#( it’s so headache inducing. )

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

he's just a lil' guy who's never done anything wrong in his life Ever

[slaasherslut]

Simon Ghost Riley x SoapsWife!Reader

Simons heart felt as heavy as his boots as he stood on your front step. He had met you before, only a handful of times, but he remembered your face well. He had been here before. Your husband Soap was always one to try and outdrink the rest of his teammates. Simon had brought his friend home in a drunken haze multiple times while he slurred about how his pretty wife would laugh at him for being so pissed. You'd always thank him with a laugh and a smile as he handed Johnny over to you. Or how you had convinced Johnny to invite the boys over for dinner after they had fought together, saving him on multiple occasions, being his family away from his family. You were a good woman and a good partner. Good for Soap. Good for Johnny. Now he was standing at your door, alone, without your Johnny. He shouldn't be there. Johnny should be walking through this door right now and scooping you up into his arms as you cried tears of happiness. He was going to shatter everything you knew and loved, and he was scared. No tears of happiness would be shed today, only tears of anguish and loneliness. The wait between his knock on the door and waiting for you to open it tore his heart apart. He knew what he had to tell you. That your husband, the man he thought of as his best friend even if he didn't show it, Johnny MacTavish, was KIA. He had rehearsed it in his head many times on the way over from the base but the beating of his heart punched it out of his skull. You opened the door with the same bright smile that he had met years prior and his mouth went dry. Every inch of him ached. But seeing him standing there, and not Soap, he watched as you broke inside. Simon didn't have to say a single word for you to know. He had lost the words anyway, he couldn't bring himself to say it. One of his scarred hands reached up to grip the dark beanie on his head, pulling it off in a sign of respect as the tears welled up in your eyes. His throat seemed to swell up and his eyes began to slowly leak. Simon wasn't one to cry but he couldn't stop as he watched you collapse onto floor.

"I'm so sorry, Mrs. MacTavish."

[lamina-tsrif]

i think he’s a doom player

[wwillywonka]

☆GET TO KNOW ME♡: [5/?] Favorite Shows

Doctor Who (2005-Present)

Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone or because I hate someone or because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun, and god knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind.

[flower-boi16]

”you want everything to be spelt out to you!” “The show doesn’t need to explicitly spell it out for you!” “You can just infer it!”

This is the exact same defense I always get whenever I argue with Viv fans when I criticize Viv’s piss-poor writing. And the thing is this IS true; shows don't need to explicitly spell things out to the audience, as there are conclusions that the viewer can draw on their own without having to be explicitly told by the text, usually by the text giving direct hints to that explanation.

The problem is that Viv fans' definition of inferring isn't "drawing conclusions on our own with direct explicit hints given from the text that is the canon explanation the story wants you to come to" it's "making shit up to try and explain and/or justify Viv's terrible writing".

There are three times where I got this defense when arguing with HH/HB fans all three times I lost several brain cells in the process.

The first time was in a discord server where I posted an HB episode tier list and put Truth Seekers in C tier (the mediocre one). One of users commented on this and I explained my reasoning why I thought the episode was meh. One of these reasons was the plot hole of why the Dhorks didn't send the footage they already had to the government.

The user then countered that with "how do you know didn't send that old footage?". Well, the reason why I know that is because the episode gives no actual indication that they sent it, and when I said that the user countered that with "because there was also no indication that they didn't send the footage". And then after that the argument spiraled into both of us repeating the same counterarguments over and over again.

The user says that it's logical for the audience to assume they sent the footage because it's the logical thing to do cuz why would they keep it. Which, ok, you can assume that they did send the footage but there's no indication of that within the story. This does not change the fact that this is an unanswered question that the story itself didn't answer, did they or did they not send the footage?

That's a pretty important question to answer and the show can't just leave it there. And then the user tells me "you don't need to be told, Its in your face how they act". There is no way to infer if they did send the footage because the story gives a SINGLE hint that they do, and the story DOES need to say if it they sent it or not.

This is not inferring. This is making shit up to explain Viv's writing for her. Did they or did they not send the footage? This is a big question that the episode does not answer even though this is a major plot hole and it can't just leave it hanging there for fans to just guess. The episode gave no indication that they sent the footage, so I have no reason to believe that they did. You can't infer ANYTHING from this.

This explanation is simply something made up, not a conclusion that's given direct hints from the show. If the next never said it happened, it did not fucking happen. This assumption is literally just headcanon.

The next argument was from an ask I got calling me media literate for my point about how fans shouldn't have to create fan theories to explain Viv's writing for her and Viv should explain her world-building herself. It stated that the explanation for why sinners are confined to the pride ring (making the exterminations more efficient/easier) is the clear explanation that the show doesn't have to spell out because 1) The show says that there are annual exterminations which aren't viable without the confinement and 2) Lucifer gets control over which ring his subjects go to.

Both of these explanations suck, here's why.

The exterminations simply being there does not explain the confinement. Also, this explanation doesn't work to begin with as I've talked about before

Lucifer having control over where he sends his subjects to doesn't inherently explain why he sends them to the pride ring specifically.

The "sinners are confined to the pride ring to make exterminations easier" was a fan theory created by the fans to explain this because the show itself didn't bother giving an answer. That's bad world-building.

The show itself needs to explain these things rather than having fans create explanations for it. There isn't any way to infer that because the show never once gives any hints that this is the reason. And, like I said before, the explanation doesn't even work anyway.

There is no way to infer why the sinners are confined to the pride ring at all, this explanation is once again a headcanon. But when I pointed this out, the anon said that I just want everything spelled out for me.

The third and final instance of this is with our good ol friend truffhollowell. Ya know, the person who's been going around on Hazbin critical posts spouting nothing but complete bullshit.

This argument was under this post about why Vaggie's turn around made 0 sense. In the post truff tried countering my argument with "uuuuh, actually, not all murderers are heartless monsters!" even though that is explicitly what the exorcists are shown to be.

They then go around and say that Vaggie could've been thinking "how could a child end up in hell" and she realizes Heaven's corrupt systems and develops her own identity (at least that's what I remember them saying since they deleted all of their replies once they lost the argument lmao)....even though there is NO indication within the show that this is what's happening.

This is not inferring. This is just a headcanon. But truff says that you CAN infer it because...child murder is bad...

...umm...WHY TF WOULD THE EXORCISTS GIVE A SHIT IF CHILD MURDER WAS BAD IF THAT CHILD IS A FUCKING SINNER????? And THEN they hit me with that same fucking claim of "oh, you want shows to spell things out for you!".

Ya, well, guess what, I can't infer any of this because that's not what's happening. This is not what's happening in the scene, this is just a headcanon truff made up.

There's more to their arguments than just that but that was the general point they were making.

I'm so sick of always getting this stupid-ass defense because NO, I DON'T want everything spelled out for me, I want things to actually make sense. I'm looking at specifically what the text itself is saying, the information that it gives out and what's happening within the show.

Not your headcanon you made up to explain Viv's terrible writing. None of these explanations are people infering things based on direct evidence from the show. They are just headcanons/theories with nothing in the text hinting towards it.

So, to anyone who is going to give me the "you can just infer it yourself!" excuse to defend these shows whenever I criticize them...

Shut the fuck up.

[rassicas]

Hi!! I was thinking, what's your opinion about inktolings? Like I'm 99% sure they'll never be properly canon (due to various reasons including biology), but I wondered if you had any specific thoughts or headcanons about them. I'd love to know :')

in general, personally not a fan of the concept of hybrids in the splatoon world. if it were possible for stable hybrids to happen in a society comprised of so many species that have been intermingling for generations, i dont think we'd see the level of speciation that we do. it makes for messy worldbuilding.

inklings and octolings have had peaceful relations with each other for millennia and with how similar they look, i have zero doubt that some have tried for kids. but biologically speaking squids and octopuses as distant as cats and dogs (maybe even more distant than that, at least cats and dogs share a taxonomic order, squids and octopuses only share a class). the only way id imagine an inktoling to exist would be nothing short of a miracle, and would be sterile, likely with some kind of health issues. the sapient herrings in splatoon can produce hundreds of children and this likely applies at least to other species of fish too. for couples of different species who want children, i think there would be no shortage of children to adopt.

[sunglassesmish]

something happened at work near the start of my shift where a manager had to say like ‘don’t let this happen again’ (not to me specifically but i was there) and then around 3 hours later i went to get a drink and a manager has to sign off on it so a different manager was there, and he said when you go upstairs for your break, come to the office. and i thought well it’s no coincidence that he’s telling me today, i’m in trouble. and then i get there and he gives me an envelope and says a mystery shopper interacted with me in september and i scored the highest marks??? so i got 2 £10 gift vouchers for some shops in the shopping centre.

i was so shocked i thought i was probably the worst at my job and interacting with customers ?????! what the hell??

[arriettyspin]

Looks to me like at least an hour of footage was cut from Rise Of Red. The movie was so rushed it felt more like a music video than a film.

I distinctly remember Zellie being all over the promotion for the movie up to a few months ago. On IMDB she was the very first character listed, and deleted footage reveals she flirted with Chloe and sang in Life Is Sweeter!

What could've happened behind the scenes for such a major character to get cut out save for one or two shots where she's in the background?

[aromantic-diaries]

"my dysphoria isn't that bad I can handle wearing a dress" i say to myself as I feel the need to drink as soon as I put my pants back on

[pochapal]

sorry i've not been around all week but i have been struggling in the cruel and evil migraine hell

[i-sleepy-but-sleep-no]

Alberu: So what do you want? A gold medal? A higher title? Your own faction in the capital?

Cale: Money.

Alberu: For alcohol?

Cale: How did you know?

*later*

Alberu, buried in paperwork: *receives a check for 1200 gold coins*

Alberu: What kind of fucking booze-!?

[sweetfirebird]

to all those insisting Chinese food gives them headaches/migraines and that it has to be the MSG... may I ask if you are a soy sauce enjoyer? Because a) MSG is fine and in more foods than you think and b) it's probably the soy sauce giving you headaches. Delicious, delicious soy sauce is high in tyramine, which is known to give people headaches. (see also: aged cheese, cured meats, other fermented foods, and dark chocolate.)

[thegreatyin]

future and hide. go nuts

we'll go for the classic dynamic duo of the scoundrel and scientist, since they're the two OCs y'all are most familiar with lol

Future: What's the worst possible future for your OC? Are they taking steps to avoid that outcome? Are they even aware it's a possibility?

The Scoundrel has a wide range of things that could all arguably be considered "worst possible futures", because they're just. They're just so very Fun Like That™!!!!

Their original character concept is probably one that stands out the most- a Mr Cards that gets so proverbially high on its own supply it tries to climb up the chain and become a Judgement. As time has gone on and I've gotten more familiar with their character (and further into the game as a whole), they've drifted pretty far away from this idea, but it still remains a not-insignificant possibility. Especially with Terry encouraging their latent god complex at every possible opportunity.

Besides that, pretty much any future where they carelessly throw away their humanity is a "bad future"... such as the future they're hurtling towards right now. No matter how much they refuse to admit or acknowledge this.

The Scientist on the other hand. Well.

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He's doomed for a reason, to say the least. His worst future is a pretty open and shut case of that epithet coming to fruition, in every sense of the imagination.

As for fighting or even simply avoiding it, well...

...why would he ever want to?

He's entirely aware of what it is. And what it will do. He's actively working towards it. He's actively living for it.

Why avoid something when it's what you've pursued from the very start?

Hide: What does your OC hide? Why do they hide it?

The Scoundrel likes to think they're great at hiding how much they're weak to human emotions and follies.

They aren't. They really, really aren't.

In terms of ACTUAL secrets, as thoroughly demonstrated in the cufflink incident, they really don't want to be linked to the Yearner. To the point where they'll do almost everything to make sure nobody even learns of her existence.

Naturally, this led to pretty much their entire friend group finding out about their backstory in rapid and indiscriminate succession. Because the Scoundrel's life is secretly a tragicomedy.

The Scientist on the other hand... doesn't really have much to hide, in the traditional sense of the word? It's not that he's particularly honest insomuch as he doesn't care about people knowing his secrets. He'll hide them, yes, but if they get found he's not going to be particularly bothered about it. At most, he'll begrudgingly sigh and move on with his life.

That being said, he would prefer if his involvement in the creation of The False Yearner stays secret.

Not because it's shameful or anything. He just really, really, really doesn't want to unpack that suitcase in front of the Scoundrel.

It'd be a really awkward conversation.

[tubbytarchia]

I found my wife, Tails. I found her. And I'm custom HTML-ing the hell out of her

Yayy I have a working Tumblr theme again :) yayyy whahoo yayyy I'm never changing her again. I spent an hour finding and editing one line of script to make the text posts look nicer and I'm feeling like a hackerman (I'm dogshit at coding). So proud of myself yayy

[vertexline]

A certain someone isn't too jazzed about sprouting a third eye over night

[haganenoyuki]

sword nights 2024, part 1

months 1-6 of this year long journey