#and one that was asterisks

[mechagoenna]

girl who’s desk is always out in the hallway #we’veallbeenthere

[hecubus]

4x2 | 4x4

[tpher]

dramarama baby topher real not clickbait

[tanadrin]

the elements at the end of the periodic table barely feel like real elements to me. idk, if you can't hold a lump of it in your hand without it exploding due to radioactivity--man, radioactivity is barely the right word, it's a loose mass of neutrons and protons that only just holds together for a few microseconds--you can't do chemistry with it. it's not a chemical element, in the sense it is not found as part of any compounds on Earth or in space, because it does not exist long enough to form chemical bonds. i get that you wanna finish out the last period, make the bottom right corner nice and square. but you're not doing chemistry. you're doing Stupid Particle Accelerator Tricks.

[satsuha]

wanted to wait until i was done with all of them to post them together! bravely AND octopath my beloved

[wrathion]

forever and always bitter about how anduin got magically cured from his arthasfication in shadowlands ... i mean yeah the mental issues & trauma are there (somehow...shoutout to tww) but i mean physically!!

what if he lost his heartbeat and it didn't come back after his boss fight. no matter what he does his pulse isn't there, he doesn't know how he's standing and that's scary. what is he now? is he alive? is he dead? will he age? or will he rot on his own two feet like a forsaken? if that's the case, how much time does he have left? is he a ticking time bomb or will he be here long after his other shorter-life-span friends & adopted family die (assuming he even manages to make it that far)

granted, his mawsworn design in shadowlands was more a visual shorthand to the players that he was Evil Now than anything, he was just as alive as before, just possessed. he could seemingly be swapped between his original looking self and mawsworn self in the kyrestria cutscene? but i digress, the pale skin & hair? the blank eyes? Surely something had to have gone wrong with the amount of time he was stuck like that

[gh0st-quart3t]

Thunderbolts*

*except Zemo

[thegaysatanist]

I just *approaches wall* don't understand *grabs wall* why the fuck *leans back* he's so ADORABLE *bashes head into wall* This is a grown man *bashes head into woll* how is he so cutee *bashes head into wall* pookies eyes shine with the light of a thousand suns *bashes head* and he's doomed to have that light extinguished *bashhs hed* by thb ons hed truds thr moss *babses heab* i jst wana squish hid fase *cashes had* fricken cutie

[evilkitten3]

i have a theory about shinji, gin, and aizen, but i'm not really sure how to word it.

we never really see shinji and gin interact all that much, which makes sense bc both of them have significantly more important relationships with aizen, but at the same time it's a little odd how much there isn't.

like. gin cut hiyori in half. shinji is understandably pissed about that, but he aims that anger at aizen - and this seems to be one of the very few things in the bleach world that honestly isn't on him bc he never told gin to do that, he never even implied it. hiyori was never a threat to him. hell, we don't even know if she was charging in the right direction; if anything, attacking her implies that she was which is a really stupid thing to do when you're surrounded by a bunch of people who super want you dead and would kill you if they could be sure you weren't tricking them into stabbing each other (ofc it could also be a fakeout but still)

but i don't remember shinji's beef ever really being with gin, even tho he didn't seem to anticipate that gin was working with aizen the whole time during tbtp. so like does he feel responsibility there? cuz gin went straight from academy to 3rd seat and shinji could plausibly feel like that sent him right to aizen bc he doesn't know that gin was always aiming for that. did he blame himself? does he feel like he should've seen it coming? does he still see him as some weird genius kid? does he just view gin as an extension of aizen, which is both dehumanizing to an extent but also entirely fair bc gin did that to himself?

the thing is, since we never really see them interact much, it's kind of only interesting on shinji's side of things, bc gin doesn't really care about much outside of whatever the fuck he thought he was doing and the version of rangiku that he has in his head who needs back something that the real one doesn't ever seem to have realized she lost to begin with. gin's so disconnected with basically everybody that most of the time you can usually assume his thoughts are just "lol. lmao" and there's no reason to think that doesn't extend to shinji as well (gin has deep thoughts on: aizen, ichigo, and matsumoto (massive asterisk on that one ofc) and i think everyone else is kinda set dressing to him lmao the guy is Fucked Up)

anyway i think it's interesting to toy around with that relationship as it was in reality as well as how it might've been perceived, but also in the sense of both of them being sort of opposite ends of the manchild spectrum - shinji leans into his childish side but still has a fairly adult worldview, and gin is able to pull off maturity to an extent but was never able to escape a deeply childish mindset

[midnight-arandombanana]

Do you ever think about how malnutrition must’ve been so common in Khaenri’ah. Do you ever think about Khaenri’ahns with food insecurity. Do you ever think about how Rhinedottir was probably responsible for the majority of food production in the country. Do you ever think about how much of herself she sacrificed to feed the country she lived in. Do you ever think about how much it hurt to have *all that work* be for nothing. Do you ever think about how shocked a Khaenri’ahn might be upon going to Teyvat and seeing food *just hanging off trees, free for the taking*. Do you

[ghelgheli]

eventually anthropologists will have to reckon with the fact that no matter how strongly their research might challenge previous consensus, their universalizing use of "man vs. woman" and/or (esp. in archaeology) the morphological commitments entailed by their use of "male vs. female" traps them firmly in the old paradigms they claim to be leaving behind

[sierrazzz]

I had an idea about The Last Of Us a while ago, sort of a Time Loop AU.

The time loop begins on Outbreak day, and Joel is the one stuck in the loop. the first few cycles are him and Sarah going throughout the event unexperienced. But Joel can remember each iteration. he's trying to figure out how to survive the day, and save Sarah and Tommy. But he can't save her. He's trying his hardest to save her, but she's ripped away from him everytime. if he lives past Outbreak Day, he ends himself to try and go back to save Sarah. after hundreds of cycles, he finally comes to terms that he must let Sarah die to live on and escape the loop. And he does*, Sarah dies, but him and Tommy get to survive. The 20 years pass since Outbreak day, and he forgets practically all of the timeloops. Wiped from his brain due to how traumatic it was. he meets Ellie, the events of TLOU happen, and the 4 years before TLOU2 pass. then he meets Abby, and is eventually led into the basement by her group. As he looks at Ellie, crying and screaming for them to stop, and as Abby brings the golf club down on his head, He wakes up, back in his bed, the morning of September 26th, 2013. He never escaped the loop. He just survived passed Outbreak Day, but the loop encompassed his entire life. he is firmly caged inside the loop, and all those 20 years are wiped away, and he is back at square one.

[the-shifting-long]

Parts of the Pristine Cut that feel targeted towards players who interpreted the game a certain way and says with a cheeky little finger wave "no no, see, it is a love story, she loves you, you have to love the princess, and your voices aren't always helpful, and the narrator's perfect world is bad, and you were wrong!" blocking fans on social media who had issues with the pristine cut and HEA in particular and now that little comment that's like "everyone's entitled to their opinion even if it's wrong!" you made a piece of art that is purposely open to interpretation and is in fact ABOUT perception + interpretation and how it impacts something and the value of player choice and you clearly can't fucking cope with people actually exercising said player choice and disliking parts of it. why even give us, the player, endings like New and Unending Dawn and Your New World if you have to insist IN THE GAME ITSELF that even the most powerful, demeaning, and arrogant princess still values you and actually was never that strong in the first place <- apotheosis literally being empty bluster and apologizing. and strip away all ambiguity from the Narrator's actions <- HEA depicting Narrator's ideal world as an unambiguously bad thing and even having him experience regret.

like what's the fucking point in saying you value player choice/opinion and making a game based on that only to make an expansion that undercuts a number of specific, legitimate interpretations, implicitly pushing a "correct" one on the player, and then going on social media to bitch about Wrong Opinions under the guise of "haters gonna hate!" rather than acknowledging legitimate criticism will Always exist even for the most "perfect" piece of art and welcoming it as part of Slay the Princess' inherently subjective nature (again when YOU yourself made it subjective with no real objective answers.)

[merrymorningofmay]

tbh i don't enjoy using 'asexual' as an umbrella term for myself. i don't like how the negative prefix 1) suggests full uncomplicated absence and 2) centers the ace experience around it, kind of like if hetero- and homosexual people were defined by their lack of attraction to the gender they're not attracted to instead of by a positive aspect of their identity. seems like a disadvantageous word to use when being perceived as less-than/incomplete is already a concern. i don't have better suggestions or anything but it's a semantic conundrum i ponder sometimes

[eiravolence]

kind of niche but helena eagan (of severance) keeps giving me major tamerlane usher (of the netflix mike flannigan series fall of the house of usher) vibes. they're not the same but they are so strange and specific already as characters it will not leave my brain. specifically her rewatching the security footage i was like Hmm i have Seen this before. but like. nepo baby daughter of the ceo of a monumentally fucked up medical company, who is unable to do intimacy/relationships normally. AND they're both ginger!!

[humanmorph]

i do still (occasionally) (also when keith mentions it) think about how noone really interacted with phrygian much outside of their humanoid shape much (room, place, objects etc), and when they did it usually went with a general sense of that being so strange / weird / kind of offputting. and of course part of it is that it's jokes from the cast & saying things like 'i don't want to party inside of you' are just kind of funny, i guess*, and on the other hand (watsonian) i can buy it from the characters who were raised with/under anti-branched propaganda, HOWEVER

Get over it!! Get over it!!!!! Skill‼️ Issue‼️