#THAT IS A LITERAL GREY AREA

[dropdafawkz]

I've been watching The Last of Us and I had already seen the game, so in the era of just venting, I hear SO many takes about how the Fireflies or the scientists with them wouldn't have been capable of making a vaccine and so it's justified how Joel acts, because even if he decided to sacrifice Ellie for a vaccine there was no guarantee of a cure. IM SO TIRED OF YALL

[jackmkelly]

when i say i love racetrack higgins i do not mean whatever the fandom did to him over the years. i mean the racetrack higgins who was abandoned at 2 years old. i mean the racetrack higgins with a serious fear of abandonment because of that (spoiler alert a best friend who constantly says he wants to leave for santa fe isnt good for him). i mean the racetrack higgins who is quick with a joke because he feels he has to be. i mean the racetrack higgins who tries to mimic jack and be a good leader for those kids when he can be. i mean the racetrack higgins who is trying his hardest to sound smart. i mean the racetrack higgins who gambles because he knows hes good at it and to him at least hes good at something. i mean racetrack higgins who smokes because it calms him down. i mean racetrack higgins the little tough guy.

[helenofblackthorns]

Magnus attitude towards Ty's necromancy will never not be a little funny purely due to the fact his whole friend group are the last people who can pass judgement about raising people from the dead. his own husband felt his parabatai bond break and then restore itself right around the time Clary apparently didn't ask Raziel for favour and said nothing like come on now 😭

[dykedvonte]

My post about Anya is making like a little ruckus on Twitter and I think it’s crazy how many people like have a problem with it.

Like you don’t have to agree with how I characterize Anya and her actions but it’s more like, why are you focused on only one aspect of her character? Why are you removing nuance from the situation? I don’t see it as giving Curly the benefit of the doubt when it comes to doing better for Anya, but as exploring his character and hers relationship with a the very little authentic facts we get about them. In truth, there’s a lot more I wish Curly did, even if it wasn’t pragmatic but I realize the issue there.

The first psychological horror game in a while that’s real intricate in its storytelling and makes you need to really need to address the morality of intentions and its already getting torn asunder smh 😔

[thetriggeredhappy]

now's surely not the time but i really truly do feel like in a lot of the circles discussing social progress, along the same line that we get people arguing about gender markers on official documents when the actual solution is to remove gender markers entirely because they serve no practical purpose, i feel like we have a lot of arguments surrounding sexism and expectations in relationships and marriage equality and equity and financial abuse and marriages of convenience that are almost completely inaccessible if you're any variant of asexual/aromantic/aspec or polyamorous. what if this isn't how any of that worked. is that so crazy?

[fake-ascension]

people who scream 'dan heng is NOT dan feng whatsoever' yet always tag any dan feng content as 'dan heng'

[ohwolfling]

Something else about Gale’s evil ending is I just knew people would take him throwing away his earring and trashing the Mystra statue was going to be taken as a “Leaving Mystra is the bad choice, see? It’s in his evil ending!”

Larian DOES kind of treat Gale a bit dirty when it comes to Mystra. The entire theme of the game is all companions have been taken advantage of by someone, Gale is not the random who isn’t including in this. Larian just didn’t pull it off well because his good ending does include being back in some form of Mystra’s good graces despite spending the entire game rejecting her for what she did to him. This ending I think doesn’t represent rejection of Mystra being a bad thing though, I think it’s just a way to show Gale being so consumed by his hurt that he decides to approach Mystra and perhaps even the other gods with harm. In the end, I’m upset the only ending we get of him removing his earring is in his *evil* ending….

I’ve seen folks argue that Mystra cannot be abusive because they met as adults (as if that solidifies the massive power imbalance, the in game line that Gale thought it was love and didn’t know any better, that he’s been worshipping her since he was a child and she was at the very least aware of him since childhood), that when he was told to sacrifice himself by her to earn her form of forgiveness, he had a “choice”, as if it wasn’t completely set up against him by being a request from his GODDESS WHOM HE WORSHIPS, coming from his very close companion or even father figure, already being suicidal and believing that is the only method he can save the world, or that because since Mystra isn’t made out to be as bad as someone like Cazador or Shar she can’t be bad (which ignores all in game dialogue of our companions rejecting and hating Mystra for her choices against Gale, and once more Gale was done a bit dirty) so this evil ending will just solidify for a lot of people that Gale somehow is the one who just doesn’t fit into the massive abused people narrative. They can have their own interpretations, that’s fine, I just think that comes with ignoring a lot of in-game content that directly counters their arguments. Mystra wasn’t even good to Elminster (who she met as a child as well) or other mortals…

Firstly, I hear ya, but I don't think Larian treats Gale all that dirty. I think Act III is bloated with non character enhancing quests and he gets a little bit yucked by that (but he's still ahead of Karlach and Wyll in that respect because thank God both Gale and Tim Downie are Certified Yappers). Would've loved some way for Gale to run into other Chosens of Mystra, discarded or otherwise, and I think that the Book of Karsus being locked down where we deal with Rolan and Lorroakan points to SOMEONE at Larian wanting to drive that point home. It's Larian who has EVERY companion- even Wyll & Karlach who are our most morally and emotionally stable, even Lae'zel & Shadowheart who are our most sadomasochistic devouts- point out that Mystra and Elminster are bitches. Larian is just a little clumsy at how it handles endings that can't be an ending because trauma doesn't really have a smooth end. Only Shadowheart gets the needed wind down period (& I guess Astarion if you romance him but I actually hate that that's tied to romance for him but what am I gonna do, try to have a dialogue with vocal pool of Astarion romancers who just want to water him down to Customize An Abusive Boyfriend? No, I am not).

Secondly, if I worried myself about what Someone Has To Defend A Literal God Against The Horror Of Her Discarded Chosen Who Was Groomed Academically and Spiritually From Childhood Finding An Ounce of Self Esteem and Non Conditional Fellowship illiterates thought/did, I would get nothing else done and frankly I would've turned to a life of crime over it by now. There have been edgy, insipid, contrarian, hateful lil snot rags on this earth for thousands of years. They can put Taylor Swift lyrics over as many sex pests as they want. They can continue to think that the Gone Girl Cool Girl Monologue™️ (the movie, they can't read) is the same thing as reading Audre Lorde. It simply means nothing to me if gender essentialist pop feminists grapple with greater themes and contradictions because I don't concern myself with what that kind of ignorant person does. They ultimately have no reach outside of their circlejerks and as someone who HAS survived complex grooming, abuse, and the resulting shaming, their victim blaming is very Silly Asshole 101 to me. It's almost adorable. It's solidified for my dog-niece that the front yard will kill her & nothing bad can happen in backyard but that ain't because it's true, it's cause she's a little dumb, bless her heart, you feel me?

That being said, my pinned post has plenty breaking down the power dynamics and clear parallels to real world academic/religious abuse & DV between Gale and Mystra if you'd like to break it open for a good egg who has just never unpacked abuse before! I just don't think people who support women wrongs a la Mystra when Shadowheart and Lae'zel are RIGHT THERE BEGGING YOU TO are worth anyone's effort.

[sadittariuus]

"Sorry, but you have a political voice and it’s your duty to use it."/"Anyway, Harris 2024." Kamala Harris is a fascist. Or do you not really understand fascism and think it just means "the people I Don't Like and Think Are Bad"? Are you just stupid, or being deliberately ignorant? Either way, you're a fucking moron. Kamala Harris is further right than Trump on the border. She is further right than Trump on the military. She supports genocide. She is not your savior.

Lol, I’m literally signing up for a call center to get people polling information and registered to vote. Harris 2024

[a-lonely-dunedain]

courtesy of the Immersive Armors mod I now have some armor for Skyrim!Meneldir that suits him. Not a 1-1 match for his canon look of course but it's as close as I think I'll get here. Look! it even has the crossed red bands on his arms like in lotro! and... that's about the only similarity but I'll take it.

[legobiwan]

Set during the era of the High Republic, The Acolyte will begin to unravel how an esteemed organization like the Jedi Order could be in its golden age and also on the cusp of the chaos that unfolds in the Skywalker saga. “If Star Wars is about the underdog versus the institution, [in The Acolyte] the Jedi are the institution,” Headland says. “I was so interested in a storyline where the Jedi were at the height of their power — and I don't mean The Phantom Menace, because at that point, there's a Sith Lord in the Senate that they're not picking up on.” Headland wanted to explore further back, when seeing a Sith seemed as likely as encountering a velociraptor. “Like it's a thing I've heard of, but it's not a thing that you would ever consider you'd be interacting with.” With a darker tone focusing on the duality that exists beyond the simplistic black-and-white view of good versus evil, The Acolyte asks a key question before the fall of the Jedi: “What went wrong?” Headland asks. “And if the bad guys are actually the underdog, it just seemed like a cool reversal.”

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Color me intrigued.

[vonclosen]

vent. sorry i’m honesty hangry and upset

actually i’m still annoyed. has anyone in this damn fandom heard of filtering tags. for shit. they don’t like

also like not to be ‘what about’ but seriously if your biggest problems are fucking shipping wars on tumblr dot com i envy you. truly.

[zabiume]

why did kubo give uryu and ichigo a jace and clary plotline

[oratoful]

hey do you guys remember the designs I made for the Nishikikouji Siblings?

I did a full body design for Kyouri. I wasn't satisfied with the initial motifs I gave him, so I decided to do a complete overhaul on his outfit.

His sleeves are striped like the feathers on the sides of their faces. He is a hand talker and often brings his arms to his face. It symbolizes how those feathers fan out when they're courting other pheasants. For him, he's just eccentric.

He's meant to have heels, I just got lazy.

Kyouri Nishikikouji is the only introvert out of the siblings, and the middle child. He's around 40 in my head and has two children (2/3 of the little chicks drawn alongside Tohri in some pieces). He's the one who manages a majority of the misc businesses the Nishikikoujis own (ex; Nishikikouji dried goods, the sauna mentioned to be in their name in the manga). He's responsible for funneling funding Tohri's way whenever Tohri blows a hole into Golden Weekly for the ????th time.

Despite being affluent in the art of business, having numerous connections, and keeping the Nishikikouji name in the limelight, Kyouri is a loser. He is a total dweeb. He adores anime and probably freaked the fuck out when he realized where Tohri was working.

[cradle-of-darkness]

COOKIES OF DARKNESS NATION WE ARE OFFICIALLY BACK 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

(long rambling in tags if u care)

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

every new doctor to their future/past self

[sainzinnorris]

Nico does not “know” Lewis he knew him there’s a difference.

anon, i'm going to run you through something okay? hypothetically let's consider someone you know for two whole decades of your life, someone you share something common with, but like, that isn't the only thing that binds you together. what makes brocedes so compelling as a dynamic is the fact that their friendship was beyond the sport. of course the sport had laid the foundation and groundwork of their friendship, but it wasn't a whole, “ oh he likes the same sport as me and we're competitors ” type of relationship. it was a proper friendship. now when you know someone for two whole decades, you claim you know them. of course people grow and change, but what you are fundamentally is still the same/similar. so despite the lack of communication, and the falling out, nico does know lewis. or at least understands lewis. definitely 100% as a teammate and a racer (from experience and from observing and studying his racing style to understand where he- nico could gain the upper hand). but like as people, of course they've evolved and grown for the better. there's irreparable damage on both ends. so that's what i think, even if nico doesn't know lewis like he used to, he understands and sees why he does the things he does. because he was his best friend.