#For like two seconds

[notacluedo]

aaron minyard certified academic weapon

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bonus:

saw this on @mha-quotes-and-such and just had to draw it

[bestworstcase]

In general I'm far more partial to your thoughts on whatever Ruby & Yang's dad is up to than the fanon-consensus fall vault guard angle, though I do wonder about, say: Oz having the crown stashed somewhere outside said vault so whomever else is in on this could play keep-away with it. Of course that has no shortage of logistical drawbacks, though Raven sort of rejoining the fold does open up handy rapid-evac options so long as Salem doesn't catch her directly. Still, the 'dragon dad has totes noble rational Reasons, not that deep' conclusion does seem damn simplistic.

tbh i think the fanon presumption that tai MUST be guarding the crown is equal parts

1. the fandom completely failing to engage seriously with the (very obvious by now) factor of summer rose being alive – by which i mean, a huge swath of the fandom has grokked she’s still around in some capacity and treats this as little more than a trivial detail meant to twist the knife for ruby (and to a lesser extent, yang) in a shocking way, rather than, you know, the load-bearing pillar it clearly is in this given how her fate has been one of the central narrative questions since the beginning. which is to say that i think a lot of people are just brushing past the possibility that tai’s absence in vacuo is directly related to summer being at beacon, because they’ve either not added two and two to figure out where she is or they have but don’t consider that to be salient to the question of tai’s motives.

and

2. kneejerk backlash to the cyclical tai parenting discourse, with people who read him as a decent-to-good father getting defensive in reaction to the discussions that circulated after B4 revealed that his whereabouts are more or less unknown. it does in fact look Really Bad for tai to not be in vacuo for unclear reasons! which is why the subset of fans who read him as a good parent were predisposed to assume that he has a justifiable, crucial reason to stay in vale, namely guarding the crown. and then any other speculation on the subject of why he isn’t in vacuo was instantly conflated with the tai-is-neglectful reading and thence dismissed out of hand as "character bashing."

eyeroll. the point being, i think this defensive reflex toward tai resulted in a lot of people circling the wagons around the first snap assumption they made even though tai guarding the crown doesn’t make a whole lot of sense even if one accepts the fanon presupposition that he’s The Best Dad.

because he quit working for ozpin after summer disappeared (and to judge by the 9.10 flashback, didn’t have much respect for oz before that!) – we know this because,

it’s a notable enough change for ruby to comment on it when tai starts going on missions again; he’s been off active huntsman duty for over a decade, meaning he wasn’t taking any assignments from oz during this time (which is a point in his favor re: the question of his parenting and i think it’s really funny that people in the “good dad” camp were the loudest voices pointing out that tai clearly wants nothing to do with ozpin right up until the boba incident)

ruby and yang had no idea that ozpin had any particular connection to their family beyond having been headmaster when their parents were in school; they didn’t even know that qrow worked for him. tai kept him so much at arms length that he was just a random public figure to the girls.

tai is explicitly not involved in glynda’s effort to reclaim beacon, nor do port and oobleck seem to have any expectation that he should or will be once yang is back on her feet. they’re his friends, but there is zero professional or collegial relationship.

and frankly after tai watched his team implode and lost not one but two of his loves at least indirectly because of ozpin, why in hell would he want anything to do with that man ever again? did we forget him seething at qrow in v3? did we forget how palpably he wanted to just smack ozpin in IQ? hello?? if we’re starting from “tai is a loving dad who would move mountains for his kids” then i simply do not believe he’d stay in vale while qrow led ruby to round two with salem just because that’s what ozpin’s “in case i die” plan said he should do. like that’s flat nonsense.

the only way i could even consider that as a possibility with any seriousness is if i were convinced that tai straight up just Didn’t Care That Much about his kids, because that kind of coldly pragmatic decision-making—i’ll let my teenage children fight on the front lines while i putter around home keeping an eye on things for a dead man, because the crown is the most important thing—does not track with a man who gives a shit about his kids.

but i think tai does in fact care a lot about his kids, however dysfunctional the family relations may be, so like

the explanation that makes the most sense to me is that he figured out summer was alive and with salem in some capacity sometime in v2-3 and he’s been torn between the two sides of his family ever since. does he go after ruby or does he try to save summer? <- isn’t that a lot more balanced. a lot more understandable. potentially a lot more sympathetic, depending upon exactly what the circumstances are and how much he’s learned. for him to be Just Some Guy having to choose between His Kids and His Wife?

like?? i firmly believe that if the good-parent-tai crowd hadn’t immediately dismissed every other theory besides dragon-guarding-the-crown as hysterical character bashing then within a few weeks at most someone in that camp would’ve remembered that tai fucking hates ozpin and they would’ve eventually landed on “oh. duh. he’s staying in vale for summer” – because it is both obvious and casts him into a much more tragic, sympathetic light versus the stiff upper lip sorry kids it’s for the greater good crown guard angle.

[bubzterr]

really getting into the ‘raditz came to earth too’ au even tho I’m like 6 years late teehee

bonus

[hermanunworthy]

okay sorry i dont want this actually happen but. wouldnt it be funny if. after spending that time together in space. hermie was like nvm i like lincoln now

[vegetas-mustache]

Who else knew that Vegebul day is June 9th, aka 6/9? 👋

I forgot until last night, so have a super rushed vegebul fic!

Minors DNI, explicit smut inside.

[marvel-starwarsfangirl]

Resident Evil 8 DLC Review (no spoilers)

Just finished the RE8 DLC and I gotta say, at least for me, it was worth it. Now, do I wish we got our fave lords and the potential Ethan-Heisenberg dream team up of the year? Of course I do but I don’t see how they’d fit into the story so moving on. 

For starters, the dlc is actually pretty scary. I got chills playing it. The first half of the game has great tension and mystery that I really enjoyed. Evil Duke was very menacing and I’m so glad that he wasn’t a villain in the regular game. Can you imagine how much more difficult that would be (i dont want to 😭)? And holy crap I didn’t think the fetus baby monster could be topped but let’s just say there are definitely a few scares that come close. Whoever is in charge of the “what the ****” content, keep it up. 

I did enjoy playing as Rose and it is sad when you learn about why she’s doing what she’s doing. Capcom definitely can do more with her in the future. Speaking of, the end of this dlc is pretty emotional. I think most people know who the mysterious person guiding Rose is but man, I cried. This dlc really makes you appreciate the other games more. 

I think my only major issue (outside of not getting my Ethan-Heisenberg dream team) is that some of the animation is a bit wonky on the run and walk mechanics. It’s a tad distracting. But other than that, I had a blast!

[trashogram]

Bro there are really people out there that think the Mario movie was queerbaiting Bowser and Luigi.

I s2g this is just a mad house.

[shittlypostedpoetry]

Shove That In Your Dead Faces

I’ve listened to Emerson And I’m not impressed I’ve choked down some Poe And I’m not impressed I’ve suffocated on Irving And I’m not impressed I’m not saying I could do better But we both know that I can Emerson isn’t as open-minded as he says to be Sir, I’m sorry your wife is dead But that’s not on me Poe, Mr. Poe I think you need some therapy Existential crises really aren’t that deep Irving, how should I put this? You put the Sleepy in Sleepy Hollow Stop just describing food, I’d pay for like, a window The classics kinda suck I’m not saying they should be fun But I think they need some help And I’m really glad they’re done Emerson dug up his dead wife to see her after a year Poe married his cousin, I don’t have to say how that’s weird Irving, honestly he’s just that boring and Tom Walker is a loser The classics are boring But Shakespeare’s kinda cool Twelfth Night would be better though if it turned out really gay The classics are boring And enough about the allegories Someone write something interesting That isn’t a rehash of something old For once just say what you mean Communication is important The classics are dust Like the bones of those who wrote them I’m not saying I could do better But honestly I could

as always, shittly posted poetry

[chloesimaginationthings]

Cassidy loves to scare the FNAF night guards..

[fazcinatingblog]

Omg I know this one

Okay so they had Nathan Hauritz, Xavier Doherty (who lasted quite awhile until I think KP tore him to shreds) then Michael Beer (who lasted two seconds before the entire England team tore him to shreds and he popped up in big bash for a decent amount of time until Finch tore him to shreds)

Then in about 2013, they just thought stuff it, if we can't get one that spins like Warnie, what about we get one that looks like Warnie and they wheeled out a young boy with bleached hair taking Nick Riewoldt marks on the boundary in T20 matches and

That didn't last long, I think Lyon came along shortly after and the selectors clung him like a barnacle on a ship "please save us, we'll market you as a goat, the greatest off spinner of all time, don't tell anyone there's no other off spinners around"

The Warnie lookalike reared his less bleached head a few years later as more of a Bradman clone and the Test team was set.

[technically-human]

Payneland² 

[zalexetz]

haven't posted in a while, who is surprised (not me) anyways GHRGEGFAFSBTAHFSGSRE HOT DOOR WOMAN

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

[chibiveneficus]

i fucking love this show

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!