#across that fine line

[musicandoldmovies]

Nation of Language - Across that fine Line

[everthegirlanachronism]

“Every day we're circling Never closing in on what we want But can you feel the quickening Seven million moments down to one.”

[bodyhate]

I didn't know he was pretty

[toneburst]

Nation of Language (w/ Miss Grit) - Across That Fine Line @ The Atlantis, DC, November 11, 2023

[prankprincess123]

Going from Vox Machina the last two and a half game sessions to Mighty Nein tonight is absolutely insane tonal whiplash.

Cause both are lvl20 parties who've done incredible things, but Vox Machina heading to battle were like: *battle plan 1000% made enough that there's pretty much nothing to discuss* "We're saving the world again!" *fully confident that they'll successfully save the world, save Vax, and come home to their kids safely* *Inspirational Leader speech to an entire army* *equally confident that even if they fail their family will be fine and able to take care of the world in their stead* *saving eachother instinctively* *successfully saving everyone on a crashing skyship while on another skyship thats being shot at without any hesitation, difficulty or injury* *looking absolutely eipcally cool while doing so*

Meanwhile at pretty much the same time the Mighty Nein are just: *genuinely discussing if charging in butt naked would be an effective plan* *mostly saving the world just cause they live there* *start randomly tattooing people* *discussing love lives and a potential threesome in front of people they met yesterday* *casually arguing about unhinged wedding plans instead of planning for battle* *fighting eachother* 'If you kill our friend I will take advantage of being the favorite uncle to make your life torture' *almost TPK while on a zipline to the battle because they're just such disasters* "YOU WIN BY DEFAULT! DONT SHOOT MY WIFE AND OUR SHARED BEST FRIEND!" *slipping on ball bearings they threw behind them*

Everything about this was just wild in the complete opposite way the last few were

[paranormal-taters]

I'm rereading Lockwood & Co. and I just started The Screaming Staircase and. the thought of little 8-year-old Lucy Carlyle walking around in an agency uniform actually makes me so sick to my stomach.

[m4gp13]

Why did Rick do this to us?

Seriously, he went, "Yeah I'm gonna establish a history between two important characters on opposing sides of a conflict in which one of them clearly has negative feelings about the other. and then never bring it up again 🤪" BITCH COME BACK HERE!!!

There was so much that could have been going on between these two! I was talking to @nakamurastorrington about this on twt the other day.

Like, Annabeth's fatal flaw is hubris and Ethan's mother is the physical embodiment of the punishment for hubris, they are diametrically opposed! They have their shared history at camp but very different experiences with the system where Annabeth was pretty much immediately claimed and became the head councillor of her own cabin from a very young age, establishing her as a respected veteran at camp. Meanwhile, Ethan was shoved into a corner of someone else's cabin because he wasn't worth his own cabin, and so he just faded into the background. Also, Their relationship with Luke! They both had Luke as a big brother figure. Annabeth saw him as genuine family and Ethan would have looked up to him as his brother while in the Hermes cabin. Then Luke left and Annabeth still held out hope for him and refused to believe he'd ever truly passed the point of no return even while everyone constantly told her she was wrong, and Ethan, despite spending a year working for Kronos and seeing the worst of the results of Luke's actions, still believed he was in there fighting Kronos. Not to mention, THEIR MOTHERS??!?!!?!

There could have been such interesting conflict between them! Annabeth should have gotten to talk to Ethan during the parley. If anyone should have gotten to snap at Ethan about his mother, it should have been her because he would have snapped back so hard!

[humanmorph]

🤖☠️⚔️🐟

👍 they're funny to me. i love the thought of everyone being a little baffled except cori who is soooo excited. unrelated but brnine is just off-panel playing darts with misericorde + cor'rina & losing badly & not even paying attention to what's happening here

[moregraceful]

Okay i can't complain anymore bc in group today they were like what do you when you are angry and i said i text at least 2 group chats and complain to everyone on the internet and then i get angrier and stay angry for at least the rest of the day, sometimes a couple days. And they said, hmm i don't know if that is really the most appropriate coping mechanism for you.

So anyway we must pivot, everyone tell me about the hottest person you have ever interacted with in real life that made you act like a fool....

I'll go first, one time i was eating brunch at a bar and a hot butch bartender with multiple ear piercings and tattoos all over her arms called me honey and I nearly passed out and then tipped like 100% of my bill. And one time I made a really really handsome short guy with a beard and tattoos at work laugh and I almost gave him a student discount and he wouldn't let me and walked away grinning.

[faaun]

where you are the midnight sun will forever never set

[memorys-skyscraper]

something that really frustrates me about Discourse(TM) re: stories in video games is that the vast majority of people who engage in those discussions seem utterly incapable of considering anything besides the literal text of the game and will not acknowledge any meta elements of a game, how it functions as a product, etc.

like i'm seeing people argue about the point of giving majima amnesia in pirate yakuza, and i'm only seeing shit like "it was pointless bc he just ended up remembering anyway", "he wouldn't have gotten as invested in noah if he hadn't lost his memory", etc etc, like. gamers. they gave him amnesia because this game is meant to be an intro to majima for people who picked up the series with y7/y8. y7 in particular did huge numbers and brought in a ton of people who are new to the series. they wanted those people to be able to play the game without being completely lost but also didn't want to try to dump 7 games' worth of majima lore on them to get them up to speed. giving him amnesia and transplanting him to a completely different setting lets them do that, while also letting them slowly reintroduce the parts of majima's backstory that they want new players to know over the course of the game. i'd bet my bottom dollar that his amnesia + hawaii as the setting were among the first things about the game that were decided on for that specific reason, and everything else followed from that. any function/value his amnesia may or may not have had wrt the narrative was entirely secondary.

like im not saying we need to take a super ~academic~ or ~rigorous~ approach to discussing the wacky pirate game, but can we use our brains at least a little bit?

[ladyluscinia]

Been watching One Piece with my sister (as well as spn) and I've decided my impulsive all-in rarepair this time around is Ace x Smoker

They're fire and smoke. Enemies to lovers between two guys who just want to chill except they're also devoted to their jobs / deep-seated beef with the other guy's side. 30 seconds after they met each other Luffy slammed Smoker's abs directly into Ace's face. Neither of them believe in shirts. It's true love. I've decided 😌

[deanpinterester]

now that i've read the ballad of songbirds and snakes book i'm gonna rewatch the movie and see what happens

[buysomecheese]

I used some temporary tattoos I found to sort of feel out where I think I want to get my tattoos this summer/September and I keep getting really worried that someone’s gonna see them under my shirt collar and I’ll have to be like “😬 unfortunately I am not cool enough to have gone out and gotten a tattoo during exam season sorry guys”

[raystranslationsfestival]

Blood Banquet (Crestoria OST Addition Version).

Type: Skit (xMA with Misella). Character: Kanata (Third Skit). Characters Featured: Kanata, Misella, Vicious, Aegis, Yuna.

Translation, recording, subbing by Shi. Proofread by Yewfelle.

NOTE: About halfway into the skit, there's a BGM change. This was an edit made by me and is not used in the original skit. The original, unedited version of this is also on my YT channel and this blog.

[chetter-holmgren]

Respectfully, I want to lick him