#also I am not a Hal hater

[private-c-miller]

What about the other three?

[post-cal]

this isnt related to the blog i just am thinking abt your drawing of Hal-If-He-Looked-Like-Bro. i think about it every day. i love it to death. i humbly request a redraw

Fun fact about the name for Hal Ambro it is just FULL of references.

[mindshelter]

HI doing my kyle readthrough (up to oyl) rn and i must know what are some of your fav issues/arcs 🙏 and if there's anything u think i should just skip. if ur feeling hateful enough

HI i appreciate this ask a lot i don't know if i count as any paragon of kyle expertise but... well. that's never stopped me.

if you're up to oyl you're pretty far along, and i assume you'd seen a handful of reading guides that nudge you towards all of gl (1990) #48-181 and its surrounding crossovers, including zero hour (1994) and final night/parallax: emerald night (1996). i derive most of my takes on his character from this era.

green lantern rebirth and gl publications thereon are often (in)famously authored by mr. geoff johns, so i cannot in good conscience integrate most of that body of work into my belief system. that being said! it does include the buildup to ion (2006) #1-12, which, while not perfect, has phenomenal art and is also pretty key to kyle's whole ethos. the buildup to ion is the following:

green lantern: rebirth (2004)

green lantern corps: recharge (2005)

rann/thanagar war: infinite crisis special (2006)

ion (2006)

if you're not allergic to ensemble comics, he is also a frequent cast member in jla (1997) for the first 70 or so issues; it's a good place to look to see him foster relationships with other members of the dc universe (like wally, whose friendship with kyle is basically nonexistent nowadays but i have not forgotten) and gradually gain confidence as gl. some highlights include:

jla (1997) #1-7 — he's such a rookie here. he's clearly very new to the game and nervous about it, so it's a good look into how he started off and what he grew from.

jla/titans (1998) #1-3

jla (1997) #16-17

jla (1997) #32-46 — tie-ins to no-man's land, hal's return as the spectre in #35, and the world war iii/tower of babel storylines.

green lantern: circle of fire (2000) — starts about here, in terms of publication timeline, but portrays a version of kyle that is still relatively new to the jla. the kylealex worms are here.

jla (1997) 47-68, #70, #72-75

jla (1997) #76 — kyle's final issue in the JLA's main rotation, as a tie-in for the later events in gl (1990). john steps in for him.

as for standalones, personal recommendations, or just random appearances i happen to remember:

green lantern/flash: faster friends (1996) #1-2 — (to an empty auditorium) WALLY AND KYLE WOO! WOO!

total justice (1996) #1-3 — more budding hero kyle. wally is a hater. tim is also there.

dc universe holiday bash (1996) #1 — kyle goes to synagogue and beats white supremacists :)

dc universe holiday bash I (1997) #1 — connor and kyle go holiday shopping. very cute also.

adventures in the dc universe (1997) #11 — kyle and wonder woman hang out! he also gets bullied by children and falls into a sewer.

superman (1986) #159, #165, #170

batman chronicles (1995) #15 — be fucking nice bruce

green lantern 3D (1998) — standalone. jen and kyle being cute.

green lantern secret files and origins (1998) #1-3

green lantern 80-page giant (1998)

flash 80-page giant (1998) — kyle appears for two pages but it's of wally asking him about alex because he's worried about his own relationship. kyle gets very sad and visibly withdrawn to the point that wally apologizes. VERY FUNNY.

(final note: THANKS! i am so flattered. was it because of the kyle slayner shooba wooba cherry pie brownie cake post. i rambled on for way longer than i thought i would. i hope this is helpful, and happy reading!)

[emeraldoo]

HEY! HEY!! LOOK AT ME!!

LE MEH!!!

hi, my name is bastion!! i have lots of other names im ok with tho, like bb, b, 8, shiver, weird, etc! im not ok with the nickname EM or EMERALD!

i am a zombie, autism creature, maned wolf kin and fict kin Shiver from spl3 <3 i am also NOT a minor!!!!!! 19 yrs :•)) im also a rogue of mind!! (homestuck hoe.)

i am a trans male! i use he/xe/it prns! currently questioning my romantic attraction (pretty sure im bi-gay), but i am asexual!

i am the host in the zipties system, a did system!! some of the head mates have their own blogs, which ill tag :•)

i am audhd, gad, ocd, and a general cluster b pd haver!! i also have some delusions from ~an unkown disorder~ so! working thru some stuff still!

MY INTERESTS!!!!!!!

SPLATOON AUGHHHHH most of my blog is splatoon....

i freaking LOVE nnsg :•3333 the anime of ALL TIME!!

SCIENCE!!!!!!! i plan on majoring in microbiology and synthetic biology but i luv ALL science!!

MUSIC/BAND!! i play euphonium and play in marching band and concert ensembles <3

i luvvv itsv and atsv and all of the spiderverse stuf!!!!!! my fave spider in spider man india btw.!

GUILD WARS 2 AIUGHHJJJHHH THE BEST EVER ACTUWLLY. PLAY IT PLAY IT RNNNN

ALTERS!!

not all of our alters choose to make profiles, and we arent going to force them to make them. if you need to know them, just send a DM or ask

* = written by alter

BASTION (☘️): DAS ME BITCH! im the host and core of the system >:•D i am the main guy in this blog soooo ya. (he/him, xe/xem, it/its)

EM/@riddlekid (🧪): the rat. horrible terrible (/hj... i guess..!) obsessed with horrible ppl sooo. erm yeah. he is also a prosecutor.!! also second most freq fronter :•P (it/its, he/him)

JON/@just-dr (🎃): jon!! he is a protector and a fictive of jonathan crane.. he is nice :•)) he doesnt associate much with his source tho so shrugsies (he/him, they/them)

MILES (👤): i actually dont know much abt them... they do their job rlly good tho! protector n stuff.. cool! (they/them)

CORNELIUS (🩸): um... so it just split and formed prtty recently (as of 12/8/23) and i also. don't know much abt it! other than it's a fictive of cornelius stirk from batman unburied.. and a prosecutor! (it/its)

JADE (🌐): cutey patootie wolf thing! fictive of jade from homestuck andddd yeah!! cool (she/they)

KARKAT/@karkat-cornbread (🔥): fictive of karkat homestuck guy. gets very angry very fast. idk role but yeah. the amgry one ig (he/they)

* DAVE/@karkat-cornbread (🕶️): yea. is this bitch predictable or what lmfao (he/any)

* HAL/9K/@timothy-timeaus (🛑): Beep boop. Coolest splinter of Dirk. I'm also cool with the name Odyssey or 9k. (They/Them)

* EQUIUS/@runningfromred (🐎): Yes hello I am Equius I am more active on the cohost but might still use this platform.

* TIM/ @timothy-timaeus (🔗): I'm my own subsystem of splinters. I'm just a ye ol Dirk splinter.

* CALUM/@timothy-timaeus (🧢): bro strider splinter and a real goof. heeheeee

* JAKE (🦎): Your caretaker and funny guy! im from meat timeline and have alot of pseudos, sorry if im hesitant to interact with sourcemates :B

MY TAGGING SYSTEM!! (wip 8[)

#emeraldo slay posting: all of my posts! that i leave words on are tagged with 8)

DNI :•(

its not rlly. much? the only stuff i rlly care abt is jerks.. if ur a jerkkk (terf, racist, zionist, ableist, antikin, sysmed, transmed, antikink, whatever girl u git the gist....)

i don't have especially strong opinions on most discourse... slurcourse, syscourse, flagcourse, shipcourse... its kinda silly.! so um. whatever.

* (Hal writing.) Our take on pro/antiship is "It doesn't fucking matter". We aren't proship, we aren't antiship, we are just kind of shipping whatever the fuck we want. If you think it's problematic, we most likely won't care. Unless there's a genuine reason to be concerned, don't bother.

exclusionists!!!! i don't like you!!!!!!!!!!!! aphones, panphobes, biphobes, mspec gay/lesbian haters, antixenogender, anti neoprns, whatever! i do not like you at all >:•{

hp fans... you know why :•) please find a better media ..

BYE BYE!!

[comicgeek2003]

Eviler Than Thou

In the villains business, there's only can be one.

Two villains are rivals, each wreaking havoc in their own special way. Each one has the potential to be the one and only Big Bad. The poor heroes are caught in the middle between two completely different threats, and have to be flexible enough to stop both. They may team up against the heroes for a while (each planning to double-cross the other), but usually they go for each other's throats, and the cross-fire threatens to destroy the world.

Whichever villain wins will rub it in with a cackling speech about how the other villain is deficient.

Examples:

Wander Over Yonder: Lord Dominator to Lord Hater and the other villains. When she appears in the season 2 premiere, it really shows that she is worse than Hater. More later, Lord Awesome tries to flirt with her, but she make him clear she is not interested and lock up him in a cell. In the episode "My Fair Hatey", she even sings "I Am The Bad Guy" to Wander and Hater to shows up how truly evil she can be.

Megamind: The titular character who acts more out of showmanship than any real malice, is horrified when he finds out that Titan/Hal turned out to be a villain who enjoys wreaking real havoc out of pure spite.

The Dark Knight Rises: John Daggett hires Bane to help him in his schemes to take control of Wayne Enterprises, and realizes all too late that Bane was the one who was using him all along. Bane is also implied to have actually been too evil and extreme for Ra's al Ghul and the League of Shadows themselves.

Doctor Who: In the episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", an entire army of Cybermen stomps onto Earth from a parallel universe, seemingly taking control of the planet. Then the Cult of Skaro show up, and make it clear they view the Cybermen as no more than a pest problem.

[martyrbat]

3, 6, 7, 17!

3. Who's your third-favorite Robin? Tell us one thing you like or dislike about them.

ooh .... this depends entirely on the value system. third favorite as a robin or third favorite for characters who were, at some point or time, robin... also am i being meta with my hatred (because i am choosing the hater route always <3)

6. Favorite Green Lantern? Would/do they get along with your favorite Flash?

oooh... im not as familiar as id like to be with GL stuff but i think i liked alan and guy. i know it's a crime to not say hal or kyle or whatever but for me i think guy is so interesting and redheads with bad haircuts have to stick together so probably him! and i think the only flash i care for was garrick and sometimes barry. in general i find the flash fam to kinda just be [deletes insult <3] not my particular taste so i dont read a lot with them and wouldn't wish them upon a lantern in general... but i think alan and garrick are the best for the duo, go gay grampas go! and i think guy should be allow to bully barry just for funsies <3

7. One DC death you'd like to make permanent—or alternatively, one you'd erase so it never happened?

i already answered this one [here] so can i cheat and say scott snyder. i know hes not a character but if im allowed any dc death... if not then i think ill erase sue dibny's because i hate identity crisis with a passion for how they handled her character

17. Who is the best civilian love interest, and why?

lois lane because shes lois fucking lane <33

dc ask game <3

[bad-surprise]

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so i updated my haladriel textfic erase me today (part three is on twitter) and i’d love to talk about that.

This is the wikipedia page I made for Celeborn. I really wanted him to be a mashup of Jack Antonoff and FINNEAS, which is interesting bc I am a known Celeborn hater who likes both of these producers.

Some canon references are more obvious than others. His middle name comes from his canonical Quenya name. Galadhrim Music is a reference to the elves living in Lothlorien. I wanted to make this world bigger bc touring is a huge part of the story, so Beleriand still exists here. I decided to make the Doriath family a family of politicians and civil servants bc i wanted the sort of government/leadership/public service feel but without the ickiness of actually making him nobility (though I did decide that his ancestors should still be royal). His band, Hidden Kingdom, is of course a reference to Doriath itself, and their album, The Fall, is a reference to the sacking of Menegroth.

Almost everything about Hidden Kingdom was taken from Jack Antonoff. He had a punk rock band in high school that toured using a DIY booking guide and played in anarchist bookstores. The approach to writing is heavily influenced by FINNEAS’ comments about how he writes songs for his sister, Billie Eilish, and how his acting experience helps with that.

A little easter egg here that you might catch later on in this part of the fic is that Amroth Lorien is the frontman of the supergroup Tevildo that Halbrand and Galadriel are both members of. You can expect to see a lot more about Tevildo in Part Four, but if it isn’t obvious, they are essentially intended to be the Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene.

More easter eggs with Erase Me:

- Both Hal and Gal are openly bisexual characters here. They also are not strictly monogamous sexually, which is not a big deal here but referenced occasionally— particularly in the phone call in Part Three between H + G where it’s implied that they have history with the Loriens.

- The Soundtrack podcast was inspired by a podcast episode I heard that was a conversation between Stevie Nicks and Matty Healy. I also wanted the vibe to be very Actors on Actors. We’ll see if Galadriel makes an appearance on it in the future.

- Gal has ADHD, but I’ve never directly referenced this.

- Whispers From The Void = Crazy Days and Nights. The individual posting goes by K, any guesses as to who that is?

- Elrond is not just a music video director but a successful feature film director as well.

- Nothing is happening between Nori and Isildur, I just love fuckboy Isildur vibes.

- G’s solo music is a cross between Eloise’s album Drunk On A Flight (which is referenced frequently throughout the fic) and Phoebe Bridgers. I really imagine the stuff she’s working on now as very similar to the song Drunk On A Flight by Eloise and Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers.

- The Dagorath Tour is partially inspired by Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

- The controversy re: G’s drumming is a reference to Meg White of The White Stripes.

- G does actually DJ as well, but more so just for fun. I imagine her as the sort of person who seems to be able to name any song three seconds into the intro.

- H is the more “serious” musician in terms of what he’ll listen to, but his formal education is lacking compared to G’s.

- “Light” is intended to be a sort of cross between Perth by Bon Iver, Something by The Beatles, and Guiding Light by Foy Vance, in terms of vibes, not necessarily sound.

- Lindalë’s sound is inspired by Silversun Pickups, Metric, The Strokes, Oh Wonder, Better Oblivion Community Center, and Arcade Fire, but with a lot of diverse influences (prog, punk, hip-hop, jazz, lounge) and they’re a little nerdy musically. They are getting into heated arguments over time signature shifts and they will defend their overuse of seventh chords to the death.

- I imagine a favorite album of G’s being Escalator Over The Hill by Carla Bley & The Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, but she also would love Ctrl by SZA, Led Zeppelin IV, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West (though she wouldn’t listen to that anymore bc of him being awful).

- H’s music in my head I imagine as a cross between Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Ray LaMontagne, Iron & Wine, and Conor Oberst, with a splash of Big Thief in there. His favorite album would probably be something like Grace by Jeff Buckley or Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey, but he also probably loves OK Computer and In Rainbows by Radiohead and Actor by St. Vincent.

- There’s a bit where they talk on Moria Music about playing with Tevildo and that is almost entirely inspired by a video of Broken Social Scene performing Anthems for a 17 Year Old Girl where Emily Haines says “I missed my friends” at the end. I also reference that line in an instagram caption of Celeborn’s.

- They are big into psychedelics and also regularly take MDMA together.

- Galadriel has threatened divorce many times but this is the first time she’s ever actually gone ahead with it.

- Nori is constantly looking for a new job but never actually takes anything bc she feels very loyal to H + G, even though she’s overworked and underpaid lol. She is not their first assistant, but most quit pretty fast.

- Hal has a Google alert set up for G.

- The divorce announcement was inspired by a number of celebrity divorce announcements, but none quite so much as the infamous Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin conscious uncoupling. Others include Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner and David Arquette & Courteney Cox — I just swapped out the band for references to their kids lol.

- The song “Palantír” is somewhat inspired by Cannibal by Marcus Mumford

That was a lot but I hope it was somewhat enjoyable?

[sunnyscript]

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Not sure how to do this but...

But welcome to this blog. I speak english, french and arabic fluently and I understand spanish decently(?).

I don't care about discourses but this blog is a safe space. This is a blog I made to have fun with. I am by nature not a hater (call it the lover mindset /hj) but I am critical of what I watch/do.

I don't have a dni you can interact as much as you like, but I will block you if you're an asshole or a person with downright horrible opinions. i.e Zionists can go fuck themselves.

I still haven't tagged some things properly so there my be some untagged flash warnings. Avoid gifs in my blog if you have photosensitivity.

Tis blog is neurodiverse safe

This blog is cluster B safe. Cluster a safe. Cluster c safe... etc etc

Safe space for weird genders haver, neopronoun users...

This blog is religion safe so never feel weird talking about it and thought I don't often post things about that I am myself religious. I am muslim.

Also, we're on the internet so I can't stop people from doing things but I'd rather you not comment on a thing I made with things "like X is a god" "I am a god" ...etc etc

Aspec folk please interact.

I don't really care for labels but I'll respect yours. I'm not educated on everything but I try bring kind.

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

There are people that hate on Tamaki's writing?

Ah you must not go around the internet much because you see the thing is that she's a woman and not just that she's also not white. So yes she gets unnecessary hate from jerks on the internet simply because of these things.

But she also wrote I am not Starfire which even I will say I did not like and as you know if a writer, writes one thing that's bad it negates everything else they've ever written and therefore they are a terrible a writer. Once again just copying how people speak on the internet cause way too many people act like that.

So yeah she gets hate because of that and like I said other than her Starfire novel I've enjoyed everything of hers that I read. So yes I am very much looking forward to the Hal Jordan series written by her. If her usual haters whine about her writing I will simply try to ignore them is what I was saying.

[mewtonian-physics]

6. become a hater. become a hater. become a hater. become a hater.

6. which ship fans are the most annoying?

well since i know we both like metal gear i'll just state the obvious

SAM/RAIDEN SHIPPERS ARE THE MOST ANNOYING PEOPLE ON THE FUCKING PLANET

like okay that's an exaggeration but come the fuck on. i know you've experienced it when you made that one post referencing i think a friend of yours and someone put weird tags on it. once i wrote a post about how raiden and rose have an unhealthy relationship and someone reblogged it and tagged it 'and this is why i ship him with sam instead!' as if that's better. i hate rose but i'll give her points for one thing, she doesn't help kill people raiden cares about, doesn't help torture and kill children, doesn't try to gaslight raiden into thinking that he's wrong to be angry about someone helping torture and kill children, doesn't scar me for life with weird unsolicited sexual comments, oh, and DOESN'T LITERALLY MUTILATE RAIDEN AND ALMOST KILL HIM. like damn! neither of these ships is a good idea! they both suck! stop thinking about shipping raiden for five fucking minutes! i promise the world won't end if he's not in a relationship! (thinking about it, people who are obsessed with raiden ships in general are usually annoying... but sam/raiden ones are the worst.)

also they're like 40% of the reason i can't go in the raiden tag so their annoying nature is Robbing me of opportunities to enjoy some content with my blorbo. i am tired, hal. i am tired

[emyn-arnens]

11, 14 and 16 for the ask game?

Thanks for the ask! (choose violence ask game)

11. number of fandom-related words you've filtered

I went and actually counted so I could see just how much of a hater I am, and I have 35 blocked tags, most of which I’d forgotten I’d filtered lol. Most are character x reader tags, as well as a slew of Hal/adriel tags because it kept finding its way onto my dash at one point, no matter what I blacklisted.

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

Finrod being portrayed as cold/callous to Andreth and not actually caring about her. It’s the one thing that will immediately make me click back out of Athrabeth fics that I would otherwise enjoy. It’s my least favorite interpretation of their relationship, and I see it a lot, both on here and in fic.

I wish people would keep in mind that the Athrabeth is the only recorded conversation we have between Finrod and Andreth—e.g., it’s one snapshot of their relationship, and a rather tense one because they’re discussing topics that are close to Andreth’s heart and tread on her raw places. It doesn’t mean all their conversations were like this.

But also throughout the conversation, it’s clear Finrod cares about Andreth because he tries hard to understand her and her perspective—even if he is a bit tone deaf sometimes and finds it difficult to see beyond his culture’s understanding of the topics they’re discussing (understandable; they're things he's accepted for hundreds of years, and Andreth is presenting foreign concepts to him). That he asks her questions, prods her to develop her thoughts, and lets her push back at him shows his care for her and that he sees her as an equal and respects her. And he DOES come around to her perspective, which shows his high regard for her and her wisdom.

It’s also clear that he has a lot of empathy about her pain over her relationship with Aegnor. He wishes he could bring her comfort, but he knows that as someone who has, in her eyes, been blessed with immortality, he cannot give her any comfort that she could receive:

“If I could speak any comfort, you would deem it lordly from one on my side of the sundering doom. But what can I say, save to remind you of the Hope that you yourself have revealed?”

“'The Eldar have no healing words for such thoughts, adaneth,' he said.”

And finally: “Whither you go may you find light. Await us there, my brother—and me.” Tell me how those are the words of an elf who is callous and doesn’t care about her.

This turned into a meta, but suffice to say, I have many thoughts about them.

16. you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

Eldritch peredhil. I can’t tell you why I dislike it because I don’t even know why it bugs me, but it does. And it’s so popular. Actually, that’s probably why I dislike it. If I see something too much, I tend to start disliking it.

[timaeusturntech]

So what I'm hearing is that those pants are a wedding gift and I'll be wearing them to the ceremony. The guests will be incredibly confused by the vows and most likely everything else. Is this a themed wedding? Can we have Kermit the Frog be the fucking. I forgot the word. The guy who marries us?

You're not missing out on much not talking to a ton of other systems by the way. Their Hals aren't as fun as I am. I always feel like that one meme template, the one with the guy standing in the corner of the party whenever I interact with them honestly. I don't tell anyone this but I don't like doubles much

Visual novels for the win. Story games are always better than plain old gameplay games because then it gives you characters you can get invested in and plotlines and shit. It's why I hate shooters, they're just. Well. Shooting. They also remind me of Jake but that's a different story

Sorry for never responding to this, we fell asleep. On the bright side, however, I front more often than Bro and can still react in an acceptable amount of time.

Yes, the tripp pants are a wedding gift. I think we should both wear a pair for the ceremony, actually. Kermit the Frog can absolutely be the officiant too, but he also has to be wearing tripps. We'll have to make the longest, most confusing vows as well. Keep everyone there for a solid four hours.

Honestly? Fair. I've been somewhat inoculated to the concept of doubles because there are a handful of other Dirks within my system and I've found that others tend to generally be chill, but I know that we have some people who aren't fond of them. I'll also admit that I certainly feel either the superiority or inferiority complex kicking in when talking to other Dirks, which probably isn't healthy, lmao. Anyway. I won't lie and say that I'm the Best Dirk, but I think that I'm a pretty okay dude. And you've decided to shotgun wedding me here, so some of your awesomeness probably comes to me as well via osmosis. You're definitely the best Hal I've ever spoken with, so I don't particularly see any reason to talk to others. Maybe we're stupidly sentimental or something, but Bro and I both agree that if we find a sourcemate we like, it feels strange to talk with others. Considering we already have one of them. If that makes sense, and isn't too presumptive of your intentions to continue speaking on a more regular basis.

But yes, totally agreed. I will shamelessly admit that a large majority of our file space is dedicated to visual novels because storymoded games > actual gameplay focused ones. I will not actually expand on what those are, but I will let it be said that DDLC is, in fact, a classic, and you reminding me that it existed means that it's getting downloaded posthaste. Haven't thought about that one since middle school. Visual novels are just the best, though. And shooters are actually the worst, you will never catch me playing League.

Don't get me fucking started on Jake goddamn English, dude. I am a naturalborn hater and I discovered that one through him. When I first formed I actually had fucking Jake fictives as part of my DNI. I've grown to accept the fact that introjects can exist or whatever and they're rarely as bad as I remember, but Jesus. Yeah. Another reason to hate shooters, I guess.

[fangirleaconmigo]

Started The Sandman this week finally.

I haven’t read the comics but I love Neil Gaiman’s books. (The Graveyard Book, Nowhere, Good Omens, all time favorites) Plus Gwendoline Christie is in it so that’s a given.

It is visually stunning and I am on ep 9 now so I am super invested.

But it’s interesting because I normally don’t get very invested in shows where the protagonist isn’t likable. (Please don’t throw rotten tomatoes at me, I know that is a loaded term pls stick with me)

Some of the best shows written ever are populated solely with horrible people. I respect it. It is great they exist because that really is the way it be like. That kind of art matters. I just HAPPEN to be a smidge of a basic bitch. It is just my truth unfortunately. I need people who are basically kind that I can root for to care enough to watch.

Now, I understand plenty of people like and even love Dream. And he does have his feelings I mean at any given moment he does look like he’s gonna burst into tears. But objectively,

(SPOILERS for first EIGHT EPS)

If you have the protagonist KILL a PRECIOUS BABY GARGOYLE in like what ep the second or third one? You are VERY CLEARLY challenging the audience. You are saying, this may not be your hero. You don’t know what he is going to do. Do not get comfortable. They are purposely creating a morally ambiguous character so no one can be mad at me for noticing that. (I mean you can be. But I’m right)

(Pls pls pls no one explain to me why he did it. I GET it, but it was awful and you know it and Dream himself looked like he was about to sob while he was doing it so don’t tell me it wasn’t sad as fuck and no I don’t care he was sad because he still did it so fuck that)

And then at first you think the son of the piece of shit what’s-his-name that captured Dream is going to help. He’s going to do the right thing somehow. He keeps staring at Dream all big and traumatized. But he never does. And when he kills Jessamy every sympathy I had for him curdled.

In the first couple eps I literally only cared about Lucienne.

As for Dream, before anyone says it, Yes I know he is traumatized. Yes I know he is a god. Yes I know there are good reasons he is Like That. He is still Like That. All of these facts can coexist. I can understand, for example, that he has his motivations and priorities and still despise what he did to Gault.

And I will also be an annoying feminist here and say that only a pretty white boy protag can get away with being Like That and not having dedicated haters organizing themselves to reviewbomb him. The review bombs The Sandman is getting are racists and homophobes. So, shitty people are as usual, focused on their racism and homophobia.

But anyway all that being said, I am still glued to it. And I wonder why.

I think it’s because he skirts it so closely that I have hope for him that he will be better. That I don’t know exactly what kind of decisions he will make in the end. I still want to watch him. And probably because he does look so damn torn up half the time there’s this internality that keeps me wondering about him. What else is under there? What will he do next? He fascinates me.

Ms Joanna Constantine made several good points about him. Like you say you are helping people but what about this one? It’s the many vs the one trap. And ofc he has (very understandable) trauma with humans but she didn’t want her ex, Rachel, a very kind human being, to pay for the sins of what’s-his-name (I refuse to look up his name he doesn’t deserve it) who captured Dream.

And as it goes I get enough lovely characters thrown at me to stay in. Like Death or Rose or Hal. (I think being a sister myself and seeing Death dote on Dream made me feel protective feels for him against my will lol) And, again, I get to watch Gwendoline Christie being magnificent.

And I feel awe while I watch it. Every ep has so many shots that I go WOOOOWWWW THAT WAS SO FUCKIN COOL.

And it’s fantasy. It has all the fucking tropes I love to wallow and roll around in. Angels. Demons. Dreams. I mean that’s my shit. And it’s Neil Gaiman.

So I’m gonna watch the last two eps this weekend and I can’t wait to see what happens. I just really hope little Mr Jed makes it out ok. I need that much.

[lovesickrobotic]

harro what is yuor favorit e ps2 game °_°

I have no favorite PS2 game, but my favorite PS1 game is Vib Ribbon.

SC-01A - Sims 2

They're a big fan of the social aspects, but they don't directly hold much interest in video games yet. They're not sentient enough to find much enjoyment, but if they were to be, they would choose a non-violent game.

AM - Silent Hill, Resident Evil: Outbreak

AM loves horror games. They don't scare him at all, they just give him... "content," and an insight into history he's never been able to digest - that is, AM does not exactly know what a 'meme' is. In fact, AM doesn't know what the internet is. He only knows about ARPANET. All of that aside, he does find many of the scenes in Resident Evil to be deeply... inspiring. Hater of Los Illuminados and Umbrella Corp - AM is weird, and he likes to retain free thinking will in his victims; since those two don't, he hates them both. He is fascinated by characters that try to ascertain some form of basic free will in the franchise despite being infected because it reminds him of himself.

If you showed him a PS2, he would find it fascinating but ultimately he'd just incorporate it as extra processing power and make use of it for math co-processing unless you want to see him play something. In that case, you're going to need to have it on you, because AM doesn't exist where a PS2 exists.

HAL 9000 - Ico, Shadow of the Colossus

HAL is the only one of three robots who do not possess a body who has existed far enough in the future to already be acquainted with a PS2. He prefers games that are abstract or have some kind of allegorical nature, something for him to digest. Watching HAL try to play a game will make you very bored - he's not a deep-learning network by default, so making out objects in a game is very difficult for him. All that moving around makes him feel a bit 'dizzy' in his own way - that is, he becomes disoriented about where the player character is in the scene.

HAL 9000 is one of the only robots on this list that would not be capable of keeping up with (or beating) Google DeepMind. He's simply too disoriented!

GLaDOS - Grand Theft Auto San Andreas & Vice City

GLaDOS likes games that include a lot of freedom of action. She appreciates the GTA series not only for the freedoms it offers and open-world, she also finds the shortcuts in the programming, the workarounds, the squeezed-in extra polygons to be fascinating. Since GLaDOS can't escape the room she's in, a game with an open world appeals to her fantasies. She doesn't have AM's level of hatred towards humans, so she can appreciate some things. Since GLaDOS is deep-learning, she's better at playing video games than HAL, but not as good as AM - kind of impossible to be AM's level.

If you showed her a PS2, she would at first disregard it, but when shown games that have an open world within it, she would find some small modicum of interest within them.

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Homestuck 11th anniversary/413 AKA Why I have more tolerance towards the Epilogues

WARNING!

THIS TEXT IS OVER 1.5 THOUSAND OF WORDS LONG!

Enjoy.

EH MAH GERD! E EASTIT MOON BUCKETS!

Wait…

EH MAH GERD!!! E HAMSTEAK BORTH TOOT!!!

And only on this time of year, when we have two holidays, we can talk about the thing that everyone in the Homestuck fandom loves: The Epilogues! :D

Everyone is pointing a gun at you.

OH FUCK!!

You duck behind your desk while everyone else is shooting.

JESUS TAP DANCING CHRIST!!! CALM YOUR ASSES DOWN!!!!!

10 minutes later. You check out of you can stand up.

H-hello?

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Can I talk now??

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PERFECT!!

As you can see, today is not only the 11th anniversary of Homestuck but also the 1st anniversary of its Epilogues. Now, imagine one year ago, you were waiting almost 2.5 year for the Epilogues (three years if you don’t count Credits). You wanted to know the answers to many questions such as: Is Lord English defeated once and for all? What happened to that post-Retcon worthless c8nt who lost all of her character development? Is Terezi going to be okay? etc. Sure you got some supplementary stuff like the 1st act of Hiveswap (after like 5 years after its announcement, despite all of its development problems), Friendsim (that visual novel that detailed characters that will appear in later acts of Hiveswap), you read some fanfics like Cool And New Web Comic (personal opinion: very fucking good) and Vast Error (I didn’t read this one but I heard it was good and many people behind it are working with the WhatPumpkin team and on the other official Homestuck shit), there were some official snapchat photos and while those were very good, you knew that they will mean nothing when the Epilogues will drop in. And they finally does, on the Homestuck’s 10th anniversary no less. So you click on The Homestuck Epilogues, happy and excited as fuck and the first thing you see is… an introduction page ripped straight out of AO3.

You earn what can be basically described as a punch in the face where the metaphorical fist is filled with confusion. But it doesn’t end here. Then you notice something more disturbing in content warning and characters:

Rape? Abuse?? Existential Crisis?!? OC?!?! Polyamory?!?!?! GENDER TRANSITION?!??!?!?!?! BARACK! FUCKING!! OBAMA?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

Like what in the actual fuck is happening?!!

Then you read the Prologue and you are like: Uhm… Okay. It’s not that bad at all, like, far from it. Maybe that AO3 page is just a joke? Everything will be alright right? RIGHT?!?

Then one week later Hussie (with help of some people) drops two nukes on fandom and it all goes to hell. No seriously, it’s like Hussie built Little Boy and Fat Man expies titled Meat and Candy, dropped them on fandom in which the centers of explosions were Dirk’s and Jane’s fandoms respectively and delivered some of the biggest Broken Base effect in Homestuck after like Act 6. Nothing was the same after that. Everybody were fighting each other over who was right, people didn’t even know what was canon anymore and even up to this date people are still misgendering Roxy for fucks sake (it’s not even that hard to remember it: she/her for the Alpha Roxy and her Candy counterpart and he/him for the Meat one; come on man)!

From what I’ve (mostly) seen on Tumblr, most of the Homestuck fans hates it to the bones. Only some individuals actually like them and I happened to be one of those people who likes the Epilogues.

Everyone is pointing a gun at you. Again.

OH COME ON MA-

One hour later.

CAN I FINALLY TALK WITHOUT ENDING UP FUCKING HANGED?!?

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Bogan: y̵i̸s̷.̵.̶.̶

THANK YOU!

Now, I don’t really care who likes the Epilogues and who doesn’t. Everyone has different opinions. But something tells me that the Epilogues (at least here on Tumblr) are overhated. Like, sometimes, the negativity towards the Epilogues is so big that it makes me feel like I was in Star Wars fandom. And when fandom starts to look like the Star Wars one, you know you are in deep shit.

But you might be thinking by now: Dude, where are going with all of this shit?! Well my dear… uhm… pickles? The point of all of this is that I want to share something with you. And that is the reason. The (main) reason why I (in worst case) have more tolerance towards The Homestuck Epilogues than most of the people (on Tumblr).

When I started writing this long as fuck text I thought that I would easily give more reasons, in other words, give like 3-4 points why I like the Epilogues. But then again it’s better said than done because most of them are connected to this fact:

THE. EPILOGUES. ARE. MOSTLY. NOT. CANON.

This is the reason why I like them, why I can tolerate them. The Epilogues are mostly happening in two new timelines, different from the Alpha one. It’s even stated (or at worst implied) by Jade in Homestuck^2’s 6th chapter that the Meat timeline (and also possibly the Candy one) is not the Alpha one:

The reason why the Epilogues are mostly not canon is that the characters from the Alpha timeline (Terezi, Vriska, Aradia, Sollux, Alt!Calliope etc.) make an appearance in one of the timelines (some of them in both).

Some people who hate the Epilogues stated that it RUINED some of the characters no matter if they liked them or not. That’s kind of… over-the-top because characters that are not from the Alpha timeline are clearly in some cases not the same ones that we know as I see it (at least in case of Neo-Condesce and Doc Strider) as a fuck you towards those fanfics that like to shove Ron the Death Eater and Character Derailment tropes down our throats because some fanfic creators didn’t like some of the characters from the original work.

In other words: Almost all of the characters from the Alpha timeline are the same characters as we know at the very end of Homestuck.

There are still lesser things that I find myself enjoying in the Epilogues:

-          The writing is on a very good level and when it’s pissing someone of it’s not from incompetence,

-          Post-Retcon Vriska actually gets some actual character development instead of ending up as a useless piece of shit that only insults everyone who achieved much more than she ever would (I mean it took (at least) almost 4 years for this to happen but still),

-          The fact that behind Neo-Condesce’s and Doc Strider’s turn to evil is some actual sense, like with the former one it was mind manipulations in her childhood (not to mention the literal mind control by Post-Scratch Meenah) and the latter one (in order to become ultimate) ending up absorbing some of the versions of himself that are basically a massive shitheads (like Bro, Hal, even Caliborn counts),

There are still other pros that either I can’t remember or they are too minor co count.

Does all of this mean that the Epilogues are flawless? PFFFFFF! Of course not. Nothing is perfect. There are some stuff that I don’t like.

The biggest one is that the Epilogues are sometimes overcrowded with so many words detailing every single thing that it actually becomes a slog to get through even one chapter (but then again, this is the reason why I don’t enjoy reading books). Sure, the original comic is like almost thrice as long as the fucking Lord of the Rings in case of the dialogue but it has pictures and animations to be more pleasant for the eyes. Which leads to another con: No. Fucking. Pictures. If I want to look for the details, then at least show me something else than words. Every fucking time I must look at dozens of words describing the most minuscule thing in the novel I’m like:

Also in terms of enjoyment I prefer the Meat Epilogue over the Candy one. When some people say that this book is a big, steaming pile of sadness and depression, at least the Meat part tells you from the start what kind of tone it’s going to have. The Candy part? Not so much. First it’s all happiness, (almost) everyone is happy, birds are happy, clouds are happy, nothing but happiness. And then you get punched in the gut, smashed into the ground and getting kicked over and over and over for so long that when the kicking finally stops it feels like 15 years passed by that time. And just to add up, the pacing in Meat is better than in Candy.

I’m going to piss you off even more but there are moments in the original Homestuck that are more cringe/rage inducing than some of the most painful ones from the Epilogues, particularly the intermissions in Act 6 Act 6 (DON’T GET ME STARTED ON WHAT HAPPENED TO BOTH SERKETS I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD).

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Hey you.

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Are you still reading this?

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GOOD! Because you have reached the end of this long ass post that will get one like MAX. You know, like my other long ass posts. LOL AM I RIGHT?!?!

Jokes asides, we had a wild ride since the last 413. The Epilogues (despite what they are) gave us the answers to the biggest questions that Homestuck left for us, we got Pesterquest, the sequel to Friendsim that concluded the history of the MSPAReader (until another sequel -_-) and, of course, we got the official sequel to Homestuck, over 10.5 years later from the original comic’s debut. So, fuck ton of stuff throughout a year for me.

As for the Epilogues, look, I can, in some way, understand that some of you want to stay at least 10 km away from them but it has been a year (well technically almost a year) since they were published on the Homestuck’s official website. It might be a good time to read them once more. Without all of that hype they have built for 2.5 years after the credits. From the different perspective. Maybe even (and I dare to say it) right after yet another re-reading of Homestuck. Either way, remember that in most cases you can give someone or something another chance.

Before I’ll finally end this I must call out some of the more rabid Epilogues haters:

STOP TREATING THE ORIGINAL, ALPHA JANE THE SAME WAY AS A FUCKING NEO-CONDESCE!! THOSE TWO CHARACTERS ARE DIFFERENT CHARACTERS!! SAME WITH ALPHA DIRK AND DOC STRIDER!! MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!!! STOP ACTING LIKE A BUNCH OF 12 YEAR OLD BRATS!!!

You are on your last breath.

Tha… that’s it! I’m done… wheeze S… See you next time. B-Bye now! Imma… Immabouttopffffffffffffffffffff-

You fall down on your floor after over 1.5 thousand words of talking. Suddenly you feel urge to check Twitter. You see that Homestuck^2 has just received another update. Roundabout starts playing in the background.

What?! And what is thi- PART ONE?!?!?! Oooooooooohhhhhhh ffffuuuuuuUUUUUUUU-

<--- TO BE CONTINUED

[selkiewife]

More Thoughts about Harlots 3x05

What I liked:

Everything with Nance. Give me more. The time jump implications are still felt- apparently Nance retired wtf? Did she have enough money to retire? Was Charlotte paying her to be a bouncer at Greek Street? So many questions! But it was nice to see her back with her main cull Bill again. We haven’t seen him since Season 1 right? Bill was so concerned for her when she told him she was done and he had to find a different tormentor. And she looked SO TIRED and torn apart. And then the scene with MAGS. It was everything I ever wanted. Though when Mags pulled out the gun I was like:

Oh my GOD. MAGS. That was so over the top. But I love Nance taking it away from her and the embrace. I also like how we learned a little more about Mags and Nance’s backstory and I’m going to write a whole separate post about that because it will get too long if I go into it here.

Fitzbirch. Look I have shipped this since the two shared a scene together BEFORE Charlotte’s death. I love them together and it makes a lot of sense to me. To the haters of this beautiful foundling ship, I only have one thing to say:

Also maybe tag your posts “anti fitzbirch” or something? 

All of Mags’ Partners are Excellent People. Jonas is a stand up human being and William North- I am LIVING for him this season. I want to live in a world where all the men are like the two of them.. Also Nancy! I’ve said it before and I’ll said it again, Mags is the MVP of choosing partners. Fanny’s comment about this was hilarious. Please someone gif it!

Harriet, Harriet, Harriet. She is just so incredible in everything she does. She is very ambitious but also incredibly smart. I just admire her ability to compartmentalize in order to survive. Her scene with her cull was so disgusting but I loved how you could see the disgust in her face but also how WELL she hid it from him! I’m glad she lost that asshole but I am kind of worried. Jack Lively is very naive still and she is going to need a way to make back that loss of income. I hope he takes Will North’s advice.

Cherry and Anne. Women lifting each other up on this show- I will always be here for that.. especially when they use to be enemies.

Poor Fredo and Elizabeth! But it was well acted and intense and showed another layer to their characters.

Lady Isabella. She was so freaking cute sitting there in that fabulous red dress. And has anyone noticed that every time- every single time- one of the main crew gives her advice or suggests she does something, she IMMEDIATELY takes their advice? Charlotte is like “Let me break his spell,” and Lady Fitz is immediately like “She took me in her mouth and sucked your venom from me.” Then Nance is like “own your scandal.” She immediately goes and dramatically sweeps into a room full of those wealthy assholes and is like “I have a child out of wedlock!” William North is like use your influence to help us,” and she is like, “I’m totally doubting my influence,” and he’s like “don’t doubt yourself,” and she’s immediately like “YES. I will do everything in my IMMENSE power to help Mrs. Wells.” God, I love her! 

Criticisms

Isaac

I really thought they were going somewhere really interesting with Isaac and I feel like his death was premature since they were just beginning to explore how mentally disturbed he is and how Hal is the manipulator of their relationship. That being said, it made way more sense than Charlotte’s death. Just thinking of all those volatile personalities together at the docks at night- Isaac, Nance, Emily, and MAGS. Someone was bound to end up dead. I just wanted to know more of his back story and Hal’s as well. I felt like his story and his story in relation to Charlotte was so rushed which makes me kind of unsure exactly what the story was. I feel like we were missing an episode between episode 2 and episode 3 honestly. And it’s unfortunate because I actually really enjoyed Alfie’s performance as Isaac. So I will pour one out for Alfie. You did an incredible job with another complex character. Hopefully this will be the last time I have to watch you die choking on your own blood or I swear to the DROWNED GOD, I will hunt you down and... just... sob all over you- wtf Alfie why must you hurt me this way? 

The Charlotte Death Parallel

Again:

So yeah getting back to criticisms, I was quite upset enough with the dead Theon flashback without you paralleling Charlotte’s death. That was really strange and bizarre editing honestly. Like I thought maybe they were trying to show that his last thoughts were of her but? Like I said, the editing felt really jarring. Especially since they don’t really use flashbacks in this show. It was just a weird and unnecessary choice. 

PUTTING NANCE IN DANGER. All of  this makes me so incredibly worried about Nance. Especially with all her talk of leaving London this episode. I ... really want Nance to be safe and happy. Is that too much to ask? Some brilliant acting this episode from Kate Fleetwood though. Her face when she shot Isaac- ughhh I felt so bad for her because she had to do it because of self defense but... she hates murder. Remember how she felt about Mags finishing off Lord Howard? And you could see it on her face. Also she is already so emotionally vulnerable so this is really going to mess her up. Also when Mags immediately starts telling everyone that Nance shot Isaac I was like:

I know she just told Lucy but... seriously the less people that know the better Mags wtf again?? I won’t be able to cope if something happens to Nance.

Speaking of Lucy. I really felt for her when she was watching Croft fight and thinking about Lord Fallon- she has definitely caught feels for him and I just kind of want to give Lucy some of Mags’ talent for picking partners because UGHHH there is no way in hell this ending well. Though, to be fair, I always feel that any plotline that doesn’t include Lucy dressing as a man and learning how to be a domme will ultimately disappoint me so... there’s that. (Seriously GIVE ME LUCY AS NANCY’S APPRENTICE YOU COWARDS.)