#and i'll die mad about it

[kittyoverlord]

Cassandra's nat 20 should have cancelled her nat 1.

[kemihaydeestantonva]

It's honestly wild the way Game of Thrones went from being one of my favourite shows, to reading the books and thinking "no wonder the show is so great, when the source material is this good", to re-reading the books for the tenth time and thinking "Eh, the show and book are just different, like the show isn't BAD, I can enjoy them both if I think of them as separate entities", to re-reading the books for the hundredth time and thinking "Fucking hell I hate the TV show so much, even episode one is trash, and it alone is responsible for the loud group of haters constantly plaguing HotD because they all crave wonton violence and shock over substance and symbolic imagery"

[ahlaway]

okay one thing about the men from another zip code losing their minds over a teen doing yard work they didn't approve of.

the thing that drives me crazy about it is...how surprised everyone acted? like, Tubbo didn't just plop himself down next to spawn and decide to take over.

Phil pointed that spot out to him, and from the very beginning he's been clear to anyone who asks: he's building a factory district. no one at any point has said that was a bad idea, or he shouldn't do it near spawn or anything like that.

until he's made a big move in doing that.

then suddenly everyone's mad at him for doing the thing he's been saying he was going to do since the beginning.

[pianokantzart]

TMNT 2012 (along with the rest of the franchise) was one of my biggest Hyperfixations as a preteen/young teenager, along with MLP:FIM and Gargoyles.

NGL, for all it's flaws TMNT 2012 as a whole slapped.

MLP:FIM and Gargoyles were both good shows too. I dabbled in both, but... by now you've probably figured out the way to really hook me into a hyperfixation is with a really good brother relationship.

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[kurokoros]

God, Dustin and Mike really were just the worst to Lucas in S4. And I'm still disappointed that we had no scenes with Steve and Lucas bonding over basketball? The episodes are bloated as hell, but we couldn't get a single flashback to Lucas asking for Steve to practice with him or something? And former basketball player Steve isn't mentioned at all by the basketball team in S4???

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A friend pointed out how in this post, Mobei Jun looks like he's wearing a shirt, opening up the avenue for him to have been secretly stuffing his bra this whole time. The scandal of it all needed to be exposed.

[lena--beana]

Being a game collector is so weird bc you tell your friends "hey have you seen this thing, it's one of my favorite things ever and if you want to try it you either have to hang out at my place for a week or emulate it which is always morally correct but there's like a 10% chance it won't play exactly right or buy it secondhand on ebay for $200 more than I did when I found it decaying on a gamestop shelf 15 years ago and you can only play it on the PS2 because that disc doesn't work on anything modern if it still even works at all"

but with movies it's like "hey have you seen Space Jam? It's an hour and a half, I've got it on DVD or we can rent it on five different streaming sites for like $5"

[torchickentacos]

pokeani where everything is the exact same but Zoey was allowed to be even more butch

[pdouwes]

Komm heim, Rebecca...

[racetrackmybeloved]

ok but consider: livesies jack stealing a horse in the middle of belting out santa fe

anyway we were ROBBED

[infamouslydorky]

Supervisor: *passive-aggressive comment about quality of work *

Me: You can fire me, you know. That's very much within your right to do if it suits your fancy

[gophergal]

Gonna be real if you accuse people of misogyny based on their favorite characters and ships, I do not fucking trust your opinion. full stop

[reposhillo]

I'm going to say it

Even Bleach's rushed ending is a hundred times better than what Hori served us. Literally the whole themes that were set up earlier just crash and burn with this ending

[moffnat]

Okay, last thing I'll say about this.

Minthara did not torture Halsin. She is not "his abuser."

When you meet Minthara and she talks about torturing a prisoner to make him talk, she's referring to the human on the torture rack near the entrance to the goblin camp. When the player asks her if she has any leads on the grove, she says this:

We captured a human who knows exactly where it is. He's been resilient, but he'll talk.

And if you ask her about Halsin:

I have not seen this druid, but he harbors worshippers of a false god in a hidden grove nearby.

She has no idea that the bear in the prison is Halsin. She never laid a finger on him. (And besides, if she had, he would not be in one piece: she was trained as a follower of Lolth for god's sake, and if she knew she had the Archdruid in her clutches, she'd make good use of that information.)

Case in point: there is no reason for Halsin to be so cruel to Minthara in the datamined dialogue after she explains that she was being controlled by the Absolute. It is against his generous character.

[emmabirb8]

WWDITS writers, please, I am on my hands and knees BEGGING YOU to take cues from OFMD in actually having the fortitude to follow through on plot points and actions from previous seasons and episodes. Emotionally repressed characters can in fact communicate about past events to a degree that is satisfying to the audience, continues story threads left hanging, and also manages to stay in character and make sense for the narrative. Traumatic events can in fact continue to affect characters for more than the duration of a single episode. Actions can have real, lasting consequences.

Shocking, I know, but. It's possible. It can be done.

IT'S NOT DIFFICULT AND CAN STILL FIT INTO A SERIES FOCUSED ON COMEDY. EVEN, DARE I SAY, HORROR SHENANIGAN-BASED COMEDY.

WITH JUST A BIT OF DEDICATION AND EFFORT, YOU TOO CAN CRAFT A SUCCINCT STORYLINE THAT WRAPS ITSELF UP IN MORE THAN JUST A THROWAWAY SENTENCE THAT'S NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. YOU CAN WRITE CHOICES AND ACTIONS FOR CHARACTERS THAT MAKE SENSE.

I KNOW YOU CAN DO IT.

IT'S. NOT. HARD.