#/not intended as negative

[pyrotation]

normal people who use sayings: that was great, it really hit the nail on the head!

sniper, autistic, doesn't understand or remember a lot of sayings correctly or takes them literally, special interest is his job: that was great, really shot the guy in the head!

[pangur-and-grim]

I do have good social awareness in conversations, but only in observing the results. if that makes sense? like I’m throwing stuff out blindly, but I’m good at judging whether it is received positively or negatively, and adjusting accordingly. I can see the pluses and minuses forming in their air above their head

[stars-obsession-pit]

Decimation

Some members of one of the GIW’s top-secret research facilities have made an earth-shattering discovery.

They’ve found a way to make half-ghosts.

The failure rate is high. For every subject they successfully convert, many more are left burnt-out corpses—or worse, as rabid undead that must be put down with force.

It didn’t matter. The test subjects were cheap, worthless. Their countless deaths were an acceptable sacrifice in the name of progress.

Their operative’ deaths when they begin the full plan… those will matter more. Their warped agents may be more dangerous than normal humans in combat, but legions of foot soldiers still have their place. It would be foolish to leave themself solely in the hands of ectoplasmic entities, even if they’re allies and still partially human. Recruiting and training enough replacements to recover the losses would take time.

But it will all be worth it.

Finally, they will have control of a strong enough army to bring their goals to fruition. Those inhuman wraiths will be eradicated, ensuring the safety of the real, living humans and opening up a whole new dimension of untapped resources.

[trainsinanime]

I should be sleeping but I just figured out how they could have drastically improved the ending of season 5 with very little effort: What if the fight between Bug Noir and Hawkmoth had not taken place in the kitchen, but in Adrien's room?

Even assuming that the rest of the script stays the same, it would have given so many opportunities. Being in Adrien's space, but without him, would give all sorts of thematic implications and make us feel like his absence was a deliberate narrative choice. Destroying it over the course of their fight would be symbolically destroying his prison, and also showing how Gabriel destroys him, at the same time (bonus points for destroying the prison-bar-like windows).

Plus, you could have done so much with the lighting. The Kitchen fight just doesn't look all that good with its black and white tiles and bright white light. This is especially notable because the episode before, with the theatre production, was the prettiest ML episode ever thanks to all the creative lighting.

In Adrien's room, you have more light and shadow and colors anyway, but you could have really played with bathing the scene in an evening glow, in a thunderstorm, or turning it to night slowly. All the people fighting outside could also have seen the light effects coming from there, making the fight in the house much more connected to the outside.

I'm not saying that would have fixed all the issues I had with the finale, let alone all the issues people have had with the finale, but I think it would have been a much stronger move.

[astronomodome]

Now I’m not really one to criticize minecraft rp arcs but the permit office/exile arc is odd to me because it creates these very interesting themes by having an authoritarian system incarcerating its political enemies and attempting to indoctrinate them to its cause…

but instead of going with that metaphor it’s framed as just one of those things that happens; the poe poe and no poe are themed as ethically equal and the exiles are doing an insanity arc (?) instead. Like I don’t think it would be fair to call it incoherent given that it’s an rp thing that each person involved can take in a different direction but it’s strange to me that they have this idea there that they’re not investigating in any way. Idk I shouldn’t have expected it to be nuanced but it’s interesting how this has played out

[corvidus-fr]

super quick musings on Fathoms. i like a lot about the pose + design, but i feel like they kinda suffer from Undel Sameface when everything about their lore is pointing towards "friendly gentle ocean giants". wanted to roughly sketch Merrigan for a side-by-side comparison, and then some rough doodles of how i might push the design in a chunkier, more cetacean-inspired direction - 3 is swapping the features but keeping the overall proportions/layout mostly the same, and 4 is pushing the proportions even further

[hiphopcherrrypop]

i'm obsessed with u in a way i can't believe

[anxietycheesecake]

"omg you're just mad the gays that you wanted to see fucking didn't fuck" is such a disingenuous and mean-spirited oversimplification of the issues people are pointing out that I'd expect it more from an homophobic reddit dudebro than literal queer folks on tumblr dot com, but here we are.

[revalentinee]

Pearl's finale made me feel so bad for her

Every full season since double life, she's tried to fast track her ally/allies to winning. She always outlives them.

She and Gem have been beefing this entire season. They were almost about to reconcile...

Even after trying to "finish what we started" towards the end of Secret Life, her and Scott finally had a solid alliance again. And then she had to mourn him.

She can't get kills. She's not even scary to people anymore. She was called pathetic and she went along with it.

in short,

[trainforanother1000years]

every time people talk about whats ‘canon’ or not its so obvious that little to none of mcyt fans have actually played/done roleplay on a minecraft server(or similar situation) themselves

Like girl the ‘timeline’ is whatever you want it to be for your character. Show up to whatever events you want. Maybe you play every day or maybe you log in once a month. Who gives a shit lol we are here to have fun.

and i very much think fans need to keep in mind this same mentality. Continuity is nice and good but also its whatever the roleplayers want their story to be. And no matter what continuity errors this could cause for the overall story I have genuine faith that these guys can Yes-And their way out of any situation. And for fans making fan content you can make the timeline whatever you want. The world is your oyster. Literally who gives a shit.

[artbyblastweave]

Fun game: Read Fables and take a shot of hard liquor for every plot beat or piece of worldbuilding with heavy right-wing overtones. Two shots for anything that's visibly meant as a parallel to Israel/Palestine in favor of Israel. Keep a compatible tissue donor on standby

[nicorobinphd]

stg, being an enjoyer of jane twdg is like being forced into an expert-level course on the way misogyny manifests in video game spaces.

god forbid a woman be complex or difficult or provably mischaracterized (see tags) at the end of her arc to service the culmination of a man’s storyline.

[cyberits]

defending oscar on twitter isn’t enough i need a gun

[kuroananosanji]

Sanji’s outburst towards Jinbe in FMI and Nami slapping Sanji in WCI are moments sooo misinterpreted by the fandom just to hate on these characters

[turbo-virgins]

people who say fans will come to love datv in time the same way we did with da2 underestimate my ability to hold a grudge

[anxietycheesecake]

Do you really think you are the main audience for this show and not just living in a fandom bubble?

No, I think season 3 and part of 4 paired with the posters parodying romantic movies that the official accounts posted and being purposefully vague about it being a will they won't they and the greatest love story in television history and comparing it to iconic canon couples from different sitcoms and constantly sharing gay fanart while getting queer rep awards and going on and on about it being "the gay vampire show" might have something to do with my perception of it. But sure, the fandom I've been calling delusional for three whole years and that I joined pretty late into my lifetime as a fan of this show surely is what got me having weird shippy thoughts. My bad