#I seriously didn’t expect this

[holdinbacksecrets]

[keferon]

*clasps your shoulders gently and looks you straight in the eye*

Keferon. Please read Ninth by Kyn on AO3. I think you would love it very much. It has a large chapter count, but don't be intimidated, it's very easy to get into. It is currently unfinished, but is being updated regularly.

You are the seventh person that recommended this fic to me so ahahahaha yeah

I’m doing great Help I hate some parts of it but I love the other parts I’m spinning in the blender

…..I made the moodboard….

[skyenish]

JAMIL VIPER HALLOWEEN SSR I LOVE YOU IM ON MY KNEES FOR YOU YOU’RE PERFECT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOU DESERVE THE WORLD

The other cards are neat too

[shima-draws]

Watched the MLB movie and I just. I WANT to gush about it but the fact that Marinette’s regular voice actor and her singing voice actor sound SO different just took me out of it every time and left me feeling very disengaged;; At least Adrien’s singing voice kind of sounds like his speaking voice (and Gabriel’s is 👌 bc my king Keith Silverstein can actually sing and he can sing REALLY fucking well) but Marinette’s. The voices are COMPLETELY different and it threw me off every single time. Like obviously her singing voice is really good and I understand why they picked that person to do her songs but bro you could have at least TRIED to get someone that sounds similar to Cristina Vee. It drove me nuts every time she sang bc I was like “That is CLEARLY a different person entirely!!”

I’m realizing this might have been a dubbing issue but still 😭 I feel like I would have enjoyed the movie way more if it didn’t look like Marinette was lip syncing the entire time bc there was such a huge disconnect between her speaking and singing voice

[bardly-working]

Why did all the X-Men suddenly get supremely stupid?

Why did…

Xavier think that splitting the team in two and mind controlling Magneto was a better option than, like, saying “hey, the sentinels are still active actually so if you do still care about the few mutants left you should help with this”?

Logan go for a killing blow on Magneto when it was repeatedly stated that they need Magneto’s powers to fix the planet?

Xavier even bring Logan, a guy who famously has a metal fucking skeleton, to fight Magneto?

Xavier bother trying to convince the President to let him talk Magneto around if he wasn’t going to bother to actually try and talk Magneto around, but rather run in blasting?

everyone start acting like Magneto being in charge of the X-Men wasn’t ultimately a huge success? (because it was! not only did they neutralize an enemy, but they convinced him to stand trial for their crimes AND they won recognition for Genosha by the UN!)

none of the X-Men mention to Magneto that destabilizing the earth’s magnetic field is going to destroy the world in 12 hours, killing every mutant still remaining, even though doing so might have gotten him to help out?

the writers lay the foundation in the last episode for at least one human finally recognizing in the last episode where Magneto was coming from and why he is doing what he’s doing… only for the mutants to go “no actually that guy is irredeemable and we should kill him immediately, no more talking despite the fact that we actually really need his help and cooperation”?

Not only were these just idiotic moves strategically, but they barely make sense thematically!

I get that they want Magneto to be a straight up villain again. I get that Magneto is a villain. And I absolutely get that he has just altered the earth’s magnetic field in a big bad way and that needs to be addressed immediately (though there was barely mention of how the EMP blast was necessary to deactivate the humanoid sentinels). But if the writers want us to side against the guy they’ve spent the entire season making us side with, why are they only saying “think of the poor infrastructure lost in his EMP” and not even bothering to mention the lives that must have been lost in that blast? They’re making the X-Men look like absolute idiots by having them charge in with no intent to have a real conversation, and they’re making the damage Magneto did sound trivial by just focusing on property.

This feels like FATWS all over again. (－‸ლ)

[ghostkidet]

Sobs

[warriororb5]

Ok now that I’ve had some time to think about it;

Everything I liked and disliked about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga:

Likes:

- That they tied in the one good thing from the comic, being Furiosa’s peach stone.

- Same goes for adding Scabrous from the game.

- Max’s cameo in his own franchise.

- Seeing the Green Place.

- Seeing Gastown.

- That even Joe of all people immediately clocked that the girl with Dementus was absolutely not willingly with him at all. (Takes one to know one I guess.)

- Seeing the Citadel not take Dementus seriously at all at first, basically the whole scene where they have his gang pick a random warboy to show him exactly how much he fucked up by picking a fight.

- All of the air fight stuff with the parasailing bikers.

- That Dementus and Octoboss both have their own version of Joe’s icon.

- That the warlords and Joe’s sons canonically hang out together at the Citadel.

- The shitty 3 wheeled car.

#1 - Praetorian Jack 🥰

Dislikes:

- That Peeps and Bullet Farmer weren’t at their towns at all the whole movie, especially when they tell Farmer to go get everything ready and he’s still at the Citadel afterwards. It makes it feel like the only reason they’re not at their towns is that they need them to survive to Fury Road and needed an easy reason Dementus didn’t kill them when he took over both times.

- How disappointing the Bullet Farm ended up looking.

- That we only get to see the Green Place for like 2 minutes (mostly only the outskirts of it) and other than establishing that Valkyrie and Furiosa were friends we get absolutely no other connections for Furiosa herself in her community.

- We got so little canon backstory for Furiosa other than the exact amount of days it took for her mother to die and they didn’t do anything with that, I personally looked over at my friend sitting next to me and held up two fingers on the morning of the second day thinking they were going to build suspense because the audience started the movie with that knowledge but no, they don’t make it clear how much time is passing.

- Furiosa mostly being hyper competent as a kid except for following her mom’s instructions to go the fuck home and walking straight into the enemy camp where she’s being killed.

- That Furiosa seems to have spent almost no time in the vault (possibly only one day?) before escaping and becoming part of the cog fodder then mechanic crew. That it doesn’t even seem like anyone bothered looking for her. That the only wives we see from this movie seem to be with Joe willingly, desperate to stay wives rather than be abandoned or demoted to milkers. Which I guess highlights their parallel to the warboys better, being brainwashed cogs in Joe’s machine. But the whole “everyone but Furiosa being cool with being in sexual slavery” gave me rancid vibes. It just seemed like a bizarre choice given how desperate the wives were to get away in Fury Road.

- Having basically everything terrible done to Furiosa in her backstory be done by Dementus rather than Joe. By the end of the movie it literally had me questioning why she even personally hated Joe as much as she did in Fury Road to even motivate the original “Remember Me”. Like don’t get me wrong, he’s still a warlord running a cult that dehumanizes everyone in it down to what they can do for him but why does Furiosa the titular protagonist hate him personally? He got her away from the man who originally stole her and killed her mother (for obviously selfish reasons by essentially bargaining for her like an object) and offered her what he and at least some of the other wives at this time considered a “”good”” future with him. After she (nearly instantly) escaped she became a Praetornian and then openly presented as a woman which Joe seems to not give a shit about at this point. And that’s kind of it. She shows up to tell Joe about Dementus’ trick which he believes and acts on. She steals his son’s car and gets Dementus herself which not only seems to have incited no punishment but he also lets her do that stupid tree thing to him. They gutted all of the implied horrors that Joe might have committed towards her to give the lesser villain from this movie more teeth and if taken as canon actively lessens Fury Road as a story.

- They didn’t even have her bond with any of the wives from this movie. . .

- Seriously guys, outside our protagonist there are basically no named women in this movie besides like her dead mom and that one biker who had the cool facial scaring, I’m not sure if she had a name in the movie so benefit of the doubt here. And I guess kid!Valkyrie for 20 seconds.

1# The stupid tree thing. Why. The actual fuck. Would Furiosa plant her peach stone in the Citadel before she knew she was going to stay there???? If she still planned to escape back home, and she did as we see 30 seconds after she gets the first peach from the tree, then why would she have planted that fucking tree in the first place with the expectation of abandoning it??? Also, just stupid. I go into a Mad Max movie with the intention of accepting everything. My willing suspension of disbelief for this franchise is so willing guys. But this is probably, hands down, one of the worst makes absolutely no sense endings in the franchise aside from Max “saving” those kids in the oasis with fresh water by leading them to the abandoned city for some reason in Thunderdome.

[unfortunately-lilith]

“Five hargreeves is the best regulus black variant” I say quietly into the microphone

the crowd boos at me

“Wait, she’s right” two voices in the crowd say in unison, they turn to look at each other, it’s Sirius black and klaus hargreeves.

(aaaa look at the tags)

[snowyh2o]

Thoughts on Husk! Spoilers for Episode 5 of Hazbin Hotel

So like, we can all agree that Husk is super perceptive right? Dude literally goes on a rant about how everyone bitches to the bartender before summarizing everyone’s problems in front of them. We also know that Husk knows Alastor. Has known him for a long ass time, to the point he (and Nifty) are pretty familiar with Alastor’s old friends/friendly acquaintances.

And the reason I’m bringing all this up is because I wanna analyze that scene in episode 5, where Husk confronts Alastor about Mimzy, and more importantly why.

Because Alastor’s been friends with Mimzy for a long time, he’s very familiar with her pattern/routine of pissing some demon off and then running to him for help. Husk knows this too, and he knows Alastor knows. So why bring it up at all? Alastor is strong, sure his reputation had taken a hit with his 7 year absence, but it’s very unlikely any kinda trouble Mimzy brings will be more trouble than Alastor can handle.

But Husk brings it up anyways, goes outta his way to talk to Alastor about it, and when Alastor dismisses his concerns, starts pushing that this is something Alastor needs to take more seriously.

So the question is, why? Well I think it’s because Husk knows Alastor’s hands are tied, that he has MUCH greater stakes in the hotel than Alastor’s bothered to let on. And that he’s trying to warn Alastor that he needs to be more careful, that he can’t just expect things to go the way they always did back in the good old days, that the times have changed. He’s perceptive enough to notice that Alastor isn’t acting completely on his own will, that someone’s got him on a leash. (Which I don’t believe is something Alastor would ever willingly divulge.) And he’s frustrated that Alastor doesn’t seem to be taking whatever job he’s supposed to do to protect the hotel seriously.

Because letting Mimzy in is an unnecessary risk, especially when Alastor’s reputation alone may not be enough of a deterrent.

Husk is concerned about whatever situation Alastor’s landed himself in. So, Husk pushes, keeps trying to get Alastor to recognize the gravity of the situation. And Alastor keeps dodging his questions, keeps trying to end and leave the conversation before it touches on topics he REALLY doesn’t want to think much less talk about.

And then Husk steps on the proverbial landmine and Alastor snaps.

In the end, Alastor does take Husk’s advice and tells Mimzy to leave. Husk’s point about people not being so scared of him anymore, that his reputation alone won’t keep the hotel safe, is proved to be true with the loan sharks attack, and Alastor sees that. And he agrees.

Tldr; Husk knows Alastor’s landed himself in some deep shit, and is worried Alastor’s not taking it seriously. Alastor gets uncomfortably reminded that he doesn’t have everything as in control as he’d like to believe. And whatever stakes Alastor has in the hotel is high enough that he can’t risk brining any kinda trouble to it like Mimzy did.

[russellmaelofficial]

SPARKS TOUR 2024 SETLIST LEAKED

[fictionalfantasytraveler]

Thank you Rings of Power for making me want to read dark elf stories. That wasn’t on my 2024 bingo card but I’ll accept it

[no-white-dress]

One thing that stands out to me when watching reactions to Epic the musical is that people are absolutely surprised when someone dies.

I do understand that my perspective is that of an Italian who picked the high school that has us study Greek and Latin language, culture and literature in detail, in the og language. And I recognize that being taught the Iliad and Odyssey since middle school isn’t that common of a thing.

But at the same time. I thought Odysseus being the only one to make it home was more mainstream knowledge.

[papayawatermelon]

Happy anniversary to Your turn to die: Death game by majority‼️‼️

Thank you nankidai for anzu kinashi‼️‼️‼️‼️ and for breaking my heart‼️

[pendragonsgallery]

Just finished listening to Stick Season Deluxe

1000/10 recommend emotionally devastating going to go spend the next hour sobbing into my pillow

[asteria7fics]

Well goobers, it’s finally here.

The final chapter of The Song of Broflovski

I wanted to link the full fic here again, in case you somehow found me on Tumblr but not on ao3!

You can read the entire fic here if you haven’t already!

I also want to take a minute to get a little sentimental. I really didn’t expect this fic to gain any traction. I asked myself several times “who other than me would want to read a Trojan War/South Park fan fiction?”

Turns out, there’s a few of you out there!

I want to seriously thank everyone that’s been along on this ride with me from the bottom of my heart. It means the world to me to have been able to share this silly idea with all of you, and for you to have enjoyed it.

Now that the fic is fully published I’ll be happy to discuss more of my process/thoughts/spoilers in my asks, so please don’t be shy! I want to share what you guys want to know!

As for what’s next, there will be some big changes coming to my blog in the next week in preparation for my next project that I’ll be sharing. Please look forward to it!

[losersimonriley]

Oh mwii, sweet collective fever dream, there will never be another to compare to thee