i didn't think it was possible, but i'm watching leverage: redemption and the hardison/parker/eliot polycule is polyculing even harder than in the og leverage

SALVATION IN A DIGITAL HEAVEN / CAUSE REAL LIFE IS HELL

here's a compilation of all the scenes removed from the HD release of srmt! I rewatched all 52 episodes twice for the footage above : ] sorry some of the scenes only have low quality uploads available.

there were over 50 scenes cut, nearly all of which were under 3 seconds long.

between all of season one and two, only 4 scenes were cut. in contrast, every episode except two of season 4 had content cut.

I made a doc here detailing exact episode timestamps and links for those who are interested vvv

(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0EKrektsJCwUWbeGkReCSkX-A1c8zc1Y3OqoXAdEko/edit?usp=sharing)

enjoy!

thank you for understanding that any vaguely escapist vibes in deltarune are a setup for *deconstructing* that notion. it's the pins deltarune sets up in order to knock them right back down in the exact same way undertale set up the notion of an rpg enemy. this is an *inordinately* rare take and i thank you for being correct always

thank you! i do think there's a tendency to read escapism as a theme into the game's events when it really just isn't there. the only time it tangentially comes up is with queen, who is pretty blatantly mistaken about it — she assumes that noelle and the other lightners use computers like her to escape from and ignore their pain, but we're given evidence of quite the opposite — look at the fervent searches for dess in noelle's room or kris' worry over when asriel might be coming home. (of course, that use is still a part of the cruel cycle, but i'm sure most of my followers already know that.) and she assumes the same of why her world exists at all — that it must exist to provide an escape — but it's pretty clear that's not the situation at hand, either. just because deltarune takes place in a fantasy-genre setting (as many jprgs do) doesn't mean it's automatically an escapist fantasy.

So close, yet so far.

Oh well, on to cheering for the next silver fox!

Reblog for bigger sample size btw :3 /nf

Just finished the fourth novella, someone hold me. Technically I know Murderbot prefers big jackets and tshirts, but I'm deliberately ignoring that in favour of silly anime outfits that expose its arms. The text is secondary to serving CUNT

I Rainworld-ified my OCs! Been playing that recently and I love it.

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Theresia - Iterator who turned herself into a lizard as an act of rebellion

Kasifer - Iterator dealing with dissociation after his puppet got disconnected temporarily and also killed his citizens and regrets it oops

Hadiye - Human who got isekai’d and turned into a slugcat

BYYYYY THE WAY AGAIN. I love love LOVE and adore evil Sun's use of "you're a dead one" bc it feels like SO MUCH TO UNPACK.

It could mean Sun believes Moon to be a non-threat because he knows this means he isn't effected by the kill code anymore. It could mean that Sun has deemed him unworthy of his time because he isn't the original Moon. It could mean that Sun can target him in the future because he knows that means it'll probably be easier to get under his skin.

It also just has this inherent vibe of like... idk, being a walking corpse almost???? Like, the sort of vibe of "the old Moon used to live in this body but he's dead now and I'm here in his place." It felt like Sun viewed the Moon in front of as a grave for what used to be rather than what is there now and that, in itself, says a lot about him methinks.

Like idk if any of this makes sense but it is so fascinating to me. If a perfectly functioning Moon qualifies as a "dead one" to him, who else goes under the same category? Does he view his own Moon as a dead one? Does just wrap any Moon that isn't the "first" Moon into that category? Is this a common category?? Can other people go under the same title or is it something he made only for Moons? WHAT DOES IT MEAN BOY...... AAUAGARRAA IT'S SO COOL IDK. CHEWS ON HIS METAL ARMS

That’s Pran’s dad

In case it wasn't apparent from my recent fic, I believe that a crucial element to writing Metal Sonic's obsession with Sonic is not hatred, but paranoia.

Sonic is capable of arriving at any point on the planet within a matter of hours, if not minutes. The only places of relative safety are Robotnik's bases, but even this is not guaranteed. Sonic can speed through conventional defenses, tear through walls, achieve verticality and attack from every angle, at any time.

And every time Sonic arrives, he attacks with every intent to completely destroy Metal Sonic.

. . . at least, according to the programming Eggman shoved into its head. Everything in Metal Sonic's processor, every scrap of personhood or sentience it clings to, is based on code written with a single purpose. The only way that Metal views the world is through the lens of this purpose. It analyzes locations based on defensive angles or potential resources during a combat situation. It sorts any person it meets into one of three categories: An Ally (aligned with Dr. Robotnik), A Civilian (irrelevant), or A Threat (aligned with Sonic). Its knowledge of objects is a complete toss-up depending on what info's been useful in the past to fighting Sonic- Metal only knows what a grocery store is because he punched Sonic through one once.

And Metal is always scanning, scanning, scanning the environment around it for any sign that Sonic might arrive. When your opponent is faster than the speed of sound, a half-second warning can mean the difference between continued operation or utter destruction.

youve hardly changed to my eyes

I have to make a post about this but the idea that two whole seperate guys (Will and Clay) took a look at Henry and were immediatly taken in by his apparently immaculate weird depressed dad rizz is hilarious. Like I think they're both enraptured by him for seperate reasons but it's so funny it happened twice.

Day 172 | id in alt

Being silly.

Having thoughts about sentience, inorganics, the inherent value of life, and the human factor because the way Transformers talks about it genuinely fucks me up sometimes

the inherent whatever of a finger prick