), it’s that annabeth, at the end of the day, is a character. she is a storytelling tool for the messages of the narrative. that doesn’t make her any lesser. in fact ignoring it reduces her, because it reduces what she represents. it’s about how rick riordan, or whoever else at disney, has fumbled the storytelling bag so ridiculously hard that they can’t take the simple, effective formula outlined from start to finish (by good ol 2009 rick himself) and adapt it to the screen without answering the most unimportant, derailing, anti-story questions.
#one of the ppl who reblogged the og post said whatever happened to suspension of disbelief and i could have kissed them on the mouth#yes exactly#this new age of audiences who praise ‘realism’ over good storytelling i hate u#‘content over cinema’ i hate u.#i’m not even a screenwriter but any writer can tell you#we’re talking foundations of the craft here#and the worst part is rick already succeeded in the books#if it ain’t broke don’t fix it#where along this path did he lose sight of everything he set out to say?#anyways this is its own post now go forth and do with it what u will#pjo#percy jackson#pjo show crit#percy jackson and the olympians#pjo tv show#percy jackson tv show#annabeth chase#ris raves
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Someone Lied To You About Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
Or, maybe you watched a certain show he starred in. Or maybe you’ve only read his stuff post-n52. Hell, maybe you just assumed, that’s okay too, either way, one thing is for sure, Oliver Queen Isn’t Rich. In fact, he’s usually broke as hell and struggling to pay rent!
(Massive Thank You to @batphobique and @queen-lance for making this post helping me find/source all these panels! Literally wouldn’t have even half of these without their help)
Green Lantern (1960) #87
The original version of the character, practically a Batman clone, was rich, yes. Until in Justice League of America (1960) #75, the late and great Dennis O’Neil reworked his entire character, transforming him into a modern day Robin Hood, and, in aid of this transformation, had him lose all his money after a business rival frames him for embezzlement.
Justice League of America (1960) #75, Action Comics #636, Secret Origins (1986) #38
After that, and the cross-country roadtrip thereafter, Ollie struggled to find work, having a dwindling savings account, and barely scraping enough to make rent. He found occassional work as a columnist, and was for a time working as a public relations agent, though this didn’t end his money problems.
Green Lantern/Green Arrow #6, Action Comics #431 & #424, Green Lantern (1960) #100
This was all during the golden age for Green Arrow, when he was most active on the League, and during the beginning of his relationship with Black Canary. Odds are, if its before the year 2000 and he’s wearing his Neal Adams suit, he’s flat broke.
Action Comics #431, JLA 80 Page Giant #1, World’s Finest #210
It’s important to note, too, that Ollie wasn’t trying to get his money back, he was okay with making do, and even when given the opportunity to have some spare cash, he would rather have it go to something he felt was more important.
Action Comics #424, Green Lantern (1960) #87
To the point that, in a later retcon by O’Neil, instead of losing his money due to a business rival, he instead willingly gave it all away to war relief funds after finding out his company was funding war efforts.
Legends of the DC Universe #9
Later down the line, in the late 80s, Ollie would move to Seattle with Dinah, eventually working with/for her as an assistant florist and delivery driver. With the business from the flower shop and a coincidental big bag of money Ollie kept in his closet they were able to make ends meet together.
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters #1, Green Arrow (1988) #13, Black Canary (1993) #1
And that’s about the state he stayed in, until his untimely death-cum-resurrection, wherein he’d inheret the stately home, money, and youth centre of an old man who put his name in his will (no spoilers here, go read Quiver).
He’d continue to use the money to run said centre until the New 52 Reboot, where he’d be reverted to a rich guy, losing and reclaiming and losing and reclaiming his wealth over and over as each writer adapted him to tell their (often unrelated to his character) story.
TLDR: Oliver Queen is not the rich guy you think he is, he’s usually a broke socialist. Please read a comic book before talking about a character...please...just one...
#Oliver Queen#Green Arrow#Ollie Queen#DC Comics#JLA#Justice League Of America#he ain’t bruce wayne folks#and he ain’t a hypocrite for hating rich people he is not rich people#my pathetic broke man#seriously though this would not be a post without val and juh i cannot overstate how much my little comrades did for this#arrowfam
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Cherri: I’m a little low on cash.
Angel: how much ya got?
Cherri: nothin’.
Husk: how can you walk around with no money?
Cherri: I’m hot, I get by.
#I know husk ain’t one to talk with his broke gambler ass#hazbin hotel#incorrect quotes#incorrect hazbin hotel quotes#cherri bomb#angel dust#husk hazbin hotel#source: big bang theory
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If I had a nickel for every time there was a ship where two immortal characters (one grumpy and pessimistic and the other optimistic and in love with humanity) made a deal with each other, allowing them to meet throughout history, falling more and more in love with each other as time and normal human life passes them by, prompting a montage of their meetings (in the middle of the series) culminating in a borderline love confession, I’d have two nickels
Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that Neil Gaiman did it twice
#he said ‘it worked so well the first time. I think I’ll do it again’#and I respect him for that#if it ain’t broke don’t fix it I guess#copy/paste those bitches#crowley#aziraphale#good omens#ineffable husbands#dream of the endless#morpheus#hob gadling#the sandman#sandman netflix#dreamling
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My honest reactions of episodes 5 and 6 (part 2)
PART 1 : HERE
(‼️ SEASON 4 SPOILERS ‼️)
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Okay I just HAD to devote the full Alibert inn scene from episode 5 here CUZ WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT YUGO GOING BACK TO EMELKA!! I know I already mentioned Chibi and Grougal (as well as the tree Tofu tower) in part 1 but part 2 will basically be about all the rest of the inn scene cuz tumblr couldn’t let me have more than ten images per post (I know the site apparently lets u have more but I always use the phone for it so shush.)
But first, we finally get to see Alibert again after all those years 💕
Alibert. Sweetie. Baby. You can take care of two (technically four) kids with the addition of a freaking INN, you COOK for the customers, AND, ON TOP OF ALL THAT, you’re the MAYOR of EMELKA, that same place where you run the inn and take care of your adopted sons.
You do much more than just “taking care of an inn”, you got three jobs AND you’re still sane. You’re three in one, a whole package, props to you king. He’s such a boss ass man I love him 💕💕
NAH MAN
Not these ppl trying to avoid the inflation 😭😭 I don’t blame them tho. I would’ve said the same thing lol.
(Also is the wine a call back to Gustavio? Plz it would be so funny if the reason why Alibert is angry is cuz these ppl are saying how “bad” it is just so the prices can stay the same but also because he’s mad that they’re calling Gustavio’s wine “disgusting” even if they were all just trying to make him not raise the prices!)
Love how Yugo doesn’t say that same shit to Ruel after all those years of cooking for his ass and never getting anything from him.
Like even the whole Brotherhood calls Ruel a “cheapskate” but the only time where we see Yugo say that same shit is when he says that to his own CUSTOMERS?!?
Gurl bye Yugo’s such a silly little hypocrite!! 😭😭
OMG THE WHOLE FAMILY’S BACK TOGETHER!!
Adamaï get your stupid lizard ass over here.
It’s been so long since I’ve seen these two just laughing and hugging like this 💕💕💕
Also, Ankama tried being very slick with Az and his wife.
Nah cuz how can you not see these two and not think about Yugo and Amalia?? Does the thought never come to mind or what??
They literally give off the same energy, how did no one say anything before???!!?
THESE LITTLE TOFUS ARE OBVIOUSLY A SILLY PARALLEL TO THESE TWO AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME OTHERWISE.
Okay now the next part of the Alibert inn scene is very important to me so listen.
Recently, I came scrolling on @moths-are-better’s recent posts about Yugo and I came up on the one where he drinks the “milk” that was in the cup in the scene below.
But like-
@moths-are-better STOP LYING TO YOURSELF THIS IS CLEARLY WINE!!!
Look at all the other people drinking in the inn before they left: they all had that same kind of cup, insinuating that they were drinking wine (and also cuz they confirmed it was wine while trying to avoid any possible future inflations with Alibert).
I just love how Ankama deliberately shows us small scenes like this to remind us that Yugo can do adult things even though he looks like a kid. Because THIS is one of those scenes! Just look at how Alibert quietly pulls the cup of wine away from Yugo as soon as the guy starts ranting about his problems.
That’s clearly not milk lol I just love your delusions @moths-are-better 💕💕
But not only did this scene made me realize that nothing can stop Yugo from doing adult things despite how he looks, it also helped me realize that Yugo is the type to only drink when he’s having problems. We clearly see him about to drink more while ranting to Alibert before he carefully pulls the wine away from Yugo cuz he KNOWS Yugo would drink more just for that.
That level of attention to detail is amazing and I’m so glad I managed to catch up to the hints early on.
Alibert be looking like Yugo’s bartender AND therapist in just that moment alone lol
Ngl I would’ve loved to see a drunk Yugo if he had been able to drink more before Alibert intervened.
‼️ EVERYONE ‼️
👏 BE👏 LIKE 👏 ALIBERT 👏 ❤️❤️
This is making me wanna have kids too man….
His caring and calming attitude towards Yugo and the way he just treats him, cares for him, and acts like a responsible parent during all these years really makes me wanna do the same thing someday. Alibert is so good at his job(s) that he’s even beating a freaking goddess. Let that sink in. (actually any good parent like Alibert would beat the Eliatrope goddess’ parenting easily lol)
Alibert is genuinely so sweet, patient, thoughtful, and understanding of Yugo. Like even though he just heard Yugo say he finally found his true family, Alibert doesn’t take his words as insults and would rather just let him spill out all of his words to him.
When I said I missed these two like this, I really meant it. This inn is not only where Yugo was raised in but it’s also Yugo’s comfort place.
My ass knows this is foreshadowing.
It just knows.
Older Yugo where u at? We need to talk.
Ankama’s gonna ruin this family and laugh about it while eating some croissants.
#and that’s it. only two parts. i ain’t gonna write more parts.#now i need a fan idea concept where Yugo has Alibert AND Gustavio as his two dads lol#in an au where Alibert never broke up with Gustavio 😭😭#wakfu#ankama#krosmoz#wakfu reaction#wakfu reactions#wakfu season 4#wakfu s4#wakfu season 4 spoilers#wakfu s4 spoilers#wakfu season 4 episode 5#wakfu s4 ep5#wakfu season 4 episode 5 spoilers#wakfu s4 ep5 spoilers#wakfu yugo#yugo#yugo wakfu#wakfu alibert#wakfu chibi#chibi wakfu#wakfu grougal#wakfu grougaloragran#wakfu az
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Friendly reminder that Kratos BROKE THE AFTERLIFE for Mimir
#god of war valhalla#gowr#gow#kratos#mimir#he broke the entire afterlife dawg if my friendships ain’t like that I don’t want em#not mil#they are beyond besties dude#they are BROTHERS
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So Discord decided in all of their genius in their newest mobile update to drop the old, perfectly functional UI in exchange for the universally hated new UI. If you’ve tried it for a second, then you probably know how clunky it is. I haven’t touched it since it was first launched and I’m currently avoiding using it because I highly doubt it improved.
So don’t update Discord if you hate terrible UI design and maybe leave a review or complaint in their support because this just fucking sucks
#discord#mobile discord#how did they think this was a good idea#i haven’t heard a single positive thing about the new ui and they still force you to use it#i hate their change for the sake of change mentality#if it ain’t broke pretend it always was and impliment a worse option and remove the functional one entirely#fuck discord
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