#Thanks for coming to my ted talk!

[dekariosclan]

Having watched Gale’s ‘Evil Ending’, read a few spicy takes, and thought about it for a bit, I just want to point something out: every time Gale has any interactions with the Heavens/Elysium/The Gods, be it in-game or as an alternate ending, it’s not good for him, and he’s never truly happy.

Of course the Evil ending is the most extreme version with him straight up hating the Gods and waging war, but in addition, there’s also:

Gale having suffered during his time in Elysium as Mystra’s plaything Chosen

Gale becoming God of Ambition, but losing his family/ Tav

Gale becoming God of Ambition and ascending Tav, but him still being insecure/unsatisfied with himself, and possibly destroying the Pantheon

Gale dying from attempting to be a God and failing to dethrone Mystra

Gale dying after following Mystra’s orders to detonate the orb (causing many to suffer if done in Act 2, the very thing Gale NEVER wanted to happen)

Gale becoming Illithid and then being taken to Elysium with Mystra, in a scene which has which has chemistry lower than the Mariana trench and is possibly the unsexiest thing I have ever seen

So, when people say that Gale should forgive Mystra, become her Chosen again (which is spoken about on the docks in the ending where he returns the Crown to Mystra), and that the Evil Ending shows this is a ‘good’ thing…I’m not seeing it.

In contrast, I could talk about the ending where he leaves the Crown in the river, the orb remains in his chest, and how that works out great—he’s not beholden to Mystra, he’s happy and satisfied with himself/Tav/his life which results in the orb being dormant, then later Mystra cures the damn thing permanently anyway, AND he gets to have a cool scar that keeps his students in check, and also definitely lights up when he’s horny for Tav, etc. etc.

But I’m gonna go one step further and talk about what happens when Gale goes to Hell. Yes, Hell. Literal, actual Hell, the farthest place from Heaven, which is what happens when he is romanced by origin Karlach and he goes with her to Avernus.

Remember how every iteration of Gale in Heaven results in him being unhappy in some way? Here’s Gale in Hell with his beloved Karlach:

He is happy as a clam!

Tara visits them frequently!

There’s even a f*cking bookstore!

In Conclusion:

If you want Gale to be truly happy, KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE GODS.

[not-so-rosyyy]

Journalism. Love your work Rosssy

this was sent after my bodyguardtom quick analysis last night and i giggled a bit, anon. thanks.

here's more journalism for you: after seeing other angles of what transpired, i have become more convinced rather than put off that how he reacted was justified.

Tom (which is funny because dude, you're also the client? lol) and Jack went ahead trying to clear the way for Z, thinking she was literally just behind. but the moment they were one step out of the way, the crowd immediately closed in on her.

which should not have happened because the right fan etiquette is that you line up on the sides and give the celebrity THEIR WAY so they could keep moving when they choose to. (even one of the paps was yelling, "give her space! guys, guys, give her space!") but that didn't happen. Z was literally BLOCKED from moving; she was not given that choice.

people were shoving things millimeters into her face. there was also some pushing going on, as evidenced by how this one pap's video got out of focus and panned from the subject to kingdom come at one point.

Jack had to duck down in order to get close to her again. Darnell was getting stressed trying to barricade her with his one arm.

the security assigned to her (i assume, because Jack was Tom's) was NOT on her. that guy also went ahead with Tom and Jack. you can see him protecting Tom instead when Jack went back for Z.

i'm assuming Tom turned around, did not see Z behind, panicked, and got pissed the moment he realized nobody was with her aside from Darnell. you can see he initially let Jack sort it out, but when the latter couldn't get Z out of it, that's when he really stepped in.

somebody started yelling, "pull back! pull back!" when Tom started bulldozing his way to her. they didn't. Tom had enough, told someone to "get out the f*cking way!" Z tried to tell him it's okay just to calm him down.

but let's be honest, that crowd would NOT have let up had he not pulled her out of there. they would've insisted on being accommodated till every last one was satisfied with a photo and an autograph. which, as she'd said time and time again, she has a hard time saying no to even with her boundaries and safety breached.

the way he reacted was how anyone who cares so fucking much for someone would've reacted in that kind of situation. it's just how, when you love someone, you become anxious about their well-being much more than yours. your mind races to all possible worst-case scenarios you could think of and try to prevent any of that from happening. we can joke it's like the spidey sense, but it's true: his body was on auto-pilot the moment he sensed a possible danger for her. he didn't think about himself or what it would look like for him, he just reacted—and acted—as fast as he could to get her out of that perceived danger.

and that, my friends, is just what love looks like sometimes.

[yesloulou]

brought to you by the genius tags via @dannyric333 <3

[lelalyo]

I might be completely off the mark but I recall Wyll saying that Gale was the cook of the camp, right? For some reason, I pondered this because I just assumed that everyone would cook for themselves for various reasons (Minthara mentioning poisoned food a lot, for example) and I wondered why Gale would do this. The thought that occurred to me is: What if this is his way of comforting everyone? Ofc, it could just be for efficiency so everyone doesn't have to wait for their turn at the fire but when he was at his lowest, it sounds like Tara covered all his basic needs for him while he was trying to cope/come to terms emotionally.

Seeing as everyone would have to be trying to rationalize being kidnapped, tadpoled, falling out of the damn sky, living with the constant threat of being one word away from being squidified + the unresolved emotional baggage they had before, me thinks that Gale is might be trying to cover everyone's basic needs for them like Tara did for him.

I know he mentions that Tara would've approved of saving the grove but little things like just having something to eat matter too.

On the flip side, you could say the companions are perfectly capable of looking after themselves, they're all survivors after all but they're also very perceptive of each other. Maybe they think Gale is trying to prove or distract himself, maybe both and maybe they don't mind because having someone who makes them something at the end of a long day is actually comforting. Or maybe Gale is just the best cook in camp so everyone leaves him to it.

[sebsxphia]

cruel summer by taylor swift is the most jake seresin song of all time. it’s the summer before he goes off to the navy and i can just picture it all so clearly, especially with these lines:

“hang your head low, in the glow of the vending machine”

“you say that we'll just screw it up in these trying times”

“oh it's new, the shape of your body”

“and i screamed for whatever it's worth, "I love you, " ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?”

“he looks up grinning like a devil”

you’re both best friends from high school age and you decide to take one last road trip, just the two of you, before jake deploys for the navy. you’re so hopelessly in love with him and he loves you too, but the prospect of the navy is too daunting for him right now. he can’t give you what you want and in this essay i will—

[magiciian]

⚠️‼️ PSA‼️⚠️

It may be a shocker to some, but I am a Black PERSON. I am not food. Please do not use chocolate when describing me😶

[shadowfromthestarlight]

You don't have to read this article, but I wanted to share it to point out something in particular.

This is about a New York Times article published just before SCOTUS oral arguments on the government censorship case Murthy v. Missouri (used to be Missouri v. Biden). It's intended to discredit some of the people who exposed the government's attempts to circumvent the First Amendment, including the author, Matt Taibbi. He debunks the nonsensical article, of course, but there's a quote here I think is particularly telling. The article's writers suggest, at one point, that the federal government's role in censorship was "an imperfect attempt to balance free speech with democratic rights."

Balance free speech with democratic rights.

Wait, what?

Free speech is a democratic right.

One of the most important, in fact.

Then the New York Times comes out with another piece about why the "deep state" is actually a good thing.

Ho boy, these people are really showing their hand.

Here's the thing about the left that is crucial to understand. The left is not hypocritical, because everything the left supposedly cares about is nothing but a means to an end, and they only have one end, which is absolute power for the left. Why does the left support the rights of some protestors but not others? Why is the left "compassionate" towards some groups of poor people but not others? Why does the left tell us to listen to people's "lived experiences" but shun black people who aren't on board with DEI and "anti-racism" and detransitioners and women and minorities who don't vote for them? Why, why, why? Well! It's actually pretty obvious! They only support people who further their own agenda, and the instant you're not supporting a leftist agenda, you're out! The left does not care about "the people." The left does not care about democracy. The left does not care about free speech. The left does not care about you. The left cares about - you guessed it - the left! That's all there is to it!

[wxywardsun]

Bringing up uncannynatural in the sense of witches yet again so here’s some things I think they should’ve been able to do + do more of whether it be knowingly or unknowingly :

More glowy eyes. Let them have glowy eyes more even in a well lit room. You can see the faintest purple glow if you focus hard enough (I just think that’s such a bone chilling thing to think about)

Unknowingly making lightbulbs flicker or pop with magic (heightened emotions = brighter flicker)

The occasional rattle of a random object on a table when a witch gets startled would’ve been pretty interesting to see

Radio audio fizzling in and out on occasion when a witch uses a spell (or a computer screen glitching out a bit)

Oh a witch has long nails? I wanna see little tiny sparks of magic flying up and around in the air if they scratch or claw at something

I feel like we should’ve seen a witch with fangs or at least a bit of noticeable sharpness to their canines. It would look super neat and ominous and (again) those occasional little sparks of magic if they bare them at someone or something would look pretty badass

little hand movements when they do spells (think doctor strange + scarlet witch type of moves)

Object levitation + darting objects at monsters with it. Seriously imagine being on a hunt and out of nowhere a knife comes flying at the monsters head before you can even get a hit in only to find out it’s a witch that nabbed your kill a few feet away from you (makes it even more chilling if you can’t even see where they’re at)

I might add to this list but overall? I love the witches of supernatural I just wish they could’ve been more ominous!

[ericaportfolio]

Some time ago, I got tired of seeing the controversy if Mortimer's Handeemen puppets were "related" to each other. So I made a tweet question to see if Andrew Allen ever responds to it. Lord and Behold, he does! Long story short from Andrew, the Handeemen puppets are not related to each other. The long story is me picking through each detail Andrew can reveal without spoiling what might go down in the next game when we get it someday (cross fingers!). Before I begin, the question I tweeted is in the link below to read through it. SPOILERS to Hello Puppets: Midnight Show Also Below!!!

I started off by asking the question listed in the link with Andrew answering later that night in separate parts. Andrew clearly knows what is going on. He uses the biggest of the controversies that have been widely argued and questioned, Nick Nack's crush, quoted below in parts one and two.

Puppets cannot technically be biological siblings. What does “related” mean for beings that don’t reproduce, don’t have DNA, etc? I think the question behind the question here is: “are Nick’s feelings for Riley familial attraction?” I know some people don’t like that Riley and Nick see each other in a way that is like human siblings. So what he feels is wrong. The story in no way condones Nick’s feelings for her, they’re treated as inappropriate. But are the Handeemen a real family in any way? Or are they a cult?

Andrew states the puppets are not siblings, cannot "be biological siblings", and cannot reproduce in the game canon. In the original show, Owen wanted the Handeemen to feel like a stereotypical nuclear family, the parents, in this case, the father and mother, and the siblings, the sister and brother. Riley and Nick were supposed to be like the rival infighting siblings that tolerate each other occasionally. Unfortunately for Owen, not all the traits he imagined didn't transition through into the puppets. Mortimer Handee the best example of going from the perfect father figure to a toxic cult leader. In Nick's case, it's actually interesting that Andrew agrees what Nick is feeling is wrong and that what he's doing can get him in trouble with HR in the workplace in the modern world, but the story itself doesn't condone Nick. But still, you can get into trouble at work making a painting seen in the VHS tapes like Nick did with a coworker who views you like a sibling. Or in a case where a sibling thinking about another sibling that way has very extreme consequences that can lead to jail. With that, it leads to what I can describe from what Andrew might say in a Shakespeare tragedy "Family or cult? That is the question."

Mortimer wants them to think they’re a family. But the Handeemen are starting to question that. Daisy and Riley discover a friendship that is healthy. Nick, because he has a deep self-loathing, lashes out at Daisy and Riley in unhealthy ways. He has let Mortimer’s voice get in his head and tell him he’s worthless. If we get a chance to tell more of the story, I think a question I want to tackle is this: can these puppets become a REAL family, not just drones for an abusive tyrant? I have an idea the answer.

Andrew finishes off in parts three and four saying Mortimer wants to carry on the trait of that stereotypical family dynamic Owen envisioned. However, cracks were forming. Daisy and Riley slowly become best friends, but Nick is mentally suffering from Mortimer's abuse, just like Owen did from his father, that Nick takes it out on Daisy and Riley, the same way Owen did on his coworkers. So now it leads to Andrew's final question, "Can these puppets become a REAL family, not just drones for an abusive tyrant?" My answer is that Riley, Nick, Daisy, and the other puppets in the studio came close to realizing that this found family that imitates a nuclear family was toxic. Sadly, Mortimer, being the toxic cult leader he is, was way ahead of everyone to turn it into a big NO. Mortimer collected blackmail on everyone to outsmart them and keep his control for the moment. Unless it unravels in the next game.

Clearly, Andrew cannot reveal much information about spoiler reasons for the next game. Like I said in my last post, I believe the next game in the series will focus on what found family is and what makes one healthy or toxic. The Handeemen versus what I believe will be Vox Veritas. Mortimer tries to make every puppet have some family-like structure versus Vox Veritas being friends helping and supporting each other with some imperfections because THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL! We all know Anthony Pierson’s fate in the first game! The Hello Puppets series is a tragedy after all. At the end of the day, incestuous relationships in bloodlines and adoptions should not be normalized in society. If anyone who reads this sees something like this in real life, you got the right to report it, rat out the guilty, and help the victims. Which is sadly common in cults nowadays. In the game, what Mortimer has set up in his cult is also messed up. I won't be surprised if it all comes crumbling down on him down the road through Anthony, or a certain blue hair puppet with her Host throwing a wrench into everything. If you know people in the Hello Puppets fandom who were also scratching their heads, show them these tweets and this post to help clear the air FINALLY! Thank You and Goodnight!

[hollow-port]

ALRIGHT. OKAY. APPARENTLY, THIS SHIT NEEDS TO BE FUCKING SAID!!

BEING GENDER NONCONFORMING ISN’T EXCLUSIVE TO CIS PEOPLE!! PERIOD!! IF YOU’RE ON OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO GETS “UNCOMFORTABLE” ABOUT A TRANSMASC PERSON OR TRANS DUDE IN A DRESS THEN KINDLY FUCK OFF!?

BEING GNC ISN’T EXCLUSIVE TO CIS PEOPLE BESTIE!! SORRY~!! YOU’RE JUST BEING TRANSPHOBIC WITH EXTRA STEPS!!

[ethernetmeep]

currently having the thought of although im unable to say this, i wish more than anything to write it in the sand to then see the waves erode the writing mere minutes after, as i will have said it but not aloud, only written, and have only been seen or even recognized as something which existed by the waves themselves or the microorganisms in the sand.

…if someone were to ask me what i had written, i wouldn’t tell them; too personal to say aloud, too vulnerable to even ponder to share to someone else. i allude to it indefinitely, but i don’t say it— i’m far too scared to.

[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

[thinkingabout-girls]

rating these laios hugs out of 10 cause they are quite possibly the funniest things i have ever seen

(please note this is not based on laios’s efforts it’s just rating the overall hug)

senshi hug: 10/10. that’s a solid hug right there. bit awkward with the height difference but they made it work

chilchuck hug: 5/10. i’ve been laughing at this for 10 minutes. an effort was made. points have been awarded for an obvious attempt at making chilchuck more comfortable but still is still the awkwardest hug i’ve ever seen. it is painfully obvious that laios once attempted to crouch down to hug chilchuck and received a kick to the nuts and was cursed out for 20 minutes, and has adapted to this so that chilchuck doesn’t kill laios or himself

marcille hug: 8/10. this is the way i hug my relatives that i don’t see very often at family events but it’s still a solid hug

shuro hug: 2/10. this is a great hug but points have been deducted because shuro is a bastard man

falin hug: 1000/10. THAT is a hug and it’s a damn good one. very obvious sibling love right there we love to see it

kabru hug: ???/10. what the fuck is this. what’s with the christian side hug. why are you gently holding his tit what’s wrong with you

[teacupbug]

My controversial opinion is that I think chronically ill people should be able to fight one doctor a year

[the-phantom-peach]

🗣️ huh?? what do you mean I haven’t posted any Link signing propaganda yet??

[sebsxphia]

preacher rhett abbott would get “little lamb” tattooed on his pelvic bone just above his pubic hair.