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[risenfromagrave]

some of these takes are kinda wrong ngl,, like sure Arthur is an unstoppable killing machine for 1899 standards, but are we gonna ignore V?? that mf took down ADAM SMASHER. WHILE ACTIVELY DYING. you know how hard that is?? Imagine if at the ending Micah was the Terminator and fucking dial that idea up to 11 as opposed to the slimy rat he is. bro is even more of a killing machine than Arthur Morgan. there is no way Arthur Morgan could take down canon V in that state. Unless V is being affected by the chip and Arthur could ambush. But V is also like half-bulletproof and could do the exact same to Arthur. Or even use the literal dozens of bits of cyberware to simply demolish Morgan. Sure Arthur has Deadeye, but V also has either the Sandevistans, Berserks, or the cyberdeck (which arguably would not help against Arthur to be fair), but V could do without it regardless. No offense to my fellow Arthur fans, I love him dearly but there is really no way he wins against V. anyway thank you for coming to my ted talk send tweet

This one youtuber is making polls asking who would win between Arthur Morgan and different insanely powerful characters and he keeps winning until it gets to Tuberculosis. Reason being because he can't use deadeye on it.

[catboybiologist]

Speaking my truth.

Men are hot.

Sometimes, they are very fucking hot.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[mychlapci]

honestly if anyone deserves a massive horsecock, it should be rewind. you know CD is taking that thing and getting his valve DESTROYED. gaped so wide you could put your whole arm in there and he's still loose. thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Rewind needs a disproportionate, swinging horse cock, like a hentai sized horse cock that’s literally an inch of the floor when he pulls it out, and that’s at full hardness. everyone thinks Chromedome ruins Rewind’s pussy, well no, it’s definitely the other way around. twink gets fucked by his twink husband’s almost comedically large cock.

[isa-ghost]

I HAVE BEEN ENABLED.

(I am about to elaborate on this way more than I need to. I'm normal. I swear.)

OKAY SO I've made a metric FUCKLOAD of rpPhil headcanons and one that I have steadily (esp now over the course of Squidcraft LMAOOOO) gained infamy for is ✨ The rp!Phil Harem ✨ (or Polycule if we're being serious, which I'M BOTH /J AND /SRS, BABIEEEE).

So obviously we know rpPhil has been slutting it up over the last year and I couldn't be more proud of him for that.

I've shitposted about this polycule in the past (ie: joking that Fitza has done unspeakable things behind Fit's gym in QSMP), but then I was enabled via asks to make Actual headcanons about it, so here's the headcanons where I initially talked about the polycule existing, and here's where I actually went into detail about them.

10/10 recommend reading those, but for anyone who isn't That interested, lemme break it down simple style:

Phil's accidentally formed harem/polycule contains:

Goddess of Death (ofc. she is SUCH an enabler of this all btw)

Missa

Fit

Etoiles

By association, you Could include Pac in this (he is Strictly /r with Fit, everyone else in this polycule he is ONLY /p with. I won't break down any other dynamics in the harem here, that's what linking the headcanons I linked is for LMAOO).

And as a brand new development: Mr. Phillip.

This harem also included Forever prior to.... All Of That.

I barely know anything about Mr. Phillip since I've only just met him, but my dash has been saying he's practically Missa's other boyfriend, so I guess I'm considering him /r with Pissa (he told Phil he has a nice ass, as you surely know if you were watching SC or follow people that were) and suffice to say he Would Be /p with everyone else involved (hilarious bc this Actually Works since the other Polycule members were also in Squidcraft, but afaik they haven't interacted with Mr. Phillip to the same degree he has with Phil).

(Mr. Phillip's involvement from a /srs headcanon or Somehow Canon Compliant Fanfic perspective is complicated and currently undeveloped. If I include him when taking this headcanon seriously from a canon perspective that means Squidcraft is canon to QSMP and I'm unsure how I feel about that. But also Phil practically canonized it when he was joking with Missa on the first day anyway, so I suppose if it IS canon to QSMP then the SC deaths just aren't permanent. Because SC being canon to QSMP means scPhil is also smpe + hc + c + q Phil and that mf can't die-die and just- SEE, THE LOGISTICS GET REALLY FUCKING HARD 💀 I GET TOO SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. I THINK I'M GONNA KEEP SC NOT CANON, MR. PHILLIP IS BANISHED TO SHITPOST-&-HEADCANON ONLY LAND.)

ANYWAY.

(yeah that's right, I'm not done yet)

POV: I made those polycule headcanons that I linked when the QSMP Ender King possession arc was JUST starting to cook, so I got asked about what the polycule would do to fight possessed!Phil.

WELL.

If you look at those headcanons, you'll see IT EXPLODED INTO A FUCKING FANFIC. Currently half completed. AND I WON AN AWARD I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS NOMINATED FOR FOR IT?

SO YEAH. UH. I'M IN DEEP. The way this headcanon went from me joking about qPhil having too much goddamn rizz to ALL THIS is. Fucking WILD. I like talking about it way too much and it shows.

Enjoy being enlightened I guess. Or perhaps this was an insurmountable amount of psychic damage. I thrive off providing both. 👉🏻😎👉🏻

Also bonus polycule meme brought to you by one of my beloved mutuals

Thanks for coming to my TED talk or whatever LMAO

he what

[prouc]

I love my silly killer man. He is everything I have and I wouldn’t have it any other fucking way. Please now fuck me. Make me forget my name, my birthdate and even the planet I live on, thank you.

Thank you for coming (I wish he was coming in my mouth too) to my Ted talk

[momojedi]

now that arcane is back id like to humbly remind you that silco looks like a fucking love child between crosshair and hemlock thanks for coming to my ted talk

[bluezorya]

I finished The Veilguard.

I... I... can I just....?

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN THEY DID NOT ONLY PULLED MASS EFFECT 2 LONG WALK ON US BUT ALSO MASS EFFECT 1? FUCKING HELL.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I am definitely not okay.

I'm also absolutetly not okay about our.. imaginary friend. I'm even more not okay with that than pulling Mass Effect on us. This one hurts so fucking much, I cant even form the words.

I just gonna... go... *looks around* go over there to the corner and sit in a fetal pose.

I'm not okay.

[hoenn-pride]

Man do you ever just think about how.... hardenshipping was ALWAYS going to be the natural conclusion of the game from the moment they sat down and decided that the gimmick of the region was going to have two warring teams.

Like hardenshipping has some sort of pre-baked, innate canonicity with the way that Pokemon games always resolve themselves. Especially as it pertains to the way the Hoenn region was designed.

What I mean by this is,

In Pokemon, the lesson is always "working together makes us stronger." It is always about the power of friendship, it is always about found families, it is always about settling differences with love etc etc etc. Except. This is on STEROIDS in the Hoenn region because this is a theme and a message that was deliberately sought out when they designed the game.

The Hoenn region is a region of duality. It is all about opposites and counterbalance. The names of the cities are mostly two words put together as opposed to color names in the past. Team Aqua and Team Magma. Groudon and Kyogre. Plusle and Minun. Latios and Latias. Solrock and Lunatone. Zangoose and Seviper. Volbeat and Illumise. How Wurmple can evolve into either Silcoon or Cascoon. How Clamperl can evolve into either Huntail or Gorebyss, making both of those sets of Pokemon counterparts to one another.

The REGION itself is split almost evenly in physical makeup between land and water. Which is what made it seem like there was a shit ton of water because there was. There has never been as much water in a Pokemon game as there was in Hoenn, and it was because they were physically trying to balance the water and the land. There's a giant uninhabitable volcano in the center of the region perfectly counterbalanced on the map by a giant, habitable crater in the center of the ocean. Complements and counterparts color the entire region, often quite literally in red and blue. Like almost anywhere you look in Hoenn, it is ideologically (and sometimes physically) symmetrical in design.

The name of the region comes from love and relationships, for god's sake.

And so then you have the Hoenn region, named after a word that literally means love and relationships, being themed around this very concept, in a game series that ALREADY focuses on those things. As like. The core component of the franchise.

So the Hoenn region has "the power of love and friendship" on fucking STEROIDS.

And they DOUBLE and TRIPLE down on this metaphor that they already did not need to double and triple down on in the remakes with the inclusion of the "Hoenn Rangers Coexistence Force," whose sole existence seems only to be to call out Archie and Maxie specifically, as they are about promoting the peaceful coexistence of people, nature, and pokemon. Blatant passive-aggressive reference to Archie and Maxie, who are locked in some sort of odd, eco-ideological warfare with each other playing out over the large-scale arena of the entire fucking region.

And the fact that they canon used to be on a team together and clearly split due to their differences (you know. Like how a lot of these region's Pokemon have split evolutions and counterparts etc etc etc).

The Hoenn region is rife with all this fucking duality.

And so, naturally, the Pokemon plot does what Pokemon plots do, and uses like a 12 year old child to tell our bad guys that the power of love and friendship is actually all they need.

And for the most part, in most games, that would be where it would end. The villain and the evil team fades off into obscurity, after they learned their lesson.

Except, Archie and Maxie don't have that option. Because they have each other.

Team Rocket, while still technically present, disappears from the game after you beat them. Cyrus disappears. Ghetsis disappears. Colress just fucking hangs out with you, kind of. Lysander disappears. Lusamine disappears. I don't fucking know what Rose does but god in hell I'm sure he doesn't contribute anything meaningful. Turo and Sada go off to a different fucking reality altogether.

All of the other villains disappear because they have learned their lesson. What are they going to do? Be besties with the player in the post game? Colress is the only one who gets remotely close to this, and he's locked on a little ship in one area once you beat the game. These individual leaders rightfully learn their lesson, rightfully go off on their own to reflect and grow or go to prison or die, and we just assume that because we beat them, that's the end. There is nothing more for them to resolve, because they have resolved their conflict with us.

But not Archie and Maxie. Because Archie and Maxie's main point of conflict was not with you. It was with each other.

ALL of the other villains have NO ONE to amend with once you finish the main line story of the game, because they have already ended the conflict with you. Therefore, in all other iterations of them that exist (for example, in Masters) they can just be "Ho ho ho I am GenericEvilTeamLeader" who did a bad thing.

But not Archie and Maxie. Because Archie and Maxie were depicted having their main conflict with each other, and not you, any piece of media that wishes to depict them post-events of their games (aka, post their lessons-learned) MUST depict them together. In order to demonstrate that they have taken this lesson about the "true power of friendship" to heart, we must see them putting that into practice.

And due to the nature of Hoenn being about coexistence, natural complements, and duality, Archie and Maxie must then conclude to work together and harmonize with one another just as their opposing elements do, just as the entire rest of their fucking region does. They are the living embodiments of the inner conflict, the duality and complement and turmoil and harmony that the entire region of Hoenn was built upon.

And THIS is why, to this day, in the year of our good Groudon 2023, we are STILL getting new content of them being so close to one another. Why Pokemon Masters has just basically become Hardenshipping Truthers DLC. Because now, in order to demonstrate that Archie and Maxie have taken some semblance of their lesson to heart, they must be depicted working together. As they were always created to do.

Archie and Maxie were created to be at war with one another, but this was because they were also created to learn the lesson that they must work with one another, because that is the lesson of Hoenn, and that is the lesson of Pokemon as a whole.

So from the very moment the devs sat down and said "we are going to make two warring teams," Archie and Maxie's destinies were invariably linked together, and basically hardenshipping content was always going to be the natural conclusion of that.

They really invented gay people with this one. I just..,,

*slaps Hoenn region* this bad boy can fit so much fucking symbolism in it

[orgasming-caterpillar]

"fuck it we ball" is for stress about the future "it is what it is" is for stress about the past and "this too shall pass" is for stress about the present thank you for coming to my TED talk

[tinkerbitch69]

My favourite part of dot and bubble (besides ncuti’s performance in the last scene my god!!!) is that the episode kinda misleads you into thinking Lindy is so dismissive of the doctor and the disappearance of others because of the social media echo chamber she has isolated herself in. That she is scared to leave it and that she could be a better more empathetic person if given the chance to leave.

But then the final scene happens!

All of her actions, from putting Ricky in the firing line before her to lying about it to refusing the help of the doctor because of her thinly veiled racist beliefs, reveal that this refusal to acknowledge the reality around her to the point of putting people in danger and inevitably allowing the problem to become worse was a choice. She was not some innocent victim of media manipulation but had complete agency in her denial of the danger others were and just didn’t care about them.

The reveal is an important part of the episodes critique of social media echo chambers, I think. Their danger isn’t that they obscure information that challenges the users but that they allow people to choose not to be confronted with information that challenges their worldview or their behaviour. Which is an experience vital to developing critical thinking skills and being a compassionate, empathetic human being. But by removing the agency of people who choose not to break from their bubble, we also enable the insularity of these echo chambers!

God I love this episode so much <3_<3

[fuzzyhairedfreak]

um uh uh um. so. did anyone else used to follow Nate Stevenson's D&D campaign drawings back in the day or-

[22ndnervousbreakdown]

"the man we idolised turned out to be a bad person, but it's okay, this other man hasn't fucked up yet so we can just idolise him twice as hard!"

Do you people not see the problem

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

It’s disability pride month, you know what that means, you are now legally obligated to make all of your favorite characters disabled

[boygirlctommy]

i love the bit from oct 17 2020 when tommy and quackity trapped wilbur in a cobblestone box to keep him from pressing the button... wilbur punching through the blocks with his bare hand to try to get to the button... tommy frantically replacing the block in front of him yelling for quackity to do something... the moment when tommy stops, blocks the exit, and tells wilbur to do it. press the button. but then theyd die with him. quackitys like "wait, wait-" but tommy holds his ground and wilbur. ohh wilbur. "why'd you have to make it so hard?"

[theannoyeddragon82]

wow these bitches are really fucking gay

[oh-men-of-dark-and-dismal-fate]

Walking into a yarn shop like it's an art museum. Admiring all the colorways and textures of the various skeins. Nodding my head at the tasteful displays of handmade items by the local knitting/crochet group to demonstrate the different yarn brands. Talking to the owner to learn more about the local fiber art scene and learning about different dyers, and crafters in the area that I would have never found on the internet. Buying one too many skeins to continue my pursuit of creating beautiful things to bring joy into mine and others lives. My way of paying homage to this wonderland of fibrous beauty.

Fucking glorious.