#Maybe I'm just stating the obvious

[flame2ashes]

Me: I'm fine

What she really means: Can we talk about how each alien character in the Mass Effect trilogy contains traits that are indicative of the positions that their species has, while in Andromeda, every alien character subverts those traits. Because I feel like I have never seen that conversation happen before

[the-judicial-assistants-notebook]

not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.

[pondhue]

thinking about how in s6 ep10 rick fell back so hard all bc his grandson that he cares for dearly called him boring.

how his thought process was "oh he thinks i'm boring so i'm not interesting. meaning i really have nothing of use to contribute anymore if not even my grandson can be entertained by me. did i ever contribute anything useful? i don't have control over how im perceived like i thought i did bc my grandson called me boring. my daughters are pissed at me, my granddaughter is likely tired of me, i've inconvenienced jerry bc i see myself in him (i think jerry is who rick was before he lost his og wife and daughter). for how long did morty feel like that??". how he was genuinely hurt that morty blatantly dismissed his feedback like that AND insulted him, and the insult actually had truth to it. which he knew. which probably hurt more.

how he then made an "idealized" version of himself to take care of his family that he believed would be able to provide them things he feels that he would never be able to give them and then isolated himself after that and knew nobody would notice and decided to pitch a tent in his own head.

how the fact that it resulted in rick spiraling and hyperfocusing (again) on avenging his dead wife and prioritizing that over everything else so much because at least he has control in how he feels in that situation. bc self isolation along with sitting in his own grief, shame, regret, and anger are what's familiar to him the most. how he is fully aware he could (and probably would) die in chasing prime and didn't care bc he probably thought his family wouldn't actually care if he died either, right? all because his grandson called him boring.

just thinking about that.

[keepthetension]

still stuck on porjai, visibly pregnant, flirting with night

who fucking goes for it

i only know the asian culture i grew up in, obviously, and not thai culture. but the social stigma of being unmarried and pregnant? and having the nerve to still be flirting?? that's not the Good Girl thing to do, and i remember the way the Not Good Girls were treated and talked about where i grew up

so porjai actively trying to get dates? night finding out she's pregnant with her ex's kid and just. being fine with that? big deal to me

[yamsgarden]

Made of water 🌊☁️🧊

[candyskiez]

Man you can say what you want about Steven Universe Future but it really gets what it's like to be traumatized and I gotta give it credit for that. Like the shit of everyone wanting the old Steven back and wanting him to go back to being fun and nice, and how sweet and helpful he used to be, and everyone just grieving their lost friend when hes still there! But he can't be that guy anymore! And he misses who he used to be, he misses who he was before all the horrible things happened to him, but he can't be that anymore. He can't be carefree and fun and always energetic. Everyone wants him to go back to being innocent and happy but he can't! He wants to go back to being who he was before it all went wrong but he can't. Nothing is going to bring that Steven back, and he's grieving who he used to be. He's grieving when he could trust people easily and when everything made him happy and when all these things felt so fun and exciting and not terrifying. He misses when he wasn't mad at all his friends, he misses when he could be the perfect little kid everyone thought he was.

And the. Fuck. The fact that everyone's guilt keeps them from actually helping him. They're so focused on oh I'm so awful, we're so awful, we hurt poor Steven that they don't actually do anything to help him, they don't actually ask him how they can help, it's just. All of it is shit I've experienced personally. It's so fucking accurate it's hard to watch. Say what you want about this show but it GETS what it's like to be traumatized and how people treat you for it. I've never seen the whole people caring more about their own guilt than helping fix what they did put into words so damn well. It's so damn raw. Man. Man.

[heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon]

I'm sorry (No I'm not, LOL...)

"... You blame me for your mothers."

"...She's Not Dead!"

OH THAT SUBTLE ANTI MUSICAL SHADE OF IT ALL! OOOOOOOOOHHH!!!!! 👀

If I didn't believe the claims that this was a reclamation/revenge project for Burton before (which I already did mind you...) I certainly would now!

[wings-dings-and-iggyfings]

Hey all! So if you didn't see it yesterday there is a new Wingfeather trailer for season 2! It's pretty epic!

There's also a new season 2 poster in their shop, and since it has Peet on it I bought it immediately even though I really don't have extra money to spend this week. xD It also has what I think is the first official/finished look at Maraly?!? (the character, not my kitten) As well as the Fork Factory, Claxton Weaver and the Overseer. 👀👀

https://shop.angel.com/pages/wingfeather

Season 2 covers the first half of book 2 and is releasing sometime this year!

[dabruzzy]

When I first watched Onyx Equinox I thought Yun's behavior was a bit inconsistent. He spent most of the first half of the season trying to get K'in and Izel to stop fighting and trying to keep K'in in check, but by the end of the season he was picking fights with everyone except Izel, even K'in. Now just because he's the heart of the group doesn't mean he can't have his disagreements with other characters, or that he should just be the peacekeeper and nothing else, but you'd think the guy who never held a grudge against the boy who broke his leg and almost killed him would be more understanding of Zyanya's situation, or that he would be more willing to give Xanastaku the benefit of the doubt, but he isn't. And after rewatching the show many times I think his problem is that he has trust issues and that they probably stem from Maak.

Putting the rest under a read more cause it got kinda long.

Yun straight up called him out in episode 3 about all the things he's hiding from them. Also "Honoch Maak" means "Old Man" in Yucatec Maya, and if I remember correctly Sofia Alexander said that's not his real name in the podcast, so that's another thing he's hiding from the twins. And then they find out that he sold children into slavery, and you can see that Yun was more affected by that than K'in. So because of this he's probably wary of people who keep secrets.

This is especially obvious with Xanastaku. He's had mixed feelings about her since they met. Every time they make one step forward something happens that makes him doubt her again. Even in episode 10 he's still suspicious of her despite saving Izel's life because she didn't tell them she had that power. Even when she's helpful he still has a problem with her because she's not being fully honest with them.

Now Zyanya is a bit different because she did betray them and almost got them killed, and that's reason enough to dislike someone even when you don't have trust issues. But like I said Izel almost killed him and he never even got mad at him, he worried more about Izel's wellbeing than his own. So I do think that the fact that he was willing to trust her and she broke that trust and that she hid so many things from them played a part in why he had such a hard time forgiving her, and even after he did he still didn't really acknowledge her or interact with her. Even in episode 8 Xanastaku told him "Trust us. Trust Izel", possibly implying that's something he struggles with.

And on the other hand this could be a reason why he and Izel mostly get along. Izel is an open book, he wears his heart on his sleeves and he never lied or kept secrets from the team.

[sozzledjuja]

something i think about often is the fact that, despite what you'd think at first glance, Praxina is probably the most codependent out of the twins.

[styrofauxm]

"I have said the state I live in exactly one time in the tags of 1 post. Have fun" do not tempt meeee

it was months ago and the name isn't even in the tags it's referenced with a different word do not do that to yourself

[keepthetension]

just two missing bits in cooking crush episode five! the first is the morning after ten runs to prem's house. apparently he followed that up by waking up at the ass crack of dawn to cook!

i've been wondering this a while, but remember when ten gave prem the repaired oven mitt, and he did it in a funny way? or at the motel, when he joked that someone took him there for some bam bam in the ham? and here, he wrote on his arm ahead of time purely to commit to the bit

i think there's more, and none of this is an especially big thing. but ten himself was surprised when he handed the oven mitt over like that, so it all makes me wonder: is he comfortable dropping the mask when he's with prem?

i doubt i'm alone in reading him as neurodivergent in some way; if i remember right, there was a post on here i saw about him possibly being autistic. and maybe i'm projecting, but this kind of goofiness seems like the kind of thing you'd learn not to show people

i don't have a point. it just warms my heart that he feels so comfortable. i simply love him

[louderfade]

exene talking about the state of the world. the good stuff starts at eight minutes. or you can just read the transcript complete with the usual errors that accompany robot transcribed speech (the irony of which is not lost on me). maybe it's not about transhumanism and living forever (or maybe it is who knows), but there's definitely an agenda of surveillance and control at work which is designed to keep the powerful in power. cash rules everything around me and you will own nothing etc. the future is worse.

[medicinemane]

Few things piss me off more than when I'm researching something, and I find someone asking the question I want answered, and the response is just "you shouldn't want that, just do this instead"

Today, it's me trying to look up a build for this witch farm concept that uses raid captains to manipulate the witches ai instead of using redstone

"Just use the shifting floors farms, they're just about as good" people respond... you stupid prick, that's not an answer to the question actually asked. I don't know about these guys, but me, I want it cause it's novel and there's no redstone, and I like putting bespoke prestige projects on my server... you might have noticed I tend to do form over function on a lot of my farms... so this is about form, the function is just a bonus

Second example, I wanted to see if there was any way to make Terra Invicta load faster, "just don't save scum"... you idiot, one that's just stupid advice, people can play games however they want, but two this once again doesn't answer the question

Like yeah, how dare people want to know if there's a way to make a game load saves faster when loading takes like 1 minute

If they at least phrased stuff like "sorry, I don't know how to do that, he's an alternative you might try", it's not helpful but it's at least polite

But man... I just get tired of people not answering the question being asked and instead answering the one they've decided was asked

(Actually, a legit real problem in the real world such as... with doctors who don't listen to their patient and decide they know what's really being asked. Don't do it, answer the asked question, or at least ask questions to confirm what's being asked before going off pig headed)

[ratspider]

i have a lot of opinions that i know are stupid but ONE of the is that i HATE the use of the word 'underrated' in youtube comment sections. I Don't Know Why. as far as anyone is concerned it's a compliment but it fills me with rage whenever i see it.

[mrfoox]

Not saying I wish someone could say what they like/find attractive with me but yeaaaah, I need a list /: