#Neat huh

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

So how’s everyone else’s day going so far

[ralfmaximus]

Star Trek: we must be careful to hide our very presence from this pre-warp civilization, otherwise it risks cultural contamination that might destroy them

SG-1: hi guys, wanna come with us back through the stargate and see earth?? we have computers and other cool shit that will blow your primitive minds

[awarblerinthewainscotting]

In Good Omens, Season 1 Episode 5, right around 39 minutes and 20ish seconds, the man guarding the entrance to Tadfield Airbase is reading a paperback copy of none other than American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

This implies that Neil Gaiman exists within the world of Good Omens, which means that the book; Good Omens also exists. It also begs the question where he would've gotten all the startlingly correct information regarding the apocalypse-that-wasn't and Adam and such. Perhaps copies of his books (most certainly signed too) are kept somewhere in Aziraphale's shop?

Fascinating little tidbit, no?

[x-i-l-verify]

Something that I've noticed ever since the Smiling Critters were introduced is that they can so easily be paired off into complementary duos, ones that are specifically designed to teach children fundamental lessons about life and self-care from two different angles. It's really interesting to me.

Like obviously you have Dogday and Catnap, with their sun/moon, dog/cat dichotomy, that stress how important it is to have fun and get things done during the day, but also that it's important to wind down, relax, and get a good night's sleep.

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Bubba Bubbaphant and Craftycorn were introduced as a duo in the Smiling Critter show's intro, and their dichotomy is quite obvious. They are basically the right and left sides of the brain personified. Bubba is the left side of the brain, logical, analytical, focused on math and science. Craftycorn is the right side of the brain, creative and imaginative, focused on the arts and self-expression. They represent learning and academia in all its forms, the different ways people engage with and understand the world.

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Hoppy Hopscotch and Kickin' Chicken form the sportsmanship duo. They are both portrayed as enjoying sports and the outdoors, but in different ways that highlight the different ways sports can be played and enjoyed and also what it entails to be successful at them. Hoppy Hopscotch may be loud and impatient, but she is also a team player, shown in her willingness to slow down her fast pace to make sure none of her friends are left behind. Kickin' Chicken, on the other hand, is laid-back, relaxed, and chill, the described "cool kid" of the group, but he's also described as having a ton of perseverance, more of a "slow and steady wins the race" type of person.

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This leaves Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy as the last pair. Fittingly, these two are all about how to meet the fundamental needs of yourself and others. Bobby teaches children how to nourish themselves emotionally through showing and receiving care from others, while Picky teaches them how good food is important to nourish the body and soul. Depriving oneself of either of these things only makes oneself and therefore everyone around one miserable, because those fundamental needs are no longer being met.

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Like fr, this is some pretty genius marketing right here. You have enough characters that every kid will have their favorite, but not so many that any would get lost in the shuffle, because the lessons each one of them would teach would be integral to the group as a whole. It really makes me that much sadder we saw basically nothing of the Smiling Critters during the game itself, because Mob Games struck gold with this concept, only to ultimately do nothing with it. :/

But I guess that's what fandom is for, eh?

[kroosluvr]

Life's beauty is like a myriad of flowers, and I want to pluck the one that never wilts.

[blightdaddy]

it’s an elgar’nanomenon!

[gotham-snark]

All the sneak peaks of Talia we've had in the Boy Wonder so far ~~

[spilycoris]

i think leshy would bite

[valtsv]

thinking about the trawlerman and gender. the way that he's presented as simultaneously paternalistic - he is referred to as a "man" and with traditionally masculine-associated pronouns, and he claims the promised bride for his own in order to prevent her marriage to another man, like a protective father - maternalistic - he takes in offerings, gestates them in silt and 'rebirths' them; the mouth devouring and the mouth returning, a metaphorical womb - and neither - his followers are "children of the water", but he is neither explicitly father-god nor mother-goddess, simply a grotesque parent that resists easy categorisation as one or the other in his dualistic, transitory nature. of course the river god is genderfluid it's in the name innit.

[semisolidmind]

what's up with this guy

(my dear anonymous friend wanted to see my take on a y/n insert for welcome home, and this is what i came up with. it's a lil rough, but i hope they like it. this was fun, i might come back to these two)

[assiraphales]

you have got to respect the anime for, after getting luffy so lost that he ran out of the city into the desert, deciding 'hey. let's do this again' and had him run backwards watching ace's fight with smoker & get lost one more time so that ace n luffy could have some sibling bonding alone time. they arm wrestle, reminisce about their childhood, luffy has time to tell ace about his crew, & get in a fight together. so i'd say its worth it

[finemealprompt]

DP x DC Prompt #50

When Danny came to Gotham, he hadn't been planning on being a vigilante, he swears! And, technically, he wasn't a vigilante. He was a villain. Sort of. He was Catwoman's sidekick. Her partner in crime, quite literally.

But hey, it hadn't taken a lot of convincing from Catwoman to start stealing things from a bunch of rich dudes. Danny hates rich fruit loops.

[vikdec4i]

a collection of (almost) everything viktor and rocky

(will never get over the "love, rocky" he truly is just sillying around)

when's it my turn 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️

i love the implications that rocky sent the fangirl question as if he was one of viktor's fangirls, like yk what i love rocky for that

and ofc the animated ver.

happy holidays indeed 👍

[clannfearrunt]

U can look into sea cucumber toxins but watch out. You might shatter some crucial underlying assumptions you were making with regards to fantasy cephalopod society epidemiology

[lizasweetling]

Oo!!! Prrriti!! Cute!

love how much everyone near Martellus dunks on him constantly

[aka-indulgence]

Ok, what's your weirdest monster crush

Uh. Um. Ok. I, hm. I’m gonna ramble about something obscure and I think you’ll agree this is Out There but um,

THESE GUYS

I think I might be. The first on the internet to say “Hey I think I could have a relationship with one of these guys” 💀💀💀 LET ME EXPLAIN MYSELF

Because without prior knowledge and context im also like “what is this choice” jfsdfkgf

They’re from star control 2, also a game i watch clips of (obsessively at one time) to get the lore (and also there are certain game genres i’d get stressed in and this is one of them i think fkljfd) and these guys are the main antagonists- I’m going to do a really abridged version or else we’ll be here all day

Both used to be one race, got mind controlled for thousands of years and got split in two, had to fight through immense pain to free themselves, and due to their background they both have goals to get rid of the threat of ever being controlled again: one by controlling everyone else and the other by just. Killing them

Both have awesome themes and they speak with such authority and conviction/calm unrelenting confidence, and through all the alien races the protagonist meets in this game, they are the *current* biggest threat

I just like imagining some situation where you can. Teach them to accept other aliens… and maybe not change all of their minds but just one individual and I think that’s very romantic o(-(