#Anyways ty for coming to my tedtalk

[dollerinna]

Very late to the conversation abt s4, but as a Noir girlie, I feel like this must be said 😤

(SPOILERS BELOW)

I did NOT like how there was little to no substantial development surrounding Noir this season. Instead, they reduced my mans into a comic relief character, which don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy sometimes, but don’t we already…. cough cough have the deep for that? cough

Like they could’ve done something so much more impactful with the og Noir, but noooOOO kripke just HAD to kill him off, and for what? Just for a few little scattered jokes here and there? Meanwhile this entire season has been an absolute uncoordinated mess???? ((Ik Kripke was planning to kill off Noir since the very beginning, but WHY?? 😭

I can see where they might be heading with a potential showdown between Noir II and Soldier Boy in S5, maybe mirroring the disfigurement of the og Noir or sth? But the way they've been building up to that so far just doesn't feel very compelling or efficient to me personally. it just feels they’ll land another lame “haha” moment for the audience and call it a day when it comes to that point

Impactful story arc? Nope- thrown straight outta the window

and yes I know Noir wasn’t even a primary character to the storyline in the first place, so it’s not like the end of the world or anything. Just take this as a nonsensical rant from a bitter Noir stan 🤠

[dreamlandgirlie]

y’all NEED to stop sleeping on glitch

the lyrics? amazing 😭😭

“ We were supposed to be just friends You don't live in my part of town, but maybe I'll see you out some weekend Depending on what kind of mood and situation-ship I'm in And what's in my system ”

not to mention the bridge???

“ A brief interruption, a slight malfunction I'd go back to wanting dudes who give nothing I thought we had no chance And that's romance, let's dance ”

screaming crying & throwing up

[lavampira]

chase your dreams but always know the road that'll lead you home again

[lavender-femme]

also for those of you who care i finally finished reading Harrow!!!

it only took me nearly a year bc my brain could simply not handle it but oh my gOD.

I plan on doing a gideon reread and then a Harrow audiobook read bc that really helped last year when I first read gideon and tbh the first half? 1/3? Of Harrow is truly a blur bc I started it months and months ago and only finished it a few weeks ago

but anyway just know I <3 my little femme bone gremlin and also gideon is the love of my life etc etc

taking a sort of intense sci-fi fantasy break and starting An Island Princess Starts a Scandal rn bc apparently it’s a stunning sapphic romance and ugh I need that in my life

[moredifferentthanusual]

I hate this attitude so much! This argument is stolen from disability and poc activists who have been asking for a long time for people playing disabled characters or characters from a particular ethnic background to actually be from these groups. You'll notice this actually makes total sense!

While not having scarjo play your poc is a good starting point, casting a chinese actor to play a vietnamese character because "its close enough for the white people in the audience" is still a problem. And casting accurately solves many many problems. Eg when your writer/costumer/set designer messes up the actor knows and corrections can be made. When they need to act vietnamese can.

Same goes for disability. So many autistic people hate shows about us because allistics are really bad at playing us! They can do stereotypes and act kooky enough to satisfy allistic audiences but like in the above example that means using us as objects while ignoring us as part of the audience. You have any idea how often we see mobility aids used dangerously wrong on tv? Or how often characters are supposed to have an illness but they don't have any of the symptoms! A disabled actor has symptoms! Their aids are real! And when things are depicted as real then we exist

But we don't have these same reasons for queer characters. Sure there is a queer culture, but crucially not all queer people are part of the community. There is no way to act queer the way there is to act muslim or italian, because the only thing we all have in common is being different. We come from everywhere, and we act every way. Some of us try to fit in with our communities of origin, some of us try to fit into the queer community. Neither way is right or wrong. Anyone can be queer and we can be anyone.

There are times when casting queer actors might make sense, like for a visibly trans character, but if they're not visibly trans cis people can do that. And I always like it when queer people are in things because give us money, but we can be anyone so anyone can be us

[smoreal]

There’s been debate about whether poems with references to pop culture are able to hold originality since they rely on the audience having the context needed to understand the poem…

But isn’t originality based on what is able to be separated from the rest and regarded as something new entirely?

I ask this question today to the jury in defense of my client, Mr. Kid Galaxy Sonic Plush, who has been debunked from his original title of Real Merchandise in favor of his now restrictive title of Bootlegged Sonic Plush.

Mr. KG Sonic’s attempt to imitate the revered Sega Toy Sonic X Plush has resulted in his manufacturing to the masses at a cheaper price for those unable to pay a ludicrous price of 100+ dollars for a beloved plush.

I hear those in the back shout about the plethora of sonic plushes and countless iterations of other plushes that mirror His likeness and are within a reasonable price. I rebuttal their cries with this:

KG Sonic is the superior to all of these, not only because of his cheap price, but in his near accurate imitation of the Sonic X Plush licensed by Sega Toys themselves.

His hands may be positioned differently, and his quills may be too short; his eyes may seem flimsy and there may not be any stuffing at all in his legs. But in his recreation of the aforementioned Sonic X Plush, I reiterate the beginning of my statement.

Originality, while based off of a product already created and well-loved, can still be attained through use of imitation and allusion to the past. It is in how the original product is constructed and delivered that it is able to maintain authenticity.

Poems with the use of allusions to the artists of their time or the Hobbit are able to stay original in that not many poets refuse to include pop culture. Therefore it is this usage that is able to grant them originality.

Bootleg sonic plushes, created to make a quick buck, but manage to stay within the likeness of the plush they copy off of, are original in the way that none of the more RARE and ONE OF A KIND are able to become. They may not be rare in quantity, but they are in quality. And I fear, my honored jury, that I will never find my client, Kid’s Galaxy Sonic Plush.

[0vergrowngraveyard]

Okay first…

Do you have a name for this au?

Second, what details can you give us on his backstory? Did he know Sonic before he got the implants? Who caused this experiment? And most importantly…what do the implants do?

Ty for coming to my TedTalk!

this is my tedtalk now

i unfortunately don’t have a name for it yet 😭. i honestly don’t have many ideas set in stone for this, it was just a little guy i drew up that was inspired by something i was watching. i am open to name suggestions tho!

as for a backstory, what i currently have is his parents sold him off when he was a toddler to a group of human scientist studying something related to mobians (a really funny way of saying “we want to run unethical experiments on your kid, you cool with that?”) for a large sum of money. they didn’t want their mutated fox kit, but this group did so why not just give him up? and for that much money, it wasn’t a hard choice

so no, he did not know sonic beforehand. speaking of the blue hog, sonic does know amy and knuckles and the restoration is still a thing in this au. how? idk, i just want it like that. it’s mostly there because sonic leaves tails with the restoration while they try to figure out what to do with the kid. sonic does end up taking him in, he just needs to find a permanent place to live first

the implants are what i’m stuck on. all i know rn is that they artificially enhance his intelligence, speed, strength, hearing, and durability. i’m debating giving him another ability (sorta something like surge and kit’s abilities but not something elemental) but idk.

maybe i have this more planned out than i thought- anyway yeah traumatized, clingy little guy who will bite if provoked 🫶 love him. also i did end up getting rid of the blue markings on his design so uhhhhh yeah. im still wondering if i should add more robotic bits and implants on him

[i-love-my-dorks-and-simps]

strange take but to me light is kinda mouse/rat coded

in the cat and mouse chase between him and L hes near always the one whos escaping L's grasp where as L more so hovers right above him waiting for the perfect moment to strike

the cat in this scenario being L and the mouse being light as L works more to capture and light works more to outmaneuver

L knows what light is from nearly the start and hes only waiting for the moment light can be held as kira with solid evidence

light is less sure but does his best to outsmart L in anyway he can, first in the scene with Lind L taylor and soon after with how he planned to get the police force to turn against him

though light does have some offensive attacks on L and vice versa, it felt like the majority of the time light was the one who was doing the running. L hardly ever needed to hide from light or try to shake him off the same way light does for L.

this also brings to mind the rat in the zodiac where despite the odds against it the rat still ends up winning the race through its ability to use its situation to its advantage to trick and evade as it pushes itself up to first place using the other animals to help itself

so no your honor hes not a catboy hes a mouseboy ty for coming to my tedtalk

[enigmaticcattic]

Truthfully? I think he's more of a Chaotic Neutral :3

He's literally Death, so he has a job that nobody is safe from (so he's basically Neutral by default)

However, he is not entirely as should be, given that he has not only a personality, but also, morals. Meaning there is something that he can't truly fulfill while being Death.

Be fair.

Since he LITERALLY hunted down a cat that didn't appreciate his lives despite the fact that it was against the rules, because he decided that he would rather do things his way instead of just let this gato get away with wasting his 8 lives.

Death is a concept. An end to life. An inevitable result from the age and wear and tear of our life. It's not supposed to have feelings like spite or frustration, and definitely not anything like an appreciation for the short amount of time in the universe that is life. It's only an ending, it's not supposed to be (or act) like a person. But it does. He does. He has those feelings anyways. And that, in and of itself, can be considered as "rule-breaking" in a way.

But despite all of that, he still does his job.

And although he isn't supposed to, he chooses to do his job incorrectly. Simply because he wanted to and felt like it was deserved. He would've come for Puss eventually, but took it upon himself to just end his life early anyways, despite DEFINITELY knowing that it wouldn't have mattered in the end. But it did matter. To HIM, it mattered enough for him to keep breaking rules even further, to break the routine for this one fucking guy who invalidated life so much that Death itself thought it would be just to teach him a lesson. And when that lesson is finally learned, although sad that the fun has ended and the game is over, Death goes back to his regular routine once more.

This begs the question: Is Puss not the first one? Is he simply one of the many hunts Death has taken in his pursuit of those who waste their lives? If that is the case...Death is certainly an unpredictable force of nature through and through.

Sounds pretty much like Chaotic Neutral behavior to me XD

The thing that makes Death a GREAT villain/antagonist is that he’s a force of nature that got upset and started behaving incorrectly.

His motivation is to kill Puss for being a cocky shit. Someone having 9 lives is ridiculous on its own but to have someone waste them like Puss does is just offensive, so Death stepped in to take his last life early for funsies. That’s how pissed off Death was, and he explains it very clearly in the crystal caverns scene.

Death is a foil to Puss. Yeah, he’s only there to kill Puss. That’s the point. He’s not a person, he’s literally Death. He’s the light at the end of the tunnel for Puss, but he’s running at him. He’s the one that forces Puss to change. He’s the one that makes his journey harder. The single only reason why getting that wish even matters is because Death forced it to matter.

He’s vindictive, cruel, and spiteful. That’s different from just being plain evil.   Him having rules he begrudgingly follows makes his “defeat” interesting. He can kill Puss at any time. Heck, he could slaughter everyone at the end. But he doesn’t. He’s unpredictable.

Also, the main job of an antagonist is to show the protagonist’s development. That’s why it’s called “antagonist” - they antagonize. Every one of Puss’ encounters with Death are direct catalysts to his character growth.This movie doesn’t work without him.

He’s a fantastic antagonist straight from a classic storybook.

[thebibliosphere]

Did you have any thoughts on the prophecy in the last few minutes of blood origin? The editing seemed to imply that Jaskier had something to do with it which has caused some grumbling from people who want more book accuracy.

The people who want more book accuracy have been grumbling about things deviating from the books since the games came out :p

Honestly, everyone would be a lot happier if they just realized we're traversing down parallel timelines that look similar but have their own stories to tell. We're essentially watching Wither fanfic with a Netflix budget. Would that more fandoms have such coinage.

Anyway, yeah, I do have some thoughts about it.

Spoilers under the cut!

So just to recap the last few lines of the prophecy, "the Lark's seed shall carry forth the first note of a song that ends all times, and one of her blood shall sing the last."

You get the general gist that Lark/Eile's bloodline is being referenced, and Jaskier gets to break the fourth wall a bit by quite obliviously going, "wait, what, who?"

The elven woman then commands him to "sing the song of the seven, Sandpiper, so the oppressed may find hope and strength and make ready for the great change to come," ensuring that Jaskier's voice is tied to how things end no matter what.

But let's jump back a bit and break things down some more.

Focusing on "the first note that ends all times," I believe that's meant to be a reference to Ciri's power. We've seen what happens when she screams; imagine what some training and time with Yennefer will achieve. Girl is going to end the universe as we know it. Again.

But wait, who is the "and one of her blood shall sing the last?"

Why, it's our dear bard, of course!

This implies that Jaskier is related to Ciri in some way, which I don't find all that implausible, no matter how much some people are grumbling about it. He's a Viscount, after all. And royal and noble bloodlines are so thickly interwoven in this universe that all their family trees look like wreaths if you squint. Sometimes you don't even need to squint. (and that is book accurate.) It's entirely plausible that Jaskier and Ciri are thirteenth cousins twice removed on their divorced great aunt's side. Or somebody had an affair. That's just as likely.

If anyone is still skeptical about this theory, Jaskier's nickname, Sandpiper, is also a type of bird, tying him back to Lark again. Lark is the bird that sang at the start of the world as we know it; the Sandpiper will sing as it ends.

It's quite heavy-handed, and I'll be surprised if the show doesn't run full tilt with it. It'd also let them handwave away why they forgot to age up Jaskier in season one. Surprise, elf blood!

Now, I know why people are mad about it because the person in the book who is telling the end of the story is meant to be Ciri.

But this is not the book series. This is the Witcher Netflix series, and they're giving the narrative burden to Jaskier, which IMO makes more sense given his tendency to break the fourth wall and that it's his voice we hear at the end of every season finale, singing through the end credits.

He is quite literally going to be the last song we hear as the series ends. It makes narrative sense to pass the burden of retelling the story on to him.

Anyway, thanks for coming to my Witcher TedTalk.

I'm going to be so mad if the showrunners don't do any of this and pull some complete batshit fuckery out of their arses as a twist.

[racketyoldtype40]

getting back into reading the edas i can't stop thinking abt how a lot of people say "eight is a different character in his disparate media (edas, comics, big finish) but that just... isn't really true, at least for me.

i read late 90s books and can hear paul mcgann like listening to a 2000s or even 2010s audio story.

people will also bring up his demeanor and whatnot and like yeah! characters shift across their lives! eight was a bit more actionable and brusque then went through the war in heaven. he was mellowed by the time he met charley. you can listen to him shift and grow and change across his big finish stories as well. all the while he's been this soft, aloof, silly, witty, romantic (in the classical sense), loveable goof with a serious duty, and so on.

and honestly that's way cooler!! because those sources had a singular movie to pull from for characterization (by and large; idk how much cross-polination there was of writers between the series) and mcgann's stellar performance. he came in, absolutely slayed in 90 minutes, and that one performance is carrying the character to this day and that's incredibly cool.

ANYWAYS tee hee read the edas, listen to big finish, etc etc even by you know what if necessary, paul mcgann slays now and forever ty for coming to my tedtalk

[aurorialwolf]

As someone who plays D&D (but not Baldurs Gate), in honour of the new reductive audio I'm gonna say what I think some of the characters would be

Might skip quite a few, I've watched all characters audios but theres some I don't think about as much, and theres some I agree with Probably no spoilers but maybe a little bit idk (writing this before I've finished so some might be the same as the video)

David: Paladin, Half-Orc or Dragonborn

Elliott: Wizard or Bard, Half-elf

God Erik shitting on Marcus will always be funny

Caelum: Gnome, cleric (he wants to help his frens :3) or ranger

Gavin: Tiefling, bard, no question about it

Asher: Elf, ranger or fighter

Sam: Dwarf or human cleric (for the healing aspect :( )

Milo: Dwarf or elf, fighter or rogue or sorcerer

Porter: Tiefling or high elf, bard or warlock

Anyways those are the ones i most thought about, ty for coming to my tedtalk

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[higgs-the-god]

hey............. vampire barney

dunno whether i want him to like. get bit by a new headcrap species or WHAT. bc if its a headcrab tht gives the suggestion that other ppl can also become vampires and thats. less interesting. really doesnt get whats happening n freaks out when he grows new teeth, cant go in the sun... cant stomach most normal foods.......... something small scares him enough to transform into a rat n he almost gets eaten.... someone picks him up n goes "wait. does this look like calhoun to you too???" cant properly communicate at first/at all in his nondog forms...... probably can kinda talk as a wolf....... uhh. bites his tongue and lips a lot esp at first, struggles to talk clearly w/o feeling silly. gordon absolutely studies him... sticks his fingers in his mouth... asks a lot of prodding questions..... makes himi eat gross headcrab blood.... i think in the comic above that can be like. barney refusing to eat from another dog bc its wrongggg or whatever n gordon more or less forces him. idk. logically he would offer a wrist or whatever. anyway vampire bites should be aphrodisiacal <3 ty for coming to my tedtalk im here all night

pondering him being crushed under a building from a strider blast n others so so so sure he didnt survive........... just for him to come back Relatively ok. and tries to pretend nothing happened totally definitely. unrelated i think alyx would begggggg him to turn her

[worldlxvlys]

ik everybody has been speaking on this but i need to aswell bc like the anons are getting out of hand !

(as a pale ass girl that is fully white) black girls are HOT ASF. and like every one ive met is always the sweetest, stands up for me, and always hypes me up if im getting ready for a date or sumn

why wouldnt they date a black girl. everyone is like “oh i js dont see it” and shit but like yall lets get real for a sec.

imagine chris in public holding his colored gf by the waist to let everyone know shes his. or the colored gf asking the waiter to remake his food bc he asked for no ketchup or some shit. it seems weirdly specific but it matches and yall know DEEP DOWN into ur broken and weird minds that they would date a girl regardless of her skin color .

and ive also been seeing people saying nick wouldnt date a white boy. its crazy

this whole “white people r better” and “black people r better” is insane. LIKE BFFR WE ALL THE BEST TF ?!

anyways ty for coming to my tedtalk! (srry im a yapper)

UH HUHHHHH

AND THAT’S ON WHAT ❓

[chososcamgirl]

okay but can we talk abt how much of a hypocrite/WHORE sjap megumi is if it's him she went to.... bc no way he eyefucked her at ONE concert and was like nah I NEED THAT PUSSY

anyway pls don't go back to sukuna's ugly bitch ass i can't i didn't sign up for a love triangle w him i wanted one w/ TOGE!!!

ty for coming to my tedtalk

LMFAOOOSOS dawn ur 100% right megumi is the biggest hypocrite ever (that or he’s totally whipped)

guys stop hating on my man kuna okay😠😠😠😠 he’s hot and beautiful and gorgeous… WVERYBODY WANTS TOGE THESE DAYS DAMN🤦🙄 /lh ig we’ll see tho :3

[the-path-to-forever]

VERY POSSIBLE BUT ALSO NOT EXTREMELY POSSIBLE RETCON

Long ramble up ahead

I'LL BE REAL HONEST WITH Y'ALL RN.....

I'm really unsatisfied with how Jubotsu is turning out 😭

And I really wanna change it but I REALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO, HELP???

I feel like my main problem rn is the cast

LIKE OK LOOK

I REALLY DON'T MIND A BIG CAST THAT'S NOT THE PROBLEM

BUT WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FIRST PROBLEM IS????

stares intently at the robot crew

LIKE

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF YOU IN ONE SITTING.... I'M DYING.....

AND THE OTHER NON-HUMAN CHARACTERS (1)

Like...

Umbra...

Mate....

Ik like- It's possible to make a story like this with this many non-human characters but for my setting in particular it makes- No sense????

Idk I'm tryna figure that out rn

Might just remake the whole cast but just keep their names or something like that but I'm really not sure 😭

What am I doing ....

Help...

Oh yea also the fact that Shin is like....

Really out of place for some reason?

He's supposed to be like the MAIN main character but he doesn't look like he belongs in this universe/story....

A lot of the characters are like that actually-

It's confusing me and I'm the one who made this shit 😭

The cast don't look like they'll talk to each other too like

I try to make character interactions besides the already established crew (robo crew, the Kagami sibs with Kaneko, Kyouya, and Tsuki, Sail crew (Chiha, Tetsuya, and Ua), etc etc) but it ain't clicking.....

So anyways that's my thought process for now

Ty for coming to my TedTalk