#I knew it was genius

[skylathescholarly]

I have messed up. I have looked up one of my childhood shows on Ao3.

Tell me why I wanna write Transformers: Rescue Bots fanfiction. Tell. Me. Why.

[sunflowershark]

“broken builds” this. “use the orb” that. you fools. the true best strategy to beat honour mode is to encourage safer and smarter decisions throughout your adventure by roleplaying as none other than faerun’s central authority on occupational safety and workplace accident prevention legislation

[dreams-cynicism]

Something so raw and bloody and painful about the physical embodiment of war making the decision that winning is worth sacrificing the very lives and existences of her children, especially when we’re reminded by Asa that this option has always been there

[vryfmi]

so, you're telling me, Bill Cipher, a second dimensional being, destroyed his home dimension (2D) and the only thing left of it kept in his hat. kept a few atoms, a single speck, one might even say, a dot, in his hat. you know what's also a dot? zero dimension.

you're telling me, in his attempt of liberating flat minds, saving people, Bill Cipher degraded it and all living to the lowest dimension there is. a dot. an atom.

are you kidding me

[id from alt text: a page from The Book Of Bill, it has a dialogue between Stanford and Bill. "I guess you can never really go home again, can you?" "I sure can't! My dimension was entirely burned out of existence. Wanna see the only thing left of it?" Cipher removed his hat, and plucked a single speck of dust from within. The last atoms of a demolished reality. I was dumbfounded. "What? your ENTIRE home dimension? destroyed? How? By what?" Bill looked distant, more distant than I'd ever seen him. "By a monster." "That's… that's unimaginable. Did you ever track this beast, for revenge? I could help you… I could hunt it down!" He laughed joylessly. "Sixter, it would eat you alive." page also features a drawing of Bills hands: one holding his hat upside down, another holding a speck between his thumb and index finger./end id]

photo by CloverChatsYT on twitter

[dephoraowo]

Lan Wangji and a List of his Fanon Tropes

For some reason, Lan Wangji is also misunderstood by the fandom. Luckily, he isn't that badly misunderstood as Wei Wuxian is 😅. Here is a list to help you understand Lan Wangji, one of the best characters in mdzs, better.

List of Fanon Tropes:

Lan Wangji only loves once. Side note: This can apply to all the Lans.

Lan Wangji is repressed / struggles to express himself.

Lan Wangji has a speech impediment.

Lan Wangji adopted A-Yuan as his son.

Lan Wangji mourned Wei Wuxian or played for Wei Wuxian for 13 years. (+ this, this, this.)

Lan Wangji saved Wei Wuxian in Nightless City because he loved him.

Lan Wangji learned how to be righteous from Wei Wuxian. (+ this, this, this, this, this.)

Lan Wangji wore mourning robes after Wei Wuxian died.

Lan Wangji is Chief Cultivator.

Lan Wangji loves Wei Wuxian, even more than his own morals. (+ this.)

Lan Wangji confessed to Wei Wuxian after saving him at Nightless City.

Lan Wangji cares about his own reputation. (+ this.)

Lan Wangji expects Wei Wuxian to return his feelings.

Lan Wangji is a stickler for all the rules.

Lan Wangji fought his clan elders in a cave in the Burial Mounds. (+ this.)

Lan Wangji isn't that smart.

Lan Wangji’s family approved of Wei Wuxian.

None of these posts belong to me. Please support those who have written the posts. As usual, if there are any more fanon tropes about Lan Wangji, please do tell 😁.

[regallibellbright]

I’m not sure what I find funnier: That Klaus built a clank to try and prevent the ot3 forming, or that Gil stuck said anti-ot3 clank in the timestop so she couldn’t, literal real world years ago, and it never came up until now.

[the-tortured-apollo-department]

It's been a while since i talked about The Trials of Apollo! 😛

A very good scene in the 2nd book came to mind, which is when Apollo realizes he should have brought tater tots to distract the thousands of snakes in Trophonius's cave 🐍👹

As a reader, this part left me paralyzed.

I think it was the first time in the books that someone didn't have all the materials for a mission... And that led to one of the most BEAUTIFUL moments of this series, which was Meg singing to save herself and her friend from death

A simple action that took the character (and the reader) out of his comfort zone and forced him to improvise

THIS IS CINEMA 🙌

[evilkitten3]

i have a theory about shinji, gin, and aizen, but i'm not really sure how to word it.

we never really see shinji and gin interact all that much, which makes sense bc both of them have significantly more important relationships with aizen, but at the same time it's a little odd how much there isn't.

like. gin cut hiyori in half. shinji is understandably pissed about that, but he aims that anger at aizen - and this seems to be one of the very few things in the bleach world that honestly isn't on him bc he never told gin to do that, he never even implied it. hiyori was never a threat to him. hell, we don't even know if she was charging in the right direction; if anything, attacking her implies that she was which is a really stupid thing to do when you're surrounded by a bunch of people who super want you dead and would kill you if they could be sure you weren't tricking them into stabbing each other (ofc it could also be a fakeout but still)

but i don't remember shinji's beef ever really being with gin, even tho he didn't seem to anticipate that gin was working with aizen the whole time during tbtp. so like does he feel responsibility there? cuz gin went straight from academy to 3rd seat and shinji could plausibly feel like that sent him right to aizen bc he doesn't know that gin was always aiming for that. did he blame himself? does he feel like he should've seen it coming? does he still see him as some weird genius kid? does he just view gin as an extension of aizen, which is both dehumanizing to an extent but also entirely fair bc gin did that to himself?

the thing is, since we never really see them interact much, it's kind of only interesting on shinji's side of things, bc gin doesn't really care about much outside of whatever the fuck he thought he was doing and the version of rangiku that he has in his head who needs back something that the real one doesn't ever seem to have realized she lost to begin with. gin's so disconnected with basically everybody that most of the time you can usually assume his thoughts are just "lol. lmao" and there's no reason to think that doesn't extend to shinji as well (gin has deep thoughts on: aizen, ichigo, and matsumoto (massive asterisk on that one ofc) and i think everyone else is kinda set dressing to him lmao the guy is Fucked Up)

anyway i think it's interesting to toy around with that relationship as it was in reality as well as how it might've been perceived, but also in the sense of both of them being sort of opposite ends of the manchild spectrum - shinji leans into his childish side but still has a fairly adult worldview, and gin is able to pull off maturity to an extent but was never able to escape a deeply childish mindset

[triglycercule]

sleep deprived dust can't recognize what's dream and what's real when he goes in and out of consciousness so i think dust is allowed to be incredibly reckless when he's awake but thinks he's in a dream. he will kill whoever passes by him (or attempt to. for him it's an instict to shoot bones anyways.) he will drink 4 bottles of alcohol just because he thinks its just a lucid dream. have incredibly loud conversations with phantom paps because he's asleep so nobody will hear him talk. or just have loud ass breakdowns because again he thinks he's asleep!!! nobody's gonna know what he gets up to in his dreams. and until someone (probably phantom paps) tells him that he's not asleep and this is reality he won't realize until he's done something really reckless

horror is seconds away from exploding dust's skull open with his magic while dust is trying to strangle him and FINALLY phantom paps tells him he's awake and dust snaps out of it. killer is walking around the house with bones sticking out of him like pins on a sewing pattern (casually too. another day in the life for him) and he just asks dust what that was about. dust just gets off of horror and shrugs his shoulders with an idk. and then walks away. this is the 6th time its happened this month

[lizasweetling]

Alas. This Guy.

Suddenly half convinced the reason the Geisters like this guy is that they're a whole race of spunky girl sidekicks

[leletha-jann]

All right, kids and kittens, it is CONSPIRACY THEORY ON NO REAL EVIDENCE TIME

The question of the hour now is not "is Klaus still in the timestop?" (NOPE, WE KNEW IT, KLAUS IS SO GONE), but "who's giving the Black Squad these orders?" Who wants Klaus back in play but under control, and has the ability to exert that control, and wants both Gil and Agatha specifically out of the picture?

Because it can't be Klaus. Klaus went to great lengths to put himself in the timestop and out of reach so that he couldn't carry out whatever orders Lucrezia/Lunevka had given him. This is not a Klaus contingency plan.

(A Klaus contingency plan would be having a second timestop bomb in his pocket, which, uh, would have been bad.)

So damned if this doesn't sound like probably Zola, who at last count:

zapped the Black Squad out of the picture in the first place

is the most likely to have retrieved them

has ambition to spare

possibly can command revenants?

was mentioned recently

and is suspiciously missing

BUT

you know what

you know what

My question is "Who's running Zola?" and I suspect the mastermind behind this is

Princess Terebithia

Yes. Grandma. The power behind the Valois dynasty.

who was also mentioned recently, is also suspiciously missing, and was last seen not only with Zola, but calling the shots...

She's also terrified me from her very first appearance. This woman makes me bristle like a spooked cat.

Terebithia is one of those characters who, if they were my protagonist, I would be cheering for every second as they absolutely wrecked everyone's everything. If this was her story, I'd be making popcorn and cackling. If this was her story, I'd be crazy about her. Since she's not my protagonist, and I don't trust her an inch with any of the characters I love, she scares the hell out of me.

Also? This panel.

Gil is a problem to be dealt with. Agatha is a problem to be dealt with.

Tarvek is not listed as a problem, nor does the Black Squad (that we know of) have orders to deal with him. If this is Terebithia giving orders for Zola to issue, I suspect that Terebithia might very much want her grandson dragged back by the scruff of his neck again, since she did not endorse Seffie shuffling Tarvek off to England that one time. (And if Zola was giving orders on her own, I doubt she's forgotten Tarvek beating her half to death with his bare hands back in Castle Heterodyne. Oh no, she would not have forgotten to give orders about him.)

Yeah. Uh. If we're looking for a master manipulator with a lifelong history of successfully giving orders behind the scenes...who'd be absolutely delighted to have her hands on the bits and bridles of various power players, including Klaus Wulfenbach...who's suspiciously missing but with a convenient recent reminder...and who was last seen acquiring the woman with a captive Lucrezia copy in her head AND the power to command revenants...

I have not forgotten about Terebithia.

Now this one, I'd love to be wrong about, because - as mentioned - Terebithia scares me.

[profounddefendorcrusade-blog]

This game reminds me that life ain't fair...

...but also that people like Clover exist

And even more than that, it's thanks to uty that I want to be Clover for others

[jcams88]

EVERYONE SAY THANK YOU CAROL CUTSHALL FOR HER BRILLIANT BRILLIANT MIND THAT NEVER MISSES

[lessnearthesun]

People who complain about The Catcher in the Rye’s narrative voice (ie Holden’s) miss the point SO completely, it boggles my MIND. Like no shit Holden isn’t going to be using purple, poetic prose ala Nick Caraway in Gatsby. He’s a 17 year old boy, who isn’t a writer. It’s a testament to Salinger’s genius that he was able to create such a compelling, lasting story through the eyes of a narrator who isn’t literary. I understand finding the style grating because it can be hard to get used to, but acting like it makes no sense or is just Salinger being a bad writer is insane

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

using “we hereby conduct this post mortem” as promotion leading up to the album, from a song where she herself was trying to figure out how it ended, knowing full well everyone was hoping to hear every gruesome detail about how it ended…… genius

[littlefankingdom]

Jason should have pull a "Mamma Mia" The Musical and invite his three potential mothers to a Wayne event with a letter signed Willis Todd, and he wouldn't have died.