#I’m curious what others think

[frownyalfred]

What special skill do you headcanon Bruce absolutely wanting to learn during his training, believing it to be EssentialTM, but he still hadn't had the chance to actually use it decades later.

All I want is someone going like "Why do you even know how to do that? You'll never need it."

And then, some years later that skill is a vital piece of a mission to save the planet.

Bruce doesn't exactly tell them "I told you so" but it's very heavily implied in his actions.

Definitely some sort of etiquette or specialized language skill. That or fighting with a sword or some other rare weapon. Or traditional dance?

[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanny can’t explain everything in the FNAF pizzaplex..

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[justcuriouspolls]

(i have a feeling this poll will get way more views than some of my other ones so I am once again asking you to fill out https://forms.gle/66bRngwjD2fzWX7p6 if you know anything about the character)

[twinstxrs]

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

[moodyvoid]

The League of Villains are suddenly your roommates!

What’s a bad roommate habit you have that you think would annoy them?

What’s a good roommate habit you have that you think they would appreciate?

Alternatively, you can list off their good/bad roommate habits too!

[asgardian-arse]

Okay guys… guys hear me out. Arcane Coraline AU.

[crazynerdandproud]

I don’t love Merlin and Freya. Like, it’s been a while since I saw the episode but only one episode and we’re supposed to believe they fell in love? Like, I get what they were going for but why did they have to bring romance into it? It felt kinda forced and just….idk, like for some reason their relationship being romantic kinda squicks me out. (I hope I’m using that term right.)

I am very much open to an argument for them as a couple but I have yet to come across a very compelling one.

[edsbacktattoo]

GOD i hope we get some sappy shit between Ed and Stede where they talk about WHY they love each other this season. i know they’re soulmates and they’ve been bound to meet and fall in love since time started but i’m dying to know what Ed’s favourite thing about Stede is. and i know we now have “I love everything about you” and i know we have “what makes Ed happy is you” but i want those sickening and nauseating details. like is it his smile? his optimism? his heart and soul? let them be GROSS

[sleepyy-27]

Okay we know twi maybe a wolf but if he were to be a dog what dog would he be?

Me personally, I think he’d probably be a golden retriever or something like that

[kakerutori]

I think one thing that makes Byler so distinct is the way that they complete each other’s thoughts without even trying.

“You know on a- a view-master when it gets, like…” “…caught between two slides?”

“We can’t take any chances. We need to assume the worst. The Mind Flayer is back.” “Yeah. And if he is, he’d want to attach himself to someone again.”

“Well, no, it’s not just a video game, it’s a video game console.” “It’s basically America’s answer to Nintendo.”

“Some sort of facility.” “A fence, a building.”

“Are you really questioning Suzie, right now?” “She’s a genius, Jonathan.”

Seriously, you could read these quotes one after the other and assume that they came from the same person. They’re like couplet statements then clarifications. And they do it all the time in season 4. I wonder if this is a subtle reason why Byler had a rise in popularity after s4 - they’re so in sync without even trying (couple behavior)!

[sendingbugs]

Question for alterhumans and pet regressors:

Do you consider pet regression to be a kind of alterhumanity?

As in, even without being any other kind of alterhuman. Like if someone only pet regresses but isn’t a therian/otherkin/etc.

Sfw interaction only

[wander-wren]

sometimes i wonder about what fandom is going to look like in 5 or 10 years. i think we might have already started to see a shift.

because, look, most of the oldest, biggest fandoms are from tv shows and movies, in particular ones that go on for years and scores of episodes. star trek, star wars, stargate (is everything star?), doctor who, supernatural…even sherlock really got its biggest popularity boosts in the modern day from tv adaptations. marvel and dc were comics first, too, but movies made them more accessible; their “cinematic universe” tags are the biggest on ao3 by far.

but what tv shows are we getting now? short, 8-episode things that get canceled two or three seasons in, that are usually less-than-faithful adaptations of other media anyway.

what movies are we getting? well, marvel turns more to slop every day, and everything else is remakes and sequels no one asked for. the general populace will still go see them and find some good movies that they like, but there’s not much really for fandom to grasp onto.

the best shows for fandom that we’ve had recently, that i can think of, are stranger things, game of thrones, and maybe our flag means death. stranger things is dying off, especially since they’re looking at a 3-4 YEAR gap between s4 and s5. game of thrones’s popularity plummeted after its final season, we all know that. our flag means death is still chugging fairly okay, but after that second season a lot of the fandom dropped it, and with it now being cancelled, i don’t see it sticking around.

yes, we can chalk part of this up to a new generation to of fans having this growing idea that fandom is super temporary, to be abandoned as soon as its not on trend. but media used to be on trend for a whole lot longer than it is now. seasons were longer, we had filler episodes, things were lower quality sometimes but at least they came out on a consistent schedule. i don’t mind if supernatural isn’t an artistic masterpiece, but if i was a stranger things fan waiting until 2026 for the final season, i would be annoyed if it wasn’t damn near perfect. that’s assuming i watched it at all—we’re all so used to not getting endings and moving on, so why would i bother?

i think there are two types of shows doing sort of okay about this. one is procedurals—9-1-1 is a popular one i’ve run into, and it started in 2018, around the beginning of the decline, but it’s managed 7 seasons in those six years, most of them with 18 episodes. the other is, honestly, anime—though we can and SHOULD talk about the terrible working conditions that make the fast turnarounds there possible. look at how big some anime fandoms are.

judging by the relative fandom popularity of other procedural dramas (grey’s anatomy, law & order, criminal minds), i think that’s going to remain sort of niche. fandom likes fantasy and scifi best, and they just don’t tend to have as strong of an overarching arc to dig into. at least, that’s why i wouldn’t watch them. i think there’s also a good chance these will start to die out in the coming years as well.

anime could also die out a little bit. better working conditions would necessitate less/slower content, and it’s true that most of the popular anime fandoms have been around for years, even decades.

so, what, no new, lasting tv show or movie fandoms anymore?

what will the biggest fandoms be in 5-10 years?

podcast fandoms have a shot. the magnus archives is still going strong, and i’ve been seeing a lot about dungeons and daddies. i think we’re kind of almost past the golden age for podcasts, but i am an outsider, so maybe that will change.

book fandoms seem like a kind of obvious choice, but they just don’t get as big without, you guessed it, a movie or show adaptation. and the downsizing has hit them, too—can you think of anything from the last 5 or 10 years that rivals harry potter, percy jackson, warriors, lord of the rings, hunger games, acotar…even game of thrones (asoiaf) again? i can’t. the collapse of the publishing industry is another post entirely.

2020 is really what cemented these changes, though they were starting in the late 2010s, at least. with actual industries shutting down, there was room for indie creators making things alone in their houses to pop up, and people had more time on their hands to try new things out and get into them.

the two things that have really been on the rise since 2020 is rpf and video game fic—often both combined. we’ve got genshin impact, call of duty, minecraft of course being huge, rpf of various youtubers, and k-pop rpf. now, i think rpf is contentious enough that it won’t really become the main fandom, but video game fic…might be it.

even video blogging rpf can often be a blurred enough line that people are more comfortable with it. and the thing is…youtube creators are actually more reliable than mainstream television these days. they need to be, to maintain their platforms. they need to not cancel series and to live up to their own hype as best they can and to not abandon the channel for 3 or 4 years at a time. and again, you can talk about burnout and unrealistic expectations and all of those things, but it’s still true.

maybe i’m completely wrong. maybe in 10 years the film and publishing industries will all sort themselves out and we’ll go back to the status quo. but i think this position fandom is finding itself in is interesting, and i wouldn’t necessarily be surprised if what’s most popular (both in the specific source material sense and the medium/genre sense) is different some time down the road.

[dutchlionlover]

I’ve seen ppl bitch about Charles’ radios and be like “if he’s losing mind over this imagine what next year is gonna be like” but.

One: he was playing the team game, he respected whatever agreement they talked about before the race. Carlos didn’t, and I think Charles was rightly upset at the team that they didn’t pressure Carlos a bit more.

Two: even though Lewis is not exactly my favorite driver, I do 100% believe that he will play the team game and will respect Charles as a teammate, much more than what Carlos is doing right now.

Just my two cents on this whole thing, but I also admit that I am biased towards Charles

[twinstxrs]

thinking about kageyama’s “it’s the setter’s job to break the wall in front of the spiker” in reference to how kenma sponsoring hinata while he’s in brazil and onwards is effectively doing that on a financial level. once a setter always a setter.