#and i could be wrong

[oceanwithouthermoon]

i feel like im obligated to remind everyone that the time we see the characters spend with saiki on screen isnt the ONLY time they spend together,,, i just see a lot of people take their screen time very literally and assume that this is the case despite it being heavily implied that it isnt, and im not entirely sure why but i can guess that it may be because of the assumption that saiki genuinely hates his friends (i do also see people doing this with specific characters they dont like or that they have a specific agenda for, which i think is them being like "i feel a certain way about them, therefore saiki the narrator who gave me all the information that made me feel this way about them must not like them" which i dont really have a problem with (its just an hc) until they start arguing with people that their hc is the only right answer and saiki canonically hates that person or is only around them when forced to be LOL)

yumehara and teruhashi immediately recognize "kurikos" eating manner as saikis despite us never seeing him eat in front of them, kaido + nendo + kuboyasu bribe saiki for his homework with coffee jelly because they know hes obsessed with it despite us seeing no on-screen reason for them to know that (we do see a bit later that he walks home with them every day and he stares at coffee jelly every single time though LOL), and mera talks about saiki spending a lot of money at her workplace despite us only seeing her and him there at the same time once before..

saiki does not succeed at avoiding them, and in fact is probably not even trying to most of the time LMAO he loves those idiots. dearly.

the people i see the least true implications of him spending off-screen time with are actually, weirdly enough, the other two psychics. this doesnt necessarily mean to take that at face value and assume he DOESNT spend as much time with them, but its interesting i feel... please correct me if im wrong though cuz i would love to see more examples of these kinds of implications, for any characters actually!

[embodiment-of-sloth]

(So, I live in an area that was seriously impacted by Hurricane Helene. I'm alive. Not hurt. But, there is no power in my city. Trees are everywhere. An inch of water got in my room, and i had to act fast to save my tech. So I probably won't be on for a long while....stay safe ya'll.)

[heyclickadee]

So, you know the way The Two Towers ends?

Not the film, the book. The film ends on a pretty hopeful note—the victory at Helm’s Deep, Sam’s big speech about there being good in the world, Frodo wouldn’t have got far without Sam, etc. And yes, there is that beat of Gollum planning to betray them, but overall it’s a pretty upbeat ending. The book, though—

The book ends in the pass of Cirith Ungol, with Frodo so barely alive Sam thought he was dead, according to the orcs who find him, anyway, but taken prisoner, definitely about to be tortured, and a grieving and momentarily suicidal Sam alone and unconscious with the Ring on the borders of Mordor. The battle of helms deep was won, but it was over a hundred pages ago. Overall, it’s bleak and pretty hopeless. Sam is pretty hopeless.

I think that’s where The Bad Batch is right now. And it’s not immediately relevant, since The Bad Batch is a somewhat different kind of story, but it’s hitting the same kind of beat. I have every expectation that things are going to get worse for our boys and girl before they get better. But I think they’ll get better. I need those moments of eucatastrophe—I want something like the charge of the rohirrim at the Pelennor Fields or “the eagles are coming.” I really want to see our characters back, irrevocably changed, maybe, but safe and together. And as bleak as things are in the story right now, I think we will. I hope we will. And maybe we won’t. But, for my money, it’s too early to write it off yet—it mostly depends on what flavor of Star Wars this story decides to be.

Also, I’m aware I’m setting myself up for way more pain with this. Let me have some hope. This is still, weirdly enough with how sad it is and how devastated I’ve been over the last few days, my comfort show.

[sluttyten]

maybe it makes me a shitty friend but I think my best friend is about to ask me if I can drive her to her ex-boyfriend’s house tomorrow which is like a 3 hour drive (her car is having issues) and it’s because she’s going to fly out of his city to go on a trip, but like….. over the past week I haven’t had a single day that I didn’t spend the majority of the day in the car, so I really really really really don’t want to spend 6 hours in the car tomorrow if that’s what she’s about to ask me to do. I want to spend one day of my week off home alone without anyone around to perceive me and no responsibilities or anything other than laying in my bed and reading or writing or bingeing a show on Netflix

[unsung-idiot]

don't show him modern technology; it won't end well

bonus under the cut:

[jackalspine]

@schnuffel-danny hehehe

regarding this post: from schnuffle

[hinamie]

trick or treat!

[theiliad]

making this one binary. no ghost agnosticism allowed. but explain the nuances in the tags if you want.

[egophiliac]

can't believe that skeleman has turned on us, and Halloween Prom is tomorrow.

(what a top-tier UM...we are about to be just totally obliterated in the absolute silliest way. what possible use could this power have outside of bringing us to the brink of utter holiday disaster.)

[hookhausen]

the passengers on oceangate are dead (they imploded) and they confirmed the debris was from the submersible but the shit that has me fucking losing it is that the logitech controller made it out almost unscathed

[brainrotcharacters]

the easy grip on the knife. the leg over the seat. the hand over the other seat. the sassy "come get it" move. you know the bitch is smiling behind that mask even as he said the line.

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[cutter-kirby]

obligatory “cool characterization, still murder” like I’m not excusing him but it does make him incredibly interesting

(*girl gender neutral edition)

[batfadcrafts]

this gives tango i think

[deanmarywinchester]

hobbies include: close reading the Redwall series to answer my most burning questions. such as:

- can I replicate any of these delicious-sounding foodstuffs and would they in fact be delicious if I was able to

- corollary to the above: are we just supposed to read “oat cream” and “nut cheese” every time we see the words “cream” and “cheese”? I think so. bc if not, what tha hell are their livestock animals

- what is Society like? I don’t think we ever see a Mouse City or even Mouse Town though we do see castles and obviously an abbey. are we supposed to believe that most creatures are either in wandering bands or these societies based around a single structure (castle/abbey?)

- they appear to have an idea of what currency is (the bad guys always want treasure — maybe just to have, not to sell? but less ambiguous is some dialogue I just read, “acorn for your thoughts?” “you can have them for free”) but again, we never see anyone using money or making goods for the market. is this after the fall of Mouse Capitalism? are the bad guys (the idea of rat pirates gives me a headache, vis a vis the political/economic systems needed to power piracy) raiding preindustrial mouse societies for treasure/meat?

- corollary to the above: the abbey creatures have oats and wheat but we don’t see anybody farming or trading for farm goods on a large enough scale. is the abbey “orchard” really a like an indigenous forest farm of mixed foodstuffs? is that possible if you live in the same place the whole year or only if you travel each season? I have to do some googling

- both the lack of mixed-species families and the idea of mixed-species families give me a headache. has a squirrel never fallen for a handsome otter? what is the culture shock like if you marry into a subterranean mole family?

- this is the least “important” question but this read through I’ve been desperately trying to figure out What Size Everything Else Is. i’ve come to the conclusion that everything other than animals are at mouse scale, given that they can make seaworthy vessels their own size (a mouse sized vessel with real-world-sized waves seems impossible) and pick and eat apples and plums. but so far it seems like they’ve avoided mentioning how tall trees are — like a person compared to a tree or a mouse compared to a tree?

[sirenetica]

Worked on these during MCC