UNBOXING TIME

first card i see

Im so congested Im startin to sound like craig tucker

hi peoples i know no one will read this but. for anyones pleasures

-i had a rp blog which i have rudely abandoned i am so sorry to everyone involved with that i can come back maybe in the future but just. it was a lot too much at the time

-im about 3 months into the 5th chapter of mbc. i have. uqestions about formatting

-its so sick and twisted because i have no clue what happened with the 500000000 rp blogs ive been following for maybe over a year now

-come say hi im lonely andill try check tumblr more often

I know that we got plenty of options as to how everything with the Ender King is going to go down, but a thought that has not left my mind was the idea of the Ender King downing qPhil in some way and taking him away. Which means there would be a chat message for all to see :)

For example :)

I absolutely love when the dice tell a story for any D20 show. For FHJY its:

That Riz, is the most impressive investigator out there and his hard work does deserve to pay off. finding the rogue teacher, all these amazing perceptions / clues, cracking the case wide open and on a more meta level finally getting to see Murph have those sweet nat 20 moments.

For Kristen, its her taking ownership and working hard to bring cassandra back and putting in the hard work. Showcasing that her instincts are exceptional and she's the godamn best cleric out there bar none. And of course the dice always reminding us that Ally is magic.

Fig its literally tying the element of bad luck on a meta level until she realizes that Ankarna is the god she was seeking and reflecting the goddess who was literally builded over by her followers and seeing the good intent that was once there. And After so much anguish with the dice those 30+ music rolls and nat 20 insight into ankarna's temple. Just absolutely beautiful.

Gorgug, its literally making the impossible possible by becoming a full-fledged barbificer and then immediately becoming the most critical member during the last stand. And the dice going don't fucking doubt yourself, and rewarding Zac literally every round with astounding crits.

Adaine, its a settling into a calmness and who she is supposed to be. Literally being able to gift out nat 20s, the calm efficiency of scattering the party into better spots and not breaking a sweat. Siobhan literally being the slickest player every round with her arsenal of spells and portents. Just 10/10, no notes.

Fabian its showcasing how majestic and beautiful it is to connect fighting to dance and continuing to prove how much he has grown as a person. Him settling stuff with gertie, FHFY would never have done that. AND FOR LOU THE DICE ARE TELLING HIM TO STOP PERFORMING SURGERY/MEDICAL CHECKS ON CHARACTERS WITH TWO NAT 1S.

this is probably an unpopular opinion with the amount of "everyone is married with kids" type future aus people make for sonic characters but i cannot see sonic getting married or having a kid ever. if he did somehow end up with a kid hed be the worlds first transmasc absent father or however the joke goes

THE funniest take I saw about yellowjackets so far was that the ambiguity of the wilderness is "laziness" on the writers' part and that it is "clear" the writers "can't decide if there is something out there or not." Hello? Are nuance and ambiguity and lack of brightline answers engaging storytelling? No, it's bad writing. Did Jonas survive in the end of The Giver? Was Nick 's perspective trustworthy in The Great Gatsby? Was Will Graham a good guy? Are the characters in Squid game? Idk, it wasn't blended up and fed to me gerber style so I can't tell.

Is something controlling the girls? Are they doing everything entirely themselves and pretending it's something else because they are just evil? Are they trying to survive and they assuage their guilt with the idea that something is making these decisions, not them? Is it somewhere in between?

Thank you Lottie Yellowjackets for stating the fucking thesis, "Does it matter?"

so there's a VERY good chance that Wolffe is one of Rex/Echo's contacts/spies in the Empire. and S02E15 has evidence!!

i present to you, from "The Summit" episode, Barton Coburn. a face we've seen before in The Clone Wars series.

he is named in the credits as "Barton Coburn". he was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker himself, who voiced him in previous TCW episodes. he speaks up in favour of the clones. there is barely any reason to doubt this isn't the same Admiral Coburn from TCW...

yes!! the very same admiral who served with Plo Koon, Commander Wolffe, and the 104th during the Clone Wars.

Tech says he can find virtually nothing on Hemlock, and yet, a contact of Echo's knows about this super secret summit meeting on Eriadu and Hemlock attending... and Coburn himself attended that very same summit meeting...

fr tho @staff why are you trying to make tumblr more like other sites why are you destroying your niche in the market please there have got to be ways to make tumblr more accessible to new users without sacrificing the very things that your existing userbase loves

Luckily the "what if the SHARK impregnated our ray???" seems to be dying down and bigger news organizations have the corrected information in their articles, but I wanted to share this great blog post by marine conservation biologist David Shiffman that covers both the cool actual science that got overshadowed while actually calling out the facility for how unscientifically they handled it and for the fact that they doubled down (esp since newer media they've put out is softly backtracking and it looks like they're attempting to play it off as a joke that the news misreported. Nope. They put the idea out there like it was as possible as parthenogenesis while calling themselves scientists at a "shark lab")

From the conclusion:

Unfortunately, poor handling of this story has made it likely that we are on track for another year where the most-shared news story about a shark or ray is pseudoscientific nonsense, rather than about their dire conservation needs, their importance to marine and coastal ecosystems, or amazing new discoveries about them. As a longtime supporter of zoos and aquariums and the roles they play in public science education, I am especially troubled by some of the public-facing communications here. If your goal is sharing knowledge with the public, there’s value in gaining accurate knowledge about the subject yourself first. Sharing wrong facts is not “raising awareness” or educating the public, and falsely claiming “anything is possible, don’t trust the experts” is, to put it mildly, not helping the ocean.

It's a great article to drop in if the "omg shark/ray babies???" keeps spreading. Or if you just enjoy niche science drama. The aquarium world doesn't get much of that

i have seen alot about it on twitter but very littel here so im gonna mention it jsut because it makes me sad/angry how quickly people are okay with studios doing shitty things if they find a game funny enough- (take it with a grain of salt since i havent been able to do research on it on my own)

so recently a new game released called 'palworld', its a blatant pokémon rip off (or a weird mix of that with some shooter game idk) but with guns hooray, and i am not here to defend the giant that is pokémon (im well aware their games arent exactly the greatest lately) but plagiarism is plagiarism and not only does it steal from pokémon itself but also stole fakemon designs made by fans (the examples i saw were literally 1 to 1)

as other people have been finding out the owner of the studio is also really into AI, so its not out the question that its been used in there, and is also of the opinion that anything they see can just be taken, be it idea or design; the studio itself seems to be build around copying whatever is popular (the examples i saw were well .. pokémon, breath of the wild and hollow knight) kinda like those shitty copies of popular movies meant to trick parents into buying the wrong one

just now i also learned that apparently you can sell people into slavery in the game (people, not "just" the "pals"), cool.

its already made a big impact, half the streamers i follow are playing it to thousands of people and i heard it made millions in profit already, which, given how the whole hogwarts legacy bs went down, maybe shouldnt surprise me, but at a time of artist struggeling against being stolen from and shitty game studios releasing shitty games, betting on or already replacing artists with AI and still make billions, AND in dark times in general i find it especially disheartening

people are proudly yelling about not caring about anything off about the game or the studio bc they either find the premise funny enough or just hate pokémon so strongly they laugh and dance about the stealing, actively cheering it on and more

i guess i shouldnt be surprised by anything anymore after seeing people actively cheering on a genocide but here we are. (do not try to argue with me, i know what "inspiration" is, i know what "you cant copyright an idea" means, it either doesnt apply here or isnt the point, fuck off.)

calling tintin gay is ace/aro erasure. it's does jumin han is gay all over again. never showing interest in a woman ≠ gay

ik it’s probably a classic case of extrapolating way too much but... the way raph’s character design lines up w his whole arc and role and struggles...

like the fact that he is so so so much bigger than the others. raph is big, raph is strong, raph is steady and sturdy and he can literally pick up his entire family and carry them all at once. 

and like, when raph is so big and so strong and such a reliable thing. when raph is the protector, the one calling the shots on missions, the mother hen, the first point of authority. when raph is there, overprotective, when raph (for all that his brothers poke at him not being good under pressure) always always ALWAYS comes through at the end of the day when things are serious, ALWAYS gives it everything he’s got. 

his design and his learned role/behaviors in this family are just the perfect storm of why it took up to the season finale to drive home the issue.

so much of the series carries the default energy of “raph will handle it.”

raph will hold up the ceiling above you. raph will throw himself over you and take a hit and get back up and keep fighting. raph has a power that makes him even bigger and draws more attention and makes him able to carry MORE. raph will be the substitute parent. raph will be put into the mentor role through leo’s leadership arc. 

and raph is big. he’s built to carry heavy loads. raph is strong. raph is bold and loud and always ready to try to push on. even if he doesn’t know what to do or what he’s doing, he won’t give up and we’ll all pull together and things will turn out okay.

(his room is full of teddy bears. he dipped out on a mission to try to take a picture of a pigeon carrying a slice of pizza. he’s terrified of being alone.

he’s just as much of a kid as his brothers are. he’s just as new and inexperienced with the things happening to them as his brothers are. but for him, for some reason, there’s like this double standard where that becomes a huge glaring flaw.)

idk this got very sloppy and uncoordinated. i’m very in my feelings about raph right now though.

ive made myself more wet and pathetic

I literally cant imagine beckory any age below 14 because it only works if tony develops as a person and also if they're a bit older + gregory has had time to get used to having friends and family 😭 which is why 12yo default gregory is still 100% a family boy aka his new fam is all he needs for the time being