Stiles: Derek, can you get Peter off my back? He keeps bugging me about that stupid solvent. Derek: Oh, there is no solvent. He was being such a pain that I told him water wouldn't wash it out. But it really will. Stiles: So you had Peter running all around town in gold paint? That is so wrong. Why didn't you tell me so I could enjoy it?

Boygenius at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport shot by Mikayla Lobasso!

If this has been done then I'm sorry for beating a dead horse. Or a dead. Assless twink.

hey just fyi i updated, organized, and removed broken links from the resource guide i made a while ago! it's originally from the resource dump channel of the spn amv editors discord, but it's got helpful stuff for any spn creators (editors, gifmakers, meta-writers, fic writers, etc) and any video editors from any fandom! Here's the link, and here's a lil info on what kind of stuff you'll find on each page:

General Resources - links useful for amv editors from any fandom. things like tutorials, overlay packs, and software downloads.

SPN Scenepacks - big list of links to downloadable scenepacks sorted by character, ship, and season

SPN Episodes, Clips, & Deleted Scenes - what it says on the sign.

Other SPN Resources - various links to spn-specific resources like timelines, transcript search, the amv archive, etc!

anyway, i am asking that you please do not post the link to this drive elsewhere, and especially not on other websites (cough the bird one cough)!! pls keep it on tumblr <3

Lies of P could exist in Yoko Taro's Drakenier universe, and no one would even notice it being anywhere out of place

*smacks my string conspiracy board*

WHITE CHOLORNATION SYNDROME

FOURTH & GEMINI for Rabenda Magazine Issue No. 9

tempted to make a video about how Eggman's violence towards kids persists and that he doesn't have the moral limit that fandom likes to imagine he has now against characters as young as 6/8 like Cream and Tails because that was never the case before or after Sage came about

also the point stands and is proven by Eggman's violence and attempt to kill most characters as they're generally kids already but people don't think it seems to matter until they're as young as Cream or Tails Idk. so it'd focus on them specifically for the most part, otherwise if I were to compile literally everything it'd just be like the whole series and 10+ hours long loool

does anyone have the 2005 Alt Press Ghostbusters-style photoshoot images because i want to rb the pictures but instead I found scans of the entire article and I actually can't justify reblogging that when I'm trying to be sillygoofy about Halloween costumes

Peter: Ooh, a sex dream. How was I? Stiles: Absent.

My best friend's 2nd campaign(The Passing) experience in a nutshell

((I'm the Ellis, he's the Nick while our other friend is the Rochelle lol

Hate it when a piece of media is centered around a specific Ethical Debate and not one of the characters has or even brings up your position

You have a very specific opinion on this argument, you don't side with any of these people, and the writers seem to be completely overlooking the obvious answer

logging off forever and taking this whole website with me. it's been an honor mass hallucinating destiel with you all

please write that essay

I assume based on your timing that this ask is in reference to this post, in which case I'm sorry it took me a couple days to get around to answering! This is not gonna be super well-organized but here are my thoughts:

The lore tidbit about c!Quackity actually having WON the bet with Glatt is literally the best possible way that whole situation could have gone. It’s such a solid storytelling move and I respect cc!Q to the moon and back for confirming it, both because I think c!Q's actions after having won the bet are very in-character for him and also because this option is, simply put, more narratively satisfying than the alternative. I'll explain why I think that.

c!Quackity's whole character arc is about belonging and agency and, importantly, how the pursuit of those things can go wrong. When he first joins the server he struggles to find somewhere to belong and gets used by others. His later attempts to exercise agency in order to foster his idea of a safe and stable community (yes, I'm including Butcher Army here) largely end in disaster. So eventually, Q establishes his own country, his own place where he can control every potential element and risk factor, but arguably he does so at the cost of love and friendship and community, the things he wanted to foster and maintain and protect in the first place. His defining fears about community safety eventually become reduced to fears about personal safety. To me, it’s a very clear negative character arc. When Q makes the bet with Schlatt’s ghost and ends up torturing c!Dream for the revival book, the audience are led to assume it’s because he lost the bet and is still beholden to Glatt in this one final way.

The exact nature of his and Schlatt's relationship prior to Schlatt's death carries some degree of ambiguity, but it's pretty widely interpreted as an abusive romantic relationship, and I'd argue that canon supports this interpretation. They were engaged following the Manberg coalition, and we know their relationship was increasingly rocky during this period. If you subscribe to this particular interpretation of their relationship (which I do because again, I believe canon supports it), then this adds a certain weight and gravity to Q's bet with Schlatt's ghost. The bet becomes a horrible postmortem extension of this toxic relationship that has deeply left its mark on c!Quackity, and Q losing the bet puts him in a vulnerable position both psychologically and literally. He is still beholden to his shitty ex, despite having put him in the fucking ground. That's a powerful motivation to get the book and be done with Glatt forever --- so it makes sense that when Q started torturing Dream for the book, many viewers automatically assumed it was because Q lost that bet.

Personally, I never really liked that assumption, because I feel it lets Q off too easy. It's too convenient an excuse. It dismisses the horror and cruelty of Q's deal with Sam by allowing Q the plausible deniability of desperation, characterizing the torture as his final desperate attempt to escape Schlatt's legacy, i.e. “My abuser made me do it, I’m still being threatened and coerced, I’m not culpable for my own actions!” (Which isn't even a justification that c!Quackity himself would ever use, so it's frustrating to see viewers fall back on it. The c!Quackity woobification in this fandom is much worse than the c!Dream woobification but let's leave that discussion for another day.)

But then (BUT THEN!!!) we find out that no, c!Quackity didn't lose the bet, he actually WON. He didn't want that book for Glatt, he wanted it for himself. He tortured Dream for this reason and because he enjoyed torturing Dream, and it’s an amazing anti-reveal because it pulls the rug out from under you but it also makes perfect sense given the sort of person we’ve watched Q becoming over the course of the past year’s worth of lore content. It’s about cycles of violence! In a story that has been about cyclical violence from the beginning, this is a natural conclusion for Q's character arc. DSMP is a story about building as an escape, and escaping what you've built. And ironically, this reveal makes c!Quackity a perfect foil to c!Tommy because Tommy is an abuse victim who, in a lot of ways, strives to be better than his abuser (hello I realize this is a controversial opinion but whatever this is my post) and Quackity is an abuse victim who intentionally strives to out-do his abuser.

Finally, Q winning the bet with Glatt is like, the only option that carries any kind of narrative catharsis. Because if he’d lost the bet, it means that despite Q's tireless efforts to gain agency, he never truly succeeded and is still being used as a pawn. Which is boring imo! It’s literally “area man ends up exactly where he started," which can be a compelling arc but it's not the most compelling possible arc for this particular character in my incredibly biased opinion. Whereas Quackity having won the bet gives his character arc direction. The arc then becomes “area man strives against all odds to achieve agency, succeeds, forfeits humanity in the process.” Area man escapes cycle of abuse only to perpetuate it. Which I personally like because I think it's interesting!

It may not be an uplifting arc, but it’s an arc! It starts in one place and ends up somewhere else. It has momentum! Even though this reveal technically reflects “poorly” on Quackity’s character (idc lol he will be my forever babygirl no matter how many times he violates the Geneva Convention), it’s a plot twist that respects his character so much more than the alternative. There's only so far you can take a story about a guy being powerless. It's much more fun to tell a story where the powerless guy finally attains the agency he always wanted, but at a great personal cost.

(Coincidentally, this is also the reason I wish c!Wilbur's finale stream had ended not with him leaving c!Tommy but with him asking Tommy to accompany him to Utah and Tommy rejecting his offer. But I digress lmfao I'll be bitter about that storytelling decision on my own time)

Anyway, I think @elmhat phrased it really well when they said "We care about Quackity because of his choices." Not just what happens to him, but how he decides to react.