#UselessLies

[forevertry79]

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[mahoushojoe]

we cannot let the people saying "legal child-killing" rejoin society without repercussions. this is depraved. i don't want to share a society with you people. the idea of it repulses me. you people deserve nothing less than ostracization and the end of your platforms and careers.

[meredithmoriarty]

What do mean there are keys in this game?

[art-of-mathematics]

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

Some people get a little too comfortable in my comments, I am now not going to hold back so beware

[all-pacas]

there's three different kinds of metatextual canon in house md. there's the deeply necessary: for example, house's limp is necessary because it serves as both a character beat and explanation for a lot of house's character and story: it would not be the same show without it. it could not be removed from the show without changing the show fundamentally. the second type is the "character beats that improve the show but do not necessarily need to be there. for example, beats like wilson having three ex wives could be removed or replaced: while it's a telling character beat and a good one, it is not necessary to the dna of the show. wilson could be a serial dater, or have never married, or have had just one divorce, without his character or the show changing all that much around it. and then there are things that are not necessary and do not add plot or character dimension but are so perfect that it's as though they were placed into the show's dna from on high, like the fact that the whole fucking thing is set in new jersey.

[guzhufuren]

BTS of the aphrodisiac river side scene from uncensored wuxia BL Meet You At The Blossom (pt. 1)

[utilitycaster]

I sort of got off topic in the ask I just answered, and this is also a repetition of stuff I and others have said pretty frequently before but: an unbelievably consistent theme across Critical Role especially, but also D20 while we're at it, is that sitting forever in resentment of your personal traumas, valid though they may be, can very easily become a source of villainy. It leads to a mentality in which you are always the wronged and oppressed (structurally or individually) party, even when you surpass those who wronged you in power, even if you start perpetuating the same harm. We see it constantly. It's the entire premise behind how Orthax functions and both Percy and Ripley fall to it; it's Delilah's eventual motivation after her initial defeat; it's the underpinning of Wildemount's many cults and something Lucien repeatedly cites in-game (and he is more sympathetic than most when finally given more internality in the book); it's essentially what Trent relies on to indoctrinate students. It's how the Vanguard recruits and it is, above all, what drives Ludinus and his generals and (reluctant, resentful) allies. It's why Kipperlily is one of D20's greatest villains, and why Calroy betrays in ACOC. Even more so than a thirst for power on its own without necessarily the accompaniment of this resentment (Goldenhoard, Avantika, Briarwoods pre-initial defeat, Chroma Conclave) this is portrayed as the enemy.

The thing about that resentment is that it relies on the villain forever portraying themselves as powerless, as just a little guy who you can't hit because they're just a little baby boy. As, as I said last night, an NPC rather than someone with immense agency. It's a lie; don't fall for it. It's true that with great power comes great responsibility, but with any small amount of power does come small responsibility. This resentment essentially is an abdication of that responsibility to take what you have and try to improve things, and instead focusing on how everything is someone else's fault. And something I love about actual play, since power through agency is indeed at its core, is that this abdication of responsibility is consistently portrayed as something terrible.

[mollysunder]

It's super ironic that Viktor’s so against turning hextech into weapons when all his weapons have cartoonishly evil names. I get that Jinx has Super Mega Death Rocket, but that's an unserious name for someone that's just having fun.

Viktor has a laser he unironically calls a DEATH Ray that sets people on FIRE.

Speaking of fire...

Maybe Piltover needs to invest in a fire department instead of the wardens next season.

[forevertry79]

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[gold-dust-angel]

Hmm so it turns out many people consider Ava a bad protagonist and find her annoying??? And that the show is slow??? And that it endorses disability erasure???

I hardly ever fall in love with main leads especially 'the chosen one' types and yet Ava was so easy to get behind and even relatable and I love her so much. And god I wish the show was even slower and it had more episodes like I wanted to see the dynamics between the sisters in depth, Ava and Bea's relationship progressing, little lost moments, their quiet times, their training sessions, them joking around and being normal idk. It still went by too fast?

And I might be wrong here but to me it wasn't disability erasure. Ava's disability is very much a part of her throughout. It's why she spends half the season running away because she hasn't lived yet. It's why she can't give up the halo either. It's why she can't drain the halo too much or can't fight as good as other warrior nuns (minus not being trained yet of course). It's her deepest fear. And it is so fundamental to her and Bea's relationship too like Bea touching her after that fight with Crimson, Bea reassuring her, Bea understanding her fears and hesitance....her disability is a very much constant presence throughout the narrative even though under the surface and ahhhhh I want to scream so bad rn.

I'm straight up not having a good day today and then finding out about these shitty opinions about this beloved sunshine of a character—

Are people allowed to have opinions I don't agree with? Yes.

Do I want to hit them on the head with a stick despite? Also Yes.

Now I'm wondering am I biased because I've read way too many fics and post analysis' and therefore see more depth than there was? Does it even matter?

[letitbehurt]

Nonverbal/Nonspeaking Whumpees. And all that this entails.

[notjaydair]

Ellis doodles!! Trying to learn how to draw him. + other unrefined doodles

[vellichorom]

uh oh. I can't imagine mixing a virus with a wayward executable can lead to anything good..... what do you mean it just gave him the flu,

FINALLY, at LONG LONG LAST; Thierry's OFFICIAL Lovebug AU rendition! in which the man quite literally gets bugged. with love! & with sick nasty

truly a lesson to all to watch what you download from your emails!

( the lovebug AU concept belongs to @things1do ~ )

[lost-in-fandoms]

Obsessed with tarzan!Max and his preference for wearing Daniel's shirts. Now I'm wondering how Daniel feels about this? 👀 and when he gets them back, are they a little stretched out from Max's broader shoulders? Smell more like his earthy musk and sweat than soap?

Hi friend <3

I think daniel is very smug about clearly being max's favorite and he's quickly grown very fond of him so he likes that max seems to prefer his shirts. I think he gives up a couple for the cause so that max gets to keep them.

maybe max has some nesting habits? has a few places where he likes to sleep and to make them cozier he likes to make little nest-beds with grass and leaves and maybe birds feathers? and he adds the tshirts to them too. but daniel can't exactly give all his shirts away, so he asks for most of them back and at first max is very confused because daniel gave it to him? that's his now? and they have to explain to him the concept of borrowing and sharing lol

the tshirts are a bit stretched out, not much because max is bigger, because daniel likes his tshirts oversized anyway, but because max fiddles with them a lot, tugging them and tying them when they get in the way, and maybe getting stuck in them a few times when trying to get them off.

and daniel won't admit it, probably not even to himself at first, but he likes to see max in his clothes. at first he tells himself it's because he just prefers max to be clothed (liar, he liked to ogle at his strong body) but then he has to admit he prefers when he's in his clothes. because it makes max feel a little closer, not like someone who could just disappear in the jungle at a moment notice and never come back, and because it feels like max is a little more his, not as free and wild. someone he could keep. even if i don't think daniel is at a "i like max" stage quite yet.

and yes, the clothes are to be washed when max gives them back, because even if none of them is that careful with not getting dirty since they're in the middle of the jungle, max seems to make them three times dirtier by climbing trees and laying on the ground and jumping into rivers and hanging out with all sorts of animals. but daniel doesn't mind. and if the clothes still smell a bit like max even after being washed (they just have a limited amount of soap and river water it's not like they can do miracles) he's not going to complain about it.

maybe one time he has no clean tshirts left, between max stealing and/or wearing them and the fact that they don't do the washing too often, and instead of being a normal person and asking one of the other guys for one he decides to wear one max had already worn and isn't (surprisingly) too dirty. he finds himself bringing the collar up to his nose to smell it way too often lol (i know what you are...)

this also made me think about max cuddling up to daniel to sleep. he has a weird sleep schedule, is up a lot during the night and take a few naps during the day, and he likes to check on his usual spots, but he almost always come back when the night is almost heading into dawn and curls up around daniel, pressing his face against daniel's neck.

the first time he did it, daniel startled so hard he hit max and max had ran away like a kicked puppy. daniel had to work pretty hard to convince him to come back and that they weren't fighting and yes max was allowed in the tent, no daniel wasn't marking his territory. but now daniel expects it and lets max be his big spoon <3

wait wait hold on, i was pressing post and had another thought!

obviously max doesn't have a name right? because why would he. so daniel gets to give him one and goes for something ridiculously excessive like maximus emilian the first of his name, or something like that. max for short <3

[belluzinhaa]

favorite first watches of 2024: #4

SANCTUARY (2022) dir. Zachary Wigon